2-Letter Words Starting with A

""Pertaining to the measurement of the intensity of the solar rays, either (a) heating, or (b) actinic. (a) heating, or (b) actinic.""

""Botany Capable of being divided into equal halves along any diameter, as the flowers of the rose or tulip; radially symmetrical.""

""Any of various filamentous or rod-shaped, often pathogenic microorganisms of the order Actinomycetales that are found in soil and resemble bacteria and fungi.""

Actinomycin

Activeness

Acupuncture

Having a capacity for adaptation. Opposed to maladaptive.maladaptive.

The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.

Furthermore

To boot

As well

Adenovirus

The quality of being adequate; suitableness; sufficiency; adequacy.

The quality of sticking or adhering; stickiness; tenacity of union.

Delays that stunned Major, maybe

""ADJUDICATE To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.""

Formal judgement

Civil judgment based on evidence presented

""ADJUSTMENT The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation.""

Governed by theologians (wordplay)

Controlled diet? In dreams!

Gave out

Executive; acting; managing affairs.

Manage - it's marinated (anagram)

Run, as a Washington agency.

Organise (business)

Rebuke hot men involved with mad sin

Had moments in suffering severe reprimand

What may be given by the man getting agitated with dim son (wordplay)

Admonitory

Adolescence

Adolescent

Adoptianism

Adoptionism

Adoptionist

""The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration.""

A naturally occurring chemical formed during the oxidation of epinephrine.

Adroitness

Making less pure

Debasing

Addition of contaminant let loose in a time span

Corruption of European in indecent allowance

Adumbration

Plug + truck + sticks = progress

Useful, beneficial

Data's vague on rambling being beneficial

Profitable

Happening by chance

Accidental - unexpected

Vet's audition turned out to be accidental

Adventurism

Adventurist

Advertency

Advertising

English word

Science of lift and flight

Scientific study in which secondary aim is dicey

Secondary aim to revise properties of flying objects

(used with a sing. verb) The science of magnetic characteristics associated with atmospheric conditions.

""The medical study and treatment of physiological and psychological disorders associated with atmospheric or space flight. Also called aerospace medicine , aviation medicine .""

AERONAUTIC

AEROSOLIZE

One versed in the theory of beauty and artistic expression.

Aestivation

Affectation

Deliberate pretence - exaggerated display

Artificial and pretentious characteristic

Warm-hearted - loving

Tender attachment to Buddy heading off

Disease destroyed loving

Afficionado

Affiliation

Affirmation

Afterburner

Agapanthus

Capable of being agglutinated.

""AGGLUTINATE To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.""

Agglutinate

""An antigen that stimulates the production of a particular agglutinin, such as an antibody.""

Aggradation

AGGRANDISE

Aggrandizer

""AGGRANDIZE To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress. as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.""

Aggravation

Aggregation

Noun (-ment)

Agnosticism

English word

Agrarianism

Texas A&M major

Barn, I guess, is deployed for farmers' market

AIRTIGHT impermeable to air

Albuminuria

Alcyonarian

Noun (-tion)

Aldosterone

Alexandrine

Alexandrite

Algolagniac

Ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma). (Nepeta Glechoma).

The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.

Alkalinity

ALKALINIZE

ALLEGORISE

""ALLEGORIZE To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people. as, to allegorize the history of a people.""

Alleviation

Using repeated initial letters

Poetic ploy practised with panache!

What William Wordsworth wrote, perhaps

It's seen in some Shakespeare sonnets

Pl. alloantibodies See isoantibody .

Alloantigen

Allograft

Allopurinol

The quality of being allusive.

Omnipotence; infinite or boundless power; unlimited might.

Using words and numbers

Using A-Z and 0-9

Referring to both characters and figures

Set-to with ACTIONS (wordplay)

Rowdy reacts a lot in noisy squabbles

Modify particles in rows

Variations.

Options for changing the inhabitants?

Other options

Options for changing the inhabitants (wordplay)

ALTITUDE height above sea level

""AMALGAMATE To compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to unite, combine, or alloy with mercury.""

Union of diverse elements

Merger.

Merger

Amazonstone

Devoid of ambition.

Ambivalence

Ambivalent

Ambiversion

Amblygonite

Causing improvement in or reducing the bad effects of an unfavorable condition.

Changed email address for enhancement

Improvement.

Improvement

Bearing catkins.

The quality of being amicable; amicability.

Aminopterin

Aminopyrine

Ammoniation

Types of medium sherry

Animal sold to butchers by drunk in Spain

""The act or right of alienating lands to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmain. dead hands, or in mortmain.""

