13-Letter Words Starting with A

Capable of being grasped

Capable of being comprehended

APPREHENSIBLE Capable of being apprehended or conceived.

Cop's uncertainties (wordplay)

Suitably, properly

Aptly

APPROPRIATE Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.

Taking without permission of the owner

Annexation

Secretary's mounting support, helping to arrest one making embezzlement

""Appropriating; making, or tending to, appropriation; as, an appropriative act. as, an appropriative act.""

Appropriator

Roughly apply a mixer to batter

More or less

Circa

APPROXIMATE Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.

Fairly close estimate

It's roughly right

Rough estimate

Approaching; approximate.

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

Random quality

Relating to or resulting from arbitration.

Arborescence

Tree farming - rub our article (anagram)

Cultivation of trees

Arborization

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

Arduousness

(Of rocks) silver-bearing

One maturing at manoeuvres, revealing logic

Logical reasoning required to shift great mountain

Opinionated and terribly vague trite man

Grump's disposition

Gave in with a mutter turning stroppy

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!

Collection of resources available for a purpose

Aromaticity

The act of impregnating or secting with aroma.

Arsenopyrite

Arsphenamine

A systematic description of the arteries.

Connecting an artery to a vein.

ARTHRITIC

Arthropathy

Arthroscopy

They're expressive of joints on the move

The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial.

Artlessness

Possible to determine

Identifiable

The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery.

ASPERGILL

ASPERGILL

Assassinator

Forceful confidence

Strong-willed behaviour being slammed as severest sin

Dogmatism

Emphatic statements

They declare they'd like to cut at what are charged

Assortative

Assuredness

""The lower layer of the earth's crust, below the lithosphere. It is estimated as from fifty to several hundred miles thick. It is less rigid than the lithosphere, but still rigid enough to transmit some transverse seismic waves.""

Astringency

Pl. astrocytomas or astrocytomata (-m -t ) A malignant tumor of nervous tissue composed of astrocytes.

Like Armstrong or Glenn

Relating to the nature of stars

Asynchronism

""Formation of atheromatous deposits, especially on the innermost layer of arterial walls.""

""Formation of atheromatous deposits, especially on the innermost layer of arterial walls.""

Atrocious

Attorneyship

Attractancy

""ATTRIBUTION The act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality, character, or function, to a thing or person, an effect to a cause.""

In an attributive manner.

Austereness

""AUTHENTICATE To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.""

Tyrannical writer meets Italian heretic

Enforcing strict rules

Enforcing strict obedience

Commanding and self-assured

Commanding, self-confident

Vested with power or influence

Official permission

The Henry Ford story (wordplay)

Carfax report (wordplay)

One's own Life (wordplay)

""AUTOEROTIC sexually self-satisfying, as by masturbation.""

Automorphism

An image produced upon photographic film by exposure of the film to a radioactive substance in close proximity to (usually in contact with) the film.

Autorotation

Averageness

Aviculturist

Avoirdupois

Awkwardness

Axisymmetry

Azathioprine