2-Letter Words Starting with A

A colorless plastid that forms starch granules and occurs in cells of plant storage tissue.

Amylopsin

Amyotonia

Anabolism

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

Breaks in grammatical sequence

A haul Acton possibly offers of syntactic non sequiturs

""Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc.""

""Mystical; having a secondary spiritual meaning; as, the rest of the Sabbath, in an anagogical sense, signifies the repose of the saints in heaven; an anagogical explication.as, the rest of the Sabbath, in an anagogical sense, signifies the repose of the saints in heaven; an anagogical explication.""

Built on comparisons

Having similarity

Analogist

Shown to be similar

Analogize

Kind of lens used by moviemakers

""Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical.""

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

Word inversion, such as "Came the dawn."

Inversion, such as "Came the dawn"

Of bodily structure

Of a branch of biology.

Involving the body

Article's broken down and analysed

Anatomise

Experts on bodies converting to Satanism

ANATOMIZE Styptic. <mark>

Anatomize

""Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to orthotropous.orthotropous.""

Ancestor

Tie-ups (wordplay)

Moorings

They may have agoraphobia

Solitary types disoriented in chain store

Chain store is awful for those seeking solitude

Reclusive.

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

Anchoveta

English word

Andantino

Andouille

""Pl. androecia (-sh - , -sh ) The stamens of a flower considered as a group.""

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

Androgyne

Andromeda

Anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes.

Noted cast I reassembled for storyteller

Raconteur.

Storyteller

An instrument for measuring and recording the direction and force of the wind.

One receiving measured blows (wordplay)

Meaner to me (anagram)

Kid's science project, maybe

Measuring wind speed

Aneuploid

ANEUPLOID

""A discourse on angels, or a body of doctrines in regard to angels.""

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

Angiogram

A plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp.

Angleworm

Like Grenada, but not Granada

Like the Bahamas, Barbados and Belize

English-speaking

A making angular; angular formation.

Anhedonia

The Flintstones and "The Simpsons"

Disney-studio output

Mickey Mouse films

Not isotropic.

Leg-foot connectors

Armored beast of old

Ankylose

Appropriation of adjoining territory

Act of taking possession of.

Forced takeover, at times

Editorial activity

Supplying notes when she has nothing but odds and ends I find to be no good

Marginal comment, for example

Explanatory item in a textbook.

The adding of notes to a text

Serving to explain

Explanatory

Ones making written comments on text

Game-show VIPs

Ball game describers

They may call the shots

Declaring

Scan anyone sick with pains in the neck

Soreness causes

Little buggers

How older siblings tend to perceive things said by younger siblings

Ring formation

ANODIC pertaining to an {anode=n}

Consecration ceremony

Ritual naming

Consecration of a healing cream (wordplay)

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

Anorectic

Anorthite

""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.""

Man in toga's set about opposition

Crude sign to a man provoking conflict

Moan at sign that's whipped up hostility

Antonym of ally

Enemy destroying 1 nation

Not against roughing up an opponent

Make an enemy of.

Rub the wrong way

Make an enemy of

Previous incumbent

Forerunner.

Forerunner

Antechoir

During one's lifetime

Before passing

Like some injuries discovered in forensic science

In an anterior manner; before.

Anthelion

Anthocyan

Anthozoan

Kind of ape

Enos or Able.

If it looks like a man and walks like a man, what is it (wordplay)

Plural or third person singular

Theory of some wonder drugs.

Treatment for bacterial infections

Medicine destroying micro-organisms

Substance that destroys bacteria

Weapons in the medical arsenal.

B cells' production

Protein substances

Anticodon

Antidote

DROMIC pertaining to a race-course

EROTIC an amatory poem

GROWTH development

Many Eastwood characters, for example

Many Nicholson portrayals

Weak leading men opposed to Carlyle's theme (wordplay)

HEROIC an epic verse

Antiknock

Antilogy

Old-fashioned and then some

Of or pertaining to antimony.

Word with prefix anti-

Antimony

Possibly anoint main sectarian denying moral law

'His true Penelope was Flaubert, / He fished by - isles' (Ezra Pound)

Not accepting moral law, yet opposed to revolutionary Minoan

Legal paradoxes

Antinovel

Sung or chanted in alternation

Sung alternately by two groups

Hit on a plan to change sort of service book in church

Antipodal

22 against potty principal

Coming from other side of the world

Relating to Australia/New Zealand

POETIC pertaining to {poetry=n}

Unable to stand the heat (wordplay)

Cosmic ray component

Certain particle with an opposite charge

Particle discovered in 1955

Opposed to change

SMOKER one who {smokes=v}

Not a company man (wordplay)

Like Holden Caulfield

Not fond of parties

Biological immunizers

Suffering saint, injected with poison, needs these

They offer immunity to relative reportedly to get love-ins

Antonymy

What I could be with you (wordplay)

Like War and Peace, without name Tolstoy initially put in

As War and Peace, unsigned, without Tolstoy's initial

Preventing or reducing anxiety; antianxiety.

