2-Letter Words Starting with A

Time before life

Lifeless geological period

Word before period, era or eon

Eternal

Forming no angle

Without an angle

Not forming an angle.

Like a battery

Like the Lithium end of a battery

Like one of a battery's terminals

Socially unstable

Having nothing to breathe

Oxygen-deprived

valve (heart part)

Of a major artery

Relating to the main artery

Particularly energy-giving!

Radioactive Blondie song (wordplay)

I'm Cato (anagram)

Free of stress (wordplay)

Unaccented, as syllables

Debilitated by careless action

Like a hereditary condition

A thing you talk about, like an allergic reaction

African leader on summit in charge of type of allergic reaction

""Relating to an axon, also AXONAL""

Not local.

Of or containing nitrogen

Sans living organisms

Lifeless, as the moon

Dead, as a planet

Pertaining to loss of willpower

Occurring at sunset

Relating to weakness of the pulse

Like some heart-pumping workouts

Requiring free oxygen

(Of exercise) improving intake of oxygen

Like aloes

Of a pungent gas

Of one-celled animals

Roundish with an irregular border

Like some protozoa

Of a charged particle

Like negatively charged atoms

Like a negatively charged atom

Unable to smell

Mouthed but not spoken

Having to speak in whispers

Mouthed but unspoken

Lacking light

Lightless.

Pertaining to {apnea=n}

Relating to an apogee

Pertaining to {argot=n}

High-flying adjective (wordplay)

Like collision avoidance systems

Like airplane controls

Pertaining to {acetone=n}

Colorless.

Colorless

Of the presence of sour substances in the blood

Relating to a poisonous herb

What one plays pool with?

*Like a Taylor 810, say

What one plays pool with (wordplay)

Leaders in poetry, perhaps

Beginnings of poetry (wordplay)

Initial puzzle (wordplay)

Person acting so dubious (wordplay)

One who's not sure what's up (wordplay)

Doubter - coatings (anagram)

Relating to baldness

Pertaining to {amitosis=n}

Aromatic gum resin

Pertaining to the amnion

Fluid to protect an embryo

Of the embryo sac

Kind of fluid

Like some steroids

Type of steroid to increase muscle

Type of steroid

Pertaining to an {anagoge=n}

Being alike

Of bodily structure

Of the body

Structural as opposed to functional

Tending to absorb sound

Absorbing or deadening sound

Free from reverberation

Relating to an anodyne

One affected with loss of appetite

More than thin

Suffering from loss of appetite

Thinner than thin

Relating to three unequal oblique axes

Relating to a disorder of the blood

Pertaining to a verb tense

Relating to an apagoge

Relating to an apocope

Pertaining to {apogamy=n}

Smelly cat Moira maltreated!

Like peppermint oil, say

Having fragrance (of herb)

Acid boracic's turned into (wordplay)

Acid found in citrus fruits, vitamin C

- - acid: vitamin C

Relating to atrophia

Pertaining to an autopsy

""Relating to azotemia, also AZOTAEMIC""

Not biogenic; not produced by living organisms

Well-balanced, perhaps

Taking a tumble (wordplay)

Well-balanced (wordplay)

ACRONYM a word formed from initials

Doing stunts with airplanes

Of stunt flying

One in novel boat race having high jinks

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

Argumentative.

Of farm management

Pertaining to crop production

Like farming

Not concerned with the past

Affected with albinism.

One addicted to drink

Like some beverages

Person addicted to drink

Depending on chance

Of or pertaining to alkalosis.

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

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

ALLOTYPE a type of {antibody=n}

Affected with amaurosis; having the characteristics of amaurosis.

Of or pertaining to amblyopy.

Of or pertaining to ametropia.

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

AMORIST a {lover=n}

Lacking free oxygen

Like the bacteria in a septic tank

Causing an oxygen debt, as exercise

Strange air Pancho adopts, referring back in this rhetorical fashion

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

ANECDOTE a brief story

The absence of pleasure or the ability to experience it.

Anatomy The consolidation of bones or their parts to form a single unit.

Lacking appetite

Human error in pact with rhino

In opposition to one another

Like a venom neutralizer

Counteracting poison.

Does Auntie Tock get sick of such a cure (wordplay)

ANTONYM a word opposite in meaning to another

Radio epic broadcast irregularly

Not regular

Irregular

Same as Apodeictic. Apodeictic.

APOMICT an organism produced by reproduction

Pauline perhaps relating to preachers

Relating to the Pope

Unholy topic also concerning Pope

Less than molecular

Composed of simple elements

A cat is twitching, completely broken down (wordplay)

Golden garment on back of film needs training to relieve stress

""Of, pertaining to, or causing autolysis.""

Will it shoot itself (wordplay)

Occurring as a matter of course

Type of gun or car

Like a nervous system

Occurring involuntarily

Acting independently.

Of or pertaining to autotelism.

Taken for granted

Pertaining to self-evident truths

Of universally received principles

Colourless church with scent outside

Colorless.

A dreamer with no name embraces church, having no shade

Pertaining to an important science.

Pertaining to the science of air travel

Of plane navigation

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

Of or pertaining to allometry.

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

Of or pertaining to an allophone.

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.

Zero latitude given to everybody, in more than one form

Everything round earthly circle existing in more than one form

A couple of lines? Old line on map taking more than one form

Partly one and partly the other; neither acid nor alkaline; neutral.

""Effecting the conversion of starch into soluble dextrin and sugar; as, an amylolytic ferment. as, an amylolytic ferment.""

Discrepancy between the chronological order of events and the order in which they are related in a plot.

Kind of lens used by moviemakers

Reclusive.

Of or pertaining to androgens; having physiological effects like that of an androgen.

Pl. angiogeneses (-s z ) The formation of new blood vessels.

""ANORTHITE A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime feldspar. See Feldspar. Feldspar.""

Treatment for bacterial infections

Medicine destroying micro-organisms

Substance that destroys bacteria

DROMIC pertaining to a race-course

EROTIC an amatory poem

HEROIC an epic verse

POETIC pertaining to {poetry=n}

Preventing or reducing anxiety; antianxiety.

Inclined to quote maxims

Like an adage

Expressed pithily.

1. unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration

In a sorry state (wordplay)

With hat in hand, perhaps

So sorry and disturbed, to ogle a pic

8 captain briefly could get mad

Red with rage

Overcome with anger

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

Intended to ward off evil: an apotropaic symbol.

""ARAGONITE A mineral identical in composition with calcite or carbonate of lime, but differing from it in its crystalline form and some of its physical characters.""

ASCOCARP a spore-producing organ of certain fungi

ASCOSPORE One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi.

ASTROCYTE a large star-shaped neuroglial cell in nervous tissue.

Sky-high (colloq.)

Extremely large (colloq.)

It can be so romantic - really great!

Type of curve, in math.

(Physics / General Physics) caused or produced by sound or an audio frequency an audiogenic epileptic fit

Adjective (-ic)

Having absolute power

Like Holmes's breakfast-table man

Croatia cut out being dictatorial

""Sexually self-satisfying, as by masturbation.""

AXOPLASM the cytoplasm of an axon

Of or pertaining to achondrite.

ACIDOPHILE

Having a subterminal centromere

""A chronic disease of adults marked by enlargement of the bones of the extremities, face, and jaw that is caused by overactivity of the pituitary gland.""

Relating to air in motion.

Having a drag-reducing shape

Streamlined academy in row sadly with week to go

Adjective (-ic)

Larval fruit flies with this gene never leave their eggshells

English word

Of or pertaining to an algorithm.

Of or pertaining to an allograph.

Of or pertaining to allomorphism.

Abnormal suppression or absence of menstruation.

Lacking grammatical sequence.

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

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

Of or pertaining to aniseikonia.aniseikonia.

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

MITOTIC pertaining to {mitosis=n}

Stimulant of desire

Substance that makes you hot

Something that stimulates desire

Momentous, catastrophic

Translation of a Coptic play is outstanding

Copy capital letters - it could be a revelation

Of or pertaining to an aponeurosis.

""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.""

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

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

Astronomy

Of or pertaining to astronautics.

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

'Hi!' to campers (anagram)

Armpits echo (anagram)

Of air; conveying special mood

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

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

""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.""

AUXOTROPH

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.

Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.

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

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

(used with a sing. verb) The science of magnetic characteristics associated with atmospheric conditions.

The inhibition of growth in one species of plants by chemicals produced by another species.

Adjective (-ic)

""Of or pertaining to the Amphictyons or their League or Council; as, an Amphictyonic town or state; the Amphictyonic body. as, an Amphictyonic town or state; the Amphictyonic body.""

""Centered or focused on men, often to the neglect or exclusion of women: an androcentric view of history; an androcentric health-care system.""

ANDROGEN a male sex hormone

Blood and Blood Vessels

""Causing loss of appetite; as, an anorectic (or anorexigenic) drug.as, an anorectic (or anorexigenic) drug.""

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

Little colonizer in torment (wordplay)

Little colonizer in torment?

Stupid giant's action showing opposition

Of or pertaining to an anticyclone; moving in the opposite direction of a cyclone.

DOGMATIC overbearing

ECONOMIC relating to finance

ENTROPIC pertaining to {entropy=n}

ROMANTIC a fanciful person

Of or pertaining to an antistrophe.

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

""Free from chromatic and spherical aberration; -- said esp. of a lens in which rays of three or more colors are brought to the same focus, the degree of achromatism thus obtained being more complete than where two rays only are thus focused, as in the ordinary achromatic objective.""

APOTHEGM a pithy saying

Satiric actor playing noble

Of the nobility

Satiric actor turning 'blue'

ARTHROSCOPE

Showing no symptoms of disease.

AUTODIDACT One who is selftaught; an automath.

Pert. to autohypnotism; self-hypnotizing.