2-Letter Words Starting with A

Aptness

Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition syntactically.

Appositive

Process of assessing

Pressure to mark up people in fitting evaluation

Appraising

APPRECIATE To set a price or value on; to estimate justly; to value.

Going up in one's estimation (wordplay)

Gratitude; increase in value

Acknowledgment of rise in value

Showing gratitude

Thankful for backing Evita with epic rap melody

In someone's debt for treasure around island - it's a sign

Appreciator

""Showing appreciation; appreciative; as, appreciatory commendation. as, appreciatory commendation.""

Apprehend

Fear taking (wordplay)

Fear, perhaps, in one that's disturbed

Taking fright (wordplay)

Even I, perhaps, could be afraid

Even I, perhaps, could become so fearful

Anxious, perhaps even worried about one

Setting to work to learn from a master.

""Pl -ria [-rɪə] (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany a flattened hypha of a parasitic fungus that penetrates the host tissues [from New Latin, from Latin appressus ; see appressed ]""

Easy to meet or deal with

Easy to talk with

Easy to talk to

Acts of praise

""Capable of being appropriated, set apart, sequestered, or assigned exclusively to a particular use.""

Taken without permission or consent especially by public authority.

Appropriate

One liberates all but last of fit soldiers

Came close to

Reckoned without precision as a quietly expert team won game

Approximate

Accessory (linked to a particular activity)

Net can be fitted in a quietly perfect accessory

Accessory developing rut in a quiet act of mortification

Appurtenant

Of or pertaining to an archespore.

A primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops.

With reference to the archetype; originally. "Parts archetypally distinct." archetypally distinct."

Perfectly representative

Very representative

Chap involved with literacy in original form

Of a sea abounding in islands

Archipelago

Oily treatment of slippery Yamaha porter

Treatment using natural essences

Remedial use of essential plant oils

ARPEGGIATE

""A mineral of a tinwhite color and metallic luster, containing arsenic, sulphur, and iron; also called arsenical pyrites and mispickel. arsenical pyrites and mispickel.""

""A yellow hygroscopic powder, C 12 H 12 As 2 N 2 O 2 2HCl2H 2 O, formerly used to treat syphilis, yaws, and other spirochetal infections.""

Arthroscope

ARTHROSCOPE

Arthrospore

Artisanship

Aspergillum

ASPHYXIATE To bring to a state of asphyxia; to suffocate.

Suffocation

Characterised by hope or ambition

Like those trying to succeed

Relating to hope, since religious and sensible

Science of celestial bodies

Science of stars and galaxies

Branch of science

Showing no symptoms of disease.

Athwartship

Electrical disturbances

The office or profession of an attorney; agency for another.

In a favorable way

Autography

Autograph

Plural or third person singular

In both senses also called self-hypnosis . The act or process of hypnotizing oneself.

Pert. to autohypnotism; self-hypnotizing.

Automorphic characterization.

Autotrophy

Auxotrophy

An immunosuppressive agent used especially to prevent organ rejection in kidney transplant recipients.

Azoospermia

The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness.

Accepting

Supporting musical line

Dancing cancan with tempo I'm backing

Backing account, criticise one in remark

ACCOMPLISHER One who accomplishes.

Accomplish

Pain reliever and fever reducer

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

Needle-worker found in practice

Therapist involved in sharp practice (wordplay)

Needle therapist

Adaptedness

German dog in fine French spa, barking

Agamospermy

""Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an allelomorph.""

Allelopathy

Allomorphism

Having two or more complete sets of chromosomes derived from different species.

ALLOTYPIC

Alphabetizer

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

Certain character set ... and a hint to translating this week's final answer

Certain character set... and a hint to translating this week's final answer

""A theophylline derivative, C 16 H 24 N 10 O 4 , used as a bronchodilator in the treatment of bronchial asthma, emphysema, and bronchitis.""

""A tricyclic antidepressant drug, C 20 H 23""

Amorphous

Amphibology

Amphictyony

Amphidiploid

AMPHIDIPLOID

Amphiploidy

""Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides.""

Colosseum and others

AMPHITHEATRE

Means of making sound louder

Increasing of signals

Augmentation

Analphabetic

ANALPHABETE

Anaphorical

Reducing sexual desire

(Drug) tending to diminish sexual desire

(Of a drug) lowering sexual urges - Rio's a handicap (anagram)

Disease and Illness

Anchorperson

Anencephaly

Angiography

Angioplasty

Having seeds inclosed in a pod or other pericarp.

