2-Letter Words Starting with A

Ones given the shaft (wordplay)

Indian museum display

Old Native American carvings

Some starchy plants

Starchy plants

Topless thin torso, sporting white bloomers

Arrowwood

Arrowworm

Of or pertaining to an arteriole.

Arteriole

Spiders and crabs.

Troops hard to move - they've no backbone

Edible thistles that may be stuffed

Their hearts are often preserved in jars

Edible flower heads are so thick, oddly

Arytenoid

Gum resin used medically

Foul-smelling but safe aid to a curry

Bitter medicine

Asbestos

Miner's disease

Chronic lung disease

Lung disease

Climbs

ASCOCARP a spore-producing organ of certain fungi

Pl. ascogonia (-n - ) The female reproductive organ of ascomycetous fungi.

Any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus.Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus.

Ascorbate

Ascospore

ASCOSPORE One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi.

I give praise to Paris in a hundred shapes

Assignment

Disparaging remarks about rap session

They're often cast in soap operas

Slurs on a person's reputation

... to turn Paris into a dream, ...

Breathing in desire

Desire to Parisian is strange ...

Removers of some body fluids

Suction devices

Medical instruments removing fluids from cavities

They're said to be positive

Evict from service stations for opinions

Positive statements

Oasis acted badly in a group, perhaps

Kind of press

Got together, tossing coats aside

Star has business ones

Word in many law firm names

Law firm employees

""Act of assoiling, or state of being assoiled; absolution; acquittal.""

Identical vowel sounds

Stormy seasons can reveal sound correspondences

Soundly corresponding

Smashing on mattress, showing variety!

Classification of chocolates (wordplay)

No smart set would make such a selection

Guess feast day (wordplay)

Belief held without proof

Undertaking reform must pain so

Top grade examining body set to right

Of small celestial bodies

Concerning certain space rocks

Of small planets like Ceres

Knocked out a dishonest criminal

Amazed - and so is the organisation

Left slack-jawed

Staggers, due to ill-fitting satin shoes

Knocks for a loop

Surprises, this season, coming out

Adman's adjective

An observation about tenor: 'stunning'

Striking dumb with astonishment

Astrocyte

ASTROCYTE a large star-shaped neuroglial cell in nervous tissue.

Astrodome

Devices superseded by sextants

Old navigation instruments

Sextant forerunners

Expert on moving house (wordplay)

Charter for 11 (wordplay)

House examiner (wordplay)

""The art of making measurements among the stars, or of determining their relative magnitudes.""

Spacey types (wordplay)

Houston's spacemen (wordplay)

Houston's spacemen?

Moon-starer (anagram)

Hubble, for one

One who knows what's up (wordplay)

Sky-high (colloq.)

Extremely large (colloq.)

It can be so romantic - really great!

They're approachable (wordplay)

Lines that approach curves (but never touch them)

Type of curve, in math.

The relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times.

Asyndeton

Pl. atheromas or atheromata (-m -t ) A deposit or degenerative accumulation of lipid-containing plaques on the innermost layer of the wall of an artery.

Athrocyte

Atmometer

Feeling blue (wordplay)

Candles create a romantic one

Pervading tone or mood

With regards to nuclear energy

How a nation with nukes is armed

Atonalism

Atonalist

Reparations for wrong.

Reparations for wrongs

Some religious experiences

Barbarities at, or around, towns

Cruel deeds

Inhumanities

Wasting away as a result of disease

Silver-plated souvenir at home is deteriorating

Inga wavering: accepting award or declining (wordplay)

They may be unwelcome

Sergeants' commands

Military standings

Electronic signal weakener

Electric signal diminisher

Device reducing signal strength

""The act of a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior, and transfers to him his homage and service; the agreement of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord.""

It's not repulsive at drawing, perhaps

... for a tire company (wordplay)

Erotic experience is a drag, we're told

Attractor

They're so wearing

Frictions

One with lots to offer (wordplay)

One has lots to shift!

Man with lots on his mind (wordplay)

Cautioning over selling house

Activity around the block

Cautioning boss selling the house

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

Audiogram

Adjective (-ic)

Alexander Graham Bell invention

Otologist's instrument

Otology instrument

The measurement of hearing.

Emery phor buphs (wordplay)

One making a sound investment (wordplay)

Hi-fi fan.

Media for drivers

Driver's entertainment, sometimes

Dinosaurs next to the iPod

Tried out for a part

Read (for)

Tried out

Auditory

AUDITOR one who {audits=v}

Sitting-room with a view (wordplay)

Room for performances

The principal's classroom

Augmentor

Goldbearing; containing or producing gold.

Ausform

Like a double rainbow, perhaps

Encouraging suspect given new start

Rosy doubtful about substituting top

The branch of ecology that deals with the biological relationship between an individual organism or an individual species and its environment.

