10-Letter Words Ending in A

Window washer's problem (wordplay)

Second-story man's undoing (wordplay)

High anxiety (wordplay)

""A spongy tissue with large air spaces found between the cells of the stems and leaves of aquatic plants, providing buoyancy and allowing the circulation of gases.""

Abnormal suppression or absence of menstruation.

""Pl. antheridia (- - ) A sperm-producing organ occurring in seedless plants, fungi, and algae.""

""Pl. archegonia (-n - ) A multicellular, often flask-shaped, egg-producing organ occurring in mosses, ferns, and most gymnosperms.""

Varying heartbeat

Neuralgic pain in a joint or joints.

Instruments for sprinkling holy water

Implements for sprinkling holy water

Huge house plant

Iris adapts, being adaptable plant

Plant rallied Ada's spirit

Pl. atheromas or atheromata (-m -t ) A deposit or degenerative accumulation of lipid-containing plaques on the innermost layer of the wall of an artery.

Motorway in Italy

Major Italian highway

Italian highway

The presence of bacteria in the blood.

A dart aimed at the bull

Dart thrust into el toro

""Any of several voracious pikelike marine fishes allied to the gray mullets, constituting the genus Sphyr\'91na and family Sphyr\'91nid\'91. The great barracuda (Sphyr\'91na barracuda) of the West Indies, Florida, etc., is often six feet or more long, and as dangerous as a shark. In Cuba its flesh is reputed to be poisonous. Sphyr\'91na Argentea of the Pacific coast and Sphyr\'91na sphyr\'91na of Europe are smaller species, and are used as food.Sphyr\'91na and family Sphyr\'91nid\'91. The great barracuda (Sphyr\'91na barracuda) of the West Indies, Florida, etc., is often six feet or more long, and as dangerous as a shark. In Cuba its flesh is reputed to be poisonous. Sphyr\'91na Argentea of the Pacific coast and Sphyr\'91na sphyr\'91na of Europe are smaller species, and are used as food.""

""Pl. barramunda or barramundas also barramundi or barramundis Any of several Australian food fishes, such as the lungfish. Also called ceratodus .""

English word

Light workout - land a brace!

Kind of 1 across (correctly 1 acrosses)

Menorahs, for example

English word

""A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub (Croton Eleutheria); also, its aromatic bark. Croton Eleutheria); also, its aromatic bark.""

Spiritual powers

Personal magnetisms

Pl. chromonemata (-m -t ) The spirally coiled central filament of a chromatid along which the chromomeres are aligned.

Summer-theater circuit

Additive in some bug repellents

Insect repellent sprayed into cellar

""Pl. clostridia (- - ) Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming, chiefly anaerobic bacteria of the genus Clostridium, such as the nitrogen-fixing bacteria found in soil and those causing botulism and tetanus.""

Plural of coelenteron .

Beetles' order

Genus of insects that includes beetles and weevils

""A sheath in the embryo of grasses, inclosing the caulicle.""

Trill-a-minute performer (wordplay)

Musical runs and trills.

Elaborate vocal ornamentation

Pl. columbaria (- - ) also columbaries a. A vault with niches for urns containing ashes of the dead.

Harmony in a musical instrument

Cousin of the accordion.

Accordion's cousin.

Range rider, callow out West, shot!

Chain I left among red coral at sea

Group of mountain ranges

Thanksgiving Day centerpiece

Emblem of abundance.

Souvenir of Almathea, a gift from Zeus

A recording for rectification (wordplay)

Errors to be corrected (in book)

List of fixed mistakes

Venues for funeral ceremonies

Would they issue stardust in Hollywood (wordplay)

English word

Things sought for.

Things needed and wanted.

Very necessary things

Highly infectious throat disease

Immerse the hair for treating disease

Complaint: 'Doctor hit her with iPad'

Fly has upset his poor lad

Poorish lad used as subject for genetic research

Fruit fly

""Difficulty in articulating words, caused by impairment of the muscles used in speech.""

Pl. enchiridions or enchiridia (- - ) A handbook; a manual.

Plural of endocardium .

Plural of endometrium .

States of adjustment.

English word

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) an evergreen garden shrub with shiny green leaves and umbels of pale green flowers; a bigeneric hybrid between Fatsia japonica moseri and Hedera hibernica : family Araliaceae

Plant bearing dense clusters of flowers

Rose with clusters of flowers

Rose with flower clusters

""Pl. florilegia (-j - ) A collection of excerpts from written texts, especially works of literature.""

Herb with white flowers that emit hot flammable vapour in hot weather

Blanket-flower

Blanketflower

Same as Gluoosuria. Gluoosuria.

Spanish city storing bad fruit

Passion flower in Spanish city is diseased

Passion fruit not well received by Andalusian city

""Pl. hesperidia (- - ) A berry having a thickened leathery rind and juicy pulp divided into segments, as an orange or other citrus fruit.""

Pl. hormogonia (-n - ) A part of a filament of a cyanobacterium that detaches and grows by cell division into a new filament.

