2-Letter Words Starting with A

Allopath

""Ecology Occurring in separate, nonoverlapping geographic areas. Often used of populations of related organisms unable to crossbreed because of geographic separation.""

Of or involving a change in the shape and activity of an enzyme that results from molecular binding with a regulatory substance at a site other than the enzymatically active one.

Does this imply sharecropping (wordplay)

Share beds here (wordplay)

Tell man to make beds!

Grant painter graphite, perhaps

Distinct form of an element

One of two or more existing forms of an element

The property of existing in two or more conditions which are distinct in their physical or chemical relations.

Allottee

Allotter

Giving out plenty of metal in the lag

Dispensing tall gin to drunk

Putting aside, as time

Allotype

ALLOTYPE a type of {antibody=n}

Almagest

""A deep violet-red garnet, FeAl 2 Si 3 O 12 , found in metamorphic rocks and used as a gemstone.""

Complete sets of letters

Complete assortments of letters.

Sets of runes

Climbers in Switzerland

Climbers of Swiss peaks

Certain mountain climbers.

Unlike the past

Subject to modification

Subject to change

In an alterable manner.

Alterant

Argue with the girl to try to change her

Dispute heatedly ( 9 )

Argue with Catherine for a change

Every other letter an A? Awkward!

How to shake up Etna (wordplay)

Perhaps change it to ante for a stand-in

Changeover time in the cockpit

Parachutist's device

It measures height above sea level

Boeing engineer's study

Avionics topic

South American plateau region

Plateau elevated on mountain with tail pieces

Singer swallows one proposal for the home of Titicaca

Air-to-sea readings

Heights above the ground

Pilot's data

Born naked and blind and dependent on parents for food; -- of hatchlings. Opposite of precocial.precocial.

Altruism

Paragons of unselfishness

They're very unegotistical

Unselfish types

A compound formed from the hydrate of aluminium by the substitution of a metal for the hydrogen.

Alumroot

""Deeply pitted, like a honeycomb.""

Amadavat

Amanitin

Imaginary flowers that never fade

Imaginary eternal flowers

Legendary unfading flowers

Liqueurs used in "sour" cocktails

Almond-flavored liqueurs

Almond-flavoured liqueurs

Big collection.

Collection

Accumulation

AMATIVE {amorous=adj}

Affected with amaurosis; having the characteristics of amaurosis.

A puzzle designed to throw out a shock

Flooring (wordplay)

Astonished reaction

Green variety of microcline

A green semiprecious stone

Green feldspar.

Aspect of innuendo

Uncertainty of meaning

Double talker's aim

Aspirations, dreams

I'm not all there to want to get NNNNNNNNNN at last

'Although I'm not all there, is on it for them in the end (9)'

Greedy, getting stung by debts

Eager to advance.

Keen to succeed

Ones neither withdrawn nor outgoing

A doctor starts reminiscing over sort of early photograph

Leader of army badly lamed, but proceeded on foot

Walks about

Walks around

Moves about

Variant of amoebocyte .

Ameerate

A change for the better (wordplay)

Change made in Washington

Alteration of document

Real-estate listing

Fireplace, hot tub, etc.

What boors don't observe

Symbols of February

Covering your mess at Rolling Stones

Purple quartz stones

Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye.

Of or pertaining to ametropia.

Aminity

Amitrole

Ammocete

""A type of ammonia compound, also AMMINE, AMMONIATE""

No, I'm in the mates at sea - or was

Fossils, perhaps, of Jordanians (wordplay)

Mollusks' fossil shells

""AMMONITE the coiled shell of an extinct mollusk, also AMMONOID""

Granted a pardon to

Pardoned

Pardoned.

Pardons to large groups of people

Pardons may make saint seem crazy

Official pardons issued by governments.

Lack of a sense of right and wrong

Lack of right and wrong

Lack of concern for right or wrong

Little cupids

Valentine figures

AMORIST a {lover=n}

Written off over time

Mediators somehow paid debts

Amortise

Liquidated by periodic payments

Spread out, in a way

Wrote off gradually

Pays off, via a sinking fund.

Pays down incrementally

Puts money in a sinking fund.

Adding up (to)

Coming to a getting up (wordplay)

Being equivalent.

An attenuator decreases it

Maximum extent of signal or vibration

On a radio, the A in AM

I'm placed and cut off over a boy

So I'm placed to have cut off the date

I'm placed next to a boy yet cut off

Removes limbs surgically

Surgically removes limbs

Prunes

A maiden to exploit men - time for fun!

What fun so to employ people in the mat!

Park opening (wordplay)

Lack of muscle tone.

Psychological dependence on others.

Analcite

Can pet ail awfully? Here's a drug

Restorative

Invigorating

A deadening or absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness.

Anality

One who seeks similarities

Explainer, of a sort

Debater who uses comparisons

Study of data patterns

Data field

Fractured a peasant's feet

Metric feet of three syllables.

Feet of a girl with vermin we hear

Like some poetic feet

Disorderly sort (wordplay)

Revolutionary in rash act (wordplay)

No government would please him!

Greatly detested things

Detested things

Betes noires

Physical structures

Human bodies

Body structures

To dissect a very little matter is easy at first

A holder of the skeleton key (wordplay)

Bridie's dissector

One studying bodily structure

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

Anatoxin

Some people in a tree

Ones higher up in a tree

People in trees

Of the family of Lancaster, perhaps

To do with forebears, say stately home

Like a family tree's roots (wordplay)

Workers taking on board routine task for folk living alone

Hermits.

Religious recluse (hist.)

Hermit or religious recluse

Hermit as a result of her action, sadly

Small Pacific fish used for bait

ANCIENT an aged man

Not in the modern manner

As of old for the client in any circumstances

Antiquity; what is ancient.

