2-Letter Words Starting with A

Those who escaped ban crossed over

They take their leave without it

Muscles badly scorned by bad runners (wordplay)

Sure wobbly as belly out!

I wholly agree!

Okay by me!

Perfect in quality or nature; complete.

ABSOLUTE self-existent

ABSOLUTE self-existent

Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up.

""(Physics / General Physics) Physics a measure of the light-absorbing ability of an object, expressed as the logarithm to base 10 of the reciprocal of the internal transmittance See transmittance ACIDOMETER (Chemistry) a type of hydrometer for measuring the relative density of an acid solution, esp the acid in a battery Also called acidimeter ACTINOZOAN & adj (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) another word for anthozoan AEROSPHERE (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) Archaic the entire atmosphere surrounding the earth""

Terrycloth quality

Receptive nature of abbey treated with scorn

Absorbent

Tending to suck up

Tending to soak up

They are positively negative

Eligible non-voters

Avoiders of alcohol

I mess about (anagram)

Moderate Jack to plug debts

I mess about, drunk or sober

Pass in Congress (wordplay)

Act of declining to vote

Withholding of vote

Absterge

Practice of refraining (from alcohol)

If you pass the bar, what will it mean?

Non-partaking (of liquor)

Removed, being absent-minded

Walked off with head in the clouds

Preoccupied when taken out

Abstract

Abstrict

Last buyers getting treated in an unusual way

Abstruse

Sailors turn on way and head for folly

Ballerina's hairdo gets into the act (wordplay)

Article falsely acclaimed as scholarly

Well-read player from Hamilton (wordplay)

Bill gets a medical qualification from college

Academism

Floral designs used in architecture

Acaricide

Speeder-up in processing something.

Agent for hastening the progress

Maybe create lace and go faster

Create lace dress and be quick about it

Open the throttle wide

Without accent.

What to do with an acute etc (wordplay)

Worried about acne? Cut out stress

Emphasise smart goddess with brogue

Not bad welcome (wordplay)

Good enough but not great

Of (marginally) satisfactory quality

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

Occasion to give a speech

Granting admission to Powell's world

The world of Powell

In a accepted manner; admittedly.

Having a ramp, say

Open to be got at

Easy to talk to; approachable

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

Accession

Accidence

Perhaps M is taken toothy to the end

Fortuitous bit of scoring (wordplay)

Flat, say, without planning

ACCIDENT a mishap

Accipiter

Acclaimer

ACCLIMATE To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize.

Acclimate

Second place comic played

Criminal's associate

Helper in wrongdoing

(In) conformity (with)

Treating cancer a doc gets agreement

Agreement of opinion

A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician.

Accouter

Officially approved, as a college

Given official recognition

Like an Ivy League institution

Accretion

Noun (-ment)

Get together to create a fortune perhaps

Build up

Collect Greek character's former account with Catholic university first

Accuracy

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

The case for the prosecution (wordplay)

Prosecution's case (wordplay)

Case which needs objective prosecuting

Assigned blame, framing cat as usual

Usual train heading for East Germany

Familiar cat held by defendant

Without a chief

Acerbate

Acerbity

Cupshaped; saucershaped; acetabuliform.

Deep cavity on the side of the hipbone that receives the head of the thighbone

The hollow that receives the head of the thigh bone

Acetamide

""A white crystalline compound, C 6 H 5 NH(COCH 3 ), formerly used in medicine to relieve pain and reduce fever. It has been replaced by safer agents because of its toxicity.""

Acetify

ACETYLATE receive substitution of an acetyl group; of chemical compounds

Acetylate

Acetylene

""ACETYLENE A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant.""

Able to be accomplished

If you get it, it must be so

'It can be done - somehow I have' (Cable)

Achiness

Stony meteorite

Acidifier

An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids.

""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.""

Acidness

Growing well in an acid medium: acidophilic bacteria.

Made slightly acidic

Acidulate

Acierate

ACOELOMATE

Familiar (with)

Know with with

Know with with

Complied without putting up opposition

Assented

Agreed

Caves

Capable of being acquired.

Judges or juries, sometimes

Acridity

Acrimony

Chronic enlargement of the extremities and face.

Acrophobe

""A readily polymerized amide, C 3 H 5 NO, derived from acrylic acid and used in synthetic fibers and sewage treatment. It is a carcinogen and is present in some foods, especially starches and cereals that are cooked at high temperatures.""

A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.

Worth trying (wordplay)

Possibly libellous (wordplay)

Giving grounds for a lawsuit

Void of action.

The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity.

Work, hobbies, social events, etc.

Cite a visit planned with things to do

Things to do

""Changed from potential to actual; as, saw his worst fears actualized.as, saw his worst fears actualized.""

Actualize

Adamancy

Maybe detain a man of unyielding nature

Hard type of man, worker in Eden originally

A barrier against Tyneside must be unbreakable

ADAPTIVE able to be adapted

ADDITIVE a substance added to foodstuffs

Unadept at thinking.

