9-Letter Words Starting with A

Complete sets of letters

Complete assortments of letters.

Sets of runes

Alpinism

Climbers in Switzerland

Climbers of Swiss peaks

Certain mountain climbers.

Unlike the past

Subject to modification

Subject to change

In an alterable manner.

Alterant

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

Changeover time in the cockpit

Parachutist's device

It measures height above sea level

Boeing engineer's study

Avionics topic

South American plateau region

Plateau elevated on mountain with tail pieces

Singer swallows one proposal for the home of Titicaca

Air-to-sea readings

Heights above the ground

Pilot's data

Born naked and blind and dependent on parents for food; -- of hatchlings. Opposite of precocial.precocial.

Altruism

Paragons of unselfishness

They're very unegotistical

Unselfish types

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

Metal I dropped over the Atlantic

Strong light metal

Metal or salt containing little uranium

To treat impregnate with alum; to alum.

Of a common metallic element

Containing element #13

Certain shades of gray.

Alumroot

Alveolar

""Deeply pitted, like a honeycomb.""

Amadavat

Amanitin

Imaginary flowers that never fade

Imaginary eternal flowers

Legendary unfading flowers

Amarelle

Liqueurs used in "sour" cocktails

Almond-flavored liqueurs

Almond-flavoured liqueurs

Mary Allis - silly flower girl!

Trumpet-flowered bulb

Producer of red-and-white blooms

Big collection.

Collection

Accumulation

AMATIVE {amorous=adj}

Plural or third person singular

Blindness of a graduate neurosis: can't see Tyneside

Affected with amaurosis; having the characteristics of amaurosis.

A puzzle designed to throw out a shock

Flooring (wordplay)

Astonished reaction

To everyone's surprise

Astoundingly

A vitality in language one's expressed in a stunning way

Green variety of microcline

A green semiprecious stone

Green feldspar.

Perfume ingredient from whales

Perfume maker marries big shot, one-off

Light grey French perfume ingredient

Amberina

Angler's catch in the Atlantic

Amberoid

Atmospheres

Moods

Ambience

Aspect of innuendo

Uncertainty of meaning

Double talker's aim

*Subject to interpretation

Open to differing interpretations

Of uncertain meaning

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

Blindness

Of or pertaining to amblyopy.

Very delicious or fragrant

Fit for Olympian tastes.

Fit for the gods.

Ambrosia

A doctor starts reminiscing over sort of early photograph

""Pl. ambulacra (-l k r , -l kr ) One of the five radial areas on the undersurface of the starfish and similar echinoderms, from which the tube feet are protruded and withdrawn.""

Road mender (wordplay)

Transport patiently awaited (wordplay)

What drives you to get better (wordplay)

Leader of army badly lamed, but proceeded on foot

Walks about

Walks around

Moves about

Lie in wait for (someone)

Breaking: Cuba's made surprise attack

Concealed military force.

Ambusher

Attacking from a concealed position

Plural or third person singular

""An infection or a disease caused by amoebas, especially Entamoeba histolytica.""

Variant of amoebocyte .

Ameerate

Amelcorn

Like our Constitution

May be corrected

Not set in stone, as a constitution

A change for the better (wordplay)

Change made in Washington

Alteration of document

Real-estate listing

Fireplace, hot tub, etc.

What boors don't observe

New chemical element, Number 95.

Element named by Glenn Seaborg

Element used in radiation research

Symbols of February

Covering your mess at Rolling Stones

Purple quartz stones

Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye.

Of or pertaining to ametropia.

Amidogen

Maids wiggling coxae halfway to 23

In centre of vessel

Centrally on board

Aminity

Amitrole

Ammocete

Ammoniac

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

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

Fossils, perhaps, of Jordanians (wordplay)

Mollusks' fossil shells

""AMMONITE the coiled shell of an extinct mollusk, also AMMONOID""

Ammonium

Ammonoid

Main cases (anagram)

Ones with big blocks (wordplay)

Jane Does, perhaps

Granted a pardon to

Pardoned

Pardoned.

Pardons to large groups of people

Pardons may make saint seem crazy

Official pardons issued by governments.

Movement largely unconcerned with human rights (wordplay)

Lack of a sense of right and wrong

Lack of right and wrong

Lack of concern for right or wrong

Little cupids

Valentine figures

AMORIST a {lover=n}

Morals? You worry, in a loving way

How Casanovas make their moves

Morals you abandoned in passionate style

Not in shape (wordplay)

Without clearly defined shape

Without a clearly-defined shape

Written off over time

Mediators somehow paid debts

Amortise

Liquidated by periodic payments

Spread out, in a way

Wrote off gradually

Pays off, via a sinking fund.

Pays down incrementally

Puts money in a sinking fund.

Adding up (to)

Coming to a getting up (wordplay)

Being equivalent.

Current measures

... and Pan's Dream, perhaps

Thelma & Louise character (wordplay)

Barnes & Noble link (wordplay)

Swimmer able to do the crawl (wordplay)

A suitable vehicle for Kermit (wordplay)

Sea-going jeep

Hornblende

Ambiguous discourse; amphibology.

