2-Letter Words Starting with A

""A bacterial resting cell, -- formerly considered a spore, but now known to occur even in endosporous bacteria.""

""One who, or that which, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering. (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering.""

Placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot; a member of the artiodactyla.artiodactyla.

Asafoetida

""Relating to ascension; connected with ascent; ascensive; tending upward; as, the ascensional power of a balloon. as, the ascensional power of a balloon.""

Ascomycete

Ascription

Hopes for the future.

Hopes

""Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence.""

Assiduous

Go in as saint (anagram)

Secret rendezvous

Secret meeting

ASSIMILATE To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.

Hobnobber's activity

Football club (wordplay)

Part of PA

Conceptual connection

""Having the quality of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty. as, the associative faculty.""

Assoilment

(tr) to arrange or distribute into groups of the same type; classify

Antipastos, for example

Some large bags of candy

Antipastos, e.g

Things taken for granted

While 18 13, it's beyond a dream!

Very surprising

Greatly surprising

""A tumor of nervous tissue derived from interstitial cells, in which the cells are relatively well-differentiated and resemble astrocytes. The occur primarily in the crebrum and cerebellum.""

Evangeline Adams and others.

They get a lot from Leo's movement

Zodiac experts

Astrology

Astronomy

Of or pertaining to astronautics.

Moon-starers (anagram)

Monster oars (anagram)

Moon starers! (Anagram)

Astronomy

""Formation of atheromatous deposits, especially on the innermost layer of arterial walls.""

""ATMOSPHERE The whole mass of a\'89riform fluid surrounding the earth; applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars. as, the atmosphere of Mars.""

Ambiances

'Hi!' to campers (anagram)

Armpits echo (anagram)

Of air; conveying special mood

""The act of reducing to atoms, or very minute particles; or the state of being so reduced.""

Atonality

Having a melancholy temperament - is it a Labour failing (wordplay)

Gloomy

Irritable

Extremely badly

Of or pertaining to attention.

Reduction in strength

Weakening, as in the value of a lawsuit

Attenuator

Taken in by police without husband, giving testimony

Attornment

Coming at the movies

Act of ascribing

The act of ascribing eg a picture to an artist

The ascribing of a particular work to an author or artist

Like a long war getting rid of a totalitarian organisation

They have lots to offer

In an audacious manner; with excess of boldness; impudently.

Audiology

Hearing he's a scientist

Audiometer

An instrument for measuring hearing activity for pure tones of normally audible frequencies. Also called sonometer .

Lovers of high-fidelity sound

Kind of teachers' aid.

Using sight and sound

Kind of teaching aid, as usual, I avoid changing

Audition

Auditorium

Authoress

Giving the thumbs up to writer, I perform on stage maybe

The powers that be

Controlling persons

Controlling organization is keeping restriction on writer

Authorizer

""AUTHORIZE To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary. as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.""

Authorship

Adverb

Autochthon

AUTOCLAVE A kind of French stewpan with a steamtight lid.

Autocracy

Autocross

Group outside the class system

""Self-satisfaction of sexual desire, as by masturbation.""

Autograft

Like books that may fetch a higher resale value

Signed

AUTOGRAPH That which is written with one's own hand; an original manuscript; a person's own signature or handwriting.

Semiautomatic.

Autolysate

Autolyzate

AUTOMATA {robots=n}

New electronic techniques

Automatism

Automatist

AUTOMATIZE same as automate.automate.

Automatize

""AUTOMOBILE a self-propelled vehicle used for transporting passengers, suitable for use on a street or roadway. Many diferent models of automobiles have beenbuilt and sold commercially, possessing varied features such as a retractable roof (in a convertible), different braking systems, different propulsion systems, and varied styling. Most models have four wheels but some have been built with three wheels. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), and sometimes by steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from under 50 H. P. for earlier models to over 200 H. P. larger models or high-performance sports or racing cars. An automobile is commonly called a car or an auto, and generally in British usage, motor cars.convertible), different braking systems, different propulsion systems, and varied styling. Most models have four wheels but some have been built with three wheels. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), and sometimes by steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from under 50 H. P. for earlier models to over 200 H. P. larger models or high-performance sports or racing cars. An automobile is commonly called a car or an auto, and generally in British usage, motor cars.""

Wheels out awful modern artworks after one

Advocates of self-government

AUTOROTATE

Autorotate

Autosomal

Autostrada

""Psychology The process by which a person induces self-acceptance of an opinion, belief, or plan of action.""

AUTOTOMIZE cause a body part to undergo autotomy.

Autotomize

""Capable of self-nourishment; requiring only minerals for growth; using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; -- said of all plants in which photosynthetic activity takes place, and certain bacteria. It is opposed to parasitism or saprophytism.""

