2-Letter Words Starting with A

Affection

What determines if one has enough to buy item

The act of converting into forest or woodland.

Reflections of a sort

Extra remarks on feta recipe right from one's head

Slow-to-be-expressed ideas, but time during pudding

Agamospermy

Pl. aggiornamentos The process of bringing an institution or organization up to date; modernization.

Amassing silver bars, in which African capital's invested

Silver-r! See me share large pile

A mass or collection of things

Great Mongolia (anagram) - mass or collection of things

""Having a tendency to gather together, or to make collections.""

The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.

Agglutinogen

""AGGREGATION The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.""

In an agonistic manner.

Agranulocyte

Large comic has cracks for those that defend veggies

Agroforester

Agronomical

Capability to fly (of planes)

Shiniest arrow deployed as being fit to fly

""ALCOHOLIC Of or pertaining to alcohol, or partaking of its qualities; derived from, or caused by, alcohol; containing alcohol; as, alcoholic mixtures; alcoholic gastritis; alcoholic odor. as, alcoholic mixtures; alcoholic gastritis; alcoholic odor.""

Aldolization

ALDOSTERONE

Sustaining processes

Allegorical

""Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an allelomorph.""

Allelopathy

Alliteration

Allomorphism

Having two or more complete sets of chromosomes derived from different species.

ALLOTYPIC

Amalgamation

Relating to a country's representative abroad

Relating to the highest diplomatic duties

Ambiguity.

The quality of being ambitious; ambition; pretentiousness.

Amelioration

A disorder of protein metabolism in which excessive amounts of amino acids are excreted in the urine.

""A theophylline derivative, C 16 H 24 N 10 O 4 , used as a bronchodilator in the treatment of bronchial asthma, emphysema, and bronchitis.""

Pl. amniocenteses (-s z) A procedure in which a small sample of amniotic fluid is drawn out of the uterus through a needle inserted in the abdomen. The fluid is then analyzed to detect genetic abnormalities in the fetus or to determine the sex of the fetus.

Technique for screening unborn children

Is after single old coin in unusual means test

Amorousness

Amorphous

Amortization

Amphibology

Amphictyony

Amphidiploid

AMPHIDIPLOID

Amphiploidy

""Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides.""

Means of making sound louder

Increasing of signals

Augmentation

Plural or third person singular

In the wrong time period

Anarchist icon destroyed before its time

Out of keeping with chronology

Anachronous

ANAEROBIC

Analogous

Anaphorical

Reducing sexual desire

(Drug) tending to diminish sexual desire

(Of a drug) lowering sexual urges - Rio's a handicap (anagram)

Disease and Illness

Anchorperson

Andouillette

Androsterone

Anecdotalism

Anecdotalist

Anecdotical

""A state of being anfractuous, or full of windings and turnings; sinuosity.""

Angelologist

Angiography

Angioplasty

Having seeds inclosed in a pod or other pericarp.

""The act of anglicizing, or making English in character.""

Rebuke cuckoo, wild type

Censure Damian, vile type

Critical comment

""The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties.""

Unequal refractive power in the two eyes.

A condition in which the refractive power of one eye differs from that of the other.

Anisotropism

One who favors annexation.

Annihilation

Things delivered by PA systems

Formal public statements

Proclamations

Annunciation

Quality of being anomalous.

The state or quality of being anonymous.

Anthologizer

ANTHOLOGIZE compile an anthology.

""A mineral of the hornblende group, of a yellowish gray or clove brown color.""

""A hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2O2.C6H4, subliming in shining yellow needles. It is obtained by oxidation of anthracene. C6H4.C2O2.C6H4, subliming in shining yellow needles. It is obtained by oxidation of anthracene.""

Originating in human activity

""Measurement of the height and other dimensions of human beings, especially at different ages, or in different races, occupations, etc.""

English word

Man eaters; cannibals.

The eating of human flesh; cannibalism.

""Knowledge of the nature of man; hence, human wisdom.""

""AUTHORITY Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority of a court. as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority of a court.""

""BILLBOARD A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on.""

BOURGEOIS A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type. Type.

Anticipation

Going back in time (wordplay)

Back in time

One way to go round

Substance that prevents blood clotting

Blood-thinning agent

What stops clotting

""COLLISION The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.""

""COMMUNISM A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all.""

