2-Letter Words Starting with A

Get used to (Amer.)

Cool indoor conditions (wordplay)

Harden against PAin, etc.

Upward slope

Accountant before NYC, for one, admits Long Island five has its own slant

Pulitzer Prizes, Oscars, etc.

Expressions of praise

Expressions of great praise

""ACCRUE to accumulate, also ACCREW""

Aceldama

Lacking the basic structure of life

Like viruses having a rest, lying back inside maple

Pl. acervuli (-l ) A tiny cushionlike or blisterlike structure produced by certain fungi on a plant host and consisting of a mass of hyphae-bearing asexually produced spores.

Pl. acetabula (-l ) Anatomy The cup-shaped cavity at the base of the hipbone into which the ball-shaped head of the femur fits.

Acetoxyl

Receive substitution of an acetyl group; of chemical compounds

It's a gas!

A collection o' thin ones? Great gas!

Kind of torch

""The failure of a ring of muscle fibers, such as a sphincter of the esophagus, to relax.""

Achillea

Aciculum

Growing well in an acid medium: acidophilic bacteria.

Make slightly sour.

Make slightly sour

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

Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous.

Sharp with asperity

Claudius prepared to eat duck and tart

U.C.L.A. duo is sarcastic

Clear indeed, a pound maybe sought by 17

Outcome of the Lizzie Borden trial

Verdict of Not Guilty

Acrolect

Acrolein

Wooden statues with stone extremities

Like certain flowers in a batch - dead, gone over

(Of leaves and flowers) developing upwards from the base or point of attachment

Like the arrangement of some flowers in a batch with others

Athens landmark arise (nonverbal)

Where the Parthenon was built.

Literally, "highest city"

ACROSOME a thin sac at the head of the sperm

Acrylate

It's not a dream

Beingness or existence

State of real existence

Make a reality of

So to be working with figures is risky

Of life-expectancy calculation

Relating to statistical calculation

""A synthetic purine nucleoside analog, C 8 H 10 N 5 O 3 , derived from guanine and used in the treatment of herpes simplex, herpes zoster, and varicella zoster virus infections.""

Acylate

ACYLATE to introduce acyl into

Without backing down

With no sign of caving

In manner unyielding

Of flexible nature.

American with bald pate oddly plastic

Good at fitting in to new circumstances

Glandular upset ailed an old Democrat

Glandular trouble almost laid one out

Like glandular tissue at back of nose

By way of addition or adjunct; in connection with.

Deserving respect and approval

Excellent as Barrie's butler

Deserving of esteem

Liam Brady played like this

Main office (wordplay)

The main men (wordplay)

Headquarters of the British navy.

Adjective meaning resembling

Able to be taken up

Fit for taking home from the animal shelter

Commercial work on board is such as may be undertaken

In a worshipping manner

With much love.

One way to gaze

Adularia

Dug around a Latin - praise be!

Worshipful

Lauding

Very high regard

Sycophant's specialty

High praise for an adult I love to tease

Prays from them, by the sound of it

Obsequious group

Big fans

Excessively flattering

When almost grown-up, a politician is flattering

Sycophantic

Who later rued straying (wordplay)

Durer tale (anagram)

One's business affairs (wordplay)

Minor goal (wordplay)

A step above the minors (wordplay)

Supposedly mature years

Adjective meaning resembling

Maturity

Kind of clause

Of a class of words.

Type of phrase

I write jingles

Harmfully notice poetry lay hollow

In a way, against advertising jingles

To be recommended

Worthy of recommendation

Expedient to be recommended

Adverb

After careful consideration

Days lived surprisingly sensibly

After careful deliberation

One living the high life (wordplay)

Turn up (wordplay)

Man on the flying trapeze

For a couple of eagles, backing up lubricates wings

Meteorites (E, not H)

Stony bodies from outer space.

