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~able |
An adjective suffix now usually in a passive sense; able to be; fit to be; expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense; as, movable, able to be moved; amendable, able to be amended; blamable, fit to be blamed; salable. |
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~ably |
A suffix composed of -able and the adverbial suffix -ly; as, favorably. |
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~ana |
A suffix to names of persons or places, used to denote a collection of notable sayings, literary gossip, anecdotes, etc. Thus, Scaligerana is a book containing the sayings of Scaliger, Johnsoniana of Johnson, etc. |
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~ance |
A suffix signifying action; also, quality or state; as, assistance, resistance, appearance, elegance. See -ancy. |
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~ancy |
A suffix expressing more strongly than -ance the idea of quality or state; as, constancy, buoyancy, infancy. |
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~ative |
adjective form showing a characteristic |
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~chron~ |
time |
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“Her charm is beyond description!” the artist exclaimed. |
“Her charm is to a great and astonishing extent!” the artist procliamed |
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“How long does it take to get to Vienna on foot?” “Sorry, I`m a stranger here. |
“How long does it take to get to Vienna on foot?” “Sorry, I`m a stranger here. |
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“I`m soaked with sweat.” “Step back. You stink!” |
“I`m wet with sweat.” “dont come close to me. You smell!” |
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“Now and then I think of divorcing him.” “You must be kidding!” |
“Now and then I think of divorcing him.” “You must be kidding!” |
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“What if I miss the deadline?” “I bet he will get mad at you!” |
“What if I miss the deadline?” “I bet he will get mad at you!” |
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3D |
a movie with images having three dimensional form or appearance |
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49-ers |
Plural form of 49er |
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a |
used before nouns and noun phrases that denote a single but unspecified person or thing |
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A- |
A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. 1) It frequently signifies on or in from an, a forms of AS. on), denoting a state, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atre |
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A 1 |
A registry mark given by underwriters as at Lloyd's) to ships in first-class condition. Inferior grades are indicated by A 2 and A 3. |
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A B C |
The first three letters of the alphabet, used for the whole alphabet.
A primer for teaching the alphabet and first elements of reading.
The simplest rudiments of any subject; as, the A B C of finance. |
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a bad debt |
a bad debt |
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A bad workman quarrels with his tools. |
A bad workman quarrels with his tools. |
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a ballpark figure |
an estimate; an off-the-cuff guess. |
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a basic direction |
the course or path on which something is moving or pointing |
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a beaten trail |
a stone in a marsh or shallow water that can be stepped on in crossing |
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a bilateral negotiation |
a bilateral negotiation |
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. |
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. |
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a bit |
A small portion, degree, or amount |
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a bleak(dark/poor) prospect |
a bleak(dark/poor) prospect |
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a blow |
sudden stroke with hand, weapon etc. |
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a bone to pick |
to want to talk to someone about something annoying they have done |
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a brand image |
the image or impression that people have of a product or a company, usually created by advertising. |
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a breathtaking(stunning) scenery |
extremely impressive or beautiful |
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a brivery scandal |
a brivery scandal |
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A buddy from my old stomping grounds. |
to die one after another until few or none are left |
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a bunch of |
a group of things of the same kind that are held or tied together |
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A bunch of people thrust their way toward the rear exit. |
A bunch of people thrust their way toward the rear exit. |
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a bundle of |
a bundle of |
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a burgeoning scandal |
a burgeoning scandal |
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A burnt child dreads the fire. |
A burnt child dreads the fire. |
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A calamity was avoided by sheer luck. |
A calamity was avoided by sheer luck. |
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a campaign(election) promise |
a campaign(election) promise |
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A cappella |
In church or chapel style; -- said of compositions sung in the old church style, without instrumental accompaniment; as, a mass a capella, i. e., a mass purely vocal.
A time indication, equivalent to alla breve. |
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a case in point |
an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time |
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a cash cow |
a business or a part of a business that always makes a lot of profit |
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a castle in the air |
Extravagant hopes and plans that will never be carried out |
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a cautious attitude |
Entry-level is used to describe basic low-cost versions of products such as cars or computers that are suitable for people who have no previous experience or knowledge of them. |
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a ceaseless effort |
a ceaseless effort |
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a central role |
of or relating to the people of Mesoamerica or their languages or cultures |
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a challenging spirit |
spirit of offering a challenge; testing one's ability, endurance, etc |
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a charitable contribution |
a charitable contribution |
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A chromosome |
able to be influenced
approachable
that can be reached/entered/used/seen/etc.
capable of being understood or appreciated |
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a close consultation |
the act or process of consulting |
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a comprehensive measure |
a comprehensive measure |
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a comprehensive plan |
a pill or tablet containing several vitamins |
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a comprehensive strategy |
being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition |
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a controversial bill |
A dispute, especially a public one, between sides holding opposing views. |
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a corruption scandal |
a corruption scandal |
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a couple of |
two (things) or a few (things) |
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A couple of flights were delayed on account of a minor accident. |
A couple of flights were delayed on account of a minor accident. |
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a current account deficit |
the value of imports of goods / services / investment incomes is greater than the value of exports. |
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a daunting challenge |
a difficult task |
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a deadlocked(stalled) negotiation |
a point where two sides in a dispute cannot agree |
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a decisive role |
a decisive role |
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a detailed consultation |
a detailed consultation |
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A devastating earthquake hit the state capital. |
A devastating earthquake hit the state capital. |
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A differ from B |
A differ from B |
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a difficult challenge |
a difficult challenge |
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a difficult decision |
a difficult decision |
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a diplomatic concession |
a diplomatic concession |
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a diplomatic sanction |
a diplomatic sanction |
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a diplomatic solution |
a diplomatic solution |
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a direct consultation |
a direct consultation |
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a distant dream |
a distant dream |
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a domestic(local) market share |
A domestic market, also referred to as an internal market or domestic trading, is the supply and demand of goods, services, and securities within a single country. |
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a dominant market share |
a dominant market share |
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a dramatic change |
a dramatic change |
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a drastic change |
a drastic change |
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A drop in the bucket. |
No one means not a single person, or not a single member of a particular group or set. |
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a drop of |
a drop of |
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A drowning man will catch at a straw. |
A drowning man will catch at a straw. |
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a fabulous scenery |
a fabulous scenery |
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a factor of |
a factor of |
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a fair(unbiased) investigation |
a fair(unbiased) investigation |
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a false(mistaken) belief |
a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning |
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a family of |
a group of, a herd of, a flock of |
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A fantastic brilliant play by Nakata. |
A fantastic brilliant play by Nakata. |
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A fantastic great play by Nakata. |
A fantastic great play by Nakata. |
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a far cry from |
very different from something |
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a few |
more than one but indefinitely small in number |
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a few minutes ago |
a few minutes ago |
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a few times |
a few times |
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a fierce struggle |
a fierce struggle |
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a fierce(heated) dispute |
a fierce(heated) dispute |
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a final conclusion |
a judgment disposing of the case before the court; after the judgment (or an appeal from it) is rendered all that remains is to enforce the judgment |
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a final decision |
a final decision |
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a final victory |
finally and definitely |
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a financial burden |
a financial burden |
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a financial crisis |
a situation in which the value of financial institutions or assets drops rapidly |
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a financial difficulty |
a financial difficulty |
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a firm stance |
a firm stance |
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a firm(staunch/unwavering) belief |
a firm(staunch/unwavering) belief |
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a first-hand experience |
a first-hand experience |
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a fiscal deficit |
a fiscal deficit |
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a foreign direct investment(FDI) |
investing in United States businesses by foreign citizens (often involves stock ownership of the business) |
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A fortiori |
With stronger reason. |
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a fratricidal war |
war of Relating to or denoting conflict within a single family or organization |
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a fresh image |
a fresh image |
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A friend in need is a friend indeed. |
Stuck is the past tense and past participle of stick. |
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a friendly tie |
a friendly tie |
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a full-fledged negotiation |
a full-fledged negotiation |
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A fund was set up to preserve endangered marine life. |
A fund was set up to preserve endangered marine life. |
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a future direction |
a future direction |
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a future-oriented(forward-looking) attitude |
a future-oriented(forward-looking) attitude |
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a golden opportunity |
Ideal moment to do something. |
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a good deal |
a good deal |
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a good deal of |
a good deal of |
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A good Jack makes a good Gill. |
(sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring |
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a great contribution |
a great contribution |
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a great help |
a great help |
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a group of |
a pack of |
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a growing concern |
a growing concern |
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a growing(escalating/snowballing) suspicion |
the outer layer of the Earth |
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a growth foundation |
a growth foundation |
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a hands-on experience |
a hands-on experience |
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a hard row |
a physically hard work |
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a hard-line(tough/toughened) stance |
A firm, uncompromising policy or position. |
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a head-on confrontation |
a head-on confrontation |
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A heart of gold |
A heart of gold |
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a heavy burden |
a heavy burden |
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a heightened expectation |
if something heightens a feeling or emotion, or if a feeling or emotion heightens, it becomes stronger |
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a high expectation |
A strong belief that something will happen or be the case |
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a high-profile scandal |
a high-profile scandal |
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a historic victory |
a historic victory |
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a host of |
a host of |
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a hostile attempt |
a hostile attempt |
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A humid climate is characteristic of the peninsula. |
A humid climate is characteristic of the peninsula. |
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A is the same as B |
A is the same as B |
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a joint effort |
Something done by two or more people or groups working together. |
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a joint program |
A joint programme is a programme of which the curriculum is coordinated and offered jointly by two or more institutions and which leads to a degree. |
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. |
used to tell somebody that something is not important and that they should not worry about it |
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a key role |
a key role |
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a key strategy |
a key strategy |
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A large number of people were deceived by the advertisement. |
A large number of people were deceived by the advertisement. |
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a large variety of |
a large variety of |
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a leading role |
a leading role |
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a legal deadline |
a legal deadline |
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a legal obligation |
a legal obligation |
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a legal solution |
a legal solution |
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A leopard cannot change his spots. |
a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile) |
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a letter of introduction |
a letter of introduction |
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a letter of reference |
a letter of reference |
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A level |
a public examination requiring advanced knowledge in a subject and taken at the end of secondary school, usually two years after O level |
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A line |
childcare during the day while parents work |
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a litmus test |
a coloring material (obtained from lichens) that turns red in acid solutions and blue in alkaline solutions; used as a very rough acid-base indicator |
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a little |
to a small degree |
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A little knowledge is dangerous. |
A little knowledge is dangerous. |
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A loaf of bread is better than the song of many birds. |
A loaf of bread is better than the song of many birds. |
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a long experience |
a long experience |
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a long face |
a disappointed, solemn, or miserable facial expression |
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a long way off |
a long way off |
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a long-cherished dream |
a long-cherished dream |
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a long-standing(long-held/long-championed/time-old) belief |
a long-standing(long-held/long-championed/time-old) belief |
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a long-term investment |
a long-term investment |
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a long-term strategy |
a long-term strategy |
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a looming suspicion |
a looming suspicion |
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a lot |
to a very great degree or extent |
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a lot of |
lots of |
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A lot of people look up to you. Don`t let them down. |
A lot of people look up to you. Don`t let them down. |
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a lukewarm attitude |
a lukewarm attitude |
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a majority of |
the greater part or number; the number larger than half the total |
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a man of means |
a man who is wealthy |
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A man of vision will make good in the end. |
A man of vision will make good in the end. |
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a marked(definite) difference |
Clearly defined; explicitly precise |
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a massive demonstration |
an occasion when a large group of people protest about something |
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A massive flood paralyzed the local transportation network. |
A massive flood paralyzed the local transportation network. |
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a massive protest |
a formal declaration of objection |
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a matter of time |
(label, en, idiomatic) an inevitable result; something that is bound to happen |
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A mensa et thoro |
A kind of divorce which does not dissolve the marriage bond, but merely authorizes a separate life of the husband and wife. |
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a ministerial meeting |
The topmost decision-making body of the WTO is the Ministerial Conference, which usually meets every two years. |
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a moral obligation |
an obligation arising out of considerations of right and wrong; "he did it out of a feeling of moral obligation" |
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a mounting debt |
Something that serves as a support, setting, or backing |
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a multilateral negotiation |
Multilateral means involving at least three different groups of people or nations |
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a must |
a must |
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a mutual concession |
a mutual concession |
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a myriad of |
a myriad of |
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a national spirit |
a national spirit |
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a natural conclusion |
is the last part of something, its end or result |
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a net profit |
gross profit minus all operating costs not included in the calculation of gross profit, esp wages, overheads, and depreciation |
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a number of |
A collection of persons or things; several. For example, A number of tours are available, or We've visited a number of times |
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A number of people couldn`t recognize him in that disguise. |
A number of people couldn`t recognize him in that disguise. |
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a pair of |
two corresponding persons or items, similar in form or function |
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a pare of |
a pare of |
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a peaceful breakthrough |
a peaceful breakthrough |
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a peaceful solution |
a peaceful solution |
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a performance appraisal |
censure severely or angrily |
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A picture is worth a thousand words. |
A picture is worth a thousand words. |
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a piec of advice |
a piec of advice |
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a piece of |
a thing considered as a unit or an element of a larger thing |
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a piece of ~ |
a piece of ~ |
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a piece of cake |
very easy to do |
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a pity |
a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others |
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a pivotal role |
to stop taking part in an activity, being a member of a group, etc. |
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a plethora of |
a large or excessive amount of (something). |
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a political scandal |
a political scandal |
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a power struggle |
Power struggles refer to people in a relationship fighting about who is in control, with both trying to dominate the relationship in one way or another. |
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a pressing challenge |
a pressing challenge |
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a prolonged standoff |
a prolonged standoff |
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a quality test |
a quality test |
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A rags to riches story. |
used to describe what happens to a person who was poor but becomes rich |
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a raise |
the amount a salary is increased |
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A rat in a trap. |
A rat in a trap. |
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a real bargain |
a real bargain |
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a realistic strategy |
a realistic strategy |
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a reasonable price |
a reasonable price |
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A recent survey reveals that the population density in the metropolis is decreasing. |
Up-to-the-minute information is the latest information that you can get about something. |
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a record profit |
money that is earned in trade or business after paying the costs of producing and selling goods and services |
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a resounding success |
a resounding success |
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a resounding victory |
a resounding victory |
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A revised edition of the encyclopedia was published. |
A revised edition of the encyclopedia was published. |
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a right direction |
a right direction |
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a rising expectation |
a rising expectation |
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A rolling stone gathers no moss. |
a belief in the moral value of work |
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a rosy prospect |
a rosy prospect |
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A sacred ritual took place in the magnificent temple. |
A sacred ritual took place in the magnificent temple. |
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a search warrant |
a search warrant |
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a secure foundation |
a secure foundation |
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a sense of humor |
the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous |
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a series of |
a series of |
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A series of blasts reduced the laboratory to ruins. |
A series of blasts reduced the laboratory to ruins. |
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a serious challenge |
strongly dislike somebody/something |
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A serious epidemic has broken out in Beijing. |
get bored or annoyed with something/doing something |
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a serious(grave) problem |
make something unpleasant seem less unpleasant |
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a sharp confrontation |
start a relationship well/badly |
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a significant contribution |
a significant contribution |
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a significant opportunity |
a significant opportunity |
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a sincere attitude |
a sincere attitude |
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A skilled mechanic earns decent wages. |
A skilled mechanic earns decent wages. |
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a slight upward shift in prices |
to some (great or small) extent |
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a sluggish economy |
a state in the economy in which the growth is slow, flat or declining. the term can refer to the economy as a whole or component of the economy |
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a sluggish(weak) investment |
a sluggish(weak) investment |
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a slumping economy |
a slumping economy |
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a small number of |
a few |
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a smashing(overwhelming) success |
showing characteristics of a film noir, in plot or style |
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a snowballing debt |
a debt reduction strategy, whereby one who owes on more than one account pays off the accounts starting with the smallest balances first, while paying the minimum payment on larger debts |
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a snowballing(swelling/growing) deficit |
a snowballing(swelling/growing) deficit |
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a soaring price |
a soaring price |
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a solid reputation |
a solid reputation |
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A sound mind in a sound body. |
the theory that physical exercise is an important or essential part of mental and psychological well-being. |
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a spate of |
a spate of |
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a specific measure |
specific unit or standard of measurement |
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a spectacular scenery |
a spectacular scenery |
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a splendid scenery |
a splendid scenery |
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a stable condition |
in a restless manner |
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a stack of |
a stack of |
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a state of boom |
a state of boom |
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a steady effort |
a steady effort |
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a steady rise in prices |
a steady rise in prices |
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A stitch in time saves nine. |
if you act immediately when something goes wrong, it will save you a lot more work later, because the problem will get worse if you leave it |
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a story to be told |
something to talk about later, a tale |
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a strategic alliance |
a strategic alliance |
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a street demonstration |
action by a mass group or collection of groups of people in favor of a political or other cause |
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a stringent(stern) measure |
in actual fact |
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a strong alliance |
A close association of nations or other groups, formed to advance common interests or causes |
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a strong belief |
an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence. |
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a strong foundation |
a strong foundation |
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a substantial breakthrough |
a substantial breakthrough |
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a summit meeting |
a meeting of heads of governments |
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a third |
The third item in a series is the one that you count as number three. |
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a thorough investigation |
a thorough investigation |
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A thousand times |
by three orders of magnitude |
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a ticket to the play |
a ticket to the play |
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a time-honored(time-old/long) tradition |
a time-honored(time-old/long) tradition |
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a ton of |
a ton of |
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a top(foremost/greatest/utmost) priority |
less than normal in degree or intensity or amount |
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a tough sanction |
a tough sanction |
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a tough(strong) measure |
a tough(strong) measure |
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a trade deficit |
a trade deficit |
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a trade sanction |
a trade penalty imposed by one nation onto one or more other nations. |
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a traditional alliance |
a traditional alliance |
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a traditional tie |
a traditional tie |
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a travel ban |
a travel ban |
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a trilateral consultation |
a trilateral consultation |
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a unique tradition |
the handing down of statements, beliefs, legends, customs, information, etc., from generation to generation, especially by word of mouth or by practice |
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a variety of |
many kinds of |
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a vast(extensive) experience |
a vast(extensive) experience |
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a vehement protest |
involving extremely strong feelings or beliefs |
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a vested interest |
a personal or private reason for wanting something to be done or to happen |
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a vital(crucial/important) role |
a vital(crucial/important) role |
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a waste of time |
spend a lot of time doing something that is unnecessary or does not produce any benefit. |
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A watched pot never boils. |
used to say that when you are impatient for something to happen, it seems to take longer |
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a while ago |
a while ago |
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a whole list of |
a whole lot of |
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a wide range of |
a lot of things that are different from each other. |
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a wide selection of |
a wide variety of |
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a wolf in sheep's clothing |
A feeling of shame, guilt, or embarrassment, resulting from behavior which one regrets. |
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a wonderful opportunity |
a wonderful opportunity |
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a working condition |
Conditions or work such as safety, amenities, levels of noise, stress, dirt etc. |
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A worm will turn. |
A worm will turn. |
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A.B.S. |
x. American Bible Society, absent absolute(ly) abstract |
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A.D.(Anno Domin) |
Medieval Latin, which means in the year of the Lord[7] but is often translated as in the year of our Lord |
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A.E.R.E. |
n. Automatic Energy Research Establishment |
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A.I. |
artificial intelligence |
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A.N. Other |
used at the end of a list of people to refer to someone whose name is not yet known |
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A.V.C. |
n. American Veterans' Committee |
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aa |
aa |
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aaa |
AAA (pronounced "triple A") or Triple-A is a classification term used for games with the highest development budgets and levels of promotion. |
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Aam |
(n.) A Dutch and German measure of liquids, varying in different cities, being at Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, at Antwerp 36 1/2, at Hamburg 38 1/4. |
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aardvark |
n. nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata |
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Aard-vark |
(n.) An edentate mammal, of the genus Orycteropus, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa. It burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue. |
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Aard-wolf |
(n.) A carnivorous quadruped Proteles Lalandii), of South Africa, resembling the fox and hyena. See Proteles. |
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Aaron |
n. (Old Testament) elder brother of Moses and first high priest of the Israelites; created the golden calf; United States professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934) |
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Aaronic |
(a.) Alt. of Aaronical |
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Aaronical |
(a.) Pertaining to Aaron, the first high priest of the Jews. |
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Aaron's beard |
a name given to various plants, especially the rose of Sharon (sense 2). |
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Aaron's rod |
A rod with one serpent twined around it, thus differing from the caduceus of Mercury, which has two.
A plant with a tall flowering stem; esp. the great mullein, or hag-taper, and the golden-rod. |
| 315 |
Ab |
(n.) The fifth month of the Jewish year according to the ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly with August. |
| 316 |
Ab- |
A prefix in many words of Latin origin. It signifies from, away , separating, or departure, as in abduct, abstract, abscond. See A-6). |
| 317 |
aba |
n. a fabric woven from goat hair and camel hair; a loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth; worn by Arabs |
| 318 |
abac |
another name for nomogram |
| 319 |
abaca |
n. Philippine banana tree having leafstalks that yield Manila hemp used for rope and paper etc; a kind of hemp obtained from the abaca plant in the Philippines
(n.) The Manila-hemp plant Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila. |
| 320 |
Abaci |
(pl. ) of Abacus |
| 321 |
Abacinate |
(v. t.) To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes. |
| 322 |
Abacination |
(n.) The act of abacinating. |
| 323 |
Abaciscus |
(n.) One of the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement; an abaculus. |
| 324 |
Abacist |
(n.) One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator. |
| 325 |
aback |
adv. by surprise; having the wind against the forward side of the sails
(adv.) Toward the back or rear; backward.
(adv.) Behind; in the rear.
(adv.) Backward against the mast; -- said of the sails when pressed by the wind.
(n.) An abacus. |
| 326 |
Abactinal |
(a.) Pertaining to the surface or end opposite to the mouth in a radiate animal; -- opposed to actinal. |
| 327 |
Abaction |
(n.) Stealing cattle on a large scale. |
| 328 |
Abactor |
(n.) One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves. |
| 329 |
Abaculi |
(pl. ) of Abaculus |
| 330 |
Abaculus |
(n.) A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements. |
| 331 |
abacus |
n. a calculator that performs arithmetic functions by manually sliding counters on rods or in grooves; a tablet placed horizontally on top of the capital of a column as an aid in supporting the architrave
(n.) A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently u |
| 332 |
Abacuses |
(pl. ) of Abacus |
| 333 |
Abada |
(n.) The rhinoceros. |
| 334 |
abaddon |
(n.) The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus.
(n.) Hell; the bottomless pit. |
| 335 |
abaft |
adv. at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane
(prep.) Behind; toward the stern from; as, abaft the wheelhouse.
(adv.) Toward the stern; aft; as, to go abaft. |
| 336 |
Abaisance |
(n.) Obeisance. |
| 337 |
Abaiser |
(n.) Ivory black or animal charcoal. |
| 338 |
Abaist |
(p. p.) Abashed; confounded; discomfited. |
| 339 |
Abalienate |
(v. t.) To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.
(v. t.) To estrange; to withdraw.
(v. t.) To cause alienation of mind). |
| 340 |
Abalienation |
(n.) The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement. |
| 341 |
abalone |
n. any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior
(n.) A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. S |
| 342 |
abampere |
n. a unit of current equal to 10 amperes |
| 343 |
Aband |
(v. t.) To abandon.
(v. t.) To banish; to expel. |
| 344 |
abandon |
to leave a place, thing, or person, usually for ever |
| 345 |
abandon oneself to |
abandon oneself to |
| 346 |
abandoned |
of abandon (a.) forsaken, deserted. (a.) self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain. |
| 347 |
Abandonedly |
(adv.) Unrestrainedly. |
| 348 |
abandonee |
(n.) One to whom anything is legally abandoned. |
| 349 |
Abandoner |
(n.) One who abandons. |
| 350 |
Abandoning |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abandon |
| 351 |
Abandonment |
(n.) The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
(n.) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.
(n.) The |
| 352 |
Abandum |
(n.) Anything forfeited or confiscated. |
| 353 |
Abanet |
(n.) See Abnet. |
| 354 |
Abanga |
(n.) A West Indian palm; also the fruit of this palm, the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest. |
| 355 |
Abannation |
(n.) Alt. of Abannition |
| 356 |
Abannition |
(n.) Banishment. |
| 357 |
abarsion |
abarsion |
| 358 |
Abarticulation |
(n.) Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis. |
| 359 |
abase |
behave in a way that belittles or degrades (someone). |
| 360 |
abased |
of abase (a.) lowered; humbled. (a.) borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield. |
| 361 |
Abasedly |
(adv.) Abjectly; downcastly. |
| 362 |
Abasement |
(n.) The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation. |
| 363 |
Abaser |
(n.) He who, or that which, abases. |
| 364 |
abash |
make (someone) feel embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed. |
| 365 |
abashed |
to have been embarrassed or vexed |
| 366 |
Abashedly |
(adv.) In an abashed manner. |
| 367 |
abashing |
gerund or present participle of abash |
| 368 |
Abashment |
(n.) The state of being abashed; confusion from shame. |
| 369 |
abasia |
n. inability to walk |
| 370 |
Abasing |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abase |
| 371 |
Abassi |
(n.) Alt. of Abassis |
| 372 |
Abassis |
(n.) A silver coin of Persia, worth about twenty cents. |
| 373 |
Abatable |
(a.) Capable of being abated; as, an abatable writ or nuisance. |
| 374 |
abate |
(of something perceived as hostile, threatening, or negative) become less intense or widespread. |
| 375 |
abated |
past tense of abated |
| 376 |
Abatement |
(n.) The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof.
(n.) The amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; d |
| 377 |
Abater |
(n.) One who, or that which, abates. |
| 378 |
Abating |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abate |
| 379 |
abatis |
n. line of defense consisting of a barrier of felled or live trees with branches (sharpened or with barbed wire entwined) toward the enemy
(n.) Alt. of Abattis |
| 380 |
Abatised |
(a.) Provided with an abatis. |
| 381 |
Abator |
(n.) One who abates a nuisance.
(n.) A person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. |
| 382 |
Abattis |
(n.) A means of defense formed by felled trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy. |
| 383 |
abattoir |
n. a building where animals are butchered
(n.) A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc. |
| 384 |
Abattoirs |
(pl. ) of Abattoir |
| 385 |
Abature |
(n.) Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. |
| 386 |
Abatvoix |
(n.) The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum. |
| 387 |
Abawed |
(p. p.) Astonished; abashed. |
| 388 |
Abaxial |
(a.) Alt. of Abaxile |
| 389 |
Abaxile |
(a.) Away from the axis or central line; eccentric. |
| 390 |
Abay |
(n.) Barking; baying of dogs upon their prey. See Bay. |
| 391 |
Abb |
(n.) Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, abb wool is wool for the abb. |
| 392 |
Abb wool |
See Abb. |
| 393 |
Abba |
(n.) Father; religious superior; -- in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch. |
| 394 |
Abbacies |
(pl. ) of Abbacy |
| 395 |
abbacy |
n. the jurisdiction or office of an abbot
(n.) The dignity, estate, or jurisdiction of an abbot. |
| 396 |
abbatial |
adj. of or having to do with or belonging to an abbey or abbot, or abbess
(a.) Belonging to an abbey; as, abbatial rights. |
| 397 |
Abbatical |
(a.) Abbatial. |
| 398 |
abbe |
n. a French abbot
(n.) The French word answering to the English abbot, the head of an abbey; but commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress. |
| 399 |
abbess |
a woman who is the head of an abbey of nuns |
| 400 |
abbey |
A monastery or society of persons secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy |
| 401 |
Abbeys |
(pl. ) of Abbey |
| 402 |
abbot |
a man who is the head of an abbey of monks |
| 403 |
Abbotship |
(n.) The state or office of an abbot. |
| 404 |
abbreviate |
v. shorten; reduce in scope while retaining essential elements |
| 405 |
abbreviated |
of abbreviate (a.) shortened; relatively short; abbreviate. |
| 406 |
Abbreviating |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abbreviate |
| 407 |
abbreviation |
n. shortening something by omitting parts of it; a shortened form of a word or phrase
(n.) The act of shortening, or reducing.
(n.) The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.
(n.) The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; |
| 408 |
Abbreviator |
(n.) One who abbreviates or shortens.
(n.) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form. |
| 409 |
Abbreviatory |
(a.) Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging. |
| 410 |
Abbreviature |
(n.) An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form.
(n.) An abridgment; a compendium or abstract. |
| 411 |
ABC |
n. the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural) |
| 412 |
ABCC |
Atomic Bomb Casualties Commission |
| 413 |
ABCC Atomic Bomb Casualties Commission |
ABCC Atomic Bomb Casualties Commission |
| 414 |
Abdal |
(n.) A religious devotee or dervish in Persia. |
| 415 |
Abderian |
(a.) Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment. |
| 416 |
Abderite |
(n.) An inhabitant of Abdera, in Thrace. |
| 417 |
Abdest |
(n.) Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite. |
| 418 |
Abdicable |
(a.) Capable of being abdicated. |
| 419 |
Abdicant |
(a.) Abdicating; renouncing; -- followed by of.
(n.) One who abdicates. |
| 420 |
abdicate |
(of a monarch) renounce one's throne. |
| 421 |
abdicated |
of abdicate |
| 422 |
Abdicating |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abdicate |
| 423 |
abdication |
n. the act of abdicating; a formal resignation and renunciation of powers
(n.) The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne |
| 424 |
Abdicative |
(a.) Causing, or implying, abdication. |
| 425 |
Abdicator |
(n.) One who abdicates.
n. one who formally relinquishes and office or responsibility |
| 426 |
Abditive |
(a.) Having the quality of hiding. |
| 427 |
Abditory |
(n.) A place for hiding or preserving articles of value. |
| 428 |
abdomen |
the part of the body of a vertebrate containing the digestive and reproductive organs; the belly |
| 429 |
abdominal |
related to the belly part |
| 430 |
Abdominales |
(pl. ) of Abdominal
(n. pl.) A group including the greater part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals. |
| 431 |
Abdominalia |
(n. pl.) A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages. |
| 432 |
Abdominals |
(pl. ) of Abdominal |
| 433 |
Abdominoscopy |
(n.) Examination of the abdomen to detect abdominal disease. |
| 434 |
Abdominothoracic |
(a.) Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest. |
| 435 |
Abdominous |
(a.) Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. |
| 436 |
Abduce |
(v. t.) To draw or conduct away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part. |
| 437 |
abduced |
of abduce |
| 438 |
Abducing |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abduce |
| 439 |
abduct |
to kidnap |
| 440 |
abducted |
of abduct |
| 441 |
Abducting |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abduct |
| 442 |
abduction |
the act of making a person go somewhere with you, especially using threats or violence |
| 443 |
abductor |
n. a muscle that draws a body part away from the median line; someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)
(n.) One who abducts.
(n.) A muscle which serves to draw a part out, or form the median line of the body; as, the abducto |
| 444 |
Abe |
A big erection |
| 445 |
Abeam |
(adv.) On the beam, that is, on a line which forms a right angle with the ship's keel; opposite to the center of the ship's side.
adv. at right angles to the length of a ship or airplane |
| 446 |
Abear |
(v. t.) To bear; to behave.
(v. t.) To put up with; to endure. |
| 447 |
Abearance |
(n.) Behavior. |
| 448 |
Abearing |
(n.) Behavior. |
| 449 |
abecedarian |
adj. alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers); n. a 16th century sect of Anabaptists centered in Germany who had an absolute disdain for human knowledge; a novice learning the rudiments of some subject
(n.) One who is learning the alphabet; henc |
| 450 |
Abecedary |
(a.) Pertaining to, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet; alphabetic; hence, rudimentary.
(n.) A primer; the first principle or rudiment of anything. |
| 451 |
abed |
adv. in bed
(adv.) In bed, or on the bed.
(adv.) To childbed in the phrase "brought abed," that is, delivered of a child). |
| 452 |
Abegge |
Same as Aby. |
| 453 |
Abel |
n. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man; Abel was killed by Cain; Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829) |
| 454 |
Abele |
(n.) The white poplar Populus alba). |
| 455 |
Abelian |
(n.) Alt. of Abelonian |
| 456 |
Abelite |
(n.) Alt. of Abelonian |
| 457 |
Abelmosk |
(n.) An evergreen shrub Hibiscus -- formerly Abelmoschus -- moschatus), of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow. |
| 458 |
Abelonian |
(n.) One of a sect in Africa 4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel. |
| 459 |
Aberdeen |
n. a city in northeastern Scotland on the North Sea; a town in northeastern Maryland; a town in northeastern South Dakota; a town in western Washington |
| 460 |
aberdevin |
aberdevin |
| 461 |
Aber-de-vine |
(n.) The European siskin Carduelis spinus), a small green and yellow finch, related to the goldfinch. |
| 462 |
Aberdonian |
adj. of or relating to Aberdeen |
| 463 |
Aberr |
(v. i.) To wander; to stray. |
| 464 |
Aberrance |
(n.) Alt. of Aberrancy
n. a state or condition markedly different from the norm |
| 465 |
Aberrancy |
(n.) State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude, etc.
n. a state or condition markedly different from the norm |
| 466 |
aberrant |
departing from an accepted standard. |
| 467 |
Aberrate |
(v. i.) To go astray; to diverge. |
| 468 |
aberration |
a departure from what is normal, usual, or expected, typically one that is unwelcome. |
| 469 |
Aberrational |
(a.) Characterized by aberration. |
| 470 |
Aberuncate |
(v. t.) To weed out. |
| 471 |
Aberuncator |
(n.) A weeding machine. |
| 472 |
abesity |
abesity |
| 473 |
abet |
v. assist or encourage usually in some wrongdoing |
| 474 |
Abetment |
(n.) The act of abetting; as, an abetment of treason, crime, etc. |
| 475 |
Abettal |
(n.) Abetment. |
| 476 |
abetted |
of abet |
| 477 |
Abetter |
(n.) Alt. of Abettor |
| 478 |
Abetting |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abet |
| 479 |
Abettor |
(n.) One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender. |
| 480 |
Abevacuation |
(n.) A partial evacuation. |
| 481 |
abeyance |
a state of temporary disuse or suspension. |
| 482 |
Abeyancy |
(n.) Abeyance. |
| 483 |
Abeyant |
(a.) Being in a state of abeyance. |
| 484 |
Abhal |
(n.) The berries of a species of cypress in the East Indies. |
| 485 |
Abhominable |
(a.) Abominable. |
| 486 |
Abhominal |
(a.) Inhuman. |
| 487 |
abhor |
to regard with horror or loathing; detest |
| 488 |
abhorred |
of abhor |
| 489 |
abhorrence |
a feeling of hating something or someone |
| 490 |
Abhorrency |
(n.) Abhorrence. |
| 491 |
abhorrent |
inspiring disgust and loathing; repugnant. |
| 492 |
Abhorrently |
(adv.) With abhorrence. |
| 493 |
Abhorrer |
(n.) One who abhors. |
| 494 |
Abhorrible |
(a.) Detestable. |
| 495 |
Abhorring |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abhor
(n.) Detestation.
(n.) Object of abhorrence. |
| 496 |
Abib |
(n.) The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan. |
| 497 |
Abid |
of Abide |
| 498 |
abidance |
the act of abiding (enduring without yielding) |
| 499 |
abide |
to stay, to stand |
| 500 |
abide by |
act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes |
| 501 |
Abider |
(n.) One who abides, or continues.
(n.) One who dwells; a resident. |
| 502 |
abiding |
continuing; lasting. |
| 503 |
abiding belief |
abiding belief |
| 504 |
Abidingly |
(adv.) Permanently. |
| 505 |
Abies |
(n.) A genus of coniferous trees, properly called Fir, as the balsam fir and the silver fir. The spruces are sometimes also referred to this genus. |
| 506 |
Abietene |
(n.) A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine Pinus sabiniana) of California. |
| 507 |
Abietic |
(a.) Of or pertaining to the fir tree or its products; as, abietic acid, called also sylvic acid. |
| 508 |
Abietin |
(n.) Alt. of Abietine |
| 509 |
Abietine |
(n.) A resinous obtained from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether. |
| 510 |
Abietinic |
(a.) Of or pertaining to abietin; as, abietinic acid. |
| 511 |
Abietite |
(n.) A substance resembling mannite, found in the needles of the common silver fir of Europe Abies pectinata). |
| 512 |
abigail |
(n.) A lady's waiting-maid. |
| 513 |
Abiliment |
(n.) Habiliment. |
| 514 |
Abilities |
(pl. ) of Ability |
| 515 |
ability |
the physical or mental skill or qualities that you need to do something |
| 516 |
Abime |
(n.) Alt. of Abyme |
| 517 |
abiochemistry |
inorganic chemistry as contrasted with the chemistry of vital processes. |
| 518 |
abiogenesis |
n. a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter
(n.) The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; |
| 519 |
Abiogenetic |
(a.) Of or pertaining to abiogenesis. |
| 520 |
Abiogenist |
(n.) One who believes that life can be produced independently of antecedent. |
| 521 |
Abiogenous |
(a.) Produced by spontaneous generation. |
| 522 |
Abiogeny |
(n.) Same as Abiogenesis. |
| 523 |
Abiological |
(a.) Pertaining to the study of inanimate things. |
| 524 |
abiotic |
physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms. |
| 525 |
Abirritant |
(n.) A medicine that diminishes irritation. |
| 526 |
Abirritate |
(v. t.) To diminish the sensibility of; to debilitate. |
| 527 |
Abirritation |
(n.) A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia. |
| 528 |
Abirritative |
(a.) Characterized by abirritation or debility. |
| 529 |
Abit |
3d sing. pres. of Abide. |
| 530 |
abject |
extremely contemptible or degrading |
| 531 |
Abjectedness |
(n.) A very abject or low condition; abjectness. |
| 532 |
abjection |
n. a low or downcast state
(n.) The act of bringing down or humbling.
(n.) The state of being rejected or cast out.
(n.) A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation. |
| 533 |
abjectly |
adv. in a hopeless resigned manner
(adv.) Meanly; servilely. |
| 534 |
Abjectness |
(n.) The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility. |
| 535 |
Abjudge |
(v. t.) To take away by judicial decision. |
| 536 |
Abjudicate |
(v. t.) To reject by judicial sentence; also, to abjudge. |
| 537 |
Abjudication |
(n.) Rejection by judicial sentence. |
| 538 |
Abjugate |
(v. t.) To unyoke. |
| 539 |
Abjunctive |
(a.) Exceptional. |
| 540 |
Abjuration |
(n.) The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.
(n.) A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of heresy. |
| 541 |
Abjuratory |
(a.) Containing abjuration. |
| 542 |
abjure |
solemnly renounce (a belief, cause, or claim). |
| 543 |
abjured |
of abjure |
| 544 |
Abjurement |
(n.) Renunciation. |
| 545 |
Abjurer |
(n.) One who abjures. |
| 546 |
Abjuring |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abjure |
| 547 |
Ablactate |
(v. t.) To wean. |
| 548 |
Ablactation |
(n.) The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam.
(n.) The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach. |
| 549 |
Ablaqueate |
(v. t.) To lay bare, as the roots of a tree. |
| 550 |
Ablaqueation |
(n.) The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water. |
| 551 |
Ablastemic |
(a.) Non-germinal. |
| 552 |
ablated |
remove (body tissue) surgically. |
| 553 |
ablation |
n. surgical removal of a body part or tissue; the erosive process that reduces the size of glaciers
(n.) A carrying or taking away; removal.
(n.) Extirpation.
(n.) Wearing away; superficial waste. |
| 554 |
Ablatitious |
(a.) Diminishing; as, an ablatitious force. |
| 555 |
ablative |
adj. tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature; relating to the ablative case; n. the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb
(a.) Taking awa |
| 556 |
ablator |
See under ablation |
| 557 |
ablaut |
n. a vowel whose quality or length is changed to indicate linguistic distinctions (such as sing sang sung song)
(n.) The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get |
| 558 |
ablaze |
adj. lighted with red light as if with flames; resembling flame in brilliance or color; lighted up by or as by fire or flame; keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement
(adv. & a.) On fire; in a blaze, gleaming.
(adv. & a.) In a state o |
| 559 |
able |
can |
| 560 |
able leader |
able leader |
| 561 |
able to |
can |
| 562 |
ablebodied |
having a strong healthy body |
| 563 |
able-bodied |
having a strong, healthy body; physically fit. |
| 564 |
Ablegate |
(v. t.) To send abroad.
(n.) A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office. |
| 565 |
Ablegation |
(n.) The act of sending abroad. |
| 566 |
Able-minded |
(a.) Having much intellectual power. |
| 567 |
Ablen |
A small fresh-water fish Leuciscus alburnus); the bleak. |
| 568 |
Ableness |
(n.) Ability of body or mind; force; vigor. |
| 569 |
Ablepsy |
(n.) Blindness. |
| 570 |
Abler |
(a.) comp. of Able.
(a.) superl. of Able. |
| 571 |
Ablet |
Alt. of Ablen |
| 572 |
Abligate |
(v. t.) To tie up so as to hinder from. |
| 573 |
Abligurition |
(n.) Prodigal expense for food. |
| 574 |
Ablins |
(adv.) Perhaps.
(adv.) Perhaps; possibly. |
| 575 |
abloom |
adj. bursting into flower
(adv.) In or into bloom; in a blooming state. |
| 576 |
ablow |
(label, en, obsolete, postpositive) Blossoming, blooming, in blossom. |
| 577 |
Ablude |
(v. t.) To be unlike; to differ. |
| 578 |
Abluent |
(a.) Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent.
(n.) A detergent. |
| 579 |
ablush |
(adv. & a.) Blushing; ruddy. |
| 580 |
ablution |
the act of washing oneself (often used for humorously formal effect). |
| 581 |
Ablutionary |
(a.) Pertaining to ablution. |
| 582 |
Abluvion |
(n.) That which is washed off. |
| 583 |
ably |
adv. in a competent capable manner
(adv.) In an able manner; with great ability; as, ably done, planned, said. |
| 584 |
ABM |
n. a defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles |
| 585 |
abnegate |
renounce or reject (something desired or valuable). |
| 586 |
abnegated |
of abnegate |
| 587 |
Abnegating |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abnegate |
| 588 |
Abnegation |
(n.) a denial; a renunciation. |
| 589 |
Abnegative |
(a.) Denying; renouncing; negative. |
| 590 |
Abnegator |
(n.) One who abnegates, denies, or rejects anything. |
| 591 |
Abnet |
(n.) The girdle of a Jewish priest or officer. |
| 592 |
Abnodate |
(v. t.) To clear tress) from knots. |
| 593 |
Abnodation |
(n.) The act of cutting away the knots of trees. |
| 594 |
abnormal |
different from what is usual or average |
| 595 |
Abnormalities |
(pl. ) of Abnormality |
| 596 |
abnormality |
something abnormal, usually in the body |
| 597 |
abnormally |
adv. different from what is usual or average, especially in a way that is bad |
| 598 |
Abnormities |
(pl. ) of Abnormity |
| 599 |
Abnormity |
(n.) Departure from the ordinary type; irregularity; monstrosity. |
| 600 |
Abnormous |
(a.) Abnormal; irregular. |
| 601 |
ABO |
n. a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived |
| 602 |
aboard |
on or onto a ship, aircraft, bus, or train |
| 603 |
Abodance |
(n.) An omen; a portending. |
| 604 |
abode |
the place where someone lives |
| 605 |
Abodement |
(n.) A foreboding; an omen. |
| 606 |
Aboding |
(n.) A foreboding. |
| 607 |
abolish |
to officially end something, especially a law or system |
| 608 |
Abolishable |
(a.) Capable of being abolished. |
| 609 |
abolished |
of abolish |
| 610 |
Abolisher |
(n.) One who abolishes. |
| 611 |
Abolishing |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abolish |
| 612 |
Abolishment |
(n.) The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. |
| 613 |
abolition |
the act of ending a law or practice |
| 614 |
abolition of slavery |
the movement for the abolition of slavery, especially Negro slavery in the U.S |
| 615 |
Abolitionism |
principles or measures promoting the abolition especially of slavery |
| 616 |
abolitionist |
a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery. |
| 617 |
Abolitionize |
(v. t.) To imbue with the principles of abolitionism. |
| 618 |
Aboma |
(n.) A large South American serpent Boa aboma). |
| 619 |
abomasum |
n. the fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; the one where digestion takes place
(n.) Alt. of Abomasus |
| 620 |
Abomasus |
(n.) The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. See Ruminantia. |
| 621 |
Abomb |
atomic bomb |
| 622 |
abominable |
causing moral revulsion. |
| 623 |
Abominableness |
(n.) The quality or state of being abominable; odiousness. |
| 624 |
Abominably |
(adv.) In an abominable manner; very odiously; detestably. |
| 625 |
abominate |
detest; loathe. |
| 626 |
abominated |
past tense of abominate |
| 627 |
Abominating |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abominate |
| 628 |
abomination |
a thing that causes disgust or hatred. |
| 629 |
Abo-o, ab-o |
n. =ABORIGINAL
n. ABORIGINAL |
| 630 |
Aboon |
(prep.) and adv. Above. |
| 631 |
Aboral |
(a.) Situated opposite to, or away from, the mouth. |
| 632 |
Abord |
(n.) Manner of approaching or accosting; address.
(v. t.) To approach; to accost. |
| 633 |
aborigin |
to bring food up from the stomach |
| 634 |
aboriginal |
related to the people who lived there for a long time |
| 635 |
Aboriginality |
(n.) The quality of being aboriginal. |
| 636 |
Aboriginally |
(adv.) Primarily. |
| 637 |
aborigine |
a person, animal, or plant that has been in a country or region from earliest times. |
| 638 |
aborigines |
(n. pl.) The earliest known inhabitants of a country; native races.
(n. pl.) The original fauna and flora of a geographical area |
| 639 |
aborning |
between other activities; during intervals |
| 640 |
Aborsement |
(n.) Abortment; abortion. |
| 641 |
Aborsive |
(a.) Abortive. |
| 642 |
abort |
n. the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed; v. terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion; cease development, die, and be aborted; terminate before completion
(v. i.) To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.
(v. i.) |
| 643 |
Aborted |
(a.) Brought forth prematurely.
(a.) Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches. |
| 644 |
Aborticide |
(n.) The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide. |
| 645 |
abortifacient |
adj. causing abortion; n. a drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion
(v.) Producing miscarriage.
(n.) A drug or an agent that causes premature delivery. |
| 646 |
abortion |
a medical operation to end a pregnancy |
| 647 |
Abortional |
(a.) Pertaining to abortion; miscarrying; abortive. |
| 648 |
Abortionist |
(n.) One who procures abortion or miscarriage. |
| 649 |
abortive |
failing to produce the intended result. |
| 650 |
Abortively |
(adv.) In an abortive or untimely manner; immaturely; fruitlessly. |
| 651 |
Abortiveness |
(n.) The quality of being abortive. |
| 652 |
Abortment |
(n.) Abortion. |
| 653 |
abought |
of abye |
| 654 |
aboulia |
n. a loss of will power |
| 655 |
abound |
v. be abundant or plentiful; exist in large quantities |
| 656 |
abound in |
exist in large quantity |
| 657 |
aboundant |
aboundant |
| 658 |
abounded |
of abound |
| 659 |
Abounding |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abound |
| 660 |
about |
approximately; nearly; on the subject of, or connected with |
| 661 |
aboutface |
act of pivoting 180 degrees, especially in a military formation |
| 662 |
About-sledge |
(n.) The largest hammer used by smiths. |
| 663 |
above |
on high; overhead: the clouds above |
| 664 |
above all |
most important of everything. |
| 665 |
Above all, scientific terms call for precise definitions. |
Above all, scientific terms call for precise definitions. |
| 666 |
above board |
legitimate, honest, and open. |
| 667 |
above zero |
above zero |
| 668 |
aboveaverage |
aboveaverage |
| 669 |
aboveboard |
without concealment or deception; honest; adv. in an honest manner |
| 670 |
Above-cited |
(a.) Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing. |
| 671 |
Abovedeck |
(a.) On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice. |
| 672 |
aboveground |
adj. on or above the surface of the ground |
| 673 |
abovementioned |
mentioned or named earlier in the same text |
| 674 |
Above-mentioned |
(a.) Alt. of Above-named |
| 675 |
Above-named |
(a.) Mentioned or named before; aforesaid. |
| 676 |
Abovesaid |
(a.) Mentioned or recited before. |
| 677 |
abovestairs |
abovestairs |
| 678 |
abovo |
ad. (L.=from the egg) |
| 679 |
Abox |
(adv. & a.) Braced aback. |
| 680 |
Abp |
x. archbishop |
| 681 |
abracadabra |
n. gibberish and nonsense
(n.) A mystical word or collocation of letters written as in the figure. Worn on an amulet it was supposed to ward off fever. At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning; jargon. |
| 682 |
abrachia |
n. the condition of having no arms |
| 683 |
abractness |
abractness |
| 684 |
Abradant |
(n.) A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc. |
| 685 |
abrade |
scrape or wear away by friction or erosion. |
| 686 |
abraded |
of abrade |
| 687 |
abrader |
n. a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing |
| 688 |
Abrading |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abrade |
| 689 |
Abraham |
n. the first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac; according to Genesis, God promised to give Abraham's family (the Hebrews) the land of Canaan (the Promised Land); God tested Abraham by asking him to sacrifice his son |
| 690 |
Abrahamic |
(a.) Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch; as, the Abrachamic covenant. |
| 691 |
Abrahamitic |
(a.) Alt. of ical |
| 692 |
Abrahamman |
Abrahamman |
| 693 |
Abraham-man |
(n.) Alt. of Abram-man |
| 694 |
Abraid |
(v. t. & i.) To awake; to arouse; to stir or start up; also, to shout out. |
| 695 |
Abram |
Abram |
| 696 |
Abram-man |
(n.) One of a set of vagabonds who formerly roamed through England, feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms. |
| 697 |
Abranchial |
(a.) Abranchiate. |
| 698 |
Abranchiata |
(n. pl.) A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration. |
| 699 |
abranchiate |
adj. having no gills
(a.) Without gills. |
| 700 |
Abrase |
(a.) Rubbed smooth. |
| 701 |
abraser |
n. =ABRADER
n. ABRADER |
| 702 |
abrasion |
erosion by friction |
| 703 |
abrasive |
rude and unfriendly |
| 704 |
Abraum |
(n.) Alt. of Abraum salts |
| 705 |
Abraum salts |
(n.) A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium. |
| 706 |
Abraxas |
(n.) A mystical word used as a charm and engraved on gems among the ancients; also, a gem stone thus engraved. |
| 707 |
Abray |
(v.) See Abraid. |
| 708 |
abreact |
v. discharge bad feelings or tension through verbalization |
| 709 |
abreaction |
n. (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions |
| 710 |
abreast |
used to say that two or more people are next to each other and moving in the same direction |
| 711 |
Abrege |
(v. t.) See Abridge. |
| 712 |
Abrenunciation |
(n.) Absolute renunciation or repudiation. |
| 713 |
Abreption |
(n.) A snatching away. |
| 714 |
Abreuvoir |
(n.) The joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar. |
| 715 |
Abricock |
(n.) See Apricot. |
| 716 |
abridge |
v. lessen, diminish or curtail; reduce in scope while retaining essential elements |
| 717 |
abridged |
shortened |
| 718 |
abridgement |
n. a shortened version of a written work |
| 719 |
Abridger |
(n.) One who abridges. |
| 720 |
Abridging |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abridge |
| 721 |
abridgment |
to make a book, play, or piece of writing shorter by removing details and information that is not important |
| 722 |
Abroach |
(v. t.) To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap.
(adv.) Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped.
