2-Letter Words Starting with A

Amphioxus

Amphiploid

AMPHIPLOID

Amputation

Amygdaloid

AMYLOID a hard protein deposit

A disorder characterized by deposit of amyloid in organs or tissues; often secondary to chronic rheumatoid arthritis or tuberculosis or multiple myeloma.

""The outer portion of a starch granule consisting of insoluble, highly branched polysaccharides of high molecular weight.""

Amyloplast

Untimely mistake (wordplay)

Thing that belongs to another time

A case of mixed dates

Out of time (wordplay)

Lacking grammatical sequence.

Syntactical incoherence

""Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial.""

""Pl. anadiploses (-s z) Rhetorical repetition at the beginning of a phrase of the word or words with which the previous phrase ended; for example, He is a man of loyalty loyalty always firm.""

""A repetition of the last word or any prominent word in a sentence or clause, at the beginning of the next, with an adjunct idea; as, "He retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent." as, "He retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent."""

""Pl -ses [-ˌsiːz] (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) (in Greek tragedy) the recognition or discovery by the protagonist of the identity of some character or the nature of his own predicament, which leads to the resolution of the plot; denouement [from Greek: recognition]""

The unfolding or d\'82nouement.

""ANALOGIZE To employ, or reason by, analogy.""

Analogous

""The act of analyzing, or separating into constituent parts; analysis.""

ANASTOMOSE Styptic. <mark>

Anastomose

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

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

Anastrophe

ANATOMISE

ANATOMIZE Styptic. <mark>

Ancestor

Anchoress

Paula Zahn of CNN, for example

Norah O'Donnell, for example

Katie Couric, for example

A woman who narrates or coordinates a newscast in which several correspondents give reports.

Anchovetta

Androgyny

Of indeterminate sex

Hermaphrodite

Grandson you get fussed about, showing male and female characteristics

Anecdotage

Anecdotal

""Pertaining to, consisting of, or addicted to, anecdotes.""

Anecdotist

Anemograph

Meteorological tools

Wind instruments

Full of twists and turns

Circuitous; sinuous.

A description of blood vessels and lymphatics.

ANGIOMA a benign tumour

Surgery of the blood-vessels

Vessel treatment

Plants whose seeds are enclosed in an ovary

""Any of three polypeptide hormones, one of which is a powerful vasoconstrictor, that function in the body in controlling arterial pressure.""

Angulation

Bad blood

A visual defect in which the shape and size of an ocular image differ in the two eyes.

Of or pertaining to aniseikonia.aniseikonia.

Anisogamy

A union between two gametes that differ in size or form.

""Not isotropic; having different properties in different directions; thus, crystals of the isometric system are optically isotropic, but all other crystals are anisotropic.anisotropic.""

Ankylosaur

Annexation

""One who, or that which, annihilates; as, a fire annihilator. as, a fire annihilator.""

Side lines (wordplay)

Marginalia

Annulation

""One who announces. Specifically: An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated.""

""ANODIZE to give a protective coat, also ANODISE""

Anointment

In an anomalous manner.

Anonymity

Without giving a name

How some gifts are given.

Anopheline

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

Relating to or causing the suppression of ovulation: an anovulatory drug.

Antagonism

Punch and Judy, for example

Not as giants, flexing muscles

Group being played against

Made an enemy of

Gets upset

Antecessor

Same as Anthokyan. Anthokyan.

Collections of a too English design

Theologians may provide choice literary gatherings

Theologians assembled for choice literary gatherings

Francis Turner Palgrave, for instance

Literary compiler

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.""

Like or related to man; human.

Anthropoid

ALCOHOL a flammable liquid

Selman Waksman's field.

Medicines destroying micro-organisms

Bacteria destroyers such as penicillin or streptomycin

BOYCOTT to refuse to have dealings with

Expectant one.

Spiral outflow could be neatly conic

A fair-weather system ends with one

High-pressure weather system

Antidotal

FASHION to {shape=v}

FOAMING the act of foaming

FOGGING fog

FOREIGN situated outside a place or country

FOULING a deposit or crust

Fleabag, for one

Catwoman, for example

Unlikable protagonist

""LEPROSY a chronic disease with skin lesions and deformities, also LEPRA""

LOGICAL pertaining to {logic=n}

MITOTIC pertaining to {mitosis=n}

Word with prefix anti-

Antimonial

Antimonide

Subatomic particle in nature not transformed

Antinomian

NUCLEON a subatomic particle

OBESITY the condition of being obese

Radical fighter (wordplay)

Beta carotene, for one

Substance such as vitamin C or E

Word with prefix anti-

Antiphonal

""A book containing a collection of antiphons; the book in which the antiphons of the breviary, with their musical notes, are contained.""

