2-Letter Words Starting with A

Apolune

Apomict

Apomixis

In biology, the omission of sexual fusion in reproduction

A change in root vowels of verb forms

A curve in a column

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

Unfolded one (wordplay)

The traitor is a pilot officer, say

Defector - a Petty Officer, say

Marginal notes

Their Acts are authorised!

The Twelve - or a Cambridge society

Zebedee's sons.

A spore-producing organ of fungi

Terse witty saying

Short saying

Saw the map go awry

Polygon perpendiculars

Shocked and horrified

Took off cloak in disgusted condition

Deeply shocked, filled with dismay

Perk up, dad - face life's later years!

Grant to a priest for a time

Natural adjunct.

Communist party structures

Political power structures

Dresses

Dad backing Mum perhaps - it's obvious

Seeming to be a quiet dad maybe

Visible - plain - presumable

Was attractive (to)

Asked out (wordplay)

Pleaded in an attractive way (wordplay)

Advocate.

Made it, say

Seemed like a priest equipped to listen

Came into view

No longer raging

Made concessions to

Changed a deep sap and mollified

One who gives in easily

Chamberlain, by reputation

Neville Chamberlain, to his critics

Placates vegan primates (wordplay)

Emulates Neville Chamberlain

Brings calm to

Temporary winner at court

A confessed criminal who accuses an accomplice

Added at end

At the end, a prienst finished

Added as a supplement

Literary supplement (wordplay)

Book end (wordplay)

Something added or removed (wordplay)

Hunger trigger

Pertaining to desire.

Of the nature of desire.

Food drive (wordplay)

Desire (for food)

Intake regulator (wordplay)

Goes like the clappers!

How Paul makes a clap with a pad

Gives a hand to

Appreciative round (wordplay)

Standing O, say

Clapping US appeal (wordplay)

Paintbrushes and such

Human resources department visitors

Ones hoping to get in

Sewn-on design, perhaps

Designs on you, perhaps

Design sewed on material

Putting into service or asking for a job

Putting into practice

Is a priest being truthful in asking for the job (wordplay)

Initially places in a post, perhaps

Hires a new manager to get points!

Selects to fill a position

Apposer

Placing side by side

Applying seal to a document

Next-door

Suitable place by a quiet river in Italy

Tip Aesop may give is fitting

A quiet river location, well chosen

Evaluate and pop back to say it's good

Assess the value/quality of (something)

Assess value of (something)

Informed how a priest dries

Kept in the know

A beloved, it's said, must be informed

One who'll fill you in

Keeps in the loop

Opposite of "keeps in the dark"

Makes aware of

Valued

""One who informs, also APPRISER""

Apprize

Get close to

Come near - means of access

Near a swimmer, keeping very quiet

Thumbs up for it!

It may come with a stamp

Trying to get on this

A very quiet ramble daughter agreed to

Loan application stamp

Agreed to a very quiet ramble with duke

One signing off

FDA, vis-a-vis Pfizer products

One who gives permission

Thinks well of or authorises

Gives the high sign

Stamps, maybe

Celestial conjunctions

""Unable to perform voluntary bodily movements, also APRAXIC""

Apraxia

Fruit crop? It's a disaster!

Car is top (anagram)

Shades of orange

Apron

A bare patch on a bird's skin

Without wings.

Wingless.

A diet put out for fitness

Tied up at work acquiring proficiency

Natural ability or skill

Apyrase

Absence of fever

Chief food-fish of the Amazon

Giant river fish of S. America.

Very large tropical fish

Opera gig (anagram)

Passing notes (wordplay)

Concert run (wordplay)

A spore-producing organ of certain fungi

A sapling used as a walking stick

Tackling Alp, hasn't a walking stick

Never, never split transverse stick

Aglow

Make rough or harsh

Roughen, old style

Religious ceremony of sprinkling.

Holy water-sprinkling rite

The sprinkling of holy water presages disaster

Cooking tripe, say, may lead to acrimony

The peas I try with a bad grace

Harshness or severity of manner

Sprinkled in the way of uppish Desmond

Damaged a reputation

Besmirched, in a way

One who runs a smear campaign

Vilifying villain

He accuses falsely, as the ship's officer said

Spreads false charges against

Throws mud at

Slings mud at

""One who asperses, also ASPERSER""

Does some paving

Tars stop, surrounded by snakes

Some road covers

Chips are all over the place, but not totally global

Shop deal (anagram)

Lad hopes (anagram) - flower

Hope lad's cultivated lily

Suffocation from lack of air in lungs

Deprivation of oxygen

Death by suffocation

One works hard to achieve something

One with a goal

Partisan assembly produces a candidate

A breathed sound like "ph" or "th"

Say hi to my favourite snake (wordplay)

Say the "h" in "historical," say

Say "hitch," for example

Goal-oriented sorts

They have high hopes

Wishful ones

Cold-blooded killer I call ambitious!

*Wedding band made by Apple (wordplay)

Aiming for fresh pairings

Medicine chest occupants.