(adv.) Hence: In a state to be diffused or propagated; afoot; astir.
adj. of a cask or barrel |
| 723 |
abroad |
in or to a foreign country or countries |
| 724 |
Abrogable |
(a.) Capable of being abrogated. |
| 725 |
abrogate |
to end a law, agreement, or custom formally |
| 726 |
abrogated |
of abrogate |
| 727 |
Abrogating |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abrogate |
| 728 |
abrogation |
n. the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation
(n.) The act of abrogating; repeal by authority. |
| 729 |
abrogative |
(a.) Tending or designed to abrogate; as, an abrogative law. |
| 730 |
Abrogator |
(n.) One who repeals by authority.
n. an authority or official empowered to abolish or annul or repeal |
| 731 |
Abrood |
(adv.) In the act of brooding. |
| 732 |
Abrook |
(v. t.) To brook; to endure. |
| 733 |
abrupt |
sudden and unexpected, and often unpleasant: |
| 734 |
abruption |
n. an instance of sudden interruption
(n.) A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies. |
| 735 |
abruptly |
suddenly and unexpectedly; in a rude or curt manner |
| 736 |
Abruptness |
(n.) The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness.
(n.) Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence; as, abruptness of style or manner. |
| 737 |
abs |
prefix meaning from or to refrain from |
| 738 |
Absalom |
the third and favorite son of David, who rebelled against his father and was slain by Joab. II Sam. 13?18 |
| 739 |
abscess |
symptom consisting of a localized collection of pus surrounded by inflamed tissue |
| 740 |
abscessed |
adj. infected and filled with pus |
| 741 |
Abscesses |
(pl. ) of Abscess |
| 742 |
Abscession |
(n.) A separating; removal; also, an abscess. |
| 743 |
Abscind |
(v. t.) To cut off. |
| 744 |
abscise |
to cut |
| 745 |
Abscision |
(n.) See Abscission. |
| 746 |
Absciss |
(n.) See Abscissa. |
| 747 |
abscissa |
n. the value of a coordinate on the horizontal axis
(n.) One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal coordinate axes. |
| 748 |
Abscissae |
(pl. ) of Abscissa |
| 749 |
Abscissas |
(pl. ) of Abscissa |
| 750 |
Abscisses |
(pl. ) of Absciss |
| 751 |
abscission |
the act of cutting something off; shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant |
| 752 |
abscond |
leave hurriedly and secretly, typically to avoid detection of or arrest for an unlawful action such as theft. |
| 753 |
absconded |
of abscond |
| 754 |
Abscondence |
(n.) Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding. |
| 755 |
Absconder |
(n.) One who absconds. |
| 756 |
Absconding |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abscond |
| 757 |
abseil |
n. a descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point; v. lower oneself with a double rope coiled around the body from a mountainside |
| 758 |
absence |
the fact of not being where you are usually expected to be |
| 759 |
absent |
not in the place where you are expected to be |
| 760 |
absent -minded |
to forget things or to not pay attention to what he/she is doing, often because the person is thinking about something else. |
| 761 |
Absentaneous |
(a.) Pertaining to absence. |
| 762 |
Absentation |
(n.) The act of absenting one's self. |
| 763 |
absented |
of absent |
| 764 |
absentee |
n. one that is absent or not in residence
(n.) One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. |
| 765 |
absentee ballot |
a system of voting in which people send their votes by post when they cannot be present at an election |
| 766 |
absentee voter |
a vote cast by a person who, because of absence from usual voting district, illness, or the like, has been permitted to vote by mail |
| 767 |
absentee voting |
A ballot marked and mailed in advance by a voter away from the place where he or she is registered |
| 768 |
absenteeism |
n. habitual absence from work
(n.) The state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated. |
| 769 |
Absenter |
(n.) One who absents one's self. |
| 770 |
Absenting |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Absent |
| 771 |
absently |
adv. in an absentminded or preoccupied manner
(adv.) In an absent or abstracted manner. |
| 772 |
Absentment |
(n.) The state of being absent; withdrawal. |
| 773 |
absentminded |
having or showing a forgetful or inattentive disposition |
| 774 |
Absent-minded |
(a.) Absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied. |
| 775 |
Absentness |
(n.) The quality of being absent-minded. |
| 776 |
Absey-book |
(n.) An A-B-C book; a primer. |
| 777 |
Absinth |
(n.) Alt. of Absinthe |
| 778 |
Absinthate |
(n.) A combination of absinthic acid with a base or positive radical. |
| 779 |
absinthe |
n. strong green liqueur flavored with wormwood and anise; aromatic herb of temperate Eurasia and North Africa having a bitter taste used in making the liqueur absinthe
(n.) The plant absinthium or common wormwood.
(n.) A strong spirituous liqueur made fro |
| 780 |
Absinthial |
(a.) Of or pertaining to wormwood; absinthian. |
| 781 |
Absinthian |
(n.) Of the nature of wormwood. |
| 782 |
Absinthiate |
(v. t.) To impregnate with wormwood. |
| 783 |
Absinthiated |
(a.) Impregnated with wormwood; as, absinthiated wine. |
| 784 |
Absinthic |
(a.) Relating to the common wormwood or to an acid obtained from it. |
| 785 |
Absinthin |
(n.) The bitter principle of wormwood Artemisia absinthium). |
| 786 |
Absinthism |
(n.) The condition of being poisoned by the excessive use of absinth. |
| 787 |
Absinthium |
(n.) The common wormwood Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter plant, used as a tonic and for making the oil of wormwood. |
| 788 |
Absis |
(n.) See Apsis. |
| 789 |
Absist |
(v. i.) To stand apart from; top leave off; to desist. |
| 790 |
Absistence |
(n.) A standing aloof. |
| 791 |
absitomen |
may the presentiment not become real or take place |
| 792 |
abslute evaluation |
abslute evaluation |
| 793 |
absolete |
absolete |
| 794 |
absolete equipment |
Outmoded in design, style, or construction |
| 795 |
absolute |
very great or to the largest degree possible |
| 796 |
absolute alcohol |
ethanol containing less than one percent of water by weight. |
| 797 |
absolute altitude |
absolute altitude |
| 798 |
absolute ceiling |
the maximum height above sea level, usually measured in feet or metres, at which an aircraft can maintain horizontal flight Compare service ceiling |
| 799 |
absolute construction |
an absolute construction is a grammatical construction standing apart from a normal or usual syntactical relation with other words or sentence elements. |
| 800 |
absolute humidity |
the humidity of the atmosphere, usually expressed as the number of grams of water contained in 1 cubic metre of air Compare relative humidity |
| 801 |
absolute infinitive |
absolute infinitive |
| 802 |
absolute magnitude |
the apparent magnitude a given star would have if it were situated at a distance of 10 parsecs (32.6 light years) from the earth |
| 803 |
absolute majority |
If a political party wins an absolute majority, they obtain more seats or votes than the total number of seats or votes gained by their opponents in an election. |
| 804 |
absolute monarchy |
a monarchy without constitutional limits Compare constitutional monarchy |
| 805 |
absolute music |
music that is not designed to depict or evoke any scene or event Compare programme music |
| 806 |
absolute pitch |
Also called (not in technical usage) : perfect pitch the ability to identify exactly the pitch of a note without comparing it to another |
| 807 |
absolute temperature |
another name for thermodynamic temperature |
| 808 |
absolute value |
a real number regardless of its sign |
| 809 |
absolute zero |
Absolute zero is a theoretical temperature that is thought to be the lowest possible temperature. |
| 810 |
absolutely |
completely |
| 811 |
absolutely unfounded |
absolutely unfounded |
| 812 |
absoluteness |
(n.) The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.
n. the quality of being absolute; the quality of being complete or utter or extreme |
| 813 |
absolution |
the act of forgiving someone, especially in the christian religion, for something bad that they have done or thought |
| 814 |
absolutism |
n. the doctrine of an absolute being; the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government; dominance through threat of punishment and violence; a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or |
| 815 |
absolutist |
adj. pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism; n. one who advocates absolutism
(n.) One who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government.
(n.) One who believes that it is possible to realize a cognition or concept of the absolute.
(a.) Of or |
| 816 |
Absolutistic |
(a.) Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist. |
| 817 |
absolutize |
absolutize |
| 818 |
Absolutory |
(a.) Serving to absolve; absolving. |
| 819 |
Absolvable |
(a.) That may be absolved. |
| 820 |
Absolvatory |
(a.) Conferring absolution; absolutory. |
| 821 |
absolve |
to set free or release as from some obligation debt |
| 822 |
absolved |
of absolve |
| 823 |
Absolvent |
(a.) Absolving.
(n.) An absolver. |
| 824 |
Absolver |
(n.) One who absolves. |
| 825 |
Absolving |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Absolve |
| 826 |
absonant |
(a.) Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant. |
| 827 |
Absonous |
(a.) Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous. |
| 828 |
absorb |
to take (something) in through or as through pores or interstices. |
| 829 |
absorbability |
(n.) The state or quality of being absorbable. |
| 830 |
absorbable |
adj. capable of being absorbed or taken in through the pores of a surface
(a.) Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up. |
| 831 |
absorbed |
adj. taken in through the pores of a surface; retained without reflection; giving or marked by complete attention to of absorb |
| 832 |
absorbed in |
absorbed in |
| 833 |
Absorbedly |
(adv.) In a manner as if wholly engrossed or engaged. |
| 834 |
absorbefacient |
adj. inducing or promoting absorption |
| 835 |
absorbency |
n. the property of being absorbent
(n.) Absorptiveness. |
| 836 |
absorbent |
adj. having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.); n. a material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance
(a.) Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.
(n.) Anything which absorbs.
(n.) Any substanc |
| 837 |
absorbent cotton |
fluffy wadding of a kind originally made from raw cotton, used for cleansing wounds, removing cosmetics, and padding delicate objects. |
| 838 |
absorber |
n. (physics) material in a nuclear reactor that absorbs radiation
(n.) One who, or that which, absorbs. |
| 839 |
absorbing |
adj. capable of arousing and holding the attention
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Absorb
(a.) Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit. |
| 840 |
Absorbition |
(n.) Absorption. |
| 841 |
Absorpt |
(a.) Absorbed. |
| 842 |
absorptance |
n. a measure of the rate of decrease in the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (as light) as it passes through a given substance; the fraction of incident radiant energy absorbed per unit mass or thickness of an absorber |
| 843 |
absorption |
the process of taking something into another substance |
| 844 |
absorption band |
a range of wavelengths, frequencies or energies in the electromagnetic spectrum which are characteristic of a particular transition from initial to final state in a substance. |
| 845 |
absorption spectrum |
a spectrum of electromagnetic radiation transmitted through a substance, showing dark lines or bands due to absorption of specific wavelengths. |
| 846 |
absorptive |
adj. having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.)
(a.) Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe. |
| 847 |
Absorptiveness |
(n.) The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power. |
| 848 |
Absorptivity |
(n.) Absorptiveness. |
| 849 |
Absquatulate |
(v. i.) To take one's self off; to decamp.
v. run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along |
| 850 |
Absque hoc |
The technical words of denial used in traversing what has been alleged, and is repeated. |
| 851 |
abstact |
an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation |
| 852 |
abstain |
to not do something that you enjoy because it is bad or unhealthy |
| 853 |
abstain from |
abstain from |
| 854 |
abstained |
of abstain |
| 855 |
Abstainer |
(n.) One who abstains; esp., one who abstains from the use of intoxicating liquors. |
| 856 |
Abstaining |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abstain |
| 857 |
abstemious |
not doing things that give you pleasure, especially not eating good food or drinking alcohol |
| 858 |
Abstemiousness |
(n.) The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance. |
| 859 |
abstention |
n. the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol)
(a.) The act of abstaining; a holding aloof. |
| 860 |
abstentious |
adj. self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink
(a.) Characterized by abstinence; self-restraining. |
| 861 |
Absterge |
(v. t.) To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge. |
| 862 |
abstergent |
(a.) Serving to cleanse, detergent.
(n.) A substance used in cleansing; a detergent; as, soap is an abstergent. |
| 863 |
Absterse |
(v. t.) To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away. |
| 864 |
abstersion |
(n.) Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging. |
| 865 |
abstersive |
(a.) Cleansing; purging.
(n.) Something cleansing. |
| 866 |
Abstersiveness |
(n.) The quality of being abstersive. |
| 867 |
abstinence |
not doing something that you enjoy because it is bad or unhealthy |
| 868 |
Abstinency |
(n.) Abstinence. |
| 869 |
abstinent |
refraining from an activity or from the consumption of something, especially alcohol. |
| 870 |
Abstinently |
(adv.) With abstinence. |
| 871 |
Abstorted |
(a.) Wrested away. |
| 872 |
abstracism |
abstracism |
| 873 |
abstract |
existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence |
| 874 |
abstract expressionism |
a school of painting in new york in the 1940s that combined the spontaneity of expressionism with abstract forms |
| 875 |
abstract noun |
a noun that refers to a thing that does not exist as a material object |
| 876 |
abstract painting |
abstract painting |
| 877 |
abstracted |
not paying attention |
| 878 |
Abstractedly |
(adv.) In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind. |
| 879 |
Abstractedness |
(n.) The state of being abstracted; abstract character. |
| 880 |
Abstracter |
(n.) One who abstracts, or makes an abstract.
n. one who makes abstracts or summarizes information |
| 881 |
Abstracting |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abstract |
| 882 |
abstraction |
n. a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples; the act of withdrawing or removing something |
| 883 |
Abstractional |
(a.) Pertaining to abstraction. |
| 884 |
abstractionism |
the practice and theory of abstract art |
| 885 |
Abstractionist |
(n.) An idealist. |
| 886 |
abstractionmonger |
abstractionmonger |
| 887 |
Abstractitious |
(a.) Obtained from plants by distillation. |
| 888 |
abstractive |
adj. of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting
(a.) Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature. |
| 889 |
Abstractively |
(adv.) In a abstract manner; separately; in or by itself. |
| 890 |
Abstractiveness |
(n.) The quality of being abstractive; abstractive property. |
| 891 |
abstractly |
adv. in abstract terms
(adv.) In an abstract state or manner; separately; absolutely; by itself; as, matter abstractly considered. |
| 892 |
Abstractness |
(n.) The quality of being abstract. |
| 893 |
abstracts |
consider (something) theoretically or separately from something else. |
| 894 |
Abstringe |
(v. t.) To unbind. |
| 895 |
Abstrude |
(v. t.) To thrust away. |
| 896 |
abstruse |
incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge |
| 897 |
Abstrusely |
(adv.) In an abstruse manner. |
| 898 |
Abstruseness |
(n.) The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension. |
| 899 |
Abstrusion |
(n.) The act of thrusting away. |
| 900 |
Abstrusity |
(n.) Abstruseness; that which is abstruse.
n. wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound |
| 901 |
Absume |
(v. t.) To consume gradually; to waste away. |
| 902 |
Absumption |
(n.) Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction. |
| 903 |
absurd |
stupid and unreasonable, or silly in a humorous way |
| 904 |
absurd(irrational/senseless) remarks |
speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths |
| 905 |
absurdism |
absurdism |
| 906 |
Absurdities |
(pl. ) of Absurdity |
| 907 |
absurdity |
n. a ludicrous folly; a message whose content is at variance with reason
(n.) The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.
(n.) That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction. |
| 908 |
Absurdly |
(adv.) In an absurd manner. |
| 909 |
Absurdness |
(n.) Absurdity. |
| 910 |
ABU |
Anyone but United. Referred to people or sentiments that are, generally, anti-Manchester United |
| 911 |
abubble |
abubble |
| 912 |
abuilding |
a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place |
| 913 |
abulia |
n. a loss of will power |
| 914 |
Abuna |
(n.) The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church. |
| 915 |
abundance |
an extremely plentiful or over sufficient quantity or supply. |
| 916 |
abundant |
existing or available in large quantities; plentiful |
| 917 |
Abundantly |
(adv.) In a sufficient degree; fully; amply; plentifully; in large measure. |
| 918 |
Aburst |
(adv.) In a bursting condition. |
| 919 |
Abusable |
(a.) That may be abused. |
| 920 |
Abusage |
(n.) Abuse. |
| 921 |
abuse |
to use something for the wrong purpose in a way that is harmful or morally wrong |
| 922 |
abused |
of abuse |
| 923 |
Abuseful |
(a.) Full of abuse; abusive. |
| 924 |
Abuser |
(n.) One who abuses [in the various senses of the verb]. |
| 925 |
Abusing |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abuse |
| 926 |
Abusion |
(v. t.) Evil or corrupt usage; abuse; wrong; reproach; deception; cheat. |
| 927 |
abusive |
treating someone badly or cruelly, esp. physically |
| 928 |
Abusively |
(adv.) In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language. |
| 929 |
Abusiveness |
(n.) The quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person. |
| 930 |
abut |
lie adjacent to another or share a boundary with |
| 931 |
abutilon |
n. herbs or shrubs or small trees: flowering maple; parlor maple; Indian mallow
(n.) A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow. |
| 932 |
abutment |
n. a masonry support that touches and directly receives thrust or pressure of an arch or bridge; point of contact between two objects or parts
(n.) State of abutting.
(n.) That on or against which a body abuts or presses
(n.) The solid part of a pier or w |
| 933 |
Abuttal |
(n.) The butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; a headland. |
| 934 |
abutted |
of abut |
| 935 |
Abutter |
(n.) One who, or that which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river.
n. the owner of contiguous property |
| 936 |
abutting |
adj. having a common boundary or edge; touching
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abut |
| 937 |
abuzz |
adj. noisy like the sound of a bee
(a.) In a buzz; buzzing. |
| 938 |
abviously |
abviously |
| 939 |
abvolt |
n. a unit of potential equal to one-hundred-millionth of a volt |
| 940 |
abwatt |
n. a power unit equal to the power dissipated when 1 abampere flows across a potential difference of 1 abvolt (one ten-thousandth of a milliwatt) |
| 941 |
Aby |
(v. t. & i.) Alt. of Abye |
| 942 |
Abye |
(v. t. & i.) To pay for; to suffer for; to atone for; to make amends for; to give satisfaction.
(v. t. & i.) To endure; to abide. |
| 943 |
Abyme |
(n.) A abyss. |
| 944 |
abysm |
n. a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively)
(n.) An abyss; a gulf. |
| 945 |
abysmal |
adj. ever falling, in a very bad situation |
| 946 |
Abysmally |
(adv.) To a fathomless depth; profoundly. |
| 947 |
abyss |
a deep or seemingly bottomless chasm. |
| 948 |
abyssal |
adj. relating to ocean depths from 2000 to 5000 meters; so deep as to be unmeasurable
(a.) Belonging to, or resembling, an abyss; unfathomable. |
| 949 |
abyssal plain |
The sound a crowd makes when upset. To make such a noise is to boo. Can be told from the noise made when scaring someone ( boo!) by its 3(+) O's. |
| 950 |
Abyssinia |
n. Ethiopia is a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; formerly called Abyssinia |
| 951 |
Abyssinian |
n. a small slender short-haired breed of African origin having brownish fur with a reddish undercoat
(a.) Of or pertaining to Abyssinia.
(n.) A native of Abyssinia.
(n.) A member of the Abyssinian Church. |
| 952 |
AC |
n. an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally; a radioactive element of the actinide series; found in uranium ores |
| 953 |
AC/DC |
x. ac/dc alternating current/direct current |
| 954 |
acacia |
n. any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia
(n.) A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals.
(n.) A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Aust |
| 955 |
Acaciae |
(pl. ) of Acacia |
| 956 |
Acacias |
(pl. ) of Acacia |
| 957 |
Acacin |
(n.) Alt. of Acacine |
| 958 |
Acacine |
(n.) Gum arabic. |
| 959 |
academe |
n. the academic world
(n.) An academy. |
| 960 |
academese |
academese |
| 961 |
academia |
n. the academic world |
| 962 |
Academial |
(a.) Academic. |
| 963 |
Academian |
(n.) A member of an academy, university, or college. |
| 964 |
academic |
relating to schools, colleges, and universities, or connected with studying and thinking |
| 965 |
academic costume |
a traditional form of clothing for academic settings, mainly tertiary (and sometimes secondary) education, worn mainly by those who have been admitted to a university degree (or similar), or hold a status that entitles them to assume them (e.g., undergrad |
| 966 |
academic adviser |
an advantage held by a competitor in a race |
| 967 |
academic advising divisions |
academic advising divisions |
| 968 |
academic exchanges |
academic exchanges |
| 969 |
academic freedom |
freedom of a teacher to discuss or investigate any controversial social, economic, or political problems without interference or penalty from officials, organized groups, etc. |
| 970 |
academic interests |
a particular field of study about a certain subject matter, such as history, mathematics or nursing. |
| 971 |
academic performance |
academic performance |
| 972 |
academic probaation |
academic probaation |
| 973 |
academic year |
the period of the year during which students attend an educational institution, usually from September to June. |
| 974 |
academical |
(a.) Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy.
(a.) Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific. |
| 975 |
academically |
in a way that relates to schools and to the ability to study and think |
| 976 |
Academicals |
(n. pl.) The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities. |
| 977 |
academician |
a member of an academy |
| 978 |
Academicism |
(n.) A tenet of the Academic philosophy.
(n.) A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.
n. orthodoxy of a scholastic variety |
| 979 |
academics |
associated with academia or an academy |
| 980 |
Academies |
(pl. ) of Academy |
| 981 |
academism |
n. orthodoxy of a scholastic variety
(n.) The doctrines of the Academic philosophy. |
| 982 |
Academist |
(n.) An Academic philosopher.
(n.) An academician. |
| 983 |
academy |
an organization intended to protect and develop an art, science, language, etc |
| 984 |
Academy award |
an annual award given to a performer, director, technician, etc., of the motion-picture industry for superior achievement in a specific category |
| 985 |
academy board |
academy board |
| 986 |
Acadia |
n. the French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces |
| 987 |
Acadian |
(a.) Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia.
(n.) A native of Acadie. |
| 988 |
Acajou |
(n.) The cashew tree; also, its fruit. See Cashew.
(n.) The mahogany tree; also, its timber. |
| 989 |
Acaleph |
(n.) Alt. of Acalephan |
| 990 |
Acalephae |
(n. pl.) A group of Coelenterata, including the Medusae or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. Sometimes called sea nettles. |
| 991 |
Acalephan |
(n.) One of the Acalephae. |
| 992 |
Acalephans |
(pl. ) of Acalephan |
| 993 |
Acalephoid |
(a.) Belonging to or resembling the Acalephae or jellyfishes. |
| 994 |
Acalephs |
(pl. ) of Acalephan |
| 995 |
Acalycine |
(a.) Alt. of Acalysinous |
| 996 |
Acanth |
(n.) Same as Acanthus. |
| 997 |
Acantha |
(n.) A prickle.
(n.) A spine or prickly fin.
(n.) The vertebral column; the spinous process of a vertebra. |
| 998 |
Acanthaceous |
(a.) Armed with prickles, as a plant.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the acanthus is the type. |
| 999 |
Acanthi |
(pl. ) of Acanthus |
| 1000 |
Acanthine |
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus. |
| 1001 |
Acanthocarpous |
(a.) Having the fruit covered with spines. |
| 1002 |
Acanthocephala |
(n. pl.) A group of intestinal worms, having the proboscis armed with recurved spines. |
| 1003 |
Acanthocephalous |
(a.) Having a spiny head, as one of the Acanthocephala. |
| 1004 |
acanthoid |
adj. shaped like a spine or thorn |
| 1005 |
Acanthophorous |
(a.) Spine-bearing. |
| 1006 |
Acanthopodious |
(a.) Having spinous petioles. |
| 1007 |
Acanthopteri |
(n. pl.) A group of teleostean fishes having spiny fins. See Acanthopterygii. |
| 1008 |
Acanthopterous |
(a.) Spiny-winged.
(a.) Acanthopterygious. |
| 1009 |
Acanthopterygian |
(a.) Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch.
(n.) A spiny-finned fish. |
| 1010 |
Acanthopterygii |
(n. pl.) An order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch. |
| 1011 |
Acanthopterygious |
(a.) Having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike; spiny-finned. |
| 1012 |
acanthus |
n. any plant of the genus Acanthus having large spiny leaves and spikes or white or purplish flowers; native to Mediterranean region but widely cultivated
(n.) A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear |
| 1013 |
Acanthuses |
(pl. ) of Acanthus |
| 1014 |
acappella |
sung without instrumental accompaniment |
| 1015 |
Acapsular |
(a.) Having no capsule. |
| 1016 |
Acardiac |
(a.) Without a heart; as, an acardiac fetus. |
| 1017 |
Acari |
(pl. ) of Acarus |
| 1018 |
acariasis |
n. infestation with itch mites |
| 1019 |
acarid |
many different
n. very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants; related to ticks |
| 1020 |
Acaridan |
(n.) One of a group of arachnids, including the mites and ticks. |
| 1021 |
Acarina |
(n. pl.) The group of Arachnida which includes the mites and ticks. Many species are parasitic, and cause diseases like the itch and mange. |
| 1022 |
Acarine |
(a.) Of or caused by acari or mites; as, acarine diseases. |
| 1023 |
Acaroid |
(a.) Shaped like or resembling a mite. |
| 1024 |
Acarpellous |
(a.) Having no carpels. |
| 1025 |
acarpous |
adj. producing no fruit
(a.) Not producing fruit; unfruitful. |
| 1026 |
Acarus |
(n.) A genus including many species of small mites. |
| 1027 |
acatalectic |
adj. (verse) metrically complete; especially having the full number of syllables in the final metrical foot; n. (prosody) a line of verse that has the full number of syllables
(a.) Not defective; complete; as, an acatalectic verse.
(n.) A verse which has |
| 1028 |
Acatalepsy |
(n.) Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability. |
| 1029 |
Acataleptic |
(a.) Incapable of being comprehended; incomprehensible. |
| 1030 |
Acater |
(n.) See Caterer. |
| 1031 |
Acates |
(n. pl.) See Cates. |
| 1032 |
Acaudate |
(a.) Tailless. |
| 1033 |
Acaulescent |
(a.) Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground. |
| 1034 |
Acauline |
(a.) Same as Acaulescent. |
| 1035 |
Acaulose |
(a.) Alt. of Acaulous |
| 1036 |
Acaulous |
(a.) Same as Acaulescent. |
| 1037 |
acc |
accelerate |
| 1038 |
Accadian |
(a.) Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest. |
| 1039 |
accede |
to agree to a demand, request, or treaty |
| 1040 |
accede to |
to agree to the terms or demands that someone has stated |
| 1041 |
acceded |
of accede |
| 1042 |
Accedence |
(n.) The act of acceding.
\Ac*ced"ence\, n. The act of acceding. |
| 1043 |
accedental |
accedental |
| 1044 |
Acceder |
(n.) One who accedes. |
| 1045 |
Acceding |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accede |
| 1046 |
Accelerando |
(a.) Gradually accelerating the movement.
adj. gradually increasing in tempo; adv. with increasing speed; n. a gradually increasing tempo of music |
| 1047 |
accelerant |
another name for accelerator |
| 1048 |
accelerate |
begin to move more quickly |
| 1049 |
accelerated |
a wide variety of adj. caused to go more rapidly; speeded up, as of an academic course of accelerate |
| 1050 |
accelerated velocity |
Acceleration, in physics, is the rate of change of velocity of an object with respect to time. |
| 1051 |
Accelerating |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accelerate |
| 1052 |
acceleration |
n. the act of speeding up, increasing the speed; an increase in rate of change; (physics) a rate of increase of velocity |
| 1053 |
accelerative |
adj. tending to increase velocity
(a.) Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening. |
| 1054 |
accelerator |
n. a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine; a scientific instrument that increases the kinetic energy of charged particles; a pedal that controls the throttle valve; (chemistry) a substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction |
| 1055 |
Acceleratory |
(a.) Accelerative. |
| 1056 |
Accelerograph |
(n.) An apparatus for studying the combustion of powder in guns, etc. |
| 1057 |
accelerometer |
n. an instrument for measuring the acceleration of aircraft or rockets
(n.) An apparatus for measuring the velocity imparted by gunpowder. |
| 1058 |
Accend |
(v. t.) To set on fire; to kindle. |
| 1059 |
Accendibility |
(n.) Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability. |
| 1060 |
Accendible |
(a.) Capable of being inflamed or kindled; combustible; inflammable. |
| 1061 |
Accension |
(n.) The act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition. |
| 1062 |
Accensor |
(n.) One of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers. |
| 1063 |
accent |
the way that someone speaks, showing where they come from. |
| 1064 |
accented |
of accent |
| 1065 |
Accenting |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accent |
| 1066 |
Accentless |
(a.) Without accent. |
| 1067 |
Accentor |
(n.) One who sings the leading part; the director or leader.
(n.) A genus of European birds so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to the water thrushes. |
| 1068 |
Accentuable |
(a.) Capable of being accented. |
| 1069 |
Accentual |
(a.) Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent. |
| 1070 |
Accentuality |
(n.) The quality of being accentual. |
| 1071 |
Accentually |
(adv.) In an accentual manner; in accordance with accent. |
| 1072 |
accentuate |
to stress or put an accent on something |
| 1073 |
accentuated |
of accentuate |
| 1074 |
Accentuating |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accentuate |
| 1075 |
accentuation |
n. the use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterance; the act of giving special importance or significance to something
(n.) Act of accentuating; applications of accent.
(n.) pitch or modulation of the voic |
| 1076 |
accept |
to agree to take something that is offered to you |
| 1077 |
accept(accommodate) a proposal |
accept(accommodate) a proposal |
| 1078 |
accept(embrace) a change |
accept(embrace) a change |
| 1079 |
acceptability |
n. satisfactoriness by virtue of conforming to approved standards
(n.) The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness. |
| 1080 |
acceptable |
satisfactory and able to be agreed to or approved of |
| 1081 |
Acceptableness |
(n.) The quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability. |
| 1082 |
Acceptably |
(adv.) In an acceptable manner; in a manner to please or give satisfaction. |
| 1083 |
acceptance |
n. the act of taking something that is offered; (contract law) words signifying consent to the terms of an offer (thereby creating a contract); banking: a time draft drawn on and accepted by a bank; the state of being acceptable and accepted; the act of a |
| 1084 |
Acceptancy |
(n.) Acceptance. |
| 1085 |
acceptant |
adj. accepting willingly
(a.) Accepting; receiving.
(n.) An accepter. |
| 1086 |
acceptation |
to give up a person, objects, or responsibility with the intention of never returning to it, no longer used or occupied, forgo, forsake, to give (oneself) over unrestrainedly
n. acceptance as true or valid; the act of accepting with approval; favorable re |
| 1087 |
accepted |
adj. generally approved or compelling recognition; generally agreed upon; not subject to dispute; widely accepted as true or worthy; widely or permanently accepted; generally accepted or used; judged to be in conformity with approved usage |
| 1088 |
Acceptedly |
(adv.) In a accepted manner; admittedly. |
| 1089 |
accepter |
(n.) A person who accepts; a taker.
(n.) A respecter; a viewer with partiality.
(n.) An acceptor. |
| 1090 |
Acceptilation |
(n.) Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission. |
| 1091 |
accepting |
adj. tolerating without protest
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accept |
| 1092 |
Acception |
(n.) Acceptation; the received meaning. |
| 1093 |
acceptive |
adj. inclined to accept rather than reject; accepting willingly
(a.) Fit for acceptance.
(a.) Ready to accept. |
| 1094 |
acceptor |
to humiliate
to lower in office or esteem
n. the person (or institution) who accepts a check or draft and becomes responsible for paying the party named in the draft when it matures; (chemistry) in the formation of a coordinate bond it is the compound to |
| 1095 |
accepts |
consent to receive (a thing offered) |
| 1096 |
access |
the method or possibility of getting near to a place or person |
| 1097 |
access road |
An access road is a road which enables traffic to reach a particular place or area. |
| 1098 |
access time |
to give up power or resign from high position
to resign
to renounce a throne/right/power
To give up claim to - abdicated the throne = renounce
abandon |
| 1099 |
Accessaries |
(pl. ) of Accessary |
| 1100 |
Accessarily |
(adv.) In the manner of an accessary. |
| 1101 |
Accessariness |
(n.) The state of being accessary. |
| 1102 |
accessary |
something added, not essential; extra |
| 1103 |
accessed |
approach or enter (a place) |
| 1104 |
accessibility |
to destroy the self-confidence
poise
or self-possession of
n. the attribute of being easy to meet or deal with; the quality of being at hand when needed
(n.) The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptibility. |
| 1105 |
accessible |
easy to get, capable of being reached; easy to get along with or talk to; friendly |
| 1106 |
accessible, nearby |
capable of being reached |
| 1107 |
Accessibly |
(adv.) In an accessible manner. |
| 1108 |
accessing |
approach or enter (a place) |
| 1109 |
accession |
the attainment or acquisition of a position of rank or power, typically that of monarch or president |
| 1110 |
accession number |
Sequential number assigned to each record or volume as it is added to a database |
| 1111 |
Accessional |
(a.) Pertaining to accession; additional. |
| 1112 |
Accessive |
(a.) Additional. |
| 1113 |
accessorial |
adj. nonessential but helpful
(a.) Of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt. |
| 1114 |
Accessories |
(pl. ) of Accessory |
| 1115 |
accessorily |
(adv.) In the manner of an accessory; auxiliary. |
| 1116 |
Accessoriness |
(n.) The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately. |
| 1117 |
accessorize |
abridge
to shorten by contraction
especially of words
shorten
curtail
brief
truncate
to make briefer |
| 1118 |
accessory |
a person who knowingly conceals or assists another who has committed a felony |
| 1119 |
Acciaccatura |
(n.) A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura. |
| 1120 |
Accidence |
(n.) The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar.
(n.) The rudiments of any subject. |
| 1121 |
accident |
something bad that happens that is not expected or intended |
| 1122 |
accident insurance |
insurance providing compensation for accidental injury or death |
| 1123 |
accidental |
happening by chance, unintentionally, or unexpectedly. |
| 1124 |
accidental colors |
Alternative form of accidental colour. |
| 1125 |
accidental error |
Kidnap
carry off |
| 1126 |
accidental insurance |
insurance against loss through accidental bodily injury to the insured |
| 1127 |
Accidentalism |
(n.) Accidental character or effect. |
| 1128 |
Accidentality |
(n.) The quality of being accidental; accidentalness. |
| 1129 |
accidentally |
by chance or by mistake |
| 1130 |
Accidentalness |
(n.) The quality of being accidental; casualness. |
| 1131 |
accidently |
accidently |
| 1132 |
accidentprone |
having more than the average number of accidents |
| 1133 |
accidents |
an unfortunate mishap |
| 1134 |
Accidie |
(n.) Sloth; torpor. |
| 1135 |
Accipenser |
(n.) See Acipenser. |
| 1136 |
Accipient |
(n.) A receiver. |
| 1137 |
Accipiter |
(n.) A genus of rapacious birds; one of the Accipitres or Raptores.
(n.) A bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk.
deviating from the norm, deviating from the usual or natural
n. type genus of the family Accipitridae |
| 1138 |
Accipiters |
(pl. ) of Accipiter |
| 1139 |
accipitral |
the act of departing from the right/normal/usual course
(n.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a falcon or hawk; hawklike. |
| 1140 |
Accipitres |
(pl. ) of Accipiter
(n. pl.) The order that includes rapacious birds. They have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. There are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls. |
| 1141 |
Accipitrine |
(a.) Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike. |
| 1142 |
Accismus |
(n.) Affected refusal; coyness. |
| 1143 |
Accite |
(v. t.) To cite; to summon. |
| 1144 |
acclaim |
public approval and praise |
| 1145 |
Acclaimer |
(n.) One who acclaims. |
| 1146 |
acclamation |
n. enthusiastic approval |
| 1147 |
acclamatory |
(a.) Pertaining to, or expressing approval by, acclamation. |
| 1148 |
acclimatable |
A state of suspension or temporary inaction
temporary inactivity
(a.) Capable of being acclimated. |
| 1149 |
Acclimatation |
(n.) Acclimatization. |
| 1150 |
acclimate |
to become accustomed to a new climate or conditions |
| 1151 |
acclimate A to B |
acclimate A to B |
| 1152 |
acclimated |
of acclimate |
| 1153 |
Acclimatement |
(n.) Acclimation. |
| 1154 |
Acclimating |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Acclimate |
| 1155 |
acclimation |
n. adaptation to a new climate (a new temperature or altitude or environment)
(n.) The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization. |
| 1156 |
Acclimatizable |
(a.) Capable of being acclimatized. |
| 1157 |
acclimatization |
something or someone extremely repugnant or loathsome
n. adaptation to a new climate (a new temperature or altitude or environment)
(n.) The act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured. |
| 1158 |
acclimatize |
to get used to |
| 1159 |
acclimatized |
of acclimatize |
| 1160 |
Acclimatizing |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Acclimatize |
| 1161 |
Acclimature |
(n.) The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated. |
| 1162 |
Acclive |
(a.) Acclivous. |
| 1163 |
Acclivities |
(pl. ) of Acclivity |
| 1164 |
Acclivitous |
(a.) Acclivous. |
| 1165 |
acclivity |
an upward slope or grade (as in a road) |
| 1166 |
acclivous |
to endure
to remain fixed in a state or condition
accept or act in accordance with
inhabit
colonize
reside
remain
sojourn
(a.) Sloping upward; rising as a hillside; -- opposed to declivous. |
| 1167 |
Accloy |
(v. t.) To fill to satiety; to stuff full; to clog; to overload; to burden. See Cloy. |
| 1168 |
Accoast |
(v. t. & i.) To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost. |
| 1169 |
Accoil |
(v. t.) To gather together; to collect.
(v. t.) To coil together. |
| 1170 |
accolade |
a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction |
| 1171 |
Accombination |
(n.) A combining together. |
| 1172 |
Accommodable |
(a.) That may be accommodated, fitted, or made to agree. |
| 1173 |
Accommodableness |
(n.) The quality or condition of being accommodable. |
| 1174 |
accommodate |
to provide with a place to live or to be stored in |
| 1175 |
accommodate A to B |
accommodate A to B |
| 1176 |
accommodate A with B |
accommodate A with B |
| 1177 |
accommodated |
of accommodate |
| 1178 |
Accommodately |
(adv.) Suitably; fitly. |
| 1179 |
Accommodateness |
(n.) Fitness. |
| 1180 |
accommodating |
adj. helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation; obliging; willing to do favors
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accommodate
(a.) Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement. |
| 1181 |
accommodation |
a place to live, work, stay, etc. in |
| 1182 |
accommodation bill |
faculty
capacity
competence |
| 1183 |
accommodation ladder |
hopeless
wretched
in a miserable or low condition
miserable
mean
cast down in spirit |
| 1184 |
accommodation load |
accommodation load |
| 1185 |
accommodation train |
to reject
renounce
To recant
repudiate under oath.
to abstain from |
| 1186 |
accommodation unit |
made smaller by melting |
| 1187 |
accommodationds |
accommodationds |
| 1188 |
accommodations |
Accommodation is used to refer to buildings or rooms where people live or stay. |
| 1189 |
accommodative |
adj. tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony; willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement; helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation |
| 1190 |
accommodator |
n. someone who performs a service or does a favor
(n.) He who, or that which, accommodates. |
| 1191 |
accomodate |
to provide with something desired
needed
or suited (as a helpful service
a loan
or lodgings) |
| 1192 |
Accompanable |
(a.) Sociable. |
| 1193 |
Accompanied |
to go with, to have played music for a song or a singer |
| 1194 |
Accompanier |
(n.) He who, or that which, accompanies. |
| 1195 |
accompaniment |
playing music for the song or a singer; a musical part that supports or partners a solo instrument, voice, or group |
| 1196 |
accompanist |
a person who provides a music to another musician or to a singer |
| 1197 |
accompany |
to go with someone or to be provided or exist at the same time as something |
| 1198 |
accompanying |
adj. following as a consequence
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accompany |
| 1199 |
Accompletive |
(a.) Tending to accomplish. |
| 1200 |
accomplice |
a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan |
| 1201 |
Accompliceship |
(n.) The state of being an accomplice. |
| 1202 |
Accomplicity |
(n.) The act or state of being an accomplice. |
| 1203 |
accomplish |
to finish something successfully or to achieve something |
| 1204 |
accomplishable |
adj. capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do
(a.) Capable of being accomplished; practicable. |
| 1205 |
accomplished |
skilled, talented and able |
| 1206 |
Accomplisher |
(n.) One who accomplishes. |
| 1207 |
Accomplishing |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accomplish |
| 1208 |
accomplishment |
win, success, achievement, the act of achieving something |
| 1209 |
Accompt |
(n.) See Account. |
| 1210 |
Accomptable |
(a.) See Accountable. |
| 1211 |
Accomptant |
(n.) See Accountant. |
| 1212 |
accord |
give or grant someone (power, status or recognition) |
| 1213 |
accord with |
accord with |
| 1214 |
Accordable |
(a.) Agreeing.
(a.) Reconcilable; in accordance. |
| 1215 |
accordance |
following |
| 1216 |
Accordancy |
(n.) Accordance. |
| 1217 |
Accordant |
(a.) Agreeing; consonant; harmonious; corresponding; conformable; -- followed by with or to. |
| 1218 |
Accordantly |
(adv.) In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to. |
| 1219 |
accorded |
of accord |
| 1220 |
Accorder |
(n.) One who accords, assents, or concedes. |
| 1221 |
according |
agreeing |
| 1222 |
according ti |
If someone says that something is true according to a particular person, book, or other source of information, they are indicating where they got their information. |
| 1223 |
according to |
as stated by |
| 1224 |
According to the weather forecast the typhoon is likely to approach the coast. |
According to the weather forecast the typhoon is likely to approach the coast. |
| 1225 |
accordingly |
in a way that is suitable or right for the situation |
| 1226 |
accordion |
a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument |
| 1227 |
accordion door |
principles or measures fostering abolition especially of slavery |
| 1228 |
accordion pleats |
persist in slavery |
| 1229 |
Accordionist |
(n.) A player on the accordion. |
| 1230 |
Accordment |
(v.) Agreement; reconcilement. |
| 1231 |
accost |
to approach and speak to (someone) in a changing or threatening way |
| 1232 |
Accostable |
(a.) Approachable; affable. |
| 1233 |
accosted |
of accost (a.) supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side. |
| 1234 |
Accosting |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accost |
| 1235 |
accouchement |
to dislike strongly
n. the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child
(n.) Delivery in childbed |
| 1236 |
accoucheur |
to dislike strongly
n. a physician specializing in obstetrics
(n.) A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician. |
| 1237 |
accoucheuse |
something despised or abhorred
extreme loathing
n. a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies
(n.) A midwife. |
| 1238 |
account |
an arrangement with a bank to keep your money there |
| 1239 |
account book |
A book in which accounts are kept. |
| 1240 |
account current |
A summary of the performance of each individual insurance agent in the company. |
| 1241 |
account day |
(on the London Stock Exchange) the day on which deliveries and payments relating to transactions made during the preceding account are made |
| 1242 |
account executive |
to begin with |
| 1243 |
account for |
to give a reason for, form the whole of |
| 1244 |
account rendered |
an account presented by a creditor to a debtor for examination and settlement. |
| 1245 |
account sales |
account sales |
| 1246 |
accountability |
the fact of being responsible for what you do and able to give a satisfactory reason for it |
| 1247 |
accountable |
to be completely responsible |
| 1248 |
Accountable ness |
(n.) The quality or state of being accountable; accountability. |
| 1249 |
Accountably |
(adv.) In an accountable manner. |
| 1250 |
accountancy |
a. Discussion-friendly |
| 1251 |
accountant |
someone who keeps or examines the records of money received, paid, and owed by a company or person |
| 1252 |
accountant general |
the name of a government post in several countries. |
| 1253 |
Accountantship |
(n.) The office or employment of an accountant. |
| 1254 |
accounted |
of account |
| 1255 |
accounted for |
be the reason or explanation for |
| 1256 |
accounting |
n. a system that provides quantitative information about finances; a convincing explanation that reveals basic causes; a bookkeeper's chronological list of related debits and credits of a business; forms part of a ledger of accounts; the occupation of mai |
| 1257 |
Accounts |
a report or description of an event or experience. |
| 1258 |
accounts payable |
the amounts in a company's accounts that show money that it owes |
| 1259 |
accounts receivable |
the amounts in a company's accounts that show money that is owed to the company by its customers |
| 1260 |
Accouple |
(v. t.) To join; to couple. |
| 1261 |
Accouplement |
(n.) The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union.
(n.) That which couples, as a tie or brace.
honest and open
being without deception
in a straightforward manner |
| 1262 |
Accourage |
(v. t.) To encourage. |
| 1263 |
Accourt |
(v. t.) To treat courteously; to court. |
| 1264 |
accouter |
clothe or equip in something noticeable or impressive |
| 1265 |
accoutered |
of accoutre |
| 1266 |
Accoutering |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accoutre |
| 1267 |
accouterments |
additional items of dress or equipment, or other items carried or worn by a person or used for a particular activity. |
| 1268 |
Accoutre |
(v. t.) To furnish with dress, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array. |
| 1269 |
Accoutred |
of Accoutre |
| 1270 |
Accoutrements |
(n. pl.) Dress; trappings; equipment; specifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers. |
| 1271 |
Accoutring |
of Accoutre |
| 1272 |
Accoy |
(v. t.) To render quiet; to soothe.
(v. t.) To subdue; to tame; to daunt. |
| 1273 |
Accra |
a wearing
grinding
or rubbing away by friction
n. the capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port |
| 1274 |
accredit |
give credit to (someone) for something |
| 1275 |
accredit to |
officially recognized as meeting the essential requirements, as of academic excellence |
| 1276 |
accreditation |
to reduce the amount of something, especially a natural supply |
| 1277 |
accredited |
alongside adj. given official approval to act of accredit |
| 1278 |
Accrediting |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accredit |
| 1279 |
accrediting agency |
accrediting agency |
| 1280 |
Accrementitial |
(a.) Pertaining to accremention. |
| 1281 |
Accrementition |
(n.) The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds. |
| 1282 |
Accresce |
(v. i.) To accrue.
(v. i.) To increase; to grow. |
| 1283 |
Accrescence |
(n.) Continuous growth; an accretion. |
| 1284 |
Accrescent |
(a.) Growing; increasing.
(a.) Growing larger after flowering. |
| 1285 |
accrete |
grow by accumulation or coalescence |
| 1286 |
accretion |
the process of growth or increase, typically by the gradual accumulation of additional layers or matter |
| 1287 |
accretive |
adj. growing by accretion
(a.) Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth. |
| 1288 |
Accriminate |
(v. t.) To accuse of a crime. |
| 1289 |
Accroach |
(v. t.) To hook, or draw to one's self as with a hook.
(v. t.) To usurp, as jurisdiction or royal prerogatives. |
| 1290 |
Accroachment |
(n.) An encroachment; usurpation. |
| 1291 |
accrual |
to abolish usually by authority
to nullify
to cancel by authority
repeal.
n. the act of accumulating
(n.) Accrument. |
| 1292 |
accrue |
(sums of money or benefits) received by someone in regular or increasing amounts overtime |
| 1293 |
accrued |
of accrue |
| 1294 |
Accruer |
(n.) The act of accruing; accretion; as, title by accruer. |
| 1295 |
Accruing |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accrue |
| 1296 |
Accrument |
(n.) The process of accruing, or that which has accrued; increase. |
| 1297 |
Accubation |
(n.) The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals. |
| 1298 |
acculturate |
v. assimilate culturally |
| 1299 |
acculturation |
n. the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure; all the knowledge and values shared by a society; the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture |
| 1300 |
Accumb |
(v. i.) To recline, as at table. |
| 1301 |
Accumbency |
(n.) The state of being accumbent or reclining. |
| 1302 |
Accumbent |
(a.) Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
(a.) Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf.
(n.) One who reclines at table. |
| 1303 |
Accumber |
(v. t.) To encumber. |
| 1304 |
accumulate |
to collect a large number of things over a long period of time |
| 1305 |
accumulated |
of accumulate |
| 1306 |
Accumulating |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accumulate |
| 1307 |
accumulation |
piling up |
| 1308 |
accumulative |
process of grafting
adj. marked by acquiring or amassing; increasing by successive addition
(a.) Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional. |
| 1309 |
accumulator |
to leave secretly and hide oneself
to run away secretly
to go away hastily or secretly
to hide
To depart suddenly and secretly
as for the purpose of escaping arrest.
to depart secretly and hide oneself
n. (computer science) a register that has a built-in |
| 1310 |
accuracy |
the fact of being exact or correct |
| 1311 |
accurate |
correct, exact, and without any mistakes |
| 1312 |
accurately |
correctly and without making any mistakes |
| 1313 |
Accurateness |
(n.) The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision. |
| 1314 |
Accurse |
(v. t.) To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize. |
| 1315 |
accursed |
under a curse |
| 1316 |
accurst |
adj. under a curse
(p. p. & a.) Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; hence, bad enough to be under the curse; execrable; detestable; exceedingly hateful; -- as, an accursed deed. |
| 1317 |
accusable |
oblivious
inattentive
(a.) Liable to be accused or censured; chargeable with a crime or fault; blamable; -- with of. |
| 1318 |
Accusal |
(n.) Accusation. |
| 1319 |
Accusant |
(n.) An accuser. |
| 1320 |
accusation |
a charge or claim that someone has done something illegal or wrong |
| 1321 |
accusatival |
(a.) Pertaining to the accusative case. |
| 1322 |
accusative |
adj. containing or expressing accusation; serving as or indicating the object of a v. or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes; n. the category of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb
(a.) Producing accusations; accusatory.
( |
| 1323 |
Accusatively |
(adv.) In an accusative manner.
(adv.) In relation to the accusative case in grammar. |
| 1324 |
accusatorial |
qualified
total
complete
perfect
adj. specifically indicating a form of prosecution in which one is publicly accused of and tried for a crime and in which the judge is not also the prosecutor
(a.) Accusatory. |
| 1325 |
Accusatorially |
(adv.) By way accusation. |
| 1326 |
accusatory |
indicating or suggesting that one believes a person has done something wrong |
| 1327 |
accuse |
to say that someone has done something morally wrong, illegal |
| 1328 |
accuse A of B |
to blame or criticize a person for doing something wrong |
| 1329 |
accuse of |
to charge with the fault, offense, or crime |
| 1330 |
accused |
someone charged with an offence |
| 1331 |
accused of |
charged with a crime, wrongdoing, fault, etc |
| 1332 |
Accusement |
(n.) Accusation. |
| 1333 |
accuser |
to widen |
| 1334 |
accusing |
adj. containing or expressing accusation
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accuse |
| 1335 |
Accusingly |
(adv.) In an accusing manner. |
| 1336 |
accustom |
to get used to |
| 1337 |
Accustomable |
(a.) Habitual; customary; wonted. |
| 1338 |
Accustomably |
(adv.) According to custom; ordinarily; customarily. |
| 1339 |
Accustomance |
(n.) Custom; habitual use. |
| 1340 |
Accustomarily |
(adv.) Customarily. |
| 1341 |
Accustomary |
(a.) Usual; customary. |
| 1342 |
accustomed |
familiar with something; usual |
| 1343 |
accustomed to |
accustomed to |
| 1344 |
Accustomedness |
(n.) Habituation. |
| 1345 |
Accustoming |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accustom |
| 1346 |
ace |
a small round stone fruit |
| 1347 |
acedia |
n. apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins) |
| 1348 |
acehigh |
characterized by restraint in indulgences such as food and drink
Characterized by self denial or abstinence
as in the use of drink
food.
Moderate in the use of food or drink - abstemious in his habits. = temperate
marked by restraint especially in the co |
| 1349 |
Aceldama |
(n.) The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. |
| 1350 |
acellular |
n. duchess order |
| 1351 |
acentric |
a. Uncentered |
| 1352 |
Acephal |
(n.) One of the Acephala. |
| 1353 |
Acephala |
(n. pl.) That division of the Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; -- so called because they have no evident head. Formerly the group included the Tunicata, Brachiopoda, and sometimes the Bryozoa. See Mollusca. |
| 1354 |
Acephalan |
(n.) Same as Acephal.
(a.) Belonging to the Acephala. |
| 1355 |
Acephali |
(n. pl.) A fabulous people reported by ancient writers to have heads.
(n. pl.) A Christian sect without a leader.
