2-Letter Words Starting with A

1991's word: Fever-preventing

Fever-reducing drug

Antipyrine

Collector of old things

One who collects relics of the past

Expert on old things

Antiquary

Antiracism

Antiracist

RADICAL a group of atoms that act as a unit in chemical compounds

REALISM concern with fact or reality

REALIST one who is concerned with fact or reality

Flower, specially the snapdragon

Snapping flower in rain hurt stem tip badly

Snapdragon

SECRECY the condition of being secret

""SEIZURE the act of seizing, also SEISURE""

On the abolitionists' side

Antismoker

Antistory

""In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song. strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song.""

TARNISH to dull the lustre of

Type of drug that can counteract glandular activity

Antitrust

TUMORAL relating to a tumor

WELFARE general well-being

WRINKLE to {crease=v}

Examination of the aorta using x-rays following the injection of a radiopaque substance.

A bit mad being in a separate room

Apartness

Huge herbivorous dinosaur

Stimulant of desire

Substance that makes you hot

Something that stimulates desire

Laura cut lip raving about beekeeping

Apiculture

Apologizer

A crystalline alkaloid obtained from morphia. It is a powerful emetic.

""Pl. aponeuroses (-s z ) A sheetlike fibrous membrane, resembling a flattened tendon, that serves as a fascia to bind muscles together or as a means of connecting muscle to bone.""

""Any one of the thicker and denser of the deep fasci\'91 which cover, invest, and the terminations and attachments of, many muscles. They often differ from tendons only in being flat and thin. See Fascia. Fascia.""

Of or pertaining to an aponeurosis.

Edit perhaps, so to punctuation marks

Parts of some Irish names

Digressions in a speech.

""Pertaining to an apostrophe, grammatical or rhetorical.""

Soviet Communist Party bureaucrat

Bureaucrat, Russian style

Member of a Communist bureaucracy

Apparatus

Apparel

Haunted house inhabitants

They can be deceiving

Arrivals; impressions

Outward impressions

APPERCEIVE To perceive; to comprehend.

Apperceive

Ate in dapper-fashion, that could have been relevant

Applicator

Having the property of applying; applicative; practical.

Doled out

Large enough to be noticed

Enough to be taken into account

Paper round gets Puck into Telegraph? That's significant

""APPRECIABLE Capable of being appreciated or estimated; large enough to be estimated; perceptible; as, an appreciable quantity. as, an appreciable quantity.""

Became more valuable

Was grateful for

Appreciate

One who values

Caught her up, put on manacles

Understood to be arrested

Got arrested

Employed to learn a trade

Apprentice

English word

Approach

APPROBATE Approved.

It begins Our Father

Acclaim - applause

(Official) approval

Containing or expressing approbation; commendatory.

Suitable to take for one's own use

Acquire something suitable (wordplay)

Take to be suitable

Approving

Appear to mix badly? Almost right!

Not totally precise

Rough (figure)

Accessory.

Germane

Apriority

""The cultivation of aquatic animals, such as fish or shellfish, or of plants, such as seaweed, in a controlled and sometimes enclosed body of water. The term includes use of either salt or fresh water. It is a form of agriculture, but under water.""

Gems decorating a main square

Gems.

Aquaplaner

A painter in thin transparent water colors.

Aquatinter

""Plants hydroponics. ; aquicultural ,""

ARABICIZE

Arability

English word

Arbitrager

Exploiter of market differences

Exploiter of stock market differences

Trader offers designer's latest little piece with passion in a very old city

ARBITRAGE Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination.

Determination; decision; arbitration.

Highhandedly.

""ARBITRATE To hear and decide, as arbitrators; as, to choose to arbitrate a disputed case. as, to choose to arbitrate a disputed case.""

Process at work in some hearings

One way to settle differences

Of or pertaining to arbitration; relating to or having the authority to arbitrate.

Dispute deciders

Treelike

Arborvitae

Arbovirus

Study of ancient artifacts

Study of old remains

Study of history through remains

In an outmoded sense

Michael's maybe going to help bar change licensee

Wearers of pallia

Clerics on a sacred meandering around church

Shrewd dean's embracing company people in a higher office

See choir ceased performing

See core ideas changing about Church

Important church area

""The consort of an archduke; also, a princess of the imperial family of Austria. See Archduke. Archduke.""

Archduchy

An archduchy.

Relating to the archegonium.

""The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.""

