2-Letter Words Starting with A

Apparel

Haunted house inhabitants

Appealing

They can be deceiving

Arrivals; impressions

Outward impressions

Short-sighted type of government policy.

(Act of) placating by making concessions

Act of placating by making concessions

Pilot a plane quite new in style

Name state of North American mountain region

A very quiet woman morphed into just 'a name'

Ate in dapper-fashion, that could have been relevant

Appetency

Request for hard work

Computer program requiring diligence

Formal request; sustained effort

Applique

Date with a very soft salve

A very subdued application for a date

German city

Doled out

Apposition

Caught her up, put on manacles

Understood to be arrested

Got arrested

Employed to learn a trade

Apprentice

Approach

APPROBATE Approved.

It begins Our Father

Acclaim - applause

(Official) approval

Approving

Accessory.

Germane

Suitable; fit.

Gems decorating a main square

Gems.

Aquaplaner

Sliding over a wet surface

Aquatinter

Aquatint

AQUATINT to etch using a certain process

ARABICIZE

English word

ARBITRAGE Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination.

Determination; decision; arbitration.

""ARBITRATE To hear and decide, as arbitrators; as, to choose to arbitrate a disputed case. as, to choose to arbitrate a disputed case.""

Process at work in some hearings

One way to settle differences

Treelike

Michael's maybe going to help bar change licensee

Clerics on a sacred meandering around church

Shrewd dean's embracing company people in a higher office

Relating to the archegonium.

""The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.""

Bad shoes, to a podiatrist (wordplay)

The Joker and Batman, for example

Hatfields, to McCoys

The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination. Illust. under Invagination.

Arctangent

The quality of being arduous; difficulty of execution.

Growing or living or burrowing in sand.

Of or relating to a reference system based at the center of the planet Mars.

ARGUMENT an exchange of differing reasons

AROMATIZE To impregnate with aroma; to render aromatic; to give a spicy scent or taste to; to perfume.

Charging in court

Courtroom activity

Court proceeding

Order me new shirt? It's a deal!

Florist's creation

Result of putting in order

Arresting

Arrestment

Arrogation

""Any of numerous invertebrate animals of the phylum Arthropoda, including the insects, crustaceans, arachnids, and myriapods, that are characterized by a chitinous exoskeleton and a segmented body to which jointed appendages are articulated in pairs.""

A skilled manual worker; a craftsperson.

Stern lasses agitating for simplicity

Ascendance

Ascendant

Ascendence

""Relating to ascension; connected with ascent; ascensive; tending upward; as, the ascensional power of a balloon. as, the ascensional power of a balloon.""

Found out

Ascription

Asininity

Askewness

Asparagine

Hopes for the future.

Hopes

Murder (a political or religious leader)

Murder (a public figure)

Kill (a VIP)

Member of a legislative body

Superhero whose power is putting together IKEA furniture (wordplay)

Job mistakenly sought by a model airplane builder (wordplay)

ASSEMBLY the act of {assembling=v}

""Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence.""

Estimates property housing ship and crew

Tax-minded evaluations.

Certain payments.

Go in as saint (anagram)

Secret rendezvous

Secret meeting

Two 4-to-5-page essays, oral presentation, research project

'Two 4-to-5-page essays, oral presentation, research project'

Helps.

Hobnobber's activity

Football club (wordplay)

Part of PA

Conceptual connection

Assoilment

Antipastos, for example

Some large bags of candy

Antipastos, e.g

The satisfying of an appetite or desire

Things taken for granted

The state of being assured; certainty; full confidence.

Asterisk

While 18 13, it's beyond a dream!

Very surprising

Greatly surprising

Bitterness (of taste)

Sharp or bitter quality

Sharpness, severity

Skin treatments

Of or pertaining to astronautics.

Moon-starers (anagram)

Monster oars (anagram)

Moon starers! (Anagram)

Astronomy

""Formation of atheromatous deposits, especially on the innermost layer of arterial walls.""

