2-Letter Words Starting with A

Of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective.

'In deep of night when - / Hath locked up mortal sense' (Milton)

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

ADOPTIVE that adopts

Having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface; displaying adsorption.adsorption.

A duke opposing worker - old and privileged

Gave a stand (anagram)

Reasons to say yes

They may overcome the competition

Advection

The membranous outer covering of an organ or blood vessel.

Adventive

""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.

Adverbial

The quality or practice of being advertent; heedfulness.

""The act of adverting, of the quality of being advertent; attention; notice; regard; heedfulness.""

Called attention to

Diets raved about and given publicity

Desired a TV broadcast to be made known

One publicising a product (S, not Z)

He pays the price of publicity

He has his own ideas on hoarding

Steve raids (anagram)

Puts in a spot

Plugs (colloq.)

Advertize

Advertize

Careful consideration

Deliberation

US lawyer rejected version of events I'm giving US counsel

Advisory

Advocacy

Advocate

Commercial role being a defender

ADVOCATE to plead in favour of

Advocator

Passed summer in a dormant position

Aestivate

Affidavit

Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing.

Reincarnationists' existences

Postmortal existences

Brut, for one

Face alcohol before breakfast (wordplay)

Where this is (wordplay)

Made (offence) more serious (legal)

Vexed by burglary (wordplay)

Made more serious

Gets under the skin

Adds insult to injury

Makes worse

Wild, wild raves and gigs on Ecstasy

Like a winning tournament player*

Combative - pushing

Infringing another's legal rights

Made more durable

Relieved everyone except the first turned aside

Ideal valet becomes unkempt and is relieved

Soothes everyone: takes new course, ousting leader

Lightens

""One who, or that which, alleviaties.""

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

Almsgiver

The giving of alms.

ALVEOLAR the sound produced by the tongue behind the front teeth

Having opposing attitudes

Right down the middle

Hemming and hawing

Anchoveta

English word

Make criticism of unreliable vermin data

Take note of trailer housing man I fancy

Comment on an individual and very angry Green

Serving to explain

Explanatory

Antevert

Antinovel

Reptile house supplies

To perceive; to comprehend.

""Having the quality of desiring gratification; as, appetitive power or faculty. as, appetitive power or faculty.""

""Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office. as, an appointive office.""

It may be set off by commas

Juxtaposed

APPRAISE to set a value on

Worthy of being approved; meritorious.

APPROVE to regard favourably

Virgil's tree of life

Coniferous hedge choice

Ornamental evergreen

Frame for door or window

Beam resting on tops of columns.

Frame Alistair, vacuously taking tab at party

Record-keepers of a sort

They say Gemmill leaps over fancy formations

Comes to accept first people on the make

Social climbers

Nouveaux riches

The act of ascribing.

Making an assault.

Affirm dunderhead always had snacks

Declare that the fool was always feeding

State in which animal always took food

As one might be, following tips resulting in cash hoarding

Easy on the ol' windows to the soul

Pleasing to the eye

In good taste

AUTOCLAVE A kind of French stewpan with a steamtight lid.

Pressure cookers

Why they eyed the showroom (wordplay)

Why they eyed the showroom?

Relating to motor vehicles

""AVALANCHE A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.""

Winter effects (wordplay)

Skiers' cover-alls (wordplay)

Hazard for skiers.

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

Antipathy

AVERSIVE relating to aversion

Greek egg-citrus soup

Sauce in Greek cuisine

Citrus-tinged Greek soup

Avianize

Earhart et al.

Earhart, Anne Lindbergh et al.

Amelia Earhart, and others

Aviatrix

Rearing and care of birds.

Avidness

Spare time activities

Free time fillers

Lesser jobs returning Mexican food in French planes

Avoidance

The act of avouching; positive declaration.

Short-term (wordplay)

Just like the BBC

Shortened

Shortens a word

Turns a registered nurse into a RN (wordplay)

Creator of short sentences (wordplay)

On the surface

GROUCHY

Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature.

Mistreatment

Insults

Acclivity

Direct objects of verbs.

ACETYLATE receive substitution of an acetyl group; of chemical compounds

Feat in armour

Thing that is accomplished

Something accomplished by effort

Desiring possessions

Grasping

Covetous

Bright orange-red dye

Parts of software installations

""In the manner of an adjective; as, a word used adjectively. as, a word used adjectively.""

Faintly representing; typical.

Promotion in rank

Result of a bye

Commercial/truck/concrete

""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.""

Of or pertaining to adventitia.

Adventitia

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

In the manner of an adverb.

Combative as a driver, a wild person yet to pass test

Combative

Mostly negative sign from opponents

Advisers are represented on opposing sides

Sign supporting mostly inauspicious opponents

Adjective (-ive)

State of opposition

Adversity

Advertence

Advertent

Advertiser

Commercial world (wordplay)

Classified line of business (wordplay)

Putting in a plug (wordplay)

The act of {advertising=v}

Client-sponsored article

Client-sponsored article *

Advisement

Advocation

AESTIVATE

Torpid state during the hot season

In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.

AFFECTIVE Tending to affect; affecting.

What to latch onto, with 'the' ...

What to latch onto, with "the" ...

What to latch onto, with "the"...

""AFFRICATE A combination of a stop, or explosive, with an immediately following fricative or spirant of corresponding organic position, as pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.""

Aftershave

Making (a problem) worse

Making worse

Exacerbating

Worsening annoyance

Hassle

Annoyance

Taken together; collective.

Aggrieved

Aliveness

ALLEVIATE To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.

Easing (of pain)

The making (of pain) less severe

Painkiller's job

Alleviator

Almsgiving

Not the first choice

Available as another possibility

Option to convert indigene

The faculty supposed to influence sexual desire; propensity to love.

Mixed feelings (E, not Y)

That love-hate feeling.

Girl in a mood shows uncertainty

A balanced disposition intermediate between extroversion and introversion.

Anchovetta

Makes censorious remarks

Husband-and-wife milestone

Eg, a birthday

Type of party

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

Antevert

Sci-fi concept

Ideal spacecraft-propulsion method

Like some sci-fi boots

POVERTY the state of being {poor=adj}

On the abolitionists' side

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

""VITAMIN an organic substance essential to proper nutrition, also VITAMINE""

Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming.

APPERCEIVE To perceive; to comprehend.

Apperceive

Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical.

Appositive

Approving

Of or pertaining to arbitration; relating to or having the authority to arbitrate.

Arborvitae

Arbovirus

Architrave

ARGUMENT an exchange of differing reasons

Assertive

""ASSEVERATE To affirm or aver positively, or with solemnity.""

States solemnly

Affirms earnestly

""Having the quality of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty. as, the associative faculty.""

(tr) to arrange or distribute into groups of the same type; classify

In a heedful way

Like some nouns

Kind of teachers' aid.

Using sight and sound

Kind of teaching aid, as usual, I avoid changing

AUTOCLAVE A kind of French stewpan with a steamtight lid.

""AVALANCHE A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.""

Aventurine

AVERAGE to calculate the arithmetical mean value of

Avgolemono

Aviculture

AVOCATION A calling away; a diversion.

System of imperial weights

This often puts up a good front.

Pounds/ounces system of weights

Avouchment

Avuncular

Shortening

Reducing

E.g. for example (wordplay)

Tues. or Agt. (tsk-tsk!)

Shortening - above Britain (anagram)

Abbreviator

The quality of being abortive.

ABRASIVE an abrading substance

Absorptiveness.

Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening.

Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional.

Even a chemist (anagram)

The done things

Exploits from active men he's translated

Acriflavine

Activeness

The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.

Adaptivity

Additivity