2-Letter Words Starting with A

ADVOCATE to plead in favour of

""A binucleate spore of a rust fungus, formed in a chainlike series in an aecium.""

AEROSOL a spray released under pressure

A story about company that may be ratified

Warm around volcanic rim, so may be asserted

Confirmation; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act.

Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing.

Flashbulb effect, for example

Lingering impression on the eye

Flashbulb effect

Additional short sketch.

M1's in time to expand

Magnify; increase power of

Make greater grade gains after revision

Exaggerate

Wild, wild raves and gigs on Ecstasy

Like a winning tournament player*

Combative - pushing

""ALKALINE containing an alkali, also ALKALIN""

Loyalty, say, found in Nato maybe

Loyalty, say, within marriage

Loyalty, say, found in union

ALLEGE to assert without proof

Show by storytelling

Everyone repeat! (wordplay)

Say tongue twisters, maybe

Say a tongue twister, maybe

Art for the masses (wordplay)

Communion table screen

Painting placed prominently in church

""An antiviral drug, C 10 H 17 NHCl, also used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.""

Make better meal, or I eat junk!

Make an unpleasant situation better

Make improvements to

AMERCE to fine or punish

English word

Gold place in which land is mined for mineral

Microscopic organism

Microscopic creature

Being very small but old-womanish about bad French copper

Adjective meaning resembling

Hammer a nail in the bust

Hit an alien ordered to exterminate

Dynamite, say

Serving to explain

Explanatory

Mutant canine tuna, say

Declare girl in acute trouble

Announce (arch.)

""Any of various mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles, which can carry the malaria parasite and transmit the disease to humans.""

Make an enemy of.

Rub the wrong way

Make an enemy of

I burn, but break your heart? I can't!

Hard, lustrous coal

Hard type of coal

Prepare for (a future event)

Predict - ape in attic (anagram)

Expect worker here for the French spread

Misogynous

Alcohol, for one.

Opposed to a cap on wages (wordplay)

Alcohol needed for driving (wordplay)

Word with prefix anti-

In favor of the great indoors, maybe

PLAGUE to pester or annoy

PLAQUE an ornamental plate or disk

Unable to stand the heat (wordplay)

""An artificial alkaloid, believed to be efficient in abating fever.""

STRIKE to {hit=v}

Breeding and care of bees

One might be keeping this, by the sound of it

Bringing up workers in a religious environment

A comic Frenchman in group is to abandon principles

Abandon your principles with a job at one's expense initially

""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.""

To perceive; to comprehend.

""Having the quality of desiring gratification; as, appetitive power or faculty. as, appetitive power or faculty.""

Fit old man's back caught in elastic

Relevant, appropriate

Relevant program on TV about Blair regularly skipped

""Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office. as, an appointive office.""

It may be set off by commas

Juxtaposed

APPRAISE to set a value on

Increase (in value)

(Of asset) rise in value

Be fully aware of.

Sugarplum is what one gets!

Worker learning a trade

One is bound to be in training

Blue-green beryl

Birthstone for many Pisces

Gemstone a queen pinned to a soldier

Capable of being decided by arbitration; determinable.

Virgil's tree of life

Coniferous hedge choice

Ornamental evergreen

Frame for door or window

Beam resting on tops of columns.

Frame Alistair, vacuously taking tab at party

ARPEGGIATE

Of Carney's film roles (wordplay)

A tacit rule that's broken, say

Expressing oneself clearly.

Carbon tip in abseil device, suitable for climbers

Attributable (to)

The act of ascribing.

""A white, nitrogenous, crystallizable substance, C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; called also altheine. C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; called also altheine.""

Asphaltic.

Choke (to death)

After wrecking taxi he pays for throttle

Choke, but manage to pay his tax before the end of June

Cruise in a fur, open to attack

Open to attack

Given as seaworthy - but not secure against pirates

Making an assault.

Transferable

Absorb and digest (food)

Take in a smile as it develops

Become part of the prevailing culture

When drunk, can siestas help (wordplay)

One may give this by hand

Help a relative, protected by position

As one might be, following tips resulting in cash hoarding

Like some goals

Not so far as a star.

Within reach

Easy on the ol' windows to the soul

Pleasing to the eye

In good taste

Emery phor buphs (wordplay)

One making a sound investment (wordplay)

Hi-fi fan.

AURICULAE

Such a response is not wanted from setter's in-car mobile menu

Prepare to mass-produce, say

Jaguar, for one

Road-test need

Welcome graduation gift.

Why they eyed the showroom (wordplay)

Why they eyed the showroom?

Relating to motor vehicles

Cause a body part to undergo autotomy.

An undertaking to clad home in glass

Rearing and care of birds.

AXIOMATIZE

Capable of being abolished.

Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature.

ACCESSORISE

Make sure you match

Hawkish marine, left motherless after accident, has another depression

Adapt to a new environment

Get one used to new conditions

Get used to weather

""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.""

""A compound of aniline with acetyl, used to allay fever or pain; called also antifebrine. antifebrine.""

ACETYLATE receive substitution of an acetyl group; of chemical compounds

To deprive of color; to make achromatic.

