2-Letter Words Starting with A

Surgical instruments steriliser

Relative of a pressure cooker.

Kin of a pressure cooker

An expressway in France and French-speaking countries.

Hides face say and able to be at hand

"At liberty," as in "Variety"

On offer in the transfer market

It's down-white dangerous (wordplay)

A descent that's very flaky (wordplay)

Alpine snowdrop (wordplay)

Avifauna

Unlike death and taxes (wordplay)

A useless fit can be prevented

Like careless mistakes

The shunning (of something)

Dodger's goal

Dodger's aim

Conferrable

A liquid mixture of two or more substances that retains the same composition in the vapor state as in the liquid state when distilled or partially evaporated under a certain pressure.

Make an acronym of, perhaps

Shorten (a word)

Bribe a vet with a new contract

Revulsion to constituents of Anchor beer

There's nothing at all like it

Here carbon emission produces disgust

Offensive description of a snowman

Like a snowman.

Causing moral revulsion

ABSOLUTE self-existent

ABSOLUTE self-existent

Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up.

""(Physics / General Physics) Physics a measure of the light-absorbing ability of an object, expressed as the logarithm to base 10 of the reciprocal of the internal transmittance See transmittance ACIDOMETER (Chemistry) a type of hydrometer for measuring the relative density of an acid solution, esp the acid in a battery Also called acidimeter ACTINOZOAN & adj (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) another word for anthozoan AEROSPHERE (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) Archaic the entire atmosphere surrounding the earth""

Tending to suck up

Tending to soak up

Practice of refraining (from alcohol)

If you pass the bar, what will it mean?

Non-partaking (of liquor)

Maybe create lace and go faster

Create lace dress and be quick about it

Open the throttle wide

What to do with an acute etc (wordplay)

Worried about acne? Cut out stress

Emphasise smart goddess with brogue

Not bad welcome (wordplay)

Good enough but not great

Of (marginally) satisfactory quality

Occasion to give a speech

Granting admission to Powell's world

The world of Powell

Having a ramp, say

Open to be got at

Easy to talk to; approachable

Second place comic played

Criminal's associate

Helper in wrongdoing

(In) conformity (with)

Treating cancer a doc gets agreement

Agreement of opinion

Get together to create a fortune perhaps

Build up

Collect Greek character's former account with Catholic university first

The case for the prosecution (wordplay)

Prosecution's case (wordplay)

Case which needs objective prosecuting

Able to be accomplished

If you get it, it must be so

'It can be done - somehow I have' (Cable)

Stony meteorite

Growing well in an acid medium: acidophilic bacteria.

ACOELOMATE

Capable of being acquired.

""A readily polymerized amide, C 3 H 5 NO, derived from acrylic acid and used in synthetic fibers and sewage treatment. It is a carcinogen and is present in some foods, especially starches and cereals that are cooked at high temperatures.""

A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.

Worth trying (wordplay)

Possibly libellous (wordplay)

Giving grounds for a lawsuit

Maybe detain a man of unyielding nature

Hard type of man, worker in Eden originally

A barrier against Tyneside must be unbreakable

Decide (between claims or in games)

Decide officially on a dispute

Hear and decide (a case).

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

Able to be adapted

Not set in stone

Like hospital beds

Like certain evidence

Like some evidence

(As evidence in court) valid

Maiden, with tact, ordered entree

Letting in a ball stopped by hand

Permission to enter

Rush before a flight (wordplay)

It can give you a rush

Stimulator of ideal Queen Anne building

ADSORB to gather on the surface in a condensed layer

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

Cut a deal? Utter chicanery!

Water down, perhaps

Grown up with age, note, can be corrupt

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

The quality or practice of being advertent; heedfulness.

ADVOCATE to plead in favour of

""A binucleate spore of a rust fungus, formed in a chainlike series in an aecium.""

