(countable) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
(uncountable) A state of being acquainted with a person; originally indicating friendship, intimacy, but now suggesting a slight knowledge less deep than that of friendship; acquaintanceship.
(uncountable) Such people collectively; one's circle of acquaintances (with plural concord).
Personal knowledge (with a specific subject etc.).
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
acquainted
acquainted
adj
Personally known; familiar.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of acquaint
acquaintedness
acquaintedness
noun
(rare) State of being acquainted; degree of acquaintance.
acquent
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.
acquiescing
acquiescing
verb
present participle of acquiesce
acquiescingly
acquiescingly
adv
in an acquiescing manner
acquiesence
acquirement
acquirement
noun
(now rare, chiefly in the plural) Something that has been acquired; an attainment or accomplishment.
The act or fact of acquiring something; acquisition.
acquirements
acquirements
noun
plural of acquirement
acquirenda
acquirenda
noun
plural of acquirendum
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.
acquitment
acquitment
noun
(law) Acquittal.
acquittance
acquittance
noun
(now historical) A writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand.
(now historical) The release from a debt, or from some obligation or duty; exemption.
(now rare) Payment of debt; settlement.
(now rare) The acquittal of one's duties; the carrying out of fulfilment of a job or role.
(obsolete) The dismissal of a legal charge against someone; acquittal.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To acquit.
acquittances
acquittances
noun
plural of acquittance
alcornoque
alcornoque
noun
The plant Bowdichia virgilioides.
altiloquence
altiloquence
noun
Pompous language; lofty speech.
anticritique
anticritique
noun
A critique written in response to another critique.
aquapuncture
aquapuncture
noun
(medicine) The subcutaneous injection of water, once thought to relieve pain.
aquench
aquopentamminecobaltic
blandiloquence
blandiloquence
noun
(archaic) flattery [from 17th c.]
calanque
cannequin
cannequin
noun
(obsolete) A kind of cotton cloth made in the East Indies.
carnivalesque
carnivalesque
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a carnival.
cauquenes
cezannesque
cinematheque
cinematheque
noun
A film archive with small cinemas, screening classic and art-house films.
cinematheques
cinematheques
noun
plural of cinematheque
cinquanter
cinquedea
cinquedea
noun
A short sword with a heavy blade developed in northeastern Italy during the Renaissance, often richly ornamented.
cinquepace
coequalness
coequalness
noun
The state or quality of being coequal.
coequating
coequating
verb
present participle of coequate
coequation
coinquinate
colliquament
colliquament
noun
The first rudiments of an embryo in generation.
colliquativeness
colliquefaction
colliquefaction
noun
(obsolete) A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion.
colloquialness
colloquialness
noun
The state or quality of being colloquial.
conquassate
conquassate
verb
(obsolete, transitive, rare) To shake; to agitate.
conquerable
conquerable
adj
Capable of being conquered or subdued.
conquerableness
conquerableness
noun
The quality of being conquerable.
conquinamine
conquinamine
noun
(organic chemistry) quinidamine
conquistadores
conquistadores
noun
plural of conquistador
consequential
consequential
adj
(of a person) Self-important.
Following as a result.
Having significant consequences; of importance.
Important or significant.
consequentialities
consequentialities
noun
plural of consequentiality
consequentiality
consequentiality
noun
The property of being consequential.
consequentially
consequentially
adv
In a consequential manner; with consequence or significance.
consequentialness
consequentialness
noun
the quality or state of being consequential
contramarque
corinthianesque
cotquean
cotquean
noun
Alternative form of cot-quean
cotqueans
cotqueans
noun
plural of cotquean
counteracquittance
counterequivalent
counterquartered
counterquartered
adj
(heraldry) Doubly divided into quarters, so that each quarter is itself quartered.
counterquarterly
cowanesque
crannequin
cuckquean
cuckquean
noun
(fetish) A woman who is attracted to or aroused by the sexual infidelity of a partner.
A woman who has an unfaithful husband.
verb
(transitive) To make a woman into a cuckquean.
disacquaintance
disacquaintance
noun
(obsolete) Neglect or disuse of familiarity, or familiar acquaintance.
equianchorate
equianharmonic
equianharmonic
adj
(mathematics) equally anharmonic; specifically, whose anharmonic ratio is a cube root of unity
noun
(geometry) A set of four points whose cross ratio (or anharmonic ratio) is a cube root of 1.
equibalance
equibalance
noun
Equal weight; equiponderance.
verb
(transitive) To make of equal weight; to counterbalance.
equibalanced
equibalanced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of equibalance
equichangeable
equidistance
equidistance
noun
(countable, uncountable) Equal distance.
equijacent
equilocation
equinecessary
equinecessary
adj
Necessary or needful in the same degree.
equinoctial
equinoctial
adj
(astronomy) Of or relating to the celestial equator.
(astronomy) Of or relating to the spring or autumnal equinox.
