9-Letter Words Starting with A

Morals? You worry, in a loving way

How Casanovas make their moves

Morals you abandoned in passionate style

Not in shape (wordplay)

Without clearly defined shape

Without a clearly-defined shape

Written off over time

Mediators somehow paid debts

Amortise

Pays off, via a sinking fund.

Pays down incrementally

Puts money in a sinking fund.

Current measures

... and Pan's Dream, perhaps

Thelma & Louise character (wordplay)

Barnes & Noble link (wordplay)

""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

A maiden to exploit men - time for fun!

What fun so to employ people in the mat!

Park opening (wordplay)

In a funny way

Retiring person undressed alone, humorously

Amygdale

Amygdule

Amylogen

The diastase of the pancreatic juice.

Anabaena

Process of molecular synthesis

Constriction workers (wordplay)

Predators of the Amazon

Large semi-aquatic boas

Upbeats

Russia can rebuild - that's upbeat!

Unstressed syllable, in verse.

Musical upbeat

Bacteria, for example

Microorganisms that don't need oxygen

Many gastrointestinal tract residents

Anaglyph

Anagogy

Analcime

Analcite

Analemma

Lack of pain NOT a country! (nonverbal)

State of "feeling no pain"

In Ala., easing of pain

Agent allaying pain

Remedy allaying pain

Bill without a single wrong number

Anality

Bases of comparison

Some LSAT questions

Partial resemblances

One who seeks similarities

Explainer, of a sort

Debater who uses comparisons

Like, with "to"

Comparable in certain respects

Similar opening about a trademark

Comparable things

Parallels.

A person undergoing psychoanalysis.

Analyser

Breaking down into component parts

Decoding any signal that's broadcast

Examining component parts

Study of data patterns

Data field

Analyzer

Memory

The ability to recall past events

Memory of a former life; inane mass (anagram)

Mlle Nin absorbs men's failure in 'Remembrance of Things Past'

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

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

States of lawlessness and disorder

Political upheavals

As in March, perhaps, causing disorder

Man's chair (anagram)

Form of government, sired by Proudhon.

Disorderly sort (wordplay)

Revolutionary in rash act (wordplay)

No government would please him!

Anasarca

Greatly detested things

Detested things

Betes noires

Physical structures

Human bodies

Body structures

To dissect a very little matter is easy at first

A holder of the skeleton key (wordplay)

Bridie's dissector

One studying bodily structure

Anatoxin

Some people in a tree

Ones higher up in a tree

People in trees

Of the family of Lancaster, perhaps

To do with forebears, say stately home

Like a family tree's roots (wordplay)

Religious lady's short reply about housework

Things to be done in response to solitary soul

Workers taking on board routine task for folk living alone

Hermits.

Tiny fishes for pizza

Unpopular pizza topping choice

Bagna c uda ingredient

Anchusin

Ancress

Andesite

""ANDESITE a volcanic rock, also ANDESYTE""

Andesyte

They can send organ mad

Noted case (anagram)

Arranged end to case histories, perhaps

Raconteur's specialty.

ANELE to {anoint=v}

Of or pertaining to anestrus.

Anethole

Enlargements of arteries

Disturbing means taking in spoon-bender's abnormal enlargements

Aneurysm

Heavenly aquarium denizen (wordplay)

Heavenly swimmer (wordplay)

One swims, undoing flesh gain!

Plants of the parsley family

Angelus

ANGER to {irritate=v}

Anglepod

A minor ore of lead

Express in English finding flying angels around here in France

Fisherman's creed?

Fisherman's creed (wordplay)

Peculiarly English word

""The quality of being angry, or of being inclined to anger.""

Ten-millionths of millimeters

Ten make up a millimicron

Wavelength units

Distressed with grief

In pain, wasted away, left abandoned

Getting left out, grew weak and sad

Anguish

Angulate

Your hands could be lacking moisture

Rear exit keeping spa hotel free from water

An unfinished shelter, terribly dry inside without water

""ANILINE a chemical compound, also ANILIN""

Anility

Maim snail (anagram)

Orwell's sort of sensuality (wordplay)

Orwellian philosophy

Producers of some shorts variable

Short drawers (wordplay)

Snow White workers

Makers of sequential frames

Of belief in spirits, demons, etc.

Believing that the universe has a soul

Believing that objects have souls

Hate to say I'm in disarray

Is no amity (wordplay)

Timon, I say, is disposed to hate

Parts of nightcaps

Licorice-tasting cordials

Sweet liqueurs

Reproduction by the union or fusion of two differing gametes (especially differing in size).

Ankerite

Ankylose

Ankylose

Same as Anchylosis. Anchylosis.

Chroniclers of events

Leans on back-to-back articles from recorders

Steel workers.

Gets some words in edgewise (wordplay)

Adds comments to (a document)

Writes on the side (wordplay)

Declares that girl's put on weight

Declares girl's put on some weight

Makes known

May they keep aunties in change (wordplay)

They yield payments at specified intervals

Subtly insinuate these are paid every year

Annulus

Oilers.

Departures, of sorts

Sea mail at sea with no exceptions

They're not normal

Deviating from the usual pattern

Out of the normal

Inconsistent - out of place

Source of the quip (wordplay)

On my back in a sense unknown

Not identified by name

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

Anoretic

Anorexia

Anorexic

Anorexy

Anoxemia

Anserine

Poles used to be right among Anglo-Saxon respondents

Replying in anger, wins surprisingly

Swearing awfully about new meeting

Meeting some swans we ringed

Antalgic

Colonial enemies (wordplay)

Army consumers (wordplay)

Long snouted mammals

Goes before in time

Does not follow

Serves as prologue to

Is a forerunner of

Precedes in time

Precedes in time.

Antefix

Bucks maybe before long, easy strides

Fast bucks (wordplay)

Hill dweller runs away to Bucks, perhaps

Antepast

No maestro (anagram)

Where waiters gather

Chambers ran to some races

Antetype

Antevert

Antherid

Anthrax

Antiarin

Antiatom

Counteractions to poisons

Doctor instead to produce cures

Activated charcoal and naloxone, for two

Antigene

Antiking

Antimask

Antimere

Antinode

Like some headphones

Like some airport laws

Like many a resident near an airport

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

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

Antiquer

Antirust

SENSE to have an impression or inward feeling

Injection; I'm at nurse (anagram)

I'm nature's fluid remedy for disease

Term in immunology.

SHARK to obtain by swindling

SHOCK to outrage feelings

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

SMOKE to emit a gas or vapour due to burning

Opposite the sun

STATE to {affirm=v}

STICK to support with slender pieces of wood

STORY to relate an account of an event

Like some business suits (wordplay)

Opposed to centralized industry.

Describing the Clayton Act.

Corresponding figures for those characteristically against things (wordplay)

Type of protective software

Designed to prevent intrusion, in a way

Like much Norton software

Anviltop

An eleven 'e draws with (wordplay)

One with sixteen wheels carrying international concerns

In a tense way

With an uneasy feeling

With apprehension

Anybody

Anything

Anywhere

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

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

Say sorry, mea culpa

Make a sorry speech (wordplay)

Express regret (for action)