9-Letter Words Starting with A

Abampere

Abrupt

""A sudden, violent separation""

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

Acalephe

Accepting; receiving.

Acceptee

Yes-men, maybe (wordplay)

Recipients

That says one will

Being no refuse here, it seems

Save for the sound

Fit for acceptance.

Acceptor

A hawk

Hawk shows caprice flying - the thing must be caught

Escort to affirm (wordplay)

Play second fiddle to, in a way

Travel along with

Growing well in an acid medium: acidophilic bacteria.

Like certain flowers in a batch - dead, gone over

(Of leaves and flowers) developing upwards from the base or point of attachment

Like the arrangement of some flowers in a batch with others

One who hates heights

Athens landmark arise (nonverbal)

Where the Parthenon was built.

Literally, "highest city"

Of flexible nature.

American with bald pate oddly plastic

Good at fitting in to new circumstances

Panda is to evolve in Darwinian processes

Ability without difficulty

Dud and Pete's singular skill

Savior-faire

Biological word for a fat-storing cell

Fat cell

Idiot pays criminal for property of 6 23

Fatty nature

Able to be taken up

Fit for taking home from the animal shelter

Commercial work on board is such as may be undertaken

Humane Society successes

Social worker's concern.

Votes to accept commercial alternatives

Adscript

Giant flightless bird once found in Madagascar

Gatwick banker (wordplay)

The Spitfire, for one

British flyer (wordplay)

Soaring business (wordplay)

Opera case (anagram)

One industry above the rest (wordplay)

Unlooked-for ending

Surprise blow following affair thought ended.

Agitprop

Agraphia

Agrypnia

Delta force (wordplay)

United ways (wordplay)

Jet set (wordplay)

Airpower

Airproof

Part of the "open skies" plan.

National security concerns

Jurisdictional atmospheric areas

Places for flight patterns

Airspeed

Where fighter jets touch down

Landing spots in the jungle

Small landing fields

Fatty.

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

Everything and nothing - animated TV character's linguistic unit

Allopath

""Ecology Occurring in separate, nonoverlapping geographic areas. Often used of populations of related organisms unable to crossbreed because of geographic separation.""

""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>.""

Grant painter graphite, perhaps

Distinct form of an element

One of two or more existing forms of an element

The property of existing in two or more conditions which are distinct in their physical or chemical relations.

Allotype

ALLOTYPE a type of {antibody=n}

Allspice

Alopecia

Scenic beauty of Mont Blanc.

Swiss signaling instrument.

Swiss wind instrument

Instrument planner used round the house

Complete sets of letters

Complete assortments of letters.

Sets of runes

Alpinism

Climbers in Switzerland

Climbers of Swiss peaks

Certain mountain climbers.

South American plateau region

Plateau elevated on mountain with tail pieces

Singer swallows one proposal for the home of Titicaca

Blindness

Of or pertaining to amblyopy.

A doctor starts reminiscing over sort of early photograph

Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye.

Of or pertaining to ametropia.

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

Current measures

... and Pan's Dream, perhaps

Thelma & Louise character (wordplay)

Barnes & Noble link (wordplay)

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

Largeness

A rotating magnetic amplifier with specialized windings that allow small changes in power input to produce large changes in power output.

More voluminous (wordplay)

Made louder

Intensified

Device used to increase sound

Device to boost sound levels

Part of a plane detector.

that makes more of it, by the sound of it

An attenuator decreases it

Maximum extent of signal or vibration

On a radio, the A in AM

Resembling an ampulla.

I'm placed and cut off over a boy

So I'm placed to have cut off the date

I'm placed next to a boy yet cut off

Removes limbs surgically

Surgically removes limbs

Prunes

The diastase of the pancreatic juice.

Anaglyph

Can pet ail awfully? Here's a drug

Restorative

Invigorating

Fractured a peasant's feet

Metric feet of three syllables.

Feet of a girl with vermin we hear

Like some poetic feet

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

""Loss of structural differentiation within a cell or group of cells often with increased capacity for multiplication, as in a malignant tumor.""

Having a chromosome number that is not a multiple of the haploid number for the species.

Anglepod

Anoopsia

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

Bucks maybe before long, easy strides

Fast bucks (wordplay)

Hill dweller runs away to Bucks, perhaps

Antepast

Antetype

Human error in pact with rhino

Like Henry VIII, religiously

An inclination a friend has to be Protestant (wordplay)

PARTY to attend a social gathering

Upset at pianist for starters

One to pour out wine for starters

Hors d'oeuvres make Anita spit

Herod wanted to eat it first!

Introductory Italian course (wordplay)

Italian meal starter, perhaps

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

Pertaining to the land down under.

At the other end of the world

On the other side of the earth.

Do panties (anagram)

Australia and NZ (from UK)

Poles separated? There's clue in that!

Planetary extremes

Boniface VII and John XVI

Felix V and Alexander V, for example

Targeting the Fourth Estate

Antipyic

""SLEEP to be in a natural, periodic state of rest""

Corresponding figures for those characteristically against things (wordplay)

Anviltop

Colour scheme that's out of date

South African issue

former South African segregation system

Flat across the pond (wordplay)

Flat (chiefly US)

Flat (mainly US)

Isolation

A wretched cold

Having an "I don't care" attitude

In a way, call up without any interest

A present I gave you to get you moving with them

Radio epic broadcast irregularly

Not regular

Irregular

Drinks provided in wild parties

Drinks before meals

Drinks before food

Openings at a photo studio (wordplay)

Openings for super rate of exchange

Super tear damaged perforations

Apetaly

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

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

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

Apiarian

They work with buzzers

A pair of 1 acrosses sits here

Sounds as if they may be keepers

APICULATE

Apimania

Mocking demeanor

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

Writings of dubious authorship

Secret things books left out

Writings not considered genuine

Same as Apodeictic. Apodeictic.

""The protein component of an enzyme, to which the coenzyme attaches to form an active enzyme.""

Apogamy

Of or pertaining to apogamy.

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

APOMICT an organism produced by reproduction

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.

Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Ohio

Those who have lost faith

People who have renounced former beliefs

Pauline perhaps relating to preachers

Relating to the Pope

Unholy topic also concerning Pope

Apothece

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

Apothegm

Become boring copying out: awful

Very bad mimicry about to become tedious

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

Perquisites.

Horse, maybe, in system

Soldier in appropriate American gear

Gear, as put out for soldier to wear

Decked out

Geared up

""Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.""

Retrial seekers

Attractive bowlers (wordplay)

Sporting drama (wordplay)

Attractive fielders (wordplay)

Seeming not to be 23 across

Showing one's face

Becoming publicly available

Peas in pears for peace

Offspring of Munich.

Pacifying people

Settling down

Satisfying vegetables served in a sound container

How a priest may be a bit slack just to pacify one

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

E.g. insect's leg, feeler

One of an octopod's octad

An attached part

""Hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal appendant to a paper. as, a seal appendant to a paper.""

Adding, a footnote perhaps

Adding or hanging on to something

A priestly death, one may add

Belong, relate (to)

Relate to an unusual pet pirana

Not the way 8 down would relate to

Appestat

A longing; a desire; especially an ardent desire; appetite; appetency.

Strong desire

An early form of fuel (wordplay)

Cook prepares it right away, perhaps

Hors d'oeuvre

Hors d'oeuvres whet them

Urges dad to return with small spades

They get taken to dinner

Eats before dinner (wordplay)

Clams on the half shell, perhaps

Hors d'oeuvre

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