2-Letter Words Starting with A

Alkalise

Counters acidity

Alkaloid

Plural or third person singular

All is ok (as suffering blood condition)

Alkoxide

Alkylate

Allanite

""Pl. allantoides ( l n-t -d z ) A membranous sac that develops from the posterior part of the alimentary canal in the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles. It is important in the formation of the umbilical cord and placenta in mammals. Also called allantoid .""

Allelism

Shouts of joy

Sneeze causers, say

Pollen and dander

Dander and dust, often

Causes of rash reactions (wordplay)

Reasons for sneezin'

Antihistamines treat them

Allergin

Common spots for trash cans

Streets of a sort.

Combinations, of states say

Grand, Holy, Triple, etc

Benelux and NATO.

Assigns a place

Distributes

Assigns

Allopath

Allottee

Allotter

Allotype

Allspice

Passing references or indirect mentions

Literary references

Passing references

Alluvial

Alluvion

Alluvium

Almagest

Almonry

What autophobia is the fear of

State of seclusion

Singular quality

Distant character (wordplay)

Reserve foals one's to break

Lack of warmth of seals on rocks

Alopecia

Complete sets of letters

Complete assortments of letters.

Sets of runes

Alpinism

Climbers in Switzerland

Climbers of Swiss peaks

Certain mountain climbers.

Alterant

Air-to-sea readings

Heights above the ground

Pilot's data

Altruism

Paragons of unselfishness

They're very unegotistical

Unselfish types

Of a common metallic element

Containing element #13

Certain shades of gray.

Alumroot

Alveolar

Amadavat

Amanitin

Imaginary flowers that never fade

Imaginary eternal flowers

Legendary unfading flowers

Amarelle

Liqueurs used in "sour" cocktails

Almond-flavored liqueurs

Almond-flavoured liqueurs

Mary Allis - silly flower girl!

Trumpet-flowered bulb

Producer of red-and-white blooms

Plural or third person singular

Blindness of a graduate neurosis: can't see Tyneside

Perfume ingredient from whales

Perfume maker marries big shot, one-off

Light grey French perfume ingredient

Amberina

Amberoid

Atmospheres

Moods

Ambience

*Subject to interpretation

Open to differing interpretations

Of uncertain meaning

Aspirations, dreams

I'm not all there to want to get NNNNNNNNNN at last

'Although I'm not all there, is on it for them in the end (9)'

Greedy, getting stung by debts

Eager to advance.

Keen to succeed

Ones neither withdrawn nor outgoing

Ambrosia

Walks about

Walks around

Moves about

Ambusher

Plural or third person singular

""An infection or a disease caused by amoebas, especially Entamoeba histolytica.""

Ameerate

Amelcorn

Real-estate listing

Fireplace, hot tub, etc.

What boors don't observe

Symbols of February

Covering your mess at Rolling Stones

Purple quartz stones

Amidogen

Maids wiggling coxae halfway to 23

In centre of vessel

Centrally on board

Aminity

Amitrole

Ammocete

Ammoniac

No, I'm in the mates at sea - or was

Fossils, perhaps, of Jordanians (wordplay)

Mollusks' fossil shells

Ammonium

Ammonoid

Main cases (anagram)

Ones with big blocks (wordplay)

Jane Does, perhaps

Pardons to large groups of people

Pardons may make saint seem crazy

Official pardons issued by governments.

Little cupids

Valentine figures

Not in shape (wordplay)

Without clearly defined shape

Without a clearly-defined shape

Amortise

Pays off, via a sinking fund.

Pays down incrementally

Puts money in a sinking fund.

Current measures

""A fishlike creature (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebr\'91, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc. (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebr\'91, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc.""

Amphipod

Largeness

that makes more of it, by the sound of it

Removes limbs surgically

Surgically removes limbs

Prunes

Amygdale

Amygdule

Amylogen

Anabaena

Constriction workers (wordplay)

Predators of the Amazon

Large semi-aquatic boas

Upbeats

Russia can rebuild - that's upbeat!

Unstressed syllable, in verse.