Throw her out, said official

Licensed originator is a man

Revised share-out I'd sanctioned

Permits will be distributed at house, sir

""Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent. as, an authorized agent.""

Granter of a privilege.

One who sanctions an action

Clears

Empowers

Sanctions

Novelist's craft (wordplay)

The Caine or the Pequod?

The Caine or the Pequod (wordplay)

AUTOBAHN a German superhighway

Autobus

Native.

AUTOCLAVE A kind of French stewpan with a steamtight lid.

Pressure cookers

Having absolute power

Like Holmes's breakfast-table man

Croatia cut out being dictatorial

Law blaming the car (wordplay)

DIY learner in car committed the deed

Do-it-yourself learner

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

Autoecism

""Sexually self-satisfying, as by masturbation.""

Autogamy

Characterized by autogamy; selffertilized.

Autogeny

Selfgenerated; produced independently.

Autograft

Fan collection (wordplay)

Star signs (wordplay)

Collector's items.

The science of autographs; a person's own handwriting; an autograph.

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

Derived or transferred from the same individual's body: autologous blood donation; an autologous bone marrow transplant.

""AUTOLYSE to break down tissue by enzyme action, also AUTOLYZE""

Autolyse

""AUTOLYZE to break down tissue by enzyme action, also AUTOLYSE""

Autolyze

Automaker

Some cars

Automate

Present-day production trend.

Feature of modern industry.

Use of electronic devices.

Action which does not involve conscious intention

AUTOMATISE AUTOMATE to convert to automatic control

Prepare to mass-produce, say

*Mindless workers (letters 3-8)

Folk who lead a routine monotonous life

Cuckoos in clocks, for example

Jaguar, for one

Road-test need

Welcome graduation gift.

Why they eyed the showroom (wordplay)

Why they eyed the showroom?

Relating to motor vehicles

Independent political groups.

""Government independent self-rule free from outside influence. Freedom , Politics""

Having self-government.

Independent

Independent.

Ones who'd never think of flying (wordplay)

Autopsy

AUTOROTATE

Autoroute

Present participle or gerund

Motorway in Italy

Major Italian highway

Italian highway

Italian superhighways.

Autotomy

Cause a body part to undergo autotomy.

""The spontaneous casting off of a limb or other body part, such as the tail of certain lizards or the claw of a lobster, especially when the organism is injured or under attack.""

Autotroph

""AUTOTROPH 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.""

Autotypy

Big Three employee

Auxotroph

AUXOTROPH

Adjective for Marner.

A king strangled by a savage is grasping

A savage eating most of arm, greedy

Greek egg-citrus soup

Sauce in Greek cuisine

Citrus-tinged Greek soup

Spare time activities

Free time fillers

Lesser jobs returning Mexican food in French planes

Avoidance

The act of avouching; positive declaration.

Axiology

AXIOMATIZE

AXOPLASM the cytoplasm of an axon

'Muslim leaders reject onion' - sure that's the answer (wordplay)

Azeotrope

Act of desertion

Process of giving up completely

State of desertion

Creator of short sentences (wordplay)

Abdication

Abdominal

They're irregular

Sailor in tears or suffering disorders

Abhorrence

Broth nearly spilt in a repugnant way

In an awful way

So as to inspire loathing

Plural or third person singular

""The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis. abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis.""

Abiogenist

Pertaining to the study of inanimate things.

ABIOTIC relating to absence of life

Abjuration

Pertaining to ablution.

Abnegation

It's odd what a morality ban can produce

Aberrant feature

Deviance

Capable of being abolished.

The action of putting an end to (a practice)

Loathing.

Curse hum during a big road race

Action that is vile

Feeling of hatred or disgust

Abominator

Aboriginal

One who procures abortion or miscarriage.

On the surface

GROUCHY

Abreaction

Abrogation

Abscission

Mariner answers and gets acquittals

Absolutism

People with rigid worldviews

A bandleader overcoming very old musicians, their principles undiminished

ABSOLUTIZE

Absolutize

Absorbance

Absorbing

The ratio of absorbed to incident radiation.

Absorption

No-votes (wordplay)

Third column in Congressional tallies

Characterized by abstinence; selfrestraining.

Formless art work

Theoretical concept - removal

Preoccupied state

Abstractor

Speeding up (music)

Gradually increasing in speed (mus.)

Gradually increasing in speed, in music

Part of an auto.

Driver's foot pedal

Cycling race, clear to pedal

Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable.

Pertaining to accession; additional.

Accession

Supplementary

They're both before and after the fact.

Accomplices in case? Scores I suspect

Jewelry and a handbag, for example

ACCESSORISE

Make sure you match