2-Letter Words Starting with A

""ATYPICAL not typical, also ATYPIC""

They have lots to offer

In an audacious manner; with excess of boldness; impudently.

Audiology

Hearing he's a scientist

Audiometer

An instrument for measuring hearing activity for pure tones of normally audible frequencies. Also called sonometer .

Lovers of high-fidelity sound

Kind of teachers' aid.

Using sight and sound

Kind of teaching aid, as usual, I avoid changing

Audition

Auditorium

Austerity

AUTARCHIC

Giving the thumbs up to writer, I perform on stage maybe

The powers that be

Controlling persons

Controlling organization is keeping restriction on writer

Authorizer

""AUTHORIZE To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary. as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.""

Authorship

AUTOCLAVE A kind of French stewpan with a steamtight lid.

Autocracy

Group outside the class system

""Self-satisfaction of sexual desire, as by masturbation.""

AUTOGRAPH That which is written with one's own hand; an original manuscript; a person's own signature or handwriting.

Semiautomatic.

New electronic techniques

Automatism

Automatist

AUTOMATIZE same as automate.automate.

Automatize

""AUTOMOBILE a self-propelled vehicle used for transporting passengers, suitable for use on a street or roadway. Many diferent models of automobiles have beenbuilt and sold commercially, possessing varied features such as a retractable roof (in a convertible), different braking systems, different propulsion systems, and varied styling. Most models have four wheels but some have been built with three wheels. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), and sometimes by steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from under 50 H. P. for earlier models to over 200 H. P. larger models or high-performance sports or racing cars. An automobile is commonly called a car or an auto, and generally in British usage, motor cars.convertible), different braking systems, different propulsion systems, and varied styling. Most models have four wheels but some have been built with three wheels. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), and sometimes by steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from under 50 H. P. for earlier models to over 200 H. P. larger models or high-performance sports or racing cars. An automobile is commonly called a car or an auto, and generally in British usage, motor cars.""

Wheels out awful modern artworks after one

Advocates of self-government

AUTOTOMIZE cause a body part to undergo autotomy.

Autotomize

""Capable of self-nourishment; requiring only minerals for growth; using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; -- said of all plants in which photosynthetic activity takes place, and certain bacteria. It is opposed to parasitism or saprophytism.""

Helpers, assistants

AUXOTROPH

""AVALANCHE A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.""

Aventurine

Aviculture

AVOCATION A calling away; a diversion.

System of imperial weights

This often puts up a good front.

Pounds/ounces system of weights

A bridge player, Richard, and two fellow players filled with astonishment

Of or pertaining to axiology.

AXIOMATIZE

Axiomatize

Having symmetry around an axis: an axisymmetric cone.

Of or relating to a method of projection in which an object is drawn with its horizontal and vertical axes to scale but with its curved lines and diagonals distorted.

Azimuthal

(Medicine / Pathology) Pathol absence of spermatozoa in the semen azoospermic   adj AZOOSPERMIC (Medicine / Pathology) Pathol absence of spermatozoa in the semen azoospermic   adj BACILLAEMIA (Medicine / Pathology) Pathol the presence of bacilli in the blood

Shortening

Reducing

E.g. for example (wordplay)

Tues. or Agt. (tsk-tsk!)

Shortening - above Britain (anagram)

Abbreviator

Abecedarian

Characterized by unsound thinking

Ex-President right and judicious or diverging from normality (wordplay)

Abolishment

""Relating to or favoring abolition, especially the abolition of slavery.""

The principles or measures of abolitionists.

Wm. Lloyd Garrison, for one.

Reformer (eg Wilberforce)

One favouring end of capital punishment

Abomination

Primarily.

Abortionist

The quality of being abortive.

ABRASIVE an abrading substance

Abridgement

Absenteeism

Like a Disney film professor (2 words)

Contemplating truancy (wordplay)

Given to woolgathering

Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.

ABSOLUTIZE

Absorbancy

Absorbency

Absorptiveness.

Abstemious

Abstraction

Abstrusity

In a scholarly manner

Distinguished scholars

Academicism

Acatalectic

Gaining speed

Increasing speed

An increase in rate

Rate of increase of speed

A speeding up

Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening.

