2-Letter Words Starting with A

Regretting yesterday's activity, perhaps

Painfully dull (wordplay)

In need of a massage, maybe

Sour as a stomach

Having a lot of reflux

Sour or sharp-tasting

For prior future appointment (wordplay)

Head monk's position

Head monk's jurisdiction

With a tart tongue

In a biting way

How diatribes are delivered

Sharpness (of for example vision)

Sharpness (for example of mind)

What 20/10 vision demonstrates

The CIA, for one

F.H.A., for one

William Morris, for one

Principal left last May in playful mood

In roguish manner

In a mischievous manner

Top monk's position, old-style

Abbey leadership

School show doesn't start well!

School rotter in A&E? Goodness!

West Point, for one

To convert into vinegar

Turn to vinegar

Turn into vinegar

Turn sour

Make sour

Sourness (of taste)

Quality of lime.

What pH measures

In a sarcastic way

In a caustic way

In a caustic manner

Risk rater (wordplay)

Premium-rate computer (wordplay)

Calculator of insurance statistics

With keen perception

In a sharp manner

How devastating insults are felt

Quest for the gold (wordplay)

Elementary science (wordplay)

Interpersonal chemistry (wordplay)

""The infant stage of chemistry, also ALCHEMY""

Headless state (wordplay)

Exception to the rule (wordplay)

Lawlessness when Chay ran about

Caesar salad morsel, maybe

Pizza-topping fish

Pizza topping choice

In a clownish manner

Perhaps bowing at the butts (wordplay)

Bowing, perhaps, but no scraping

Bowing to the butts (wordplay)

Path under a vaulted ceiling, maybe

Place for a keystone

Gothic architecture feature

A right to disclaim housing caught fire

County evacuated after historic forest fire

Passion

Suspended state (Var.)

Suspended state variable

In a miserable way

In a servile way

In a grovelling manner

Bill living in rectitude (wordplay)

Correctness of current church office

What typists and archers are judged on

Sharp and forthright manner

Harshness of temper.

Tree, by squeezing it, produces vitriol

In a yearning way

With great poignancy

In a heart-rending way

Unpleasant sharpness

Sharp quality, with or without the third letter

I try acid to get bitterness in smell or taste

Acronym I made out of bitterness

Cross a shout about where I am on

Bitterness, ill feeling

In an energetic way

See appended part of play with animation

With true effort

Show and tell, for one

Occupation or bustle

An occupation, recreation, or the like.

Strange as it may seem...

In fact, it's a cut-out, chum

'Strange as it may seem...'

Stubbornness

Mulishness

Insistence

That's enough

Minimum ability

Acceptable competence

Public support (for something)

Pleading in support (of someone)

Support of a cause

Prompt and eager readiness

New car in Italy moving with great speed

Quick, cheerful enthusiasm

In a friendly manner

In a friendly way

In a friendly fashion

Tree line (wordplay)

Any crest (anagram)

Material for a tree house (wordplay)

Opposed to cities

Without a regular schedule

The state of being an apocarp

""Abandonment of one's faith or beliefs, also APOSTASY""

Wretched work of art: colloq.

Type of inhuman treatment

Town behind doctored schedule of horror

Boldness - such nerve!

Boldness, may be brazen

Brass neck, boldness

Czarism, for example

Absolute rule

Absolute power

Wandering or straying state

It's just not normal

Deviance by nearby car is the subject of worry

""Accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Accessory. Accessory.""

Hat or handbag, say

John Oates, to Daryl Hall (wordplay)

Trapping criminal associate (wordplay)

Upward slope

Accountant before NYC, for one, admits Long Island five has its own slant

Escort to affirm (wordplay)

Play second fiddle to, in a way

Travel along with

It's not a dream

Beingness or existence

State of real existence

Contiguity.

By way of addition or adjunct; in connection with.

Assistant officer's role

Affluence.

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

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

One jerk and partner, in a zany fashion

Strong desire

Sovereign prince's domain

River out of churchyard meandering into Austria, perhaps

Cheery man can be greatest foe

Cheery man may be chief opponent

Number 1 on a hate list

In the form of a bow.

Absolute government by one person

Dictatorship, e.g

One-man rule.

""ABSORB to suck in, also SORB""

Terrycloth quality

Receptive nature of abbey treated with scorn

Read this bodybuilding brochure

In an acceptable manner; in a manner to please or give satisfaction.

In a accepted manner; admittedly.

How urgently needed equipment should be stored, as bicycles must be fixed

ACCIDENT a mishap

Some maniac curate lying? Precisely!

It's precisely a copy you heard Ray let anyhow

Lacy shifts worn by one in church without any slips

In a hateful manner

""Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel. as, an accusatory libel.""

In an accusing manner.

""The measurement of the strength of acids, especially by a chemical process based on the law of chemical combinations, or the fact that, to produce a complete reaction, a certain definite weight of reagent is required.""

Chronic enlargement of the extremities and face.

The process of doing or performing something: the act of thinking.

In an actionable manner.

