2-Letter Words Starting with A

Acierate

Turns into steel

Aconitum

Sound system (wordplay)

Stucco is a puzzle to science

Conductor's concern

Bill, charming little son, keeps up to date

This makes one know what's so nice and old-fashioned in the sac

Lets one know how attractively old-fashioned this is in the sac

Agree bill and become silent

Accept without protest

Agree or accept without protest

Acquirer

Developing, as a skill

Clear indeed, a pound maybe sought by 17

Outcome of the Lizzie Borden trial

Verdict of Not Guilty

Found not guilty and discharged

All let off so a hundred went off

Having been let off, a hundred left

One letting go

Acridine

Extreme bitter taste

That's enough to make your eye smart

English word

Well-balanced, perhaps

Taking a tumble (wordplay)

Well-balanced (wordplay)

Acrodont

Acrolect

Acrolein

Wooden statues with stone extremities

ACRONYM a word formed from initials

Like certain flowers in a batch - dead, gone over

(Of leaves and flowers) developing upwards from the base or point of attachment

Like the arrangement of some flowers in a batch with others

One who hates heights

Athens landmark arise (nonverbal)

Where the Parthenon was built.

Literally, "highest city"

ACROSOME a thin sac at the head of the sperm

Acrosome

Initial readings (wordplay)

NEWS for the four directions, and others

Certain word puzzles

Acrotism

Acrylate

Actinian

Series of radioactive elements

Elements playin' a part on fateful day

Uranium and plutonium, for example

Actinism

Actinium

Actinoid

Made operative

Switched on

Fourth part of play a youth set in motion

Sets in motion.

Stimulates

Vitalizes.

Turn-on (wordplay)

Chemical catalyst

Catalyst

Activism

Ones seeking change

They've got issues

Black Lives Matter demonstrators, for example

Activize

Activize

Bill locks ladies in green room, perhaps

Bill locks performers in theatre maybe

Glamorous Oscar Night parties (wordplay)

It's not a dream

Beingness or existence

State of real existence

Make a reality of

So to be working with figures is risky

Of life-expectancy calculation

Relating to statistical calculation

Risk assessors sign, after a drastic cut

They calculate insurance risks

Insurance company employees

Motivating

Process of making operate

Actuator

""Tapering to a point; pointed; as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc. as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc.""

Acutance

Quality of sharp pain

That seems a cunning attribute

Use secant with sharp perceptiveness

""A synthetic purine nucleoside analog, C 8 H 10 N 5 O 3 , derived from guanine and used in the treatment of herpes simplex, herpes zoster, and varicella zoster virus infections.""

Acylate

ACYLATE to introduce acyl into

Adamance

Pusher's activity

Monkey on one's back ("Henry V")

I did act on (anagram)

Maybe this is inhabited

Hard to give up

(Of drug) habit-forming

Habit-forming

Adduct

The act of adducing or bringing forward.

""Adducing, or bringing towards or to something.""

Inner thigh muscles

Certain thigh muscles

Observant quality present in fluid dance

You'd be stuck with that

Sticking ability

Maintaining the heat, key help to intercept agents from the south

Relating to process in which there is no transference of heat

Biological word for a fat-storing cell

Fat cell

Contiguity.

The good in "good riddance"

Modifier of a noun

'Dead' or 'alive'

By way of addition or adjunct; in connection with.

Assistant officer's role

Adscript

Advancer

Lending is increasing

Moving forward like army

Moving forward, as troops

Advect

ADVECT to transport by the flow of a fluid

ADVECT to transport by the flow of a fluid

Pled in support

Stood up for Dublin supporter from the start

Recommended

Recommends Scottish silks, perhaps

Goes to bat (for)

Promoters of Scottish silks

ADVOCATE to plead in favour of

Doing stunts with airplanes

Of stunt flying

One in novel boat race having high jinks

Aeroduct

""The study of the upper atmosphere, especially of regions of ionized gas.""

Soaring business (wordplay)

Opera case (anagram)

One industry above the rest (wordplay)

Concerned with beauty

Organizing principle of beauty

Of pleasing appearance

Affecter

Touching the emotions

Putting it on

Having an impact on the emotions

Feeling of fondness

Feeling of strong liking

Admiration of affectation from the army

Tending to affect; affecting.

Promised to go into a union

Betrothed

Engaged

Affiance

Sick, day after botched facelift

Caused pain to

Diseased; suffering

Well, that gets one off

Well, it's got off this

A guard contracts sickness in profusion

Affluence.

""A combination of a stop, or explosive, with an immediately following fricative or spirant of corresponding organic position, as pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.""

Road to recovery

Need for recovering patients

Support to customer following a purchase

Unlooked-for ending

Surprise blow following affair thought ended.

Ship area behind the bridge house

Later, adorn part of ship

Dress following of stern queen in area behind bridge

Agalloch

Aglycone

They just don't know

They don't know if God exists or not

Religious doubters

Argumentative.

Of farm management

Pertaining to crop production

Like farming

Not concerned with the past

Aircheck

Part of the "open skies" plan.

Teams operating planes without second propellers

National security concerns

Jurisdictional atmospheric areas

Places for flight patterns

Wasted the bacon sandwiches I cut

HB1 around the rump

Cut of beef

Long-finned tunas

Fish bar so fancied up with lace

White-meat sources

Albicore

Affected with albinism.