(n. pl.) Bishops and certain clergymen not under regular diocesan control.
(n. pl.) A class of levelers in the time of K. Henry I. |
| 1356 |
Acephalist |
(n.) One who acknowledges no head or superior. |
| 1357 |
Acephalocyst |
(n.) A larval entozoon in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hydatid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the |
| 1358 |
Acephalocystic |
(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the acephalocysts. |
| 1359 |
acephalous |
relating to that which is not concrete
expressing a quality apart from an object
difficult to understand
abstruse
not applied to actual objects
thought of apart from concrete realities
theoretical
unpracticed
having only intrinsic form with little or no a |
| 1360 |
acer |
type genus of the Aceraceae; trees or shrubs having wingedfruit |
| 1361 |
acerate |
adj. narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves
(n.) A combination of aceric acid with a salifiable base.
(a.) Acerose; needle-shaped. |
| 1362 |
acerb |
lost in thought
deeply engrossed or preoccupied
adj. harsh or corrosive in tone; sour or bitter in taste
(a.) Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp and harsh. |
| 1363 |
acerbate |
v. make sour or bitter; cause to be bitter or resentful
(v. t.) To sour; to imbitter; to irritate. |
| 1364 |
acerbic |
sharp and forthright |
| 1365 |
Acerbitude |
(n.) Sourness and harshness. |
| 1366 |
acerbity |
sharpness and directness in speech |
| 1367 |
Aceric |
(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the maple; as, aceric acid. |
| 1368 |
acerose |
adj. narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves
(a.) Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.
(a.) Needle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine. |
| 1369 |
Acerous |
(a.) Same as Acerose.
(a.) Destitute of tentacles, as certain mollusks.
(a.) Without antennae, as some insects. |
| 1370 |
Acerval |
(a.) Pertaining to a heap. |
| 1371 |
acervate |
to block with obstacles
to impede or hinder
adj. pertaining to a growth of fungi that forms a heaped-up mass
(v. t.) To heap up.
(a.) Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters. |
| 1372 |
Acervation |
(n.) A heaping up; accumulation. |
| 1373 |
Acervative |
(a.) Heaped up; tending to heap up. |
| 1374 |
Acervose |
(a.) Full of heaps. |
| 1375 |
Acervuline |
(a.) Resembling little heaps. |
| 1376 |
Aces |
(pl. ) of Ace |
| 1377 |
Acescence |
(n.) Alt. of Acescency |
| 1378 |
Acescency |
(n.) The quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness. |
| 1379 |
acescent |
accessible
patent
difficult to understand
hard to understand
Dealing with matters difficult to be understood.
difficult to comprehend
RECONDITE
(a.) Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour.
(n.) A substance liable to become sour. |
| 1380 |
Acetable |
(n.) An acetabulum; or about one eighth of a pint. |
| 1381 |
acetabular |
ridiculous
illogical
irrational
unreasonable
inconsistent
adj. of the cup-shaped socket that receives the head of the thigh bone
(a.) Cup-shaped; saucer-shaped; acetabuliform. |
| 1382 |
Acetabulifera |
(n. pl.) The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda. |
| 1383 |
Acetabuliferous |
(a.) Furnished with fleshy cups for adhering to bodies, as cuttlefish, etc. |
| 1384 |
Acetabuliform |
(a.) Shaped like a shallow cup; saucer-shaped; as, an acetabuliform calyx. |
| 1385 |
acetabulum |
n. the cup-shaped hollow in the hipbone into which the head of the femur fits to form a ball-and-socket joint
(n.) A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc.
(n.) The bony cup which receives the head of the thigh |
| 1386 |
acetal |
n. any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules
(n.) A limpid, colorless, inflammable liquid from the slow oxidation of alcohol under the influence of platinum black. |
| 1387 |
acetaldehyde |
n. a colorless volatile water-soluble liquid aldehyde used chiefly in manufacture of acetic acid and perfumes and drugs
(n.) Acetic aldehyde. See Aldehyde. |
| 1388 |
acetamide |
n. acetamide |
| 1389 |
acetaminophen |
plentiful or amply supplied
existing in large quantities
large quantities
ample
n. an analgesic for mild pain; also used as an antipyretic; (Datril, Tylenol, Panadol, Phenaphen, Tempra, and Anacin III are trademarks of brands of acetaminophen tablets) |
| 1390 |
acetanilide |
cruel and violent treatment
Improper use or handling
misuse
ill-use
maltreat
slander
reproach
to attack in words
REVILE
n. a white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic
(n.) A compound of aniline with acetyl, used to allay f |
| 1391 |
Acetarious |
(a.) Used in salads; as, acetarious plants. |
| 1392 |
Acetary |
(n.) An acid pulp in certain fruits, as the pear. |
| 1393 |
acetate |
a chemical substance made from acetic acid |
| 1394 |
acetate rayon |
Chemistry. a salt or ester of acetic acid |
| 1395 |
acetated |
To touch at the end or boundary line
(a.) Combined with acetic acid. |
| 1396 |
acetic |
of or like vinegar or acetic acid |
| 1397 |
acetic acid |
wretched
bottomless |
| 1398 |
acetic anhydride |
the anhydride of acetic acid. It is a colorless pungent liquid, used in making synthetic fibers. |
| 1399 |
Acetification |
(n.) The act of making acetous or sour; the process of converting, or of becoming converted, into vinegar. |
| 1400 |
acetified |
of acetify |
| 1401 |
Acetifier |
(n.) An apparatus for hastening acetification. |
| 1402 |
acetify |
Pertaining to school
theoretical academic interests
an academic discussion
with no practical implications. = scholastic
v. turn acidic; make sour or more sour
(v. t.) To convert into acid or vinegar.
(v. i.) To turn acid. |
| 1403 |
Acetifying |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Acetify |
| 1404 |
Acetimeter |
(n.) An instrument for estimating the amount of acetic acid in vinegar or in any liquid containing acetic acid. |
| 1405 |
Acetimetry |
(n.) The act or method of ascertaining the strength of vinegar, or the proportion of acetic acid contained in it. |
| 1406 |
Acetin |
(n.) A combination of acetic acid with glycerin. |
| 1407 |
Acetize |
(v. i.) To acetify. |
| 1408 |
Acetometer |
(n.) Same as Acetimeter. |
| 1409 |
acetone |
n. the simplest ketone; a highly inflammable liquid widely used as an organic solvent and as material for making plastics
(n.) A volatile liquid consisting of three parts of carbon, six of hydrogen, and one of oxygen; pyroacetic spirit, -- obtained by the |
| 1410 |
Acetonic |
(a.) Of or pertaining to acetone; as, acetonic bodies. |
| 1411 |
Acetose |
(a.) Sour like vinegar; acetous. |
| 1412 |
Acetosity |
(n.) The quality of being acetous; sourness. |
| 1413 |
acetous |
adj. tasting or smelling like vinegar
(a.) Having a sour taste; sour; acid.
(a.) Causing, or connected with, acetification; as, acetous fermentation. |
| 1414 |
acetyl |
n. the organic group of acetic acid (CH3CO-)
(n.) A complex, hypothetical radical, composed of two parts of carbon to three of hydrogen and one of oxygen. Its hydroxide is acetic acid. |
| 1415 |
acetylcholine |
relating to a place of learning
n. a neurotransmitter that is a derivative of choline; released at the ends of nerve fibers in the somatic and parasympathetic nervous systems |
| 1416 |
acetylene |
n. a colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis
(n.) A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and i |
| 1417 |
acetylsalicylic acid |
n. =ASPIRIN
n. ASPIRIN |
| 1418 |
Ach |
(n.) Alt. of Ache |
| 1419 |
Achaea |
a region of ancient Greece on the north coast of the Peloponnese |
| 1420 |
Achaean |
(a.) Alt. of Achaian |
| 1421 |
Achaia |
Achaia |
| 1422 |
Achaian |
(a.) Of or pertaining to Achaia in Greece; also, Grecian.
(n.) A native of Achaia; a Greek. |
| 1423 |
Acharnement |
(n.) Savage fierceness; ferocity. |
| 1424 |
Achate |
(n.) An agate.
(n.) Purchase; bargaining.
(n.) Provisions. Same as Cates. |
| 1425 |
Achatina |
(n.) A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa. |
| 1426 |
Achatour |
(n.) Purveyor; acater. |
| 1427 |
ache |
to suffer a dull, sustained pain. |
| 1428 |
Achean |
(a & n.) See Achaean, Achaian. |
| 1429 |
ached |
of ache |
| 1430 |
achene |
n. small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall
(n.) Alt. of Achenium |
| 1431 |
Achenial |
(a.) Pertaining to an achene. |
| 1432 |
Achenium |
(n.) A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists. |
| 1433 |
Acheron |
n. (Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which the souls of the dead were carried by Charon
(n.) A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake |
| 1434 |
Acherontic |
(a.) Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund. |
| 1435 |
Acheulean |
Acheulean |
| 1436 |
achievable |
adj. capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do
(a.) Capable of being achieved. |
| 1437 |
Achievance |
(n.) Achievement. |
| 1438 |
achieve |
to succeed in finishing something or reaching an aim |
| 1439 |
achieve a goal |
to finish something successfully or to accomplish something |
| 1440 |
achieve a success |
to succeed in finishing something or reaching an aim |
| 1441 |
achieve growth |
to get better |
| 1442 |
achieved |
of achieve |
| 1443 |
achievement |
something very good and difficult that you have succeeded in doing |
| 1444 |
achievement age |
the age at which a child should be able to perform a standardized test successfully Compare mental age |
| 1445 |
achievement quotient |
believe that something is true
approve
acknowledge
admit |
| 1446 |
achievement test |
a test of developed skill or knowledge. |
| 1447 |
achievements |
a thing done successfully, typically by effort, courage, or skill. |
| 1448 |
Achiever |
(n.) One who achieves; a winner. |
| 1449 |
Achieving |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Achieve |
| 1450 |
achilary |
achilary |
| 1451 |
Achillean |
resembling achilles, the hero of the iliad; invincible. |
| 1452 |
Achilles |
n. a mythical Greek hero of the Iliad; a foremost Greek warrior at the siege of Troy; when he was a baby his mother tried to make him immortal by bathing him in a magical river but the heel by which she held him remained vulnerable--his `Achilles' heel' |
| 1453 |
Achilles tendon |
the body part that joins the muscles of the lower leg to the bone of the heel |
| 1454 |
Achilles' tendon |
(n.) The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx. |
| 1455 |
Achilous |
(a.) Without a lip. |
| 1456 |
Aching |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ache
(a.) That aches; continuously painful. See Ache. |
| 1457 |
Achiote |
(n.) Seeds of the annotto tree; also, the coloring matter, annotto. |
| 1458 |
Achlamydate |
(a.) Not possessing a mantle; -- said of certain gastropods. |
| 1459 |
Achlamydeous |
(a.) Naked; having no floral envelope, neither calyx nor corolla. |
| 1460 |
achluophobia |
a fear of night, darkness |
| 1461 |
Acholia |
(n.) Deficiency or want of bile. |
| 1462 |
Acholous |
(a.) Lacking bile. |
| 1463 |
achromatic |
adj. having no hue
(a.) Free from color; transmitting light without decomposing it into its primary colors.
(a.) Uncolored; not absorbing color from a fluid; -- said of tissue. |
| 1464 |
Achromatically |
(adv.) In an achromatic manner. |
| 1465 |
Achromaticity |
(n.) Achromatism. |
| 1466 |
Achromatin |
(n.) Tissue which is not stained by fluid dyes.
n. the part of a cell nucleus that is relatively uncolored by stains or dyes |
| 1467 |
achromatism |
the right to approach
the ability
right
or permission to approach
approach
approach or enter
n. the visual property of being without chromatic color
(n.) The state or quality of being achromatic; as, the achromatism of a lens; achromaticity. |
| 1468 |
Achromatization |
(n.) The act or process of achromatizing. |
| 1469 |
achromatize |
v. remove color from
(v. t.) To deprive of color; to make achromatic. |
| 1470 |
achromatized |
of achromatize |
| 1471 |
Achromatizing |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Achromatize |
| 1472 |
achromatopsia |
achromatopsia |
| 1473 |
Achromatopsy |
(n.) Color blindness; inability to distinguish colors; Daltonism. |
| 1474 |
achromic |
adj. having no color |
| 1475 |
Achromycin |
n. an antibiotic (trade name Achromycin) derived from microorganisms of the genus Streptomyces and used broadly to treat infections |
| 1476 |
Achronic |
(a.) See Acronyc. |
| 1477 |
Achroodextrin |
(n.) Dextrin not colorable by iodine. See Dextrin. |
| 1478 |
Achroous |
(a.) Colorless; achromatic. |
| 1479 |
Achylous |
(a.) Without chyle. |
| 1480 |
Achymous |
(a.) Without chyme. |
| 1481 |
acicimeter |
acicimeter |
| 1482 |
Acicula |
(n.) One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal.
n. a needlelike part or structure of a plant or animal or crystal; as a spine or bristle or crystal |
| 1483 |
Aciculae |
(pl. ) of Acicula |
| 1484 |
acicular |
adj. narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves
(a.) Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needless. |
| 1485 |
aciculate |
accessary
of primarily importance
a thing of secondary or subordinate importance
ADJUNCT
adj. related to plants or animals or crystals having aciculae or needlelike parts
(a.) Alt. of Aciculated |
| 1486 |
Aciculated |
(a.) Furnished with aciculae.
(a.) Acicular.
(a.) Marked with fine irregular streaks as if scratched by a needle. |
| 1487 |
Aciculiform |
(a.) Needle-shaped; acicular. |
| 1488 |
Aciculite |
(n.) Needle ore. |
| 1489 |
acid |
substances that can react with and sometimes dissolve other materials. |
| 1490 |
acid dust |
acid dust |
| 1491 |
acid rain |
rain that contains large amounts of harmful chemicals |
| 1492 |
acid test |
an upward slope |
| 1493 |
acid trip |
praise or honor
award
An award or salute - a tremendous accolade for a returning hero. = tribute
ovation
an expression of praise |
| 1494 |
acidfast |
not easily decolorized by acid solutions |
| 1495 |
acidhead |
happening by chance
contingent
casual
unexpected
unintentional
occurring unexpectedly or by chance |
| 1496 |
acidic |
adj. being or containing an acid; of a solution having an excess of hydrogen atoms (having a pH of less than 7); being sour to the taste
(a.) Containing a high percentage of silica; -- opposed to basic. |
| 1497 |
Acidiferous |
(a.) Containing or yielding an acid. |
| 1498 |
Acidifiable |
(a.) Capable of being acidified, or converted into an acid. |
| 1499 |
Acidific |
(a.) Producing acidity; converting into an acid. |
| 1500 |
acidification |
n. the process of becoming acid or being converted into an acid
(n.) The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid. |
| 1501 |
acidified |
of acidify |
| 1502 |
Acidifier |
(n.) A simple or compound principle, whose presence is necessary to produce acidity, as oxygen, chlorine, bromine, iodine, etc. |
| 1503 |
acidify |
to become an acid or to make something become an acid |
| 1504 |
Acidifying |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Acidify |
| 1505 |
Acidimeter |
(n.) An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids. |
| 1506 |
Acidimetry |
(n.) The measurement of the strength of acids, especially by a chemical process based on the law of chemical combinations, or the fact that, to produce a complete reaction, a certain definite weight of reagent is required. |
| 1507 |
acidity |
the amount of acid in a substance |
| 1508 |
Acidly |
(adv.) Sourly; tartly. |
| 1509 |
Acidness |
(n.) Acidity; sourness. |
| 1510 |
acidophile |
make unfamiliar with
to adapt to a new temperature
altitude
climate
environment
or situation
n. an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment |
| 1511 |
acidophilus milk |
milk fermented by bacteria; used to treat gastrointestinal disorders |
| 1512 |
acidosis |
n. abnormally high acidity (excess hydrogen-ion concentration) of the blood and other body tissues |
| 1513 |
acids |
a chemical substance that neutralizes alkalis, dissolves some metals, and turns litmus red |
| 1514 |
Acidulate |
(v. t.) To make sour or acid in a moderate degree; to sour somewhat.
adapt
suit
fit
make room for
hold
contain
v. make sour or more sour |
| 1515 |
acidulated |
of acidulate |
| 1516 |
Acidulating |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Acidulate |
| 1517 |
Acidulent |
(a.) Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous. |
| 1518 |
acidulous |
adj. being sour to the taste
(a.) Slightly sour; sub-acid; sourish; as, an acidulous tincture. |
| 1519 |
acidy |
welcoming
cooperative |
| 1520 |
Acierage |
(n.) The process of coating the surface of a metal plate as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling. |
| 1521 |
aciform |
(a.) Shaped like a needle. |
| 1522 |
Acinaceous |
(a.) Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them. |
| 1523 |
Acinaces |
(n.) A short sword or saber. |
| 1524 |
Acinaciform |
(a.) Scimeter-shaped; as, an acinaciform leaf. |
| 1525 |
Acinesia |
(n.) Same as Akinesia. |
| 1526 |
Acinetae |
(n. pl.) A group of suctorial Infusoria, which in the adult stage are stationary. See Suctoria. |
| 1527 |
Acinetiform |
(a.) Resembling the Acinetae. |
| 1528 |
Acini |
(pl. ) of Acinus |
| 1529 |
Aciniform |
(a.) Having the form of a cluster of grapes; clustered like grapes.
(a.) Full of small kernels like a grape. |
| 1530 |
Acinose |
(a.) Alt. of Acinous |
| 1531 |
acinous |
adj. pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland)
(a.) Consisting of acini, or minute granular concretions; as, acinose or acinous glands. |
| 1532 |
Acinus |
(n.) One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
(n.) A grapestone.
(n.) One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular re |
| 1533 |
acious |
to provide with something desired
needed
or suited (as a helpful service
a loan
or lodgings) |
| 1534 |
Acipenser |
(n.) A genus of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons, having the body armed with bony scales, and the mouth on the under side of the head. See Sturgeon. |
| 1535 |
Aciurgy |
(n.) Operative surgery. |
| 1536 |
ack. |
ack. |
| 1537 |
ackack |
artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes |
| 1538 |
ackemma |
to go along or in company with
escort
attend
companion |
| 1539 |
ackgt |
x. acknowledg(e)ment |
| 1540 |
Acknow |
(v. t.) To recognize.
(v. t.) To acknowledge; to confess. |
| 1541 |
acknowledge |
to admit to be real or true; recognize the existence, truth, or fact of |
| 1542 |
acknowledged |
achieve complete successfully completed done work out fulfill execute complete adj. recognized or made known or admitted; generally accepted of acknowledge |
| 1543 |
Acknowledgedly |
(adv.) Confessedly. |
| 1544 |
acknowledgement |
skilled
proficient
n. a statement acknowledging something or someone; the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged |
| 1545 |
Acknowledger |
(n.) One who acknowledges. |
| 1546 |
Acknowledging |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Acknowledge |
| 1547 |
acknowledgment |
the fact of accepting that something is true or right |
| 1548 |
aclinic |
to achieve
(a.) Without inclination or dipping; -- said the magnetic needle balances itself horizontally, having no dip. The aclinic line is also termed the magnetic equator. |
| 1549 |
aclutter |
aclutter |
| 1550 |
acm |
air chief marshal |
| 1551 |
acme |
best or highest point |
| 1552 |
acne |
a condition of the skin in which small red spots appear, usually on the face and neck, esp. in young people |
| 1553 |
Acnodal |
(a.) Pertaining to acnodes. |
| 1554 |
Acnode |
(n.) An isolated point not upon a curve, but whose coordinates satisfy the equation of the curve so that it is considered as belonging to the curve. |
| 1555 |
acock |
(adv.) In a cocked or turned up fashion. |
| 1556 |
Acockbill |
(adv.) Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor.
(adv.) Topped up; having one yardarm higher than the other. |
| 1557 |
Acold |
(a.) Cold. |
| 1558 |
Acologic |
(a.) Pertaining to acology. |
| 1559 |
Acology |
(n.) Materia medica; the science of remedies. |
| 1560 |
Acolothist |
(n.) See Acolythist. |
| 1561 |
Acolyctine |
(n.) An organic base, in the form of a white powder, obtained from Aconitum lycoctonum. |
| 1562 |
acolyte |
someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service |
| 1563 |
Acolyth |
(n.) Same as Acolyte. |
| 1564 |
Acolythist |
(n.) An acolyte. |
| 1565 |
aconcagua |
n. the highest mountain in the western hemisphere; located in the Andes in western Argentina (22,834 feet high) |
| 1566 |
Aconddylose |
(a.) Alt. of Acondylous |
| 1567 |
Acondylous |
(a.) Being without joints; jointless. |
| 1568 |
Aconital |
(a.) Of the nature of aconite. |
| 1569 |
aconite |
n. any of various usually poisonous plants of the genus Aconitum having tuberous roots and palmately lobed leaves and blue or white flowers
(n.) The herb wolfsbane, or monkshood; -- applied to any plant of the genus Aconitum tribe Hellebore), all the spec |
| 1570 |
Aconitia |
(n.) Same as Aconitine. |
| 1571 |
aconitic |
(a.) Of or pertaining to aconite.
\Ac`o*nit"ic\, a. Of or pertaining to aconite. |
| 1572 |
Aconitine |
(n.) An intensely poisonous alkaloid, extracted from aconite.
for that reason |
| 1573 |
Aconitum |
(n.) The poisonous herb aconite; also, an extract from it. |
| 1574 |
Acontia |
(n. pl.) Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells cnidae), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniae when irritated. |
| 1575 |
Acontias |
(n.) Anciently, a snake, called dart snake; now, one of a genus of reptiles closely allied to the lizards. |
| 1576 |
acopic |
(a.) Relieving weariness; restorative. |
| 1577 |
acorn |
to approach someone
to approach and speak to often in a challenging or aggressive way
n. fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base
(n.) The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
(n.) A cone- |
| 1578 |
Acorn cup |
The involucre or cup in which the acorn is fixed. |
| 1579 |
acorn shell |
explanations
explanation
exposition |
| 1580 |
acorn tube |
explain |
| 1581 |
acorn worm |
an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one's actions |
| 1582 |
Acorned |
(a.) Furnished or loaded with acorns.
(a.) Fed or filled with acorns. |
| 1583 |
Acorn-shell |
(n.) One of the sessile cirripeds; a barnacle of the genus Balanus. See Barnacle. |
| 1584 |
Acosmism |
(n.) A denial of the existence of the universe as distinct from God. |
| 1585 |
Acosmist |
(n.) One who denies the existence of the universe, or of a universe as distinct from God. |
| 1586 |
Acotyledon |
(n.) A plant which has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants.
responsible for something |
| 1587 |
Acotyledonous |
(a.) Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc. |
| 1588 |
Acouchy |
(n.) A small species of agouti Dasyprocta acouchy). |
| 1589 |
Acoumeter |
(n.) An instrument for measuring the acuteness of the sense of hearing. |
| 1590 |
Acoumetry |
(n.) The measuring of the power or extent of hearing. |
| 1591 |
acoustic |
pertaining to the sense or organs of hearing, to sound, or to the science of sound |
| 1592 |
acoustic phonetics |
the branch of phonetics concerned with the acoustic properties of human speech Compare auditory phonetics, articulatory phonetics |
| 1593 |
acoustical |
adj. of or relating to the science of acoustics
(a.) Of or pertaining to acoustics. |
| 1594 |
acoustical cloud |
one of a number of acoustic panels installed near the ceiling of a concert hall to reflect sound for improving the acoustic quality of music. |
| 1595 |
acoustical guitar |
guitar that produces sound acoustically |
| 1596 |
acoustical mine |
A mine with an acoustic circuit which responds to the acoustic field of a ship or sweep. See also mine |
| 1597 |
Acoustically |
(adv.) In relation to sound or to hearing. |
| 1598 |
Acoustician |
(n.) One versed in acoustics.
n. a physicist who specializes in acoustics |
| 1599 |
acousticon |
trappings
personal clothing
accessories
or equipment |
| 1600 |
acoustics |
n. the study of the physical properties of sound
(n.) The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena, and laws. |
| 1601 |
acoustoelectronics |
acoustoelectronics |
| 1602 |
acquaint |
v. inform; make familiar or acquainted |
| 1603 |
acquaint A with B |
acquaint A with B |
| 1604 |
Acquaintable |
(a.) Easy to be acquainted with; affable. |
| 1605 |
acquaintance |
a person that you have met but do not know well |
| 1606 |
Acquaintanceship |
(n.) A state of being acquainted; acquaintance. |
| 1607 |
Acquaintant |
(n.) An acquaintance. |
| 1608 |
acquainted |
familiar, knowing well, in a relationship where you know someone well |
| 1609 |
acquainted with |
known to someone ; having been introduced to |
| 1610 |
Acquaintedness |
(n.) State of being acquainted; degree of acquaintance. |
| 1611 |
Acquainting |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Acquaint |
| 1612 |
Acquest |
(n.) Acquisition; the thing gained.
(n.) Property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance. |
| 1613 |
acquiesce |
accept something reluctantly but without protest. |
| 1614 |
acquiesced |
of acquiesce |
| 1615 |
acquiescence |
the reluctant acceptance of something without protest. |
| 1616 |
Acquiescency |
(n.) The quality of being acquiescent; acquiescence. |
| 1617 |
Acquiescent |
(a.) Resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit; assentive; as, an acquiescent policy. |
| 1618 |
Acquiescently |
(adv.) In an acquiescent manner. |
| 1619 |
Acquiescing |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Acquiesce |
| 1620 |
Acquiet |
(v. t.) To quiet. |
| 1621 |
Acquirability |
(n.) The quality of being acquirable; attainableness. |
| 1622 |
Acquirable |
(a.) Capable of being acquired. |
| 1623 |
acquire |
to get something |
| 1624 |
acquired |
to come into possession or ownership of; get as one's own |
| 1625 |
Acquirement |
(n.) The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment. |
| 1626 |
Acquirer |
(n.) A person who acquires. |
| 1627 |
Acquiring |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Acquire |
| 1628 |
Acquiry |
(n.) Acquirement. |
| 1629 |
Acquisite |
(a.) Acquired. |
| 1630 |
acquisition |
something such as a building, another company, or a piece of land |
| 1631 |
acquisitions |
an asset or object bought or obtained, typically by a library or museum. |
| 1632 |
acquisitive |
eager to own and collect things |
| 1633 |
Acquisitively |
(adv.) In the way of acquisition. |
| 1634 |
Acquisitiveness |
(n.) The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.
(n.) The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing. |
| 1635 |
Acquisitor |
(n.) One who acquires. |
| 1636 |
Acquist |
(n.) Acquisition; gain. |
| 1637 |
acquit |
free (someone) from a criminal charge by a verdict of not guilty. |
| 1638 |
Acquitment |
(n.) Acquittal. |
| 1639 |
acquittal |
a judgment that a person is not guilty of the crime with which the person has been charged. |
| 1640 |
acquittance |
a written receipt attesting the settlement of a fine or debt. |
| 1641 |
acquitted |
past tense of acquit |
| 1642 |
Acquitter |
(n.) One who acquits or releases. |
| 1643 |
Acquitting |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Acquit |
| 1644 |
Acrania |
(n.) Partial or total absence of the skull.
(n.) The lowest group of Vertebrata, including the amphioxus, in which no skull exists. |
| 1645 |
Acranial |
(a.) Wanting a skull. |
| 1646 |
Acrase |
(v. t.) Alt. of Acraze |
| 1647 |
Acrasia |
(n.) Alt. of Acrasy |
| 1648 |
Acraspeda |
(n. pl.) A group of acalephs, including most of the larger jellyfishes; the Discophora. |
| 1649 |
Acrasy |
(n.) Excess; intemperance. |
| 1650 |
acrawl |
dissipation
the whole
everything added up |
| 1651 |
Acraze |
(v. t.) To craze.
(v. t.) To impair; to destroy. |
| 1652 |
acrchaeology |
the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains. |
| 1653 |
acre |
a unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries (n.) Any field of arable or pasture land. |
| 1654 |
Acreable |
(a.) Of an acre; per acre; as, the acreable produce. |
| 1655 |
acreage |
an area of land, typically when used for agricultural purposes, but not necessarily measured in acres. |
| 1656 |
acred |
(a.) Possessing acres or landed property; -- used in composition; as, large-acred men. |
| 1657 |
acrefoot |
a unit of volume of water in irrigation: the amount covering one acre to a depth of one foot, equal to 43,560 cubic feet |
| 1658 |
acreinch |
one-twelfth of an acre-foot, equal to 3630 cubic feet |
| 1659 |
acres |
an expression of disapproval, commiseration, or appeal |
| 1660 |
acrid |
bitter or pungent smell or taste |
| 1661 |
acridine |
charge someone with an offense
indict
impeach
blame
charge
to charge with a fault or offense |
| 1662 |
Acridity |
(n.) Alt. of Acridness |
| 1663 |
Acridly |
(adv.) In an acid manner. |
| 1664 |
Acridness |
(n.) The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of a speech. |
| 1665 |
acriflavine |
an orange-brown, granular solid, C 14 H 14 N 3 Cl: used chiefly in medicine as an antiseptic |
| 1666 |
Acrilan |
n. acrylic resin used to make a strong soft crease-resistant fabric (trade name Acrilan) |
| 1667 |
Acrimonies |
(pl. ) of Acrimony |
| 1668 |
acrimonious |
(typically of speech or a debate) angry and bitter. |
| 1669 |
Acrimoniously |
(adv.) In an acrimonious manner. |
| 1670 |
Acrimoniousness |
(n.) The quality of being acrimonious; asperity; acrimony. |
| 1671 |
acrimony |
bitterness or ill feeling. |
| 1672 |
Acrisia |
(n.) Alt. of Acrisy |
| 1673 |
Acrisy |
(n.) Inability to judge.
(n.) Undecided character of a disease. |
| 1674 |
Acrita |
(n. pl.) The lowest groups of animals, in which no nervous system has been observed. |
| 1675 |
Acritan |
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Acrita.
(n.) An individual of the Acrita. |
| 1676 |
Acrite |
(a.) Acritan. |
| 1677 |
Acritical |
(a.) Having no crisis; giving no indications of a crisis; as, acritical symptoms, an acritical abscess. |
| 1678 |
Acritochromacy |
(n.) Color blindness; achromatopsy. |
| 1679 |
Acritude |
(n.) Acridity; pungency joined with heat. |
| 1680 |
Acrity |
(n.) Sharpness; keenness. |
| 1681 |
acro |
the highest |
| 1682 |
Acroamatic |
(a.) Alt. of Acroamatical |
| 1683 |
Acroamatical |
(a.) Communicated orally; oral; -- applied to the esoteric teachings of Aristotle, those intended for his genuine disciples, in distinction from his exoteric doctrines, which were adapted to outsiders or the public generally. Hence: Abstruse; profound. |
| 1684 |
Acroatic |
(a.) Same as Acroamatic. |
| 1685 |
acrobat |
n. an athlete who performs acts requiring skill and agility and coordination
(n.) One who practices rope dancing, high vaulting, or other daring gymnastic feats. |
| 1686 |
acrobatic |
(a.) Pertaining to an acrobat. |
| 1687 |
acrobatics |
n. the performance of stunts while in flight in an aircraft; the gymnastic moves of an acrobat |
| 1688 |
Acrobatism |
(n.) Feats of the acrobat; daring gymnastic feats; high vaulting. |
| 1689 |
Acrocarpous |
(a.) Having a terminal fructification; having the fruit at the end of the stalk.
(a.) Having the fruit stalks at the end of a leafy stem, as in certain mosses. |
| 1690 |
Acrocephalic |
(a.) Characterized by a high skull. |
| 1691 |
Acrocephaly |
(n.) Loftiness of skull. |
| 1692 |
Acroceraunian |
(a.) Of or pertaining to the high mountain range of "thunder-smitten" peaks now Kimara), between Epirus and Macedonia. |
| 1693 |
Acrodactylum |
(n.) The upper surface of the toes, individually. |
| 1694 |
Acrodont |
(n.) One of a group of lizards having the teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the acrodonts. |
| 1695 |
Acrogen |
(n.) A plant of the highest class of cryptogams, including the ferns, etc. See Cryptogamia.
n. any flowerless plant such as a fern (pteridophyte) or moss (bryophyte) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem |
| 1696 |
acrogenous |
adj. pertaining to flowerless plants (ferns or mosses) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem
(a.) Increasing by growth from the extremity; as, an acrogenous plant. |
| 1697 |
acrolect |
bitter
sour or bitter in taste
biting
bitter in tone or taste |
| 1698 |
acrolein |
n. a pungent colorless unsaturated liquid aldehyde made from propene
(n.) A limpid, colorless, highly volatile liquid, obtained by the dehydration of glycerin, or the destructive distillation of neutral fats containing glycerin. Its vapors are intensely i |
| 1699 |
Acrolith |
(n.) A statue whose extremities are of stone, the trunk being generally of wood. |
| 1700 |
Acrolithan |
(a.) Alt. of Acrolithic |
| 1701 |
Acrolithic |
(a.) Pertaining to, or like, an acrolith. |
| 1702 |
acromegalic |
adj. having abnormal size with overgrown extremities resulting from abnormal pituitary secretion |
| 1703 |
acromegaly |
n. enlargement of bones of hands and feet and face; often accompanied by headache and muscle pain and emotional disturbances; caused by overproduction of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary gland (due to a tumor)
(n.) Chronic enlargement of the extre |
| 1704 |
Acromial |
(a.) Of or pertaining to the acromion. |
| 1705 |
Acromion |
(n.) The outer extremity of the shoulder blade. |
| 1706 |
Acromonogrammatic |
(a.) Having each verse begin with the same letter as that with which the preceding verse ends. |
| 1707 |
acronical |
hurt
pain |
| 1708 |
Acronyc |
(a.) Alt. of Acronychal |
| 1709 |
Acronycally |
(adv.) In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vice versa. |
| 1710 |
Acronychal |
(a.) Rising at sunset and setting at sunrise, as a star; -- opposed to cosmical. |
| 1711 |
Acronyctous |
(a.) Acronycal. |
| 1712 |
acronym |
an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word |
| 1713 |
acronymize |
acronymize |
| 1714 |
acronymous |
adj. characterized by the use of acronyms |
| 1715 |
Acrook |
(adv.) Crookedly. |
| 1716 |
Acropetal |
(a.) Developing from below towards the apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; -- said of certain inflorescence. |
| 1717 |
acrophobe |
acrophobe |
| 1718 |
acrophobia |
n. a morbid fear of great heights |
| 1719 |
Acrophony |
(n.) The use of a picture symbol of an object to represent phonetically the initial sound of the name of the object.
n. naming a letter of the alphabet by using a word whose initial sound is the sound represented by that letter |
| 1720 |
Acropodium |
(n.) The entire upper surface of the foot. |
| 1721 |
acropolis |
n. the citadel in ancient Greek towns
(n.) The upper part, or the citadel, of a Grecian city; especially, the citadel of Athens. |
| 1722 |
Acropolitan |
(a.) Pertaining to an acropolis. |
| 1723 |
acrosin |
gain |
| 1724 |
Acrospire |
(n.) The sprout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate; the plumule in germination; -- so called from its spiral form.
(v. i.) To put forth the first sprout. |
| 1725 |
Acrospore |
(n.) A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi. |
| 1726 |
Acrosporous |
(a.) Having acrospores. |
| 1727 |
across |
to, toward, or from the far side of |
| 1728 |
across the board |
affecting everyone or everything within an organization, system, or society. |
| 1729 |
acrosstheboard |
affecting everything or everyone in a society, an organization, etc., equally |
| 1730 |
acrossthetable |
having no hue
consisting of black
gray
or white |
| 1731 |
acrostic |
sour
biting
n. verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message; a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across
(n.) A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last lett |
| 1732 |
Acrostical |
(n.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics. |
| 1733 |
Acrostically |
(adv.) After the manner of an acrostic. |
| 1734 |
Acrotarsium |
(n.) The instep or front of the tarsus. |
| 1735 |
Acroteleutic |
(n.) The end of a verse or psalm, or something added thereto, to be sung by the people, by way of a response. |
| 1736 |
Acroter |
(n.) Same as Acroterium. |
| 1737 |
Acroteria |
(pl. ) of Acroterium |
| 1738 |
Acroterial |
(a.) Pertaining to an acroterium; as, acroterial ornaments. |
| 1739 |
acroterion |
a pedestal placed on a pediment to support a statue or other ornamentation; also : an ornament similarly placed (as on the prow of a galley) |
| 1740 |
Acroterium |
(n.) One of the small pedestals, for statues or other ornaments, placed on the apex and at the basal angles of a pediment. Acroteria are also sometimes placed upon the gables in Gothic architecture.
(n.) One of the pedestals, for vases or statues, forming |
| 1741 |
acrotheater |
acrotheater |
| 1742 |
Acrotic |
(a.) Pertaining to or affecting the surface. |
| 1743 |
Acrotism |
(n.) Lack or defect of pulsation. |
| 1744 |
Acrotomous |
(a.) Having a cleavage parallel with the base. |
| 1745 |
acryl |
Acrylic is a kind of plastic, fabric, fiber, or paint that's made from acrylic acid. You might knit your mom an acrylic hat if she's allergic to wool |
| 1746 |
acrylamide |
n. a white crystalline amide of propenoic acid can damage the nervous system and is carcinogenic in laboratory animals |
| 1747 |
acrylic |
n. a synthetic fabric; used especially by artists; a glassy thermoplastic; can be cast and molded or used in coatings and adhesives; polymerized from acrylonitrile
(a.) Of or containing acryl, the hypothetical radical of which acrolein is the hydride; as, |
| 1748 |
acrylic acid |
to show that you have seen and recognized someone
confess
own
admit |
| 1749 |
acrylic fiber |
any of the group of synthetic textile fibers, as Orlon, made by the polymerization of acrylonitrile as the principal component with one or more other monomers |
| 1750 |
acrylic resin |
a glassy thermoplastic made by polymerizing acrylic acid or methacrylic acid or a derivative of either and used for cast and molded parts or as coatings and adhesives |
| 1751 |
acrylonitrile |
n. a colorless liquid unsaturated nitrile made from propene |
| 1752 |
act |
the process of doing or performing something; a law; a chapter in a play |
| 1753 |
act as, serve as, function as |
to perform a particular role or function |
| 1754 |
act for |
if somebody acts for you or acts on behalf of you, they deal with your affairs for you, for example by representing you in court, or by doing your duty when you are not able to |
| 1755 |
Act of Congress |
statute enacted by the United States Congress |
| 1756 |
Act on |
apply power, power being applied |
| 1757 |
act one's age |
to behave in a way suitable for someone as old as you are |
| 1758 |
act out |
to reproduce (an idea, former event, etc) in actions, often by mime |
| 1759 |
act up |
any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes |
| 1760 |
actable |
the highest point
the highest point or stage
adj. capable of being acted; suitable for the stage
(a.) Capable of being acted. |
| 1761 |
acted |
of act |
| 1762 |
actin |
n. one of the proteins into which actomyosin can be split; can exist in either a globular or a fibrous form |
| 1763 |
Actinal |
(a.) Pertaining to the part of a radiate animal which contains the mouth. |
| 1764 |
Actinaria |
(n. pl.) A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not. |
| 1765 |
acting |
adj. serving temporarily especially as a substitute; n. the performance of a part or role in a drama
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Act
(a.) Operating in any way.
(a.) Doing duty for another; officiating; as, an acting superintendent. |
| 1766 |
actinia |
n. any sea anemone or related animal; a genus of sea anemone common in rock pools
(n.) An animal of the class Anthozoa, and family Actinidae. From a resemblance to flowers in form and color, they are often called animal flowers and sea anemones. [See Poly |
| 1767 |
Actiniae |
(pl. ) of Actinia |
| 1768 |
Actinias |
(pl. ) of Actinia |
| 1769 |
actinic |
adj. relating to or exhibiting actinism
(a.) Of or pertaining to actinism; as, actinic rays. |
| 1770 |
actinide |
n. any of a series of radioactive elements with atomic numbers 89 through 103 |
| 1771 |
actinide series |
to notify |
| 1772 |
actiniform |
(a.) Having a radiated form, like a sea anemone. |
| 1773 |
actinism |
a person known to one
someone whom one knows slightly
associate
companion
n. the property of radiation that enables it to produce photochemical effects
(n.) The property of radiant energy found chiefly in solar or electric light) by which chemical changes |
| 1774 |
actinium |
n. a radioactive element of the actinide series; found in uranium ores
(n.) A supposed metal, said by Phipson to be contained in commercial zinc; -- so called because certain of its compounds are darkened by exposure to light. |
| 1775 |
Actino-chemistry |
(n.) Chemistry in its relations to actinism. |
| 1776 |
Actinograph |
(n.) An instrument for measuring and recording the variations in the actinic or chemical force of rays of light. |
| 1777 |
actinoid |
adj. having a radial form; n. any of a series of radioactive elements with atomic numbers 89 through 103
(a.) Having the form of rays; radiated, as an actinia. |
| 1778 |
actinolite |
n. Kind of footstone |
| 1779 |
Actinolitic |
(a.) Of the nature of, or containing, actinolite. |
| 1780 |
Actinology |
(n.) The science which treats of rays of light, especially of the actinic or chemical rays. |
| 1781 |
Actinomere |
(n.) One of the radial segments composing the body of one of the Coelenterata. |
| 1782 |
Actinometer |
(n.) An instrument for measuring the direct heating power of the sun's rays.
(n.) An instrument for measuring the actinic effect of rays of light.
to agree by being silent or not objecting
n. an instrument for measuring the intensity of electromagnetic ra |
| 1783 |
Actinometric |
(a.) Pertaining to the measurement of the intensity of the solar rays, either a) heating, or b) actinic. |
| 1784 |
Actinometry |
(n.) The measurement of the force of solar radiation.
(n.) The measurement of the chemical or actinic energy of light.
n. measuring the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (especially of the sun's rays) |
| 1785 |
actinomyces |
obtain something
to come into one's possesion
buy
obtain
learn
develop
gain
develop through effort
secure
earn
n. soil-inhabiting saprophytes and disease-producing plant and animal parasites |
| 1786 |
actinomycete |
developed or learned
not naturally occurring
n. any bacteria (some of which are pathogenic for humans and animals) belonging to the order Actinomycetales |
| 1787 |
actinomycin |
n. any of various red antibiotics isolated from soil bacteria |
| 1788 |
actinomycosis |
the attainment or purchase of something
gaining possession
to purchase or gain something
the act of acquiring
n. disease of cattle that can be transmitted to humans; results from infection with actinomycetes; characterized by hard swellings that exude pus |
| 1789 |
actinon |
n. any of a series of radioactive elements with atomic numbers 89 through 103 |
| 1790 |
Actinophorous |
(a.) Having straight projecting spines. |
| 1791 |
Actinosome |
(n.) The entire body of a coelenterate. |
| 1792 |
Actinost |
(n.) One of the bones at the base of a paired fin of a fish. |
| 1793 |
Actinostome |
(n.) The mouth or anterior opening of a coelenterate animal. |
| 1794 |
actinotherapy |
greedy
n. (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance |
| 1795 |
Actinotrocha |
(n. pl.) A peculiar larval form of Phoronis, a genus of marine worms, having a circle of ciliated tentacles. |
| 1796 |
actinouranium |
to find not guilty
to discharge completely |
| 1797 |
Actinozoa |
(n. pl.) A group of Coelenterata, comprising the Anthozoa and Ctenophora. The sea anemone, or actinia, is a familiar example. |
| 1798 |
Actinozoal |
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Actinozoa. |
| 1799 |
actinozoan |
n. sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed |
| 1800 |
Actinozoon |
(n.) One of the Actinozoa. |
| 1801 |
Actinula |
(n. pl.) A kind of embryo of certain hydroids Tubularia), having a stellate form. |
| 1802 |
action |
the state or process of acting or doing |
| 1803 |
actionable |
if something is actionable, it gives someone a good reason for accusing |
| 1804 |
Actionably |
(adv.) In an actionable manner. |
| 1805 |
Actionary |
(n.) Alt. of Actionist |
| 1806 |
Actionist |
(n.) A shareholder in joint-stock company.
to relieve from a charge of fault or crime
declare not guilty |
| 1807 |
actionless |
(a.) Void of action. |
| 1808 |
actions |
the fact or process of doing something, typically to achieve an aim. |
| 1809 |
activate |
to cause something to start working |
| 1810 |
activate, vitalize, invigorate, revive, revitalize, reinvigorate |
activate, vitalize, invigorate, revive, revitalize, reinvigorate |
| 1811 |
activated |
adj. set up and placed on active assignment; rendered active; e.g. rendered radioactive or luminescent or photosensitive or conductive; (of e.g. a molecule) made reactive or more reactive; (of sewage) treated with aeration and bacteria to aid decompositio |
| 1812 |
activated carbon |
powdered or granular carbon used for purifying by adsorption; given orally (as a slurry) it is an antidote for some kinds of poisons |
| 1813 |
activation |
n. making active and effective (as a bomb); stimulation of activity in an organism or chemical; the activity of causing to have energy and be active |
| 1814 |
activator |
bitter
sharp
gentle
harsh
having an irritatingly pungent or harsh taste or odor
Harshly pungent or bitter
sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor
IRRITATING
n. (biology) any agency bringing about activation; a molecule that increases the |
| 1815 |
active |
being in a state of existence, progress, or motion |
| 1816 |
active volcano |
active volcano |
| 1817 |
actively |
in a way that involves positive action; in an energetic or vigorous way. |
| 1818 |
Activeness |
(n.) The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity. |
| 1819 |
activism |
n. a policy of taking direct and militant action to achieve a political or social goal |
| 1820 |
activist |
a person who believes strongly in political change and takes part in activities |
| 1821 |
activists |
advocating or engaged in activism |
| 1822 |
Activities |
(pl. ) of Activity |
| 1823 |
activity |
the situation in which a lot of things are happening or people are moving around |
| 1824 |
activize |
activize |
| 1825 |
Actless |
(a.) Without action or spirit. |
| 1826 |
acton |
(n.) A stuffed jacket worn under the mail, or later) a jacket plated with mail. |
| 1827 |
actor |
a person who behaves in the manner of a character in a play or movie |
| 1828 |
actors |
a theatrical performer |
| 1829 |
actress |
a female actor |
| 1830 |
Acts |
n. a New Testament book describing the development of the early church from Christ's Ascension to Paul's sojourn at Rome |
| 1831 |
actual |
existing in fact |
| 1832 |
Actualist |
(n.) One who deals with or considers actually existing facts and conditions, rather than fancies or theories; -- opposed to idealist. |
| 1833 |
actualite |
the truth |
| 1834 |
Actualities |
(pl. ) of Actuality |
| 1835 |
actuality |
a fact |
| 1836 |
actualization |
n. making real or giving the appearance of reality
(n.) A making actual or really existent. |
| 1837 |
actualize |
x. put together |
| 1838 |
actually |
used when you are saying what is the truth of a situation |
| 1839 |
Actually, this method has plenty of room for improvement. |
Actually, this method has plenty of room for improvement. |
| 1840 |
Actualness |
(n.) Quality of being actual; actuality. |
| 1841 |
actuarial |
adj. of or relating to the work of an actuary
(a.) Of or pertaining to actuaries; as, the actuarial value of an annuity. |
| 1842 |
Actuaries |
(pl. ) of Actuary |
| 1843 |
actuary |
a person who calculates how likely accidents, such as fire, flood, or loss of property, are to happen, and tells insurance companies how much they should charge their customers |
| 1844 |
actuate |
to make a machine work or be the reason a personacts in a certain way |
| 1845 |
actuated |
of actuate |
| 1846 |
Actuating |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Actuate |
| 1847 |
actuation |
n. the act of propelling
(n.) A bringing into action; movement. |
| 1848 |
actuator |
a. flower-bearing |
| 1849 |
Actuose |
(a.) Very active. |
| 1850 |
Actuosity |
(n.) Abundant activity. |
| 1851 |
Acture |
(n.) Action. |
| 1852 |
Acturience |
(n.) Tendency or impulse to act. |
| 1853 |
Acuate |
(v. t.) To sharpen; to make pungent; to quicken.
(a.) Sharpened; sharp-pointed. |
| 1854 |
Acuation |
(n.) Act of sharpening. |
| 1855 |
Acuition |
(n.) The act of sharpening. |
| 1856 |
acuity |
the ability to hear, see, or think accurately andclearly |
| 1857 |
aculeate |
adj. having or resembling a stinger or barb
(a.) Having a sting; covered with prickles; sharp like a prickle.
(a.) Having prickles, or sharp points; beset with prickles.
(a.) Severe or stinging; incisive. |
| 1858 |
Aculeated |
(a.) Having a sharp point; armed with prickles; prickly; aculeate. |
| 1859 |
Aculei |
(pl. ) of Aculeus |
| 1860 |
Aculeiform |
(a.) Like a prickle. |
| 1861 |
Aculeolate |
(a.) Having small prickles or sharp points. |
| 1862 |
Aculeous |
(a.) Aculeate. |
| 1863 |
Aculeus |
(n.) A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses.
(n.) A sting.
n. a sharp-pointed process especially a sting of a hymenopterous insect; a stiff sharp-pointed plant process |
| 1864 |
acumen |
skill in making correct decisions and judgments in a particular subject, such as business or politics |
| 1865 |
acuminate |
energetic
lively
brisk
positive
adj. of a leaf shape; narrowing to a slender point; v. make sharp or acute; taper; make (something) come to a point
(a.) Tapering to a point; pointed; as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc.
(v. t.) To render sharp or keen.
(v. i |
| 1866 |
Acumination |
(n.) A sharpening; termination in a sharp point; a tapering point. |
| 1867 |
Acuminose |
(a.) Terminating in a flat, narrow end. |
| 1868 |
acuminous |
(a.) Characterized by acumen; keen. |
| 1869 |
acunation |
acunation |
| 1870 |
acupressure |
n. treatment of symptoms by applying pressure with the fingers to specific pressure points on the body
(n.) A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are le |
| 1871 |
Acupuncturation |
(n.) See Acupuncture. |
| 1872 |
acupuncture |
treating patients with needles |
| 1873 |
acupuncturist |
a room used primarily for sleeping |
| 1874 |
acurate |
acurate |
| 1875 |
acushla |
DARLING |
| 1876 |
Acustumaunce |
(n.) See Accustomance. |
| 1877 |
Acutangular |
(a.) Acute-angled. |
| 1878 |
acute |
having a sharp edge, sensitive |
| 1879 |
acute angle |
an angle less than 90 degrees but more than 0 degrees |
| 1880 |
Acute-angled |
(a.) Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle. |
| 1881 |
acutecare |
acutecare |
| 1882 |
Acutely |
(adv.) In an acute manner; sharply; keenly; with nice discrimination. |
| 1883 |
Acuteness |
(n.) The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle.
(n.) The faculty of nice discernment or perception; acumen; keenness; sharpness; sensitiveness; -- applied to the senses, or the understanding. By acuteness of feeling, |
| 1884 |
Acutifoliate |
(a.) Having sharp-pointed leaves. |
| 1885 |
Acutilobate |
(a.) Having acute lobes, as some leaves. |
| 1886 |
acyclice |
not displaying or forming part of a cycle. |
| 1887 |
ad |
advertisement |
| 1888 |
Ad- |
As a prefix ad- assumes the forms ac-, af-, ag-, al-, an-, ap-, ar-, as-, at-, assimilating the d with the first letter of the word to which ad- is prefixed. It remains unchanged before vowels, and before d, h, j, m, v. Examples: adduce, adhere, adjacent, |
| 1889 |
ad agency |
an agency that designs advertisement to call public attention to its clients |
| 1890 |
ad agent |
in fact
truly |
| 1891 |
ad campaige |
an organized course of action to promote a product or service. |
| 1892 |
ad campaign |
an organized course of action to promote a product or service. |
| 1893 |
Ad captandum |
A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor. |
| 1894 |
ad hoc |
often improvised or impromptu |
| 1895 |
Ad hominem |
A phrase applied to an appeal or argument addressed to the principles, interests, or passions of a man. |
| 1896 |
Ad infinitum |
Without limit; endlessly. |
| 1897 |
Ad interim |
Meanwhile; temporary. |
| 1898 |
Ad libitum |
At one's pleasure; as one wishes. |
| 1899 |
ad rate |
consultant |
| 1900 |
Ad valorem |
A term used to denote a duty or charge laid upon goods, at a certain rate per cent upon their value, as stated in their invoice, -- in opposition to a specific sum upon a given quantity or number; as, an ad valorem duty of twenty per cent. |
| 1901 |
ada |
a high-level computer programming language used especially in real-time computerized control systems |
| 1902 |
Adact |
(v. t.) To compel; to drive. |
| 1903 |
Adactyl |
(a.) Alt. of Adactylous |
| 1904 |
Adactylous |
(a.) Without fingers or without toes.
