2-Letter Words Starting with A

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Aeciospore

Aepyornis

Aerenchyma

AEROBIC requiring free oxygen

""The study of the sources, dispersion, and effects of airborne biological materials, such as pollen, spores, and microorganisms.""

AEROBRAKE

Relating to air in motion.

Having a drag-reducing shape

Streamlined academy in row sadly with week to go

Adjective (-ic)

Aerogramme

""The medical study and treatment of physiological and psychological disorders associated with atmospheric or space flight. Also called aerospace medicine , aviation medicine .""

Gen. Doolittle's forte.

Science of flying

Study of flight

AERONOMIC

Aeronomist

AEROSOLIZE

Aerosolize

Aerostatic

Affirmance

""Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law. as, the affirmation of a law.""

What to latch onto, with 'the' ...

What to latch onto, with "the" ...

What to latch onto, with "the"...

Afforest

""AFFRICATE A combination of a stop, or explosive, with an immediately following fricative or spirant of corresponding organic position, as pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.""

Affright

Afterbirth

Part of a jet engine increasing thrust

Pollution-control device

Jet power booster

Result following on

Persisting change

Secondary consequence

Afterimage

Like car accessories

Afterpiece

Aftershave

Dessert wines give us minor tremors

Small earthquakes that follow major earthquakes

Aftertaste

Afterworld

Botany The asexual formation of embryos and seeds without the occurrence of fertilization.

Form a rounded mass

Form into one cluster

Cluster

AGGRADE to fill (a stream bed) with sediment

Gardenias, good on both sides, could be made to look larger

Aggrandise

""AGGRANDIZE To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress. as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.""

""One who aggrandizes, or makes great.""

Aggrandize

Making (a problem) worse

Making worse

Exacerbating

Worsening annoyance

Hassle

Annoyance

Aggregate

AGGREGATE To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. \'bdThe aggregated soil.\'b8aggregated soil.\'b8

Assembly process in garage got modified

Process of material coming together

Compound

Taken together; collective.

Aggression

Aggrieved

Agoraphobe

Recluse's problem, maybe

Cause of some reclusion

Morbid fear of open spaces

Larval fruit flies with this gene never leave their eggshells

An equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land.

Curtail urge to work in growing business

The practice of farming

Field for early U. S. settlers

Cultivating grain, so most expert in their field (wordplay)

Twisting of a choir's tail that didn't really happen

Cat fancier

One who hates or fears cats.

Photo lab job

Photoshop job

Delivering in flight, as military supplies

Airfreight

Badly ventilated condition

Airmanship

Airproof

Flyer's upset

Might get it on the tour plane

Flying illness

White.

Birds of ill omen

Largest sea birds.

A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine.

ALBUMIN a {protein=n}

English word

A steroid hormone secreted by the adrenal cortex that regulates the salt and water balance in the body.

Alertness

Twelve-syllable line of verse

Aid external examination of precious stone

A green variety of chrysoberyl used as a gemstone

Algebraist

Of or pertaining to an algorithm.

Aliteracy

""An instrument to ascertain the strength of alkalies, or the quantity of alkali in a mixture.""

""The art or process of ascertaining the strength of alkalies, or the quantity present in alkaline mixtures.""

Like 'Pilgrim's Progress'

Containing a hidden meaning

Rife with symbolism

ALLEGORISE

Allegorise

Allegorist

""ALLEGORIZE To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people. as, to allegorize the history of a people.""

""One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist.""

Allegorize

Allegretto

""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.""

Alleviator

Began the same way

Produced 'Love's Labours Lost', say, fully performed many times

Alliterate

Allograft

Of or pertaining to an allograph.

Allometry

Of or pertaining to allomorphism.

Allopatry

""A drug, C 5 H 4 N 4 O, used to treat gout because it inhibits the synthesis of uric acid.""

Allostery

Allotropy

Allurement

Church art items

Changes made by artist alone to model

""ALTERCATE The contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle.""

Action (wordplay)

Caught in middle of change, quarrel

Can't loiter about after a row

As another option...

As a substitute

Train starts awfully late nearly every other time

Sort of current found in tidal river

Type of current from your alternator

Taking turns

Vary the race, going by turns

Interchange name in heartless dispute

Taking of turns

Not the first choice

Available as another possibility

Option to convert indigene

Underhood electricity producers

Altimetry

Altogether

Cloud forming a uniform layer

Cloud type

Cloud at heights of about one to five miles

""One who, or that which, amalgamates. Specifically: A machine for separating precious metals from earthy particles by bringing them in contact with a body of mercury with which they form an amalgam.""

