2-Letter Words Starting with A

ALOGICAL outside the domain of logic

ALVEOLAR the sound produced by the tongue behind the front teeth

Up and about

Not bedridden

Moving about

Corrective

Corrective final word offered by US lawyer to politician

Warmth mainly in the centre of power

French friend with talent and charm

Good nature.

""ANEMIC suffering from anemia, also ANAEMIC""

Measuring wind speed

ANEUPLOID

""A discourse on angels, or a body of doctrines in regard to angels.""

Gauntness

In a lively manner

In a lively fashion

With spirit

Not isotropic.

How older siblings tend to perceive things said by younger siblings

ANODIC pertaining to an {anode=n}

In an anterior manner; before.

FAMILY a group of persons related by blood or marriage

Against the making of illegal copies

A drug he's no right to carry (wordplay)

Nameless "Romeo and Juliet" character

Character in "Romeo and Juliet."

Dad maybe's in new play, it would seem

It seems to be put on without a tear

On the face of it

APPOSITE {relevant=adj}

APPROVE to regard favourably

AQUILINE hooked like an eagle's beak

ARBOREAL tree-dwelling

Study of past human culture

Prehistoric-culture study

ARCTIC a warm waterproof overshoe

ARMORIAL a book of coats-of-arms

All modesty aside

Completely holding game up with hubris

ARTERIAL a type of {highway=n}

Endowed with the power of speech.

Dominating influence (A, not E)

Candy canes (anagram)

Distributing candy canes with upper hand

Governing or controlling influence; domination; power.

Having no evident sex or sex organs.

ASSERTED assert

""The art of making measurements among the stars, or of determining their relative magnitudes.""

The relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times.

With regards to nuclear energy

How a nation with nukes is armed

Against expectations

One predictably in a way deviating from the expected pattern

Bill takes pity, moving colleague in an unusual way

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

The measurement of hearing.

AUDITOR one who {audits=v}

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

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

""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.""

AUTUMNAL pertaining to {autumn=n}

AUXOTROPH

AVERSIVE relating to aversion

AXENIC free from germs

Abdominal

Broth nearly spilt in a repugnant way

In an awful way

So as to inspire loathing

ABIOTIC relating to absence of life

Pertaining to ablution.

It's odd what a morality ban can produce

Aberrant feature

Deviance

Absorbing

With abstinence.

In an accentual manner; in accordance with accent.

Accepting

In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; followed by with or to. with or to.

Bungee jumping is fun

Thus

In an accountable manner.

Practice needed for balancing acts

Profession dealing with finance

ACERBIC {sour=adj}

Acropetal

ACTINIC pertaining to {actinism=n}

The measurement of the force of solar radiation.

Actuarial

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

A girl, British one aflame with yen to show appeal to her man (wordplay)

In the manner of an adverb.

Advertent

AEROBIC requiring free oxygen

""The study of the sources, dispersion, and effects of airborne biological materials, such as pollen, spores, and microorganisms.""

In an affecting manner; is a manner to excite emotions.

In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.

AFFECTIVE Tending to affect; affecting.

Botany The asexual formation of embryos and seeds without the occurrence of fertilization.

Aggregate

Aggrieved

With extreme anguish or desperate struggles.

""The art or process of ascertaining the strength of alkalies, or the quantity present in alkaline mixtures.""

The inhibition of growth in one species of plants by chemicals produced by another species.

As another option...

As a substitute

Train starts awfully late nearly every other time

Equivocally.

In an ambitious manner.

After the manner of ambrosia; delightfully.

Responsiveness

Good nature

Good will

In an ill-defined manner

""A phrase, discourse, or proposition, susceptible of two interpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. It differs from equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term. equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term.""

A league of states of ancient Greece; esp. the celebrated confederation known as the Amphictyonic Council. Its object was to maintain the common interests of Greece.

AMPHIPLOID

Analogous

ANALYTIC a scheme of analytical logic

Ancestral

Anecdotal

Pl. anencephalies Congenital absence of most of the brain and spinal cord.

In a saintly manner

A description of blood vessels and lymphatics.

