2-Letter Words Starting with A

Archduchy

An archduchy.

Relating to the archegonium.

""The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.""

Bad shoes, to a podiatrist (wordplay)

The Joker and Batman, for example

Hatfields, to McCoys

The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination. Illust. under Invagination.

English word

Key chain (wordplay)

Fiji, for example

Hawaii, i.e.

Architrave

Archpriest

Arctangent

The quality of being arduous; difficulty of execution.

Growing or living or burrowing in sand.

Of or relating to a reference system based at the center of the planet Mars.

ARGUMENT an exchange of differing reasons

Arithmetic

ARPEGGIATE

Arpeggiate

Charging in court

Courtroom activity

Court proceeding

Order me new shirt? It's a deal!

Florist's creation

Result of putting in order

Arresting

Arrestment

Pl. arteriographies Examination of the arteries using x-rays following injection of a radiopaque substance.

Plural or third person singular

Plural or third person singular

""Pl. arthrodeses (-s z) The surgical fixation of a joint, ultimately resulting in bone fusion. Basically, the procedure is artificially induced ankylosis performed to relieve pain or provide support in a diseased or injured joint.""

Surgical fixation of joints.

""Pl. arthroscopies Examination of the interior of a joint, such as the knee, using a type of endoscope that is inserted into the joint through a small incision.""

""A bacterial resting cell, -- formerly considered a spore, but now known to occur even in endosporous bacteria.""

""That can be articulated: vague, barely articulable thoughts.""

Clearly stated to be jointed

Put into words

Said to be segmented

Utters clearly

Artillery

Gunnery expert

Stern lasses agitating for simplicity

Asafoetida

Ascendance

Ascendant

Ascendence

""Relating to ascension; connected with ascent; ascensive; tending upward; as, the ascensional power of a balloon. as, the ascensional power of a balloon.""

Found out

Ascetical

Asceticism

Ascomycete

ASEPTIC an aseptic substance

Asininity

Askewness

Asparagine

The brush used in the Roman Catholic church for sprinkling holy water on the people.

ASPERGILL

Asphaltite

Killed by oxygen starvation

Bit in papers after a small dose of drug reportedly caused death

Choked

Asphyxiate

Murder (a political or religious leader)

Murder (a public figure)

Kill (a VIP)

Assemblage

Member of a legislative body

Superhero whose power is putting together IKEA furniture (wordplay)

Job mistakenly sought by a model airplane builder (wordplay)

ASSEMBLY the act of {assembling=v}

""Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence.""

Assertive

Estimates property housing ship and crew

Tax-minded evaluations.

Certain payments.

""ASSEVERATE To affirm or aver positively, or with solemnity.""

States solemnly

Affirms earnestly

Assiduity

Two 4-to-5-page essays, oral presentation, research project

'Two 4-to-5-page essays, oral presentation, research project'

""That may be assimilated; that may be likened, or appropriated and incorporated.""

Integrated.

Incorporated

Absorbs, like the Borg

Absorbs

Helps.

""Having the quality of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty. as, the associative faculty.""

Assoilment

(tr) to arrange or distribute into groups of the same type; classify

Antipastos, for example

Some large bags of candy

Antipastos, e.g

The satisfying of an appetite or desire

The state of being assured; certainty; full confidence.

Asterisk

Bitterness (of taste)

Sharp or bitter quality

Sharpness, severity

Skin treatments

Evangeline Adams and others.

They get a lot from Leo's movement

Zodiac experts

Astrology

Astronomy

Moon-starers (anagram)

Monster oars (anagram)

Moon starers! (Anagram)

Astronomy

Asymmetry

Pl. atelectases (-s z ) Total or partial collapse of the lung.

Pl. atelectases (-s z ) Total or partial collapse of the lung.

""Pertaining to, implying, or containing, atheism; -- applied to things; as, atheistic doctrines, opinions, or books.as, atheistic doctrines, opinions, or books.""

""Formation of atheromatous deposits, especially on the innermost layer of arterial walls.""

Physical fitness and strength

Strength, fitness

""ATMOSPHERE The whole mass of a\'89riform fluid surrounding the earth; applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars. as, the atmosphere of Mars.""

Ambiances

'Hi!' to campers (anagram)

Armpits echo (anagram)

Of air; conveying special mood

Atonality

Paper clips might symbolize them

Aims achieved by effort

Acquired skills.

