2-Letter Words Starting with A

The study of human body measurement for use in anthropological classification and comparison.

Anthropomorph

Man-eater

""AGGRESSION The first attack, or act of hostility; the first act of injury, or first act leading to a war or a controversy; unprovoked attack; assault; as, a war of aggression. \'bdAggressions of power.\'b8as, a war of aggression. \'bdAggressions of power.\'b8""

ALLERGENIC of or pertaining to allergens or allergenicity.

Word with prefix anti-

ARRHYTHMIC

Antiarthritic

Antibacterial

""CARCINOGEN Any substance that produces cancer; as, to test for carcinogens in the drinking water.as, to test for carcinogens in the drinking water.""

""CENSORSHIP The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship. as, to stand for a censorship.""

""COMMERCIAL Of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade; mercantile; as, commercial advantages; commercial relations. as, commercial advantages; commercial relations.""

""CORRUPTION The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.""

""DEMOCRATIC Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people.""

Prozac, for one

Mood-lightening drug

Prozac or Zoloft

DEPRESSION The act of depressing.

""DERIVATIVE Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word.""

ANTIDROMIC

""FILIBUSTER A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855.""

Plural (-ists)

""GOVERNMENT The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government. as, civil, church, or family government.""

Word with prefix anti-

""HISTORICAL Of or pertaining to history, or the record of past events; as, an historical poem; the historic page.as, an historical poem; the historic page.""

""LIBERALISM Liberal principles; the principles and methods of the liberals in politics or religion; specifically, the principles of the Liberal party.""

Antilogarithm

Antimicrobial

See it in an arms limit I arranged (wordplay)

MILITARIST A military man.

Antimodernist

Converted Christian man to revolutionary, perhaps

Athenian held by opponent of government, such as 17

It can appear odd to Christian man, being a Republican

Degree, for one

You probably raise your arm for this

Degree, for example

The study or collection of old things

Study of old and rare books etc.

A love of rare books and old things

""RADICALISM The quality or state of being radical; specifically, the doctrines or principles of radicals in politics or social reform.""

Plural noun (-sions)

""REFLECTION The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the state of being reflected.""

""REFLECTIVE Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror. as, a reflective mirror.""

""Inflected form of REGULATORY Inflected form of REGULATOR One who, or that which, regulates.""

Antirheumatic

Antiritualism

Antiscorbutic

""SEPARATIST One who withdraws or separates himself; especially, one who withdraws from a church to which he has belonged; a seceder from an established church; a dissenter; a nonconformist; a schismatic; a sectary.""

""SUBVERSION The act of overturning, or the state of being overturned; entire overthrow; an overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin; destruction; as, the subversion of a government; the subversion of despotic power; the subversion of the constitution. as, the subversion of a government; the subversion of despotic power; the subversion of the constitution.""

SUBVERSIVE Tending to subvert; having a tendency to overthrow and ruin.

Antiterrorism

Antiterrorist

TUBERCULAR Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.

UNIVERSITY The universe; the whole.

Aperiodicity

In the form or manner of aphorisms; pithily.

The quality or state of being apocryphal; doubtfulness of credit or genuineness.

""Any of various proteins that combine with a lipid to form a lipoprotein and are a constituent of chylomicrons, HDL, LDL, and VLDL.""

APOSTROPHISE

APOSTROPHIZE To address by apostrophe.

APOTROPAIC

Apparentness

A prominent post to restructure divisions

Appreciative

In an apprehensive manner; with apprehension of danger.

Period of learning trade

Period for learning a skilled trade

Period of learning in a skilled trade

Concern of Cannon's committee.

Approximation

Aquaculturist

Arabicization

Pertaining to arboriculture.

Arboriculture

Pl. archaebacteria An archaeon.

Studying history through digs

Relating to study of historic artefacts

Dealing with old remains in a mad alcoholic rage

Schliemann and others.

Schliemann and Carter

Experts in looking back

Archbishopric

Archdeaconry

Is pi chap out with oracle from Canterbury (wordplay)

Archimandrite

The science of 1 down: Socratic technique, not that French rubbish

Argumentation

Conformably to the principles or methods of arithmetic.

Artistic man - he and I may be troubled by people good at sums

Aromatherapy

*Professional for whom oils are essential

Trim paths and area requiring cultivation around old oil worker (wordplay)

Aromatization

Municipal subdivision of a large French city, especially Paris

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

Quality of clear speech

The quality of being artificial.

Ascertainment

Asthenosphere

""ASTHENOSPHERE 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.""

Astrobiology

See exobiology .

