2-Letter Words Starting with A

Like a nervous system

Occurring involuntarily

Acting independently.

AUTOSOME a type of chromosome

Autosome

Averment

So as to cause wonder

Taken for granted

Pertaining to self-evident truths

Of universally received principles

Axoplasm

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

Azotemia

Humiliations

Abashment

Moderations of intensity

Tax deductions

Diminutions

In an unusual manner.

Friend embraces British woman in opera in unusual manner

Offensive description of a snowman

Like a snowman.

Causing moral revulsion

In an abominable manner; very odiously; detestably.

Regarded with disgust

Couldn't take

Found repugnant

Much more than dislikes

Dislikes intensely

Loathes

One hates to see Robin with wingless Batman, struggling to apprehend ring

Compendium or synopsis.

Shortened version of a written work

Shortened form

Doctrine of unlimited power

Total power lost, I am taking bus, sadly

Moral theory that doesn't allow for shades of gray

I mess about (anagram)

Moderate Jack to plug debts

I mess about, drunk or sober

Absurdism

Article falsely acclaimed as scholarly

Well-read player from Hamilton (wordplay)

Bill gets a medical qualification from college

Academism

Acclaimer

Welcoming with shouts of joy

Giving praise to

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

Acclimate

Second place comic played

Criminal's associate

Helper in wrongdoing

Finish off associate in crime soundly

Coach limps off to manage

Twisted coach limps for effect

Noun (-ment)

Get together to create a fortune perhaps

Build up

Collect Greek character's former account with Catholic university first

Assigned blame, framing cat as usual

Usual train heading for East Germany

Familiar cat held by defendant

Deep cavity on the side of the hipbone that receives the head of the thighbone

The hollow that receives the head of the thigh bone

Acetamide

Colourless church with scent outside

Colorless.

A dreamer with no name embraces church, having no shade

An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids.

""The measurement of the strength of acids, especially by a chemical process based on the law of chemical combinations, or the fact that, to produce a complete reaction, a certain definite weight of reagent is required.""

ACOELOMATE

Acrimony

Chronic enlargement of the extremities and face.

""A readily polymerized amide, C 3 H 5 NO, derived from acrylic acid and used in synthetic fibers and sewage treatment. It is a carcinogen and is present in some foods, especially starches and cereals that are cooked at high temperatures.""

Splattered on my coat is a muscle protein

Adamancy

Maybe detain a man of unyielding nature

Hard type of man, worker in Eden originally

A barrier against Tyneside must be unbreakable

End of the statement

Small change to achieve a desired result

Modification; regulation

Portioned out

Admeasure

Manage publicity for one in church

Run as 'today's politician' (wordplay)

Pastor who pitches (wordplay)

Scotch maid to share esteem (wordplay)

One may be lost in it

Maid out helping gains approval

My darling and I intertwine with desire

Like certain evidence

Like some evidence

(As evidence in court) valid

Claims these were heard in confessions

Confessions may be let in

Entrance fees

Maiden, with tact, ordered entree

Letting in a ball stopped by hand

Permission to enter

'Truth be told ... '

By general agreement.

"Truth be told ... "

Admixture

Warned by a note on day I cast off

Told off

Chastised

One who admonishes.

Rebukes gently.

Gently reproves

Warning poster has proposal about Ulster

Cautious counsel

Tina in mood that's awkward gets a reprimand

Fussy day monitor giving a reprimand

Conveying a reprimand

Warning politician, I'd moan terribly at the start

Send matron out for decorations

Model and monster to become accessories

Embellishments

A silent speed's indicated like this

Vaguely outlined

Adumbrate

Careful consideration

Deliberation

US lawyer rejected version of events I'm giving US counsel

""A spongy tissue with large air spaces found between the cells of the stems and leaves of aquatic plants, providing buoyancy and allowing the circulation of gases.""

Landing fields, in London

Airfields, to a Brit

MOD are sore over these airfields

Air mail letter

Air letter

'Casualty' episode missing opening page, but whoever the writer, it'll take off

Measurers of gas properties

Aeronomer

Aeronomy

""The study of the upper atmosphere, especially of regions of ionized gas.""

A story about company that may be ratified

Warm around volcanic rim, so may be asserted

Confirmation; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act.

Affixment

Flashbulb effect, for example

Lingering impression on the eye

Flashbulb effect

Following figures after the events

Consequences revealed when calculations are done

Bad effects maybe following a school period (wordplay)

Aftertime

Results of Teheran, Yalta, Potsdam

Documents of treaty.

Legally binding arguments

Agrimony

Agronomy

Specialist on soil and planting.

Land expert on a rig most awkwardly

Expert in soil management

Airmail

""Art, skill, or ability in the practice of aerial navigation; aircraft piloting.""

