Marked by abstinence or restraint, especially in relation to food or drink.
acalycinous
acalycinous
adj
Acalycine.
accountability
accountability
noun
(military) The obligation imposed by law or regulation on an officer or other person for keeping accurate record of property, documents, or funds. The person having this obligation may or may not have actual possession of the property, documents, or funds. Accountability is concerned primarily with records, while responsibility is concerned primarily with custody, care, and safekeeping.
An open determination of one's responsibility for something and imposition of consequences.
Good-faith acceptance of one's responsibility for something and of its consequences.
The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account or give an explanation; liability to be held responsible or answerable for something.
accountably
accountably
adv
In an accountable manner.
accountancy
accountancy
noun
(countable, accounting) A company or organisation that performs such a function.
(uncountable, Britain, New Zealand, often Philippines, accounting) The function of compiling and providing financial information primarily by reports referred to as financial statements, including bookkeeping, systems design, analysis and interpretation of accounting information.
accusatorially
accusatorially
adv
By way of accusation; in an accusatorial manner.
accusatory
accusatory
adj
Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation.
accustomedly
accustomedly
adv
In an accustomed manner.
acesodynous
acetylcellulose
acetylfluoride
achlamydeous
achlamydeous
adj
(botany) having no perianth
achlorophyllous
achlorophyllous
adj
(botany) not having chlorophyll and, hence, unable to engage in photosynthesis
achronychous
achylous
achylous
adj
(physiology) Without chyle
achymous
achymous
adj
(physiology) Without chyme.
acidulously
acidulously
adv
In an acidulous manner; in a mildly sour or acid way.
acolytus
acondylous
acondylous
adj
(anatomy) Without joints; jointless.
acotyledonous
acotyledonous
adj
Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc.
acouchy
acouchy
noun
Alternative form of acouchi
acoumetry
acoumetry
noun
The measuring of the power or extent of hearing.
acoustically
acoustically
adv
(domain) From the perspective of acoustics.
(manner) In an acoustic manner, or using an acoustic musical instrument.
acrimoniously
acrimoniously
adv
In an acrimonious manner; with acrimony.
acrobryous
acrodactylum
acrodactylum
noun
The upper surface of a toe
acrogenously
acrogenously
adv
In an acrogenous manner.
acrogynous
acrogynous
adj
(botany) Producing archegonia from the apical cell of a reproductive branch.
acromyodous
acromyodous
adj
Synonym of acromyodic
acromyotonus
acromyotonus
noun
Synonym of acromyotonia
acronychous
acronyctous
acronyctous
adj
(astronomy) acronycal
acronymous
acronymous
adj
Pertaining to the use of acronyms.
actinautography
actinautography
noun
(obsolete, photography) The production of an actinautographic image
actinomycesous
actinomycetous
actinomycetous
adj
Of or relating to actinomycetes.
actinopterygious
adactylous
adactylous
adj
Without claws on the feet (of crustaceous animals).
Without fingers or without toes.
adenocystomatous
adenophyllous
adenophyllous
adj
(botany) Having glands on the leaves.
adenotyphus
adjudicatory
adjudicatory
adj
Of or pertaining to an adjudication.
adjuratory
adjuratory
adj
Of or pertaining to an adjuration.
adjutory
adjutory
adj
(obsolete) Serving to help or assist.
adrenomedullary
adrenomedullary
adj
Of or relating to the adrenal medulla.
adscititiously
adscititiously
adv
In an adscititious way.
adulatory
adulatory
adj
Exhibiting adulation; overly flattering.
adulterously
adulterously
adv
In an adulterous manner.
advantageously
advantageously
adv
In a manner which provides an advantage; in an advantageous manner.
adventitiously
adventitiously
adv
in an adventitious manner; sporadically.
adventuresomely
adventuresomely
adv
In an adventuresome manner.
adventurously
adventurously
adv
In an adventurous manner.
aerohydrous
aerohydrous
adj
Composed of or containing air and water.
aeronautically
aeronautically
adv
In a aeronautical manner; with respect to aeronautics or aviation.
aeschynomenous
aglycosuric
aglycosuric
adj
Having, or relating to, the condition of aglycosuria.
aglyphous
aglyphous
adj
(of a snake) Whose teeth are not specialized, especially whose teeth lack grooves for venom.
agouty
agouty
noun
Alternative spelling of agouti
agranulocyte
agranulocyte
noun
(biochemistry) Any of several kinds of white blood cell characterised by the absence of granules in the cytoplasm.
agranulocytosis
agranulocytosis
noun
(pathology) An acute condition involving a severe and dangerous leukopenia, particularly of neutrophils, causing a neutropenia in the circulating blood.
agriotypus
aguayo
aguayo
noun
A rectangular piece of patterned cloth, used in traditional South American communities to carry children, goods, etc.
agynarious
agynous
agynous
adj
(botany) Without female organs; male.
alacriously
alacriously
adv
With alacrity; briskly.
albuminolysis
albuminometry
alcyoneus
alcyonium
alcyonium
noun
(zoology) Any of the genus Alcyonium of fleshy Alcyonaria, their polyps somewhat resembling flowers with eight fringed rays.
