15-Letter Words Starting with A

Absorbability

Abstractionism

Painters like Rothko and Pollock

Pollock and Kline, for example

See spiny-headed worm .

""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

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.""

Groups of men entrusted with executive powers

Government executives and their policies.

Adrenalectomy

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

Aerodynamical

Aerodynamicist

Aerosolization

Affordability

AGRANULOCYTE

AGRANULOCYTE

Airworthiness

ALGORITHMIC of or pertaining to an algorithm.

Alkalinization

Quality of figurative writing

Allegorization

Allelomorphism

Allotetraploid

ALLOTETRAPLOID

Theme of this puzzle

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

ALUMINOSILICATE

Some presidential appointments

Overseas appointments

Diplomatic jobs

AMBIGUOUSNESS Ambiguity.

AMBITIOUSNESS The quality of being ambitious; ambition; pretentiousness.

Aminopeptidase

Ammonification

AMORPHOUSNESS amorphous

Amphidiploidy

ANACOLUTHIC Lacking grammatical sequence.

ANALOGOUSNESS analogous

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.

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)

Same as Antaphrodisiac. Antaphrodisiac.

Anticarcinogen

CHOLESTEROL

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

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)

Plural noun (-sions)

""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

""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.

Antimetabolite

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

Antimonarchist

Antimonopolist

Rebel

Plural or third person singular

""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.""

""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.""

SHOPLIFTING shoplift

SPECULATION The act of speculating.

Plural noun (-sions)

""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

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

Archaeopteryx

The office of an archbishop; an archbishopric.

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

ASSIDUOUSNESS assiduous

""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

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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Autographical

Automatization

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.

Means of changing behavior

Autotetraploid

AUTOTETRAPLOID

""A transformer in which part of the primary winding is used as a secondary winding, or vice versa; -- called also a compensator or balancing coil.compensator or balancing coil.""

(Med) &#x2192; Eigenbluttransfusion f

""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.""

Axiomatisation

Axiomatization

Azidothymidine