2-Letter Words Starting with A

Wooden statues with stone extremities

Like certain flowers in a batch - dead, gone over

(Of leaves and flowers) developing upwards from the base or point of attachment

Like the arrangement of some flowers in a batch with others

Initial readings (wordplay)

NEWS for the four directions, and others

Certain word puzzles

Acrotism

Acrylate

Actinian

Series of radioactive elements

Elements playin' a part on fateful day

Uranium and plutonium, for example

Actinism

Actinium

Actinoid

Made operative

Switched on

Fourth part of play a youth set in motion

Sets in motion.

Stimulates

Vitalizes.

Turn-on (wordplay)

Chemical catalyst

Catalyst

Activism

Ones seeking change

They've got issues

Black Lives Matter demonstrators, for example

Activize

Activize

Bill locks ladies in green room, perhaps

Bill locks performers in theatre maybe

Glamorous Oscar Night parties (wordplay)

It's not a dream

Beingness or existence

State of real existence

Make a reality of

So to be working with figures is risky

Of life-expectancy calculation

Relating to statistical calculation

Risk assessors sign, after a drastic cut

They calculate insurance risks

Insurance company employees

Motivating

Process of making operate

Actuator

""Tapering to a point; pointed; as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc. as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc.""

Acutance

Quality of sharp pain

That seems a cunning attribute

Use secant with sharp perceptiveness

Acylate

ACYLATE to introduce acyl into

Without backing down

With no sign of caving

In manner unyielding

Adamsite

Of flexible nature.

American with bald pate oddly plastic

Good at fitting in to new circumstances

Panda is to evolve in Darwinian processes

Pusher's activity

Monkey on one's back ("Henry V")

I did act on (anagram)

Maybe this is inhabited

Hard to give up

(Of drug) habit-forming

Habit-forming

New members of the family.

Extra rooms, for example

Extra publishings, by the sound of them

Coloring agents, for example

Substances blended with motor oil

Antiknocks, for example

Adduct

The act of adducing or bringing forward.

""Adducing, or bringing towards or to something.""

Inner thigh muscles

Certain thigh muscles

Adenoma

Ability without difficulty

Dud and Pete's singular skill

Savior-faire

Followers less certain than Reed's

Tears by poor head's supporters

Supporters of neatherds

Adhibit

Maintaining the heat, key help to intercept agents from the south

Relating to process in which there is no transference of heat

Biological word for a fat-storing cell

Fat cell

Idiot pays criminal for property of 6 23

Fatty nature

The good in "good riddance"

Modifier of a noun

'Dead' or 'alive'

By way of addition or adjunct; in connection with.

They alter commercials - right the Queen should appear in them

Fine-tuning

Tending to adjust.

Adjustor

Assistant officer's role

Military officers

Adjuvant

Main office (wordplay)

The main men (wordplay)

Headquarters of the British navy.

Bouncers, at times

Kind of department at a hospital

Accepting the truth of

Agreement to the truth of entrance

Extraneous ingredient

Say nice things about new tux, creating bit of a stir (wordplay)

Ingredient.

Adnation

Able to be taken up

Fit for taking home from the animal shelter

Commercial work on board is such as may be undertaken

Humane Society successes

Social worker's concern.

Votes to accept commercial alternatives

Commercial speech (wordplay)

Love a fair helping of bother (wordplay)

Allowance of fuss and of love (wordplay)

Touch of color, perhaps

Decoration for naval personnel in a spot

Mend a torn dress with decoration

Most skilful at concealing steroid misuse

Adscript

Substance taken up in a lab

A type of tree covered in fruit? It's only on the surface

Like charcoal filter

Capable of deflecting moisture

Capable of producing a film about bears? Don't!

Dug around a Latin - praise be!

