2-Letter Words Starting with A

Growing well in an acid medium: acidophilic bacteria.

Organisms thriving in sulphuric pools or animal stomachs

ACOELOMATE

Serving to aid hearing.

Sounding accusal to premier in Istanbul, hopeless

Auditory

One who acquires.

Acrimony

Feats of agility

Gymnast's display

High-flying performance

Chronic enlargement of the extremities and face.

Acrophobe

Window washer's problem (wordplay)

Second-story man's undoing (wordplay)

High anxiety (wordplay)

Pertaining to a kind of puzzle

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

Worth trying (wordplay)

Possibly libellous (wordplay)

Giving grounds for a lawsuit

In an actionable manner.

Void of action.

Process of starting up (something)

Being called up, military-wise

Removal from mothballs

Chemical catalysts

Splattered on my coat is a muscle protein

Actuation

Acyclovir

Acylation

Play from a novel, for instance

Film version, e.g

TV version of a book

Hard things to break

Inside moves did seem like bad habits

'More of them, about one hundred, habitually (10)'

Not on the floor model, say

Getting on top of things more (wordplay)

For an extra charge

Adduction

Adenosine

Any of a group of DNA-containing viruses that cause conjunctivitis and upper respiratory tract infections in humans.

Any of a group of DNA-containing viruses that cause conjunctivitis and upper respiratory tract infections in humans.

Stickable

Adipocyte

Postponing

The act of joining; the thing joined or added.

""The act of adjuring; a solemn charging on oath, or under the penalty of a curse; an earnest appeal.""

Containing an adjuration.

Scotch maid to share esteem (wordplay)

One may be lost in it

Maid out helping gains approval

Claims these were heard in confessions

Confessions may be let in

Entrance fees

Warned by a note on day I cast off

Told off

Chastised

One who admonishes.

Rebukes gently.

Gently reproves

Warning poster has proposal about Ulster

Cautious counsel

Tina in mood that's awkward gets a reprimand

Fussy day monitor giving a reprimand

Conveying a reprimand

Warning politician, I'd moan terribly at the start

Not yet achieved adultery (wordplay)

Youth benefit stops rising

Minor trouble with the French cologne

ADOPTIVE that adopts

Adoration

Send matron out for decorations

Model and monster to become accessories

Embellishments

Explosive assertion about daughter's skill

Skill

ADSORB to gather on the surface in a condensed layer

They are taken in, notice - top group ('90s group) on the way up...

Adsorbent

Process facilitated by silica gel

Broadcast on Sport Aid - 'a superficial process of accumulating gas'

Having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface; displaying adsorption.adsorption.

Adulation

Cheating ruled out as arranged

Like Fontane's woman

Cheating ruled out as wrong

Adulthood

Advection

Advisory

Advocacy

Advocate

Commercial role being a defender

ADVOCATE to plead in favour of

Advocator

""A binucleate spore of a rust fungus, formed in a chainlike series in an aecium.""

Loops and rolls

Exercising swallows at flying display

Stunt flying

""AEROBE an organism that requires free oxygen, also AEROBIUM""

""AEROBE an organism that requires free oxygen, also AEROBIUM""

AEROBRAKE

Decelerates, as with a space shuttle

Landing fields, in London

Airfields, to a Brit

MOD are sore over these airfields

Air mail letter

Air letter

'Casualty' episode missing opening page, but whoever the writer, it'll take off

Aerology

Measurers of gas properties

Pertaining to an important science.

Pertaining to the science of air travel

Of plane navigation

Aeronomer

Aeronomy

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

Tour transports, to Brits

A Greek lover hides jet with jumbos

British flying machines

AEROSOL a spray released under pressure

Aerospace

Affection

Noun (-tion)

A Fine Romance: left in distress

Cause of pain or harm

Coburn's 1998 Oscar-winning film

Model T, to Henry (wordplay)

Within one's ability to pay

Not too dear a passage in a story

AFFORD to bear the expense

Afforest

Affront

A woman who is a devotee or fan.

Coo! If Diana performs, I'm a fan!

Fan finds a fish, say, at island party

Fan (Spanish)

Aflatoxin

Western skies past sunset

Lingering luminescences

Times of day

Hot times in summer.

They're following the 1 across hour

Van Halen song that resonates (wordplay)

WHERE'S THE WAVE (wordplay)

7-6 dessert wine (wordplay)

Afterword

Paradise? PS: Liberal welcomed

Is sore with gang's violent hostility

What eleven Ac displays

Act of aggression,physical force

Starters of quarrels.

Initiators of action

Hostile attackers

To sit again may cause ripples

Disturbed states

It is part of Santiago riot and disturbances

One afraid of open spaces

One who suffers a fear of crossing open spaces

I hate going out since chat with lout who's on benefits

Agrimony

Agrology

Agronomy

Specialist on soil and planting.

Land expert on a rig most awkwardly

Expert in soil management

Aircoach

Landed supplies when breeze subsided

Airproof

Cuts of beef.

