12-Letter Words Starting with A

Shortening

Reducing

E.g. for example (wordplay)

Tues. or Agt. (tsk-tsk!)

Shortening - above Britain (anagram)

Abbreviator

Abecedarian

Characterized by unsound thinking

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

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

Primarily.

Abortionist

The quality of being abortive.

Abracadabra

ABRASIVE an abrading substance

Abridgement

Abruptness

Absorbancy

Absorbency

Absorptance

Absorptiveness.

ABSTRACT to draw away

In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.

Abstraction

The quality of being abstract.

The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension.

Abstrusity

Absurdness

Accelerando

Gaining speed

Increasing speed

An increase in rate

Rate of increase of speed

A speeding up

Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening.

Throttles

ACCESSORISE

Accessorise

ACCESSORIZE

Accessorize

Short grace note that is played very quickly

Accipitrine

""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.""

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

One who accomplishes.

Squeeze box player

Player is into arranging following agreement

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

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

ACCREDIT to accept as true

Marked or produced by accretion.

ACCULTURATE

Acculturate

Accumulator

The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.

ACCURSED accurse

English word

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

Acidimetry

Acquirement

Acriflavine

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.""

Acupressure

Acupuncture

Adenovirus

Delays that stunned Major, maybe

Adjudicator

ADJUDICATOR One who adjudicates.

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.

Admonitory

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

A naturally occurring chemical formed during the oxidation of epinephrine.

Adroitness

Making less pure

Debasing

Addition of contaminant let loose in a time span

Corruption of European in indecent allowance

Adulterator

Adulteress

In an adulterous manner.

Adumbration

Adventurism

Adventurist

Adversative

Advertency

Advertising

Advertorial

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 .""

AERONAUTIC

AEROSOLIZE

Affirmation

Affirmative

Affricative

A4 report considered to be premeditated

Conceived in advance

Premeditated

Afterburner

Secondary results

Repercussions

Aftermarket

A later train (wordplay)

Item added later

Something added later

Mortgage deal not usually collected

Agglomerate

Aggradation

AGGRANDISE

Aggrandizer

""AGGRANDIZE To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress. as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.""

Aggravation

Aggregation

Violently mix liver and eggs, say

""AGGRESSIVE Tending or disposed to aggress; having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of one's own ends at the expense of others or mindless of others' needs or desires; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of unaggressive.as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of unaggressive.""

Noun (-ment)

Agoraphobia

Agoraphobic

English word

Agrarianism

Possibility of concurring

Texas A&M major

Barn, I guess, is deployed for farmers' market

Variant of agrochemical .

Lulu Craig art (anagram)

Related to farming

Relating to farming

Agriculture

""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

Airfreight

AIRTIGHT impermeable to air

Albuminuria

Alcyonarian

Aldosterone

Alexandrine

Alexandrite

Alkalimeter

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

Using repeated initial letters

Poetic ploy practised with panache!

What William Wordsworth wrote, perhaps

It's seen in some Shakespeare sonnets

Starting with identical letters

Starting with the same letter or sound

Like computer code, commonly

Allograft

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

Allopurinol

Literally, 'different lizards'

Literally, "different lizards"

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

Using words and numbers

Using A-Z and 0-9

Referring to both characters and figures

The quality of being alterable; alterableness.

Set-to with ACTIONS (wordplay)

Rowdy reacts a lot in noisy squabbles

Modify particles in rows

Variations.

Options for changing the inhabitants?

Other options

Options for changing the inhabitants (wordplay)

Amalgamator

Amateurish

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

Ambiversion

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

Amobarbital

""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.""

Adjective (-ic)

""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.""

Large oval stadium with tiers

Hollywood Bowl, for example

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

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

Rearranging the letters of a word or phrase

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

In an uncontrolled manner

Female forebears

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.""

""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.

Anemometry

Blood and Blood Vessels

Anglerfish

Jagged edges

Expressed censure (with "on").

Anisotropy

Not isotropic.

ANKYLOSAUR

Annihilator

Annihilative.

Annunciator