10-Letter Words Starting with A

Began damage control, perhaps

Ended a spat, in a way

Expressed regrets

One who makes an apology; an apologist.

Eats humble pie

Makes excuses.

Apophony

Its precise to say it's not worth the paper it's written on

Saw dad in strange hat, trim having bit of gold in it

A widely favoured hot article by general manager occasions pithy remark

""Pl. apophyses (-s z ) Anatomy A natural swelling, projection, or outgrowth of an organ or part, such as the process of a vertebra.""

8 captain briefly could get mad

Red with rage

Overcome with anger

Apoplexy

""Having or designating conspicuous or warning colors or structures indicative of special means of defense against enemies, as in the skunk.""

Apospory

The development of a gametophyte directly from a sporophyte without the occurrence of meiosis or spore formation.

Apostacy

Desertions of dogma

Reasons for excommunication

Religious defections

A comic Frenchman in group is to abandon principles

Abandon your principles with a job at one's expense initially

""To renounce totally a religious belief once professed; to forsake one's church, the faith or principles once held, or the party to which one has previously adhered.""

Office of the Pope.

Nothing delayed support for a job implying leadership of a Propaganda committee

O death, where is thy sting (wordplay)

Greengrocers missing sign (wordplay)

Maker's mark (wordplay)

A drug he's no right to carry (wordplay)

Nameless "Romeo and Juliet" character

Character in "Romeo and Juliet."

Of or pertaining to the apothecium.

""The ascigerous fructification of lichens, forming masses of various shapes.""

Hagiographic acts

Perfect examples

Deifications

Highest point of development

Isotope has got as high as it gets

Model taking a drug, explosive old girl

Intended to ward off evil: an apotropaic symbol.

Banquo, for one.

Hamlet's father made one

Phantom pair in a top review

Apparitor

Nail polish brush, for example

Cosmetician's device.

Device used as a swab.

Supreme Court justices, e.g

Supreme Court justices, for example

Those taken on a quiet river current over another river

Assigning (to a post)

Designating.

It's not about rejecting a father losing article for blessing

""Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office. as, an appointive office.""

Doles out

APPOSITE {relevant=adj}

Putting side by side.

Proximity to a quiet location

Contiguity, grammatically

It may be set off by commas

Juxtaposed

Was nearly as good as

Came near

Drew near

Nuisance at a phone store (wordplay)

Means of access.

Cowboy, for example, captured by Indians comes closer

APPROBATE Approved.

Approbate

Worthy of being approved; meritorious.

APPROVE to regard favourably

""Consisting or conveying water or a watery fluid; as, aquiferous vessels; the aquiferous system. as, aquiferous vessels; the aquiferous system.""

Arabinose

Arachnoid

Aragonite

""ARAGONITE A mineral identical in composition with calcite or carbonate of lime, but differing from it in its crystalline form and some of its physical characters.""

Grieve or Dascoli

Independent settler of dispute

Person authorized to decide a dispute.

ARBOREAL tree-dwelling

Where they might bring back the birch (wordplay)

Flowers that do well among trees and shrubs (wordplay)

Plots of land on which many different trees or shrubs are grown

Arborize

Virgil's tree of life

Coniferous hedge choice

Ornamental evergreen

Arccosine

Coy Joey (wordplay)

Provincial administrator (wordplay)

Canterbury tales subject

Roguish cleric (wordplay)

Cleric ruined chance with Dora

Ecclesiastic next below a bishop

""Pl. archegonia (-n - ) A multicellular, often flask-shaped, egg-producing organ occurring in mosses, ferns, and most gymnosperms.""

Study of past human culture

Prehistoric-culture study

They say Gemmill leaps over fancy formations

Archosaur

Arecoline

Sandy.

Sandy

Areology

Upperclass man (wordplay)

Effendi, for one

One of the upper crust

Toothless, burrowing animals.

Plated mammals

Burrowing mammals.

Bearing arms.

ARMORIAL a book of coats-of-arms

AROMATIZE To impregnate with aroma; to render aromatic; to give a spicy scent or taste to; to perfume.

Makes fragrant

Arrogance

All modesty aside

Completely holding game up with hubris

Claiming without right

Unfair claiming giro, rat on a suspect

Improper seizure.

Unjustified seizure.

Ones given the shaft (wordplay)

Indian museum display

Old Native American carvings

Some starchy plants

Starchy plants

Topless thin torso, sporting white bloomers

Arrowwood

Arrowworm

Of or pertaining to an arteriole.

Arteriole

Spiders and crabs.

Troops hard to move - they've no backbone

Edible thistles that may be stuffed

Their hearts are often preserved in jars

Edible flower heads are so thick, oddly

Arytenoid

Gum resin used medically

Foul-smelling but safe aid to a curry

Bitter medicine

Asbestos

Miner's disease

Chronic lung disease

Lung disease

Climbs

ASCOCARP a spore-producing organ of certain fungi

Pl. ascogonia (-n - ) The female reproductive organ of ascomycetous fungi.

Any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus.Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus.

Ascorbate

Ascospore

ASCOSPORE One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi.

I give praise to Paris in a hundred shapes

Assignment

Disparaging remarks about rap session

They're often cast in soap operas

Slurs on a person's reputation

... to turn Paris into a dream, ...

Breathing in desire

Desire to Parisian is strange ...

Removers of some body fluids

Suction devices

Medical instruments removing fluids from cavities

They're said to be positive

Evict from service stations for opinions

Positive statements

Oasis acted badly in a group, perhaps

Kind of press

Got together, tossing coats aside

Star has business ones

Word in many law firm names

Law firm employees

""Act of assoiling, or state of being assoiled; absolution; acquittal.""

