(uncommon, usually in the plural) Other members of the genus Abelmoschus, such as okra.
The edible and aromatic seed pods (properly, capsules) of the Abelmoschus moschatus.
The tropical evergreen shrub Abelmoschus moschatus itself.
abelmusk
abelmusk
noun
(obsolete) Alternative form of abelmosk in its various senses.
abessive
abessive
adj
(grammar) Of, or relating to the grammatical case used in some languages to indicate absence.
noun
(grammar) The abessive case, or a word in this case.
abettals
abettals
noun
plural of abettal
abetters
abetters
noun
plural of abetter
abettors
abettors
noun
plural of abettor
abhenrys
abhiseka
abhiseka
noun
Alternative spelling of abhisheka
abjurers
abjurers
noun
plural of abjurer
ableness
ableness
noun
(countable, rare) Something one is able to do.
(uncountable, now rare) Ability of body or mind.
ablepsia
ablepsia
noun
(medicine, rare) Lack of sight; blindness.
abluents
abluents
noun
plural of abluent
aborsive
aborsive
adj
(obsolete) abortive from the first.
aborters
aborters
noun
plural of aborter
abraders
abraders
noun
plural of abrader
abrasive
abrasive
adj
Being rough and coarse in manner or disposition; overly aggressive and causing irritation.
Producing abrasion; rough enough to wear away the outer surface.
noun
(geology) Rock fragments, sand grains, mineral particles, used by water, wind, and ice to abrade a land surface.
A hard inorganic substance or material consisting in powder or granule form such as sandpaper, pumice, or emery, used for cleaning, smoothing, or polishing.
abreacts
abreacts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abreact
abridges
abridges
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abridge
abristle
abristle
adj
Bristling.
abscised
abscised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abscise
abscises
abscises
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abscise
abscisse
absconce
absconce
noun
A dark lantern used in church to read prayers etc during a service.
abseiled
abseiled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abseil
absences
absences
noun
plural of absence
absented
absented
verb
simple past tense and past participle of absent
absentee
absentee
adj
(attributive) Pertaining to one that is absent.
noun
(chiefly Britain, historical) A landholder who lives in another district or country than the one in which his estate is situated.
A person who is absent from his or her employment, school, post, duty, etc.
A voter that is not present at the time of voting; absentee voter.
One that is nonexistent or lacking.
absenter
absenter
adj
(rare) comparative form of absent: more absent
noun
One who stays away; one who absents herself or himself.
absentia
absentia
noun
absence
absently
absently
adv
In an absent-minded or abstracted manner.
abshenry
absinthe
absinthe
noun
(US) Sagebrush.
(color) A moderate yellow green.
(figurative) Bitterness; sorrow.
A distilled, highly alcoholic, anise-flavored liquor originally made from grande wormwood, anise, and other herbs.
The herb absinthium Artemisia absinthium (grande wormwood); essence of wormwood.
absinthe green:
absolent
absolute
absolute
adj
(archaic) Certain; free from doubt or uncertainty (e.g. a person, opinion or prediction).
(art, music, dance) Independent of (references to) other arts; expressing things (beauty, ideas, etc) only in one art.
(education) Pertaining to a grading system based on the knowledge of the individual and not on the comparative knowledge of the group of students.
(especially philosophy) Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards.
(law, postpositive, formal) Indicating that a tenure or estate in land is not conditional or liable to terminate on (strictly) any occurrence or (sometimes contextually) certain kinds of occurrence.
(mathematics) As measured using an absolute value.
(mathematics) Indicating an expression that is true for all real numbers, or of all values of the variable; unconditional.
(obsolete) Absolved; free.
(of Celtic languages) Being or pertaining to an inflected verb that is not preceded by any number of particles or compounded with a preverb.
(of a case form) Syntactically connected to the rest of the sentence in an atypical manner, or not relating to or depending on it, like in the nominative absolute or genitive absolute, accusative absolute or ablative absolute.
(of a comparative or superlative) Expressing a relative term without a definite comparison, like "older" in "an older person should be treated with respect".
(of a usually transitive verb) Having no direct object, like "kill" in "if looks could kill".
(of an adjective form) Positive; not graded (not comparative or superlative).
(of an adjective or possessive pronoun) Lacking a modified substantive, like "hungry" in "feed the hungry".
(physics) Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.
(very occasionally postpositive) Positive, certain; unquestionable; not in doubt.
Characteristic of an absolutist ruler: domineering, peremptory.
Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way.
Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree.
Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.
Having reference to or derived in the simplest manner from the fundamental units of mass, time, and length.
Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed.
Relating to the absolute temperature scale (based on absolute zero); kelvin.
Unrestricted by laws, a constitution, or parliamentary or judicial or other checks; (legally) unlimited in power, especially if despotic.
noun
(chemistry) A concentrated natural flower oil, used for perfumes; an alcoholic extract of a concrete.
(geometry) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
(philosophy, usually capitalized, usually preceded by "the") A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego.
(philosophy, usually capitalized, usually preceded by "the") The whole of reality; the totality to which everything is reduced; the unity of spirit and nature; God.
That which exists (or has a certain property, nature, size, etc) independent of references to other standards or external conditions; that which is universally valid; that which is not relative, conditional, qualified or mitigated.
absolved
absolved
verb
simple past tense and past participle of absolve
absolver
absolver
noun
Agent noun of absolve; one who absolves.
absolves
absolves
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of absolve
absorbed
absorbed
adj
Fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed.
Something that has been absorbed, taken in, engulfed, imbibed, or assimilated.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of absorb
absorber
absorber
noun
(nuclear physics) A material that absorbs neutrons in a reactor.
A device which causes gas or vapor to be absorbed by a liquid.
A person who absorbs.
