Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abduce
abductores
abductores
Noun
of. Sometimes used instead of abductor when referring to the anatomical muscles.
abecedarius
abecedarius
noun
An acrostic poem in which the lines begin with the letters of the alphabet in sequence.
abelmoschus
abundances
abundances
noun
plural of abundance
academus
acanaceous
acanaceous
adj
(very rare) Bearing prickles or thistles; prickly.
acanthaceous
acanthaceous
adj
(botany): Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a member of the Acanthaceae family.
Armed with prickles, as a plant.
acanthocephalous
acanthocephalous
adj
(zoology) Having a spiny head, as one of the Acanthocephala.
acanthocereus
acanthopterous
acanthopterous
adj
(zoology) Acanthopterygious
(zoology) Spiny-winged.
acanthuses
acanthuses
noun
plural of acanthus
acarpellous
acarpellous
adj
(botany) Having no carpels.
acarpelous
acarpelous
adj
Alternative spelling of acarpellous
acaudelescent
acaulescence
acaulescence
noun
The condition of being acaulescent
acaulescent
acaulescent
adj
(botany) Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground.
acaulose
acaulose
adj
acaulous
accentuates
accentuates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accentuate
accentuations
accentuations
noun
plural of accentuation
accentus
accessorius
accessoriusorii
accouchements
accouchements
noun
plural of accouchement
accoucheurs
accoucheurs
noun
plural of accoucheur
accoucheuse
accoucheuse
noun
(rare) A midwife.
accoucheuses
accoucheuses
noun
plural of accoucheuse
accounsel
accountabilities
accountabilities
noun
plural of accountability
accountableness
accountableness
noun
The quality or state of being accountable; accountability.
accountancies
accountancies
noun
plural of accountancy
accounters
accounters
noun
plural of accounter
accouterments
accouterments
noun
plural of accouterment
accouters
accouters
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accouter
accoutrements
accoutrements
noun
plural of accoutrement
accoutres
accoutres
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accoutre
accruements
accruements
noun
plural of accruement
accrues
accrues
noun
plural of accrue
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accrue
acculturates
acculturates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acculturate
accumulates
accumulates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accumulate
accumulativeness
accumulativeness
noun
The state or qualities of being accumulative.
accuracies
accuracies
noun
plural of accuracy
accurateness
accurateness
noun
The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy
accuratenesses
accurse
accurse
verb
To damn; to wish misery or evil upon
accursed
accursed
adj
(archaic, theology) Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; anathematized.
(prenominal) Hateful; detestable, loathsome.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of accurse
accursedly
accursedly
adv
(degree, somewhat dated) Damnably; extremely.
In an accursed manner.
accursedness
accursedness
noun
The quality of being accursed.
accusable
accusable
adj
Liable to be accused or censured; chargeable with a crime or breach; blamable
accusative
accusative
adj
(grammar) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin, Lithuanian and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb has its limited influence. Other parts of speech, including secondary or predicate direct objects, will also influence a sentence’s construction. In German the case used for direct objects.
Producing accusations; in a manner that reflects a finding of fault or blame
noun
(grammar) The accusative case.
accusatively
accusatively
adv
(not comparable) In relation to the accusative case in grammar.
In an accusative manner.
accusativeness
accusativeness
noun
(linguistics) The characteristics of the accusative case of a noun or pronoun.
The condition of tending to accuse.
accusatives
accusatives
noun
plural of accusative
accusatrixes
accuse
accuse
noun
(obsolete) Accusation.
verb
(intransitive) to make an accusation against someone
(transitive) to find fault with, blame, censure
(transitive, law, followed by "of") to charge with having committed a crime or offence
accused
accused
adj
Having been accused; being the target of accusations.
noun
(law) The person charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal case.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of accuse
accuser
accuser
noun
One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.
accusers
accusers
noun
plural of accuser
accuses
accuses
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accuse
accusive
accusive
adj
accusative; accusing
accustomed
accustomed
adj
(obsolete) Frequented by customers.
(of a person) Familiar with something through repeated experience; adapted to existing conditions.
(of a thing, condition, activity, etc.) Familiar through use; usual; customary.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of accustom
accustomedly
accustomedly
adv
In an accustomed manner.
accustomedness
accustomedness
noun
Habituation; the quality of being used to something.
accustomize
accustomize
verb
(rare) To learn to adapt one's lifestyle to a new or changed environment.
accustomized
accustomized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of accustomize
acensuada
acensuador
acentrous
acentrous
adj
(ichthyology) lacking vertebral centra
acephalous
acephalous
adj
(botany) Having the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries
(of a manuscript) Lacking the first portion of the text.
(prosody) Deficient in the beginning, as a line of poetry that is missing its expected opening syllable.
(rare) Without a beginning.
(social sciences, political science, sociology) A system of society without centralised state authority, where power is welded amongst groups of community entities e.g. clans. Without a leader or chief.
(zoology, applied to bivalve mollusks) Without a distinct head.
Having no head.
acephalus
acephalus
noun
(medicine, countable) A fetus affected by acephaly.
