- Abature ~ Trail through a woods that was beaten down by a stag. 
- Abbozzo ~ Preliminary sketch. 
- Abderian ~ Given to incessant or idiotic laughter. 
- Abditory ~ A place into which you can disappear; a hiding place. 
- Abirritate ~ To alleviate irritation; to reduce sensitivity. 
- Abligurition ~ Excessive spending on food or drink. 
- Ablutomania ~ Mania for washing oneself. 
- Aboulia / Abulia ~ Loss of ability to make decisions. 
- Absquatulate ~ To decamp; to leave quickly; to flee. 
- Acanaceous ~ Bearing prickles or thistles; prickly. 
- Acatalepsy ~ The unknowableness of all things to a certainty. 
- Accubation ~ The practice of eating/drinking whilst lying down. 
- Accipiter ~ Bandage worn around the nose. 
- Accismus ~ In rhetoric, pretending to refuse something. 
- Accolent ~ Neighbouring. 
- Acedia ~ Listlessness; sloth. 
- Acersecomic ~ One whose hair has never been cut. 
- Acolous ~ Limbless. 
- Acouasm ~ Ringing noise in the head. 
- Adactylous ~ Lacking fingers or claws. 
- Adoral ~ Near the mouth. 
- Adynamia ~ Helplessness; lack of strength. 
- Aeolistic ~ Long-winded. 
- Aeviternal ~ Everlasting; endless. 
- Agelast ~ A person who never laughs. 
- Agerasia ~ The state of looking younger than one actually is. 
- Agomphosis ~ Looseness in the teeth. 
- Agowilt ~ Sudden sickening and unnecessary fear. 
- Agraphia ~ Inability to write. 
- Agrize ~ To horrify; to disfigure. 
- Agrypnia ~ Insomnia. 
- Aischrolatry ~ Worship of filth, dirt, or smut. 
- Alcatote ~ Silly elf. 
- Alfet ~ Cauldron of boiling water used during trials by ordeal. 
- Algetic ~ Causing or producing pain. 
- Algid ~ Cold; chilly. 
- Algor ~ Coldness; shivering fit. 
- Aliicide ~ Killing of someone other than oneself; murder. 
- Alliaceous ~ Of, like or pertaining to garlic; garlicky. 
- Allogeneous ~ Different. 
- Allwhere ~ Elsewhere; everywhere. 
- Amadelphous ~ Outgoing; gregarious. 
- Ambiloquous ~ Using dubious or ambiguous expressions. 
- Ambsace ~ Bad luck; a low score. 
- Amidmost ~ In the very middle. 
- Amoret ~ Love sonnet or song. 
- Amorphous ~ Lacking definite form; having no specific shape; formless. 
- Ampliative ~ Supplemental; additional. 
- Anacampserote ~ Something that can bring back a lost love. 
- Anacoluthon ~ Moving to a new topic of discussion before finising the current one. 
- Anaerectic ~ Destructive. 
- Analects ~ Crumbs that fall from the table. 
- Anencephalic ~ Lacking a brain. 
- Anhedonia ~ An unresponsiveness to pleasure. 
- __Annomination_ ~ Pun; play on words. 
- Anodyne ~ Something that relieves pain or suffering. 
- Anoesis ~ Sensation not accompanied by understanding of it. 
- Antapology ~ Response to an apology. 
- Apodysophilia ~ Feverish desire to undress. 
- Appetence ~ Strong craving or powerful desire. 
- Apricity ~ The warmth of the sun in winter. 
- Apodyopsis ~ The act of mentally undressing someone. 
- Arefy ~ To dry up; to wither. 
- Arreptitious ~ Ecstatic; frantic; hasty or hurried. 
- Asperge ~ To sprinkle. 
- Attingent ~ Touching. 
- Auricular ~ Of, like or pertaining to the ear; spoken secretly. 
- Autodidact ~ A self-taught person. 
- Autolatry ~ The worship of one's self. 
- Axilla ~ Armpit. 
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