2-Letter Words Starting with A

Leaves shed as some scissors cut bonsai strain

His jazz opera illustrated the importance of being Ernst

Those who escaped ban crossed over

They take their leave without it

Muscles badly scorned by bad runners (wordplay)

Leaving secretly in a hurry

Obtain soul renewed with this (wordplay)

Release sailor - there you have it!

A second-rate answer requires indulgence

""(Physics / General Physics) Physics a measure of the light-absorbing ability of an object, expressed as the logarithm to base 10 of the reciprocal of the internal transmittance See transmittance ACIDOMETER (Chemistry) a type of hydrometer for measuring the relative density of an acid solution, esp the acid in a battery Also called acidimeter ACTINOZOAN & adj (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) another word for anthozoan AEROSPHERE (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) Archaic the entire atmosphere surrounding the earth""

""ABSORB to suck in, also SORB""

Absorbant

Terrycloth quality

Receptive nature of abbey treated with scorn

Absorbent

Bounty work (wordplay)

(Process of) taking in

Process of soaking up

They are positively negative

Eligible non-voters

Avoiders of alcohol

Doing without.

Santa in big buggy not letting anyone get cross (wordplay)

Pass in Congress (wordplay)

Act of declining to vote

Withholding of vote

Absterge

Practice of refraining (from alcohol)

If you pass the bar, what will it mean?

Non-partaking (of liquor)

Sailors turn on way and head for folly

Ballerina's hairdo gets into the act (wordplay)

In a sufficient degree; fully; amply; plentifully; in large measure.

Floral designs used in architecture

Speeder-up in processing something.

Agent for hastening the progress

Without accent.

What to do with an acute etc (wordplay)

Worried about acne? Cut out stress

Emphasise smart goddess with brogue

Occasion to give a speech

Granting admission to Powell's world

The world of Powell

Accession

Accidence

Perhaps M is taken toothy to the end

Fortuitous bit of scoring (wordplay)

Flat, say, without planning

ACCIDENT a mishap

Welcoming with shouts of joy

Giving praise to

(In) conformity (with)

Treating cancer a doc gets agreement

Agreement of opinion

Portable keyboard instruments

Squeezeboxes

Bookkeeper, maybe chartered

Someone doing a balancing act (wordplay)

Relation without a tan in summer

Type of work.

FIRST-in, FIRST-out discipline

Giving a reason for financial processing

Accoutre

Accretion

Noun (-ment)

Whodunit plot element

Charge copyright to America in case

Charge about, protecting us in battle

In an accusing manner.

Acerbate

""A white crystalline compound, C 6 H 5 NH(COCH 3 ), formerly used in medicine to relieve pain and reduce fever. It has been replaced by safer agents because of its toxicity.""

Acetify

Acetylene

""ACETYLENE A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant.""

Achiness

Stony meteorite

Acidify

Acidness

Acierate

Familiar (with)

Know with with

Know with with

Acquit

Acrimony

A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.

Worth trying (wordplay)

Possibly libellous (wordplay)

Giving grounds for a lawsuit

In an actionable manner.

Void of action.

Activate

Process of starting up (something)

Being called up, military-wise

Removal from mothballs

The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity.

Activize

Splattered on my coat is a muscle protein

Actuation

Acylation

Adamancy

Maybe detain a man of unyielding nature

Hard type of man, worker in Eden originally

A barrier against Tyneside must be unbreakable

Play from a novel, for instance

Film version, e.g

TV version of a book

Hard things to break

Inside moves did seem like bad habits

'More of them, about one hundred, habitually (10)'

Not on the floor model, say

Getting on top of things more (wordplay)

For an extra charge

Saying what's to be going on th envelope

Ranch, for example

Dealing with commercial arrangement

Adduction

Adenitis

Adenosine

Any of a group of DNA-containing viruses that cause conjunctivitis and upper respiratory tract infections in humans.

Any of a group of DNA-containing viruses that cause conjunctivitis and upper respiratory tract infections in humans.

Head off? New queen rejected church's observances

In an adherent manner.

Stickable

Adhibit

Can lady jet off in a conterminous manner (wordplay)

Postponing

The act of joining; the thing joined or added.

Joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct.

""The act of adjuring; a solemn charging on oath, or under the penalty of a curse; an earnest appeal.""

