12-Letter Words Starting with A

Abruptness

Absorptance

Absorptiveness.

Acceptation

Accipitrine

Pianists playing second fiddle (wordplay)

Accompany

Pulled off top

Done - with a high degree of skill

Having particular skills

One who accomplishes.

Accomplish

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

Acupressure

Acupuncture

Possibility of being modified

Openness to change

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

The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.

Adaptivity

""(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

Agapanthus

Agoraphobia

Agoraphobic

Ailurophile

Ailurophobe

Allelomorph

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

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

Allopurinol

One sort of order

Related to 26 characters

Like letters in CHIMPS and BIJOUX

""ALPHABETIZE To arrange alphabetically; as, to alphabetize a list of words. as, to alphabetize a list of words.""

""ALPHABETIZE To arrange alphabetically; as, to alphabetize a list of words. as, to alphabetize a list of words.""

Alphabetize

Using words and numbers

Using A-Z and 0-9

Referring to both characters and figures

Aminopterin

Aminopyrine

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

Amylopectin

ANALPHABETE

Of or pertaining to anaphylaxis; caused by anaphylaxis.

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- ]""

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.""

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

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

Aneuploidy

Blood and Blood Vessels

Anisotropy

Not isotropic.

Antependium

""Lit., fond of flowers; hence, feeding upon, or living among, flowers.""

The study of man

Study of humankind

Study of human beings and their way of life

ANTICIPATE To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.

Carly Simon tune

Foretaste - expectancy

Expectation, prediction

Anticipator

Thinking ahead, snap up article dividing Labour (wordplay)

ENTROPIC pertaining to {entropy=n}

EPILEPSY a disorder of the nervous system

MONOPOLY exclusive control or power

NEPOTISM favouritism shown to a relative

Running in a contrary direction.

Positron in relation to an electron, say

Eg, a positron

Positron, for example

I pitch a tent abroad without assent, initially causing bad blood

Opposed to upsetting Tina with old newsreel from jerk

Antiphonal

Plural or third person singular

""PLEASURE to give enjoyment or satisfaction to, also PLEASE""

POACHING encroachment

POLITICS the science of government

PREDATOR one that {plunders=v}

PRURITIC pertaining to {pruritus=n}

Antipyretic

SPENDING the act of spending

Antistrophe

Of or pertaining to an antistrophe.

Examination of the aorta using x-rays following the injection of a radiopaque substance.

APERIODIC

Aphrodisiac

International sect controlled by a dogmatic type, one supervising workers

Noun denoting doctrine or practice

Person associated with (-ist)

""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.""

In an apocryphal manner; mythically; not indisputably.

Apolitical

Apomorphine

Apophyllite

APOSTATISE

""APOSTATIZE 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.""

Apostleship

The state or quality of being apostolical.

Revise trophies behind a point of sale for writer's way of saying he owns it

Shorten a word

Address an imaginary person

Former purveyor of medicines

Might they offer a drug to the man with an oral problem (wordplay)

Medical suppliers giving a drug to the man facing decay

APOTHEGM a pithy saying

APOTHEOSIZE To exalt to the dignity of a deity; to declare to be a god; to deify; to glorify.

Apotheosize

Members of a communist bureaucracy

Apparatchik

Plainness to the eye or the mind; visibleness; obviousness.

Pertaining to an apparition or to apparitions; spectral.

Appeasement

Names said to be used for mountains

Local handles Ctes du Rhne Villages and Chteauneuf-du-Pape

Local handles C?tes du Rh?ne Villages and Ch?teauneuf-du-Pape

Appellative

Intestinal operation

Abdominal operation

Certain surgery

Plural or third person singular

Painful abdominal inflammation

Inflammation of intestinal sac

Inflammation of abdominal sac

Relating to an appendicle; appendiculate.

APPERCEIVE To perceive; to comprehend.

""The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states; perception that reflects upon itself; sometimes, intensified or energetic perception.""

Conscious perception with full awareness.

Appertain

Appetizing

Computer programs

Optician's pal designed computer programs

They arrive for the job and are put to work in the computer department

Embellishing musical note [2005]

Appointment

Sharing out

Aptness

Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition syntactically.

Appositive

Process of assessing

Pressure to mark up people in fitting evaluation

Appraising

APPRECIATE To set a price or value on; to estimate justly; to value.

Going up in one's estimation (wordplay)

Gratitude; increase in value

Acknowledgment of rise in value

Showing gratitude

Thankful for backing Evita with epic rap melody

In someone's debt for treasure around island - it's a sign

Appreciator

""Showing appreciation; appreciative; as, appreciatory commendation. as, appreciatory commendation.""

Apprehend

Fear taking (wordplay)

Fear, perhaps, in one that's disturbed

Taking fright (wordplay)

Even I, perhaps, could be afraid

Even I, perhaps, could become so fearful

Anxious, perhaps even worried about one

Setting to work to learn from a master.

""Pl -ria [-rɪə] (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 ]""

Easy to meet or deal with

Easy to talk with

Easy to talk to

Acts of praise

""Capable of being appropriated, set apart, sequestered, or assigned exclusively to a particular use.""

Taken without permission or consent especially by public authority.

Appropriate

One liberates all but last of fit soldiers

Came close to

Reckoned without precision as a quietly expert team won game

Approximate

Accessory (linked to a particular activity)

Net can be fitted in a quietly perfect accessory

Accessory developing rut in a quiet act of mortification

Appurtenant

Of or pertaining to an archespore.

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

With reference to the archetype; originally. "Parts archetypally distinct." archetypally distinct."

Perfectly representative

Very representative

Chap involved with literacy in original form

Of a sea abounding in islands

Archipelago

Oily treatment of slippery Yamaha porter

Treatment using natural essences

Remedial use of essential plant oils

ARPEGGIATE

""A mineral of a tinwhite color and metallic luster, containing arsenic, sulphur, and iron; also called arsenical pyrites and mispickel. arsenical pyrites and mispickel.""

""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.""

Arthroscope

ARTHROSCOPE

Arthrospore

Artisanship

Aspergillum

ASPHYXIATE To bring to a state of asphyxia; to suffocate.

Suffocation

Characterised by hope or ambition

Like those trying to succeed

Relating to hope, since religious and sensible

Science of celestial bodies

Science of stars and galaxies

Branch of science

Showing no symptoms of disease.

Athwartship

Electrical disturbances

The office or profession of an attorney; agency for another.

In a favorable way

Autography

Autograph

Plural or third person singular

In both senses also called self-hypnosis . The act or process of hypnotizing oneself.

Pert. to autohypnotism; self-hypnotizing.

Automorphic characterization.

Autotrophy

Auxotrophy

An immunosuppressive agent used especially to prevent organ rejection in kidney transplant recipients.

Azoospermia