15-Letter Words Starting with A

See spiny-headed worm .

Acceptability

ACCEPTINGNESS accepting

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.""

Allelomorphism

Allotetraploid

ALLOTETRAPLOID

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

Aminopeptidase

AMORPHOUSNESS amorphous

Amphidiploidy

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

""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.""

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

Same as Antaphrodisiac. Antaphrodisiac.

Anticapitalism

Anticapitalist

Monopolistic

Plural noun (-tions)

Mame's corsets

Mood-enhancing drugs

Psychiatrist's arsenal

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.""

Antimonopolist

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.""

Antiseparatist

SHOPLIFTING shoplift

SPECULATION The act of speculating.

SPECULATIVE Given to speculation; contemplative.

Antisyphilitic

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

Archaeopteryx

The office of an archbishop; an archbishopric.

Aromatherapist

Arteriography

Writing or recording related

Astrophysical

Astrophysicist

In relation to the atmosphere.

Autobiographer

Personal accounts (wordplay)

Confessions of a sort

Lives created in self-reliant way

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.

Autotetraploid

AUTOTETRAPLOID

""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.""