2-Letter Words Starting with A

Actinomorphy

Those working for pin money (wordplay)

Medical needle users

They may needle you

Adaptability

Adaptational

Adaptiveness

Adoptability

Affenpinscher

""ALLELOMORPH 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.""

ALLOPATRIC

Allopolyploid

ALLOPOLYPLOID

English word

A first (wordplay)

Ordered aaabcehilllpty (wordplay)

End of quip

Consisting of both letters and figures

Vessel for a representative abroad (wordplay)

Any of various enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of the terminal peptide bond at the amino end of a polypeptide.

Aminophylline

Amitriptyline

Amphibious

Amphiprostyle

Amplification

Analphabetism

Anaphrodisiac

Anisometropia

Antepenultima

Anthophyllite

Anthropology

Culture vulture (wordplay)

Social scientist reading, perhaps, work held by literary collector

Collector of poems etc sees right to work retained by our student (wordplay)

The study of human body measurement for use in anthropological classification and comparison.

Anthropomorph

Man-eater

Word with prefix anti-

""CAPITALISM An economic system based on predominantly private (individual or corporate) investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of goods and wealth; contrasted with socialism or especially communism, in which the state has the predominant role in the economy.socialism or especially communism, in which the state has the predominant role in the economy.""

""CAPITALIST One who has capital; one who has money for investment, or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business.""

""CENSORSHIP The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship. as, to stand for a censorship.""

""CORRUPTION The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.""

Prozac, for one

Mood-lightening drug

Prozac or Zoloft

DEPRESSION The act of depressing.

Antiepileptic

MONOPOLIST One who monopolizes; one who has a monopoly; one who favors monopoly.

""NEOPLASTIC of or pertaining to neoplasty, or neoplasia.""

Degree, for one

You probably raise your arm for this

Degree, for example

Opposed to the doctrine of phlogiston.

Antipollution

Antipsychotic

""SEPARATIST One who withdraws or separates himself; especially, one who withdraws from a church to which he has belonged; a seceder from an established church; a dissenter; a nonconformist; a schismatic; a sectary.""

Source of Pernod keeping source of tequila friendly, suppressing twitch cleanly

Antispasmodic

Efficacious against syphilis.

Aperiodicity

In the form or manner of aphorisms; pithily.

APOCALYPTIC

The quality or state of being apocryphal; doubtfulness of credit or genuineness.

""Any of various proteins that combine with a lipid to form a lipoprotein and are a constituent of chylomicrons, HDL, LDL, and VLDL.""

With regret, a poet logically has log moved

Shamefacedly

Apoplectical

""APOSEMATIC Having or designating conspicuous or warning colors or structures indicative of special means of defense against enemies, as in the skunk.""

Apostolicity

APOSTROPHISE

APOSTROPHIZE To address by apostrophe.

APOTROPAIC

Apparentness

Appendectomy

Add one to my church number before the operation

Plural or third person singular

Appendicitis

A prominent post to restructure divisions

Appositeness

Appreciative

In an apprehensive manner; with apprehension of danger.

Period of learning trade

Period for learning a skilled trade

Period of learning in a skilled trade

Concern of Cannon's committee.

Approximation

Archbishopric

Is pi chap out with oracle from Canterbury (wordplay)

Aromatherapy

*Professional for whom oils are essential

Trim paths and area requiring cultivation around old oil worker (wordplay)

Pl. arteriographies Examination of the arteries using x-rays following injection of a radiopaque substance.

Assistantship

Associateship

Asthenosphere

""ASTHENOSPHERE 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.""

One studying composition of stars, etc

Psychiatrist so confused scientific type

Galaxy finally and stars his topic for working out

Asymptotical

Promise of success gives a new start to likelihood of doubting, or being doubted

Writer of their own life story

Like a self-sufficient life (wordplay)

Autopolyploid

AUTOPOLYPLOID

Same as autoradiogram.autoradiogram.

English word

See spiny-headed worm .

Acceptability

ACCEPTINGNESS accepting

Dancing, singing, et al.

Bill praises mum for bringing in gifts

Special skills

Accountantship

A white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic.

Achondroplasia

Of or pertaining to achondroplasia.

Plural or third person singular

""The anterior glandular lobe of the pituitary gland that secretes many hormones, including ACTH, prolactin, and somatotropin.""

Allelomorphism

Allotetraploid

ALLOTETRAPLOID

Theme of this puzzle

One way of ordering things, like all the consonants in rows three, six and nine

Some presidential appointments

Overseas appointments

Diplomatic jobs

Aminopeptidase

AMORPHOUSNESS amorphous

Amphidiploidy

""Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater.""

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

Dish me up Latinate ten? Such is X!

Of the third syllable from the end

Third from last

Seeing man as focus of the universe

Regarding humans as all-important

Revolving around mankind

Like Mead's field

Man's in pathetic poncho, wrestling with alligator

Mead et al.

Margaret Mead's colleagues

Anthropometry

Described in a human form

Having a human form

Treating nonhuman beings as humans

Cruel seas, for example

"Cruel seas," for example

Anthropophagy

Feeding on human flesh; cannibal.

Anthroposophy

Same as Antaphrodisiac. Antaphrodisiac.

Anticapitalism

Anticapitalist

Monopolistic

Plural noun (-tions)

Mame's corsets

Mood-enhancing drugs

Psychiatrist's arsenal

Plural noun (-sions)

""DEVELOPMENT The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state.""

Antimonopolist

Sure things (wordplay)

They're put on for a dry run

*Sure and more

""PORNOGRAPHY Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.""

""PROGRESSIVE Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde. as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde.""

Antiseparatist

SHOPLIFTING shoplift

SPECULATION The act of speculating.

SPECULATIVE Given to speculation; contemplative.

Antisyphilitic

By revelation; in an apocalyptic manner.

Apocalypticism

Apolipoprotein

Appealability

Applicability

Train times (wordplay)

Potential artisans in dentures!

In which tradesmen learn joints

Tour golfer's need (wordplay)

Asset for social people

Open quality: skill at getting ball on green (wordplay)

Rightness or relevance

Felicity to commandeer promontory

Suitability

Archaeopteryx

The office of an archbishop; an archbishopric.

Aromatherapist

Arteriography

Writing or recording related

Astrophysical

Astrophysicist

In relation to the atmosphere.

Autobiographer

Personal accounts (wordplay)

Confessions of a sort

Lives created in self-reliant way

Autographical

Autoradiograph

The process of producing an autoradiogram by exposing photographic film to a radioactive substance in close proximity to the film.autoradiogram by exposing photographic film to a radioactive substance in close proximity to the film.

Autotetraploid

AUTOTETRAPLOID

""AUTOTROPHIC 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.""

Slight knowledge

So as to use both letters and numbers

Of a personal life story

About one's own life