9-Letter Words Starting with A

Abattis

Meat packing plants

Animal slaughterhouses

Slaughter-houses

Abbotcy

Becomes unruly (wordplay)

Gives up an office from basic date

Resigns, at a high level

Courts get rough with bad kidnappers

Aberrant

Abetment

The powers to do

Abigail fibs about information technology skills

Could a Billy have the skills to tease them, by the sound of it

Ablation

One curiously vets bail cases

Words in a certain grammatical case.

Cases at last

Ablegate

The act of washing

Usain Bolt ordered washing

Usain Bolt, after injury, showers

Denies or renounces

Relinquishes

Renounces.

Aboiteau

Abortion

Abradant

Abolishes.

Rescinds

Repeals

Some ballots or voters

Election tippers, sometimes

They stay away from beast seen running

Absenter

Liqueurs made with wormwood

A bishop's vice, these short potent drinks

Wormwoods

Ultimates and perfections.

Things held to be always true

Some are moral

Absterge

Takes works of Picasso, say

Removes works by Pollock, say

Summaries of books.

Abstrict

Abutilon

Some points of contact

Supporting structures of a bridge.

Arch supports

Accentor

Acceptee

Yes-men, maybe (wordplay)

Recipients

Acceptor

They happen, they say

They happen on the race track

Spills, falls, trips, etc.

Provides with furnishings

US equips air conditioning - cold son grabs remote

Provides with gear, in Gloucester

Furnishes

Certifies, as colleges

Certifies

Accusant

Gets used (to)

This gets used

Habituates

Makes sour.

Annoys someone

Makes bitter

Acescent

Acetamid

Acetify

Acetoxyl

Achromat

Acidity

Turns into steel

Aconitum

Sound system (wordplay)

Stucco is a puzzle to science

Conductor's concern

Bill, charming little son, keeps up to date

This makes one know what's so nice and old-fashioned in the sac

Lets one know how attractively old-fashioned this is in the sac

Acrodont

Acrolect

Wooden statues with stone extremities

Initial readings (wordplay)

NEWS for the four directions, and others

Certain word puzzles

Acrotism

Acrylate

Actinian

Series of radioactive elements

Elements playin' a part on fateful day

Uranium and plutonium, for example

Actinism

Actinium

Actinoid

Sets in motion.

Stimulates

Vitalizes.

Activism

Ones seeking change

They've got issues

Black Lives Matter demonstrators, for example

Activize

Bill locks ladies in green room, perhaps

Bill locks performers in theatre maybe

Glamorous Oscar Night parties (wordplay)

Risk assessors sign, after a drastic cut

They calculate insurance risks

Insurance company employees

Actuator

Acutance

Quality of sharp pain

That seems a cunning attribute

Use secant with sharp perceptiveness

Adamsite

Panda is to evolve in Darwinian processes

New members of the family.

Extra rooms, for example

Extra publishings, by the sound of them

Coloring agents, for example

Substances blended with motor oil

Antiknocks, for example

Inner thigh muscles

Certain thigh muscles

Ability without difficulty

Dud and Pete's singular skill

Savior-faire

Followers less certain than Reed's

Tears by poor head's supporters

Supporters of neatherds

They alter commercials - right the Queen should appear in them

Adjustor

Military officers

Adjuvant

Bouncers, at times

Adnation

Humane Society successes

Social worker's concern.

Votes to accept commercial alternatives

Adscript

Prays from them, by the sound of it

Obsequious group

Big fans

Maturity

Recommends Scottish silks, perhaps

Goes to bat (for)

Promoters of Scottish silks

Oxygen-supplying procedures

Aeroduct

Meteorites (E, not H)

Stony bodies from outer space.

Stony meteorites

Stony meteorites

Balloonists or airmen

They go up and down

Balloon pilots, for example

Dirigibles, balloons, etc.

Balloons

Comic teases the arty types

Lovers of the beautiful.

Gallery regulars

Affecter

Afferent

Affluent

Afforest

Affright

Agenting

Agentive

Agentry

Blue or white garden flowers.

