2-Letter Words Starting with A

Abstrict

Abstruseness; that which is abstruse.

Absurdism

Absurdist

Article falsely acclaimed as scholarly

Well-read player from Hamilton (wordplay)

Bill gets a medical qualification from college

Academism

ACARICIDE

Acaricide

Having a ramp, say

Open to be got at

Easy to talk to; approachable

How urgently needed equipment should be stored, as bicycles must be fixed

Accession

Accidence

Perhaps M is taken toothy to the end

Fortuitous bit of scoring (wordplay)

Flat, say, without planning

ACCIDENT a mishap

Accipiter

Acclaimer

Welcoming with shouts of joy

Giving praise to

ACCLIMATE To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize.

Acclimate

Second place comic played

Criminal's associate

Helper in wrongdoing

Finish off associate in crime soundly

Coach limps off to manage

Twisted coach limps for effect

Portable keyboard instruments

Squeezeboxes

Type of work.

FIRST-in, FIRST-out discipline

Giving a reason for financial processing

Accoutre

Officially approved, as a college

Given official recognition

Like an Ivy League institution

Accretion

Accuracy

Whodunit plot element

Charge copyright to America in case

Charge about, protecting us in battle

The case for the prosecution (wordplay)

Prosecution's case (wordplay)

Case which needs objective prosecuting

In an accusing manner.

Acerbate

Acerbity

Acetamide

""A white crystalline compound, C 6 H 5 NH(COCH 3 ), formerly used in medicine to relieve pain and reduce fever. It has been replaced by safer agents because of its toxicity.""

Acetify

""ACETYLENE A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant.""

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

Acidifier

Acidify

An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids.

""The measurement of the strength of acids, especially by a chemical process based on the law of chemical combinations, or the fact that, to produce a complete reaction, a certain definite weight of reagent is required.""

Acidness

Growing well in an acid medium: acidophilic bacteria.

Organisms thriving in sulphuric pools or animal stomachs

Made slightly acidic

Acidulate

Acierate

Serving to aid hearing.

Sounding accusal to premier in Istanbul, hopeless

Auditory

Familiar (with)

Know with with

Know with with

Complied without putting up opposition

Assented

Agreed

Caves

Capable of being acquired.

One who acquires.

Acquittal

Judges or juries, sometimes

Acquit

Acridity

Acrimony

Acritarch

Feats of agility

Gymnast's display

High-flying performance

Window washer's problem (wordplay)

Second-story man's undoing (wordplay)

High anxiety (wordplay)

Pertaining to a kind of puzzle

""A readily polymerized amide, C 3 H 5 NO, derived from acrylic acid and used in synthetic fibers and sewage treatment. It is a carcinogen and is present in some foods, especially starches and cereals that are cooked at high temperatures.""

The process of doing or performing something: the act of thinking.

A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.

Worth trying (wordplay)

Possibly libellous (wordplay)

Giving grounds for a lawsuit

In an actionable manner.

Void of action.

Activate

Process of starting up (something)

Being called up, military-wise

Removal from mothballs

Chemical catalysts

The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity.

ACTIVIST an advocate of {activism=n}

Work, hobbies, social events, etc.

Cite a visit planned with things to do

Things to do

Activize

Splattered on my coat is a muscle protein

""Changed from potential to actual; as, saw his worst fears actualized.as, saw his worst fears actualized.""

Actualize

Actuation

Acyclovir

Acylation

Adamancy

Maybe detain a man of unyielding nature

Hard type of man, worker in Eden originally

A barrier against Tyneside must be unbreakable

Play from a novel, for instance

Film version, e.g

TV version of a book

ADAPTIVE able to be adapted

ADAPTIVE able to be adapted

Hard things to break

Inside moves did seem like bad habits

'More of them, about one hundred, habitually (10)'

Not on the floor model, say

Getting on top of things more (wordplay)

For an extra charge

ADDITIVE a substance added to foodstuffs

ADDITIVE a substance added to foodstuffs

Saying what's to be going on th envelope

Ranch, for example

Dealing with commercial arrangement

Adduction

Adenitis

Adenosine

Any of a group of DNA-containing viruses that cause conjunctivitis and upper respiratory tract infections in humans.

