10-Letter Words Starting with A

Not caused by bacteria.

Abandoner

Leaving a report about scholar at home

A group performing, one no good, giving up

Deserting

Humiliations

Abashment

Moderations of intensity

Tax deductions

Diminutions

Make an acronym of, perhaps

Shorten (a word)

Bribe a vet with a new contract

Abandoning royal dignity

Relinquishing power

Giving up

Acid in boat (anagram)

Edward VIII's action of 1936

Regal resignation

Throne relinquishers

Abducens

Ufologist's subjects

An A of A&E

Snatchings

ABDUCTOR a person who abducts

Aberrance

In an unnatural way

Deviation from normality

Delusion or illusion

A wandering from the norm.

Abeyancy

Revulsion to constituents of Anchor beer

There's nothing at all like it

Here carbon emission produces disgust

A believer in spontaneous generation

Abjection

Wretched quality

Renunciation

ABLATIVE a grammatical case

Abnegate

Sailor, say, in the country giving up

Bet again? No chance for denial

Disclaimer - there's no beating a developer!

Surrendering sorts

In an unusual manner.

Friend embraces British woman in opera in unusual manner

Abolisher

Formally ending (a practice)

Action demanded by W. L. Garrison

Wiping out

Annulments

Offensive description of a snowman

Like a snowman.

Causing moral revulsion

In an abominable manner; very odiously; detestably.

Regarded with disgust

Couldn't take

Found repugnant

Much more than dislikes

Dislikes intensely

Loathes

One hates to see Robin with wingless Batman, struggling to apprehend ring

Bad oil? Bargain first

Present from the earliest times

Present from the start

Algonquins, for example.

Early inhabitants

First inhabitants.

In an abortive or untimely manner; immaturely; fruitlessly.

Ill-directed dart may land here, honest!

Manna from heaven?

Too proud to take lodgers, honest!

Harshly offering a women's support for eccentric Elvis on Fourth of July

Abreact

Rating right-wing attitude as a psychological process

Compendium or synopsis.

Shortened version of a written work

Shortened form

Abrogate

Annulment of an agreement or law

The sailor's asking for an annulment

Cancelling a second-rate allowance? Go back to intervene

Abruption

Curt rudeness

Criminal rents a pub, leading to son's rude quality

Curtness

Abscess

Leaves shed as some scissors cut bonsai strain

His jazz opera illustrated the importance of being Ernst

Those who escaped ban crossed over

They take their leave without it

Muscles badly scorned by bad runners (wordplay)

Leaving secretly in a hurry

Sure wobbly as belly out!

I wholly agree!

Okay by me!

Perfect in quality or nature; complete.

Obtain soul renewed with this (wordplay)

Release sailor - there you have it!

A second-rate answer requires indulgence

Doctrine of unlimited power

Total power lost, I am taking bus, sadly

Moral theory that doesn't allow for shades of gray

A distraught sob by musician who dislikes Fifty Shades of Grey (wordplay)

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""

""ABSORB to suck in, also SORB""

Absorbant

Terrycloth quality

Receptive nature of abbey treated with scorn

Absorbent

Bounty work (wordplay)

(Process of) taking in

Process of soaking up

Tending to suck up

Tending to soak up

They are positively negative

Eligible non-voters

Avoiders of alcohol

Doing without.

Santa in big buggy not letting anyone get cross (wordplay)

I mess about (anagram)

Moderate Jack to plug debts

I mess about, drunk or sober

Pass in Congress (wordplay)

Act of declining to vote

Withholding of vote

Absterge

Practice of refraining (from alcohol)

If you pass the bar, what will it mean?

Non-partaking (of liquor)

Removed, being absent-minded

Walked off with head in the clouds

Preoccupied when taken out

Abstract

Read this bodybuilding brochure

ABSTRACT to draw away

Abstrict

Last buyers getting treated in an unusual way

Abstruse

Abstruseness; that which is abstruse.

Absurdism

Absurdist

Sailors turn on way and head for folly

Ballerina's hairdo gets into the act (wordplay)

In a sufficient degree; fully; amply; plentifully; in large measure.

Not bad welcome (wordplay)

Good enough but not great

Of (marginally) satisfactory quality

In an acceptable manner; in a manner to please or give satisfaction.

Having a ramp, say

Open to be got at

Easy to talk to; approachable

How urgently needed equipment should be stored, as bicycles must be fixed

Acerbate

Acerbity

Cupshaped; saucershaped; acetabuliform.

Deep cavity on the side of the hipbone that receives the head of the thighbone

The hollow that receives the head of the thigh bone

Able to be accomplished

If you get it, it must be so

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

Capable of being acquired.