(a.) Without claws on the feet of crustaceous animals). |
| 1905 |
adage |
a wise saying |
| 1906 |
Adagial |
(a.) Pertaining to an adage; proverbial. |
| 1907 |
adagio |
adj. (of tempo) leisurely; adv. slowly; n. a slow section of a pas de deux requiring great skill and strength by the dancers; (music) a composition played in adagio tempo (slowly and gracefully)
(a. & adv.) Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When re |
| 1908 |
adaline |
Name given by Widrow to adaptive linear neurons |
| 1909 |
Adam |
n. street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine; (Old Testament) in Judeo-Christian mythology; the first man and the husband of Eve and the progenitor of the human race; Scottish architect who designed many public buildings in England and Scotland (1728 |
| 1910 |
adamancy |
adamancy |
| 1911 |
adamant |
impossible to persuade, or unwilling to change an opinion or decision |
| 1912 |
Adamantean |
(a.) Of adamant; hard as adamant. |
| 1913 |
adamantine |
a Chinese medical practice that treats illness by the insertion of needles
adj. having the hardness of a diamond; consisting of or having the hardness of adamant; impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason
(a.) Made of adamant, or having the qualit |
| 1914 |
Adambulacral |
(a.) Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish. |
| 1915 |
Adamic |
(a.) Alt. of Adamical |
| 1916 |
Adamical |
(a.) Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him. |
| 1917 |
Adamism |
Adamism |
| 1918 |
Adamite |
(n.) A descendant of Adam; a human being.
(n.) One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies. |
| 1919 |
Adams |
n. a mountain peak in southwestern Washington in the Cascade Range (12,307 feet high); 2nd President of the United States (1735-1826); 6th President of the United States; son of John Adams (1767-1848); American Revolutionary leader and patriot; an organiz |
| 1920 |
Adam's apple |
See under Adam. |
| 1921 |
adamsite |
sharp or severe
sharp
severe
keen
poignant
critical
dire |
| 1922 |
Adance |
(adv.) Dancing. |
| 1923 |
Adangle |
(adv.) Dangling. |
| 1924 |
Adansonia |
(n.) A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enorm |
| 1925 |
adapt |
to make suitable to requirements or conditions |
| 1926 |
adapt to |
adapt to |
| 1927 |
adapt to - |
adapt to - |
| 1928 |
adaptability |
n. able to change to suit different situations or uses |
| 1929 |
adaptable |
adj. able to change to suit different situations or uses |
| 1930 |
Adaptableness |
(n.) The quality of being adaptable; suitableness. |
| 1931 |
adaptation |
the process of changing to suit different conditions |
| 1932 |
Adaptative |
(a.) Adaptive. |
| 1933 |
adapted |
adj. changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose of adapt |
| 1934 |
Adaptedness |
(n.) The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness. |
| 1935 |
adapter |
n. device that enables something to be used in a way different from that for which it was intended or makes different pieces of apparatus compatible; a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performa |
| 1936 |
adapters |
a device for connecting pieces of equipment that cannot be connected directly. |
| 1937 |
Adapting |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adapt |
| 1938 |
adaption |
n. the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)
(n.) Adaptation. |
| 1939 |
adaptive |
adj. having a capacity for adaptation
(a.) Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting. |
| 1940 |
adaptiveness |
adaptive means having the ability or tendency to adapt to different situations |
| 1941 |
Adaptly |
(adv.) In a suitable manner. |
| 1942 |
Adaptness |
(n.) Adaptedness. |
| 1943 |
adaptometer |
a proverb
a traditional saying
an old saying now accepted as being truthful
An old saying |
| 1944 |
adaptor |
n. device that enables something to be used in a way different from that for which it was intended or makes different pieces of apparatus compatible |
| 1945 |
Adaptorial |
(a.) Adaptive. |
| 1946 |
Adar |
stubborn
unyielding
stubbornly un yielding
vacillatory
to be sure
insistent
not yielding
firm
Any substance of exceeding hardness or impenetrability
unshakable or immovable especially in opposition
n. the sixth month of the civil year; the twelfth month o |
| 1947 |
Adarce |
(n.) A saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds in Galatia. It is soft and porous, and was formerly used for cleansing the skin from freckles and tetters, and also in leprosy. |
| 1948 |
Adatis |
(n.) A fine cotton cloth of India. |
| 1949 |
Adaunt |
(v. t.) To daunt; to subdue; to mitigate. |
| 1950 |
Adaw |
(v. t.) To subdue; to daunt.
(v. t. & i.) To awaken; to arouse. |
| 1951 |
Adays |
(adv.) By day, or every day; in the daytime. |
| 1952 |
adazzle |
adazzle |
| 1953 |
adcraft |
suit
adjust
fit
to make fit (as for a specific or new use or situation) often by modification |
| 1954 |
add |
to combine to form a sum, to join so as to increase in size, quantity, quality, or scope |
| 1955 |
Add fuel to the fire. |
do or say something which makes a difficult situation worse, or makes somebody even more angry, etc |
| 1956 |
add in |
a device or piece of software that can be added to a computer to give extra features or functions. |
| 1957 |
add to |
to make something such as a feeling or a quality greater or more extreme |
| 1958 |
add up |
to find the sum |
| 1959 |
add~to... |
have an increased effect |
| 1960 |
Addable |
(a.) Addible. |
| 1961 |
Addax |
(n.) One of the largest African antelopes Hippotragus, / Oryx, nasomaculatus).
n. large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of northern Africa |
| 1962 |
added |
of add |
| 1963 |
addedvalue |
x. =value added tax
x. value added tax |
| 1964 |
Addeem |
(v. t.) To award; to adjudge. |
| 1965 |
addend |
n. a number that is added to another number (the augend) |
| 1966 |
Addenda |
(pl. ) of Addendum |
| 1967 |
addendum |
something that has been added to a book, speech, or document |
| 1968 |
adder |
the state of being adjusted
n. small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia; a machine that adds numbers; a person who adds numbers
(n.) One who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers.
(n.) A serpent.
(n.) A small venomous serpent |
| 1969 |
Adder fly/ |
A dragon fly. |
| 1970 |
adderstongue |
suitable |
| 1971 |
Adder's-tongue |
(n.) A genus of ferns Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue.
(n.) The yellow dogtooth violet. |
| 1972 |
Adderwort |
(n.) The common bistort or snakeweed Polygonum bistorta). |
| 1973 |
Addibility |
(n.) The quantity of being addible; capability of addition. |
| 1974 |
addible |
adj. capable of being added or added to
(a.) Capable of being added. |
| 1975 |
Addice |
(n.) See Adze. |
| 1976 |
addict |
a person who cannot stop doing or using something |
| 1977 |
addict (n) |
someone who likes something very much and does it or has it very often |
| 1978 |
addict to |
dig in somthing |
| 1979 |
addicted |
devoted or given up to a practice or habit or to something psychologically |
| 1980 |
Addictedness |
(n.) The quality or state of being addicted; attachment. |
| 1981 |
Addicting |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Addict |
| 1982 |
addiction |
the problem of not being able to stop doing or taking something |
| 1983 |
addictive |
adj. causing or characterized by addiction |
| 1984 |
addie |
A name that originated as a shortened form of Adelheid and Adelaide (nobility) but is not bestowed as an independent given name. |
| 1985 |
Adding |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Add |
| 1986 |
Adding insult to injury. |
change texture so as to become matted and felt-like |
| 1987 |
addio |
addio |
| 1988 |
Addison |
A masculine name. |
| 1989 |
Addisonian |
Addisonian |
| 1990 |
Addison's disease |
A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon |
| 1991 |
Additament |
(n.) An addition, or a thing added. |
| 1992 |
addition |
the operation that, consists of increasing by a definite number |
| 1993 |
addition sentence |
addition sentence |
| 1994 |
additional |
extra |
| 1995 |
additional charge |
additional charge |
| 1996 |
additionally |
also |
| 1997 |
Additionary |
(a.) Additional. |
| 1998 |
additions |
something that you add to something else |
| 1999 |
Addititious |
(a.) Additive. |
| 2000 |
additive |
adj. characterized or produced by addition; designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree; n. something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine
(a.) Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive. |
| 2001 |
Additory |
(a.) Tending to add; making some addition. |
| 2002 |
addle |
to make someone?feel?confused?and?unable?tothink?clearly |
| 2003 |
addle brained |
to cause to be habitually dependent on a substance |
| 2004 |
Addle-brain |
(n.) Alt. of Addle-pate |
| 2005 |
Addle-brained |
(a.) Alt. of Addle-pated |
| 2006 |
addled |
of addle |
| 2007 |
Addle-head |
(n.) Alt. of Addle-pate |
| 2008 |
Addle-headed |
(a.) Alt. of Addle-pated |
| 2009 |
Addle-pate |
(n.) A foolish or dull-witted fellow. |
| 2010 |
addlepated |
adj. stupid and confused; used especially of persons |
| 2011 |
Addle-pated |
(a.) Dull-witted; stupid. |
| 2012 |
Addle-patedness |
(n.) Stupidity. |
| 2013 |
Addling |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Addle |
| 2014 |
Addlings |
(n. pl.) Earnings. |
| 2015 |
addon |
to devote or surrender (oneself) to something habitually or obsessively |
| 2016 |
Addoom |
(v. t.) To adjudge. |
| 2017 |
Addorsed |
(a.) Set or turned back to back. |
| 2018 |
address |
to speak to |
| 2019 |
address a problem |
address a problem |
| 2020 |
address a challenge |
deal with a challenge; handle a problem |
| 2021 |
tackle a problem |
try to work at a problem |
| 2022 |
addressable |
adj. capable of being addressed |
| 2023 |
addressed |
the number of the house, name of the road, and name of the town where a person lives or works |
| 2024 |
addressee |
n. one to whom something is addressed
(n.) One to whom anything is addressed. |
| 2025 |
addresses |
the particulars of the place where someone lives or an organization is situated |
| 2026 |
addressing |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Address |
| 2027 |
Addression |
(n.) The act of addressing or directing one's course. |
| 2028 |
Addressograph |
n. a printer that automatically prints addresses on letters for mailing |
| 2029 |
adds |
join (something) to something else so as to increase the size, number, or amount. |
| 2030 |
adduce |
to give reasons why you think something is true |
| 2031 |
adduced |
of adduce |
| 2032 |
adducent |
added
extra
adj. especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part
(a.) Bringing together or towards a given point; -- a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards anot |
| 2033 |
Adducer |
(n.) One who adduces. |
| 2034 |
adducible |
(a.) Capable of being adduced. |
| 2035 |
Adducing |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adduce |
| 2036 |
adduct |
n. a compound formed by an addition reaction; v. draw a limb towards the body
(v. t.) To draw towards a common center or a middle line. |
| 2037 |
Adduction |
(n.) The act of adducing or bringing forward.
(n.) The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its axis]; -- opposed to abduction. |
| 2038 |
adductive |
adj. especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part
(a.) Adducing, or bringing towards or to something. |
| 2039 |
adductor |
n. a muscle that draws a body part toward the median line
(n.) A muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body; -- opposed to abductor; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the e |
| 2040 |
Addulce |
(v. t.) To sweeten; to soothe. |
| 2041 |
addup |
develop into |
| 2042 |
Adeem |
(v. t.) To revoke, as a legacy, grant, etc., or to satisfy it by some other gift. |
| 2043 |
Adelaide |
speak or write to someone
to speak to
to direct a speech or written statement
residence
abode
speech
lecture
discourse
n. the state capital of South Australia |
| 2044 |
Adelantadillo |
(n.) A Spanish red wine made of the first ripe grapes. |
| 2045 |
Adelantado |
(n.) A governor of a province; a commander. |
| 2046 |
Adelaster |
(n.) A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus. |
| 2047 |
Adeling |
(n.) Same as Atheling. |
| 2048 |
Adelocodonic |
(a.) Applied to sexual zooids of hydroids, that have a saclike form and do not become free; -- opposed to phanerocodonic. |
| 2049 |
Adelopod |
(n.) An animal having feet that are not apparent. |
| 2050 |
Adelphia |
(n.) A "brotherhood," or collection of stamens in a bundle; -- used in composition, as in the class names, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, etc. |
| 2051 |
Adelphous |
(a.) Having coalescent or clustered filaments; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous. |
| 2052 |
Adempt |
(p. p.) Takes away. |
| 2053 |
ademption |
(n.) The revocation or taking away of a grant donation, legacy, or the like. |
| 2054 |
Aden |
n. an important port of Yemen; located on the Gulf of Aden; its strategic location have made it a major trading center of southern Arabia since ancient times |
| 2055 |
Aden- |
Alt. of Adeno- |
| 2056 |
Adenalgia |
(n.) Alt. of Adenalgy |
| 2057 |
Adenalgy |
(n.) Pain in a gland. |
| 2058 |
Adenauer |
n. German statesman; chancellor of West Germany (1876-1967) |
| 2059 |
adenectomy |
a surgical removal of all or part of a gland. |
| 2060 |
Adeniform |
(a.) Shaped like a gland; adenoid. |
| 2061 |
adenine |
n. (biochemistry) purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with thymine in DNA and with uracil in RNA |
| 2062 |
adenitis |
n. inflammation of a gland or lymph node
(n.) Glandular inflammation. |
| 2063 |
Adeno- |
Combining forms of the Greek word for gland; -- used in words relating to the structure, diseases, etc., of the glands. |
| 2064 |
adenocarcinoma |
n. malignant tumor originating in glandular epithelium |
| 2065 |
Adenographic |
(a.) Pertaining to adenography. |
| 2066 |
Adenography |
(n.) That part of anatomy which describes the glands. |
| 2067 |
adenoid |
to cite
to bring forward as proof
adj. relating to or resembling lymphatic glands or lymphoid tissue; n. a collection of lymphatic tissue in the throat behind the uvula (on the posterior wall and roof of the nasopharynx)
(a.) Alt. of Adenoidal |
| 2068 |
Adenoidal |
(a.) Glandlike; glandular.
adj. sounding as if the nose were pinched; of or pertaining to the adenoids |
| 2069 |
adenoidectomy |
highly skilled or experienced
skilled
expert
skillful
practiced
n. surgical removal of the adenoids; commonly performed along with tonsillectomy |
| 2070 |
adenoiditis |
inflammation of the adenoids. |
| 2071 |
Adenological |
(a.) Pertaining to adenology. |
| 2072 |
Adenology |
(n.) The part of physiology that treats of the glands. |
| 2073 |
adenoma |
barely sufficient or suitable
as much or as good as necessary
sufficient
suitable
n. a benign epithelial tumor of glandular origin |
| 2074 |
Adenophorous |
(a.) Producing glands. |
| 2075 |
Adenophyllous |
(a.) Having glands on the leaves. |
| 2076 |
adenose |
satisfactorily
sufficiently
as much or as good as necessary
(a.) Like a gland; full of glands; glandulous; adenous. |
| 2077 |
adenosine |
stick
cling
to hold on to or stick to something
believe in and follow the practices of
support or hold
stick firmly to something
cleave
n. (biochemistry) a nucleoside that is a structural component of nucleic acids; it is present in all living cells in a |
| 2078 |
Adenotomic |
(a.) Pertaining to adenotomy. |
| 2079 |
Adenotomy |
(n.) Dissection of, or incision into, a gland or glands. |
| 2080 |
Adenous |
(a.) Same as Adenose. |
| 2081 |
adenovirus |
n. any of a group of viruses including those that in humans cause upper respiratory infections or infectious pinkeye |
| 2082 |
adental |
adental |
| 2083 |
adenyl |
follower |
| 2084 |
Adeps |
(n.) Animal fat; lard. |
| 2085 |
adept |
adj. having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude |
| 2086 |
Adeption |
(a.) An obtaining; attainment. |
| 2087 |
Adeptist |
(n.) A skilled alchemist. |
| 2088 |
Adeptness |
(n.) The quality of being adept; skill. |
| 2089 |
adequacy |
n. the quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily: "he questioned the adequacy of the usual sentimental interpretation of the Golden Rule"; the quality of being sufficient for the end in view
(n.) The state or quality of being adequate, proportio |
| 2090 |
adequate |
enough or satisfactory for a particular purpose |
| 2091 |
adequately |
sufficiently to satisfy a requirement or meet a need |
| 2092 |
Adequateness |
(n.) The quality of being adequate; suitableness; sufficiency; adequacy. |
| 2093 |
Adequation |
(n.) The act of equalizing; act or result of making adequate; an equivalent. |
| 2094 |
Adesmy |
(n.) The division or defective coherence of an organ that is usually entire. |
| 2095 |
Adessenarian |
(n.) One who held the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation. |
| 2096 |
adfat |
glue |
| 2097 |
Adfected |
(v.) See Affected, 5. |
| 2098 |
Adfiliated |
(a.) See Affiliated. |
| 2099 |
Adfiliation |
(n.) See Affiliation. |
| 2100 |
Adfluxion |
(n.) See Affluxion. |
| 2101 |
adfreeze |
for the particular end or case at hand without consideration of wider application |
| 2102 |
ADH |
n. hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus; affects blood pressure by stimulating capillary muscles and reduces urine flow by affecting reabsorption of water by kidney tubules |
| 2103 |
Adhamant |
(a.) Clinging, as by hooks. |
| 2104 |
adhere |
to stick firmly |
| 2105 |
adhere to |
a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young |
| 2106 |
adhered |
of adhere |
| 2107 |
adherence |
following the rule, observance or obeyance of the rule or belief.; clinging to something |
| 2108 |
Adherency |
(n.) The state or quality of being adherent; adherence.
(n.) That which adheres. |
| 2109 |
adherent |
a person who follows or upholds a leader, cause, etc. |
| 2110 |
Adherently |
(adv.) In an adherent manner. |
| 2111 |
Adherer |
(n.) One who adheres; an adherent. |
| 2112 |
adherernt |
a person who follows or upholds a leader, cause, etc.; supporter; follower |
| 2113 |
Adhering |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adhere |
| 2114 |
adhesion |
the act or state of adhering; state of being adhered or united |
| 2115 |
adhesive |
coated with glue, paste, mastic, or other sticky substance |
| 2116 |
adhesive liquid |
glue |
| 2117 |
Adhesively |
(adv.) In an adhesive manner. |
| 2118 |
Adhesiveness |
(n.) The quality of sticking or adhering; stickiness; tenacity of union.
(n.) Propensity to form and maintain attachments to persons, and to promote social intercourse. |
| 2119 |
Adhibit |
(v. t.) To admit, as a person or thing; to take in.
(v. t.) To use or apply; to administer.
(v. t.) To attach; to affix. |
| 2120 |
Adhibition |
(n.) The act of adhibiting; application; use. |
| 2121 |
adhoc |
often improvised or impromptu |
| 2122 |
ad-hoc |
made or happening only for a particular purpose or need, not planned before it happens |
| 2123 |
adhocery |
to bring together |
| 2124 |
adhocracy |
a parasite |
| 2125 |
Adhort |
(v. t.) To exhort; to advise. |
| 2126 |
Adhortation |
(n.) Advice; exhortation. |
| 2127 |
Adhortatory |
(a.) Containing counsel or warning; hortatory; advisory. |
| 2128 |
ADI |
n. acceptable daily intake |
| 2129 |
adiabatic |
adj. occurring without loss or gain of heat
(a.) Not giving out or receiving heat. |
| 2130 |
Adiactinic |
(a.) Not transmitting the actinic rays. |
| 2131 |
Adiantum |
(n.) A genus of ferns, the leaves of which shed water; maidenhair. Also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort.
decide about
to make an official decision about a problem or dispute
n. cosmopolitan genus of ferns: maidenhair ferns; in some classifi |
| 2132 |
Adiaphorism |
(n.) Religious indifference. |
| 2133 |
Adiaphorist |
(n.) One of the German Protestants who, with Melanchthon, held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical. |
| 2134 |
Adiaphoristic |
(a.) Pertaining to matters indifferent in faith and practice. |
| 2135 |
Adiaphorite |
(n.) Same as Adiaphorist. |
| 2136 |
Adiaphorous |
(a.) Indifferent or neutral.
(a.) Incapable of doing either harm or good, as some medicines. |
| 2137 |
Adiaphory |
(n.) Indifference. |
| 2138 |
Adiathermic |
(a.) Not pervious to heat. |
| 2139 |
adidas |
adidas |
| 2140 |
adieu |
the same as goodbye. |
| 2141 |
Adieus |
(pl. ) of Adieu |
| 2142 |
Adight |
(p. p.) of Adight
(v. t.) To set in order; to array; to attire; to deck, to dress. |
| 2143 |
adios |
one that act as judge
n. a farewell remark |
| 2144 |
Adipescent |
(a.) Becoming fatty. |
| 2145 |
Adipic |
(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, fatty or oily substances; -- applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid. |
| 2146 |
Adipocerate |
(v. t.) To convert into adipocere. |
| 2147 |
Adipoceration |
(n.) The act or process of changing into adipocere. |
| 2148 |
Adipocere |
(n.) A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration.
essential element |
| 2149 |
Adipoceriform |
(a.) Having the form or appearance of adipocere; as, an adipoceriform tumor. |
| 2150 |
Adipocerous |
(a.) Like adipocere. |
| 2151 |
adipose |
adj. composed of animal fat
(a.) Of or pertaining to animal fat; fatty. |
| 2152 |
Adiposeness |
(n.) Alt. of Adiposity |
| 2153 |
adiposity |
x. Circular descent |
| 2154 |
Adipsous |
(a.) Quenching thirst, as certain fruits. |
| 2155 |
Adipsy |
(n.) Absence of thirst. |
| 2156 |
Adirondack |
to bring to a more satisfactory state
accommodate
alter slightly to be more suitable
fit
adapt
suit |
| 2157 |
adit |
n. a nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine
(n.) An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel.
(n.) Admission; |
| 2158 |
aditorial |
aditorial |
| 2159 |
adivce |
adivce |
| 2160 |
ADIZ |
n. Air Defense Identification Zone |
| 2161 |
Adjacence |
Alt. of Adjacency |
| 2162 |
adjacency |
very near, next to, or?touching |
| 2163 |
adjacent |
very near, next to, or touching |
| 2164 |
Adjacently |
(adv.) So as to be adjacent. |
| 2165 |
Adject |
(v. t.) To add or annex; to join. |
| 2166 |
Adjection |
(n.) The act or mode of adding; also, the thing added. |
| 2167 |
Adjectional |
(a.) Pertaining to adjection; that is, or may be, annexed. |
| 2168 |
Adjectitious |
Added; additional. |
| 2169 |
adjectival |
related to adjective |
| 2170 |
Adjectivally |
(adv.) As, or in the manner of, an adjective; adjectively. |
| 2171 |
adjective |
a word or phrase naming an atribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it |
| 2172 |
adjectived |
of adjective |
| 2173 |
Adjectively |
(adv.) In the manner of an adjective; as, a word used adjectively. |
| 2174 |
Adjectives |
of or relating to or functioning as an adjective |
| 2175 |
Adjectiving |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adjective |
| 2176 |
adjoin |
to lie next to, join |
| 2177 |
Adjoinant |
(a.) Contiguous. |
| 2178 |
adjoined |
of adjoin |
| 2179 |
adjoining |
added, joined |
| 2180 |
Adjoint |
(n.) An adjunct; a helper. |
| 2181 |
adjourn |
to have a pause or rest during a formal meeting ortrial |
| 2182 |
adjourn the sitting |
adjourn the sitting |
| 2183 |
Adjournal |
(n.) Adjournment; postponement. |
| 2184 |
adjourned |
of adjourn |
| 2185 |
Adjourning |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adjourn |
| 2186 |
Adjournment |
(n.) The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.
(n.) The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business. |
| 2187 |
adjudge |
declare to be |
| 2188 |
adjudged |
of adjudge |
| 2189 |
adjudgement |
adjudgement |
| 2190 |
Adjudger |
(n.) One who adjudges. |
| 2191 |
Adjudging |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adjudge |
| 2192 |
Adjudgment |
(n.) The act of adjudging; judicial decision; adjudication. |
| 2193 |
adjudicate |
put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of |
| 2194 |
adjudicated |
of adjudicate |
| 2195 |
Adjudicating |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adjudicate |
| 2196 |
adjudication |
the act of judging a case, competition, or argument, or of making a formal decision about something |
| 2197 |
adjudicative |
adj. concerned with adjudicating
(a.) Adjudicating. |
| 2198 |
adjudicator |
a person or group that makes an official decisionabout something, especially about who is right in adisagreement |
| 2199 |
Adjudicature |
(n.) Adjudication. |
| 2200 |
Adjugate |
(v. t.) To yoke to. |
| 2201 |
Adjument |
(n.) Help; support; also, a helper. |
| 2202 |
adjunct |
something added or connected to a larger or more important thing |
| 2203 |
Adjunction |
(n.) The act of joining; the thing joined or added.
deserving admiration
praiseworthy
fine
excellent
n. an act of joining or adjoining things |
| 2204 |
adjunctive |
adj. joining; forming an adjunct
(a.) Joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct.
(n.) One who, or that which, is joined. |
| 2205 |
Adjunctively |
(adv.) In an adjunctive manner. |
| 2206 |
Adjunctly |
(adv.) By way of addition or adjunct; in connection with. |
| 2207 |
adjuration |
a solemn and earnest appeal to someone to do something |
| 2208 |
adjuratory |
Flexible |
| 2209 |
adjure |
ask for or request earnestly |
| 2210 |
adjured |
of adjure |
| 2211 |
Adjurer |
(n.) One who adjures. |
| 2212 |
Adjuring |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adjure |
| 2213 |
adjust |
to change (something) so that it fits, corresponds, or conforms |
| 2214 |
adjustable |
entry
entrance (fee)
the act or process of admitting
adj. capable of being regulated; capable of being changed so as to match or fit
(a.) Capable of being adjusted. |
| 2215 |
Adjustage |
(n.) Adjustment. |
| 2216 |
adjusted |
of adjust |
| 2217 |
adjuster |
the act?of allowing to enter n. one who investigates insurance claims or claims for damages and recommends an effective settlement (n.) One who, or that which, adjusts. |
| 2218 |
Adjusting |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adjust |
| 2219 |
Adjustive |
(a.) Tending to adjust. |
| 2220 |
adjustment |
a slight change that you make to something so that it works better |
| 2221 |
adjustments |
a small alteration or movement made to achieve a desired fit, appearance, or result. |
| 2222 |
Adjutage |
(n.) Same as Ajutage. |
| 2223 |
Adjutancy |
(n.) The office of an adjutant.
(n.) Skillful arrangement in aid; assistance. |
| 2224 |
adjutant |
an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer |
| 2225 |
Adjutator |
(n.) A corruption of Agitator. |
| 2226 |
Adjute |
(v. t.) To add. |
| 2227 |
Adjutor |
(n.) A helper or assistant. |
| 2228 |
Adjutory |
(a.) Serving to help or assist; helping. |
| 2229 |
Adjutrix |
(n.) A female helper or assistant. |
| 2230 |
adjuvant |
adj. enhancing the action of a medical treatment; furnishing added support; n. an additive that enhances the effectiveness of medical treatment
(n.) A substance added to an immunogenic agent to enhance the production of antibodies.
(n.) A substance added |
| 2231 |
adland |
the advertising industry and the people who work in it |
| 2232 |
Adlegation |
(n.) A right formerly claimed by the states of the German Empire of joining their own ministers with those of the emperor in public treaties and negotiations to the common interest of the empire. |
| 2233 |
adless |
adless |
| 2234 |
adlib |
to sing or play music without any preparation |
| 2235 |
ad-lib |
to say things that you have not prepared or planned when you are performing or giving a speech |
| 2236 |
adlibitum |
counsel or warning
Gentle reproof |
| 2237 |
Adlocution |
(n.) See Allocution. |
| 2238 |
ADM |
ADM |
| 2239 |
adman |
n. someone whose business is advertising |
| 2240 |
Admarginate |
(v. t.) To write in the margin. |
| 2241 |
admass |
n. the segment of the public that is easily influenced by mass media (chiefly British) |
| 2242 |
Admaxillary |
(a.) Near to the maxilla or jawbone. |
| 2243 |
admeasure |
to deny the possession or use of something |
| 2244 |
Admeasurer |
(n.) One who admeasures. |
| 2245 |
Admensuration |
(n.) Same as Admeasurement. |
| 2246 |
Admetus |
start to use or follow |
| 2247 |
admin |
n. =ADMINSTRATION
n. ADMINSTRATION |
| 2248 |
Adminicle |
(n.) Help or support; an auxiliary.
(n.) Corroborative or explanatory proof. |
| 2249 |
Adminicular |
(a.) Supplying help; auxiliary; corroborative; explanatory; as, adminicular evidence. |
| 2250 |
Adminiculary |
(a.) Adminicular. |
| 2251 |
administer |
various types of work done in the management office from hiring people to assigning work and evaluating their performance |
| 2252 |
administered |
of administer |
| 2253 |
administerial |
(a.) Pertaining to administration, or to the executive part of government. |
| 2254 |
Administering |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Administer |
| 2255 |
administrable |
can be managed |
| 2256 |
administrant |
decorate
ornament
to decorate or add beauty
beautify
(a.) Executive; acting; managing affairs.
(n.) One who administers. |
| 2257 |
administrate |
v. work in an administrative capacity; supervise
(v. t.) To administer. |
| 2258 |
administration |
the arrangements and tasks needed to control the operation of a plan or organization |
| 2259 |
administration office |
the main office where all kinds of paper work is done |
| 2260 |
administrative |
relating to the running of a business, organization, etc |
| 2261 |
administrative branch |
administrative branch |
| 2262 |
administrator |
(n.) One who handles various office work; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager. |
| 2263 |
administrators |
a person responsible for running a business, organization, etc. |
| 2264 |
Administratorship |
(n.) The position or office of an administrator. |
| 2265 |
administratove |
administratove |
| 2266 |
administratrix |
(n.) A woman who administers; esp., one who administers the estate of an intestate, or to whom letters of administration have been granted; a female administrator. |
| 2267 |
Admirability |
(n.) Admirableness. |
| 2268 |
admirable |
deserving respect or approval |
| 2269 |
Admirableness |
(n.) The quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence. |
| 2270 |
Admirably |
(adv.) In an admirable manner. |
| 2271 |
admiral |
an officer of very high rank in the navy |
| 2272 |
Admiralship |
(n.) The office or position oaf an admiral; also, the naval skill of an admiral. |
| 2273 |
Admiralties |
(pl. ) of Admiralty |
| 2274 |
admiralty |
n. the office of admiral; the department in charge of the navy (as in Great Britain)
(n.) The office or jurisdiction of an admiral.
(n.) The department or officers having authority over naval affairs generally.
(n.) The court which has jurisdiction of mar |
| 2275 |
Admirance |
(n.) Admiration. |
| 2276 |
admiration |
n. a favorable judgment; a feeling of delighted approval and liking; (n.) Wonder; astonishment. |
| 2277 |
Admirative |
(a.) Relating to or expressing admiration or wonder. |
| 2278 |
admire |
to find someone or something attractive and pleasant to look at |
| 2279 |
admired |
of admire (a.) regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an admired poem. (a.) wonderful; also, admirable. |
| 2280 |
admirer |
excessive devotion to someone
wild admiration
praise in excess
n. someone who admires a young woman; a person who admires; someone who esteems or respects or approves; a person who backs a politician or a team etc.
(n.) One who admires; one who esteems or |
| 2281 |
admiring |
showing respect; loving; praising; wanting to become like the person you like |
| 2282 |
admissibility |
n. acceptability by virtue of being admissible
(n.) The quality of being admissible; admissibleness; as, the admissibility of evidence. |
| 2283 |
admissible |
allowed or acceptable, especially in a court of law |
| 2284 |
admission |
to acknowledge the truth of somthing |
| 2285 |
admissions |
the act?of allowing to enter |
| 2286 |
admissive |
adj. characterized by or allowing admission
(a.) Implying an admission; tending to admit. |
| 2287 |
Admissory |
(a.) Pertaining to admission. |
| 2288 |
admit |
to agree that something is true, especially unwillingly |
| 2289 |
admit (to) -ing |
admit (to) -ing |
| 2290 |
admit, acknowledge, concede, recognize, accept |
declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of |
| 2291 |
admittable |
a. It is acceptable. |
| 2292 |
admittance |
permission or right to enter |
| 2293 |
Admittatur |
(n.) The certificate of admission given in some American colleges. |
| 2294 |
admitted |
of admit (a.) received as true or valid; acknowledged. |
| 2295 |
admittedly |
adv. as acknowledged
(adv.) Confessedly. |
| 2296 |
Admitter |
(n.) One who admits. |
| 2297 |
Admitting |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Admit |
| 2298 |
admix |
v. mix or blend
(v. t.) To mingle with something else; to mix. |
| 2299 |
Admixtion |
(n.) A mingling of different things; admixture. |
| 2300 |
admixture |
placed ahead or forward
n. an additional ingredient that is added by mixing with the base; the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something; the act of mixing together
(n.) The act of mixing; mixture.
(n.) The compound formed by mixin |
| 2301 |
admonish |
to tell someone that they have done something wrong |
| 2302 |
admonished |
of admonish |
| 2303 |
Admonisher |
(n.) One who admonishes. |
| 2304 |
Admonishing |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Admonish |
| 2305 |
Admonishment |
(n.) Admonition. |
| 2306 |
admonition |
a piece of advice that is also a warning to someone about their behaviour |
| 2307 |
Admonitioner |
(n.) Admonisher. |
| 2308 |
Admonitive |
(a.) Admonitory. |
| 2309 |
Admonitor |
(n.) Admonisher; monitor. |
| 2310 |
Admonitorial |
(a.) Admonitory. |
| 2311 |
admonitory |
adj. expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective; serving to warn
(a.) That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance. |
| 2312 |
Admonitrix |
(n.) A female admonitor. |
| 2313 |
Admortization |
(n.) The reducing or lands or tenements to mortmain. See Mortmain. |
| 2314 |
Admove |
(v. t.) To move or conduct to or toward. |
| 2315 |
Adnascent |
(a.) Growing to or on something else. |
| 2316 |
adnate |
benefit
gain
profit
behalf
adj. of unlike parts or organs; growing closely attached
(a.) Grown to congenitally.
(a.) Growing together; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts.
(a.) Growing with one side adherent to a stem; -- a term applied to th |
| 2317 |
Adnation |
(n.) The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs. |
| 2318 |
adnexa |
furnishing convenience or opportunity
n. an accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages (especially of the embryo) |
| 2319 |
adnominal |
(a.) Pertaining to an adnoun; adjectival; attached to a noun. |
| 2320 |
Adnoun |
(n.) An adjective, or attribute.
arrival
coming
beginning
a coming into place
view
or being
the coming of something important
introduction
appearance
n. an adjective used as a noun |
| 2321 |
Adnubilated |
(a.) Clouded; obscured. |
| 2322 |
ado |
a rapid active commotion |
| 2323 |
adobe |
accidental
irrelevant
n. sun-dried brick; used in hot dry climates; the clay from which adobe bricks are made
(n.) An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico. |
| 2324 |
adolesce |
v. become adolescent; pass through adolescence |
| 2325 |
adolescence |
young, juvenile, the teenage period |
| 2326 |
Adolescency |
(n.) The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness. |
| 2327 |
adolescent |
a young person who is developing into an adult |
| 2328 |
Adolf |
Adolf |
| 2329 |
Adolphus |
a male name |
| 2330 |
Adonai |
negative
contrary
unfavorable
harmful |
| 2331 |
Adonean |
(a.) Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic. |
| 2332 |
Adonic |
(a.) Relating to Adonis, famed for his beauty.
(n.) An Adonic verse. |
| 2333 |
Adonis |
n. (Greek mythology) a handsome youth loved by both Aphrodite and Persephone; any handsome young man; annual or perennial herbs
(n.) A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.
(n.) A preeminently beautiful young ma |
| 2334 |
Adonist |
(n.) One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translated "Jehovah" are really the vowel points of the word "Adonai." See Jehovist. |
| 2335 |
Adonize |
(v. t.) To beautify; to dandify.
unfavorably
disapprovingly |
| 2336 |
Adoors |
At the door; of the door; as, out adoors. |
| 2337 |
adopt |
to legally take another person's child into your own family |
| 2338 |
adopt a strategy |
adopt a strategy |
| 2339 |
adoptable |
adj. suitable or eligible for adoption
(a.) Capable of being adopted. |
| 2340 |
adopted |
heedful inattentive adj. acquired as your own by free choice; having been taken into a specific relationship of adopt (a.) taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word. |
| 2341 |
adoptee |
to announce publicly especially by a printed notice or a broadcast
n. someone (such as a child) who has been adopted |
| 2342 |
adopter |
a paid announcement
as of goods for sale
n. a person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child
(n.) One who adopts.
(n.) A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joine |
| 2343 |
Adopting |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adopt |
| 2344 |
adoption |
the act of adopting |
| 2345 |
adoptionism |
the doctrine that Jesus of Nazareth became the Son of God by adoption |
| 2346 |
Adoptionist |
(n.) One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption. |
| 2347 |
Adoptious |
(a.) Adopted. |
| 2348 |
adoptive |
adj. of parents and children; related by adoption; acquired as your own by free choice
(a.) Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language. |
| 2349 |
Adorability |
(n.) Adorableness. |
| 2350 |
adorable |
very attractive or delightful; charming |
| 2351 |
Adorableness |
(n.) The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration. |
| 2352 |
Adorably |
(adv.) In an adorable manner. |
| 2353 |
adoration |
very strong love or worship for someone |
| 2354 |
adore |
to love and respect someone very much, or to like something very much |
| 2355 |
Adorement |
(n.) The act of adoring; adoration. |
| 2356 |
adorer |
guidance
recommendations
an opinion or recommendation
suggestion
n. someone who admires a young woman
(n.) One who adores; a worshiper; one who admires or loves greatly; an ardent admirer. |
| 2357 |
adoring |
adj. extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent; showing adoration ( adored /); p. pr. & vb. n.) of adore |
| 2358 |
Adoringly |
(adv.) With adoration. |
| 2359 |
adorn |
Vt. make up |
| 2360 |
Adornation |
(n.) Adornment. |
| 2361 |
adorned |
decorated |
| 2362 |
Adorner |
(n.) He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier. |
| 2363 |
Adorning |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adorn |
| 2364 |
Adorningly |
(adv.) By adorning; decoratively. |
| 2365 |
adornment |
decoration, decorating |
| 2366 |
Adosculation |
(n.) Impregnation by external contact, without intromission. |
| 2367 |
adown |
(adv.) From a higher to a lower situation; downward; down, to or on the ground.
(prep.) Down. |
| 2368 |
adperson |
adperson |
| 2369 |
Adpress |
(v. t.) See Appressed. |
| 2370 |
Adrad |
(p. a.) Put in dread; afraid. |
| 2371 |
Adragant |
(n.) Gum tragacanth. |
| 2372 |
Adread |
(v. t. & i.) To dread. |
| 2373 |
Adreamed |
(p. p.) Visited by a dream; -- used in the phrase, To be adreamed, to dream. |
| 2374 |
adrenal |
adj. of or pertaining to the adrenal glands or their secretions; near the kidneys; n. either of a pair of complex endocrine glands situated near the kidney
(a.) Suprarenal. |
| 2375 |
adrenalin |
n. a catecholamine secreted by the adrenal medulla in response to stress (trade name Adrenalin); stimulates autonomic nerve action |
| 2376 |
adrenaline |
adrenaline |
| 2377 |
adrenalize |
adrenalize |
| 2378 |
adrenocortical |
adj. of or derived from the cortex of the adrenal glands |
| 2379 |
adrenocorticotrophic |
adj. stimulating or acting on the adrenal cortex |
| 2380 |
adrenocorticotrophic hormone |
a person who argues in favor of a position
denounce
to speak
plead
or argue in favor of
to speak or write in favor of
support
argue for
speak for
claim
to plead in favor of |
| 2381 |
adriamycin |
a brand of doxorubicin |
| 2382 |
Adrian |
publicly recommend or support
n. English physiologist who conducted research into the function of neurons; 1st baron of Cambridge (1889-1997); Roman Emperor who was the adoptive son of Trajan; travelled throughout his empire to strengthen its frontiers an |
| 2383 |
Adriatic |
support
n. an arm of the Mediterranean between Slovenia and Croatia and Montenegro and Albania on the east and Italy on the west
(a.) Of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the Gulf of Venice. |
| 2384 |
Ad-rib |
offhand=improvise=impromptu |
| 2385 |
ad-rib=offhand=improvise=impromptu |
ad-rib=offhand=improvise=impromptu |
| 2386 |
adrift |
afloat on the surface of a body of water |
| 2387 |
Adrip |
(adv. & a.) In a dripping state; as, leaves all adrip. |
| 2388 |
Adrogate |
(v. t.) To adopt a person who is his own master). |
| 2389 |
Adrogation |
(n.) A kind of adoption in ancient Rome. See Arrogation. |
| 2390 |
adroit |
very skillful and quick in the way you think or move |
| 2391 |
Adroitly |
(adv.) In an adroit manner. |
| 2392 |
adroitness |
not very skilful and quick in the way you think or move |
| 2393 |
Adry |
(a.) In a dry or thirsty condition. |
| 2394 |
ads |
advertisements |
| 2395 |
adscititious |
adj. supplemental; not part of the real or essential nature of a thing; added or derived from something outside; not inherent
(a.) Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious. |
| 2396 |
adscript |
remove air from
to supply with oxygen or air
to supply (the blood) with oxygen by respiration
adj. (used of persons) bound to a tract of land; hence their service is transferable from owner to owner; written or printed immediately following another charac |
| 2397 |
adscription |
n. =ASCRIPTION
n. ASCRIPTION |
| 2398 |
Adscriptive |
(a.) Attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it. |
| 2399 |
Adsignification |
(n.) Additional signification. |
| 2400 |
Adsignify |
(v. t.) To denote additionally. |
| 2401 |
adsl |
ADSL is a method of transmitting digital information at high speed over telephone lines. ADSL is an abbreviation for `asynchronous digital subscriber line'. |
| 2402 |
adsmith |
of
relating to
or occurring in the air or atmosphere |
| 2403 |
adsorb |
v. accumulate (liquids or gases) on the surface |
| 2404 |
adsorbate |
adj. capable of being adsorbed or accumulated on a surface of a solid; n. a material that has been or is capable of being adsorbed |
| 2405 |
adsorbent |
adj. having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface; n. a material having capacity or tendency to adsorb another substance |
| 2406 |
adsorption |
n. the accumulation of molecules of a gas to form a thin film on the surface of a solid |
| 2407 |
adsorptive |
adj. having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface |
| 2408 |
Adstrict |
(n.) See Astrict, and Astriction. |
| 2409 |
Adstrictory |
(a.) See Astrictory. |
| 2410 |
Adstringent |
(a.) See Astringent. |
| 2411 |
adsum |
adsum |
| 2412 |
Adulamite |
one of a small group of seceders from a particular political or intellectual position; especially : one who withdraws to join with others in forming a new group |
| 2413 |
Adularia |
(n.) A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone. |
| 2414 |
adulate |
flatter in an obsequious manner |
| 2415 |
adulation |
very great admiration or praise for someone, especially when it is more than is deserved |
| 2416 |
ADULATION /ADULATE |
derision
scorn |
| 2417 |
Adulator |
(n.) A servile or hypocritical flatterer. |
| 2418 |
adulatory |
adj. obsequiously complimentary
(a.) Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. |
| 2419 |
Adulatress |
(n.) A woman who flatters with servility. |
| 2420 |
adult |
one who has attained maturity or legal age. |
| 2421 |
adult education |
one having sensitivity to beauty
mostly in art |
| 2422 |
Adulter |
(v. i.) To commit adultery; to pollute. |
| 2423 |
adulterant |
a substance used to adulterate another. |
| 2424 |
adulterate |
render (something) poorer in quality by adding another substance, typically an inferior one. |
| 2425 |
adulterated |
adj. mixed with impurities of adulterate |
| 2426 |
Adulterating |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adulterate |
| 2427 |
adulteration |
a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty
art
and taste and with the creation and appreciation of beauty
n. the act of adulterating (especially the illicit substitution of one substance for another); being mixed with extraneous material; th |
| 2428 |
Adulterator |
(n.) One who adulterates or corrupts.
n. a changer who lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance; any substance that adulterates (lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance) |
| 2429 |
adulterer |
n. someone who commits adultery or fornication
(n.) A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.
(n.) A man who violates his religious covenant. |
| 2430 |
adulteress |
n. a woman adulterer
(n.) A woman who commits adultery.
(n.) A woman who violates her religious engagements. |
| 2431 |
Adulteries |
(pl. ) of Adultery |
| 2432 |
adulterine |
the quality of being pleasant and easy to talk to
easy and pleasant to speak to
approachable
adj. conceived in adultery
(a.) Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal.
(n.) An illegitimate child. |
| 2433 |
Adulterize |
(v. i.) To commit adultery. |
| 2434 |
adulterous |
illicit |
| 2435 |
Adulterously |
(adv.) In an adulterous manner. |
| 2436 |
adultery |
n. extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations
(n.) The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a mar |
| 2437 |
adulthood |
the part of someone's life when they are an adult. |
| 2438 |
adultify |
influence
impact
pretend
feign
assume |
| 2439 |
Adultness |
(n.) The state of being adult. |
| 2440 |
adultrated |
artlessness
unnatural behavior
airs
pretense |
| 2441 |
adults |
a person who is fully grown or developed. |
| 2442 |
adumbral |
natural(disaffected)
assumed artificially or falsely
PRETENDED |
| 2443 |
Adumbrant |
(a.) Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth. |
| 2444 |
adumbrate |
report or represent in outline. |
| 2445 |
Adumbration |
(n.) The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.
(n.) A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing.
(n.) The shadow or outlines of a figure. |
| 2446 |
Adumbrative |
(a.) Faintly representing; typical. |
| 2447 |
Adunation |
(n.) A uniting; union. |
| 2448 |
Adunc |
(a.) Alt. of Adunque |
| 2449 |
Aduncity |
(n.) Curvature inwards; hookedness. |
| 2450 |
Aduncous |
(a.) Curved inwards; hooked. |
| 2451 |
Adunque |
(a.) Hooked; as, a parrot has an adunc bill. |
| 2452 |
Adure |
(v. t.) To burn up. |
| 2453 |
adust |
attachment
amity
love
tender attachment
FONDNESS
adj. burned brown by the sun; dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
(a.) Inflamed or scorched; fiery.
(a.) Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt.
(a.) Having much heat in the constitution and li |
| 2454 |
Adusted |
(a.) Burnt; adust. |
| 2455 |
Adustible |
(a.) That may be burnt. |
| 2456 |
Adustion |
(n.) The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried.
(n.) Cauterization. |
| 2457 |
advance |
to go or move something forward, or to develop or improve something |
| 2458 |
advance into |
advance into |
| 2459 |
advance registration |
advance registration |
| 2460 |
advance, move forward, make progress, make headway |
being ahead of time or need |
| 2461 |
advanced |
modern and well developed |
| 2462 |
advanced degree |
a postgraduate degree, especially a master's degree or a doctorate. |
| 2463 |
advanced materials |
advanced materials |
| 2464 |
advancement |
n. gradual improvement or growth or development; the act of moving forward toward a goal; encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something, (v. t.) early payment (advance) |
| 2465 |
Advancer |
(n.) One who advances; a promoter.
(n.) A second branch of a buck's antler. |
| 2466 |
advances |
personal overtures made in an attempt to become friendly, gain a favour, etc |
| 2467 |
Advancing |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Advance |
| 2468 |
Advancive |
(a.) Tending to advance. |
| 2469 |
advantage |
a condition giving a greater chance of success |
| 2470 |
Advantageable |
(a.) Advantageous. |
| 2471 |
advantaged |
to accept as a member or branch
to become closely associated with
being in close formal or informal association
combine organizations
to come
or bring a person or group
into a close relationship with another
usually larger
group
adj. blessed with advantag |
| 2472 |
advantageous |
helping to make you more successful |
| 2473 |
Advantageously |
(adv.) Profitably; with advantage. |
| 2474 |
Advantageousness |
(n.) Profitableness. |
| 2475 |
advantages |
a condition or circumstance that puts one in a favorable or superior position |
| 2476 |
Advantaging |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Advantage |
| 2477 |
advect |
v. convey by horizontal mass movement of a fluid |
| 2478 |
advection |
dissociation
to bring or receive into close connection as a member or branch
n. (meteorology) the horizontal transfer of heat or other atmospheric properties |
| 2479 |
Advene |
(v. i.) To accede, or come to); to be added to something or become a part of it, though not essential. |
| 2480 |
Advenient |
(a.) Coming from outward causes; superadded. |
| 2481 |
advent |
coming |
| 2482 |
Adventism |
to maintain to be true
validate
confirm
verify
ascertain
check
identify
n. any Christian religion that believes the second coming of Christ is imminent |
| 2483 |
Adventist |
n. a member of Christian denomination that expects the imminent advent of Christ
(n.) One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists. |
| 2484 |
adventitious |
happening or carried on according to chance rather than design or inherent nature. |
| 2485 |
adventive |
adj. not native and not fully established; locally or temporarily naturalized
(a.) Accidental.
(a.) Adventitious.
(n.) A thing or person coming from without; an immigrant. |
| 2486 |
Adventual |
(a.) Relating to the season of advent. |
| 2487 |
adventure |
an unusual, exciting, and possibly dangerous activity, such as a trip or experience |
| 2488 |
adventure sport |
certain activities that feature a high level of danger. |
| 2489 |
adventured |
of adventure |
| 2490 |
Adventureful |
(a.) Given to adventure. |
| 2491 |
adventurer |
misery
illness
great suffering
pain and suffering
or its cause
n. a person who enjoys taking risks; someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose)
(n.) One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks |
| 2492 |
adventures |
an unusual and exciting, typically hazardous, experience or activity. |
| 2493 |
Adventuresome |
(a.) Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome. |
| 2494 |
adventuress |
rich
wealthy
n. a woman adventurer
(n.) A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means. |
| 2495 |
Adventuring |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adventure |
| 2496 |
adventurism |
the idea of enjoying adventures |
| 2497 |
adventurous |
to give
to supply
provide
give
grant
adj. willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises
(n.) Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons.
(n.) Full of hazar |
| 2498 |
Adventurously |
(adv.) In an adventurous manner; venturesomely; boldly; daringly. |
| 2499 |
Adventurousness |
(n.) The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness. |
| 2500 |
adverb |
a word that describes or gives more information about a verb, adjective, adverb, or phrase |
| 2501 |
adverbial |
adj. of or relating to or functioning as an adverb; n. a word or group of words function as an adverb
(a.) Of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form. |
| 2502 |
Adverbiality |
(n.) The quality of being adverbial. |
| 2503 |
Adverbialize |
(v. t.) To give the force or form of an adverb to. |
| 2504 |
adverbially |
inexpensive
reasonably priced
adv. as an adverb
(adv.) In the manner of an adverb. |
| 2505 |
Adversaria |
(n. pl.) A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes. |
| 2506 |
adversarial |
If you describe something as adversarial, you mean that it involves two or more people or organizations who are opposing each other. |
| 2507 |
Adversaries |
(pl. ) of Adversary |
| 2508 |
Adversarious |
(a.) Hostile. |
| 2509 |
adversary |
an enemy |
| 2510 |
adversative |
adj. expressing antithesis or opposition
(a.) Expressing contrariety, opposition, or antithesis; as, an adversative conjunction but, however, yet, etc. ); an adversative force.
