13-Letter Words Starting with A

ABIOGENIC

Producing miscarriage.

Pertaining to abstraction.

Acceleration

Mobile balance checker (wordplay)

Device measuring changes in speed

Velocity change sensor

Accentuation

The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness.

Accepting

Ease of admittance

Ease by which something may be reached

Ease of reaching

ACCESSORISE

ACCESSORIZE

Acciaccatura

ACCLIMATISE

Acclimatizer

""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.""

Like a good hotel

Willing to help

Considerate of others

Adjustment by quarters, perhaps

Loan for lodgings

Compromise; living space

Able to provide room

Accommodator

Supporting musical line

Dancing cancan with tempo I'm backing

Backing account, criticise one in remark

ACCOMPLISHER One who accomplishes.

Accomplish

Accordionist

Accouchement

Accountancy

Accouterment

Equipment Cameron set cut out

Soldier's equipment.

Soldiers outfit other than weapons and garments

Official recognition (of diplomat)

Granting of recognition

(Diplomat's) official authorisation

ACCULTURATE

Assimilating unfamiliar customs, beliefs

Of or pertaining to acculturation (definition 3).

Accumulation

Noun (-tion)

Acetaldehyde

Pain reliever and fever reducer

English word

""The act of making acetous or sour; the process of converting, or of becoming converted, into vinegar.""

Acetonitrile

A neurotransmitter released by the transmitting dendron at autononmous synapses and at neuromuscular junctions. It is a quaternary amine with an obligatory negative counterion. The nominal formula for the hydroxide form is C7H17NO3. Structural formula (CH3)3N(+)CH2CH2.O.CO.CH3.OH(-).C7H17NO3. Structural formula (CH3)3N(+)CH2CH2.O.CO.CH3.OH(-).

Achlorhydria

ACHROMATIZE To deprive of color; to make achromatic.

""The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid.""

Admitting the truth of

People known, but not well

Grade B friends.

Prospective friends

Acquiescence

In an acquiescent manner.

ACQUISITION The act or process of acquiring.

In the way of acquisition.

Noisy clamour spreading out around India in bitter manner

ACROBATIC Pertaining to an acrobat.

ACRONYMIC

""A colorless liquid compound (H2C:CH.CN); used as raw material for acrylic fibers, and as a solvent.H2C:CH.CN); used as raw material for acrylic fibers, and as a solvent.""

Actinometry

""Botany Capable of being divided into equal halves along any diameter, as the flowers of the rose or tulip; radially symmetrical.""

Actinomycete

Plural or third person singular

""A chronic infectious disease of cattle and man due to infection with actinomycetes, especially by Actinomyces bovis in cattle and by Actinomyces israeli or Arachnia propionica in man. It is characterized by hard swellings usually in the mouth and jaw. In man the disease may also affect the abdomen or thorax. Called also lumpy jaw or big jaw.Actinomyces bovis in cattle and by Actinomyces israeli or Arachnia propionica in man. It is characterized by hard swellings usually in the mouth and jaw. In man the disease may also affect the abdomen or thorax. Called also lumpy jaw or big jaw.""

Of or pertaining to actinomycosis.

A making actual or really existent.

Needle-worker found in practice

Therapist involved in sharp practice (wordplay)

Needle therapist

ADIABATIC Not giving out or receiving heat.

Adjudication

Pl. adrenalectomies Surgical excision of one or both of the adrenal glands.

Adrenochrome

Of or pertaining to adventurism.

Like sleek airplanes and sports cars

Aeromechanic

Aeromedicine

Aesthetical

Aesthetician

Aestheticism

AESTHETICIZE

Aestheticize

Abstract noun (-ity)

Affectional

Affection

Affectivity

German dog in fine French spa, barking

In an agonistic manner.

Agranulocyte

Agrichemical

E.g. a farmer

Farming expert

Farmer

Large comic has cracks for those that defend veggies

Agronomical

Airsickness

Relating to or practicing alchemy.

""ALCOHOLIC Of or pertaining to alcohol, or partaking of its qualities; derived from, or caused by, alcohol; containing alcohol; as, alcoholic mixtures; alcoholic gastritis; alcoholic odor. as, alcoholic mixtures; alcoholic gastritis; alcoholic odor.""

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

Allegorical

""Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an allelomorph.""

ALLERGENIC of or pertaining to allergens or allergenicity.

ALLOTYPIC

Certain character set ... and a hint to translating this week's final answer

Certain character set... and a hint to translating this week's final answer

Amicability

A disorder of protein metabolism in which excessive amounts of amino acids are excreted in the urine.

Pl. amniocenteses (-s z) A procedure in which a small sample of amniotic fluid is drawn out of the uterus through a needle inserted in the abdomen. The fluid is then analyzed to detect genetic abnormalities in the fetus or to determine the sex of the fetus.

