Letter: a
- asphyxiating gas, ammonia, carbon dioxide, gas, nitrogen, oxygen

- asphyxiation, abscess, ague, anaemia, asphyxia, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, backache, bleeding, chill, chills, choke, choking, colic, constipation

- aspic, ambrosia, barbecue, boiled meat, chef salad, civet, combination salad, flesh, fruit salad, game, green salad, hash, herring salad, jerky, joint, jugged hare

- aspirant, addict, also-ran, applicant, aspirer, baby kisser, bidder, candidate, claimant, collector, coveter, dark horse, defeated candidate, desirer, devotee, dud

- aspirate, breathe, breathe in, coo, draw in, inhale, inspire, mumble, murmur, mutter, sigh, slurp, sniff, sniffle, snuff, snuff in

- aspiration, aim, allophone, alveolar, ambition, ambitiousness, animus, articulation, artificial respiration, assimilation, assumption, assurance, assured faith, asthmatic wheeze, basis, bated breath

- aspirator, apparatus, corkscrew, crowbar, crucible, instrument, pincers, pipette, press, pump, siphon, syringe, test tube

- aspire after, aim, aim at, aspire, covet, crave, design, desire, destine, determine, go for, hunger, intend, lust after, mean, plan

- aspire to, aim, aim at, aspire, bank on, confide, count on, design, desire, destine, determine, expect, go for, hope, intend, mean

- aspire, aim, aim at, aspire after, aspire to, bank on, be after, become airborne, claw skyward, confide, count on, covet, crave, crave after, crawl after, design

- aspirer, addict, aspirant, candidate, collector, devotee, freak, hopeful, lover, millenarian, optimist, perfectionist, ray of sunshine, suitor, utopian, votary

- aspiring, Olympian, aerial, airy, ambitious, ascending, assured, careerist, colossal, confident, dominating, elevated, eminent, ethereal, exalted, expectant

- ass hole, anus, boob, booby, bung, bunghole, chump, ding-a-ling, galoot, goof, jerk, jerk-off, mutt, prize sap, sap

- ass over elbows, backward, head over heels, inside out, introverted, inverted, reversed, transposed, upside down

- ass, act of love, adultery, balling, beast of burden, bigot, bitter-ender, born fool, buffoon, bum, camel, can, carnal knowledge, cheeks, climax, clown

- ass-backwards, against the grain, anarchic, astern, away, back, backward, balled up, chaotic, clumsily, confused, counter-clockwise, fro, gummed up, jumbled, messed up

- ass-kissing, fawning, flattery, grovelling, insinuation, obeisance, obsequious, parasitism, prostration, servile, servility, sponging, submissive, sycophancy, toadying, truckling

- ass-licker, backslapper, brownie, courtier, creature, dupe, flatterer, flunky, groveller, helot, instrument, jackal, lackey, minion, peon, puppet

- ass-reaming, chewing, dressing, roasting, what for

- assail the ear, contact, get across, get through, get to, make an impression, reach, register

- assail, ambush, assault, attack, blister, blitz, bushwhack, castigate, censure, come at, come down on, crack down on, cry out against, cry out on, cry shame upon, descend on

- assailable, liable, penetrable, surmountable, vulnerable, weak

- assailant, adversary, aggressor, antagonist, assaulter, attacker, combatant, enemy, foe, invader, mugger, opponent, opposing party, opposite camp, raider, the loyal opposition

- assailing, abuse, aggression, assault, attack, berating, blitz, blitzkrieg, breakthrough, charge, contumely, counter-attack, diatribe, diversion, drive, driving

- assassin, alarmist, bomber, bravo, butcher, button man, cannibal, cut-throat, desperado, eradicator, executioner, exterminator, garrotter, gorilla, gun, gunman

- assassinate, bump, bump off, cool, dispatch, do in, eliminate, execute, finish, get rid of, kill, knock off, liquidate, murder, purge, put away

- assassination, destruction, dispatch, elimination, execution, foul play, homicide, liquidation, massacre, murder, purge, purging, removal

- assault and robbery, banditry, extortion, highway robbery, hijacking, hold-up, mugging, robbery, stickup

- assault sexually, deflower, rape, ravish, take, violate

- assault, abuse, aggravated assault, aggression, ambush, amphibious attack, armed assault, assail, assailing, attack, banzai attack, barbarize, batter, battering, battery, bear
