12-Letter Words Starting with A

Abandonment

E.g. for example (wordplay)

Tues. or Agt. (tsk-tsk!)

Shortening - above Britain (anagram)

Abbreviator

Characterized by unsound thinking

Ex-President right and judicious or diverging from normality (wordplay)

Abolishment

""Relating to or favoring abolition, especially the abolition of slavery.""

The principles or measures of abolitionists.

Wm. Lloyd Garrison, for one.

Reformer (eg Wilberforce)

One favouring end of capital punishment

Abomination

Primarily.

Abortionist

The quality of being abortive.

The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.

Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.

ABSOLUTIZE

Absorbancy

Absorbency

Absorptance

Absorptiveness.

Abstemious

Abstraction

Accelerando

An increase in rate

Rate of increase of speed

A speeding up

Throttles

Giving special importance to something

Emphasis, stress

Acceptation

Accession

ACCESSORISE

Accessorise

ACCESSORIZE

Accessorize

Acclamation

Acclimation

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

Squeeze box player

Player is into arranging following agreement

One's instrumental in making peace with Israeli supporter though not at frist

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

Marked or produced by accretion.

Process of gathering

Growth of capital

Build-up

Accumulator

English word

Acetylation

Absence of hydrochloric acid in the gastric secretions of the stomach.

Absence of hydrochloric acid in the gastric secretions of the stomach.

Achromatism

ACHROMATIZE To deprive of color; to make achromatic.

Achromatize

Acidulation

Recognised information in a record

Admits information revealed in accounts

Admits information is revealed in the accounts

In relation to sound or to hearing.

Acoustician

Acquisition

Acrocentric

Acromegalic

Acromegaly

After the manner of an acrostic.

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

Having a capacity for adaptation. Opposed to maladaptive.maladaptive.

Furthermore

To boot

As well

Adenovirus

Delays that stunned Major, maybe

Formal judgement

Civil judgment based on evidence presented

Adjudicator

ADJUDICATOR One who adjudicates.

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

Adolescence

Adolescent

""(tr) (Law) Law to bring (a person) into a specific relationship, esp to take (another's child) as one's own child""

Adoptianism

Adoptionism

Adoptionist

""The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration.""

A naturally occurring chemical formed during the oxidation of epinephrine.

Adroitness

Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious.

Addition of contaminant let loose in a time span

Corruption of European in indecent allowance

Adulterator

In an adulterous manner.

Adumbration

Useful, beneficial

Data's vague on rambling being beneficial

Profitable

Happening by chance

Accidental - unexpected

Vet's audition turned out to be accidental

Advertorial

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 .""

AERONAUTIC

AEROSOLIZE

Aestivation

Affectation

Warm-hearted - loving

Tender attachment to Buddy heading off

Disease destroyed loving

Afficionado

Affiliation

Affirmation

A4 report considered to be premeditated

Conceived in advance

Premeditated

A later train (wordplay)

Item added later

Something added later

Mortgage deal not usually collected

Agglomerate

""An antigen that stimulates the production of a particular agglutinin, such as an antibody.""

Aggradation

Aggravation

Aggregation

Agnosticism

Agoraphobia

Agoraphobic

English word

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

Comparative adjective or agent noun

""A system of land use in which harvestable trees or shrubs are grown among or around crops or on pastureland, as a means of preserving or enhancing the productivity of the land.""

Ailurophile

Ailurophobe

Alcyonarian

Noun (-tion)

Aldosterone

Algolagniac

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

ALLEGORISE

Allegorizer

""ALLEGORIZE To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people. as, to allegorize the history of a people.""

Allelomorph

The inhibition of growth in one species of plants by chemicals produced by another species.

Alleviation

Poetic ploy practised with panache!

What William Wordsworth wrote, perhaps

It's seen in some Shakespeare sonnets

Pl. alloantibodies See isoantibody .

Alloantigen

Allograft

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

Allopurinol

Literally, 'different lizards'

Literally, "different lizards"

Set-to with ACTIONS (wordplay)

Rowdy reacts a lot in noisy squabbles

Modify particles in rows

Variations.

ALTITUDE height above sea level

Union of diverse elements

Merger.

Merger

Amalgamator

Amazonstone

With right on both sides (wordplay)

Equally expert with both hands

Using both hands

Devoid of ambition.

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.

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)

Like an amphibious being.

Amphibolite

""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.

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

Anacoluthon

Weird goings-on about a king of Thebes in Greek poems

ANAEROBE an organism that lives in absence of free oxygen

ANAEROBE an organism that lives in absence of free oxygen

Anagogical

In an analogical sense; in accordance with analogy; by way of similitude.

Analyzation

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- ]""

ANASTOMOSE Styptic. <mark>

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

English word

""An anchorman or anchorwoman.. The anchorperson usually begins the broadcast, discusses certain topics, and introduces new topics, which may be discussed by other reprorters, especially when the report is recorded or broadcast from a location other than the main broadcast studio.anchorman or anchorwoman.. The anchorperson usually begins the broadcast, discusses certain topics, and introduces new topics, which may be discussed by other reprorters, especially when the report is recorded or broadcast from a location other than the main broadcast studio.""

Diminutive form

""Centered or focused on men, often to the neglect or exclusion of women: an androcentric view of history; an androcentric health-care system.""

ANDROGEN a male sex hormone

ANDROGEN a male sex hormone

ANDROGEN a male sex hormone

A steroid hormone excreted in urine that reinforces masculine characteristics.

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

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

Anemometry