2-Letter Words Starting with A

Anecdotist

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.

ANGIOMA a benign tumour

Surgery of the blood-vessels

Vessel treatment

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

Angulation

Makes censorious remarks

Of or pertaining to animalism.

Animality

ANIMATE to give life to

Bad blood

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

Annexation

Utterly destroyed

Destroyed completely

Wiped out

Annihilate

""One who, or that which, annihilates; as, a fire annihilator. as, a fire annihilator.""

Side lines (wordplay)

Marginalia

Annulation

Proclaimed a religious woman third-rate, ab'orred on the radio

Annunciate

""One who announces. Specifically: An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated.""

""ANODIZE to give a protective coat, also ANODISE""

Anointment

Anonymity

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

Relating to or causing the suppression of ovulation: an anovulatory drug.

Antagonism

Punch and Judy, for example

Not as giants, flexing muscles

Group being played against

Made an enemy of

Gets upset

The act or state of going before in time; precedence.

Nouns that pronouns relate to.

What pronouns refer to

One thrown off by ancient steed, surprisingly they came first

Antecessor

Small room leading to a larger room

Lobby one college with sign of caution

Small entrance room

Antechapel

Antenatal

""Preceding marriage; as, an antenuptial agreement. as, an antenuptial agreement.""

The hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal.

Antepenult

Antevert

ANTHERIDIA

What's in spore mud in the air could convey

Same as Anthokyan. Anthokyan.

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

Compile an anthology.

Anthracene

Mining finds

""Of, pertaining to, or like, anthracite; as, anthracitic formations. as, anthracitic formations.""

""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.""

Like or related to man; human.

Anthropoid

ALCOHOL a flammable liquid

ANXIETY chronic apprehension

Selman Waksman's field.

Medicines destroying micro-organisms

Bacteria destroyers such as penicillin or streptomycin

BOYCOTT to refuse to have dealings with

BURGLAR to enter a building to steal

Anticipant

Expected; opposite of unanticipated and unexpected.unanticipated and unexpected.

Foretastes

Expects fun and games will be interrupted by one head

Foresees

Expectant one.

CRUELTY savage behaviour towards a person or animal

Spiral outflow could be neatly conic

A fair-weather system ends with one

High-pressure weather system

Antidotal

DUMPING the selling of large quantities of goods below market price

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}

""FATIGUE to weary, also FATIGATE""

FOAMING the act of foaming

FOGGING fog

FOREIGN situated outside a place or country

FOULING a deposit or crust

Antifreeze

Antifungal

Sci-fi concept

Ideal spacecraft-propulsion method

Like some sci-fi boots

Fleabag, for one

Catwoman, for example

Unlikable protagonist

HUNTING an instance of searching

Technique designed to reduce blocking of radio signals

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

Right-brained (wordplay)

LOGICAL pertaining to {logic=n}

MALARIA an infectious disease

Antimatter

Like some NORAD operations

MITOTIC pertaining to {mitosis=n}

Word with prefix anti-

Antimonial

Antimonide

MUSICAL a play which has songs and dances

NATURAL a type of musical note

Plural or third person singular

Subatomic particle in nature not transformed

Antinomian

NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

NUCLEON a subatomic particle

OBESITY the condition of being obese

Radical fighter (wordplay)

Beta carotene, for one

Substance such as vitamin C or E

Word with prefix anti-

Antipathy

Antiphonal

""A book containing a collection of antiphons; the book in which the antiphons of the breviary, with their musical notes, are contained.""

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

POPULAR something pleasing

POVERTY the state of being {poor=adj}

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

1991's word: Fever-preventing

Fever-reducing drug

Antipyrine

Collector of old things

One who collects relics of the past

Expert on old things

Antiquary

Turning obsolete

""The act of making antiquated, or the state of being antiquated.""

Ancient artefacts

Curating specialty

Antiracism

Antiracist

RADICAL a group of atoms that act as a unit in chemical compounds

REALISM concern with fact or reality

REALIST one who is concerned with fact or reality

Flower, specially the snapdragon

Snapping flower in rain hurt stem tip badly

Snapdragon

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

Type of drug that can counteract glandular activity

TOBACCO an annual herb cultivated for its leaves

Antitrust

TUMORAL relating to a tumor

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

TYPHOID an infectious disease

""VITAMIN an organic substance essential to proper nutrition, also VITAMINE""

WELFARE general well-being

WHALING the business of catching whales

WRINKLE to {crease=v}

""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

Examination of the aorta using x-rays following the injection of a radiopaque substance.

A bit mad being in a separate room

Apartness

Huge herbivorous dinosaur

APHETIC pertaining to {aphesis=n}

Laura cut lip raving about beekeeping

Apiculture

Momentous, catastrophic

Translation of a Coptic play is outstanding

Copy capital letters - it could be a revelation

Penitent's defence of Christianity

Of or pertaining to an aponeurosis.

Apophthegm

""A mineral relating to the zeolites, usually occurring in square prisms or octahedrons with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. It is a hydrous silicate of calcium and potassium.""

""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.

Soviet Communist Party bureaucrat

Bureaucrat, Russian style

Member of a Communist bureaucracy

Apparatus

Haunted house inhabitants

Short-sighted type of government policy.

(Act of) placating by making concessions

Act of placating by making concessions

Pilot a plane quite new in style

Name state of North American mountain region

A very quiet woman morphed into just 'a name'

Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming.

Ate in dapper-fashion, that could have been relevant

Appetency

Request for hard work

Computer program requiring diligence

Formal request; sustained effort

Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical.

Applicator

Having the property of applying; applicative; practical.

Date with a very soft salve

A very subdued application for a date

German city

Doled out

Apposition

Appositive

Became more valuable

Was grateful for

Appreciate

One who values

Employed to learn a trade

Apprentice