2-Letter Words Starting with A

Air mail letter

Air letter

'Casualty' episode missing opening page, but whoever the writer, it'll take off

Aerology

Measurers of gas properties

Pertaining to an important science.

Pertaining to the science of air travel

Of plane navigation

Aeronomer

Aeronomy

""The study of the upper atmosphere, especially of regions of ionized gas.""

Tour transports, to Brits

A Greek lover hides jet with jumbos

British flying machines

AEROSOL a spray released under pressure

Aerospace

AFFERENT a nerve that conveys impulses to a nerve centre

A story about company that may be ratified

Warm around volcanic rim, so may be asserted

Confirmation; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act.

Model T, to Henry (wordplay)

Within one's ability to pay

Not too dear a passage in a story

AFFORD to bear the expense

Afforest

Affricate

Gave a scare to

Affront

""The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, and which come away after delivery.""

Aftercare

Afterclap

Areas astern, on ships.

Western skies past sunset

Lingering luminescences

Flashbulb effect, for example

Lingering impression on the eye

Flashbulb effect

Reincarnationists' existences

Postmortal existences

Following figures after the events

Consequences revealed when calculations are done

Bad effects maybe following a school period (wordplay)

Times of day

Hot times in summer.

They're following the 1 across hour

Additional short sketch.

Brut, for one

Face alcohol before breakfast (wordplay)

Where this is (wordplay)

Van Halen song that resonates (wordplay)

WHERE'S THE WAVE (wordplay)

7-6 dessert wine (wordplay)

Side effect (wordplay)

Bud or maker (wordplay)

Feeling left following smack (wordplay)

Aftertime

Pudding gobbled, drawback later

At a later time

Looking for hospital accommodation later

Afterword

Paradise? PS: Liberal welcomed

M1's in time to expand

Magnify; increase power of

Make greater grade gains after revision

Exaggerate

Made (offence) more serious (legal)

Vexed by burglary (wordplay)

Made more serious

Gets under the skin

Adds insult to injury

Makes worse

Gathered into a mass or whole

Combined into a whole

Brought together

Groups into a class

Garage gets building concrete materials

Collects together building materials

Aggress

Is sore with gang's violent hostility

What eleven Ac displays

Act of aggression,physical force

Wild, wild raves and gigs on Ecstasy

Like a winning tournament player*

Combative - pushing

Starters of quarrels.

Initiators of action

Hostile attackers

Infringing another's legal rights

One afraid of open spaces

One who suffers a fear of crossing open spaces

I hate going out since chat with lout who's on benefits

Results of Teheran, Yalta, Potsdam

Documents of treaty.

Legally binding arguments

Agrimony

Agrology

Agronomy

Specialist on soil and planting.

Land expert on a rig most awkwardly

Expert in soil management

Like many Playboy Playmate photos

Sprayed with paint

Tools of historical revisionists

Retouches, in a way

Aircoach

Landed supplies when breeze subsided

Look about in box in carriage

The means by which goods get put up

Shipping service

Airiness

Emergency transportation method

Flying in Hackney's hair-raising (wordplay)

Moving in emergency, scary for Cockneys (wordplay)

Airmail

""Art, skill, or ability in the practice of aerial navigation; aircraft piloting.""

Airproof

Wind tunnel currents

Varieties of gypsum

Onyx-like minerals

White minerals

Alacrity

Cheerful willingness; eagerness.

So as to cause sudden fear

Layman and girl getting entangled in a shocking manner

Preparing to fight with friend outside, in scary fashion

Alderfly

Like a city father with a clear mind

Local official's frenzied, hiding behind tree

Local lady legislator

Abbr. Ald. A member of the municipal legislative body in a town or city in many jurisdictions.

Ragtimer's weed (wordplay)

That famous ragtime band.

Jason and Shaun

Alfilaria

Algarroba

Sorting bag later - is one dealing with problems involving letters (wordplay)

Step-by-step procedures

Former vice president wants Spain to condemn Smith's rules

They're unpleasant to be around

Disaffecting people

Very busy canal (wordplay)

A new mail entry cut important passage

Concerned with nutrition

Aliterate

Slowly getting slower, on sheet music

(To be performed) with increasing slowness

Largo and a bit of lento modified becoming largo

Symbolic narratives which Mrs Malaprop might find on the banks of the Nile

ALLEGE to assert without proof

C.S. Lewis, for one

John Bunyan, for one

Legislator (wordplay)

Show by storytelling

Everyone, say, backed animal movement

To be played rather briskly (music)

Moving fairly briskly (music)

Causing one to react rashly (wordplay)

Causing a rash reaction (wordplay)

Like penicillin, to some

They may make rash decisions

Allethrin

""One who, or that which, alleviaties.""

Kin of the caiman

Reptiles protected by law

Florida lake invaders

Everyone repeat! (wordplay)

Say tongue twisters, maybe

Say a tongue twister, maybe

Allocator

Allograft

Allograph

Of or pertaining to allometry.

Allomorph

""Ecology Occurring in separate, nonoverlapping geographic areas. Often used of populations of related organisms unable to crossbreed because of geographic separation.""

Its name means "different lizard"

Literally, 'different lizard'

Ursula also recreated ancient creatures

Of or involving a change in the shape and activity of an enzyme that results from molecular binding with a regulatory substance at a site other than the enzymatically active one.

