2-Letter Words Starting with A

A mineral

{avellan=adj}

""To modify by repeated culture in a chick embryo, also AVIANISE""

Departure from the norm

Welsh mouth to Breton river? There's freakishness for you!

Lincoln rector originally managed church going in the wrong direction

Hate to be a man, I suspect

Tottering in boat, Mae can't stand

Regard with disgust

Earliest inhabitant of, say, Australia

Native of Australia

Inhabitant of country before colonists

A bread roll twist perhaps is plenty

Plenty, but it isn't a cake-walk!

Lots of baking at the ball (wordplay)

That's to do with grammar, for a change, and not by chance, by the sound of it

The sound of the mishaps may get to grammar for a change like this

It's a gas!

A collection o' thin ones? Great gas!

Kind of torch

""Tapering to a point; pointed; as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc. as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc.""

The 'A' of ATP

The A in ATP

Observant quality present in fluid dance

You'd be stuck with that

Sticking ability

Service commercial vehicle, say, at back

Edge of the tennis court (wordplay)

Head start, say

Accidental.

Commercial gamble (wordplay)

Per this perhaps it's exciting

New account on Madison Avenue (wordplay)

Gatwick banker (wordplay)

The Spitfire, for one

British flyer (wordplay)

Well, that gets one off

Well, it's got off this

A guard contracts sickness in profusion

Wasted the bacon sandwiches I cut

HB1 around the rump

Cut of beef

Its antonym is in the Declaration

No citizen can transfer what he owns

Capable of being transferred.

German folk dance

A German in Paris.

Baroque-era dance

""An amorphous, translucent, variously colored mineral, essentially hydrous aluminum silicate.""

""Any one of two or more speech sounds that considered variants of the same phoneme. For example, the p sounds of pin and spin are allophones of p; and the t sounds of toe stop and catnip are allophones of t.For example, the p sounds of pin and spin</it> are <ex>allophones</ex> of <it>p</it>; and the <it>t</it> sounds of <it>toe</it> <it>stop</it> and <it>catnip</it> are <ex>allophones</ex> of <it>t</it></as>.""

Per diem, perhaps

Kid's payoff (wordplay)

Share in ball, now dance all topless!

Variety of garnet

Deep red garnet

Purplish-red Indian garnet.

""A deep violet-red garnet, FeAl 2 Si 3 O 12 , found in metamorphic rocks and used as a gemstone.""

Close to the hypotenuse, say (wordplay)

Age-old sin (anagram)

Close to a hypotenuse (wordplay)

Every other letter an A? Awkward!

How to shake up Etna (wordplay)

Perhaps change it to ante for a stand-in

A compound formed from the hydrate of aluminium by the substitution of a metal for the hydrogen.

To treat impregnate with alum; to alum.

Green variety of microcline

A green semiprecious stone

Green feldspar.

Road mender (wordplay)

Transport patiently awaited (wordplay)

What drives you to get better (wordplay)

Like our Constitution

May be corrected

Not set in stone, as a constitution

""A type of ammonia compound, also AMMINE, AMMONIATE""

A rotating magnetic amplifier with specialized windings that allow small changes in power input to produce large changes in power output.

Draw a comparison, in a way

Reason in a way

To dissect a very little matter is easy at first

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

City at the head of Cook Inlet

Alaskan Air Force base.

Place for ships to stop

Religious recluse (hist.)

Hermit or religious recluse

Hermit as a result of her action, sadly

Spicy sausage

A spicy smoked pork sausage with a blackish skin

""A green to brown or black calcium-iron garnet, Ca 3 Fe 2 (SiO 4 ) 3 .""

Hermaphroditic plant

Man or woman? Not black or white, but grey and no mistake

A minor ore of lead

Express in English finding flying angels around here in France

Convert Giovanni into John, for example

Make English, in form

Make Jorge George, for example

""An oxide of a nonmetallic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements of water; so called because it may be formed from an acid by the abstraction of water.""

""A mineral of a white a slightly bluish color, usually massive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not containing water (whence the name).""

To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form.

Fibula-foot connector

It's between the shin and the foot

Fibula neighbor

Can anyone shift pest (wordplay)

Bug party for Oriental pest

Pebble in one's shoe, e.g

Convert to a yearly rate

""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.""

English word

A small antenna; applied to the smaller pair of antenn\'91 or feelers of Crustacea.

