2-Letter Words Starting with A

The state or quality of being anonymous.

Antediluvian

""The last syllable of a word except two, as -syl- in monosyllable.-syl- in monosyllable.""

Anthelmintic

Anthologizer

ANTHOLOGIZE compile an anthology.

""A mineral of the hornblende group, of a yellowish gray or clove brown color.""

Anthranilate

""A hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2O2.C6H4, subliming in shining yellow needles. It is obtained by oxidation of anthracene. C6H4.C2O2.C6H4, subliming in shining yellow needles. It is obtained by oxidation of anthracene.""

Originating in human activity

""Measurement of the height and other dimensions of human beings, especially at different ages, or in different races, occupations, etc.""

English word

Man eaters; cannibals.

The eating of human flesh; cannibalism.

""Knowledge of the nature of man; hence, human wisdom.""

Word with prefix anti-

Antiaircraft

APARTHEID segregation by race; -- a term used in South Africa.

ARTHRITIC

""ARTHRITIS Any inflammation of the joints, particularly the gout.""

""AUTHORITY Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority of a court. as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority of a court.""

Protective, in a way

Like a drug that's intricate a lab developed

""BILLBOARD A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on.""

Antiblackism

BOURGEOIS A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type. Type.

CELLULITE small lumpy deposits of body fat esp. on women's thighs and buttocks. Not used as a technical term.

CIGARETTE A little cigar; a little fine tobacco rolled in paper for smoking.

ANTICIPATE To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.

Anticipation

""CLASSICAL Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.""

Anticlerical

Having a disappointing ending

Ending disappointingly

Ultimately disappointing

Going back in time (wordplay)

Back in time

One way to go round

Substance that prevents blood clotting

Blood-thinning agent

What stops clotting

""COLLISION The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.""

""COMMUNISM A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all.""

COMMUNIST An advocate for the theory or practice of communism.

Plural agent noun

""CORPORATE Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town. as, a corporate town.""

""CORROSION The action or effect of corrosive agents, or the process of corrosive change; as, the rusting of iron is a variety of corrosion. as, the rusting of iron is a variety of corrosion.""

""CORROSIVE Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, changing, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as, the corrosive action of an acid. "Corrosive liquors." Grew. "Corrosive famine."Thomson. as, the corrosive action of an acid. "Corrosive liquors." Grew. "Corrosive famine."Thomson.""

DESICCANT Drying; desiccative.

Inflected form of DIARRHEAL Inflected form of DIARRHEA looseness of the bowels

Antielectron

Same as Antepileptic. Antepileptic.

Antiestrogen

""EVOLUTION The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg. as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg.""

Antifeminism

Antifeminist

""FERTILITY The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination. as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination.""

Antiforeign

""FORMALIST One overattentive to forms, or too much confined to them; esp., one who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly the outward forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit of religion.""

Plural noun (-tions)

Inflected form of GENICALLY Inflected form of GENIC pertaining to {genes=n}

Antiglobulin

Antigravity

""GUERRILLA An irregular mode of carrying on war, by the constant attacks of independent bands, adopted in the north of Spain during the Peninsular war.""

Hay fever treatment

Drug treating allergies

Foe of common cold.

Antihumanism

Antihysteric

Plural or third person singular

Antilitter

""The number corresponding to a logarithm. The word has been sometimes, though rarely, used to denote the complement of a given logarithm; also the logarithmic cosine corresponding to a given logarithmic sine.""

Shields of a sort

Chair protectors

Doilies.

Antimalarial

""MARIJUANA A strong-smelling Asian plant (Cannabis sativa), also called hemp, from which a number of euphorogenic and halucinogenic drugs are prepared. The euphoric effect is predominently due to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).Cannabis sativa), also called hemp, from which a number of euphorogenic and halucinogenic drugs are prepared. The euphoric effect is predominently due to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).""

MECHANIST A maker of machines; one skilled in mechanics.

""METABOLIC Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change.""

Inflected form of MICROBIAL Inflected form of MICROBE a microscopic organism

""MODERNIST One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions.""

NARRATIVE Of or pertaining to narration; relating to the particulars of an event or transaction.

Plural noun (-isms)

Antineutrino

The tenets or practice of Antinomians.

Antinovelist

Plural or third person singular

""OBSCENITY That quality in words or things which presents what is offensive to chasity or purity of mind; obscene or impure lanquage or acts; moral impurity; lewdness; obsceneness; as, the obscenity of a speech, or a picture. as, the obscenity of a speech, or a picture.""

Inflected form of PARASITIC Inflected form of PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Antiparticle

Land-mine type

Like certain weapons sent in plane or distributed some other way

PESTICIDE

Antiphonary

Plural or third person singular

""POLITICAL Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration.""

