2-Letter Words Starting with A

Sailors turn on way and head for folly

Ballerina's hairdo gets into the act (wordplay)

In a sufficient degree; fully; amply; plentifully; in large measure.

Floral designs used in architecture

What to do with an acute etc (wordplay)

Worried about acne? Cut out stress

Emphasise smart goddess with brogue

A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician.

Bookkeeper, maybe chartered

Someone doing a balancing act (wordplay)

Relation without a tan in summer

Type of work.

FIRST-in, FIRST-out discipline

Giving a reason for financial processing

Accouter

Accoutre

Noun (-ment)

Get together to create a fortune perhaps

Build up

Collect Greek character's former account with Catholic university first

Accuracy

Some maniac curate lying? Precisely!

It's precisely a copy you heard Ray let anyhow

Lacy shifts worn by one in church without any slips

In a hateful manner

Whodunit plot element

Charge copyright to America in case

Charge about, protecting us in battle

The case for the prosecution (wordplay)

Prosecution's case (wordplay)

Case which needs objective prosecuting

""Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel. as, an accusatory libel.""

In an accusing manner.

Assigned blame, framing cat as usual

Usual train heading for East Germany

Familiar cat held by defendant

Without a chief

Cupshaped; saucershaped; acetabuliform.

Deep cavity on the side of the hipbone that receives the head of the thighbone

The hollow that receives the head of the thigh bone

Made slightly acidic

Acidulate

Serving to aid hearing.

Sounding accusal to premier in Istanbul, hopeless

Auditory

Familiar (with)

Know with with

Know with with

Complied without putting up opposition

Assented

Agreed

Caves

Capable of being acquired.

One who acquires.

Acquittal

Judges or juries, sometimes

Acquit

""Changed from potential to actual; as, saw his worst fears actualized.as, saw his worst fears actualized.""

Actualize

Actuation

Adduction

Any of a group of DNA-containing viruses that cause conjunctivitis and upper respiratory tract infections in humans.

Adequacy

Done well enough to earn a C, maybe

In satisfactory manner

Is it satisfactory place is empty to an acceptable extent (wordplay)

Postponing

Decide (between claims or in games)

Decide officially on a dispute

Hear and decide (a case).

The act of joining; the thing joined or added.

Joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct.

""The act of adjuring; a solemn charging on oath, or under the penalty of a curse; an earnest appeal.""

Containing an adjuration.

Able to be adapted

Not set in stone

Like hospital beds

End of the statement

Small change to achieve a desired result

Modification; regulation

Portioned out

Admeasure

Admixture

Adulation

Any substance that lessens purity

Water, vis-a-vis vodka

Corrupter of mature queen by worker

Cut a deal? Utter chicanery!

Water down, perhaps

Grown up with age, note, can be corrupt

Ones fooling around

Having grown up with a couple of cockney girls? Faith, he will have none of it!

Woman whose tears led us astray (wordplay)

Qualities evenly incorporated in an outfit for Madame Bovary, perhaps (wordplay)

Adultery

Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal.

Cheating ruled out as arranged

Like Fontane's woman

Cheating ruled out as wrong

Adulthood

A silent speed's indicated like this

Vaguely outlined

Adumbrate

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

Man of derring-do

Many a Jules Verne protagonist

Soldier of fortune.

Tuned raves (anagram)

And then... stories

Basis of many plots.

Pertaining to an important science.

Pertaining to the science of air travel

Of plane navigation

Afflatus

Affluence

Abundantly; copiously.

Plant pot like this on cooker

A space with an African plant like this

A, as in this African Lily

Substance in body - a s-surfeit gets in repeatedly

Antibody causing sticking together of bacteria, cells, etc

Like many Playboy Playmate photos

Sprayed with paint

Tools of historical revisionists

Retouches, in a way

Cheerful willingness; eagerness.

ALBUMIN a {protein=n}

""Of or pertaining to the genus Allium, or garlic, onions, leeks, etc.; having the smell or taste of garlic or onions. Allium, or garlic, onions, leeks, etc.; having the smell or taste of garlic or onions.""

""The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words.""

Characterized by allogamy.

Its name means "different lizard"

Literally, 'different lizard'

Ursula also recreated ancient creatures

Power to attract

ALLURING allure

It refers indirectly to everybody from America with fourth place in Dublin

They provide poor accommodation

Charitable housing

An instrument for taking azimuths and altitudes simultaneously.

Globular clouds of intermediate height

High clouds

Clouds with flat bases forming continuous layers at 2,400 to 6,000 metres

Unselfish liars? Cut it out!

Concerned for others' wellbeing

Hardly selfish

Aluminate

Aluminium

ALUMINIZE To treat impregnate with alum; to alum.

Aluminize

Dictation takers

Trouble ensues after a chap employs copyists

Secretaries

Someone skilled in dictation

Lockup, to a Londoner

Secretary of a sort

True - a ham is, sadly!

