2-Letter Words Starting with A

Hang out (with)

Not yet a principal

Rub shoulders of teammate

Assoil

Resemblance of sound (in nearby words)

Can season (anagram)

Resemblance of sound

Assonant

Ones engaged in separation

They classify

Selectors

Classifying.

Alleviating, allaying

Alleviating, appeasing

Bringing relief to, as a guilty conscience

Soothing

Like some obligations

Like some mortgages

By way of assumption.

""A promise or undertaking, founded on a consideration. This promise may be oral or in writing not under seal. It may be express or implied.""

Confidence (in abilities)

Uses car with an awful confidence

Freedom from doubt.

Without a doubt

Without a doubt.

With confidence

Rising

Asswage

Astatine

Record-book marks, maybe

"M*A*S*H" stars (wordplay)

Stars of "M*A*S*H" (wordplay)

Star clusters

Classic Atari game

Small planets orbiting the sun

Space Invaders alternative

Asthenia

Asthenic

Astheny

Of a respiratory disease

German cathedral city

That's enough to make short of 27 down

Astigmia

Astony

Amazed by odd aunts round about the east

Shocked when a good man's 'arrassed

Amazed at the date, by the sound of it

With a leg on either side of (something)

Riding, in a way

On the fence.

Beads for starlets (wordplay)

Convex moldings.

Small circular mouldings, on round columns,say

Hark Satan (anagram)

Hark, Santa is in Russian wool

Fur - city on Volga

Astrict

Astringe

Astringe

Star-shaped glial cell

Spot for celestial navigation

Stadium for almost 68,000

Park that opened in April 1965

A sort able to produce old instrument

Sextant's predecessor

Predecessor of the sextant.

Dixon line (wordplay)

How stars can make a fortune, perhaps

A house study (wordplay)

A nut roast served for one on rocket

One making use of space (wordplay)

One making good use of space (wordplay)

Celestial sphere (wordplay)

Roman toys (anagram)

Tory moans (anagram)

Imbalance between two sides

Feature of much modern architecture

Difference between two sides

Line near a hyperbola

Almost a sign to note near tangent

Line that a curve infinitely approaches

Pl. asynapses (-s z) The failure of homologous chromosomes to pair during meiosis.

Pl. asynapses (-s z) The failure of homologous chromosomes to pair during meiosis.

Of a sentence in which conjunctions are omitted

I came, I saw, I conquered, for example

Atamasco

Ataraxia

Ataraxic

Ataraxy

Resembling remote ancestors

Reverting to something ancient

Involving reversion to an earlier type

Rejecting higher authority (wordplay)

Eschewing a higher calling (wordplay)

Not believing the man is in Greek mode

Atheling

Reading rooms

Atheroma

Sports - cheat list (anagram)

His cattle wandering off track, perhaps

Lithe acts (anagram)

Atomiser

Atomise

Less than molecular

Composed of simple elements

A cat is twitching, completely broken down (wordplay)

Scent spreaders

ATONAL lacking tonality

ATONAL lacking tonality

Atrazine

Our coat is incredibly appalling

Terrible actor in trouble with debts

Very bad tragic actor promises to pay

Atrophia

Article with prizes for degenerates

A pit horse works with withers

Falls into decline

Atropine

Atropism

Attacher

Offensive ones (wordplay)

People in a rush

They're 1 across, not 8 down

Successful people

Achievers

Attemper

Who's there (wordplay)

Those at meetings

They're there

They made it to the event

Ladies in waiting

Those present at proposals

Sat around the examiners as they swear to it

Certifiers

Witnesses

... for a teacher (wordplay)

Sounds like a trying bit of a trial

Declaring that something is the case

Notaries public, for example

Atticism

Atticist

Duet? Sit at different positions

Points of view.

Edits taut review of Points of View

Trial members (wordplay)

Case workers (wordplay)

Bar tenders (wordplay)

Aubretia

Aubrieta

Rash or insolent

Daring USA duo involved with CIA

Bold and daring

Play groups (wordplay)

House sitters (wordplay)

Interviews those in the theatre

Screen shots (wordplay)

Reads for a part

Tryouts for performers.

Auditive

August

Aunthood

Auntly

Auricula

Wild oxen extinct since 1627

Ausform

A foreigner.

A constituent of some forms of steel

Tate in use, perhaps, for one who likes Jane

Planned a Yule rest with no frills

In a harsh or severe way

Simply gives us tea when out - depend on it!

Most severe state sure to be troublesome

Extremely severe

British program of belt-tightening

Condition in post-war British economy.

