2-Letter Words Starting with A

Antevert

Anthelix

Anthelion

Anthelix

""Pl. antheridia (- - ) A sperm-producing organ occurring in seedless plants, fungi, and algae.""

Anthocyan

Anthozoan

""A solid hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin. C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin.""

I burn, but break your heart? I can't!

Hard, lustrous coal

Hard type of coal

Kind of ape

Enos or Able.

If it looks like a man and walks like a man, what is it (wordplay)

Anthurium

""ANEMIA a disorder of the blood, also ANAEMIA""

ASTHMA a chronic respiratory disorder

Antiauxin

Plural or third person singular

Theory of some wonder drugs.

Treatment for bacterial infections

Medicine destroying micro-organisms

Substance that destroys bacteria

Weapons in the medical arsenal.

B cells' production

Protein substances

""BUSING the act of transporting by bus, also BUSSING""

CAKING the act of caking

Powerful drug-treatment class

Like chemotherapy drugs

CARIES tooth decay

CHURCH to bring to a building for Christian worship

Forward-looking insect?

Forward-looking insect (wordplay)

Expecting awful panic stations, sending out SOS

Prepare for (a future event)

Predict - ape in attic (anagram)

Expect worker here for the French spread

Not for the summit (wordplay)

It goes pfft!

For God, for country, and for Yale.

Inclining or dipping in opposite directions. See Synclinal. Synclinal.

Anticline

Anticodon

Antidote

DROMIC pertaining to a race-course

Same as Antemetic. Antemetic.

EROTIC an amatory poem

FAMILY a group of persons related by blood or marriage

Misogynous

Alcohol, for one.

Opposed to a cap on wages (wordplay)

Alcohol needed for driving (wordplay)

FUNGAL a {fungus=n}

GROWTH development

Many Eastwood characters, for example

Many Nicholson portrayals

Weak leading men opposed to Carlyle's theme (wordplay)

HEROIC an epic verse

HERPES a skin infection

""HIJACK to steal in transit, also HIGHJACK""

HUNTER one who {hunts=v}

Antiknock

LITTER to scatter rubbish about

Antilogy

MARKET to offer for sale

Something from nothing (wordplay)

Family subject (wordplay)

Family subject?

MERGER the combining of two or more businesses into one

Old-fashioned and then some

Of or pertaining to antimony.

Word with prefix anti-

Antimony

Antimycin

In favor of the great indoors, maybe

NAUSEA an inclination to vomit

Possibly anoint main sectarian denying moral law

'His true Penelope was Flaubert, / He fished by - isles' (Ezra Pound)

Not accepting moral law, yet opposed to revolutionary Minoan

Legal paradoxes

Antinovel

Sung or chanted in alternation

Sung alternately by two groups

Hit on a plan to change sort of service book in church

Against the making of illegal copies

PLAGUE to pester or annoy

PLAQUE an ornamental plate or disk

Antipodal

22 against potty principal

Coming from other side of the world

Relating to Australia/New Zealand

POETIC pertaining to {poetry=n}

Unable to stand the heat (wordplay)

Cosmic ray component

Certain particle with an opposite charge

Particle discovered in 1955

""An artificial alkaloid, believed to be efficient in abating fever.""

Antiquark

Old-fashioned

Awfully quaint, a Fifties youth is seen as behind the times

Passe.

Antiquate

RABIES an infectious virus disease

RACISM a doctrine of racial superiority

RACIST an advocate of {racism=n}

Opposed to change

SEPSES seps

Infection prevention procedure

M. D.'s concern.

Application for injury benefit, perhaps

Preventing growth of microorganisms

Alcohol, for example.

Blood plasmas

Immunity providers

Blast of steam ruins medicinal substances

Not standing for misandry or misogyny

SEXUAL pertaining to sex

SMOKER one who {smokes=v}

Not a company man (wordplay)

Like Holden Caulfield

Not fond of parties

Counteracting electrical build-up

Kind of carpet

Tending to resist charge build-up

STRESS to place emphasis on

STRIKE to {hit=v}

Averse to writing research papers

Oppositions against changing sheets

Complete opposites

Why he left grad school (wordplay)

Why he left grad school?

Worker has it, he is on island opposite

Exactly opposite.

Opposite

Biological immunizers

Suffering saint, injected with poison, needs these

They offer immunity to relative reportedly to get love-ins

Steady winds

Prevailing westerly winds of middle latitudes

Reptile house supplies

Antonymy

What I could be with you (wordplay)

Like War and Peace, without name Tolstoy initially put in

As War and Peace, unsigned, without Tolstoy's initial

Preventing or reducing anxiety; antianxiety.

Apt. places for tenants (wordplay)

Real estate sign.

Places to stay

Aphorise

Aphorize

Apoenzyme

Apophony

APPAREL to {clothe=v}

Dad maybe's in new play, it would seem

It seems to be put on without a tear

On the face of it

Banquo, for one.