Achievements

Attemper

""Capable of being attempted, tried, or attacked.""

Attendance

Of or pertaining to attention.

In a heedful way

Agent at unit being treated is getting weaker

Reduction in strength

Weakening, as in the value of a lawsuit

Attenuator

Taken in by police without husband, giving testimony

Attornment

""The capacity, as of a pheromone, to attract.""

Like some nouns

Attunement

They have lots to offer

Audiology

Audiometer

An instrument for measuring hearing activity for pure tones of normally audible frequencies. Also called sonometer .

Lovers of high-fidelity sound

Used a stethoscope

Auscultate

Harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity.

Austerity

Authoress

The powers that be

Controlling persons

Controlling organization is keeping restriction on writer

Authorizer

Adverb

Autocracy

Autocross

""Self-satisfaction of sexual desire, as by masturbation.""

Autograft

Like books that may fetch a higher resale value

Signed

Autolysate

Autolyzate

AUTOMATA {robots=n}

AUTOMATIZE same as automate.automate.

Automatize

""AUTOMOBILE a self-propelled vehicle used for transporting passengers, suitable for use on a street or roadway. Many diferent models of automobiles have beenbuilt and sold commercially, possessing varied features such as a retractable roof (in a convertible), different braking systems, different propulsion systems, and varied styling. Most models have four wheels but some have been built with three wheels. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), and sometimes by steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from under 50 H. P. for earlier models to over 200 H. P. larger models or high-performance sports or racing cars. An automobile is commonly called a car or an auto, and generally in British usage, motor cars.convertible), different braking systems, different propulsion systems, and varied styling. Most models have four wheels but some have been built with three wheels. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), and sometimes by steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from under 50 H. P. for earlier models to over 200 H. P. larger models or high-performance sports or racing cars. An automobile is commonly called a car or an auto, and generally in British usage, motor cars.""

Wheels out awful modern artworks after one

AUTOROTATE

Autorotate

""Psychology The process by which a person induces self-acceptance of an opinion, belief, or plan of action.""

AUTOTOMIZE cause a body part to undergo autotomy.

Autotomize

Autoworker

Helpers, assistants

Aventurine

AVERAGE to calculate the arithmetical mean value of

Avgolemono

Aviculture

Avouchment

Awareness

Amazing quality

Grandiosity

Wonder how seesaws might be constructed with built-in sign

A bridge player, Richard, and two fellow players filled with astonishment

Awfulness

Clumsy quality

AXIOMATIZE

Axiomatize

Having symmetry around an axis: an axisymmetric cone.

Of or relating to a method of projection in which an object is drawn with its horizontal and vertical axes to scale but with its curved lines and diagonals distorted.

(Medicine / Pathology) Pathol absence of spermatozoa in the semen azoospermic   adj AZOOSPERMIC (Medicine / Pathology) Pathol absence of spermatozoa in the semen azoospermic   adj BACILLAEMIA (Medicine / Pathology) Pathol the presence of bacilli in the blood

""Any of various rod-shaped, nonpathogenic, nitrogen-fixing bacteria of the genus Azotobacter, found in soil and water.""

Abandonment

Shortening

Reducing

E.g. for example (wordplay)

Tues. or Agt. (tsk-tsk!)

Shortening - above Britain (anagram)

Abbreviator

Abecedarian

Characterized by unsound thinking

Ex-President right and judicious or diverging from normality (wordplay)

Abjectness

Abolishment

The quality of being abortive.

ABRASIVE an abrading substance

Abridgement

Abruptness

Absenteeism

Like a Disney film professor (2 words)

Contemplating truancy (wordplay)

Given to woolgathering

The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.

Absorbancy

Absorbency

Absorptance

Abstemious

ABSTRACT to draw away

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

The quality of being abstract.

The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension.

Abstrusity

Absurdness

In a scholarly manner

Distinguished scholars

Academicism

Acatalectic

Accelerando

Gaining speed

Increasing speed

An increase in rate

Rate of increase of speed

A speeding up

Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening.

Throttles

ACCENTUATE To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

Giving special importance to something

Emphasis, stress

Acceptation

Accession

ACCESSORISE

Accessorise

ACCESSORIZE

Accessorize

Not on purpose

Friend follows chance unwittingly

Ran into someone with friend by mistake

Accipitrine

Accustomed to new conditions

Accustomed to upset mice with acid and salt