Can lady jet off in a conterminous manner (wordplay)

""The act of adverting, of the quality of being advertent; attention; notice; regard; heedfulness.""

In a pretentious manner

ALOGICAL outside the domain of logic

""ANEMIC suffering from anemia, also ANAEMIC""

ANODIC pertaining to an {anode=n}

Against the making of illegal copies

A drug he's no right to carry (wordplay)

Nameless "Romeo and Juliet" character

Character in "Romeo and Juliet."

Study of past human culture

Prehistoric-culture study

ARCTIC a warm waterproof overshoe

Endowed with the power of speech.

Dominating influence (A, not E)

Candy canes (anagram)

Distributing candy canes with upper hand

Governing or controlling influence; domination; power.

The relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times.

With regards to nuclear energy

How a nation with nukes is armed

Against expectations

One predictably in a way deviating from the expected pattern

Bill takes pity, moving colleague in an unusual way

The branch of ecology that deals with the biological relationship between an individual organism or an individual species and its environment.

AXENIC free from germs

ABIOTIC relating to absence of life

In an accentual manner; in accordance with accent.

Accepting

In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; followed by with or to. with or to.

Bungee jumping is fun

Thus

In an accountable manner.

Practice needed for balancing acts

Profession dealing with finance

ACERBIC {sour=adj}

Acropetal

ACTINIC pertaining to {actinism=n}

The measurement of the force of solar radiation.

Actuarial

""In the manner of an adjective; as, a word used adjectively. as, a word used adjectively.""

AEROBIC requiring free oxygen

In an affecting manner; is a manner to excite emotions.

In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.

AFFECTIVE Tending to affect; affecting.

Good nature

Good will

A league of states of ancient Greece; esp. the celebrated confederation known as the Amphictyonic Council. Its object was to maintain the common interests of Greece.

ANALYTIC a scheme of analytical logic

Ancestral

Anecdotal

Pl. anencephalies Congenital absence of most of the brain and spinal cord.

In a saintly manner

CRUELTY savage behaviour towards a person or animal

SECRECY the condition of being secret

APHETIC pertaining to {aphesis=n}

Having the property of applying; applicative; practical.

""APPRECIABLE Capable of being appreciated or estimated; large enough to be estimated; perceptible; as, an appreciable quantity. as, an appreciable quantity.""

AQUATIC an organism living in or near water

Study of ancient artifacts

Study of old remains

Study of history through remains

In an outmoded sense

Rule by the best.

Upper class, nobility

Elevated types carry a cost I fancy

AROMATIC a fragrant substance

ARTHROSCOPE

Ascendant

Ascetical

ASEPTIC an aseptic substance

Bitterness (of taste)

Sharp or bitter quality

Sharpness, severity

Extremely badly

ATTRACT to {entice=v}

""ATYPICAL not typical, also ATYPIC""

In an audacious manner; with excess of boldness; impudently.

Adverb

Avuncular

In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.

In a scholarly manner

Not on purpose

Friend follows chance unwittingly

Ran into someone with friend by mistake

Marked or produced by accretion.

In relation to sound or to hearing.

After the manner of an acrostic.

""Botany Capable of being divided into equal halves along any diameter, as the flowers of the rose or tulip; radially symmetrical.""

""As, or in the manner of, an adjective; adjectively.""

ADJUDICATOR One who adjudicates.

Adolescent

In an afflictive manner.

In the manner of alchemy.

AMITOTIC pertaining to {amitosis=n}

Anagogical

In an analogical sense; in accordance with analogy; by way of similitude.

By studying the relationship between individual components

In an uncontrolled manner

As the body is structured, a nuclear link could be needed

ANELASTIC

""Pertaining to, or containing, announcement; making known.""

""Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion. as, antecedently to conversion.""

Thinking ahead, snap up article dividing Labour (wordplay)

ANTIGENIC

So as to cause annoyance to others

AORISTIC pertaining to a verb tense

APERIODIC

In an apocryphal manner; mythically; not indisputably.

Apolitical

The state or quality of being apostolical.

Intestinal operation

Abdominal operation

Certain surgery

""Showing appreciation; appreciative; as, appreciatory commendation. as, appreciatory commendation.""

Anarchy with credo disturbed church office

With reference to the archetype; originally. "Parts archetypally distinct." archetypally distinct."

AROMATIC a fragrant substance

""After the manner, or in the form, of a joint.""

""ARTICULATOR One who, or that which, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering. (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering.""

Synthetically transformed rail facility

Rail facility dismantled using mechanical means

Unnaturally

In an esthetic way

ATHLETIC relating to vigorous physical exercise

In a way that gains attention

Of or pertaining to auscultation.

In a favorable way

Genuineness

AUTISTIC one who suffers from autism

Autoecious

AUTOMATIC

In a greedy way

AVASCULAR

AVUNCULAR Of or pertaining to an uncle.

ABIOGENIC

The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness.

Ease of admittance

Ease by which something may be reached

Ease of reaching

In an acquiescent manner.

In the way of acquisition.

Noisy clamour spreading out around India in bitter manner

ACROBATIC Pertaining to an acrobat.