2-Letter Words Starting with A

Adulterant

Energy in X, devalued

No longer pure

Made impure

Debases or dilutes

Uses water maybe to dilute a trusted ale naughtily

Doctors

One who adulterates or corrupts.

Adultness

Faintly representing; typical.

Promotion in rank

Result of a bye

Commercial/truck/concrete

Of or pertaining to adventitia.

Adventitia

Fortune hunters.

Breathtaking enterprises will take society in. How about Becky Sharp (wordplay)

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

Dame ruins TV set in hazardous practice (wordplay)

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

Boldly enterprising

Daring

In the manner of an adverb.

Combative as a driver, a wild person yet to pass test

Combative

Mostly negative sign from opponents

Advisers are represented on opposing sides

Sign supporting mostly inauspicious opponents

Adjective (-ive)

State of opposition

Adversity

Advertence

Advertent

Advertiser

Commercial world (wordplay)

Classified line of business (wordplay)

Putting in a plug (wordplay)

The act of {advertising=v}

Client-sponsored article

Client-sponsored article *

Advisement

Aeciospore

Aepyornis

Aerenchyma

AEROBIC requiring free oxygen

""The study of the sources, dispersion, and effects of airborne biological materials, such as pollen, spores, and microorganisms.""

AEROBRAKE

Relating to air in motion.

Having a drag-reducing shape

Streamlined academy in row sadly with week to go

Adjective (-ic)

Aerogramme

""The medical study and treatment of physiological and psychological disorders associated with atmospheric or space flight. Also called aerospace medicine , aviation medicine .""

Gen. Doolittle's forte.

Science of flying

Study of flight

AERONOMIC

Aeronomist

AEROSOLIZE

Aerosolize

Aerostatic

AESTHETIC

AESTIVATE

Torpid state during the hot season

Aetiology

A change of face tint giving unnatural appearance

Deliberate pretence of kindness, embracing volunteers

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

""Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature. as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature.""

Disposed.

In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.

AFFECTIVE Tending to affect; affecting.

Affirmance

What to latch onto, with 'the' ...

What to latch onto, with "the" ...

What to latch onto, with "the"...

Affluency

Afforest

""AFFRICATE 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.""

Afterbirth

Part of a jet engine increasing thrust

Pollution-control device

Jet power booster

Result following on

Persisting change

Secondary consequence

Afterimage

Like car accessories

Afterpiece

Aftershave

Dessert wines give us minor tremors

Small earthquakes that follow major earthquakes

Aftertaste

Afterworld

Botany The asexual formation of embryos and seeds without the occurrence of fertilization.

AGELESS never growing old

Form a rounded mass

Form into one cluster

Cluster

""To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.""

Gardenias, good on both sides, could be made to look larger

Aggrandise

""AGGRANDIZE To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress. as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.""

""One who aggrandizes, or makes great.""

Aggrandize

Aggregate

AGGREGATE To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. \'bdThe aggregated soil.\'b8aggregated soil.\'b8

Assembly process in garage got modified

Process of material coming together

Compound

Taken together; collective.

Aggression

Aggrieved

Agoraphobe

Curtail urge to work in growing business

The practice of farming

Field for early U. S. settlers

A point or tag at the end of a fringe or lace; an aglet.

Ailanthus

Cat fancier

One who hates or fears cats.

Lack of purpose

Airfreight

Badly ventilated condition

Flyer's upset

Might get it on the tour plane

Flying illness

White.

Birds of ill omen

Largest sea birds.

ALCHEMIST One who practices alchemy.

ALCHEMIZE To change by alchemy; to transmute.

A steroid hormone secreted by the adrenal cortex that regulates the salt and water balance in the body.

Alertness

Twelve-syllable line of verse

Aid external examination of precious stone

A green variety of chrysoberyl used as a gemstone

Algebraist

Alienation

Alienness

Alightment

Alikeness

Aliteracy

Aliveness

""An instrument to ascertain the strength of alkalies, or the quantity of alkali in a mixture.""