Stony meteorites

Stony meteorites

Gatwick banker (wordplay)

The Spitfire, for one

British flyer (wordplay)

The science or philosophy of causation

Attach (to an organisation)

Team up with FIFA et al: one fouled

In trouble if I left AA as associate

AFFIX to {attach=v}

Sick, day after botched facelift

Caused pain to

Diseased; suffering

Well, that gets one off

Well, it's got off this

A guard contracts sickness in profusion

Affluence.

Affluent

Poison produced by food moulds; oxtail fan (anagram)

Unlooked-for ending

Surprise blow following affair thought ended.

Bursting, flow with great warm feeling

Light once the actual source has gone

Light in the sky post sunset

Medium access (wordplay)

Post-death existence

Heaven or hell., for example

Agalloch

Agalwood

For all time

As shown by all-round gymnasts

Aglycone

Nice to be able to say yes

Gee, that makes it 13 down and arable!

In harmony; pleasant

In an agreeably manner; in a manner to give pleasure; pleasingly.

Aiguille

Tree of Heaven; Thai Alnus (anagram)

Sugar maybe taking one part of 7 tree

Tree liana winding round in this manner

Same silly nonsense without any purpose

Without apparent purpose

Without purpose or direction

Broadcast US comic's takeoffs from here

Take-off sites

Landing sites

Removed from the war zone

Carried supplies by plane

Moved the troops, in a certain way

777's, for example

Passengers travel in them

Logan fleet

Sent overseas, maybe

Sent overnight, say

Sent flying (wordplay)

""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.""

Delta force (wordplay)

United ways (wordplay)

Jet set (wordplay)

Aisleway

Statue material, perhaps

Altar base (anagram)

Figurine material, perhaps

Alarmism

Prophets of doom fabricated star's mail

They arouse people's fears needlessly

Chicken Little et al.

Alarum

Long-finned tunas

Fish bar so fancied up with lace

White-meat sources

Ornithological collar (wordplay)

Pacino's burden (wordplay)

Big bird's a hit, of course!

Albicore

Albinism

Affected with albinism.

Albizzia

Albumose

Alburnum

Alcahest

Alchemy

St Michael (anagram)

Faust, for one

One with a gold standard (wordplay)

To change by alchemy; to transmute.

Alchymy

One addicted to drink

Like some beverages

Person addicted to drink

Aldehyde

""Of or pertaining to aldehyde; as, aldehydic acid. as, aldehydic acid.""

Aldolase

Depending on chance

Draft pick venues (wordplay)

Round buildings (wordplay)

See a lush reeling round old pubs

Attention that fielders must show

Sentry's attribute

Relents as travelling in vigilant state

Aleurone

Author of stepquote (first name)

A great Greek ruler (wordplay)

Any of three Russian emperors

Alfaquin

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

English word

Algaroba

A tree, the common mesquite

Type of math equation

Like most chess notation nowadays

Kind of notation

Natives of Oran

ALGICIDE a substance used to kill algae

Pond scum killers

Alginate

Algorism

Decision tree, for one

*Programmer's procedure

Netflix uses one to recommend you movies

""Pertaining to compounds that have a ring in the structure, but are not aromatic, as cyclohexane or cyclohexene. Compare aliphatic and aromatic.aliphatic and aromatic.""

Its antonym is in the Declaration

No citizen can transfer what he owns

Capable of being transferred.

Alienage

Shut off (from)

How Keri Hilson feels (wordplay)

Date Liane (anagram)

Puts a gulf between.

Sets at odds

Makes a foe of

Poor diplomat, say

Family outcast, perhaps

One causing estrangement

Alienism

Specialists in the psychiatric field.

Psychiatrists of old

Legal term for psychiatrists.

ALIEN to transfer to another as property

Brightness perhaps for the landing

Getting down to an ignition

Getting down to illumination, it seems

Tin mangle (anagram)

Arrangement in a straight line

Service-station job

ALIKE having close resemblance

Aliment

Severance package payments (wordplay)

Tender towards one's exes (wordplay)

Means of maintainance for former mates

A straightening of the ranks.

