2-Letter Words Starting with A

The act of ascribing.

""A white, nitrogenous, crystallizable substance, C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; called also altheine. C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; called also altheine.""

Aspartame

Aspartate

Asperate

Instruments for sprinkling holy water

Implements for sprinkling holy water

""Pl. aspergilli (-j l ) Any of various fungi of the genus Aspergillus, which includes many common molds.""

Asperity

Disparaging remarks about rap session

They're often cast in soap operas

Slurs on a person's reputation

Asphalt

Asphaltic.

Asphaltum

ASPHERIC not spherical

Choke (to death)

After wrecking taxi he pays for throttle

Choke, but manage to pay his tax before the end of June

Huge house plant

Iris adapts, being adaptable plant

Plant rallied Ada's spirit

Pronouncing the "h" as in house

... to turn Paris into a dream, ...

Breathing in desire

Desire to Parisian is strange ...

Removers of some body fluids

Suction devices

Medical instruments removing fluids from cavities

Assumpsit

Guess feast day (wordplay)

Belief held without proof

Undertaking reform must pain so

As one might be, following tips resulting in cash hoarding

They're approachable (wordplay)

Lines that approach curves (but never touch them)

Type of curve, in math.

Feeling blue (wordplay)

Candles create a romantic one

Pervading tone or mood

Wasting away as a result of disease

Silver-plated souvenir at home is deteriorating

Inga wavering: accepting award or declining (wordplay)

Attemper

Good Twitter handle for a seductress (wordplay)

Against expectations

One predictably in a way deviating from the expected pattern

Bill takes pity, moving colleague in an unusual way

Emery phor buphs (wordplay)

One making a sound investment (wordplay)

Hi-fi fan.

Media for drivers

Driver's entertainment, sometimes

Dinosaurs next to the iPod

Like a double rainbow, perhaps

Encouraging suspect given new start

Rosy doubtful about substituting top

Novelist's craft (wordplay)

The Caine or the Pequod?

The Caine or the Pequod (wordplay)

Fan collection (wordplay)

Star signs (wordplay)

Collector's items.

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

Ones who'd never think of flying (wordplay)

Autopsy

Autotroph

""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.""

Autotypy

Auxotroph

AUXOTROPH

AXOPLASM the cytoplasm of an axon

Azeotrope

The ratio of absorbed to incident radiation.

Absorption

Acceptance

Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable.

Accepting

Hawkish marine, left motherless after accident, has another depression

Escorted

Plays along with

Goes along with current organisations

Goes with.

Consort pianist (wordplay)

Person who plays music for a soloist

Musician who cannot perform on his own

Fellow criminals from cosmic place, disorderly

Abettors

Acidophile

ACIDOPHILE

Acropetal

Acrophobia

Fortified heights in ancient Greece

Shiatsu

Complementary medicine using needles

Therapy which needs needles

Method of treatment with needles

Eg, films made from books

Rewritten compositions.

Certain plays.

The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.

Adeptness

Adiposity

Noun denoting doctrine or practice

ADOPTION the act of {adopting=v}

One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.

Adsorption

Aeciospore

Aepyornis

Afterpiece

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

Agoraphobe

Recluse's problem, maybe

Cause of some reclusion

Morbid fear of open spaces

Larval fruit flies with this gene never leave their eggshells

Cat fancier

One who hates or fears cats.

Delivering in flight, as military supplies

Airmanship

Airproof

""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.""

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

Of or pertaining to an allograph.

Of or pertaining to allomorphism.

Allopatry

""A drug, C 5 H 4 N 4 O, used to treat gout because it inhibits the synthesis of uric acid.""

Allotropy

Climbing gear.

ALPHABET a system of letters

Work on library cards

*Put in order, as files

Church art items

""A folic acid antagonist, C 19 H 20 N 8 O 5 , used as an antineoplastic agent. It has been mainly replaced by methotrexate.""

A white crystalline substance used as an analgesic and antipyretic.

In an ill-defined manner

Working in MPH, AA meet required speed

Mood-altering drug

Stimulant drug

Amphiboly

A metamorphic rock composed chiefly of amphibole and plagioclase.

""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.""

Amphibrach

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.

Amphimacer

Amphioxus

AMPHIPATH

Amphiphile

AMPHIPHILE

Amphiploid

AMPHIPLOID

A mythical serpent having a head at each end of its body.