COMMUNIST An advocate for the theory or practice of communism.

Plural agent noun

""CORPORATE Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town. as, a corporate town.""

""CORROSION The action or effect of corrosive agents, or the process of corrosive change; as, the rusting of iron is a variety of corrosion. as, the rusting of iron is a variety of corrosion.""

""CORROSIVE Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, changing, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as, the corrosive action of an acid. "Corrosive liquors." Grew. "Corrosive famine."Thomson. as, the corrosive action of an acid. "Corrosive liquors." Grew. "Corrosive famine."Thomson.""

Antielectron

Antiestrogen

""EVOLUTION The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg. as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg.""

Antiforeign

""FORMALIST One overattentive to forms, or too much confined to them; esp., one who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly the outward forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit of religion.""

Plural noun (-tions)

Antiglobulin

""The number corresponding to a logarithm. The word has been sometimes, though rarely, used to denote the complement of a given logarithm; also the logarithmic cosine corresponding to a given logarithmic sine.""

""METABOLIC Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change.""

Inflected form of MICROBIAL Inflected form of MICROBE a microscopic organism

""MODERNIST One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions.""

Plural noun (-isms)

Antineutrino

The tenets or practice of Antinomians.

Antinovelist

Plural or third person singular

""OBSCENITY That quality in words or things which presents what is offensive to chasity or purity of mind; obscene or impure lanquage or acts; moral impurity; lewdness; obsceneness; as, the obscenity of a speech, or a picture. as, the obscenity of a speech, or a picture.""

Land-mine type

Like certain weapons sent in plane or distributed some other way

Antiphonary

""POLITICAL Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration.""

""POLLUTION The act of polluting, or the state of being polluted (in any sense of the verb); defilement; uncleanness; impurity.""

Plural agent noun (-ors)

Inflected form of PSYCHOTIC Inflected form of PSYCHO a mentally unstable person

""RECESSION The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand.""

""REJECTION Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.""

""RELIGIOUS Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars. as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars.""

Antiromantic

Antiroyalist

Counteracting scurvy.

One opposed to the doctrines and practices of socialists or socialism.

Drug that helps to stay fit!

""TERRORISM The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation.""

""TERRORIST One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.""

Antithrombin

Anxiousness

Aortography

Apatosaurus

Without a regular schedule

Exciting venereal desire; stimulating the desire for sexual gratification.

Of the final catastrophe

Apocalyptism

Apocalyptist

Apodictical

Apomictical

APOSTROPHISE

Apostrophise

APOSTROPHIZE To address by apostrophe.

Apostrophize

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

Apperception

Appoggiatura

""APPORTION To divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments. as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments.""

Process of sharing out

Allocation

Appreciation

Cop's uncertainties (wordplay)

Suitably, properly

Aptly

APPROPRIATE Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.

Taking without permission of the owner

Annexation

Secretary's mounting support, helping to arrest one making embezzlement

""Appropriating; making, or tending to, appropriation; as, an appropriative act. as, an appropriative act.""

Appropriator

Roughly apply a mixer to batter

More or less

Circa

APPROXIMATE Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.

Fairly close estimate

It's roughly right

Rough estimate

Approaching; approximate.

ARABICIZE ARABIC derived from gum arabic

Relating to or resulting from arbitration.

Arborescence

Tree farming - rub our article (anagram)

Cultivation of trees

Arborization

Archaeology

Past master (wordplay)

His work is in ruins (wordplay)

His career is in ruins (wordplay)

Jurassic fossil bird

Extinct primitive bird

An old bird's cheaper to X-ray, surprisingly!

Canterbury or York, for example

High church office

Senior church post

Archegoniate

Of or pertaining to an archdeacon.

Archipelago

The science of architecture.

Arduousness

(Of rocks) silver-bearing

One maturing at manoeuvres, revealing logic

Logical reasoning required to shift great mountain

Noble classes

Aromaticity

The act of impregnating or secting with aroma.

Arsenopyrite

A systematic description of the arteries.

Connecting an artery to a vein.

Arthropathy

Arthroscopy

They're expressive of joints on the move

ASPERGILL

ASPERGILL

Asphyxiation

Murder of a public figure

Two fools and one country - get killing

Murder of a prominent person

Assassinator

A female member of a legislative body called an assembly.assembly.

English word

Emphatic statements

They declare they'd like to cut at what are charged