2-Letter Words Starting with A

Reacts to a second firework, say

Massage parlor sounds (pre-happy ending)

Massage reactions, perhaps

Needs ice, say

Pa in for them (wordplay)

Distress signals (wordplay)

Sheiks' guests, maybe (var.)

Turkish chiefs (m)

Ottoman officials (Var.)

Certain oriental women

Far East nannies

Members of Oriental households.

Goth necklace pendants

Egyptian symbols for life

Signs of life

Sucker for houseplants (wordplay)

Sucker for houseplants

Green plant sucker

Grateful, maybe (wordplay)

Remains of the Yule logs (wordplay)

Grate-ful (wordplay)

Children's nurses in Asia

Nursemaids, in Calcutta

Native maids in India.

Is far from a fan of

Is no fan of

Has a lot of trouble standing

Abmho

Units of resistance

They offer little resistance

Kin of amPERES

Ahold

Airth

A's in Hebrew school (wordplay)

Israeli leaders (wordplay)

Starters at Passover (wordplay)

Almah

Almeh

Verbal waves at Waikiki (wordplay)

Warm greetings (wordplay)

Greetings from the Far West (wordplay)

Early Greek figures (wordplay)

Letter openers (wordplay)

Pack protectors, perhaps

Farmer's pests

Bugs that bug farmers

Lacewing larva's lunch

(Cat) stretches (back)

Fast food symbols

Sign of Big Macs

Buddhist monks

Nirvana attainers

Nirvana achievers

Some of the 2000s (wordplay)

Period of George W. Bush's presidency

Plenty of nothing

Azoth

Turns red, maybe

Destroys the poise of

Destroys the self-possession of.

One-seeded fruits

Small, one-seeded fruits

One-seeded fruits

Sticks (like a stamp)

Is glued (to)

Shows devotion (to)

Aether

Woollen blankets, from Kabul perhaps

Natives of Kabul.

Nationality of citizens of Kabul

Ahimsa

High ends (wordplay)

Eta look-alikes

Happily dropped by Miss Doolittle

Gets off when holding torch, perhaps

Steps down, from a bus say

Climbs down, from a bus say

Aliyah

Alphyl

Roses of Sharon

Gibson and others

Roses of Sharon.

Authors or promoters of lawlessness

Non-believers in government, once

Leaders against government

Firmly ties (to)

Gob stoppers (wordplay)

Main drags (wordplay)

Country music (wordplay)

"Hatikvah" and "O Canada"

Hymns of praise.

Parts of flowers that produce the pollen

Pollen-bearing parts of stamens

Seems female insects get the pollen

Army fliers since 1984

Frontier raiders of the wild West.

Southwestern Native Americans

Aphesis

Especial to special, for example

Gradual loss of initial vowel.

Making 'esquire' into 'squire' - his 'e' gets lost in an afterthought

Pests concealed among primates

Plant parasites: Zool.

She paid to annihilate such pests

Agincourt soldiers (wordplay)

Bowmen on BBC radio (wordplay)

Bow-and-arrow pros

Archil

Ancient Athenian magistrates

Athenian magistrates

Arshin

Depth charges (Sl.)

Collectors' items (wordplay)

Depth charges, slangily

Squared blocks of building stone.

Squared building stones

Squared masonry stones

Ashler

Adjective for some filter paper

Religious retreats by the tree and sheep

Residences for gurus

Compounds of gurus

Asthma

Recently extinct long-horned ox

Ancestor of domestic cattle

Extinct European bison.

Book makers (wordplay)

Stephen Crane and Stephen King, for two

Classic card game

Abhenry

Absinth

Acaleph

A staunch sort of plant (wordplay)

Like this a tin will have spikes

A tin like this will be prickly

Accomplishes with effort

Accomplishes, gains by effort

Each vies desperately and is successful

Reason for liniment

Sore quality

Flu clue

Achiote

Acholia

Ones that stick

Rule followers

They cling

Adhibit

Affiche

Bundle of kale in Kabul (wordplay)

Where the Helmand River flows

Kandahar residents

Sour, chewy candy choice

They have space between their ears

They're no geniuses

Airshed

Old gasbags (wordplay)

Blimps and zeppelins

Ventilates joints used for light transportation

Organic-compound group

Certain spirits

Organic solvents

Plants with curative powers

Things that flare

Very long instruments seen in Switzerland

Lack of skin pigmentation

Althaea

Some members of the Sax family

Brass instruments

Valved instruments

An A of A&E

Takes by surprise

Some surprise attacks

Ancient two-handled jars

Old Greek jars

Two-handled wine jars

Anchusa

Anethol

Snakebirds

Ankush

Anthesis

The opening of a flower bud

Flora's 14 has sent one mad

Full bloom

Homes for lowly workers

Homes for industrious bugs

Mounds built by insects

Feelings of inertia

Emotionless states.

