Aphabetic letter pairs in words

AN- Alien

AO = akimbo

AP = atop

AQ = Araq (A middle eastern version of ouzo)

AR- ancestor

AS - Arkansas

AT = asphalt

AU = adieu

Refreshing the “rules”, please try to offer an English uncapitalized dictionary word, before resorting to proper names, whimsical compounds, foreign words, trade names or acronyms.

AV - Asimov

Couldn’t think of any uncapitalized words with those two letters, but I do my best.

AW: askew

AX - Anthrax

AY - anyway

AZ = Alcatraz

BA- ballerina

BB = backrub

BC: bucolic

BD- blackbird

BE: Bulge

BF = belief

BG: Bug