11-Letter Words Starting with A

Amphibrach

A league of states of ancient Greece; esp. the celebrated confederation known as the Amphictyonic Council. Its object was to maintain the common interests of Greece.

Amphimacer

AMPHIPATH

AMPHIPHILE

Ampicillin

""The outer portion of a starch granule consisting of insoluble, highly branched polysaccharides of high molecular weight.""

Untimely mistake (wordplay)

Thing that belongs to another time

A case of mixed dates

Out of time (wordplay)

Lacking grammatical sequence.

Syntactical incoherence

""Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial.""

A knockout in the theatre!

Laughing gas, for example

A person could well be put out by it

ANALEMMA a type of graduated scale

ANALYTIC a scheme of analytical logic

Like one wanting to overthrow government

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

Ancestor

Ancestral

Anchoress

Paula Zahn of CNN, for example

Norah O'Donnell, for example

Katie Couric, for example

A woman who narrates or coordinates a newscast in which several correspondents give reports.

Anchovetta

Great age

Ancientry

Ancillary

Anecdotage

Anecdotal

""Pertaining to, consisting of, or addicted to, anecdotes.""

Anecdotist

Pl. anencephalies Congenital absence of most of the brain and spinal cord.

Anesthetic

Full of twists and turns

Circuitous; sinuous.

In a saintly manner

ANGLICISE

""ANGLICIZE To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.""

Animalcule

An animalcule.

Of or pertaining to animalism.

Of or pertaining to aniseikonia.aniseikonia.

""Not isotropic; having different properties in different directions; thus, crystals of the isometric system are optically isotropic, but all other crystals are anisotropic.anisotropic.""

Proclaimed a religious woman third-rate, ab'orred on the radio

Annunciate

""One who announces. Specifically: An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated.""

The act or state of going before in time; precedence.

Nouns that pronouns relate to.

What pronouns refer to

One thrown off by ancient steed, surprisingly they came first

Antecessor

Small room leading to a larger room

Lobby one college with sign of caution

Small entrance room

Antechapel

Same as Anthokyan. Anthokyan.

Anthracene

Mining finds

""Of, pertaining to, or like, anthracite; as, anthracitic formations. as, anthracitic formations.""

""Any one of several fungus diseases, caused by parasitic species of the series Melanconiales, attacking the bean, grape, melon, cotton, and other plants. In the case of the grape, brown concave spots are formed on the stem and fruit, and the disease is called bird's-eye rot.Melanconiales, attacking the bean, grape, melon, cotton, and other plants. In the case of the grape, brown concave spots are formed on the stem and fruit, and the disease is called bird's-eye rot.""

Like or related to man; human.

ALCOHOL a flammable liquid

Selman Waksman's field.

Medicines destroying micro-organisms

Bacteria destroyers such as penicillin or streptomycin

BOYCOTT to refuse to have dealings with

Anticipant

Expected; opposite of unanticipated and unexpected.unanticipated and unexpected.

Foretastes

Expects fun and games will be interrupted by one head

Foresees

Expectant one.

CRUELTY savage behaviour towards a person or animal

Spiral outflow could be neatly conic

A fair-weather system ends with one

High-pressure weather system

Antiemetic

""FASCISM an oppressive form of government, also FASCISMO""

Mussolini's enemy

Fighter against state dictatorship.

LOGICAL pertaining to {logic=n}

MITOTIC pertaining to {mitosis=n}

MUSICAL a play which has songs and dances

NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

NUCLEON a subatomic particle

1991's word: Fever-preventing

Fever-reducing drug

Antiracism

Antiracist

RADICAL a group of atoms that act as a unit in chemical compounds

SCIENCE knowledge obtained by observation and experiment

SECRECY the condition of being secret

Applications for injury benefit, perhaps

Destroyers of microorganisms

Mercurochrome and others

SUICIDE to kill oneself intentionally

TOBACCO an annual herb cultivated for its leaves

Anxiolytic

APHETIC pertaining to {aphesis=n}

Stimulant of desire

Substance that makes you hot

Something that stimulates desire

Laura cut lip raving about beekeeping

Apiculture

Many doomsday cults predict them

Momentous, catastrophic

Translation of a Coptic play is outstanding

Copy capital letters - it could be a revelation

Penitent's defence of Christianity

Of or pertaining to an aponeurosis.

""Pl. aposiopeses (-s z) A sudden breaking off of a thought in the middle of a sentence, as though the speaker were unwilling or unable to continue.""

""Pertaining to an apostrophe, grammatical or rhetorical.""

Soviet Communist Party bureaucrat

Bureaucrat, Russian style

Member of a Communist bureaucracy

They can be deceiving

Arrivals; impressions

Outward impressions

APPERCEIVE To perceive; to comprehend.

