12-Letter Words Starting with A

Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.

""Pertaining to the measurement of the intensity of the solar rays, either (a) heating, or (b) actinic. (a) heating, or (b) actinic.""

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

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

Adjective (-ic)

""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.""

Rearranging the letters of a word or phrase

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

ANALPHABETE

Of or pertaining to anaphylaxis; caused by anaphylaxis.

""Not astigmatic; free of astigmatism; -- pertaining to a lens or lens system, and used especially of a lens system which consists of a converging lens and a diverging lens of equal and opposite astigmatism but different focal lengths, and sensibly free from astigmatism.""

""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

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

Little colonizer in torment (wordplay)

Little colonizer in torment?

Stupid giant's action showing opposition

Medicine to destroy worms

ACADEMIC a college student or teacher

Of or pertaining to an anticyclone; moving in the opposite direction of a cyclone.

DIABETIC one who has diabetes

DOGMATIC overbearing

ECONOMIC relating to finance

ENTROPIC pertaining to {entropy=n}

Counteracting hysteria.

LEUKEMIC one affected with leukemia

""MAGNETIC a metal that attracts iron, also MAGNET""

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

Opposed to upsetting Tina with old newsreel from jerk

PRURITIC pertaining to {pruritus=n}

Good against the rickets.

ROMANTIC a fanciful person

Of or pertaining to an antistrophe.

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

""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.""

APOTHEGM a pithy saying

Satiric actor playing noble

Of the nobility

Satiric actor turning 'blue'

ARTHROSCOPE

Showing no symptoms of disease.

AUTODIDACT One who is selftaught; an automath.

Pert. to autohypnotism; self-hypnotizing.

""Pl. avitaminoses (-s z) A disease, such as scurvy, beriberi, or pellagra, caused by deficiency of one or more essential vitamins.""

Having symmetry around an axis: an axisymmetric cone.