2-Letter Words Starting with A

Curving inward as a beak

Curved inward, as a parrot's beak.

Curving inward, as a beak

Of a river.

Of a river

Riverine

April Fools joke maybe

What a caper for an insect, I see!

Caper; grotesque (arch.)

Like a grapestone

Eternal

Forming no angle

Without an angle

Not forming an angle.

Relating to amine

In need of iron, perhaps

Not so red-blooded (wordplay)

Needing iron in one's diet, perhaps

Pertaining to an {anise=n}

Like a battery

Like the Lithium end of a battery

Like one of a battery's terminals

Socially unstable

Having nothing to breathe

Oxygen-deprived

Unable to urinate

Having trouble breathing

Free of stress (wordplay)

Unaccented, as syllables

Debilitated by careless action

Free from germs

""Relating to an axon, also AXONAL""

Not local.

A place for treatment where there's no dip

Occurring at sunset

Type of ray

Like a certain property of radiation

Like light that causes chemical change

Related through males

Related through males.

On Dad's side

""Pertaining to albinism, also ALBINAL""

Record of the year (wordplay)

Farmers' publication (wordplay)

Data compressor (wordplay)

Of a pungent gas

Drawing many blanks, maybe

Not self-aware, say

Out of memory (wordplay)

Pale, lacking vigour

Pale and spiritless.

Maniac runs around east, washed out

Relating to

How a choir sounds (wordplay)

Good-looking (wordplay)

Nice gal (anagram)

Of a charged particle

Like negatively charged atoms

Like a negatively charged atom

Unable to smell

Mouthed but not spoken

Having to speak in whispers

Mouthed but unspoken

Pertaining to {apnea=n}

Murder mystery element (wordplay)

What gets As in chemistry (wordplay)

Old lace partner (wordplay)

Pertaining to

High-flying adjective (wordplay)

Like collision avoidance systems

Like airplane controls

Like certain chromosome fragments

Lacking a middle

Not in the middle

Pertaining to {acetone=n}

Relating to a poisonous herb

Without strength

Relating to agenesis

Person acting so dubious (wordplay)

One who's not sure what's up (wordplay)

Doubter - coatings (anagram)

Pertaining to {aluminum=n}

Aromatic gum resin

Jason Bourne, for one

Man with no past (wordplay)

Patient of unknown origin (wordplay)

Causing memory loss

Pertaining to the amnion

Fluid to protect an embryo

Of the embryo sac

Kind of fluid

Upward moving, as a wind

Like some steroids

Type of steroid to increase muscle

Type of steroid

Pertaining to an {anagoge=n}

Being alike

Logical in examination

Using logical reasoning

Skilled in reasoning

Car chain (anagram)

Code breaking (wordplay)

Totally without rules

Of bodily structure

Of the body

Structural as opposed to functional

Tending to absorb sound

Absorbing or deadening sound

Free from reverberation

Like you and me

Relating to an anodyne

One affected with loss of appetite

More than thin

Suffering from loss of appetite

Thinner than thin

Relating to three unequal oblique axes

Relating to a disorder of the blood

A medicine which relieves pain

A medicine that prevents pus forming

Pertaining to inability to urinate

SILVER

Dry brandy from south-west France

Brandy from southwest France

Dry brandy distilled in France

Weak

Lacking technical knowledge

Not biogenic; not produced by living organisms

ACRONYM a word formed from initials

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

Argumentative.

Of farm management

Pertaining to crop production

Like farming

Affected with albinism.

""Pertaining to, or contained in, the allantois.""

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

""AMMONITE the coiled shell of an extinct mollusk, also AMMONOID""

Psychological dependence on others.

Lacking free oxygen

Like the bacteria in a septic tank

Causing an oxygen debt, as exercise

Can pet ail awfully? Here's a drug

Restorative

Invigorating

Agent allaying pain

Remedy allaying pain

Bill without a single wrong number

A deadening or absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness.

Like some poetic feet

Of or pertaining to anaphase.

Strange air Pancho adopts, referring back in this rhetorical fashion

Like the phrase "she's beauty, she's grace", in linguistics

""ANDESITE a volcanic rock, also ANDESYTE""

ANECDOTE a brief story

ANELE to {anoint=v}

The absence of pleasure or the ability to experience it.

Of belief in spirits, demons, etc.

Believing that the universe has a soul

Believing that objects have souls

Anatomy The consolidation of bones or their parts to form a single unit.

Lacking appetite

Deep frozen (wordplay)

In pole position (wordplay)

Where to pick up a penguin (wordplay)

Human error in pact with rhino

Like some immunological agents

Triggering, in immunology

I can get in trouble for being stimulating

In opposition to one another

Like a venom neutralizer

Counteracting poison.

