2-Letter Words Starting with A

Archaise

""Like, or imitative of, anything archaic; pertaining to an archaism.""

Archaize

High spirits (wordplay)

Most high beings

*High-ranking heavenly beings

Coy Joey (wordplay)

Provincial administrator (wordplay)

Canterbury tales subject

Roguish cleric (wordplay)

Cleric ruined chance with Dora

Ecclesiastic next below a bishop

""Pl. archegonia (-n - ) A multicellular, often flask-shaped, egg-producing organ occurring in mosses, ferns, and most gymnosperms.""

Study of past human culture

Prehistoric-culture study

""A small fish (Toxotes jaculator), of the East Indies; -- so called from its ejecting drops of water from its mouth at its prey. The name is also applied to Ch\'91todon rostratus.Toxotes jaculator), of the East Indies; -- so called from its ejecting drops of water from its mouth at its prey. The name is also applied to Ch\'91todon rostratus.""

Real and patchy - crudely typical!

Classic N chapel tray (anagram)

Chat with player when ground's ideal

Original models of sports cars found on bridge

Vampire Aristocrats, in Dungeons & Dragons

Ones making plans

Pritzker Prize winners

Bezaleel et al.

Frame for door or window

Beam resting on tops of columns.

Frame Alistair, vacuously taking tab at party

Record-keepers of a sort

They say Gemmill leaps over fancy formations

Archness

Archosaur

""A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean.""

Arhatship

Activity for summer (wordplay)

Field of operations (wordplay)

R without an apostrophe (wordplay)

Varying heartbeat

Lacking rhythm or regularity of rhythm: "a slight arrhythmic imperfection when the car idles" (Garrison Keillor).

Ones given the shaft (wordplay)

Indian museum display

Old Native American carvings

Neuralgic pain in a joint or joints.

Neuralgic pain in a joint or joints.

Arthritic

Spiders and crabs.

Troops hard to move - they've no backbone

Edible thistles that may be stuffed

Their hearts are often preserved in jars

Edible flower heads are so thick, oddly

Ashiness

Asphalt

Asphaltic.

Asphaltum

ASPHERIC not spherical

Choke (to death)

After wrecking taxi he pays for throttle

Choke, but manage to pay his tax before the end of June

Asthmatic

Knocked out a dishonest criminal

Amazed - and so is the organisation

Left slack-jawed

Staggers, due to ill-fitting satin shoes

Knocks for a loop

Surprises, this season, coming out

Astrakhan

The relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times.

Athanasy

Athenaeum

Pl. atheromas or atheromata (-m -t ) A deposit or degenerative accumulation of lipid-containing plaques on the innermost layer of the wall of an artery.

Athrocyte

Feeling blue (wordplay)

Candles create a romantic one

Pervading tone or mood

Wasting away as a result of disease

Silver-plated souvenir at home is deteriorating

Inga wavering: accepting award or declining (wordplay)

Capable of being fastened

Like Mr. Potato Head parts

Love sent by email (wordplay)

Love sent by e-mail (wordplay)

File with an email

Emery phor buphs (wordplay)

One making a sound investment (wordplay)

Hi-fi fan.

Autarchy

Throw her out, said official

Licensed originator is a man

Revised share-out I'd sanctioned

Permits will be distributed at house, sir

""Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent. as, an authorized agent.""

Granter of a privilege.

One who sanctions an action

Clears

Empowers

Sanctions

Novelist's craft (wordplay)

The Caine or the Pequod?

The Caine or the Pequod (wordplay)

AUTOBAHN a German superhighway

Native.

Fan collection (wordplay)

Star signs (wordplay)

Collector's items.

The science of autographs; a person's own handwriting; an autograph.

Autotroph

""AUTOTROPH 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.""

Auxotroph

AUXOTROPH

""AVALANCHE A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.""

Winter effects (wordplay)

Skiers' cover-alls (wordplay)

Hazard for skiers.

The act of avouching; positive declaration.

Ayahuasca

'Muslim leaders reject onion' - sure that's the answer (wordplay)

Abhorrence

Broth nearly spilt in a repugnant way

In an awful way

So as to inspire loathing

Capable of being abolished.

The action of putting an end to (a practice)

Accoucheur

Feat in armour

Thing that is accomplished

Something accomplished by effort

Achondrite

Of or pertaining to achondrite.

Being without color

To deprive of color; to make achromatic.

Acidophile

ACIDOPHILE

Acrophobia

Admonisher

Reprimanding

Aerenchyma

AESTHETIC

Affright

Afterbirth

Aftershave

Dessert wines give us minor tremors

Small earthquakes that follow major earthquakes

Agoraphobe

Recluse's problem, maybe

Cause of some reclusion

Morbid fear of open spaces

Larval fruit flies with this gene never leave their eggshells

Twisting of a choir's tail that didn't really happen

Ailanthus

Cat fancier

One who hates or fears cats.

