2-Letter Words Starting with A

With a feeling of guilt

By way of being sheepish

No pride in it this way

Ashlar

Ashler

Ashplant

Snake stopped on the surface of the road

Like many driveways

It stopped the serpent when the road was covered.

""Pertaining to, of the nature of, or containing, asphalt; bituminous.""

""Mineral pitch, Jews' pitch, or compact native bitumen. It is brittle, of a black or brown color and high luster on a surface of fracture; it melts and burns when heated, leaving no residue. It occurs on the surface and shores of the Dead Sea, which is therefore called Asphaltites, or the Asphaltic Lake. It is found also in many parts of Asia, Europe, and America. See Bitumen.Asphaltites, or the Asphaltic Lake. It is found also in many parts of Asia, Europe, and America. See Bitumen.""

Do L shapes make lilies (wordplay)

Lily family members

Lily flowers

Asphyxia

Asphyxy

Asthenia

Asthenic

Astheny

Of a respiratory disease

German cathedral city

That's enough to make short of 27 down

Hark Satan (anagram)

Hark, Santa is in Russian wool

Fur - city on Volga

Rejecting higher authority (wordplay)

Eschewing a higher calling (wordplay)

Not believing the man is in Greek mode

Atheling

Club menu the AA had changed (wordplay)

Inclusive book on wheels (wordplay)

Articles on a menu arranged by club

Reading rooms

Atheroma

Sports - cheat list (anagram)

His cattle wandering off track, perhaps

Lithe acts (anagram)

English word

Atrophia

Wasted away as a left back at Hyde, say

Decayed from disuse

Aphrodite became emaciated

Article with prizes for degenerates

A pit horse works with withers

Falls into decline

Attacher

Fixing a non-drinker's craving

(M/W)elding

A teetotaller in pain, and stuck with it

Aunthood

Wild oxen extinct since 1627

AUTARCH an absolute ruler

Real thin with a cute bust!

Genuine, not a copy

Real thin with a cute bust

Arthouses neglected creative person

Writer shares out bubbly

Writer shares out novel development

A harlot, I suspect, stealing Waugh's heart as a novelist (wordplay)

Author

I share out (anagram)

Writer is going east to say it's okay

Sanction or establish officially

Hoyle, for one

Write on sex with variable confidence

Writer's got it - 'unknown power'

John Irving's peepers (wordplay)

Give the go-ahead to

Give the green LIGHT to

Travelling South, a ban on roads like this

Sign of the self (wordplay)

Car dealer's chart (wordplay)

Hound's quarry (wordplay)

""An organism which is autotrophic, i. e., an organism (such as most plants and certain microorganisms) which are capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances, requiring only minerals as nutrients for growth, and using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; the energy required is derived from photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Opposed to heterotroph. See also auxotroph.autotrophic, i. e., an organism (such as most plants and certain microorganisms) which are capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances, requiring only minerals as nutrients for growth, and using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; the energy required is derived from photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Opposed to heterotroph. See also auxotroph.""

""An organism, such as a strain of bacteria, that has lost the ability to synthesize certain substances required for its growth and metabolism as the result of mutational changes.""

It's down-white dangerous (wordplay)

A descent that's very flaky (wordplay)

Alpine snowdrop (wordplay)

Avoucher

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

Brazilian plant that has winged fruits

Tea in some Amazonian rituals

Psychotropic drug said to induce spiritual experiences

Title for Khomeini

An Iranian Shi'ite religious leader

Senior Iranian cleric

Of or pertaining to the azimuth; in a horizontal circle.

Abashment

Revulsion to constituents of Anchor beer

There's nothing at all like it

Here carbon emission produces disgust

Abolisher

Formally ending (a practice)

Action demanded by W. L. Garrison

Wiping out

Floral designs used in architecture

Finish off associate in crime soundly

Coach limps off to manage

Twisted coach limps for effect

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

Without a chief

Achalasia

Able to be accomplished

If you get it, it must be so

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

Achiness

Stony meteorite

Colourless church with scent outside

Colorless.

A dreamer with no name embraces church, having no shade

Growing well in an acid medium: acidophilic bacteria.

Organisms thriving in sulphuric pools or animal stomachs

Acritarch

Acrophobe

Window washer's problem (wordplay)

Second-story man's undoing (wordplay)

High anxiety (wordplay)

Head off? New queen rejected church's observances

In an adherent manner.

Stickable

In an adhesive manner.

Adhibit

Warned by a note on day I cast off

Told off

Chastised

One who admonishes.

Rebukes gently.

Gently reproves

Adulthood

""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.""

Principles of artistic beauty

Worry for the superstitious

Number lacking article on study of arts

Gave a scare to

""The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, and which come away after delivery.""

Following figures after the events

Consequences revealed when calculations are done

Bad effects maybe following a school period (wordplay)

Brut, for one

Face alcohol before breakfast (wordplay)

Where this is (wordplay)

Van Halen song that resonates (wordplay)

WHERE'S THE WAVE (wordplay)

7-6 dessert wine (wordplay)

Plant pot like this on cooker

A space with an African plant like this

A, as in this African Lily

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

Like many Playboy Playmate photos

Sprayed with paint

Tools of historical revisionists

Retouches, in a way

Aircoach

Look about in box in carriage

The means by which goods get put up

Shipping service

""Art, skill, or ability in the practice of aerial navigation; aircraft piloting.""

Cuts of beef.

I leave Saddam's henchman as indexed relating to elixirs

Some seekers of transmutation

Philosophers' stone seekers

Ones who think things are good as gold (wordplay)

ALCHEMIZE To change by alchemy; to transmute.

Alchemize

They meet anonymously

Formal description of the people in talkies

Focus of the group started by Bill W.