Hamlet's father made one

Phantom pair in a top review

Item on a personnel chief's checklist

Item on a personnel director's list

Reason for a face lift

Spelt a plan out for people in court

Add on time for members

Find deep pagans needing projections

Things going on a long time after a very quiet death

Appendant

Additional sections of a book.

Supplements that might cause grumbling (wordplay)

Supplementary materials

Appendix

Belongs (to)

Forms a part of, with "to"

Forms a part of, with 'to'

Appetence

Mince pies and a pint - good and tasty!

Mouth-watering

Quite mouthwatering - but gets a pip in by accident

Appetize

Going like the clappers (wordplay)

Giving a hand around the house (wordplay)

Clapping etc

Mixers, for example

Electrical devices

Kitchen needs

Hirer's interviewees

Job seekers.

Resume submitters

Supreme Court justices, e.g

Supreme Court justices, for example

Those taken on a quiet river current over another river

Assigning (to a post)

Designating.

It's not about rejecting a father losing article for blessing

""Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office. as, an appointive office.""

Doles out

Putting side by side.

Proximity to a quiet location

Contiguity, grammatically

Informing about a judgmental activity

Sizing up

Detains suspects

Understands, perhaps wrongly, the object is to get inside

Sugarplum is what one gets!

Worker learning a trade

One is bound to be in training

Blue-green beryl

Birthstone for many Pisces

Gemstone a queen pinned to a soldier

Skidded on film of water

Water-skier's next of kin

Boards pulled by motorboats

Motorboat tows

Engraved on copper using resin and nitric acid

AQUATINT to etch using a certain process

AQUILINE hooked like an eagle's beak

Arabinose

Arachnoid

Aragonite

""ARAGONITE A mineral identical in composition with calcite or carbonate of lime, but differing from it in its crystalline form and some of its physical characters.""

""Relating to, or of the nature of, the Araucaria. The earliest conifers in geological history were mostly Araucarian.""

Arborize

Arccosine

Archaise

Archaize

High spirits (wordplay)

Most high beings

*High-ranking heavenly beings

Roguish cleric (wordplay)

Cleric ruined chance with Dora

Ecclesiastic next below a bishop

""Pl. archegonia (-n - ) A multicellular, often flask-shaped, egg-producing organ occurring in mosses, ferns, and most gymnosperms.""

Vampire Aristocrats, in Dungeons & Dragons

Archness

Trigonometry function

45 degrees, for 1

A fellow admitting misdemeanour finally can't somehow function

Arecoline

Sandy.

Sandy

People of the pampas

Natives of Cordoba.

Argentite

""Pl. argumenta (-t ) Logic An argument, demonstration, or appeal to reason.""

Aridness

Armature

Charging in court

Putting on trial Arabian ruling is heard

Calling before a court to answer charge

Arrestant

Stoppage.

Stoppage

Arrogance

All modesty aside

Completely holding game up with hubris

Claiming without right

Unfair claiming giro, rat on a suspect

Improper seizure.

Unjustified seizure.

Arsenical

Dodger's skill (wordplay)

Craft making false turns at sea

Artiness

Arytenoid

A ben scaled could be construed as this

Canes get twisted up at the ball

Coming into prominence

Upper hand

Dominating influence (A, not E)

Candy canes (anagram)

Distributing candy canes with upper hand

Ancestors

Forebears

Ascendancy.

Governing or controlling influence; domination; power.

Ascendent

Carbon tip in abseil device, suitable for climbers

Climbs

Finds out in case star gets worried

Finds out Isaac Stern is playing

Establishes for sure the chump has swallowed it

Pl. ascogonia (-n - ) The female reproductive organ of ascomycetous fungi.

I give praise to Paris in a hundred shapes

Assignment

Ashiness

""A white, nitrogenous, crystallizable substance, C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; called also altheine. C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; called also altheine.""

Asperate

Disparaging remarks about rap session

They're often cast in soap operas

Slurs on a person's reputation

Asphalt

Pronouncing the "h" as in house

... to turn Paris into a dream, ...

Breathing in desire

Desire to Parisian is strange ...

Assagai

Hit makers, say

People who attack the workers

Pepper spray targets

No defence for such a pickling, by the sound of it

Assegai

Gathering son wears same silly flash jewellery

They're said to be positive

Evict from service stations for opinions

Positive statements

Estimate that can be taxing!

Masses sent abroad for appraisal

Certain tax determinant

Transferable

Reporter's stint

Task in which worker keeps messing about

Broken-down gents is man's task

When drunk, can siestas help (wordplay)

One may give this by hand

Help a relative, protected by position

All excited, sits with Santa's helpers

Associates fool with first workers

Right-hand men

""Act of assoiling, or state of being assoiled; absolution; acquittal.""

Identical vowel sounds

Stormy seasons can reveal sound correspondences

Soundly corresponding

Smashing on mattress, showing variety!

Classification of chocolates (wordplay)

No smart set would make such a selection

Guess feast day (wordplay)

Belief held without proof

Undertaking reform must pain so