Worshipful

Lauding

Very high regard

Sycophant's specialty

High praise for an adult I love to tease

Prays from them, by the sound of it

Obsequious group

Big fans

Excessively flattering

When almost grown-up, a politician is flattering

Sycophantic

Who later rued straying (wordplay)

Durer tale (anagram)

One's business affairs (wordplay)

Minor goal (wordplay)

A step above the minors (wordplay)

Supposedly mature years

Adjective meaning resembling

Maturity

Foreshadow a silent tear, perhaps

Indicate a silent speed (wordplay)

Outline from an unintelligent judge

Service commercial vehicle, say, at back

Edge of the tennis court (wordplay)

Head start, say

Advect

ADVECT to transport by the flow of a fluid

ADVECT to transport by the flow of a fluid

Accidental.

Commercial gamble (wordplay)

Per this perhaps it's exciting

New account on Madison Avenue (wordplay)

State of misfortune or affliction

Something to rise above

(State of) misfortune

Attentive, heedful

The Reverend Father returns to his temporary quarters

Referring to incidentally

The Reverend Father is back for a little tea with gin

Throw out pitches (wordplay)

Promote (a product)

Push kin (wordplay)

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Pled in support

Stood up for Dublin supporter from the start

Recommended

Recommends Scottish silks, perhaps

Goes to bat (for)

Promoters of Scottish silks

ADVOCATE to plead in favour of

Oxygen-supplying procedures

One living the high life (wordplay)

Turn up (wordplay)

Man on the flying trapeze

Doing stunts with airplanes

Of stunt flying

One in novel boat race having high jinks

Aeroduct

Meteorites (E, not H)

Stony bodies from outer space.

Stony meteorites

Stony meteorites

Density determining instrument

Gas-density gauge

Gizmo that measures gas properties

Balloonists or airmen

They go up and down

Balloon pilots, for example

Dirigibles, balloons, etc.

Balloons

Comic teases the arty types

Lovers of the beautiful.

Gallery regulars

Concerned with beauty

Organizing principle of beauty

Of pleasing appearance

Four in a car sleep when it's warm

I've a taste for change and will spend the summer in bed

The science or philosophy of causation

Affecter

Touching the emotions

Putting it on

Having an impact on the emotions

Feeling of fondness

Feeling of strong liking

Admiration of affectation from the army

Tending to affect; affecting.

Afferent

Written declaration made under oath

Written declaration on oath

Matter for a notary public

Attach (to an organisation)

Team up with FIFA et al: one fouled

In trouble if I left AA as associate

Noun (-ment)

Sick, day after botched facelift

Caused pain to

Diseased; suffering

Affluent

Afforest

""A combination of a stop, or explosive, with an immediately following fricative or spirant of corresponding organic position, as pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.""

Affright

A fine figurehead ends oddly insulted

Offended by disrespect.

Offended one FBI operative about political group

Poison produced by food moulds; oxtail fan (anagram)

Road to recovery

Need for recovering patients

Support to customer following a purchase

Unlooked-for ending

Surprise blow following affair thought ended.

Ship area behind the bridge house

Later, adorn part of ship

Dress following of stern queen in area behind bridge

Bursting, flow with great warm feeling

Light once the actual source has gone

Light in the sky post sunset

Medium access (wordplay)

Post-death existence

Heaven or hell., for example

When to study physics?

When to study physics (wordplay)

Consequences (of an event)

Last to be following the majority

Right at the back, yet wanting the lion's share

Perhaps I am never in time like this

On following no following amend, perhaps

Am finished before it starts (wordplay)

'That's of late, it seems (5,4)'

Future

Later, it's not before you draw this up

At a later time

*... war dance ...

Book's epilogue

Concluding section in a book

Concluding part of book

Agatize

Agenting

Agentive

Agentry

Blue or white garden flowers.

Small blue or white flowers.

Garden flowers

Exasperate or exacerbate

Annoy, and make things worse

Make (problem) worse

Collective total - a great egg (anagram)

Greg is stone-faced, in sum (wordplay)

Get garage to fix heap (wordplay)

As shown by all-round gymnasts

Agiotage

What a disturbing thing to be doing!