Two are often prescribed

Bayer and St. Joseph

A wasting away of body parts

Relating to atrophia

Declare view after concocting rat poison

Drug left over stopping boundless hurt

Compound used to dilate the pupil

Atropin

Toxic condition of armpit - so revolting!

Diseased state

A term pet used to adapt old style

Modify by mixture.

How trying they are!

One is so trying!

How trying that pest, Matt, can be!

Deviating from what is usual or common

Like an unusual occurrence

Not run-of-the-mill

Signs that gold adds excitement!

Gold adds piquancy to patronage

Omens or patronage for USA epics

Pertaining to an autopsy

Facsimile

A photographic printing process

The cytoplasm of an axon

Abampere

Abrupt

""A sudden, violent separation""

""All cnidarians (jellyfishes) collectively, compare ACALEPH, ACALEPHAN, ACALEPHE""

Acalephe

Accepting; receiving.

Acceptee

Yes-men, maybe (wordplay)

Recipients

That says one will

Being no refuse here, it seems

Save for the sound

Fit for acceptance.

Acceptor

A hawk

Hawk shows caprice flying - the thing must be caught

Escort to affirm (wordplay)

Play second fiddle to, in a way

Travel along with

Growing well in an acid medium: acidophilic bacteria.

Like certain flowers in a batch - dead, gone over

(Of leaves and flowers) developing upwards from the base or point of attachment

Like the arrangement of some flowers in a batch with others

One who hates heights

Athens landmark arise (nonverbal)

Where the Parthenon was built.

Literally, "highest city"

Of flexible nature.

American with bald pate oddly plastic

Good at fitting in to new circumstances

Panda is to evolve in Darwinian processes

Ability without difficulty

Dud and Pete's singular skill

Savior-faire

Biological word for a fat-storing cell

Fat cell

Idiot pays criminal for property of 6 23

Fatty nature

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

Adscript

Giant flightless bird once found in Madagascar

Gatwick banker (wordplay)

The Spitfire, for one

British flyer (wordplay)

Soaring business (wordplay)

Opera case (anagram)

One industry above the rest (wordplay)

Unlooked-for ending

Surprise blow following affair thought ended.

Agitprop

Agraphia

Agrypnia

Delta force (wordplay)

United ways (wordplay)

Jet set (wordplay)

Airpower

Airproof

Part of the "open skies" plan.

National security concerns

Jurisdictional atmospheric areas

Places for flight patterns

Airspeed

Where fighter jets touch down

Landing spots in the jungle

Small landing fields

Fatty.

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

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>.""

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.

Allotype

ALLOTYPE a type of {antibody=n}

Allspice

Alopecia

Scenic beauty of Mont Blanc.

Swiss signaling instrument.

Swiss wind instrument

Instrument planner used round the house

Complete sets of letters

Complete assortments of letters.

Sets of runes

Alpinism

Climbers in Switzerland

Climbers of Swiss peaks

Certain mountain climbers.

South American plateau region

Plateau elevated on mountain with tail pieces

Singer swallows one proposal for the home of Titicaca

Blindness

Of or pertaining to amblyopy.

A doctor starts reminiscing over sort of early photograph

Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye.

Of or pertaining to ametropia.

Maids wiggling coxae halfway to 23

In centre of vessel

Centrally on board

Not in shape (wordplay)

Without clearly defined shape

Without a clearly-defined shape

Current measures

... and Pan's Dream, perhaps

Thelma & Louise character (wordplay)

Barnes & Noble link (wordplay)

Swimmer able to do the crawl (wordplay)

A suitable vehicle for Kermit (wordplay)

Sea-going jeep

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

Largeness

A rotating magnetic amplifier with specialized windings that allow small changes in power input to produce large changes in power output.

More voluminous (wordplay)

Made louder

Intensified

Device used to increase sound

Device to boost sound levels

Part of a plane detector.

that makes more of it, by the sound of it

An attenuator decreases it

Maximum extent of signal or vibration

On a radio, the A in AM

Resembling an ampulla.

I'm placed and cut off over a boy

So I'm placed to have cut off the date

I'm placed next to a boy yet cut off

Removes limbs surgically

Surgically removes limbs

Prunes

The diastase of the pancreatic juice.

Anaglyph

Can pet ail awfully? Here's a drug

Restorative

Invigorating

Fractured a peasant's feet

Metric feet of three syllables.

Feet of a girl with vermin we hear

Like some poetic feet

Anaphase

Of or pertaining to anaphase.

Anaphora

Strange air Pancho adopts, referring back in this rhetorical fashion

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

""Loss of structural differentiation within a cell or group of cells often with increased capacity for multiplication, as in a malignant tumor.""

Having a chromosome number that is not a multiple of the haploid number for the species.

Anglepod

Anoopsia

Mosquito of a genus of the same name

Germ-bearing mosquito

There's a seal around the phone for this fly-by-night with a bite

Bucks maybe before long, easy strides

Fast bucks (wordplay)

Hill dweller runs away to Bucks, perhaps

Antepast

Antetype

Human error in pact with rhino

Like Henry VIII, religiously

An inclination a friend has to be Protestant (wordplay)