2-Letter Words Starting with A

Getting mean (wordplay)

Finding the means (wordplay)

What a mean thing to be doing!

Avigator

Keeping out of hospital, stifling cry of pain, giving assurance

Sleep's end

Rousing a boy in one part of house

Arousal from sleep

Azotise

Azotize

Leaving a report about scholar at home

A group performing, one no good, giving up

Deserting

Abandoning royal dignity

Relinquishing power

Giving up

A believer in spontaneous generation

Abnegate

Sailor, say, in the country giving up

Bet again? No chance for denial

Disclaimer - there's no beating a developer!

Surrendering sorts

Formally ending (a practice)

Action demanded by W. L. Garrison

Wiping out

Bad oil? Bargain first

Present from the earliest times

Present from the start

Algonquins, for example.

Early inhabitants

First inhabitants.

Abreact

Compendium or synopsis.

Shortened version of a written work

Shortened form

Abrogate

Annulment of an agreement or law

The sailor's asking for an annulment

Cancelling a second-rate allowance? Go back to intervene

Abscess

Leaving secretly in a hurry

Doing without.

Santa in big buggy not letting anyone get cross (wordplay)

Absterge

Welcoming with shouts of joy

Giving praise to

Type of work.

FIRST-in, FIRST-out discipline

Giving a reason for financial processing

Accoutre

In an accusing manner.

Acerbate

Acetify

Acidify

Acierate

Acquit

Chronic enlargement of the extremities and face.

Activate

Activize

Saying what's to be going on th envelope

Ranch, for example

Dealing with commercial arrangement

Adhibit

Postponing

My darling and I intertwine with desire

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

A duke opposing worker - old and privileged

Gave a stand (anagram)

Reasons to say yes

They may overcome the competition

Advocate

Air mail letter

Air letter

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

Aerology

Affiance

Afflict

Gave a scare to

Affront

Western skies past sunset

Lingering luminescences

Flashbulb effect, for example

Lingering impression on the eye

Flashbulb effect

Plant pot like this on cooker

A space with an African plant like this

A, as in this African Lily

Agedness

AGENDA a list of things to be done

Substance in body - a s-surfeit gets in repeatedly

Antibody causing sticking together of bacteria, cells, etc

M1's in time to expand

Magnify; increase power of

Make greater grade gains after revision

Exaggerate

Made (offence) more serious (legal)

Vexed by burglary (wordplay)

Made more serious

Gets under the skin

Adds insult to injury

Makes worse

Gathered into a mass or whole

Combined into a whole

Brought together

Groups into a class

Garage gets building concrete materials

Collects together building materials

Aggress

Is sore with gang's violent hostility

What eleven Ac displays

Act of aggression,physical force

Wild, wild raves and gigs on Ecstasy

Like a winning tournament player*

Combative - pushing

Starters of quarrels.

Initiators of action

Hostile attackers

Infringing another's legal rights

In a jittery way

In a troubled manner

In a perturbed manner

To sit again may cause ripples

Disturbed states

It is part of Santiago riot and disturbances

One afraid of open spaces

One who suffers a fear of crossing open spaces

I hate going out since chat with lout who's on benefits

Results of Teheran, Yalta, Potsdam

Documents of treaty.

Legally binding arguments

Agrimony

Agrology

Agronomy

Specialist on soil and planting.

Land expert on a rig most awkwardly

Expert in soil management

Look about in box in carriage

The means by which goods get put up

Shipping service

Emergency transportation method

Flying in Hackney's hair-raising (wordplay)

Moving in emergency, scary for Cockneys (wordplay)

Airmail

So as to cause sudden fear

Layman and girl getting entangled in a shocking manner

Preparing to fight with friend outside, in scary fashion

Algaecide

Algarroba

Sorting bag later - is one dealing with problems involving letters (wordplay)

Algidity

Sex

Algology

Ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma). (Nepeta Glechoma).

Step-by-step procedures

Former vice president wants Spain to condemn Smith's rules

Giving the cold shoulder

Causing a rift between

Turning away

Noun (-ment)

Alignment

Aliment

Alkalise

Alkalize

Alkylate

Slowly getting slower, on sheet music

(To be performed) with increasing slowness

Largo and a bit of lento modified becoming largo

Testimony that is contestable

Assertion made without proof.

