9-Letter Words Starting with A

In a tense way

With an uneasy feeling

With apprehension

Apetaly

He loves me ... he loves me not ... now nothing's left!

Creature with claw nearly has the Guardian not flowering (wordplay)

Aphelion

Apholate

Aphylly

APICULATE

""Having two or more parts of different curvatures, so combined as to remove spherical aberration; said of a lens.""

Apologia

Formal defenses

Some backpedaling attempts

Expressions of regret.

Argument enders, at times

Say sorry, mea culpa

Make a sorry speech (wordplay)

Express regret (for action)

One who defends a policy

Defender of something controversial

One defending most of rationale in a job

Say you're sorry

Eat humble pie

Tell me you're sorry

Fable of a game with visitors 2 short

Pauline perhaps relating to preachers

Relating to the Pope

Unholy topic also concerning Pope

Become boring copying out: awful

Very bad mimicry about to become tedious

A reverend gentleman worn out? Gee, that's awful!

Decked out

Geared up

Retrial seekers

Attractive bowlers (wordplay)

Sporting drama (wordplay)

Attractive fielders (wordplay)

Try again to meet this person's request!

Man in court.

One takes a case to a higher court for review

This kind of court hears appeals

Like a review panel

Sort of court

Appellee

Appellor

Acknowledged in a handy manner!

Didn't let a good turn go unrewarded

Cheered a dud Apple developed

One who applauds.

Applause

How upsetting for Grany Smith!

One not to upset (wordplay)

Place trap to upset this!

Money earned by singer Fiona (wordplay)

Brandy distilled from hard cider

Distilled cider, a type of brandy

Washing machine or toaster, say

Machine (for use in the home)

Gift for a housewife.

I go for it!

Job-seeking insect?

Job-seeking insect (wordplay)

Applique

Fabric decorations

Evaluation - papal airs (anagram)

Opinion of pair as lap dancing

Artist is in shock from assessment

Yeses from bosses

Thumbs-ups

Favourable opinions

Motorboat's tow, perhaps

Water skis alternative

Skim on layer of water

Watercolour is all a queer mishmash

Painting technique

Watercolor

Showy flower, also known as columbine

One member - one in water - is Columbine

Plant also known as Granny's Bonnet

""Fit for cultivation, as by plowing.""

Medieval crossbows

Arbalist

Arbelest

Arbuscle

Nag Rachel (anagram)

Might a R alter L in Heaven (wordplay)

Chilled port for Michael (wordplay)

Befitting a prince.

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

In the form of a bow.

With great effort

English word

A formal procedure when sculptor's brought in rock

Sedimentary rock that does not split easily

Arillode

2014 World Cup mascot Fuleco, for one

Animal to maybe roam round a herb

Carrier of plates (wordplay)

""ARMIGER one who carries the armor of a knight, also ARMIGERO""

Armorial

""ARMOR to dress with defensive covering, also ARMOUR""

Clean air's unlikely to be poisonous

Like some poisoning

In charge in club, liable to prove poisonous

Highways

Small blood vessel

Very small blood vessel

Blood vessel connected to a capillary

Article

Pertaining to the joints

Pertaining to joints

Relating to a joint

Weapons in Welsh town, be gone!

Carney's cannons (wordplay)

Large guns for use on land

Like some cheese

Made by traditional methods

In a naive way

In a crude way

In an unsophisticated manner

Like the lifestyle of many a monk

Rigorously abstinent

Austere.

""A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus.""

Vote dividing European Union in a journey that's without intimacy in partnership

With a feeling of guilt

By way of being sheepish

No pride in it this way

Ashlar

Ashler

Ashplant

Idiotically fighting, I slay nine

In a stupid way

Like a moron

ASPECT to look at

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

Goon at work

Attacker using wild Alsatians

Hit man, for example

Pack on the attack

Sick donkey (wordplay)

Silly to get sick as you're on a yacht

Like being on the sea if it's storming

Pickled in a violent way (wordplay)

A pickled sound is 19 down

Came to blows with a seasoned sound

One making violent attack (on another person)

Attacker.

Gathered together in one place

Gathered to make male's beds

Came together or put together

Constructor, of a sort

Person piecing something together

Code-converting computer program

Gathers together in a group

See lambs going round in flocks together

Meets bewildered males with Bess

Assoil

Like some obligations

Like some mortgages

By way of assumption.

Without a doubt

Without a doubt.

With confidence

With a leg on either side of (something)

Riding, in a way

On the fence.

Beads for starlets (wordplay)

Convex moldings.

Small circular mouldings, on round columns,say

A sort able to produce old instrument

Sextant's predecessor

Predecessor of the sextant.

Dixon line (wordplay)

How stars can make a fortune, perhaps

A house study (wordplay)

A secretary, vocal, unaffected by time

Without regard for time

Timeless ruins at Palermo

Atheling

Sports - cheat list (anagram)

His cattle wandering off track, perhaps

Lithe acts (anagram)

ATONAL lacking tonality

ATONAL lacking tonality

Quality of Bartok's music

Feature of the 1925 opera "Wozzeck"

Lack of a key center, in music

Our Altaic version of the author

Of, by or typical of an author

Pertaining to a writer

The measurement of hearing.

AUDIT to examine accounts

Auntly

Aureole

Pl. auriculas or auriculae (-l ) A central European primrose (Primula auricula) having large yellow flowers grouped in umbels. Also called bear's ear .

Cur Laura and I stupidly told privately

French composer's universal god of the ear

Auricula

A foreigner.

Planned a Yule rest with no frills

In a harsh or severe way

Simply gives us tea when out - depend on it!

Austral

A harlot, I suspect, stealing Waugh's heart as a novelist (wordplay)

Surgical instruments steriliser

Relative of a pressure cooker.

Kin of a pressure cooker

Autolyse

Autolyse

Self destruction of cells

""Of, pertaining to, or causing autolysis.""

Autolyze

Autolyze

Unthinking state (figurative)

High-level stand-in chauffeur (wordplay)

Robot flier (wordplay)

AUTOSOME a type of chromosome

Of or pertaining to autotelism.

Should say type of verb

Providing additional support

Functioning in a supporting capacity

Hides face say and able to be at hand

"At liberty," as in "Variety"

On offer in the transfer market

""AVAILE to find benefit, also AVAIL""

It's down-white dangerous (wordplay)

A descent that's very flaky (wordplay)

Alpine snowdrop (wordplay)

Not having blood vessels

Aventail

Typically maintain lady must be disheartened after maturity

Fairly.

Of the birds of a region.

Not virulent.

Unlike death and taxes (wordplay)

A useless fit can be prevented

Like careless mistakes

AVOID to {evade=v}

Avulsion

Friendly, as an older relative, say

Friendly, like some relatives

Friendly in a non-threatening way

Conferrable

So as to cause wonder

Awful

Quality of being horrid

Flew unperturbed when fool went around in a terrible state

Enormity

With very little grace

In a clumsy manner

Betraying clumsiness

Carriage's underpinnings.

Axoplasm

Title for Khomeini

An Iranian Shi'ite religious leader

Senior Iranian cleric

Of or pertaining to the azimuth; in a horizontal circle.