2-Letter Words Starting with A

Adnation

Adjective meaning resembling

Able to be taken up

Fit for taking home from the animal shelter

Commercial work on board is such as may be undertaken

Humane Society successes

Social worker's concern.

Votes to accept commercial alternatives

Commercial speech (wordplay)

Love a fair helping of bother (wordplay)

Allowance of fuss and of love (wordplay)

In a worshipping manner

With much love.

One way to gaze

Touch of color, perhaps

Decoration for naval personnel in a spot

Mend a torn dress with decoration

Most skilful at concealing steroid misuse

Substance taken up in a lab

A type of tree covered in fruit? It's only on the surface

Like charcoal filter

Capable of deflecting moisture

Capable of producing a film about bears? Don't!

Some emissions reducers

Adsorb

Very high regard

Sycophant's specialty

High praise for an adult I love to tease

Prays from them, by the sound of it

Obsequious group

Big fans

Excessively flattering

When almost grown-up, a politician is flattering

Sycophantic

Minor goal (wordplay)

A step above the minors (wordplay)

Supposedly mature years

ADVECT to transport by the flow of a fluid

Pled in support

Stood up for Dublin supporter from the start

Recommended

Recommends Scottish silks, perhaps

Goes to bat (for)

Promoters of Scottish silks

ADVOCATE to plead in favour of

Advowson

Giant flightless bird once found in Madagascar

Aequorin

Oxygen-supplying procedures

Doing stunts with airplanes

Of stunt flying

One in novel boat race having high jinks

The use of atmospheric drag rather than onboard thrusters to reduce the velocity of a satellite or spacecraft.

Heathrow, for one

Bumper edition of The Waves (wordplay)

By the sound of it, a plain place

Aeroduct

Aerodyne

For a couple of eagles, backing up lubricates wings

Aerogram

Meteorites (E, not H)

Stony bodies from outer space.

Stony meteorites

Stony meteorites

Density determining instrument

Gas-density gauge

Gizmo that measures gas properties

Balloonists or airmen

They go up and down

Balloon pilots, for example

Upper-atmosphere studier

""The study of the upper atmosphere, especially of regions of ionized gas.""

Gatwick banker (wordplay)

The Spitfire, for one

British flyer (wordplay)

Soaring business (wordplay)

Opera case (anagram)

One industry above the rest (wordplay)

Dirigibles, balloons, etc.

Balloons

The science or philosophy of causation

Feeling of fondness

Feeling of strong liking

Admiration of affectation from the army

Providing a fine crossing

Having enough money to bear the expense

24 down is what you might have been this, as you might say

Afforest

A fine figurehead ends oddly insulted

Offended by disrespect.

Offended one FBI operative about political group

Baptisms of fire, at the start USA's in round

Poison produced by food moulds; oxtail fan (anagram)

Raised above (wordplay)

Being the one previously mentioned

The one previously mentioned

Bursting, flow with great warm feeling

Light once the actual source has gone

Light in the sky post sunset

Last to be following the majority

Right at the back, yet wanting the lion's share

Perhaps I am never in time like this

On following no following amend, perhaps

Am finished before it starts (wordplay)

Book's epilogue

Concluding section in a book

Concluding part of book

Agalloch

Agalwood

Communist China, by U. N. vote of 44-7

The one who 'started it'

Beginner of a quarrel.

Agiotage

State of unrest

Rabble-rouser's activity

Attack of the fidgets.

That's sure to get one gone

A gait rots the stirrers

Sort of a gait for trouble, they are

Agitprop

Aglycone

Agnation

They just don't know

They don't know if God exists or not

Religious doubters

What 14 down is

Going in, as poorly and fretting

Very painful, really hurtful

Argumentative.

Kind of reappraisal

Painful

Of farm management

Pertaining to crop production

Like farming

Not concerned with the past

Havens for planes.

Orly, Le Bourget, etc.

