10-Letter Words Starting with A

Striped hyenas that feed chiefly on insects

Abandoner

Leaving a report about scholar at home

A group performing, one no good, giving up

Deserting

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

Regarded with disgust

Couldn't take

Found repugnant

Ill-directed dart may land here, honest!

Manna from heaven?

Too proud to take lodgers, honest!

Compendium or synopsis.

Shortened version of a written work

Shortened form

Those who escaped ban crossed over

They take their leave without it

Muscles badly scorned by bad runners (wordplay)

Leaving secretly in a hurry

Removed, being absent-minded

Walked off with head in the clouds

Preoccupied when taken out

Abstrict

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.

Article falsely acclaimed as scholarly

Well-read player from Hamilton (wordplay)

Bill gets a medical qualification from college

Academism

ACARICIDE

Acaricide

In a accepted manner; admittedly.

Accidence

Perhaps M is taken toothy to the end

Fortuitous bit of scoring (wordplay)

Flat, say, without planning

ACCIDENT a mishap

ACCLIMATE To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize.

(In) conformity (with)

Treating cancer a doc gets agreement

Agreement of opinion

Portable keyboard instruments

Squeezeboxes

Accouter

Officially approved, as a college

Given official recognition

Like an Ivy League institution

In a hateful manner

Assigned blame, framing cat as usual

Usual train heading for East Germany

Familiar cat held by defendant

Acetamide

""A white crystalline compound, C 6 H 5 NH(COCH 3 ), formerly used in medicine to relieve pain and reduce fever. It has been replaced by safer agents because of its toxicity.""

ACETYLATE receive substitution of an acetyl group; of chemical compounds

Stony meteorite

Acidifier

Acidify

An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids.

""The measurement of the strength of acids, especially by a chemical process based on the law of chemical combinations, or the fact that, to produce a complete reaction, a certain definite weight of reagent is required.""

Acidness

Growing well in an acid medium: acidophilic bacteria.

Organisms thriving in sulphuric pools or animal stomachs

Made slightly acidic

Acidulate

Familiar (with)

Know with with

Know with with

Complied without putting up opposition

Assented

Agreed

Acridity

""A readily polymerized amide, C 3 H 5 NO, derived from acrylic acid and used in synthetic fibers and sewage treatment. It is a carcinogen and is present in some foods, especially starches and cereals that are cooked at high temperatures.""

""Changed from potential to actual; as, saw his worst fears actualized.as, saw his worst fears actualized.""

Adamancy

Maybe detain a man of unyielding nature

Hard type of man, worker in Eden originally

A barrier against Tyneside must be unbreakable

Play from a novel, for instance

Film version, e.g

TV version of a book

ADAPTIVE able to be adapted

ADAPTIVE able to be adapted

Hard things to break

Inside moves did seem like bad habits

'More of them, about one hundred, habitually (10)'

Not on the floor model, say

Getting on top of things more (wordplay)

For an extra charge

ADDITIVE a substance added to foodstuffs

ADDITIVE a substance added to foodstuffs

Unadept at thinking.

Empty-headed.

Muddle-minded

Enveloped names (wordplay)

Letter-openers (wordplay)

You might say their name gets enveloped

Mail-order employees

Speechifiers

Lecturers

Saying what's to be going on th envelope

Ranch, for example

Dealing with commercial arrangement

Adduction

Adenitis

Adenosine

Any of a group of DNA-containing viruses that cause conjunctivitis and upper respiratory tract infections in humans.

Any of a group of DNA-containing viruses that cause conjunctivitis and upper respiratory tract infections in humans.

Adequacy

Done well enough to earn a C, maybe

In satisfactory manner

Is it satisfactory place is empty to an acceptable extent (wordplay)

Head off? New queen rejected church's observances

In an adherent manner.

Stickable

In an adhesive manner.

Adhibit

Adipocyte

Can lady jet off in a conterminous manner (wordplay)

Of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective.

'In deep of night when - / Hath locked up mortal sense' (Milton)

Postponing

Decide (between claims or in games)

Decide officially on a dispute

Hear and decide (a case).

The act of joining; the thing joined or added.

Joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct.

""The act of adjuring; a solemn charging on oath, or under the penalty of a curse; an earnest appeal.""

Containing an adjuration.

Able to be adapted

Not set in stone

Like hospital beds

End of the statement

Small change to achieve a desired result

Modification; regulation

Portioned out

Admeasure

Manage publicity for one in church

Run as 'today's politician' (wordplay)

Pastor who pitches (wordplay)

Scotch maid to share esteem (wordplay)

One may be lost in it

Maid out helping gains approval

My darling and I intertwine with desire

Like certain evidence

Like some evidence

(As evidence in court) valid

Claims these were heard in confessions

Confessions may be let in

Entrance fees

Maiden, with tact, ordered entree

Letting in a ball stopped by hand

Permission to enter

'Truth be told ... '

By general agreement.

