2-Letter Words Starting with A

TUMORAL relating to a tumor

Medicine sorted out Auntie Vi's overwhelming temperature and coughs finally

TYPHOID an infectious disease

""VITAMIN an organic substance essential to proper nutrition, also VITAMINE""

WELFARE general well-being

WHALING the business of catching whales

WRINKLE to {crease=v}

""The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero. his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero.""

Anxiolytic

Butterflies

APHETIC pertaining to {aphesis=n}

Stimulant of desire

Substance that makes you hot

Something that stimulates desire

Laura cut lip raving about beekeeping

Apiculture

Apishness

Momentous, catastrophic

Translation of a Coptic play is outstanding

Copy capital letters - it could be a revelation

Penitent's defence of Christianity

A game soldier's in grand opening making excuses

Apologizer

APOLOGIZE To make an apology or defense.

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

""Any one of the thicker and denser of the deep fasci\'91 which cover, invest, and the terminations and attachments of, many muscles. They often differ from tendons only in being flat and thin. See Fascia. Fascia.""

Of or pertaining to an aponeurosis.

""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.""

Rhetoric and Rhetorical Devices

"She had a heart-how shall I say?-too soon made glad . . . "

She had a hearthow shall I say?too soon made glad...

She had a heart-how shall I say?-too soon made glad . . .

""Pl. aposiopeses (-s z) A sudden breaking off of a thought in the middle of a sentence, as though the speaker were unwilling or unable to continue.""

APOSTATISE

Apostatise

""APOSTATIZE To renounce totally a religious belief once professed; to forsake one's church, the faith or principles once held, or the party to which one has previously adhered.""

Apostatize

Church office Pat polishes after work

""Pertaining to an apostrophe, grammatical or rhetorical.""

To exalt to the dignity of a deity; to declare to be a god; to deify; to glorify.

Appalling

Soviet Communist Party bureaucrat

Bureaucrat, Russian style

Member of a Communist bureaucracy

Apparel

Haunted house inhabitants

Appealing

Pilot a plane quite new in style

Name state of North American mountain region

A very quiet woman morphed into just 'a name'

Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming.

APPERCEIVE To perceive; to comprehend.

Apperceive

Ate in dapper-fashion, that could have been relevant

Appetency

Request for hard work

Computer program requiring diligence

Formal request; sustained effort

Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical.

Applicator

Having the property of applying; applicative; practical.

Applique

Date with a very soft salve

A very subdued application for a date

German city

Doled out

Apposition

Appositive

Large enough to be noticed

Enough to be taken into account

Paper round gets Puck into Telegraph? That's significant

""APPRECIABLE Capable of being appreciated or estimated; large enough to be estimated; perceptible; as, an appreciable quantity. as, an appreciable quantity.""

Became more valuable

Was grateful for

Appreciate

One who values

Employed to learn a trade

Apprentice

English word

Approach

APPROBATE Approved.

It begins Our Father

Acclaim - applause

(Official) approval

Suitable to take for one's own use

Acquire something suitable (wordplay)

Take to be suitable

Approving

Appear to mix badly? Almost right!

Not totally precise

Rough (figure)

Apriority

Suitable; fit.

Gems decorating a main square

Gems.

Sliding over a wet surface

A painter in thin transparent water colors.

AQUATIC an organism living in or near water

Aquatinter

Aquatint

AQUATINT to etch using a certain process

""Plants hydroponics. ; aquicultural ,""

ARABICIZE

Arability

English word

Arbitrager

Exploiter of market differences

Exploiter of stock market differences

Trader offers designer's latest little piece with passion in a very old city

ARBITRAGE Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination.

Determination; decision; arbitration.

Highhandedly.

""ARBITRATE To hear and decide, as arbitrators; as, to choose to arbitrate a disputed case. as, to choose to arbitrate a disputed case.""

Process at work in some hearings

One way to settle differences

Of or pertaining to arbitration; relating to or having the authority to arbitrate.

Dispute deciders

Arborvitae

Arbovirus

In an outmoded sense

Michael's maybe going to help bar change licensee

Wearers of pallia

See choir ceased performing

See core ideas changing about Church

Important church area

Archduchy

Relating to the archegonium.

""The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.""

