To blind by holding a red-hot metal rod or plate before the eyes
abacination
abacination
Noun
The act of abacinating, of blinding with the light from hot metal
abacist
abacist
Noun
One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.
abacot
abacterial
abacterial
Adjective
Not caused by bacteria; characterized by a lack of bacteria.
abactinal
abactinal
Adjective
Pertaining to the surface or end opposite to the mouth in a radiate animal.
abactinally
abactinally
Adverb
(As seen or measured) from the end opposite the mouth in a radiate animal (to the other end).
abaction
abaction
Noun
Carrying away by force, definition of animals.
Stealing cattle on a large scale.
abactor
abactor
Noun
One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves; a cattle rustler.
abadite
abadite
Noun
Alternative form of Ibadite.
abaft
abaft
Preposition
Behind; toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft of.
Adverb
Backwards.
On the aft side; in the stern.
abagtha
abalation
abalienate
abalienate
Verb
To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.
To estrange; to cause alienation of.
abalienated
abalienating
abalienation
abandonment
abandonment
Noun
The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child; desertion.
An abandoned building or structure.
The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by an inventor; relinquishment of copyright by an author.
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.
The cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier, as granted by a government agency.
A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its value.
The self-surrender to an outside influence.
Abandon; careless freedom or ease; surrender to one's emotions.
abandonments
abanet
abannition
abantes
abaptiston
abaptiston
Noun
A trepan having a conical shape so that injurious penetration of the brain is impossible.
abaptistum
abarthrosis
abarthrosis
Noun
A form of articulation that allows considerable change in position and spatial relationship between the articulated parts, and which bones move freely upon one another; diarthrosis. name=Traber/>
abarticular
abarticular
Adjective
Away from the joints; not articular.
abarticulation
abarticulation
Noun
An articulation, especially one that permits free motion in the joint; a hinge joint.
The act of dislocating a joint.
abasement
abasement
Noun
The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low.
The state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.
abasements
abashment
abashment
Noun
The state of being abashed; embarrassment from shame.
abashments
abastard
abastard
Verb
To abastardize.
abastardize
abastardize
Verb
To stigmatize as a bastard; debase.
abastral
abatable
abatable
Adjective
Capable of being abated.
abatage
abate
abated
abatement
abatements
abater
abaters
abates
abatic
abating
abating
Noun
Anesis.
abatis
abatised
abatised
Adjective
Provided with an abatis.
abatises
abatjour
abatjours
abaton
abator
abator
Noun
A person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee.
Noun
One who abates, ends, or does away with a nuisance.
abators
abats
abattage
abattage
Noun
The slaughter of animals, especially diseased ones to limit the spread of the disease.
The anchoring of the wheels of an artillery piece, preparatory to firing.
abattis
abattised
abattises
abattoir
abattoir
Noun
A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.
A place likened to a slaughterhouse.American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
abattoirs
abattu
abattue
abatua
abature
abature
Noun
Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them.
abbate
abbatial
abbatial
Adjective
Belonging to, relating to, or pertaining to an abbey, abbot, or abbess.
abbatical
abbatie
abbatie
Noun
The office, tenure, estate, or jurisdiction of an abbot.
abbest
abbeystead
abbeystede
abboccato
abbot
abbotcies
abbotcy
abbotcy
Noun
abbacy
abbotnullius
abbotric
abbotric
Noun
An abbacy.
abbots
abbotsen
abbotsford
abbotship
abbotship
Noun
The state, term, or office of an abbot; abbacy.
abbotships
abbotson
abbotsun
abbott
abbott
Proper noun
name transferred from the surname.
abbottson
abbottstown
abbottstown
Proper noun
A borough in Adams County, Pennsylvania
abbreviatable
abbreviate
abbreviate
Verb
To shorten by omitting parts or details.
To speak or write in a brief manner.
To make shorter; to shorten; to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned.
To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form.
To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
Adjective
Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.
Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.
Noun
An abridgment.
abbreviated
abbreviated
Adjective
Shortened; made briefer.
Relatively short; shorter than normal, or compared to others.
Scanty, as in clothing.
abbreviately
abbreviately
Adverb
In an abbreviate way.
abbreviates
abbreviating
abbreviation
abbreviations
abbreviator
abbreviator
Noun
definition; one who abbreviates or shortens.
