9-Letter Words Starting with A

Capable of being renounced

Departure from the norm

Welsh mouth to Breton river? There's freakishness for you!

Lincoln rector originally managed church going in the wrong direction

Hate to be a man, I suspect

Tottering in boat, Mae can't stand

Regard with disgust

Earliest inhabitant of, say, Australia

Native of Australia

Inhabitant of country before colonists

Capable of being abraded (worn away by friction)

Some Cartesian coordinates

Non-ordinate coordinates

'x' co-ordinates make BASIC essay wrong, not 'y'

A bread roll twist perhaps is plenty

Plenty, but it isn't a cake-walk!

Lots of baking at the ball (wordplay)

""All cnidarians (jellyfishes) collectively, compare ACALEPH, ACALEPHAN, ACALEPHE""

(Medicine / Pharmacology) any drug or formulation for killing acarids

Fit for acceptance.

That's to do with grammar, for a change, and not by chance, by the sound of it

The sound of the mishaps may get to grammar for a change like this

Get used to (Amer.)

Cool indoor conditions (wordplay)

Harden against PAin, etc.

Gradually built up

""ACCRUE to accumulate, also ACCREW""

Solvent used in lacquers

Chemical came with a diet specially formulated

Musty-smelling crystalline solid (chemistry), emaciated (anagram)

Receive substitution of an acetyl group; of chemical compounds

It's a gas!

A collection o' thin ones? Great gas!

Kind of torch

Make slightly sour.

Make slightly sour

That's enough to make you sour - and make you dead in the end

Agree bill and become silent

Accept without protest

Agree or accept without protest

One who hates heights

Make a reality of

""Tapering to a point; pointed; as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc. as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc.""

Of flexible nature.

American with bald pate oddly plastic

Good at fitting in to new circumstances

Hard to give up

(Of drug) habit-forming

Habit-forming

Letter-opener (wordplay)

Letter opener (wordplay)

A letter opener (wordplay)

""Adducing, or bringing towards or to something.""

The 'A' of ATP

The A in ATP

Observant quality present in fluid dance

You'd be stuck with that

Sticking ability

Biological word for a fat-storing cell

Fat cell

The good in "good riddance"

Modifier of a noun

'Dead' or 'alive'

Tending to adjust.

This made a certain share

Will Father get back to me with a certain way to share this out (wordplay)

Can A get made certain to apportion this (wordplay)

Deserving respect and approval

Excellent as Barrie's butler

Deserving of esteem

Allowing a girl to enter a sleazy place

Notice the formal letter allowing entry

Tending to concede.

Extraneous ingredient

Say nice things about new tux, creating bit of a stir (wordplay)

Ingredient.

Adjective meaning resembling

Able to be taken up

Fit for taking home from the animal shelter

Commercial work on board is such as may be undertaken

Substance taken up in a lab

A type of tree covered in fruit? It's only on the surface

Adjective meaning resembling

Foreshadow a silent tear, perhaps

Indicate a silent speed (wordplay)

Outline from an unintelligent judge

Service commercial vehicle, say, at back

Edge of the tennis court (wordplay)

Head start, say

ADVECT to transport by the flow of a fluid

Accidental.

Commercial gamble (wordplay)

Per this perhaps it's exciting

New account on Madison Avenue (wordplay)

Throw out pitches (wordplay)

Promote (a product)

Push kin (wordplay)

{advertise=v}

To be recommended

Worthy of recommendation

Expedient to be recommended

The use of atmospheric drag rather than onboard thrusters to reduce the velocity of a satellite or spacecraft.

Heathrow, for one

Bumper edition of The Waves (wordplay)

By the sound of it, a plain place

Gatwick banker (wordplay)

The Spitfire, for one

British flyer (wordplay)

Soaring business (wordplay)

Opera case (anagram)

One industry above the rest (wordplay)

Four in a car sleep when it's warm

I've a taste for change and will spend the summer in bed

Tending to affect; affecting.

Attach (to an organisation)

Team up with FIFA et al: one fouled

In trouble if I left AA as associate

AFFIX to {attach=v}

Well, that gets one off

Well, it's got off this

A guard contracts sickness in profusion

""A combination of a stop, or explosive, with an immediately following fricative or spirant of corresponding organic position, as pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.""

Road to recovery

Need for recovering patients

Support to customer following a purchase

Medium access (wordplay)

Post-death existence

Heaven or hell., for example

'That's of late, it seems (5,4)'

Future

Exasperate or exacerbate

Annoy, and make things worse

Make (problem) worse

Collective total - a great egg (anagram)

Greg is stone-faced, in sum (wordplay)

Get garage to fix heap (wordplay)

Tending to stir up

Nice to be able to say yes

Gee, that makes it 13 down and arable!

