2-Letter Words Starting with A

Promises dashed in University College, fools around

Promises

Adman's adjective

An observation about tenor: 'stunning'

Striking dumb with astonishment

Spacey types (wordplay)

Houston's spacemen (wordplay)

Houston's spacemen?

It's shrewd breaking statue over head

Doctor uses a test involving new insight

Shrewdness

Athenaeum

Ted ate tuna salad, becoming thin

Reduced in strength

Made thin/thinner

Diminishes in force.

Makes thin.

Weakens

Electronic signal weakener

Electric signal diminisher

Device reducing signal strength

That's ascribed to a TD about a matter of tax

Thought to be by Alfred Tennyson initially, but going in to be tested

Such properties belong at taxes

Skills shown by artiste, but presented awkwardly

Characteristics

Harmonisation needs much attention without having people turn back

Vegetables that might ensure a big stew

Eggplants

One with lots to offer (wordplay)

One has lots to shift!

Man with lots on his mind (wordplay)

Cautioning over selling house

Activity around the block

Cautioning boss selling the house

Insolent acts

The quality of being audible; power of being heard; audible capacity.

(Physics / General Physics) caused or produced by sound or an audio frequency an audiogenic epileptic fit

Audiogram

Adjective (-ic)

Alexander Graham Bell invention

Otologist's instrument

Otology instrument

The measurement of hearing.

Emery phor buphs (wordplay)

One making a sound investment (wordplay)

Hi-fi fan.

Media for drivers

Driver's entertainment, sometimes

Dinosaurs next to the iPod

Tried out for a part

Read (for)

Tried out

Auditory

AUDITOR one who {audits=v}

Sitting-room with a view (wordplay)

Room for performances

The principal's classroom

Augmenter

Adding to summer (wordplay)

Enlarging.

Increasing

Augmentor

The quality of being august; dignity of mien; grandeur; magnificence.

AURICULAE

Goldbearing; containing or producing gold.

To practice auscultation; to examine by auscultation.

Ausform

Auslander

Like a double rainbow, perhaps

Encouraging suspect given new start

Rosy doubtful about substituting top

Austenite

Of or pertaining to austenite.

Autarchy

AUTARKIC relating to autarky

The branch of ecology that deals with the biological relationship between an individual organism or an individual species and its environment.

Believers in film directors' full control

Throw her out, said official

Licensed originator is a man

Revised share-out I'd sanctioned

Permits will be distributed at house, sir

""Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent. as, an authorized agent.""

Granter of a privilege.

One who sanctions an action

Clears

Empowers

Sanctions

Novelist's craft (wordplay)

The Caine or the Pequod?

The Caine or the Pequod (wordplay)

AUTOBAHN a German superhighway

Autobus

Native.

AUTOCLAVE A kind of French stewpan with a steamtight lid.

Pressure cookers

Having absolute power

Like Holmes's breakfast-table man

Croatia cut out being dictatorial

Law blaming the car (wordplay)

DIY learner in car committed the deed

Do-it-yourself learner

Having all stages of a life cycle occurring on the same host.

Autoecism

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

Autogamy

Characterized by autogamy; selffertilized.

Autogeny

Selfgenerated; produced independently.

Autograft

Fan collection (wordplay)

Star signs (wordplay)

Collector's items.

The science of autographs; a person's own handwriting; an autograph.

Such a response is not wanted from setter's in-car mobile menu

Derived or transferred from the same individual's body: autologous blood donation; an autologous bone marrow transplant.

""AUTOLYSE to break down tissue by enzyme action, also AUTOLYZE""

Autolyse

""AUTOLYZE to break down tissue by enzyme action, also AUTOLYSE""

Autolyze

Automaker

Some cars

Automate

Present-day production trend.

Feature of modern industry.

Use of electronic devices.

Action which does not involve conscious intention

AUTOMATISE AUTOMATE to convert to automatic control

Prepare to mass-produce, say

*Mindless workers (letters 3-8)

Folk who lead a routine monotonous life

Cuckoos in clocks, for example

Jaguar, for one

Road-test need

Welcome graduation gift.

Why they eyed the showroom (wordplay)

Why they eyed the showroom?

Relating to motor vehicles

Independent political groups.

""Government independent self-rule free from outside influence. Freedom , Politics""

Having self-government.

Independent

Independent.