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.
abbreviators
abbreviatory
abbreviatory
Adjective
Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.
abbreviature
abbreviature
Noun
An abridgment; a compendium; an abstract.
An abbreviated state or form.
A shortened form of a word or phrase, used in place of the whole; an abbreviation.
The process of abbreviating.
abbroachment
abdat
abderite
abderite
Noun
An inhabitant or native of Abdera, in Thrace.
Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher.
abdest
abdest
Noun
Islamic act of washing parts of the body using water for ritual prayers and for handling and reading the Qur'an; of
abdicant
abdicant
Adjective
Abdicating; renouncing.
Noun
One who abdicates.
abdicate
abdicate
Verb
To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
To formally separate oneself from or to divest oneself of.
To depose.
To reject; to cast off; to discard.
To surrender, renounce or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; to fail to fulfill responsibility for.
To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.
abdicated
abdicates
abdicating
abdication
abdication
Noun
The act of disowning or disinheriting a child.
The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder.
The voluntary renunciation of sovereign power
The renunciation of interest in a property or a legal claim; abandonment.
The action of being deposed from the seat of power.
abdications
abdicative
abdicative
Adjective
Causing, or implying, abdication.
Noun
A reasoning from the negative
abdicator
abdicator
Noun
A person supporting the abdication of another.
One who abdicates.
abditive
abditive
Adjective
Having the quality of hiding
abditory
abditory
Noun
A concealed location used for storage or to hide items.
abdominoanterior
abdominocentesis
abdominocentesis
Noun
Extraction of peritoneal fluid from the abdomen for evaluation, using a trocar
abdominocystic
abdominocystic
Adjective
Relating to the abdomen and to the bladder.
abdominogenital
abdominogenital
Adjective
Relating to the abdomen and to the genitals.
abdominohysterectomy
abdominohysterectomy
Noun
Removal of the uterus via an incision made in the abdominal wall rather than via the vagina.
abdominohysterotomy
abdominohysterotomy
Noun
An incision of the uterus, done through a surgical hole in the abdomen.
abdominoposterior
abdominothoracic
abdominothoracic
Adjective
Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest.
abducent
abducent
Adjective
Drawing away from the median axis of the body, as a muscle; abducting.
Noun
That which abducts; an abducens.
abducentes
abduct
abduct
Verb
To take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap.
To draw away, as a limb or other part, from its ordinary position; to move similar parts apart.
abducted
abducted
Adjective
Having been kidnapped; having become the victim of an abduction
abducting
abduction
abduction
Noun
Leading away; a carrying away.
The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; the movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.
A syllogism or form of argument in which the major premise is evident, but the minor is only probable.
The wrongful, and usually forcible, carrying off of a human being.
abductions
abductor
abductor
Noun
One who abducts; a kidnapper.
Noun
A muscle which serves to draw a part out, or from the median line of the body
abductores
abductores
Noun
of. Sometimes used instead of abductor when referring to the anatomical muscles.
abductors
abducts
abelite
abeltree
abeltree
Noun
A Eurasian tree, Populus alba, that is widely cultivated in North America. 1976
abenteric
abenteric
Adjective
Relating to organs outside of the intestine.
abeokuta
abeokuta
Proper noun
A city in southwest Nigeria.
abepithymia
abernant
abernathy
abernethy
abernethy
Proper noun
A village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland
aberrant
aberrant
Adjective
Differing from the norm.
Straying from the right way; deviating from morality or truth.
Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.
Noun
A person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.
A group, individual, or structure that deviates from the usual or natural type, especially with an atypical chromosome number.
aberrantly
aberrantly
Adverb
In an aberrant manner; abnormally.
aberrants
aberrate
aberrate
Verb
To go astray; to diverge; to deviate (from); deviate from.
To distort; to cause aberration of.
aberrated
aberrated
Adjective
Abnormal; distorted; irregular; atypical.
aberrating
aberration
aberrational
aberrational
Adjective
Characterized by aberration.
aberrations
aberrative
aberrative
Adjective
Descriptive of an object or measurement that has deviated or been knocked, momentarily and sharply, from the more dominant, normal or expected course or trajectory to which it either has or is expected to return in the longer term.