MANIA an excessive or unreasonable desire; a craze

Pathology The state of being hypertonic.

Some dice, geometrically

Twenty-sided solids

20-faced solids

Periods between reigns

Pre-coronation periods

Leaderless periods

""A small, two-wheeled carriage drawn by one or two persons.""

Tokyo two-wheeler

Eastern taxi variable

Oriental carriage.

Keratoma

"Laughing" Australian bird

Down Under kingfisher

'Laughing' Australian bird

Pl. leprosariums or leprosaria (- - ) A hospital for the treatment of leprosy.

""A thick, whitish discharge from the vagina or cervical canal.""

Bother in big house having a plant with narcotic properties

Reader's notes, at times

Reader's notes

Notes written beside text

English word

Extremely small plants

A sausage originally made in Bologna

Italian pork sausage

Smoked Italian sausage

In a way, say cheese!

Cheese for a scat singer (wordplay)

Mild, white cheese

""Pl. mycorrhizae or mycorhizae (-z ) or mycorrhizas or mycorhizas The symbiotic association of the mycelium of a fungus with the roots of certain plants, such as conifers, beeches, or orchids.""

The delicate outer sheath of a nerve fiber; the primitive sheath.

English word

Grasshoppers and crickets

""Pl. ostensoria (-sôr - , -s r -) also ostensories Roman Catholic Church See monstrance .""

Distortion of memory

Illusion of remembering events experienced for the first time.

""Complete paralysis of the lower half of the body including both legs, usually caused by damage to the spinal cord.""

""The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like.""

Prepared with a certain Italian cheese

Things kept secret

Innermost parts

Pl. pentahedrons or pentahedra (-dr ) A solid having five plane faces.

Pl. pericardia (-d - ) The membranous sac filled with serous fluid that encloses the heart and the roots of the aorta and other large blood vessels.

Pl. pericrania (-n - ) The external periosteum that covers the outer surface of the skull.

""Pl. perineuria (-n r - , -ny r -) The sheath of connective tissue enclosing a bundle of nerve fibers.""

Sudden turn of events

Unexpected turn of events, as in a literary work

Unexpected turn of events, especially in a literary work

""Pl. perithecia (-sh - , -s - ) A small flask-shaped fruiting body in ascomycetous fungi that contains the ascospores.""

Bug that destroyed wines worldwide

Vine's lethal enemy

Insect similar to the greenfly that is destructive to vines

English word

Hayden, Fels, Adler, etc.

Places to see the stars

Places for star gazers

""Pl. praenomens or praenomina (-n m -n , -n m -) A first or given name.""

""A bone on either side of the middle line between the nose and mouth, forming the anterior part of each half of the upper jawbone; the intermaxilla. In man the premaxill\'91 become united and form the incisor part of the maxillary bone.""

Form of long-sightedness

Pl. proctodea (-d ) or proctodeums also proctodaea (-d ) or proctodaeums An inward fold on the surface of the embryonic ectoderm that develops into part of the anal passage.

Disease and Illness ()

A socially correct goose (wordplay)

Artificial intelligence (wordplay)

A socially correct goose?

""Pl. prothalli (-th l ) or prothallia (-th l - ) A small, flat, delicate structure produced by a germinating spore and bearing sex organs. It is the gametophyte of ferns and some other plants.""

Thorny plant with small fruit clusters

Thorny evergreen shrub related to the hawthorn

Thorny evergreen shrub with white flowers and bright red or yellow berries

Presidential terms.

Pl. retinacula (-l ) Biology A band or bandlike structure that holds an organ or a part in place.

""Pl. rickettsiae (-s - ) Any of various bacteria of the genus Rickettsia, carried as parasites by many ticks, fleas, and lice, that cause diseases such as typhus, scrub typhus, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever in humans.""

It contains abundant sodium channels

A genus of American perrenial herbs growing in bogs; the American pitcher plant.

Period of revelry

Exotic Australian festival

Ancient Roman December festival

Passive resistance, to Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi's policy of passive resistance to British rule

Norwegian group supports gay star active in non-violent resistance

Mark on tongue seen before a fever

Injure tongue with a complaint

Disease is to disfigure Roman Adonis, initially

Scleroma

""Pl. scriptoriums or scriptoria (-tôr - , -t r -) A room in a monastery set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts and records.""

English word

Sterigma

Southern Italian folk dance

Dance with Jack before everyone retires

Steps aren't at all problematic

Tumorous growths

Pl. termitaria (- - ) A nest built by a colony of termites. Also called termitary .

Four-sided dice, for example

Pyramids, and the like

'D4' dice in role-playing games, e.g

VACUA vacuum

""Any one of numerous species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to Vorticella and many other genera of the family Vorticellid\'91. They have a more or less bellshaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk. Most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched. Vorticella and many other genera of the family Vorticellid\'91. They have a more or less bellshaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk. Most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched.""

Launderette

Laundromat

Launderette