(n.) An adversative word. |
| 2511 |
adverse |
(a.) Opposite; (v. t.) To oppose; to resist. |
| 2512 |
adverse effect |
an undesired harmful effect resulting from a medication or other intervention such as surgery |
| 2513 |
adversely |
oppositely, badly |
| 2514 |
Adverseness |
(n.) The quality or state of being adverse; opposition. |
| 2515 |
Adversifoliate |
(a.) Alt. of Adversifolious |
| 2516 |
Adversifolious |
(a.) Having opposite leaves, as plants which have the leaves so arranged on the stem. |
| 2517 |
Adversion |
(n.) A turning towards; attention. |
| 2518 |
Adversities |
(pl. ) of Adversity |
| 2519 |
adversity |
opposition, poverty, difficulty |
| 2520 |
advert |
an advertisement. |
| 2521 |
adverted |
of advert |
| 2522 |
advertence |
as previously stated
n. the process of being heedful
Alt. of Advertency |
| 2523 |
Advertency |
The act of adverting, of the quality of being advertent; attention; notice; regard; heedfulness. |
| 2524 |
advertent |
intentional |
| 2525 |
Adverting |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Advert |
| 2526 |
advertise |
to make something known generally or in public, especially in order to sell it |
| 2527 |
advertised |
of advertise |
| 2528 |
advertisement |
a picture, short film, song, etc. that tries to persuade people to buy a product or service |
| 2529 |
advertisements |
a notice or announcement in a public medium promoting a product, service, or event or publicizing a job vacancy. |
| 2530 |
advertiser |
a person or company that advertises a product, service, or event. |
| 2531 |
advertisering agency |
service based business dedicated to creating, planning, and handling advertising |
| 2532 |
advertisers |
In affiliate programs, the advertiser is the Web site owner or merchant who pays affiliates for sending traffic to their site to purchase or generate leads. |
| 2533 |
advertising |
the business of trying to persuade people to buy products or services |
| 2534 |
advertising man |
one whose profession is writing, designing, or selling advertisements. |
| 2535 |
advertising photograph |
Commercial photography is any photography in which the end result is intended to facilitate a business venture. |
| 2536 |
advertorial |
vi. go on a tour of the provinces |
| 2537 |
advice |
an opinion that someone offers you about what you should do or how you should act in a particular situation |
| 2538 |
advice for |
to give a suggestion or solution for an issue |
| 2539 |
advisability |
n. the quality of being advisable
(n.) The quality of being advisable; advisableness. |
| 2540 |
advisable |
proper to be suggested or recommended; desirable or wise as a course of action |
| 2541 |
Advisable-ness |
(n.) The quality of being advisable or expedient; expediency; advisability. |
| 2542 |
advisably |
(adv.) With advice; wisely. |
| 2543 |
advise |
to give counsel to; offer an opinion or suggestion |
| 2544 |
advised |
adj. having received information; having the benefit of careful prior consideration or counsel of advise |
| 2545 |
advisedly |
adv. with intention; in an intentional manner
(adv.) Circumspectly; deliberately; leisurely.
(adv.) With deliberate purpose; purposely; by design. |
| 2546 |
Advisedness |
(n.) Deliberate consideration; prudent procedure; caution. |
| 2547 |
Advisement |
(n.) Counsel; advice; information.
(n.) Consideration; deliberation; consultation. |
| 2548 |
adviser |
n. an expert who gives advice
(n.) One who advises. |
| 2549 |
Advisership |
(n.) The office of an adviser. |
| 2550 |
Advising |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Advise |
| 2551 |
Adviso |
(n.) Advice; counsel; suggestion; also, a dispatch or advice boat. |
| 2552 |
advisor |
someone whose job is to give advice about a subject |
| 2553 |
advisors |
a person who gives advice, typically someone who is expert in a particular field. |
| 2554 |
advisory |
an official announcement or warning |
| 2555 |
Advisory Bord |
Advisory Bord |
| 2556 |
advocacy |
the act of pleading for, supporting, or recommending; active espousal |
| 2557 |
advocate |
to publicly support or suggest an idea, development, or way of doing something |
| 2558 |
advocate reform |
advocate reform |
| 2559 |
advocated |
to have stood on one side |
| 2560 |
advocates |
support |
| 2561 |
Advocateship |
(n.) Office or duty of an advocate. |
| 2562 |
Advocating |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Advocate |
| 2563 |
advocation |
(n.) The act of advocating or pleading; plea; advocacy. (n.) The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court. |
| 2564 |
advocator |
n. a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea |
| 2565 |
Advocatory |
(a.) Of or pertaining to an advocate. |
| 2566 |
Advoke |
(v. t.) To summon; to call. |
| 2567 |
Advolution |
(n.) A rolling toward something. |
| 2568 |
Advoutrer |
(n.) An adulterer. |
| 2569 |
Advoutress |
(n.) An adulteress. |
| 2570 |
Advoutry |
(n.) Alt. of Advowtry |
| 2571 |
Advowee |
(n.) One who has an advowson. |
| 2572 |
Advowson |
(n.) The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.] |
| 2573 |
Advowtry |
(n.) Adultery. |
| 2574 |
Advoyer |
(n.) See Avoyer. |
| 2575 |
Adward |
(n.) Award. |
| 2576 |
adware |
adware |
| 2577 |
adwriter |
adwriter |
| 2578 |
adynamia |
n. lack of strength or vigor (especially from illness)
(n.) Considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever. |
| 2579 |
Adynamic |
(a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak.
(a.) Characterized by the absence of power or force.
adj. lacking strength or vigor; characterized by an absence of force or forcefulness |
| 2580 |
Adynamy |
(n.) Adynamia. |
| 2581 |
Adyta |
(pl. ) of Adytum |
| 2582 |
Adytum |
(n.) The innermost sanctuary or shrine in ancient temples, whence oracles were given. Hence: A private chamber; a sanctum.
after a particular event or time |
| 2583 |
adz |
n. an edge tool used to cut and shape wood
(n.) Alt. of Adze
(v. t.) To cut with an adz. |
| 2584 |
Adze |
(n.) A carpenter's or cooper's tool, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood. |
| 2585 |
Aeacus |
a judge in Hades, a son of Zeus and grandfather of Achilles |
| 2586 |
Aecidia |
(pl. ) of Aecidium |
| 2587 |
Aecidium |
(n.) A form of fruit in the cycle of development of the Rusts or Brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants. |
| 2588 |
aedes |
n. yellow-fever mosquitos |
| 2589 |
aedile |
(n.) A magistrate in ancient Rome, who had the superintendence of public buildings, highways, shows, etc.; hence, a municipal officer. |
| 2590 |
Aedileship |
(n.) The office of an aedile. |
| 2591 |
aeffect |
aeffect |
| 2592 |
Aegean |
adj. of or relating to or bordering the Aegean Sea; of or relating to or characteristic of the prehistoric Aegean civilization; n. an arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey; a main trade route for the ancient civilizations of Crete and Greece |
| 2593 |
Aegean sea |
an arm of the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Turkey |
| 2594 |
aeger |
aeger |
| 2595 |
Aegicrania |
(n. pl.) Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls. |
| 2596 |
Aegilops |
(n.) An ulcer or fistula in the inner corner of the eye.
(n.) The great wild-oat grass or other cornfield weed.
(n.) A genus of plants, called also hardgrass. |
| 2597 |
Aegir |
n. a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) |
| 2598 |
aegis |
program
a list or outline of things to be considered or done
n. kindly endorsement and guidance; armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass
(n.) A shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of Jupiter which he |
| 2599 |
Aegisthus |
n. (Greek mythology) the seducer of Clytemnestra and murderer of Agamemnon who usurped the throne of Mycenae until Agamemnon's son Orestes returned home and killed him |
| 2600 |
Aegophony |
(n.) Same as Egophony. |
| 2601 |
Aegrotat |
(n.) A medical certificate that a student is ill. |
| 2602 |
AEIS |
x. aeronautical en-route information service |
| 2603 |
Aeneas |
n. a mythical Greek warrior who was a leader on the Trojan side of the Trojan War; hero of the Aeneid |
| 2604 |
Aeneid |
disparage
to exaggerate
to increase in strength or importance
To cause to appear greatly
to make appear great or greater
praise highly
n. an epic in Latin by Virgil; tells the adventures of Aeneas after the Trojan War; provides an illustrious historical b |
| 2605 |
aeneous |
(a.) Colored like bronze. |
| 2606 |
Aeolian |
annoy
irritate
intensify
worsen
to irritate or make worse
make a problem worse or more serious
To make heavier
worse
or more burdensome
to make worse
more serious
or more
adj. of or pertaining to Aeolus, the Greek god of the winds; relating to or caused b |
| 2607 |
Aeolic |
n. the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis
(a.) Aeolian, 1; as, the Aeolic dialect; the Aeolic mode. |
| 2608 |
Aeolipile |
(n.) Alt. of Aeolipyle |
| 2609 |
Aeolipyle |
(n.) An apparatus consisting chiefly of a closed vessel as a globe or cylinder) with one or more projecting bent tubes, through which steam is made to pass from the vessel, causing it to revolve. |
| 2610 |
Aeolis |
n. ancient name for the coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos) |
| 2611 |
Aeolisn harp |
a stringed instrument that produces musical sounds when a current of air passes through it. |
| 2612 |
Aeolotropic |
(a.) Exhibiting differences of quality or property in different directions; not isotropic. |
| 2613 |
Aeolotropy |
(n.) Difference of quality or property in different directions. |
| 2614 |
Aeolus |
(n.) The god of the winds.
entire
total
combined
isolated units
disperse
sum total
assemble
collect
gather
to collect or gather into a mass or whole
n. god of the winds in ancient mythology |
| 2615 |
aeon |
n. (Gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe; an immeasurably long period of time; the longest division of geological time
(n.) A period of immeasurable duration; also |
| 2616 |
Aeonian |
(a.) Eternal; everlasting. |
| 2617 |
Aepyornis |
(n.) A gigantic bird found fossil in Madagascar.
n. huge (to 9 ft.) extinct flightless bird of Madagascar |
| 2618 |
aerate |
to put air |
| 2619 |
aerated |
full of air; with air |
| 2620 |
Aerating |
putting air in |
| 2621 |
aeration |
n. the act of charging a liquid with a gas making it effervescent; the process of exposing to air (so as to purify)
(n.) Exposure to the free action of the air; airing; as, aeration of soil, of spawn, etc.
(n.) A change produced in the blood by exposure t |
| 2622 |
aerator |
a piece of equipment that adds air to water or soil |
| 2623 |
aerial |
operating on a track or cable elevated above the ground |
| 2624 |
aerial bomb |
gratify
to distress or bring trouble to
to mistreat
to distress
to give pain or trouble to
DISTRESS |
| 2625 |
aerial current |
terrified
shocked
Struck by shock
terror
or amazement
astonished
amazed
horrified |
| 2626 |
aerial domain |
aerial domain |
| 2627 |
aerial ladder |
mechanically extendible ladder |
| 2628 |
aerial mine |
to distub or irritate the mind or emotions
excited
disturbed.
to cause to move with violence or sudden force |
| 2629 |
aerial photograph |
aerial photograph |
| 2630 |
aerial photography |
excited
disturbed.
feeling troubled or nervous |
| 2631 |
aerial plant |
skeptic
unbeliever
someone unconvinced about the existence of a god
a person who denies or doubts the possibility of ultimate knowledge in some area of study |
| 2632 |
aerial railroad |
aerial railroad |
| 2633 |
aerial root |
In eager desire |
| 2634 |
aerial torpedo |
to suffer in agony or torture
causing great pain |
| 2635 |
aerial tramway |
intense pain of mind or body
ANGUISH |
| 2636 |
aerialist |
nimble
disease
able to move quickly and easily
Able to move or act quickly
physically
or mentally
quick
light
n. an acrobat who performs in the air (as on a rope or trapeze) |
| 2637 |
Aeriality |
(n.) The state of being aerial; unsubstantiality. |
| 2638 |
Aerially |
(adv.) Like, or from, the air; in an aerial manner. |
| 2639 |
aerie |
agricultural
relating to cultivated land or the cultivation of land
of the land
of or relating to farming
n. any habitation at a high altitude; the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle)
(n.) The nest of a bird of prey, as of an eagle or h |
| 2640 |
Aeriferous |
(a.) Conveying or containing air; air-bearing; as, the windpipe is an aeriferous tube. |
| 2641 |
aerification |
concur
consent
make an agreement
reach an agreement
strike an agreement
assent
accede
concede
(n.) The act of combining air with another substance, or the state of being filled with air.
(n.) The act of becoming aerified, or of changing from a solid or li |
| 2642 |
aeriform |
adj. characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air; resembling air or having the form of air
(a.) Having the form or nature of air, or of an elastic fluid; gaseous. Hence fig.: Unreal. |
| 2643 |
aerify |
to turn into air |
| 2644 |
aero |
of or relating to aircraft or aeronautics |
| 2645 |
Aero- |
The combining form of the Greek word meaning air. |
| 2646 |
aero dynamicist |
aero dynamicist |
| 2647 |
aeroallergen |
aeroallergen |
| 2648 |
aeroballistics |
the ballistics of projectiles dropped, launched, or fired from aircraft |
| 2649 |
aerobatic |
the performance of stunts while in flight in an aircraft |
| 2650 |
aerobatics |
n. the performance of stunts while in flight in an aircraft |
| 2651 |
aerobe |
n. an organism (especially a bacterium) that requires air or free oxygen for life |
| 2652 |
aerobee |
a U.S. two-stage, liquid-propellant sounding rocket |
| 2653 |
aerobic |
relating to, involving, or requiring free oxygen |
| 2654 |
aerobically |
aerobically |
| 2655 |
aerobics |
exercise that increases the need for oxygen |
| 2656 |
Aerobies |
(n. pl.) Microorganisms which live in contact with the air and need oxygen for their growth; as the microbacteria which form on the surface of putrefactive fluids. |
| 2657 |
aerobiology |
the study of airborne organisms, spores, etc |
| 2658 |
Aerobiotic |
(a.) Related to, or of the nature of, aerobies; as, aerobiotic plants, which live only when supplied with free oxygen. |
| 2659 |
aeroboat |
A form of hydro-aeroplane; a flying boat. |
| 2660 |
aerobus |
aerobus |
| 2661 |
aerocade |
aerocade |
| 2662 |
aerocamera |
aerocamera |
| 2663 |
aerocar |
n. =HOVERCRAFT
n. HOVERCRAFT |
| 2664 |
aerocycle |
A flying machine constructed on the helicopter principle but intended to carry only one person at low altitude and over a short flight range.
|
| 2665 |
Aerocyst |
(n.) One of the air cells of algals. |
| 2666 |
aerodonetics |
the study of soaring or gliding flight, esp the study of gliders |
| 2667 |
aerodraft |
help |
| 2668 |
aerodrome |
n. an airfield equipped with control tower and hangers as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo |
| 2669 |
aerodynamic |
the branch of mechanics that deals with the motion of air and other gases and with the effects of such motion on bodies in the medium |
| 2670 |
aerodynamics |
n. the branch of mechanics that deals with the motion of gases (especially air) and their effects on bodies in the flow
(n.) The science which treats of the air and other gaseous bodies under the action of force, and of their mechanical effects. |
| 2671 |
aerodyne |
a heavier-than-air aircraft (as an airplane, helicopter, or glider) |
| 2672 |
aeroembolism |
n. pain resulting from rapid change in pressure; obstruction of the circulatory system caused by an air bubble as, e.g., accidentally during surgery or hypodermic injection or as a complication from scuba diving |
| 2673 |
aeroengine |
an engine for powering an aircraft |
| 2674 |
Aeroflot |
sick
ill
unwell |
| 2675 |
aerofoil |
a minor illness
a physical disorder or illness
especially of a minor or chronic nature
sickness
n. a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air; can lift or control a plane in flight |
| 2676 |
aerogenerator |
attempt
direct
point
intend
n. generator that extracts usable energy from winds |
| 2677 |
Aerognosy |
(n.) The science which treats of the properties of the air, and of the part it plays in nature. |
| 2678 |
aerograme |
aerograme |
| 2679 |
aerograph |
aerograph |
| 2680 |
Aerographer |
(n.) One versed in aeography: an aerologist. |
| 2681 |
Aerographic |
(a.) Alt. of Aerographical |
| 2682 |
Aerographical |
(a.) Pertaining to aerography; aerological. |
| 2683 |
Aerography |
(n.) A description of the air or atmosphere; aerology.
purposeful |
| 2684 |
Aerohydrodynamic |
(a.) Acting by the force of air and water; as, an aerohydrodynamic wheel. |
| 2685 |
aerohydroplane |
without purpose |
| 2686 |
aerolite |
n. a stony meteorite consisting of silicate minerals
(n.) A stone, or metallic mass, which has fallen to the earth from distant space; a meteorite; a meteoric stone. |
| 2687 |
Aerolith |
(n.) Same as A/rolite. |
| 2688 |
Aerolithology |
(n.) The science of aerolites. |
| 2689 |
Aerolitic |
(a.) Of or pertaining to aerolites; meteoric; as, aerolitic iron. |
| 2690 |
Aerologic |
(a.) Alt. of Aerological |
| 2691 |
Aerological |
(a.) Of or pertaining to aerology. |
| 2692 |
Aerologist |
(n.) One versed in aerology. |
| 2693 |
aerology |
n. meteorology of the total extent of the atmosphere; especially the upper layers
(n.) That department of physics which treats of the atmosphere. |
| 2694 |
aeromagnetic |
aeromagnetic |
| 2695 |
Aeromancy |
(n.) Divination from the state of the air or from atmospheric substances; also, forecasting changes in the weather. |
| 2696 |
aeromarine |
aeromarine |
| 2697 |
aeromechanics |
n. the branch of mechanics that deals with the motion of gases (especially air) and their effects on bodies in the flow |
| 2698 |
aeromedicine |
n. the study and treatment of disorders associated with flight (especially with space flight) |
| 2699 |
aerometeorograph |
an aircraft instrument that records temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure |
| 2700 |
aerometer |
(n.) An instrument for ascertaining the weight or density of air and gases. |
| 2701 |
Aerometric |
(a.) Of or pertaining to aerometry; as, aerometric investigations. |
| 2702 |
Aerometry |
(n.) The science of measuring the air, including the doctrine of its pressure, elasticity, rarefaction, and condensation; pneumatics. |
| 2703 |
aeromodeller |
aeromodeller |
| 2704 |
aeromotor |
aeromotor |
| 2705 |
aeronaut |
a traveler in a hot-air balloon, airship, or other flying craft. |
| 2706 |
aeronautic |
adj. of or pertaining to aeronautics
(a.) Alt. of Aeronautical |
| 2707 |
aeronautical |
adj. of or pertaining to aeronautics
(a.) Pertaining to aeronautics, or aerial sailing. |
| 2708 |
aeronautics |
the science of designing, building, and operating aircraft |
| 2709 |
aeroneurosis |
a functional disorder of aeroplane pilots characterized by anxiety and various psychosomatic disturbances, caused by insufficient oxygen at high altitudes and the emotional tension of flying |
| 2710 |
aeronomy |
the science of the earth's upper atmosphere |
| 2711 |
aerootitis media |
aerootitis media |
| 2712 |
aeropause |
the indefinite boundary in the upper atmosphere beyond which the air is too thin for conventional aircraft to operate. |
| 2713 |
aerophobe |
a person who suffers from aerophobia |
| 2714 |
Aerophobia |
(n.) Alt. of Aerophoby |
| 2715 |
Aerophoby |
(n.) Dread of a current of air. |
| 2716 |
aerophone |
any of a class of musical instruments (such as a trumpet or flute) in which sound is generated by air as the primary vibrating medium |
| 2717 |
aerophore |
a portable device filled with compressed air and used in cases of asphyxia or the like |
| 2718 |
aerophoto |
aerophoto |
| 2719 |
aerophotography |
aerophotography |
| 2720 |
Aerophyte |
(n.) A plant growing entirely in the air, and receiving its nourishment from it; an air plant or epiphyte.
n. plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it |
| 2721 |
aeroplane |
n. an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets
(n.) A flying machine, or a small plane for experiments on flying, which floats in the air only when propelled through it. |
| 2722 |
aeroplankton |
airtight
loophole= |
| 2723 |
aeropohobia |
aeropohobia |
| 2724 |
aeropolitics |
A passageway between rows of seats
as in an auditorium or an airplane |
| 2725 |
Aeroscope |
(n.) An apparatus designed for collecting spores, germs, bacteria, etc., suspended in the air. |
| 2726 |
Aeroscopy |
(n.) The observation of the state and variations of the atmosphere. |
| 2727 |
Aerose |
(a.) Of the nature of, or like, copper; brassy. |
| 2728 |
Aerosiderite |
(n.) A mass of meteoric iron. |
| 2729 |
aerosol |
n. a dispenser that holds a substance under pressure and that can release it as a fine spray (usually by means of a propellant gas); a cloud of solid or liquid particles in a gas |
| 2730 |
aerospace |
n. the atmosphere and outer space considered as a whole |
| 2731 |
Aerosphere |
(n.) The atmosphere. |
| 2732 |
aerostat |
an airship or hot-air balloon, especially one that is tethered. |
| 2733 |
aerostatic |
(a.) Alt. of Aerostatical |
| 2734 |
Aerostatical |
(a.) Of or pertaining to aerostatics; pneumatic.
(a.) Aeronautic; as, an aerostatic voyage. |
| 2735 |
aerostatics |
a branch of statics that deals with the equilibrium of gaseous fluids and of solid bodies immersed in them |
| 2736 |
aerostation |
(n.) Aerial navigation; the art of raising and guiding balloons in the air.
(n.) The science of weighing air; aerostatics. |
| 2737 |
aerotherapeutics |
aerotherapeutics |
| 2738 |
aerotherapy |
n. =AEROTHERAPEUTICS
n. AEROTHERAPEUTICS |
| 2739 |
aerothermodynamics |
the study of the exchange of heat between solids and gases, esp of the heating effect on aircraft flying through the air at very high speeds |
| 2740 |
aerotitis |
dilatory |
| 2741 |
aerotrain |
a special train that floats in the air by shooting down the air |
| 2742 |
aertex |
n. a trademark for a loosely woven cotton fabric that is used to make shirts and underwear |
| 2743 |
aeruginous |
fright
terror
dismay
(a.) Of the nature or color of verdigris, or the rust of copper. |
| 2744 |
Aerugo |
(n.) The rust of any metal, esp. of brass or copper; verdigris. |
| 2745 |
Aery |
(n.) An aerie.
(a.) Aerial; ethereal; incorporeal; visionary. |
| 2746 |
Aeschylus |
n. Greek tragedian; the father of Greek tragic drama (525-456 BC) |
| 2747 |
Aesculapian |
adj. of or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art
(a.) Pertaining to Aesculapius or to the healing art; medical; medicinal. |
| 2748 |
Aesculapius |
(n.) The god of medicine. Hence, a physician.
n. son of Apollo; a hero and the Roman god of medicine and healing; his daughters were Hygeia and Panacea |
| 2749 |
Aesculin |
(n.) Same as Esculin. |
| 2750 |
Aesir |
n. (Norse mythology) the chief race of gods living at Asgard |
| 2751 |
Aesop |
n. Greek author of fables (circa 620-560 BC) |
| 2752 |
Aesopian |
a very large white seabird |
| 2753 |
Aesopic |
(a.) Alt. of Esopic |
| 2754 |
Aesthesia |
(n.) Perception by the senses; feeling; -- the opposite of anaesthesia. |
| 2755 |
Aesthesiometer |
(n.) Alt. of Esthesiometer |
| 2756 |
Aesthesis |
(n.) Sensuous perception. |
| 2757 |
Aesthesodic |
(a.) Conveying sensory or afferent impulses; -- said of nerves. |
| 2758 |
aesthete |
seemingly inescapable moral or emotional burden
n. one who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature
(n.) One who makes much or overmuch of aesthetics. |
| 2759 |
aesthetic |
related to beauty |
| 2760 |
aesthetic appeal |
aesthetic appeal |
| 2761 |
aesthetic distance |
gap between a viewer's conscious reality and the fictional reality presented in a work of art. |
| 2762 |
Aesthetical |
(a.) Of or Pertaining to aesthetics; versed in aesthetics; as, aesthetic studies, emotions, ideas, persons, etc. |
| 2763 |
aesthetically |
in a tasteful way |
| 2764 |
Aesthetican |
(n.) One versed in aesthetics. |
| 2765 |
aesthetician |
n. a philosopher who specializes in the nature of beauty; a worker skilled in giving beauty treatments (manicures and facials etc.) |
| 2766 |
aestheticism |
abnormal pigmentation causing such characteristics as milky skin or white hair
an organism exhibiting deficient pigmentation
(n.) The doctrine of aesthetics; aesthetic principles; devotion to the beautiful in nature and art. |
| 2767 |
aesthetics |
the formal study of art, especially in relation to the idea of beauty |
| 2768 |
aesthophysiology |
n. =ESTHESIOPHYSIOLOGY
n. ESTHESIOPHYSIOLOGY |
| 2769 |
Aestho-physiology |
(n.) The science of sensation in relation to nervous action. |
| 2770 |
aestival |
adj. (rare) of or occurring in summer
(a.) Of or belonging to the summer; as, aestival diseases. |
| 2771 |
Aestivate |
(v. i.) To spend the summer.
(v. i.) To pass the summer in a state of torpor.
a seemingly magical process of transformation
v. sleep during summer |
| 2772 |
aestivation |
n. (botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens; (zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals during a hot or dry period
(n.) The state of torpidity induced |
| 2773 |
Aestuary |
(n. & a.) See Estuary. |
| 2774 |
Aestuous |
(a.) Glowing; agitated, as with heat. |
| 2775 |
aetatis |
aetatis |
| 2776 |
Aetheogamous |
(a.) Propagated in an unusual way; cryptogamous. |
| 2777 |
aether |
n. personification of the sky or upper air breathed by the Olympians; son of Erebus and night or of Chaos and darkness; a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves
(n.) See Ether. |
| 2778 |
aetherial |
A covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room |
| 2779 |
Aethiops mineral |
Same as Ethiops mineral. |
| 2780 |
Aethogen |
(n.) A compound of nitrogen and boro/, which, when heated before the blowpipe, gives a brilliant phosphorescent; boric nitride. |
| 2781 |
Aethrioscope |
(n.) An instrument consisting in part of a differential thermometer. It is used for measuring changes of temperature produced by different conditions of the sky, as when clear or clouded. |
| 2782 |
aetiologic |
adj. relating to the etiology of a disease; of or relating to the philosophical study of causation |
| 2783 |
Aetiological |
(a.) Pertaining to aetiology; assigning a cause. |
| 2784 |
aetiology |
n. the philosophical study of causation; the cause of a disease
(n.) The science, doctrine, or demonstration of causes; esp., the investigation of the causes of any disease; the science of the origin and development of things.
(n.) The assignment of a cau |
| 2785 |
Aetites |
(n.) See Eaglestone. |
| 2786 |
Aetna |
n. =ETNA
n. ETNA |
| 2787 |
af |
audio frequency |
| 2788 |
afar |
distant or far |
| 2789 |
Afeard |
(p. a.) Afraid. |
| 2790 |
afeared |
adj. a pronunciation of afraid |
| 2791 |
afebrile |
adj. having no fever |
| 2792 |
Afer |
(n.) The southwest wind. |
| 2793 |
aff |
x. affirmative, affirming |
| 2794 |
affability |
friendly and easy to talk to |
| 2795 |
affable |
friendly and easy to talk to |
| 2796 |
Affableness |
(n.) Affability. |
| 2797 |
Affably |
(adv.) In an affable manner; courteously. |
| 2798 |
Affabrous |
(a.) Executed in a workmanlike manner; ingeniously made. |
| 2799 |
affair |
a situation or subject that is being dealt with or considered |
| 2800 |
affaire |
n. a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship |
| 2801 |
affaire de coeur |
an affair of the heart; love affair |
| 2802 |
affairs |
n. transactions of professional or public interest; matters of personal concern |
| 2803 |
Affamish |
(v. t. & i.) To afflict with, or perish from, hunger. |
| 2804 |
Affamishment |
(n.) Starvation. |
| 2805 |
Affatuate |
(v. t.) To infatuate. |
| 2806 |
Affear |
(v. t.) To frighten. |
| 2807 |
affect |
to have an influence on someone or something, or to cause a change in someone or something |
| 2808 |
affectation |
behaviour or speech that is not sincere |
| 2809 |
Affectationist |
(n.) One who exhibits affectation. |
| 2810 |
affected |
acted upon; influenced |
| 2811 |
Affectedly |
(adv.) In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality.
(adv.) Lovingly; with tender care. |
| 2812 |
Affectedness |
(n.) Affectation. |
| 2813 |
Affecter |
(n.) One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. |
| 2814 |
Affectibility |
(n.) The quality or state of being affectible. |
| 2815 |
Affectible |
(a.) That may be affected. |
| 2816 |
affecting |
adj. arousing affect
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Affect
(a.) Moving the emotions; fitted to excite the emotions; pathetic; touching; as, an affecting address; an affecting sight.
(a.) Affected; given to false show. |
| 2817 |
Affectingly |
(adv.) In an affecting manner; is a manner to excite emotions. |
| 2818 |
affection |
fond attachment, devotion, or love |
| 2819 |
Affectional |
(a.) Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature. |
| 2820 |
affectionate |
adj. having or displaying warmth or affection
(a.) Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother.
(a.) Kindly inclined; zealous.
(a.) Proceeding from affection; indicating love; tender; as, the affectionate care of a parent; a |
| 2821 |
Affectionated |
(a.) Disposed; inclined. |
| 2822 |
affectionately |
the verifiable claim to have been in a place other than where and when a crime occurred
an excuse usually intended to avert blame or punishment
adv. with affection
(adv.) With affection; lovingly; fondly; tenderly; kindly. |
| 2823 |
Affectionateness |
(n.) The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection. |
| 2824 |
Affectioned |
(a.) Disposed.
(a.) Affected; conceited. |
| 2825 |
affective |
adj. characterized by emotion
(a.) Tending to affect; affecting.
(a.) Pertaining to or exciting emotion; affectional; emotional. |
| 2826 |
affective disorder |
any mental disorder, such as depression or mania, that is characterized by abnormal disturbances of mood |
| 2827 |
Affectively |
(adv.) In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally. |
| 2828 |
affectless |
showing no emotion or concern for others |
| 2829 |
affects |
have an effect on; make a difference to. |
| 2830 |
Affectuous |
(a.) Full of passion or emotion; earnest. |
| 2831 |
Affeer |
(v. t.) To confirm; to assure.
(v. t.) To assess or reduce, as an arbitrary penalty or amercement, to a certain and reasonable sum. |
| 2832 |
Affeerer |
(n.) Alt. of Affeeror |
| 2833 |
Affeerment |
(n.) The act of affeering. |
| 2834 |
Affeeror |
(n.) One who affeers. |
| 2835 |
affenpinscher |
dissimilar
inconsistent
opposed
n. European breed of small dog resembling a terrier with dark wiry hair and a tufted muzzle |
| 2836 |
afferent |
mark (a gauge or instrument) with a standard scale of readings. |
| 2837 |
affettuoso |
reunite
to estrange
cause someone to feel isolated
To estrange - altenated by his gruff manner.
(adv.) With feeling. |
| 2838 |
affiance |
removed or disassociated from (friends
family
or homeland)
v. give to in marriage
(n.) Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise.
(n.) Trust; reliance; faith; confidence.
(v. t.) To betroth; to pledge one's faith to for marriage, or solemnly promise on |
| 2839 |
affianced |
the act of isolating neglecting adj. pledged to be married (imp. / ) of affiance |
| 2840 |
Affiancer |
(n.) One who makes a contract of marriage between two persons. |
| 2841 |
Affiancing |
(p. pr. / vb. n.) of Affiance |
| 2842 |
Affiant |
(n.) One who makes an affidavit.
come down and settle
n. a person who makes an affidavit |
| 2843 |
affidavit |
n. certificate or an official letter |
| 2844 |
affied |
of affy |
| 2845 |
Affile |
(v. t.) To polish. |
| 2846 |
Affiliable |
(a.) Capable of being affiliated to or on, or connected with in origin. |
| 2847 |
affiliate |
relate |
| 2848 |
affiliated |
askew awry not affiliated adj. being joined in close association of affiliate |
| 2849 |
affiliates |
officially attach or connect (a subsidiary group or a person) to an organization |
| 2850 |
Affiliating |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Affiliate |
| 2851 |
affiliation |
a connection with a political party or religion, or with a larger organization |
| 2852 |
Affinal |
(a.) Related by marriage; from the same source. |
| 2853 |
Affine |
(v. t.) To refine. |
| 2854 |
affined |
equal
adj. closely related
(a.) Joined in affinity or by any tie. |
| 2855 |
Affinitative |
(a.) Of the nature of affinity. |
| 2856 |
Affinities |
(pl. ) of Affinity |
| 2857 |
affinitive |
(a.) Closely connected, as by affinity. |
| 2858 |
affinity |
a natural attraction or feeling of kinship |
| 2859 |
affirm |
to condemn openly as being wrong or reprehensible. |
| 2860 |
affirm, confirm, verify, ascertain, check, identify |
affirm, confirm, verify, ascertain, check, identify |
| 2861 |
affirmable |
adj. capable of being affirmed or asserted
(a.) Capable of being affirmed, asserted, or declared; -- followed by of; as, an attribute affirmable of every just man. |
| 2862 |
affirmance |
(n.) Confirmation; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act.
(n.) A strong declaration; affirmation. |
| 2863 |
Affirmant |
(n.) One who affirms or asserts.
(n.) One who affirms, instead of taking an oath. |
| 2864 |
affirmation |
n. a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was correct and should stand; (religion) a solemn declaration that serves the same purpose as an oath (if an oath is objectionable to the person on religious or ethical grounds); the act o |
| 2865 |
affirmative |
agreeing with or consenting to a statement |
| 2866 |
affirmatively |
adv. in an affirmative manner
(adv.) In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively. |
| 2867 |
affirmatory |
adj. affirming or giving assent
(a.) Giving affirmation; assertive; affirmative. |
| 2868 |
affirmed |
of affirm |
| 2869 |
Affirmer |
(n.) One who affirms. |
| 2870 |
Affirming |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Affirm |
| 2871 |
affix |
to fasten or stick one thing to another |
| 2872 |
affixation |
n. formation of a word by means of an affix; the result of adding an affix to a root word; the act of attaching or affixing something |
| 2873 |
affixed |
of affix |
| 2874 |
Affixes |
(pl. ) of Affix |
| 2875 |
Affixing |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Affix |
| 2876 |
Affixion |
(n.) Affixture. |
| 2877 |
Affixture |
(n.) The act of affixing, or the state of being affixed; attachment. |
| 2878 |
afflated |
afflated |
| 2879 |
Afflation |
(n.) A blowing or breathing on; inspiration. |
| 2880 |
afflatus |
eager to hear something
listening attentively
n. a strong creative impulse; divine inspiration
(n.) A breath or blast of wind.
(n.) A divine impartation of knowledge; supernatural impulse; inspiration. |
| 2881 |
afflict |
to cause grievous physical or mental suffering to. |
| 2882 |
afflicted |
everything ends eventually even good things adj. mentally or physically unfit; grievously affected especially by disease of afflict |
| 2883 |
Afflictedness |
(n.) The state of being afflicted; affliction. |
| 2884 |
Afflicter |
(n.) One who afflicts. |
| 2885 |
Afflicting |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Afflict
(a.) Grievously painful; distressing; afflictive; as, an afflicting event. -- Af*flict"ing*ly, adv. |
| 2886 |
affliction |
something that makes you suffer |
| 2887 |
Afflictionless |
(a.) Free from affliction. |
| 2888 |
afflictive |
adj. causing misery or pain or distress
(a.) Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. |
| 2889 |
Afflictively |
(adv.) In an afflictive manner. |
| 2890 |
affluence |
n. abundant wealth |
| 2891 |
affluencet |
affluencet |
| 2892 |
Affluency |
(n.) Affluence. |
| 2893 |
affluent |
having a lot of money or owning a lot of things |
| 2894 |
Affluently |
(adv.) Abundantly; copiously. |
| 2895 |
Affluentness |
(n.) Great plenty. |
| 2896 |
affluenza |
a psychological malaise supposedly affecting wealthy young people, symptoms of which include a lack of motivation, feelings of guilt, and a sense of isolation. |
| 2897 |
afflux |
(n.) A flowing towards; that which flows to; as, an afflux of blood to the head. |
| 2898 |
Affluxion |
(n.) The act of flowing towards; afflux. |
| 2899 |
Affodill |
(n.) Asphodel. |
| 2900 |
Afforce |
(v. t.) To reenforce; to strengthen. |
| 2901 |
Afforcement |
(n.) A fortress; a fortification for defense.
(n.) A reenforcement; a strengthening. |
| 2902 |
Afforciament |
(n.) See Afforcement. |
| 2903 |
afford |
to be able to buy or do something because you have enough money or time |
| 2904 |
afford to |
to be able to do, manage, or bear without serious consequence |
| 2905 |
afford to do |
afford to do |
| 2906 |
affordability |
the ability to buy something |
| 2907 |
affordable |
not expensive |
| 2908 |
afforded |
of afford |
| 2909 |
Affording |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Afford |
| 2910 |
Affordment |
(n.) Anything given as a help; bestowal. |
| 2911 |
affored |
have enough money to pay for. |
| 2912 |
afforest |
Vt. Cool. |
| 2913 |
afforestation |
n. the conversion of bare or cultivated land into forest (originally for the purpose of hunting)
(n.) The act of converting into forest or woodland. |
| 2914 |
Afformative |
(n.) An affix. |
| 2915 |
affranchise |
v. grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude
(v. t.) To make free; to enfranchise. |
| 2916 |
Affranchisement |
(n.) The act of making free; enfranchisement. |
| 2917 |
Affrap |
(v. t. & i.) To strike, or strike down. |
| 2918 |
affray |
n. a noisy fight; noisy quarrel
(v. t.) To startle from quiet; to alarm.
(v. t.) To frighten; to scare; to frighten away.
(v. t.) The act of suddenly disturbing any one; an assault or attack.
(v. t.) Alarm; terror; fright.
(v. t.) A tumultuous assault or |
| 2919 |
Affrayed |
(p. p.) of Affray |
| 2920 |
Affrayer |
(n.) One engaged in an affray. |
| 2921 |
Affrayment |
(n.) Affray. |
| 2922 |
Affreight |
(v. t.) To hire, as a ship, for the transportation of goods or freight. |
| 2923 |
Affreighter |
(n.) One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods. |
| 2924 |
Affreightment |
(n.) The act of hiring, or the contract for the use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo. |
| 2925 |
Affret |
(n.) A furious onset or attack. |
| 2926 |
affricate |
n. a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy') |
| 2927 |
Affriction |
(n.) The act of rubbing against. |
| 2928 |
Affriended |
(p. p.) Made friends; reconciled. |
| 2929 |
affright |
n. an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety; v. cause fear in
(v. t.) To impress with sudden fear; to frighten; to alarm.
(p. a.) Affrighted.
(n.) Sudden and great fear; terror. It expresses a stronger impression than fear, or apprehension, perhaps les |
| 2930 |
affrighted |
of affright |
| 2931 |
Affrightedly |
(adv.) With fright. |
| 2932 |
Affrighten |
(v. t.) To frighten. |
| 2933 |
Affrighter |
(n.) One who frightens. |
| 2934 |
Affrightful |
(a.) Terrifying; frightful. |
| 2935 |
Affrighting |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Affright |
| 2936 |
Affrightment |
(n.) Affright; the state of being frightened; sudden fear or alarm. |
| 2937 |
affrim |
affrim |
| 2938 |
affront |
a personally offensive act or word |
| 2939 |
Affronte |
(a.) Face to face, or front to front; facing. |
| 2940 |
affronted |
of affront |
| 2941 |
Affrontedly |
(adv.) Shamelessly. |
| 2942 |
Affrontee |
(n.) One who receives an affront. |
| 2943 |
Affronter |
(n.) One who affronts, or insults to the face. |
| 2944 |
Affronting |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Affront |
| 2945 |
Affrontingly |
(adv.) In an affronting manner. |
| 2946 |
Affrontive |
(a.) Tending to affront or offend; offensive; abusive. |
| 2947 |
Affrontiveness |
(n.) The quality that gives an affront or offense. |
| 2948 |
Affuse |
(v. t.) To pour out or upon. |
| 2949 |
affused |
of affuse |
| 2950 |
Affusing |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Affuse |
| 2951 |
affusion |
n. the act of baptizing someone by pouring water on their head
(n.) The act of pouring upon, or sprinkling with a liquid, as water upon a child in baptism.
(n.) The act of pouring water or other fluid on the whole or a part of the body, as a remedy in dis |
| 2952 |
Affy |
(v. t.) To confide one's self to, or in); to trust.
(v. t.) To betroth or espouse; to affiance.
(v. t.) To bind in faith.
(v. i.) To trust or confide. |
| 2953 |
Affying |
(p. pr.) of Affy |
| 2954 |
Afghan |
adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Afghanistan or its people; n. a blanket knitted or crocheted in strips or squares; sometimes used as a shawl; a native or inhabitant of Afghanistan; tall graceful breed of hound with a long silky coat; native to |
| 2955 |
afghani |
adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Afghanistan or its people; n. the basic unit of money in Afghanistan; an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan; the official language of Afghanistan |
| 2956 |
afghanistan |
afghanistan |
| 2957 |
Afghanistanism |
Afghanistanism |
| 2958 |
Afghistan |
Afghistan |
| 2959 |
aficionado |
a fervent fan |
| 2960 |
afield |
adv. off the subject; beyond the point at issue; in or into a field (especially a field of battle); far away from home or one's usual surroundings
(adv.) To, in, or on the field.
(adv.) Out of the way; astray. |
| 2961 |
afire |
on fire; burning. |
| 2962 |
aflame |
an assertion made with little or no proof
adj. lighted up by or as by fire or flame; keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement
(adv. & a.) Inflames; glowing with light or passion; ablaze. |
| 2963 |
Aflat |
(adv.) Level with the ground; flat. |
| 2964 |
aflatoxin |
state to be true
claim or assert
assert without proof
to assert
assert
claim
affirm
declare
n. a potent carcinogen from the fungus Aspergillus; can be produced and stored for use as a bioweapon |
| 2965 |
Aflaunt |
(adv. & a.) In a flaunting state or position. |
| 2966 |
Aflicker |
(adv. & a.) In a flickering state. |
| 2967 |
afloat |
adj. borne on the water; floating; covered with water; aimlessly drifting
(adv. & a.) Borne on the water; floating; on board ship.
(adv. & a.) Moving; passing from place to place; in general circulation; as, a rumor is afloat.
(adv. & a.) Unfixed; moving |
| 2968 |
Aflow |
(adv. & a.) Flowing. |
| 2969 |
Aflush |
(adv. & a.) In a flushed or blushing state.
(adv. & a.) On a level. |
| 2970 |
aflutter |
reportedly
supposedly
adj. excited in anticipation
(adv. & a.) In a flutter; agitated. |
| 2971 |
Afoam |
(adv. & a.) In a foaming state; as, the sea is all afoam. |
| 2972 |
afond |
loyalty
devotion or loyalty to a person
group
or cause |
| 2973 |
afoot |
in preparation or progress; happening or beginning to happen. |
| 2974 |
afore |
(adv.) Before.
(adv.) In the fore part of a vessel.
(prep.) Before in all its senses).
(prep.) Before; in front of; farther forward than; as, afore the windlass. |
| 2975 |
Aforecited |
(a.) Named or quoted before. |
| 2976 |
Aforegoing |
(a.) Going before; foregoing. |
| 2977 |
Aforehand |
(adv.) Beforehand; in anticipation.
(a.) Prepared; previously provided; -- opposed to behindhand. |
| 2978 |
aforementioned |
adj. being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
(a.) Previously mentioned; before-mentioned. |
| 2979 |
Aforenamed |
(a.) Named before. |
| 2980 |
aforesaid |
denoting a thing or person previously mentioned. |
| 2981 |
aforethought |
(a.) Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder.
(n.) Premeditation. |
| 2982 |
aforetime |
(adv.) In time past; formerly. |
| 2983 |
afoul |
(adv. & a.) In collision; entangled. |
| 2984 |
afraid |
feeling fear, or feeling worry about the possible results of a particular situation |
| 2985 |
afraid of |
fear something |
| 2986 |
A-frame |
a support structure shaped like the letter A |
| 2987 |
Afreet |
(n.) Same as Afrit.
(n.) A powerful evil jinnee, demon, or monstrous giant. |
| 2988 |
afresh |
in a new or different way. |
| 2989 |
Afric |
(a.) African.
(n.) Africa. |
| 2990 |
Africa |
the second-largest continent, lying south of europe |
| 2991 |
African |
adj. of or relating to the nations of Africa or their peoples; n. a native or inhabitant of Africa
(a.) Of or pertaining to Africa.
(n.) A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race. |
| 2992 |
Africana |
objects of cultural or historical interest of African origin |
| 2993 |
Africander |
(n.) One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.
a union of two or more groups
association
coalition
union
n. tall large-horned humped cattle of |
| 2994 |
Africanism |
(n.) A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. |
| 2995 |
Africanist |
joined by political agreement or treaty |
| 2996 |
Africanize |
(v. t.) To place under the domination of Africans or negroes. |
| 2997 |
afrikaans |
adj. belonging or relating to white people of South Africa whose ancestors were Dutch or to their language; n. an official language of the Republic of South Africa; closely related to Dutch and Flemish |
| 2998 |
afrikander |
n. a white native of Cape Province who is a descendant of Dutch settlers and who speaks Afrikaans |
| 2999 |
Afrikaner |
remove
the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables
adj. belonging or relating to white people of South Africa whose ancestors were Dutch or to their language; n. a white native of Cape Province who is a |
| 3000 |
Afrit |
(n.) Alt. of Afreet |
| 3001 |
Afrite |
(n.) Alt. of Afreet |
| 3002 |
afro |
the commencement of two or more stressed syllables
n. a rounded thickly curled hairdo |
| 3003 |
afro- |
to distribute
to allot
to set apart for a particular purpose
give
set apart or assign something to someone |
| 3004 |
afroamerican |
pertaining to or characteristic of Americans of African ancestry |
| 3005 |
afroasian |
of or relating to the nations of Africa and Asia or their peoples |
| 3006 |
afroasiatic |
distribute
n. a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa |
| 3007 |
Afrobeat |
the act to fix the place of
money
space
etc. given foraparticularpurpose |
| 3008 |
afroism |
ideas related to Africans |
| 3009 |
Afront |
(adv.) In front; face to face.
(prep.) In front of. |
| 3010 |
afrormosia |
a tree, Pericopsis elata (or Afrormosia elata), of western Africa, having wood that resembles teak and is used in cabinetwork |
| 3011 |
aft |
the amount of something given to a person
adj. (nautical, aeronautical) situated at or toward the stern or tail; adv. at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane
(adv. & a.) Near or towards the stern of a vessel; astern; abaft. |
| 3012 |
after |
behind or in the rear, happening at a time subsequent to a reference time |
| 3013 |
After a storm comes a calm. |
After a storm comes a calm. |
| 3014 |
after a while |
following a certain period of time, usually one that is relatively short. |
| 3015 |
after all |
despite earlier problems or doubts; used to add information that shows that what you have just said is true |
| 3016 |
after all is said and done |
when everything is settled or concluded; finally. |
| 3017 |
After damp |
An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid. |
| 3018 |
After decades of civil war, order was restored. |
After decades of civil war, order was restored. |
| 3019 |
after effect |
effect that follows at some interval after the stimulus produced |
| 3020 |
After he bumped into the shelf, the priceless china fell and shattered into fragments. |
After he bumped into the shelf, the priceless china fell and shattered into fragments. |
| 3021 |
after school |
activities are those that are organized for children in the afternoon or evening after they have finished school. |
| 3022 |
After the storm comes the calm. |
After the storm comes the calm. |
| 3023 |
after years |
afteryears |
| 3024 |
After you. |
After you. |
| 3025 |
afterages |
afterages |
| 3026 |
afterall |
finally, eventually, as a result, consequently |
| 3027 |
afterbirth |
n. the placenta and fetal membranes that are expelled from the uterus after the baby is born
(n.) The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, and which come away after delivery. |
| 3028 |
afterbrain |
a nontechnical name for myelencephalon |
| 3029 |
afterburner |
n. a device injects fuel into a hot exhaust for extra thrust |
| 3030 |
afterburning |
also called : reheat a process in which additional fuel is ignited in the exhaust gases of a jet engine to produce additional thrust |
| 3031 |
aftercabin |
aftercabin |
| 3032 |
aftercare |
n. care and treatment of a convalescent patient |
| 3033 |
Aftercast |
(n.) A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. |
| 3034 |
Afterclap |
(n.) An unexpected subsequent event; something disagreeable happening after an affair is supposed to be at an end.
combination of metals |
| 3035 |
aftercrop |
metal made by joining two or more metals
(n.) A second crop or harvest in the same year. |
| 3036 |
afterdamp |
n. a toxic mixture of gases (including carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide and nitrogen) after an explosion of firedamp in a mine |
| 3037 |
afterdark |
Cross-Channel travel is travel across the English Channel, especially by boat. |
| 3038 |
afterdeck |
n. a deck abaft of midships |
| 3039 |
afterdinner |
obsolete |
| 3040 |
After-dinner |
(n.) The time just after dinner.
(a.) Following dinner; post-prandial; as, an after-dinner nap. |
| 3041 |
After-eatage |
(n.) Aftergrass. |
| 3042 |
aftereffect |
n. Effect remaining behind |
| 3043 |
after-effect |
an effect that follows at some interval after the stimulus that produces it |
| 3044 |
Aftereye |
(v. t.) To look after. |
| 3045 |
afterfive |
afterfive |
| 3046 |
Aftergame |
(n.) A second game; hence, a subsequent scheme or expedient. |
| 3047 |
afterglow |
v. to represent someone or something in a picture or story |
| 3048 |
After-glow |
(n.) A glow of refulgence in the western sky after sunset. |
| 3049 |
aftergrass |
enticing
seductive
attractive
appealing
(n.) The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown; aftermath. |
| 3050 |
aftergrowth |
indirect reference
(n.) A second growth or crop, or metaphorically) development. |
| 3051 |
Afterguard |
(n.) The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after-sails. |
| 3052 |
afterheat |
the heat generated by radioactivity remaining in a nuclear reactor after it has been shut down |
| 3053 |
afterhours |
adversary
to unite formally
as by treaty
affiliate
associate
confederate |
| 3054 |
afterimage |
n. an image (usually a negative image) that persists after stimulation has ceased |
| 3055 |
After-image |
(n.) The impression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also extended to impressions left of tones, smells, etc. |
| 3056 |
Afterings |
(n. pl.) The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. |
| 3057 |
afterlife |
the life, for example in heaven, that some people believe begins after death |
| 3058 |
afterlight |
book containing astronomical information |
| 3059 |
aftermarket |
the market for spare parts, accessories, and components, especially for motor vehicles. |
| 3060 |
aftermath |
what happened after, the following event |
| 3061 |
After-mentioned |
(a.) Mentioned afterwards; as, persons after-mentioned in a writing). |
| 3062 |
aftermost |
adj. located closest to the stern or tail
(a. superl.) Hindmost; -- opposed to foremost.