(uncommon) Equatorial: Of or relating to the equator of the Earth.
noun
(rare) The terrestrial equator.
An equinoctial gale.
The great circle midway between the celestial poles; the celestial equator.
equinoctially
equinoctially
adv
In an equinoctial manner; relative to the equinox.
equinoctials
equinoctials
noun
plural of equinoctial
equiponderance
equiponderance
noun
The state of being equal in weight; equipoise
equiponderancy
equiponderancy
noun
Archaic form of equiponderance.
equisonance
equisonance
noun
(music) An equal sounding; the consonance of the unison and its octaves.
equivalence
equivalence
noun
(chemistry) The quantity of the combining power of an atom, expressed in hydrogen units; the number of hydrogen atoms can combine with, or be exchanged for; valency.
(countable, mathematics) An equivalence relation; ≡; ~
(geometry) A number in intersection theory. A positive-dimensional variety sometimes behaves formally as if it were a finite number of points; this number is its equivalence.
(mathematics) A Boolean operation that is TRUE when both input variables are TRUE or both input variables are FALSE, but otherwise FALSE; the XNOR function.
(translation studies) The degree to which a term or text in one language is semantically similar to its translated counterpart.
(uncountable) The condition of being equivalent or essentially equal.
(uncountable, logic) The relationship between two propositions that are either both true or both false.
verb
(transitive) To be equivalent or equal to; to counterbalance.
equivalenced
equivalenced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of equivalence
equivalences
equivalences
noun
plural of equivalence
equivalencies
equivalencies
noun
plural of equivalency
equivalencing
equivalencing
verb
present participle of equivalence
equivalency
equivalency
noun
(countable) An equivalent thing.
(uncountable) equivalence
equivocalness
equivocalness
noun
The state of being equivocal; ambiguity
equivocating
equivocating
verb
present participle of equivocate
equivocatingly
equivocatingly
adv
With equivocation.
equivocation
equivocation
noun
(logic) A logical fallacy resulting from the use of multiple meanings of a single expression.
The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, possibly intentionally and with the aim of misleading.
equivocations
equivocations
noun
plural of equivocation
foreacquaint
foreacquaint
verb
(transitive) To make familiar (with something) in advance.
grandiloquence
grandiloquence
noun
Lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing.
hacqueton
harlequinic
harlequinic
adj
Of or relating to a harlequin (pantomime fool).
inacquaintance
inacquaintance
noun
Lack of acquaintance; ignorance.
inacquiescent
inacquiescent
adj
Not acquiescent.
inadequacies
inadequacies
noun
plural of inadequacy
inadequacy
inadequacy
noun
A lack of competence or ability.
A shortage of required material.
The state of being inadequate.
inconquerable
inconquerable
adj
That cannot be conquered; unconquerable.
inconsequentia
inconsequentia
noun
Trivia; items or facts of little or no importance.
inconsequential
inconsequential
adj
Having no consequence; not consequential; of little importance.
Not logically following from the premises.
noun
Something unimportant; something that does not matter.
inconsequentiality
inconsequentiality
noun
(countable) anything that is inconsequential
(uncountable) the property of being inconsequential
inconsequentially
inconsequentially
adv
In an inconsequential manner.
inequicostate
inquaintance
inquirance
inquirance
noun
(obsolete) Inquiry.
interequinoctial
interequinoctial
adj
Coming between the equinoxes.
jackquelin
jackqueline
jacquelin
jacqueline
jacquelyn
jacquelyn
Proper noun
name, one of the spelling variants of Jacqueline.
jacquelynn
jacqueminot
jacqueminot
noun
A variety of deep crimson rose.
jacquenetta
jacquenette
jicaquean
lacquering
lacquering
noun
An application of lacquer.
verb
present participle of lacquer
lacqueying
lacqueying
verb
present participle of lacquey
leucoquinizarin
liquefacient
liquefacient
adj
That liquefies.
noun
(medicine, obsolete) Any agent, such as mercury, iodine, etc., that promotes the liquefying processes of the system, and increases the secretions.
That which serves to liquefy.
liquefaction
liquefaction
noun
Process of being, or state of having been, made liquid (from either a solid or a gas)
The liquid or semiliquid that results from this process.
liquefactions
liquefactions
noun
plural of liquefaction
loquaciousness
loquaciousness
noun
The state or property of being loquacious.
machinotechnique
magniloquence
magniloquence
noun
The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse.
michelangelesque
nonacquaintance
nonacquaintance
noun
(countable) A person who is not an acquaintance.
(uncountable) Lack of acquaintance; the quality of being unacquainted.
nonacquaintanceship
nonacquiescence
nonacquiescence
noun
Lack of acquiescence; failure to yield or comply.
nonacquiescent
nonacquiescently
nonacquiescing
nonacquiescing
adj
Not acquiescing; not resting one's opposition to something.