2-Letter Words Starting with A

Ambushment

Improves, as a situation

Takes a sad thing and makes it better

Ameloblast

Amenorrhea

Amercement

""Resembling amethyst, especially in color; bluish violet.""

Affability

Ammunition

Amoebocyte

Amorality

Loving characteristic

In an ill-defined manner

Amphiboly

Amphibrach

Amphimacer

Amphioxus

Amphiphile

Amphiploid

A mythical serpent having a head at each end of its body.

Ampicillin

Ampleness

Amputation

AMUSING amuse

Amygdaloid

AMYLOID a hard protein deposit

A disorder characterized by deposit of amyloid in organs or tissues; often secondary to chronic rheumatoid arthritis or tuberculosis or multiple myeloma.

Amyloplast

Anabaptism

Untimely mistake (wordplay)

Thing that belongs to another time

A case of mixed dates

Out of time (wordplay)

""Pl. anadiploses (-s z) Rhetorical repetition at the beginning of a phrase of the word or words with which the previous phrase ended; for example, He is a man of loyalty loyalty always firm.""

""A repetition of the last word or any prominent word in a sentence or clause, at the beginning of the next, with an adjunct idea; as, "He retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent." as, "He retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent."""

Lack of feeling.

Insensitivity to pain induced by drugs

Literally "without sensation"

A knockout in the theatre!

Laughing gas, for example

A person could well be put out by it

""Pl -ses [-ˌsiːz] (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) (in Greek tragedy) the recognition or discovery by the protagonist of the identity of some character or the nature of his own predicament, which leads to the resolution of the plot; denouement [from Greek: recognition]""

The unfolding or d\'82nouement.

Analogous

Analphabet

Plural or third person singular

Hypersensitivity (to a protein or drug) resulting from prior contact with a substance.

Like one wanting to overthrow government

Anastigmat

ANASTOMOSE Styptic. <mark>

Anastomose

Styptic. <mark>[Obs.]<mark>

Styptic. <mark>[Obs.]<mark>

Anastrophe

ANATOMISE

Ancestor

Ancestral

Anchoress

Anchovetta

Great age

Ancientry

Ancillary

Andalusite

Androgyny

Of indeterminate sex

Hermaphrodite

Grandson you get fussed about, showing male and female characteristics

Anecdotage

Anecdotist

Anemograph

Meteorological tools

Wind instruments

Anesthesia

Anesthetic

Expert with numbers

O.R. physician

(American) hospital theatre worker

Put under, in an operating room

Put under

Full of twists and turns

Circuitous; sinuous.

Angelfish

ANGIOMA a benign tumour

Surgery of the blood-vessels

Vessel treatment

Plants whose seeds are enclosed in an ovary

""Any of three polypeptide hormones, one of which is a powerful vasoconstrictor, that function in the body in controlling arterial pressure.""

ANGLICISE

Angriness

Angulation

Anilingus

Makes censorious remarks

Animalcule

Of or pertaining to animalism.

Animality

ANIMATE to give life to

Bad blood

A visual defect in which the shape and size of an ocular image differ in the two eyes.

Of or pertaining to aniseikonia.aniseikonia.

Anisogamy

A union between two gametes that differ in size or form.

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

Ankylosaur

Annexation

Annihilate

Husband-and-wife milestone

Eg, a birthday

Type of party

Side lines (wordplay)

Marginalia

Annulation

Annunciate

Anointment

In an anomalous manner.

Anonymity

Without giving a name

How some gifts are given.

Anopheline

""A granular igneous rock composed almost exclusively of a soda-lime feldspar, usually labradorite.""

Antagonism

Punch and Judy, for example

Not as giants, flexing muscles

Group being played against

Gets upset

Nouns that pronouns relate to.

What pronouns refer to

One thrown off by ancient steed, surprisingly they came first

Antecessor

Antechapel

Antepenult

Collections of a too English design

Theologians may provide choice literary gatherings

Theologians assembled for choice literary gatherings

Francis Turner Palgrave, for instance

Literary compiler

Anthracene

Mining finds

""Any one of several fungus diseases, caused by parasitic species of the series Melanconiales, attacking the bean, grape, melon, cotton, and other plants. In the case of the grape, brown concave spots are formed on the stem and fruit, and the disease is called bird's-eye rot.Melanconiales, attacking the bean, grape, melon, cotton, and other plants. In the case of the grape, brown concave spots are formed on the stem and fruit, and the disease is called bird's-eye rot.""

Anthropoid

Selman Waksman's field.

Medicines destroying micro-organisms

Bacteria destroyers such as penicillin or streptomycin

Anticipant

Foretastes

Expects fun and games will be interrupted by one head

Foresees

ELITISM belief in rule by an elite

ELITIST an adherent of {elitism=n}

Antiemetic

""FASCISM an oppressive form of government, also FASCISMO""

Mussolini's enemy

Fighter against state dictatorship.

FASHION to {shape=v}

Antifreeze

Antifungal

""LEPROSY a chronic disease with skin lesions and deformities, also LEPRA""

Antimatter

Like some NORAD operations

Word with prefix anti-

Antimonial

Antimonide

MUSICAL a play which has songs and dances

Plural or third person singular

Antinomian

OBESITY the condition of being obese

Antipathy

Antiphonal

Antiphony

PHRASES phrase

The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning; as when a court of justice is called a court of vengeance. court of vengeance.

Plural or third person singular

Antipodean

Non-patriots in revolt - being negative, they are charged

Antipyrine

Antiquary

Ancient artefacts

Curating specialty

Antiracism

Antiracist

REALISM concern with fact or reality

REALIST one who is concerned with fact or reality

SCIENCE knowledge obtained by observation and experiment

SECRECY the condition of being secret

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

Applications for injury benefit, perhaps

Destroyers of microorganisms

Mercurochrome and others

Antisexist

On the abolitionists' side

Antismoker

SMOKING to preserve by smoke-drying

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.""

STUDENT a person formally engaged in learning

SUBSIDY a grant or contribution of money

SUICIDE to kill oneself intentionally

TARNISH to dull the lustre of

Antitrust

Medicine sorted out Auntie Vi's overwhelming temperature and coughs finally

""The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero. his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero.""

Anxiolytic

Butterflies

Apartness

Huge herbivorous dinosaur

Stimulant of desire

Substance that makes you hot

Something that stimulates desire

Apiculture

Apishness

Many doomsday cults predict them

Penitent's defence of Christianity

A game soldier's in grand opening making excuses

Apologizer

""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.""

Apophthegm

Rhetoric and Rhetorical Devices

"She had a heart-how shall I say?-too soon made glad . . . "

She had a hearthow shall I say?too soon made glad...

She had a heart-how shall I say?-too soon made glad . . .

""Pl. aposiopeses (-s z) A sudden breaking off of a thought in the middle of a sentence, as though the speaker were unwilling or unable to continue.""

APOSTATISE

Apostatise

""APOSTATIZE 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.""

Apostatize

Church office Pat polishes after work

Apostolate

Edit perhaps, so to punctuation marks

Parts of some Irish names

Digressions in a speech.

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

To exalt to the dignity of a deity; to declare to be a god; to deify; to glorify.

Apparatus

Haunted house inhabitants

They can be deceiving

Arrivals; impressions

Outward impressions

Short-sighted type of government policy.

(Act of) placating by making concessions

Act of placating by making concessions

Apperceive

Appetency

Applesauce

Applicator