2-Letter Words Starting with A

Write off gradually

Write off over time

Spread out over time, in a way

""A white mineral, also ANALCITE""

""A white mineral, also ANALCIME""

Ancilla

Volcanic rock

A night informally includes some Parisian rock

Volcanic rock around volcano - outside inside (wordplay)

Relating to angina

Cordial offering (wordplay)

Liqueur; tetanise (anagram)

Perhaps it's eaten as an aperitif

We hear a recluse takes mineral

Iron mineral

Silly as a goose

Stupid, as a goose.

Like a goose

Toxic avenger (wordplay)

Remedy for one opposing love

I'd not eat nasty poison? Certainly not!

""A substance that stimulates the production of antibodies, also ANTIGEN""

Opposed to life

Opposed to men

A part of an organism that corresponds with another

Part of a radio wave

Protesting the pro-testers (wordplay)

Like Greenpeace, e.g

Like some protestors

Hint, in one poem, the exact opposite

Opposite conductor, head buried

North, to south

South, to the North

Direct opposite

Clement VII, for example

Breakaway religious leader

Alexander V, for example

Concerned with rape prevention

It represents an opposite

Opposite symbol.

Contrasting kind

Dark rock

""To make a concise statement, also APHORIZE""

Spout adages

Wax philosophical

Use saws

Relating to a product of a gland

Food drive (wordplay)

Desire (for food)

Intake regulator (wordplay)

Sewn-on design, perhaps

Designs on you, perhaps

Design sewed on material

Suitable place by a quiet river in Italy

Tip Aesop may give is fitting

A quiet river location, well chosen

Evaluate and pop back to say it's good

Assess the value/quality of (something)

Assess value of (something)

A diet put out for fitness

Tied up at work acquiring proficiency

Natural ability or skill

Looking like eagle's beak, say nose

Hooked like eagle's beak, say nose

Like an eagle.

""To form many branches, also ARBORISE""

""To use idioms, also ARCHAIZE""

""To use idioms, also ARCHAISE""

An {enzyme=n}

Bitter-tasting amino acid

Having seed coverings.

Having coverings, as seeds.

Having covered seeds Bot.

A type of {aril=n}

Bearded, as grain.

Bearded, as barley.

Bearded like grain

Armilla

Poisonous compound

Chemical compound.

Compound of poisonous element; nearside (anagram)

Salt of arsenious acid.

Poisonous salt

Are you crafty if frozen (wordplay)

If I react strangely it may be a trick!

Crafty trick - if I react (anagram)

Say hi to my favourite snake (wordplay)

Say the "h" in "historical," say

Say "hitch," for example

Recipient of a right, in law

Recipient of a task

Heir, for example

Halogen family element

Tea stain removed from element

At sea, Titan at sea

Ingrates, coming to grief, draw together

Geraint's arranging draw together

Bind together

A weedkiller

Declare view after concocting rat poison

Drug left over stopping boundless hurt

Compound used to dilate the pupil

Conviction for temper (wordplay)

Frame of mind.

Chip on one's shoulder

Public house (wordplay)

Theater group (wordplay)

Assembly gathered to watch, say, a play

Related to hearing

Hearing-related

Like an aunt

A mineral

Tending to shun

Kind of stimulus

Putting off claims I have reduced

""To modify by repeated culture in a chick embryo, also AVIANISE""

Capable of being renounced

Hate to be a man, I suspect

Tottering in boat, Mae can't stand

Regard with disgust

Earliest inhabitant of, say, Australia

Native of Australia

Inhabitant of country before colonists

Some Cartesian coordinates

Non-ordinate coordinates

'x' co-ordinates make BASIC essay wrong, not 'y'

(Medicine / Pharmacology) any drug or formulation for killing acarids

Fit for acceptance.

That's to do with grammar, for a change, and not by chance, by the sound of it

The sound of the mishaps may get to grammar for a change like this

Get used to (Amer.)

Cool indoor conditions (wordplay)

Harden against PAin, etc.

