10-Letter Words Starting with A

Make an acronym of, perhaps

Shorten (a word)

Bribe a vet with a new contract

ABSOLUTE self-existent

ABSOLUTE self-existent

Tending to suck up

Tending to soak up

Practice of refraining (from alcohol)

If you pass the bar, what will it mean?

Non-partaking (of liquor)

Maybe create lace and go faster

Create lace dress and be quick about it

Open the throttle wide

What to do with an acute etc (wordplay)

Worried about acne? Cut out stress

Emphasise smart goddess with brogue

Not bad welcome (wordplay)

Good enough but not great

Of (marginally) satisfactory quality

Occasion to give a speech

Granting admission to Powell's world

The world of Powell

Get together to create a fortune perhaps

Build up

Collect Greek character's former account with Catholic university first

The case for the prosecution (wordplay)

Prosecution's case (wordplay)

Case which needs objective prosecuting

Stony meteorite

ACOELOMATE

A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.

Worth trying (wordplay)

Possibly libellous (wordplay)

Giving grounds for a lawsuit

Maybe detain a man of unyielding nature

Hard type of man, worker in Eden originally

A barrier against Tyneside must be unbreakable

Decide (between claims or in games)

Decide officially on a dispute

Hear and decide (a case).

Joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct.

Able to be adapted

Not set in stone

Like hospital beds

Maiden, with tact, ordered entree

Letting in a ball stopped by hand

Permission to enter

Having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface; displaying adsorption.adsorption.

Cut a deal? Utter chicanery!

Water down, perhaps

Grown up with age, note, can be corrupt

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

The quality or practice of being advertent; heedfulness.

ADVOCATE to plead in favour of

AFFECT to act upon

Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing.

Flashbulb effect, for example

Lingering impression on the eye

Flashbulb effect

Additional short sketch.

Brut, for one

Face alcohol before breakfast (wordplay)

Where this is (wordplay)

Side effect (wordplay)

Bud or maker (wordplay)

Feeling left following smack (wordplay)

Everyone repeat! (wordplay)

Say tongue twisters, maybe

Say a tongue twister, maybe

Art for the masses (wordplay)

Communion table screen

Painting placed prominently in church

Combine into one

Merge into a single body

Join forces to butcher Malaga meat

""An antiviral drug, C 10 H 17 NHCl, also used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.""

Make better meal, or I eat junk!

Make an unpleasant situation better

Make improvements to

""A cell, such as a leukocyte, having amoeboid form or motion.""

Styptic. <mark>[Obs.]<mark>

Word inversion, such as "Came the dawn."

Inversion, such as "Came the dawn"

Gold place in which land is mined for mineral

Anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes.

Hammer a nail in the bust

Hit an alien ordered to exterminate

Dynamite, say

Serving to explain

Explanatory

Mutant canine tuna, say

Declare girl in acute trouble

Announce (arch.)

Make an enemy of.

Rub the wrong way

Make an enemy of

""A solid hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin. C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin.""

I burn, but break your heart? I can't!

Hard, lustrous coal

Hard type of coal

Prepare for (a future event)

Predict - ape in attic (anagram)

Expect worker here for the French spread

Misogynous

Alcohol, for one.

Opposed to a cap on wages (wordplay)

Alcohol needed for driving (wordplay)

Word with prefix anti-

In favor of the great indoors, maybe

PLAGUE to pester or annoy

PLAQUE an ornamental plate or disk

Unable to stand the heat (wordplay)

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

STRIKE to {hit=v}

Breeding and care of bees

One might be keeping this, by the sound of it

Bringing up workers in a religious environment

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)

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

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

It may be set off by commas

Juxtaposed

Increase (in value)

(Of asset) rise in value

Be fully aware of.

Sugarplum is what one gets!

Worker learning a trade

One is bound to be in training

Capable of being decided by arbitration; determinable.

Virgil's tree of life

Coniferous hedge choice

Ornamental evergreen

Frame for door or window

Beam resting on tops of columns.

Frame Alistair, vacuously taking tab at party

ARPEGGIATE

Of Carney's film roles (wordplay)

A tacit rule that's broken, say

Expressing oneself clearly.

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.

The act of ascribing.

Asphaltic.

Choke (to death)

After wrecking taxi he pays for throttle

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

Making an assault.

Affirm dunderhead always had snacks

Declare that the fool was always feeding

State in which animal always took food

Absorb and digest (food)

Take in a smile as it develops

Become part of the prevailing culture

When drunk, can siestas help (wordplay)

One may give this by hand

Help a relative, protected by position

As one might be, following tips resulting in cash hoarding

Feeling blue (wordplay)

Candles create a romantic one

Pervading tone or mood

Capable of being fastened

Like Mr. Potato Head parts

Like some goals

Not so far as a star.

Within reach

Factor in grading, perhaps

Gate - enact Dante (anagram)

Guests at Blair's ball (wordplay)

Easy on the ol' windows to the soul

Pleasing to the eye

In good taste

AURICULAE

To practice auscultation; to examine by auscultation.

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

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

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

Prepare to mass-produce, say

Jaguar, for one

Road-test need

Welcome graduation gift.

Why they eyed the showroom (wordplay)

Why they eyed the showroom?

Relating to motor vehicles

AUTOROTATE

Italian superhighways.

Cause a body part to undergo autotomy.

An undertaking to clad home in glass

Rearing and care of birds.

AXIOMATIZE