13-Letter Words Starting with A

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.

Inflected form of DIARRHEAL Inflected form of DIARRHEA looseness of the bowels

Antielectron

Same as Antepileptic. Antepileptic.

Antiestrogen

""EVOLUTION The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg. as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg.""

Antifeminism

Antifeminist

""FERTILITY The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination. as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination.""

Antiforeign

""FORMALIST One overattentive to forms, or too much confined to them; esp., one who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly the outward forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit of religion.""

Plural noun (-tions)

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

Antiglobulin

Antigravity

""GUERRILLA An irregular mode of carrying on war, by the constant attacks of independent bands, adopted in the north of Spain during the Peninsular war.""

Hay fever treatment

Drug treating allergies

Foe of common cold.

Antihumanism

Antihysteric

Plural or third person singular

Antilitter

""The number corresponding to a logarithm. The word has been sometimes, though rarely, used to denote the complement of a given logarithm; also the logarithmic cosine corresponding to a given logarithmic sine.""

Shields of a sort

Chair protectors

Doilies.

Antimalarial

""MARIJUANA A strong-smelling Asian plant (Cannabis sativa), also called hemp, from which a number of euphorogenic and halucinogenic drugs are prepared. The euphoric effect is predominently due to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).Cannabis sativa), also called hemp, from which a number of euphorogenic and halucinogenic drugs are prepared. The euphoric effect is predominently due to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).""

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

""MODERNIST One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions.""

NARRATIVE Of or pertaining to narration; relating to the particulars of an event or transaction.

Plural noun (-isms)

Antineutrino

The tenets or practice of Antinomians.

Antinovelist

Plural or third person singular

""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

Land-mine type

Like certain weapons sent in plane or distributed some other way

PESTICIDE

Antiphonary

Plural or third person singular

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

""POLLUTION The act of polluting, or the state of being polluted (in any sense of the verb); defilement; uncleanness; impurity.""

Plural agent noun (-ors)

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.""

""RELIGIOUS Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars. as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars.""

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

""RITUALISM A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual.""

Antiromantic

Antiroyalist

""SATELLITE An attendant attached to a prince or other powerful person; hence, an obsequious dependent.""

Counteracting scurvy.

SEXUALITY The quality or state of being distinguished by sex.

Plural or third person singular

SMUGGLING smuggle

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

Drug that helps to stay fit!

""SUBMARINE Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants. as, submarine navigators; submarine plants.""

SYMMETRIC Symmetrical.

""TERRORISM The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation.""

""TERRORIST One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.""

Antithrombin

Aortography

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

Apatosaurus

Specialists in worker management

Bee-keepers

Of the final catastrophe

Apocalyptism

Apocalyptist

Apodictical

Apomictical

APOSTROPHISE

Apostrophise

APOSTROPHIZE To address by apostrophe.

Apostrophize

APOTHEOSIZE To exalt to the dignity of a deity; to declare to be a god; to deify; to glorify.

""An earnest or urgent request, entreaty, or supplication.""

""After the manner of nouns appellative; in a manner to express whole classes or species; as, Hercules is sometimes used appellatively, that is, as a common name, to signify a strong man. as, Hercules is sometimes used appellatively, that is, as a common name, to signify a strong man.""

Apperception

Relevance, appropriateness

Relevance of a very quiet pupil I initially chose with skill

Applicative

Appoggiatura

""APPORTION To divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments. as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments.""

Process of sharing out

Allocation

Appraisement

Appreciation

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

Aptitudinal

""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.

Tree farming - rub our article (anagram)

Cultivation of trees

Arborization

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!

Archegoniate

Head of large monastery

Chairman tried to convert Greek ecclesiastic

Abbot is a terribly rich fellow and terribly tired

The science of architecture.

Relating to building design

Of design

Bow struck the City with the first flower of building design

Architecture

(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

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.

Asphyxiation

Killing donkey is against new orders

Murdering

Murder of a public figure

Two fools and one country - get killing

Murder of a prominent person

Assassinator

Assemblagist

Forceful confidence

Strong-willed behaviour being slammed as severest sin

Dogmatism

Emphatic statements

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

The quality of being assignable.

Assimilation

""An academic position that carries a stipend and usually involves part-time teaching or research, given to a qualified graduate student.""

""The state of an associate, as in Academy or an office.""

""Of or pertaining to association, or to an association.""

Associative

""ASSOCIATIVE Having the quality of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty. as, the associative faculty.""

Assortative

""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.""

Asthmatical

Very surprisingly

Astonishment

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

ASYNDETIC Characterized by the use of asyndeton; not connected by conjunctions.

ATAVISTIC displaying characteristics of a previous cultural era or of a previous ancestral form; displaying atavism

Atheistical

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

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

Atomistical

Atrocious

The quality of being attainable; attainbleness.

Listening quality

Attitudinal

ATTITUDINISE

Attitudinise

ATTITUDINIZE To assume affected attitudes; to strike an attitude; to pose.

Attitudinize

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.

Atypicality

CD's ancestor

Input for a recorder

Augmentation

Augmentative

Auscultation

Austereness

AUTECOLOGIC

In an authentic manner; with the requisite or genuine authority.

Shown to be true

Established as genuine

Certified

Authenticate

""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)

Autocatalyse