9-Letter Words Starting with A

Red state (wordplay)

One party intended verbal shaming

Party workers in for discomfort

Abhenry

Ground hot and barren? Horrible!

Detestable/tenants' motto (wordplay)

Bad breath or not, initially offensive

Abhorrer

Detesting

Loathing

Like poll taxes

Got rid of

Put an end to

Abraham Lincoln, notably

Lincoln, notably

A throwback by literary cameraman chopping wood - one wielding axe

Does away with

Gets rid of

Does away with Basil's hoe design

Abrachia

Liqueurs made with wormwood

A bishop's vice, these short potent drinks

Wormwoods

""All cnidarians (jellyfishes) collectively, compare ACALEPH, ACALEPHAN, ACALEPHE""

Acalephe

""The failure of a ring of muscle fibers, such as a sphincter of the esophagus, to relax.""

When they're high, they perform well

They have made the grade

People who get things done

Bringing to a successful outcome

Gaining with effort

Getting a larcenous Conservative for leader ...

Achillea

Achromat

Frequent trip takers

They have a habit of tripping

Drug users as cover for chief of police (wordplay)

Growing well in an acid medium: acidophilic bacteria.

English word

Wooden statues with stone extremities

One who hates heights

Observant quality present in fluid dance

You'd be stuck with that

Sticking ability

Adherend

Followers less certain than Reed's

Tears by poor head's supporters

Supporters of neatherds

Abnormally united tissues

Firm attachments

Epoxy and others.

Sides have reconciled; they form bonds

Glue and rubber cement

Adhibit

Minor goal (wordplay)

A step above the minors (wordplay)

Supposedly mature years

Stony meteorites

Comic teases the arty types

Lovers of the beautiful.

Gallery regulars

Concerned with beauty

Organizing principle of beauty

Of pleasing appearance

Affright

When to study physics?

When to study physics (wordplay)

Consequences (of an event)

Agalloch

Agraphia

Not concerned with the past

Tree of Heaven; Thai Alnus (anagram)

Sugar maybe taking one part of 7 tree

Tree liana winding round in this manner

Aircheck

Scatterbrained

Ditzy

Safe to fly

How rarity may be fit to fly

Ready to take off

Wasted the bacon sandwiches I cut

HB1 around the rump

Cut of beef

Alcahest

Alchemy

St Michael (anagram)

Faust, for one

One with a gold standard (wordplay)

To change by alchemy; to transmute.

Alchymy

One addicted to drink

Like some beverages

Person addicted to drink

Aldehyde

""Of or pertaining to aldehyde; as, aldehydic acid. as, aldehydic acid.""

Draft pick venues (wordplay)

Round buildings (wordplay)

See a lush reeling round old pubs

Decision tree, for one

*Programmer's procedure

Netflix uses one to recommend you movies

Brightness perhaps for the landing

Getting down to an ignition

Getting down to illumination, it seems

Fatty.

Alkahest

""A synthetic clear or amber-colored viscous insecticide, C 19 H 26 O 3 , similar to pyrethrin.""

Ghost writer's East End greeting on diagram (wordplay)

Everything and nothing - animated TV character's linguistic unit

Allopath

""An amorphous, translucent, variously colored mineral, essentially hydrous aluminum silicate.""

""Any one of two or more speech sounds that considered variants of the same phoneme. For example, the p sounds of pin and spin are allophones of p; and the t sounds of toe stop and catnip are allophones of t.For example, the p sounds of pin and spin</it> are <ex>allophones</ex> of <it>p</it>; and the <it>t</it> sounds of <it>toe</it> <it>stop</it> and <it>catnip</it> are <ex>allophones</ex> of <it>t</it></as>.""

Poor accommodation (wordplay)

Old folks' home (once)

Home to the down-and-out

Swiss signaling instrument.

Swiss wind instrument

Instrument planner used round the house

Complete sets of letters

Complete assortments of letters.