""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.""

Amphipod

Largeness

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

More voluminous (wordplay)

Made louder

Intensified

Device used to increase sound

Device to boost sound levels

Part of a plane detector.

that makes more of it, by the sound of it

An attenuator decreases it

Maximum extent of signal or vibration

On a radio, the A in AM

Resembling an ampulla.

I'm placed and cut off over a boy

So I'm placed to have cut off the date

I'm placed next to a boy yet cut off

Removes limbs surgically

Surgically removes limbs

Prunes

A maiden to exploit men - time for fun!

What fun so to employ people in the mat!

Park opening (wordplay)

In a funny way

Retiring person undressed alone, humorously

Amygdala

Amygdale

""A glucoside extracted from bitter almonds as a white, crystalline substance.""

Amygdule

Amylogen

The diastase of the pancreatic juice.

Lack of muscle tone.

Anabaena

Process of molecular synthesis

Psychological dependence on others.

Constriction workers (wordplay)

Predators of the Amazon

Large semi-aquatic boas

Upbeats

Russia can rebuild - that's upbeat!

Unstressed syllable, in verse.

Musical upbeat

Bacteria, for example

Microorganisms that don't need oxygen

Many gastrointestinal tract residents

Lacking free oxygen

Like the bacteria in a septic tank

Causing an oxygen debt, as exercise

Anaglyph

Anagogy

Analcime

Analcite

Analemma

Can pet ail awfully? Here's a drug

Restorative

Invigorating

Lack of pain NOT a country! (nonverbal)

State of "feeling no pain"

In Ala., easing of pain

Agent allaying pain

Remedy allaying pain

Bill without a single wrong number

A deadening or absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness.

Anality

Bases of comparison

Some LSAT questions

Partial resemblances

One who seeks similarities

Explainer, of a sort

Debater who uses comparisons

Draw a comparison, in a way

Reason in a way

Like, with "to"

Comparable in certain respects

Similar opening about a trademark

Comparable things

Parallels.

A person undergoing psychoanalysis.

Analyser

Breaking down into component parts

Decoding any signal that's broadcast

Examining component parts

Study of data patterns

Data field

Analyzer

Analyze

Memory

The ability to recall past events

Memory of a former life; inane mass (anagram)

Mlle Nin absorbs men's failure in 'Remembrance of Things Past'

Fractured a peasant's feet

Metric feet of three syllables.

Feet of a girl with vermin we hear

Like some poetic feet

Anaphase

Of or pertaining to anaphase.

Anaphora

Strange air Pancho adopts, referring back in this rhetorical fashion

Like the phrase "she's beauty, she's grace", in linguistics

""Loss of structural differentiation within a cell or group of cells often with increased capacity for multiplication, as in a malignant tumor.""

States of lawlessness and disorder

Political upheavals

As in March, perhaps, causing disorder

Man's chair (anagram)

Form of government, sired by Proudhon.

Disorderly sort (wordplay)

Revolutionary in rash act (wordplay)

No government would please him!

Anasarca

Greatly detested things

Detested things

Betes noires

Physical structures

Human bodies

Body structures

To dissect a very little matter is easy at first

A holder of the skeleton key (wordplay)

Bridie's dissector

One studying bodily structure

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

Anatoxin

Some people in a tree

Ones higher up in a tree

People in trees

Of the family of Lancaster, perhaps

To do with forebears, say stately home

Like a family tree's roots (wordplay)

City at the head of Cook Inlet

Alaskan Air Force base.

Place for ships to stop

Religious lady's short reply about housework

Things to be done in response to solitary soul

Workers taking on board routine task for folk living alone

Hermits.

Stopping the vessel

Stopping at sea

Religious recluse (hist.)

Hermit or religious recluse

Hermit as a result of her action, sadly

Rather rank (wordplay)

One with breaking news

Jim Lehrer, for instance

Huntley and Brinkley, for example

Rather and Brokaw, for example

Rather and Jennings, for example

Small Pacific fish used for bait

Tiny fishes for pizza

Unpopular pizza topping choice

Bagna c uda ingredient

Anchusin

ANCIENT an aged man

Not in the modern manner

As of old for the client in any circumstances

Antiquity; what is ancient.

Of lesser importance

Romantically involved? - Not Tom in subsidiary!

Supporting, subsidiary

Ancress

At a light moderate pace (music)

Musical tempo - ain't donna (anagram)

Slightly faster than walking pace (mus.)

Andesite

""ANDESITE a volcanic rock, also ANDESYTE""

Andesyte

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 .""

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

They can send organ mad

Hermaphroditic plant

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

Subject explored in "The Crying Game"

Subject explored in 'The Crying Game'

Hermaphroditism

Dead Roman, perhaps, or mythical Greek

Princess attached to rock stars in group

The Chained Lady

Unreliable or hearsay (account)

Article located in ruins? That's hearsay

Based on hearsay

Noted case (anagram)

Arranged end to case histories, perhaps

Raconteur's specialty.