Scrabble words; A

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• acerate, acerose: adj needle-like, as the leaves of pine
  
• adhibit: v to admit, as a person or thing; take in; use or apply; administer; attach or affix
  
• agene: n nitrogen trichloride; a yellow pungent volatile oil formerly used for bleaching and aging flour
  
• agenise, agenize: v to bleach flour using nitrogen trichloride
  
• agnate: adj related on the father's side
  
• agnatic: adj patrilineal; pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors
  
• analcime, analcite: n a white or light coloured zeolite found in certain basalts
  
• anoa: n a small buffalo of Celebes and the Philippines, having short pointed horns
  
• apeak, apeek: adj in a vertical or nearly vertical position or direction
  
• apod: n an animal lacking feet
  
• areology: n the observation and study of the planet Mars
  
• astony, (astonies, astonied, astonying): v to stun; bewilder; astonish; dismay (archaic)
  
• audad: n wild sheep of Northern Africa
  
• aventail: n a curtain of mail attached by means of staples (vervelles) around the base of a helmet, and covering the shoulders
  
• avodire: n an African tree
  
• azotemia: n uremia; a toxic condition resulting from kidney disease in which there is retention in the bloodstream of waste products normally excreted in the urine
  
• azoth: n mercury (alchemical)