10-Letter Words Starting with A

Toothless, burrowing animals.

Plated mammals

Burrowing mammals.

Armature

Bearing arms.

Armistice

ARMORIAL a book of coats-of-arms

AROMATIZE To impregnate with aroma; to render aromatic; to give a spicy scent or taste to; to perfume.

Makes fragrant

ARPEGGIATE

Guns of 15th century

Charging in court

Putting on trial Arabian ruling is heard

Calling before a court to answer charge

Arrearage

Arrestant

Stoppage.

Stoppage

Varying heartbeat

Lacking rhythm or regularity of rhythm: "a slight arrhythmic imperfection when the car idles" (Garrison Keillor).

Comes to accept first people on the make

Social climbers

Nouveaux riches

Arrogance

All modesty aside

Completely holding game up with hubris

Claiming without right

Unfair claiming giro, rat on a suspect

Improper seizure.

Unjustified seizure.

Ones given the shaft (wordplay)

Indian museum display

Old Native American carvings

Some starchy plants

Starchy plants

Topless thin torso, sporting white bloomers

Arrowwood

Arrowworm

Arsenical

Artemisia

ARTERIAL a type of {highway=n}

Of or pertaining to an arteriole.

Arteriole

Dodger's skill (wordplay)

Craft making false turns at sea

Neuralgic pain in a joint or joints.

Neuralgic pain in a joint or joints.

Arthritic

Spiders and crabs.

Troops hard to move - they've no backbone

Edible thistles that may be stuffed

Their hearts are often preserved in jars

Edible flower heads are so thick, oddly

Endowed with the power of speech.

Of Carney's film roles (wordplay)

A tacit rule that's broken, say

Expressing oneself clearly.

Skilled craftsmen

Mock trial, if CIA involved

Forced frail cat I upset to eat one

Kiss of life

Artiness

Puppetry and ventriloquism, for example

Skillful qualities

Arytenoid

Odoriferous gum resins.

Gum resin used medically

Foul-smelling but safe aid to a curry

Bitter medicine

Asbestos

Miner's disease

Chronic lung disease

Lung disease

Asbestus

Plural or third person singular

""A disease, usually accompanied by colicky pains and diarrhea, caused by the presence of ascarids in the gastrointestinal canal.""

A ben scaled could be construed as this

Canes get twisted up at the ball

Coming into prominence

Upper hand

Dominating influence (A, not E)

Candy canes (anagram)

Distributing candy canes with upper hand

Ancestors

Forebears

Ascendancy.

Governing or controlling influence; domination; power.

Ascendent

Carbon tip in abseil device, suitable for climbers

Climbs

Finds out in case star gets worried

Finds out Isaac Stern is playing

Establishes for sure the chump has swallowed it

Austerity of a strict hermit

Discipline of mind and body.

Diogenes belief

Asclepiad

ASCOCARP a spore-producing organ of certain fungi

Pl. ascogonia (-n - ) The female reproductive organ of ascomycetous fungi.

Any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus.Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus.

Ascorbate

Ascospore

ASCOSPORE One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi.

Attributable (to)

I give praise to Paris in a hundred shapes

Assignment

The act of ascribing.

Having no evident sex or sex organs.

Ashiness

""A white, nitrogenous, crystallizable substance, C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; called also altheine. C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; called also altheine.""

Aspartame

Aspartate

Asperate

Instruments for sprinkling holy water

Implements for sprinkling holy water

""Pl. aspergilli (-j l ) Any of various fungi of the genus Aspergillus, which includes many common molds.""

Asperity

Disparaging remarks about rap session

They're often cast in soap operas

Slurs on a person's reputation

Asphalt

Asphaltic.

Asphaltum

ASPHERIC not spherical

Choke (to death)

After wrecking taxi he pays for throttle

Choke, but manage to pay his tax before the end of June

Huge house plant

Iris adapts, being adaptable plant

Plant rallied Ada's spirit

Pronouncing the "h" as in house

... to turn Paris into a dream, ...

Breathing in desire

Desire to Parisian is strange ...

Removers of some body fluids

Suction devices

Medical instruments removing fluids from cavities

Assagai

Cruise in a fur, open to attack

Open to attack

Given as seaworthy - but not secure against pirates

Hit makers, say

People who attack the workers

Pepper spray targets

Assaulter

No defence for such a pickling, by the sound of it

Making an assault.

Assegai

Collection (of things or people)

Rally about silver collection

French for "blending"

"Westminster Standards" framers

They come together to put together

Westminster Standards framers

Diets for the party members with seats

Pep rallies

Doctor ambles; she is avoiding hospital gatherings

Gathering son wears same silly flash jewellery

ASSERTED assert

They're said to be positive

Evict from service stations for opinions

Positive statements

Can take stock of pack animals with dark fur

Estimate that can be taxing!

Masses sent abroad for appraisal

Certain tax determinant

Affirm dunderhead always had snacks

Declare that the fool was always feeding

State in which animal always took food

Transferable

Reporter's stint

Task in which worker keeps messing about

Broken-down gents is man's task

Absorb and digest (food)

Take in a smile as it develops

Become part of the prevailing culture

When drunk, can siestas help (wordplay)

One may give this by hand

Help a relative, protected by position

All excited, sits with Santa's helpers

Associates fool with first workers

Right-hand men

Oasis acted badly in a group, perhaps

Kind of press

Got together, tossing coats aside

Star has business ones

Word in many law firm names

Law firm employees

""Act of assoiling, or state of being assoiled; absolution; acquittal.""