Wind tunnel currents

So as to cause sudden fear

Layman and girl getting entangled in a shocking manner

Preparing to fight with friend outside, in scary fashion

ALBUMIN a {protein=n}

I leave Saddam's henchman as indexed relating to elixirs

Some seekers of transmutation

Philosophers' stone seekers

Ones who think things are good as gold (wordplay)

ALCHEMIZE To change by alchemy; to transmute.

Alchemize

Focus of the group started by Bill W.

Addiction to drink

Habitual intoxication

Like a city father with a clear mind

Local official's frenzied, hiding behind tree

Local lady legislator

Abbr. Ald. A member of the municipal legislative body in a town or city in many jurisdictions.

Step-by-step procedures

Former vice president wants Spain to condemn Smith's rules

Noun (-ment)

Alignment

Very busy canal (wordplay)

A new mail entry cut important passage

Concerned with nutrition

Aliment

Orderly setups

Allemande

Allogamy

Characterized by allogamy.

Of or pertaining to allometry.

Allomorph

Measured shares.

Cultivated areas

Shares completely lavish seconds holding hands

Power to attract

Almandine

Almandite

Almsgiver

The giving of alms.

They provide poor accommodation

Charitable housing

Could be ARIA 1100 HELP

An instrument for taking azimuths and altitudes simultaneously.

Skydivers' aids

Skydivers' devices

Cockpit gauges

Globular clouds of intermediate height

High clouds

Clouds with flat bases forming continuous layers at 2,400 to 6,000 metres

Aluminate

Aluminium

ALUMINIZE To treat impregnate with alum; to alum.

Aluminize

Combine into one

Merge into a single body

Join forces to butcher Malaga meat

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

Dictation takers

Trouble ensues after a chap employs copyists

Secretaries

Someone skilled in dictation

Lockup, to a Londoner

Secretary of a sort

Amassment

True - a ham is, sadly!

'The Samurai' cast is unprofessional

Uriah's mate is terribly unprofessional

Lack of professionality

As immature as can be, and showing the lack of a professional touch

Amazement

Amazonite

David K. E. Bruce, for one

Bunker, for one.

One who's goodwill hunting (wordplay)

Amberjack

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

Ambition

Having opposing attitudes

Right down the middle

Hemming and hawing

Amblyopia

Ambrotype

""Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms. as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.""

""One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.""

Emergency vehicles

Walking

The act of walking.

Up and about

Not bedridden

Moving about

""AMBUSCADE A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.""

""AMBUSCADE A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.""

Surprise attacks

Waylays.

An ambush.

Amebocyte

Make better meal, or I eat junk!

Make an unpleasant situation better

Make improvements to

(Medicine / Dentistry) a type of cell involved in forming dental enamel [from ( en ) amel + -o- + -blast ]

Corrective

Corrective final word offered by US lawyer to politician

Madmen sent out to effect changes

Part of the Constitution.

Changes to parliamentary bill

Abnormal suppression or absence of menstruation.

Court-imposed penalty

Fine semi-US binder

Punishment with a discretionary fine

AMERCE to fine or punish

Americium

Ametropia

Warmth mainly in the centre of power

French friend with talent and charm

Good nature.

Amiantus

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

Descriptive of new dentifrices

Ammoniate

Ammonify

Ammonify

Charge for fire-arms

An A of A&E

Charge for firearms

Amnesty

Infections caused by protozoans

Variant of amebiasis .

""A cell, such as a leukocyte, having amoeboid form or motion.""

Amoralism

Amortise

Paying down

Andy signs them (wordplay)

They're often seen above 7's

Parts of many law firm names

Such as 23 ac, 7 dn, 8 dn

Frogs and newts, for example

BATRACHOPHOBIA

Like the D-Day assault on Normandy

Having two natures.

For use on land and in water

Amphibole

""A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (\'de -- \'de); as, h. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet\'b6ic.h. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet\'b6ic.""

""A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in c\'best. c\'best.""

Pl. amphimixes (-m k s z ) The union of the sperm and egg in sexual reproduction.

Pl. amphimixes (-m k s z ) The union of the sperm and egg in sexual reproduction.

English word

English word

Partly one and partly the other; neither acid nor alkaline; neutral.

A semisynthetic penicillin which can be considered as the common benzylpenicillin containing an amino group at the alpha benzyl position.

Amplexus

Amplidyne

Led Zeppelin equipment

Rock band equipment

They boost poor families desperately wanting eggs

Making (a signal) greater

Large or full measures

Wave measurements

Amputate

Limb removal

In the morning put it back in a leg that's cut

Removal of member from a redcap university rubbish club not right

Larks of Arcadia (wordplay)

Fun and games

At sea, seamen must find diversions

Amygdalin

""A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.""

""Effecting the conversion of starch into soluble dextrin and sugar; as, an amylolytic ferment. as, an amylolytic ferment.""

A colorless plastid that forms starch granules and occurs in cells of plant storage tissue.

Amylopsin

Amyotonia

The doctrine of the Anabaptists.

Anabolism