12-Letter Words Starting with A

Shortening

Reducing

E.g. for example (wordplay)

Tues. or Agt. (tsk-tsk!)

Shortening - above Britain (anagram)

Abbreviator

The quality of being abortive.

ABRASIVE an abrading substance

Absorptiveness.

Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening.

Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional.

Even a chemist (anagram)

The done things

Exploits from active men he's translated

Acriflavine

Activeness

The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.

Adaptivity

Additivity

Adenovirus

The quality of sticking or adhering; stickiness; tenacity of union.

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

Adjudicating.

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)

Aestivation

Affirmative

In an afflictive manner.

Affricative

Aggravation

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)

Alleviation

Starting with identical letters

Starting with the same letter or sound

Like computer code, commonly

The quality of being allusive.

Options for changing the inhabitants?

Other options

Options for changing the inhabitants (wordplay)

Ambivalence

Ambivalent

Ambiversion

Softening; helping to heal or improve

Expressed censure (with "on").

Very old (before the Flood)

Very old and outmoded

Old adult in vain working without energy

CREATIVE having the ability to create

NOVELIST one who writes novels

TAKEOVER the act of assuming control

Antitussive

VIOLENCE a violent action

Antivitamin

Appellative

APPERCEIVE To perceive; to comprehend.

Conscious perception with full awareness.

Appositive

Showing gratitude

Thankful for backing Evita with epic rap melody

In someone's debt for treasure around island - it's a sign

Even I, perhaps, could be afraid

Even I, perhaps, could become so fearful

Anxious, perhaps even worried about one

Of or pertaining to articulation.

Assaultive

""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.

""Tending to, or characterized by, assimilation; that assimilates or causes assimilation; as, an assimilative process or substance. as, an assimilative process or substance.""

In a way that gains attention

Attributive

They're concerned with seeing and hearing motorcar from old films

Having the quality or power of augmenting; expressing augmentation.

What offers are subject to

Take advantage of talent - it concerns what's free

In a greedy way

AVASCULAR

Averseness

AVERSIVE relating to aversion

AVICULTURE Rearing and care of birds.

Disease and Illness

Disease and Illness

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

AVUNCULAR Of or pertaining to an uncle.