Ampicillin

Ampleness

Amputation

""The outer portion of a starch granule consisting of insoluble, highly branched polysaccharides of high molecular weight.""

Amyloplast

Anabaptism

""Pl. anadiploses (-s z) Rhetorical repetition at the beginning of a phrase of the word or words with which the previous phrase ended; for example, He is a man of loyalty loyalty always firm.""

""A repetition of the last word or any prominent word in a sentence or clause, at the beginning of the next, with an adjunct idea; as, "He retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent." as, "He retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent."""

Analphabet

Plural or third person singular

Hypersensitivity (to a protein or drug) resulting from prior contact with a substance.

Anastrophe

Anemograph

Pl. anencephalies Congenital absence of most of the brain and spinal cord.

A description of blood vessels and lymphatics.

Surgery of the blood-vessels

Vessel treatment

Plants whose seeds are enclosed in an ovary

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

Anopheline

Antechapel

""Preceding marriage; as, an antenuptial agreement. as, an antenuptial agreement.""

The hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal.

Antepenult

Like or related to man; human.

Anthropoid

Anticipant

Expected; opposite of unanticipated and unexpected.unanticipated and unexpected.

Foretastes

Expects fun and games will be interrupted by one head

Foresees

Expectant one.

DUMPING the selling of large quantities of goods below market price

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

Antipathy

Antiphonal

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

Antiphony

PHRASES phrase

The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning; as when a court of justice is called a court of vengeance. court of vengeance.

Plural or third person singular

Antipodean

POPULAR something pleasing

POVERTY the state of being {poor=adj}

Non-patriots in revolt - being negative, they are charged

1991's word: Fever-preventing

Fever-reducing drug

Antipyrine

Applications for injury benefit, perhaps

Destroyers of microorganisms

Mercurochrome and others

""In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song. strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song.""

TYPHOID an infectious disease

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

A bit mad being in a separate room

Apartness

Huge herbivorous dinosaur

APHETIC pertaining to {aphesis=n}

Stimulant of desire

Substance that makes you hot

Something that stimulates desire

Laura cut lip raving about beekeeping

Apiculture

Apishness

Many doomsday cults predict them

Momentous, catastrophic

Translation of a Coptic play is outstanding

Copy capital letters - it could be a revelation

Penitent's defence of Christianity

A game soldier's in grand opening making excuses

Apologizer

APOLOGIZE To make an apology or defense.

A crystalline alkaloid obtained from morphia. It is a powerful emetic.

""Pl. aponeuroses (-s z ) A sheetlike fibrous membrane, resembling a flattened tendon, that serves as a fascia to bind muscles together or as a means of connecting muscle to bone.""

""Any one of the thicker and denser of the deep fasci\'91 which cover, invest, and the terminations and attachments of, many muscles. They often differ from tendons only in being flat and thin. See Fascia. Fascia.""

Of or pertaining to an aponeurosis.

Apophthegm

""A mineral relating to the zeolites, usually occurring in square prisms or octahedrons with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. It is a hydrous silicate of calcium and potassium.""

Rhetoric and Rhetorical Devices

"She had a heart-how shall I say?-too soon made glad . . . "

She had a hearthow shall I say?too soon made glad...

She had a heart-how shall I say?-too soon made glad . . .

""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.""

APOSTATISE

Apostatise

""APOSTATIZE To renounce totally a religious belief once professed; to forsake one's church, the faith or principles once held, or the party to which one has previously adhered.""

Apostatize

Church office Pat polishes after work

Apostolate

Edit perhaps, so to punctuation marks

Parts of some Irish names

Digressions in a speech.

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

To exalt to the dignity of a deity; to declare to be a god; to deify; to glorify.

Appalling

Soviet Communist Party bureaucrat

Bureaucrat, Russian style

Member of a Communist bureaucracy

Apparatus

Apparel

Haunted house inhabitants

Appealing

They can be deceiving

Arrivals; impressions

Outward impressions

Short-sighted type of government policy.

(Act of) placating by making concessions

Act of placating by making concessions

Pilot a plane quite new in style

Name state of North American mountain region

A very quiet woman morphed into just 'a name'

Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming.

APPERCEIVE To perceive; to comprehend.

Apperceive