10-Letter Words Starting with A

Increase (in value)

(Of asset) rise in value

Be fully aware of.

Detains suspects

Understands, perhaps wrongly, the object is to get inside

Sugarplum is what one gets!

Worker learning a trade

One is bound to be in training

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

Skidded on film of water

Water-skier's next of kin

Boards pulled by motorboats

Motorboat tows

Coy Joey (wordplay)

Provincial administrator (wordplay)

Canterbury tales subject

Real and patchy - crudely typical!

Classic N chapel tray (anagram)

Chat with player when ground's ideal

Original models of sports cars found on bridge

""A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean.""

Arhatship

ARPEGGIATE

Spiders and crabs.

Troops hard to move - they've no backbone

Asclepiad

ASCOCARP a spore-producing organ of certain fungi

Ascospore

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

I give praise to Paris in a hundred shapes

Assignment

The act of ascribing.

""A white, nitrogenous, crystallizable substance, C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; called also altheine. C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; called also altheine.""

Aspartame

Aspartate

Asperate

Instruments for sprinkling holy water

Implements for sprinkling holy water

""Pl. aspergilli (-j l ) Any of various fungi of the genus Aspergillus, which includes many common molds.""

Asperity

Disparaging remarks about rap session

They're often cast in soap operas

Slurs on a person's reputation

Asphalt

Asphaltic.

Asphaltum

ASPHERIC not spherical

Choke (to death)

After wrecking taxi he pays for throttle

Choke, but manage to pay his tax before the end of June

Huge house plant

Iris adapts, being adaptable plant

Plant rallied Ada's spirit

Pronouncing the "h" as in house

... 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

Assumpsit

Guess feast day (wordplay)

Belief held without proof

Undertaking reform must pain so

As one might be, following tips resulting in cash hoarding

They're approachable (wordplay)

Lines that approach curves (but never touch them)

Type of curve, in math.

Feeling blue (wordplay)

Candles create a romantic one

Pervading tone or mood

Wasting away as a result of disease

Silver-plated souvenir at home is deteriorating

Inga wavering: accepting award or declining (wordplay)

Attemper

Good Twitter handle for a seductress (wordplay)

Against expectations

One predictably in a way deviating from the expected pattern

Bill takes pity, moving colleague in an unusual way

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

Like a double rainbow, perhaps

Encouraging suspect given new start

Rosy doubtful about substituting top

Novelist's craft (wordplay)

The Caine or the Pequod?

The Caine or the Pequod (wordplay)

Fan collection (wordplay)

Star signs (wordplay)

Collector's items.

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

Ones who'd never think of flying (wordplay)

Autopsy

Autotroph

""AUTOTROPH an organism which is autotrophic, i. e., an organism (such as most plants and certain microorganisms) which are capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances, requiring only minerals as nutrients for growth, and using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; the energy required is derived from photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Opposed to heterotroph. See also auxotroph.autotrophic, i. e., an organism (such as most plants and certain microorganisms) which are capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances, requiring only minerals as nutrients for growth, and using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; the energy required is derived from photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Opposed to heterotroph. See also auxotroph.""

Autotypy

Auxotroph

AUXOTROPH

AXOPLASM the cytoplasm of an axon

Azeotrope