2-Letter Words Starting with A

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

""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>.""

Does this imply sharecropping (wordplay)

Share beds here (wordplay)

Tell man to make beds!

Giving out plenty of metal in the lag

Dispensing tall gin to drunk

Putting aside, as time

Per diem, perhaps

Kid's payoff (wordplay)

Share in ball, now dance all topless!

Passing references or indirect mentions

Literary references

Passing references

Alluvion

Variety of garnet

Deep red garnet

Purplish-red Indian garnet.

""A deep violet-red garnet, FeAl 2 Si 3 O 12 , found in metamorphic rocks and used as a gemstone.""

Almonry

What autophobia is the fear of

State of seclusion

Singular quality

Close to the hypotenuse, say (wordplay)

Age-old sin (anagram)

Close to a hypotenuse (wordplay)

Distant character (wordplay)

Reserve foals one's to break

Lack of warmth of seals on rocks

Scenic beauty of Mont Blanc.

Swiss signaling instrument.

Swiss wind instrument

Instrument planner used round the house

Alpinism

Climbers in Switzerland

Climbers of Swiss peaks

Certain mountain climbers.

Alterant

Every other letter an A? Awkward!

How to shake up Etna (wordplay)

Perhaps change it to ante for a stand-in

South American plateau region

Plateau elevated on mountain with tail pieces

Singer swallows one proposal for the home of Titicaca

A compound formed from the hydrate of aluminium by the substitution of a metal for the hydrogen.

Metal I dropped over the Atlantic

Strong light metal

Metal or salt containing little uranium

To treat impregnate with alum; to alum.

Of a common metallic element

Containing element #13

Certain shades of gray.

Amanitin

Imaginary flowers that never fade

Imaginary eternal flowers

Legendary unfading flowers

Big collection.

Collection

Accumulation

A puzzle designed to throw out a shock

Flooring (wordplay)

Astonished reaction

To everyone's surprise

Astoundingly

A vitality in language one's expressed in a stunning way

Green variety of microcline

A green semiprecious stone

Green feldspar.

Amberina

Atmospheres

Moods

Ambience

Aspirations, dreams

I'm not all there to want to get NNNNNNNNNN at last

'Although I'm not all there, is on it for them in the end (9)'

Road mender (wordplay)

Transport patiently awaited (wordplay)

What drives you to get better (wordplay)

Attacking from a concealed position

Amelcorn

Like our Constitution

May be corrected

Not set in stone, as a constitution

A change for the better (wordplay)

Change made in Washington

Alteration of document

Real-estate listing

Fireplace, hot tub, etc.

What boors don't observe

Amidogen

Aminity

Ammoniac

""A type of ammonia compound, also AMMINE, AMMONIATE""

No, I'm in the mates at sea - or was

Fossils, perhaps, of Jordanians (wordplay)

Mollusks' fossil shells

""AMMONITE the coiled shell of an extinct mollusk, also AMMONOID""

Ammonium

Ammonoid

Main cases (anagram)

Ones with big blocks (wordplay)

Jane Does, perhaps

Granted a pardon to

Pardoned

Pardoned.

Pardons to large groups of people

Pardons may make saint seem crazy

Official pardons issued by governments.

Adding up (to)

Coming to a getting up (wordplay)

Being equivalent.

... and Pan's Dream, perhaps

Thelma & Louise character (wordplay)

Barnes & Noble link (wordplay)

Swimmer able to do the crawl (wordplay)

A suitable vehicle for Kermit (wordplay)

Sea-going jeep

Largeness

A rotating magnetic amplifier with specialized windings that allow small changes in power input to produce large changes in power output.

A maiden to exploit men - time for fun!

What fun so to employ people in the mat!

Park opening (wordplay)

In a funny way

Retiring person undressed alone, humorously

""A glucoside extracted from bitter almonds as a white, crystalline substance.""

Amylogen

The diastase of the pancreatic juice.

