2-Letter Words Starting with A

AUTARKIC relating to autarky

The branch of ecology that deals with the biological relationship between an individual organism or an individual species and its environment.

AUTOCLAVE A kind of French stewpan with a steamtight lid.

Pressure cookers

Derived or transferred from the same individual's body: autologous blood donation; an autologous bone marrow transplant.

""AUTOLYSE to break down tissue by enzyme action, also AUTOLYZE""

Autolyse

""AUTOLYZE to break down tissue by enzyme action, also AUTOLYSE""

Autolyze

Jaguar, for one

Road-test need

Welcome graduation gift.

Ones who'd never think of flying (wordplay)

AUTUMNAL pertaining to {autumn=n}

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

Winter effects (wordplay)

Skiers' cover-alls (wordplay)

Hazard for skiers.

AVERSIVE relating to aversion

Greek egg-citrus soup

Sauce in Greek cuisine

Citrus-tinged Greek soup

Rearing and care of birds.

AXENIC free from germs

Axiality

Axillary

Axiology

AXOPLASM the cytoplasm of an axon

'Muslim leaders reject onion' - sure that's the answer (wordplay)

Abdominal

Broth nearly spilt in a repugnant way

In an awful way

So as to inspire loathing

Pertaining to the study of inanimate things.

ABIOTIC relating to absence of life

Pertaining to ablution.

It's odd what a morality ban can produce

Aberrant feature

Deviance

Capable of being abolished.

The action of putting an end to (a practice)

Aboriginal

Mariner answers and gets acquittals

Absolutism

People with rigid worldviews

A bandleader overcoming very old musicians, their principles undiminished

ABSOLUTIZE

Absolutize

Absorbing

With abstinence.

""Not defective; complete; as, an acatalectic verse. as, an acatalectic verse.""

""Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground.""

Speeding up (music)

Gradually increasing in speed (mus.)

Gradually increasing in speed, in music

Accelerant

Gave it the gas

Like some college courses

Speeded up

Increases speed

Part of an auto.

Driver's foot pedal

Cycling race, clear to pedal

In an accentual manner; in accordance with accent.

Accepting

Pertaining to accession; additional.

Supplementary

Sharps or flats in certain measures

Enthusiastic praise

Public praise

ACCLIMATE To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize.

""The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization.""

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.""

Acclivity

Fellow criminals from cosmic place, disorderly

Abettors

In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; followed by with or to. with or to.

Bungee jumping is fun

Thus

Like a good math teacher (wordplay)

Obliged (to answer?)

Required to justify oneself

In an accountable manner.

Assimilate a different way of life, perhaps

Socialize

Brought together into a group or crowd

Hoards

Bet; large battery cell

Battery - type of bet

Electric cell; bet

ACERBIC {sour=adj}

Acetabulum

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

Acetanilid

ACETYLATE receive substitution of an acetyl group; of chemical compounds

ACETYLATE receive substitution of an acetyl group; of chemical compounds

ACETYLATE receive substitution of an acetyl group; of chemical compounds

Acidophile

ACIDOPHILE

ACIDULATE To make sour or acid in a moderate degree; to sour somewhat.

ACIDULATE To make sour or acid in a moderate degree; to sour somewhat.

Admit (the truth of something)

Admit the truth of (something)

Recognise current learning

Acoelomate

Bright orange-red dye

""A chronic disease of adults marked by enlargement of the bones of the extremities, face, and jaw that is caused by overactivity of the pituitary gland.""

Acropetal

Fortified heights in ancient Greece

Acrylamide

ACTINIC pertaining to {actinism=n}

Actinolite

Facts and whatnot

Making a reality

Actuarial

ADDRESS to speak to

""In the manner of an adjective; as, a word used adjectively. as, a word used adjectively.""

Pacific islands that draw in butterflies

Islands near New Guinea.

Islands N. of Bismarck Archipelago.

Youth has trouble with classes, I'd say

Time of your life (wordplay)

Concede ales drunk in teenage years!

Young people rambling see Scotland

We're young people, so let's dance madly

Young people

A girl, British one aflame with yen to show appeal to her man (wordplay)

Adrenaline

Adulterant

Energy in X, devalued

No longer pure

Made impure

Debases or dilutes

Uses water maybe to dilute a trusted ale naughtily

Doctors

One who adulterates or corrupts.

Adultness

Of or pertaining to adventitia.

In the manner of an adverb.

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

Combative

Advertent

Client-sponsored article

Client-sponsored article *

AEROBIC requiring free oxygen

""The study of the sources, dispersion, and effects of airborne biological materials, such as pollen, spores, and microorganisms.""

Adjective (-ic)

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

AERONOMIC

AEROSOLIZE

Aerosolize

AESTHETIC

Aetiology

In an affecting manner; is a manner to excite emotions.

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

In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.

""AFFILIATE To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.""

Attachment (to an organisation)

Official connection

Business relationship

Affliction

Affluency

Afterworld

AGELESS never growing old

Form a rounded mass

Form into one cluster

Cluster

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

Agglutinin

Aggregate

Aggrieved

""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.""

With extreme anguish or desperate struggles.

Curtail urge to work in growing business

The practice of farming

Field for early U. S. settlers

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

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

Ailanthus

Cat fancier

One who hates or fears cats.

Lack of purpose

Badly ventilated condition

White.

Birds of ill omen

Largest sea birds.

A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine.

ALBUMIN a {protein=n}

ALCHEMIST One who practices alchemy.

ALCHEMIZE To change by alchemy; to transmute.

Alcoholism

English word

A steroid hormone secreted by the adrenal cortex that regulates the salt and water balance in the body.

Alertness

Twelve-syllable line of verse

Aid external examination of precious stone

A green variety of chrysoberyl used as a gemstone

Algebraist

English word

Algolagnia

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

Algologist

Of or pertaining to an algorithm.

Alienation

Alienness

Alightment

Alikeness

Aliteracy

Aliveness

Alkalify

""An instrument to ascertain the strength of alkalies, or the quantity of alkali in a mixture.""

""The art or process of ascertaining the strength of alkalies, or the quantity present in alkaline mixtures.""

ALKALINIZE

Alkalinize

Alkylation

Allantoid

Accusations

Fidelities.

Like 'Pilgrim's Progress'

Containing a hidden meaning

Rife with symbolism

ALLEGORISE

Allegorise

Allegorist

""ALLEGORIZE To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people. as, to allegorize the history of a people.""

""One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist.""

Allegorize

Allegretto

""One of the pure unit characters commonly existing singly or in pairs in the germ cells of Mendelian hybrids, and exhibited in varying proportion among the organisms themselves; same as allele, 2. Allelomorphs which under certain circumstances are themselves compound are called hypallelomorphs. See Mendel's law.allele, 2. Allelomorphs which under certain circumstances are themselves compound are called hypallelomorphs. See Mendel's law.""

The inhibition of growth in one species of plants by chemicals produced by another species.

ALLEVIATE To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.

Easing (of pain)

The making (of pain) less severe

Painkiller's job

Alleviator

Began the same way

Produced 'Love's Labours Lost', say, fully performed many times

Alliterate

See isoantigen .

Capable of being allocated.

Distributions according to a plan

Allotments

Allocution

Allograft

Of or pertaining to an allograph.

Allometry

Of or pertaining to allomorphism.

Allopatry

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

Allostery

Allotropy

ALLOWANCE Approval; approbation.