Gradually built up

Solvent used in lacquers

Chemical came with a diet specially formulated

Musty-smelling crystalline solid (chemistry), emaciated (anagram)

Make slightly sour.

Make slightly sour

That's enough to make you sour - and make you dead in the end

Agree bill and become silent

Accept without protest

Agree or accept without protest

Make a reality of

""Tapering to a point; pointed; as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc. as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc.""

Hard to give up

(Of drug) habit-forming

Habit-forming

""Adducing, or bringing towards or to something.""

The 'A' of ATP

The A in ATP

Biological word for a fat-storing cell

Fat cell

The good in "good riddance"

Modifier of a noun

'Dead' or 'alive'

Tending to adjust.

Deserving respect and approval

Excellent as Barrie's butler

Deserving of esteem

Allowing a girl to enter a sleazy place

Notice the formal letter allowing entry

Tending to concede.

Extraneous ingredient

Say nice things about new tux, creating bit of a stir (wordplay)

Ingredient.

Adjective meaning resembling

Adjective meaning resembling

ADVECT to transport by the flow of a fluid

Accidental.

Throw out pitches (wordplay)

Promote (a product)

Push kin (wordplay)

{advertise=v}

To be recommended

Worthy of recommendation

Expedient to be recommended

Four in a car sleep when it's warm

I've a taste for change and will spend the summer in bed

Tending to affect; affecting.

Attach (to an organisation)

Team up with FIFA et al: one fouled

In trouble if I left AA as associate

AFFIX to {attach=v}

""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.""

Medium access (wordplay)

Post-death existence

Heaven or hell., for example

'That's of late, it seems (5,4)'

Future

Tending to stir up

""Capable of being transported and deployed, usually by helicopter, to a combat zone or from one site to another within a theater of operations: an airmobile infantry regiment.""

Wasted the bacon sandwiches I cut

HB1 around the rump

Cut of beef

To change by alchemy; to transmute.

English word

Its antonym is in the Declaration

No citizen can transfer what he owns

Capable of being transferred.

Able but unwilling to read

Disinclined to read

Make less severe, say suffering

Leave it out after Al displays temper

Take the edge off

Variety of garnet

Deep red garnet

Purplish-red Indian garnet.

""A deep violet-red garnet, FeAl 2 Si 3 O 12 , found in metamorphic rocks and used as a gemstone.""

Close to the hypotenuse, say (wordplay)

Age-old sin (anagram)

Close to a hypotenuse (wordplay)

A compound formed from the hydrate of aluminium by the substitution of a metal for the hydrogen.

To treat impregnate with alum; to alum.

Green variety of microcline

A green semiprecious stone

Green feldspar.

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

Hornblende

A rotating magnetic amplifier with specialized windings that allow small changes in power input to produce large changes in power output.

An attenuator decreases it

Maximum extent of signal or vibration

On a radio, the A in AM

Draw a comparison, in a way

Reason in a way

To dissect a very little matter is easy at first

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

Religious recluse (hist.)

Hermit or religious recluse

Hermit as a result of her action, sadly

Spicy sausage

A spicy smoked pork sausage with a blackish skin

""A green to brown or black calcium-iron garnet, Ca 3 Fe 2 (SiO 4 ) 3 .""

A minor ore of lead

Express in English finding flying angels around here in France

Convert Giovanni into John, for example

Make English, in form

Make Jorge George, for example

""An oxide of a nonmetallic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements of water; so called because it may be formed from an acid by the abstraction of water.""

""A mineral of a white a slightly bluish color, usually massive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not containing water (whence the name).""

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

Convert to a yearly rate

""A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime feldspar. See Feldspar. Feldspar.""

English word

Grotesque streak in fold of rock

Arch of stratified rock.

Lark calling beneath arched fold of rock

Against lawbreaking

Favoring common folk

Like sun visors

Like some headphones

Like some airport laws

Like many a resident near an airport

Render outdated

Render passe.

Make old.