Identical vowel sounds

Stormy seasons can reveal sound correspondences

Soundly corresponding

Smashing on mattress, showing variety!

Classification of chocolates (wordplay)

No smart set would make such a selection

Guess feast day (wordplay)

Belief held without proof

Undertaking reform must pain so

Top grade examining body set to right

Of small celestial bodies

Concerning certain space rocks

Of small planets like Ceres

Knocked out a dishonest criminal

Amazed - and so is the organisation

Left slack-jawed

Staggers, due to ill-fitting satin shoes

Knocks for a loop

Surprises, this season, coming out

Adman's adjective

An observation about tenor: 'stunning'

Striking dumb with astonishment

Astrocyte

ASTROCYTE a large star-shaped neuroglial cell in nervous tissue.

Astrodome

Devices superseded by sextants

Old navigation instruments

Sextant forerunners

Expert on moving house (wordplay)

Charter for 11 (wordplay)

House examiner (wordplay)

""The art of making measurements among the stars, or of determining their relative magnitudes.""

Spacey types (wordplay)

Houston's spacemen (wordplay)

Houston's spacemen?

Moon-starer (anagram)

Hubble, for one

One who knows what's up (wordplay)

Sky-high (colloq.)

Extremely large (colloq.)

It can be so romantic - really great!

They're approachable (wordplay)

Lines that approach curves (but never touch them)

Type of curve, in math.

The relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times.

Asyndeton

Pl. atheromas or atheromata (-m -t ) A deposit or degenerative accumulation of lipid-containing plaques on the innermost layer of the wall of an artery.

Athrocyte

Atmometer

Feeling blue (wordplay)

Candles create a romantic one

Pervading tone or mood

With regards to nuclear energy

How a nation with nukes is armed

Atonalism

Atonalist

Reparations for wrong.

Reparations for wrongs

Some religious experiences

Barbarities at, or around, towns

Cruel deeds

Inhumanities

Wasting away as a result of disease

Silver-plated souvenir at home is deteriorating

Inga wavering: accepting award or declining (wordplay)

They may be unwelcome

Sergeants' commands

Military standings

Electronic signal weakener

Electric signal diminisher

Device reducing signal strength

""The act of a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior, and transfers to him his homage and service; the agreement of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord.""

It's not repulsive at drawing, perhaps

... for a tire company (wordplay)

Erotic experience is a drag, we're told

Attractor

They're so wearing

Frictions

One with lots to offer (wordplay)

One has lots to shift!

Man with lots on his mind (wordplay)

Cautioning over selling house

Activity around the block

Cautioning boss selling the house

(Physics / General Physics) caused or produced by sound or an audio frequency an audiogenic epileptic fit

Audiogram

Adjective (-ic)

Alexander Graham Bell invention

Otologist's instrument

Otology instrument

The measurement of hearing.

Emery phor buphs (wordplay)

One making a sound investment (wordplay)

Hi-fi fan.

Media for drivers

Driver's entertainment, sometimes

Dinosaurs next to the iPod

Tried out for a part

Read (for)

Tried out

Auditory

AUDITOR one who {audits=v}

Sitting-room with a view (wordplay)

Room for performances

The principal's classroom

Augmentor

Goldbearing; containing or producing gold.

Ausform

Like a double rainbow, perhaps

Encouraging suspect given new start

Rosy doubtful about substituting top

The branch of ecology that deals with the biological relationship between an individual organism or an individual species and its environment.

Throw her out, said official

Licensed originator is a man

Revised share-out I'd sanctioned

Permits will be distributed at house, sir

""Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent. as, an authorized agent.""

Granter of a privilege.

One who sanctions an action

Clears

Empowers

Sanctions

Novelist's craft (wordplay)

The Caine or the Pequod?

The Caine or the Pequod (wordplay)

AUTOBAHN a German superhighway

Autobus

Native.

AUTOCLAVE A kind of French stewpan with a steamtight lid.

Pressure cookers

Having absolute power

Like Holmes's breakfast-table man

Croatia cut out being dictatorial

Law blaming the car (wordplay)

DIY learner in car committed the deed

Do-it-yourself learner

Having all stages of a life cycle occurring on the same host.

Autoecism

""Sexually self-satisfying, as by masturbation.""

Autogamy

Characterized by autogamy; selffertilized.

Autogeny

Selfgenerated; produced independently.

Autograft

Fan collection (wordplay)

Star signs (wordplay)

Collector's items.

The science of autographs; a person's own handwriting; an autograph.

Such a response is not wanted from setter's in-car mobile menu

Derived or transferred from the same individual's body: autologous blood donation; an autologous bone marrow transplant.

""AUTOLYSE to break down tissue by enzyme action, also AUTOLYZE""

Autolyse

""AUTOLYZE to break down tissue by enzyme action, also AUTOLYSE""

Autolyze

Automaker

Some cars

Automate

Present-day production trend.

Feature of modern industry.

Use of electronic devices.

Action which does not involve conscious intention

AUTOMATISE AUTOMATE to convert to automatic control

Prepare to mass-produce, say

*Mindless workers (letters 3-8)

Folk who lead a routine monotonous life

Cuckoos in clocks, for example

Jaguar, for one

Road-test need

Welcome graduation gift.

Why they eyed the showroom (wordplay)

Why they eyed the showroom?

Relating to motor vehicles

Independent political groups.

""Government independent self-rule free from outside influence. Freedom , Politics""

Having self-government.

Independent

Independent.

Ones who'd never think of flying (wordplay)

Autopsy

AUTOROTATE

Autoroute

Present participle or gerund

Motorway in Italy

Major Italian highway

Italian highway