2-Letter Words Starting with A

Ate in dapper-fashion, that could have been relevant

Appetency

Worthy of being applauded.

APPLAUD to express approval by clapping the hands

Applesauce

Request for hard work

Computer program requiring diligence

Formal request; sustained effort

Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical.

Applicator

Having the property of applying; applicative; practical.

Applique

Date with a very soft salve

A very subdued application for a date

German city

Doled out

Apposition

Appositive

Large enough to be noticed

Enough to be taken into account

Paper round gets Puck into Telegraph? That's significant

""APPRECIABLE Capable of being appreciated or estimated; large enough to be estimated; perceptible; as, an appreciable quantity. as, an appreciable quantity.""

Became more valuable

Was grateful for

Appreciate

One who values

Caught her up, put on manacles

Understood to be arrested

Got arrested

Employed to learn a trade

Apprentice

English word

Approach

APPROBATE Approved.

It begins Our Father

Acclaim - applause

(Official) approval

Containing or expressing approbation; commendatory.

Suitable to take for one's own use

Acquire something suitable (wordplay)

Take to be suitable

Approving

Appear to mix badly? Almost right!

Not totally precise

Rough (figure)

Accessory.

Germane

Apriority

Suitable; fit.

Aquaplaner

Sliding over a wet surface

Wearers of pallia

English word

Key chain (wordplay)

Fiji, for example

Hawaii, i.e.

Archpriest

ARPEGGIATE

Arpeggiate

Any disease of the joints.

""Any of numerous invertebrate animals of the phylum Arthropoda, including the insects, crustaceans, arachnids, and myriapods, that are characterized by a chitinous exoskeleton and a segmented body to which jointed appendages are articulated in pairs.""

""Pl. arthroscopies Examination of the interior of a joint, such as the knee, using a type of endoscope that is inserted into the joint through a small incision.""

ARTHROSCOPE

""A bacterial resting cell, -- formerly considered a spore, but now known to occur even in endosporous bacteria.""

A skilled manual worker; a craftsperson.

Ascription

ASEPTIC an aseptic substance

Asparagine

The brush used in the Roman Catholic church for sprinkling holy water on the people.

ASPERGILL

Asphaltite

Killed by oxygen starvation

Bit in papers after a small dose of drug reportedly caused death

Choked

Asphyxiate

Cast-iron plants

House plants.

Hopes for the future.

Hopes

Things taken for granted

Across a ship from side to side.

""ATMOSPHERE The whole mass of a\'89riform fluid surrounding the earth; applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars. as, the atmosphere of Mars.""

Ambiances

'Hi!' to campers (anagram)

Armpits echo (anagram)

Of air; conveying special mood

Attemper

""Capable of being attempted, tried, or attacked.""

""ATYPICAL not typical, also ATYPIC""

Lovers of high-fidelity sound

Authorship

Adverb

Like books that may fetch a higher resale value

Signed

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

System of imperial weights

This often puts up a good front.

Pounds/ounces system of weights

(Medicine / Pathology) Pathol absence of spermatozoa in the semen azoospermic   adj AZOOSPERMIC (Medicine / Pathology) Pathol absence of spermatozoa in the semen azoospermic   adj BACILLAEMIA (Medicine / Pathology) Pathol the presence of bacilli in the blood

Abruptness

Absorptance

Absorptiveness.

Acceptation

Accipitrine

Pianists playing second fiddle (wordplay)

Accompany

Pulled off top

Done - with a high degree of skill

Having particular skills

One who accomplishes.

Accomplish

""Botany Capable of being divided into equal halves along any diameter, as the flowers of the rose or tulip; radially symmetrical.""

Acupressure

Acupuncture

Possibility of being modified

Openness to change

Having a capacity for adaptation. Opposed to maladaptive.maladaptive.

The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.

Adaptivity

""(tr) (Law) Law to bring (a person) into a specific relationship, esp to take (another's child) as one's own child""

Adoptianism

Adoptionism

Adoptionist

Agapanthus

Agoraphobia

Agoraphobic

Ailurophile

Ailurophobe

Allelomorph

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

The property which constitutes an allomorph; the change involved in becoming an allomorph.

Allopurinol

One sort of order

Related to 26 characters

Like letters in CHIMPS and BIJOUX

""ALPHABETIZE To arrange alphabetically; as, to alphabetize a list of words. as, to alphabetize a list of words.""