At a light moderate pace (music)

Musical tempo - ain't donna (anagram)

Slightly faster than walking pace (mus.)

Andesite

""ANDESITE a volcanic rock, also ANDESYTE""

Andesyte

""A green to brown or black calcium-iron garnet, Ca 3 Fe 2 (SiO 4 ) 3 .""

Unreliable or hearsay (account)

Article located in ruins? That's hearsay

Based on hearsay

Noted case (anagram)

Arranged end to case histories, perhaps

Raconteur's specialty.

ANECDOTE a brief story

ANELE to {anoint=v}

Of or pertaining to anestrus.

Anethole

Pl. angiomas or angiomata (-m -t ) A tumor composed chiefly of lymph and blood vessels.

A minor ore of lead

Ten-millionths of millimeters

Ten make up a millimicron

Wavelength units

Cornered gnu dealt a blow

Angulate

""A mineral of a white a slightly bluish color, usually massive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not containing water (whence the name).""

Anility

Beastly nature.

With life.

Producers of some shorts variable

Giving life to, as cel bodies (wordplay)

Mr. Disney's work.

Moving to action.

I'm in a race - go!

Paul's in a state - that's life!

Perhaps I'm A in a people for life

Short drawers (wordplay)

Snow White workers

Makers of sequential frames

Of belief in spirits, demons, etc.

Believing that the universe has a soul

Believing that objects have souls

Hate to say I'm in disarray

Is no amity (wordplay)

Timon, I say, is disposed to hate

Parts of nightcaps

Licorice-tasting cordials

Sweet liqueurs

Ankerite

Anatomy The consolidation of bones or their parts to form a single unit.

Chroniclers of events

Leans on back-to-back articles from recorders

With useful info in the margins, say

Wrote in the margins, say

With extra info

Gets some words in edgewise (wordplay)

Adds comments to (a document)

Writes on the side (wordplay)

One making explanatory notes

Jotter in the year disposed to art

Editor of a kind

One with a regular income from a lump sum

An idiot outside university, creepy type who gets cash regularly (wordplay)

An Alsatian night worker, who's paid after work (wordplay)

May they keep aunties in change (wordplay)

They yield payments at specified intervals

Subtly insinuate these are paid every year

Union buster (wordplay)

'I do' undoer

That may make an invalid of one

Oilers.

Not in gain (anagram)

Conferring with ceremonies

Rub and dub

Witness protection plan (wordplay)

A negative over my tiny lack of a name

State of being unknown or nameless

Lacking appetite

Anoretic

""A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime feldspar. See Feldspar. Feldspar.""

Antalgic

Deep frozen (wordplay)

In pole position (wordplay)

Where to pick up a penguin (wordplay)

Colonial enemies (wordplay)

Army consumers (wordplay)

Long snouted mammals

Went first in order to enact deed

Goes before in time

Does not follow

Serves as prologue to

Part of church; anchorite (anagram)

Part of a church

Area in church; icon heart anag.

Preceded in time

Preceded in time.

Went back further

Is a forerunner of

Precedes in time

Precedes in time.

English word

Antefix

Bucks maybe before long, easy strides

Fast bucks (wordplay)

Hill dweller runs away to Bucks, perhaps

Type of clinic or care

That's before we saw the light

Prior to birth

A small antenna; applied to the smaller pair of antenn\'91 or feelers of Crustacea.

Antepast

No maestro (anagram)

Where waiters gather

Chambers ran to some races

Antetype

Antevert

Articles above Leo, seen opposite the sun

Anthem

A floral ornament. See Palmette Palmette

Antherid

Any of various water-soluble pigments that impart to flowers and other plant parts colors ranging from violet and blue to most shades of red.

The flower head of certain plants

Treasury of sorts

From Greece, a bouquet of verse, perhaps

Collection of poems

Pertaining to the Anthozoa.

Anthrax

Human error in pact with rhino

""Any of various evergreen tropical American plants of the genus Anthurium, grown as ornamentals for their attractive leaves and their showy, often red spathes.""

Like some foods and serums

Wrinkle-removing cream type

ALIEN to transfer to another as property

Antiarin

Antiatom

AUXIN a growth promoting substance

Like much prejudice called out by One People's Project

One jerk and partner, in a zany fashion

Antic

Grotesque streak in fold of rock

Arch of stratified rock.

Lark calling beneath arched fold of rock

CLING to adhere to

CODON a triplet of basic DNA components

CRACK to {fracture=v}

Against lawbreaking

Having the quality an antidote; fitted to counteract the effects of poison.

Antidote

Counteractions to poisons

Doctor instead to produce cures

Activated charcoal and naloxone, for two

DRAFT to conscript for military service

Favoring common folk

FRAUD criminal deception

Antigene

Like some immunological agents

Triggering, in immunology

I can get in trouble for being stimulating

Like sun visors

HUMAN a {person=n}

Antiking

Fuel additive in tank, I conk out

Like some gasolines

High-octane

Union-busting, say

Opposed to the union, say

Don't be this tomorrow

MACHO one who exhibits machismo

Antimask

Antimere

""One of several antibiotic substances produced by several species of Streptomyces, active against various fungi. They are used only experimentally, not in medicine. The two best-known antimycins are antimycin A1 (C28H40N2O9) and antimycin A3 (C26H36N2O9). They are notable for their mechanism of action, interference with the proton pumping mechanism of fungi.Streptomyces, active against various fungi. They are used only experimentally, not in medicine. The two best-known antimycins are antimycin A1 (C28H40N2O9) and antimycin A3 (C26H36N2O9). They are notable for their mechanism of action, interference with the proton pumping mechanism of fungi.""

NODAL of the nature of a node

Antinode