Does Auntie Tock get sick of such a cure (wordplay)

ANTONYM a word opposite in meaning to another

Resembling aphanite; having a very finegrained structure.

""Having two or more parts of different curvatures, so combined as to remove spherical aberration; said of a lens.""

Of a sentence in which conjunctions are omitted

Real thin with a cute bust!

Genuine, not a copy

Real thin with a cute bust

Golden garment on back of film needs training to relieve stress

Like a nervous system

Occurring involuntarily

Acting independently.

""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.""

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

Pertaining to an important science.

Pertaining to the science of air travel

Of plane navigation

Affected with albinism.

Like a city father with a clear mind

Local official's frenzied, hiding behind tree

Causing one to react rashly (wordplay)

Causing a rash reaction (wordplay)

Like penicillin, to some

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

Of or pertaining to an allophone.

Discrepancy between the chronological order of events and the order in which they are related in a plot.

Done in low relief, as a cameo

Aiding the memory

Kind of lens used by moviemakers

Of or pertaining to anaplasty.

Reclusive.

Of or pertaining to androgens; having physiological effects like that of an androgen.

Ether, for one

It may put you to sleep

It may be administered before surgery

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

""Pertaining to, or after the manner of, an annalist; as, the dry annalistic style. as, the dry annalistic style.""

""ANORTHITE A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime feldspar. See Feldspar. Feldspar.""

Treatment for bacterial infections

Medicine destroying micro-organisms

Substance that destroys bacteria

DROMIC pertaining to a race-course

Same as Antemetic. Antemetic.

EROTIC an amatory poem

HEROIC an epic verse

POETIC pertaining to {poetry=n}

Application for injury benefit, perhaps

Preventing growth of microorganisms

Alcohol, for example.

Counteracting electrical build-up

Kind of carpet

Tending to resist charge build-up

Exactly opposite.

Opposite

Preventing or reducing anxiety; antianxiety.

""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.""

Sky-high (colloq.)

Extremely large (colloq.)

It can be so romantic - really great!

(Physics / General Physics) caused or produced by sound or an audio frequency an audiogenic epileptic fit

Of or pertaining to austenite.

Of or pertaining to achondrite.

Having a subterminal centromere

Relating to air in motion.

Having a drag-reducing shape

Streamlined academy in row sadly with week to go

ALBUMIN a {protein=n}

English word

Abnormal suppression or absence of menstruation.

Lacking grammatical sequence.

""Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial.""

A knockout in the theatre!

Laughing gas, for example

A person could well be put out by it

ANALEMMA a type of graduated scale

Like one wanting to overthrow government

Styptic. <mark>[Obs.]<mark>

Of or pertaining to animalism.

Of or pertaining to aniseikonia.aniseikonia.

""Not isotropic; having different properties in different directions; thus, crystals of the isometric system are optically isotropic, but all other crystals are anisotropic.anisotropic.""

""Of, pertaining to, or like, anthracite; as, anthracitic formations. as, anthracitic formations.""

MITOTIC pertaining to {mitosis=n}

1991's word: Fever-preventing

Fever-reducing drug

Of or pertaining to an aponeurosis.

Michael's maybe going to help bar change licensee

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

Of or pertaining to astronautics.

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

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.

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

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

Using words and numbers

Using A-Z and 0-9

Referring to both characters and figures

""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.""

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

Rearranging the letters of a word or phrase

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

ANALPHABETE

Of or pertaining to anaphylaxis; caused by anaphylaxis.

""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.""

""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

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

Blood and Blood Vessels

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

""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

Medicine to destroy worms

ACADEMIC a college student or teacher

Of or pertaining to an anticyclone; moving in the opposite direction of a cyclone.

DIABETIC one who has diabetes

DOGMATIC overbearing

ECONOMIC relating to finance

ENTROPIC pertaining to {entropy=n}

Counteracting hysteria.

LEUKEMIC one affected with leukemia

""MAGNETIC a metal that attracts iron, also MAGNET""

I pitch a tent abroad without assent, initially causing bad blood

Opposed to upsetting Tina with old newsreel from jerk

PRURITIC pertaining to {pruritus=n}

Good against the rickets.

ROMANTIC a fanciful person

Of or pertaining to an antistrophe.

Pert. to autohypnotism; self-hypnotizing.

""Pl. avitaminoses (-s z) A disease, such as scurvy, beriberi, or pellagra, caused by deficiency of one or more essential vitamins.""

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

Of or pertaining to actinomycosis.

Of or pertaining to adventurism.

In the wrong time period

Anarchist icon destroyed before its time

Out of keeping with chronology

Reducing sexual desire

(Drug) tending to diminish sexual desire

(Of a drug) lowering sexual urges - Rio's a handicap (anagram)