2-Letter Words Starting with A

Assiduous

Assimilation

""The state of an associate, as in Academy or an office.""

""Of or pertaining to association, or to an association.""

Associative

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

Assortative

""The lower layer of the earth's crust, below the lithosphere. It is estimated as from fifty to several hundred miles thick. It is less rigid than the lithosphere, but still rigid enough to transmit some transverse seismic waves.""

Very surprisingly

Astonishment

Pl. astrocytomas or astrocytomata (-m -t ) A malignant tumor of nervous tissue composed of astrocytes.

Like Armstrong or Glenn

Relating to the nature of stars

Asynchronism

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

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

Atomistical

Atrocious

Attorneyship

""ATTRIBUTION The act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality, character, or function, to a thing or person, an effect to a cause.""

Aggressive boldness; unmitigated effrontery

CD's ancestor

Input for a recorder

Augmentation

Auscultation

AUTECOLOGIC

""AUTHENTICATE To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.""

Tyrannical writer meets Italian heretic

Enforcing strict rules

Enforcing strict obedience

Commanding and self-assured

Commanding, self-confident

Vested with power or influence

Official permission

The Henry Ford story (wordplay)

Carfax report (wordplay)

One's own Life (wordplay)

Autocatalyse

Autocatalysie

Pl. autocatalyses (-s z ) Catalysis of a chemical reaction by one of the products of the reaction.

Autocephaly

""Having its own head; independent of episcopal or patriarchal jurisdiction, as certain Greek churches.""

Aboriginal; indigenous; native.

""AUTOEROTIC sexually self-satisfying, as by masturbation.""

""Infection, such as recurrent boils, caused by bacteria, viruses, or parasites that persist on or in the body.""

Without thought

Spontaneously

Automobilist

Automorphism

Autonomical

Having more than two sets of chromosomes all derived from the same species.

An image produced upon photographic film by exposure of the film to a radioactive substance in close proximity to (usually in contact with) the film.

Autorotation

Autosuggest

Autoxidation

Avocational

Avoirdupois

Awesomeness

Axiological

By the use of axioms; in the form of an axiom.

Azathioprine

Abortifacient

Abortiveness

Absoluteness

Absorptivity

""The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance. temperance.""

""ABSTRACTION The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.""

Hazarding a guess: doctor who puts stomach muscles in pulleys (wordplay)

Accelerometer

Accommodation

Accompaniment

Capable of being accomplished; practicable.

Something achieved

Successful achievement

A cold kind of praise about quiet exploit

Responsibility, state of being answerable

Bill has the skill and the responsibility

To be able to tell stories is an essential feature of public life

The office or employment of an accountant.

Accreditation

Acculturation

Accustomation

Habituation.

Acetaminophen

Acetazolamide

Acetification

Acetylcholine

A skeletal disorder beginning before birth; cartilage is converted to bone resulting in dwarfism.

In an achromatic manner.

Acidification

Confessedly.

Thanks to Government we lack men with new dimension unfortunately

Acrylonitrile

Actinomorphy

Of or pertaining to actinomycetes.

Actualization

Adaptational

A malignant tumor originating in glandular tissue.

Running wild isn't held in high esteem

If you're huge, you'll have this at home office

Commercial vehicle on street helping government

Administrator

Adoptability

Adorableness

Of or pertaining to the adrenal cortex.

Profitably; with advantage.

Adventitious

""The study of the sources, dispersion, and effects of airborne biological materials, such as pollen, spores, and microorganisms.""

Inflected form of AERODYNAMIC Inflected form of AERODYNE a heavier than air aircraft

AEROELASTIC

Aeronautical

AEROSOLIZE AEROSOL a spray released under pressure

With abandon I, Tony, felt a face lovingly

Afforestation

As has been said before, "treat dementia of Nero"

Previously referred to supervisors in a note I'd composed

Aggiornamento

Clustered masses

Agglutination

AGGLUTINOGEN

Agroforestry

Aldosteronism

""ALKALINIZE ALKALINE containing an alkali, also ALKALIN""

""The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense.""

""ALLELOMORPH One of the pure unit characters commonly existing singly or in pairs in the germ cells of Mendelian hybrids, and exhibited in varying proportion among the organisms themselves; same as allele, 2. Allelomorphs which under certain circumstances are themselves compound are called hypallelomorphs. See Mendel's law.allele, 2. Allelomorphs which under certain circumstances are themselves compound are called hypallelomorphs. See Mendel's law.""