""ALPHABETIZE To arrange alphabetically; as, to alphabetize a list of words. as, to alphabetize a list of words.""

Alphabetize

Using words and numbers

Using A-Z and 0-9

Referring to both characters and figures

Aminopterin

Aminopyrine

Adjective (-ic)

Speed, uppers etc

Meet a ship with man excited by drugs

Speed is one of them

Like an amphibious being.

Amphibolite

""AMPHIBRACH A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (\'de -- \'de); as, h. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet\'b6ic.h. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet\'b6ic.""

""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.""

Having a diploid set of chromosomes derived from each parent.

Amphisbaena

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

Large oval stadium with tiers

Hollywood Bowl, for example

Amylopectin

ANALPHABETE

Of or pertaining to anaphylaxis; caused by anaphylaxis.

Plural or third person singular

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Veterinary Science) another name for gallsickness ANDROCLINIUM pl -clinia [-ˈklɪnɪə] (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) another name for clinandrium [New Latin, from andro- + -clinium, from Greek klinē slope; see clino- ]""

English word

""An anchorman or anchorwoman.. The anchorperson usually begins the broadcast, discusses certain topics, and introduces new topics, which may be discussed by other reprorters, especially when the report is recorded or broadcast from a location other than the main broadcast studio.anchorman or anchorwoman.. The anchorperson usually begins the broadcast, discusses certain topics, and introduces new topics, which may be discussed by other reprorters, especially when the report is recorded or broadcast from a location other than the main broadcast studio.""

Pollinated by the wind; -- of flowering plants; especially grasses etc.

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

Aneuploidy

Blood and Blood Vessels

Anisotropy

Not isotropic.

Antependium

""Lit., fond of flowers; hence, feeding upon, or living among, flowers.""

The study of man

Study of humankind

Study of human beings and their way of life

ANTICIPATE To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.

Carly Simon tune

Foretaste - expectancy

Expectation, prediction

Anticipator

Thinking ahead, snap up article dividing Labour (wordplay)

ENTROPIC pertaining to {entropy=n}

EPILEPSY a disorder of the nervous system

MONOPOLY exclusive control or power

NEPOTISM favouritism shown to a relative

Running in a contrary direction.

Positron in relation to an electron, say

Eg, a positron

Positron, for example

I pitch a tent abroad without assent, initially causing bad blood

Opposed to upsetting Tina with old newsreel from jerk

Antiphonal

Plural or third person singular

""PLEASURE to give enjoyment or satisfaction to, also PLEASE""

POACHING encroachment

POLITICS the science of government

PREDATOR one that {plunders=v}

PRURITIC pertaining to {pruritus=n}

Antipyretic

SPENDING the act of spending

Antistrophe

Of or pertaining to an antistrophe.

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

APERIODIC

Aphrodisiac

International sect controlled by a dogmatic type, one supervising workers

Noun denoting doctrine or practice

Person associated with (-ist)

""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.""

In an apocryphal manner; mythically; not indisputably.

Apolitical

Apomorphine

Apophyllite

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.""

Apostleship

The state or quality of being apostolical.

Revise trophies behind a point of sale for writer's way of saying he owns it

Shorten a word

Address an imaginary person

Former purveyor of medicines

Might they offer a drug to the man with an oral problem (wordplay)

Medical suppliers giving a drug to the man facing decay

APOTHEGM a pithy saying

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

Apotheosize

Members of a communist bureaucracy

Apparatchik

Plainness to the eye or the mind; visibleness; obviousness.

Pertaining to an apparition or to apparitions; spectral.

Appeasement

Names said to be used for mountains

Local handles Ctes du Rhne Villages and Chteauneuf-du-Pape

Local handles C?tes du Rh?ne Villages and Ch?teauneuf-du-Pape

Appellative

Intestinal operation

Abdominal operation

Certain surgery

Plural or third person singular

Painful abdominal inflammation

Inflammation of intestinal sac

Inflammation of abdominal sac

Relating to an appendicle; appendiculate.

APPERCEIVE To perceive; to comprehend.

""The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states; perception that reflects upon itself; sometimes, intensified or energetic perception.""

Conscious perception with full awareness.

Appertain

Appetizing

Computer programs

Optician's pal designed computer programs

They arrive for the job and are put to work in the computer department

Embellishing musical note [2005]

Appointment

Sharing out