12-Letter Words Starting with A

""Pertaining to, or containing, announcement; making known.""

""Causing loss of appetite; as, an anorectic (or anorexigenic) drug.as, an anorectic (or anorexigenic) drug.""

Anorthosite

""ANORTHOSITE A granular igneous rock composed almost exclusively of a soda-lime feldspar, usually labradorite.""

Base merchant re-established in rooms at the front

ANTHOLOGIZE compile an anthology.

Anthracnose

ANTHRANILATE

The study of man

Study of humankind

Study of human beings and their way of life

Like opposers of the Roe v. Wade decision

""Designed for or used for defense against attack by aircraft; as, anti-aircraft cannon.as, anti-aircraft cannon.""

BURGLARY a felonious theft

Anticipator

Thinking ahead, snap up article dividing Labour (wordplay)

Opposed to the power of the clergy

CONSUMER one who {consumes=v}

CREATIVE having the ability to create

CULTURAL relating to culture

""DANDRUFF a scurf that forms on the scalp, also DANDRIFF""

ELECTRON an elementary particle

ENTROPIC pertaining to {entropy=n}

""ESTROGEN a female sex hormone, also ESTRIOL, OESTRIOL, ESTRIN, OESTRIN, OESTROGEN, ESTRONE, OESTRONE, THEELIN, THEELOL""

Something to lessea. Tending to lessen friction. a. Tending to lessen friction.

Antiheroine

Counteracting hysteria.

Antiliberal

LITERATE one who can read and write

Non-PC chair protector (wordplay)

Chair cover mascara stain made a mess of

Protective cloth on upholstered seat

Good against malaria.

MILITARY armed forces

The antiparticle of a neutrino. Each type of neutrino has a corresponding antineutrino.

Antineutron

Running in a contrary direction.

Positron in relation to an electron, say

Eg, a positron

Positron, for example

Plural or third person singular

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

PREDATOR one that {plunders=v}

PRURITIC pertaining to {pruritus=n}

Antipyretic

Antiquarian

Good against the rickets.

RATIONAL a number that can be expressed as a quotient of integers

Antirealism

Antirealist

RELIGION belief in a higher power

ROMANTIC a fanciful person

ROYALIST a supporter of a monarch or monarchy

Antirrhinum

Antistrophe

Of or pertaining to an antistrophe.

TAKEOVER the act of assuming control

THROMBIN an {enzyme=n}

TRUSTERS truster

AORISTIC pertaining to a verb tense

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

""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.

Apomorphine

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

Members of a communist bureaucracy

Apparatchik

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

Pertaining to an apparition or to apparitions; spectral.

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

Embellishing musical note [2005]

Sharing out

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 aquiculture.

Aquaculture

Aquarellist

Aquiculture

Arabinoside

Arbitrageur

Arbitrament

Arbitration

""The state of being arborescent; the resemblance to a tree in minerals, or crystallizations, or groups of crystals in that form; as, the arborescence produced by precipitating silver. as, the arborescence produced by precipitating silver.""

""The appearance or figure of a tree or plant, as in minerals or fossils; a dendrite.""

Anarchy with credo disturbed church office

Dean co-chairs shambles in one of the church provinces

Relates to clerical figure starting off in March around the sea reportedly

Soccer head is transforming metropolitan districts

Archdukedom

ARCHEGONIA

Archenteron

Archeology

Archerfish

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

House-craft (wordplay)

Art of designing buildings etc

Style of a building

English word

""Of the nature of clay; consisting of, or containing, argil or clay; clayey.""

Satiric actor playing noble

Of the nobility

Satiric actor turning 'blue'

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

ARPEGGIATE

An A of A&E

Plans for a future event

Chord progressions, e.g

Stock in branch sent off for orders

""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.""

Arteriogram

Artfulness

Arthroscope

ARTHROSCOPE

Arthrospore

Articulacy

""After the manner, or in the form, of a joint.""

Stating clearly

Clarity in speech

Tunic a tailor prepared for delivery

Term for off-road suspension compliance

Of or pertaining to articulation.

Articulator

""ARTICULATOR 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.""

Synthetically transformed rail facility

Rail facility dismantled using mechanical means

Unnaturally

Artillerist

Gunner can be taller in army

What Harry Truman was in World War I.

Soldier unwell in channel by island

Gunnery soldiers

Artiodactyl

Artisanship

In an esthetic way

Confirming seating in car trip

Working out in revolutionary Argentina (sic)

A carol about tried and tested type of working out, for sure

Aspergillum

Characterised by hope or ambition

Like those trying to succeed

Relating to hope, since religious and sensible

An assassin.

""ASSEVERATE To affirm or aver positively, or with solemnity.""

Solemn statement

Stupid person the day before helping to produce solemn statement

Characterized by asseveration; asserting positively.

Assimilator

""Tending to assimilate, or produce assimilation; as, assimilatory organs. as, assimilatory organs.""

ASTERISK to mark with a star shape

American series on hospital department initially leaving you in a severe way

Study of extraterrestrial life

Astrocytoma

Of a pseudoscience

Like the supposed influence of planets and stars

Astrometry

Science of space travel

Absolutely huge (in a heavenly way!)

Stellar location with Mars shot

High, as inflationary prices

Science of celestial bodies

Science of stars and galaxies

Branch of science

Irregular in outline

Redeveloped city alarms me, lacking a logical design (wordplay)

Crooked

Asynchrony

The relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times.

Happening at different times, soca dances with horny topless nuns

Unrelated to or lacking a theoretical basis.

""Of, pertaining to, or having the nature of, atheroma.""

Athwartship

Electrical disturbances

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

Attractance

In a way that gains attention

Apt to be ascribed

Caused by

Attribution

Attributive

Audiometry

Of or pertaining to auscultation.

Of or pertaining to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government.

Autoerotism

Autograft

Autography

Autograph

Automorphic characterization.

AUTOROTATE

AUTOROTATE

Autotrophy

Auxotrophy

In a greedy way

AVASCULAR

Averseness