2-Letter Words Starting with A

Noted cast I reassembled for storyteller

Raconteur.

Storyteller

One receiving measured blows (wordplay)

Meaner to me (anagram)

Kid's science project, maybe

Measuring wind speed

Number of folks (wordplay)

Sensational loss (wordplay)

It's a real knockout!

Ether, for one

It may put you to sleep

It may be administered before surgery

Anglesite

Gauntness

Angulate

A making angular; angular formation.

Anhydrite

""ANILINE a chemical compound, also ANILIN""

Make criticism of unreliable vermin data

Take note of trailer housing man I fancy

Comment on an individual and very angry Green

In a lively manner

In a lively fashion

With spirit

The Flintstones and "The Simpsons"

Disney-studio output

Mickey Mouse films

Not isotropic.

""Pertaining to, or after the manner of, an annalist; as, the dry annalistic style. as, the dry annalistic style.""

Appropriation of adjoining territory

Act of taking possession of.

Forced takeover, at times

Hammer a nail in the bust

Hit an alien ordered to exterminate

Dynamite, say

Editorial activity

Supplying notes when she has nothing but odds and ends I find to be no good

Marginal comment, for example

Explanatory item in a textbook.

The adding of notes to a text

Serving to explain

Explanatory

Ones making written comments on text

Persons receiving a type of income.

Ring formation

They undo 'I do's'

They undo "I do's"

More than one quashing - mental nuns wrestling

Mutant canine tuna, say

Declare girl in acute trouble

Announce (arch.)

Consecration ceremony

Ritual naming

Consecration of a healing cream (wordplay)

Anorectic

Anorthite

""ANORTHITE 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.""

Man in toga's set about opposition

Crude sign to a man provoking conflict

Moan at sign that's whipped up hostility

Antonym of ally

Enemy destroying 1 nation

Not against roughing up an opponent

Make an enemy of.

Rub the wrong way

Make an enemy of

Designating a period in U.S. history.

Before the war.

Of the period before 1861.

Going before (in time/order)

Hannah, in "Hannah and Her Sisters"

Preceding in time

Antecede

Previous incumbent

Forerunner.

Forerunner

Galilee, the place arranged with an opening

Antechoir

Preceding in time

During one's lifetime

Before passing

Like some injuries discovered in forensic science

""Zoology A small antenna or similar organ, especially one of the first pair of small antennae on the head of a crustacean.""

Antennule

""Pl. antependia (-d - ) A decorative hanging for the front of an altar, lectern, or pulpit.""

Third last syllable

Second syllable from the last.

third-from-last syllable

In an anterior manner; before.

Antevert

Anthelix

Anthelion

Anthelix

""Pl. antheridia (- - ) A sperm-producing organ occurring in seedless plants, fungi, and algae.""

Anthocyan

Anthozoan

""A solid hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin. C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin.""

I burn, but break your heart? I can't!

Hard, lustrous coal

Hard type of coal

Kind of ape

Enos or Able.

If it looks like a man and walks like a man, what is it (wordplay)

Anthurium

""ANEMIA a disorder of the blood, also ANAEMIA""

ASTHMA a chronic respiratory disorder

Antiauxin

Plural or third person singular

Theory of some wonder drugs.

Treatment for bacterial infections

Medicine destroying micro-organisms

Substance that destroys bacteria

Weapons in the medical arsenal.

B cells' production

Protein substances

""BUSING the act of transporting by bus, also BUSSING""

CAKING the act of caking

Powerful drug-treatment class

Like chemotherapy drugs

CARIES tooth decay

CHURCH to bring to a building for Christian worship

Forward-looking insect?

Forward-looking insect (wordplay)

Expecting awful panic stations, sending out SOS

Prepare for (a future event)

Predict - ape in attic (anagram)

Expect worker here for the French spread

Not for the summit (wordplay)

It goes pfft!

For God, for country, and for Yale.

Inclining or dipping in opposite directions. See Synclinal. Synclinal.

Anticline

Anticodon

Antidote

DROMIC pertaining to a race-course

Same as Antemetic. Antemetic.

EROTIC an amatory poem

FAMILY a group of persons related by blood or marriage

Misogynous

Alcohol, for one.