Elements with more than one molecular form

Zero latitude given to everybody, in more than one form

Everything round earthly circle existing in more than one form

A couple of lines? Old line on map taking more than one form

Power to attract

ALLURING allure

Almsgiver

Not in deep water, say

By the sea

Waterfront

High altitude instruments (wordplay)

House radiolocation case in plane's broken instruments

Could be ARIA 1100 HELP

Art for the masses (wordplay)

Communion table screen

Painting placed prominently in church

Tailor's service.

Tailor's job

Change made by modiste.

Were at each other's throats

Wrangled.

Wrangles

Went in turn

Took turns

A bird cutting dead duck's head went this way, then that (wordplay)

Disappointed Olympic team members, maybe

Seconds at political convention.

Certain delegates.

Current-generating car part

Dodge Charger charger

Auto part introduced by Chrysler in 1960

Skydivers' aids

Skydivers' devices

Cockpit gauges

Later, he got drunk (completely)

Entirely in the natural state (wordplay)

Great hotel renovated completely

An extended cloud formation of bluish or gray sheets or layers.

Unselfish liars? Cut it out!

Concerned for others' wellbeing

Hardly selfish

ALVEOLAR the sound produced by the tongue behind the front teeth

True - a ham is, sadly!

'The Samurai' cast is unprofessional

Uriah's mate is terribly unprofessional

Lack of professionality

As immature as can be, and showing the lack of a professional touch

David K. E. Bruce, for one

Bunker, for one.

One who's goodwill hunting (wordplay)

Amberjack

Ambrotype

""Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms. as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.""

""One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.""

Up and about

Not bedridden

Moving about

""AMBUSCADE A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.""

Make better meal, or I eat junk!

Make an unpleasant situation better

Make improvements to

Corrective

Corrective final word offered by US lawyer to politician

Abnormal suppression or absence of menstruation.

Court-imposed penalty

Fine semi-US binder

Punishment with a discretionary fine

AMERCE to fine or punish

Americium

Ametropia

Amoralism

Amortise

Paying down

Andy signs them (wordplay)

They're often seen above 7's

Parts of many law firm names

""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.""

""A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in c\'best. c\'best.""

Partly one and partly the other; neither acid nor alkaline; neutral.

Led Zeppelin equipment

Rock band equipment

They boost poor families desperately wanting eggs

Discrepancy between the chronological order of events and the order in which they are related in a plot.

""Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc.""

Made "talent" from "latent," e.g

Got into a mix-up with letters

This mad manager produces the answer

Kind of lens used by moviemakers

""Pertaining to anarchy; without rule or government; in political confusion; tending to produce anarchy; as, anarchic despotism; anarchical opinions.as, anarchic despotism; anarchical opinions.""

Anarchism

Sacco and Vanzetti

An unruly lot that won't take orders

Some Russian Revolution figures

""Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical.""

Word inversion, such as "Came the dawn."

Inversion, such as "Came the dawn"

""Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to orthotropous.orthotropous.""

Ancestor

Cane's tangled hair for bear (wordplay)

Eve, for example (wordplay)

Eve, ultimately

Organized "resistance" (wordplay)

Organized 'resistance' (wordplay)

Families creating pieces de resistance

Tie-ups (wordplay)

Moorings

They may have agoraphobia

Solitary types disoriented in chain store

Chain store is awful for those seeking solitude

Reclusive.

Styptic. <mark>[Obs.]<mark>

Andradite

""Pl. androecia (-sh - , -sh ) The stamens of a flower considered as a group.""

Of or pertaining to androgens; having physiological effects like that of an androgen.

Androgyne

Andromeda

An instrument for measuring and recording the direction and force of the wind.

One receiving measured blows (wordplay)

Meaner to me (anagram)

Kid's science project, maybe

Measuring wind speed

""ANEURYSM dilatation of an artery, also ANEURISM""

Angiogram

A plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp.

ANGLER one who {fishes=v}

Angleworm

Gauntness

Ray's hidden explosive chemical compounds

Anhydrite

Make criticism of unreliable vermin data

Take note of trailer housing man I fancy

Comment on an individual and very angry Green

Animalier

Not isotropic.

Armored beast of old

Ones making written comments on text

Game-show VIPs

Ball game describers

They may call the shots

Anorectic

Anorthite

""ANORTHITE A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime feldspar. See Feldspar. Feldspar.""

Having to report (to)

Article rebel was wrong to blame

Accountable.

Previous incumbent

Forerunner.

Forerunner

Antechoir

During one's lifetime

Before passing

Like some injuries discovered in forensic science

""Zoology A small antenna or similar organ, especially one of the first pair of small antennae on the head of a crustacean.""

In an anterior manner; before.

Antevert

""Pl. antheridia (- - ) A sperm-producing organ occurring in seedless plants, fungi, and algae.""

""A solid hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin. C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin.""

I burn, but break your heart? I can't!

Hard, lustrous coal

Hard type of coal

Kind of ape

Enos or Able.

If it looks like a man and walks like a man, what is it (wordplay)

Anthurium

Powerful drug-treatment class

Like chemotherapy drugs

CARIES tooth decay