9-Letter Words Starting with A

Abattis

Meat packing plants

Animal slaughterhouses

Slaughter-houses

Abbotcy

Becomes unruly (wordplay)

Gives up an office from basic date

Resigns, at a high level

Abhenry

Abidance

The powers to do

Abigail fibs about information technology skills

Could a Billy have the skills to tease them, by the sound of it

Ablation

One curiously vets bail cases

Words in a certain grammatical case.

Cases at last

The act of washing

Usain Bolt ordered washing

Usain Bolt, after injury, showers

Aboideau

Aboiteau

Does away with

Gets rid of

Does away with Basil's hoe design

Abortion

Abrachia

Skin scrapes

Playground injuries

Wearing a metal jacket, one gets no back injuries

No-nos for cleaning glass stovetops

Emery, et al.

They create a lot of friction

Workers on a digest

They'll make short work of things

They shorten game in topless bars

Abscisin

Distances from the y-axis on a graph

X-coordinates, in math

BASIC compiled two directions as co-ordinate values

Liqueurs made with wormwood

A bishop's vice, these short potent drinks

Wormwoods

Abstrict

Abutilon

Academia

College professors, for example

Professors and such

Important section on college websites

Schools whence ideas came (wordplay)

Places of study

I made case out for specialised schools

ACARI acarus

ACARI acarus

Acaridan

They happen, they say

They happen on the race track

Spills, falls, trips, etc.

Certifies, as colleges

Certifies

Acetamid

Acetify

When they're high, they perform well

They have made the grade

People who get things done

Achillea

Aciculum

Acidemia

Frequent trip takers

They have a habit of tripping

Drug users as cover for chief of police (wordplay)

Misconstrued sci-fi idea sours

Turns sour

Acidity

Sharp with asperity

Claudius prepared to eat duck and tart

U.C.L.A. duo is sarcastic

Aciduria

Turns into steel

Aconitum

Sound system (wordplay)

Stucco is a puzzle to science

Conductor's concern

Bill, charming little son, keeps up to date

This makes one know what's so nice and old-fashioned in the sac

Lets one know how attractively old-fashioned this is in the sac

Acquirer

Acridine

Extreme bitter taste

That's enough to make your eye smart

Acrolein

Wooden statues with stone extremities

Athens landmark arise (nonverbal)

Where the Parthenon was built.

Literally, "highest city"

Initial readings (wordplay)

NEWS for the four directions, and others

Certain word puzzles

Acrotism

Actinian

Series of radioactive elements

Elements playin' a part on fateful day

Uranium and plutonium, for example

Actinism

Actinium

Actinoid

Sets in motion.

Stimulates

Vitalizes.

Activism

Ones seeking change

They've got issues

Black Lives Matter demonstrators, for example

Activize

Risk assessors sign, after a drastic cut

They calculate insurance risks

Insurance company employees

Adamsite

Panda is to evolve in Darwinian processes

New members of the family.

Extra rooms, for example

Extra publishings, by the sound of them

Coloring agents, for example

Substances blended with motor oil

Antiknocks, for example

Abnormally united tissues

Firm attachments

Epoxy and others.

Sides have reconciled; they form bonds

Glue and rubber cement

Bouncers, at times

Adnation

Humane Society successes

Social worker's concern.

Votes to accept commercial alternatives

Adscript

Adularia

Adynamia

Giant flightless bird once found in Madagascar

Aequorin

Oxygen-supplying procedures

For a couple of eagles, backing up lubricates wings

Meteorites (E, not H)

Stony bodies from outer space.

Stony meteorites

Stony meteorites

Affiance

Affirmer

Affright

Baptisms of fire, at the start USA's in round

Agenesia

Agenting

Agentive

Agentry

Rages give awful pains

Treats unjustly

Attorney-General mourns and causes distress

As shown by all-round gymnasts

Agiotage

That's sure to get one gone

A gait rots the stirrers

Sort of a gait for trouble, they are

Agitprop

Agnation

They just don't know

They don't know if God exists or not

Religious doubters

Agraphia

Advocates of land reform

Farm promoters

Agrypnia

Ornamental sprays of feathers

Feather sprays

Aiguille

Tree of Heaven; Thai Alnus (anagram)

Sugar maybe taking one part of 7 tree

Tree liana winding round in this manner

Airburst

Airbus

Aircheck

Havens for planes.