Lack of muscle tone.

Anabaena

Process of molecular synthesis

Psychological dependence on others.

Constriction workers (wordplay)

Predators of the Amazon

Large semi-aquatic boas

Upbeats

Russia can rebuild - that's upbeat!

Unstressed syllable, in verse.

Musical upbeat

Bacteria, for example

Microorganisms that don't need oxygen

Many gastrointestinal tract residents

Lacking free oxygen

Like the bacteria in a septic tank

Causing an oxygen debt, as exercise

Anaglyph

Anagogy

Analcime

Analcite

Analemma

Can pet ail awfully? Here's a drug

Restorative

Invigorating

Lack of pain NOT a country! (nonverbal)

State of "feeling no pain"

In Ala., easing of pain

Agent allaying pain

Remedy allaying pain

Bill without a single wrong number

A deadening or absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness.

Anality

Bases of comparison

Some LSAT questions

Partial resemblances

One who seeks similarities

Explainer, of a sort

Debater who uses comparisons

Draw a comparison, in a way

Reason in a way

Like, with "to"

Comparable in certain respects

Similar opening about a trademark

Comparable things

Parallels.

A person undergoing psychoanalysis.

Analyser

Breaking down into component parts

Decoding any signal that's broadcast

Examining component parts

Study of data patterns

Data field

Analyzer

Analyze

Memory

The ability to recall past events

Memory of a former life; inane mass (anagram)

Mlle Nin absorbs men's failure in 'Remembrance of Things Past'

Fractured a peasant's feet

Metric feet of three syllables.

Feet of a girl with vermin we hear

Like some poetic feet

Anaphase

Of or pertaining to anaphase.

Anaphora

Strange air Pancho adopts, referring back in this rhetorical fashion

Like the phrase "she's beauty, she's grace", in linguistics

""Loss of structural differentiation within a cell or group of cells often with increased capacity for multiplication, as in a malignant tumor.""

States of lawlessness and disorder

Political upheavals

As in March, perhaps, causing disorder

Man's chair (anagram)

Form of government, sired by Proudhon.

Disorderly sort (wordplay)

Revolutionary in rash act (wordplay)

No government would please him!

Anasarca

Greatly detested things

Detested things

Betes noires

Physical structures

Human bodies

Body structures

To dissect a very little matter is easy at first

A holder of the skeleton key (wordplay)

Bridie's dissector

One studying bodily structure

Styptic. <mark>[Obs.]<mark>

Anatoxin

Some people in a tree

Ones higher up in a tree

People in trees

Of the family of Lancaster, perhaps

To do with forebears, say stately home

Like a family tree's roots (wordplay)

City at the head of Cook Inlet

Alaskan Air Force base.

Place for ships to stop

Religious lady's short reply about housework

Things to be done in response to solitary soul

Workers taking on board routine task for folk living alone

Hermits.

Stopping the vessel

Stopping at sea

Religious recluse (hist.)

Hermit or religious recluse

Hermit as a result of her action, sadly

Rather rank (wordplay)

One with breaking news

Jim Lehrer, for instance

Huntley and Brinkley, for example

Rather and Brokaw, for example

Rather and Jennings, for example

Small Pacific fish used for bait

Tiny fishes for pizza

Unpopular pizza topping choice

Bagna c uda ingredient

Anchusin

ANCIENT an aged man

Not in the modern manner

As of old for the client in any circumstances

Antiquity; what is ancient.

Of lesser importance

Romantically involved? - Not Tom in subsidiary!

Supporting, subsidiary

Ancress

At a light moderate pace (music)

Musical tempo - ain't donna (anagram)

Slightly faster than walking pace (mus.)

Andesite

""ANDESITE a volcanic rock, also ANDESYTE""

Andesyte

Spicy sausage

A spicy smoked pork sausage with a blackish skin

""A green to brown or black calcium-iron garnet, Ca 3 Fe 2 (SiO 4 ) 3 .""

