1. [n]  a substance that destroys micro-organisms that carry disease without harming body tissues
2. [adj]  (extended sense) of exceptionally clean language; "lyrics as antiseptic as Sunday School"
3. [adj]  clean and honest; "antiseptic financial practices"
4. [adj]  thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms; "doctors in antiseptic green coats"; "the antiseptic effect of alcohol"; "it is said that marjoram has antiseptic qualities"
5. [adj]  made free from live bacteria or other microorganisms; "sterilized instruments"
6. [adj]  freeing from error or corruption; "the antiseptic effect of sturdy criticism"

ANTISEPTIC is a 10 letter word that starts with A.

1. \An`ti*sep"tic\, Antiseptical \An`ti*sep"tic*al\, a.
   Counteracting or preventing putrefaction, or a putrescent
   tendency in the system; antiputrefactive.
   {Antiseptic surgery}, that system of surgical practice which
      insists upon a systematic use of antiseptics in the
      performance of operations and the dressing of wounds.
   

2. \An`ti*sep"tic\, n.
   A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or
   destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt,
   carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona.
   

1. A compound that prevents infection or decay by killing a wide range of pathogenic microbes.
2. The condition of being free of pathogenic microbes.