ACCENTUATE To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

Giving special importance to something

Emphasis, stress

Acceptation

Accession

ACCESSORISE

Accessorise

ACCESSORIZE

Accessorize

Short grace note that is played very quickly

Not on purpose

Friend follows chance unwittingly

Ran into someone with friend by mistake

Accipitrine

Acclamation

Acclimation

Accustomed to new conditions

Accustomed to upset mice with acid and salt

Acclimatise

Peruvian city in adapted

""ACCLIMATIZE To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.""

Acclimatize

Pianists playing second fiddle (wordplay)

Accompany

Pulled off top

Done - with a high degree of skill

Having particular skills

One who accomplishes.

Accomplish

Squeeze box player

Player is into arranging following agreement

One's instrumental in making peace with Israeli supporter though not at frist

ACCREDIT to accept as true

Marked or produced by accretion.

""ACCUMULATE To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money. as, to accumulate a sum of money.""

Process of gathering

Growth of capital

Build-up

Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional.

Acetanilide

English word

Acetylation

Even a chemist (anagram)

The done things

Exploits from active men he's translated

Absence of hydrochloric acid in the gastric secretions of the stomach.

Absence of hydrochloric acid in the gastric secretions of the stomach.

Achromatism

ACHROMATIZE To deprive of color; to make achromatic.

Achromatize

Acidimetry

Acidulation

In relation to sound or to hearing.

Acoustician

Person one knows slightly

Someone one knows slightly

It was auld to Burns

Current inactivity gets the nod

Tacit approval

Consent

Acquirement

Acquisition

Acquittance

Acriflavine

Acrocentric

Acromegalic

Acromegaly

After the manner of an acrostic.

Actability

Photographic instruments.

""Pertaining to the measurement of the intensity of the solar rays, either (a) heating, or (b) actinic. (a) heating, or (b) actinic.""

""Botany Capable of being divided into equal halves along any diameter, as the flowers of the rose or tulip; radially symmetrical.""

""Any of various filamentous or rod-shaped, often pathogenic microorganisms of the order Actinomycetales that are found in soil and resemble bacteria and fungi.""

Actinomycin

Activeness

Possibility of being modified

Openness to change

Having a capacity for adaptation. Opposed to maladaptive.maladaptive.

The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.

Adaptivity

Furthermore

To boot

As well

Additivity

Adenovirus

The quality of sticking or adhering; stickiness; tenacity of union.

""As, or in the manner of, an adjective; adjectively.""

""ADJUDICATE To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.""

Formal judgement

Civil judgment based on evidence presented

Adjudicating.

Adjudicator

ADJUDICATOR One who adjudicates.

Governed by theologians (wordplay)

Controlled diet? In dreams!

Gave out

Executive; acting; managing affairs.

Manage - it's marinated (anagram)

Run, as a Washington agency.

Organise (business)

Admirableness.

Rebuke hot men involved with mad sin

Had moments in suffering severe reprimand

What may be given by the man getting agitated with dim son (wordplay)

Admonitory

""(tr) (Law) Law to bring (a person) into a specific relationship, esp to take (another's child) as one's own child""

Adoptianism

Adoptionism

Adoptionist

Adroitness

Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious.

Making less pure

Debasing

Addition of contaminant let loose in a time span

Corruption of European in indecent allowance

Adumbration

Happening by chance

Accidental - unexpected

Vet's audition turned out to be accidental

Adventurism

Adventurist

Adversative

Advertency

Advertising

Advertorial

Abstract noun (-ity)

Science of lift and flight

Scientific study in which secondary aim is dicey

Secondary aim to revise properties of flying objects

Embolism that occurs as a result of the entrance of air bubbles into a blood vessel after surgical procedures or trauma.

(used with a sing. verb) The science of magnetic characteristics associated with atmospheric conditions.

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

AERONAUTIC

AEROSOLIZE

One versed in the theory of beauty and artistic expression.

The cult of the beautiful

Russell contacts relative over the jerk with master of art movement

AESTHETIC

Aestivation

Affability

Affectation

Warm-hearted - loving

Tender attachment to Buddy heading off

Disease destroyed loving

Afficionado

Affiliation

Affirmation

Affirmative

In an afflictive manner.

Affricative

Capable of being agglutinated.

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

Agglutinate