2-Letter Words Starting with A

CHURCH to bring to a building for Christian worship

DROMIC pertaining to a race-course

EROTIC an amatory poem

Alcohol, for one.

Opposed to a cap on wages (wordplay)

Alcohol needed for driving (wordplay)

GROWTH development

Many Eastwood characters, for example

Many Nicholson portrayals

Weak leading men opposed to Carlyle's theme (wordplay)

HEROIC an epic verse

HERPES a skin infection

HUNTER one who {hunts=v}

LITTER to scatter rubbish about

MARKET to offer for sale

Something from nothing (wordplay)

Family subject (wordplay)

Family subject?

MERGER the combining of two or more businesses into one

Old-fashioned and then some

In favor of the great indoors, maybe

Against the making of illegal copies

Cosmic ray component

Certain particle with an opposite charge

Particle discovered in 1955

""An artificial alkaloid, believed to be efficient in abating fever.""

Antiquark

RABIES an infectious virus disease

RACISM a doctrine of racial superiority

RACIST an advocate of {racism=n}

Opposed to change

Blood plasmas

Immunity providers

Blast of steam ruins medicinal substances

SMOKER one who {smokes=v}

STRESS to place emphasis on

STRIKE to {hit=v}

Steady winds

Prevailing westerly winds of middle latitudes

Apartheid

Apt. places for tenants (wordplay)

Real estate sign.

Places to stay

""Pl. aphaereses or aphereses (-s z ) The loss of one or more sounds from the beginning of a word, as in till for until.""

""Pl. aphaereses or aphereses (-s z ) The loss of one or more sounds from the beginning of a word, as in till for until.""

""Pl. aphaereses or aphereses (-s z ) The loss of one or more sounds from the beginning of a word, as in till for until.""

Aphorise

Inclined to quote maxims

Like an adage

Expressed pithily.

Aphorize

Breeding and care of bees

One might be keeping this, by the sound of it

Bringing up workers in a religious environment

Apocarpy

Make lay chap pro? Questionable

Of questionable authenticity

Happy carol that's become legendary

One who makes an apology; an apologist.

Apospory

The development of a gametophyte directly from a sporophyte without the occurrence of meiosis or spore formation.

O death, where is thy sting (wordplay)

Greengrocers missing sign (wordplay)

Maker's mark (wordplay)

A drug he's no right to carry (wordplay)

Nameless "Romeo and Juliet" character

Character in "Romeo and Juliet."

Intended to ward off evil: an apotropaic symbol.

APPAREL to {clothe=v}

Clad

Dad maybe's in new play, it would seem

It seems to be put on without a tear

On the face of it

Banquo, for one.

Hamlet's father made one

Phantom pair in a top review

Apparitor

Item on a personnel chief's checklist

Item on a personnel director's list

Reason for a face lift

To perceive; to comprehend.

Belongs (to)

Forms a part of, with "to"

Forms a part of, with 'to'

Assorted pies and pates about right for hors d'oeuvres

Introductory courses (wordplay)

Starters on a menu

Receptive audience

They may be upset

They're sometimes upset

Plans are disrupted when they're upset

Nail polish brush, for example

Cosmetician's device.

Device used as a swab.

Doles out

Vehicle valuations

Estimates

Appraisee

They value the program and they up the ante

Informing about a judgmental activity

Sizing up

APPRAISE to set a value on

Increase (in value)

(Of asset) rise in value

Be fully aware of.

Detains suspects

Understands, perhaps wrongly, the object is to get inside

Sugarplum is what one gets!

Worker learning a trade

One is bound to be in training

Was nearly as good as

Came near

Drew near

Nuisance at a phone store (wordplay)

Means of access.

Cowboy, for example, captured by Indians comes closer

APPROBATE Approved.

Approbate

Worthy of being approved; meritorious.

APPROVE to regard favourably

Blue-green beryl

Birthstone for many Pisces

Gemstone a queen pinned to a soldier

Water-skier's next of kin

Glorification of a vessel he holds up is so strange

AQUATINT to etch using a certain process

""Consisting or conveying water or a watery fluid; as, aquiferous vessels; the aquiferous system. as, aquiferous vessels; the aquiferous system.""

Positions in ballet dancing.

Persian rug patterns

Ballet positions

ARABICIZE

Arabicize

Arabinose

Arachnoid

Aragonite

""ARAGONITE A mineral identical in composition with calcite or carbonate of lime, but differing from it in its crystalline form and some of its physical characters.""

""Relating to, or of the nature of, the Araucaria. The earliest conifers in geological history were mostly Araucarian.""

Araucaria

Capable of being decided by arbitration; determinable.

ARBITRAGE Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination.

Same as arbitrageur.arbitrageur.

Arbitrage

Settled a dispute

Resolves, as a contract dispute

Decides to barter, as it is damaged

Determines to get back her support it deserves

Grieve or Dascoli

Independent settler of dispute

Person authorized to decide a dispute.