Ones who'd never think of flying (wordplay)

Autopsy

AUTOROTATE

Autoroute

Present participle or gerund

Motorway in Italy

Major Italian highway

Italian highway

Italian superhighways.

Autotomy

Cause a body part to undergo autotomy.

""The spontaneous casting off of a limb or other body part, such as the tail of certain lizards or the claw of a lobster, especially when the organism is injured or under attack.""

Autotroph

""AUTOTROPH an organism which is autotrophic, i. e., an organism (such as most plants and certain microorganisms) which are capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances, requiring only minerals as nutrients for growth, and using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; the energy required is derived from photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Opposed to heterotroph. See also auxotroph.autotrophic, i. e., an organism (such as most plants and certain microorganisms) which are capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances, requiring only minerals as nutrients for growth, and using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; the energy required is derived from photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Opposed to heterotroph. See also auxotroph.""

Autotypy

Big Three employee

AUTUMNAL pertaining to {autumn=n}

Auxotroph

AUXOTROPH

Adjective for Marner.

A king strangled by a savage is grasping

A savage eating most of arm, greedy

An undertaking to clad home in glass

Rearing and care of birds.

The act of avouching; positive declaration.

Ayahuasca

Abjuration

Pertaining to ablution.

On the surface

GROUCHY

Mariner answers and gets acquittals

Absolutism

People with rigid worldviews

A bandleader overcoming very old musicians, their principles undiminished

ABSOLUTIZE

Absolutize

Characterized by abstinence; selfrestraining.

Highly illogical situations

Mistreatment

Insults

""Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground.""

In an accentual manner; in accordance with accent.

Emphasized

Stresses

Accoucheur

Like a good math teacher (wordplay)

Obliged (to answer?)

Required to justify oneself

In an accountable manner.

Practice needed for balancing acts

Profession dealing with finance

IRS experts who do sums

Employees in Big Eight companies

Financial experts making reports about worker

Accounting

Getting in gear

Accruement

Assimilate a different way of life, perhaps

Socialize

Brought together into a group or crowd

Hoards

Bet; large battery cell

Battery - type of bet

Electric cell; bet

Criminal charges

Legal charges

Charges a couple of hundred on a suit's fitting

Direct objects of verbs.

Accustom

Acetabulum

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

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

Expert in sound

Source of sound advice

Acquaint

Consenting (to something) without protest

Submissive

Right away, obtains a bit of money, as one falling into line

Giving in

""The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment.""

A recently received asset or object

Getting clear one that's charged is to be held inside

Gain

Desiring possessions

Grasping

Covetous

Acquisitor

The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability.

Like some divorces

Angry and bitter

Producing bad feelings

Facts and whatnot

Making a reality

Actuarial

Shiatsu

Complementary medicine using needles

Therapy which needs needles

Method of treatment with needles

Acuteness

ADENOMA a tumor of glandular origin

Termination of a meeting

Court suspension

Recess

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

Settles

He has decisive qualities

Settler of disagreement

Arbitrator

Adjunction

Solemn appeals

Claim settlements

Modifications

Adjutancy

ADMEASURE To measure.

Adulterant

Energy in X, devalued

No longer pure

Made impure

Debases or dilutes

Uses water maybe to dilute a trusted ale naughtily

Doctors

One who adulterates or corrupts.

Adultness

A silly sailor making sketch

Overshadowing a stupid sailor

Faint sketch; outline

Act of overshadowing

Shadow a non-speaking part

Faintly representing; typical.

Fortune hunters.

Breathtaking enterprises will take society in. How about Becky Sharp (wordplay)

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

Dame ruins TV set in hazardous practice (wordplay)

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

Boldly enterprising

Daring

Gen. Doolittle's forte.

Science of flying

Study of flight

Affluency

Part of a jet engine increasing thrust

Pollution-control device

Jet power booster

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

Agglutinin

Curtail urge to work in growing business

The practice of farming

Field for early U. S. settlers

A point or tag at the end of a fringe or lace; an aglet.

Ailanthus

Cat fancier

One who hates or fears cats.

Photo lab job

Photoshop job

A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine.

ALBUMIN a {protein=n}

Allocution

""A drug, C 5 H 4 N 4 O, used to treat gout because it inhibits the synthesis of uric acid.""

Allurement

Altazimuth

""Of or pertaining to height; as, altitudinal measurements. as, altitudinal measurements.""

Type of cloud

Cloud forming a uniform layer

Cloud type

Cloud at heights of about one to five miles