Aphorise

Inclined to quote maxims

Like an adage

Expressed pithily.

Aphorize

Apiology

Apoapsis

End of the world

The White Horseman exhibited a new one

Prophetic Biblical revelation

Apocarpy

Make lay chap pro? Questionable

Of questionable authenticity

Happy carol that's become legendary

1. unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration

Apoenzyme

Like party avoiders (wordplay)

Like a no-party person (wordplay)

Word applying to few in Washington

In a sorry state (wordplay)

With hat in hand, perhaps

So sorry and disturbed, to ogle a pic

Said sorry for serving old sago pie

Expressed regret for what one has done

Expressed regret

Expresses regret for an initial self-confidence over record at school

Defenders of controversial stances, say

Defenders of the faith.

They have defensive ends

Began damage control, perhaps

Ended a spat, in a way

Expressed regrets

One who makes an apology; an apologist.

Eats humble pie

Makes excuses.

Apophony

Its precise to say it's not worth the paper it's written on

Saw dad in strange hat, trim having bit of gold in it

A widely favoured hot article by general manager occasions pithy remark

""Pl. apophyses (-s z ) Anatomy A natural swelling, projection, or outgrowth of an organ or part, such as the process of a vertebra.""

8 captain briefly could get mad

Red with rage

Overcome with anger

Apoplexy

""Having or designating conspicuous or warning colors or structures indicative of special means of defense against enemies, as in the skunk.""

Apospory

The development of a gametophyte directly from a sporophyte without the occurrence of meiosis or spore formation.

Apostacy

Desertions of dogma

Reasons for excommunication

Religious defections

A comic Frenchman in group is to abandon principles

Abandon your principles with a job at one's expense initially

""To renounce totally a religious belief once professed; to forsake one's church, the faith or principles once held, or the party to which one has previously adhered.""

Office of the Pope.

Nothing delayed support for a job implying leadership of a Propaganda committee

O death, where is thy sting (wordplay)

Greengrocers missing sign (wordplay)

Maker's mark (wordplay)

A drug he's no right to carry (wordplay)

Nameless "Romeo and Juliet" character

Character in "Romeo and Juliet."

Of or pertaining to the apothecium.

""The ascigerous fructification of lichens, forming masses of various shapes.""

Hagiographic acts

Perfect examples

Deifications

Highest point of development

Isotope has got as high as it gets

Model taking a drug, explosive old girl

Intended to ward off evil: an apotropaic symbol.

Banquo, for one.

Hamlet's father made one

Phantom pair in a top review

Apparitor

Nail polish brush, for example

Cosmetician's device.

Device used as a swab.

Supreme Court justices, e.g

Supreme Court justices, for example

Those taken on a quiet river current over another river

Assigning (to a post)

Designating.

It's not about rejecting a father losing article for blessing

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

Doles out

APPOSITE {relevant=adj}

Putting side by side.

Proximity to a quiet location

Contiguity, grammatically

It may be set off by commas

Juxtaposed

Was nearly as good as

Came near

Drew near

Nuisance at a phone store (wordplay)

Means of access.

Cowboy, for example, captured by Indians comes closer

APPROBATE Approved.

Approbate

Worthy of being approved; meritorious.

APPROVE to regard favourably

""Consisting or conveying water or a watery fluid; as, aquiferous vessels; the aquiferous system. as, aquiferous vessels; the aquiferous system.""

Arabinose

Arachnoid

Aragonite

""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.""

Grieve or Dascoli

Independent settler of dispute

Person authorized to decide a dispute.

ARBOREAL tree-dwelling

Where they might bring back the birch (wordplay)

Flowers that do well among trees and shrubs (wordplay)

Plots of land on which many different trees or shrubs are grown

Arborize

Virgil's tree of life

Coniferous hedge choice

Ornamental evergreen

Arccosine

Coy Joey (wordplay)

Provincial administrator (wordplay)

Canterbury tales subject

Roguish cleric (wordplay)

Cleric ruined chance with Dora

Ecclesiastic next below a bishop

""Pl. archegonia (-n - ) A multicellular, often flask-shaped, egg-producing organ occurring in mosses, ferns, and most gymnosperms.""

Study of past human culture

Prehistoric-culture study

They say Gemmill leaps over fancy formations

Archosaur

Arecoline

Sandy.

Sandy

Areology

Upperclass man (wordplay)

Effendi, for one

One of the upper crust

Toothless, burrowing animals.

Plated mammals

Burrowing mammals.

Bearing arms.

ARMORIAL a book of coats-of-arms

AROMATIZE To impregnate with aroma; to render aromatic; to give a spicy scent or taste to; to perfume.

Makes fragrant

Arrogance

All modesty aside

Completely holding game up with hubris

Claiming without right

Unfair claiming giro, rat on a suspect

Improper seizure.

Unjustified seizure.