2-Letter Words Starting with A

April Fools joke maybe

What a caper for an insect, I see!

Caper; grotesque (arch.)

Web site, perhaps (wordplay)

Story of past glories, maybe (wordplay)

Web developer (wordplay)

Is one a CID jerk (wordplay)

Jerk follows master of acid

The acid in vingear

W.W. II amphibian.

It carries troops from ship to shore

Army amphib vehicle

valve (heart part)

Of a major artery

Relating to the main artery

On top of the world (wordplay)

Very cold (weather)

Pole position (wordplay)

Like a throwback

Of ancient ancestors

Like a throwback.

Suffering from inability to coordinate movements

Uncoordinated

Bill enters cab. On the contrary suffering from inability to control movements

Imperfective, as a verb

Imperfective.

Imperfective

Particularly energy-giving!

Radioactive Blondie song (wordplay)

I'm Cato (anagram)

Free of stress (wordplay)

Unaccented, as syllables

Debilitated by careless action

Like a hereditary condition

A thing you talk about, like an allergic reaction

African leader on summit in charge of type of allergic reaction

Not the usual

Differing from the norm.

Not characteristic

Of or containing nitrogen

Sans living organisms

Lifeless, as the moon

Dead, as a planet

Relating to the highest point

Relating to weakness of the pulse

Type of ray

Like a certain property of radiation

Like light that causes chemical change

Related through males

Related through males.

On Dad's side

Pertaining to {albite=n}

Like aloes

Losing an unstressed vowel from a word's start

Turkey's entry, in the end, enthusiastically supported by him

Lacking light

Lightless.

Pertaining to {aplite=n}

In the tank (wordplay)

Like some summer Olympic events

It's all wet

Pertaining to {argot=n}

St. Francis of Assisi, for one

Mahatma Gandhi, for one

Hedonist's opposite

Relating to dropsy of the abdomen

Unable to give you anything (wordplay)

Free of germs

Being clean involves giving it space

Not stable or steady

In neutral equilibrium.

One still without polarity

Relating to augite

A substance that promotes auxesis

Like certain chromosome fragments

Lacking a middle

Not in the middle

Pertaining to {acetone=n}

Pertaining to the radical of acetic acid

Of the presence of sour substances in the blood

Relating to a poisonous herb

What one plays pool with?

*Like a Taylor 810, say

What one plays pool with (wordplay)

Leaders in poetry, perhaps

Beginnings of poetry (wordplay)

Initial puzzle (wordplay)

Pertaining to the aether

Relating to agenesis

Person acting so dubious (wordplay)

One who's not sure what's up (wordplay)

Doubter - coatings (anagram)

Unsophisticated GI reacts oddly

Rural retreat caught by its awful rage

Unpolished silver on staff detail

Pertaining to {amitosis=n}

Causing memory loss

Fluid to protect an embryo

Of the embryo sac

Kind of fluid

Upward moving, as a wind

Logical in examination

Using logical reasoning

Skilled in reasoning

Of bodily structure

Of the body

Structural as opposed to functional

One affected with loss of appetite

Relating to three unequal oblique axes

A medicine which relieves pain

A medicine that prevents pus forming

Pertaining to inability to urinate

Pertaining to a verb tense

Having the same colour as the animal's surroundings

Unable to produce new cells, causing defects in organs or tissue

""Unable to perform voluntary bodily movements, also APRAXIC""

Absence of fever

SILVER

Smelly cat Moira maltreated!

Like peppermint oil, say

Having fragrance (of herb)

Skilled at painting, say

I stir cat (anagram)

Right-brained, maybe

Pertaining to a heartbeat

Pertaining to {asbestos=n}

Weak

A tranquilizing drug

Lacking technical knowledge

An A in sports (wordplay)

Lithe cat (anagram)

Fit for Charlton's team (wordplay)

Relating to atrophia

A Turk trained in best college must be self-sufficient

Like "Rain Man" (wordplay)

Living in a world of fantasy

Like the boy in "Mercury Rising"

Pertaining to an autopsy

""Relating to azotemia, also AZOTAEMIC""

Well-balanced, perhaps

Taking a tumble (wordplay)

Well-balanced (wordplay)

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

Relating to process in which there is no transference of heat

Doing stunts with airplanes

Of stunt flying

One in novel boat race having high jinks

Concerned with beauty

Organizing principle of beauty

Of pleasing appearance

Argumentative.

Not concerned with the past

Affected with albinism.

Depending on chance

Fatty.

Of or pertaining to alkalosis.

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

ALLOTYPE a type of {antibody=n}

Affected with amaurosis; having the characteristics of amaurosis.

Of or pertaining to ametropia.

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

AMORIST a {lover=n}

Psychological dependence on others.

Can pet ail awfully? Here's a drug

Restorative

Invigorating

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

Like some poetic feet

""ANDESITE a volcanic rock, also ANDESYTE""

ANECDOTE a brief story

ANELE to {anoint=v}

Of belief in spirits, demons, etc.

Believing that the universe has a soul

Believing that objects have souls

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

Lacking appetite

Deep frozen (wordplay)

In pole position (wordplay)

Where to pick up a penguin (wordplay)

Human error in pact with rhino

Like some immunological agents

Triggering, in immunology

I can get in trouble for being stimulating

In opposition to one another

Like a venom neutralizer

Counteracting poison.

