2-Letter Words Starting with A

Temporarily filling in (as)

Breaking a leg (wordplay)

Business for Ford (wordplay)

The act of birds placing ants among their feathers

Like remittent diseases, perhaps

Dying to get a report about it back

In a decline

Airt

About to make a deal (wordplay)

Getting ready for a hand

Putting chips in up front

Effective against bugs

Pre-calc calculation

Math class calculation

Abbreviation for a mathematical term

Designed to hold things up, as some gate brackets

Making up (for)

Making up for a weight of gin

For this, making up

On the road

Helping someone do a bad job (wordplay)

Aiding (a felon)

Bank job action (wordplay)

Ablate

Taking a shot cut (wordplay)

Cutting short

Before being born, the gait will be stopping it

Next comes a ram fight

Bordering on a fight for rams, it seems

Bordering on a ram fight

Making one fit for a change

Changing to fit new circumstances

Altering to fit another purpose

Taking on (another's child)

Taking on one pint of this in a dog

Taking by choice

Bubbling up (wordplay)

Gassing up (wordplay)

Adding gas to

Agist

Airth

Paul Revere's midnight duty

Purpose of Paul Revere's ride

Warning triangle is broken

Letting out, maybe

Changing - 1 across (anagram)

Tailor's task

A usurping king

Promoting clean air

Designed to clear the air

Like many clean-air laws

Whatever spare G you like (wordplay)

You name it!

In Germany, thin girls can eat this!

Anglo-Saxon noble

Clothing (oneself)

Dressing (oneself)

Dressing - a place in Herts is holding it up

Bringing into harmony

Upsetting taunting, finding the right pitch

Making it, all the same, by the sound of it

Inspecting (accounts)

Checking the books

Checking car with metallic sound

Turning aside to affirm money is good

Turning aside one's eyes

Turning aside and preventing.

In a dogfight, say

Up in the air, maybe

Getting high, perhaps

Perhaps a heavy way to be hanging around

In the wings

A comic drinks one can in store

Taking by force

Making (oneself) scarce

Submitted in the bag but not for the present, perhaps

A hundred cent gin with emphasis

With stress in a manner of speaking, perhaps

The way you might be talking if gin made it stronger

That says one will

Being no refuse here, it seems

Save for the sound

Approaching and speaking to.

Policeman's activity, at times

Making a bold approach

Growing together

Motivating

Acylate

Pusher's activity

Adduct

Fine-tuning

Kind of department at a hospital

Accepting the truth of

Agreement to the truth of entrance

Dug around a Latin - praise be!

Worshipful

Lauding

Advect

Referring to incidentally

The Reverend Father is back for a little tea with gin

Touching the emotions

Putting it on

Having an impact on the emotions

Agatize

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

Brightness perhaps for the landing

Getting down to an ignition

Getting down to illumination, it seems

Giving out plenty of metal in the lag

Dispensing tall gin to drunk

Putting aside, as time

Adding up (to)

Coming to a getting up (wordplay)

Being equivalent.

Giving life to, as cel bodies (wordplay)

Mr. Disney's work.

Moving to action.

Not in gain (anagram)

Conferring with ceremonies

Rub and dub

Anthem

Like some foods and serums

Wrinkle-removing cream type

Antic

CLING to adhere to

Searching for snuffboxes, perhaps

Aroint

Aroynt

Unusual police function

Nicking a ring when the others go inside

Lovely job of a police officer

Article

Yes man's daily activity

Yes, it's a sniffy-sounding matter

Saying yes

Sticking up for (oneself)

Claiming to sting and sear this

Claiming it's made of sea string

Acting as right hand

Helpful to the fool if I cause him pain

The silly one I give pain to with help

Classifying.

Astony

Atomise

Atomize

Fixing a non-drinker's craving

(M/W)elding

A teetotaller in pain, and stuck with it

Fighting animal volunteers upset leader

At the cat back there His Majesty is offensive

It's so offensive to get at this in a zigzag way

Getting to be all there

Reaching, as a climax

Having got all there

Being present at (function/event)

Present at a funeral without a drink

Be at a teetotal funeral

... for a teacher (wordplay)

Sounds like a trying bit of a trial

Declaring that something is the case

Attorn

Author

Azotise

Azotize

Abandoning royal dignity

Relinquishing power

Giving up

Abnegate

Abreact

Abrogate

Doing without.