(a. superl.) Nearest the stern; most aft. |
| 3063 |
afternoon |
the part of the day which follows noon, between noon and evening |
| 3064 |
afternoons |
during the afternoon, esp regularly |
| 3065 |
After-note |
(n.) One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note. |
| 3066 |
afterpain |
pain that follows expulsion of the placenta, due to contraction of the uterus, seen particularly in multiparas due to vigorous periodic contractions of the puerperal uterus. |
| 3067 |
Afterpains |
(n. pl.) The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth. |
| 3068 |
afterpiece |
n. a brief dramatic piece (usually comic) presented after a play
(n.) A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
(n.) The heel of a rudder. |
| 3069 |
afters |
n. a dish served as the last course of a meal |
| 3070 |
After-sails |
(n.) The sails on the mizzenmast, or on the stays between the mainmast and mizzenmast. |
| 3071 |
aftersales |
aftersales |
| 3072 |
aftersensation |
reserved and remote
standoffish
uninvolved
at a distance
especially in feeling or interest
apart
distant in interest
reserved
cool
Not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others
removed or distant either physically or emotionally
n. an image (u |
| 3073 |
Aftershaft |
(n.) The hypoptilum. |
| 3074 |
aftershave |
Aftershave is a liquid with a pleasant smell that men sometimes put on their faces after shaving. |
| 3075 |
aftershock |
a sudden movement of the earth's surface that often follows an earthquake |
| 3076 |
aftertaste |
n. an afterimage of a taste
(n.) A taste which remains in the mouth after eating or drinking. |
| 3077 |
aftertax |
denoting the dominant person or animal in a group |
| 3078 |
afterthought |
an idea, or plan that was not originally intended but is thought of at a later time |
| 3079 |
aftertime |
arranged in the order of the letters of the alphabet |
| 3080 |
afterwar |
part of any lofty mountain |
| 3081 |
afterward |
at a later time, after something else has happened |
| 3082 |
Afterwards |
(adv.) Alt. of Afterward |
| 3083 |
Afterwise |
(a.) Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late. |
| 3084 |
After-wit |
(n.) Wisdom or perception that comes after it can be of use. |
| 3085 |
After-witted |
(a.) Characterized by after-wit; slow-witted. |
| 3086 |
afterword |
a concluding section in a book, typically by a person other than the author. |
| 3087 |
afterworld |
n. the place where you are after you die |
| 3088 |
Aftmost |
(a.) Nearest the stern. |
| 3089 |
Aftward |
(adv.) Toward the stern. |
| 3090 |
Ag |
n. a soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal; occurs in argentite and in free form; used in coins and jewelry and tableware and photography |
| 3091 |
Aga |
(n.) Alt. of Agha |
| 3092 |
again |
once more; to a previous place, position, or state |
| 3093 |
again and again |
repeatedly |
| 3094 |
Againbuy |
(v. t.) To redeem. |
| 3095 |
Agains |
(prep.) Against; also, towards in order to meet). |
| 3096 |
Againsay |
(v. t.) To gainsay. |
| 3097 |
against |
next to and touching or being supported by (something); in the opposite direction to |
| 3098 |
against the clock |
you do it as fast as possible and try to finish it before a certain time |
| 3099 |
against the law |
illegal or unlawful. |
| 3100 |
Againstand |
(v. t.) To withstand. |
| 3101 |
Againward |
(adv.) Back again. |
| 3102 |
Agalactia |
(n.) Alt. of Agalaxy |
| 3103 |
Agalactous |
(a.) Lacking milk to suckle with. |
| 3104 |
Agal-agal |
(n.) Same as Agar-agar. |
| 3105 |
Agalaxy |
(n.) Failure of the due secretion of milk after childbirth. |
| 3106 |
Agalloch |
(n.) Alt. of Agallochum |
| 3107 |
Agallochum |
(n.) A soft, resinous wood Aquilaria Agallocha) of highly aromatic smell, burnt by the orientals as a perfume. It is called also agalwood and aloes wood. The name is also given to some other species. |
| 3108 |
Agalmatolite |
(n.) A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite. |
| 3109 |
agama |
n. small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World
(n.) A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances; also, one of these lizards. |
| 3110 |
agamemnon |
to make a change to something
n. (Greek mythology) the king who lead the Greeks against Troy in the Trojan War |
| 3111 |
Agami |
(n.) A South American bird Psophia crepitans), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter. |
| 3112 |
Agamic |
(a.) Produced without sexual union; as, agamic or unfertilized eggs.
(a.) Not having visible organs of reproduction, as flowerless plants; agamous. |
| 3113 |
Agamically |
(adv.) In an agamic manner. |
| 3114 |
Agamis |
(pl. ) of Agami |
| 3115 |
Agamist |
(n.) An unmarried person; also, one opposed to marriage. |
| 3116 |
Agamogenesis |
(n.) Reproduction without the union of parents of distinct sexes: asexual reproduction.
n. reproduction without the fusion of gametes |
| 3117 |
Agamogenetic |
(n.) Reproducing or produced without sexual union. |
| 3118 |
agamospermy |
a heated fight
argument
or quarrel
controversy
dispute |
| 3119 |
agamous |
adj. (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction
(a.) Having no visible sexual organs; asexual.
(a.) cryptogamous. |
| 3120 |
agamy |
agamy |
| 3121 |
Aganglionic |
(a.) Without ganglia. |
| 3122 |
Agapae |
(pl. ) of Agape |
| 3123 |
agapanthus |
interchange
occur successively
n. any of various plants of the genus Agapanthus having umbels of showy blue to purple flowers |
| 3124 |
agape |
adj. with the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe; n. a religious meal shared as a sign of love and fellowship; selfless love of one person for another without sexual implications (especially love that is spiritual in nature); (Christian theology) the lov |
| 3125 |
Agapemone |
a free-love institution |
| 3126 |
agaragar |
rotating |
| 3127 |
Agar-agar |
(n.) A fucus or seaweed much used in the East for soups and jellies; Ceylon moss Gracilaria lichenoides). |
| 3128 |
agaric |
n. a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside; fungus used in the preparation of punk for fuses
(n.) A fungus of the genus Agaricus, of many species, of which the common mushroom is an example.
(n.) |
| 3129 |
Agasp |
(adv. & a.) In a state of gasping. |
| 3130 |
Agast |
(v. t.) Alt. of Aghast
(p. p. & a.) See Aghast. |
| 3131 |
Agastric |
(a.) Having to stomach, or distinct digestive canal, as the tapeworm. |
| 3132 |
agate |
to change something back and forth
n. an impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony; used as a gemstone and for making mortars and pestles
(adv.) On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate.
(n.) A semipellucid, uncrystallized v |
| 3133 |
agateware |
n. pottery that is veined and mottled to resemble agate |
| 3134 |
Agatha |
one of available possibilities
option
selection
choice
a choice limited to one of two or |
| 3135 |
Agatiferous |
(a.) Containing or producing agates. |
| 3136 |
Agatine |
(a.) Pertaining to, or like, agate. |
| 3137 |
Agatize |
(v. t.) To convert into agate; to make resemble agate. |
| 3138 |
Agaty |
(a.) Of the nature of agate, or containing agate. |
| 3139 |
agave |
n. tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber
(n.) A genus of plants order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant A. |
| 3140 |
agaze |
adj. (used of eyes) open and fixed as if in fear or wonder |
| 3141 |
Agazed |
(p. p.) Gazing with astonishment; amazed. |
| 3142 |
age |
the length of time that one has existed; duration of life: |
| 3143 |
age bracket |
the range between two particular ages |
| 3144 |
Age of Enlightenment |
an intellectual and scientific movement of 18th century Europe which was characterized by a rational and scientific approach to religious, social, political, and economic issues. |
| 3145 |
aged |
adj. (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable); of wines, fruit, cheeses; having reached a desired or final condition; (`aged' pronounced as one syllable); advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syll |
| 3146 |
agedate |
elevation
height |
| 3147 |
Agedly |
(adv.) In the manner of an aged person. |
| 3148 |
Agedness |
(n.) The quality of being aged; oldness.
extent or distance upward
n. the property characteristic of old age |
| 3149 |
agegrade |
agegrade |
| 3150 |
agegroup |
a group of people having approximately the same age |
| 3151 |
agehardening |
the hardening of metals by spontaneous structural changes over a period of time See also precipitation hardening |
| 3152 |
ageing |
egocentric
generosity
selflessness
unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of others
adj. growing old; n. the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age; acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for s |
| 3153 |
ageism |
one who is unselfishly devoted to improving the welfare of others
n. discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people |
| 3154 |
Ageless |
(a.) Without old age limits of duration; as, fountains of ageless youth. |
| 3155 |
agelimit |
unselfish |
| 3156 |
agelong |
adj. lasting through all time |
| 3157 |
Agen |
(adv. & prep.) See Again. |
| 3158 |
agena |
a U.S. upper stage, with a restartable liquid-propellant engine, used with various booster stages to launch satellites into orbit around the earth and send probes to the moon and planets: also used as a docking target in the Gemini program |
| 3159 |
Agencies |
(pl. ) of Agency |
| 3160 |
agency |
a business that represents one group of people when dealing with another group |
| 3161 |
agencyshop |
a shop in which the union represents all workers in the bargaining unit and collects dues and fees from nonunion as well as union members |
| 3162 |
Agend |
(n.) See Agendum. |
| 3163 |
agenda |
a list of matters to be discussed at a meeting |
| 3164 |
Agendum |
(n.) Something to be done; in the pl., a memorandum book.
(n.) A church service; a ritual or liturgy. [In this sense, usually Agenda.]
a graduate or former student of a specific school
a graduate or former student
n. a list of matters to be taken up (as a |
| 3165 |
agene |
n. a yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour |
| 3166 |
Agenesic |
(a.) Characterized by sterility; infecund. |
| 3167 |
agenesis |
n. imperfect development; nondevelopment of a part
(n.) Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization. |
| 3168 |
agenize |
v. age or bleach flour with Agene (nitrogen trichloride) |
| 3169 |
Agennesis |
(n.) Impotence; sterility. |
| 3170 |
agent |
a person who acts for or represents another |
| 3171 |
agentgeneral |
agentgeneral |
| 3172 |
agential |
adj. of or relating to an agent or agency
(a.) Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency. |
| 3173 |
agentive |
disintegrate
separate
isolate
to combine into a single unit or whole
to mix
merge
combine
To mix or blend together in a homogeneous body
to merge into a single body |
| 3174 |
agentry |
related to agents |
| 3175 |
agents |
a person who acts on behalf of another, in particular. |
| 3176 |
Agentship |
(n.) Agency. |
| 3177 |
ageold |
belonging to or lasting from times long ago |
| 3178 |
ager |
dissipate
to accumulate
to pile up
accumulate
collect
gather
to collect for oneself |
| 3179 |
Ageratum |
(n.) A genus of plants, one species of which A. Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters.
n. any plant of the genus Ageratum having opposite leaves and small heads of blue or white flowers; rhizomatous plant of central and southeastern Unite |
| 3180 |
ages |
how long something has existed |
| 3181 |
agespecific |
agespecific |
| 3182 |
AGF |
astonish
astound
surprise |
| 3183 |
agfay |
agfay |
| 3184 |
Aggeneration |
(n.) The act of producing in addition. |
| 3185 |
agger |
(n.) An earthwork; a mound; a raised work. |
| 3186 |
Aggeration |
(n.) A heaping up; accumulation; as, aggerations of sand. |
| 3187 |
Aggerose |
(a.) In heaps; full of heaps. |
| 3188 |
Aggest |
(v. t.) To heap up. |
| 3189 |
aggie |
astonishing
astounding
surprising
startling |
| 3190 |
aggiornamento |
the process of bringing up to date methods, ideas, etc |
| 3191 |
agglomerate |
collect or form into a mass or group. |
| 3192 |
agglomerated |
of agglomerate (a.) collected into a ball, heap, or mass. (a.) collected into a rounded head of flowers. |
| 3193 |
Agglomerating |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Agglomerate |
| 3194 |
Agglomeration |
(n.) The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together.
(n.) State of being collected in a mass; a mass; cluster. |
| 3195 |
Agglomerative |
(a.) Having a tendency to gather together, or to make collections. |
| 3196 |
agglutinant |
(a.) Uniting, as glue; causing, or tending to cause, adhesion.
(n.) Any viscous substance which causes bodies or parts to adhere. |
| 3197 |
agglutinate |
atmosphere
adj. united as if by glue; v. clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc.; string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language)
(v. t.) To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an |
| 3198 |
agglutinated |
of agglutinate |
| 3199 |
Agglutinating |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Agglutinate |
| 3200 |
agglutination |
n. the building of words from component morphemes that retain their form and meaning in the process of combining; a clumping of bacteria or red cells when held together by antibodies (agglutinins); the coalescing of small particles that are suspended in s |
| 3201 |
agglutinative |
Having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease
adj. forming derivative or compound words by putting together constituents each of which expresses a single definite meaning; united as if by glue
(a.) Pertaining to agglutination; tending to |
| 3202 |
agglutinin |
n. an antibody that causes agglutination of a specific antigen |
| 3203 |
agglutinogen |
atmosphere
mood
n. any substance that acts as an antigen to cause agglutinin production |
| 3204 |
Aggrace |
(v. t.) To favor; to grace.
(n.) Grace; favor. |
| 3205 |
aggradation |
the deposition of material by a river, stream, or current. |
| 3206 |
aggrade |
the state of having more than one meaning
v. build up to a level by depositing sediment |
| 3207 |
Aggrandizable |
(a.) Capable of being aggrandized. |
| 3208 |
Aggrandization |
(n.) Aggrandizement. |
| 3209 |
aggrandize |
to make something more powerful or important |
| 3210 |
aggrandized |
of aggrandize |
| 3211 |
aggrandizement |
an increase in power or importance |
| 3212 |
Aggrandizer |
(n.) One who aggrandizes, or makes great. |
| 3213 |
Aggrandizing |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aggrandize |
| 3214 |
Aggrate |
(a.) To please. |
| 3215 |
aggravate |
to worsen |
| 3216 |
aggravate a standoff |
A situation in which one force or party neutralizes or counterbalances the other and further action is prevented |
| 3217 |
aggravate, make worse |
cause to smell bad; fill with a bad smell |
| 3218 |
aggravated |
adj. incited, especially deliberately, to anger; made more severe or intense especially in law of aggravate |
| 3219 |
aggravating |
worsening |
| 3220 |
Aggravatingly |
(adv.) In an aggravating manner. |
| 3221 |
aggravation |
trouble?ordifficulty |
| 3222 |
Aggravative |
(a.) Tending to aggravate.
(n.) That which aggravates. |
| 3223 |
aggravator |
to walk slowly
a leisurely walk
n. an unpleasant person who is annoying or exasperating |
| 3224 |
aggregate |
gathered or tending to gather into a mass or whole |
| 3225 |
Aggregated |
summed up, gathered up |
| 3226 |
Aggregately |
(adv.) Collectively; in mass. |
| 3227 |
Aggregating |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aggregate |
| 3228 |
aggregation |
pleasing to the taste or smell
something extremely pleasing to taste or smell
n. the act of gathering something together; several things grouped together or considered as a whole
(n.) The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection in |
| 3229 |
aggregative |
adj. gathered or tending to gather into a mass or whole
(a.) Taken together; collective.
(a.) Gregarious; social. |
| 3230 |
Aggregator |
(n.) One who aggregates. |
| 3231 |
Aggrege |
(v. t.) To make heavy; to aggravate. |
| 3232 |
aggress |
to initiate an attack, war, quarrel, or fight. |
| 3233 |
aggressed |
of aggress |
| 3234 |
Aggressing |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aggress |
| 3235 |
aggression |
spoken or physical behaviour that is threatening or involves harm to someone or something |
| 3236 |
aggressive |
behaving in an angry and violent way towards another person |
| 3237 |
aggressive begging |
a legal term that refers to unlawful forms of public begging. |
| 3238 |
aggressively |
enthusiastically; violently; energetically |
| 3239 |
aggressor |
n. a confident assertive person who acts as instigator; someone who attacks
(n.) The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant. |
| 3240 |
aggressor nation |
aggravate
to improve
to make better or more tolerable
to ease
to get better
make better |
| 3241 |
Aggri |
(a.) Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee in Africa. |
| 3242 |
Aggrievance |
(n.) Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance. |
| 3243 |
aggrieve |
to oppress or injure by institute |
| 3244 |
aggrieved |
made sad |
| 3245 |
Aggrieving |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aggrieve |
| 3246 |
aggro |
n. (informal British usage) aggravation or aggression |
| 3247 |
Aggroup |
(v. t.) To bring together in a group; to group. |
| 3248 |
aggrouped |
of aggroup |
| 3249 |
Aggrouping |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aggroup |
| 3250 |
Aggroupment |
(n.) Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping. |
| 3251 |
Aggry |
(a.) Alt. of Aggri |
| 3252 |
Agha |
(n.) In Turkey, a commander or chief officer. It is used also as a title of respect. |
| 3253 |
aghast |
filled with horror or shock. |
| 3254 |
Agible |
(a.) Possible to be done; practicable. |
| 3255 |
agile |
to move your body quickly and easily |
| 3256 |
Agilely |
(adv.) In an agile manner; nimbly. |
| 3257 |
Agileness |
(n.) Agility; nimbleness. |
| 3258 |
agility |
nimbleness, skillfullness, adroitness, proficiency |
| 3259 |
agin |
against |
| 3260 |
aging |
the process of growing old |
| 3261 |
aginner |
the quality of being pleasant or agreeable
pleasantness
convenience
something that conduces to comfort
or enjoyment |
| 3262 |
agio |
n. a fee charged for exchanging currencies
(n.) The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio. |
| 3263 |
Agios |
(pl. ) of Agio |
| 3264 |
agiotage |
n. a fee charged for exchanging currencies
(n.) Exchange business; also, stockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds. |
| 3265 |
Agist |
(v. t.) To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same. |
| 3266 |
Agistator |
(n.) See Agister. |
| 3267 |
Agister |
(n.) Alt. of Agistor |
| 3268 |
Agistment |
(n.) Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests.
(n.) The taking in by any one of other men's cattle to graze at a certain rate.
(n.) The price paid for such feeding.
(n.) A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment |
| 3269 |
Agistor |
(n.) Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.
(n.) Now, one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at |
| 3270 |
Agitable |
(a.) Capable of being agitated, or easily moved. |
| 3271 |
agitate |
to disturb |
| 3272 |
agitated |
to be troubled deeply or emotionally, confused, distressed |
| 3273 |
agitatedly |
(adv.) In an agitated manner. |
| 3274 |
Agitating |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Agitate |
| 3275 |
agitation |
a strong emotional trouble or disturbance, distress |
| 3276 |
agitative |
adj. causing or tending to cause anger or resentment
(a.) Tending to agitate. |
| 3277 |
agitato |
congenial
pleasant
friendly
sociable
having or showing pleasant
kind
amicable
Good-natured
friendly - attracted friends by his amiable disposition. = complaisant
being friendly
and congenial
(a.) Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner |
| 3278 |
agitator |
friendly and peaceful
politely friendly
friendly
Characterized by or exhibiting friendliness or goodwill
(adj) friendly
agreeable
goodwill
PEACEABLE
n. one who agitates; a political troublemaker
(n.) One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others; a |
| 3279 |
agitprop |
n. political propaganda (especially Communist propaganda) communicated via art and literature and cinema |
| 3280 |
Aglaia |
in the middle of
n. (Greek mythology) one of the three Graces |
| 3281 |
aglare |
glaring; blazing |
| 3282 |
aglaze |
aglaze |
| 3283 |
agleam |
adj. bright with a steady but subdued shining
(adv. & a.) Gleaming; as, faces agleam. |
| 3284 |
aglet |
n. iron fittings, decorative liquor |
| 3285 |
agley |
friendship
peaceful harmony
(adv.) Aside; askew. |
| 3286 |
aglimmer |
(adv. & a.) In a glimmering state. |
| 3287 |
aglitter |
adj. having brief brilliant points or flashes of light
(adv. & a.) Glittering; in a glitter. |
| 3288 |
Aglossal |
(a.) Without tongue; tongueless. |
| 3289 |
aglow |
adj. softly bright or radiant
(adv. & a.) In a glow; glowing; as, cheeks aglow; the landscape all aglow. |
| 3290 |
Aglutition |
(n.) Inability to swallow. |
| 3291 |
aglycon |
official pardon |
| 3292 |
agma |
the velar nasal consonant sound, especially in those forms where it was represented by the letter g or by gamma. |
| 3293 |
Agminal |
(a.) Pertaining to an army marching, or to a train. |
| 3294 |
Agminate |
(a.) Alt. of Agminated |
| 3295 |
Agminated |
(a.) Grouped together; as, the agminated glands of Peyer in the small intestine. |
| 3296 |
agnail |
n. a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected
(n.) A corn on the toe or foot.
(n.) An inflammation or sore under or around the nail; also, a hangnail. |
| 3297 |
agnate |
related to descent by the male line of ancestors |
| 3298 |
Agnatic |
related to descent by the male line of ancestors |
| 3299 |
agnation |
feeling loving
passionate
n. line of descent traced through the paternal side of the family
(n.) Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation. |
| 3300 |
Agnes |
lacking shape or form
shapeless
irregular
having no definite form |
| 3301 |
Agni |
(pl. ) of Agnus |
| 3302 |
Agnition |
(n.) Acknowledgment. |
| 3303 |
Agnize |
(v. t.) To recognize; to acknowledge. |
| 3304 |
Agnoiology |
(n.) The doctrine concerning those things of which we are necessarily ignorant. |
| 3305 |
Agnomen |
(n.) An additional or fourth name given by the Romans, on account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus.
(n.) An additional name, or an epithet appended to a name; as, Aristides the Just.
n. an additional name or an epith |
| 3306 |
Agnominate |
(v. t.) To name. |
| 3307 |
Agnomination |
(n.) A surname.
(n.) Paronomasia; also, alliteration; annomination. |
| 3308 |
agnosia |
suddenly increase one's indebtedness
n. inability to recognize objects by use of the senses |
| 3309 |
agnostic |
a person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of god or of anything beyond material phenomena |
| 3310 |
agnosticism |
n. the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge; a religious orientation of doubt; a denial of ultimate knowledge of the existence of God
(n.) That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies.
(n.) The doctrine that the existence |
| 3311 |
Agnus |
(n.) Agnus Dei. |
| 3312 |
Agnus castus |
A species of Vitex V. agnus castus); the chaste tree. |
| 3313 |
Agnus Dei |
A figure of a lamb bearing a cross or flag.
A cake of wax stamped with such a figure. It is made from the remains of the paschal candles and blessed by the Pope.
A triple prayer in the sacrifice of the Mass, beginning with the words "Agnus Dei." |
| 3314 |
Agnuses |
(pl. ) of Agnus |
| 3315 |
ago |
gone; gone by; gone away; past; passed away; in past time; in time gone by |
| 3316 |
agog |
very eager or curious to hear or see something. |
| 3317 |
agogo |
agogo |
| 3318 |
agoing |
(adv.) In motion; in the act of going; as, to set a mill agoing. |
| 3319 |
Agon |
(n.) A contest for a prize at the public games.
an animal that can live in water and on land
any of a class (Amphibian) of cold-blooded vertebrates (as frogs
toads
or salamanders) intermediate in many characters between fishes and reptiles and having gill |
| 3320 |
agonal |
adj. pertaining to or associated with agony (especially death agonies) |
| 3321 |
Agone |
(a. & adv.) Ago.
(n.) Agonic line. |
| 3322 |
Agones |
(pl. ) of Agon |
| 3323 |
agonic |
(a.) Not forming an angle. |
| 3324 |
Agonies |
(pl. ) of Agony |
| 3325 |
Agonism |
(n.) Contention for a prize; a contest. |
| 3326 |
agonist |
n. (biochemistry) a drug that can combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction; a muscle that contracts while another relaxes; someone involved in a contest or battle (as in an agon); the principal character in a work of fiction
( |
| 3327 |
agonistic |
adj. struggling for effect; striving to overcome in argument; of or relating to the athletic contests held in ancient Greece
(a.) Alt. of Agonistical |
| 3328 |
Agonistical |
(a.) Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural. |
| 3329 |
Agonistically |
(adv.) In an agonistic manner. |
| 3330 |
Agonistics |
(n.) The science of athletic combats, or contests in public games. |
| 3331 |
agonize |
to suffer mental anguish or worry |
| 3332 |
agonized |
adj. expressing pain or agony of agonize |
| 3333 |
agonizing |
adj. extremely painful
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Agonize |
| 3334 |
Agonizingly |
(adv.) With extreme anguish or desperate struggles. |
| 3335 |
Agonothete |
(n.) An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece. |
| 3336 |
Agonothetic |
(a.) Pertaining to the office of an agonothete. |
| 3337 |
agony |
extreme physical or mental pain or suffering |
| 3338 |
agony colnmn |
abridge /meagerness |
| 3339 |
Agood |
(adv.) In earnest; heartily. |
| 3340 |
agora |
to judge or decide the amount, value, quality, or importance of something |
| 3341 |
agoraphobia |
the quality or state of being ample
FULLNESS
n. a morbid fear of open spaces (as fear of being caught alone in some public place) |
| 3342 |
agoraphobic |
adj. suffering from agoraphobia; abnormally afraid of open or public places |
| 3343 |
Agouara |
(n.) The crab-eating raccoon Procyon cancrivorus), found in the tropical parts of America. |
| 3344 |
Agouta |
(n.) A small insectivorous mammal Solenodon paradoxus), allied to the moles, found only in Hayti. |
| 3345 |
agouti |
n. agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central America and South America and the West Indies; valued as food
(n.) Alt. of Agouty |
| 3346 |
Agouty |
(n.) A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, about the size of a rabbit, peculiar to South America and the West Indies. The most common species is the Dasyprocta agouti. |
| 3347 |
Agrace |
(n. & v.) See Aggrace. |
| 3348 |
Agraffe |
(n.) A hook or clasp.
(n.) A hook, eyelet, or other device by which a piano wire is so held as to limit the vibration.
to cut off a body part |
| 3349 |
Agrammatist |
(n.) A illiterate person. |
| 3350 |
agranulocyte |
mononuclear leukocytes, are white blood cells with a one-lobed nucleus. |
| 3351 |
agrapha |
n. sayings of Jesus not recorded in the canonical Gospels |
| 3352 |
Agraphia |
(n.) The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia. |
| 3353 |
Agraphic |
(a.) Characterized by agraphia. |
| 3354 |
agrarian |
relating to the land, especially the use of land for farming |
| 3355 |
Agrarianism |
(n.) An equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land. |
| 3356 |
Agrarianize |
(v. t.) To distribute according to, or to imbue with, the principles of agrarianism. |
| 3357 |
agravic |
pertaining to a state or region in which the effect of gravity is zero. |
| 3358 |
Agre |
(adv.) Alt. of Agree |
| 3359 |
agree |
to share an opinion or feeling; be in accord: |
| 3360 |
agree to |
to say yes; to say that you will do what somebody wants or that you will allow something to happen |
| 3361 |
agree with |
to think that something is morally right |
| 3362 |
agree, concur, consent, make an agreement, reach an agreement, strike an agreement |
be in accord; be in agreement |
| 3363 |
Agreeability |
(n.) Easiness of disposition.
(n.) The quality of being, or making one's self, agreeable; agreeableness. |
| 3364 |
agreeable |
pleasant or pleasing |
| 3365 |
Agreeableness |
(n.) The quality of being agreeable or pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses.
(n.) The quality of being agreeable or suitable; suitableness or conformity; consistency.
(n.) Resemblance; concordance; har |
| 3366 |
agreeably |
adv. in an enjoyable manner
(adv.) In an agreeably manner; in a manner to give pleasure; pleasingly.
(adv.) In accordance; suitably; consistently; conformably; -- followed by to and rarely by with. See Agreeable, 4.
(adv.) Alike; similarly. |
| 3367 |
agreed |
have reached a joint decision on it or have the same opinion about it |
| 3368 |
Agreeing |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Agree |
| 3369 |
Agreeingly |
(adv.) In an agreeing manner to); correspondingly; agreeably. |
| 3370 |
agreement |
the situation in which people have the same opinion, or in which they approve of or accept something |
| 3371 |
agreements |
harmony or accordance in opinion or feeling; a position or result of agreeing. |
| 3372 |
Agreer |
(n.) One who agrees. |
| 3373 |
agrees |
have the same opinion about something; concur. |
| 3374 |
agrement |
the approval of a diplomatic representative by the state to which he or she is to be accredited |
| 3375 |
agrestic |
adj. (of behavior) rustic and uncouth; characteristic of the fields or country
(a.) Pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth. |
| 3376 |
Agrestical |
(a.) Agrestic. |
| 3377 |
agribaron |
agribaron |
| 3378 |
agribusiness |
n. a large-scale farming enterprise |
| 3379 |
agrichemical |
any chemical used in agricultural production, as commercial fertilizers, pesticides, and feed supplements |
| 3380 |
Agricolation |
(n.) Agriculture. |
| 3381 |
Agricolist |
(n.) A cultivator of the soil; an agriculturist. |
| 3382 |
Agricultor |
(n.) An agriculturist; a farmer. |
| 3383 |
agricultural |
the work and methods of growing crops and looking after animals |
| 3384 |
Agriculturalist |
(n.) An agriculturist which is the preferred form.) |
| 3385 |
agriculture |
farming |
| 3386 |
Agriculturism |
(n.) Agriculture. |
| 3387 |
agriculturist |
n. someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil
(n.) One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman. |
| 3388 |
Agrief |
(adv.) In grief; amiss. |
| 3389 |
agrimony |
n. a plant of the genus Agrimonia having spikelike clusters of small yellow flowers
(n.) A genus of plants of the Rose family.
(n.) The name is also given to various other plants; as, hemp agrimony Eupatorium cannabinum); water agrimony Bidens). |
| 3390 |
agrimotor |
agrimotor |
| 3391 |
Agrin |
(adv. & a.) In the act of grinning. |
| 3392 |
Agriologist |
(n.) One versed or engaged in agriology. |
| 3393 |
Agriology |
(n.) Description or comparative study of the customs of savage or uncivilized tribes. |
| 3394 |
Agrise |
(v. i.) To shudder with terror; to tremble with fear.
(v. t.) To shudder at; to abhor; to dread; to loathe.
(v. t.) To terrify; to affright. |
| 3395 |
agrobiology |
n. the study of plant nutrition and growth especially as a way to increase crop yield |
| 3396 |
agrobusiness |
the businesses collectively associated with the production, processing, and distribution of agricultural products. |
| 3397 |
agrochemical |
a chemical, such as a pesticide, used for agricultural purposes |
| 3398 |
agroecosystem |
agroecosystem |
| 3399 |
agroindustrial |
the large-scale production, processing, and packaging of food using modern equipment and methods. |
| 3400 |
agrology |
n. science of soils in relation to crops |
| 3401 |
Agrom |
(n.) A disease occurring in Bengal and other parts of the East Indies, in which the tongue chaps and cleaves. |
| 3402 |
Agronomic |
Alt. of Agronomical |
| 3403 |
Agronomical |
Pertaining to agronomy, of the management of farms. |
| 3404 |
agronomics |
(n.) The science of the distribution and management of land. |
| 3405 |
agronomist |
n. an expert in soil management and field-crop production
(n.) One versed in agronomy; a student of agronomy. |
| 3406 |
agronomy |
n. the application of soil and plant sciences to land management and crop production
(n.) The management of land; rural economy; agriculture. |
| 3407 |
Agrope |
(adv. & a.) In the act of groping. |
| 3408 |
agropolitics |
agropolitics |
| 3409 |
Agrostis |
(n.) A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable pasture grasses. |
| 3410 |
Agrostographic |
(a.) Alt. of Agrostographical |
| 3411 |
Agrostographical |
(a.) Pertaining to agrostography. |
| 3412 |
Agrostography |
(n.) A description of the grasses. |
| 3413 |
Agrostologic |
(a.) Alt. of Agrostological |
| 3414 |
Agrostological |
(a.) Pertaining to agrostology. |
| 3415 |
Agrostologist |
(n.) One skilled in agrostology. |
| 3416 |
agrostology |
(n.) That part of botany which treats of the grasses. |
| 3417 |
agrotechnology |
agrotechnology |
| 3418 |
agrotype |
agrotype |
| 3419 |
aground |
(of a ship) lying on or touching the ground under shallow water. |
| 3420 |
Agroupment |
(n.) See Aggroupment. |
| 3421 |
Agrypnotic |
(n.) Anything which prevents sleep, or produces wakefulness, as strong tea or coffee. |
| 3422 |
Aguardiente |
(n.) A inferior brandy of Spain and Portugal.
(n.) A strong alcoholic drink, especially pulque. |
| 3423 |
ague |
n. a fit of shivering or shaking; successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria; a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
(n.) An acute fever.
(n.) An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
(n.) |
| 3424 |
agued |
of ague |
| 3425 |
Aguilt |
(v. t.) To be guilty of; to offend; to sin against; to wrong. |
| 3426 |
Aguise |
(n.) Dress.
(v. t.) To dress; to attire; to adorn. |
| 3427 |
aguish |
adj. affected by ague
(a.) Having the qualities of an ague; somewhat cold or shivering; chilly; shaky.
(a.) Productive of, or affected by, ague; as, the aguish districts of England. |
| 3428 |
Agush |
(adv. & a.) In a gushing state. |
| 3429 |
Agynous |
(a.) Without female organs; male. |
| 3430 |
ah |
(interj.) An exclamation, expressive of surprise, pity, complaint, entreaty, contempt, threatening, delight, triumph, etc., according to the manner of utterance. |
| 3431 |
aha |
(interj.) An exclamation expressing, by different intonations, triumph, mixed with derision or irony, or simple surprise.
(n.) A sunk fence. See Ha-ha. |
| 3432 |
ahchoo |
It's what you say when your nose discharges a lot of snot |
| 3433 |
ahead |
in front |
| 3434 |
ahead of |
in front of or before; earlier than |
| 3435 |
aheap |
(adv.) In a heap; huddled together. |
| 3436 |
Aheight |
(adv.) Aloft; on high. |
| 3437 |
ahem |
(interj.) An exclamation to call one's attention; hem. |
| 3438 |
ahermatype |
Non-reef building species of corals |
| 3439 |
Ahey |
(interj.) Hey; ho. |
| 3440 |
Ahigh |
(adv.) On high. |
| 3441 |
ahimsa |
n. a Buddhist and Hindu and especially Jainist doctrine holding that all forms of life are sacred and urging the avoidance of violence |
| 3442 |
ahistoric |
without concern for history or historical development; indifferent to tradition. |
| 3443 |
Ahold |
(adv.) Near the wind; as, to lay a ship ahold. |
| 3444 |
ahorse |
adj. traveling on horseback; adv. on the back of a horse |
| 3445 |
Ahorseback |
(adv.) On horseback. |
| 3446 |
ahoy |
(interj.) A term used in hailing; as, "Ship ahoy." |
| 3447 |
Ahriman |
n. the spirit of evil in Zoroastrianism; arch rival of Ormazd
(n.) The Evil Principle or Being of the ancient Persians; the Prince of Darkness as opposer to Ormuzd, the King of Light. |
| 3448 |
Ahu |
(n.) The Asiatic gazelle. |
| 3449 |
ahuisclos |
ahuisclos |
| 3450 |
ahull |
(adv.) With the sails furled, and the helm lashed alee; -- applied to ships in a storm. See Hull, n. |
| 3451 |
Ahungered |
(a.) Pinched with hunger; very hungry. |
| 3452 |
AI |
artificial intelligence |
| 3453 |
Aiblins |
(adv.) Alt. of Ablins |
| 3454 |
Aich's metal |
A kind of gun metal, containing copper, zinc, and iron, but no tin. |
| 3455 |
aid |
help or support |
| 3456 |
aid society |
an organization providing free legal guidance and service to persons who cannot afford a lawyer |
| 3457 |
aid station |
living in oxygen
living
active
occurring
or existing in the absence of free oxygen |
| 3458 |
Aida |
attention, interest, desire, action: a process used to sell a product or service, which involves getting a customer's attention |
| 3459 |
Aidance |
(n.) Aid. |
| 3460 |
Aidant |
(a.) Helping; helpful; supplying aid. |
| 3461 |
Aid-de-camp |
(n.) An officer selected by a general to carry orders, also to assist or represent him in correspondence and in directing movements. |
| 3462 |
aide |
assistant or helper |
| 3463 |
aided |
of aid |
| 3464 |
aidedecamp |
a chronological error |
| 3465 |
aide-de-camp |
a military officer acting as a confidential assistant to a senior officer. |
| 3466 |
aidememoire |
incongruity
A thing placed or occurring out of its normal time - A machine gun at the Battle of Yorktown would be an anachronism. |
| 3467 |
Aider |
(n.) One who, or that which, aids. |
| 3468 |
Aidful |
(a.) Helpful. |
| 3469 |
Aiding |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aid |
| 3470 |
Aidless |
(a.) Helpless; without aid. |
| 3471 |
Aid-major |
(n.) The adjutant of a regiment. |
| 3472 |
aidman |
(adj) out-of-date
not attributed to the correct historical period |
| 3473 |
aids |
a school of whales |
| 3474 |
Aids-de-camp |
(pl. ) of Aid-de-camp |
| 3475 |
Aiel |
(n.) See Ayle. |
| 3476 |
Aiglet |
(n.) A tag of a lace or of the points, braids, or cords formerly used in dress. They were sometimes formed into small images. Hence, "aglet baby" Shak.), an aglet image.
(n.) A round white staylace.
(n.) Same as Aglet. |
| 3477 |
aigned |
aigned |
| 3478 |
Aigre |
(a.) Sour. |
| 3479 |
Aigremore |
(n.) Charcoal prepared for making powder. |
| 3480 |
Aigret |
(n.) Alt. of Aigrette |
| 3481 |
aigrette |
n. a long plume (especially one of egret feathers) worn on a hat or a piece of jewelry in the shape of a plume
(n.) The small white European heron. See Egret.
(n.) A plume or tuft for the head composed of feathers, or of gems, etc.
(n.) A tuft like that o |
| 3482 |
aiguille |
(n.) A needle-shaped peak.
(n.) An instrument for boring holes, used in blasting. |
| 3483 |
aiguillette |
(n.) A point or tag at the end of a fringe or lace; an aglet.
(n.) One of the ornamental tags, cords, or loops on some military and naval uniforms. |
| 3484 |
Aigulet |
(n.) See Aglet. |
| 3485 |
ail |
the inability to feel pain but without a loss of consciousness
absence of sense of pain
n. aromatic bulb used as seasoning; v. be unwell, ill, or ill disposed; cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
(v. t.) To affect with pain or uneasiness |
| 3486 |
Ailanthus |
(n.) Same as Ailantus.
insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness
n. any of several deciduous Asian trees of the genus Ailanthus |
| 3487 |
Ailantus |
(n.) A genus of beautiful trees, natives of the East Indies. The tree imperfectly di/cious, and the staminate or male plant is very offensive when blossom. |
| 3488 |
ailed |
of ail |
| 3489 |
Aileen |
cutest and most unique girl in the world |
| 3490 |
aileron |
lacking similarity
similar
alike
like
comparable
n. an airfoil that controls lateral motion |
| 3491 |
Ailette |
(n.) A small square shield, formerly worn on the shoulders of knights, -- being the prototype of the modern epaulet. |
| 3492 |
ailing |
experiencing difficulty and problems |
| 3493 |
ailment |
n. an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
(n.) Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases. |
| 3494 |
Ailuroidea |
(n. pl.) A group of the Carnivora, which includes the cats, civets, and hyenas. |
| 3495 |
aim |
to try or planto, to point |
| 3496 |
aim at |
point or direct (a weapon or camera) at a target. |
| 3497 |
aim to |
you plan or hope to achieve it. |
| 3498 |
aimed |
of aim |
| 3499 |
Aimer |
(n.) One who aims, directs, or points. |
| 3500 |
aiming |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aim |
| 3501 |
aimless |
without any clear intentions, purpose, or direction |
| 3502 |
aimlessly |
without purpose |
| 3503 |
aims |
an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions |
| 3504 |
Aino |
(n.) One of a peculiar race inhabiting Yesso, the Kooril Islands etc., in the northern part of the empire of Japan, by some supposed to have been the progenitors of the Japanese. The Ainos are stout and short, with hairy bodies. |
| 3505 |
Ain't |
A contraction for are not and am not; also used for is not. [Colloq. or illiterate speech]. See An't. |
| 3506 |
Ainu |
involving the use of logical reasoning |
| 3507 |
aioli |
n. garlic mayonnaise |
| 3508 |
air |
the mixture of gases that surrounds the earth and that we breathe |
| 3509 |
air alert |
the time period during which military and civilian agencies are prepared for an enemy air attack |
| 3510 |
air attack |
air attack |
| 3511 |
air bag |
a bag in a vehicle that automatically fills with air if the vehicle is involved in an accident, in order to protect the driver or a passenger from injury |
| 3512 |
air ball |
air ball |
| 3513 |
air base |
one who believes that a formal government in unnecessary
one who rebels against any authority
established order
or ruling power |
| 3514 |
air bath |
air bath |
| 3515 |
air bed |
order
lawlessness
disorder
State of confusion or lawlessness - a country brought to utter anarchy by civil war. = chaos
pandemonium
A sack or matters inflated with air, and used as a bed. |
| 3516 |
air bladder |
a cursed
detested person
something or someone loathed or detested
Anything forbidden
as by social usage
the denunciation of something as accursed
An air sac, sometimes double or variously lobed, in the visceral cavity of many fishes. It originates in the |
| 3517 |
air blast |
air blast |
| 3518 |
air brake |
a family member from whom one is descended
forefather
one from whom a person is descended and who is usually more remote in the line of descent than a grandparent
A railway brake operated by condensed air. |
| 3519 |
air cargo |
air cargo |
| 3520 |
air carrier |
to fasten by an anchor
unstable
dislodge
secure firmly in position
to keep hold or be firmly fixed
fix
secure
fasten |
| 3521 |
air castle |
absentminded dreaming while awake |
| 3522 |
Air cell |
A cavity in the cellular tissue of plants, containing air only.
A receptacle of air in various parts of the system; as, a cell or minute cavity in the walls of the air tubes of the lungs; the air sac of birds; a dilatation of the air vessels in insects. |
| 3523 |
air chamber |
A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant.
A cavity containing air to act as a spring for equalizing the flow of a liquid in a pump or other hydraulic machine. |
| 3524 |
air chiefmarshal |
abbr ACM a senior officer of the Royal Air Force and certain other air forces, of equivalent rank to admiral in the Royal Navy |
| 3525 |
air coach |
prehistoric
old
aged
antique
antiquate |
| 3526 |
air cock |
not of primary importance
providing assistance
subordinate
auxiliary
accessory
A faucet to allow escape of air. |
| 3527 |
air command |
the Canadian air force |
| 3528 |
air commodore |
a senior officer of the Royal Air Force and certain other air forces, of equivalent rank to brigadier in the Army |
| 3529 |
air condition |
control the humidity and temperature of |
| 3530 |
air conditioner |
a system that keeps air cool and dry |
| 3531 |
air conditioning |
Air conditioning is a method of providing buildings and vehicles with cool dry air. |
| 3532 |
air controlman |
air controlman |
| 3533 |
air cool |
equip with an apparatus for controlling the humidity and temperature |
| 3534 |
air corridor |
an air route along which aircraft are allowed to fly |
| 3535 |
air craft |
An aircraft is a vehicle which can fly, for example an aeroplane or a helicopter. |
| 3536 |
air craftman |
a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force |
| 3537 |
air craftwoman |
air craftwoman |
| 3538 |
air crew |
the crew of an aircraft |
| 3539 |
air current |
air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure |
| 3540 |
air curtain |
not necessarily true or reliable |
| 3541 |
air cushion |
a short and numorous narrative about one's own experiences
episode
amusing account
somebody's account of something
a short personal account of an incident or event
(n) short
usually funny account of an event
a usually short narrative of an interesting
amu |
| 3542 |
air cushionvehicle |
Pathology
reduced number of red blood cells and causing weakness
A pathological deficiency in the oxygen-carrying component of the blood
measured in unit volume concentrations of hemoglobin
red blood cell volume
or red blood cell number |
| 3543 |
air defense |
Lacking vitality
listless and weak |
| 3544 |
air division |
a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings |
| 3545 |
Air drill |
A drill driven by the elastic pressure of condensed air; a pneumatic drill. |
| 3546 |
air edition |
air edition |
| 3547 |
Air engine |
An engine driven by heated or by compressed air. |
| 3548 |
air express |
air express |
| 3549 |
air fleet |
resentment
wrath
fury
indignation
rage |
| 3550 |
air force |
the aviation branch of a country's armed forces |
| 3551 |
Air gas |
See under Gas. |
| 3552 |
air gauge |
air gauge |
| 3553 |
Air gun |
A kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air is powerfully compressed into a reservoir attached to the gun, by a condensing pump, and is controlled by a valve actuated by the trigger. |
| 3554 |
air hammer |
a hammer driven by compressed air |
| 3555 |
air hole |
A hole to admit or discharge air; specifically, a spot in the ice not frozen over.
A fault in a casting, produced by a bubble of air; a blowhole. |
| 3556 |
air hostess |
anxiety
fear
dread |
| 3557 |
air jacket |
A jacket having air-tight cells, or cavities which can be filled with air, to render persons buoyant in swimming. |
| 3558 |
air lane |
a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another |
| 3559 |
air letter |
The utterance of criticism or censure |
| 3560 |
Air level |
Spirit level. See Level. |
| 3561 |
air lift |
transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable) |
| 3562 |
air lock |
a chamber that provides access to space where air is under pressure |
| 3563 |
air log |
air log |
| 3564 |
air mail |
mail that is sent by air transport |
| 3565 |
air map |
air map |
| 3566 |
air marshal |
a senior Royal Air Force officer of equivalent rank to a vice admiral in the Royal Navy |
| 3567 |
air mass |
a body of air covering a relatively wide area, exhibiting approximately uniform properties through any horizontal section |
| 3568 |
air mile |
a feeling of strong dislike
resentment
hostility
a feeling of hatred or ill will
Hatred |
| 3569 |
air ministry |
air ministry |
| 3570 |
air motor |
A device in which the pressure of confined air causes the rotation of a rotor or the movement of a piston |
| 3571 |
air out |
to remain in the fresh air and become fresher. |
| 3572 |
air patrol |
air patrol |
| 3573 |
Air pipe |
A pipe for the passage of air; esp. a ventilating pipe. |
| 3574 |
air piracy |
air piracy |
| 3575 |
air planecloth |
Historical records - in the annals of literature.
a record of events arranged in yearly sequence |
| 3576 |
air plant |
A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone; an aerophyte. |
| 3577 |
air pocket |
to add or attach |
| 3578 |
Air poise |
An instrument to measure the weight of air. |
| 3579 |
air pollution |
the presence in or introduction into the air of a substance which has harmful or poisonous effects. |
| 3580 |
air power |
exterminated
destroy something completely
to reduce to utter ruin or nonexistence
destroy utterly
remove
clear
abolish
exterminate
eradicate |
| 3581 |
air pressure |
the force exerted by air, whether compressed or unconfined, on any surface in contact with it |
| 3582 |
air pump |
A kind of pump for exhausting air from a vessel or closed space; also, a pump to condense air or force it into a closed space.
A pump used to exhaust from a condenser the condensed steam, the water used for condensing, and any commingled air. |
| 3583 |
air purifying system |
a device that removes contaminating particles (such as dust, pollen, and dander) from the air |
| 3584 |
air quality |
a measurement of the pollutants in the air |
| 3585 |
air raid |
an attack by armed planes on a surface target |
| 3586 |
air resistance |
the frictional force air exerts against a moving object. |
| 3587 |
air rifle |
footnote
comment |
| 3588 |
air right |
air right |
| 3589 |
air route |
declare
proclaim
make public
publish |
| 3590 |
air sac |
a sac containing air, certain cavities in a bird's body connected with lugs |
| 3591 |
air scout |
a scout belonging to a scout troop that specializes in flying, gliding, etc |
| 3592 |
air service |
air service |
| 3593 |
air shaft |
irritate
bother
pester
to disturb or irritate especially by repeated acts
A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel. |
| 3594 |
air space |
bothersome |
| 3595 |
air speed |
a record of events
yearly |
| 3596 |
air spring |
an enclosed pocket of air used to absorb shock or sudden fluctuations of load |
| 3597 |
air stewardess |
A person who assists passengers in an aircraft. |
| 3598 |
air stop |
an annual allowance or income |
| 3599 |
Air stove |
A stove for heating a current of air which is directed against its surface by means of pipes, and then distributed through a building. |
| 3600 |
air temperature |
The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment |
| 3601 |
air terminal |
a building in an airport or in a place near an airport where aircraft passengers go before their flight leaves or from which they leave after their flight has arrived |
| 3602 |
air transport |
irregularity
aberration
deviation |
| 3603 |
air trap |
typical specimen
predicted occurrence /normal
typical |
| 3604 |
air umbrella |
A heavy concentration of military aircraft sent out to cover the movements and support the action of ground forces. |
| 3605 |
air valve |
not identified or of unknown authorship
no name
Having an unknown or unacknowledged name
(adj) nameless
without a disclosed identity
unnamed
unsigned
Of unknown authorship-an anonymous publication.
not named or identified |
| 3606 |
Air vessel |
A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheae, of plants spiral vessel |
| 3607 |
air warden |
air warden |
| 3608 |
air way |
a duct that provides ventilation (as in mines) |
| 3609 |
air waybeacon |
a rotating light assembly mounted atop a tower. |
| 3610 |
air well |
a ventilating shaft in a building. |
| 3611 |
airboat |
a shallow-draft boat powered by an aircraft engine, for use in swamps. |
| 3612 |
airborne |
carried by the air, as pollen or dust |
| 3613 |
airborne life |
moving or being carried through the air |
| 3614 |
airbreathe |
airbreathe |
| 3615 |
airbrush |
n. an atomizer to spray paint by means of compressed air; v. paint with an airbrush |
| 3616 |
Air-built |
(a.) Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle. |
| 3617 |
airbus |
n. a subsonic jet airliner operated over short distances |
| 3618 |
aircraft |
any machine supported for flight in the air |
| 3619 |
aircraft carrier |
a warship equipped with a large open deck for the taking off and landing of warplanes and with facilities to carry, service, and arm them |
| 3620 |
Air-drawn |
(a.) Drawn in air; imaginary. |
| 3621 |
airdrome |
n. an airfield equipped with control tower and hangers as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo |
| 3622 |
airdrop |
a study of narcotism
n. delivery of supplies or equipment or personnel by dropping them by parachute from an aircraft |
| 3623 |
airduct |
a drug used by doctors to prevent a patient from feeling pain
lacking awareness or sensitivity |
| 3624 |
aire |
n. a river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire |
| 3625 |
aired |
of air |
| 3626 |
airedale |
in a new or different form
n. breed of large wiry-coated terrier bred in Yorkshire |
| 3627 |
Airer |
(n.) One who exposes to the air.
(n.) A frame on which clothes are aired or dried. |
| 3628 |
airfare |
n. the fare charged for traveling by airplane |
| 3629 |
airfield |
a level area, usually equipped with hard-surfaced runways, on which airplanes take off and land |
| 3630 |
airfight |
airfight |
| 3631 |
airflow |
n. the flow of air |
| 3632 |
airfoil |
Vt. change to gold |
| 3633 |
airframe |
n. the framework and covering of an airplane or rocket (excluding the engines) |
| 3634 |
airfreight |
v. transport (cargo) by air |
| 3635 |
airgraph |
airgraph |
| 3636 |
airhead |
indignant
resentful
irate
n. a bridgehead seized by airborne troops; a flighty scatterbrained simpleton |
| 3637 |
Airily |
(adv.) In an airy manner; lightly; gaily; jauntily; flippantly. |
| 3638 |
Airiness |
(n.) The state or quality of being airy; openness or exposure to the air; as, the airiness of a country seat.