Bad shoes, to a podiatrist (wordplay)

The Joker and Batman, for example

Hatfields, to McCoys

English word

Key chain (wordplay)

Fiji, for example

Hawaii, i.e.

Architrave

Archpriest

Growing or living or burrowing in sand.

Of or relating to a reference system based at the center of the planet Mars.

ARGUMENT an exchange of differing reasons

Rule by the best.

Upper class, nobility

Elevated types carry a cost I fancy

Nobles

Swells

Arithmetic

AROMATIC a fragrant substance

AROMATIZE To impregnate with aroma; to render aromatic; to give a spicy scent or taste to; to perfume.

ARPEGGIATE

Arpeggiate

Charging in court

Courtroom activity

Court proceeding

Arresting

Arrhythmia

Arrogation

Pl. arteriographies Examination of the arteries using x-rays following injection of a radiopaque substance.

Plural or third person singular

Arthralgia

Plural or third person singular

Surgical fixation of joints.

""That can be articulated: vague, barely articulable thoughts.""

Clearly stated to be jointed

Put into words

Said to be segmented

Utters clearly

""One who, or that which, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering. (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering.""

Same as artefactual.artefactual.

Artillery

Gunnery expert

Placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot; a member of the artiodactyla.artiodactyla.

A skilled manual worker; a craftsperson.

Asafoetida

""Relating to ascension; connected with ascent; ascensive; tending upward; as, the ascensional power of a balloon. as, the ascensional power of a balloon.""

Found out

Ascetical

Asceticism

Ascription

ASEPTIC an aseptic substance

Asininity

Asparagine

The brush used in the Roman Catholic church for sprinkling holy water on the people.

ASPERGILL

Asphaltite

Killed by oxygen starvation

Bit in papers after a small dose of drug reportedly caused death

Choked

Asphyxiate

Cast-iron plants

House plants.

Hopes for the future.

Hopes

Murder (a political or religious leader)

Murder (a public figure)

Kill (a VIP)

""Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence.""

Assertive

Assiduity

Assiduous

Go in as saint (anagram)

Secret rendezvous

Secret meeting

Two 4-to-5-page essays, oral presentation, research project

'Two 4-to-5-page essays, oral presentation, research project'

""That may be assimilated; that may be likened, or appropriated and incorporated.""

Integrated.

Incorporated

Absorbs, like the Borg

Absorbs

ASSIMILATE To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.

Helps.

Hobnobber's activity

Football club (wordplay)

Part of PA

Conceptual connection

""Having the quality of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty. as, the associative faculty.""

Assoilment

(tr) to arrange or distribute into groups of the same type; classify

Things taken for granted

Asterisk

Astigmatic

Eye lens defect

Wonkiness of vision

Distortion of vision

While 18 13, it's beyond a dream!

Very surprising

Greatly surprising

Bitterness (of taste)

Sharp or bitter quality

Sharpness, severity

Skin treatments

Astrology

Astronomy

Of or pertaining to astronautics.

Astronomy

Asymmetry

Pl. atelectases (-s z ) Total or partial collapse of the lung.

""Pertaining to, implying, or containing, atheism; -- applied to things; as, atheistic doctrines, opinions, or books.as, atheistic doctrines, opinions, or books.""

""Formation of atheromatous deposits, especially on the innermost layer of arterial walls.""

Physical fitness and strength

Strength, fitness

Across a ship from side to side.

'Hi!' to campers (anagram)

Armpits echo (anagram)

Of air; conveying special mood

""The act of reducing to atoms, or very minute particles; or the state of being so reduced.""

Atonality

Having a melancholy temperament - is it a Labour failing (wordplay)

Gloomy

Irritable

Extremely badly

Aims achieved by effort

Acquired skills.

Achievements

Attemper

Of or pertaining to attention.

In a heedful way

Agent at unit being treated is getting weaker

Reduction in strength

Weakening, as in the value of a lawsuit

Taken in by police without husband, giving testimony

Relating to postures

Coming at the movies

""ATTRIBUTE To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to). to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to).""

Act of ascribing

The act of ascribing eg a picture to an artist

The ascribing of a particular work to an author or artist

Like some nouns

Like a long war getting rid of a totalitarian organisation