2-Letter Words Starting with A

Anticodon

Many Eastwood characters, for example

Many Nicholson portrayals

Weak leading men opposed to Carlyle's theme (wordplay)

HERPES a skin infection

Antiknock

Antilogy

Antimony

Antimycin

NAUSEA an inclination to vomit

Legal paradoxes

Antinovel

Antipodal

Antiquark

Antiquate

RABIES an infectious virus disease

RACISM a doctrine of racial superiority

RACIST an advocate of {racism=n}

SEPSES seps

Infection prevention procedure

M. D.'s concern.

Application for injury benefit, perhaps

Preventing growth of microorganisms

Alcohol, for example.

Blood plasmas

Immunity providers

Blast of steam ruins medicinal substances

Not standing for misandry or misogyny

SEXUAL pertaining to sex

SMOKER one who {smokes=v}

Not a company man (wordplay)

Like Holden Caulfield

Not fond of parties

Counteracting electrical build-up

Kind of carpet

Tending to resist charge build-up

STRESS to place emphasis on

STRIKE to {hit=v}

Averse to writing research papers

Oppositions against changing sheets

Complete opposites

Why he left grad school (wordplay)

Why he left grad school?

Worker has it, he is on island opposite

Biological immunizers

Suffering saint, injected with poison, needs these

They offer immunity to relative reportedly to get love-ins

Steady winds

Prevailing westerly winds of middle latitudes

Reptile house supplies

Antonymy

What I could be with you (wordplay)

Like War and Peace, without name Tolstoy initially put in

As War and Peace, unsigned, without Tolstoy's initial

Apartheid

Apt. places for tenants (wordplay)

Real estate sign.

Places to stay

""Pl. aphaereses or aphereses (-s z ) The loss of one or more sounds from the beginning of a word, as in till for until.""

""Pl. aphaereses or aphereses (-s z ) The loss of one or more sounds from the beginning of a word, as in till for until.""

Aphorise

Inclined to quote maxims

Like an adage

Expressed pithily.

Apiology

Apoapsis

End of the world

The White Horseman exhibited a new one

Prophetic Biblical revelation

Apocarpy

Apoenzyme

Said sorry for serving old sago pie

Expressed regret for what one has done

Expressed regret

Expresses regret for an initial self-confidence over record at school

Defenders of controversial stances, say

Defenders of the faith.

They have defensive ends

Eats humble pie

Makes excuses.

Apophony

""Pl. apophyses (-s z ) Anatomy A natural swelling, projection, or outgrowth of an organ or part, such as the process of a vertebra.""

Apoplexy

""Having or designating conspicuous or warning colors or structures indicative of special means of defense against enemies, as in the skunk.""

Apospory

The development of a gametophyte directly from a sporophyte without the occurrence of meiosis or spore formation.

Apostacy

Desertions of dogma

Reasons for excommunication

Religious defections

A comic Frenchman in group is to abandon principles

Abandon your principles with a job at one's expense initially

""To renounce totally a religious belief once professed; to forsake one's church, the faith or principles once held, or the party to which one has previously adhered.""

Office of the Pope.

Nothing delayed support for a job implying leadership of a Propaganda committee

O death, where is thy sting (wordplay)

Greengrocers missing sign (wordplay)

Maker's mark (wordplay)

Hagiographic acts

Perfect examples

Deifications

Highest point of development

Isotope has got as high as it gets

Model taking a drug, explosive old girl

Apparitor

Open to placation

Spelt a plan out for people in court

Add on time for members

Find deep pagans needing projections

Things going on a long time after a very quiet death

Appendant

Additional sections of a book.

Supplements that might cause grumbling (wordplay)

Supplementary materials

Appendix

Belongs (to)

Forms a part of, with "to"

Forms a part of, with 'to'

Appetence

Assorted pies and pates about right for hors d'oeuvres

Mince pies and a pint - good and tasty!

Mouth-watering

Quite mouthwatering - but gets a pip in by accident

Introductory courses (wordplay)

Starters on a menu

Receptive audience

They may be upset

They're sometimes upset

Plans are disrupted when they're upset

Life rival (wordplay)

Fruit-and-cinnamon-flavored cereal

Circular kids' cereal: 2 wds.

Nonsense, to fruit-lovers (wordplay)

Served with pork? Nonsense!

A likely story!

Mixers, for example

Electrical devices

Kitchen needs

Hirer's interviewees

Job seekers.

Resume submitters

Supreme Court justices, e.g

Supreme Court justices, for example

Those taken on a quiet river current over another river

Doles out

APPOSITE {relevant=adj}

Putting side by side.

Proximity to a quiet location

Contiguity, grammatically

It may be set off by commas

Juxtaposed

Vehicle valuations

Estimates

Appraisee

They value the program and they up the ante

Informing about a judgmental activity

Sizing up

APPRAISE to set a value on

Detains suspects

Understands, perhaps wrongly, the object is to get inside

Nuisance at a phone store (wordplay)

Means of access.