Feats of agility

Gymnast's display

High-flying performance

Acrophobe

Window washer's problem (wordplay)

Second-story man's undoing (wordplay)

High anxiety (wordplay)

The process of doing or performing something: the act of thinking.

Worth trying (wordplay)

Possibly libellous (wordplay)

Giving grounds for a lawsuit

In an actionable manner.

Adhibit

Able to be adapted

Not set in stone

Like hospital beds

Like certain evidence

Like some evidence

(As evidence in court) valid

ADSORB to gather on the surface in a condensed layer

They are taken in, notice - top group ('90s group) on the way up...

Adsorbent

A silent speed's indicated like this

Vaguely outlined

Adumbrate

Adverbial

Loops and rolls

Exercising swallows at flying display

Stunt flying

""AEROBE an organism that requires free oxygen, also AEROBIUM""

""AEROBE an organism that requires free oxygen, also AEROBIUM""

AEROBRAKE

Decelerates, as with a space shuttle

Good nature, sociability

AFFECT to act upon

A story about company that may be ratified

Warm around volcanic rim, so may be asserted

Model T, to Henry (wordplay)

Within one's ability to pay

Not too dear a passage in a story

AFFORD to bear the expense

""The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, and which come away after delivery.""

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

Like many Playboy Playmate photos

Sprayed with paint

Tools of historical revisionists

Retouches, in a way

Cuts of beef.

Varieties of gypsum

Onyx-like minerals

White minerals

Affected with albinism.

ALBUMIN a {protein=n}

Algarroba

Sorting bag later - is one dealing with problems involving letters (wordplay)

ALPHABET a system of letters

Arranged just like these words? Yes!

Like some codes

Like characters in a script

David K. E. Bruce, for one

Bunker, for one.

One who's goodwill hunting (wordplay)

Amberjack

Having a sexual orientation to persons of either sex; bisexual.

Ambition

Having opposing attitudes

Right down the middle

Hemming and hawing

Amblyopia

Ambrotype

""Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms. as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.""

""One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.""

Emergency vehicles

Walking

The act of walking.

Up and about

Not bedridden

Moving about

""AMBUSCADE A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.""

""AMBUSCADE A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.""

Surprise attacks

Waylays.

An ambush.

Amebocyte

(Medicine / Dentistry) a type of cell involved in forming dental enamel [from ( en ) amel + -o- + -blast ]

AMERCE to fine or punish

Warmth mainly in the centre of power

French friend with talent and charm

Good nature.

Infections caused by protozoans

Variant of amebiasis .

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

Such as 23 ac, 7 dn, 8 dn

Frogs and newts, for example

BATRACHOPHOBIA

Like the D-Day assault on Normandy

Having two natures.

For use on land and in water

Amphibole

""A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (\'de -- \'de); as, h. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet\'b6ic.h. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet\'b6ic.""

The doctrine of the Anabaptists.

Anableps

Anabolism

... illiterate needing help to follow a northern river

That may be analyzed.

Leg-foot connectors

Having to report (to)

Article rebel was wrong to blame

Accountable.

Designating a period in U.S. history.

Before the war.

Of the period before 1861.

Plural or third person singular

Theory of some wonder drugs.

Treatment for bacterial infections

Medicine destroying micro-organisms

Substance that destroys bacteria

Weapons in the medical arsenal.

B cells' production

Protein substances

""BUSING the act of transporting by bus, also BUSSING""

RABIES an infectious virus disease

""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.""

Open to placation

Fit old man's back caught in elastic

Relevant, appropriate

Relevant program on TV about Blair regularly skipped

APPROBATE Approved.

Approbate

Worthy of being approved; meritorious.

APPROVE to regard favourably

Positions in ballet dancing.

Persian rug patterns

Ballet positions

ARABICIZE

Arabicize

Arabinose

Capable of being decided by arbitration; determinable.

ARBITRAGE Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination.

Same as arbitrageur.arbitrageur.

Arbitrage

Settled a dispute

Resolves, as a contract dispute

Decides to barter, as it is damaged

Determines to get back her support it deserves

Grieve or Dascoli

Independent settler of dispute

Person authorized to decide a dispute.

ARBOREAL tree-dwelling

Where they might bring back the birch (wordplay)

Flowers that do well among trees and shrubs (wordplay)

Plots of land on which many different trees or shrubs are grown

Arborize

Virgil's tree of life

Coniferous hedge choice

Ornamental evergreen

Coy Joey (wordplay)

Provincial administrator (wordplay)

Canterbury tales subject

Guns of 15th century

Asbestos

Miner's disease

Chronic lung disease

Lung disease