2-Letter Words Starting with A

Equipment Cameron set cut out

Soldier's equipment.

Soldiers outfit other than weapons and garments

ACCULTURATE

Assimilating unfamiliar customs, beliefs

Of or pertaining to acculturation (definition 3).

Accumulation

Noun (-tion)

People known, but not well

Grade B friends.

Prospective friends

Acquiescence

In an acquiescent manner.

ACQUISITION The act or process of acquiring.

In the way of acquisition.

Noisy clamour spreading out around India in bitter manner

A making actual or really existent.

Needle-worker found in practice

Therapist involved in sharp practice (wordplay)

Needle therapist

Adjudication

Abstract noun (-ity)

Size.

Adulteration

Adumbrative

Ready to incur risk

Daring and enterprising

Coming by river, not all are daring

Nowadays, it's a risky project to ship back southeast women in the wild

Of or pertaining to adventurism.

In an adventurous manner; venturesomely; boldly; daringly.

Reflections of a sort

Extra remarks on feta recipe right from one's head

Slow-to-be-expressed ideas, but time during pudding

""AGGLUTINATE To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.""

The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.

""Pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having power to cause adhesion; adhesive.""

Agglutinogen

Agranulocyte

E.g. a farmer

Farming expert

Farmer

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Ambiguity.

AMBISEXUAL

The quality of being ambitious; ambition; pretentiousness.

A disorder of protein metabolism in which excessive amounts of amino acids are excreted in the urine.

Amorousness

Amorphous

Amusingness

Anachronous

Analogous

Andouillette

""A state of being anfractuous, or full of windings and turnings; sinuosity.""

Having seeds inclosed in a pod or other pericarp.

Things delivered by PA systems

Formal public statements

Proclamations

Annunciation

Quality of being anomalous.

The state or quality of being anonymous.

Antediluvian

""The last syllable of a word except two, as -syl- in monosyllable.-syl- in monosyllable.""

""A hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2O2.C6H4, subliming in shining yellow needles. It is obtained by oxidation of anthracene. C6H4.C2O2.C6H4, subliming in shining yellow needles. It is obtained by oxidation of anthracene.""

""AUTHORITY Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority of a court. as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority of a court.""

BOURGEOIS A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type. Type.

CELLULITE small lumpy deposits of body fat esp. on women's thighs and buttocks. Not used as a technical term.

Substance that prevents blood clotting

Blood-thinning agent

What stops clotting

""COMMUNISM A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all.""

COMMUNIST An advocate for the theory or practice of communism.

Plural agent noun

""EVOLUTION The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg. as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg.""

Antiglobulin

""GUERRILLA An irregular mode of carrying on war, by the constant attacks of independent bands, adopted in the north of Spain during the Peninsular war.""

Antihumanism

""MARIJUANA A strong-smelling Asian plant (Cannabis sativa), also called hemp, from which a number of euphorogenic and halucinogenic drugs are prepared. The euphoric effect is predominently due to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).Cannabis sativa), also called hemp, from which a number of euphorogenic and halucinogenic drugs are prepared. The euphoric effect is predominently due to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).""

Antineutrino

Plural or third person singular

""POLLUTION The act of polluting, or the state of being polluted (in any sense of the verb); defilement; uncleanness; impurity.""

""RELIGIOUS Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars. as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars.""

""RHEUMATIC Derived from, or having the character of, rheum; rheumic.""

""RITUALISM A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual.""

Counteracting scurvy.

SEXUALITY The quality or state of being distinguished by sex.

SMUGGLING smuggle

""SUBMARINE Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants. as, submarine navigators; submarine plants.""

Anxiousness

Apatosaurus

Specialists in worker management

Bee-keepers

Appoggiatura

Appurtenance

Aptitudinal

""AQUACULTURE the cultivation of aquatic animals, such as fish or shellfish, or of plants, such as seaweed, in a controlled and sometimes enclosed body of water. The term includes use of either salt or fresh water. It is a form of agriculture, but under water.""

Tree farming - rub our article (anagram)

Cultivation of trees

Archduchess

Relating to building design

Of design

Bow struck the City with the first flower of building design

Architecture

Arduousness

(Of rocks) silver-bearing

One maturing at manoeuvres, revealing logic

Logical reasoning required to shift great mountain

Opinionated and terribly vague trite man

Grump's disposition

Gave in with a mutter turning stroppy

Collection of resources available for a purpose

Connecting an artery to a vein.