Bad shoes, to a podiatrist (wordplay)

The Joker and Batman, for example

Hatfields, to McCoys

The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination. Illust. under Invagination.

English word

Key chain (wordplay)

Fiji, for example

Hawaii, i.e.

Architrave

Archpriest

Arctangent

The quality of being arduous; difficulty of execution.

Growing or living or burrowing in sand.

Of or relating to a reference system based at the center of the planet Mars.

ARGUMENT an exchange of differing reasons

Rule by the best.

Upper class, nobility

Elevated types carry a cost I fancy

Nobles

Swells

Arithmetic

AROMATIC a fragrant substance

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

ARPEGGIATE

Arpeggiate

Charging in court

Courtroom activity

Court proceeding

Order me new shirt? It's a deal!

Florist's creation

Result of putting in order

Arresting

Arrestment

Arrhythmia

Arrogation

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

Plural or third person singular

Arthralgia

Plural or third person singular

""Pl. arthrodeses (-s z) The surgical fixation of a joint, ultimately resulting in bone fusion. Basically, the procedure is artificially induced ankylosis performed to relieve pain or provide support in a diseased or injured joint.""

Surgical fixation of joints.

Any disease of the joints.

""Any of numerous invertebrate animals of the phylum Arthropoda, including the insects, crustaceans, arachnids, and myriapods, that are characterized by a chitinous exoskeleton and a segmented body to which jointed appendages are articulated in pairs.""

""Pl. arthroscopies Examination of the interior of a joint, such as the knee, using a type of endoscope that is inserted into the joint through a small incision.""

ARTHROSCOPE

""A bacterial resting cell, -- formerly considered a spore, but now known to occur even in endosporous bacteria.""

""That can be articulated: vague, barely articulable thoughts.""

Clearly stated to be jointed

Put into words

Said to be segmented

Utters clearly

""One who, or that which, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering. (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering.""

Same as artefactual.artefactual.

Artillery

Gunnery expert

Placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot; a member of the artiodactyla.artiodactyla.

A skilled manual worker; a craftsperson.

Stern lasses agitating for simplicity

Found out

Ascription

Asparagine

The brush used in the Roman Catholic church for sprinkling holy water on the people.

ASPERGILL

Cast-iron plants

House plants.

Hopes for the future.

Hopes

Assertive

""ASSEVERATE To affirm or aver positively, or with solemnity.""

States solemnly

Affirms earnestly

ASSIMILATE To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.

(tr) to arrange or distribute into groups of the same type; classify

Antipastos, for example

Some large bags of candy

Antipastos, e.g

The state of being assured; certainty; full confidence.

Asterisk

Bitterness (of taste)

Sharp or bitter quality

Sharpness, severity

Skin treatments

""A tumor of nervous tissue derived from interstitial cells, in which the cells are relatively well-differentiated and resemble astrocytes. The occur primarily in the crebrum and cerebellum.""

Evangeline Adams and others.

They get a lot from Leo's movement

Zodiac experts

Astrology

Astronomy

Of or pertaining to astronautics.

Moon-starers (anagram)

Monster oars (anagram)

Moon starers! (Anagram)

Astronomy

Asymmetry

""Formation of atheromatous deposits, especially on the innermost layer of arterial walls.""

Across a ship from side to side.

""ATMOSPHERE The whole mass of a\'89riform fluid surrounding the earth; applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars. as, the atmosphere of Mars.""

Ambiances

'Hi!' to campers (anagram)

Armpits echo (anagram)

Of air; conveying special mood

Having a melancholy temperament - is it a Labour failing (wordplay)

Gloomy

Irritable

Extremely badly

Attemper

Attenuator

Attornment

""The capacity, as of a pheromone, to attract.""

ATTRACT to {entice=v}

Attractant

Coming at the movies

""ATTRIBUTE To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to). to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to).""

Act of ascribing

The act of ascribing eg a picture to an artist

The ascribing of a particular work to an author or artist

Like some nouns

Like a long war getting rid of a totalitarian organisation

They have lots to offer

Audiometer

An instrument for measuring hearing activity for pure tones of normally audible frequencies. Also called sonometer .

Auditorium

Harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity.

Austerity

AUTARCHIC

Authoress

Giving the thumbs up to writer, I perform on stage maybe

The powers that be

Controlling persons

Controlling organization is keeping restriction on writer

Authorizer

""AUTHORIZE To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary. as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.""

Authorship

Autocracy

Autocross