Photo lab job

Photoshop job

Airfreight

Airmanship

ALCHEMIST One who practices alchemy.

ALCHEMIZE To change by alchemy; to transmute.

Alcoholism

Of or pertaining to an algorithm.

Alightment

""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.

Of or pertaining to an allograph.

Of or pertaining to allomorphism.

ALPHABET a system of letters

Work on library cards

*Put in order, as files

Altazimuth

Altogether

Of an imaginary flower that never fades

Ambushment

Amenorrhea

Abnormal suppression or absence of menstruation.

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

In an ill-defined manner

Working in MPH, AA meet required speed

Mood-altering drug

Stimulant drug

Amphiboly

A metamorphic rock composed chiefly of amphibole and plagioclase.

""A phrase, discourse, or proposition, susceptible of two interpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. It differs from equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term. equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term.""

Amphibrach

A league of states of ancient Greece; esp. the celebrated confederation known as the Amphictyonic Council. Its object was to maintain the common interests of Greece.

Amphimacer

Amphioxus

AMPHIPATH

Amphiphile

AMPHIPHILE

Amphiploid

AMPHIPLOID

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

Untimely mistake (wordplay)

Thing that belongs to another time

A case of mixed dates

Out of time (wordplay)

Lacking grammatical sequence.

Syntactical incoherence

Lack of feeling.

Insensitivity to pain induced by drugs

Literally "without sensation"

A knockout in the theatre!

Laughing gas, for example

A person could well be put out by it

Analphabet

Plural or third person singular

Hypersensitivity (to a protein or drug) resulting from prior contact with a substance.

Like one wanting to overthrow government

Anastrophe

Anchoress

Paula Zahn of CNN, for example

Norah O'Donnell, for example

Katie Couric, for example

A woman who narrates or coordinates a newscast in which several correspondents give reports.

Anchovetta

Anemograph

Pl. anencephalies Congenital absence of most of the brain and spinal cord.

Anesthesia

Anesthetic

Expert with numbers

O.R. physician

(American) hospital theatre worker

Put under, in an operating room

Put under

Angelfish

A description of blood vessels and lymphatics.

Utterly destroyed

Destroyed completely

Wiped out

Annihilate

""One who, or that which, annihilates; as, a fire annihilator. as, a fire annihilator.""

Anopheline

""A granular igneous rock composed almost exclusively of a soda-lime feldspar, usually labradorite.""

Small room leading to a larger room

Lobby one college with sign of caution

Small entrance room

Antechapel

ANTHERIDIA

What's in spore mud in the air could convey

Same as Anthokyan. Anthokyan.

Collections of a too English design

Theologians may provide choice literary gatherings

Theologians assembled for choice literary gatherings

Francis Turner Palgrave, for instance

Literary compiler

Compile an anthology.

Anthracene

Mining finds

""Of, pertaining to, or like, anthracite; as, anthracitic formations. as, anthracitic formations.""

""Any one of several fungus diseases, caused by parasitic species of the series Melanconiales, attacking the bean, grape, melon, cotton, and other plants. In the case of the grape, brown concave spots are formed on the stem and fruit, and the disease is called bird's-eye rot.Melanconiales, attacking the bean, grape, melon, cotton, and other plants. In the case of the grape, brown concave spots are formed on the stem and fruit, and the disease is called bird's-eye rot.""

Like or related to man; human.

Anthropoid

ALCOHOL a flammable liquid

FASHION to {shape=v}

Fleabag, for one

Catwoman, for example

Unlikable protagonist

HUNTING an instance of searching

Antipathy

Antiphonal

""A book containing a collection of antiphons; the book in which the antiphons of the breviary, with their musical notes, are contained.""

Antiphony

PHRASES phrase

The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning; as when a court of justice is called a court of vengeance. court of vengeance.

Flower, specially the snapdragon

Snapping flower in rain hurt stem tip badly

Snapdragon

""In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song. strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song.""

TARNISH to dull the lustre of

Type of drug that can counteract glandular activity

TYPHOID an infectious disease

WHALING the business of catching whales

Examination of the aorta using x-rays following the injection of a radiopaque substance.

APHETIC pertaining to {aphesis=n}

Stimulant of desire

Substance that makes you hot

Something that stimulates desire

Apishness

A crystalline alkaloid obtained from morphia. It is a powerful emetic.

Apophthegm

""A mineral relating to the zeolites, usually occurring in square prisms or octahedrons with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. It is a hydrous silicate of calcium and potassium.""

Church office Pat polishes after work

Edit perhaps, so to punctuation marks

Parts of some Irish names

Digressions in a speech.