15-Letter Words Starting with A

Absorbability

Abstractionism

Painters like Rothko and Pollock

Pollock and Kline, for example

See spiny-headed worm .

Acceptability

ACCEPTINGNESS accepting

Accessibility

""The act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured.""

Accommodating

""ACCOMMODATION The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; followed by to. to.""

Dancing, singing, et al.

Bill praises mum for bringing in gifts

Special skills

Accountable

Accountantship

ACCULTURATION

A white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic.

Achondroplasia

Of or pertaining to achondroplasia.

Confession; thanks

Account for information found on workers' square? Thanks!

This expression of appreciation has been given the nod

Acknowledgment

Greed

The quality of being acrimonious; asperity; acrimony.

Adenocarcinoma

Plural or third person singular

""The anterior glandular lobe of the pituitary gland that secretes many hormones, including ACTH, prolactin, and somatotropin.""

Adjustability

Groups of men entrusted with executive powers

Government executives and their policies.

ADMIRABLENESS The quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence.

Admissibility

Adrenalectomy

The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness.

Adversariness

ADVISABLENESS

Aerodynamical

Aerodynamicist

Aerosolization

Affectability

Affordability

Capable of being agglutinated.

Aggrandizement

AGGREGATENESS aggregate

AGRANULOCYTE

AGRANULOCYTE

AGREEABLENESS The quality of being agreeable or pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses.

English word

AGRIBUSINESS

One in the business of cultivating soil

Rural guilt I cast off as a farmer

Farm expert

Airworthiness

ALGORITHMIC of or pertaining to an algorithm.

Alkalinization

Quality of figurative writing

Allegorization

Allelomorphism

Allergenicity

Allotetraploid

ALLOTETRAPLOID

Theme of this puzzle

One way of ordering things, like all the consonants in rows three, six and nine

""The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.""

ALUMINOSILICATE

Some presidential appointments

Overseas appointments

Diplomatic jobs

Ambidexterity

AMBIGUOUSNESS Ambiguity.

Ambisexuality

AMBITIOUSNESS The quality of being ambitious; ambition; pretentiousness.

Aminopeptidase

Ammonification

AMORPHOUSNESS amorphous

Amphidiploidy

""Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater.""

ANACOLUTHIC Lacking grammatical sequence.

""ANAGRAMMATIZE To transpose, as the letters of a word, so as to form an anagram.""

ANALOGOUSNESS analogous

Analyzability

Plural or third person singular

""A disease caused by hookworm infestation and marked by progressive anemia. Also called hookworm disease , tunnel disease .""

Anfractuosity

""ANISOTROPIC Not isotropic; having different properties in different directions; thus, crystals of the isometric system are optically isotropic, but all other crystals are anisotropic.anisotropic.""

Plural or third person singular

""A disease due to the presence of the parasites Agchylostoma duodenale, Uncinaria (subgenus Necator) americana, or allied nematodes, in the small intestine. When present in large numbers they produce a severe an\'91mia by sucking the blood from the intestinal walls. Called also miner's an\'91mia, tunnel disease, brickmaker's an\'91mia, Egyptian chlorosis.Agchylostoma duodenale, Uncinaria (subgenus Necator) americana, or allied nematodes, in the small intestine. When present in large numbers they produce a severe an\'91mia by sucking the blood from the intestinal walls. Called also miner's an\'91mia, tunnel disease, brickmaker's an\'91mia, <altname>Egyptian chlorosis</altname>.""

ANOMALOUSNESS Quality of being anomalous.

ANONYMOUSNESS The state or quality of being anonymous.

Dish me up Latinate ten? Such is X!

Of the third syllable from the end

Third from last

Seeing man as focus of the universe

Regarding humans as all-important

Revolving around mankind

Like Mead's field

Man's in pathetic poncho, wrestling with alligator

Mead et al.

Margaret Mead's colleagues

Anthropometry

Described in a human form

Having a human form

Treating nonhuman beings as humans

Cruel seas, for example

"Cruel seas," for example

Anthropophagy

Feeding on human flesh; cannibal.

Anthroposophy

A person who is opposed to legal voluntary abortion.

Plural noun (-isms)

Word with prefix anti-

Same as Antaphrodisiac. Antaphrodisiac.

Anticapitalism

Anticapitalist

Anticarcinogen

CHOLESTEROL

Inflected form of CHOLINERGIC Inflected form of CHOLINE an alcohol found bile

Being opposed to any priest or saint I call 'crime' ridiculously

""Inflected form of CLIMACTICAL Inflected form of CLIMACTIC Of or pertaining to a climax; forming, or of the nature of, a climax, or ascending series.""

