10-Letter Words Starting with A

Abruption

Curt rudeness

Criminal rents a pub, leading to son's rude quality

Curtness

Bounty work (wordplay)

(Process of) taking in

Process of soaking up

Tending to suck up

Tending to soak up

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.

Occasion to give a speech

Granting admission to Powell's world

The world of Powell

In a accepted manner; admittedly.

Accipiter

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

Without a chief

Growing well in an acid medium: acidophilic bacteria.

Organisms thriving in sulphuric pools or animal stomachs

Acrophobe

Window washer's problem (wordplay)

Second-story man's undoing (wordplay)

High anxiety (wordplay)

Play from a novel, for instance

Film version, e.g

TV version of a book

ADAPTIVE able to be adapted

ADAPTIVE able to be adapted

Unadept at thinking.

Empty-headed.

Muddle-minded

Adipocyte

ADOPTIVE that adopts

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.

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

Tour transports, to Brits

A Greek lover hides jet with jumbos

British flying machines

Aerospace

Afterclap

Additional short sketch.

Plant pot like this on cooker

A space with an African plant like this

A, as in this African Lily

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

Landed supplies when breeze subsided

""Art, skill, or ability in the practice of aerial navigation; aircraft piloting.""

Airproof

Allograph

Allomorph

""Ecology Occurring in separate, nonoverlapping geographic areas. Often used of populations of related organisms unable to crossbreed because of geographic separation.""

Allophane

Linguistic forms

Of or pertaining to an allophone.

Elements with more than one molecular form

Zero latitude given to everybody, in more than one form

Everything round earthly circle existing in more than one form

A couple of lines? Old line on map taking more than one form

Allotypy

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

ALPHABET a system of letters

Arranged just like these words? Yes!

Like some codes

Like characters in a script

Could be ARIA 1100 HELP

Alphosis

Art for the masses (wordplay)

Communion table screen

Painting placed prominently in church

Altiplano

Amblyopia

Ambrotype

Ametropia

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

Like the D-Day assault on Normandy

Having two natures.

For use on land and in water

Amphibole

""A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (\'de -- \'de); as, h. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet\'b6ic.h. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet\'b6ic.""

""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.

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

English word

English word

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

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

Amplexus

Amplidyne

Led Zeppelin equipment

Rock band equipment

They boost poor families desperately wanting eggs

Making (a signal) greater

Large or full measures

Wave measurements

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

A colorless plastid that forms starch granules and occurs in cells of plant storage tissue.

Amylopsin

The doctrine of the Anabaptists.

Anableps

Done in low relief, as a cameo

Analeptic

... illiterate needing help to follow a northern river

Kind of lens used by moviemakers

Anapestic

Anaplasia

Of or pertaining to anaplasty.

Word inversion, such as "Came the dawn."

Inversion, such as "Came the dawn"

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

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

Aneuploid

ANEUPLOID

A plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp.

Like Grenada, but not Granada

Like the Bahamas, Barbados and Belize

English-speaking

Not isotropic.

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

Galilee, the place arranged with an opening

""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

Kind of ape

Enos or Able.

If it looks like a man and walks like a man, what is it (wordplay)

Forward-looking insect?

Forward-looking insect (wordplay)

Expecting awful panic stations, sending out SOS

Prepare for (a future event)

Predict - ape in attic (anagram)

Expect worker here for the French spread

HERPES a skin infection

Sung or chanted in alternation

Sung alternately by two groups

Hit on a plan to change sort of service book in church

Against the making of illegal copies

PLAGUE to pester or annoy

PLAQUE an ornamental plate or disk

Antipodal

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)

Cosmic ray component

Certain particle with an opposite charge

Particle discovered in 1955

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

SEPSES seps

Infection prevention procedure

M. D.'s concern.

Application for injury benefit, perhaps

Preventing growth of microorganisms

Alcohol, for example.

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.""

Aphorise

Inclined to quote maxims

Like an adage

Expressed pithily.

Aphorize

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

Make lay chap pro? Questionable

Of questionable authenticity

Happy carol that's become legendary

1. unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration

Apoenzyme

Like party avoiders (wordplay)

Like a no-party person (wordplay)

Word applying to few in Washington

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

Defenders of controversial stances, say

Defenders of the faith.

They have defensive ends

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.

APPAREL to {clothe=v}

Clad

Dad maybe's in new play, it would seem

It seems to be put on without a tear

On the face of it

Banquo, for one.

Hamlet's father made one

Phantom pair in a top review

Apparitor

""Capable of being appealed against; that may be removed to a higher tribunal for decision; as, the cause is appealable. as, the cause is appealable.""

Item on a personnel chief's checklist

Item on a personnel director's list

Reason for a face lift

Open to placation

Spelt a plan out for people in court

Add on time for members

Find deep pagans needing projections

Things going on a long time after a very quiet death

Appendant

Additional sections of a book.

Supplements that might cause grumbling (wordplay)

Supplementary materials

Appendix

To perceive; to comprehend.

Belongs (to)

Forms a part of, with "to"

Forms a part of, with 'to'

Appetence

Assorted pies and pates about right for hors d'oeuvres

Mince pies and a pint - good and tasty!

Mouth-watering

Quite mouthwatering - but gets a pip in by accident

""Having the quality of desiring gratification; as, appetitive power or faculty. as, appetitive power or faculty.""

Introductory courses (wordplay)

Starters on a menu

Appetize

Receptive audience

Going like the clappers (wordplay)

Giving a hand around the house (wordplay)

Clapping etc

They may be upset

They're sometimes upset

Plans are disrupted when they're upset

Life rival (wordplay)

Fruit-and-cinnamon-flavored cereal

Circular kids' cereal: 2 wds.

Nonsense, to fruit-lovers (wordplay)

Served with pork? Nonsense!

A likely story!

Mixers, for example

Electrical devices

Kitchen needs

Fit old man's back caught in elastic

Relevant, appropriate

Relevant program on TV about Blair regularly skipped

Hirer's interviewees

Job seekers.

Resume submitters

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

Vehicle valuations

Estimates

Appraisee

They value the program and they up the ante

Informing about a judgmental activity

Sizing up

APPRAISE to set a value on