""The act of reducing to atoms, or very minute particles; or the state of being so reduced.""

Atonality

Paper clips might symbolize them

Aims achieved by effort

Acquired skills.

Achievements

Attemper

Attendance

Of or pertaining to attention.

In a heedful way

Agent at unit being treated is getting weaker

Reduction in strength

Weakening, as in the value of a lawsuit

Attenuator

Taken in by police without husband, giving testimony

Relating to postures

Attornment

""The capacity, as of a pheromone, to attract.""

ATTRACT to {entice=v}

Attractant

Coming at the movies

""ATTRIBUTE To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to). to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to).""

Act of ascribing

The act of ascribing eg a picture to an artist

The ascribing of a particular work to an author or artist

Like a long war getting rid of a totalitarian organisation

Attunement

They have lots to offer

Audition

Harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity.

Giving the thumbs up to writer, I perform on stage maybe

""AUTHORIZE To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary. as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.""

Autochthon

AUTOCLAVE A kind of French stewpan with a steamtight lid.

Semiautomatic.

New electronic techniques

Advocates of self-government

""AVALANCHE A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.""

Aventurine

AVERAGE to calculate the arithmetical mean value of

Avgolemono

AVOCATION A calling away; a diversion.

Avouchment

Avuncular

Awareness

Amazing quality

Grandiosity

Wonder how seesaws might be constructed with built-in sign

A bridge player, Richard, and two fellow players filled with astonishment

Awfulness

Clumsy quality

Of or relating to a method of projection in which an object is drawn with its horizontal and vertical axes to scale but with its curved lines and diagonals distorted.

Abandonment

Shortening

Reducing

E.g. for example (wordplay)

Tues. or Agt. (tsk-tsk!)

Shortening - above Britain (anagram)

Abecedarian

Characterized by unsound thinking

Ex-President right and judicious or diverging from normality (wordplay)

Abjectness

Abolishment

""Relating to or favoring abolition, especially the abolition of slavery.""

The principles or measures of abolitionists.

Wm. Lloyd Garrison, for one.

Reformer (eg Wilberforce)

One favouring end of capital punishment

Abomination

Primarily.

Abortionist

The quality of being abortive.

ABRASIVE an abrading substance

Abridgement

Abruptness

Absenteeism

Like a Disney film professor (2 words)

Contemplating truancy (wordplay)

Given to woolgathering

The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.

ABSOLUTIZE

Absorbancy

Absorbency

Absorptance

Abstraction

The quality of being abstract.

The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension.

Absurdness

Distinguished scholars

Accelerando

Gaining speed

Increasing speed

An increase in rate

Rate of increase of speed

A speeding up

ACCENTUATE To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

Giving special importance to something

Emphasis, stress

Acceptation

Accession

Not on purpose

Friend follows chance unwittingly

Ran into someone with friend by mistake

Accipitrine

Acclamation

Acclimation

Pianists playing second fiddle (wordplay)

Accompany

Squeeze box player

Player is into arranging following agreement

One's instrumental in making peace with Israeli supporter though not at frist

Scheme first ignored in bill for delivery

An accessory item of equipment or dress. Often used in the plural.

Article of equipment

Bill gathers another metre, making dress

Items of dress/equipment required for an activity

Marked or produced by accretion.

""ACCUMULATE To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money. as, to accumulate a sum of money.""

Process of gathering

Growth of capital

Build-up

The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.

ACCURSED accurse

Acetanilide

English word

Acetylation

Even a chemist (anagram)

The done things

Exploits from active men he's translated

Acidulation

Recognised information in a record

Admits information revealed in accounts

Admits information is revealed in the accounts

Acoustician

Person one knows slightly

Someone one knows slightly

It was auld to Burns

Current inactivity gets the nod

Tacit approval

Consent

Acquirement

Acquisition

Acquittance

Acriflavine

Acrocentric

Photographic instruments.