- adAdvantage; also, designating the left-hand side, from the player's point of view, of their half of the court, where the advantage point following a deuce is always played.
- agreeTo be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action; to have a consistent idea between two or more people.
- assaultA violent onset or attack with physical means, for example blows, weapons, etc.
- adjustTo modify.
- collTo hug or embrace.
- exciseA tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country).
- piedmontAny region of foothills of a mountain range.
- abbreviationThe result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
- assailantSomeone who attacks or assails another violently, or criminally.
- affrontTo insult intentionally, especially openly.
- adroitdeft, dexterous, or skillful
- apportionTo divide and distribute portions of a whole.
- assailTo attack with harsh words or violent force.
- alliterationThe repetition of consonant sounds or letters at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; such repetition specifically involving stressed syllables.
- appuiA support or supporter; a stay; a prop.
- abaseTo lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate.
- a-Forming verbs with the sense away, up, on, out.
- accouterTo furnish with dress or equipments, especially those for military service.
- acquietTo quiet.
- -adA unit or set (especially of a specified number).
- ad baculumTo appeal by force.
- ad captandumAttempting to win popular favour, or to dupe the public.
- ad coelumThe principle by which property rights extend vertically upwards and, sometimes, downwards from a property; it is used to describe air rights or no-fly zones, as well as rights to resources under the soil, such as mineral rights, among others.
- addorsedSet back to back, facing away from each other.
- addulceTo sweeten; to soothe.
- adretThe sun-facing side of a mountain; in the northern hemisphere, this is typically the south-facing slope.
- affamishTo cause (somebody) to die of hunger; to starve.
- afforestTo make into forest
- alluminorAn illuminator of manuscripts and books; a limner.
- amollishmentSoftening; mollification; appeasing; mitigation.
- annidationThe adaptation of the various genotypes to different ecological niches, such as where a mutant form of a species is maintained in a population because it can flourish in a way that the parent organisms cannot.
- apperilperil
- assientoA contract or convention between Spain and other powers for providing African slaves for the Spanish colonies in America, especially the contract made with Great Britain in 1713.
- dos a dosA move in square dancing in which two dancers face each other, then step forward and left until they have right shoulders adjacent, then move to a position where they are back to back, then move to have left shoulders adjacent, then return to facing each other.
- paravailAt the bottom; lowest (said of feudal tenants).
- ramollescenceA softening or mollifying; softness