ARBOREAL tree-dwelling

Where they might bring back the birch (wordplay)

Flowers that do well among trees and shrubs (wordplay)

Plots of land on which many different trees or shrubs are grown

Arborize

Virgil's tree of life

Coniferous hedge choice

Ornamental evergreen

Arccosine

Archaise

""Like, or imitative of, anything archaic; pertaining to an archaism.""

Archaize

High spirits (wordplay)

Most high beings

*High-ranking heavenly beings

Coy Joey (wordplay)

Provincial administrator (wordplay)

Canterbury tales subject

Roguish cleric (wordplay)

Cleric ruined chance with Dora

Ecclesiastic next below a bishop

""Pl. archegonia (-n - ) A multicellular, often flask-shaped, egg-producing organ occurring in mosses, ferns, and most gymnosperms.""

Study of past human culture

Prehistoric-culture study

""A small fish (Toxotes jaculator), of the East Indies; -- so called from its ejecting drops of water from its mouth at its prey. The name is also applied to Ch\'91todon rostratus.Toxotes jaculator), of the East Indies; -- so called from its ejecting drops of water from its mouth at its prey. The name is also applied to Ch\'91todon rostratus.""

Real and patchy - crudely typical!

Classic N chapel tray (anagram)

Chat with player when ground's ideal

Original models of sports cars found on bridge

Vampire Aristocrats, in Dungeons & Dragons

Ones making plans

Pritzker Prize winners

Bezaleel et al.

Frame for door or window

Beam resting on tops of columns.

Frame Alistair, vacuously taking tab at party

Record-keepers of a sort

They say Gemmill leaps over fancy formations

Archness

Archosaur

""A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean.""

Trigonometry function

45 degrees, for 1

A fellow admitting misdemeanour finally can't somehow function

ARCTIC a warm waterproof overshoe

Arecoline

Sandy.

Sandy

Areology

People of the pampas

Natives of Cordoba.

Argentite

Argillite

""Pl. argumenta (-t ) Logic An argument, demonstration, or appeal to reason.""

Arhatship

Aridness

Upperclass man (wordplay)

Effendi, for one

One of the upper crust

Activity for summer (wordplay)

Field of operations (wordplay)

R without an apostrophe (wordplay)

Toothless, burrowing animals.

Plated mammals

Burrowing mammals.

Armature

Bearing arms.

Armistice

ARMORIAL a book of coats-of-arms

AROMATIZE To impregnate with aroma; to render aromatic; to give a spicy scent or taste to; to perfume.

Makes fragrant

ARPEGGIATE

Guns of 15th century

Charging in court

Putting on trial Arabian ruling is heard

Calling before a court to answer charge

Arrearage

Arrestant

Stoppage.

Stoppage

Varying heartbeat

Lacking rhythm or regularity of rhythm: "a slight arrhythmic imperfection when the car idles" (Garrison Keillor).

Comes to accept first people on the make

Social climbers

Nouveaux riches

Arrogance

All modesty aside

Completely holding game up with hubris

Claiming without right

Unfair claiming giro, rat on a suspect

Improper seizure.

Unjustified seizure.

Ones given the shaft (wordplay)

Indian museum display

Old Native American carvings

Some starchy plants

Starchy plants

Topless thin torso, sporting white bloomers

Arrowwood

Arrowworm

Arsenical

Artemisia

ARTERIAL a type of {highway=n}

Of or pertaining to an arteriole.

Arteriole

Dodger's skill (wordplay)

Craft making false turns at sea

Neuralgic pain in a joint or joints.

Neuralgic pain in a joint or joints.

Arthritic

Spiders and crabs.

Troops hard to move - they've no backbone

Edible thistles that may be stuffed

Their hearts are often preserved in jars

Edible flower heads are so thick, oddly

Endowed with the power of speech.

Of Carney's film roles (wordplay)

A tacit rule that's broken, say

Expressing oneself clearly.

Skilled craftsmen

Mock trial, if CIA involved

Forced frail cat I upset to eat one

Kiss of life

Artiness

Puppetry and ventriloquism, for example

Skillful qualities

Arytenoid

Plural or third person singular

""A disease, usually accompanied by colicky pains and diarrhea, caused by the presence of ascarids in the gastrointestinal canal.""

Finds out in case star gets worried

Finds out Isaac Stern is playing

Establishes for sure the chump has swallowed it

ASCOCARP a spore-producing organ of certain fungi

Ascorbate

Ascospore

ASCOSPORE One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi.

Attributable (to)

I give praise to Paris in a hundred shapes

Assignment

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

ASPHERIC not spherical

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

Assaulter

"Westminster Standards" framers

They come together to put together

Westminster Standards framers

ASSERTED assert

They're said to be positive

Evict from service stations for opinions

Positive statements