In harmony; pleasant

""Capable of being transported and deployed, usually by helicopter, to a combat zone or from one site to another within a theater of operations: an airmobile infantry regiment.""

Wasted the bacon sandwiches I cut

HB1 around the rump

Cut of beef

To change by alchemy; to transmute.

English word

Its antonym is in the Declaration

No citizen can transfer what he owns

Capable of being transferred.

Able but unwilling to read

Disinclined to read

German folk dance

A German in Paris.

Baroque-era dance

Make less severe, say suffering

Leave it out after Al displays temper

Take the edge off

Like some funds

""An amorphous, translucent, variously colored mineral, essentially hydrous aluminum silicate.""

""Any one of two or more speech sounds that considered variants of the same phoneme. For example, the p sounds of pin and spin are allophones of p; and the t sounds of toe stop and catnip are allophones of t.For example, the p sounds of pin and spin</it> are <ex>allophones</ex> of <it>p</it>; and the <it>t</it> sounds of <it>toe</it> <it>stop</it> and <it>catnip</it> are <ex>allophones</ex> of <it>t</it></as>.""

Grant painter graphite, perhaps

Distinct form of an element

One of two or more existing forms of an element

Not improper.

Not banned

Aboveboard

Per diem, perhaps

Kid's payoff (wordplay)

Share in ball, now dance all topless!

Variety of garnet

Deep red garnet

Purplish-red Indian garnet.

""A deep violet-red garnet, FeAl 2 Si 3 O 12 , found in metamorphic rocks and used as a gemstone.""

Poor accommodation (wordplay)

Old folks' home (once)

Home to the down-and-out

Close to the hypotenuse, say (wordplay)

Age-old sin (anagram)

Close to a hypotenuse (wordplay)

Unlike the past

Subject to modification

Subject to change

Argue with the girl to try to change her

Dispute heatedly ( 9 )

Argue with Catherine for a change

Every other letter an A? Awkward!

How to shake up Etna (wordplay)

Perhaps change it to ante for a stand-in

A compound formed from the hydrate of aluminium by the substitution of a metal for the hydrogen.

To treat impregnate with alum; to alum.

""Deeply pitted, like a honeycomb.""

Green variety of microcline

A green semiprecious stone

Green feldspar.

A doctor starts reminiscing over sort of early photograph

Road mender (wordplay)

Transport patiently awaited (wordplay)

What drives you to get better (wordplay)

Lie in wait for (someone)

Breaking: Cuba's made surprise attack

Concealed military force.

Variant of amoebocyte .

Like our Constitution

May be corrected

Not set in stone, as a constitution

""A type of ammonia compound, also AMMINE, AMMONIATE""

Hornblende

A rotating magnetic amplifier with specialized windings that allow small changes in power input to produce large changes in power output.

An attenuator decreases it

Maximum extent of signal or vibration

On a radio, the A in AM

Amygdala

Draw a comparison, in a way

Reason in a way

To dissect a very little matter is easy at first

Styptic. <mark>[Obs.]<mark>

City at the head of Cook Inlet

Alaskan Air Force base.

Place for ships to stop

Religious recluse (hist.)

Hermit or religious recluse

Hermit as a result of her action, sadly

Spicy sausage

A spicy smoked pork sausage with a blackish skin

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

Hermaphroditic plant

Man or woman? Not black or white, but grey and no mistake

A minor ore of lead

Express in English finding flying angels around here in France

Convert Giovanni into John, for example

Make English, in form

Make Jorge George, for example

""An oxide of a nonmetallic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements of water; so called because it may be formed from an acid by the abstraction of water.""

""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).""

To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form.

Fibula-foot connector

It's between the shin and the foot

Fibula neighbor

Can anyone shift pest (wordplay)

Bug party for Oriental pest

Pebble in one's shoe, e.g

Convert to a yearly rate

""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.""

English word

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

Grotesque streak in fold of rock

Arch of stratified rock.

Lark calling beneath arched fold of rock

Against lawbreaking

Favoring common folk

Like sun visors

Like some headphones

Like some airport laws

Like many a resident near an airport

Render outdated

Render passe.

Make old.

SENSE to have an impression or inward feeling

SMOKE to emit a gas or vapour due to burning

STATE to {affirm=v}

WHITE to {whiten=v}

APICULATE

""The protein component of an enzyme, to which the coenzyme attaches to form an active enzyme.""

