9-Letter Words Starting with A

Abampere

Acalephe

Acceptee

Yes-men, maybe (wordplay)

Recipients

Acceptor

Athens landmark arise (nonverbal)

Where the Parthenon was built.

Literally, "highest city"

Panda is to evolve in Darwinian processes

Ability without difficulty

Dud and Pete's singular skill

Savior-faire

Humane Society successes

Social worker's concern.

Votes to accept commercial alternatives

Adscript

Giant flightless bird once found in Madagascar

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

Allopath

Allotype

Allspice

Alopecia

Complete sets of letters

Complete assortments of letters.

Sets of runes

Alpinism

Climbers in Switzerland

Climbers of Swiss peaks

Certain mountain climbers.

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

""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

that makes more of it, by the sound of it

Removes limbs surgically

Surgically removes limbs

Prunes

Anaglyph

Fractured a peasant's feet

Metric feet of three syllables.

Feet of a girl with vermin we hear

Anaphase

Anaphora

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

Antiphon

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

Corresponding figures for those characteristically against things (wordplay)

Anviltop

Isolation

A present I gave you to get you moving with them

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

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

Short, pithy and instructive sayings

Gnomologist's output

Terse truths

Saw people (wordplay)

Speaks tersely

Aphylly

Apiarian

They work with buzzers

A pair of 1 acrosses sits here

Sounds as if they may be keepers

Apimania

Mocking demeanor

Apogamy

Of or pertaining to apogamy.

Formal defenses

Some backpedaling attempts

Expressions of regret.

Argument enders, at times

Fable of a game with visitors 2 short

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

Apothece

Apothegm

Perquisites.

Horse, maybe, in system

Soldier in appropriate American gear

Gear, as put out for soldier to wear

Retrial seekers

Peas in pears for peace

Offspring of Munich.

Pacifying people

Appellee

Appellor

Appestat

Hors d'oeuvres whet them

Urges dad to return with small spades

They get taken to dinner

Applause

Fabric decorations

Estimates a price for

A parish priest puts up rates

Rates a page, then cracks up

Informers

Apprizer

Yeses from bosses

Thumbs-ups

Favourable opinions

Approver

Kiwis

Subject of certain tests.

Strangely it updates natural abilities

Special talents

Aptness

Fish of Brazil

Part of a warm-up

Broken chords

Some notes coming up are provided for exercises

Aruspex

Ascocarp

Ashplant

Spear on a fork (wordplay)

It has tips for good dining.

Grasp a rag usefully wrapping vegetable

Asperate

Asperser

Aspersor

Do L shapes make lilies (wordplay)

Lily family members

Lily flowers

Asphyxia

Asphyxy

Partisans of those with high ambitions

Ambitious people

Hopefuls, wannabees

They're pronouncedly like sea crooks

They're pronouncedly like criminals

Pronounces an initial H

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.

Atrophia

Article with prizes for degenerates

A pit horse works with withers

Falls into decline

Atropine

Atropism

Attemper

End-of-term examinations (wordplay)

End-of-term examinations

An A of A&E

Autotype

Axoplasm