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Index to letter A

A flea in one’s ear;   A rose by any other name;   A Word A Day;   A Word for All;   A Zillion Troubles;   Abacot;   Abbreviation ‘lb’ for pound;   Abditory;   Abecedarian;   Abigail;   Able-whackets;   Abracadabra;   Absquatulate;   According to Cocker;   Acersecomic;   Acid test;   Acoustic shock;   Acronychal;   Acronyms Selected for Your Enjoyment;   Acrophony;   Across the board;   Action at a distance;   Activate the balls!;   Activitystat;   Adam’s off ox;   Addiction;   Adimpleate;   Adipocere;   Adoxography;   Adumbrate;   Adust;   Aeriated;   Aerobot;   Aerotropolis;   Affluence test;   AfPak;   Aga saga;   Agelastic;   Agister;   Agitory;   Agnotology;   Agog;   Agrestic;   Agroterrorism;   Ahead of the curve;   Ahoy!;   Aksed versus asked;   Alamagoozlum;   Alas Poor Nell;   Albertopolis;   Alcolock;   Alcopop;   Alegar and beeregar;   Alexipharmic;   Aliment;   All mouth and trousers;   All my eye and Betty Martin;   All Sir Garnet;   All wool and a yard wide;   All-singing, all-dancing;   Allision;   Allohistory;   Altermodernism;   Aluminium versus aluminum;   Ambient;   Ambient advertising;   Ambulance at the bottom of the cliff;   America In So Many Words;   Amn’t;   Amperkine;   Ampersand;   An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology;   Anadiplosis;   Analemmatic;   Anamorphosis;   Anatine;   Andrew;   Andropause;   Anfractuosity;   Angiogenesis inhibitor;   Animadvert;   Anorakish;   Ansated;   Ansible;   Antelucan;   Anthropodermic;   Anti-fogmatic;   Antimacassar;   Apocope;   Apology;   Apoptosis;   Aposematic;   Aposiopesis;   Apostrophes;   Apotropaic;   Apozem;   Apple of one’s eye;   Approximeeting;   Apricate;   April;   Arab Spring;   Archaeogenetics;   Archaeon;   Arenaceous;   Areologist;   Arfanarf;   Argosy;   Argy-bargy;   Aristology;   Arms akimbo;   Arsenal;   Artefact versus artifact;   Artilect;   As the crow flies;   Ascian;   Ash;   Asian Brown Cloud;   Asparagus;   Astrobleme;   Astrobolism;   Asylo;   Asymmetrical warfare;   Asynartesia;   At sixes and sevens;   At the drop of a hat;   Ataraxy;   Atrabilious;   Attercop;   Aunt Sally;   Austerian;   Austringer;   Autohagiography;   Auxetic;