It's shaking, thanks to a can in a gig

One might find it with a can in a horse

State of unrest

Rabble-rouser's activity

Attack of the fidgets.

Tending to stir up

That's sure to get one gone

A gait rots the stirrers

Sort of a gait for trouble, they are

Agitprop

Agnation

They just don't know

They don't know if God exists or not

Religious doubters

Argumentative.

Gentlemen's, for one

Arbitrator's goal

Yes, that will make it contract

Not concerned with the past

Ornamental sprays of feathers

Feather sprays

Tree of Heaven; Thai Alnus (anagram)

Sugar maybe taking one part of 7 tree

Tree liana winding round in this manner

Airburst

Removed from the war zone

Carried supplies by plane

Moved the troops, in a certain way

Well known travel trailer brand (3,6)

Miranda Lambert's classic RV (wordplay)

Land Yacht manufacturer

Where fighter jets touch down

Landing spots in the jungle

Small landing fields

Safe to fly

How rarity may be fit to fly

Ready to take off

Wasted the bacon sandwiches I cut

HB1 around the rump

Cut of beef

Statue material, perhaps

Altar base (anagram)

Figurine material, perhaps

Prophets of doom fabricated star's mail

They arouse people's fears needlessly

Chicken Little et al.

Ornithological collar (wordplay)

Pacino's burden (wordplay)

Big bird's a hit, of course!

Affected with albinism.

Alcahest

St Michael (anagram)

Faust, for one

One with a gold standard (wordplay)

Depending on chance

Attention that fielders must show

Sentry's attribute

Relents as travelling in vigilant state

Alginate

Decision tree, for one

*Programmer's procedure

Netflix uses one to recommend you movies

Shut off (from)

How Keri Hilson feels (wordplay)

Date Liane (anagram)

Puts a gulf between.

Sets at odds

Makes a foe of

Poor diplomat, say

Family outcast, perhaps

One causing estrangement

Specialists in the psychiatric field.

Psychiatrists of old

Legal term for psychiatrists.

Brightness perhaps for the landing

Getting down to an ignition

Getting down to illumination, it seems

Tin mangle (anagram)

Arrangement in a straight line

Service-station job

Aliment

A straightening of the ranks.

Troop order

Political arrangement

Fatty.

Able to read but not interested in reading. See Usage Note at literate .

Able but unwilling to read

Disinclined to read

Alkahest

Of or pertaining to alkalosis.

Alkylate

Alkylate

Allanite

""Pertaining to, or contained in, the allantois.""

""A crystalline, transparent, colorless substance found in the allantoic liquid of the fetal calf; formerly called allantoic acid and amniotic acid. allantoic acid and amniotic acid.""

""Pl. allantoides ( l n-t -d z ) A membranous sac that develops from the posterior part of the alimentary canal in the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles. It is important in the formation of the umbilical cord and placenta in mammals. Also called allantoid .""

Everybody say one soldier's loyal

Orchestra losing leader, a man very great and loyal

Inspector of hives, perhaps

She can scratch that itch (wordplay)

Doctor healing great ills

""A synthetic clear or amber-colored viscous insecticide, C 19 H 26 O 3 , similar to pyrethrin.""

Make less severe, say suffering

Leave it out after Al displays temper

Take the edge off

Creature seen later (wordplay)

Pogo's pal Albert, for one

Florida snapper (wordplay)

Set apart for a specific purpose

Bertie found leaving set aside

Assigned everybody at co-ed school

Assigns a place

Distributes

Assigns

Designated hitter finder (wordplay)

Distributor of resources

Budgeter, in a way

""A graft of tissue obtained from a donor of the same species as, but with a different genetic make-up from, the recipient, as a tissue transplant between two humans. Also called homograft .""

The study of the relative growth of a part of an organism in relation to the growth of the whole.