Musical upbeat

Bacteria, for example

Microorganisms that don't need oxygen

Many gastrointestinal tract residents

Anaglyph

Anagogy

Analcime

Analcite

Analemma

Anality

Bases of comparison

Some LSAT questions

Partial resemblances

Like, with "to"

Comparable in certain respects

Similar opening about a trademark

Comparable things

Parallels.

Analyser

Study of data patterns

Data field

Analyzer

Memory

The ability to recall past events

Memory of a former life; inane mass (anagram)

Mlle Nin absorbs men's failure in 'Remembrance of Things Past'

Fractured a peasant's feet

Metric feet of three syllables.

Feet of a girl with vermin we hear

Anaphase

Anaphora

States of lawlessness and disorder

Political upheavals

Anasarca

Greatly detested things

Detested things

Betes noires

Physical structures

Human bodies

Body structures

Anatoxin

Some people in a tree

Ones higher up in a tree

People in trees

Religious lady's short reply about housework

Things to be done in response to solitary soul

Workers taking on board routine task for folk living alone

Hermits.

Tiny fishes for pizza

Unpopular pizza topping choice

Bagna c uda ingredient

Anchusin

Ancress

Andesite

Andesyte

They can send organ mad

Noted case (anagram)

Arranged end to case histories, perhaps

Raconteur's specialty.

Of or pertaining to anestrus.

Anethole

Enlargements of arteries

Disturbing means taking in spoon-bender's abnormal enlargements

Aneurysm

Plants of the parsley family

Angelus

ANGER to {irritate=v}

Anglepod

""The quality of being angry, or of being inclined to anger.""

Ten-millionths of millimeters

Ten make up a millimicron

Wavelength units

Anguish

Angulate

Your hands could be lacking moisture

Rear exit keeping spa hotel free from water

An unfinished shelter, terribly dry inside without water

""ANILINE a chemical compound, also ANILIN""

Anility

Producers of some shorts variable

Short drawers (wordplay)

Snow White workers

Makers of sequential frames

Parts of nightcaps

Licorice-tasting cordials

Sweet liqueurs

Ankerite

Ankylose

Same as Anchylosis. Anchylosis.

Chroniclers of events

Leans on back-to-back articles from recorders

Steel workers.

Gets some words in edgewise (wordplay)

Adds comments to (a document)

Writes on the side (wordplay)

Declares that girl's put on weight

Declares girl's put on some weight

Makes known

May they keep aunties in change (wordplay)

They yield payments at specified intervals

Subtly insinuate these are paid every year

Annulus

Oilers.

Departures, of sorts

Sea mail at sea with no exceptions

They're not normal

Deviating from the usual pattern

Out of the normal

Inconsistent - out of place

Source of the quip (wordplay)

On my back in a sense unknown

Not identified by name

Anoopsia

Mosquito of a genus of the same name

Germ-bearing mosquito

There's a seal around the phone for this fly-by-night with a bite

Anoretic

Anorexia

Anorexic

Anorexy

Anoxemia

Anserine

Poles used to be right among Anglo-Saxon respondents

Antalgic

Colonial enemies (wordplay)

Army consumers (wordplay)

Long snouted mammals

Goes before in time

Does not follow

Serves as prologue to

Is a forerunner of

Precedes in time

Precedes in time.

Antefix

Bucks maybe before long, easy strides

Fast bucks (wordplay)

Hill dweller runs away to Bucks, perhaps

Antepast

No maestro (anagram)

Where waiters gather

Chambers ran to some races

Antetype

Antevert

Antherid

Anthrax

Antiarin

Antiatom

Counteractions to poisons

Doctor instead to produce cures

Activated charcoal and naloxone, for two

Antigene

Antiking

Antimask

Antimere

Antinode

Antiphon

Do panties (anagram)

Australia and NZ (from UK)

Poles separated? There's clue in that!

Planetary extremes

Boniface VII and John XVI

Felix V and Alexander V, for example

Targeting the Fourth Estate

Antipyic

Antiquer

Antirust

Corresponding figures for those characteristically against things (wordplay)

Type of protective software

Designed to prevent intrusion, in a way

Like much Norton software

Anviltop