Landing fields

""Capable of being transported and deployed, usually by helicopter, to a combat zone or from one site to another within a theater of operations: an airmobile infantry regiment.""

Airpower

Airproof

Safe to fly

How rarity may be fit to fly

Ready to take off

Wasted the bacon sandwiches I cut

HB1 around the rump

Cut of beef

Long-finned tunas

Fish bar so fancied up with lace

White-meat sources

Ornithological collar (wordplay)

Pacino's burden (wordplay)

Big bird's a hit, of course!

Albicore

Affected with albinism.

Albumose

One addicted to drink

Like some beverages

Person addicted to drink

Aldolase

Depending on chance

Draft pick venues (wordplay)

Round buildings (wordplay)

See a lush reeling round old pubs

Aleurone

Algaroba

A tree, the common mesquite

Algorism

Decision tree, for one

*Programmer's procedure

Netflix uses one to recommend you movies

Poor diplomat, say

Family outcast, perhaps

One causing estrangement

Severance package payments (wordplay)

Tender towards one's exes (wordplay)

Means of maintainance for former mates

Alkaloid

Plural or third person singular

All is ok (as suffering blood condition)

Of or pertaining to alkalosis.

Alkoxide

""Pertaining to, or contained in, the allantois.""

""A crystalline, transparent, colorless substance found in the allantoic liquid of the fetal calf; formerly called allantoic acid and amniotic acid. allantoic acid and amniotic acid.""

""Pl. allantoides ( l n-t -d z ) A membranous sac that develops from the posterior part of the alimentary canal in the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles. It is important in the formation of the umbilical cord and placenta in mammals. Also called allantoid .""

Creature seen later (wordplay)

Pogo's pal Albert, for one

Florida snapper (wordplay)

Like some funds

Set apart for a specific purpose

Bertie found leaving set aside

Assigned everybody at co-ed school

Assigns a place

Distributes

Assigns

Designated hitter finder (wordplay)

Distributor of resources

Budgeter, in a way

Being genetically different although belonging to or obtained from the same species: allogeneic tissue grafts.

""A graft of tissue obtained from a donor of the same species as, but with a different genetic make-up from, the recipient, as a tissue transplant between two humans. Also called homograft .""

Ghost writer's East End greeting on diagram (wordplay)

The study of the relative growth of a part of an organism in relation to the growth of the whole.

Everything and nothing - animated TV character's linguistic unit

Allopath

""Ecology Occurring in separate, nonoverlapping geographic areas. Often used of populations of related organisms unable to crossbreed because of geographic separation.""

""An amorphous, translucent, variously colored mineral, essentially hydrous aluminum silicate.""

""Any one of two or more speech sounds that considered variants of the same phoneme. For example, the p sounds of pin and spin are allophones of p; and the t sounds of toe stop and catnip are allophones of t.For example, the p sounds of pin and spin</it> are <ex>allophones</ex> of <it>p</it>; and the <it>t</it> sounds of <it>toe</it> <it>stop</it> and <it>catnip</it> are <ex>allophones</ex> of <it>t</it></as>.""

Of or involving a change in the shape and activity of an enzyme that results from molecular binding with a regulatory substance at a site other than the enzymatically active one.

Does this imply sharecropping (wordplay)

Share beds here (wordplay)

Tell man to make beds!

Grant painter graphite, perhaps

Distinct form of an element

One of two or more existing forms of an element

The property of existing in two or more conditions which are distinct in their physical or chemical relations.

Allottee

Allotter

Giving out plenty of metal in the lag

Dispensing tall gin to drunk

Putting aside, as time

Allotype

ALLOTYPE a type of {antibody=n}

Not improper.

Not banned

Aboveboard

In an allowable manner.

Per diem, perhaps

Kid's payoff (wordplay)

Share in ball, now dance all topless!

By allowance; admittedly.

