12-Letter Words Starting with A

Abandonment

Shortening

Reducing

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)

Abjectness

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

Abortionist

The quality of being abortive.

Abridgement

Abruptness

Absenteeism

Like a Disney film professor (2 words)

Contemplating truancy (wordplay)

Given to woolgathering

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

Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.

ABSOLUTIZE

Absorptance

Absorptiveness.

Abstemious

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

Acatalectic

Gaining speed

Increasing speed

An increase in rate

Rate of increase of speed

A speeding up

Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening.

Throttles

ACCENTUATE To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

Giving special importance to something

Emphasis, stress

Acceptation

Short grace note that is played very quickly

Not on purpose

Friend follows chance unwittingly

Ran into someone with friend by mistake

Accipitrine

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)

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

ACCREDIT to accept as true

Marked or produced by accretion.

ACCULTURATE

Acculturate

""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

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

Chemical expert sits on the deadly liquid

Acetanilide

English word

Acetylation

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

Acidulation

In relation to sound or to hearing.

Acoustician

Person one knows slightly

Someone one knows slightly

It was auld to Burns

Acquirement

Acquisition

Acquittance

Acrocentric

After the manner of an acrostic.

Actability

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

Activeness

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

Furthermore

To boot

As well

Additivity

The quality of being adequate; suitableness; sufficiency; adequacy.

""As, or in the manner of, an adjective; adjectively.""

Delays that stunned Major, maybe

""ADJUDICATE To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.""

Formal judgement

Civil judgment based on evidence presented

Adjudicating.

Adjudicator

ADJUDICATOR One who adjudicates.

""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

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

Adroitness

Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious.

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

Plug + truck + sticks = progress

Useful, beneficial

Data's vague on rambling being beneficial

Profitable

Happening by chance

Accidental - unexpected

Vet's audition turned out to be accidental

Adventurism

Adventurist

Adversative

Advertency

Advertising

Advertorial

Abstract noun (-ity)

English word

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

AERONAUTIC

One versed in the theory of beauty and artistic expression.

The cult of the beautiful

Russell contacts relative over the jerk with master of art movement

AESTHETIC

Aestivation

Affability

Affectation

Deliberate pretence - exaggerated display

Artificial and pretentious characteristic

Warm-hearted - loving

Tender attachment to Buddy heading off

Disease destroyed loving

Affiliation

Affirmation

Affirmative

In an afflictive manner.

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

Agapanthus

Mortgage deal not usually collected

Agglomerate

Capable of being agglutinated.

""AGGLUTINATE To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.""

Agglutinate

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

Aggradation

Aggravation

Aggregation

""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)

Agnosticism

English word

Possibility of concurring

Lulu Craig art (anagram)

Related to farming

Relating to farming

Agriculture

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.""

Aiguillette

Airfreight

AIRTIGHT impermeable to air

Noun (-tion)

Aldosterone

Alexandrite

Ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma). (Nepeta Glechoma).

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

Alkalimeter

Alkalinity

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

Alleviation

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

Pl. alloantibodies See isoantibody .

Alloantigen

Allograft

Omnipotence; infinite or boundless power; unlimited might.

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

The quality of being alterable; alterableness.

Set-to with ACTIONS (wordplay)

Rowdy reacts a lot in noisy squabbles

Modify particles in rows

Variations.