15-Letter Words Starting with A

See spiny-headed worm .

Dancing, singing, et al.

Bill praises mum for bringing in gifts

Special skills

Accountantship

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

Achondroplasia

Of or pertaining to achondroplasia.

Plural or third person singular

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

Airworthiness

ALGORITHMIC of or pertaining to an algorithm.

Allelomorphism

Theme of this puzzle

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

Some presidential appointments

Overseas appointments

Diplomatic jobs

AMORPHOUSNESS amorphous

Amphidiploidy

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

ANACOLUTHIC Lacking grammatical sequence.

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

Plural noun (-isms)

Same as Antaphrodisiac. Antaphrodisiac.

CHOLESTEROL

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

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

Antihistaminic

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

Antimonarchist

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

SHOPLIFTING shoplift

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.""

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)

Pl. archaebacteria An archaeon.

Archaeopteryx

The office of an archbishop; an archbishopric.

Architectural

Aromatherapist

Arteriography

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.

Authentication

Authoritative

Autobiographer

Personal accounts (wordplay)

Confessions of a sort

Lives created in self-reliant way

Autochthonous

Autographical

Autoradiograph

The process of producing an autoradiogram by exposing photographic film to a radioactive substance in close proximity to the film.autoradiogram by exposing photographic film to a radioactive substance in close proximity to the film.

""AUTOTROPHIC Capable of self-nourishment; requiring only minerals for growth; using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; -- said of all plants in which photosynthetic activity takes place, and certain bacteria. It is opposed to parasitism or saprophytism.""

Azidothymidine