9-Letter Words Starting with A

One who defends a policy

Defender of something controversial

One defending most of rationale in a job

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

Pauline perhaps relating to preachers

Relating to the Pope

Unholy topic also concerning Pope

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

Settling down

Satisfying vegetables served in a sound container

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

Appellee

Appellor

Appestat

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

Applause

Fabric decorations

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

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

Yeses from bosses

Thumbs-ups

Favourable opinions

Approver

Kiwis

Subject of certain tests.

Strangely it updates natural abilities

Special talents

Aptness

Lakeside attractions

Pool exhibitions

Aquanaut

Lincoln, F.D.R. et al.

Most people born in February

Oprah and Ellen, by birth

Dolphin fans (wordplay)

Water plants inside these (wordplay)

Pet store purchases

Tanks or bowls for fish

Goya's "Los Caprichos" set, for example

Some prints

Water carriers

Acts due for renewal to cover question of water transporters

Conduits

Ballet position - sea barque (anagram)

A square be a ballet movement (wordplay)

Intertwined ornamental design

A sugar used as a culture medium in bacteriology

A sugar used as a culture medium for certain bacteria

Spiders and ticks

Spiders, for example

Web users

Fish of Brazil

Medieval crossbows

Arbalist

Arbelest

Opposite of 26 Across

Alder men (wordplay)

Limb trimmers

Tree experts

Arborize

""Any of a large group of viruses transmitted by arthropods, such as mosquitoes and ticks, that include the causative agents of encephalitis, yellow fever, and dengue.""

Arbuscle

Arbutus

A circular unit's housing 100 idyllic peasants

Arcading

Arcature

Inverse trig function

Archaise

Archaise

Obsolete words

Archaist

Archaize

Franz Ferdinand, et al.

Some of the Habsburgs

Bow-and-arrow sets

Bowmen's equipment sets

One looking after records

Keeper of public records

One holding many records

""A reptile of the subclass Archosauria, which includes the dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and the modern crocodilians.""

Ardency

With great effort

Arethusa

Argentum

Arginase

Arginine

Toronto seafarers (wordplay)

Golden Fleece seekers

Jason's group

Argufier

Discussions or quarrels

Some are heated

Exchanges knitted garment with us

Buddhism One who has attained enlightenment.

Aridity

Arillode

Armagnac

Weapons of war.

Secy. Wilson's concern.

In the star Mother has men of war

Frameworks used with modeling clay.

Frameworks in clay modeling

Wire-wound dynamo parts.

Places for theorizers (wordplay)

Favorite resting places.

Places to take a load off

Armigero

Signature moment (wordplay)

I cite arms deal before truce occurs

It's a crime breaking ceasefire

Armonica

Armorial

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

Makers of weapons, in Britain.

They were once responsible for the mail

The house that Rosemary Sutcliff built

Troops will impound our weapons

Stores of weapons

Crop-killing caterpillars

Crop-threatening caterpillars

Sweet-smelling things

Fragrant plants

Spices

Part of a warm-up

Broken chords

Some notes coming up are provided for exercises

Adapters of music.

VIP's in music.

Musical adaptation specialists

English word

People hauled in

They're charged

Rioters that wake in the slammer

Stoppers for 6s (wordplay)

They make collars

Cops, at times

Unusual police function

Nicking a ring when the others go inside

Lovely job of a police officer

Seizers.

A striver, I fancy (wordplay)

Ambitious and self-seeking person

Ambitious self-seeker

Claims without right

Takes upon one's self.

Assumes presumptuously.

Certain salts or esters.

Poisonous compounds

Clean air's unlikely to be poisonous

Like some poisoning

In charge in club, liable to prove poisonous

Poisonous chemical compounds.

Compounds run in when in seed cultivation

Of a certain poison.

Nears confusion over promises to pay may make it poisonous

Arsenite

Lighting specialists (wordplay)

Illegal heaters (wordplay)

Ones with incendiary ideas

Relics, to Brits

Best cafe trattoria boxing up handmade products

Aromatic plant related to wormwood

Genus of herbaceous perennial plants

Bitter tasting plant

Highways

Inflammation irritates badly

Doctor treats iris mostly for inflammation

Inflammation of joints

Disease of joints

Common elderly affliction

Pl. arthroses (-s z) An articulation or a joint between bones.

Articulation.

Ruins things (wordplay)

Objects made by humans

Products of primitive man.

Clever tricks

The tricks of painting, if they're so cold

Strategems

Like some cheese

Made by traditional methods

In a naive way

In a crude way

In an unsophisticated manner

Aruspex

Arythmia

Smelly gum resin from the Orient.

Ascaris

Get-upping (wordplay)

Rising man penetrating a series of clues

Where the Star was in

Tending upward (var.)

Get up over the ant on the up and up

Rising; predominant

More than half of adulthood (wordplay)

Mountain climbers, for example

Ones on the way up

Is counsel at last up to it (wordplay)

Up with a dying counsel!

Is counsel finishing up (wordplay)

The Easter Rising (wordplay)

Canonises, being on the way up

Island of St. Helena.

""Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.""

Establish (the facts)

'Find out to assure me, perhaps (9)'

Find assure out (wordplay)

Like the lifestyle of many a monk

Rigorously abstinent

Austere.

Ascidian

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

Ascocarp

Pl. ascogonia (-n - ) The female reproductive organ of ascomycetous fungi.

ASCORBATE

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

Attributing (to) - giving credit (to)

Crediting (to)

Putting it down to one as it's in writing

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

Is it in any way absurd (wordplay)

Foolishness as of donkey

As it has no limit, no end of folly

ASKEW awry

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

Assagai

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

Professional offers (wordplay)

They'll make a killing

Lee Harvey Oswald and others

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.

Assegai

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

Ones going along

They agree

Seems they're agreeable the way the fool rushes in

Yes man's daily activity

Yes, it's a sniffy-sounding matter

Saying yes

Yea sayers

Those who concur

Asserter

Sticking up for (oneself)

Claiming to sting and sear this

Claiming it's made of sea string

How silly to start to make such a claim!

Senator is about to make a statement

Claim first son has trouble in store

A lock up? I have to be forceful

Bold and confident

Far from reticent.

Trees in a sort of people making a claim

Rating, for taxation say

Finding how much 17 down becomes vocal

Mokes making music

Taxing individuals (wordplay)

Local tax authorities

Often-reviled tax professionals

""Constant or close application or attention, particularly to some business or enterprise; diligence.""

Showing great care and perseverance

Marked by care and persistent effort

Hard-working

In France, note how revolutionary they were

Delegation targets

Appointed persons

They are recipients when Genesis is revised

Assigner

Like giving your name to it (wordplay)

Like giving your autograph away

Giving out by way of giving your autograph

Assignor

Malamud novel (with "The")

Golf club apprentice (wordplay)

Help worker to find a mate (wordplay)

They help as nuns

Helpful ones

Acting as right hand

Helpful to the fool if I cause him pain

The silly one I give pain to with help

Assistor