Any of a group of DNA-containing viruses that cause conjunctivitis and upper respiratory tract infections in humans.

Adequacy

Stickable

In an adhesive manner.

Adhibit

Adipocyte

Of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective.

'In deep of night when - / Hath locked up mortal sense' (Milton)

Postponing

Decide (between claims or in games)

Decide officially on a dispute

Hear and decide (a case).

The act of joining; the thing joined or added.

Joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct.

""The act of adjuring; a solemn charging on oath, or under the penalty of a curse; an earnest appeal.""

Manage publicity for one in church

Run as 'today's politician' (wordplay)

Pastor who pitches (wordplay)

Scotch maid to share esteem (wordplay)

One may be lost in it

Maid out helping gains approval

My darling and I intertwine with desire

Like certain evidence

Like some evidence

(As evidence in court) valid

Claims these were heard in confessions

Confessions may be let in

Entrance fees

Maiden, with tact, ordered entree

Letting in a ball stopped by hand

Permission to enter

'Truth be told ... '

By general agreement.

"Truth be told ... "

Admixture

Warned by a note on day I cast off

Told off

Chastised

One who admonishes.

Rebukes gently.

Gently reproves

Warning poster has proposal about Ulster

Cautious counsel

Tina in mood that's awkward gets a reprimand

Fussy day monitor giving a reprimand

Conveying a reprimand

Warning politician, I'd moan terribly at the start

ADOPTIVE that adopts

Adoration

Rush before a flight (wordplay)

It can give you a rush

Stimulator of ideal Queen Anne building

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

Explosive assertion about daughter's skill

Skill

Process facilitated by silica gel

Broadcast on Sport Aid - 'a superficial process of accumulating gas'

Having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface; displaying adsorption.adsorption.

Adulation

Adultery

Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal.

Advection

The membranous outer covering of an organ or blood vessel.

Adventive

Adverbial

Called attention to

Diets raved about and given publicity

Desired a TV broadcast to be made known

One publicising a product (S, not Z)

He pays the price of publicity

He has his own ideas on hoarding

Steve raids (anagram)

Puts in a spot

Plugs (colloq.)

Advertize

Advertize

Careful consideration

Deliberation

US lawyer rejected version of events I'm giving US counsel

Advisory

Advocacy

Advocate

Commercial role being a defender

ADVOCATE to plead in favour of

""A binucleate spore of a rust fungus, formed in a chainlike series in an aecium.""

Some perform without nets

Performers with dangerous acts

Daring circus performers

Loops and rolls

Exercising swallows at flying display

Stunt flying

""AEROBE an organism that requires free oxygen, also AEROBIUM""

""AEROBE an organism that requires free oxygen, also AEROBIUM""

Aerology

Pertaining to an important science.

Pertaining to the science of air travel

Of plane navigation

Aeronomy

""The study of the upper atmosphere, especially of regions of ionized gas.""

AEROSOL a spray released under pressure

Principles of artistic beauty

Worry for the superstitious

Number lacking article on study of arts

Passed summer in a dormant position

Aestivate

Good nature, sociability

Affection

Affiance

Affidavit

File data, if somehow connected

Like some local stations, vis-a-vis a radio network

Like some local stations, vis- -vis a radio network

Subordinate branches

Partners

Affinity

A story about company that may be ratified

Warm around volcanic rim, so may be asserted

Confirmation; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act.

Noun (-tion)

Affixment

Afflict

A Fine Romance: left in distress

Cause of pain or harm

Coburn's 1998 Oscar-winning film

Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing.

Affricate

Gave a scare to

Affront

A woman who is a devotee or fan.

Coo! If Diana performs, I'm a fan!

Fan finds a fish, say, at island party

Fan (Spanish)

Aflatoxin

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

Flashbulb effect, for example

Lingering impression on the eye

Flashbulb effect

Reincarnationists' existences

Postmortal existences

Additional short sketch.

Aftertime

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

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

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

Agrimony

Agrology

Agronomy