Astrological

When score includes backing or lack of amplification at a high level (wordplay)

One studying composition of stars, etc

Psychiatrist so confused scientific type

Galaxy finally and stars his topic for working out

Asymmetrical

Asynchronous

Lovely loch (wordplay)

Lovely loch?

Attribute pleasing to the eye

Authenticator

Authoritarian

Authorization

Writer of their own life story

Like a self-sufficient life (wordplay)

Autocratical

Autoeroticism

Autoradiogram

Same as autoradiogram.autoradiogram.

English word

Eager desire for wealth

Avascularity

Aversiveness

Avuncularity

AXISYMMETRIC

Absorbability

Abstractionism

Painters like Rothko and Pollock

Pollock and Kline, for example

ACCULTURATION

Achondroplasia

Of or pertaining to achondroplasia.

The quality of being acrimonious; asperity; acrimony.

Adenocarcinoma

Groups of men entrusted with executive powers

Government executives and their policies.

ADMIRABLENESS The quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence.

Adrenalectomy

The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness.

Adversariness

Aerodynamical

Aerodynamicist

Aerosolization

Affordability

Aggrandizement

AGGREGATENESS aggregate

AGRANULOCYTE

AGRANULOCYTE

AGREEABLENESS The quality of being agreeable or pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses.

English word

AGRIBUSINESS

One in the business of cultivating soil

Rural guilt I cast off as a farmer

Farm expert

Airworthiness

ALGORITHMIC of or pertaining to an algorithm.

Quality of figurative writing

Allegorization

Allelomorphism

Allergenicity

Allotetraploid

ALLOTETRAPLOID

""The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.""

Some presidential appointments

Overseas appointments

Diplomatic jobs

Ambidexterity

AMORPHOUSNESS amorphous

""Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater.""

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

Anfractuosity

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

Seeing man as focus of the universe

Regarding humans as all-important

Revolving around mankind

Like Mead's field

Man's in pathetic poncho, wrestling with alligator

Mead et al.

Margaret Mead's colleagues

Anthropometry

Described in a human form

Having a human form

Treating nonhuman beings as humans

Cruel seas, for example

"Cruel seas," for example

Anthropophagy

Feeding on human flesh; cannibal.

Anthroposophy

A person who is opposed to legal voluntary abortion.

Word with prefix anti-

Same as Antaphrodisiac. Antaphrodisiac.

Anticarcinogen

CHOLESTEROL

Inflected form of CHOLINERGIC Inflected form of CHOLINE an alcohol found bile

Being opposed to any priest or saint I call 'crime' ridiculously

Plural noun (-tions)

Mame's corsets

Mood-enhancing drugs

Psychiatrist's arsenal

Plural noun (-sions)

Antiderivative

EGALITARIAN

FERROMAGNET

FORECLOSURE The act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which bars or extinguishes a mortgager's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate.

Antiliberalism

""LIBERTARIAN Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.""

MATERIALISM The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets.

""MATERIALIST One who denies the existence of spiritual substances or agents, and maintains that spiritual phenomena, so called, are the result of some peculiar organization of matter.""

Antimilitarism

Antimilitarist

Committing no criminal act. Ah, to be a republican!

Antimonarchist

Sure things (wordplay)

They're put on for a dry run

*Sure and more

""PORNOGRAPHY Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.""

""PROGRESSIVE Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde. as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde.""

Antiquarianism

Antiradicalism

""RATIONALISM The doctrine or system of those who deduce their religious opinions from reason or the understanding, as distinct from, or opposed to, revelation.""

Reason as a source of knowledge opp.

RATIONALITY The quality or state of being rational; agreement with reason; possession of reason; due exercise of reason; reasonableness.

""ROMANTICISM A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi<?/val forms and methods in opposition to the socalled classical style.""

""SEGREGATION The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting.""

Antiseparatist

Plural noun (-sions)

""THEORETICAL Pertaining to theory; depending on, or confined to, theory or speculation; speculative; terminating in theory or speculation: not practical; as, theoretical learning; theoretic sciences.as, theoretical learning; theoretic sciences.""

""TRADITIONAL Of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures. as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures.""

""TUBERCULOUS Having tubercles; affected with, or characterized by, tubercles; tubercular.""

Apolipoprotein

Train times (wordplay)

Potential artisans in dentures!

In which tradesmen learn joints

Tour golfer's need (wordplay)

Asset for social people

Open quality: skill at getting ball on green (wordplay)

Rightness or relevance

Felicity to commandeer promontory

Suitability