Identical vowel sounds

Stormy seasons can reveal sound correspondences

Soundly corresponding

Smashing on mattress, showing variety!

Classification of chocolates (wordplay)

No smart set would make such a selection

Assumpsit

Guess feast day (wordplay)

Belief held without proof

Undertaking reform must pain so

As one might be, following tips resulting in cash hoarding

Promises dashed in University College, fools around

Promises

Top grade examining body set to right

Star-shaped, as crystals

Needing explanation, perhaps

Marked danger branding a horse

Marked symbolically

Of small celestial bodies

Concerning certain space rocks

Of small planets like Ceres

Asthmatic

Not right insight (wordplay)

Suffering distortions of vision

Having double-vision

Knocked out a dishonest criminal

Amazed - and so is the organisation

Left slack-jawed

Staggers, due to ill-fitting satin shoes

Knocks for a loop

Surprises, this season, coming out

Adman's adjective

An observation about tenor: 'stunning'

Striking dumb with astonishment

Astrakhan

Astrict

Caustic stinger ant outbreak!

Trains excited bloke, 17 (wordplay)

Sharp as wine with added peel, say

Astringe

Astrocyte

ASTROCYTE a large star-shaped neuroglial cell in nervous tissue.

Astrodome

Devices superseded by sextants

Old navigation instruments

Sextant forerunners

Expert on moving house (wordplay)

Charter for 11 (wordplay)

House examiner (wordplay)

""The art of making measurements among the stars, or of determining their relative magnitudes.""

Spacey types (wordplay)

Houston's spacemen (wordplay)

Houston's spacemen?

Moon-starer (anagram)

Hubble, for one

One who knows what's up (wordplay)

Sky-high (colloq.)

Extremely large (colloq.)

It can be so romantic - really great!

It's shrewd breaking statue over head

Doctor uses a test involving new insight

Shrewdness

Not regularly shaped

Not perfectly balanced

Like this puzzle's grid

They're approachable (wordplay)

Lines that approach curves (but never touch them)

Type of curve, in math.

The relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times.

Asyndeton

Ataractic

Athanasy

Athenaeum

Pl. atheromas or atheromata (-m -t ) A deposit or degenerative accumulation of lipid-containing plaques on the innermost layer of the wall of an artery.

Athrocyte

Atmometer

Feeling blue (wordplay)

Candles create a romantic one

Pervading tone or mood

With regards to nuclear energy

How a nation with nukes is armed

Atonalism

Atonalist

Reparations for wrong.

Reparations for wrongs

Some religious experiences

Barbarities at, or around, towns

Cruel deeds

Inhumanities

Wasting away as a result of disease

Silver-plated souvenir at home is deteriorating

Inga wavering: accepting award or declining (wordplay)

Capable of being fastened

Like Mr. Potato Head parts

Love sent by email (wordplay)

Love sent by e-mail (wordplay)

File with an email

Like some goals

Not so far as a star.

Within reach

Attainder

The achievement (of a goal)

A b-blemish limiting men's achievement

Act of achieving something

Attaint

Attemper

Good Twitter handle for a seductress (wordplay)

Factor in grading, perhaps

Gate - enact Dante (anagram)

Guests at Blair's ball (wordplay)

Take care of picnic pests (wordplay)

Checkroom employees, for example

Members of the wedding.

They may be unwelcome

Sergeants' commands

Military standings

Ted ate tuna salad, becoming thin

Reduced in strength

Made thin/thinner

Diminishes in force.

Makes thin.

Weakens

Electronic signal weakener

Electric signal diminisher

Device reducing signal strength

""The act of a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior, and transfers to him his homage and service; the agreement of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord.""

Pheromone, notably

Treatise on origins of apparently toxic insect pheromone

Bringing in

Inviting.

It's not repulsive at drawing, perhaps

... for a tire company (wordplay)

Erotic experience is a drag, we're told

Easy on the ol' windows to the soul

Pleasing to the eye

In good taste

Attractor

That's ascribed to a TD about a matter of tax

Thought to be by Alfred Tennyson initially, but going in to be tested

Such properties belong at taxes

Skills shown by artiste, but presented awkwardly

Characteristics

They're so wearing

Frictions

Harmonisation needs much attention without having people turn back

Against expectations

One predictably in a way deviating from the expected pattern

Bill takes pity, moving colleague in an unusual way

Vegetables that might ensure a big stew

Eggplants

One with lots to offer (wordplay)

One has lots to shift!

Man with lots on his mind (wordplay)

Cautioning over selling house

Activity around the block

Cautioning boss selling the house

Insolent acts

The quality of being audible; power of being heard; audible capacity.

(Physics / General Physics) caused or produced by sound or an audio frequency an audiogenic epileptic fit

Audiogram

Adjective (-ic)

Alexander Graham Bell invention

Otologist's instrument

Otology instrument

The measurement of hearing.

Emery phor buphs (wordplay)

One making a sound investment (wordplay)

Hi-fi fan.

Media for drivers

Driver's entertainment, sometimes

Dinosaurs next to the iPod

Tried out for a part

Read (for)

Tried out

Auditory