Does Auntie Tock get sick of such a cure (wordplay)

ANTONYM a word opposite in meaning to another

A wretched cold

Having an "I don't care" attitude

In a way, call up without any interest

Resembling aphanite; having a very finegrained structure.

""Having two or more parts of different curvatures, so combined as to remove spherical aberration; said of a lens.""

Same as Apodeictic. Apodeictic.

APOMICT an organism produced by reproduction

Pauline perhaps relating to preachers

Relating to the Pope

Unholy topic also concerning Pope

With inflamed joints

Suffering from stiff joints

In need of joint relief

""Pertaining to, of the nature of, or containing, asphalt; bituminous.""

Of a respiratory disease

German cathedral city

That's enough to make short of 27 down

Of a sentence in which conjunctions are omitted

Of or relating to a drug or other agent that has a tranquilizing effect.

Resembling remote ancestors

Reverting to something ancient

Involving reversion to an earlier type

Rejecting higher authority (wordplay)

Eschewing a higher calling (wordplay)

Not believing the man is in Greek mode

Less than molecular

Composed of simple elements

A cat is twitching, completely broken down (wordplay)

AUTARCH an absolute ruler

Real thin with a cute bust!

Genuine, not a copy

Real thin with a cute bust

Golden garment on back of film needs training to relieve stress

""Of, pertaining to, or causing autolysis.""

Will it shoot itself (wordplay)

Occurring as a matter of course

Type of gun or car

Like a nervous system

Occurring involuntarily

Acting independently.

Of or pertaining to autotelism.

Taken for granted

Pertaining to self-evident truths

Of universally received principles

""ACETYLENE A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant.""

Colourless church with scent outside

Colorless.

A dreamer with no name embraces church, having no shade

ACTIVIST an advocate of {activism=n}

Pertaining to an important science.

Pertaining to the science of air travel

Of plane navigation

Affected with albinism.

""ALKAHEST the hypothetical solvent sought by alchemists, also ALCAHEST""

Of or pertaining to allometry.

""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.

Zero latitude given to everybody, in more than one form

Everything round earthly circle existing in more than one form

A couple of lines? Old line on map taking more than one form

Arranged just like these words? Yes!

Like some codes

Like characters in a script

Unselfish liars? Cut it out!

Concerned for others' wellbeing

Hardly selfish

Partly one and partly the other; neither acid nor alkaline; neutral.

""Effecting the conversion of starch into soluble dextrin and sugar; as, an amylolytic ferment. as, an amylolytic ferment.""

Aiding the memory

Of or pertaining to anaplasty.

Reclusive.

Ether, for one

It may put you to sleep

It may be administered before surgery

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

""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.""

Treatment for bacterial infections

Medicine destroying micro-organisms

Substance that destroys bacteria

DROMIC pertaining to a race-course

Same as Antemetic. Antemetic.

EROTIC an amatory poem

HEROIC an epic verse

POETIC pertaining to {poetry=n}

Application for injury benefit, perhaps

Preventing growth of microorganisms

Alcohol, for example.

Counteracting electrical build-up

Kind of carpet

Tending to resist charge build-up

Exactly opposite.

Opposite

Preventing or reducing anxiety; antianxiety.

""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.

1. unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration

In a sorry state (wordplay)

With hat in hand, perhaps

So sorry and disturbed, to ogle a pic

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.""

Intended to ward off evil: an apotropaic symbol.

""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.""

""Like, or imitative of, anything archaic; pertaining to an archaism.""

Activity for summer (wordplay)

Field of operations (wordplay)

R without an apostrophe (wordplay)

Lacking rhythm or regularity of rhythm: "a slight arrhythmic imperfection when the car idles" (Garrison Keillor).

Neuralgic pain in a joint or joints.

Not right insight (wordplay)

Suffering distortions of vision

Having double-vision

ASTROCYTE a large star-shaped neuroglial cell in nervous tissue.

Sky-high (colloq.)

Extremely large (colloq.)

It can be so romantic - really great!

Not regularly shaped

Not perfectly balanced

Like this puzzle's grid

Type of curve, in math.

Of or pertaining to austenite.

Having absolute power

Like Holmes's breakfast-table man

Croatia cut out being dictatorial

""Sexually self-satisfying, as by masturbation.""

""Not defective; complete; as, an acatalectic verse. as, an acatalectic verse.""

Of or pertaining to achondrite.

A hydrometer used to determine the specific gravity of acid solutions.

Having a subterminal centromere

Adjective (-ic)

ALCHEMIST One who practices alchemy.

Of or pertaining to an algorithm.

AMPHIPATH

Lacking grammatical sequence.

""Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial.""

A knockout in the theatre!

Laughing gas, for example

A person could well be put out by it

ANALEMMA a type of graduated scale

Like one wanting to overthrow government

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

Of or pertaining to animalism.

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

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

MITOTIC pertaining to {mitosis=n}

1991's word: Fever-preventing

Fever-reducing drug

Momentous, catastrophic

Translation of a Coptic play is outstanding

Copy capital letters - it could be a revelation

Of or pertaining to an aponeurosis.

""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.""

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