Aphagia

Language impairments

Aphasic

Aphonia

Aphonic

Pertaining to

Polygon perpendiculars

Archine

Arching

Rich vase (anagram)

Save rich assortment in here (wordplay)

Historical record(s)

Quality of a main element

Sly humor.

Being coy in the matter of overheads, perhaps

Palladian window features

They can make a grand entrance

Entrances with roguish methods

Where sleeves are attached

Where dolman sleeves are widest

Vests have two

Lack of color

Feature of a well-used hearth

Cadaverous quality

Camels' resting places (wordplay)

Camels' destinations (wordplay)

Once-common table toppers

Does some paving

Tars stop, surrounded by snakes

Some road covers

Ataghan

Atheism

Non-prophet group (wordplay)

Naysayers, of a kind

Ones in disbelief (wordplay)

The least dodgy sportspeople (wordplay)

People on the run (wordplay)

Trade subjects (wordplay)

Athodyd

Legal cases (wordplay)

Lawyers' cases, maybe

State Department employees

Affirms

Astronomer's measurements

Astronomical surveyors' readings

Surveyor's measurements

Abhenry

Abhorrer

Does away with

Gets rid of

Does away with Basil's hoe design

Abrachia

Liqueurs made with wormwood

A bishop's vice, these short potent drinks

Wormwoods

Acalephe

When they're high, they perform well

They have made the grade

People who get things done

Achillea

Achromat

Frequent trip takers

They have a habit of tripping

Drug users as cover for chief of police (wordplay)

Wooden statues with stone extremities

Adherend

Followers less certain than Reed's

Tears by poor head's supporters

Supporters of neatherds

Abnormally united tissues

Firm attachments

Epoxy and others.

Sides have reconciled; they form bonds

Glue and rubber cement

Stony meteorites

Comic teases the arty types

Lovers of the beautiful.

Gallery regulars

Affright

Agalloch

Agraphia

Tree of Heaven; Thai Alnus (anagram)

Sugar maybe taking one part of 7 tree

Tree liana winding round in this manner

Aircheck

Alcahest

Alchemy

Alchymy

Aldehyde

Draft pick venues (wordplay)

Round buildings (wordplay)

See a lush reeling round old pubs

Alkahest

Allopath

Complete sets of letters

Complete assortments of letters.

Sets of runes

Imaginary flowers that never fade

Imaginary eternal flowers

Legendary unfading flowers

Ambusher

Symbols of February

Covering your mess at Rolling Stones

Purple quartz stones

Maids wiggling coxae halfway to 23

In centre of vessel

Centrally on board

Not in shape (wordplay)

Without clearly defined shape

Without a clearly-defined shape

""A fishlike creature (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebr\'91, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc. (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebr\'91, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc.""

Amphipod

Anaglyph

Anaphase

Anaphora

States of lawlessness and disorder

Political upheavals

Greatly detested things

Detested things

Betes noires

Religious lady's short reply about housework

Things to be done in response to solitary soul

Workers taking on board routine task for folk living alone

Hermits.

Tiny fishes for pizza

Unpopular pizza topping choice

Bagna c uda ingredient

Anchusin

Anethole

Anguish

Your hands could be lacking moisture

Rear exit keeping spa hotel free from water

An unfinished shelter, terribly dry inside without water

Mosquito of a genus of the same name

Germ-bearing mosquito

There's a seal around the phone for this fly-by-night with a bite

Antherid

Anthrax

Antiphon

Anything

Anywhere

Aphanite

Aphasiac

Aphelion

Plural or third person singular

Term for the dropping of an initial letter, as in 'possum'

Loss of a sound at the start of a word, as "opossum" to "possum"

Loss of a sound at the start of a word, as 'opossum' to 'possum'

Aphidian

Apholate

Aphorise

Short, pithy and instructive sayings

Gnomologist's output

Terse truths

Saw people (wordplay)

Speaks tersely

Aphylly

Mocking demeanor

Apophyge

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

A marked prominence or process on any part of a bone.

Apothece

Apothegm

Spiders and ticks

Spiders, for example

Web users

Archaise

Obsolete words

Archaist

Archaize

Franz Ferdinand, et al.

Some of the Habsburgs

Bow-and-arrow sets

Bowmen's equipment sets

Arethusa

Places for theorizers (wordplay)

Favorite resting places.

Places to take a load off

Inflammation of joints

Disease of joints

Common elderly affliction

Pl. arthroses (-s z) An articulation or a joint between bones.

Articulation.

Arythmia

Ashplant

Do L shapes make lilies (wordplay)

Lily family members

Lily flowers

Asphyxia

Asphyxy

Asthenia