Widespread feeling in the East.

Trend in world national setup.

COLONIALIST a believer in or advocate of colonialism{3}.

Monopolistic

Lyrica and Valium, for two

Anticonvulsive

Plural noun (-tions)

Mame's corsets

Mood-enhancing drugs

Psychiatrist's arsenal

Plural noun (-sions)

Antiderivative

""DEVELOPMENT The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state.""

Like video games, some believe

EGALITARIAN

""FASHIONABLE Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress. as, a fashionable dress.""

FERROMAGNET

FORECLOSURE The act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which bars or extinguishes a mortgager's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate.

Antihistaminic

Antiliberalism

""LIBERTARIAN Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.""

Plural noun (-ments)

MATERIALISM The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets.

""MATERIALIST One who denies the existence of spiritual substances or agents, and maintains that spiritual phenomena, so called, are the result of some peculiar organization of matter.""

Antimetabolite

Antimilitarism

Antimilitarist

Committing no criminal act. Ah, to be a republican!

Antimonarchist

Antimonopolist

Rebel

Plural or third person singular

Sure things (wordplay)

They're put on for a dry run

*Sure and more

""PORNOGRAPHY Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.""

""PROGRESSIVE Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde. as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde.""

Antiquarianism

Antiradicalism

""RATIONALISM The doctrine or system of those who deduce their religious opinions from reason or the understanding, as distinct from, or opposed to, revelation.""

Reason as a source of knowledge opp.

RATIONALITY The quality or state of being rational; agreement with reason; possession of reason; due exercise of reason; reasonableness.

""ROMANTICISM A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi<?/val forms and methods in opposition to the socalled classical style.""

""SEGREGATION The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting.""

""SENTIMENTAL Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic.""

Antiseparatist

Antisexuality

SHOPLIFTING shoplift

SPECULATION The act of speculating.

SPECULATIVE Given to speculation; contemplative.

Plural noun (-sions)

Antisyphilitic

""THEORETICAL Pertaining to theory; depending on, or confined to, theory or speculation; speculative; terminating in theory or speculation: not practical; as, theoretical learning; theoretic sciences.as, theoretical learning; theoretic sciences.""

""TRADITIONAL Of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures. as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures.""

""TUBERCULOUS Having tubercles; affected with, or characterized by, tubercles; tubercular.""

Opposition to vivisection.

By revelation; in an apocalyptic manner.

Apocalypticism

Apolipoprotein

Appealability

Applicability

Train times (wordplay)

Potential artisans in dentures!

In which tradesmen learn joints

Tour golfer's need (wordplay)

Asset for social people

Open quality: skill at getting ball on green (wordplay)

Rightness or relevance

Felicity to commandeer promontory

Suitability

Arbitrariness

Pl. archaebacteria An archaeon.

Archaeopteryx

The office of an archbishop; an archbishopric.

Architectural

It makes my great-aunt evil in a quarrelsome way

Plural or third person singular

""A condition caused by the dietary deficiency of riboflavin that is characterized by mouth lesions, seborrhea, and vascularization of the cornea.""

Aromatherapist

Districts of Paris

Arteriography

Artificiality

ASSERTIVENESS assertive

ASSIDUOUSNESS assiduous

Assignability

""ASSIMILATION The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another. as, the assimilation of one sound to another.""

""ASSIMILATION The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another. as, the assimilation of one sound to another.""

Associationism

Associationist

Associativity

Astrobiologist

According to a means of proposed propulsion.

Writing or recording related

Astrophysical

Astrophysicist

A form of arteriosclerosis characterized by the deposition of atheromatous plaques containing cholesterol and lipids on the innermost layer of the walls of large and medium-sized arteries.

A form of arteriosclerosis characterized by irregular fatty deposits on the inner surface of large and medium-sized arteries; the deposits are associated with fibrosis and calcification of the inner layer of the arteries. Similar conditions may be found in swine and fowl. The deposits may become large enough to impede the blood circulation and in some cases may restrict the blood supply to the heart.

A form of arteriosclerosis characterized by the deposition of atheromatous plaques containing cholesterol and lipids on the innermost layer of the walls of large and medium-sized arteries.

In relation to the atmosphere.

Atrabilious

ATROCIOUSNESS atrocious

Attainability

ATTENTIVENESS attentive

AUDACIOUSNESS The quality of being audacious; impudence; audacity.

Authentication

Authoritative

Autobiographer

Personal accounts (wordplay)

Confessions of a sort

Lives created in self-reliant way

Autochthonous

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