SENSE to have an impression or inward feeling

SMOKE to emit a gas or vapour due to burning

STATE to {affirm=v}

WHITE to {whiten=v}

APICULATE

Apologia

Say sorry, mea culpa

Make a sorry speech (wordplay)

Express regret (for action)

Say you're sorry

Eat humble pie

Tell me you're sorry

Washing machine or toaster, say

Machine (for use in the home)

Gift for a housewife.

One assigned (to a job)

Chosen one (wordplay)

Pick, of sorts

""(tr) to assess the worth, value, or quality of""

ARABIC derived from gum arabic

A sugar used as a culture medium in bacteriology

A sugar used as a culture medium for certain bacteria

Mineral similar to calcite.

Calcium carbonate

Trading that exploits cost differences

Market dealer's activity

Simultaneous purchase and sale of assets

Be a middle man (wordplay)

Be a referee

Use a certain route in a dispute

Inverse trig function

English word

Frondizi's country (with "the").

S. American region.

Native of Bahia Blanca.

Valuable silver ore

A formal procedure when sculptor's brought in rock

Sedimentary rock that does not split easily

Signature moment (wordplay)

I cite arms deal before truce occurs

It's a crime breaking ceasefire

Impart fragrance to

A striver, I fancy (wordplay)

Ambitious and self-seeking person

Ambitious self-seeker

Small blood vessel

Very small blood vessel

Blood vessel connected to a capillary

After 'Jerusalem' maybe choir take break

Plant with a heart (wordplay)

Take choir trip to Jerusalem, perhaps

""Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.""

Aspirata

A lock up? I have to be forceful

Bold and confident

Far from reticent.

Hang out (with)

Not yet a principal

Rub shoulders of teammate

Soothing

Showing courtesy to another, or alert

At camp under canvas I have to be alert

As alert as the dutiful Pinafore crew

... for a eulogist (wordplay)

Ascribe (to a cause)

Virtue by payment

Purple and gold mixture of beer and gin

Deep purple colour

Fruit popular in French inn

Band that plays music (wordplay)

Sound evidence (wordplay)

Garage band's production, once

AUDIT to examine accounts

Pl. auriculas or auriculae (-l ) A central European primrose (Primula auricula) having large yellow flowers grouped in umbels. Also called bear's ear .

A constituent of some forms of steel

Tate in use, perhaps, for one who likes Jane

I share out (anagram)

Writer is going east to say it's okay

Sanction or establish officially

John Irving's peepers (wordplay)

Give the go-ahead to

Give the green LIGHT to

Hides face say and able to be at hand

"At liberty," as in "Variety"

On offer in the transfer market

Avifauna

Unlike death and taxes (wordplay)

A useless fit can be prevented

Like careless mistakes

The shunning (of something)

Dodger's goal

Dodger's aim

Make an acronym of, perhaps

Shorten (a word)

Bribe a vet with a new contract

Offensive description of a snowman

Like a snowman.

Causing moral revulsion

ABSOLUTE self-existent

ABSOLUTE self-existent

Tending to suck up

Tending to soak up

Practice of refraining (from alcohol)

If you pass the bar, what will it mean?

Non-partaking (of liquor)

Having a ramp, say

Open to be got at

Easy to talk to; approachable

Second place comic played

Criminal's associate

Helper in wrongdoing

The case for the prosecution (wordplay)

Prosecution's case (wordplay)

Case which needs objective prosecuting

Able to be accomplished

If you get it, it must be so

'It can be done - somehow I have' (Cable)

Stony meteorite

Growing well in an acid medium: acidophilic bacteria.

Capable of being acquired.

""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.""

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

Worth trying (wordplay)

Possibly libellous (wordplay)

Giving grounds for a lawsuit

Maybe detain a man of unyielding nature

Hard type of man, worker in Eden originally

A barrier against Tyneside must be unbreakable

Decide (between claims or in games)

Decide officially on a dispute

Hear and decide (a case).

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

Like certain evidence

Like some evidence

(As evidence in court) valid

Maiden, with tact, ordered entree

Letting in a ball stopped by hand

Permission to enter

Rush before a flight (wordplay)

It can give you a rush

Stimulator of ideal Queen Anne building

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

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