10-Letter Words Starting with A

Striped hyenas that feed chiefly on insects

Not caused by bacteria.

In an unnatural way

ABLATIVE a grammatical case

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.

Bad oil? Bargain first

Present from the earliest times

Present from the start

In an abortive or untimely manner; immaturely; fruitlessly.

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

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.

Read this bodybuilding brochure

Last buyers getting treated in an unusual way

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

ACARICIDE

Speeder-up in processing something.

Agent for hastening the progress

Maybe create lace and go faster

Create lace dress and be quick about it

Open the throttle wide

Without accent.

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.

In a accepted manner; admittedly.

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

Perhaps M is taken toothy to the end

Fortuitous bit of scoring (wordplay)

Flat, say, without planning

ACCIDENT a mishap

Acclaimer

Welcoming with shouts of joy

Giving praise to

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

Acclimate

Second place comic played

Criminal's associate

Helper in wrongdoing

Finish off associate in crime soundly

Coach limps off to manage

Twisted coach limps for effect

Get together to create a fortune perhaps

Build up

Collect Greek character's former account with Catholic university first

Some maniac curate lying? Precisely!

It's precisely a copy you heard Ray let anyhow

Lacy shifts worn by one in church without any slips

In a hateful manner

In an accusing manner.

Without a chief

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

""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

Acetylate

Acetylene

""ACETYLENE A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant.""

Achalasia

Able to be accomplished

If you get it, it must be so

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

Growing well in an acid medium: acidophilic bacteria.

Organisms thriving in sulphuric pools or animal stomachs

Made slightly acidic

Acidulate

ACOELOMATE

Serving to aid hearing.

Sounding accusal to premier in Istanbul, hopeless

Auditory

Capable of being acquired.

Acquittal

Chronic enlargement of the extremities and face.

Pertaining to a kind of puzzle

""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.""

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

A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.

Worth trying (wordplay)

Possibly libellous (wordplay)

Giving grounds for a lawsuit

In an actionable manner.

Void of action.

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

Actualize

Acyclovir

Acylation

ADAPTIVE able to be adapted

Not on the floor model, say

Getting on top of things more (wordplay)

For an extra charge

ADDITIVE a substance added to foodstuffs

Unadept at thinking.

Empty-headed.

Muddle-minded

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

Done well enough to earn a C, maybe

In satisfactory manner

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

In an adherent manner.

Stickable

In an adhesive manner.

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.

Able to be adapted

Not set in stone

Like hospital beds

My darling and I intertwine with desire

Like certain evidence

Like some evidence

(As evidence in court) valid

'Truth be told ... '

By general agreement.

"Truth be told ... "

Not yet achieved adultery (wordplay)

Youth benefit stops rising

Minor trouble with the French cologne

ADOPTIVE that adopts

Rush before a flight (wordplay)

It can give you a rush

Stimulator of ideal Queen Anne building

ADSORB to gather on the surface in a condensed layer

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

Adverbial

Some perform without nets

Performers with dangerous acts

Daring circus performers

Aerology

Tour transports, to Brits

A Greek lover hides jet with jumbos

British flying machines

AEROSOL a spray released under pressure

Good nature, sociability

AFFECT to act upon

In a pretentious manner

AFFECT to act upon

AFFERENT a nerve that conveys impulses to a nerve centre

File data, if somehow connected

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

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

Subordinate branches

Partners

A story about company that may be ratified

Warm around volcanic rim, so may be asserted

Afflatus

Afflict

A Fine Romance: left in distress

Cause of pain or harm

Coburn's 1998 Oscar-winning film

Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing.

Affluence

Abundantly; copiously.

Model T, to Henry (wordplay)

Within one's ability to pay

Not too dear a passage in a story

AFFORD to bear the expense

Aflatoxin

Afterclap

Western skies past sunset

Lingering luminescences

Reincarnationists' existences

Postmortal existences

Paradise? PS: Liberal welcomed

AGENDA a list of things to be done

Substance in body - a s-surfeit gets in repeatedly

Antibody causing sticking together of bacteria, cells, etc

In a jittery way

In a troubled manner

In a perturbed manner

Agrology

Emergency transportation method

Flying in Hackney's hair-raising (wordplay)

Moving in emergency, scary for Cockneys (wordplay)

Airmail

Varieties of gypsum

Onyx-like minerals

White minerals

Alacrity

Cheerful willingness; eagerness.

So as to cause sudden fear

Layman and girl getting entangled in a shocking manner

Preparing to fight with friend outside, in scary fashion

Affected with albinism.

ALBUMIN a {protein=n}

I leave Saddam's henchman as indexed relating to elixirs

Some seekers of transmutation

Philosophers' stone seekers

Ones who think things are good as gold (wordplay)

ALCHEMIZE To change by alchemy; to transmute.

Alchemize

They meet anonymously

Formal description of the people in talkies

Focus of the group started by Bill W.

Addiction to drink

Habitual intoxication

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

Alfilaria

Algaecide

Algarroba

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

Algidity

Sex

Algology

Ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma). (Nepeta Glechoma).

Step-by-step procedures

Former vice president wants Spain to condemn Smith's rules

Giving the cold shoulder

Causing a rift between

Turning away

State of feeling isolated

Legal transfer of ownership.

Common punk rock theme

They're unpleasant to be around

Disaffecting people

Noun (-ment)

Alignment

Very busy canal (wordplay)

A new mail entry cut important passage

Concerned with nutrition

Aliment

Orderly setups

Aliterate

""ALKAHEST the hypothetical solvent sought by alchemists, also ALCAHEST""

Alkalify

Alkalify

Opposite of acidity

Water's capability to neutralize acid

Basic condition

""ALKALINE containing an alkali, also ALKALIN""

Alkalise

Alkalize

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

Alkylate

ALKYLATE to combine with alkyl

Allantoin

Slowly getting slower, on sheet music

(To be performed) with increasing slowness

Largo and a bit of lento modified becoming largo

Testimony that is contestable

Assertion made without proof.

Charge a liberal group of diplomats

Loyalty, say, found in Nato maybe

Loyalty, say, within marriage

Loyalty, say, found in union

Symbolic narratives which Mrs Malaprop might find on the banks of the Nile

ALLEGE to assert without proof

C.S. Lewis, for one

John Bunyan, for one

Legislator (wordplay)

Show by storytelling

Everyone, say, backed animal movement

To be played rather briskly (music)

Moving fairly briskly (music)

Allemande

Causing one to react rashly (wordplay)

Causing a rash reaction (wordplay)

Like penicillin, to some

They may make rash decisions

Allethrin

Made more durable

Relieved everyone except the first turned aside

Ideal valet becomes unkempt and is relieved

Soothes everyone: takes new course, ousting leader

Lightens

""One who, or that which, alleviaties.""

""Of or pertaining to the genus Allium, or garlic, onions, leeks, etc.; having the smell or taste of garlic or onions. Allium, or garlic, onions, leeks, etc.; having the smell or taste of garlic or onions.""

Kin of the caiman

Reptiles protected by law

Florida lake invaders

Everyone repeat! (wordplay)

Say tongue twisters, maybe

Say a tongue twister, maybe