10-Letter Words Starting with A

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

Sex

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

Opposite of acidity

Water's capability to neutralize acid

Basic condition

""ALKALINE containing an alkali, also ALKALIN""

Alkalise

Alkalize

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

Allemande

Causing one to react rashly (wordplay)

Causing a rash reaction (wordplay)

Like penicillin, to some

Allethrin

Allocate

Divvying-up process

Assignment left in a particular spot

Arrangement of resources or funds

""The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words.""

Being genetically different although belonging to or obtained from the same species: allogeneic tissue grafts.

Allophane

Linguistic forms

Of or pertaining to an allophone.

Measured shares.

Cultivated areas

Shares completely lavish seconds holding hands

ALLOWANCE Approval; approbation.

Pays to play (wordplay)

Adjustments for expenses (wordplay)

Teenagers' earnings (wordplay)

Power to attract

ALLURING allure

Almandine

Almandite

The giving of alms.

Not in deep water, say

By the sea

Waterfront

Alpenglow

High altitude instruments (wordplay)

House radiolocation case in plane's broken instruments

Broker's Swiss shares selection?

Mountain climber's staff

Mountain traveller's long spiked staff

Tailor's service.

Tailor's job

Change made by modiste.

Went in turn

Took turns

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

Disappointed Olympic team members, maybe

Seconds at political convention.

Certain delegates.

Current-generating car part

Dodge Charger charger

Auto part introduced by Chrysler in 1960

Altiplano

Aluminate

Aluminium

ALUMINIZE To treat impregnate with alum; to alum.

Aluminize

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

Dictation takers

Trouble ensues after a chap employs copyists

Secretaries

Someone skilled in dictation

Lockup, to a Londoner

Secretary of a sort

Amassment

Amazement

Amazonite

Ambition

Having opposing attitudes

Right down the middle

Hemming and hawing

Emergency vehicles

Walking

The act of walking.

An ambush.

Corrective

Corrective final word offered by US lawyer to politician

Madmen sent out to effect changes

Part of the Constitution.

Changes to parliamentary bill

Abnormal suppression or absence of menstruation.

Court-imposed penalty

Fine semi-US binder

Punishment with a discretionary fine

Amiantus

""Of, pertaining, or containing ammonia, or possessing its properties; as, an ammoniac salt; ammoniacal gas.as, an ammoniac salt; ammoniacal gas.""

Descriptive of new dentifrices

Ammoniate

Ammonify

Ammonify

Charge for fire-arms

An A of A&E

Charge for firearms

Amnesty

Amortise

Paying down

Andy signs them (wordplay)

They're often seen above 7's

Parts of many law firm names

Such as 23 ac, 7 dn, 8 dn

Frogs and newts, for example

BATRACHOPHOBIA

A semisynthetic penicillin which can be considered as the common benzylpenicillin containing an amino group at the alpha benzyl position.

Amplidyne

Making (a signal) greater

Amputate

Limb removal

In the morning put it back in a leg that's cut

Removal of member from a redcap university rubbish club not right

Larks of Arcadia (wordplay)

Fun and games

At sea, seamen must find diversions

Amygdalin

Amylopsin

Amyotonia

The doctrine of the Anabaptists.

Anableps

Anabolism

Discrepancy between the chronological order of events and the order in which they are related in a plot.

Breaks in grammatical sequence

A haul Acton possibly offers of syntactic non sequiturs

""Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc.""

Plural or third person singular

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

Done in low relief, as a cameo

""Mystical; having a secondary spiritual meaning; as, the rest of the Sabbath, in an anagogical sense, signifies the repose of the saints in heaven; an anagogical explication.as, the rest of the Sabbath, in an anagogical sense, signifies the repose of the saints in heaven; an anagogical explication.""

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

Built on comparisons

Having similarity

Analogist

Shown to be similar

Analogize

... illiterate needing help to follow a northern river

Analysand

Breaking down (wordplay)

Type of geometry

Logically reasoning

That may be analyzed.

Aiding the memory

Kind of lens used by moviemakers

Anapestic

Anaplasia

Of or pertaining to anaplasty.

""Pertaining to anarchy; without rule or government; in political confusion; tending to produce anarchy; as, anarchic despotism; anarchical opinions.as, anarchic despotism; anarchical opinions.""

Anarchism

Sacco and Vanzetti

An unruly lot that won't take orders

Some Russian Revolution figures

""Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical.""

It may help someone see a giant's terribly dull

Lens corrects against back of prism at ...

Photographic lens which corrects coma and spherical aberration

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

Word inversion, such as "Came the dawn."

Inversion, such as "Came the dawn"

Stephen King book, richest in rewrite

Of bodily structure

Of a branch of biology.

Involving the body

Article's broken down and analysed

Anatomise

Experts on bodies converting to Satanism

ANATOMIZE Styptic. <mark>

Anatomize

""Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to orthotropous.orthotropous.""

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

Reclusive.

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

Anchoveta

English word

Of great age; very old.

Gold place in which land is mined for mineral

Andantino

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.

Angiogram

A plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp.

ANGLER one who {fishes=v}

Anglesite

Angleworm

Made English clean digs I refurbished

Anglicise

Anglicism

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

Anguish

Gauntness

Angulate

A making angular; angular formation.

Anhedonia

Ray's hidden explosive chemical compounds

Anhydrite

""ANILINE a chemical compound, also ANILIN""

Make criticism of unreliable vermin data

Take note of trailer housing man I fancy

Comment on an individual and very angry Green

Paramecium, rotifer, etc.

Microscopic organism

Microscopic creature

Being very small but old-womanish about bad French copper

Animalier

Animalism

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

The Flintstones and "The Simpsons"

Disney-studio output

Mickey Mouse films

Not isotropic.

Leg-foot connectors

Armored beast of old

Ankylose

""Pertaining to, or after the manner of, an annalist; as, the dry annalistic style. as, the dry annalistic style.""

Annelidan