Unequal refractive power in the two eyes.

A condition in which the refractive power of one eye differs from that of the other.

Anisotropism

""The last syllable of a word except two, as -syl- in monosyllable.-syl- in monosyllable.""

""A mineral of the hornblende group, of a yellowish gray or clove brown color.""

Originating in human activity

""Measurement of the height and other dimensions of human beings, especially at different ages, or in different races, occupations, etc.""

English word

Man eaters; cannibals.

The eating of human flesh; cannibalism.

""Knowledge of the nature of man; hence, human wisdom.""

APARTHEID segregation by race; -- a term used in South Africa.

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

Anticipation

""CORPORATE Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town. as, a corporate town.""

Same as Antepileptic. Antepileptic.

Plural noun (-isms)

Inflected form of PARASITIC Inflected form of PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Antiparticle

Land-mine type

Like certain weapons sent in plane or distributed some other way

PESTICIDE

Antiphonary

Plural or third person singular

""POLITICAL Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration.""

""POLLUTION The act of polluting, or the state of being polluted (in any sense of the verb); defilement; uncleanness; impurity.""

Plural agent noun (-ors)

Inflected form of PSYCHOTIC Inflected form of PSYCHO a mentally unstable person

Drug that helps to stay fit!

Aortography

""Concern or solicitude respecting some thing o<?/<?/vent, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.""

Apatosaurus

Without a regular schedule

Exciting venereal desire; stimulating the desire for sexual gratification.

Specialists in worker management

Bee-keepers

Of the final catastrophe

Apocalyptism

Apocalyptist

Apodictical

Apomictical

APOSTROPHISE

Apostrophise

APOSTROPHIZE To address by apostrophe.

Apostrophize

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

""An earnest or urgent request, entreaty, or supplication.""

""After the manner of nouns appellative; in a manner to express whole classes or species; as, Hercules is sometimes used appellatively, that is, as a common name, to signify a strong man. as, Hercules is sometimes used appellatively, that is, as a common name, to signify a strong man.""

Apperception

Relevance, appropriateness

Relevance of a very quiet pupil I initially chose with skill

Applicative

Appoggiatura

""APPORTION To divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments. as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments.""

Process of sharing out

Allocation

Appraisement

Appreciation

Capable of being grasped

Capable of being comprehended

APPREHENSIBLE Capable of being apprehended or conceived.

Cop's uncertainties (wordplay)

Suitably, properly

Aptly

APPROPRIATE Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.

Taking without permission of the owner

Annexation

Secretary's mounting support, helping to arrest one making embezzlement

""Appropriating; making, or tending to, appropriation; as, an appropriative act. as, an appropriative act.""

Appropriator

Roughly apply a mixer to batter

More or less

Circa

APPROXIMATE Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.

Fairly close estimate

It's roughly right

Rough estimate

Approaching; approximate.

Appurtenance

Aptitudinal

Jurassic fossil bird

Extinct primitive bird

An old bird's cheaper to X-ray, surprisingly!

Canterbury or York, for example

High church office

Senior church post

Archipelago

Arsenopyrite

Arsphenamine

A systematic description of the arteries.

Arthropathy

Arthroscopy

ASPERGILL

ASPERGILL

Asphyxiation

""An academic position that carries a stipend and usually involves part-time teaching or research, given to a qualified graduate student.""

""The state of an associate, as in Academy or an office.""

""The lower layer of the earth's crust, below the lithosphere. It is estimated as from fifty to several hundred miles thick. It is less rigid than the lithosphere, but still rigid enough to transmit some transverse seismic waves.""

Relating to the nature of stars

Attorneyship

Atypicality

The Henry Ford story (wordplay)

Carfax report (wordplay)

One's own Life (wordplay)

Autocephaly

""Having its own head; independent of episcopal or patriarchal jurisdiction, as certain Greek churches.""

Automorphism

Having more than two sets of chromosomes all derived from the same species.

Avoirdupois

Azathioprine

Absorptivity

""The quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability.""

Accompaniment

Capable of being accomplished; practicable.

Something achieved

Successful achievement

A cold kind of praise about quiet exploit

The office or employment of an accountant.

Acetaminophen

A skeletal disorder beginning before birth; cartilage is converted to bone resulting in dwarfism.