10-Letter Words Starting with A

Court-imposed penalty

Fine semi-US binder

Punishment with a discretionary fine

AMERCE to fine or punish

Americium

Ametropia

Amiantus

Descriptive of new dentifrices

Ammoniate

Ammonify

Ammonify

Amnesty

Infections caused by protozoans

Variant of amebiasis .

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

Andy signs them (wordplay)

They're often seen above 7's

Parts of many law firm names

Amphibole

""A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in c\'best. c\'best.""

Pl. amphimixes (-m k s z ) The union of the sperm and egg in sexual reproduction.

English word

Partly one and partly the other; neither acid nor alkaline; neutral.

Amplexus

Amplidyne

Led Zeppelin equipment

Rock band equipment

They boost poor families desperately wanting eggs

Large or full measures

Wave measurements

Larks of Arcadia (wordplay)

Fun and games

At sea, seamen must find diversions

Anableps

Plural or third person singular

A pattern of evolution that results in linear descent with no branching or splitting of the population.

Made "talent" from "latent," e.g

Got into a mix-up with letters

This mad manager produces the answer

Analemma

Analeptic

Analgesia

Hospital numbers (wordplay)

Aspirin, for example

Numbers used in gas scale

Analgetic

Shown to be similar

Analogize

... illiterate needing help to follow a northern river

That may be analyzed.

Aiding the memory

Anapestic

Styptic. <mark>[Obs.]<mark>

Word inversion, such as "Came the dawn."

Inversion, such as "Came the dawn"

Stephen King book, richest in rewrite

Article's broken down and analysed

Anatomise

ANATOMIZE Styptic. <mark>

Anatomize

Ancestor

Cane's tangled hair for bear (wordplay)

Eve, for example (wordplay)

Eve, ultimately

Organized "resistance" (wordplay)

Organized 'resistance' (wordplay)

Families creating pieces de resistance

Tie-ups (wordplay)

Moorings

They may have agoraphobia

Solitary types disoriented in chain store

Chain store is awful for those seeking solitude

Styptic. <mark>[Obs.]<mark>

Anchoveta

English word

Of great age; very old.

Gold place in which land is mined for mineral

Andouille

Andradite

""Pl. androecia (-sh - , -sh ) The stamens of a flower considered as a group.""

Of or pertaining to androgens; having physiological effects like that of an androgen.

Androgyne

Andromeda

Anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes.

Noted cast I reassembled for storyteller

Raconteur.

Storyteller

""ANEMIC suffering from anemia, also ANAEMIC""

An instrument for measuring and recording the direction and force of the wind.

One receiving measured blows (wordplay)

Meaner to me (anagram)

Kid's science project, maybe

Measuring wind speed

Number of folks (wordplay)

Sensational loss (wordplay)

It's a real knockout!

Ether, for one

It may put you to sleep

It may be administered before surgery

Aneuploid

ANEUPLOID

""ANEURYSM dilatation of an artery, also ANEURISM""

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

Pl. angiogeneses (-s z ) The formation of new blood vessels.

A plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp.

ANGLER one who {fishes=v}

Anglesite

Angleworm

Made English clean digs I refurbished

Anglicise

Adapted a foreign word to English usage

Pronounces in a certain way.

Like Grenada, but not Granada

Like the Bahamas, Barbados and Belize

English-speaking

Anhedonia

Ray's hidden explosive chemical compounds

Anhydrite

Make criticism of unreliable vermin data

Take note of trailer housing man I fancy

Comment on an individual and very angry Green

Microscopic organism

Microscopic creature

Being very small but old-womanish about bad French copper

Animalier

ANIMALIZE To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form.

Animalize

Adjective meaning resembling

In a lively manner

In a lively fashion

With spirit

Leg-foot connectors

Annelidan

Appropriation of adjoining territory

Act of taking possession of.

Forced takeover, at times

Hammer a nail in the bust

Hit an alien ordered to exterminate

Dynamite, say

Serving to explain

Explanatory

Game-show VIPs

Ball game describers

They may call the shots

Scan anyone sick with pains in the neck

Soreness causes

Little buggers

ANNUALIZE

Annualize

They undo 'I do's'

They undo "I do's"

More than one quashing - mental nuns wrestling

Mutant canine tuna, say

Declare girl in acute trouble

Announce (arch.)

Consecration ceremony

Ritual naming

Consecration of a healing cream (wordplay)

""Any of various mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles, which can carry the malaria parasite and transmit the disease to humans.""

