9-Letter Words Starting with A

Of the family of Lancaster, perhaps

To do with forebears, say stately home

Like a family tree's roots (wordplay)

Workers taking on board routine task for folk living alone

Hermits.

Religious recluse (hist.)

Hermit or religious recluse

Hermit as a result of her action, sadly

Small Pacific fish used for bait

ANCIENT an aged man

Not in the modern manner

As of old for the client in any circumstances

Antiquity; what is ancient.

At a light moderate pace (music)

Musical tempo - ain't donna (anagram)

Slightly faster than walking pace (mus.)

Andesite

""ANDESITE a volcanic rock, also ANDESYTE""

Andesyte

""A green to brown or black calcium-iron garnet, Ca 3 Fe 2 (SiO 4 ) 3 .""

Unreliable or hearsay (account)

Article located in ruins? That's hearsay

Based on hearsay

Noted case (anagram)

Arranged end to case histories, perhaps

Raconteur's specialty.

ANECDOTE a brief story

ANELE to {anoint=v}

Of or pertaining to anestrus.

Anethole

Pl. angiomas or angiomata (-m -t ) A tumor composed chiefly of lymph and blood vessels.

A minor ore of lead

Ten-millionths of millimeters

Ten make up a millimicron

Wavelength units

Cornered gnu dealt a blow

Angulate

""A mineral of a white a slightly bluish color, usually massive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not containing water (whence the name).""

Anility

Beastly nature.

With life.

Producers of some shorts variable

Giving life to, as cel bodies (wordplay)

Mr. Disney's work.

Moving to action.

I'm in a race - go!

Paul's in a state - that's life!

Perhaps I'm A in a people for life

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

Ankerite

Anatomy The consolidation of bones or their parts to form a single unit.

Chroniclers of events

Leans on back-to-back articles from recorders

With useful info in the margins, say

Wrote in the margins, say

With extra info

Gets some words in edgewise (wordplay)

Adds comments to (a document)

Writes on the side (wordplay)

One making explanatory notes

Jotter in the year disposed to art

Editor of a kind

One with a regular income from a lump sum

An idiot outside university, creepy type who gets cash regularly (wordplay)

An Alsatian night worker, who's paid after work (wordplay)

May they keep aunties in change (wordplay)

They yield payments at specified intervals

Subtly insinuate these are paid every year

Union buster (wordplay)

'I do' undoer

That may make an invalid of one

Oilers.

Not in gain (anagram)

Conferring with ceremonies

Rub and dub

Witness protection plan (wordplay)

A negative over my tiny lack of a name

State of being unknown or nameless

Lacking appetite

Anoretic

""A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime feldspar. See Feldspar. Feldspar.""

Antalgic

Deep frozen (wordplay)

In pole position (wordplay)

Where to pick up a penguin (wordplay)

Colonial enemies (wordplay)

Army consumers (wordplay)

Long snouted mammals

Went first in order to enact deed

Goes before in time

Does not follow

Serves as prologue to

Part of church; anchorite (anagram)

Part of a church

Area in church; icon heart anag.

Preceded in time

Preceded in time.

Went back further

Is a forerunner of

Precedes in time

Precedes in time.

English word

Antefix

Bucks maybe before long, easy strides

Fast bucks (wordplay)

Hill dweller runs away to Bucks, perhaps

Type of clinic or care

That's before we saw the light

Prior to birth

A small antenna; applied to the smaller pair of antenn\'91 or feelers of Crustacea.

Antepast

No maestro (anagram)

Where waiters gather

Chambers ran to some races

Antetype

Antevert

Articles above Leo, seen opposite the sun

Anthem

A floral ornament. See Palmette Palmette

Antherid

Any of various water-soluble pigments that impart to flowers and other plant parts colors ranging from violet and blue to most shades of red.

The flower head of certain plants

Treasury of sorts

From Greece, a bouquet of verse, perhaps

Collection of poems

Pertaining to the Anthozoa.

Anthrax

Human error in pact with rhino

""Any of various evergreen tropical American plants of the genus Anthurium, grown as ornamentals for their attractive leaves and their showy, often red spathes.""

