2-Letter Words Starting with A

Confine to bed, maybe

'ard rain (wordplay)

Have a hangover, say

Wedding shower (wordplay)

AO till all is blue (wordplay)

1-0 for the dyeing moments (wordplay)

Seed cover; lair (anagram)

You're BSing me!

Hard seed cover

Leaf-stem connector

Angle of twig and stem.

Flower-stalk angle

Ready for poaching, maybe

Ready for pasta say

Ready for pasta, say

Verdi's choral instrument (wordplay)

Site of a metalworking strike (wordplay)

Where Binyon forged his work (wordplay)

Potter's clay.

Potter's clay

Clay used for pottery

An airy spirit (Tempest)

Tempestuous spirit (wordplay)

Sharon of Israel (m)

Benefit afforded by a yashmak, they say

Take advantage (of)

Help to make a curtain, say

Perpendicular to radial

Along a certain line.

Of line about which rotation occurs

Is able (anagram)

Lower oneself by rope (down rock face)

A bit of a let-down for Lesbia, perhaps

""Pertaining to the aecium, also AECIDIAL""

Receiver on TV (wordplay)

Snow remover (wordplay)

Kind of view

Felon's kin

Again, fifty is awkward to have on hand

Finger sore

Of assistance

Full of purpose

Photo developing chemical

Photo-developing compound

Chemical used in film developing

Type of magnetism (wordplay)

Man, for one

Hound or badger (wordplay)

At the top

At the summit

At the vertex

""A red or violet dye, also ORCHEL, ORCHELLA, ORCHILLA, ORSEILLE""

Verbally assault, perhaps

Set about a journey by sea, say

Rush or Knock (wordplay)

Pardon, old style

Pardon, in Chaucer's day

Absolve, old style.

Eddy-fied (wordplay)

Going around in circles

Like an eddy

Of a heart part

Of a body chamber

Of a heart chamber

Doing the tarantella, say

Like tarantella dancers

In a spin.

""Away from the axis, also ABAXILE""

BE SICK of the maid (wordplay)

David's wife (OT)

Another wife of David (OT)

A court in Alabama is like a jellyfish

Oral, in zoology.

Oral, in reference to jellyfish and other radiates.

Of a proverb

Next to the axis

Fleet fellow (wordplay)

Benbow, for one

Rickover, for one.

Related by marriage

""Pertaining to a prefix or suffix, also AFFIXIAL""

Own self

Race car's downforce-enhancing wing

Plane wing, e.g

Plane wing, for example

Flying post (wordplay)

Letters sent up (wordplay)

Fast delivery service (wordplay)

Deficient in pigment

Freehold, as certain real estate.

Freehold, in old law.

Kind of chest pain

Like some chest pain

Concerned with complaint from spirit-drinking obsessive

Home for social workers (wordplay)

Amount of six-footers (wordplay)

Place for social climbers (wordplay)

Marginal note

Marginal note

Of a recess at east end of a church choir

Appearance (at a destination)

Appearance (at a place)

Scene-maker (wordplay)

Awkward at gatherings, say

Not mixing well (wordplay)

Awkward at parties, say

Directed away from the apex

Monastic

""Relating to an achene, also AKENIAL""

Pertaining to the shoulder blade

""Pertaining to the aecium, also AECIAL""

Loire oaf (anagram)

ie a floor redesigned for wing, say

Part of aircraft designed to give lift

A gala bar opening in summer

""Pertaining to a prefix or suffix, also AFFIXAL""

Acting as a representative

Acting as a representative

Of a representative.

Relating to allod

Of a delta deposit

Kind of deposit

Everyone on university vessel washed up

Soldier enters a pub making no sense

Opposed to the contraceptive pill

Stabilising insect I turn over

Kind of bar used to stabilise a car's suspension

Pertaining to an {aquarium=n}

Relating to dispute-settling

Regarding some dispute settlement

Relating to independent settling of disputes

Of public records.

