2-Letter Words Starting with A

It's slander, like the old Iranian said

It's cast in a derogatory manner

This may be cast like one in one

Aspersor

Do L shapes make lilies (wordplay)

Lily family members

Lily flowers

Medical device removing fluid

Suction pump.

Suction pump

Yea sayers

Those who concur

How silly to start to make such a claim!

Senator is about to make a statement

Claim first son has trouble in store

Trees in a sort of people making a claim

Taxing individuals (wordplay)

Local tax authorities

Often-reviled tax professionals

Showing great care and perseverance

Marked by care and persistent effort

Hard-working

Assignor

Assistor

Hang out (with)

Not yet a principal

Rub shoulders of teammate

Assoil

Resemblance of sound (in nearby words)

Can season (anagram)

Resemblance of sound

Assonant

Ones engaged in separation

They classify

Selectors

Classifying.

Classic Atari game

Small planets orbiting the sun

Space Invaders alternative

Astony

Amazed by odd aunts round about the east

Shocked when a good man's 'arrassed

Amazed at the date, by the sound of it

Star-shaped glial cell

Spot for celestial navigation

Stadium for almost 68,000

Park that opened in April 1965

A sort able to produce old instrument

Sextant's predecessor

Predecessor of the sextant.

Dixon line (wordplay)

How stars can make a fortune, perhaps

A house study (wordplay)

A nut roast served for one on rocket

One making use of space (wordplay)

One making good use of space (wordplay)

Celestial sphere (wordplay)

Roman toys (anagram)

Tory moans (anagram)

Line near a hyperbola

Almost a sign to note near tangent

Line that a curve infinitely approaches

I came, I saw, I conquered, for example

Atamasco

A secretary, vocal, unaffected by time

Without regard for time

Timeless ruins at Palermo

Atheroma

English word

An instrument for measuring the rate of evaporation from a moist surface; an evaporometer.

Atomiser

Atomise

Less than molecular

Composed of simple elements

A cat is twitching, completely broken down (wordplay)

Scent spreaders

Atomize

ATONAL lacking tonality

ATONAL lacking tonality

Quality of Bartok's music

Feature of the 1925 opera "Wozzeck"

Lack of a key center, in music

Reparation (for a wrong)

Reparation agreed, paid around November

Satisfaction of a sort

Our coat is incredibly appalling

Terrible actor in trouble with debts

Very bad tragic actor promises to pay

Atrophia

Wasted away as a left back at Hyde, say

Decayed from disuse

Aphrodite became emaciated

Article with prizes for degenerates

A pit horse works with withers

Falls into decline

Atropine

Atropism

Standing order (wordplay)

Notice a pressure in the ear (wordplay)

Mental concentration or awareness( 9)

Notaries public, for example

Trial members (wordplay)

Case workers (wordplay)

Bar tenders (wordplay)

Attorn

Magnet or pheromone

Drawing card, essentially

Magnet, vis-a-vis iron

How wearing down here!

A wearing away

Wearing down, turning it into art

Had lots to sell (wordplay)

Had a lot to offer (wordplay)

Like a lot, perhaps

Our Altaic version of the author

Of, by or typical of an author

Pertaining to a writer

Rash or insolent

Daring USA duo involved with CIA

Bold and daring

Part of a hearing test, maybe

The measurement of hearing.

Band that plays music (wordplay)

Sound evidence (wordplay)

Garage band's production, once

Screen shots (wordplay)

Reads for a part

Tryouts for performers.

Eg, concert halls

They are found in schools

School meeting places

AUGMENT to {increase=v}

Aunthood

Aureole

Wild oxen extinct since 1627

Ausform

Autacoid

Arthouses neglected creative person

Writer shares out bubbly

Writer shares out novel development

A harlot, I suspect, stealing Waugh's heart as a novelist (wordplay)

Author

I share out (anagram)

Writer is going east to say it's okay

Sanction or establish officially

Hoyle, for one

Write on sex with variable confidence

Writer's got it - 'unknown power'

John Irving's peepers (wordplay)

Give the go-ahead to

Give the green LIGHT to

Travelling South, a ban on roads like this

Motor coaches

They're often escorted by police

Surgical instruments steriliser

Relative of a pressure cooker.

Kin of a pressure cooker

Autocoid

Absolute government by one person

Dictatorship, e.g

One-man rule.

They reign without rein

Rulers with unlimited power

They're absolutely at the top.

Tossed out this sort of clue about sport

Motor racing over rough terrain

Slalom race on parking lot course

Autodyne

Having all stages of a life cycle occurring on the same host.

Golden garment on back of film needs training to relieve stress

Helicopters of yore

Helicopters' kin

A tissue or organ grafted into a new position in or on the body of the same individual.

Sign of the self (wordplay)

Car dealer's chart (wordplay)

Hound's quarry (wordplay)

Some aircraft with propellers

Autolyse

Autolyse

Self destruction of cells

""Of, pertaining to, or causing autolysis.""

Autolyze

Autolyze

Model company (wordplay)

Ford, for one

Mercedes or Volvo

Handled by machinery

Like today's tellers

Like vending machines

Couple in a one-car family (wordplay)

Builds a robot for

Makes machine-run

Will it shoot itself (wordplay)

Occurring as a matter of course

Type of gun or car

Man of sorts.

Does this amount to a robot (wordplay)

Man of many parts, perhaps

Like a nervous system

Occurring involuntarily

Acting independently.

