10-Letter Words Starting with A

Striped hyenas that feed chiefly on insects

Abandoner

Humiliations

Abashment

Moderations of intensity

Tax deductions

Diminutions

Throne relinquishers

Abducens

Ufologist's subjects

An A of A&E

Snatchings

ABDUCTOR a person who abducts

Aberrance

Abeyancy

A believer in spontaneous generation

Abjection

Wretched quality

Surrendering sorts

Abolisher

Formally ending (a practice)

Action demanded by W. L. Garrison

Wiping out

Annulments

Much more than dislikes

Dislikes intensely

Loathes

Algonquins, for example.

Early inhabitants

First inhabitants.

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

Abruption

Curt rudeness

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

Curtness

Abscess

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

They are positively negative

Eligible non-voters

Avoiders of alcohol

Doing without.

Santa in big buggy not letting anyone get cross (wordplay)

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

Absterge

Practice of refraining (from alcohol)

If you pass the bar, what will it mean?

Non-partaking (of liquor)

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

Ballerina's hairdo gets into the act (wordplay)

Academism

Floral designs used in architecture

Acaricide

Without accent.

Having a ramp, say

Open to be got at

Easy to talk to; approachable

How urgently needed equipment should be stored, as bicycles must be fixed

Accession

Accidence

Accipiter

Acclaimer

Acclimate

Finish off associate in crime soundly

Coach limps off to manage

Twisted coach limps for effect

Portable keyboard instruments

Squeezeboxes

Accretion

Accuracy

In a hateful manner

Whodunit plot element

Charge copyright to America in case

Charge about, protecting us in battle

The case for the prosecution (wordplay)

Prosecution's case (wordplay)

Case which needs objective prosecuting

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

In an accusing manner.

Assigned blame, framing cat as usual

Usual train heading for East Germany

Familiar cat held by defendant

Without a chief

Acerbity

Acetamide

Acetylate

Acetylene

Achalasia

Achiness

Acidifier

Acidness

Organisms thriving in sulphuric pools or animal stomachs

Acidulate

Serving to aid hearing.

Sounding accusal to premier in Istanbul, hopeless

Auditory

Complied without putting up opposition

Assented

Agreed

Caves

One who acquires.

Acquittal

Judges or juries, sometimes

Acridity

Acrimony

Acritarch

Feats of agility

Gymnast's display

High-flying performance

Acrophobe

Pertaining to a kind of puzzle

Void of action.

Chemical catalysts

The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity.

ACTIVIST an advocate of {activism=n}

Work, hobbies, social events, etc.

Cite a visit planned with things to do

Things to do

Splattered on my coat is a muscle protein

Actualize

Actuation

Acyclovir

Acylation

Adamancy

Hard things to break

Inside moves did seem like bad habits

'More of them, about one hundred, habitually (10)'

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

Adduction

Adenitis

Adenosine

Any of a group of DNA-containing viruses that cause conjunctivitis and upper respiratory tract infections in humans.

Adequacy

Head off? New queen rejected church's observances

Stickable

In an adhesive manner.

Adipocyte

'In deep of night when - / Hath locked up mortal sense' (Milton)

Able to be adapted

Not set in stone

Like hospital beds

End of the statement

Small change to achieve a desired result

Modification; regulation

Portioned out

Admeasure

Manage publicity for one in church

Run as 'today's politician' (wordplay)

Pastor who pitches (wordplay)

Like certain evidence

Like some evidence

(As evidence in court) valid

Claims these were heard in confessions

Confessions may be let in

Entrance fees

Admixture

Warned by a note on day I cast off

Told off

Chastised

One who admonishes.

Rebukes gently.

Gently reproves

Not yet achieved adultery (wordplay)

Youth benefit stops rising

Minor trouble with the French cologne

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

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

Cheating ruled out as arranged

Like Fontane's woman

Cheating ruled out as wrong

Adulthood

Adumbrate

Gave a stand (anagram)

Reasons to say yes

They may overcome the competition

Advection

Adventive

Tuned raves (anagram)

And then... stories

Basis of many plots.

Adverbial

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

Careful consideration

Deliberation

US lawyer rejected version of events I'm giving US counsel

Advisory

Advocacy

Advocator

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

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""

Decelerates, as with a space shuttle

Landing fields, in London

Airfields, to a Brit

MOD are sore over these airfields

Aerology

Measurers of gas properties

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

Principles of artistic beauty

Worry for the superstitious

Number lacking article on study of arts

Passed summer in a dormant position

Aestivate

Affection

AFFECT to act upon

Affidavit

Subordinate branches

Partners

Affinity

Affixment

Afflatus

Affluence

Afforest

Affricate

Aflatoxin

Aftercare

Afterclap