Small blue or white flowers.

Garden flowers

As shown by all-round gymnasts

Agiotage

That's sure to get one gone

A gait rots the stirrers

Sort of a gait for trouble, they are

Agitprop

Agnation

They just don't know

They don't know if God exists or not

Religious doubters

Ornamental sprays of feathers

Feather sprays

Tree of Heaven; Thai Alnus (anagram)

Sugar maybe taking one part of 7 tree

Tree liana winding round in this manner

Airburst

Where fighter jets touch down

Landing spots in the jungle

Small landing fields

Prophets of doom fabricated star's mail

They arouse people's fears needlessly

Chicken Little et al.

Ornithological collar (wordplay)

Pacino's burden (wordplay)

Big bird's a hit, of course!

Alcahest

Attention that fielders must show

Sentry's attribute

Relents as travelling in vigilant state

Alginate

Puts a gulf between.

Sets at odds

Makes a foe of

Specialists in the psychiatric field.

Psychiatrists of old

Legal term for psychiatrists.

Alkahest

Alkylate

Allanite

""Pl. allantoides ( l n-t -d z ) A membranous sac that develops from the posterior part of the alimentary canal in the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles. It is important in the formation of the umbilical cord and placenta in mammals. Also called allantoid .""

Assigns a place

Distributes

Assigns

Allopath

Allottee

Allotter

Allotype

Almagest

Complete sets of letters

Complete assortments of letters.

Sets of runes

Climbers in Switzerland

Climbers of Swiss peaks

Certain mountain climbers.

Alterant

Air-to-sea readings

Heights above the ground

Pilot's data

Altruism

Paragons of unselfishness

They're very unegotistical

Unselfish types

Alumroot

Amadavat

Amanitin

Imaginary flowers that never fade

Imaginary eternal flowers

Legendary unfading flowers

Liqueurs used in "sour" cocktails

Almond-flavored liqueurs

Almond-flavoured liqueurs

Aspirations, dreams

I'm not all there to want to get NNNNNNNNNN at last

'Although I'm not all there, is on it for them in the end (9)'

Greedy, getting stung by debts

Eager to advance.

Keen to succeed

Ones neither withdrawn nor outgoing

Walks about

Walks around

Moves about

Ameerate

Real-estate listing

Fireplace, hot tub, etc.

What boors don't observe

Symbols of February

Covering your mess at Rolling Stones

Purple quartz stones

Aminity

Amitrole

Ammocete

No, I'm in the mates at sea - or was

Fossils, perhaps, of Jordanians (wordplay)

Mollusks' fossil shells

Pardons to large groups of people

Pardons may make saint seem crazy

Official pardons issued by governments.

Little cupids

Valentine figures

Amortise

Pays off, via a sinking fund.

Pays down incrementally

Puts money in a sinking fund.

Removes limbs surgically

Surgically removes limbs

Prunes

Analcite

Anality

Study of data patterns

Data field

Fractured a peasant's feet

Metric feet of three syllables.

Feet of a girl with vermin we hear

Greatly detested things

Detested things

Betes noires

Physical structures

Human bodies

Body structures

Anatoxin

Some people in a tree

Ones higher up in a tree

People in trees

Workers taking on board routine task for folk living alone

Hermits.

Andesite

Andesyte

Noted case (anagram)

Arranged end to case histories, perhaps

Raconteur's specialty.

Of or pertaining to anestrus.

Anethole

Ten-millionths of millimeters

Ten make up a millimicron

Wavelength units

Angulate

Anility

Producers of some shorts variable

Short drawers (wordplay)

Snow White workers

Makers of sequential frames

Parts of nightcaps

Licorice-tasting cordials

Sweet liqueurs

Ankerite

Chroniclers of events

Leans on back-to-back articles from recorders

Gets some words in edgewise (wordplay)

Adds comments to (a document)

Writes on the side (wordplay)

May they keep aunties in change (wordplay)

They yield payments at specified intervals

Subtly insinuate these are paid every year

Oilers.

Anoretic

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