Something that absorbs.
absterge
absterge
verb
(transitive, archaic, now rare) To make clean by wiping; to wipe away.
absterse
absterse
verb
(transitive, now rare) To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away.
abstrude
abstrude
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To thrust away.
abstruse
abstruse
adj
(obsolete) Concealed or hidden; secret.
Difficult to comprehend or understand; obscure.
absurder
absurder
adj
comparative form of absurd: more absurd
abusable
abusable
adj
Capable of being abused.
abusedly
abusedly
adv
In an abused manner.
abuseful
abuseful
adj
(rare) Full of abuse; abusive.
abutters
abutters
noun
plural of abutter
academes
academes
noun
plural of academe
academus
acalephs
acalephs
noun
plural of acaleph
acarines
acarines
noun
plural of acarine
acaulose
acaulose
adj
acaulous
acceders
acceders
noun
plural of acceder
accensed
accensed
adj
(obsolete) kindled
accensor
accensor
noun
(Roman Catholicism) One of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers.
accentus
accessed
accessed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of access
accesses
accesses
noun
plural of access
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of access
accessit
accessit
noun
A vote in the election of a pope.
An honorable mention in an academic contest.
accessor
accessor
noun
(object-oriented programming) A function that retrieves a value, usually without changing any data.
Someone or something that accesses.
accidies
accosted
accosted
adj
(heraldry) Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side
verb
simple past tense and past participle of accost
accrease
accrease
noun
(obsolete) An increase.
verb
(obsolete) To increase.
accresce
accresce
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To increase; to grow.
(rare, intransitive) To accrue.
accretes
accretes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accrete
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
accusers
accusers
noun
plural of accuser
accusive
accusive
adj
accusative; accusing
acediast
acediast
noun
A person who has acedia
acequias
acequias
noun
plural of acequia
acerates
acerates
noun
plural of acerate
acerbest
acerbest
adj
superlative form of acerb: most acerb
acerolas
acerolas
noun
plural of acerola
acervose
acescent
acescent
adj
Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour.
noun
A substance liable to become sour.
acestoma
acetates
acetates
noun
plural of acetate
acetones
acetones
noun
plural of acetone
acheirus
achelous
achelous
Proper noun
a river in western Greece
Deity of water; later, patron deity of the Achelous River.
achesoun
achieves
achieves
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of achieve
achilles
achilles
Proper noun
semi-divine hero, son of Peleus and the nymph Thetis, prince and leader of the Myrmidons; great warrior of the Achaean (Greek) camp, killed in the Trojan War; central character of the Iliad.
achinese
achiness
achiness
noun
The property of being achy.
achiotes
achiotes
noun
plural of achiote
acidness
acidness
noun
acidity, sourness
acidoses
acidoses
noun
plural of acidosis
acinaces
acinaces
noun
(historical, ancient history) A short sword or saber.
acoelous
acoelous
adj
(zoology) Without a coelom.
acolytes
acolytes
noun
plural of acolyte
aconites
aconites
noun
plural of aconite
acquests
acquests
noun
plural of acquest
acquires
acquires
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acquire
acreages
acreages
noun
plural of acreage
acridest
acridest
adj
superlative form of acrid: most acrid
acrogens
acrogens
noun
plural of acrogen
acrosome
acrosome
noun
A structure forming the end of the head of a spermatozoon
actiones
actressy
actressy
adj
Characteristic of an actress
Histrionic or theatrical
actuates
actuates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of actuate
acuerdos
acuities
acuities
noun
plural of acuity
acupress
acupress
verb
(transitive) To apply acupressure to.
acushnet
acylates
acylates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acylate
adamsite
adamsite
noun
An organic compound, diphenylaminechlorarsine, used as a riot-control agent.
adapters
adapters
noun
plural of adapter
addorsed
addorsed
adj
(heraldry, of animals or wings) Set back to back, facing away from each other.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of addorse
addossed
adducers
adducers
noun
plural of adducer
adenines
adenines
noun
plural of adenine (multiple adenine molecules)
adenitis
adenitis
noun
(medicine, pathology) Glandular inflammation.
adenoids
adenoids
noun
plural of adenoid
adenomas
adenoses
adenoses
noun
plural of adenosis
adenosis
adenosis
noun
(medicine) Benign swelling, scarring or enlargement of the lymph glands; a minor, low-risk glandular condition.
adeptest
adeptest
adj
(archaic) superlative form of adept: most adept
adespota
adespota
noun
(bibliography) Literary works not attributed to (or claimed by) an author. (Originally used as a title of collections of anonymous Greek poetry.)
adessive
adessive
adj
(grammar) of or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates adjacent location
noun
(grammar) the adessive case, or a word in that case.
adherers
adherers
noun
plural of adherer
adhesion
adhesion
noun
(biochemistry) The binding of a cell to a surface or substrate.
(medicine) An abnormal union of surface by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.
An agreement to adhere.
Persistent attachment or loyalty.
The ability of a substance to stick to an unlike substance.
The frictional grip on a surface, of wheels, shoes etc.
adhesive
adhesive
adj
apt or tending to adhere; clinging
sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances
noun
a substance, such as glue, that provides or promotes adhesion
adiposes
adiposes
noun
plural of adiposis
adjudges
adjudges
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adjudge
adjurers
adjurers
noun
plural of adjurer
adjusted
adjusted
adj
Which has been compensated in order to avoid bias.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of adjust
adjuster
adjuster
noun
One who adjusts, especially for the insurance industry's employment title "loss adjuster" (or "claims adjuster" in the United States).
admirers
admirers
noun
plural of admirer
adolesce
adolesce
verb
(intransitive) To commence or progress through adolescence.
adonises
adonises
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adonise