12-Letter Words Starting with A

Shortening

Reducing

ABSOLUTIZE

Gaining speed

Increasing speed

ACCENTUATE To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

""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.""

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

Making less pure

Debasing

Using repeated initial letters

Allograft

""AMALGAMATE To compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to unite, combine, or alloy with mercury.""

Causing improvement in or reducing the bad effects of an unfavorable condition.

ANASTOMOSE Styptic. <mark>

""Criticising vehemently and effectively; making light of; as, afire with annihilating invective.as, afire with annihilating invective.""

ANNUNCIATE To announce.

ANTAGONIZE To contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract.

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

CLOTTING clot

GAMBLING the act of taking a chance

LYNCHING the act of lynching

POACHING encroachment

SPENDING the act of spending

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.""

Appertain

Sharing out

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

Setting to work to learn from a master.

ARPEGGIATE

Stating clearly

Confirming seating in car trip

Working out in revolutionary Argentina (sic)

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

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

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

Taking in and understanding

AUSCULTATE To practice auscultation; to examine by auscultation.

Autograft

Autograph

AUTOMATIZE same as automate.automate.

""AUTOMOBILE a self-propelled vehicle used for transporting passengers, suitable for use on a street or roadway. Many diferent models of automobiles have beenbuilt and sold commercially, possessing varied features such as a retractable roof (in a convertible), different braking systems, different propulsion systems, and varied styling. Most models have four wheels but some have been built with three wheels. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), and sometimes by steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from under 50 H. P. for earlier models to over 200 H. P. larger models or high-performance sports or racing cars. An automobile is commonly called a car or an auto, and generally in British usage, motor cars.convertible), different braking systems, different propulsion systems, and varied styling. Most models have four wheels but some have been built with three wheels. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), and sometimes by steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from under 50 H. P. for earlier models to over 200 H. P. larger models or high-performance sports or racing cars. An automobile is commonly called a car or an auto, and generally in British usage, motor cars.""

AUTOROTATE

AUTOTOMIZE cause a body part to undergo autotomy.

AXIOMATIZE