Ten Letter Words A-Z

These words are all ten letters long, and start with each letter of the alphabet. From the clues, can you work them out?

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	Hint	Word
A	high-ranking diplomat	ambassador
B	board game with 15 pieces each	backgammon
C	to go around; bypass	circumvent
D	left speechless; stunned	dumbstruck
E	eagerness, excited interest	enthusiasm
F	to indicate beforehand	foreshadow
G	record player; phonograph	gramophone
H	fear of gay people	homophobia
I	unable to read	illiterate
J	newspaper reporter	journalist
K	Australian "laughing" bird	kookaburra
L	Bavarian leather shorts	lederhosen
M	puppet on strings	marionette

	Hint	Word
N	ancient city's cemetery	necropolis
O	science of childbirth	obstetrics
P	treat milk by killing bacteria	pasteurize
Q	asks the questions on gameshows	quizmaster
R	early rock and roll music style	rockabilly
S	study of earthquakes	seismology
T	percussion instrument	tambourine
U	universally agreed upon	undisputed
V	animal with a skeleton	vertebrate
W	someone who does nothing but work	workaholic
X	dry climate plant, eg cactus	xerophytic
Y	bridge hand with no card over 9	yarborough
Z	veering left-right-left while moving	zigzagging

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2 Comments

Level 92

Sep 9, 2015

I think xerophilic would work too.

Level 76

Sep 9, 2015

In this case, the relevant adjective for xerophile is xerophilous, which puts us one letter over.

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