Opposed to a cap on wages (wordplay)

Alcohol needed for driving (wordplay)

FUNGAL a {fungus=n}

GROWTH development

Many Eastwood characters, for example

Many Nicholson portrayals

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

HEROIC an epic verse

HERPES a skin infection

""HIJACK to steal in transit, also HIGHJACK""

HUNTER one who {hunts=v}

Antiknock

LITTER to scatter rubbish about

Antilogy

MARKET to offer for sale

Something from nothing (wordplay)

Family subject (wordplay)

Family subject?

MERGER the combining of two or more businesses into one

Old-fashioned and then some

Of or pertaining to antimony.

Word with prefix anti-

Antimony

Antimycin

In favor of the great indoors, maybe

NAUSEA an inclination to vomit

Possibly anoint main sectarian denying moral law

'His true Penelope was Flaubert, / He fished by - isles' (Ezra Pound)

Not accepting moral law, yet opposed to revolutionary Minoan

Legal paradoxes

Antinovel

Sung or chanted in alternation

Sung alternately by two groups

Hit on a plan to change sort of service book in church

Against the making of illegal copies

PLAGUE to pester or annoy

PLAQUE an ornamental plate or disk

Antipodal

22 against potty principal

Coming from other side of the world

Relating to Australia/New Zealand

POETIC pertaining to {poetry=n}

Unable to stand the heat (wordplay)

Cosmic ray component

Certain particle with an opposite charge

Particle discovered in 1955

""An artificial alkaloid, believed to be efficient in abating fever.""

Antiquark

Old-fashioned

Awfully quaint, a Fifties youth is seen as behind the times

Passe.

Antiquate

RABIES an infectious virus disease

RACISM a doctrine of racial superiority

RACIST an advocate of {racism=n}

Opposed to change

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

Exactly opposite.

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

Preventing or reducing anxiety; antianxiety.

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.""

Inclined to quote maxims

Like an adage

Expressed pithily.

Breeding and care of bees

One might be keeping this, by the sound of it

Bringing up workers in a religious environment

1. unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration

Like party avoiders (wordplay)

Like a no-party person (wordplay)

Word applying to few in Washington

In a sorry state (wordplay)

With hat in hand, perhaps

So sorry and disturbed, to ogle a pic

Defenders of controversial stances, say

Defenders of the faith.

They have defensive ends

Its precise to say it's not worth the paper it's written on

Saw dad in strange hat, trim having bit of gold in it

A widely favoured hot article by general manager occasions pithy remark

8 captain briefly could get mad

Red with rage

Overcome with anger

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

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)

A drug he's no right to carry (wordplay)

Nameless "Romeo and Juliet" character

Character in "Romeo and Juliet."

Of or pertaining to the apothecium.

""The ascigerous fructification of lichens, forming masses of various shapes.""

Hagiographic acts

Perfect examples

Deifications

Highest point of development

Isotope has got as high as it gets

Model taking a drug, explosive old girl

Intended to ward off evil: an apotropaic symbol.

Dad maybe's in new play, it would seem

It seems to be put on without a tear

On the face of it

Banquo, for one.

Hamlet's father made one

Phantom pair in a top review

Apparitor

Spelt a plan out for people in court

Appendant

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

""Having the quality of desiring gratification; as, appetitive power or faculty. as, appetitive power or faculty.""

Introductory courses (wordplay)

Starters on a menu

Appetize

They may be upset

They're sometimes upset

Plans are disrupted when they're upset

Hirer's interviewees

Job seekers.

Resume submitters

Nail polish brush, for example

Cosmetician's device.

Device used as a swab.

Supreme Court justices, e.g

Supreme Court justices, for example

Those taken on a quiet river current over another river

Assigning (to a post)

Designating.

It's not about rejecting a father losing article for blessing

""Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office. as, an appointive office.""

Doles out

APPOSITE {relevant=adj}

Putting side by side.

Proximity to a quiet location

Contiguity, grammatically

It may be set off by commas

Juxtaposed

Increase (in value)

(Of asset) rise in value

Be fully aware of.

Sugarplum is what one gets!

Worker learning a trade

One is bound to be in training

APPROBATE Approved.

Approbate

Engraved on copper using resin and nitric acid

AQUATINT to etch using a certain process

AQUILINE hooked like an eagle's beak

Aragonite

""ARAGONITE A mineral identical in composition with calcite or carbonate of lime, but differing from it in its crystalline form and some of its physical characters.""

Capable of being decided by arbitration; determinable.

ARBITRAGE Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination.

Same as arbitrageur.arbitrageur.