Of a large store of data

One-third of a 1979 Journey hit

Book in which to get one's bearings

Concerning heraldic arms.

Relating to heraldry or heraldic arms

{rootless=adj}

A trailer (anagram)

Vascular road (wordplay)

Major, as a highway

Elementary, in a way

Consisting of tiny bits

Very small

Deviating from what is usual or common

Like an unusual occurrence

Not run-of-the-mill

An air flap in a helmet

Muscles packed to take a punch!

Muscle pack (wordplay)

Like some six-packs

Growing well in an acid medium: acidophilic bacteria.

Clear indeed, a pound maybe sought by 17

Outcome of the Lizzie Borden trial

Verdict of Not Guilty

So to be working with figures is risky

Of life-expectancy calculation

Relating to statistical calculation

Glandular upset ailed an old Democrat

Glandular trouble almost laid one out

Like glandular tissue at back of nose

Kind of clause

Of a class of words.

Type of phrase

ALGICIDE a substance used to kill algae

Born naked and blind and dependent on parents for food; -- of hatchlings. Opposite of precocial.precocial.

Very delicious or fragrant

Fit for Olympian tastes.

Fit for the gods.

Innocent-looking (var.)

Possessing heavenly qualities

Opposite of devilish

Having the quality an antidote; fitted to counteract the effects of poison.

NODAL of the nature of a node

Unconventional literary form

Not in favour of new form of literature

Literary term popularized by Sartre

Like Henry VIII, religiously

An inclination a friend has to be Protestant (wordplay)

Pertaining to the land down under.

At the other end of the world

On the other side of the earth.

Like AZT

Terrible liar with interminable vanity makes treatment for Aids

Evaluation - papal airs (anagram)

Opinion of pair as lap dancing

Artist is in shock from assessment

""ARMIGER one who carries the armor of a knight, also ARMIGERO""

Clean air's unlikely to be poisonous

Like some poisoning

In charge in club, liable to prove poisonous

Like some cheese

Made by traditional methods

Like the lifestyle of many a monk

Rigorously abstinent

Austere.

Our Altaic version of the author

Of, by or typical of an author

Pertaining to a writer

A harlot, I suspect, stealing Waugh's heart as a novelist (wordplay)

Of the birds of a region.

Of or pertaining to the azimuth; in a horizontal circle.

Not caused by bacteria.

Bad oil? Bargain first

Present from the earliest times

Present from the start

Article falsely acclaimed as scholarly

Well-read player from Hamilton (wordplay)

Bill gets a medical qualification from college

ACARICIDE

Perhaps M is taken toothy to the end

Fortuitous bit of scoring (wordplay)

Flat, say, without planning

Serving to aid hearing.

Sounding accusal to premier in Istanbul, hopeless

Auditory

Pertaining to a kind of puzzle

Not on the floor model, say

Getting on top of things more (wordplay)

For an extra charge

Any of a group of DNA-containing viruses that cause conjunctivitis and upper respiratory tract infections in humans.

Stickable

Of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective.

I leave Saddam's henchman as indexed relating to elixirs

""Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, alkali.""

Having a sexual orientation to persons of either sex; bisexual.

""Of, pertaining, or containing ammonia, or possessing its properties; as, an ammoniac salt; ammoniacal gas.as, an ammoniac salt; ammoniacal gas.""

""Mystical; having a secondary spiritual meaning; as, the rest of the Sabbath, in an anagogical sense, signifies the repose of the saints in heaven; an anagogical explication.as, the rest of the Sabbath, in an anagogical sense, signifies the repose of the saints in heaven; an anagogical explication.""

Built on comparisons

Having similarity

Breaking down (wordplay)

Type of geometry

Logically reasoning

""Pertaining to anarchy; without rule or government; in political confusion; tending to produce anarchy; as, anarchic despotism; anarchical opinions.as, anarchic despotism; anarchical opinions.""

Of bodily structure

Of a branch of biology.