Desiring possessions

Grasping

Covetous

The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability.

Bright orange-red dye

Faintly representing; typical.

Adjective (-ive)

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

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

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

""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.""

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

Taken together; collective.

Curtail urge to work in growing business

The practice of farming

Field for early U. S. settlers

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

Cat fancier

One who hates or fears cats.

White.

Twelve-syllable line of verse

Aid external examination of precious stone

A green variety of chrysoberyl used as a gemstone

Work on library cards

*Put in order, as files

Not the first choice

Available as another possibility

Option to convert indigene

Of an imaginary flower that never fades

Mixed feelings (E, not Y)

That love-hate feeling.

Girl in a mood shows uncertainty

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

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

A white crystalline substance used as an analgesic and antipyretic.

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

Working in MPH, AA meet required speed

Mood-altering drug

Stimulant drug

A metamorphic rock composed chiefly of amphibole and plagioclase.

Put under, in an operating room

Put under

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

Compile an anthology.

Spiral outflow could be neatly conic

A fair-weather system ends with one

High-pressure weather system

""FATIGUE to weary, also FATIGATE""

Fleabag, for one

Catwoman, for example

Unlikable protagonist

Like some NORAD operations

SCIENCE knowledge obtained by observation and experiment

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

""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.""

SUICIDE to kill oneself intentionally

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

WELFARE general well-being

WRINKLE to {crease=v}

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

""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.""

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

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

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

Large enough to be noticed

Enough to be taken into account

Paper round gets Puck into Telegraph? That's significant

Suitable to take for one's own use

Acquire something suitable (wordplay)

Take to be suitable

Appear to mix badly? Almost right!

Not totally precise

Rough (figure)

""Plants hydroponics. ; aquicultural ,""

English word

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

See choir ceased performing

See core ideas changing about Church

Important church area

ARGUMENT an exchange of differing reasons

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

Murder (a political or religious leader)

Murder (a public figure)

Kill (a VIP)

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

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

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

Like some nouns

Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening.

ACCREDIT to accept as true

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

English word

Person one knows slightly

Someone one knows slightly

It was auld to Burns

Current inactivity gets the nod

Tacit approval

Consent

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

Adjudicating.

Manage - it's marinated (anagram)

Run, as a Washington agency.

Organise (business)

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

AESTHETIC

Warm-hearted - loving

Tender attachment to Buddy heading off

Disease destroyed loving

Capable of being agglutinated.

Starting with identical letters

Starting with the same letter or sound

Like computer code, commonly

Softening; helping to heal or improve

Denounce.

Diminutive form

ANTHRANILATE

CREATIVE having the ability to create

FEMININE the female sex or nature

LITERATE one who can read and write

Positron in relation to an electron, say

Eg, a positron

Positron, for example

""PLEASURE to give enjoyment or satisfaction to, also PLEASE""

VIOLENCE a violent action

Revise trophies behind a point of sale for writer's way of saying he owns it

Shorten a word

Address an imaginary person

Conscious perception with full awareness.

Showing gratitude

Thankful for backing Evita with epic rap melody

In someone's debt for treasure around island - it's a sign

Even I, perhaps, could be afraid

Even I, perhaps, could become so fearful

Anxious, perhaps even worried about one

""Capable of being appropriated, set apart, sequestered, or assigned exclusively to a particular use.""

ARCHEGONIA

House-craft (wordplay)

Art of designing buildings etc

Style of a building

""A mineral of a tinwhite color and metallic luster, containing arsenic, sulphur, and iron; also called arsenical pyrites and mispickel. arsenical pyrites and mispickel.""

""A yellow hygroscopic powder, C 12 H 12 As 2 N 2 O 2 2HCl2H 2 O, formerly used to treat syphilis, yaws, and other spirochetal infections.""

Of or pertaining to articulation.

Characterized by asseveration; asserting positively.

""Tending to, or characterized by, assimilation; that assimilates or causes assimilation; as, an assimilative process or substance. as, an assimilative process or substance.""

ATTITUDE a posture or position

To assume affected attitudes; to strike an attitude; to pose.

Apt to be ascribed

Caused by

Having the quality or power of augmenting; expressing augmentation.

Verify gold teeth? I can't when false

Confirm as genuine

Show to be genuine

An immunosuppressive agent used especially to prevent organ rejection in kidney transplant recipients.

Able to provide room

Of or pertaining to acculturation (definition 3).

English word

A neurotransmitter released by the transmitting dendron at autononmous synapses and at neuromuscular junctions. It is a quaternary amine with an obligatory negative counterion. The nominal formula for the hydroxide form is C7H17NO3. Structural formula (CH3)3N(+)CH2CH2.O.CO.CH3.OH(-).C7H17NO3. Structural formula (CH3)3N(+)CH2CH2.O.CO.CH3.OH(-).

""A colorless liquid compound (H2C:CH.CN); used as raw material for acrylic fibers, and as a solvent.H2C:CH.CN); used as raw material for acrylic fibers, and as a solvent.""

""Capable of being administered; as, an administrable law. as, an administrable law.""

""Having a tendency to gather together, or to make collections.""