9-Letter Words Starting with A

Courts get rough with bad kidnappers

The act of washing

Usain Bolt ordered washing

Usain Bolt, after injury, showers

Aboideau

Aboiteau

Ultimates and perfections.

Things held to be always true

Some are moral

Abutilon

Some points of contact

Supporting structures of a bridge.

Arch supports

Provides with furnishings

US equips air conditioning - cold son grabs remote

Provides with gear, in Gloucester

Furnishes

Accusant

Gets used (to)

This gets used

Habituates

Pl. acervuli (-l ) A tiny cushionlike or blisterlike structure produced by certain fungi on a plant host and consisting of a mass of hyphae-bearing asexually produced spores.

Aciculum

Sharp with asperity

Claudius prepared to eat duck and tart

U.C.L.A. duo is sarcastic

Aciduria

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

Acquirer

Actinium

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

Inner thigh muscles

Certain thigh muscles

They alter commercials - right the Queen should appear in them

Adjustor

Military officers

Adjuvant

Adularia

Prays from them, by the sound of it

Obsequious group

Big fans

Maturity

Aequorin

Aeroduct

Balloonists or airmen

They go up and down

Balloon pilots, for example

Affluent

Baptisms of fire, at the start USA's in round

Blue or white garden flowers.

Small blue or white flowers.

Garden flowers

Agueweed

Aiguille

Tree of Heaven; Thai Alnus (anagram)

Sugar maybe taking one part of 7 tree

Tree liana winding round in this manner

Airburst

Airbus

Albumose

Alburnum

Draft pick venues (wordplay)

Round buildings (wordplay)

See a lush reeling round old pubs

Aleurone

Alfaquin

Shouts of joy

Passing references or indirect mentions

Literary references

Passing references

Alluvial

Alluvion

Alluvium

Air-to-sea readings

Heights above the ground

Pilot's data

Altruism

Paragons of unselfishness

They're very unegotistical

Unselfish types

Of a common metallic element

Containing element #13

Certain shades of gray.

Alumroot

Plural or third person singular

Blindness of a graduate neurosis: can't see Tyneside

*Subject to interpretation

Open to differing interpretations

Of uncertain meaning

Greedy, getting stung by debts

Eager to advance.

Keen to succeed

Walks about

Walks around

Moves about

Ambusher

Ammonium

Not in shape (wordplay)

Without clearly defined shape

Without a clearly-defined shape

""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.""

Removes limbs surgically

Surgically removes limbs

Prunes

Amygdule

Upbeats

Russia can rebuild - that's upbeat!

Unstressed syllable, in verse.

Musical upbeat

Like, with "to"

Comparable in certain respects

Similar opening about a trademark

Comparable things

Parallels.

Anchusin

Of or pertaining to anestrus.

Enlargements of arteries

Disturbing means taking in spoon-bender's abnormal enlargements

Aneurysm

Angelus

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""

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

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

Antiquer

Antirust

Type of protective software

Designed to prevent intrusion, in a way

Like much Norton software

Openings at a photo studio (wordplay)

Openings for super rate of exchange

Super tear damaged perforations

He loves me ... he loves me not ... now nothing's left!

Creature with claw nearly has the Guardian not flowering (wordplay)

Of or pertaining to apogamy.

Fable of a game with visitors 2 short

Horse, maybe, in system

Soldier in appropriate American gear

Gear, as put out for soldier to wear

Applause

Fabric decorations

Subject of certain tests.

Strangely it updates natural abilities

Special talents

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

Opposite of 26 Across

""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

Arcature

Franz Ferdinand, et al.

Some of the Habsburgs

Arethusa

Argentum

Toronto seafarers (wordplay)

Golden Fleece seekers

Jason's group

Argufier

Discussions or quarrels

Some are heated

Exchanges knitted garment with us

Frameworks used with modeling clay.

Frameworks in clay modeling

Wire-wound dynamo parts.

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

Of a certain poison.

Nears confusion over promises to pay may make it poisonous

Aruspex

Spear on a fork (wordplay)

It has tips for good dining.

Grasp a rag usefully wrapping vegetable

Showing great care and perseverance

Marked by care and persistent effort

Hard-working

Reading rooms

Our coat is incredibly appalling

Terrible actor in trouble with debts

Very bad tragic actor promises to pay

Duet? Sit at different positions

Points of view.

Edits taut review of Points of View

Aubretia

Aubrieta

Rash or insolent

Daring USA duo involved with CIA

Bold and daring

Play groups (wordplay)

House sitters (wordplay)

Interviews those in the theatre

Screen shots (wordplay)

Reads for a part

Tryouts for performers.

Auditive

Aunthood

Auricula

Wild oxen extinct since 1627

Austral

Autacoid

Autarky

Autecism

Arthouses neglected creative person

Writer shares out bubbly

Writer shares out novel development

Autistic

Travelling South, a ban on roads like this

Motor coaches

They're often escorted by police

Autocoid

They reign without rein

Rulers with unlimited power

They're absolutely at the top.

Tossed out this sort of clue about sport

Motor racing over rough terrain

Slalom race on parking lot course

Autodyne

Helicopters of yore

Helicopters' kin

Some aircraft with propellers

Autolyse

Self destruction of cells

Autolyze

Couple in a one-car family (wordplay)

Builds a robot for

Makes machine-run

End-of-term examinations (wordplay)

End-of-term examinations

An A of A&E

Autosome

Autotype

Autunite

Avifauna

Avoucher

Avulsion

Quality of being horrid

Flew unperturbed when fool went around in a terrible state

Enormity

Ayurveda

Azoturia