2-Letter Words Starting with A

Adventitia

""ADVENTURE That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.""

Dame ruins TV set in hazardous practice (wordplay)

""ADVENTURE That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.""

In the manner of an adverb.

Combative as a driver, a wild person yet to pass test

Combative

Mostly negative sign from opponents

Advisers are represented on opposing sides

Sign supporting mostly inauspicious opponents

Adjective (-ive)

Adversity

Advertiser

Commercial world (wordplay)

Classified line of business (wordplay)

Putting in a plug (wordplay)

The act of {advertising=v}

Client-sponsored article

Client-sponsored article *

Advisement

Advocation

Aeciospore

Aepyornis

AEROBIC requiring free oxygen

""The study of the sources, dispersion, and effects of airborne biological materials, such as pollen, spores, and microorganisms.""

AEROBRAKE

Relating to air in motion.

Having a drag-reducing shape

Streamlined academy in row sadly with week to go

Adjective (-ic)

""The medical study and treatment of physiological and psychological disorders associated with atmospheric or space flight. Also called aerospace medicine , aviation medicine .""

Gen. Doolittle's forte.

Science of flying

Study of flight

AERONOMIC

Aeronomist

AEROSOLIZE

Aerosolize

Aerostatic

AESTHETIC

AESTIVATE

Torpid state during the hot season

Aetiology

A change of face tint giving unnatural appearance

Deliberate pretence of kindness, embracing volunteers

In an affecting manner; is a manner to excite emotions.

""Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature. as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature.""

Disposed.

In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.

AFFECTIVE Tending to affect; affecting.

Very knowledgeable person (variant spelling)

A devotee of Death in the Afternoon (wordplay)

Amateur accepted loud fuss about timeless romance

""AFFILIATE To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.""

Attachment (to an organisation)

Official connection

Business relationship

Affirmance

""Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law. as, the affirmation of a law.""

What to latch onto, with 'the' ...

What to latch onto, with "the" ...

What to latch onto, with "the"...

Affixation

Affliction

Affluency

Afforest

""AFFRICATE A combination of a stop, or explosive, with an immediately following fricative or spirant of corresponding organic position, as pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.""

Affright

Aficionada

They go to the plaza de toros.

Fans of a heartless romance, drink up

Experts in their fields

Afterbirth

Afterimage

Afterpiece

""To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.""

Agglutinin

AGGRADE to fill (a stream bed) with sediment

Gardenias, good on both sides, could be made to look larger

Aggrandise

""AGGRANDIZE To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress. as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.""

""One who aggrandizes, or makes great.""

Aggrandize

Making (a problem) worse

Making worse

Exacerbating

Worsening annoyance

Hassle

Annoyance

AGGREGATE To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. \'bdThe aggregated soil.\'b8aggregated soil.\'b8

Assembly process in garage got modified

Process of material coming together

Compound

Taken together; collective.

Aggression

Aggrieved

""AGITATION The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation. as, the sea after a storm is in agitation.""

Unbelievable state

Scepticism shown by eccentric stoic gains 1,000 in support

With extreme anguish or desperate struggles.

Recluse's problem, maybe

Cause of some reclusion

Morbid fear of open spaces

Larval fruit flies with this gene never leave their eggshells

An equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land.

Curtail urge to work in growing business

The practice of farming

Field for early U. S. settlers

Cultivating grain, so most expert in their field (wordplay)

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

A point or tag at the end of a fringe or lace; an aglet.

Ailanthus

Cat fancier

One who hates or fears cats.

Lack of purpose

Photo lab job

Photoshop job

Delivering in flight, as military supplies

Airfreight

Badly ventilated condition

Airmanship

Airproof

Flyer's upset

Might get it on the tour plane

Flying illness

White.

A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine.

ALBUMIN a {protein=n}

ALCHEMIST One who practices alchemy.

ALCHEMIZE To change by alchemy; to transmute.

Alcoholism

English word

Twelve-syllable line of verse

Aid external examination of precious stone

A green variety of chrysoberyl used as a gemstone

Algebraist

English word

Algolagnia

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

Algologist

Of or pertaining to an algorithm.

Alienation

Alienness

Alightment

Alikeness

Aliteracy

Aliveness

Alkalify

""An instrument to ascertain the strength of alkalies, or the quantity of alkali in a mixture.""

""The art or process of ascertaining the strength of alkalies, or the quantity present in alkaline mixtures.""

ALKALINIZE

Alkalinize

Alkylation

Allantoid

Accusations

Fidelities.

Like 'Pilgrim's Progress'

Containing a hidden meaning

Rife with symbolism

ALLEGORISE

Allegorise

Allegorist

""ALLEGORIZE To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people. as, to allegorize the history of a people.""

""One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist.""

Allegorize

ALLEVIATE To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.

Easing (of pain)

The making (of pain) less severe

Painkiller's job

Alleviator

Began the same way

Produced 'Love's Labours Lost', say, fully performed many times

Alliterate

See isoantigen .

Distributions according to a plan

Allotments

Allocution

Of or pertaining to an allograph.

Allometry

Of or pertaining to allomorphism.

Allopatry

""A drug, C 5 H 4 N 4 O, used to treat gout because it inhibits the synthesis of uric acid.""

Allostery

Allotropy

ALLOWANCE Approval; approbation.

Almsgiving

ALPHABET a system of letters

Work on library cards

*Put in order, as files

Church art items

Altazimuth

Changes made by artist alone to model

""ALTERCATE The contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle.""

Action (wordplay)

Caught in middle of change, quarrel

Can't loiter about after a row

Sort of current found in tidal river

Type of current from your alternator

Taking turns

Vary the race, going by turns

Interchange name in heartless dispute

Taking of turns

Not the first choice

Available as another possibility

Option to convert indigene

Altimetry

""Of or pertaining to height; as, altitudinal measurements. as, altitudinal measurements.""

ALUMINIZE To treat impregnate with alum; to alum.

Amantadine

Of an imaginary flower that never fades

Amaryllis

Amateurism

The faculty supposed to influence sexual desire; propensity to love.

Ambergris

Ambiguity

Equivocally.

Ambisexual

Ambition

In an ambitious manner.

Mixed feelings (E, not Y)

That love-hate feeling.

Girl in a mood shows uncertainty

A balanced disposition intermediate between extroversion and introversion.

""A white or greenish mineral, (Li,Na)Al(PO 4 )(F,OH), that is an important source of lithium.""

After the manner of ambrosia; delightfully.

Ambulation

""AMBUSCADE A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.""

Old-time area (anagram) - made better

Made better

Improved a red meat stew by putting oil back in

Improves, as a situation

Takes a sad thing and makes it better

One who ameliorates.

Responsiveness

Abnormal suppression or absence of menstruation.

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

Affability

Good nature

Good will

""A folic acid antagonist, C 19 H 20 N 8 O 5 , used as an antineoplastic agent. It has been mainly replaced by methotrexate.""

A white crystalline substance used as an analgesic and antipyretic.

""AMMONIATE a type of ammonia compound, also AMMINE, AMMONIATE""

""AMMONIATE a type of ammonia compound, also AMMINE, AMMONIATE""

Ammonify

Ammunition

""A barbiturate, C 11 H 18 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and a hypnotic.""

Medium-dry sherry

Kind of sherry

I am no tall fizzy party drink

Amorality

""Capable of being cleared off, as a debt.""

Pneumonia medicine

""An semisynthetic penicillin, C 16 H 19 N 3 O 5 S, having an antibacterial spectrum of action similar to that of ampicillin.""

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.""