End of the statement

Small change to achieve a desired result

Modification; regulation

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

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

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

Not yet achieved adultery (wordplay)

Youth benefit stops rising

Minor trouble with the French cologne

Adoration

Send matron out for decorations

Model and monster to become accessories

Embellishments

Rush before a flight (wordplay)

It can give you a rush

Stimulator of ideal Queen Anne building

One anorak turned up with some work, in charge of stimulation

Explosive assertion about daughter's skill

Skill

Adsorbent

Process facilitated by silica gel

Broadcast on Sport Aid - 'a superficial process of accumulating gas'

Adulation

Any substance that lessens purity

Water, vis-a-vis vodka

Corrupter of mature queen by worker

Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal.

A duke opposing worker - old and privileged

Gave a stand (anagram)

Reasons to say yes

They may overcome the competition

Advection

The membranous outer covering of an organ or blood vessel.

Adventive

""ADVENTURE That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.""

Man of derring-do

Many a Jules Verne protagonist

Soldier of fortune.

Tuned raves (anagram)

And then... stories

Basis of many plots.

The quality or practice of being advertent; heedfulness.

""The act of adverting, of the quality of being advertent; attention; notice; regard; heedfulness.""

Careful consideration

Deliberation

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

Advocate

Commercial role being a defender

""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.""

Pertaining to an important science.

Pertaining to the science of air travel

Of plane navigation

Aeronomer

Aeronomy

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

Tour transports, to Brits

A Greek lover hides jet with jumbos

British flying machines

Affection

AFFERENT a nerve that conveys impulses to a nerve centre

Affiance

Affinity

Confirmation; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act.

Noun (-tion)

Affixment

Afflict

A Fine Romance: left in distress

Cause of pain or harm

Coburn's 1998 Oscar-winning film

Affluence

Abundantly; copiously.

Affront

A woman who is a devotee or fan.

Coo! If Diana performs, I'm a fan!

Fan finds a fish, say, at island party

Fan (Spanish)

Aflatoxin

Times of day

Hot times in summer.

They're following the 1 across hour

Plant pot like this on cooker

A space with an African plant like this

A, as in this African Lily

Agedness

AGENDA a list of things to be done

Substance in body - a s-surfeit gets in repeatedly

Antibody causing sticking together of bacteria, cells, etc

M1's in time to expand

Magnify; increase power of

Make greater grade gains after revision

Exaggerate

Aggress

Is sore with gang's violent hostility

What eleven Ac displays

Act of aggression,physical force

Infringing another's legal rights

To sit again may cause ripples

Disturbed states

It is part of Santiago riot and disturbances

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

Airiness

Emergency transportation method

Flying in Hackney's hair-raising (wordplay)

Moving in emergency, scary for Cockneys (wordplay)

Airmail

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

Cuts of beef.

So as to cause sudden fear

Layman and girl getting entangled in a shocking manner

Preparing to fight with friend outside, in scary fashion

Affected with albinism.

ALBUMIN a {protein=n}

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.

Ragtimer's weed (wordplay)

That famous ragtime band.

Jason and Shaun

Sex

Giving the cold shoulder

Causing a rift between

Turning away

State of feeling isolated

Legal transfer of ownership.

Common punk rock theme

They're unpleasant to be around

Disaffecting people

Noun (-ment)

Alignment

Very busy canal (wordplay)

A new mail entry cut important passage

Concerned with nutrition

Aliment

Orderly setups

Opposite of acidity

Water's capability to neutralize acid

Basic condition

""ALKALINE containing an alkali, also ALKALIN""

Alkalise

Alkalize

Alkylate

ALKYLATE to combine with alkyl

Allantoin

Slowly getting slower, on sheet music

(To be performed) with increasing slowness

Largo and a bit of lento modified becoming largo

Testimony that is contestable

Assertion made without proof.

Charge a liberal group of diplomats

Loyalty, say, found in Nato maybe

Loyalty, say, within marriage

Loyalty, say, found in union

Allemande

Causing one to react rashly (wordplay)

Causing a rash reaction (wordplay)

Like penicillin, to some

Allethrin

Allocate

Divvying-up process

Assignment left in a particular spot

Arrangement of resources or funds

""The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words.""

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

Allophane

Linguistic forms

Of or pertaining to an allophone.

Measured shares.

Cultivated areas

Shares completely lavish seconds holding hands

ALLOWANCE Approval; approbation.

Pays to play (wordplay)

Adjustments for expenses (wordplay)

Teenagers' earnings (wordplay)

Power to attract

ALLURING allure

Almandine

Almandite