Air mail letter

Air letter

'Casualty' episode missing opening page, but whoever the writer, it'll take off

AEROSOL a spray released under pressure

AFFECT to act upon

A story about company that may be ratified

Warm around volcanic rim, so may be asserted

Confirmation; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act.

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

Model T, to Henry (wordplay)

Within one's ability to pay

Not too dear a passage in a story

Flashbulb effect, for example

Lingering impression on the eye

Flashbulb effect

Additional short sketch.

Brut, for one

Face alcohol before breakfast (wordplay)

Where this is (wordplay)

Side effect (wordplay)

Bud or maker (wordplay)

Feeling left following smack (wordplay)

M1's in time to expand

Magnify; increase power of

Make greater grade gains after revision

Exaggerate

Wild, wild raves and gigs on Ecstasy

Like a winning tournament player*

Combative - pushing

One afraid of open spaces

One who suffers a fear of crossing open spaces

I hate going out since chat with lout who's on benefits

""ALKALINE containing an alkali, also ALKALIN""

Loyalty, say, found in Nato maybe

Loyalty, say, within marriage

Loyalty, say, found in union

ALLEGE to assert without proof

Show by storytelling

Everyone repeat! (wordplay)

Say tongue twisters, maybe

Say a tongue twister, maybe

Not in deep water, say

By the sea

Waterfront

Art for the masses (wordplay)

Communion table screen

Painting placed prominently in church

Combine into one

Merge into a single body

Join forces to butcher Malaga meat

""An antiviral drug, C 10 H 17 NHCl, also used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.""

Make better meal, or I eat junk!

Make an unpleasant situation better

Make improvements to

AMERCE to fine or punish

""A cell, such as a leukocyte, having amoeboid form or motion.""

English word

That may be analyzed.

Styptic. <mark>[Obs.]<mark>

Word inversion, such as "Came the dawn."

Inversion, such as "Came the dawn"

Gold place in which land is mined for mineral

Anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes.

Like Grenada, but not Granada

Like the Bahamas, Barbados and Belize

English-speaking

Microscopic organism

Microscopic creature

Being very small but old-womanish about bad French copper

Adjective meaning resembling

Hammer a nail in the bust

Hit an alien ordered to exterminate

Dynamite, say

Serving to explain

Explanatory

Mutant canine tuna, say

Declare girl in acute trouble

Announce (arch.)

""Any of various mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles, which can carry the malaria parasite and transmit the disease to humans.""

Having to report (to)

Article rebel was wrong to blame

Accountable.

Make an enemy of.

Rub the wrong way

Make an enemy of

""A solid hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin. C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin.""

I burn, but break your heart? I can't!

Hard, lustrous coal

Hard type of coal

Prepare for (a future event)

Predict - ape in attic (anagram)

Expect worker here for the French spread

Misogynous

Alcohol, for one.

Opposed to a cap on wages (wordplay)

Alcohol needed for driving (wordplay)

Word with prefix anti-

In favor of the great indoors, maybe

PLAGUE to pester or annoy

PLAQUE an ornamental plate or disk

Unable to stand the heat (wordplay)

""An artificial alkaloid, believed to be efficient in abating fever.""

STRIKE to {hit=v}

Breeding and care of bees

One might be keeping this, by the sound of it

Bringing up workers in a religious environment

End of the world

The White Horseman exhibited a new one

Prophetic Biblical revelation

A comic Frenchman in group is to abandon principles

Abandon your principles with a job at one's expense initially

""To renounce totally a religious belief once professed; to forsake one's church, the faith or principles once held, or the party to which one has previously adhered.""

Office of the Pope.

Nothing delayed support for a job implying leadership of a Propaganda committee

O death, where is thy sting (wordplay)

Greengrocers missing sign (wordplay)

Maker's mark (wordplay)

""Capable of being appealed against; that may be removed to a higher tribunal for decision; as, the cause is appealable. as, the cause is appealable.""

Item on a personnel chief's checklist

Item on a personnel director's list

Reason for a face lift

Open to placation

To perceive; to comprehend.