(medicine, uncountable) The condition of acephaly.
acequias
acequias
noun
plural of acequia
aceraceous
aceraceous
adj
(botany) Belonging to the family Aceraceae of maples and close relatives, now subsumed in family Sapindaceae, especially its subfamily Hippocastanoideae.
acerous
acerous
adj
(zoology) Destitute of tentacles.
(zoology) Without antennae.
Alternative spelling of acerose
acervulus
acervulus
noun
Synonym of corpora arenacea (calcified concretions near the pineal gland)
acesius
acesodynous
acessamenus
acetabuliferous
acetabuliferous
adj
Furnished with fleshy cups for adhering to bodies, as cuttlefish, etc.
acetabulous
acetabulous
adj
cup-shaped; acetabular
acetabulums
acetarious
acetarious
adj
(archaic) Used in salads or as salad
acetosoluble
acetosoluble
adj
(chemistry) soluble in acetic acid
acetous
acetous
adj
Causing, or connected with, acetification
Having a sour taste; sour; acid.
acetylcellulose
achaetous
achaetous
adj
(zoology) Without setae
achaeus
achariaceous
acheilous
acheilous
adj
(obsolete, pathology) lipless
acheirous
acheirous
adj
Of or pertaining to acheiria (lacking one or both hands)
acheirus
achelous
achelous
Proper noun
a river in western Greece
Deity of water; later, patron deity of the Achelous River.
achesoun
achlamydeous
achlamydeous
adj
(botany) having no perianth
acidiferous
acidiferous
adj
Containing or yielding an acid.
acidulates
acidulates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acidulate
acidulousness
acidulousness
noun
A state of or tendency toward being acidulous or somewhat sour or acid.
acinaceous
acinaceous
adj
(botany) Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them.
acleistous
acoelomatous
acoelomous
acoelomous
adj
Synonym of acoelomate
acoelous
acoelous
adj
(zoology) Without a coelom.
aconuresis
aconuresis
noun
(pathology) urinary incontinence (inability to control urination)
acotyledonous
acotyledonous
adj
Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc.
acousticolateral
acousticolateral
adj
Relating to, or connecting the inner ear and the lateral line of fish
acoustoelectric
acoustoelectric
adj
Of or pertaining to electroacoustics
acquaintances
acquaintances
noun
plural of acquaintance
acquaintanceship
acquaintanceship
noun
(countable) A relationship as acquaintances.
(uncountable) The state of being acquainted.
acquaintanceships
acquaintanceships
noun
plural of acquaintanceship
acquaintedness
acquaintedness
noun
(rare) State of being acquainted; degree of acquaintance.
acquest
acquest
noun
(law) Property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance.
(rare) Acquisition; the thing gained.
acquests
acquests
noun
plural of acquest
acquiesce
acquiesce
verb
(intransitive) To concur upon conviction; to assent to; usually, to concur, not heartily but so far as to forbear opposition.
(intransitive, with in (or sometimes with, to)) To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object.
acquiesced
acquiesced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of acquiesce
acquiescement
acquiescence
acquiescence
noun
(law) Inaction, passivity, or neglect to take legal action when it is called for in order to assert, preserve, or safeguard a right, and which inaction implies the abandonment of said right.
A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content, distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.
acquiescences
acquiescences
noun
plural of acquiescence
acquiescency
acquiescency
noun
The quality of being acquiescent; acquiescence.
acquiescent
acquiescent
adj
resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit
willing to acquiesce, accept or agree to something without objection, protest or resistance
acquiescently
acquiescently
adv
In an acquiescent manner.
acquiescer
acquiescer
noun
One who acquiesces.
acquiesces
acquiesces
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acquiesce
acquiescing
acquiescing
verb
present participle of acquiesce
acquiescingly
acquiescingly
adv
in an acquiescing manner
acquiesence
acquirements
acquirements
noun
plural of acquirement
acquirers
acquirers
noun
plural of acquirer
acquires
acquires
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acquire
acquisible
acquisible
adj
Synonym of acquirable (“capable of being acquired”)
acquisite
acquisite
adj
(obsolete) acquired
acquisited
acquisitive
acquisitive
adj
(obsolete) Acquired.
Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring.
Dispositioned toward acquiring and retaining information.
acquisitively
acquisitively
adv
In an acquisitive manner; for the purpose of acquisition.
acquisitiveness
acquisitiveness
noun
(phrenology) The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing.
The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.
acquittances
acquittances
noun
plural of acquittance
acraturesis
acrimoniousness
acrimoniousness
noun
The quality of being acrimonious.
acrocephalous
acrocephalous
adj
(pathology) Of or pertaining to acrocephaly
acrogenous
acrogenous
adj
(botany) Increasing by growth from the extremity.
acrogenously
acrogenously
adv
In an acrogenous manner.
acroneurosis
acrosphacelus
acrotrophoneurosis
actiniferous
actiniferous
adj
Containing or producing actinium
actinomycesous
actinomycetous
actinomycetous
adj
Of or relating to actinomycetes.
actinoneuritis
actinopterous
actinopterygious
actinosphaerium
actinotherapeutics
actinotherapeutics
noun
actinotherapy
actualise
actualise
verb
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of actualize.
actualised
actualised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of actualise