(n.) Lightness of spirits; gayety; levity; as, the airiness of young persons. |
| 3639 |
airing |
agonizing pain
pain
suffering
agony
n. a short excursion (a walk or ride) in the open air; the act of supplying fresh air and getting rid of foul air; the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Air
(n.) A walk or a r |
| 3640 |
airless |
lacking air, without air |
| 3641 |
airlift |
transportation of people or goods by air |
| 3642 |
Airlike |
(a.) Resembling air. |
| 3643 |
airline |
a system furnishing air transport, usually scheduled, between specified points |
| 3644 |
airliner |
n. a commercial airplane that carries passengers |
| 3645 |
airlines |
a hose that carries air under pressure |
| 3646 |
Airling |
(n.) A thoughtless, gay person. |
| 3647 |
airmail |
to enliven or fill with life
n. a system of conveying mail by aircraft; letters and packages that are transported by aircraft; v. send or transport by airmail |
| 3648 |
airmailedition |
airmailedition |
| 3649 |
airman |
an aviator, u.s.air force, a member of a military aircrew |
| 3650 |
airminded |
enjoying airplane travels |
| 3651 |
Airometer |
(n.) A hollow cylinder to contain air. It is closed above and open below, and has its open end plunged into water. |
| 3652 |
airpark |
a small airport for private planes, especially one located near an industrial park or other commercial center |
| 3653 |
airplane |
any of various winged vehicles capable of flight |
| 3654 |
airport |
a tract of leveled land where aircraft can take off and land |
| 3655 |
airports |
a place where aircraft land and take off and where there are buildings for passengers to wait in and for aircraft to be sheltered |
| 3656 |
airproof |
airproof |
| 3657 |
airscape |
airscape |
| 3658 |
airscrew |
n. a propeller that rotates to push against air |
| 3659 |
airsea |
airsea |
| 3660 |
airship |
a self-propelled, lighter-than-air aircraft with means of controlling the direction of flight; dirigible. |
| 3661 |
airsick |
adj. experiencing motion sickness |
| 3662 |
Air-slacked |
(a.) Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime. |
| 3663 |
airspace |
space available in the atmosphere immediately above the earth. |
| 3664 |
airspeed |
the forward speed of an aircraft relative to the air through which it moves |
| 3665 |
airstream |
cancel
to declare or make legally invalid or void
n. a relatively well-defined prevailing wind; the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller |
| 3666 |
airstrip |
a small landing field having only one runway |
| 3667 |
airtight |
completely closed so that no air can get in or out |
| 3668 |
Air-tight |
(a.) So tight as to be impermeable to air; as, an air-tight cylinder.
(n.) A stove the draft of which can be almost entirely shut off. |
| 3669 |
airtoair |
a drug that relieves or allays pain
something that soothes
calms
or comforts |
| 3670 |
airtoground |
to crown
to ordain |
| 3671 |
airtounderwater |
irregular or different from the norm
deviating from what is normal or expected
inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual
normal
or expected
IRREGULAR
UNUSUAL |
| 3672 |
Airward |
(adv.) Alt. of Airwards |
| 3673 |
Airwards |
(adv.) Toward the air; upward. |
| 3674 |
airwise |
airwise |
| 3675 |
airwoman |
n. a woman aviator |
| 3676 |
airworthy |
adj. of aircraft; fit to fly |
| 3677 |
airy |
with a lot of light and space; giving an impression of light gracefulness and elegance. |
| 3678 |
aisle |
a long, narrow space between rows of seats |
| 3679 |
aisle seat |
a seat, esp on a plane, situated at the end of a row, adjacent to the aisle |
| 3680 |
aisled |
(a.) Furnished with an aisle or aisles. |
| 3681 |
Aisless |
(a.) Without an aisle. |
| 3682 |
Ait |
(n.) An islet, or little isle, in a river or lake; an eyot.
(n.) Oat. |
| 3683 |
Aitch |
(n.) The letter h or H. |
| 3684 |
Aitchbone |
(n.) The bone of the rump; also, the cut of beef surrounding this bone. |
| 3685 |
Aitiology |
(n.) See Aetiology. |
| 3686 |
aj |
antijamming |
| 3687 |
Ajanta |
A village of west-central India southwest of Amravati |
| 3688 |
ajar |
slightly open |
| 3689 |
Ajax |
n. a mythical Greek hero; a warrior who fought against Troy in the Iliad |
| 3690 |
Ajog |
(adv.) On the jog. |
| 3691 |
Ajutage |
(n.) A tube through which water is discharged; an efflux tube; as, the ajutage of a fountain. |
| 3692 |
ak |
a state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the union |
| 3693 |
aka |
Also known as |
| 3694 |
Ake |
(n. & v.) See Ache. |
| 3695 |
Akene |
(n.) Same as Achene. |
| 3696 |
Aketon |
(n.) See Acton. |
| 3697 |
akimbo |
adv. with hands on hips and elbows extending outward
(a.) With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward. |
| 3698 |
akin |
having some of the same qualities |
| 3699 |
akin to |
akin to |
| 3700 |
akinesia |
n. motionlessness attributable to a temporary paralysis
(n.) Paralysis of the motor nerves; loss of movement. |
| 3701 |
Akinesic |
(a.) Pertaining to akinesia. |
| 3702 |
Akkad |
to counteract or provoke the anger of
to offend
counteract
to incur or provoke the hostility of |
| 3703 |
Akkadian |
n. an ancient branch of the Semitic languages |
| 3704 |
Aknee |
(adv.) On the knee. |
| 3705 |
Aknow |
Earlier form of Acknow. |
| 3706 |
al |
n. a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War; a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite
(a.) All.
(conj.) Although; if. |
| 3707 |
Al- |
(A prefix.) All; wholly; completely; as, almighty, almost.
(A prefix.) To; at; on; -- in OF. shortened to a-. See Ad-.
(A prefix.) The Arabic definite article answering to the English the; as, Alkoran, the Koran or the Book; alchemy, the chemistry. |
| 3708 |
al old hand at |
al old hand at |
| 3709 |
Al segno |
A direction for the performer to return and recommence from the sign /. |
| 3710 |
Ala |
(n.) A winglike organ, or part. |
| 3711 |
Alabama |
n. the Muskhogean language of the Alabama; a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War; a river in Alabama formed by the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers near Mo |
| 3712 |
Alabama period |
A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic. |
| 3713 |
Alabamian |
n. a native or resident of Alabama |
| 3714 |
alabamine |
A highly unstable radioactive element, the heaviest of the halogen group, that resembles iodine in solution |
| 3715 |
alabaster |
a type of white stone; of or resembling alabaster |
| 3716 |
Alabastra |
(pl. ) of Alabastrum |
| 3717 |
Alabastrian |
(a.) Alabastrine. |
| 3718 |
alabastrine |
adj. of or resembling alabaster
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, alabaster; as alabastrine limbs. |
| 3719 |
Alabastrum |
(n.) A flower bud. |
| 3720 |
alacarte |
having unlimited choices with a separate price for each item |
| 3721 |
Alack |
(interj.) An exclamation expressive of sorrow. |
| 3722 |
Alackaday |
(interj.) An exclamation expressing sorrow. |
| 3723 |
Alacrify |
(v. t.) To rouse to action; to inspirit. |
| 3724 |
Alacrious |
(a.) Brisk; joyously active; lively. |
| 3725 |
Alacriously |
(adv.) With alacrity; briskly. |
| 3726 |
Alacriousness |
(n.) Alacrity. |
| 3727 |
alacritous |
quick and eager |
| 3728 |
alacrity |
brisk and cheerful readiness. |
| 3729 |
aladdin |
foreran
n. in the Arabian Nights a boy who acquires a magic lamp from which he can summon a genie |
| 3730 |
Aladdin's lamp |
preceding
prior
predecessor |
| 3731 |
Aladinist |
(n.) One of a sect of freethinkers among the Mohammedans. |
| 3732 |
Alae |
(pl. ) of Ala
a preceding event
something that came before |
| 3733 |
alaking |
cooked in a cream sauce with mushrooms and green peppers |
| 3734 |
alalia |
to be older than
n. paralysis of the vocal cords resulting in an inability to speak |
| 3735 |
Alalonga |
(n.) Alt. of Alilonghi |
| 3736 |
alameda |
Of or pertaining to the times
things
events before the great flood in the days of Noah |
| 3737 |
Alamire |
(n.) The lowest note but one in Guido Aretino's scale of music. |
| 3738 |
alamo |
n. a siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836; Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico |
| 3739 |
Alamodality |
(n.) The quality of being a la mode; conformity to the mode or fashion; fashionableness. |
| 3740 |
Alamode |
(adv. & a.) According to the fashion or prevailing mode.
(n.) A thin, black silk for hoods, scarfs, etc.; -- often called simply mode. |
| 3741 |
Alamort |
(a.) To the death; mortally. |
| 3742 |
Alan |
(n.) A wolfhound. |
| 3743 |
Aland |
(adv.) On land; to the land; ashore. |
| 3744 |
alanine |
n. a crystalline amino acid that occurs in many proteins
(n.) A white crystalline base, C3H7NO2, derived from aldehyde ammonia. |
| 3745 |
Alantin |
(n.) See Inulin. |
| 3746 |
alanyl |
the amino acid radical or residue of alanine |
| 3747 |
alapage |
alapage |
| 3748 |
alar |
one of a pair of slender movable segmented sensory organs on the head of insects
myriapods
and crustaceans
adj. having or resembling wings; of or relating to the axil; n. a chemical sprayed on fruit trees to regulate their growth so the entire crop can be |
| 3749 |
alarm |
a sudden fear or distressing suspense caused by an awareness of danger; apprehension; fright |
| 3750 |
alarm bell |
the sound of an alarm |
| 3751 |
alarm clock |
a clock with a bell or buzzer that can be set to sound at a particular time, as to awaken someone |
| 3752 |
alarm signal |
a signal warning of danger |
| 3753 |
Alarmable |
(a.) Easily alarmed or disturbed. |
| 3754 |
alarmed |
a collection of selected literary or artistic pieces compiled into one work a collection especially of literary works a collection of literary pieces A collection of choice literary works ? an anthology of modern poetry. a collection of selected literary |
| 3755 |
Alarmedly |
(adv.) In an alarmed manner. |
| 3756 |
alarming |
causing worry or fear. |
| 3757 |
alarmism |
n. needless warnings |
| 3758 |
alarmist |
n. a person who wanrs others, n. a person who alarms others needlessly |
| 3759 |
alarum |
ascribing human characteristics to nonhuman objects
n. an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
(n.) See Alarm. |
| 3760 |
alary |
adj. having or resembling wings
(a.) Of or pertaining to wings; also, wing-shaped. |
| 3761 |
alas |
adv. by bad luck
(interj.) An exclamation expressive of sorrow, pity, or apprehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white. |
| 3762 |
alaska |
n. a state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the union |
| 3763 |
Alaskan |
adj. relating to or characteristic of the state or people of Alaska; n. a native or resident of Alaska |
| 3764 |
Alastor |
an avenging spirit or deity frequently evoked in Greek tragedy; a male Nemesis |
| 3765 |
Alate |
(adv.) Lately; of late.
(a.) Alt. of Alated |
| 3766 |
alated |
adj. (of seeds or insects) having winglike extensions
(a.) Winged; having wings, or side appendages like wings. |
| 3767 |
Alatern |
(n.) Alt. of Alaternus |
| 3768 |
Alaternus |
(n.) An ornamental evergreen shrub Rhamnus alaternus) belonging to the buckthorns. |
| 3769 |
Alation |
(n.) The state of being winged. |
| 3770 |
Alaunt |
(n.) See Alan. |
| 3771 |
alb |
n. a white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves; worn by priests
(n.) A vestment of white linen, reaching to the feet, an enveloping the person; -- in the Roman Catholic church, worn by those in holy orders when officiating at mass. It was formerly worn |
| 3772 |
albacore |
n. large pelagic tuna the source of most canned tuna; reaches 93 pounds and has long pectoral fins; found worldwide in tropical and temperate waters; relatively small tuna with choice white flesh; major source of canned tuna
(n.) See Albicore. |
| 3773 |
Alban |
(n.) A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta-percha by the action of alcohol or ether. |
| 3774 |
Albania |
ludicrous
characterized by clownish extravagance or absurdity
n. a republic in southeastern Europe on the Adriatic coast of the Balkan Peninsula |
| 3775 |
Albanian |
adj. of or relating to Albania or its people or language or culture; n. the Indo-European language spoken by the people of Albania; a native or inhabitant of Albania
(a.) Of or pertaining to Albania, a province of Turkey.
(n.) A native of Albania. |
| 3776 |
albany |
foresee
expect
predict
assume
forecast
n. a town in southwest Georgia; processing center for peanuts and pecans; state capital of New York; located in eastern New York State on the west bank of the Hudson river |
| 3777 |
Albata |
(n.) A white metallic alloy; which is made into spoons, forks, teapots, etc. British plate or German silver. See German silver, under German. |
| 3778 |
albatross |
a very large white seabird |
| 3779 |
albatrosses |
seemingly inescapable moral or emotional burden |
| 3780 |
Albe |
(conj.) Alt. of Albee |
| 3781 |
albedo |
to give advance thought
discussion
or treatment to
n. the ratio of reflected to incident light
(n.) Whiteness. Specifically: Astron.) The ratio which the light reflected from an unpolished surface bears to the total light falling upon that surface. |
| 3782 |
Albee |
(conj.) Although; albeit. |
| 3783 |
albeit |
although |
| 3784 |
Albert |
n. prince consort of Queen Victoria of England (1819-1861) |
| 3785 |
Alberta |
n. one of the three prairie provinces in western Canada; rich in oil and natural gas and minerals |
| 3786 |
Albertite |
(n.) A bituminous mineral resembling asphaltum, found in the county of A. /bert, New Brunswick. |
| 3787 |
Albertype |
(n.) A picture printed from a kind of gelatine plate produced by means of a photographic negative. |
| 3788 |
Albescence |
(n.) The act of becoming white; whitishness. |
| 3789 |
albescent |
an agent used to counteract a poisonous or noxious subtance
Anything that will counteract or remove the effects of poison
disease
or the like
remedy
a remedy to counteract the effects of poison
adj. becoming or shading into white
(a.) Becoming white or wh |
| 3790 |
Albicant |
(a.) Growing or becoming white. |
| 3791 |
Albication |
(n.) The process of becoming white, or developing white patches, or streaks. |
| 3792 |
Albicore |
(n.) A name applied to several large fishes of the Mackerel family, esp. Orcynus alalonga. One species Orcynus thynnus), common in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, is called in New England the horse mackerel; the tunny. |
| 3793 |
Albification |
(n.) The act or process of making white. |
| 3794 |
Albigenses |
(n. pl.) Alt. of Albigeois
n. a Christian religious sect in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries; believers in Albigensianism |
| 3795 |
Albigensian |
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Albigenses. |
| 3796 |
Albigeois |
(n. pl.) A sect of reformers opposed to the church of Rome in the 12th centuries. |
| 3797 |
Albin |
Albin |
| 3798 |
Albina |
A sex goddess and beauty queen. Makes men turn heads. Lives life to the fullest and has no regrets. Loves her friends dearly and does anything for them |
| 3799 |
Albiness |
(n.) A female albino. |
| 3800 |
albinism |
n. the congenital absence of pigmentation in the eyes and skin and hair
(n.) The state or condition of being an albino: abinoism; leucopathy. |
| 3801 |
Albinistic |
(a.) Affected with albinism. |
| 3802 |
albino |
a person with congenital albinism |
| 3803 |
Albinoism |
(n.) The state or condition of being an albino; albinism. |
| 3804 |
Albinos |
(pl. ) of Albino |
| 3805 |
albinotic |
adj. of or pertaining to or affected by albinism
(a.) Affected with albinism. |
| 3806 |
Albion |
n. archaic name for England or Great Britain; used poetically
(n.) An ancient name of England, still retained in poetry. |
| 3807 |
albite |
n. a widely distributed feldspar that forms rocks
(n.) A mineral of the feldspar family, triclinic in crystallization, and in composition a silicate of alumina and soda. It is a common constituent of granite and of various igneous rocks. See Feldspar. |
| 3808 |
Albolith |
(n.) A kind of plastic cement, or artificial stone, consisting chiefly of magnesia and silica; -- called also albolite. |
| 3809 |
Alborak |
(n.) The imaginary milk-white animal on which Mohammed was said to have been carried up to heaven; a white mule. |
| 3810 |
Albugineous |
(a.) Of the nature of, or resembling, the white of the eye, or of an egg; albuminous; -- a term applied to textures, humors, etc., which are perfectly white. |
| 3811 |
Albugines |
(pl. ) of Albugo |
| 3812 |
Albugo |
(n.) Same as Leucoma. |
| 3813 |
album |
a book of blank pages with pockets or envelopes |
| 3814 |
Album Graecum |
Dung of dogs or hyenas, which becomes white by exposure to air. It is used in dressing leather, and was formerly used in medicine. |
| 3815 |
albumen |
n. the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water; a simple water-soluble protein found in many animal tissues and liquids
(n.) The white of an egg.
(n.) Nou |
| 3816 |
Albumenize |
(v. t.) To cover or saturate with albumen; to coat or treat with an albuminous solution; as, to albumenize paper. |
| 3817 |
albumenized |
of albumenize |
| 3818 |
Albumenizing |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Albumenize |
| 3819 |
albumin |
exactly opposite
n. a simple water-soluble protein found in many animal tissues and liquids
(n.) A thick, viscous nitrogenous substance, which is the chief and characteristic constituent of white of eggs and of the serum of blood, and is found in other an |
| 3820 |
Albuminate |
(n.) A substance produced by the action of an alkali upon albumin, and resembling casein in its properties; also, a compound formed by the union of albumin with another substance. |
| 3821 |
Albuminiferous |
(a.) Supplying albumen. |
| 3822 |
Albuminimeter |
(n.) An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of albumen in a liquid. |
| 3823 |
Albuminin |
(n.) The substance of the cells which inclose the white of birds' eggs. |
| 3824 |
Albuminiparous |
(a.) Producing albumin. |
| 3825 |
albuminoid |
n. a simple protein found in horny and cartilaginous tissues and in the lens of the eye
(a.) Resembling albumin.
(n.) One of a class of organic principles called also proteids) which form the main part of organized tissues. |
| 3826 |
Albuminoidal |
(a.) Of the nature of an albuminoid. |
| 3827 |
Albuminose |
(n.) A diffusible substance formed from albumin by the action of natural or artificial gastric juice. See Peptone.
(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, albumen; having the properties of, or resembling, albumen or albumin. |
| 3828 |
albuminous |
adj. relating to or containing or resembling albumin
(a.) Alt. of Albuminose |
| 3829 |
albuminuria |
n. the presence of excessive protein (chiefly albumin but also globulin) in the urine; usually a symptom of kidney disorder
(n.) A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine. |
| 3830 |
Albumose |
(n.) A compound or class of compounds formed from albumin by dilute acids or by an acid solution of pepsin. Used also in combination, as antialbumose, hemialbumose. |
| 3831 |
albums |
a blank book for the insertion of photographs, stamps, or pictures. |
| 3832 |
albuquerque |
1. Affonso |
| 3833 |
alburmous |
old-fashioned |
| 3834 |
Alburn |
(n.) The bleak, a small European fish having scales of a peculiarly silvery color which are used in making artificial pearls. |
| 3835 |
Alburnous |
(a.) Of or pertaining to alburnum; of the alburnum; as, alburnous substances. |
| 3836 |
alburnum |
belonging to ancient times belonging to the?past existing since or belonging to earlier times ANCIENT (n.) The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood. |
| 3837 |
Albyn |
(n.) Scotland; esp. the Highlands of Scotland. |
| 3838 |
Alcade |
(n.) Same as Alcaid. |
| 3839 |
Alcahest |
(n.) Same as Alkahest.
n. hypothetical universal solvent once sought by alchemists |
| 3840 |
Alcaic |
(a.) Pertaining to Alcaeus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000 b. c.
(n.) A kind of verse, so called from Alcaeus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls.
ancientness
ancient times
n. verse in |
| 3841 |
Alcaid |
(n.) Alt. of Alcayde |
| 3842 |
alcaide |
the commander of a fortress or castle |
| 3843 |
Alcalde |
(n.) A magistrate or judge in Spain and in Spanish America, etc.
n. a mayor or chief magistrate of a Spanish town |
| 3844 |
Alcalimeter |
(n.) See Alkalimeter. |
| 3845 |
Alcanna |
(n.) An oriental shrub Lawsonia inermis) from which henna is obtained. |
| 3846 |
Alcarraza |
(n.) A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids by evaporation from the exterior surface. |
| 3847 |
Alcarrazas |
(pl. ) of Alcarraza |
| 3848 |
alcatraz |
sterilizing
opposing sepsis
putrefaction
or decay |
| 3849 |
Alcayde |
(n.) A commander of a castle or fortress among the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Moors.
(n.) The warden, or keeper of a jail.
(n.) Same as Alcaid. |
| 3850 |
Alcazar |
(n.) A fortress; also, a royal palace. |
| 3851 |
Alcedo |
(n.) A genus of perching birds, including the European kingfisher Alcedo ispida). See Halcyon. |
| 3852 |
alchemic |
adj. related to or concerned with alchemy
(a.) Alt. of Alchemical |
| 3853 |
Alchemical |
(a.) Of or relating to alchemy. |
| 3854 |
Alchemically |
(adv.) In the manner of alchemy. |
| 3855 |
alchemist |
a person who studies to change useless metal into gold |
| 3856 |
alchemistic |
adj. of or relating to alchemists
(a.) Alt. of Alchemistical |
| 3857 |
Alchemistical |
(a.) Relating to or practicing alchemy. |
| 3858 |
Alchemistry |
(n.) Alchemy. |
| 3859 |
Alchemize |
(v. t.) To change by alchemy; to transmute.
v. alter (elements) by alchemy |
| 3860 |
alchemy |
the study of changing useless metal into gold |
| 3861 |
Alchymic |
(n.) Alt. of Alchymy |
| 3862 |
Alchymist |
(n.) Alt. of Alchymy |
| 3863 |
Alchymistic |
(n.) Alt. of Alchymy |
| 3864 |
Alchymy |
(n.) See Alchemic, Alchemist, Alchemistic, Alchemy. |
| 3865 |
alclad |
opposite
direct opposite
(adj.
ANTITHETICAL)
Contrast
the direct opposite - His selfish attitude seemed to me the antithesis o patriotism. |
| 3866 |
Alcmene |
the mother of Hercules by Zeus in the form of her husband Amphitryon |
| 3867 |
Alco |
(n.) A small South American dog, domesticated by the aborigines. |
| 3868 |
Alcoate |
(n.) Alt. of Alcohate |
| 3869 |
Alcohate |
(n.) Shortened forms of Alcoholate. |
| 3870 |
alcohol |
colorless, volatile, flammable, water- miscible liquid, used in chemistry, medicine etc. |
| 3871 |
Alcoholate |
(n.) A crystallizable compound of a salt with alcohol, in which the latter plays a part analogous to that of water of crystallization. |
| 3872 |
Alcoholature |
(n.) An alcoholic tincture prepared with fresh plants. |
| 3873 |
alcoholic |
adj. addicted to alcohol; characteristic of or containing alcohol; n. a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually |
| 3874 |
alcoholicity |
the strength of an alcoholic liquor |
| 3875 |
alcoholism |
an addition to alcohol |
| 3876 |
Alcoholization |
(n.) The act of reducing a substance to a fine or impalpable powder.
(n.) The act rectifying spirit.
(n.) Saturation with alcohol; putting the animal system under the influence of alcoholic liquor. |
| 3877 |
Alcoholize |
(v. t.) To reduce to a fine powder.
(v. t.) To convert into alcohol; to rectify; also, to saturate with alcohol.
worry
nervousness
unease
v. make alcoholic, as by fermenting; treat or infuse with alcohol; subject to the influence of alcohol |
| 3878 |
alcoholized |
of alcoholize |
| 3879 |
Alcoholizing |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Alcoholize |
| 3880 |
Alcoholmeter |
(n.) An instrument for determining the strength of spirits, with a scale graduated so as to indicate the percentage of pure alcohol, either by weight or volume. It is usually a form of hydrometer with a special scale. |
| 3881 |
Alcoholmetrical |
(a.) Relating to the alcoholometer or alcoholometry. |
| 3882 |
alcoholometer |
You're good! You're great! |
| 3883 |
Alcoholometric |
(a.) Alt. of Alcoholmetrical |
| 3884 |
Alcoholometrical |
(a.) Alt. of Alcoholmetrical |
| 3885 |
Alcoholometry |
(n.) The process or method of ascertaining the proportion of pure alcohol which spirituous liquors contain. |
| 3886 |
alcoholysis |
chemical decomposition resulting from the interaction of a compound and an alcohol |
| 3887 |
Alcohometer |
(a.) Alt. of Alcohometric |
| 3888 |
Alcohometric |
(a.) Same as Alcoholometer, Alcoholometric. |
| 3889 |
alcometer |
alcometer |
| 3890 |
Alcoometry |
(n.) See Alcoholometry. |
| 3891 |
Alcoran |
(n.) The Mohammedan Scriptures; the Koran now the usual form). |
| 3892 |
Alcoranic |
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Koran. |
| 3893 |
Alcoranist |
(n.) One who adheres to the letter of the Koran, rejecting all traditions. |
| 3894 |
Alcott |
n. United States novelist noted for children's books (1832-1888) |
| 3895 |
alcove |
a small recess opening off a larger room |
| 3896 |
Alcyon |
(n.) See Halcyon. |
| 3897 |
Alcyonacea |
(n. pl.) A group of soft-bodied Alcyonaria, of which Alcyonium is the type. See Illust. under Alcyonaria. |
| 3898 |
Alcyonaria |
(n. pl.) One of the orders of Anthozoa. It includes the Alcyonacea, Pennatulacea, and Gorgonacea. |
| 3899 |
Alcyone |
n. (Greek mythology) a woman who was turned into a kingfisher |
| 3900 |
Alcyones |
(n. pl.) The kingfishers. |
| 3901 |
Alcyonic |
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Alcyonaria. |
| 3902 |
Alcyonium |
(n.) A genus of fleshy Alcyonaria, its polyps somewhat resembling flowers with eight fringed rays. The term was also formerly used for certain species of sponges. |
| 3903 |
Alcyonoid |
(a.) Like or pertaining to the Alcyonaria.
(n.) A zoophyte of the order Alcyonaria. |
| 3904 |
Alday |
(adv.) Continually. |
| 3905 |
Aldebaran |
n. the brightest star in Taurus
(n.) A red star of the first magnitude, situated in the eye of Taurus; the Bull's Eye. It is the bright star in the group called the Hyades. |
| 3906 |
aldehyde |
n. any of a class of highly reactive chemical compounds; used in making resins and dyes and organic acids
(n.) A colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain processes of oxidation. |
| 3907 |
Aldehydic |
(a.) Of or pertaining to aldehyde; as, aldehydic acid. |
| 3908 |
aldente |
of pasta cooked so as to be firm when eaten |
| 3909 |
alder |
northern temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit |
| 3910 |
Alder-liefest |
(a.) Most beloved. |
| 3911 |
alderman |
a member of a municipal legislative body |
| 3912 |
Aldermancy |
(n.) The office of an alderman. |
| 3913 |
aldermanic |
adj. of or relating to or like an alderman
(a.) Relating to, becoming to, or like, an alderman; characteristic of an alderman. |
| 3914 |
Aldermanity |
(n.) Aldermen collectively; the body of aldermen.
(n.) The state of being an alderman. |
| 3915 |
Aldermanlike |
(a.) Like or suited to an alderman. |
| 3916 |
Aldermanly |
(a.) Pertaining to, or like, an alderman. |
| 3917 |
Aldermanry |
(n.) The district or ward of an alderman.
(n.) The office or rank of an alderman. |
| 3918 |
aldermanship |
the condition position or office of an alderman. |
| 3919 |
Aldermen |
(pl. ) of Alderman |
| 3920 |
Aldern |
(a.) Made of alder. |
| 3921 |
alderney |
(n.) One of a breed of cattle raised in Alderney, one of the Channel Islands. Alderneys are of a dun or tawny color and are often called Jersey cattle. See Jersey, 3. |
| 3922 |
Aldershot |
a town in S England, in Hampshire: site of a large military camp. Pop: 58 170 (2001) |
| 3923 |
Aldine |
(a.) An epithet applied to editions chiefly of the classics) which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been app |
| 3924 |
aldohexose |
n. a monosaccharide sugar having six carbon atoms and an aldehyde group |
| 3925 |
aldosterone |
n. a corticosteroid hormone that is secreted by the cortex of the adrenal gland; regulates salt (sodium and potassium) and water balance |
| 3926 |
Aldous |
Aldous |
| 3927 |
aldrin |
a brown, water-insoluble, toxic solid consisting of more than 95 percent of the chlorinated hydrocarbon |
| 3928 |
ale |
main artery
n. a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume
(n.) An intoxicating liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation and the addition of |
| 3929 |
Ale silver |
A duty payable to the lord mayor of London by the sellers of ale within the city. |
| 3930 |
Aleak |
(adv. & a.) In a leaking condition. |
| 3931 |
aleatoric |
aleatoric |
| 3932 |
aleatory |
adj. dependent on chance
(a.) Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract. |
| 3933 |
Alebench |
(n.) A bench in or before an alehouse. |
| 3934 |
Aleberry |
(n.) A beverage, formerly made by boiling ale with spice, sugar, and sops of bread. |
| 3935 |
Alecithal |
(a.) Applied to those ova which segment uniformly, and which have little or no food yelk embedded in their protoplasm. |
| 3936 |
Aleck |
racial oppression
prejudice |
| 3937 |
Aleconner |
(n.) Orig., an officer appointed to look to the goodness of ale and beer; also, one of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London to inspect the measures used in public houses. But the office is a sinecure. [Also called aletaster.] |
| 3938 |
Alecost |
(n.) The plant costmary, which was formerly much used for flavoring ale. |
| 3939 |
Alectorides |
(n. pl.) A group of birds including the common fowl and the pheasants. |
| 3940 |
Alectoromachy |
(n.) Cockfighting. |
| 3941 |
Alectoromancy |
(n.) See Alectryomancy. |
| 3942 |
Alectryom'achy |
(n.) Cockfighting. |
| 3943 |
Alectryomancy |
(n.) Divination by means of a cock and grains of corn placed on the letters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in which the grains were eaten. |
| 3944 |
alee |
adv. on or toward the lee
(adv.) On or toward the lee, or the side away from the wind; the opposite of aweather. The helm of a ship is alee when pressed close to the lee side. |
| 3945 |
Alegar |
(n.) Sour ale; vinegar made of ale.
having or exhibiting a lack of feeling or concern
having or showing little or no emotion
having no or negative feelings
feeling or showing little emotion
Feeling or showing a lack of interest or concern
indifferent
unco |
| 3946 |
Aleger |
(a.) Gay; cheerful; sprightly. |
| 3947 |
Alegge |
(v. t.) To allay or alleviate; to lighten. |
| 3948 |
Alehoof |
(n.) Ground ivy Nepeta Glechoma). |
| 3949 |
alehouse |
beer house |
| 3950 |
Ale-knight |
(n.) A pot companion. |
| 3951 |
Alemannic |
(a.) Belonging to the Alemanni, a confederacy of warlike German tribes.
(n.) The language of the Alemanni. |
| 3952 |
alembic |
an opening
n. an obsolete kind of container used for distillation; two retorts connected by a tube
(n.) An apparatus formerly used in distillation, usually made of glass or metal. It has mostly given place to the retort and worm still. |
| 3953 |
Alembroth |
(n.) The salt of wisdom of the alchemists, a double salt composed of the chlorides of ammonium and mercury. It was formerly used as a stimulant. |
| 3954 |
Alen/on lace |
See under Lace. |
| 3955 |
Alength |
(adv.) At full length; lengthwise. |
| 3956 |
aleph |
highest point
crest
tip
summit
zenith
acme
climax
the highest or culminating point
n. the 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet |
| 3957 |
alephnull |
The first of the transfinite cardinal numbers. It corresponds to the number of elements in the set of positive integers. Also called aleph-zero |
| 3958 |
Alepidote |
(a.) Not having scales.
(n.) A fish without scales. |
| 3959 |
Alepole |
(n.) A pole set up as the sign of an alehouse. |
| 3960 |
alert |
fully aware and attentive; wide-awake |
| 3961 |
Alertly |
(adv.) In an alert manner; nimbly. |
| 3962 |
Alertness |
(n.) The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity. |
| 3963 |
alerts |
the state of being watchful for possible danger. |
| 3964 |
Alestake |
(n.) A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a "bush." |
| 3965 |
Aletaster |
(n.) See Aleconner. |
| 3966 |
Alethiology |
(n.) The science which treats of the nature of truth and evidence. |
| 3967 |
Alethoscope |
(n.) An instrument for viewing pictures by means of a lens, so as to present them in their natural proportions and relations. |
| 3968 |
aleukia |
Absence or extremely decreased number of leukocytes in the circulating blood |
| 3969 |
Aleuromancy |
(n.) Divination by means of flour. |
| 3970 |
Aleurometer |
(n.) An instrument for determining the expansive properties, or quality, of gluten in flour. |
| 3971 |
Aleurone |
(n.) An albuminoid substance which occurs in minute grains protein granules) in maturing seeds and tubers; -- supposed to be a modification of protoplasm.
a short saying containing a principle
witty saying
proverb
a terse formulation of a truth or
n. gran |
| 3972 |
Aleuronic |
(a.) Having the nature of aleurone. |
| 3973 |
Aleut |
n. the language spoken by the Aleut; a member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and western Alaska |
| 3974 |
Aleutian |
(a.) Alt. of Aleutic |
| 3975 |
Aleutians |
n. an archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwestern from Alaska |
| 3976 |
Aleutic |
(a.) Of or pertaining to a chain of islands between Alaska and Kamtchatka; also, designating these islands. |
| 3977 |
Alevin |
(n.) Young fish; fry.
Confidence
coolness |
| 3978 |
Alew |
(n.) Halloo. |
| 3979 |
alewife |
n. shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus; flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams
(n.) A woman who keeps an alehouse.
(n.) A North American fish C |
| 3980 |
Alewives |
(pl. ) of Alewife |
| 3981 |
Alex |
Alex |
| 3982 |
Alexander |
a prophetic revelation
usually concerning the end of the world
unconsequence
prophetic revelation
n. king of Macedon; conqueror of Greece and Egypt and Persia; founder of Alexandria (356-323 BC); European herb somewhat resembling celery widely naturalized |
| 3983 |
Alexanders |
(n.) Alt. of Alisanders |
| 3984 |
Alexandra |
forecasting the ultimate destiny of the world
PROPHETIC |
| 3985 |
Alexandria |
the harbor in Egypt in the southern mediterranean |
| 3986 |
Alexandrian |
authenticated
of dubious authenticity
Of doubtful authority or authenticity.
adj. of or relating to Alexander the Great or his empire; n. a resident or native of Alexandria (especially Alexandria in Egypt)
(a.) Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt; as, |
| 3987 |
alexandrine |
the most distant point in the orbit
The climax
n. (prosody) a line of verse that has six iambic feet
(a.) Belonging to Alexandria; Alexandrian.
(n.) A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables. |
| 3988 |
alexandrite |
n. a green variety of chrysoberyl used as a gemstone |
| 3989 |
alexia |
n. inability to perceive written words |
| 3990 |
alexin |
detractor
critic
one who speaks or writes in defense of someone or something |
| 3991 |
Alexipharmac |
(a. & n.) Alt. of Alexipharmacal |
| 3992 |
Alexipharmacal |
(a. & n.) Alexipharmic. |
| 3993 |
alexipharmic |
to express regret for a faulty action or behavior
(a.) Alt. of Alexipharmical
(n.) An antidote against poison or infection; a counterpoison. |
| 3994 |
Alexipharmical |
(a.) Expelling or counteracting poison; antidotal. |
| 3995 |
Alexipyretic |
(a.) Serving to drive off fever; antifebrile.
(n.) A febrifuge. |
| 3996 |
Alexiteric |
(a.) Alt. of Alexiterical
(n.) A preservative against contagious and infectious diseases, and the effects of poison in general. |
| 3997 |
Alexiterical |
(a.) Resisting poison; obviating the effects of venom; alexipharmic. |
| 3998 |
Alfa |
(n.) Alt. of Alfa grass |
| 3999 |
Alfa grass |
(n.) A plant Macrochloa tenacissima) of North Africa; also, its fiber, used in paper making. |
| 4000 |
alfalfa |
n. leguminous plant grown for hay or forage; important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop
(n.) The lucern Medicago sativa); -- so called in California, Texas, etc. |
| 4001 |
alfatah |
a guerrilla group within the Palestine Liberation Organization |
| 4002 |
Alfenide |
(n.) An alloy of nickel and silver electroplated with silver. |
| 4003 |
Alferes |
(n.) An ensign; a standard bearer. |
| 4004 |
Alfet |
(n.) A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt. |
| 4005 |
Alfilaria |
(n.) The pin grass Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California. |
| 4006 |
alfine |
alfine |
| 4007 |
Alfione |
(n.) An edible marine fish of California Rhacochilus toxotes). |
| 4008 |
alforja |
a saddlebag, especially one made of leather |
| 4009 |
Alfred |
n. king of Wessex; defeated the Danes and encouraged writing in English (849-899) |
| 4010 |
alfresco |
adj. in the open air; adv. outside a building
(adv. & a.) In the open-air. |
| 4011 |
alg |
calm
extremely and noticeably
greatly agitated |
| 4012 |
alga |
stroke
numbness
paralysis
n. primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves
(n.) A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweed |
| 4013 |
Algae |
(pl. ) of Alga |
| 4014 |
algal |
abandonment or rejection of faith or loyalty
fidelity
renunciation of a religious faith
adj. of or relating to alga
(a.) Pertaining to, or like, algae. |
| 4015 |
Algaroba |
(n.) The Carob, a leguminous tree of the Mediterranean region; also, its edible beans or pods, called St. John's bread.
(n.) The Honey mesquite Prosopis juliflora), a small tree found from California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuabl |
| 4016 |
Algarot |
(n.) Alt. of Algaroth |
| 4017 |
Algaroth |
(n.) A term used for the Powder of Algaroth, a white powder which is a compound of trichloride and trioxide of antimony. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic, purgative, and diaphoretic. |
| 4018 |
Algarovilla |
(n.) The agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree Inga Marthae). It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye. |
| 4019 |
Algate |
(adv.) Alt. of Algates |
| 4020 |
Algates |
(adv.) Always; wholly; everywhere.
(adv.) By any or means; at all events.
(adv.) Notwithstanding; yet. |
| 4021 |
Algazel |
(n.) The true gazelle. |
| 4022 |
algebra |
the branch of mathematics that deals with general statements of relations, utilizing letters and other symbols |
| 4023 |
algebraic |
disciple
adj. of or relating to algebra
(a.) Alt. of Algebraical |
| 4024 |
Algebraical |
(a.) Of or pertaining to algebra; containing an operation of algebra, or deduced from such operation; as, algebraic characters; algebraical writings. |
| 4025 |
Algebraically |
(adv.) By algebraic process. |
| 4026 |
algebraist |
a mark ' used to indicate the omission of letters or figures
the possessive case
or the plural of letters or figures
n. a mathematician whose specialty is algebra
(n.) One versed in algebra. |
| 4027 |
Algebraize |
(v. t.) To perform by algebra; to reduce to algebraic form. |
| 4028 |
Algeria |
n. a republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea with a population that is predominantly Sunni Muslim; colonized by France in the 19th century but gained autonomy in the early 1960s |
| 4029 |
algerian |
perfect example
Deification
adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Algeria or its inhabitants; n. a native or inhabitant of Algeria
(a.) Of or pertaining to Algeria.
(n.) A native of Algeria. |
| 4030 |
Algerine |
(a.) Of or pertaining to Algiers or Algeria.
(n.) A native or one of the people of Algiers or Algeria. Also, a pirate. |
| 4031 |
algicide |
an agent used to kill algae |
| 4032 |
algid |
embolden
nerve
to cause one to be shocked or offended
to terrify
frighten
horrify
shock
to overcome with consternation
or dismay
adj. chilly
(a.) Cold; chilly. |
| 4033 |
Algidity |
(n.) Chilliness; coldness
(n.) coldness and collapse. |
| 4034 |
Algidness |
(n.) Algidity. |
| 4035 |
Algiers |
causing horror or consternation
n. an ancient port on the Mediterranean; the capital and largest city of Algeria |
| 4036 |
Algific |
(a.) Producing cold. |
| 4037 |
alginicacid |
the equipment needed for a specified purpose
equipment
a group of machines |
| 4038 |
algoid |
garment=uniform=dress=costume=coufit=attire
clothes
attire
costume
to put clothes on
DRESS
adj. of or resembling algae
(a.) Of the nature of, or resembling, an alga. |
| 4039 |
Algol |
n. (from a combination of ALGOrithmic and Language); a programming language used to express computer programs as algorithms; second brightest star in Perseus; first known eclipsing binary
(n.) A fixed star, in Medusa's head, in the constellation Perseus, |
| 4040 |
algolagnia |
evident
clear
obvious
plain
conspicuous
manifest
n. sexual pleasure derived from inflicting or experiencing pain |
| 4041 |
Algological |
(a.) Of or pertaining to algology; as, algological specimens. |
| 4042 |
Algologist |
(n.) One learned about algae; a student of algology. |
| 4043 |
Algology |
(n.) The study or science of algae or seaweeds.
n. the branch of botany that studies algae |
| 4044 |
Algonkian |
a ghost or ghostly object
Ghost
adj. of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language; n. the Algonquian language spoken by the Algonkian; a member of a North American Indian people in the Ottawa river valley of Ontario and Quebec |
| 4045 |
Algonkin |
(n.) One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence. |
| 4046 |
Algonquian |
to attract or please
make a serious or urgent request
attractive
entreaty
request
petition
to make an earnest request
adj. of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language; n. family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador t |
| 4047 |
Algonquin |
(n.) Alt. of Algonkin |
| 4048 |
algophobia |
n. a morbid fear of pain |
| 4049 |
Algor |
(n.) Cold; chilliness. |
| 4050 |
algorism |
n. computation with Arabic figures; the Arabic (or decimal) system of numeration
(n.) Alt. of Algorithm |
| 4051 |
algorithm |
n. a procedure to solve a mathematical question |
| 4052 |
algorithms |
algorithms |
| 4053 |
Algous |
(a.) Of or pertaining to the algae, or seaweeds; abounding with, or like, seaweed. |
| 4054 |
algraphy |
(formerly) an offset process employing an aluminum |
| 4055 |
Alguazil |
(n.) An inferior officer of justice in Spain; a warrant officer; a constable. |
| 4056 |
Algum |
(n.) Same as Almug and etymologically preferable).
(n.) A tree or wood of the Bible 2 Chron. ii. 8; 1 K. x. 11). |
| 4057 |
Alhambra |
n. a fortified Moorish palace built near Granada by Muslim kings in the Middle Ages
(n.) The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada. |
| 4058 |
Alhambraic |
(a.) Alt. of Alhambresque |
| 4059 |
Alhambresque |
(a.) Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture. |
| 4060 |
Alhenna |
(n.) See Henna. |
| 4061 |
ali |
n. the fourth caliph of Islam who is considered to be the first caliph by Shiites; he was a cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad; after his assassination Islam was divided into Shiite and Sunnite sects; United States prizefighter who won the world heavyweigh |
| 4062 |
alias |
a nick name |
| 4063 |
Aliases |
(pl. ) of Alias |
| 4064 |
alibi |
the defense by an accused person of having been elsewhere |
| 4065 |
Alibility |
(n.) Quality of being alible. |
| 4066 |
alible |
nutritious |
| 4067 |
Alicant |
(n.) A kind of wine, formerly much esteemed; -- said to have been made near Alicant, in Spain. |
| 4068 |
Alice |
a classic name that's both strong and sweet |
| 4069 |
alidade |
n. surveying instrument used with a plane table for drawing lines of sight on a distant object and for measuring angles; surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments
(n.) The portion |
| 4070 |
alide |
alide |
| 4071 |
alien |
a non-native species, a creature from outer space |
| 4072 |
Alienability |
(n.) Capability of being alienated. |
| 4073 |
alienable |
transferrable to the ownership of another. |
| 4074 |
alienage |
a name
n. the quality of being alien
(n.) The state or legal condition of being an alien.
(n.) The state of being alienated or transferred to another. |
| 4075 |
alienate |
to supply with necessities such as tools or provisions. |
| 4076 |
alienated |
separated, isolated |
| 4077 |
Alienating |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Alienate |
| 4078 |
alienation |
separation |
| 4079 |
alienator |
n. an unpleasant person who causes friendly people to become indifferent or unfriendly or hostile
(n.) One who alienates. |
| 4080 |
Aliene |
(v. t.) To alien or alienate; to transfer, as title or property; as, to aliene an estate. |
| 4081 |
Alienee |
(n.) One to whom the title of property is transferred; -- opposed to alienor.
supplementary material at the end of a book
article
document
or other text
supplement
adjunct
n. someone to whom the title of property is transferred |
| 4082 |
alienism |
n. an obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness; the quality of being alien
(n.) The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage.
(n.) The study or treatment of diseases of the mind. |
| 4083 |
alienist |
an inherent craving
n. a psychiatrist and specialist in the legal aspects of mental illness
(n.) One who treats diseases of the mind. |
| 4084 |
Alienor |
(n.) One who alienates or transfers property to another.
n. someone from whom the title of property is transferred |
| 4085 |
Aliethmoid |
(a.) Alt. of Aliethmoidal |
| 4086 |
Aliethmoidal |
(a.) Pertaining to expansions of the ethmoid bone or cartilage. |
| 4087 |
Alife |
(adv.) On my life; dearly. |
| 4088 |
Aliferous |
(a.) Having wings, winged; aligerous. |
| 4089 |
aliform |
show approval by clapping
adj. having or resembling wings
(a.) Wing-shaped; winglike. |
| 4090 |
Aligerous |
(a.) Having wings; winged. |
| 4091 |
alight |
descend from a train, bus, or other form of transport. |
| 4092 |
alighted |
of alight |
| 4093 |
Alighting |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Alight |
| 4094 |
align |
arrange something in a straight line |
| 4095 |
align A with B |
align A with B |
| 4096 |
aligned |
place or arrange (things) in a straight line |
| 4097 |
alignment |
(n.) The act of adjusting to a line |
| 4098 |
alike |
similar |
| 4099 |
Alike-minded |
(a.) Like-minded. |
| 4100 |
Alilonghi |
(n.) The tunny. See Albicore. |
| 4101 |
aliment |
n. a source of materials to nourish the body |
| 4102 |
alimental |
a person who makes an application
one who applies for something
a candidate
one who applies
adj. of or providing nourishment
(a.) Supplying food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap. |
| 4103 |
Alimentally |
(adv.) So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. |
| 4104 |
Alimentariness |
(n.) The quality of being alimentary; nourishing quality. |
| 4105 |
alimentary |
adj. of or providing nourishment
(a.) Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances. |
| 4106 |
alimentation |
n. nutrition |
| 4107 |
alimentative |
adj. related to the supply of aliment |
| 4108 |
Alimentiveness |
(n.) The instinct or faculty of appetite for food. |
| 4109 |
Alimonious |
(a.) Affording food; nourishing. |
| 4110 |
alimony |
n. court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
(n.) Maintenance; means of living.
(n.) An allowance made to a wife out of her husband's estate or income for her support, upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or du |
| 4111 |
Alinasal |
(a.) Pertaining to expansions of the nasal bone or cartilage. |
| 4112 |
Aline |
(v. t.) To range or place in a line; to bring into line; to align. |
| 4113 |
Alineation |
(n.) See Allineation.
(n.) Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. |
| 4114 |
Alinement |
(n.) Same as Alignment.
n. an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty |
| 4115 |
Aliner |
(n.) One who adjusts things to a line or lines or brings them into line. |
| 4116 |
Alioth |
(n.) A star in the tail of the Great Bear, the one next the bowl in the Dipper. |
| 4117 |
aliped |
(a.) Wing-footed, as the bat.
(n.) An animal whose toes are connected by a membrane, serving for a wing, as the bat. |
| 4118 |
aliphatic |
adj. having carbon atoms linked in open chains |
| 4119 |
aliquant |
n. an integer that is not an exact divisor of some quantity
(a.) An aliquant part of a number or quantity is one which does not divide it without leaving a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquant part of 16. Opposed to aliquot. |
| 4120 |
aliquot |
adj. signifying an exact divisor or factor of a quantity; n. an integer that is an exact divisor of some quantity
(a.) An aliquot part of a number or quantity is one which will divide it without a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquot part of 15. Opposed to al |
| 4121 |
Alisanders |
(n.) A name given to two species of the genus Smyrnium, formerly cultivated and used as celery now is; -- called also horse parsely. |
| 4122 |
Aliseptal |
(a.) Relating to expansions of the nasal septum. |
| 4123 |
Alish |
(a.) Like ale; as, an alish taste. |
| 4124 |
Alison |
make a formal request
use
employ
utilize |
| 4125 |
Alisphenoid |
(a.) Alt. of Alisphenoidal
(n.) The alisphenoid bone. |
| 4126 |
Alisphenoidal |
(a.) Pertaining to or forming the wing of the sphenoid; relating to a bone in the base of the skull, which in the adult is often consolidated with the sphenoid; as, alisphenoid bone; alisphenoid canal. |
| 4127 |
Alit |
of Alight |
| 4128 |
Alitalia |
The national airline of Italy |
| 4129 |
Alitrunk |
(n.) The segment of the body of an insect to which the wings are attached; the thorax. |
| 4130 |
Aliturgical |
(a.) Applied to those days when the holy sacrifice is not offered. |
| 4131 |
Aliunde |
(adv. & a.) From another source; from elsewhere; as, a case proved aliunde; evidence aliunde. |
| 4132 |
alive |
living, not dead |
| 4133 |
aliyah |
n. (Judaism) immigration of Jews to Israel; (Judaism) the honor of being called up to the reading desk in the synagogue to read from the Torah |
| 4134 |
Alizari |
(n.) The madder of the Levant. |
| 4135 |
alizarin |
n. an orange-red crystalline compound used in making red pigments and in dyeing
(n.) A coloring principle, C14H6O2OH)2, found in madder, and now produced artificially from anthracene. It produces the Turkish reds. |
| 4136 |
Alkahest |
(n.) The fabled "universal solvent" of the alchemists; a menstruum capable of dissolving all bodies.
n. hypothetical universal solvent once sought by alchemists |
| 4137 |
Alkalamide |
(n.) One of a series of compounds that may be regarded as ammonia in which a part of the hydrogen has been replaced by basic, and another part by acid, atoms or radicals. |
| 4138 |
Alkalescence |
(n.) Alt. of Alkalescency |
| 4139 |
Alkalescency |
(n.) A tendency to become alkaline; or the state of a substance in which alkaline properties begin to be developed, or to predominant. |
| 4140 |
alkalescent |
adj. tending to become alkaline; slightly alkaline
(a.) Tending to the properties of an alkali; slightly alkaline. |
| 4141 |
alkali |
any of various bases that neutralize acids to form salts |
| 4142 |
alkalic |
nominate
designate
name
to name officially
adj. relating to or containing an alkali; having a pH greater than 7 |
| 4143 |
Alkalies |
(pl. ) of Alkali |
| 4144 |
Alkalifiable |
(a.) Capable of being alkalified, or converted into an alkali. |
| 4145 |
alkalified |
of alkalify |
| 4146 |
Alkalify |
(v. t.) To convert into an alkali; to give alkaline properties to.