""POLLUTION The act of polluting, or the state of being polluted (in any sense of the verb); defilement; uncleanness; impurity.""

Plural agent noun (-ors)

Inflected form of PSYCHOTIC Inflected form of PSYCHO a mentally unstable person

""RECESSION The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand.""

""REJECTION Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.""

""RELIGIOUS Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars. as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars.""

""RHEUMATIC Derived from, or having the character of, rheum; rheumic.""

""RITUALISM A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual.""

Antiromantic

Antiroyalist

""SATELLITE An attendant attached to a prince or other powerful person; hence, an obsequious dependent.""

Counteracting scurvy.

SEXUALITY The quality or state of being distinguished by sex.

Plural or third person singular

SMUGGLING smuggle

One opposed to the doctrines and practices of socialists or socialism.

Drug that helps to stay fit!

""SUBMARINE Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants. as, submarine navigators; submarine plants.""

SYMMETRIC Symmetrical.

""TERRORISM The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation.""

""TERRORIST One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.""

Antithrombin

Anxiousness

APOTHEOSIZE To exalt to the dignity of a deity; to declare to be a god; to deify; to glorify.

Apperception

""APPORTION To divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments. as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments.""

Process of sharing out

Allocation

Appraisement

Appreciation

Capable of being grasped

Capable of being comprehended

APPREHENSIBLE Capable of being apprehended or conceived.

Cop's uncertainties (wordplay)

APPROPRIATE Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.

Taking without permission of the owner

Annexation

Secretary's mounting support, helping to arrest one making embezzlement

APPROXIMATE Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.

Fairly close estimate

It's roughly right

Rough estimate

Appurtenance

Aptitudinal

ARABICIZE ARABIC derived from gum arabic

Random quality

Relating to or resulting from arbitration.

Arborescence

Arborization

Archegoniate

Of or pertaining to an archdeacon.

Head of large monastery

Chairman tried to convert Greek ecclesiastic

Abbot is a terribly rich fellow and terribly tired

The science of architecture.

Arduousness

(Of rocks) silver-bearing

One maturing at manoeuvres, revealing logic

Logical reasoning required to shift great mountain

Opinionated and terribly vague trite man

Grump's disposition

Gave in with a mutter turning stroppy

Numbers expert

Expert on calculating machine trait I engineered

A titchier man, I fancy, may be one who has no trouble with tots!

Collection of resources available for a purpose

The act of impregnating or secting with aroma.

Arsenopyrite

Arsphenamine

Connecting an artery to a vein.

They're expressive of joints on the move

Artlessness

Possible to determine

Identifiable

The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery.

Asphyxiation

Killing donkey is against new orders

Murdering

Murder of a public figure

Two fools and one country - get killing

Murder of a prominent person

Assassinator

A female member of a legislative body called an assembly.assembly.

English word

Forceful confidence

Strong-willed behaviour being slammed as severest sin

Dogmatism

Emphatic statements

They declare they'd like to cut at what are charged

Assiduous

The quality of being assignable.

Assimilation

""An academic position that carries a stipend and usually involves part-time teaching or research, given to a qualified graduate student.""

""Of or pertaining to association, or to an association.""

Assuredness

""The lower layer of the earth's crust, below the lithosphere. It is estimated as from fifty to several hundred miles thick. It is less rigid than the lithosphere, but still rigid enough to transmit some transverse seismic waves.""

Very surprisingly

Astonishment

Astringency

Like Armstrong or Glenn

Asynchronism

ASYNDETIC Characterized by the use of asyndeton; not connected by conjunctions.

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

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

Atrocious

The quality of being attainable; attainbleness.

Listening quality

Attitudinal

ATTITUDINISE

Attitudinise

ATTITUDINIZE To assume affected attitudes; to strike an attitude; to pose.

Attitudinize

Attorneyship

Attractancy

""ATTRIBUTION The act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality, character, or function, to a thing or person, an effect to a cause.""

Aggressive boldness; unmitigated effrontery

Augmentation

Augmentative

Auscultation

Austereness

In an authentic manner; with the requisite or genuine authority.

Shown to be true

Established as genuine

Certified

Authenticate

""AUTHENTICATE To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.""

Tyrannical writer meets Italian heretic

Enforcing strict rules

Enforcing strict obedience

Official permission

Aboriginal; indigenous; native.

""Infection, such as recurrent boils, caused by bacteria, viruses, or parasites that persist on or in the body.""

Autonomical

Autorotation

Autoxidation

Enviable Salsa (anagram)

Averageness

Avocational