10-Letter Words Starting with A

Striped hyenas that feed chiefly on insects

Not caused by bacteria.

Abandoner

Make an acronym of, perhaps

Shorten (a word)

Bribe a vet with a new contract

Throne relinquishers

ABDUCTOR a person who abducts

Aberrance

In an unnatural way

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

Renunciation

Surrendering sorts

In an unusual manner.

Friend embraces British woman in opera in unusual manner

Abolisher

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!

Harshly offering a women's support for eccentric Elvis on Fourth of July

Abreact

Rating right-wing attitude as a psychological process

Compendium or synopsis.

Shortened version of a written work

Shortened form

Abrogate

Annulment of an agreement or law

The sailor's asking for an annulment

Cancelling a second-rate allowance? Go back to intervene

Abruption

Curt rudeness

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

Curtness

Those who escaped ban crossed over

They take their leave without it

Muscles badly scorned by bad runners (wordplay)

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

They are positively negative

Eligible non-voters

Avoiders of alcohol

Absterge

Removed, being absent-minded

Walked off with head in the clouds

Preoccupied when taken out

Abstract

Read this bodybuilding brochure

ABSTRACT to draw away

Abstrict

Last buyers getting treated in an unusual way

Abstruse

Abstruseness; that which is abstruse.

Absurdism

Absurdist

Sailors turn on way and head for folly

ACARICIDE

Acaricide

Speeder-up in processing something.

Agent for hastening the progress

Maybe create lace and go faster

Create lace dress and be quick about it

Open the throttle wide

Accipiter

Acclaimer

(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.

Accouter

Accoutre

Officially approved, as a college

Given official recognition

Like an Ivy League institution

Accretion

Noun (-ment)

Accuracy

Some maniac curate lying? Precisely!

It's precisely a copy you heard Ray let anyhow

Lacy shifts worn by one in church without any slips

In a hateful manner

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

Acerbate

Acerbity

Cupshaped; saucershaped; acetabuliform.

Stony meteorite

Colourless church with scent outside

Colorless.

A dreamer with no name embraces church, having no shade

Acidifier

An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids.

""The measurement of the strength of acids, especially by a chemical process based on the law of chemical combinations, or the fact that, to produce a complete reaction, a certain definite weight of reagent is required.""

Acierate

Capable of being acquired.

One who acquires.

Judges or juries, sometimes

Acridity

Acrimony

Acritarch

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 readily polymerized amide, C 3 H 5 NO, derived from acrylic acid and used in synthetic fibers and sewage treatment. It is a carcinogen and is present in some foods, especially starches and cereals that are cooked at high temperatures.""

Chemical catalysts

Acyclovir

Enveloped names (wordplay)

Letter-openers (wordplay)

You might say their name gets enveloped

Mail-order employees

Speechifiers

Lecturers

Saying what's to be going on th envelope

Ranch, for example

Dealing with commercial arrangement

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.

Head off? New queen rejected church's observances

In an adherent manner.

Postponing

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

Containing an adjuration.

Portioned out

Admeasure

Manage publicity for one in church

Run as 'today's politician' (wordplay)

Pastor who pitches (wordplay)

Scotch maid to share esteem (wordplay)

One may be lost in it

Maid out helping gains approval

My darling and I intertwine with desire

Admixture

One who admonishes.

Fussy day monitor giving a reprimand

Conveying a reprimand

Warning politician, I'd moan terribly at the start

Adoration

Send matron out for decorations

Model and monster to become accessories

Embellishments

Rush before a flight (wordplay)

It can give you a rush

Stimulator of ideal Queen Anne building

One anorak turned up with some work, in charge of stimulation

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.

Any substance that lessens purity

Water, vis-a-vis vodka

Corrupter of mature queen by worker

Cut a deal? Utter chicanery!

Water down, perhaps

Grown up with age, note, can be corrupt

Ones fooling around

Having grown up with a couple of cockney girls? Faith, he will have none of it!

Woman whose tears led us astray (wordplay)

Qualities evenly incorporated in an outfit for Madame Bovary, perhaps (wordplay)

Adultery

Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal.

Cheating ruled out as arranged

Like Fontane's woman

Cheating ruled out as wrong

A silent speed's indicated like this

Vaguely outlined

Adumbrate

""ADVENTURE That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.""

Man of derring-do

Many a Jules Verne protagonist

Soldier of fortune.

Tuned raves (anagram)

And then... stories

Basis of many plots.

Adverbial

The quality or practice of being advertent; heedfulness.

""The act of adverting, of the quality of being advertent; attention; notice; regard; heedfulness.""

Called attention to

Diets raved about and given publicity

Desired a TV broadcast to be made known

One publicising a product (S, not Z)

He pays the price of publicity

He has his own ideas on hoarding

Steve raids (anagram)

Puts in a spot

Plugs (colloq.)

Advertize

Advertize

Advisory

Advocator

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

""A spongy tissue with large air spaces found between the cells of the stems and leaves of aquatic plants, providing buoyancy and allowing the circulation of gases.""

Some perform without nets

Performers with dangerous acts

Daring circus performers

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

AFFERENT a nerve that conveys impulses to a nerve centre

A story about company that may be ratified

Warm around volcanic rim, so may be asserted

Confirmation; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act.

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

Affricate

Gave a scare to

Affront

""The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, and which come away after delivery.""

Aftercare

Afterclap

Areas astern, on ships.

Western skies past sunset

Lingering luminescences

Flashbulb effect, for example

Lingering impression on the eye

Flashbulb effect

Reincarnationists' existences

Postmortal existences

Following figures after the events

Consequences revealed when calculations are done

Bad effects maybe following a school period (wordplay)

Times of day

Hot times in summer.

They're following the 1 across hour

Additional short sketch.

Brut, for one

Face alcohol before breakfast (wordplay)

Where this is (wordplay)

Van Halen song that resonates (wordplay)

WHERE'S THE WAVE (wordplay)

7-6 dessert wine (wordplay)

Side effect (wordplay)

Bud or maker (wordplay)

Feeling left following smack (wordplay)

Aftertime

Pudding gobbled, drawback later

At a later time

Looking for hospital accommodation later

Afterword

Paradise? PS: Liberal welcomed

M1's in time to expand

Magnify; increase power of

Make greater grade gains after revision

Exaggerate

Made (offence) more serious (legal)

Vexed by burglary (wordplay)

Made more serious

Gets under the skin

Adds insult to injury

Makes worse

Gathered into a mass or whole

Combined into a whole

Brought together

Groups into a class

Garage gets building concrete materials

Collects together building materials

Aggress

Is sore with gang's violent hostility

What eleven Ac displays

Act of aggression,physical force

Wild, wild raves and gigs on Ecstasy

Like a winning tournament player*

Combative - pushing

Starters of quarrels.

Initiators of action

Hostile attackers

Infringing another's legal rights

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

Results of Teheran, Yalta, Potsdam

Documents of treaty.

Legally binding arguments

Agrimony

Agrology