2-Letter Words Starting with A

ALUMINIZE To treat impregnate with alum; to alum.

Amateurism

Ambiguity

Equivocally.

Ambisexual

In an ambitious manner.

Ambulation

Ambuscader

""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.""

Ambushment

Ammunition

Loving characteristic

In an ill-defined manner

Amphioxus

Amputation

AMUSING amuse

Out of time (wordplay)

Lacking grammatical sequence.

Syntactical incoherence

Analogous

Andalusite

Of indeterminate sex

Hermaphrodite

Grandson you get fussed about, showing male and female characteristics

Full of twists and turns

Circuitous; sinuous.

ANGIOMA a benign tumour

Angulation

Anilingus

Animalcule

An animalcule.

A union between two gametes that differ in size or form.

Ankylosaur

ANNUALIZE

Annulation

Proclaimed a religious woman third-rate, ab'orred on the radio

Annunciate

""One who announces. Specifically: An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated.""

In an anomalous manner.

Without giving a name

How some gifts are given.

Relating to or causing the suppression of ovulation: an anovulatory drug.

""Preceding marriage; as, an antenuptial agreement. as, an antenuptial agreement.""

The hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal.

Antepenult

What's in spore mud in the air could convey

BURGLAR to enter a building to steal

CRUELTY savage behaviour towards a person or animal

DUMPING the selling of large quantities of goods below market price

""FATIGUE to weary, also FATIGATE""

FOULING a deposit or crust

Antifungal

HUNTING an instance of searching

MUSICAL a play which has songs and dances

NATURAL a type of musical note

Plural or third person singular

Subatomic particle in nature not transformed

NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

NUCLEON a subatomic particle

Plural or third person singular

POPULAR something pleasing

Collector of old things

One who collects relics of the past

Expert on old things

Antiquary

Turning obsolete

""The act of making antiquated, or the state of being antiquated.""

Ancient artefacts

Curating specialty

Flower, specially the snapdragon

Snapping flower in rain hurt stem tip badly

Snapdragon

""SEIZURE the act of seizing, also SEISURE""

STUDENT a person formally engaged in learning

SUBSIDY a grant or contribution of money

SUICIDE to kill oneself intentionally

Antitrust

TUMORAL relating to a tumor

Medicine sorted out Auntie Vi's overwhelming temperature and coughs finally

Butterflies

Huge herbivorous dinosaur

Laura cut lip raving about beekeeping

Apiculture

""Pl. aponeuroses (-s z ) A sheetlike fibrous membrane, resembling a flattened tendon, that serves as a fascia to bind muscles together or as a means of connecting muscle to bone.""

""Any one of the thicker and denser of the deep fasci\'91 which cover, invest, and the terminations and attachments of, many muscles. They often differ from tendons only in being flat and thin. See Fascia. Fascia.""

Of or pertaining to an aponeurosis.

Apparatus

Worthy of being applauded.

APPLAUD to express approval by clapping the hands

Applesauce

Applique

Accessory.

Germane

Suitable; fit.

""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.""

Gems decorating a main square

Gems.

Aquaplaner

Sliding over a wet surface

A painter in thin transparent water colors.

AQUATIC an organism living in or near water

Aquatinter

Aquatint

AQUATINT to etch using a certain process

""Plants hydroponics. ; aquicultural ,""

Exploiter of market differences

Exploiter of stock market differences

Trader offers designer's latest little piece with passion in a very old city

Arbovirus

""The consort of an archduke; also, a princess of the imperial family of Austria. See Archduke. Archduke.""

Archduchy

An archduchy.

""The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.""

The quality of being arduous; difficulty of execution.

Growing or living or burrowing in sand.

ARGUMENT an exchange of differing reasons

""That can be articulated: vague, barely articulable thoughts.""

Clearly stated to be jointed

Put into words

Said to be segmented

Utters clearly

""One who, or that which, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering. (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering.""

Same as artefactual.artefactual.

The brush used in the Roman Catholic church for sprinkling holy water on the people.

ASPERGILL

Assiduity

Assiduous

The satisfying of an appetite or desire

Things taken for granted

The state of being assured; certainty; full confidence.

Of or pertaining to astronautics.

Having a melancholy temperament - is it a Labour failing (wordplay)

Gloomy

Irritable

Extremely badly

Agent at unit being treated is getting weaker

Reduction in strength

Weakening, as in the value of a lawsuit

Attenuator

Relating to postures

""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).""

Act of ascribing

The act of ascribing eg a picture to an artist

The ascribing of a particular work to an author or artist

Like some nouns

Attunement

They have lots to offer

In an audacious manner; with excess of boldness; impudently.

Audiology

Hearing he's a scientist

Audiometer

An instrument for measuring hearing activity for pure tones of normally audible frequencies. Also called sonometer .

Lovers of high-fidelity sound

Kind of teachers' aid.

Using sight and sound

Kind of teaching aid, as usual, I avoid changing

Audition

Auditorium

Used a stethoscope

Auscultate

Harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity.

Austerity

AUTARCHIC

Authoress

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

The powers that be

Controlling persons

Controlling organization is keeping restriction on writer

Authorizer

""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.""

Authorship

Adverb

Autochthon

AUTOCLAVE A kind of French stewpan with a steamtight lid.

Autocracy

Autocross

Group outside the class system

""Self-satisfaction of sexual desire, as by masturbation.""

Autograft

Like books that may fetch a higher resale value

Signed

AUTOGRAPH That which is written with one's own hand; an original manuscript; a person's own signature or handwriting.

Semiautomatic.

Autolysate

Autolyzate

AUTOMATA {robots=n}

New electronic techniques

Automatism

Automatist

AUTOMATIZE same as automate.automate.

Automatize

""AUTOMOBILE a self-propelled vehicle used for transporting passengers, suitable for use on a street or roadway. Many diferent models of automobiles have beenbuilt and sold commercially, possessing varied features such as a retractable roof (in a convertible), different braking systems, different propulsion systems, and varied styling. Most models have four wheels but some have been built with three wheels. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), and sometimes by steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from under 50 H. P. for earlier models to over 200 H. P. larger models or high-performance sports or racing cars. An automobile is commonly called a car or an auto, and generally in British usage, motor cars.convertible), different braking systems, different propulsion systems, and varied styling. Most models have four wheels but some have been built with three wheels. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), and sometimes by steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from under 50 H. P. for earlier models to over 200 H. P. larger models or high-performance sports or racing cars. An automobile is commonly called a car or an auto, and generally in British usage, motor cars.""

Wheels out awful modern artworks after one

Advocates of self-government

AUTOROTATE

Autorotate

Autosomal

Autostrada

""Psychology The process by which a person induces self-acceptance of an opinion, belief, or plan of action.""

AUTOTOMIZE cause a body part to undergo autotomy.

Autotomize

""Capable of self-nourishment; requiring only minerals for growth; using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; -- said of all plants in which photosynthetic activity takes place, and certain bacteria. It is opposed to parasitism or saprophytism.""

Autoworker

Helpers, assistants

AUXOTROPH

Aventurine

Aviculture

System of imperial weights

This often puts up a good front.

Pounds/ounces system of weights

Avouchment

Avuncular

Awfulness

Azimuthal

Abruptness

The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.

Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.

ABSOLUTIZE

Abstemious

The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension.

Abstrusity

Absurdness

ACCENTUATE To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

Giving special importance to something

Emphasis, stress

Short grace note that is played very quickly

Scheme first ignored in bill for delivery

An accessory item of equipment or dress. Often used in the plural.