aleuromancy
aleuromancy
noun
divination using flour or related products such as dough or cakes and fortune cookies
alkylarylsulfonate
alkylbenzenesulfonate
alkylbenzenesulfonates
allagophyllous
allonymous
allonymous
adj
Misattributed: appearing or (especially) knowingly published under the name of a different person from the true author.
allonymously
allophylus
alloquy
alloquy
noun
(obsolete) Act of speaking to another; an address.
allusory
allusory
adj
allusive; making allusion
allylthiourea
allylthiourea
noun
A particular organic carcinogen.
allyou
allyou
pron
(Caribbean, dialect) Plural form of you.
aloyau
aloysius
aloysius
Proper noun
name, notably of a 16th-century Italian saint.
aluminography
aluminography
noun
The art or process of producing, and printing from, aluminium plates, after the manner of ordinary lithography.
aluminosity
aluminothermy
aluminothermy
noun
(inorganic chemistry) the production of a metal from its oxide by heating it with aluminium
aluminotype
aluminotype
noun
A form of printing plate made of a sheet of aluminium.
alumohydrocalcite
alumohydrocalcite
noun
(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing aluminum, calcium, carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.
alysoun
amaryllidaceous
amaryllidaceous
adj
(botany) Of or relating to the family Amaryllidaceae of herbaceous, perennial and bulbous flowering plants.
amaryllideous
amaryllideous
adj
= amaryllidaceous
ambagiously
ambagiously
adv
In an ambagious manner.
ambidextrously
ambidextrously
adv
In an ambidextrous manner.
ambiguously
ambiguously
adv
In an ambiguous manner.
ambitiously
ambitiously
adv
In an ambitious manner.
amblyacousia
amblyocarpous
amblypodous
ambulatorily
ambulatorily
adv
By or in terms of walking.
ambulatory
ambulatory
adj
(comparable, medicine) Able to walk about and not bedridden.
(law) Not yet legally fixed or settled; alterable.
(medicine) Performed on or involving an ambulatory patient or an outpatient.
Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable.
Of, relating to, or adapted to walking.
noun
Any part of a building intended for walking in; a corridor.
The round walkway encircling the altar in many cathedrals.
ambulomancy
ambulomancy
noun
Any of various forms of divination that involve walking, often in circles.
amorously
amorously
adv
In an amorous or loving manner.
amorphously
amorphously
adv
In an amorphous manner.
amphibiously
amphibiously
adv
In an amphibious manner.
In the manner of an amphibian.
amphibolostylous
amphibryous
amphicondylous
amphicyrtous
amphigenously
amphigenously
adv
In an amphigenous manner.
amphoriloquy
amphoriloquy
noun
(medicine) A condition where the voice is characterized by amphoric sound over the patient's lung cavity.
ampullosity
ampullosity
noun
(rare, formal) turgidity of language; bombast
amurcosity
amuyon
amuyong
amyelencephalous
amyelous
amyelous
adj
(medicine) Lacking the spinal cord.
amygdalaceous
amygdalaceous
adj
(botany) Akin to, or derived from, the almond.
amygdaliferous
amygdaliferous
adj
almond-bearing
amygdaloncus
amylaceous
amylaceous
adj
Pertaining to, or of the nature of, starch; starchy.
amyliferous
amylocellulose
amylocoagulase
amyloleucite
amyous
amyous
adj
(medicine) Wanting in muscle; without flesh.
anachronously
anachronously
adv
anachronistically
anacoluthically
anacoluthically
adv
In an anacoluthic manner.
anacrogynous
anacrogynous
adj
(botany) Producing archegonia from cells other than the apical cell of a reproductive branch.
analogously
analogously
adv
In an analogous manner; in a manner which evokes analogy.
anapterygotous
anarthrously
anarthrously
adv
(grammar) In an anarthrous manner; without an accompanying article.
ancylocladus
ancylostomum
androdynamous
androgynous
androgynous
adj
(of a connector or docking port) Able to connect to another connector or port of the same type, rather than being restricted to connecting to solely male or solely female connectors or ports.
Pertaining to a feature or characteristic that is not definitively of either sex.
Possessing qualities of both sexes.
Possessing the sex organs of both sexes.
androgynus
androgynus
noun
A hermaphrodite.
anelytrous
aneuploidy
aneuploidy
noun
(genetics) The condition of being aneuploid; the state of possessing a chromosome number that is not an exact multiple of the haploid number of the organism in question.
anfractuosity
anfractuosity
noun
A winding channel or crevice, such as occur in the depths of the sea or in mountains.
One of the fissures (sulci) separating the convolutions of the brain, or, by analogy, in the mind.
anguishously
angulosity
angulosity
noun
(obsolete) angularity
anhydrous
anhydrous
adj
(chemistry) Having no water of crystallization.
Having little or no water.
anhydrously
anisocotyledonous
anisodactylous
anisodactylous
adj
(zoology) Characterized by unequal toes, three turned forward and one backward, as in most passerine birds.