Troop order

Political arrangement

Fatty.

Able to read but not interested in reading. See Usage Note at literate .

Able but unwilling to read

Disinclined to read

Existing quality in a vessel at sea

Vigour, vivacity

Alizarin

Alkahest

Ace, a skilled orderly, made big acid drops

Alkalise

Like some cocoa powder

Counters acidity

Alkaloid

Plural or third person singular

All is ok (as suffering blood condition)

Of or pertaining to alkalosis.

Alkoxide

Alkylate

Alkylate

Allanite

""Pertaining to, or contained in, the allantois.""

""A crystalline, transparent, colorless substance found in the allantoic liquid of the fetal calf; formerly called allantoic acid and amniotic acid. allantoic acid and amniotic acid.""

""Pl. allantoides ( l n-t -d z ) A membranous sac that develops from the posterior part of the alimentary canal in the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles. It is important in the formation of the umbilical cord and placenta in mammals. Also called allantoid .""

Said 2B (wordplay)

According to popular suspicion

By all accounts

Everybody say one soldier's loyal

Orchestra losing leader, a man very great and loyal

Allelism

Shouts of joy

German folk dance

A German in Paris.

Baroque-era dance

Sneeze causers, say

Pollen and dander

Dander and dust, often

Causes of rash reactions (wordplay)

Reasons for sneezin'

Antihistamines treat them

Allergin

Inspector of hives, perhaps

She can scratch that itch (wordplay)

Doctor healing great ills

""A synthetic clear or amber-colored viscous insecticide, C 19 H 26 O 3 , similar to pyrethrin.""

Make less severe, say suffering

Leave it out after Al displays temper

Take the edge off

Common spots for trash cans

Streets of a sort.

Combinations, of states say

Grand, Holy, Triple, etc

Benelux and NATO.

Creature seen later (wordplay)

Pogo's pal Albert, for one

Florida snapper (wordplay)

Like some funds

Set apart for a specific purpose

Bertie found leaving set aside

Assigned everybody at co-ed school

Assigns a place

Distributes

Assigns

Designated hitter finder (wordplay)

Distributor of resources

Budgeter, in a way

Being genetically different although belonging to or obtained from the same species: allogeneic tissue grafts.

""A graft of tissue obtained from a donor of the same species as, but with a different genetic make-up from, the recipient, as a tissue transplant between two humans. Also called homograft .""

Ghost writer's East End greeting on diagram (wordplay)

The study of the relative growth of a part of an organism in relation to the growth of the whole.

Everything and nothing - animated TV character's linguistic unit

Allopath

""Ecology Occurring in separate, nonoverlapping geographic areas. Often used of populations of related organisms unable to crossbreed because of geographic separation.""

""An amorphous, translucent, variously colored mineral, essentially hydrous aluminum silicate.""

""Any one of two or more speech sounds that considered variants of the same phoneme. For example, the p sounds of pin and spin are allophones of p; and the t sounds of toe stop and catnip are allophones of t.For example, the p sounds of pin and spin</it> are <ex>allophones</ex> of <it>p</it>; and the <it>t</it> sounds of <it>toe</it> <it>stop</it> and <it>catnip</it> are <ex>allophones</ex> of <it>t</it></as>.""

Of or involving a change in the shape and activity of an enzyme that results from molecular binding with a regulatory substance at a site other than the enzymatically active one.

Does this imply sharecropping (wordplay)

Share beds here (wordplay)

Tell man to make beds!

Grant painter graphite, perhaps

Distinct form of an element

One of two or more existing forms of an element

The property of existing in two or more conditions which are distinct in their physical or chemical relations.

Allottee

Allotter

Giving out plenty of metal in the lag

Dispensing tall gin to drunk

Putting aside, as time

Allotype

ALLOTYPE a type of {antibody=n}

Not improper.

Not banned

Aboveboard