""The art or process of ascertaining the strength of alkalies, or the quantity present in alkaline mixtures.""

ALKALINIZE

Alkalinize

Allantoid

Accusations

Fidelities.

Like 'Pilgrim's Progress'

Containing a hidden meaning

Rife with symbolism

ALLEGORISE

Allegorise

Allegorist

""ALLEGORIZE To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people. as, to allegorize the history of a people.""

""One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist.""

Allegorize

Allegretto

""One of the pure unit characters commonly existing singly or in pairs in the germ cells of Mendelian hybrids, and exhibited in varying proportion among the organisms themselves; same as allele, 2. Allelomorphs which under certain circumstances are themselves compound are called hypallelomorphs. See Mendel's law.allele, 2. Allelomorphs which under certain circumstances are themselves compound are called hypallelomorphs. See Mendel's law.""

The inhibition of growth in one species of plants by chemicals produced by another species.

ALLEVIATE To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.

Easing (of pain)

The making (of pain) less severe

Painkiller's job

Alleviator

Began the same way

Produced 'Love's Labours Lost', say, fully performed many times

Alliterate

See isoantigen .

Capable of being allocated.

Allograft

Allometry

Allopatry

Allostery

Allotropy

Allurement

Aloneness

Aloofness

Climbing gear.

ALPHABET a system of letters

Work on library cards

*Put in order, as files

Church art items

Changes made by artist alone to model

""ALTERCATE The contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle.""

Action (wordplay)

Caught in middle of change, quarrel

Can't loiter about after a row

As another option...

As a substitute

Train starts awfully late nearly every other time

Sort of current found in tidal river

Type of current from your alternator

Taking turns

Vary the race, going by turns

Interchange name in heartless dispute

Taking of turns

Not the first choice

Available as another possibility

Option to convert indigene

Underhood electricity producers

Altimetry

Altogether

United, as corporations or labor unions

Brings about a merger, as of two firms

Unites; mingles

Blends together to form a new combination

Amantadine

Of an imaginary flower that never fades

Amaryllis

Amateurism

The faculty supposed to influence sexual desire; propensity to love.

""A variety of feldspar, having a verdigris-green color.""

Ambergris

Ambiguity

Ambisexual

Mixed feelings (E, not Y)

That love-hate feeling.

Girl in a mood shows uncertainty

A balanced disposition intermediate between extroversion and introversion.

""A white or greenish mineral, (Li,Na)Al(PO 4 )(F,OH), that is an important source of lithium.""

Ambuscader

Ambushment

Old-time area (anagram) - made better

Made better

Improved a red meat stew by putting oil back in

Improves, as a situation

Takes a sad thing and makes it better

One who ameliorates.

Ameloblast

Responsiveness

Amenorrhea

Abnormal suppression or absence of menstruation.

Amercement

""Resembling amethyst, especially in color; bluish violet.""

Affability

""A folic acid antagonist, C 19 H 20 N 8 O 5 , used as an antineoplastic agent. It has been mainly replaced by methotrexate.""

A white crystalline substance used as an analgesic and antipyretic.

Amoebocyte

Amorality

Loving characteristic

""Capable of being cleared off, as a debt.""

Working in MPH, AA meet required speed

Mood-altering drug

Stimulant drug

Amphiboly

A metamorphic rock composed chiefly of amphibole and plagioclase.

Amphimacer

Amphioxus

Amphiphile

A mythical serpent having a head at each end of its body.

Ampleness

AMUSING amuse

AMYLOID a hard protein deposit

""The outer portion of a starch granule consisting of insoluble, highly branched polysaccharides of high molecular weight.""

""Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial.""

""Pl. anadiploses (-s z) Rhetorical repetition at the beginning of a phrase of the word or words with which the previous phrase ended; for example, He is a man of loyalty loyalty always firm.""