Alloantibody

ALLOPATRIC

Allopolyploid

ALLOPOLYPLOID

ALLOSTERIC

English word

Vessel for a representative abroad (wordplay)

How the best pickpockets work, said Ambrose Bierce

In a bi-handed manner no repeated letters (nonverbal)

Aminoaciduria

Any of various enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of the terminal peptide bond at the amino end of a polypeptide.

Aminophylline

Impregnation with ammonia or an ammonium compound.

Amphibious

Amphiprostyle

Amplification

Anaphrodisiac

Anchoritical

The medical study and application of anesthetics.

Anglicization

Animadversion

Animalization

Anisometropia

Ankylosaurus

Annexationist

Anthophyllite

Anthraquinone

Anthropology

Culture vulture (wordplay)

Social scientist reading, perhaps, work held by literary collector

Collector of poems etc sees right to work retained by our student (wordplay)

The study of human body measurement for use in anthropological classification and comparison.

Anthropomorph

Man-eater

""AGGRESSION The first attack, or act of hostility; the first act of injury, or first act leading to a war or a controversy; unprovoked attack; assault; as, a war of aggression. \'bdAggressions of power.\'b8as, a war of aggression. \'bdAggressions of power.\'b8""

Opposed to alcoholism

Inflected form of BIOTICALLY Inflected form of BIOTICAL pertaining to {life=n}

""CARCINOGEN Any substance that produces cancer; as, to test for carcinogens in the drinking water.as, to test for carcinogens in the drinking water.""

""CENSORSHIP The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship. as, to stand for a censorship.""

Anticoagulant

""COMMERCIAL Of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade; mercantile; as, commercial advantages; commercial relations. as, commercial advantages; commercial relations.""

Anticommunism

Anticommunist

CONVULSANT

Good against convulsions.

""CORRUPTION The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.""

""DEFAMATION Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion.""

""DEMOCRATIC Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people.""

DEPRESSION The act of depressing.

ANTIDROMIC

Plural (-ists)

""GOVERNMENT The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government. as, civil, church, or family government.""

""HISTORICAL Of or pertaining to history, or the record of past events; as, an historical poem; the historic page.as, an historical poem; the historic page.""

Inflected form of HOMOSEXUAL Inflected form of HOMOSEX homosexuality

Antilogarithm

Word with prefix anti-

""METABOLITE A product of metabolism; a substance produced by metabolic action, as urea.""

Antimicrobial

Antimodernist

Converted Christian man to revolutionary, perhaps

Athenian held by opponent of government, such as 17

It can appear odd to Christian man, being a Republican

MONOPOLIST One who monopolizes; one who has a monopoly; one who favors monopoly.

""NEOPLASTIC of or pertaining to neoplasty, or neoplasia.""

Antinomianism

Opposed to the doctrine of phlogiston.

Antipollution

Antipsychotic

Plural noun (-sions)

""REFLECTION The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the state of being reflected.""

""Inflected form of REGULATORY Inflected form of REGULATOR One who, or that which, regulates.""

Antiscorbutic

Antisocialist

Antispasmodic

""SUBVERSION The act of overturning, or the state of being overturned; entire overthrow; an overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin; destruction; as, the subversion of a government; the subversion of despotic power; the subversion of the constitution. as, the subversion of a government; the subversion of despotic power; the subversion of the constitution.""

""TECHNOLOGY Industrial science; the science of systematic knowledge of the industrial arts, especially of the more important manufactures, as spinning, weaving, metallurgy, etc.""

Antiterrorism

Antiterrorist

Aperiodicity

In the form or manner of aphorisms; pithily.

APOCALYPTIC

The quality or state of being apocryphal; doubtfulness of credit or genuineness.

""Any of various proteins that combine with a lipid to form a lipoprotein and are a constituent of chylomicrons, HDL, LDL, and VLDL.""

With regret, a poet logically has log moved

Shamefacedly

Apoplectical

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

Apostolicity

APOSTROPHISE

APOSTROPHIZE To address by apostrophe.

APOTROPAIC

Appendectomy

Add one to my church number before the operation

A prominent post to restructure divisions

Appositeness

Concern of Cannon's committee.