"Truth be told ... "

Admixture

Warned by a note on day I cast off

Told off

Chastised

One who admonishes.

Rebukes gently.

Gently reproves

Warning poster has proposal about Ulster

Cautious counsel

Tina in mood that's awkward gets a reprimand

Fussy day monitor giving a reprimand

Conveying a reprimand

Warning politician, I'd moan terribly at the start

Not yet achieved adultery (wordplay)

Youth benefit stops rising

Minor trouble with the French cologne

ADOPTIVE that adopts

Adoration

Send matron out for decorations

Model and monster to become accessories

Embellishments

Rush before a flight (wordplay)

It can give you a rush

Stimulator of ideal Queen Anne building

One anorak turned up with some work, in charge of stimulation

Explosive assertion about daughter's skill

Skill

ADSORB to gather on the surface in a condensed layer

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

Adsorbent

Process facilitated by silica gel

Broadcast on Sport Aid - 'a superficial process of accumulating gas'

Having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface; displaying adsorption.adsorption.

Adulation

Any substance that lessens purity

Water, vis-a-vis vodka

Corrupter of mature queen by worker

Cut a deal? Utter chicanery!

Water down, perhaps

Grown up with age, note, can be corrupt

Ones fooling around

Having grown up with a couple of cockney girls? Faith, he will have none of it!

Woman whose tears led us astray (wordplay)

Qualities evenly incorporated in an outfit for Madame Bovary, perhaps (wordplay)

Adultery

Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal.

Cheating ruled out as arranged

Like Fontane's woman

Cheating ruled out as wrong

Adulthood

A silent speed's indicated like this

Vaguely outlined

Adumbrate

A duke opposing worker - old and privileged

Gave a stand (anagram)

Reasons to say yes

They may overcome the competition

Advection

The membranous outer covering of an organ or blood vessel.

Adventive

""ADVENTURE That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.""

Man of derring-do

Many a Jules Verne protagonist

Soldier of fortune.

Tuned raves (anagram)

And then... stories

Basis of many plots.

Adverbial

The quality or practice of being advertent; heedfulness.

""The act of adverting, of the quality of being advertent; attention; notice; regard; heedfulness.""

Called attention to

Diets raved about and given publicity

Desired a TV broadcast to be made known

One publicising a product (S, not Z)

He pays the price of publicity

He has his own ideas on hoarding

Steve raids (anagram)

Puts in a spot

Plugs (colloq.)

Advertize

Advertize

Careful consideration

Deliberation

US lawyer rejected version of events I'm giving US counsel

Advisory

Advocacy

Advocate

Commercial role being a defender

ADVOCATE to plead in favour of

Advocator

AEROBRAKE

Landing fields, in London

Airfields, to a Brit

MOD are sore over these airfields

Passed summer in a dormant position

In a pretentious manner

Affidavit

File data, if somehow connected

Like some local stations, vis-a-vis a radio network

Like some local stations, vis- -vis a radio network

Model T, to Henry (wordplay)

Within one's ability to pay

Not too dear a passage in a story

AFFORD to bear the expense

Afforest

Gave a scare to

A woman who is a devotee or fan.

Coo! If Diana performs, I'm a fan!

Fan finds a fish, say, at island party

Fan (Spanish)

Areas astern, on ships.

Pudding gobbled, drawback later

At a later time

Looking for hospital accommodation later

Afterword

Paradise? PS: Liberal welcomed

Agedness

AGENDA a list of things to be done

M1's in time to expand

Magnify; increase power of

Make greater grade gains after revision

Exaggerate

Made (offence) more serious (legal)

Vexed by burglary (wordplay)

Made more serious

Gathered into a mass or whole

Combined into a whole

Brought together

In a jittery way

In a troubled manner

In a perturbed manner

Like many Playboy Playmate photos

Sprayed with paint

Landed supplies when breeze subsided

Airproof

ALCHEMIZE To change by alchemy; to transmute.

Alderfly

Like a city father with a clear mind

Local official's frenzied, hiding behind tree

Local lady legislator

Abbr. Ald. A member of the municipal legislative body in a town or city in many jurisdictions.

Ragtimer's weed (wordplay)

That famous ragtime band.

Jason and Shaun

Algaecide

Algidity

Alkalify

""Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, alkali.""

Slowly getting slower, on sheet music

(To be performed) with increasing slowness

Largo and a bit of lento modified becoming largo

Allemande

Made more durable

Relieved everyone except the first turned aside

Ideal valet becomes unkempt and is relieved

ALLOWANCE Approval; approbation.

Almandine

Almandite

ALPHABET a system of letters

Were at each other's throats

Wrangled.

Went in turn

Took turns

A bird cutting dead duck's head went this way, then that (wordplay)

ALUMINIZE To treat impregnate with alum; to alum.

""An antiviral drug, C 10 H 17 NHCl, also used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.""

David K. E. Bruce, for one

Bunker, for one.

One who's goodwill hunting (wordplay)