(v. i.) To become changed into an alkali.
v. turn basic and less acidic |
| 4147 |
Alkalifying |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Alkalify |
| 4148 |
Alkalimeter |
(n.) An instrument to ascertain the strength of alkalies, or the quantity of alkali in a mixture. |
| 4149 |
Alkalimetric |
(a.) Alt. of Alkalimetrical |
| 4150 |
Alkalimetrical |
(a.) Of or pertaining to alkalimetry. |
| 4151 |
alkalimetry |
n. volumetric analysis using standard solutions of alkali to measure the amount of acid present
(n.) The art or process of ascertaining the strength of alkalies, or the quantity present in alkaline mixtures. |
| 4152 |
alkaline |
meeting
an arrangement to meet someone
adj. relating to or containing an alkali; having a pH greater than 7
(a.) Of or pertaining to an alkali or to alkalies; having the properties of an alkali. |
| 4153 |
alkalinity |
n. pH values above 7
(n.) The quality which constitutes an alkali; alkaline property. |
| 4154 |
alkalinization |
to change the substance into alkaline (base) in chemistry |
| 4155 |
alkalinize |
distinctly suitable
pertinent
extraneous
irrelevant
highly appropriate or relevant
Appropriate
highly pertinent or appropriate
APT
v. make (a substance) alkaline; become alkaline |
| 4156 |
Alkalious |
(a.) Alkaline. |
| 4157 |
Alkalis |
(pl. ) of Alkali |
| 4158 |
Alkalizate |
(a.) Alkaline.
(v. t.) To alkalizate. |
| 4159 |
Alkalization |
(n.) The act rendering alkaline by impregnating with an alkali; a conferring of alkaline qualities. |
| 4160 |
alkalize |
to make something into alkaline |
| 4161 |
alkalized |
of alkalize |
| 4162 |
Alkalizing |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Alkalize |
| 4163 |
alkaloid |
an estimate of the value of something
n. natural bases containing nitrogen found in plants
(a.) Alt. of Alkaloidal
(n.) An organic base, especially one of a class of substances occurring ready formed in the tissues of plants and the bodies of animals. |
| 4164 |
alkaloidal |
evaluate
estimate
assess
to estimate the value of
to judge
To estimate the quality
amount
size
and other features of
judge
adj. pertaining to or consisting of alkaloids
(a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, alkali. |
| 4165 |
alkalosis |
n. abnormally high alkalinity (low hydrogen-ion concentration) of the blood and other body tissues |
| 4166 |
Alkanet |
(n.) A dyeing matter extracted from the roots of Alkanna tinctoria, which gives a fine deep red color.
(n.) A boraginaceous herb Alkanna tinctoria) yielding the dye; orchanet.
(n.) The similar plant Anchusa officinalis; bugloss; also, the American puccoon |
| 4167 |
Alkargen |
(n.) Same as Cacodylic acid. |
| 4168 |
Alkarsin |
(n.) A spontaneously inflammable liquid, having a repulsive odor, and consisting of cacodyl and its oxidation products; -- called also Cadel's fuming liquid. |
| 4169 |
Alkazar |
See Alcazar. |
| 4170 |
Alkekengi |
(n.) An herbaceous plant of the nightshade family Physalis alkekengi) and its fruit, which is a well flavored berry, the size of a cherry, loosely inclosed in a enlarged leafy calyx; -- also called winter cherry, ground cherry, and strawberry tomato. |
| 4171 |
alkene |
estimably
perceptibly
significantly
n. any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon |
| 4172 |
Alkermes |
(n.) A compound cordial, in the form of a confection, deriving its name from the kermes insect, its principal ingredient. |
| 4173 |
Alkoran |
(n.) The Mohammedan Scriptures. Same as Alcoran and Koran. |
| 4174 |
Alkoranic |
(a.) Same as Alcoranic. |
| 4175 |
Alkoranist |
(n.) Same as Alcoranist. |
| 4176 |
alkyd |
to be grateful for
to increase in value
recognize the full worth of
value
estimate
n. a durable synthetic resin widely used in adhesives and paints |
| 4177 |
alkyl |
n. any of a series of univalent groups of the general formula CnH2n+1 derived from aliphatic hydrocarbons |
| 4178 |
alkylate |
alkylate |
| 4179 |
alkyne |
n. a colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis |
| 4180 |
all |
being or representing the entire or total number, amount, or quantity |
| 4181 |
all across |
all over |
| 4182 |
all along |
the whole time |
| 4183 |
All American |
anticipation of adversity or misfortune
anxiety or fear about the future
anxiety
misgiving
suspicion or fear especially of future evil
FOREBODING |
| 4184 |
all around |
relating to or involving many different things : considered in a general way |
| 4185 |
All at once |
all at the same time |
| 4186 |
All at once the bride burst into laughter. |
All at once the bride burst into laughter. |
| 4187 |
all but |
very nearly. |
| 4188 |
all day long |
during the entire day |
| 4189 |
all ears |
to be waiting eagerly to hear about something |
| 4190 |
All Fools' Day |
The first day of April, a day on which sportive impositions are practiced. |
| 4191 |
all for |
all for |
| 4192 |
All fours |
All four legs of a quadruped; or the two legs and two arms of a person. |
| 4193 |
all good things must come to an end |
everything ends eventually even good things |
| 4194 |
All hail |
(interj.) All health; -- a phrase of salutation or welcome. |
| 4195 |
all hands on deck |
a call for all members of a ship's crew to come to the deck, usually in a time of crisis |
| 4196 |
all important |
Of or pertaining to a tree or trees
of
relating to
or resembling a tree |
| 4197 |
all in |
very tired |
| 4198 |
all in all |
Everything being taken into account |
| 4199 |
all in clusive |
a place where trees
shrubs
and herbaceous plants are cultivated for scientific and educational purposes |
| 4200 |
All is not gold that glitters. |
All is not gold that glitters. |
| 4201 |
all kinds of |
all kinds of |
| 4202 |
all night long |
all night long |
| 4203 |
all of |
every, any whatsoever of something |
| 4204 |
all of a sudden |
Very quickly and unexpectedly; suddenly. |
| 4205 |
All of a sudden the thirty-story skyscraper went up in flames. |
All of a sudden the thirty-story skyscraper went up in flames. |
| 4206 |
all over |
everywhere |
| 4207 |
all over the world |
all over the world |
| 4208 |
all right |
satisfactory but not especially good; acceptable. |
| 4209 |
All right! |
All right! |
| 4210 |
All Saints |
Alt. of All Saints' |
| 4211 |
All Saints' |
The first day of November, called, also, Allhallows or Hallowmas; a feast day kept in honor of all the saints; also, the season of this festival. |
| 4212 |
all set |
all set |
| 4213 |
all sorts of |
all sorts of |
| 4214 |
All Souls' Day |
The second day of November; a feast day of the Roman Catholic church, on which supplications are made for the souls of the faithful dead. |
| 4215 |
all the rage |
to be very popular at a particular time |
| 4216 |
all the time |
during the whole of a particular period of time |
| 4217 |
All the trainees share the burden of toil. |
All the trainees share the burden of toil. |
| 4218 |
all the way |
as much as possible or completely |
| 4219 |
all thumbs |
all thumbs |
| 4220 |
all types of |
Adj- Of large calibur or extremely significant. Usually used in a sentence degrading someone for their lack of skill or other failure in some task. |
| 4221 |
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. |
it is not healthy to spend all your time working, you need to relax too |
| 4222 |
All you have to do is take advantage of this rare opportunity. |
All you have to do is take advantage of this rare opportunity. |
| 4223 |
Alla breve |
x. Members of the American Academy of Sciences |
| 4224 |
allah |
n. Muslim name for the one and only God
(n.) The name of the Supreme Being, in use among the Arabs and the Mohammedans generally. |
| 4225 |
All-a-mort |
(a.) See Alamort. |
| 4226 |
allan |
an English baby name |
| 4227 |
Allanite |
(n.) A silicate containing a large amount of cerium. It is usually black in color, opaque, and is related to epidote in form and composition. |
| 4228 |
Allantoid |
(a.) Alt. of Allantoidal
(n.) A membranous appendage of the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles, -- in mammals serving to connect the fetus with the parent; the urinary vesicle. |
| 4229 |
Allantoidal |
(a.) Of or pertaining to the allantois. |
| 4230 |
Allantoidea |
(n. pl.) The division of Vertebrata in which the embryo develops an allantois. It includes reptiles, birds, and mammals. |
| 4231 |
allantoin |
refusing to obey or respect the lawin a way that shows contempt |
| 4232 |
Allantois |
(n.) Alt. of Allantoid
n. vascular fetal membrane that develops from the hindgut in embryonic higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) |
| 4233 |
allargando |
an inexperienced person
NOVICE
adj. gradually decreasing in tempo and broadening in manner |
| 4234 |
allaround |
to give notice to
to inform
withhold information
To inform -apprisedhis lieutenants of the new situation. |
| 4235 |
allatonceness |
to come closer or nearer to
a way of dealing with something |
| 4236 |
Allatrate |
(v. i.) To bark as a dog. |
| 4237 |
allay |
to make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease |
| 4238 |
allay a suspicion |
allay a suspicion |
| 4239 |
allayed |
of allay |
| 4240 |
Allayer |
(n.) One who, or that which, allays. |
| 4241 |
Allaying |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Allay |
| 4242 |
Allayment |
(n.) An allaying; that which allays; mitigation. |
| 4243 |
allday |
allday |
| 4244 |
Allecret |
(n.) A kind of light armor used in the sixteenth century, esp. by the Swiss. |
| 4245 |
Allect |
(v. t.) To allure; to entice. |
| 4246 |
Allectation |
(n.) Enticement; allurement. |
| 4247 |
Allective |
(a.) Alluring.
(n.) Allurement. |
| 4248 |
Alledge |
(v. t.) See Allege. |
| 4249 |
allegation |
n. statements affirming or denying certain matters of fact that you are prepared to prove; (law) a formal accusation against somebody (often in a court of law)
(n.) The act of alleging or positively asserting.
(n.) That which is alleged, asserted, or decl |
| 4250 |
allegations |
statements saying that someone has done something wrong. |
| 4251 |
allegdely |
If you move or look forward, you move or look in a direction that is in front of you. In British English, you can also move or look forwards. |
| 4252 |
allege |
to say that something is true or that someone has done something wrong, although it has not been proved |
| 4253 |
Allegeable |
(a.) Capable of being alleged or affirmed. |
| 4254 |
Allegeance |
(n.) Allegation. |
| 4255 |
alleged |
suitable or fiting surrender to take without permission proper suitable especially suitable or compatible fitting to take or make use of without authority or right adj. declared but not proved; doubtful or suspect of allege |
| 4256 |
allegedly |
reportedly supposedly |
| 4257 |
Allegement |
(n.) Allegation. |
| 4258 |
Alleger |
(n.) One who affirms or declares. |
| 4259 |
Allegge |
(v. t.) See Alegge and Allay. |
| 4260 |
alleghenies |
n. the western part of the Appalachian Mountains; extending from northern Pennsylvania to southwestern Virginia |
| 4261 |
allegiance |
n. the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign); |
| 4262 |
allegiant |
agree
official statement that something is acceptable
adj. steadfast in devotion (especially to your lawful monarch or government)
(a.) Loyal. |
| 4263 |
Alleging |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Allege |
| 4264 |
allegoric |
to consent or accept as favorable or satisfactory
permit
endorse
okay
give
the green light
to have or express a favorable opinion of
adj. used in or characteristic of or containing allegory
(a.) Alt. of Allegorical |
| 4265 |
Allegorical |
(a.) Belonging to, or consisting of, allegory; of the nature of an allegory; describing by resemblances; figurative. |
| 4266 |
Allegories |
(pl. ) of Allegory |
| 4267 |
allegorise |
v. make into an allegory; interpret as an allegory |
| 4268 |
allegorism |
allegorism |
| 4269 |
Allegorist |
(n.) One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory. |
| 4270 |
allegoristic |
writing or using allegory |
| 4271 |
Allegorization |
(n.) The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense. |
| 4272 |
Allegorize |
(v. t.) To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.
(v. t.) To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative |
| 4273 |
allegorized |
of allegorize |
| 4274 |
Allegorizer |
(n.) One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist. |
| 4275 |
Allegorizing |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Allegorize |
| 4276 |
allegory |
symbolic narrative |
| 4277 |
Allegresse |
(n.) Joy; gladsomeness. |
| 4278 |
allegretto |
adj. (of tempo) faster than allegro; adv. in a moderately quick tempo; n. a quicker tempo than andante but not as fast as allegro
(a.) Quicker than andante, but not so quick as allegro.
(n.) A movement in this time. |
| 4279 |
allegro |
estimate
about
adj. (of tempo) fast; adv. in a quick and lively tempo; n. a musical composition or passage performed quickly in a brisk lively manner; a brisk and lively tempo
(a.) Brisk, lively.
(n.) An allegro movement; a quick, sprightly strain or piec |
| 4280 |
allegroist |
allegroist |
| 4281 |
allele |
n. either of a pair (or series) of alternative forms of a gene that can occupy the same locus on a particular chromosome and that control the same character |
| 4282 |
allelectric |
something extra
an appendage
an accessory |
| 4283 |
allelomorph |
n. either of a pair (or series) of alternative forms of a gene that can occupy the same locus on a particular chromosome and that control the same character |
| 4284 |
Alleluia |
(n.) Alt. of Alleluiah |
| 4285 |
Alleluiah |
(n.) An exclamation signifying Praise ye Jehovah. Hence: A song of praise to God. See Hallelujah, the commoner form. |
| 4286 |
allemande |
coming at the right time
appropriate
n. egg-thickened veloute
(n.) A dance in moderate twofold time, invented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.; -- now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel.
(n.) A figure in dancing. |
| 4287 |
Allemannic |
(a.) See Alemannic. |
| 4288 |
Allen |
likely
having a tendency
appropriate
unlikely
extremely inappropriate
(noun
APTITUDE
APTNESS)
(1) Likely
inclined or disposed - apt to succeed. Synonym
prone
(2) Fit
suitable - an apt remark. = appropriate
felicitous (3) Skillful
expert - apt at woodcarvi |
| 4289 |
Allenarly |
(adv.) Solely; only. |
| 4290 |
alleogory |
alleogory |
| 4291 |
Aller |
(a.) Of all; -- used in composition; as, alderbest, best of all, alderwisest, wisest of all.
(a.) Same as Alder, of all. |
| 4292 |
allergen |
ability to learn quickly and do well
natural ability
aptness
fitness
suitability
n. any substance that can cause an allergy |
| 4293 |
allergenic |
appropriately
adj. relating to or having the effect of an allergen |
| 4294 |
allergic |
having an allergy |
| 4295 |
allergic to |
allergic to |
| 4296 |
allergist |
n. a physician skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of allergies |
| 4297 |
allergology |
n. the branch of medical science that studies the causes and treatment of allergies |
| 4298 |
allergy |
a medical condition in which your body reacts badly to something that you eat |
| 4299 |
Allerion |
(n.) Am eagle without beak or feet, with expanded wings. |
| 4300 |
alleviate |
to remove or to lessen |
| 4301 |
alleviate one's anxiety |
to make easier to endure |
| 4302 |
alleviated |
reduced, minimized, removed |
| 4303 |
Alleviating |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Alleviate |
| 4304 |
Alleviation |
(n.) The act of alleviating; a lightening of weight or severity; mitigation; relief.
(n.) That which mitigates, or makes more tolerable. |
| 4305 |
Alleviative |
(a.) Tending to alleviate.
(n.) That which alleviates.
growing or living in or frequenting water
adj. moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear |
| 4306 |
Alleviator |
(n.) One who, or that which, alleviates.
a pipe or channel that usually supplies large cities with its water supply
a long bridge with many arch
a conduit for water
n. a therapist who makes suffering more endurable; remedy that alleviates pain without cur |
| 4307 |
alleviatory |
adj. moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
(a.) Alleviative. |
| 4308 |
allexpense |
a water-bearing stratum of permeable rock
sand
or gravel |
| 4309 |
alley |
a narrow street with walls on both sides |
| 4310 |
alley cat |
a cat that lives wild in a town. |
| 4311 |
alley way |
a narrow street with walls on both sides |
| 4312 |
Alleyed |
(a.) Furnished with alleys; forming an alley. |
| 4313 |
Alleys |
(pl. ) of Alley |
| 4314 |
Alleyway |
(n.) An alley. |
| 4315 |
allfired |
extreme; used as an intensifier |
| 4316 |
Allfours |
A game at cards, called "High, Low, Jack, and the Game." |
| 4317 |
All-hail |
(v. t.) To salute; to greet. |
| 4318 |
Allhallond |
(n.) Allhallows. |
| 4319 |
Allhallow |
(n.) Alt. of Allhallows |
| 4320 |
Allhallow eve |
The evening before Allhallows. See Halloween. |
| 4321 |
Allhallowmas |
(n.) The feast of All Saints. |
| 4322 |
Allhallown |
(a.) Of or pertaining to the time of Allhallows. [Obs.] "Allhallown summer." Shak. i. e., late summer; "Indian Summer"). |
| 4323 |
Allhallows |
(n.) All the saints in heaven).
(n.) All Saints' Day, November 1st.
n. a Christian feast day honoring all the saints; first observed in 835 |
| 4324 |
Allhallowtide |
(n.) The time at or near All Saints, or November 1st. |
| 4325 |
Allheal |
(n.) A name popularly given to the officinal valerian, and to some other plants.
judge
a judge who decides a disputed issue
one who is authorized to judge or decide
A person who has authority to decide matters in dispute - a fair decision rendered by the |
| 4326 |
Alliable |
(a.) Able to enter into alliance. |
| 4327 |
alliaceous |
randomly
adj. smelling of onions or garlic; of or pertaining to the botanical genus Allium
(a.) Of or pertaining to the genus Allium, or garlic, onions, leeks, etc.; having the smell or taste of garlic or onions. |
| 4328 |
alliance |
a group of friends against common enemy |
| 4329 |
Alliant |
(n.) An ally; a confederate. |
| 4330 |
Allice |
(n.) Alt. of Allis |
| 4331 |
Alliciency |
(n.) Attractive power; attractiveness. |
| 4332 |
Allicient |
(a.) That attracts; attracting.
(n.) That attracts. |
| 4333 |
allicin |
a pungent oily liquid with antibacterial properties, present in garlic |
| 4334 |
allied |
being friends, being on the same side |
| 4335 |
Allied powers |
n. a group of nations forming a combined force |
| 4336 |
allies |
n. an alliance of nations joining together to fight a common enemy |
| 4337 |
Alligate |
(v. t.) To tie; to unite by some tie. |
| 4338 |
alligation |
(n.) The act of tying together or attaching by some bond, or the state of being attached.
(n.) A rule relating to the solution of questions concerning the compounding or mixing of different ingredients, or ingredients of different qualities or values. |
| 4339 |
alligator |
either of two amphibious reptiles related to crocodiles but with shorter broader snouts |
| 4340 |
Allignment |
(n.) See Alignment. |
| 4341 |
Allineate |
(v. t.) To align. |
| 4342 |
Allineation |
(n.) Alt. of Alineation |
| 4343 |
all-in-one |
all-in-one |
| 4344 |
Allis |
(n.) The European shad Clupea vulgaris); allice shad. See Alose. |
| 4345 |
Allision |
(n.) The act of dashing against, or striking upon. |
| 4346 |
Alliteral |
(a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration. |
| 4347 |
alliterate |
contain words that begin with the same sound or letter. |
| 4348 |
alliteration |
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words |
| 4349 |
Alliterative |
(a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as, alliterative poetry. |
| 4350 |
Alliterator |
(n.) One who alliterates. |
| 4351 |
allium |
a arched passageway
a covered passage
n. large genus of perennial and biennial pungent bulbous plants: garlic; leek; onion; chive; sometimes placed in family Alliaceae as the type genus
(n.) A genus of plants, including the onion, garlic, leek, chive, etc |
| 4352 |
allknowing |
mysterious
well-known |
| 4353 |
allmains['2 |
used of a radio receiver that is adaptable to all voltages |
| 4354 |
Allmouth |
(n.) The angler. |
| 4355 |
Allness |
(n.) Totality; completeness. |
| 4356 |
allnight |
a person who studies human history
(n.) Light, fuel, or food for the whole night. |
| 4357 |
alloantibody |
n. an antibody that occurs naturally against foreign tissues from a person of the same species |
| 4358 |
alloantigen |
an antigen present only in some individuals (as of a particular blood group) of a species and capable of inducing the production of an alloantibody by individuals which lack it. |
| 4359 |
allobar |
allobar |
| 4360 |
allocable |
current
extremely old
ancient
referring to the time up to the Classical period in Ancient Greece
old fashioned or antiquated
primitive
characteristic of an earlier period
old-fashioned
antiquated
antique
of
relating to
or characteristic of an earlier or m |
| 4361 |
allocate |
v. distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose |
| 4362 |
allocate human resources |
allocate human resources |
| 4363 |
allocate to |
allocate to |
| 4364 |
allocated |
Adj. distributed |
| 4365 |
allocatee |
one to whom material is allocated |
| 4366 |
allocation |
act or process of giving out parts of a whole |
| 4367 |
allocator |
n. a person with authority to allot or deal out or apportion |
| 4368 |
Allocatur |
(n.) "Allowed." The word allocatur expresses the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer. |
| 4369 |
Allochroic |
(a.) Changeable in color. |
| 4370 |
Allochroite |
(n.) See Garnet. |
| 4371 |
Allochroous |
(a.) Changing color. |
| 4372 |
allocution |
n. (rhetoric) a formal or authoritative address that advises or exhorts
(n.) The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words.
(n.) An address; a hortatory or authoritative address as of a pope to his clergy. |
| 4373 |
Allod |
(n.) See Allodium. |
| 4374 |
allodial |
(a.) Pertaining to allodium; freehold; free of rent or service; held independent of a lord paramount; -- opposed to feudal; as, allodial lands; allodial system.
(a.) Anything held allodially. |
| 4375 |
Allodialism |
(n.) The allodial system. |
| 4376 |
Allodialist |
(n.) One who holds allodial land. |
| 4377 |
Allodially |
(adv.) By allodial tenure. |
| 4378 |
Allodiary |
(n.) One who holds an allodium. |
| 4379 |
allodium |
(n.) Freehold estate; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud. |
| 4380 |
allogamous |
adj. relating to cross-fertilization in plants
(a.) Characterized by allogamy. |
| 4381 |
allogamy |
n. cross-fertilization in plants
(n.) Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization. |
| 4382 |
Allogeneous |
(a.) Different in nature or kind. |
| 4383 |
allograft |
the art or sport of shooting with bows and arrows
n. tissue or organ transplanted from a donor of the same species but different genetic makeup; recipient's immune system must be suppressed to prevent rejection of the graft |
| 4384 |
Allograph |
(n.) A writing or signature made by some person other than any of the parties thereto; -- opposed to autograph.
n. a signature written by one person for another; a variant form of a grapheme, as `m' or `M' or a handwritten version of that grapheme |
| 4385 |
alloimmune |
immune to the same tribe |
| 4386 |
Allomerism |
(n.) Variability in chemical constitution without variation in crystalline form.
n. (chemistry) variability in chemical composition without variation in crystalline form |
| 4387 |
allomerous |
the art and science of designing and making buildings
adj. pertaining to allomerism
(a.) Characterized by allomerism. |
| 4388 |
allometry |
a large group of islands
an expanse of water with many scattered islands
n. the study of the relative growth of a part of an organism in relation to the growth of the whole |
| 4389 |
Allomorph |
(n.) Any one of two or more distinct crystalline forms of the same substance; or the substance having such forms; -- as, carbonate of lime occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite.
(n.) A variety of pseudomorph which has undergone partial or complet |
| 4390 |
allomorphic |
adj. pertaining to allomorphs
(a.) Of or pertaining to allomorphism. |
| 4391 |
Allomorphism |
(n.) The property which constitutes an allomorph; the change involved in becoming an allomorph. |
| 4392 |
Allonge |
(v.) A thrust or pass; a lunge.
(v.) A slip of paper attached to a bill of exchange for receiving indorsements, when the back of the bill itself is already full; a rider.
(v. i.) To thrust with a sword; to lunge. |
| 4393 |
Allonym |
(n.) The name of another person assumed by the author of a work.
(n.) A work published under the name of some one other than the author. |
| 4394 |
Allonymous |
(a.) Published under the name of some one other than the author. |
| 4395 |
Alloo |
(v. t. / i.) To incite dogs by a call; to halloo. |
| 4396 |
allopath |
(n.) An allopathist. |
| 4397 |
Allopathic |
(a.) Of or pertaining to allopathy. |
| 4398 |
Allopathically |
(adv.) In a manner conformable to allopathy; by allopathic methods. |
| 4399 |
Allopathist |
(n.) One who practices allopathy; one who professes allopathy. |
| 4400 |
allopathy |
n. the usual method of treating disease with remedies that produce effects differing from those produced by the disease itself
(n.) That system of medical practice which aims to combat disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from th |
| 4401 |
allopatric |
adj. (of biological species or speciation) occurring in areas isolated geographically from one another |
| 4402 |
allophane |
a clay mineral, an amorphous hydrous silicate of aluminum, occurring in blue, green, or yellow, resinous to earthy masses |
| 4403 |
allophone |
n. (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme |
| 4404 |
allophylian |
(a.) Pertaining to a race or a language neither Aryan nor Semitic. |
| 4405 |
Allophylic |
(a.) Alt. of Allophylian |
| 4406 |
alloplasm |
the place where historical documents and records are kept
any extensive record or collection of data
a place in which public records or historical documents are preserved |
| 4407 |
Alloquy |
(n.) A speaking to another; an address. |
| 4408 |
allornone |
occurring completely or not occurring at all |
| 4409 |
allornothing |
a place where historical documents are stored |
| 4410 |
allosaurus |
n. late Jurassic carnivorous dinosaur; similar to but somewhat smaller than tyrannosaurus |
| 4411 |
allosteric |
of, relating to, or designating a function of an enzyme in which the structure and activity of the enzyme are modified by the binding of a metabolic molecule |
| 4412 |
allostery |
extremely cold and frigid
coming from the North Pole or the arctic region
an arctic wind
bitter cold
FRIGID |
| 4413 |
allot |
to assign to a particular person or location |
| 4414 |
allot , allocate |
distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose |
| 4415 |
Allotheism |
(n.) The worship of strange gods. |
| 4416 |
allotment |
anything distributed or assigned |
| 4417 |
allotransplant |
allotransplant |
| 4418 |
Allotriophagy |
(n.) A depraved appetite; a desire for improper food. |
| 4419 |
allotrope |
difficult or strenuous
hard
difficult
strenuous
exhausting
requiring much energy
laborious
n. a structurally different form of an element |
| 4420 |
allotropic |
adj. of or related to or exhibiting allotropism
(a.) Alt. of Allotropical |
| 4421 |
Allotropical |
(a.) Of or pertaining to allotropism. |
| 4422 |
Allotropicity |
(n.) Allotropic property or nature. |
| 4423 |
Allotropism |
(n.) Alt. of Allotropy |
| 4424 |
Allotropize |
(v. t.) To change in physical properties but not in substance. |
| 4425 |
allotropy |
n. the phenomenon of an element existing in two or more physical forms
(n.) The property of existing in two or more conditions which are distinct in their physical or chemical relations. |
| 4426 |
Allottable |
(a.) Capable of being allotted. |
| 4427 |
allotted |
of allot |
| 4428 |
allottee |
(n.) One to whom anything is allotted; one to whom an allotment is made. |
| 4429 |
Allotter |
(n.) One who allots. |
| 4430 |
Allottery |
(n.) Allotment. |
| 4431 |
Allotting |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Allot |
| 4432 |
allotype |
an additional type specimen selected because of differences from the original type specimen, such as opposite sex or morphological details |
| 4433 |
allout |
using all available resources |
| 4434 |
allouter |
allouter |
| 4435 |
allover |
adj. covering the entire surface |
| 4436 |
alloverish |
vaguely uneasy |
| 4437 |
allow |
to give permission to or for; permit |
| 4438 |
allow for |
Mitigatingcircumstances or factors make a bad action, especially a crime, easier to understand and excuse, and may result in the person responsible being punished less severely. |
| 4439 |
allow in |
allow in |
| 4440 |
allow, permit, tolerate, condone |
excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with |
| 4441 |
allowable |
a field of conflict
activity
or endeavor
adj. deductible according to the tax laws; deserving to be allowed or considered; that may be permitted especially as according to rule
(a.) Praiseworthy; laudable.
(a.) Proper to be, or capable of being, allowed; |
| 4442 |
Allowableness |
(n.) The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety. |
| 4443 |
Allowably |
(adv.) In an allowable manner. |
| 4444 |
allowance |
(n.) The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance, approval, approbation |
| 4445 |
Allowancing |
giving allowance |
| 4446 |
allowed |
permitted, approved |
| 4447 |
allowedly |
obviously, apparently |
| 4448 |
Allower |
(n.) An approver or abettor.
(n.) One who allows or permits. |
| 4449 |
Allowing |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Allow |
| 4450 |
allows |
admit (an event or activity) as legal or acceptable |
| 4451 |
Alloxan |
(n.) An oxidation product of uric acid. It is of a pale reddish color, readily soluble in water or alcohol. |
| 4452 |
Alloxanate |
(n.) A combination of alloxanic acid and a base or base or positive radical. |
| 4453 |
Alloxanic |
(a.) Of or pertaining to alloxan; -- applied to an acid obtained by the action of soluble alkalies on alloxan. |
| 4454 |
Alloxantin |
(n.) A substance produced by acting upon uric with warm and very dilute nitric acid. |
| 4455 |
alloy |
a substance composed of two or more metals, or of a metal or metals with a nonmetal, intimately mixed |
| 4456 |
Alloyage |
(n.) The act or art of alloying metals; also, the combination or alloy. |
| 4457 |
Alloyed |
combined |
| 4458 |
Alloying |
combining |
| 4459 |
alloys |
metal made by joining two or more metals |
| 4460 |
allpossessed |
standard language / common verbalism |
| 4461 |
All-possessed |
(a.) Controlled by an evil spirit or by evil passions; wild. |
| 4462 |
allpowerful |
An all-powerful person or organization has the power to do anything they want. |
| 4463 |
allpurpose |
not limited in use or function |
| 4464 |
allrightnik |
give the reasons for your opinion
idea
velief
etc
debate
discuss
dispute |
| 4465 |
allround |
many-sided |
| 4466 |
allseed |
any of various many-seeded plants, as the goosefoot, Chenopodium polyspermum, and the knotgrass, Polygonum aviculare |
| 4467 |
allseeing |
seeing everything. |
| 4468 |
allsorts |
allsorts |
| 4469 |
allspice |
quarrel
reasoning
n. ground dried berrylike fruit of a West Indian allspice tree; suggesting combined flavors of cinnamon and nutmeg and cloves; deciduous shrubs having aromatic bark; eastern China; southwestern and eastern United States; aromatic West In |
| 4470 |
allstar |
A person who can do many things proficiently. |
| 4471 |
all-star |
consisting of athletes chosen as the best at their positions from all teams in a league or region |
| 4472 |
all-terrain |
all-terrain |
| 4473 |
Allthing |
(adv.) Altogether. |
| 4474 |
alltime |
unsurpassed in some respect up to the present |
| 4475 |
all-time |
unsurpassed in some respect up to the present |
| 4476 |
allude |
to mention someone or something in a brief or indirect way |
| 4477 |
allude to |
if high buildings, mountains, etc. crowd in, they seem to surround you and threaten you or have a strong effect on you |
| 4478 |
alluded |
of allude of allure |
| 4479 |
alluding |
suggest or call attention to indirectly |
| 4480 |
Allumette |
(n.) A match for lighting candles, lamps, etc. |
| 4481 |
Alluminor |
(n.) An illuminator of manuscripts and books; a limner. |
| 4482 |
allupweight |
allupweight |
| 4483 |
Allurance |
(n.) Allurement. |
| 4484 |
allure |
to attract or tempt by something flattering or desirable |
| 4485 |
allurement |
n. attractiveness; the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money); the power to entice or attract through personal charm
(n.) The act alluring; temptation; enticement.
(n.) That which allures; any real or appar |
| 4486 |
allurer |
(n.) One who, or that which, allures. |
| 4487 |
alluring |
attractive or exciting |
| 4488 |
allusion |
something that is said or written that is intended to make you think of a particular thing or person |
| 4489 |
allusive |
adj. characterized by indirect references
(a.) Figurative; symbolical.
(a.) Having reference to something not fully expressed; containing an allusion. |
| 4490 |
Allusively |
(adv.) Figuratively [Obs.]; by way of allusion; by implication, suggestion, or insinuation. |
| 4491 |
Allusiveness |
(n.) The quality of being allusive. |
| 4492 |
Allusory |
(a.) Allusive. |
| 4493 |
alluvia |
(pl. ) of Alluvium |
| 4494 |
alluvial |
relating to the deposits or accumulations made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another |
| 4495 |
alluvial fan |
a fan-shaped alluvial deposit formed by a stream where its velocity is abruptly decreased, as at the mouth of a ravine or at the foot of a mountain. |
| 4496 |
alluvial gold |
Alluvial soils are soils which consist of earth and sand left behind on land which has been flooded or where a river once flowed |
| 4497 |
alluvion |
noble
elegant or stylish in appearance and behavior
n. gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment; clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down; the rising of a body of wate |
| 4498 |
Alluvious |
(n.) Alluvial. |
| 4499 |
alluvium |
clay, silt, or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down |
| 4500 |
Alluviums |
(pl. ) of Alluvium |
| 4501 |
allwave receiver |
allwave receiver |
| 4502 |
allway |
allway |
| 4503 |
allweather |
usable or operative or practiced in all kinds of weather |
| 4504 |
Allwhere |
(adv.) Everywhere. |
| 4505 |
allwhite |
of or belonging to a snake |
| 4506 |
Allwork |
(n.) Domestic or other work of all kinds; as, a maid of allwork, that is, a general servant. |
| 4507 |
ally |
a friend, a country that fightst against common enemy |
| 4508 |
ally oneself with |
ally oneself with |
| 4509 |
Allying |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ally |
| 4510 |
Allyl |
(n.) An organic radical, C3H5, existing especially in oils of garlic and mustard. |
| 4511 |
Allylene |
(n.) A gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H4, homologous with acetylene; propine. |
| 4512 |
Alma |
(n.) Alt. of Almah |
| 4513 |
Alma Master |
x. =foresting mother
x. foresting mother |
| 4514 |
alma mater |
school or university that one graduated |
| 4515 |
Almacantar |
(n.) Same as Almucantar.
(n.) A recently invented instrument for observing the heavenly bodies as they cross a given almacantar circle. See Almucantar. |
| 4516 |
Almadia |
(n.) Alt. of Almadie |
| 4517 |
Almadie |
(n.) A bark canoe used by the Africans.
(n.) A boat used at Calicut, in India, about eighty feet long, and six or seven broad. |
| 4518 |
Almagest |
(n.) The celebrated work of Ptolemy of Alexandria, which contains nearly all that is known of the astronomical observations and theories of the ancients. The name was extended to other similar works. |
| 4519 |
Almagra |
(n.) A fine, deep red ocher, somewhat purplish, found in Spain. It is the sil atticum of the ancients. Under the name of Indian red it is used for polishing glass and silver. |
| 4520 |
Almah |
(n.) Same as Alme. |
| 4521 |
Almain |
(n.) Alt. of Alman |
| 4522 |
Alman |
(n.) A German.
(adj.) German.
(adj.) The German language.
(adj.) A kind of dance. See Allemande. |
| 4523 |
almanac |
a book published every year that includes information for that year such as important days |
| 4524 |
almanack |
almanack |
| 4525 |
almandine |
a. remote from active involvement
n. a purple variety of the ruby spinel; a deep red garnet consisting of iron aluminum silicate
(n.) The common red variety of garnet. |
| 4526 |
Almayne |
(n.) Alt. of Alman |
| 4527 |
Alme |
(n.) Alt. of Almeh |
| 4528 |
Almeh |
(n.) An Egyptian dancing girl; an Alma. |
| 4529 |
Almendron |
(n.) The lofty Brazil-nut tree. |
| 4530 |
almentary canal |
the long tube in the body through which food passes after it is eaten |
| 4531 |
Almery |
(n.) See Ambry. |
| 4532 |
Almesse |
(n.) See Alms. |
| 4533 |
Almightful |
(a.) Alt. of Almightiful |
| 4534 |
Almightiful |
(a.) All-powerful; almighty. |
| 4535 |
Almightily |
(adv.) With almighty power. |
| 4536 |
almightiness |
(n.) Omnipotence; infinite or boundless power; unlimited might. |
| 4537 |
almighty |
adj. having unlimited power; n. terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God
(a.) Unlimited in might; omnipotent; all-powerful; irresistible.
(a.) Great; extreme; terrible. |
| 4538 |
almirah |
a cupboard or wardrobe that is not fixed to a wall |
| 4539 |
Almner |
(n.) An almoner. |
| 4540 |
almond |
n. oval-shaped edible seed of the almond tree; small bushy deciduous tree native to Asia and North Africa having pretty pink blossoms and highly prized edible nuts enclosed in a hard green hull; cultivated in southern Australia and California
(n.) The fru |
| 4541 |
Almond furnace |
A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter. |
| 4542 |
almondeyed |
having almond-shaped eyes |
| 4543 |
Almondine |
(n.) See Almandine |
| 4544 |
almoner |
to be extremely good at something |
| 4545 |
Almonership |
(n.) The office of an almoner. |
| 4546 |
Almonries |
(pl. ) of Almonry |
| 4547 |
almonry |
(n.) The place where an almoner resides, or where alms are distributed. |
| 4548 |
Almose |
(n.) Alms. |
| 4549 |
almost |
slightly short of; not quite; nearly |
| 4550 |
Almost! |
Almost! |
| 4551 |
Almry |
(n.) See Almonry. |
| 4552 |
alms |
a generous giver |
| 4553 |
alms box |
a place where arms and military equipment are stored |
| 4554 |
Almsdeed |
(n.) An act of charity. |
| 4555 |
almsfolk |
(n.) Persons supported by alms; almsmen. |
| 4556 |
almsgiver |
n. a person who gives alms
(n.) A giver of alms. |
| 4557 |
almsgiving |
n. making voluntary contributions to aid the poor
(n.) The giving of alms. |
| 4558 |
almshouse |
(n.) A house appropriated for the use of the poor; a poorhouse. |
| 4559 |
almsman |
(n.) A recipient of alms.
(n.) A giver of alms. |
| 4560 |
almswoman |
a woman who gives or receives alms |
| 4561 |
Almucantar |
(n.) A small circle of the sphere parallel to the horizon; a circle or parallel of altitude. Two stars which have the same almucantar have the same altitude. See Almacantar. |
| 4562 |
Almuce |
(n.) Same as Amice, a hood or cape. |
| 4563 |
Almude |
(n.) A measure for liquids in several countries. In Portugal the Lisbon almude is about 4.4, and the Oporto almude about 6.6, gallons U. S. measure. In Turkey the "almud" is about 1.4 gallons. |
| 4564 |
Almug |
(n.) Alt. of Algum |
| 4565 |
Alnage |
(n.) Measurement of cloth) by the ell; also, a duty for such measurement. |
| 4566 |
Alnager |
(n.) A measure by the ell; formerly a sworn officer in England, whose duty was to inspect and measure woolen cloth, and fix upon it a seal. |
| 4567 |
alnico |
n. trade name for an alloy used to make high-energy permanent magnets; contains aluminum and iron and nickel plus cobalt or copper or titanium |
| 4568 |
alodial |
a. =ALLODIAL
a. ALLODIAL |
| 4569 |
alodium |
n. =ALLODIUM
n. ALLODIUM |
| 4570 |
aloe |
flavorful
fragrant
n. succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers; found chiefly in Africa
(n.) The wood of the agalloch.
(n.) A genus of succulent plants, some classed as trees, others as shrubs, bu |
| 4571 |
Aloes |
(pl. ) of Aloe |
| 4572 |
Aloes wood |
See Agalloch. |
| 4573 |
aloeswood |
aloeswood |
| 4574 |
Aloetic |
(a.) Consisting chiefly of aloes; of the nature of aloes.
(n.) A medicine containing chiefly aloes. |
| 4575 |
aloft |
high up; far above the ground |
| 4576 |
Alogian |
(n.) One of an ancient sect who rejected St. John's Gospel and the Apocalypse, which speak of Christ as the Logos. |
| 4577 |
alogical |
opposed to or lacking in logic. |
| 4578 |
Alogy |
(n.) Unreasonableness; absurdity. |
| 4579 |
aloha |
n. an acknowledgment that can be used to say hello or goodbye (aloha is Hawaiian and ciao is Italian) |
| 4580 |
aloha shirt |
awaken
promt
to excite or stimulate
to stir up
incite
stimulate |
| 4581 |
alohaoe |
an acknowledgment that can be used to say hello or goodbye |
| 4582 |
aloin |
to excite
(n.) A bitter purgative principle in aloes. |
| 4583 |
Alomancy |
(n.) Divination by means of salt. |
| 4584 |
alone |
being apart from others; solitary |
| 4585 |
Alonely |
(adv.) Only; merely; singly.
(a.) Exclusive. |
| 4586 |
Aloneness |
(n.) A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness. |
| 4587 |
along |
on a line or course parallel and close to; continuously beside |
| 4588 |
along the lines of |
in the way that is mentioned |
| 4589 |
along the way |
while going somewhere |
| 4590 |
alongshore |
to accuse
to bring to court
(adv.) Along the shore or coast. |
| 4591 |
Alongshoreman |
(n.) See Longshoreman. |
| 4592 |
alongside |
by, at, or to the side of something |
| 4593 |
Alongst |
(prep. & adv.) Along. |
| 4594 |
aloof |
not friendly or willing to take part in things |
| 4595 |
aloof from |
aloof from |
| 4596 |
Aloofness |
(n.) State of being aloof. |
| 4597 |
alopecia |
n. loss of hair (especially on the head) or loss of wool or feathers; in humans it can result from heredity or hormonal imbalance or certain diseases or drugs and treatments (chemotherapy for cancer)
(n.) Alt. of Alopecy |
| 4598 |
Alopecist |
(n.) A practitioner who tries to prevent or cure baldness. |
| 4599 |
Alopecy |
(n.) Loss of the hair; baldness. |
| 4600 |
Alose |
(v. t.) To praise.
(n.) The European shad Clupea alosa); -- called also allice shad or allis shad. The name is sometimes applied to the American shad Clupea sapidissima). See Shad. |
| 4601 |
alot |
to a very great degree or extent |
| 4602 |
Alouatte |
(n.) One of the several species of howling monkeys of South America. See Howler, 2. |
| 4603 |
aloud |
with the normal tone and volume of the speaking voice, as distinguished from whisperingly |
| 4604 |
Alow |
(adv.) Below; in a lower part. |
| 4605 |
alp |
plan
preparation
n. any high mountain
(n.) A very high mountain. Specifically, in the plural, the highest chain of mountains in Europe, containing the lofty mountains of Switzerland, etc.
(n.) Fig.: Something lofty, or massive, or very hard to be surmount |
| 4606 |
alpaca |
n. domesticated llama with long silky fleece; believed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco; a thin glossy fabric made of the wool of the Lama pacos, or made of a rayon or cotton imitation of that wool; wool of the alpaca
(n.) An animal of Peru Lam |
| 4607 |
Alpen |
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Alps. |
| 4608 |
alpenglow |
utter
unmitigated
very bad
Notoriously bad |
| 4609 |
alpenhorn |
a large number or wide range |
| 4610 |
alpenstock |
n. a stout staff with a metal point; used by mountain climbers
(n.) A long staff, pointed with iron, used in climbing the Alps. |
| 4611 |
Alpestrine |
(a.) Pertaining to the Alps, or other high mountains; as, Alpestrine diseases, etc. |
| 4612 |
alpha |
the first letter of the greek alphabet |
| 4613 |
alpha particle |
a positively charged particle consisting of two protons and two neutrons, emitted in radioactive decay or nuclear fission; the nucleus of a helium atom |
| 4614 |
alpha plus |
An academic mark in the higher range of the first class, an excellent mark. |
| 4615 |
alpha rays |
a stream of alpha particles |
| 4616 |
alpha rhythm |
the normal brainwave in the electroencephalogram of a person who is awake but relaxed |
| 4617 |
alpha test |
haughty
insolent
overbearing |
| 4618 |
alphabet |
the letters of a language, arranged in the order fixed by custom |
| 4619 |
Alphabetarian |
(n.) A learner of the alphabet; an abecedarian. |
| 4620 |
alphabetic |
adj. arranged in order according to the alphabet; relating to or expressed by a writing system that uses an alphabet
(a.) Alt. of Alphabetical |
| 4621 |
Alphabetical |
in the order of the letters of a language |
| 4622 |
Alphabetically |
(adv.) In an alphabetic manner; in the customary order of the letters. |
| 4623 |
Alphabetics |
(n.) The science of representing spoken sounds by letters. |
| 4624 |
Alphabetism |
(n.) The expression of spoken sounds by an alphabet. |
| 4625 |
alphabetize |
banal
catching the attention
STRIKING
IMPRESSIVE
v. arrange in alphabetical order; provide with an alphabet
(v. t.) To arrange alphabetically; as, to alphabetize a list of words.
(v. t.) To furnish with an alphabet. |
| 4626 |
alphahelix |
regular
lacking rhythm or regularity |
| 4627 |
alphametic |
a mathematical puzzle consisting of a numerical computation with letters substituted for numbers which are to be restored through mathematical reasoning. |
| 4628 |
alphanumeric |
adj. of or pertaining to alphanumeric characters |
| 4629 |
alphascope |
a feeling or an impression of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or presumptuous claims |
| 4630 |
Alpheus |
to take without justification |
| 4631 |
Al-phitomancy |
(n.) Divination by means of barley meal. |
| 4632 |
Alphonsine |
(a.) Of or relating to Alphonso X., the Wise, King of Castile 1252-1284). |
| 4633 |
alphorn |
n. =ALPENHORN
n. ALPENHORN |
| 4634 |
alpine |
related to high mountain top |
| 4635 |
alpinism |
a facility for storing or producing armament
a supply of anything useful
a
an establishment for the manufacture or storage of arms and military equipment
b
a collection of weapons
n. mountain climbing (not restricted to the Alps) |
| 4636 |
alpinist |
n. a mountain climber who specializes in difficult climbs
(n.) A climber of the Alps. |
| 4637 |
Alps |
n. a large mountain system in south-central Europe; scenic beauty and winter sports make them a popular tourist attraction |
| 4638 |
Alquifou |
(n.) A lead ore found in Cornwall, England, and used by potters to give a green glaze to their wares; potter's ore. |
| 4639 |
already |
by this or a specified time so soon |
| 4640 |
alright |
all right |
| 4641 |
Als |
(adv.) Also.
(adv.) As. |
| 4642 |
Alsatia |
n. a region of northeastern France famous for its wines |
| 4643 |
Alsatian |
adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Alsace or its inhabitants; n. a native or inhabitant of Alsace; breed of large shepherd dogs used in police work and as a guide for the blind
(a.) Pertaining to Alsatia.
(n.) An inhabitant of Alsatia or Alsace i |
| 4644 |
alsike |
(n.) A species of clover with pinkish or white flowers; Trifolium hybridum. |
| 4645 |
also |
in addition; besides likewise; too |
| 4646 |
alsoran |
a loser in a race or contest, especially by a large margin. |
| 4647 |
alsorunner |
alsorunner |
| 4648 |
Altai |
mountain system cen Asia between Mongolia & China & between Kazakhstan & Russia |
| 4649 |
Altaian |
(a.) Alt. of Altaic |
| 4650 |
Altaic |
adj. of or pertaining to or written in Altaic; n. a group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe; any member of the peoples speaking a language in the Altaic language group
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Altai, a mountain chain in Centr |
| 4651 |
Altair |
n. double star 15.7 light years from Earth; the brightest star in the Aquila constellation |
| 4652 |
Altamira |
caverns N Spain WSW of Santander
|
| 4653 |
altar |
a type of table used in ceremonies in a christian church or in other religious buildings |
| 4654 |
altarage |
(n.) The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church.
(n.) The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes. |
| 4655 |
altarboy |
item |
| 4656 |
Altarist |
(n.) A chaplain.
(n.) A vicar of a church. |
| 4657 |
altarpiece |
n. a painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table
(n.) The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos. |
| 4658 |
altarrail |
analyze and develop (an idea or principle) in detail. |
| 4659 |
Altarwise |
(adv.) In the proper position of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south. |
| 4660 |
altazimuth |
n. an instrument that measures the altitude and azimuth of celestial bodies; used in navigation
(n.) An instrument for taking azimuths and altitudes simultaneously. |
| 4661 |
alter |
to make different in some particular way, as size, style, course, or the like; modify |
| 4662 |
alterability |
a manmade object of historical or archaeological interest
any object made by human beings
n. the quality of being alterable
(n.) The quality of being alterable; alterableness. |
| 4663 |
alterable |
something created by humans usually for a practical purpose
adj. (of the punishment ordered by a court) capable of being changed to one less severe; capable of being changed or altered in some characteristic
(a.) Capable of being altered. |
| 4664 |
Alterableness |
(n.) The quality of being alterable; variableness; alterability. |
| 4665 |
Alterably |
(adv.) In an alterable manner. |
| 4666 |
alteranative education |
a blanket term encompassing many different pedagogical approaches differing from that of the mainstream pedagogy employed in a culture. |
| 4667 |
alterant |
candor
trickery
clever trick
false or insincere behavior
(a.) Altering; gradually changing.
(n.) An alterative. |
| 4668 |
alterantor |
synthetic
imitation
man-made
not real
manmade |
| 4669 |
alteration |
changing, modifying |
| 4670 |
alterative |
adj. tending to cure or restore to health
(a.) Causing ateration.
(a.) Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health.
(n.) A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functi |
| 4671 |
altercate |
dispute or argue noisily and publicly. |
| 4672 |
altercated |
of altercate |
| 4673 |
Altercating |
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Altercate |
| 4674 |
altercation |
a noisy argument or disagreement, especially in public. |
| 4675 |
Altercative |
(a.) Characterized by wrangling; scolding. |
| 4676 |
altered |
of alter |
| 4677 |
alterego |
a person's secondary or alternative personality. |
| 4678 |
altering |
changing |
| 4679 |
Alterity |
(n.) The state or quality of being other; a being otherwise. |
| 4680 |
Altern |
(a.) Acting by turns; alternate. |
| 4681 |
Alternacy |
(n.) Alternateness; alternation. |
| 4682 |
alternant |
(v. t.) Composed of alternate layers, as some rocks. |
| 4683 |
alternate |
to happen or exist one after the other repeatedly |
| 4684 |
alternate with |
alternate with |
| 4685 |
alternated |
of alternate |
| 4686 |
Alternately |
(adv.) In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.
(adv.) By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent. |
| 4687 |
Alternateness |
(n.) The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns. |
| 4688 |
alternating |
to take turns and change |
| 4689 |
alternating current |
an electrical current that regularly changes the direction in which it moves |
| 4690 |
alternation |
taking turns and changing |
| 4691 |
alternation of generations |
the alternation of two or more different forms in the life cycle of a plant or animal |
| 4692 |
alternative |
available as another possibility or choice |
| 4693 |
alternative energy |
energy, as solar, wind, or nuclear energy, that can replace or supplement traditional fossil-fuel sources, as coal, oil, and natural gas |
| 4694 |
alternative judgment |
This any judgement that permits satisfaction in every of a few techniques |
| 4695 |
alternative question |
a question that offers the listener a choice of two or more alternatives and is characterized by rising intonation on each alternative except for the final one, which has falling intonation |
| 4696 |
alternative service |
a form of national service performed in lieu of conscription for various reasons, such as conscientious objection, inadequate health, or political reasons |
| 4697 |
Alternatively |
(adv.) In the manner of alternatives, or that admits the choice of one out of two things. |
| 4698 |
Alternativeness |
(n.) The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two. |
| 4699 |
alternatives |
An alternative plan or method is one that you can use if you do not want to use another one |
| 4700 |
Alternity |
(n.) Succession by turns; alternation. |
| 4701 |
althaea |
n. any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea
(n.) Alt. of Althea |
| 4702 |
Althea |
n. any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea
(n.) A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks.
(n.) An ornamental shrub Hibiscus Syriacu |
| 4703 |
Altheine |
(n.) Asparagine. |
| 4704 |
Altho |
(conj.) Although. |
| 4705 |