Apperceive

Appetency

Applesauce

Request for hard work

Computer program requiring diligence

Formal request; sustained effort

Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical.

Applicator

Having the property of applying; applicative; practical.

Large enough to be noticed

Enough to be taken into account

Paper round gets Puck into Telegraph? That's significant

""APPRECIABLE Capable of being appreciated or estimated; large enough to be estimated; perceptible; as, an appreciable quantity. as, an appreciable quantity.""

Became more valuable

Was grateful for

Appreciate

One who values

Employed to learn a trade

Apprentice

Approach

""The cultivation of aquatic animals, such as fish or shellfish, or of plants, such as seaweed, in a controlled and sometimes enclosed body of water. The term includes use of either salt or fresh water. It is a form of agriculture, but under water.""

AQUATIC an organism living in or near water

""Plants hydroponics. ; aquicultural ,""

ARABICIZE

Treelike

Study of ancient artifacts

Study of old remains

Study of history through remains

In an outmoded sense

Michael's maybe going to help bar change licensee

Wearers of pallia

Clerics on a sacred meandering around church

Shrewd dean's embracing company people in a higher office

See choir ceased performing

See core ideas changing about Church

Important church area

""The consort of an archduke; also, a princess of the imperial family of Austria. See Archduke. Archduke.""

Archduchy

An archduchy.

Relating to the archegonium.

""The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.""

Bad shoes, to a podiatrist (wordplay)

The Joker and Batman, for example

Hatfields, to McCoys

The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination. Illust. under Invagination.

English word

Key chain (wordplay)

Fiji, for example

Hawaii, i.e.

Architrave

Archpriest

Arctangent

Growing or living or burrowing in sand.

Of or relating to a reference system based at the center of the planet Mars.

Rule by the best.

Upper class, nobility

Elevated types carry a cost I fancy

Nobles

Swells

Arithmetic

AROMATIC a fragrant substance

""Pl. arthroscopies Examination of the interior of a joint, such as the knee, using a type of endoscope that is inserted into the joint through a small incision.""

ARTHROSCOPE

""That can be articulated: vague, barely articulable thoughts.""

Clearly stated to be jointed

Put into words

Said to be segmented

Utters clearly

""One who, or that which, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering. (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering.""

Same as artefactual.artefactual.

Placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot; a member of the artiodactyla.artiodactyla.

Ascendance

Ascendant

Ascendence

""Relating to ascension; connected with ascent; ascensive; tending upward; as, the ascensional power of a balloon. as, the ascensional power of a balloon.""

Found out

Ascetical

Asceticism

Ascomycete

Ascription

ASEPTIC an aseptic substance

Helps.

Hobnobber's activity

Football club (wordplay)

Part of PA

Conceptual connection

""Having the quality of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty. as, the associative faculty.""

Astigmatic

Bitterness (of taste)

Sharp or bitter quality

Sharpness, severity

""A tumor of nervous tissue derived from interstitial cells, in which the cells are relatively well-differentiated and resemble astrocytes. The occur primarily in the crebrum and cerebellum.""

Astronomy

Of or pertaining to astronautics.

Pl. atelectases (-s z ) Total or partial collapse of the lung.

Pl. atelectases (-s z ) Total or partial collapse of the lung.

""Pertaining to, implying, or containing, atheism; -- applied to things; as, atheistic doctrines, opinions, or books.as, atheistic doctrines, opinions, or books.""

""Formation of atheromatous deposits, especially on the innermost layer of arterial walls.""

Physical fitness and strength

Strength, fitness

'Hi!' to campers (anagram)

Armpits echo (anagram)

Of air; conveying special mood

Extremely badly

Paper clips might symbolize them

Attendance

""The capacity, as of a pheromone, to attract.""

ATTRACT to {entice=v}

Attractant

Coming at the movies

""ATYPICAL not typical, also ATYPIC""

They have lots to offer

In an audacious manner; with excess of boldness; impudently.

An instrument for measuring hearing activity for pure tones of normally audible frequencies. Also called sonometer .

Used a stethoscope

Auscultate

AUTARCHIC

Adverb

Autochthon

AUTOCLAVE A kind of French stewpan with a steamtight lid.

Autocracy

Autocross

Group outside the class system

AUTOGRAPH That which is written with one's own hand; an original manuscript; a person's own signature or handwriting.

""Capable of self-nourishment; requiring only minerals for growth; using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; -- said of all plants in which photosynthetic activity takes place, and certain bacteria. It is opposed to parasitism or saprophytism.""

AUXOTROPH

""AVALANCHE A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.""

Aviculture

AVOCATION A calling away; a diversion.

Avouchment

Avuncular