Addiction to drink

Habitual intoxication

Step-by-step procedures

Former vice president wants Spain to condemn Smith's rules

Noun (-ment)

""ALKAHEST the hypothetical solvent sought by alchemists, also ALCAHEST""

Allethrin

Allograph

Allomorph

Allophane

Linguistic forms

Of or pertaining to an allophone.

They provide poor accommodation

Charitable housing

Not in deep water, say

By the sea

Waterfront

High altitude instruments (wordplay)

House radiolocation case in plane's broken instruments

ALPHABET a system of letters

Arranged just like these words? Yes!

Like some codes

Like characters in a script

Could be ARIA 1100 HELP

Alphosis

An instrument for taking azimuths and altitudes simultaneously.

Later, he got drunk (completely)

Entirely in the natural state (wordplay)

Great hotel renovated completely

True - a ham is, sadly!

'The Samurai' cast is unprofessional

Uriah's mate is terribly unprofessional

An ambush.

Abnormal suppression or absence of menstruation.

Such as 23 ac, 7 dn, 8 dn

Frogs and newts, for example

BATRACHOPHOBIA

Like the D-Day assault on Normandy

Having two natures.

For use on land and in water

Amphibole

""A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (\'de -- \'de); as, h. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet\'b6ic.h. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet\'b6ic.""

""A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in c\'best. c\'best.""

Pl. amphimixes (-m k s z ) The union of the sperm and egg in sexual reproduction.

Pl. amphimixes (-m k s z ) The union of the sperm and egg in sexual reproduction.

English word

English word

Partly one and partly the other; neither acid nor alkaline; neutral.

Discrepancy between the chronological order of events and the order in which they are related in a plot.

Breaks in grammatical sequence

A haul Acton possibly offers of syntactic non sequiturs

Done in low relief, as a cameo

... illiterate needing help to follow a northern river

Kind of lens used by moviemakers

""Pertaining to anarchy; without rule or government; in political confusion; tending to produce anarchy; as, anarchic despotism; anarchical opinions.as, anarchic despotism; anarchical opinions.""

Anarchism

Sacco and Vanzetti

An unruly lot that won't take orders

Some Russian Revolution figures

Word inversion, such as "Came the dawn."

Inversion, such as "Came the dawn"

Stephen King book, richest in rewrite

Tie-ups (wordplay)

Moorings

They may have agoraphobia

Solitary types disoriented in chain store

Chain store is awful for those seeking solitude

Reclusive.

Styptic. <mark>[Obs.]<mark>

Anchoveta

English word

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

Number of folks (wordplay)

Sensational loss (wordplay)

It's a real knockout!

Ether, for one

It may put you to sleep

It may be administered before surgery

ANGLER one who {fishes=v}

Like Grenada, but not Granada

Like the Bahamas, Barbados and Belize

English-speaking

Anguish

Anhedonia

Ray's hidden explosive chemical compounds

Anhydrite

Hammer a nail in the bust

Hit an alien ordered to exterminate

Dynamite, say

""Any of various mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles, which can carry the malaria parasite and transmit the disease to humans.""

Anorthite

""ANORTHITE A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime feldspar. See Feldspar. Feldspar.""

Galilee, the place arranged with an opening

Antechoir

Anthelix

Anthelion

Anthelix

""Pl. antheridia (- - ) A sperm-producing organ occurring in seedless plants, fungi, and algae.""

Anthocyan

Anthozoan

""A solid hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin. C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin.""

I burn, but break your heart? I can't!

Hard, lustrous coal

Hard type of coal

Kind of ape

Enos or Able.

If it looks like a man and walks like a man, what is it (wordplay)

Anthurium

ASTHMA a chronic respiratory disorder

CHURCH to bring to a building for Christian worship

GROWTH development

Many Eastwood characters, for example

Many Nicholson portrayals

Weak leading men opposed to Carlyle's theme (wordplay)

HEROIC an epic verse

HERPES a skin infection

""HIJACK to steal in transit, also HIGHJACK""

HUNTER one who {hunts=v}

Sung or chanted in alternation

Sung alternately by two groups

Hit on a plan to change sort of service book in church

Averse to writing research papers

Oppositions against changing sheets

Complete opposites

Why he left grad school (wordplay)

Why he left grad school?

Worker has it, he is on island opposite

Exactly opposite.

Opposite

Apartheid

""Pl. aphaereses or aphereses (-s z ) The loss of one or more sounds from the beginning of a word, as in till for until.""

""Pl. aphaereses or aphereses (-s z ) The loss of one or more sounds from the beginning of a word, as in till for until.""

""Pl. aphaereses or aphereses (-s z ) The loss of one or more sounds from the beginning of a word, as in till for until.""

Aphorise

Inclined to quote maxims

Like an adage

Expressed pithily.

Aphorize

Make lay chap pro? Questionable

Of questionable authenticity

Happy carol that's become legendary

Apophony

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

""Pl. apophyses (-s z ) Anatomy A natural swelling, projection, or outgrowth of an organ or part, such as the process of a vertebra.""

O death, where is thy sting (wordplay)

Greengrocers missing sign (wordplay)

Maker's mark (wordplay)

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

Nameless "Romeo and Juliet" character

Character in "Romeo and Juliet."

Of or pertaining to the apothecium.

""The ascigerous fructification of lichens, forming masses of various shapes.""

Hagiographic acts

Perfect examples

Deifications

Highest point of development

Isotope has got as high as it gets

Model taking a drug, explosive old girl

Detains suspects

Understands, perhaps wrongly, the object is to get inside

Was nearly as good as

Came near

Drew near

Nuisance at a phone store (wordplay)

Means of access.

Cowboy, for example, captured by Indians comes closer

Arachnoid