Cowboy, for example, captured by Indians comes closer

Approbate

Boards pulled by motorboats

Motorboat tows

Glorification of a vessel he holds up is so strange

""Consisting or conveying water or a watery fluid; as, aquiferous vessels; the aquiferous system. as, aquiferous vessels; the aquiferous system.""

Aquilegia

Positions in ballet dancing.

Persian rug patterns

Ballet positions

Arabicize

Arabinose

Arachnoid

Aragonite

Araucaria

Arbitrage

Resolves, as a contract dispute

Decides to barter, as it is damaged

Determines to get back her support it deserves

Where they might bring back the birch (wordplay)

Flowers that do well among trees and shrubs (wordplay)

Plots of land on which many different trees or shrubs are grown

Arccosine

Archaise

""Like, or imitative of, anything archaic; pertaining to an archaism.""

High spirits (wordplay)

Most high beings

*High-ranking heavenly beings

Coy Joey (wordplay)

Provincial administrator (wordplay)

Canterbury tales subject

""A small fish (Toxotes jaculator), of the East Indies; -- so called from its ejecting drops of water from its mouth at its prey. The name is also applied to Ch\'91todon rostratus.Toxotes jaculator), of the East Indies; -- so called from its ejecting drops of water from its mouth at its prey. The name is also applied to Ch\'91todon rostratus.""

Original models of sports cars found on bridge

Vampire Aristocrats, in Dungeons & Dragons

Ones making plans

Pritzker Prize winners

Bezaleel et al.

Record-keepers of a sort

They say Gemmill leaps over fancy formations

Archness

Archosaur

""A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean.""

Arecoline

Sandy.

Sandy

Areology

People of the pampas

Natives of Cordoba.

Argentite

Argillite

Arhatship

Aridness

Upperclass man (wordplay)

Effendi, for one

One of the upper crust

Toothless, burrowing animals.

Plated mammals

Burrowing mammals.

Bearing arms.

Armistice

Makes fragrant

Guns of 15th century

Arrearage

Arrestant

Stoppage.

Stoppage

Comes to accept first people on the make

Social climbers

Nouveaux riches

Arrogance

Ones given the shaft (wordplay)

Indian museum display

Old Native American carvings

Some starchy plants

Starchy plants

Topless thin torso, sporting white bloomers

Arrowwood

Arrowworm

Arsenical

Artemisia

Arteriole

Dodger's skill (wordplay)

Craft making false turns at sea

Arthritic

Spiders and crabs.

Troops hard to move - they've no backbone

Edible thistles that may be stuffed

Their hearts are often preserved in jars

Edible flower heads are so thick, oddly

Skilled craftsmen

Artiness

Puppetry and ventriloquism, for example

Skillful qualities

Arytenoid

Odoriferous gum resins.

Gum resin used medically

Foul-smelling but safe aid to a curry

Bitter medicine

Asbestos

Miner's disease

Chronic lung disease

Lung disease

Asbestus

Plural or third person singular

""A disease, usually accompanied by colicky pains and diarrhea, caused by the presence of ascarids in the gastrointestinal canal.""

A ben scaled could be construed as this

Canes get twisted up at the ball

Coming into prominence

Upper hand

Dominating influence (A, not E)

Candy canes (anagram)

Distributing candy canes with upper hand

Ancestors

Forebears

Ascendancy.

Governing or controlling influence; domination; power.

Ascendent

Carbon tip in abseil device, suitable for climbers

Climbs

Finds out in case star gets worried

Finds out Isaac Stern is playing

Establishes for sure the chump has swallowed it

Austerity of a strict hermit

Discipline of mind and body.

Diogenes belief

Asclepiad

ASCOCARP a spore-producing organ of certain fungi

Pl. ascogonia (-n - ) The female reproductive organ of ascomycetous fungi.

Any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus.Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus.

Ascorbate

Ascospore

ASCOSPORE One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi.

Attributable (to)

I give praise to Paris in a hundred shapes

Assignment

The act of ascribing.

Having no evident sex or sex organs.

Ashiness

""A white, nitrogenous, crystallizable substance, C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; called also altheine. C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; called also altheine.""

Aspartame

Aspartate

Asperate

Instruments for sprinkling holy water

Implements for sprinkling holy water

""Pl. aspergilli (-j l ) Any of various fungi of the genus Aspergillus, which includes many common molds.""

Asperity

Disparaging remarks about rap session

They're often cast in soap operas

Slurs on a person's reputation

Asphalt

Asphaltic.

Asphaltum

ASPHERIC not spherical

Choke (to death)

After wrecking taxi he pays for throttle

Choke, but manage to pay his tax before the end of June

Huge house plant

Iris adapts, being adaptable plant

Plant rallied Ada's spirit

Pronouncing the "h" as in house