Empty-headed.

Muddle-minded

Enveloped names (wordplay)

Letter-openers (wordplay)

You might say their name gets enveloped

Mail-order employees

Speechifiers

Lecturers

Saying what's to be going on th envelope

Ranch, for example

Dealing with commercial arrangement

Adenitis

Adenosine

Any of a group of DNA-containing viruses that cause conjunctivitis and upper respiratory tract infections in humans.

Any of a group of DNA-containing viruses that cause conjunctivitis and upper respiratory tract infections in humans.

Adequacy

Done well enough to earn a C, maybe

In satisfactory manner

Is it satisfactory place is empty to an acceptable extent (wordplay)

Head off? New queen rejected church's observances

In an adherent manner.

Stickable

In an adhesive manner.

Adipocyte

Can lady jet off in a conterminous manner (wordplay)

Of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective.

'In deep of night when - / Hath locked up mortal sense' (Milton)

Decide (between claims or in games)

Decide officially on a dispute

Hear and decide (a case).

Joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct.

Able to be adapted

Not set in stone

Like hospital beds

End of the statement

Small change to achieve a desired result

Modification; regulation

Portioned out

Admeasure

Manage publicity for one in church

Run as 'today's politician' (wordplay)

Pastor who pitches (wordplay)

Like certain evidence

Like some evidence

(As evidence in court) valid

Maiden, with tact, ordered entree

Letting in a ball stopped by hand

Permission to enter

'Truth be told ... '

By general agreement.

"Truth be told ... "

Admixture

Warned by a note on day I cast off

Told off

Chastised

One who admonishes.

Rebukes gently.

Gently reproves

Not yet achieved adultery (wordplay)

Youth benefit stops rising

Minor trouble with the French cologne

ADOPTIVE that adopts

Send matron out for decorations

Model and monster to become accessories

Embellishments

Rush before a flight (wordplay)

It can give you a rush

Stimulator of ideal Queen Anne building

One anorak turned up with some work, in charge of stimulation

Explosive assertion about daughter's skill

Skill

ADSORB to gather on the surface in a condensed layer

They are taken in, notice - top group ('90s group) on the way up...

Adsorbent

Having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface; displaying adsorption.adsorption.

Any substance that lessens purity

Water, vis-a-vis vodka

Corrupter of mature queen by worker

Cut a deal? Utter chicanery!

Water down, perhaps

Grown up with age, note, can be corrupt

Ones fooling around

Having grown up with a couple of cockney girls? Faith, he will have none of it!

Woman whose tears led us astray (wordplay)

Qualities evenly incorporated in an outfit for Madame Bovary, perhaps (wordplay)

Adultery

Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal.

Cheating ruled out as arranged

Like Fontane's woman

Cheating ruled out as wrong

A silent speed's indicated like this

Vaguely outlined

Adumbrate

A duke opposing worker - old and privileged

Gave a stand (anagram)

Reasons to say yes

They may overcome the competition

Advection

The membranous outer covering of an organ or blood vessel.

Adventive

""ADVENTURE That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.""

Man of derring-do

Many a Jules Verne protagonist

Soldier of fortune.

Tuned raves (anagram)

And then... stories

Basis of many plots.

Adverbial

The quality or practice of being advertent; heedfulness.

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

Called attention to

Diets raved about and given publicity

Desired a TV broadcast to be made known

One publicising a product (S, not Z)

He pays the price of publicity

He has his own ideas on hoarding

Steve raids (anagram)

Puts in a spot

Plugs (colloq.)

Advertize

Advertize

Careful consideration

Deliberation

US lawyer rejected version of events I'm giving US counsel

Advisory

Advocacy

ADVOCATE to plead in favour of

""A binucleate spore of a rust fungus, formed in a chainlike series in an aecium.""

""A spongy tissue with large air spaces found between the cells of the stems and leaves of aquatic plants, providing buoyancy and allowing the circulation of gases.""

Some perform without nets

Performers with dangerous acts

Daring circus performers

Loops and rolls

Exercising swallows at flying display

Stunt flying

""AEROBE an organism that requires free oxygen, also AEROBIUM""

""AEROBE an organism that requires free oxygen, also AEROBIUM""

AEROBRAKE

Decelerates, as with a space shuttle

Landing fields, in London

Airfields, to a Brit

MOD are sore over these airfields

Air mail letter

Air letter

'Casualty' episode missing opening page, but whoever the writer, it'll take off

Aerology

Measurers of gas properties

Pertaining to an important science.

Pertaining to the science of air travel

Of plane navigation

Aeronomer

Aeronomy

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

Tour transports, to Brits

A Greek lover hides jet with jumbos

British flying machines

AEROSOL a spray released under pressure

Aerospace

Principles of artistic beauty

Worry for the superstitious

Number lacking article on study of arts

Passed summer in a dormant position

Aestivate

AFFECT to act upon

In a pretentious manner

Affection

AFFECT to act upon

AFFERENT a nerve that conveys impulses to a nerve centre