Like some foods and serums

Wrinkle-removing cream type

ALIEN to transfer to another as property

Antiarin

Antiatom

AUXIN a growth promoting substance

Like much prejudice called out by One People's Project

One jerk and partner, in a zany fashion

Antic

Grotesque streak in fold of rock

Arch of stratified rock.

Lark calling beneath arched fold of rock

CLING to adhere to

CODON a triplet of basic DNA components

CRACK to {fracture=v}

Against lawbreaking

Having the quality an antidote; fitted to counteract the effects of poison.

Antidote

Counteractions to poisons

Doctor instead to produce cures

Activated charcoal and naloxone, for two

DRAFT to conscript for military service

Favoring common folk

FRAUD criminal deception

Antigene

Like some immunological agents

Triggering, in immunology

I can get in trouble for being stimulating

Like sun visors

HUMAN a {person=n}

Antiking

Fuel additive in tank, I conk out

Like some gasolines

High-octane

Union-busting, say

Opposed to the union, say

Don't be this tomorrow

MACHO one who exhibits machismo

Antimask

Antimere

""One of several antibiotic substances produced by several species of Streptomyces, active against various fungi. They are used only experimentally, not in medicine. The two best-known antimycins are antimycin A1 (C28H40N2O9) and antimycin A3 (C26H36N2O9). They are notable for their mechanism of action, interference with the proton pumping mechanism of fungi.Streptomyces, active against various fungi. They are used only experimentally, not in medicine. The two best-known antimycins are antimycin A1 (C28H40N2O9) and antimycin A3 (C26H36N2O9). They are notable for their mechanism of action, interference with the proton pumping mechanism of fungi.""

NODAL of the nature of a node

Antinode

Like some headphones

Like some airport laws

Like many a resident near an airport

In opposition to one another

Unconventional literary form

Not in favour of new form of literature

Literary term popularized by Sartre

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

QUARK an imagined atomic particle

Dealer in or collector of old things

Specialist in old items

Expert in (or collector of) old artefacts

Render outdated

Render passe.

Make old.

Antiquer

Searching for snuffboxes, perhaps

Relic from hostile desert? Yes, maybe

The old days (wordplay)

Period before the Middle Ages

Stealthy (wordplay)

Like some hard-to-detect missiles

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

Adjective for hood locks

Like a venom neutralizer

Counteracting poison.

Does Auntie Tock get sick of such a cure (wordplay)

Shot in the arm, perhaps

Neutralizer of a sort

Substance that neutralises poison

Like some business suits (wordplay)

Opposed to centralized industry.

Describing the Clayton Act.

TUMOR an abnormal swelling

Corresponding figures for those characteristically against things (wordplay)

""ULCER to affect with a type of lesion, also ULCERATE""

Buster's stance, maybe

Wal-Mart, to many labor advocates

Unwilling to get organized

URBAN pertaining to a {city=n}

Essential supply for an ophiologist

Solution to a snakebite

Substance that counteracts snake poison

Like AZT

Terrible liar with interminable vanity makes treatment for Aids

Type of protective software

Designed to prevent intrusion, in a way

Like much Norton software

WHITE to {whiten=v}

WOMAN to play the part of a woman

ANTONYM a word opposite in meaning to another

Anviltop

An eleven 'e draws with (wordplay)

One with sixteen wheels carrying international concerns

Anything

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

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.

Apholate

Saw people (wordplay)

They work with buzzers

A pair of 1 acrosses sits here

Sounds as if they may be keepers

APICULATE

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

Same as Apodeictic. Apodeictic.

One who defends a policy

Defender of something controversial

One defending most of rationale in a job

APOMICT an organism produced by reproduction

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

Horse, maybe, in system

Soldier in appropriate American gear

Gear, as put out for soldier to wear

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

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

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

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

How upsetting for Grany Smith!

One not to upset (wordplay)

Place trap to upset this!

I go for it!

Job-seeking insect?

Job-seeking insect (wordplay)

Positively delighted (wordplay)

Put in position (wordplay)

Given a job to pip dean, perhaps