- a large round beam (of wood)
- a foe
- a typical ball_like indian sweetmeat
- an educator
- a teacher
- accenting
- a notch
- a shadow
- a target
- a friend
- an accompanyist
- amazement
- astonishment
- a treasure
- a dictionary
- a sheath
- a thorn
- apache
- a spring
- a reward
- alms
- a cap
- afford
- a contraceptive
- assign
- ascribe
- a prototype
- an image
- a killer
- a gem
- a companion
- an associate
- a co_variant
- a stupid
- an offer
- a mediaeval rajput custom wherein the women performed self_immolation to save their honour
- a trust
- anything entrusted to somebody
- a charge
- a nitwit
- archetype
- apotheosis
- an ideal
- a model
- according to (one's) understanding
- a present
- a power loom
- a medicine
- a scene
- arousing a sense of wonder