9-Letter Words Starting with A

Positively delighted (wordplay)

Put in position (wordplay)

Given a job to pip dean, perhaps

One assigned (to a job)

Chosen one (wordplay)

Pick, of sorts

Divide into shares

Distribute pro rata

Give it out that Father is up a bit

Evaluation - papal airs (anagram)

Opinion of pair as lap dancing

Artist is in shock from assessment

Disappear (anagram)

Told about article being valued

Phone feature put up and sized up

""(tr) to assess the worth, value, or quality of""

Vintage-vehicle valuation expert

Art expert, at times

Extoller of a news agency's virtues (wordplay)

Estimates a price for

A parish priest puts up rates

Rates a page, then cracks up

Arrest (for a crime)

Perceive or take in

Recognise and arrest

Appress

Informers

Informing a priest on the up and up

Is a priest getting up to being an informer (wordplay)

How a priest may be informing one that he is getting up

Apprizer

Apprize

Sanction

Sanction.

Yeses from bosses

Thumbs-ups

Favourable opinions

Approver

Giving the OK

Sanctioning

Is he not staying in his parish? One is not objecting to that

State of being deductive.

Kiwis

Subject of certain tests.

Strangely it updates natural abilities

Special talents

Aptness

Motorboat's tow, perhaps

Water skis alternative

Skim on layer of water

Fish of Brazil

Standard - cheap tyre (anagram)

Teachers' pay rotten? Not seen as ideal!

Jaguar follows supreme original model

Buddhism One who has attained enlightenment.

Part of a warm-up

Broken chords

Some notes coming up are provided for exercises

Centipede, e.g

Animal with a segmented body

Crab or spider

Aruspex

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

Ascocarp

One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi. [See Illust. of Ascus.] Illust. of Ascus.]

Ashplant

Spear on a fork (wordplay)

It has tips for good dining.

Grasp a rag usefully wrapping vegetable

What NutraSweet is a brand of

After a dispute, subdue with sweetener

It's sweet to take me to a Greek city

ASPARTATE

ASPECT to look at

Made rough by way of an Edward

Asperate

Asperser

Asperse

It's slander, like the old Iranian said

It's cast in a derogatory manner

This may be cast like one in one

Aspersor

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

Partisans of those with high ambitions

Ambitious people

Hopefuls, wannabees

Aspirata

Containing the sound of "h."

Pronounced the letter "h"

Unlike the H in H-hour

They're pronouncedly like sea crooks

They're pronouncedly like criminals

Pronounces an initial H

Medical device removing fluid

Suction pump.

Suction pump

""A promise or undertaking, founded on a consideration. This promise may be oral or in writing not under seal. It may be express or implied.""

Line near a hyperbola

Almost a sign to note near tangent

Line that a curve infinitely approaches

Pl. asynapses (-s z) The failure of homologous chromosomes to pair during meiosis.

Pl. asynapses (-s z) The failure of homologous chromosomes to pair during meiosis.

A secretary, vocal, unaffected by time

Without regard for time

Timeless ruins at Palermo

Atrophia

Wasted away as a left back at Hyde, say

Decayed from disuse

Aphrodite became emaciated

Article with prizes for degenerates

A pit horse works with withers

Falls into decline

Atropine

Atropism

Attemper

There was a trial at getting enticed

Took a shot at

Tried at being tried

Band that plays music (wordplay)

Sound evidence (wordplay)

Garage band's production, once

Sign of the self (wordplay)

Car dealer's chart (wordplay)

Hound's quarry (wordplay)

Unthinking state (figurative)

High-level stand-in chauffeur (wordplay)

Robot flier (wordplay)

Finally examined gold deposit that's misplaced

A piteous drunk, having died, examined thus (wordplay)

End-of-term examinations (wordplay)

End-of-term examinations

An A of A&E

""An organism which is autotrophic, i. e., an organism (such as most plants and certain microorganisms) which are capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances, requiring only minerals as nutrients for growth, and using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; the energy required is derived from photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Opposed to heterotroph. See also auxotroph.autotrophic, i. e., an organism (such as most plants and certain microorganisms) which are capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances, requiring only minerals as nutrients for growth, and using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; the energy required is derived from photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Opposed to heterotroph. See also auxotroph.""

Autotype

""An organism, such as a strain of bacteria, that has lost the ability to synthesize certain substances required for its growth and metabolism as the result of mutational changes.""

Axoplasm

A liquid mixture of two or more substances that retains the same composition in the vapor state as in the liquid state when distilled or partially evaporated under a certain pressure.