'The Samurai' cast is unprofessional

Uriah's mate is terribly unprofessional

Lack of professionality

As immature as can be, and showing the lack of a professional touch

Having a sexual orientation to persons of either sex; bisexual.

""Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms. as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.""

""One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.""

Emergency vehicles

Walking

The act of walking.

Up and about

Not bedridden

Moving about

""AMBUSCADE A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.""

""AMBUSCADE A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.""

Surprise attacks

Waylays.

An ambush.

Americium

Amiantus

Charge for fire-arms

An A of A&E

Charge for firearms

Like the D-Day assault on Normandy

Having two natures.

For use on land and in water

Amplexus

Large or full measures

Wave measurements

Amputate

Limb removal

In the morning put it back in a leg that's cut

Removal of member from a redcap university rubbish club not right

Larks of Arcadia (wordplay)

Fun and games

At sea, seamen must find diversions

Breaks in grammatical sequence

A haul Acton possibly offers of syntactic non sequiturs

""Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc.""

""Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical.""

""Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to orthotropous.orthotropous.""

Gold place in which land is mined for mineral

Andouille

""Pl. androecia (-sh - , -sh ) The stamens of a flower considered as a group.""

Aneuploid

ANEUPLOID

""ANEURYSM dilatation of an artery, also ANEURISM""

Anguish

Gauntness

Angulate

A making angular; angular formation.

""ANILINE a chemical compound, also ANILIN""

Paramecium, rotifer, etc.

Microscopic organism

Microscopic creature

Being very small but old-womanish about bad French copper

Armored beast of old

Game-show VIPs

Ball game describers

They may call the shots

Declaring

ANNUALIZE

Annualize

Persons receiving a type of income.

Ring formation

They undo 'I do's'

They undo "I do's"

More than one quashing - mental nuns wrestling

Mutant canine tuna, say

Declare girl in acute trouble

Announce (arch.)

Designating a period in U.S. history.

Before the war.

Of the period before 1861.

""Zoology A small antenna or similar organ, especially one of the first pair of small antennae on the head of a crustacean.""

Antennule

Third last syllable

Second syllable from the last.

third-from-last syllable

Anthurium

Antiauxin

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

CHURCH to bring to a building for Christian worship

FUNGAL a {fungus=n}

HUNTER one who {hunts=v}

In favor of the great indoors, maybe

NAUSEA an inclination to vomit

PLAGUE to pester or annoy

PLAQUE an ornamental plate or disk

Antiquark

Old-fashioned

Awfully quaint, a Fifties youth is seen as behind the times

Passe.

Antiquate

Blood plasmas

Immunity providers

Blast of steam ruins medicinal substances

SEXUAL pertaining to sex

What I could be with you (wordplay)

Like War and Peace, without name Tolstoy initially put in

As War and Peace, unsigned, without Tolstoy's initial

Breeding and care of bees

One might be keeping this, by the sound of it

Bringing up workers in a religious environment

The development of a gametophyte directly from a sporophyte without the occurrence of meiosis or spore formation.

""The ascigerous fructification of lichens, forming masses of various shapes.""

Receptive audience

Going like the clappers (wordplay)

Giving a hand around the house (wordplay)

Clapping etc

Nonsense, to fruit-lovers (wordplay)

Served with pork? Nonsense!

A likely story!

Blue-green beryl

Birthstone for many Pisces

Gemstone a queen pinned to a soldier

Skidded on film of water

Water-skier's next of kin

Boards pulled by motorboats

Motorboat tows

Glorification of a vessel he holds up is so strange

Engraved on copper using resin and nitric acid

AQUATINT to etch using a certain process

""Consisting or conveying water or a watery fluid; as, aquiferous vessels; the aquiferous system. as, aquiferous vessels; the aquiferous system.""

Aquilegia

AQUILINE hooked like an eagle's beak

Positions in ballet dancing.

Persian rug patterns

Ballet positions

""Relating to, or of the nature of, the Araucaria. The earliest conifers in geological history were mostly Araucarian.""

Araucaria

Where they might bring back the birch (wordplay)

Flowers that do well among trees and shrubs (wordplay)

Plots of land on which many different trees or shrubs are grown

Archosaur

Sandy.

Sandy

""Pl. argumenta (-t ) Logic An argument, demonstration, or appeal to reason.""

Armature

Bearing arms.

Guns of 15th century

Dodger's skill (wordplay)

Craft making false turns at sea

Endowed with the power of speech.

Of Carney's film roles (wordplay)

A tacit rule that's broken, say

Expressing oneself clearly.

Asbestus

Pl. ascogonia (-n - ) The female reproductive organ of ascomycetous fungi.

Having no evident sex or sex organs.

Asphaltum

Assaulter

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

Making an assault.

Assumpsit

Guess feast day (wordplay)

Belief held without proof

Undertaking reform must pain so

As one might be, following tips resulting in cash hoarding