Unthinking state (figurative)

High-level stand-in chauffeur (wordplay)

Robot flier (wordplay)

Finally examined gold deposit that's misplaced

A piteous drunk, having died, examined thus (wordplay)

End-of-term examinations (wordplay)

End-of-term examinations

An A of A&E

An expressway in France and French-speaking countries.

AUTOSOME a type of chromosome

Autosome

Of or pertaining to autotelism.

""An organism which is autotrophic, i. e., an organism (such as most plants and certain microorganisms) which are capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances, requiring only minerals as nutrients for growth, and using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; the energy required is derived from photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Opposed to heterotroph. See also auxotroph.autotrophic, i. e., an organism (such as most plants and certain microorganisms) which are capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances, requiring only minerals as nutrients for growth, and using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; the energy required is derived from photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Opposed to heterotroph. See also auxotroph.""

Autotype

""An organism, such as a strain of bacteria, that has lost the ability to synthesize certain substances required for its growth and metabolism as the result of mutational changes.""

Opposite of predilections

You want no part of them

Objects of repugnance

Aviation

Avigator

Avocado

That's the job - or maybe a calling

Hobby; avian coot (anagram)

A life's work leads to hobby

Unlike death and taxes (wordplay)

A useless fit can be prevented

Like careless mistakes

AVOID to {evade=v}

The shunning (of something)

Dodger's goal

Dodger's aim

Avoucher

Keeping out of hospital, stifling cry of pain, giving assurance

Avulsion

So as to cause wonder

Taken for granted

Pertaining to self-evident truths

Of universally received principles

Axoplasm

Title for Khomeini

An Iranian Shi'ite religious leader

Senior Iranian cleric

A liquid mixture of two or more substances that retains the same composition in the vapor state as in the liquid state when distilled or partially evaporated under a certain pressure.

Azotemia

Azotise

Azotize

Azoturia

Striped hyenas that feed chiefly on insects

Abandoner

Leaving a report about scholar at home

A group performing, one no good, giving up

Deserting

Acid in boat (anagram)

Edward VIII's action of 1936

Regal resignation

Throne relinquishers

Ufologist's subjects

An A of A&E

Snatchings

ABDUCTOR a person who abducts

Deviation from normality

Delusion or illusion

A wandering from the norm.

Revulsion to constituents of Anchor beer

There's nothing at all like it

Here carbon emission produces disgust

A believer in spontaneous generation

Abjection

Renunciation

Sailor, say, in the country giving up

Bet again? No chance for denial

Disclaimer - there's no beating a developer!

Surrendering sorts

In an unusual manner.

Friend embraces British woman in opera in unusual manner

Abolisher

Formally ending (a practice)

Action demanded by W. L. Garrison

Wiping out

Annulments

Offensive description of a snowman

Like a snowman.

Causing moral revulsion

In an abominable manner; very odiously; detestably.

Regarded with disgust

Couldn't take

Found repugnant

Much more than dislikes

Dislikes intensely

Loathes

One hates to see Robin with wingless Batman, struggling to apprehend ring

Bad oil? Bargain first

Present from the earliest times

Present from the start

Algonquins, for example.

Early inhabitants

First inhabitants.

In an abortive or untimely manner; immaturely; fruitlessly.

Ill-directed dart may land here, honest!

Manna from heaven?

Too proud to take lodgers, honest!

Rating right-wing attitude as a psychological process

Abrogate

Annulment of an agreement or law

The sailor's asking for an annulment

Cancelling a second-rate allowance? Go back to intervene

Abruption

Leaves shed as some scissors cut bonsai strain

His jazz opera illustrated the importance of being Ernst

Those who escaped ban crossed over

They take their leave without it

Muscles badly scorned by bad runners (wordplay)

Leaving secretly in a hurry

Sure wobbly as belly out!

I wholly agree!

Okay by me!

Perfect in quality or nature; complete.

Obtain soul renewed with this (wordplay)

Release sailor - there you have it!

A second-rate answer requires indulgence

Doctrine of unlimited power

Total power lost, I am taking bus, sadly

Moral theory that doesn't allow for shades of gray

A distraught sob by musician who dislikes Fifty Shades of Grey (wordplay)

ABSOLUTE self-existent

ABSOLUTE self-existent

Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up.

""(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 & adj (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) another word for anthozoan AEROSPHERE (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) Archaic the entire atmosphere surrounding the earth""

""ABSORB to suck in, also SORB""

Absorbant

Terrycloth quality

Receptive nature of abbey treated with scorn

Absorbent

Bounty work (wordplay)

(Process of) taking in

Process of soaking up

Tending to suck up

Tending to soak up

I mess about (anagram)

Moderate Jack to plug debts

I mess about, drunk or sober

Pass in Congress (wordplay)

Act of declining to vote

Withholding of vote

ABSTRACT to draw away

Accession

Second place comic played

Criminal's associate

Helper in wrongdoing

Finish off associate in crime soundly

Coach limps off to manage

Twisted coach limps for effect

(In) conformity (with)

Treating cancer a doc gets agreement

Agreement of opinion

Portable keyboard instruments

Squeezeboxes

A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician.

Bookkeeper, maybe chartered

Someone doing a balancing act (wordplay)

Relation without a tan in summer

Type of work.

FIRST-in, FIRST-out discipline

Giving a reason for financial processing

Accouter

Accoutre

Accretion

Whodunit plot element

Charge copyright to America in case

Charge about, protecting us in battle

""Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel. as, an accusatory libel.""

Assigned blame, framing cat as usual

Usual train heading for East Germany

Familiar cat held by defendant

Without a chief

Stony meteorite

Colourless church with scent outside

Colorless.

A dreamer with no name embraces church, having no shade