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

Nonsense, to fruit-lovers (wordplay)

Served with pork? Nonsense!

A likely story!

Fit old man's back caught in elastic

Relevant, appropriate

Relevant program on TV about Blair regularly skipped

""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

Increase (in value)

(Of asset) rise in value

Be fully aware of.

Sugarplum is what one gets!

Worker learning a trade

One is bound to be in training

Worthy of being approved; meritorious.

Blue-green beryl

Birthstone for many Pisces

Gemstone a queen pinned to a soldier

Capable of being decided by arbitration; determinable.

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

ARPEGGIATE

Of Carney's film roles (wordplay)

A tacit rule that's broken, say

Expressing oneself clearly.

A ben scaled could be construed as this

Canes get twisted up at the ball

Coming into prominence

Upper hand

Ascendancy.

Carbon tip in abseil device, suitable for climbers

Any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus.Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus.

Attributable (to)

The act of ascribing.

""A white, nitrogenous, crystallizable substance, C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; called also altheine. C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; called also altheine.""

Asphaltic.

Choke (to death)

After wrecking taxi he pays for throttle

Choke, but manage to pay his tax before the end of June

Cruise in a fur, open to attack

Open to attack

Given as seaworthy - but not secure against pirates

Making an assault.

Collection (of things or people)

Rally about silver collection

French for "blending"

Can take stock of pack animals with dark fur

Affirm dunderhead always had snacks

Declare that the fool was always feeding

State in which animal always took food

Transferable

Absorb and digest (food)

Take in a smile as it develops

Become part of the prevailing culture

When drunk, can siestas help (wordplay)

One may give this by hand

Help a relative, protected by position

As one might be, following tips resulting in cash hoarding

Feeling blue (wordplay)

Candles create a romantic one

Pervading tone or mood

Capable of being fastened

Like Mr. Potato Head parts

Like some goals

Not so far as a star.

Within reach

Factor in grading, perhaps

Gate - enact Dante (anagram)

Guests at Blair's ball (wordplay)

Easy on the ol' windows to the soul

Pleasing to the eye

In good taste

Emery phor buphs (wordplay)

One making a sound investment (wordplay)

Hi-fi fan.

AURICULAE

To practice auscultation; to examine by auscultation.

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

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

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

Prepare to mass-produce, say

Jaguar, for one

Road-test need

Welcome graduation gift.

Why they eyed the showroom (wordplay)

Why they eyed the showroom?

Relating to motor vehicles

AUTOROTATE

Italian superhighways.

Cause a body part to undergo autotomy.

An undertaking to clad home in glass

Rearing and care of birds.

AXIOMATIZE

Capable of being abolished.

The ratio of absorbed to incident radiation.

Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature.

ACCESSORISE

Make sure you match

Hawkish marine, left motherless after accident, has another depression

Adapt to a new environment

Get one used to new conditions

Get used to weather

""To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.""

Do something obliging (wordplay)

Provide lodging for (someone)

Provide shelter for

Like a good math teacher (wordplay)

Obliged (to answer?)

Required to justify oneself

Assimilate a different way of life, perhaps

Socialize

""A compound of aniline with acetyl, used to allay fever or pain; called also antifebrine. antifebrine.""

ACETYLATE receive substitution of an acetyl group; of chemical compounds

To deprive of color; to make achromatic.

Admit (the truth of something)

Admit the truth of (something)

Recognise current learning

Desiring possessions

Grasping

Covetous

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

Bright orange-red dye

Shiatsu

Complementary medicine using needles

Therapy which needs needles

Method of treatment with needles

ADDRESS to speak to

Youth has trouble with classes, I'd say

Time of your life (wordplay)

Concede ales drunk in teenage years!

Faintly representing; typical.

Adjective (-ive)

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.""

Form a rounded mass

Form into one cluster

Cluster

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

Taken together; collective.

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.

Cat fancier

One who hates or fears cats.