10-Letter Words Starting with A

Discrepancy between the chronological order of events and the order in which they are related in a plot.

Breaks in grammatical sequence

A haul Acton possibly offers of syntactic non sequiturs

""Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc.""

Plural or third person singular

A pattern of evolution that results in linear descent with no branching or splitting of the population.

Done in low relief, as a cameo

""Mystical; having a secondary spiritual meaning; as, the rest of the Sabbath, in an anagogical sense, signifies the repose of the saints in heaven; an anagogical explication.as, the rest of the Sabbath, in an anagogical sense, signifies the repose of the saints in heaven; an anagogical explication.""

Made "talent" from "latent," e.g

Got into a mix-up with letters

This mad manager produces the answer

Analemma

Analeptic

Analgesia

Hospital numbers (wordplay)

Aspirin, for example

Numbers used in gas scale

Analgetic

Built on comparisons

Having similarity

Analogist

Shown to be similar

Analogize

... illiterate needing help to follow a northern river

Analysand

Breaking down (wordplay)

Type of geometry

Logically reasoning

That may be analyzed.

Aiding the memory

Kind of lens used by moviemakers

Anapestic

Anaplasia

Of or pertaining to anaplasty.

""Pertaining to anarchy; without rule or government; in political confusion; tending to produce anarchy; as, anarchic despotism; anarchical opinions.as, anarchic despotism; anarchical opinions.""

Anarchism

Sacco and Vanzetti

An unruly lot that won't take orders

Some Russian Revolution figures

""Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical.""

It may help someone see a giant's terribly dull

Lens corrects against back of prism at ...

Photographic lens which corrects coma and spherical aberration

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

Word inversion, such as "Came the dawn."

Inversion, such as "Came the dawn"

Stephen King book, richest in rewrite

Of bodily structure

Of a branch of biology.

Involving the body

Article's broken down and analysed

Anatomise

Experts on bodies converting to Satanism

ANATOMIZE Styptic. <mark>

Anatomize

""Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to orthotropous.orthotropous.""

Ancestor

Cane's tangled hair for bear (wordplay)

Eve, for example (wordplay)

Eve, ultimately

Organized "resistance" (wordplay)

Organized 'resistance' (wordplay)

Families creating pieces de resistance

Tie-ups (wordplay)

Moorings

They may have agoraphobia

Solitary types disoriented in chain store

Chain store is awful for those seeking solitude

Reclusive.

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

Anchoveta

English word

Of great age; very old.

Gold place in which land is mined for mineral

Andantino

Andouille

Andradite

""Pl. androecia (-sh - , -sh ) The stamens of a flower considered as a group.""

Of or pertaining to androgens; having physiological effects like that of an androgen.

Androgyne

Andromeda

Anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes.

Noted cast I reassembled for storyteller

Raconteur.

Storyteller

""ANEMIC suffering from anemia, also ANAEMIC""

An instrument for measuring and recording the direction and force of the wind.

One receiving measured blows (wordplay)

Meaner to me (anagram)

Kid's science project, maybe

Measuring wind speed

Number of folks (wordplay)

Sensational loss (wordplay)

It's a real knockout!

Ether, for one

It may put you to sleep

It may be administered before surgery

Aneuploid

ANEUPLOID

""ANEURYSM dilatation of an artery, also ANEURISM""

""A discourse on angels, or a body of doctrines in regard to angels.""

Pl. angiogeneses (-s z ) The formation of new blood vessels.

Angiogram

A plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp.

ANGLER one who {fishes=v}

Anglesite

Angleworm

Made English clean digs I refurbished

Anglicise

Anglicism

Adapted a foreign word to English usage

Pronounces in a certain way.

Like Grenada, but not Granada

Like the Bahamas, Barbados and Belize

English-speaking

Anguish

Gauntness

Angulate

A making angular; angular formation.

Anhedonia

Ray's hidden explosive chemical compounds

Anhydrite

""ANILINE a chemical compound, also ANILIN""

Make criticism of unreliable vermin data

Take note of trailer housing man I fancy

Comment on an individual and very angry Green

Paramecium, rotifer, etc.

Microscopic organism

Microscopic creature

Being very small but old-womanish about bad French copper

Animalier

Animalism

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

Animalize

Adjective meaning resembling

In a lively manner

In a lively fashion

With spirit

The Flintstones and "The Simpsons"

Disney-studio output

Mickey Mouse films

Not isotropic.

Leg-foot connectors

Armored beast of old

Ankylose

""Pertaining to, or after the manner of, an annalist; as, the dry annalistic style. as, the dry annalistic style.""