Sets of runes

Imaginary flowers that never fade

Imaginary eternal flowers

Legendary unfading flowers

Ambusher

Attacking from a concealed position

Symbols of February

Covering your mess at Rolling Stones

Purple quartz stones

Maids wiggling coxae halfway to 23

In centre of vessel

Centrally on board

Not in shape (wordplay)

Without clearly defined shape

Without a clearly-defined shape

Swimmer able to do the crawl (wordplay)

A suitable vehicle for Kermit (wordplay)

Sea-going jeep

Hornblende

Ambiguous discourse; amphibology.

""A fishlike creature (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebr\'91, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc. (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebr\'91, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc.""

Amphipod

Anaglyph

Anaphase

Of or pertaining to anaphase.

Anaphora

Strange air Pancho adopts, referring back in this rhetorical fashion

Like the phrase "she's beauty, she's grace", in linguistics

States of lawlessness and disorder

Political upheavals

As in March, perhaps, causing disorder

Man's chair (anagram)

Form of government, sired by Proudhon.

Disorderly sort (wordplay)

Revolutionary in rash act (wordplay)

No government would please him!

Greatly detested things

Detested things

Betes noires

City at the head of Cook Inlet

Alaskan Air Force base.

Place for ships to stop

Religious lady's short reply about housework

Things to be done in response to solitary soul

Workers taking on board routine task for folk living alone

Hermits.

Stopping the vessel

Stopping at sea

Religious recluse (hist.)

Hermit or religious recluse

Hermit as a result of her action, sadly

Rather rank (wordplay)

One with breaking news

Jim Lehrer, for instance

Huntley and Brinkley, for example

Rather and Brokaw, for example

Rather and Jennings, for example

Small Pacific fish used for bait

Tiny fishes for pizza

Unpopular pizza topping choice

Bagna c uda ingredient

Anchusin

Anethole

Heavenly aquarium denizen (wordplay)

Heavenly swimmer (wordplay)

One swims, undoing flesh gain!

Distressed with grief

In pain, wasted away, left abandoned

Getting left out, grew weak and sad

Anguish

The absence of pleasure or the ability to experience it.

The absence of pleasure or the ability to experience it.

""An oxide of a nonmetallic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements of water; so called because it may be formed from an acid by the abstraction of water.""

""A mineral of a white a slightly bluish color, usually massive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not containing water (whence the name).""

Your hands could be lacking moisture

Rear exit keeping spa hotel free from water

An unfinished shelter, terribly dry inside without water

Mosquito of a genus of the same name

Germ-bearing mosquito

There's a seal around the phone for this fly-by-night with a bite

""A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime feldspar. See Feldspar. Feldspar.""

Part of church; anchorite (anagram)

Part of a church

Area in church; icon heart anag.

Articles above Leo, seen opposite the sun

Anthem

A floral ornament. See Palmette Palmette

Antherid

Any of various water-soluble pigments that impart to flowers and other plant parts colors ranging from violet and blue to most shades of red.

The flower head of certain plants

Treasury of sorts

From Greece, a bouquet of verse, perhaps

Collection of poems

Pertaining to the Anthozoa.

Anthrax

Human error in pact with rhino

""Any of various evergreen tropical American plants of the genus Anthurium, grown as ornamentals for their attractive leaves and their showy, often red spathes.""

HUMAN a {person=n}

MACHO one who exhibits machismo

Hostility - hint at pay (anagram)

Feeling of deep aversion

Abhorrence of pain that varies, variable

Antiphon

For the real thing (wordplay)

Against bogus responses

Call-and-response singing

SHARK to obtain by swindling

SHOCK to outrage feelings

Adjective for hood locks

WHITE to {whiten=v}

Anything

Anywhere

Colour scheme that's out of date

South African issue

former South African segregation system

A wretched cold

Having an "I don't care" attitude

In a way, call up without any interest

Aphanite

Resembling aphanite; having a very finegrained structure.