Apologia

Say sorry, mea culpa

Make a sorry speech (wordplay)

Express regret (for action)

Say you're sorry

Eat humble pie

Tell me you're sorry

This kind of court hears appeals

Like a review panel

Sort of court

E.g. insect's leg, feeler

One of an octopod's octad

An attached part

A longing; a desire; especially an ardent desire; appetite; appetency.

Washing machine or toaster, say

Machine (for use in the home)

Gift for a housewife.

One assigned (to a job)

Chosen one (wordplay)

Pick, of sorts

""(tr) to assess the worth, value, or quality of""

Sanction

Sanction.

Motorboat's tow, perhaps

Water skis alternative

Skim on layer of water

Watercolour is all a queer mishmash

Painting technique

Watercolor

Ballet position - sea barque (anagram)

A square be a ballet movement (wordplay)

Intertwined ornamental design

ARABIC derived from gum arabic

A sugar used as a culture medium in bacteriology

A sugar used as a culture medium for certain bacteria

Mineral similar to calcite.

Calcium carbonate

Trading that exploits cost differences

Market dealer's activity

Simultaneous purchase and sale of assets

Be a middle man (wordplay)

Be a referee

Use a certain route in a dispute

Inverse trig function

Standard - cheap tyre (anagram)

Teachers' pay rotten? Not seen as ideal!

Jaguar follows supreme original model

English word

Frondizi's country (with "the").

S. American region.

Native of Bahia Blanca.

Valuable silver ore

A formal procedure when sculptor's brought in rock

Sedimentary rock that does not split easily

Signature moment (wordplay)

I cite arms deal before truce occurs

It's a crime breaking ceasefire

Impart fragrance to

State of indebtedness

Something held in reserve.

Bookkeeping category.

A striver, I fancy (wordplay)

Ambitious and self-seeking person

Ambitious self-seeker

A grocer with an outrageous conceit

Too much pride in exotic orange car

An "offspring of riches," to Twain

Small blood vessel

Very small blood vessel

Blood vessel connected to a capillary

After 'Jerusalem' maybe choir take break

Plant with a heart (wordplay)

Take choir trip to Jerusalem, perhaps

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

ASCORBATE

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

What NutraSweet is a brand of

After a dispute, subdue with sweetener

It's sweet to take me to a Greek city

ASPARTATE

Aspirata

A lock up? I have to be forceful

Bold and confident

Far from reticent.

Hang out (with)

Not yet a principal

Rub shoulders of teammate

Resemblance of sound (in nearby words)

Can season (anagram)

Resemblance of sound

Soothing

Like some obligations

Like some mortgages

Confidence (in abilities)

Uses car with an awful confidence

Freedom from doubt.

With a leg on either side of (something)

Riding, in a way

On the fence.

Star-shaped glial cell

Spot for celestial navigation

Stadium for almost 68,000

Park that opened in April 1965

A sort able to produce old instrument

Sextant's predecessor

Predecessor of the sextant.

Line near a hyperbola

Almost a sign to note near tangent

Line that a curve infinitely approaches

English word

Showing courtesy to another, or alert

At camp under canvas I have to be alert

As alert as the dutiful Pinafore crew

Reduce (a signal)

Had a late meal to make one thin

To have eaten so late may make you thin

... for a eulogist (wordplay)

Ascribe (to a cause)

Virtue by payment

Purple and gold mixture of beer and gin

Deep purple colour

Fruit popular in French inn

Band that plays music (wordplay)

Sound evidence (wordplay)

Garage band's production, once

AUDIT to examine accounts

Pl. auriculas or auriculae (-l ) A central European primrose (Primula auricula) having large yellow flowers grouped in umbels. Also called bear's ear .

A constituent of some forms of steel

Tate in use, perhaps, for one who likes Jane

I share out (anagram)

Writer is going east to say it's okay

Sanction or establish officially

John Irving's peepers (wordplay)

Give the go-ahead to

Give the green LIGHT to

Surgical instruments steriliser

Relative of a pressure cooker.

Kin of a pressure cooker

An expressway in France and French-speaking countries.

Hides face say and able to be at hand

"At liberty," as in "Variety"

On offer in the transfer market

It's down-white dangerous (wordplay)

A descent that's very flaky (wordplay)

Alpine snowdrop (wordplay)

Avifauna

Unlike death and taxes (wordplay)

A useless fit can be prevented

Like careless mistakes

The shunning (of something)

Dodger's goal

Dodger's aim

Conferrable

A liquid mixture of two or more substances that retains the same composition in the vapor state as in the liquid state when distilled or partially evaporated under a certain pressure.