Amoxicillin

Amoxycillin

Speed, uppers etc

Meet a ship with man excited by drugs

Speed is one of them

""Of or pertaining to the Amphictyons or their League or Council; as, an Amphictyonic town or state; the Amphictyonic body. as, an Amphictyonic town or state; the Amphictyonic body.""

Amphisbaena

A mythical serpent having a head at each end of its body.

Amylopectin

Things misplaced in time

Untimely errors made by chairman's son

They're out of date to think Molly Bloom wore Lainey Keogh and Orla Kiely

Anacoluthon

Weird goings-on about a king of Thebes in Greek poems

ANAEROBE an organism that lives in absence of free oxygen

ANAEROBE an organism that lives in absence of free oxygen

Anaesthesia

Surprisingly satanic, these numbers!

Medical discipline

Anagogical

Rearranging the letters of a word or phrase

Like this puzzles four long answers, in relation to each other

In an analogical sense; in accordance with analogy; by way of similitude.

ANALPHABETE

By studying the relationship between individual components

Analyzation

Of or pertaining to anaphylaxis; caused by anaphylaxis.

Plural or third person singular

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Veterinary Science) another name for gallsickness ANDROCLINIUM pl -clinia [-ˈklɪnɪə] (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) another name for clinandrium [New Latin, from andro- + -clinium, from Greek klinē slope; see clino- ]""

In an uncontrolled manner

""Not astigmatic; free of astigmatism; -- pertaining to a lens or lens system, and used especially of a lens system which consists of a converging lens and a diverging lens of equal and opposite astigmatism but different focal lengths, and sensibly free from astigmatism.""

ANASTOMOSE Styptic. <mark>

Denounce.

As the body is structured, a nuclear link could be needed

Female forebears

English word

""An anchorman or anchorwoman.. The anchorperson usually begins the broadcast, discusses certain topics, and introduces new topics, which may be discussed by other reprorters, especially when the report is recorded or broadcast from a location other than the main broadcast studio.anchorman or anchorwoman.. The anchorperson usually begins the broadcast, discusses certain topics, and introduces new topics, which may be discussed by other reprorters, especially when the report is recorded or broadcast from a location other than the main broadcast studio.""

Diminutive form

""Centered or focused on men, often to the neglect or exclusion of women: an androcentric view of history; an androcentric health-care system.""

ANDROGEN a male sex hormone

ANDROGEN a male sex hormone

ANDROGEN a male sex hormone

A steroid hormone excreted in urine that reinforces masculine characteristics.

""ANECDOTAL Pertaining to, or abounding with, anecdotes; as, anecdotal conversation. as, anecdotal conversation.""

""ANECDOTAL Pertaining to, or abounding with, anecdotes; as, anecdotal conversation. as, anecdotal conversation.""

ANELASTIC

Anemometry

Pollinated by the wind; -- of flowering plants; especially grasses etc.

Pl. anencephalies Congenital absence of most of the brain and spinal cord.

A number of...

A number of ...

Rendered insensible by anesthetizing. Same as anaesthetized.insensible by anesthetizing. Same as anaesthetized.

Anesthetize

Aneuploidy

Angelology

Person associated with (-ist)

Pl. angiogeneses (-s z ) The formation of new blood vessels.

Pl. angiogeneses (-s z ) The formation of new blood vessels.

Blood and Blood Vessels

Angiotensin

Anglerfish

Jagged edges

Anilinctus

Expressed censure (with "on").

Aniseikonia

Anisotropy

Not isotropic.

ANKYLOSAUR

""ANNEXATION The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold. as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold.""

""Criticising vehemently and effectively; making light of; as, afire with annihilating invective.as, afire with annihilating invective.""

Head of African country admitting nothing in defeat

Annihilator

Annihilative.

A public statement

Press release, for example

Press release, e.g

ANNUNCIATE To announce.

Original Christmas forecast (wordplay)

Annunciator

""Pertaining to, or containing, announcement; making known.""

Anodization

""Causing loss of appetite; as, an anorectic (or anorexigenic) drug.as, an anorectic (or anorexigenic) drug.""

Anorthosite

""ANORTHOSITE A granular igneous rock composed almost exclusively of a soda-lime feldspar, usually labradorite.""

Little colonizer in torment (wordplay)

Little colonizer in torment?

Stupid giant's action showing opposition

ANTAGONIZE To contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract.

Antecedence

""Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion. as, antecedently to conversion.""

Base merchant re-established in rooms at the front

Very old (before the Flood)

Very old and outmoded

Old adult in vain working without energy

Antependium

Medicine to destroy worms

Anthocyanin

""Pertaining to anthology; consisting of beautiful extracts from different authors, especially the poets.""