Charge a liberal group of diplomats

Loyalty, say, found in Nato maybe

Loyalty, say, within marriage

Loyalty, say, found in union

Symbolic narratives which Mrs Malaprop might find on the banks of the Nile

ALLEGE to assert without proof

C.S. Lewis, for one

John Bunyan, for one

Legislator (wordplay)

Show by storytelling

Everyone, say, backed animal movement

To be played rather briskly (music)

Moving fairly briskly (music)

Causing one to react rashly (wordplay)

Causing a rash reaction (wordplay)

Like penicillin, to some

They may make rash decisions

Kin of the caiman

Reptiles protected by law

Florida lake invaders

Allocate

Allogamy

Characterized by allogamy.

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

Allograft

Allograph

ALLURING allure

Almsgiver

The giving of alms.

ALOGICAL outside the domain of logic

Not in deep water, say

By the sea

Waterfront

Alpenglow

Later, he got drunk (completely)

Entirely in the natural state (wordplay)

Great hotel renovated completely

Combine into one

Merge into a single body

Join forces to butcher Malaga meat

Walking

Amnesty

Amortise

Paying down

Making (a signal) greater

Amputate

Amygdalin

""A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.""

Plural or third person singular

A pattern of evolution that results in linear descent with no branching or splitting of the population.

Done in low relief, as a cameo

""Mystical; having a secondary spiritual meaning; as, the rest of the Sabbath, in an anagogical sense, signifies the repose of the saints in heaven; an anagogical explication.as, the rest of the Sabbath, in an anagogical sense, signifies the repose of the saints in heaven; an anagogical explication.""

Made "talent" from "latent," e.g

Got into a mix-up with letters

This mad manager produces the answer

Analgesia

Hospital numbers (wordplay)

Aspirin, for example

Numbers used in gas scale

Analgetic

Built on comparisons

Having similarity

Analogist

Shown to be similar

Analogize

It may help someone see a giant's terribly dull

Lens corrects against back of prism at ...

Photographic lens which corrects coma and spherical aberration

Tie-ups (wordplay)

Moorings

Of or pertaining to androgens; having physiological effects like that of an androgen.

Androgyne

Anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes.

An instrument for measuring and recording the direction and force of the wind.

""A discourse on angels, or a body of doctrines in regard to angels.""

Pl. angiogeneses (-s z ) The formation of new blood vessels.

Angiogram

A plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp.

ANGLER one who {fishes=v}

Anglesite

Angleworm

Made English clean digs I refurbished

Anglicise

Anglicism

Adapted a foreign word to English usage

Pronounces in a certain way.

Like Grenada, but not Granada

Like the Bahamas, Barbados and Belize

English-speaking

Anguish

Gauntness

Angulate

A making angular; angular formation.

Ankylose

Editorial activity

Supplying notes when she has nothing but odds and ends I find to be no good

Declaring

How older siblings tend to perceive things said by younger siblings

Man in toga's set about opposition

Crude sign to a man provoking conflict

Moan at sign that's whipped up hostility

Antonym of ally

Enemy destroying 1 nation

Not against roughing up an opponent

Make an enemy of.

Rub the wrong way

Make an enemy of

Antecede

Preceding in time

""BUSING the act of transporting by bus, also BUSSING""

CAKING the act of caking

Antidote

FUNGAL a {fungus=n}

GROWTH development

Antilogy

MERGER the combining of two or more businesses into one

PLAGUE to pester or annoy

Aphorise

Aphorize

Apiology

In a sorry state (wordplay)

With hat in hand, perhaps

So sorry and disturbed, to ogle a pic

Said sorry for serving old sago pie

Expressed regret for what one has done

Expressed regret

Expresses regret for an initial self-confidence over record at school

Defenders of controversial stances, say

Defenders of the faith.

They have defensive ends

Began damage control, perhaps

Ended a spat, in a way

Expressed regrets

One who makes an apology; an apologist.

Eats humble pie

Makes excuses.

Its precise to say it's not worth the paper it's written on

Saw dad in strange hat, trim having bit of gold in it

A widely favoured hot article by general manager occasions pithy remark

APPAREL to {clothe=v}

Add on time for members

Find deep pagans needing projections

Things going on a long time after a very quiet death

Mince pies and a pint - good and tasty!

Mouth-watering

Quite mouthwatering - but gets a pip in by accident

Appetize

Going like the clappers (wordplay)

Giving a hand around the house (wordplay)

Clapping etc

Assigning (to a post)

Designating.

It's not about rejecting a father losing article for blessing

Informing about a judgmental activity

Sizing up

Aquilegia

Aragonite

""ARAGONITE A mineral identical in composition with calcite or carbonate of lime, but differing from it in its crystalline form and some of its physical characters.""

ARBITRAGE Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination.