2-Letter Words Starting with A

Hey there, sailor!

'Sup, salt (wordplay)

Chips follower (wordplay)

Waiting, for the impatient, say

Defeated one's feeling?

Waiting for the impatient say

Bronze or brass, perhaps

Heavy metal mix, perhaps

White gold, for one

Keep poking perhaps

Keep poking, perhaps

Send incessant texts, say

Breakdown of societal norms (var.)

State of being without law and order.

An unprecedented thing; a miracle.

Tiny particle, old style

Tiny particle old style

Tiny thing

Lack of phonetic stress.

Lack of muscle tone

Lack of vital energy

Predisposition toward developing allergies

S. A. rodent variable

S. A. rodent Var.

Containing a univalent radical of alkyl with oxygen

Large merchant ship (poetic)

Tempting prize for pirates

Old pulp magazine

The art of heraldry

Building with a drill hall

National Guard HQ

A worry erupted about missiles

Of straight pointed missiles

Swift; piercing

""To amaze or shock, also ASTONISH, ASTONE""

Top monk's position, old-style

Abbey leadership

Ex change? (pretend it's paid in coins)

Split cost (wordplay)

Cost of leaving (wordplay)

Place where charity is given

Without much warmth

Fool lay about in an unsocial way

In a reserved way.

Like a Romeo's adventures

Like one in love

Romantic morning meeting a Conservative

""A mystical interpretation, also ANAGOGE""

Explainer's aid

Where "is to" is used

Resemblance of things.

Grey's matter (wordplay)

Make-up (whichever covers a cat)

Gray's area (wordplay)

Caesar salad morsel, maybe

Pizza-topping fish

Pizza topping choice

Departure from the common rule

Odd one out

Cousin of a paradox.

Lack of appetite

Who wants to try (wordplay)

Do I have a volunteer (wordplay)

Someone with a guess (wordplay)

A form of plant reproduction

Saying sorry; poor specimen

"My bad," for one

Guilty plea (wordplay)

Store of weapons

Militia protecting our weapons store

The military impound our weapons

That award, perhaps, may waste away

Waste away (from disuse?)

Decline an Oscar (wordplay)

Pays out (anagram)

Engineer, say, up to late examination

US to pay out for last exam (wordplay)

Away from the mouth

Acronym I made out of bitterness

Cross a shout about where I am on

Bitterness, ill feeling

Making an increase

How tots perform recitals

In a captivating way.

In a charming manner.

With skill - dilatory (anagram)

Cleverly laid Tory off

Skilfully manipulate idolatry

Recommended but not compulsory

Like some boards

In the position of a back-seat driver (wordplay)

Public support (for something)

Pleading in support (of someone)

Support of a cause

Study of the atmosphere

Study of phenomena on high

Plant border in a bad way

Plant with yellow flower-spikes

Suffering to grasp edge of plant

Scientific study of soils

Dirty work (wordplay)

Such a cultivated groan - Goodness me!

Cultivation of the groan - Goodness me!

Pertaining to luck, lotteries, etc

Depending on luck.

Depending on luck

The study of algae

"The Tortoise and the Hare," for one

The Tortoise and the Hare, for one

Animal Farm, for one

Cross-fertilization

The condition of being a allotype

To treat with ammonia

A doctor's meeting (loosely)

How a psychopath behaves

In a nonvirtuous way

In the manner of an anode

Disease-fighting protein

Biological immunity agent

Kind of test

Contradiction in terms.

Metallic element used in alloys

Its symbol is Sb.

Brittle bluish-white element

What's upsetting to many in a paradox

A legal contradiction

A contradiction between two reasonable beliefs

Contrariness, wordwise

Manny R's friend gets stuck into some opposition

The study of bees

The state of being an apocarp

A change in root vowels of verb forms

Eruption of furious anger (colloq.)

Stroke (former name)

Inability to speak through anger

Reproduction without spore formation

""Abandonment of one's faith or beliefs, also APOSTASY""

Desertion from a job, say? Possibly

Renunciation of faith

Desertion of faith

The study of the planet Mars

In a keyless way (wordplay)

How keyless music is written

Without any key, in music

Wretched work of art: colloq.

Type of inhuman treatment

Town behind doctored schedule of horror

Right guard (wordplay)

Suit specialist in New York (wordplay)

No treaty (anagram)

Car blue, in one sense (wordplay)

Kind of memory

Via the ears

Self-fertilization

Spontaneous generation

Independence, freedom to govern

Freedom encourages my aunt to keep ducks

'Independence, self-sufficiency (8)'

Casting off part of animal's body in escape bid

A photographic printing process

In an avowable manner

Said to be a promising beginning

As has been acknowledged

With frankness

Theory of moral or aesthetic values

Hat or handbag, say

John Oates, to Daryl Hall (wordplay)

Trapping criminal associate (wordplay)

Escort to affirm (wordplay)

Play second fiddle to, in a way

Travel along with

Idiot pays criminal for property of 6 23

Fatty nature

In a worshipping manner

With much love.

One way to gaze

Excessively flattering

When almost grown-up, a politician is flattering

Sycophantic

The science or philosophy of causation

Safe to fly

How rarity may be fit to fly

Ready to take off

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

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

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.

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

In an allowable manner.

By allowance; admittedly.

Lack of a sense of right and wrong

Lack of right and wrong

Lack of concern for right or wrong

Morals? You worry, in a loving way

How Casanovas make their moves

Morals you abandoned in passionate style

Ambiguous discourse; amphibology.

Subject explored in "The Crying Game"

Subject explored in 'The Crying Game'

Hermaphroditism

Hate to say I'm in disarray

Is no amity (wordplay)

Timon, I say, is disposed to hate

Reproduction by the union or fusion of two differing gametes (especially differing in size).

Witness protection plan (wordplay)

A negative over my tiny lack of a name

State of being unknown or nameless

Treasury of sorts

From Greece, a bouquet of verse, perhaps

Collection of poems

For the real thing (wordplay)

Against bogus responses

Call-and-response singing

STORY to relate an account of an event

In a tense way

With an uneasy feeling

With apprehension

State of being deductive.

With great effort

Dixon line (wordplay)

How stars can make a fortune, perhaps

A house study (wordplay)

Celestial sphere (wordplay)

Roman toys (anagram)

Tory moans (anagram)

Quality of Bartok's music

Feature of the 1925 opera "Wozzeck"

Lack of a key center, in music

The measurement of hearing.

Hoyle, for one

Write on sex with variable confidence

Writer's got it - 'unknown power'

Absolute government by one person

Dictatorship, e.g

One-man rule.

AVOID to {evade=v}

So as to cause wonder

In an unusual manner.

Friend embraces British woman in opera in unusual manner

In an abominable manner; very odiously; detestably.

In an abortive or untimely manner; immaturely; fruitlessly.

Sure wobbly as belly out!

I wholly agree!

Okay by me!

""ABSORB to suck in, also SORB""

Terrycloth quality

Receptive nature of abbey treated with scorn

""Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel. as, an accusatory libel.""

Chronic enlargement of the extremities and face.

In an actionable manner.

Containing an adjuration.

Fussy day monitor giving a reprimand

Conveying a reprimand

Warning politician, I'd moan terribly at the start

ADOPTIVE that adopts

AFFORD to bear the expense

ALOGICAL outside the domain of logic

ALVEOLAR the sound produced by the tongue behind the front teeth

Up and about

Not bedridden

Moving about

Corrective

Corrective final word offered by US lawyer to politician

Measuring wind speed

ANEUPLOID

""A discourse on angels, or a body of doctrines in regard to angels.""

Not isotropic.

How older siblings tend to perceive things said by younger siblings

ANODIC pertaining to an {anode=n}

In an anterior manner; before.

A drug he's no right to carry (wordplay)

Nameless "Romeo and Juliet" character

Character in "Romeo and Juliet."

APPOSITE {relevant=adj}

APPROVE to regard favourably

ARBOREAL tree-dwelling

Study of past human culture

Prehistoric-culture study

ARMORIAL a book of coats-of-arms

All modesty aside

Completely holding game up with hubris

""The art of making measurements among the stars, or of determining their relative magnitudes.""

The relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times.

With regards to nuclear energy

How a nation with nukes is armed

The measurement of hearing.

AUDITOR one who {audits=v}

The branch of ecology that deals with the biological relationship between an individual organism or an individual species and its environment.

The science of autographs; a person's own handwriting; an autograph.

""AUTOTROPH an organism which is autotrophic, i. e., an organism (such as most plants and certain microorganisms) which are capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances, requiring only minerals as nutrients for growth, and using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; the energy required is derived from photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Opposed to heterotroph. See also auxotroph.autotrophic, i. e., an organism (such as most plants and certain microorganisms) which are capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances, requiring only minerals as nutrients for growth, and using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; the energy required is derived from photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Opposed to heterotroph. See also auxotroph.""

AUXOTROPH

Abdominal

Broth nearly spilt in a repugnant way

In an awful way

So as to inspire loathing

ABIOTIC relating to absence of life

Pertaining to ablution.

It's odd what a morality ban can produce

Aberrant feature

Deviance

Absorbing

In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; followed by with or to. with or to.

Bungee jumping is fun

Thus

In an accountable manner.

Practice needed for balancing acts

Profession dealing with finance

Acropetal

The measurement of the force of solar radiation.

A girl, British one aflame with yen to show appeal to her man (wordplay)

AEROBIC requiring free oxygen

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

Botany The asexual formation of embryos and seeds without the occurrence of fertilization.

With extreme anguish or desperate struggles.

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

Equivocally.

In an ambitious manner.

After the manner of ambrosia; delightfully.

In an ill-defined manner

""A phrase, discourse, or proposition, susceptible of two interpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. It differs from equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term. equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term.""

A league of states of ancient Greece; esp. the celebrated confederation known as the Amphictyonic Council. Its object was to maintain the common interests of Greece.

AMPHIPLOID

Analogous

Anecdotal

A description of blood vessels and lymphatics.

Surgery of the blood-vessels

Vessel treatment

In an anomalous manner.

Without giving a name

How some gifts are given.

Relating to or causing the suppression of ovulation: an anovulatory drug.

Antidotal

""LEPROSY a chronic disease with skin lesions and deformities, also LEPRA""

OBESITY the condition of being obese

""A book containing a collection of antiphons; the book in which the antiphons of the breviary, with their musical notes, are contained.""

POVERTY the state of being {poor=adj}

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

Having the property of applying; applicative; practical.

Containing or expressing approbation; commendatory.

Approving

Study of ancient artifacts

Study of old remains

Study of history through remains

Rule by the best.

Upper class, nobility

Elevated types carry a cost I fancy

AROMATIC a fragrant substance

Any disease of the joints.

ARTHROSCOPE

Assiduous

Extremely badly

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

Adverb