Technique for screening unborn children

Is after single old coin in unusual means test

Amphictyony

AMPHITHEATRE

Means of making sound louder

Increasing of signals

Augmentation

In the wrong time period

Anarchist icon destroyed before its time

Out of keeping with chronology

Anachronous

ANAEROBIC

Analphabetic

Analyticity

Anaphorical

Reducing sexual desire

(Drug) tending to diminish sexual desire

(Of a drug) lowering sexual urges - Rio's a handicap (anagram)

Disease and Illness

Anchorperson

Ancientness

Anecdotalism

Anecdotalist

Anecdotical

Anencephaly

""A state of being anfractuous, or full of windings and turnings; sinuosity.""

""The act of anglicizing, or making English in character.""

A condition in which the refractive power of one eye differs from that of the other.

Things delivered by PA systems

Formal public statements

Proclamations

Annunciation

Anthelmintic

Originating in human activity

Word with prefix anti-

Antiaircraft

ARTHRITIC

Protective, in a way

Like a drug that's intricate a lab developed

Antiblackism

CELLULITE small lumpy deposits of body fat esp. on women's thighs and buttocks. Not used as a technical term.

CIGARETTE A little cigar; a little fine tobacco rolled in paper for smoking.

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

Anticipation

""CLASSICAL Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.""

Anticlerical

Having a disappointing ending

Ending disappointingly

Ultimately disappointing

Going back in time (wordplay)

Back in time

One way to go round

Substance that prevents blood clotting

Blood-thinning agent

What stops clotting

""COLLISION The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.""

""COMMUNISM A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all.""

COMMUNIST An advocate for the theory or practice of communism.

Plural agent noun

""CORPORATE Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town. as, a corporate town.""

""CORROSION The action or effect of corrosive agents, or the process of corrosive change; as, the rusting of iron is a variety of corrosion. as, the rusting of iron is a variety of corrosion.""

""CORROSIVE Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, changing, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as, the corrosive action of an acid. "Corrosive liquors." Grew. "Corrosive famine."Thomson. as, the corrosive action of an acid. "Corrosive liquors." Grew. "Corrosive famine."Thomson.""

DESICCANT Drying; desiccative.

Antielectron

Same as Antepileptic. Antepileptic.

Plural noun (-tions)

Inflected form of GENICALLY Inflected form of GENIC pertaining to {genes=n}

Antihysteric

Shields of a sort

Chair protectors

Doilies.

MECHANIST A maker of machines; one skilled in mechanics.

""METABOLIC Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change.""

Inflected form of MICROBIAL Inflected form of MICROBE a microscopic organism

""OBSCENITY That quality in words or things which presents what is offensive to chasity or purity of mind; obscene or impure lanquage or acts; moral impurity; lewdness; obsceneness; as, the obscenity of a speech, or a picture. as, the obscenity of a speech, or a picture.""

Inflected form of PARASITIC Inflected form of PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Antiparticle

PESTICIDE

""POLITICAL Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration.""

Inflected form of PSYCHOTIC Inflected form of PSYCHO a mentally unstable person

""RECESSION The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand.""

""REJECTION Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.""

""RHEUMATIC Derived from, or having the character of, rheum; rheumic.""

Antiromantic

Counteracting scurvy.

One opposed to the doctrines and practices of socialists or socialism.

Drug that helps to stay fit!

SYMMETRIC Symmetrical.

""Concern or solicitude respecting some thing o<?/<?/vent, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.""

Without a regular schedule

Exciting venereal desire; stimulating the desire for sexual gratification.

Specialists in worker management

Bee-keepers

Of the final catastrophe

Apocalyptism

Apocalyptist

Apodictical

Apomictical

Apperception

Relevance, appropriateness

Relevance of a very quiet pupil I initially chose with skill

Applicative

Appreciation

Appurtenance

""AQUACULTURE the cultivation of aquatic animals, such as fish or shellfish, or of plants, such as seaweed, in a controlled and sometimes enclosed body of water. The term includes use of either salt or fresh water. It is a form of agriculture, but under water.""

ARABICIZE ARABIC derived from gum arabic

Arborescence

Tree farming - rub our article (anagram)

Cultivation of trees

Archaeology

Past master (wordplay)

His work is in ruins (wordplay)

His career is in ruins (wordplay)

Jurassic fossil bird

Extinct primitive bird

An old bird's cheaper to X-ray, surprisingly!

Canterbury or York, for example

High church office

Senior church post

Archduchess

Archegoniate

Of or pertaining to an archdeacon.

Head of large monastery

Chairman tried to convert Greek ecclesiastic

Abbot is a terribly rich fellow and terribly tired

Archipelago

The science of architecture.

Relating to building design

Of design

Bow struck the City with the first flower of building design

Architecture

Noble classes

Numbers expert

Expert on calculating machine trait I engineered

A titchier man, I fancy, may be one who has no trouble with tots!

Aromaticity