Santa in big buggy not letting anyone get cross (wordplay)

Absterge

Type of work.

FIRST-in, FIRST-out discipline

Giving a reason for financial processing

Accoutre

Acerbate

Acetify

Acierate

Acquit

Activate

Activize

Adhibit

Advocate

Afflict

Affront

Emergency transportation method

Flying in Hackney's hair-raising (wordplay)

Moving in emergency, scary for Cockneys (wordplay)

Giving the cold shoulder

Causing a rift between

Turning away

Aliment

Alkylate

Allocate

Walking

Amnesty

Amortise

Paying down

Amputate

Angulate

Editorial activity

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

Antecede

Preceding in time

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

CAKING the act of caking

Antidote

Mince pies and a pint - good and tasty!

Mouth-watering

Quite mouthwatering - but gets a pip in by accident

Appetize

Assigning (to a post)

Designating.

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

Armature

Claiming without right

Asperate

Asphalt

Pronouncing the "h" as in house

No defence for such a pickling, by the sound of it

Adman's adjective

An observation about tenor: 'stunning'

Striking dumb with astonishment

Astrict

Astringe

Wasting away as a result of disease

Silver-plated souvenir at home is deteriorating

Inga wavering: accepting award or declining (wordplay)

Attaint

Good Twitter handle for a seductress (wordplay)

Bringing in

Inviting.

Cautioning over selling house

Activity around the block

Cautioning boss selling the house

Adding to summer (wordplay)

Enlarging.

Increasing

Autolyse

Autolyze

Automate

Autopsy

Present participle or gerund

Loathing.

Abstract

Abstrict

ACCLIMATE To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize.

Getting in gear

Accredit

Accustom

ACETYLATE receive substitution of an acetyl group; of chemical compounds

ACIDULATE To make sour or acid in a moderate degree; to sour somewhat.

Acquaint

Making a reality

A silly sailor making sketch

Overshadowing a stupid sailor

""ADVANTAGE Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.""

""ADVENTURE That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.""

Commercial world (wordplay)

Classified line of business (wordplay)

Putting in a plug (wordplay)

The act of {advertising=v}

AESTIVATE

""AFFILIATE To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.""

Afforest

Affright

Making (a problem) worse

Making worse

Exacerbating

AGGREGATE To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. \'bdThe aggregated soil.\'b8aggregated soil.\'b8

ALLEVIATE To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.

ALPHABET a system of letters

""ALTERCATE The contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle.""

Sort of current found in tidal river

Type of current from your alternator

Taking turns

Ambition

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

ANATOMISE

ANATOMIZE Styptic. <mark>

Ancestor

Antevert

DUMPING the selling of large quantities of goods below market price

FOAMING the act of foaming

FOGGING fog

FOULING a deposit or crust

HUNTING an instance of searching

Technique designed to reduce blocking of radio signals

Turning obsolete

SMOKING to preserve by smoke-drying

WHALING the business of catching whales

APPROBATE Approved.

Aquatint

ARBITRAGE Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination.

""ARBITRATE To hear and decide, as arbitrators; as, to choose to arbitrate a disputed case. as, to choose to arbitrate a disputed case.""

AROMATIZE To impregnate with aroma; to render aromatic; to give a spicy scent or taste to; to perfume.

Hobnobber's activity

Asterisk

While 18 13, it's beyond a dream!

Very surprising

Greatly surprising

Attemper

Agent at unit being treated is getting weaker

""ATTRIBUTE To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to). to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to).""

Audition

Giving the thumbs up to writer, I perform on stage maybe

""AUTHORIZE To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary. as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.""

AUTOCLAVE A kind of French stewpan with a steamtight lid.

Semiautomatic.

Shortening

Reducing

ABSOLUTIZE

Gaining speed

Increasing speed

ACCENTUATE To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

""ACCUMULATE To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money. as, to accumulate a sum of money.""

""ADJUDICATE To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.""