Grotesque streak in fold of rock

Arch of stratified rock.

Lark calling beneath arched fold of rock

Against lawbreaking

Favoring common folk

Like sun visors

Like some headphones

Like some airport laws

Like many a resident near an airport

Render outdated

Render passe.

Make old.

SENSE to have an impression or inward feeling

SMOKE to emit a gas or vapour due to burning

STATE to {affirm=v}

WHITE to {whiten=v}

""The protein component of an enzyme, to which the coenzyme attaches to form an active enzyme.""

E.g. insect's leg, feeler

One of an octopod's octad

An attached part

A longing; a desire; especially an ardent desire; appetite; appetency.

Washing machine or toaster, say

Machine (for use in the home)

Gift for a housewife.

One assigned (to a job)

Chosen one (wordplay)

Pick, of sorts

Motorboat's tow, perhaps

Water skis alternative

Skim on layer of water

A sugar used as a culture medium in bacteriology

A sugar used as a culture medium for certain bacteria

Mineral similar to calcite.

Calcium carbonate

Inverse trig function

English word

Frondizi's country (with "the").

S. American region.

Native of Bahia Blanca.

Valuable silver ore

A grocer with an outrageous conceit

Too much pride in exotic orange car

An "offspring of riches," to Twain

""Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.""

Resemblance of sound (in nearby words)

Can season (anagram)

Resemblance of sound

Confidence (in abilities)

Uses car with an awful confidence

Freedom from doubt.

Showing courtesy to another, or alert

At camp under canvas I have to be alert

As alert as the dutiful Pinafore crew

Reduce (a signal)

Had a late meal to make one thin

To have eaten so late may make you thin

Purple and gold mixture of beer and gin

Deep purple colour

Fruit popular in French inn

A constituent of some forms of steel

Tate in use, perhaps, for one who likes Jane

It's down-white dangerous (wordplay)

A descent that's very flaky (wordplay)

Alpine snowdrop (wordplay)

Avifauna

The shunning (of something)

Dodger's goal

Dodger's aim

Revulsion to constituents of Anchor beer

There's nothing at all like it

Here carbon emission produces disgust

Offensive description of a snowman

Like a snowman.

Causing moral revulsion

""(Physics / General Physics) Physics a measure of the light-absorbing ability of an object, expressed as the logarithm to base 10 of the reciprocal of the internal transmittance See transmittance ACIDOMETER (Chemistry) a type of hydrometer for measuring the relative density of an acid solution, esp the acid in a battery Also called acidimeter ACTINOZOAN &amp; adj (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) another word for anthozoan AEROSPHERE (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) Archaic the entire atmosphere surrounding the earth""

Practice of refraining (from alcohol)

If you pass the bar, what will it mean?

Non-partaking (of liquor)

What to do with an acute etc (wordplay)

Worried about acne? Cut out stress

Emphasise smart goddess with brogue

Occasion to give a speech

Granting admission to Powell's world

The world of Powell

(In) conformity (with)

Treating cancer a doc gets agreement

Agreement of opinion

Stony meteorite

A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.

Worth trying (wordplay)

Possibly libellous (wordplay)

Giving grounds for a lawsuit

Maybe detain a man of unyielding nature

Hard type of man, worker in Eden originally

A barrier against Tyneside must be unbreakable

Joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct.

Maiden, with tact, ordered entree

Letting in a ball stopped by hand

Permission to enter

Rush before a flight (wordplay)

It can give you a rush

Stimulator of ideal Queen Anne building

Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal.

The quality or practice of being advertent; heedfulness.

Confirmation; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act.

M1's in time to expand

Magnify; increase power of

Make greater grade gains after revision

Exaggerate

""ALKALINE containing an alkali, also ALKALIN""

Loyalty, say, found in Nato maybe

Loyalty, say, within marriage

Loyalty, say, found in union

Not in deep water, say

By the sea

Waterfront

""An antiviral drug, C 10 H 17 NHCl, also used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.""

That may be analyzed.

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

Word inversion, such as "Came the dawn."

Inversion, such as "Came the dawn"

Gold place in which land is mined for mineral

Anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes.

Like Grenada, but not Granada

Like the Bahamas, Barbados and Belize

English-speaking

Microscopic organism

Microscopic creature

Being very small but old-womanish about bad French copper

Adjective meaning resembling

Hammer a nail in the bust

Hit an alien ordered to exterminate

Dynamite, say

Serving to explain

Explanatory

Mutant canine tuna, say

Declare girl in acute trouble

Announce (arch.)