Of an imaginary flower that never fades

Amaryllis

Amateurism

Envoys in residence

High-ranking diplomats

Dillon, Allison, Coe, etc.

Ambergris

A balanced disposition intermediate between extroversion and introversion.

After the manner of ambrosia; delightfully.

Ambuscader

Old-time area (anagram) - made better

Made better

Improved a red meat stew by putting oil back in

Improves, as a situation

Takes a sad thing and makes it better

One who ameliorates.

Amenorrhea

Abnormal suppression or absence of menstruation.

Amercement

""A folic acid antagonist, C 19 H 20 N 8 O 5 , used as an antineoplastic agent. It has been mainly replaced by methotrexate.""

A white crystalline substance used as an analgesic and antipyretic.

""A barbiturate, C 11 H 18 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and a hypnotic.""

Amorality

Loving characteristic

In an ill-defined manner

""Capable of being cleared off, as a debt.""

Amphibrach

Amphimacer

Untimely mistake (wordplay)

Thing that belongs to another time

A case of mixed dates

Out of time (wordplay)

""Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial.""

""Pl -ses [-ˌsiːz] (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) (in Greek tragedy) the recognition or discovery by the protagonist of the identity of some character or the nature of his own predicament, which leads to the resolution of the plot; denouement [from Greek: recognition]""

The unfolding or d\'82nouement.

Anagram

Like one wanting to overthrow government

Anastrophe

Ancestor

Ancestral

Anchoress

Paula Zahn of CNN, for example

Norah O'Donnell, for example

Katie Couric, for example

A woman who narrates or coordinates a newscast in which several correspondents give reports.

Ancientry

Ancillary

Androgyny

Of indeterminate sex

Hermaphrodite

Grandson you get fussed about, showing male and female characteristics

Anemograph

Meteorological tools

Wind instruments

Full of twists and turns

Circuitous; sinuous.

A description of blood vessels and lymphatics.

Plants whose seeds are enclosed in an ovary

Angriness

Makes censorious remarks

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

Ankylosaur

""One who, or that which, annihilates; as, a fire annihilator. as, a fire annihilator.""

Husband-and-wife milestone

Eg, a birthday

Type of party

""One who announces. Specifically: An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated.""

""A granular igneous rock composed almost exclusively of a soda-lime feldspar, usually labradorite.""

Relating to or causing the suppression of ovulation: an anovulatory drug.

Antecessor

Small room leading to a larger room

Lobby one college with sign of caution

Small entrance room

Antevert

ANTHERIDIA

What's in spore mud in the air could convey

Anthracene

Mining finds

""Of, pertaining to, or like, anthracite; as, anthracitic formations. as, anthracitic formations.""

""Any one of several fungus diseases, caused by parasitic species of the series Melanconiales, attacking the bean, grape, melon, cotton, and other plants. In the case of the grape, brown concave spots are formed on the stem and fruit, and the disease is called bird's-eye rot.Melanconiales, attacking the bean, grape, melon, cotton, and other plants. In the case of the grape, brown concave spots are formed on the stem and fruit, and the disease is called bird's-eye rot.""

Like or related to man; human.

Anthropoid

BURGLAR to enter a building to steal

Expectant one.

CRUELTY savage behaviour towards a person or animal

FOREIGN situated outside a place or country

Antifreeze

Sci-fi concept

Ideal spacecraft-propulsion method

Like some sci-fi boots

Fleabag, for one

Catwoman, for example

Unlikable protagonist

""LEPROSY a chronic disease with skin lesions and deformities, also LEPRA""

Right-brained (wordplay)

MALARIA an infectious disease

Antimatter

Word with prefix anti-

NATURAL a type of musical note

Plural or third person singular

Subatomic particle in nature not transformed

NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

""A book containing a collection of antiphons; the book in which the antiphons of the breviary, with their musical notes, are contained.""

PHRASES phrase

The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning; as when a court of justice is called a court of vengeance. court of vengeance.

POPULAR something pleasing

POVERTY the state of being {poor=adj}

Non-patriots in revolt - being negative, they are charged