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

Acid in boat (anagram)

Edward VIII's action of 1936

Regal resignation

Throne relinquishers

Ufologist's subjects

An A of A&E

Snatchings

ABDUCTOR a person who abducts

Deviation from normality

Delusion or illusion

A wandering from the norm.

Revulsion to constituents of Anchor beer

There's nothing at all like it

Here carbon emission produces disgust

A believer in spontaneous generation

Abjection

Renunciation

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!

Rating right-wing attitude as a psychological process

Abrogate

Annulment of an agreement or law

The sailor's asking for an annulment

Cancelling a second-rate allowance? Go back to intervene

Abruption

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

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

ABSTRACT to draw away

Accession

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

(In) conformity (with)

Treating cancer a doc gets agreement

Agreement of opinion

Portable keyboard instruments

Squeezeboxes

A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician.

Bookkeeper, maybe chartered

Someone doing a balancing act (wordplay)

Relation without a tan in summer

Type of work.

FIRST-in, FIRST-out discipline

Giving a reason for financial processing

Accouter

Accoutre

Accretion

Whodunit plot element

Charge copyright to America in case

Charge about, protecting us in battle

""Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel. as, an accusatory libel.""

Assigned blame, framing cat as usual

Usual train heading for East Germany

Familiar cat held by defendant

Without a chief

Stony meteorite

Colourless church with scent outside

Colorless.

A dreamer with no name embraces church, having no shade

Growing well in an acid medium: acidophilic bacteria.

Organisms thriving in sulphuric pools or animal stomachs

ACOELOMATE

Serving to aid hearing.

Sounding accusal to premier in Istanbul, hopeless

Auditory

One who acquires.

Acrimony

Feats of agility

Gymnast's display

High-flying performance

Chronic enlargement of the extremities and face.

Acrophobe

Window washer's problem (wordplay)

Second-story man's undoing (wordplay)

High anxiety (wordplay)

Pertaining to a kind of puzzle

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.

Process of starting up (something)

Being called up, military-wise

Removal from mothballs

Chemical catalysts

Splattered on my coat is a muscle protein

Actuation

Acyclovir

Acylation

Play from a novel, for instance

Film version, e.g

TV version of a book

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

Adduction

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.

Stickable

Adipocyte

Postponing

The act of joining; the thing joined or added.

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

Containing an adjuration.

Scotch maid to share esteem (wordplay)

One may be lost in it

Maid out helping gains approval

Claims these were heard in confessions

Confessions may be let in

Entrance fees

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

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

Cheating ruled out as arranged

Like Fontane's woman

Cheating ruled out as wrong

Adulthood

Advection

Advisory

Advocacy

Advocate

Commercial role being a defender

ADVOCATE to plead in favour of

Advocator

""A binucleate spore of a rust fungus, formed in a chainlike series in an aecium.""

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

Landing fields, in London

Airfields, to a Brit

MOD are sore over these airfields

Air mail letter

Air letter

'Casualty' episode missing opening page, but whoever the writer, it'll take off

Aerology

Measurers of gas properties

Pertaining to an important science.

Pertaining to the science of air travel

Of plane navigation

Aeronomer

Aeronomy

""The study of the upper atmosphere, especially of regions of ionized gas.""

Tour transports, to Brits

A Greek lover hides jet with jumbos

British flying machines

AEROSOL a spray released under pressure

Aerospace

Affection

Noun (-tion)

A Fine Romance: left in distress

Cause of pain or harm

Coburn's 1998 Oscar-winning film

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

Affront

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)

Aflatoxin

Western skies past sunset

Lingering luminescences

Times of day

Hot times in summer.

They're following the 1 across hour

Van Halen song that resonates (wordplay)

WHERE'S THE WAVE (wordplay)

7-6 dessert wine (wordplay)

Afterword

Paradise? PS: Liberal welcomed

Is sore with gang's violent hostility

What eleven Ac displays

Act of aggression,physical force

Starters of quarrels.

Initiators of action

Hostile attackers

To sit again may cause ripples

Disturbed states

It is part of Santiago riot and disturbances

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

Agrimony

Agrology

Agronomy

Specialist on soil and planting.

Land expert on a rig most awkwardly

Expert in soil management

Aircoach

Landed supplies when breeze subsided

Airproof

Cuts of beef.

Cheerful willingness; eagerness.

ALBUMIN a {protein=n}

They meet anonymously

Formal description of the people in talkies

Focus of the group started by Bill W.

Addiction to drink

Habitual intoxication

Local lady legislator

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

Algarroba

Sex

Algology

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

Step-by-step procedures

Former vice president wants Spain to condemn Smith's rules

State of feeling isolated

Legal transfer of ownership.

Common punk rock theme

They're unpleasant to be around

Disaffecting people

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

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

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)

""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