""Any of various mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles, which can carry the malaria parasite and transmit the disease to humans.""

Having to report (to)

Article rebel was wrong to blame

Accountable.

Make an enemy of.

Rub the wrong way

Make an enemy of

""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

Prepare for (a future event)

Predict - ape in attic (anagram)

Expect worker here for the French spread

Misogynous

Alcohol, for one.

Opposed to a cap on wages (wordplay)

Alcohol needed for driving (wordplay)

Word with prefix anti-

In favor of the great indoors, maybe

PLAGUE to pester or annoy

PLAQUE an ornamental plate or disk

Unable to stand the heat (wordplay)

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

STRIKE to {hit=v}

Item on a personnel chief's checklist

Item on a personnel director's list

Reason for a face lift

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

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

A ben scaled could be construed as this

Canes get twisted up at the ball

Coming into prominence

Upper hand

Ascendancy.

Carbon tip in abseil device, suitable for climbers

""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.""

Transferable

When drunk, can siestas help (wordplay)

One may give this by hand

Help a relative, protected by position

Like some goals

Not so far as a star.

Within reach

Factor in grading, perhaps

Gate - enact Dante (anagram)

Guests at Blair's ball (wordplay)

Such a response is not wanted from setter's in-car mobile menu

An undertaking to clad home in glass

The ratio of absorbed to incident radiation.

Hawkish marine, left motherless after accident, has another depression

Like a good math teacher (wordplay)

Obliged (to answer?)

Required to justify oneself

""A compound of aniline with acetyl, used to allay fever or pain; called also antifebrine. antifebrine.""

Admit (the truth of something)

Admit the truth of (something)

Recognise current learning

The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability.

Bright orange-red dye

Complementary medicine using needles

Therapy which needs needles

Method of treatment with needles

Youth has trouble with classes, I'd say

Time of your life (wordplay)

Concede ales drunk in teenage years!

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

White.

A steroid hormone secreted by the adrenal cortex that regulates the salt and water balance in the body.

Twelve-syllable line of verse

Aid external examination of precious stone

A green variety of chrysoberyl used as a gemstone

Not the first choice

Available as another possibility

Option to convert indigene

Of an imaginary flower that never fades

""A variety of feldspar, having a verdigris-green color.""

Mixed feelings (E, not Y)

That love-hate feeling.

Girl in a mood shows uncertainty

""A white or greenish mineral, (Li,Na)Al(PO 4 )(F,OH), that is an important source of lithium.""

""Resembling amethyst, especially in color; bluish violet.""

A white crystalline substance used as an analgesic and antipyretic.

Working in MPH, AA meet required speed

Mood-altering drug

Stimulant drug

Put under, in an operating room

Put under

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

The act or state of going before in time; precedence.

Compile an anthology.

""Any one of several fungus diseases, caused by parasitic species of the series Melanconiales, attacking the bean, grape, melon, cotton, and other plants. In the case of the grape, brown concave spots are formed on the stem and fruit, and the disease is called bird's-eye rot.Melanconiales, attacking the bean, grape, melon, cotton, and other plants. In the case of the grape, brown concave spots are formed on the stem and fruit, and the disease is called bird's-eye rot.""

Spiral outflow could be neatly conic

A fair-weather system ends with one

High-pressure weather system

""FATIGUE to weary, also FATIGATE""

Fleabag, for one

Catwoman, for example

Unlikable protagonist

Like some NORAD operations

SCIENCE knowledge obtained by observation and experiment

""SEIZURE the act of seizing, also SEISURE""

""In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song. strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song.""

SUICIDE to kill oneself intentionally

Medicine sorted out Auntie Vi's overwhelming temperature and coughs finally

WELFARE general well-being

WRINKLE to {crease=v}

A crystalline alkaloid obtained from morphia. It is a powerful emetic.

English word

ARGUMENT an exchange of differing reasons

Murder (a political or religious leader)

Murder (a public figure)

Kill (a VIP)

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

English word

Person one knows slightly

Someone one knows slightly

It was auld to Burns

Current inactivity gets the nod

Tacit approval

Consent

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

Manage - it's marinated (anagram)

Run, as a Washington agency.

Organise (business)

A naturally occurring chemical formed during the oxidation of epinephrine.