""Pl. androecia (-sh - , -sh ) The stamens of a flower considered as a group.""

They can send organ mad

Hermaphroditic plant

Man or woman? Not black or white, but grey and no mistake

Subject explored in "The Crying Game"

Subject explored in 'The Crying Game'

Hermaphroditism

Dead Roman, perhaps, or mythical Greek

Princess attached to rock stars in group

The Chained Lady

Unreliable or hearsay (account)

Article located in ruins? That's hearsay

Based on hearsay

Noted case (anagram)

Arranged end to case histories, perhaps

Raconteur's specialty.

ANECDOTE a brief story

ANELE to {anoint=v}

Of or pertaining to anestrus.

Anethole

Having a chromosome number that is not a multiple of the haploid number for the species.

Enlargements of arteries

Disturbing means taking in spoon-bender's abnormal enlargements

Aneurysm

Heavenly aquarium denizen (wordplay)

Heavenly swimmer (wordplay)

One swims, undoing flesh gain!

Innocent-looking (var.)

Possessing heavenly qualities

Opposite of devilish

Plants of the parsley family

Angelus

ANGER to {irritate=v}

Cardiologist's X-ray

X-ray of blood or lymph vessels

Cardiologist's request

Pl. angiomas or angiomata (-m -t ) A tumor composed chiefly of lymph and blood vessels.

Anglepod

A minor ore of lead

Bait male? Wrong, wrong!

Fisherman's bait; meal grown (anagram)

Nightcrawler, to some Northerners

Express in English finding flying angels around here in France

Fisherman's creed?

Fisherman's creed (wordplay)

Peculiarly English word

Convert Giovanni into John, for example

Make English, in form

Make Jorge George, for example

""The quality of being angry, or of being inclined to anger.""

Ten-millionths of millimeters

Ten make up a millimicron

Wavelength units

Distressed with grief

In pain, wasted away, left abandoned

Getting left out, grew weak and sad

Anguish

Awkwardly.

Cornered gnu dealt a blow

Angulate

The absence of pleasure or the ability to experience it.

The absence of pleasure or the ability to experience it.

""An oxide of a nonmetallic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements of water; so called because it may be formed from an acid by the abstraction of water.""

""A mineral of a white a slightly bluish color, usually massive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not containing water (whence the name).""

Your hands could be lacking moisture

Rear exit keeping spa hotel free from water

An unfinished shelter, terribly dry inside without water

""ANILINE a chemical compound, also ANILIN""

Anility

ANIMAL a living organism with voluntary motion and sensation

Maim snail (anagram)

Orwell's sort of sensuality (wordplay)

Orwellian philosophy

Beastly nature.

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

With life.

Producers of some shorts variable

Giving life to, as cel bodies (wordplay)

Mr. Disney's work.

Moving to action.

I'm in a race - go!

Paul's in a state - that's life!

Perhaps I'm A in a people for life

Short drawers (wordplay)

Snow White workers

Makers of sequential frames

Of belief in spirits, demons, etc.

Believing that the universe has a soul

Believing that objects have souls

Hate to say I'm in disarray

Is no amity (wordplay)

Timon, I say, is disposed to hate

Parts of nightcaps

Licorice-tasting cordials

Sweet liqueurs

Reproduction by the union or fusion of two differing gametes (especially differing in size).

Ankerite

Fibula-foot connector

It's between the shin and the foot

Fibula neighbor

Ankylose

Ankylose

Same as Anchylosis. Anchylosis.

Anatomy The consolidation of bones or their parts to form a single unit.

Chroniclers of events

Leans on back-to-back articles from recorders

Steel workers.

Heat treating metal of glass

Relieving internal stresses by heating and cooling

Girl on location for studios, making things tougher

Earthworm or leech

It's to do with worms that lady confused Daniel

Earthworm.

With useful info in the margins, say

Wrote in the margins, say

With extra info