Aphasiac

Aphelion

Plural or third person singular

Term for the dropping of an initial letter, as in 'possum'

Loss of a sound at the start of a word, as "opossum" to "possum"

Loss of a sound at the start of a word, as 'opossum' to 'possum'

Aphidian

Apholate

Aphorise

Aphorise

Short, pithy and instructive sayings

Gnomologist's output

Terse truths

Saw people (wordplay)

Aphorize

Speaks tersely

Aphylly

Mocking demeanor

Writings of dubious authorship

Secret things books left out

Writings not considered genuine

Apophyge

""Pl. apophyses (-s z ) Anatomy A natural swelling, projection, or outgrowth of an organ or part, such as the process of a vertebra.""

A marked prominence or process on any part of a bone.

Apothece

""Pl. apothecia (-s - , -sh - ) A disk-shaped or cup-shaped ascocarp of some lichens and the fungi Ascomycetes.""

Apothegm

Arrest (for a crime)

Perceive or take in

Recognise and arrest

Spiders and ticks

Spiders, for example

Web users

Of spiders and such

Daddy longlegs, e.g

Daddy longlegs, for example

Archaise

Archaise

Obsolete words

Archaist

Archaize

Archaize

Nag Rachel (anagram)

Might a R alter L in Heaven (wordplay)

Chilled port for Michael (wordplay)

Befitting a prince.

Sovereign prince's domain

River out of churchyard meandering into Austria, perhaps

Franz Ferdinand, et al.

Some of the Habsburgs

Cheery man can be greatest foe

Cheery man may be chief opponent

Number 1 on a hate list

Bow-and-arrow sets

Bowmen's equipment sets

Standard - cheap tyre (anagram)

Teachers' pay rotten? Not seen as ideal!

Jaguar follows supreme original model

Villain, like Lex Luthor (2 words)

Prince of Darkness

Mephisto himself.

Wren, for one

I. M. Pei, for one

Building designer from the Arctic

Archive

One looking after records

Keeper of public records

One holding many records

""The architectural member surrounding the curved opening of an arch, corresponding to the architrave in the case of a square opening.""

""A reptile of the subclass Archosauria, which includes the dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and the modern crocodilians.""

Arethusa

Buddhism One who has attained enlightenment.

Places for theorizers (wordplay)

Favorite resting places.

Places to take a load off

The point of a quarrel (wordplay)

What's the point of a quarrel (wordplay)

Game sticker (wordplay)

With inflamed joints

Suffering from stiff joints

In need of joint relief

Inflammation of joints

Disease of joints

Common elderly affliction

Centipede, e.g

Animal with a segmented body

Crab or spider

Pl. arthroses (-s z) An articulation or a joint between bones.

Articulation.

After 'Jerusalem' maybe choir take break

Plant with a heart (wordplay)

Take choir trip to Jerusalem, perhaps

Arythmia

With a feeling of guilt

By way of being sheepish

No pride in it this way

Ashlar

Ashler

Ashplant

Snake stopped on the surface of the road

Like many driveways

It stopped the serpent when the road was covered.

""Pertaining to, of the nature of, or containing, asphalt; bituminous.""

""Mineral pitch, Jews' pitch, or compact native bitumen. It is brittle, of a black or brown color and high luster on a surface of fracture; it melts and burns when heated, leaving no residue. It occurs on the surface and shores of the Dead Sea, which is therefore called Asphaltites, or the Asphaltic Lake. It is found also in many parts of Asia, Europe, and America. See Bitumen.Asphaltites, or the Asphaltic Lake. It is found also in many parts of Asia, Europe, and America. See Bitumen.""

Do L shapes make lilies (wordplay)

Lily family members

Lily flowers

Asphyxia

Asphyxy

Asthenia

Asthenic

Astheny

Of a respiratory disease

German cathedral city

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