Orly, Le Bourget, etc.

Landing fields

Broadcast US comic's takeoffs from here

Take-off sites

Landing sites

Broadcast games of snooker for the bulk of planes

777's, for example

Passengers travel in them

Logan fleet

Delta force (wordplay)

United ways (wordplay)

Jet set (wordplay)

Airpower

Airproof

Part of the "open skies" plan.

Teams operating planes without second propellers

National security concerns

Jurisdictional atmospheric areas

Places for flight patterns

Airspeed

Where fighter jets touch down

Landing spots in the jungle

Small landing fields

Aisleway

Alarmism

Prophets of doom fabricated star's mail

They arouse people's fears needlessly

Chicken Little et al.

Albicore

Albinism

Albizzia

Alchemy

Alchymy

Alfaquin

Natives of Oran

Pond scum killers

Alginate

Algorism

Alienage

Puts a gulf between.

Sets at odds

Makes a foe of

Alienism

Specialists in the psychiatric field.

Psychiatrists of old

Legal term for psychiatrists.

ALIEN to transfer to another as property

ALIKE having close resemblance

Severance package payments (wordplay)

Tender towards one's exes (wordplay)

Means of maintainance for former mates

Existing quality in a vessel at sea

Vigour, vivacity

Alizarin

Alkalise

Counters acidity

Alkaloid

All is ok (as suffering blood condition)

Alkoxide

Allanite

""Pl. allantoides ( l n-t -d z ) A membranous sac that develops from the posterior part of the alimentary canal in the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles. It is important in the formation of the umbilical cord and placenta in mammals. Also called allantoid .""

Allelism

Shouts of joy

Causes of rash reactions (wordplay)

Reasons for sneezin'

Antihistamines treat them

Allergin

Combinations, of states say

Grand, Holy, Triple, etc

Benelux and NATO.

Allspice

Passing references or indirect mentions

Literary references

Passing references

Alluvial

Alluvion

Alluvium

Almonry

Alopecia

Alpinism

Climbers in Switzerland

Climbers of Swiss peaks

Certain mountain climbers.

Air-to-sea readings

Heights above the ground

Pilot's data

Altruism

Paragons of unselfishness

They're very unegotistical

Unselfish types

Of a common metallic element

Containing element #13

Certain shades of gray.

Amanitin

Mary Allis - silly flower girl!

Trumpet-flowered bulb

Producer of red-and-white blooms

Blindness of a graduate neurosis: can't see Tyneside

Perfume ingredient from whales

Perfume maker marries big shot, one-off

Light grey French perfume ingredient

Amberina

Amberoid

Atmospheres

Moods

Ambience

*Subject to interpretation

Open to differing interpretations

Of uncertain meaning

Aspirations, dreams

I'm not all there to want to get NNNNNNNNNN at last

'Although I'm not all there, is on it for them in the end (9)'

Greedy, getting stung by debts

Eager to advance.

Keen to succeed

Ones neither withdrawn nor outgoing

Ambrosia

Plural or third person singular

""An infection or a disease caused by amoebas, especially Entamoeba histolytica.""

Real-estate listing

Fireplace, hot tub, etc.

What boors don't observe

Amidogen

Maids wiggling coxae halfway to 23

In centre of vessel

Centrally on board

Aminity

Amitrole

Ammoniac

No, I'm in the mates at sea - or was

Fossils, perhaps, of Jordanians (wordplay)

Mollusks' fossil shells

Ammonium

Ammonoid

Main cases (anagram)

Ones with big blocks (wordplay)

Jane Does, perhaps

Pardons to large groups of people

Pardons may make saint seem crazy

Official pardons issued by governments.

Amortise

Pays off, via a sinking fund.

Pays down incrementally

Puts money in a sinking fund.

""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

that makes more of it, by the sound of it

Russia can rebuild - that's upbeat!

Unstressed syllable, in verse.

Musical upbeat

Anagogy

Analcime