Surgery of the blood-vessels

Vessel treatment

Husband-and-wife milestone

Eg, a birthday

Type of party

In an anomalous manner.

Without giving a name

How some gifts are given.

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

Antenatal

ANXIETY chronic apprehension

CRUELTY savage behaviour towards a person or animal

Antidotal

Sci-fi concept

Ideal spacecraft-propulsion method

Like some sci-fi boots

""LEPROSY a chronic disease with skin lesions and deformities, also LEPRA""

OBESITY the condition of being obese

""A book containing a collection of antiphons; the book in which the antiphons of the breviary, with their musical notes, are contained.""

POVERTY the state of being {poor=adj}

SECRECY the condition of being secret

On the abolitionists' side

SUBSIDY a grant or contribution of money

Examination of the aorta using x-rays following the injection of a radiopaque substance.

APHETIC pertaining to {aphesis=n}

Appalling

Appealing

APPLAUD to express approval by clapping the hands

Having the property of applying; applicative; practical.

""APPRECIABLE Capable of being appreciated or estimated; large enough to be estimated; perceptible; as, an appreciable quantity. as, an appreciable quantity.""

Containing or expressing approbation; commendatory.

Approving

AQUATIC an organism living in or near water

Highhandedly.

Study of ancient artifacts

Study of old remains

Study of history through remains

In an outmoded sense

Rule by the best.

Upper class, nobility

Elevated types carry a cost I fancy

AROMATIC a fragrant substance

Arresting

Any disease of the joints.

ARTHROSCOPE

Ascendant

Ascetical

ASEPTIC an aseptic substance

Assertive

Assiduous

Bitterness (of taste)

Sharp or bitter quality

Sharpness, severity

Extremely badly

In a heedful way

ATTRACT to {entice=v}

""ATYPICAL not typical, also ATYPIC""

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

Adverb

Autosomal

Avuncular

Having symmetry around an axis: an axisymmetric cone.

Azimuthal

""Relating to or favoring abolition, especially the abolition of slavery.""

Primarily.

Absorptiveness.

Abstemious

In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.

In a scholarly manner

Not on purpose

Friend follows chance unwittingly

Ran into someone with friend by mistake

Marked or produced by accretion.

In relation to sound or to hearing.

After the manner of an acrostic.

""Botany Capable of being divided into equal halves along any diameter, as the flowers of the rose or tulip; radially symmetrical.""

Possibility of being modified

Openness to change

Furthermore

To boot

As well

""As, or in the manner of, an adjective; adjectively.""

ADJUDICATOR One who adjudicates.

Admirableness.

Admonitory

Adolescent

""(tr) (Law) Law to bring (a person) into a specific relationship, esp to take (another's child) as one's own child""

In an adulterous manner.

Abstract noun (-ity)

In an afflictive manner.

Violently mix liver and eggs, say

""AGGRESSIVE Tending or disposed to aggress; having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of one's own ends at the expense of others or mindless of others' needs or desires; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of unaggressive.as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of unaggressive.""

Possibility of concurring

""A system of land use in which harvestable trees or shrubs are grown among or around crops or on pastureland, as a means of preserving or enhancing the productivity of the land.""

In the manner of alchemy.

Ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma). (Nepeta Glechoma).

Pl. alloantibodies See isoantibody .

The quality of being alterable; alterableness.

Amateurish

Ambivalent

Ambulatory

AMELIORATOR One who ameliorates.

AMITOTIC pertaining to {amitosis=n}

Like an amphibious being.

Anagogical

In an analogical sense; in accordance with analogy; by way of similitude.

By studying the relationship between individual components

In an uncontrolled manner

As the body is structured, a nuclear link could be needed

ANELASTIC

Annihilative.

""Pertaining to, or containing, announcement; making known.""

""Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion. as, antecedently to conversion.""

The study of man

Study of humankind

Study of human beings and their way of life

BURGLARY a felonious theft

Thinking ahead, snap up article dividing Labour (wordplay)

EPILEPSY a disorder of the nervous system

ANTIGENIC

MILITARY armed forces

MONOPOLY exclusive control or power