2-Letter Words Starting with A

""RECESSION The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand.""

""REJECTION Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.""

""RELIGIOUS Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars. as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars.""

""RHEUMATIC Derived from, or having the character of, rheum; rheumic.""

""RITUALISM A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual.""

Antiromantic

Antiroyalist

Counteracting scurvy.

Plural or third person singular

""SUBMARINE Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants. as, submarine navigators; submarine plants.""

SYMMETRIC Symmetrical.

""TERRORISM The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation.""

""TERRORIST One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.""

Antithrombin

Aortography

Apatosaurus

Without a regular schedule

Exciting venereal desire; stimulating the desire for sexual gratification.

Specialists in worker management

Bee-keepers

APOSTROPHISE

Apostrophise

APOSTROPHIZE To address by apostrophe.

Apostrophize

Apperception

Appoggiatura

""APPORTION To divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments. as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments.""

Process of sharing out

Allocation

Appraisement

Appreciation

Capable of being grasped

Capable of being comprehended

APPREHENSIBLE Capable of being apprehended or conceived.

Cop's uncertainties (wordplay)

Suitably, properly

Aptly

APPROPRIATE Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.

Taking without permission of the owner

Annexation

Secretary's mounting support, helping to arrest one making embezzlement

""Appropriating; making, or tending to, appropriation; as, an appropriative act. as, an appropriative act.""

Appropriator

Roughly apply a mixer to batter

More or less

Circa

APPROXIMATE Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.

Fairly close estimate

It's roughly right

Rough estimate

Approaching; approximate.

Appurtenance

""AQUACULTURE 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.""

ARABICIZE ARABIC derived from gum arabic

Random quality

Relating to or resulting from arbitration.

Arborescence

Tree farming - rub our article (anagram)

Cultivation of trees

Arborization

Archaeology

Past master (wordplay)

His work is in ruins (wordplay)

His career is in ruins (wordplay)

Jurassic fossil bird

Extinct primitive bird

An old bird's cheaper to X-ray, surprisingly!

Canterbury or York, for example

High church office

Senior church post

Archduchess

Archegoniate

Of or pertaining to an archdeacon.

Head of large monastery

Chairman tried to convert Greek ecclesiastic

Abbot is a terribly rich fellow and terribly tired

Archipelago

The science of architecture.

Relating to building design

Of design

Bow struck the City with the first flower of building design

Architecture

Arduousness

(Of rocks) silver-bearing

One maturing at manoeuvres, revealing logic

Logical reasoning required to shift great mountain

Opinionated and terribly vague trite man

Grump's disposition

Gave in with a mutter turning stroppy

Noble classes

Numbers expert

Expert on calculating machine trait I engineered

A titchier man, I fancy, may be one who has no trouble with tots!

Collection of resources available for a purpose

Aromaticity

The act of impregnating or secting with aroma.

Arsenopyrite

Arsphenamine

A systematic description of the arteries.

Connecting an artery to a vein.

ARTHRITIC

Arthropathy

Arthroscopy

They're expressive of joints on the move

The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial.

Artlessness

Possible to determine

Identifiable

The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery.

ASPERGILL

ASPERGILL

Assassinator

Forceful confidence

Strong-willed behaviour being slammed as severest sin

Dogmatism

Emphatic statements

They declare they'd like to cut at what are charged

Assortative

Assuredness

""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.""

Astringency

Pl. astrocytomas or astrocytomata (-m -t ) A malignant tumor of nervous tissue composed of astrocytes.

Like Armstrong or Glenn

Relating to the nature of stars

Asynchronism

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

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

Atrocious

Attorneyship

Attractancy

""ATTRIBUTION The act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality, character, or function, to a thing or person, an effect to a cause.""

In an attributive manner.

Austereness

""AUTHENTICATE To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.""

Tyrannical writer meets Italian heretic

Enforcing strict rules

Enforcing strict obedience

Commanding and self-assured

Commanding, self-confident

Vested with power or influence

Official permission

The Henry Ford story (wordplay)

Carfax report (wordplay)

One's own Life (wordplay)

""AUTOEROTIC sexually self-satisfying, as by masturbation.""

Automorphism

An image produced upon photographic film by exposure of the film to a radioactive substance in close proximity to (usually in contact with) the film.

Autorotation

Averageness

Aviculturist

Avoirdupois

Awkwardness

Axisymmetry

Azathioprine

Abortifacient

Abortiveness

Abrasiveness

Absorptivity

The state of being abstracted; abstract character.

""ABSTRACTION The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.""

Hazarding a guess: doctor who puts stomach muscles in pulleys (wordplay)

Abstractness

Abstruseness

Accelerating

Accelerometer

Accreditation

Acculturation

Accurateness

Accursedness

A skeletal disorder beginning before birth; cartilage is converted to bone resulting in dwarfism.

In an achromatic manner.

Acrylonitrile

Actinomorphy

Those working for pin money (wordplay)

Medical needle users

They may needle you

Abstract noun (-ity)

A malignant tumor originating in glandular tissue.

Admeasurement

ADMINISTRATE To administer.

Running wild isn't held in high esteem

If you're huge, you'll have this at home office

Commercial vehicle on street helping government

""Pertaining to administration; administering; executive; as, an administrative body, ability, or energy. as, an administrative body, ability, or energy.""

Administrator

""A woman who administers; esp., one who administers the estate of an intestate, or to whom letters of administration have been granted; a female administrator.""

Admirability

Adorableness

ADRENERGIC producing or activated by epinephrine or adrenaline

Of or pertaining to the adrenal cortex.

ITV needs master, maybe, and we are it

Promotions are evident as terms develop

TV sets remained off for the commercials

Advertizement

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

Inflected form of AERODYNAMIC Inflected form of AERODYNE a heavier than air aircraft

AEROELASTIC

Aeronautical

AEROSOLIZE AEROSOL a spray released under pressure

Affenpinscher

Afforestation

As has been said before, "treat dementia of Nero"

Previously referred to supervisors in a note I'd composed

Aggiornamento

Clustered masses

For recital, a piano is placed by workers near Tate's front elevation ...

Bully's attitude

Sometimes violent hostility

Aggressivity

Agreeability

Agribusiness

Agricultural

Experts in their field

Agroforestry

Airtightness

Aldosteronism

""The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense.""

""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.""

Alliterative

ALLOPATRIC

ALLOSTERIC

English word

Consisting of both letters and figures

Alterability

So as to show concern for the well-being of others

Sculpted arse with enthusiasm but lack of skill

Vessel for a representative abroad (wordplay)

Irene Dunne and others.

How the best pickpockets work, said Ambrose Bierce

In a bi-handed manner no repeated letters (nonverbal)

Aminoaciduria

Amitriptyline

Amphiprostyle

Mail Magna Carta revision with resorted letters

""ANAGRAMMATIZE To transpose, as the letters of a word, so as to form an anagram.""

Anagrammatize

Anaphrodisiac

Anchoritical

Animadversion

Anisometropia

Ankylosaurus

Anthraquinone

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)