Severeness of manner

Austral

Autacoid

Autarky

Autecism

AUTEUR the creator of a film

Arthouses neglected creative person

Writer shares out bubbly

Writer shares out novel development

I share out (anagram)

Writer is going east to say it's okay

Sanction or establish officially

Autistic

Travelling South, a ban on roads like this

Motor coaches

They're often escorted by police

Autocoid

They reign without rein

Rulers with unlimited power

They're absolutely at the top.

Tossed out this sort of clue about sport

Motor racing over rough terrain

Slalom race on parking lot course

Autodyne

Having all stages of a life cycle occurring on the same host.

Helicopters of yore

Helicopters' kin

Some aircraft with propellers

Autolyse

Autolyse

Self destruction of cells

Autolyze

Couple in a one-car family (wordplay)

Builds a robot for

Makes machine-run

Finally examined gold deposit that's misplaced

A piteous drunk, having died, examined thus (wordplay)

End-of-term examinations (wordplay)

End-of-term examinations

An A of A&E

AUTOSOME a type of chromosome

Autosome

Autotype

Autunite

Avadavat

Not having blood vessels

Aventail

Averment

Opposite of predilections

You want no part of them

Objects of repugnance

Modifies, as a virus, using chick embryos

Bird keepers

Aviation

Greeds

Avifauna

Avigator

Avocado

Avoucher

Avulsion

Alarm clocks, for example

Knowledge (of a fact)

Self following (wordplay)

Self ending (wordplay)

So as to cause wonder

Wondering at a vehicle we collided with

Lost for words as we crashed lorry

Ace you and I hit is impressed

Awful

Quality of being horrid

Flew unperturbed when fool went around in a terrible state

Enormity

Carriage's underpinnings.

Axoplasm

Brazilian plant that has winged fruits

Tea in some Amazonian rituals

Psychotropic drug said to induce spiritual experiences

Ayurveda

Azotemia

Azotise

Azoturia

Striped hyenas that feed chiefly on insects

Abandoner

Humiliations

Abashment

Moderations of intensity

Tax deductions

Diminutions

Throne relinquishers

Abducens

Ufologist's subjects

An A of A&E

Snatchings

ABDUCTOR a person who abducts

Aberrance

Abeyancy

A believer in spontaneous generation

Abjection

Wretched quality

Surrendering sorts

Abolisher

Formally ending (a practice)

Action demanded by W. L. Garrison

Wiping out

Annulments

Much more than dislikes

Dislikes intensely

Loathes

Algonquins, for example.

Early inhabitants

First inhabitants.

Harshly offering a women's support for eccentric Elvis on Fourth of July

Abruption

Curt rudeness

Criminal rents a pub, leading to son's rude quality

Curtness

Abscess

Leaves shed as some scissors cut bonsai strain

His jazz opera illustrated the importance of being Ernst

Those who escaped ban crossed over

They take their leave without it

Muscles badly scorned by bad runners (wordplay)

Leaving secretly in a hurry

Sure wobbly as belly out!

I wholly agree!

Okay by me!

Perfect in quality or nature; complete.

Obtain soul renewed with this (wordplay)

Release sailor - there you have it!

A second-rate answer requires indulgence

Doctrine of unlimited power

Total power lost, I am taking bus, sadly

Moral theory that doesn't allow for shades of gray

A distraught sob by musician who dislikes Fifty Shades of Grey (wordplay)

ABSOLUTE self-existent

ABSOLUTE self-existent

Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up.

""(Physics / General Physics) Physics a measure of the light-absorbing ability of an object, expressed as the logarithm to base 10 of the reciprocal of the internal transmittance See transmittance ACIDOMETER (Chemistry) a type of hydrometer for measuring the relative density of an acid solution, esp the acid in a battery Also called acidimeter ACTINOZOAN & adj (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) another word for anthozoan AEROSPHERE (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) Archaic the entire atmosphere surrounding the earth""

""ABSORB to suck in, also SORB""

Absorbant

Terrycloth quality

Receptive nature of abbey treated with scorn

Absorbent

Bounty work (wordplay)

(Process of) taking in

Process of soaking up

Tending to suck up

Tending to soak up

They are positively negative

Eligible non-voters

Avoiders of alcohol

Doing without.

Santa in big buggy not letting anyone get cross (wordplay)

I mess about (anagram)

Moderate Jack to plug debts

I mess about, drunk or sober

Pass in Congress (wordplay)

Act of declining to vote

Withholding of vote

Absterge

Practice of refraining (from alcohol)

If you pass the bar, what will it mean?

Non-partaking (of liquor)