Cheerful willingness; eagerness.

ALBUMIN a {protein=n}

They meet anonymously

Formal description of the people in talkies

Focus of the group started by Bill W.

Addiction to drink

Habitual intoxication

Local lady legislator

Abbr. Ald. A member of the municipal legislative body in a town or city in many jurisdictions.

Algarroba

Sex

Algology

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

Step-by-step procedures

Former vice president wants Spain to condemn Smith's rules

State of feeling isolated

Legal transfer of ownership.

Common punk rock theme

They're unpleasant to be around

Disaffecting people

""Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, alkali.""

ALKYLATE to combine with alkyl

Allantoin

Slowly getting slower, on sheet music

(To be performed) with increasing slowness

Largo and a bit of lento modified becoming largo

Testimony that is contestable

Assertion made without proof.

Charge a liberal group of diplomats

Symbolic narratives which Mrs Malaprop might find on the banks of the Nile

ALLEGE to assert without proof

C.S. Lewis, for one

John Bunyan, for one

Legislator (wordplay)

Show by storytelling

Everyone, say, backed animal movement

To be played rather briskly (music)

Moving fairly briskly (music)

""One who, or that which, alleviaties.""

""Of or pertaining to the genus Allium, or garlic, onions, leeks, etc.; having the smell or taste of garlic or onions. Allium, or garlic, onions, leeks, etc.; having the smell or taste of garlic or onions.""

Kin of the caiman

Reptiles protected by law

Florida lake invaders

Allocate

Divvying-up process

Assignment left in a particular spot

Arrangement of resources or funds

Allocator

""The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words.""

Allogamy

Characterized by allogamy.

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

Allograft

Allograph

Of or pertaining to allometry.

Allomorph

""Ecology Occurring in separate, nonoverlapping geographic areas. Often used of populations of related organisms unable to crossbreed because of geographic separation.""

Allophane

Linguistic forms

Of or pertaining to an allophone.

Its name means "different lizard"

Literally, 'different lizard'

Ursula also recreated ancient creatures

Of or involving a change in the shape and activity of an enzyme that results from molecular binding with a regulatory substance at a site other than the enzymatically active one.

Measured shares.

Cultivated areas

Shares completely lavish seconds holding hands

Elements with more than one molecular form

Zero latitude given to everybody, in more than one form

Everything round earthly circle existing in more than one form

A couple of lines? Old line on map taking more than one form

Allotypy

ALLOWANCE Approval; approbation.

Pays to play (wordplay)

Adjustments for expenses (wordplay)

Teenagers' earnings (wordplay)

They provide poor accommodation

Charitable housing

ALOGICAL outside the domain of logic

Not in deep water, say

By the sea

Waterfront

Alpenglow

High altitude instruments (wordplay)

House radiolocation case in plane's broken instruments

Broker's Swiss shares selection?

Mountain climber's staff

Mountain traveller's long spiked staff

Alphosis

Tailor's service.

Tailor's job

Change made by modiste.

Current-generating car part

Dodge Charger charger

Auto part introduced by Chrysler in 1960

Altiplano

Globular clouds of intermediate height

High clouds

Clouds with flat bases forming continuous layers at 2,400 to 6,000 metres

Later, he got drunk (completely)

Entirely in the natural state (wordplay)

Great hotel renovated completely

An extended cloud formation of bluish or gray sheets or layers.

ALVEOLAR the sound produced by the tongue behind the front teeth

Amazonite

David K. E. Bruce, for one

Bunker, for one.

One who's goodwill hunting (wordplay)

Ambition

Amblyopia

Ambrotype

The act of walking.

Up and about

Not bedridden

Moving about

Amebocyte

Make better meal, or I eat junk!

Make an unpleasant situation better

Make improvements to

(Medicine / Dentistry) a type of cell involved in forming dental enamel [from ( en ) amel + -o- + -blast ]

Corrective

Corrective final word offered by US lawyer to politician

Abnormal suppression or absence of menstruation.

Ametropia

""Of, pertaining, or containing ammonia, or possessing its properties; as, an ammoniac salt; ammoniacal gas.as, an ammoniac salt; ammoniacal gas.""

Descriptive of new dentifrices

Ammoniate

Ammonify

Ammonify

Charge for fire-arms

An A of A&E

Charge for firearms

Infections caused by protozoans

Variant of amebiasis .

""A cell, such as a leukocyte, having amoeboid form or motion.""

Amoralism

Amortise

Paying down

Like the D-Day assault on Normandy

Having two natures.

For use on land and in water

Amphibole

English word

Partly one and partly the other; neither acid nor alkaline; neutral.

Limb removal

In the morning put it back in a leg that's cut

Removal of member from a redcap university rubbish club not right

""A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.""

""Effecting the conversion of starch into soluble dextrin and sugar; as, an amylolytic ferment. as, an amylolytic ferment.""