12-Letter Words Starting with A

Abandonment

Abolishment

The principles or measures of abolitionists.

Abomination

Abridgement

Absenteeism

Like a Disney film professor (2 words)

Contemplating truancy (wordplay)

Given to woolgathering

Abstemious

In a scholarly manner

Distinguished scholars

Academicism

Acclamation

Acclimation

Accustomed to new conditions

Accustomed to upset mice with acid and salt

Acclimatise

Peruvian city in adapted

""ACCLIMATIZE To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.""

Acclimatize

Adjusted and put up

Allowed room for

Made comfortable

Furnishes houses

""He who, or that which, accommodates.""

Pianists playing second fiddle (wordplay)

Accompany

Pulled off top

Done - with a high degree of skill

Having particular skills

One who accomplishes.

Accomplish

Scheme first ignored in bill for delivery

An accessory item of equipment or dress. Often used in the plural.

Article of equipment

Bill gathers another metre, making dress

Items of dress/equipment required for an activity

""ACCUMULATE To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money. as, to accumulate a sum of money.""

Process of gathering

Growth of capital

Build-up

Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional.

Accumulator

Even a chemist (anagram)

The done things

Exploits from active men he's translated

Achromatism

ACHROMATIZE To deprive of color; to make achromatic.

Achromatize

Acidimetry

Acquirement

Acromegalic

Acromegaly

Photographic instruments.

""Pertaining to the measurement of the intensity of the solar rays, either (a) heating, or (b) actinic. (a) heating, or (b) actinic.""

""Botany Capable of being divided into equal halves along any diameter, as the flowers of the rose or tulip; radially symmetrical.""

""Any of various filamentous or rod-shaped, often pathogenic microorganisms of the order Actinomycetales that are found in soil and resemble bacteria and fungi.""

Actinomycin

Delays that stunned Major, maybe

""ADJUSTMENT The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation.""

Governed by theologians (wordplay)

Controlled diet? In dreams!

Gave out

Executive; acting; managing affairs.

Manage - it's marinated (anagram)

Run, as a Washington agency.

Organise (business)

Admirableness.

Rebuke hot men involved with mad sin

Had moments in suffering severe reprimand

What may be given by the man getting agitated with dim son (wordplay)

Admonitory

Adoptianism

Adoptionism

A naturally occurring chemical formed during the oxidation of epinephrine.

Adumbration

Plug + truck + sticks = progress

Adventurism

English word

Science of lift and flight

Scientific study in which secondary aim is dicey

Secondary aim to revise properties of flying objects

Embolism that occurs as a result of the entrance of air bubbles into a blood vessel after surgical procedures or trauma.

(used with a sing. verb) The science of magnetic characteristics associated with atmospheric conditions.

""The medical study and treatment of physiological and psychological disorders associated with atmospheric or space flight. Also called aerospace medicine , aviation medicine .""

The cult of the beautiful

Russell contacts relative over the jerk with master of art movement

Affirmation

Affirmative

Aftermarket

Mortgage deal not usually collected

Agglomerate

Noun (-ment)

Agnosticism

Agrarianism

Variant of agrochemical .

""A chemical, such as a fertilizer, hormone, fungicide, insecticide or soil treatment, that improves the production of crops.""

Albuminuria

In the manner of alchemy.

The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.

Alkalimeter

Allelomorph

The property which constitutes an allomorph; the change involved in becoming an allomorph.

Omnipotence; infinite or boundless power; unlimited might.

Using words and numbers

Using A-Z and 0-9

Referring to both characters and figures

""AMALGAMATE To compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to unite, combine, or alloy with mercury.""

Union of diverse elements

Merger.

Merger

Amalgamator

Amateurish

Amazonstone

Diplomat's wife in the morning gets fish on frock

A doctor, stupid fellow, with a frock for the envoy's wife

With right on both sides (wordplay)

Equally expert with both hands

Using both hands

Devoid of ambition.

Ambivalence

Ambivalent

Ambiversion

Amblygonite

Ambulatory

Ambulatory

Causing improvement in or reducing the bad effects of an unfavorable condition.

Changed email address for enhancement

Improvement.

Improvement

Softening; helping to heal or improve

Ameliorator

AMELIORATOR One who ameliorates.

Bearing catkins.

Amiability

The quality of being amicable; amicability.

Aminopterin

Aminopyrine

AMITOTIC pertaining to {amitosis=n}

Ammoniation

Amobarbital

Types of medium sherry

Animal sold to butchers by drunk in Spain

""The act or right of alienating lands to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmain. dead hands, or in mortmain.""