Anorectic

Anorthite

Having to report (to)

Article rebel was wrong to blame

Accountable.

Make an enemy of.

Rub the wrong way

Make an enemy of

Designating a period in U.S. history.

Before the war.

Of the period before 1861.

Going before (in time/order)

Hannah, in "Hannah and Her Sisters"

Preceding in time

Antecede

Previous incumbent

Forerunner.

Forerunner

Galilee, the place arranged with an opening

Antechoir

Preceding in time

During one's lifetime

Before passing

Like some injuries discovered in forensic science

""Zoology A small antenna or similar organ, especially one of the first pair of small antennae on the head of a crustacean.""

Antennule

""Pl. antependia (-d - ) A decorative hanging for the front of an altar, lectern, or pulpit.""

Third last syllable

Second syllable from the last.

third-from-last syllable

In an anterior manner; before.

Antevert

Anthelix

Anthelion

Anthelix

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

""A solid hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin. C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin.""

I burn, but break your heart? I can't!

Hard, lustrous coal

Hard type of coal

""ANEMIA a disorder of the blood, also ANAEMIA""

Plural or third person singular

Weapons in the medical arsenal.

B cells' production

Protein substances

Powerful drug-treatment class

Like chemotherapy drugs

CARIES tooth decay

Prepare for (a future event)

Predict - ape in attic (anagram)

Expect worker here for the French spread

Anticline

Same as Antemetic. Antemetic.

EROTIC an amatory poem

Misogynous

Alcohol, for one.

Opposed to a cap on wages (wordplay)

Alcohol needed for driving (wordplay)

Many Eastwood characters, for example

Many Nicholson portrayals

Weak leading men opposed to Carlyle's theme (wordplay)

HEROIC an epic verse

HERPES a skin infection

HUNTER one who {hunts=v}

LITTER to scatter rubbish about

Antilogy

MARKET to offer for sale

Something from nothing (wordplay)

Family subject (wordplay)

Family subject?

MERGER the combining of two or more businesses into one

Old-fashioned and then some

Word with prefix anti-

Antimony

In favor of the great indoors, maybe

NAUSEA an inclination to vomit

Legal paradoxes

Antinovel

PLAGUE to pester or annoy

PLAQUE an ornamental plate or disk

22 against potty principal

Coming from other side of the world

Relating to Australia/New Zealand

POETIC pertaining to {poetry=n}

Unable to stand the heat (wordplay)

""An artificial alkaloid, believed to be efficient in abating fever.""

Old-fashioned

Awfully quaint, a Fifties youth is seen as behind the times

Passe.

Antiquate

RABIES an infectious virus disease

Opposed to change

SEPSES seps

Infection prevention procedure

M. D.'s concern.

Application for injury benefit, perhaps

Preventing growth of microorganisms

Alcohol, for example.

Blood plasmas

Immunity providers

Blast of steam ruins medicinal substances

Not standing for misandry or misogyny

SEXUAL pertaining to sex

SMOKER one who {smokes=v}

STRESS to place emphasis on

STRIKE to {hit=v}

Averse to writing research papers

Oppositions against changing sheets

Complete opposites

Why he left grad school (wordplay)

Why he left grad school?

Worker has it, he is on island opposite

Exactly opposite.

Opposite

Steady winds

Prevailing westerly winds of middle latitudes

Reptile house supplies

Antonymy

Apartheid

Apt. places for tenants (wordplay)

Real estate sign.

Places to stay

""Pl. aphaereses or aphereses (-s z ) The loss of one or more sounds from the beginning of a word, as in till for until.""

""Pl. aphaereses or aphereses (-s z ) The loss of one or more sounds from the beginning of a word, as in till for until.""

""Pl. aphaereses or aphereses (-s z ) The loss of one or more sounds from the beginning of a word, as in till for until.""

Breeding and care of bees

One might be keeping this, by the sound of it

Bringing up workers in a religious environment

Apiology

Apoapsis

End of the world

The White Horseman exhibited a new one

Prophetic Biblical revelation

Apocarpy

1. unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration

Apoenzyme

In a sorry state (wordplay)

With hat in hand, perhaps

So sorry and disturbed, to ogle a pic

Said sorry for serving old sago pie

Expressed regret for what one has done

Expressed regret

Expresses regret for an initial self-confidence over record at school

Began damage control, perhaps

Ended a spat, in a way

Expressed regrets

One who makes an apology; an apologist.