Alcahest

Alchemy

St Michael (anagram)

Faust, for one

One with a gold standard (wordplay)

To change by alchemy; to transmute.

Alchymy

One addicted to drink

Like some beverages

Person addicted to drink

""Of or pertaining to aldehyde; as, aldehydic acid. as, aldehydic acid.""

Depending on chance

English word

Type of math equation

Like most chess notation nowadays

Kind of notation

ALGICIDE a substance used to kill algae

Pond scum killers

""Pertaining to compounds that have a ring in the structure, but are not aromatic, as cyclohexane or cyclohexene. Compare aliphatic and aromatic.aliphatic and aromatic.""

Fatty.

Able to read but not interested in reading. See Usage Note at literate .

Of or pertaining to alkalosis.

""Pertaining to, or contained in, the allantois.""

Combinations, of states say

Grand, Holy, Triple, etc

Benelux and NATO.

Like some funds

Set apart for a specific purpose

Bertie found leaving set aside

Assigned everybody at co-ed school

Assigns a place

Distributes

Assigns

Designated hitter finder (wordplay)

Distributor of resources

Budgeter, in a way

Being genetically different although belonging to or obtained from the same species: allogeneic tissue grafts.

ALLOTYPE a type of {antibody=n}

Per diem, perhaps

Kid's payoff (wordplay)

Share in ball, now dance all topless!

Allspice

Alopecia

Argue with the girl to try to change her

Dispute heatedly ( 9 )

Argue with Catherine for a change

Born naked and blind and dependent on parents for food; -- of hatchlings. Opposite of precocial.precocial.

Affected with amaurosis; having the characteristics of amaurosis.

Angler's catch in the Atlantic

Atmospheres

Moods

Ambience

Of or pertaining to amblyopy.

""Pl. ambulacra (-l k r , -l kr ) One of the five radial areas on the undersurface of the starfish and similar echinoderms, from which the tube feet are protruded and withdrawn.""

Road mender (wordplay)

Transport patiently awaited (wordplay)

What drives you to get better (wordplay)

Lie in wait for (someone)

Breaking: Cuba's made surprise attack

Concealed military force.

Variant of amoebocyte .

Amelcorn

New chemical element, Number 95.

Element named by Glenn Seaborg

Element used in radiation research

Of or pertaining to ametropia.

Ammocete

Ammoniac

""AMMONITE the coiled shell of an extinct mollusk, also AMMONOID""

Main cases (anagram)

Ones with big blocks (wordplay)

Jane Does, perhaps

AMORIST a {lover=n}

Psychological dependence on others.

Constriction workers (wordplay)

Predators of the Amazon

Large semi-aquatic boas

Upbeats

Russia can rebuild - that's upbeat!

Unstressed syllable, in verse.

Musical upbeat

Lacking free oxygen

Like the bacteria in a septic tank

Causing an oxygen debt, as exercise

Analcime

Analcite

Can pet ail awfully? Here's a drug

Restorative

Invigorating

Agent allaying pain

Remedy allaying pain

Bill without a single wrong number

A deadening or absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness.

Study of data patterns

Data field

Like some poetic feet

Of or pertaining to anaphase.

Strange air Pancho adopts, referring back in this rhetorical fashion

Like the phrase "she's beauty, she's grace", in linguistics

States of lawlessness and disorder

Political upheavals

As in March, perhaps, causing disorder

Man's chair (anagram)

Form of government, sired by Proudhon.

Disorderly sort (wordplay)

Revolutionary in rash act (wordplay)

No government would please him!

Anasarca

Some people in a tree

Ones higher up in a tree

People in trees

Of the family of Lancaster, perhaps

To do with forebears, say stately home

Like a family tree's roots (wordplay)

City at the head of Cook Inlet

Alaskan Air Force base.

Place for ships to stop

Religious lady's short reply about housework

Things to be done in response to solitary soul

Workers taking on board routine task for folk living alone

Hermits.

Stopping the vessel

Stopping at sea

Religious recluse (hist.)

Hermit or religious recluse

Hermit as a result of her action, sadly

Rather rank (wordplay)

One with breaking news

Jim Lehrer, for instance

Huntley and Brinkley, for example

Rather and Brokaw, for example

Rather and Jennings, for example

Small Pacific fish used for bait

Tiny fishes for pizza

Unpopular pizza topping choice

Bagna c uda ingredient

Anchusin

ANCIENT an aged man

Not in the modern manner

As of old for the client in any circumstances

Antiquity; what is ancient.

Of lesser importance

Romantically involved? - Not Tom in subsidiary!

Supporting, subsidiary

Ancress

""ANDESITE a volcanic rock, also ANDESYTE""

""Pl. androecia (-sh - , -sh ) The stamens of a flower considered as a group.""

Unreliable or hearsay (account)

Article located in ruins? That's hearsay

Based on hearsay

Noted case (anagram)

Arranged end to case histories, perhaps

Raconteur's specialty.

ANECDOTE a brief story

ANELE to {anoint=v}

Innocent-looking (var.)

Possessing heavenly qualities

Opposite of devilish

Plants of the parsley family

Express in English finding flying angels around here in France