Amoxicillin

Amoxycillin

Adjective (-ic)

Speed, uppers etc

Meet a ship with man excited by drugs

Speed is one of them

Like an amphibious being.

Amphibolite

""AMPHIBRACH A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (\'de -- \'de); as, h. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet\'b6ic.h. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet\'b6ic.""

""Of or pertaining to the Amphictyons or their League or Council; as, an Amphictyonic town or state; the Amphictyonic body. as, an Amphictyonic town or state; the Amphictyonic body.""

Having a diploid set of chromosomes derived from each parent.

Amphisbaena

A mythical serpent having a head at each end of its body.

Large oval stadium with tiers

Hollywood Bowl, for example

Almond-shaped.

Amylopectin

Things misplaced in time

Untimely errors made by chairman's son

They're out of date to think Molly Bloom wore Lainey Keogh and Orla Kiely

Rearranging the letters of a word or phrase

Like this puzzles four long answers, in relation to each other

Plural or third person singular

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Veterinary Science) another name for gallsickness ANDROCLINIUM pl -clinia [-ˈklɪnɪə] (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) another name for clinandrium [New Latin, from andro- + -clinium, from Greek klinē slope; see clino- ]""

""Not astigmatic; free of astigmatism; -- pertaining to a lens or lens system, and used especially of a lens system which consists of a converging lens and a diverging lens of equal and opposite astigmatism but different focal lengths, and sensibly free from astigmatism.""

ANASTOMOSE Styptic. <mark>

Denounce.

As the body is structured, a nuclear link could be needed

""ANECDOTAL Pertaining to, or abounding with, anecdotes; as, anecdotal conversation. as, anecdotal conversation.""

Anemometry

Pollinated by the wind; -- of flowering plants; especially grasses etc.

Expressed censure (with "on").

Not isotropic.

A public statement

Press release, for example

Press release, e.g

Base merchant re-established in rooms at the front

Antependium

Medicine to destroy worms

ACADEMIC a college student or teacher

ANTIBLACK discriminatory against black people; opposed to black people

Denouement downers

Damp squibs

Big letdowns

CONSUMER one who {consumes=v}

DOGMATIC overbearing

ECONOMIC relating to finance

Antielitism

Antifascism

FEMININE the female sex or nature

FEMINISM advocacy of woman's rights

FEMINIST a supporter of feminism

GAMBLING the act of taking a chance

HUMANISM the quality of being human

LEUKEMIC one affected with leukemia

Non-PC chair protector (wordplay)

Chair cover mascara stain made a mess of

Protective cloth on upholstered seat

""MAGNETIC a metal that attracts iron, also MAGNET""

Good against malaria.

MILITARY armed forces

Antimissile

Antimitotic

MONOPOLY exclusive control or power

""MOSQUITO a winged insect, also MOSSIE""

NEPOTISM favouritism shown to a relative

Antirealism

ROMANTIC a fanciful person

Antirrhinum

THROMBIN an {enzyme=n}

Antivitamin

Antonomasia

Noun denoting doctrine or practice

""Free from chromatic and spherical aberration; -- said esp. of a lens in which rays of three or more colors are brought to the same focus, the degree of achromatism thus obtained being more complete than where two rays only are thus focused, as in the ordinary achromatic objective.""

Apomorphine

APOTHEGM a pithy saying

Appeasement

Intestinal operation

Abdominal operation

Certain surgery

Appointment

Process of assessing

Pressure to mark up people in fitting evaluation

""Pl -ria [-r&#x26a;&#x259;] (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany a flattened hypha of a parasitic fungus that penetrates the host tissues [from New Latin, from Latin appressus ; see appressed ]""

Came close to

Reckoned without precision as a quietly expert team won game

Approximate

Arbitrament

Archdukedom

A primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops.

Touching figures cast to charm Letitia? Is it art, Michael (wordplay)

""Pl. armamentariums or armamentaria (- - ) The complete equipment of a physician or medical institution, including books, supplies, and instruments.""

Oily treatment of slippery Yamaha porter

Treatment using natural essences

Remedial use of essential plant oils

AROMATIC a fragrant substance

An A of A&E

Plans for a future event

Chord progressions, e.g

Stock in branch sent off for orders

""A yellow hygroscopic powder, C 12 H 12 As 2 N 2 O 2 2HCl2H 2 O, formerly used to treat syphilis, yaws, and other spirochetal infections.""

Arteriogram

Gunner can be taller in army

What Harry Truman was in World War I.

Soldier unwell in channel by island

Gunnery soldiers

Of or pertaining to ascomycetes.

Aspergillum

""ASSEMBLAGE The act of assembling, or the state o<?/ being; association.""