___ acid (protein building block)
The crossword clue "___ acid (protein building block)" is answered by AMINO, a 5-letter entry. Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
AMINO
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AMINO answer page.
Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for AMINO
Every other clue in this collection answered by AMINO, most used first.
- ___ acid - used 177 times, most recently in 2026
- Acid type - used 134 times, most recently in 2026
- Kind of acid - used 116 times, most recently in 2026
- ___ acids - used 106 times, most recently in 2026
- Type of acid - used 60 times, most recently in 2024
- Essential ___ acids - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
- Acid in proteins - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
- Protein-building acid - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- ___ acid (protein component) - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Essential acid - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Protein acid - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Kind of acid in proteins - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- ___ acid (protein part) - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- PABA part - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
- ___ acid (protein builder) - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- ___ acids (protein components) - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Kind of acid in protein - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Acid variety - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Type of acid in proteins - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Essential acid type - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Part of PABA - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
- Acid head? - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- Certain acid - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
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