2-Letter Words Starting with A

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.

Ampicillin

Amputation

AMUSING amuse

Amygdaloid

AMYLOID a hard protein deposit

A disorder characterized by deposit of amyloid in organs or tissues; often secondary to chronic rheumatoid arthritis or tuberculosis or multiple myeloma.

""The outer portion of a starch granule consisting of insoluble, highly branched polysaccharides of high molecular weight.""

Anabaptism

Untimely mistake (wordplay)

Thing that belongs to another time

A case of mixed dates

Lacking grammatical sequence.

""Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial.""

""Pl. anadiploses (-s z) Rhetorical repetition at the beginning of a phrase of the word or words with which the previous phrase ended; for example, He is a man of loyalty loyalty always firm.""

""A repetition of the last word or any prominent word in a sentence or clause, at the beginning of the next, with an adjunct idea; as, "He retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent." as, "He retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent."""

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

""Pl -ses [-ˌsiːz] (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) (in Greek tragedy) the recognition or discovery by the protagonist of the identity of some character or the nature of his own predicament, which leads to the resolution of the plot; denouement [from Greek: recognition]""

The unfolding or d\'82nouement.

Anagram

ANALEMMA a type of graduated scale

""ANALOGIZE To employ, or reason by, analogy.""

ANALYTIC a scheme of analytical logic

""The act of analyzing, or separating into constituent parts; analysis.""

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

Like one wanting to overthrow government

Anastigmat

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

ANATOMISE

ANATOMIZE Styptic. <mark>

Ancestor

Great age

Ancientry

Ancillary

Andalusite

Androgyny

""Pertaining to, consisting of, or addicted to, anecdotes.""

Anecdotist

Anesthesia

Anesthetic

Expert with numbers

O.R. physician

(American) hospital theatre worker

Put under, in an operating room

Put under

Angelfish

In a saintly manner

A description of blood vessels and lymphatics.

ANGIOMA a benign tumour

Surgery of the blood-vessels

Vessel treatment

Plants whose seeds are enclosed in an ovary

""Any of three polypeptide hormones, one of which is a powerful vasoconstrictor, that function in the body in controlling arterial pressure.""

ANGLICISE

""ANGLICIZE To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.""

Angriness

Angulation

Anilingus

Makes censorious remarks

Animalcule

An animalcule.

Of or pertaining to animalism.

Animality

ANIMALIZE To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form.

ANIMATE to give life to

Bad blood

A visual defect in which the shape and size of an ocular image differ in the two eyes.

Of or pertaining to aniseikonia.aniseikonia.

Anisogamy

A union between two gametes that differ in size or form.

""Not isotropic; having different properties in different directions; thus, crystals of the isometric system are optically isotropic, but all other crystals are anisotropic.anisotropic.""

Annexation

Utterly destroyed

Destroyed completely

Wiped out

Annihilate

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

Husband-and-wife milestone

Eg, a birthday

Type of party

Side lines (wordplay)

Marginalia

ANNUALIZE

Annulation

Proclaimed a religious woman third-rate, ab'orred on the radio

Annunciate

""One who announces. Specifically: An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated.""

""ANODIZE to give a protective coat, also ANODISE""

Anointment

Anonymity

Anopheline

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

Antagonism

Punch and Judy, for example

Not as giants, flexing muscles

Group being played against

Made an enemy of

Gets upset

""Preceding marriage; as, an antenuptial agreement. as, an antenuptial agreement.""

The hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal.

Antevert

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.

Mining finds

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

Like or related to man; human.

Anthropoid

ALCOHOL a flammable liquid

ANXIETY chronic apprehension

Selman Waksman's field.

Medicines destroying micro-organisms

Bacteria destroyers such as penicillin or streptomycin

BOYCOTT to refuse to have dealings with

BURGLAR to enter a building to steal

Anticipant

Expected; opposite of unanticipated and unexpected.unanticipated and unexpected.

Foretastes

Expects fun and games will be interrupted by one head

Foresees

Expectant one.

CRUELTY savage behaviour towards a person or animal

Spiral outflow could be neatly conic

A fair-weather system ends with one

High-pressure weather system

Antidotal

DUMPING the selling of large quantities of goods below market price

ELITISM belief in rule by an elite

ELITIST an adherent of {elitism=n}

Antiemetic

""FASCISM an oppressive form of government, also FASCISMO""

Mussolini's enemy

Fighter against state dictatorship.

FASHION to {shape=v}

""FATIGUE to weary, also FATIGATE""

FOAMING the act of foaming

FOGGING fog

FOREIGN situated outside a place or country

FOULING a deposit or crust

Antifreeze

Antifungal

Sci-fi concept

Ideal spacecraft-propulsion method

Like some sci-fi boots

Fleabag, for one

Catwoman, for example

Unlikable protagonist

HUNTING an instance of searching

Technique designed to reduce blocking of radio signals

""LEPROSY a chronic disease with skin lesions and deformities, also LEPRA""

Right-brained (wordplay)

LOGICAL pertaining to {logic=n}

MALARIA an infectious disease

Antimatter

Like some NORAD operations

MITOTIC pertaining to {mitosis=n}

Word with prefix anti-

Antimonial

Antimonide

MUSICAL a play which has songs and dances

NATURAL a type of musical note

Plural or third person singular

Subatomic particle in nature not transformed

Antinomian

NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

NUCLEON a subatomic particle

OBESITY the condition of being obese

Radical fighter (wordplay)

Beta carotene, for one

Substance such as vitamin C or E

Word with prefix anti-

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.

Plural or third person singular

Antipodean

POPULAR something pleasing

POVERTY the state of being {poor=adj}

Non-patriots in revolt - being negative, they are charged

1991's word: Fever-preventing

Fever-reducing drug

Antipyrine

Collector of old things

One who collects relics of the past

Expert on old things

Antiquary

Turning obsolete

""The act of making antiquated, or the state of being antiquated.""

Ancient artefacts

Curating specialty

Antiracism

Antiracist

RADICAL a group of atoms that act as a unit in chemical compounds

REALISM concern with fact or reality

REALIST one who is concerned with fact or reality

Flower, specially the snapdragon

Snapping flower in rain hurt stem tip badly

Snapdragon

SCIENCE knowledge obtained by observation and experiment

SECRECY the condition of being secret

""SEIZURE the act of seizing, also SEISURE""

Applications for injury benefit, perhaps

Destroyers of microorganisms

Mercurochrome and others

Antisexist

On the abolitionists' side

Antismoker

SMOKING to preserve by smoke-drying

Antistory

""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.""

STUDENT a person formally engaged in learning

SUBSIDY a grant or contribution of money

SUICIDE to kill oneself intentionally

TARNISH to dull the lustre of

Type of drug that can counteract glandular activity

TOBACCO an annual herb cultivated for its leaves

Antitrust