Autoworker

AUXOTROPH

Avgolemono

AVOCATION A calling away; a diversion.

System of imperial weights

This often puts up a good front.

Pounds/ounces system of weights

Avouchment

Amazing quality

Grandiosity

Wonder how seesaws might be constructed with built-in sign

Of or pertaining to axiology.

AXIOMATIZE

Axiomatize

Of or relating to a method of projection in which an object is drawn with its horizontal and vertical axes to scale but with its curved lines and diagonals distorted.

(Medicine / Pathology) Pathol absence of spermatozoa in the semen azoospermic   adj AZOOSPERMIC (Medicine / Pathology) Pathol absence of spermatozoa in the semen azoospermic   adj BACILLAEMIA (Medicine / Pathology) Pathol the presence of bacilli in the blood

""Any of various rod-shaped, nonpathogenic, nitrogen-fixing bacteria of the genus Azotobacter, found in soil and water.""

Abandonment

E.g. for example (wordplay)

Tues. or Agt. (tsk-tsk!)

Shortening - above Britain (anagram)

Abbreviator

Characterized by unsound thinking

Ex-President right and judicious or diverging from normality (wordplay)

Abolishment

""Relating to or favoring abolition, especially the abolition of slavery.""

The principles or measures of abolitionists.

Wm. Lloyd Garrison, for one.

Reformer (eg Wilberforce)

One favouring end of capital punishment

Abomination

Primarily.

Abortionist

The quality of being abortive.

The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.

Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.

ABSOLUTIZE

Absorbancy

Absorbency

Absorptance

Absorptiveness.

Abstemious

Abstraction

Accelerando

An increase in rate

Rate of increase of speed

A speeding up

Throttles

Giving special importance to something

Emphasis, stress

Acceptation

Accession

ACCESSORISE

Accessorise

ACCESSORIZE

Accessorize

Acclamation

Acclimation

Adjusted and put up

Allowed room for

Made comfortable

Furnishes houses

""He who, or that which, accommodates.""

Pianists playing second fiddle (wordplay)

Accompany

Pulled off top

Done - with a high degree of skill

Having particular skills

One who accomplishes.

Accomplish

Squeeze box player

Player is into arranging following agreement

One's instrumental in making peace with Israeli supporter though not at frist

Scheme first ignored in bill for delivery

An accessory item of equipment or dress. Often used in the plural.

Article of equipment

Bill gathers another metre, making dress

Items of dress/equipment required for an activity

Marked or produced by accretion.

Process of gathering

Growth of capital

Build-up

Accumulator

English word

Acetylation

Absence of hydrochloric acid in the gastric secretions of the stomach.

Absence of hydrochloric acid in the gastric secretions of the stomach.

Achromatism

ACHROMATIZE To deprive of color; to make achromatic.

Achromatize

Acidulation

Recognised information in a record

Admits information revealed in accounts

Admits information is revealed in the accounts

In relation to sound or to hearing.

Acoustician

Acquisition

Acrocentric

Acromegalic

Acromegaly

After the manner of an acrostic.

Photographic instruments.

""Pertaining to the measurement of the intensity of the solar rays, either (a) heating, or (b) actinic. (a) heating, or (b) actinic.""

""Botany Capable of being divided into equal halves along any diameter, as the flowers of the rose or tulip; radially symmetrical.""

""Any of various filamentous or rod-shaped, often pathogenic microorganisms of the order Actinomycetales that are found in soil and resemble bacteria and fungi.""

Actinomycin

Having a capacity for adaptation. Opposed to maladaptive.maladaptive.

Furthermore

To boot

As well

Adenovirus

Delays that stunned Major, maybe

Formal judgement

Civil judgment based on evidence presented

Adjudicator

ADJUDICATOR One who adjudicates.

Rebuke hot men involved with mad sin

Had moments in suffering severe reprimand

What may be given by the man getting agitated with dim son (wordplay)

Admonitory

Adolescence

Adolescent

""(tr) (Law) Law to bring (a person) into a specific relationship, esp to take (another's child) as one's own child""

Adoptianism

Adoptionism

Adoptionist

""The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration.""

A naturally occurring chemical formed during the oxidation of epinephrine.

Adroitness

Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious.

Addition of contaminant let loose in a time span

Corruption of European in indecent allowance

Adulterator

In an adulterous manner.

Adumbration

Useful, beneficial

Data's vague on rambling being beneficial

Profitable

Happening by chance

Accidental - unexpected

Vet's audition turned out to be accidental

Advertorial

Science of lift and flight

Scientific study in which secondary aim is dicey

Secondary aim to revise properties of flying objects

Embolism that occurs as a result of the entrance of air bubbles into a blood vessel after surgical procedures or trauma.