Passing references or indirect mentions

Literary references

Passing references

Alluvion

Almonry

Poor accommodation (wordplay)

Old folks' home (once)

Home to the down-and-out

What autophobia is the fear of

State of seclusion

Singular quality

Close to the hypotenuse, say (wordplay)

Age-old sin (anagram)

Close to a hypotenuse (wordplay)

Distant character (wordplay)

Reserve foals one's to break

Lack of warmth of seals on rocks

Alopecia

Scenic beauty of Mont Blanc.

Swiss signaling instrument.

Swiss wind instrument

Instrument planner used round the house

South American plateau region

Plateau elevated on mountain with tail pieces

Singer swallows one proposal for the home of Titicaca

Of a common metallic element

Containing element #13

Alumroot

Alveolar

""Deeply pitted, like a honeycomb.""

Liqueurs used in "sour" cocktails

Almond-flavored liqueurs

Almond-flavoured liqueurs

Plural or third person singular

Blindness of a graduate neurosis: can't see Tyneside

Affected with amaurosis; having the characteristics of amaurosis.

Green variety of microcline

A green semiprecious stone

Green feldspar.

Amberoid

*Subject to interpretation

Open to differing interpretations

Of uncertain meaning

Aspirations, dreams

I'm not all there to want to get NNNNNNNNNN at last

'Although I'm not all there, is on it for them in the end (9)'

Greedy, getting stung by debts

Eager to advance.

Keen to succeed

Blindness

Of or pertaining to amblyopy.

Very delicious or fragrant

Fit for Olympian tastes.

Fit for the gods.

Ambrosia

A doctor starts reminiscing over sort of early photograph

Variant of amoebocyte .

Amelcorn

Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye.

Of or pertaining to ametropia.

Amidogen

Amitrole

Ammocete

Ammoniac

""A type of ammonia compound, also AMMINE, AMMONIATE""

No, I'm in the mates at sea - or was

Fossils, perhaps, of Jordanians (wordplay)

Mollusks' fossil shells

""AMMONITE the coiled shell of an extinct mollusk, also AMMONOID""

Ammonium

Ammonoid

Movement largely unconcerned with human rights (wordplay)

Lack of a sense of right and wrong

Lack of right and wrong

Lack of concern for right or wrong

Little cupids

Valentine figures

AMORIST a {lover=n}

Morals? You worry, in a loving way

How Casanovas make their moves

Morals you abandoned in passionate style

Not in shape (wordplay)

Without clearly defined shape

Without a clearly-defined shape

Written off over time

Mediators somehow paid debts

Amortise

Liquidated by periodic payments

Spread out, in a way

Wrote off gradually

Pays off, via a sinking fund.

Pays down incrementally

Puts money in a sinking fund.

Adding up (to)

Coming to a getting up (wordplay)

Being equivalent.

Hornblende

Ambiguous discourse; amphibology.

""A fishlike creature (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebr\'91, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc. (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebr\'91, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc.""

Amphipod

Amylogen

The diastase of the pancreatic juice.

Lack of muscle tone.

Process of molecular synthesis

Constriction workers (wordplay)

Predators of the Amazon

Large semi-aquatic boas

Bacteria, for example

Microorganisms that don't need oxygen

Many gastrointestinal tract residents

Lacking free oxygen

Like the bacteria in a septic tank

Causing an oxygen debt, as exercise

Anagogy

Bases of comparison

Some LSAT questions

Partial resemblances

One who seeks similarities

Explainer, of a sort

Debater who uses comparisons

Draw a comparison, in a way

Reason in a way

Like, with "to"

Comparable in certain respects

Similar opening about a trademark

Comparable things

Parallels.

Anaphora

Strange air Pancho adopts, referring back in this rhetorical fashion

Like the phrase "she's beauty, she's grace", in linguistics

Physical structures

Human bodies

Body structures

To dissect a very little matter is easy at first

A holder of the skeleton key (wordplay)

Bridie's dissector

One studying bodily structure

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