Annelidan

Appropriation of adjoining territory

Act of taking possession of.

Forced takeover, at times

Hammer a nail in the bust

Hit an alien ordered to exterminate

Dynamite, say

Editorial activity

Supplying notes when she has nothing but odds and ends I find to be no good

Marginal comment, for example

Explanatory item in a textbook.

The adding of notes to a text

Serving to explain

Explanatory

Ones making written comments on text

Game-show VIPs

Ball game describers

They may call the shots

Declaring

Scan anyone sick with pains in the neck

Soreness causes

Little buggers

How older siblings tend to perceive things said by younger siblings

ANNUALIZE

Annualize

Persons receiving a type of income.

Ring formation

They undo 'I do's'

They undo "I do's"

More than one quashing - mental nuns wrestling

Mutant canine tuna, say

Declare girl in acute trouble

Announce (arch.)

ANODIC pertaining to an {anode=n}

Consecration ceremony

Ritual naming

Consecration of a healing cream (wordplay)

""Any of various mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles, which can carry the malaria parasite and transmit the disease to humans.""

Anorectic

Anorthite

""ANORTHITE 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.""

Having to report (to)

Article rebel was wrong to blame

Accountable.

Man in toga's set about opposition

Crude sign to a man provoking conflict

Moan at sign that's whipped up hostility

Antonym of ally

Enemy destroying 1 nation

Not against roughing up an opponent

Make an enemy of.

Rub the wrong way

Make an enemy of

Designating a period in U.S. history.

Before the war.

Of the period before 1861.

Going before (in time/order)

Hannah, in "Hannah and Her Sisters"

Preceding in time

Antecede

Previous incumbent

Forerunner.

Forerunner

Galilee, the place arranged with an opening

Antechoir

Preceding in time

During one's lifetime

Before passing

Like some injuries discovered in forensic science

""Zoology A small antenna or similar organ, especially one of the first pair of small antennae on the head of a crustacean.""

Antennule

""Pl. antependia (-d - ) A decorative hanging for the front of an altar, lectern, or pulpit.""

Third last syllable

Second syllable from the last.

third-from-last syllable

In an anterior manner; before.

Antevert

Anthelix

Anthelion

Anthelix

""Pl. antheridia (- - ) A sperm-producing organ occurring in seedless plants, fungi, and algae.""

Anthocyan

Anthozoan

""A solid hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin. C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin.""

I burn, but break your heart? I can't!

Hard, lustrous coal

Hard type of coal

Kind of ape

Enos or Able.

If it looks like a man and walks like a man, what is it (wordplay)

Anthurium

""ANEMIA a disorder of the blood, also ANAEMIA""

ASTHMA a chronic respiratory disorder

Antiauxin

Plural or third person singular

Theory of some wonder drugs.

Treatment for bacterial infections

Medicine destroying micro-organisms

Substance that destroys bacteria

Weapons in the medical arsenal.

B cells' production

Protein substances

""BUSING the act of transporting by bus, also BUSSING""

CAKING the act of caking

Powerful drug-treatment class

Like chemotherapy drugs

CARIES tooth decay

CHURCH to bring to a building for Christian worship

Forward-looking insect?

Forward-looking insect (wordplay)

Expecting awful panic stations, sending out SOS

Prepare for (a future event)

Predict - ape in attic (anagram)

Expect worker here for the French spread

Not for the summit (wordplay)

It goes pfft!

For God, for country, and for Yale.

Inclining or dipping in opposite directions. See Synclinal. Synclinal.

Anticline

Anticodon

Antidote

DROMIC pertaining to a race-course

Same as Antemetic. Antemetic.

EROTIC an amatory poem

FAMILY a group of persons related by blood or marriage

Misogynous

Alcohol, for one.

Opposed to a cap on wages (wordplay)

Alcohol needed for driving (wordplay)

FUNGAL a {fungus=n}

GROWTH development

Many Eastwood characters, for example

Many Nicholson portrayals

Weak leading men opposed to Carlyle's theme (wordplay)

HEROIC an epic verse

HERPES a skin infection

""HIJACK to steal in transit, also HIGHJACK""

HUNTER one who {hunts=v}

Antiknock

LITTER to scatter rubbish about

Antilogy

MARKET to offer for sale

Something from nothing (wordplay)

Family subject (wordplay)

Family subject?

MERGER the combining of two or more businesses into one

Old-fashioned and then some

Of or pertaining to antimony.

Word with prefix anti-

Antimony

Antimycin