Antiphony

Antipodean

POPULAR something pleasing

POVERTY the state of being {poor=adj}

Non-patriots in revolt - being negative, they are charged

""The act of making antiquated, or the state of being antiquated.""

Antismoker

SMOKING to preserve by smoke-drying

Antistory

""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.""

Type of drug that can counteract glandular activity

TOBACCO an annual herb cultivated for its leaves

TUMORAL relating to a tumor

TYPHOID an infectious disease

""The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero. his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero.""

Anxiolytic

Butterflies

Examination of the aorta using x-rays following the injection of a radiopaque substance.

Huge herbivorous dinosaur

Stimulant of desire

Substance that makes you hot

Something that stimulates desire

Many doomsday cults predict them

Momentous, catastrophic

Translation of a Coptic play is outstanding

Copy capital letters - it could be a revelation

Penitent's defence of Christianity

A game soldier's in grand opening making excuses

Apologizer

APOLOGIZE To make an apology or defense.

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

""Pl. aponeuroses (-s z ) A sheetlike fibrous membrane, resembling a flattened tendon, that serves as a fascia to bind muscles together or as a means of connecting muscle to bone.""

""Any one of the thicker and denser of the deep fasci\'91 which cover, invest, and the terminations and attachments of, many muscles. They often differ from tendons only in being flat and thin. See Fascia. Fascia.""

Of or pertaining to an aponeurosis.

Apophthegm

""A mineral relating to the zeolites, usually occurring in square prisms or octahedrons with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. It is a hydrous silicate of calcium and potassium.""

Rhetoric and Rhetorical Devices

"She had a heart-how shall I say?-too soon made glad . . . "

She had a hearthow shall I say?too soon made glad...

She had a heart-how shall I say?-too soon made glad . . .

""Pl. aposiopeses (-s z) A sudden breaking off of a thought in the middle of a sentence, as though the speaker were unwilling or unable to continue.""

APOSTATISE

Apostatise

""APOSTATIZE 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.""

Apostatize

Church office Pat polishes after work

Apostolate

Edit perhaps, so to punctuation marks

Parts of some Irish names

Digressions in a speech.

""Pertaining to an apostrophe, grammatical or rhetorical.""

To exalt to the dignity of a deity; to declare to be a god; to deify; to glorify.

Haunted house inhabitants

Pilot a plane quite new in style

Name state of North American mountain region

A very quiet woman morphed into just 'a name'

Request for hard work

Computer program requiring diligence

Formal request; sustained effort

Applicator

Having the property of applying; applicative; practical.

Date with a very soft salve

A very subdued application for a date

German city

Doled out

Apposition

Appositive

One who values

English word

Approach

APPROBATE Approved.

It begins Our Father

Acclaim - applause

(Official) approval

Containing or expressing approbation; commendatory.

Suitable to take for one's own use

Acquire something suitable (wordplay)

Take to be suitable

Approving

Appear to mix badly? Almost right!

Not totally precise

Rough (figure)

Apriority

English word

Process at work in some hearings

One way to settle differences

Dispute deciders

Treelike

Arborvitae

Arbovirus

Study of ancient artifacts

Study of old remains

Study of history through remains

Wearers of pallia

Clerics on a sacred meandering around church

Shrewd dean's embracing company people in a higher office

See choir ceased performing

See core ideas changing about Church

Important church area

An archduchy.

Relating to the archegonium.

""The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.""

The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination. Illust. under Invagination.

English word

Key chain (wordplay)

Fiji, for example

Hawaii, i.e.

The quality of being arduous; difficulty of execution.

Growing or living or burrowing in sand.

Of or relating to a reference system based at the center of the planet Mars.

Rule by the best.

Upper class, nobility

Elevated types carry a cost I fancy

Nobles

Swells

AROMATIC a fragrant substance

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

Arrogation

Pl. arteriographies Examination of the arteries using x-rays following injection of a radiopaque substance.

""Pl. arthrodeses (-s z) The surgical fixation of a joint, ultimately resulting in bone fusion. Basically, the procedure is artificially induced ankylosis performed to relieve pain or provide support in a diseased or injured joint.""

Surgical fixation of joints.

Any disease of the joints.

""Any of numerous invertebrate animals of the phylum Arthropoda, including the insects, crustaceans, arachnids, and myriapods, that are characterized by a chitinous exoskeleton and a segmented body to which jointed appendages are articulated in pairs.""

""Pl. arthroscopies Examination of the interior of a joint, such as the knee, using a type of endoscope that is inserted into the joint through a small incision.""

ARTHROSCOPE