They're expressive of joints on the move

Assiduous

Assuredness

Like Armstrong or Glenn

Atrocious

Attitudinal

ATTITUDINISE

Attitudinise

ATTITUDINIZE To assume affected attitudes; to strike an attitude; to pose.

Attitudinize

""ATTRIBUTION The act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality, character, or function, to a thing or person, an effect to a cause.""

In an attributive manner.

Aggressive boldness; unmitigated effrontery

CD's ancestor

Input for a recorder

Augmentation

Augmentative

Auscultation

Austereness

AUTECOLOGIC

In an authentic manner; with the requisite or genuine authority.

Shown to be true

Established as genuine

Certified

Authenticate

""AUTHENTICATE To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.""

Tyrannical writer meets Italian heretic

Enforcing strict rules

Enforcing strict obedience

Commanding and self-assured

Commanding, self-confident

Vested with power or influence

Official permission

The Henry Ford story (wordplay)

Carfax report (wordplay)

One's own Life (wordplay)

Autocatalyse

Autocatalysie

Pl. autocatalyses (-s z ) Catalysis of a chemical reaction by one of the products of the reaction.

Autocephaly

""Having its own head; independent of episcopal or patriarchal jurisdiction, as certain Greek churches.""

Aboriginal; indigenous; native.

""AUTOEROTIC sexually self-satisfying, as by masturbation.""

""Infection, such as recurrent boils, caused by bacteria, viruses, or parasites that persist on or in the body.""

Without thought

Spontaneously

Automobilist

Automorphism

Autonomical

Having more than two sets of chromosomes all derived from the same species.

An image produced upon photographic film by exposure of the film to a radioactive substance in close proximity to (usually in contact with) the film.

Autorotation

Autosuggest

Autoxidation

Aviculturist

Avoirdupois

Absoluteness

""The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance. temperance.""

Abstruseness

Responsibility, state of being answerable

Bill has the skill and the responsibility

To be able to tell stories is an essential feature of public life

The office or employment of an accountant.

Acculturation

Accumulative

Accurateness

Accursedness

Accustomation

Habituation.

Of or pertaining to actinomycetes.

Actualization

Those working for pin money (wordplay)

Medical needle users

They may needle you

Adequateness

Admeasurement

Profitably; with advantage.

Adventitious

Aeronautical

Agglutination

AGGLUTINOGEN

Agribusiness

Agricultural

Experts in their field

Allusiveness

Consisting of both letters and figures

So as to show concern for the well-being of others

Sculpted arse with enthusiasm but lack of skill

How the best pickpockets work, said Ambrose Bierce

In a bi-handed manner no repeated letters (nonverbal)

Aminoaciduria

Amphibious

Ankylosaurus

Antepenultima

Anthraquinone

Man-eater

Anticoagulant

Anticommunism

Anticommunist

CONVULSANT

Good against convulsions.

""CORRUPTION The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.""

""FILIBUSTER A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855.""

Word with prefix anti-

Inflected form of HOMOSEXUAL Inflected form of HOMOSEX homosexuality

""HUMANISTIC Of or pertaining to humanity; as, humanistic devotion. as, humanistic devotion.""

Antipollution

The study or collection of old things

Study of old and rare books etc.

A love of rare books and old things

""Inflected form of REGULATORY Inflected form of REGULATOR One who, or that which, regulates.""

Antirheumatic

Antiritualism

Antiscorbutic

""SUBVERSION The act of overturning, or the state of being overturned; entire overthrow; an overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin; destruction; as, the subversion of a government; the subversion of despotic power; the subversion of the constitution. as, the subversion of a government; the subversion of despotic power; the subversion of the constitution.""

SUBVERSIVE Tending to subvert; having a tendency to overthrow and ruin.

TUBERCULAR Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.

UNIVERSITY The universe; the whole.

Aquaculturist

Pertaining to arboriculture.

Arboriculture

Argumentation

Quality of clear speech

Assaultive

Assumability

Asynchronous

Adopting a position just for effect

ATTITUDINIZE To assume affected attitudes; to strike an attitude; to pose.