2-Letter Words Starting with A

Allurement

Almsgiving

Aloneness

Aloofness

Climbing gear.

ALPHABET a system of letters

Work on library cards

*Put in order, as files

Church art items

Altazimuth

Changes made by artist alone to model

""ALTERCATE The contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle.""

Action (wordplay)

Caught in middle of change, quarrel

Can't loiter about after a row

As another option...

As a substitute

Train starts awfully late nearly every other time

Sort of current found in tidal river

Type of current from your alternator

Taking turns

Vary the race, going by turns

Interchange name in heartless dispute

Taking of turns

Not the first choice

Available as another possibility

Option to convert indigene

Underhood electricity producers

Altimetry

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

Type of cloud

Altogether

Cloud forming a uniform layer

Cloud type

Cloud at heights of about one to five miles

ALUMINIZE To treat impregnate with alum; to alum.

United, as corporations or labor unions

Brings about a merger, as of two firms

Unites; mingles

Blends together to form a new combination

""One who, or that which, amalgamates. Specifically: A machine for separating precious metals from earthy particles by bringing them in contact with a body of mercury with which they form an amalgam.""

Amaryllis

Equivocally.

Ambisexual

In an ambitious manner.

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.""

After the manner of ambrosia; delightfully.

Ambulation

Old-time area (anagram) - made better

Made better

Improved a red meat stew by putting oil back in

Improves, as a situation

Takes a sad thing and makes it better

One who ameliorates.

Ameloblast

Responsiveness

Affability

Good nature

Good will

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

Medium-dry sherry

Kind of sherry

I am no tall fizzy party drink

Amorality

In an ill-defined manner

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

Pneumonia medicine

""An semisynthetic penicillin, C 16 H 19 N 3 O 5 S, having an antibacterial spectrum of action similar to that of ampicillin.""

Amphiboly

A metamorphic rock composed chiefly of amphibole and plagioclase.

""A phrase, discourse, or proposition, susceptible of two interpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. It differs from equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term. equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term.""

Amphiphile

AMPHIPHILE

Amphiploid

AMPHIPLOID

Ampicillin

Ampleness

Amygdaloid

AMYLOID a hard protein deposit

A disorder characterized by deposit of amyloid in organs or tissues; often secondary to chronic rheumatoid arthritis or tuberculosis or multiple myeloma.

""The outer portion of a starch granule consisting of insoluble, highly branched polysaccharides of high molecular weight.""

Amyloplast

Lacking grammatical sequence.

Syntactical incoherence

""Pl. anadiploses (-s z) Rhetorical repetition at the beginning of a phrase of the word or words with which the previous phrase ended; for example, He is a man of loyalty loyalty always firm.""

""A repetition of the last word or any prominent word in a sentence or clause, at the beginning of the next, with an adjunct idea; as, "He retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent." as, "He retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent."""

ANALEMMA a type of graduated scale

""ANALOGIZE To employ, or reason by, analogy.""

Analogous

Analphabet

ANALYTIC a scheme of analytical logic

""The act of analyzing, or separating into constituent parts; analysis.""

Plural or third person singular

Hypersensitivity (to a protein or drug) resulting from prior contact with a substance.

Ancestral

Ancillary

Andalusite

Anecdotal

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

Pl. anencephalies Congenital absence of most of the brain and spinal cord.

Angelfish

In a saintly manner

Surgery of the blood-vessels

Vessel treatment

ANGLICISE

""ANGLICIZE To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.""

Angulation

Anilingus

Animalcule

An animalcule.

Of or pertaining to animalism.

Animality

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

Ankylosaur

Utterly destroyed

Destroyed completely

Wiped out

Annihilate

""One who, or that which, annihilates; as, a fire annihilator. as, a fire annihilator.""

ANNUALIZE

Annulation

In an anomalous manner.

Without giving a name

How some gifts are given.

Anopheline

Relating to or causing the suppression of ovulation: an anovulatory drug.

Antechapel

Antenatal

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

Antepenult

ANTHERIDIA

Collections of a too English design

Theologians may provide choice literary gatherings

Theologians assembled for choice literary gatherings

Francis Turner Palgrave, for instance

Literary compiler

Compile an anthology.

Like or related to man; human.

ALCOHOL a flammable liquid

BURGLAR to enter a building to steal

CRUELTY savage behaviour towards a person or animal

Spiral outflow could be neatly conic

A fair-weather system ends with one

High-pressure weather system

Antidotal

ELITISM belief in rule by an elite

ELITIST an adherent of {elitism=n}

FOULING a deposit or crust

Antifungal

""LEPROSY a chronic disease with skin lesions and deformities, also LEPRA""

Right-brained (wordplay)

LOGICAL pertaining to {logic=n}

MALARIA an infectious disease

Like some NORAD operations

Antimonial

MUSICAL a play which has songs and dances

NATURAL a type of musical note

NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

NUCLEON a subatomic particle

Antiphonal

Plural or third person singular

POPULAR something pleasing

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

REALISM concern with fact or reality

REALIST one who is concerned with fact or reality

On the abolitionists' side

TUMORAL relating to a tumor

WELFARE general well-being

WHALING the business of catching whales

WRINKLE to {crease=v}

Anxiolytic

A bit mad being in a separate room

APHETIC pertaining to {aphesis=n}

Laura cut lip raving about beekeeping

Apiculture

Many doomsday cults predict them

Momentous, catastrophic

Translation of a Coptic play is outstanding

Copy capital letters - it could be a revelation

Penitent's defence of Christianity

A game soldier's in grand opening making excuses

Apologizer

APOLOGIZE To make an apology or defense.

""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.""

Church office Pat polishes after work

Apostolate

Appalling

Apparel

Appealing

Pilot a plane quite new in style

Name state of North American mountain region

A very quiet woman morphed into just 'a name'

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

Worthy of being applauded.

APPLAUD to express approval by clapping the hands

Applesauce

Request for hard work

Computer program requiring diligence

Formal request; sustained effort

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

Applicator

Having the property of applying; applicative; practical.

Applique

Large enough to be noticed

Enough to be taken into account

Paper round gets Puck into Telegraph? That's significant

""APPRECIABLE Capable of being appreciated or estimated; large enough to be estimated; perceptible; as, an appreciable quantity. as, an appreciable quantity.""

Approving

Suitable; fit.

""The cultivation of aquatic animals, such as fish or shellfish, or of plants, such as seaweed, in a controlled and sometimes enclosed body of water. The term includes use of either salt or fresh water. It is a form of agriculture, but under water.""

Aquaplaner

Sliding over a wet surface

A painter in thin transparent water colors.

AQUATIC an organism living in or near water

""Plants hydroponics. ; aquicultural ,""

Arability

Highhandedly.

Study of ancient artifacts

Study of old remains

Study of history through remains

In an outmoded sense

Michael's maybe going to help bar change licensee

Relating to the archegonium.

Key chain (wordplay)

Fiji, for example

Hawaii, i.e.

Growing or living or burrowing in sand.

Arresting

Arthralgia

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

Clearly stated to be jointed

Put into words

Said to be segmented

Utters clearly

""One who, or that which, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering. (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering.""

Same as artefactual.artefactual.

Artillery

Gunnery expert

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

Stern lasses agitating for simplicity

Ascendant

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

Ascetical