Involving the body

Inclining or dipping in opposite directions. See Synclinal. Synclinal.

FUNGAL a {fungus=n}

Of or pertaining to antimony.

Sung or chanted in alternation

Sung alternately by two groups

Hit on a plan to change sort of service book in church

SEXUAL pertaining to sex

Not a company man (wordplay)

Like Holden Caulfield

Not fond of parties

Like party avoiders (wordplay)

Like a no-party person (wordplay)

Word applying to few in Washington

Of or pertaining to the apothecium.

Mock trial, if CIA involved

Forced frail cat I upset to eat one

Kiss of life

ASPHERIC not spherical

Of small celestial bodies

Concerning certain space rocks

Of small planets like Ceres

AUTARKIC relating to autarky

Pertaining to the study of inanimate things.

Pertaining to accession; additional.

Supplementary

Of or pertaining to adventitia.

Combative as a driver, a wild person yet to pass test

Combative

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

AERONOMIC

AESTHETIC

""Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature. as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature.""

""AGITATION The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation. as, the sea after a storm is in agitation.""

Twisting of a choir's tail that didn't really happen

Ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma). (Nepeta Glechoma).

Like 'Pilgrim's Progress'

Containing a hidden meaning

Rife with symbolism

""A drug, C 5 H 4 N 4 O, used to treat gout because it inhibits the synthesis of uric acid.""

""Of or pertaining to height; as, altitudinal measurements. as, altitudinal measurements.""

""A barbiturate, C 11 H 18 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and a hypnotic.""

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

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

ANTHERIDIA

Like or related to man; human.

ALCOHOL a flammable liquid

Right-brained (wordplay)

LOGICAL pertaining to {logic=n}

MUSICAL a play which has songs and dances

NATURAL a type of musical note

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

TUMORAL relating to a tumor

Laura cut lip raving about beekeeping

Suitable; fit.

Relating to the archegonium.

Same as artefactual.artefactual.

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

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

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

Of or pertaining to attention.

Relating to postures

Like a long war getting rid of a totalitarian organisation

Kind of teachers' aid.

Using sight and sound

Kind of teaching aid, as usual, I avoid changing

AUTARCHIC

AVOCATION A calling away; a diversion.

Of or pertaining to axiology.

Characterized by unsound thinking

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

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

AERONAUTIC

Variant of agrochemical .

Lulu Craig art (anagram)

Related to farming

Relating to farming

""A chemical, such as a fertilizer, hormone, fungicide, insecticide or soil treatment, that improves the production of crops.""

One sort of order

Related to 26 characters

Like letters in CHIMPS and BIJOUX

Almond-shaped.

""ANNEXATION The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold. as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold.""

""Pertaining to anthology; consisting of beautiful extracts from different authors, especially the poets.""

Opposed to the power of the clergy

COLONIAL a citizen of a colony

CULTURAL relating to culture

Good against malaria.

""Antagonistic to one's country or nation, or to a national government.""

Running in a contrary direction.

RATIONAL a number that can be expressed as a quotient of integers

Using the juxtaposition of opposites (rhetoric)

Pertaining to an apparition or to apparitions; spectral.

Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition syntactically.

Of or pertaining to an archespore.

Perfectly representative

Very representative

Chap involved with literacy in original form

Touching figures cast to charm Letitia? Is it art, Michael (wordplay)

Characterised by hope or ambition

Like those trying to succeed

Relating to hope, since religious and sensible

Of a pseudoscience

Like the supposed influence of planets and stars

Absolutely huge (in a heavenly way!)

Stellar location with Mars shot

High, as inflationary prices

Irregular in outline

Redeveloped city alarms me, lacking a logical design (wordplay)

Crooked

Unrelated to or lacking a theoretical basis.

AUDIOLOGIC

Of or pertaining to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government.

Pertaining to abstraction.

ACQUISITION The act or process of acquiring.

Like sleek airplanes and sports cars

""AGGREGATION The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.""