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adj

1. (now rare) Pertaining to someone learning the alphabet or basic studies; elementary; rudimentary.
2. Arranged in an alphabetical manner.
3. Pertaining to the alphabet, or several alphabets.
4. Relating to or resembling an abecedarius.

noun

1. (archaic) Someone engaged in teaching the alphabet; an elementary teacher; one that teaches the methods and principles of learning.
2. (rhetoric) A work which uses words or lines in alphabetical order.
3. An elementary student, a novice; one in the early steps of learning.
4. Someone who is learning the alphabet.

noun

1. plural of aberrancy

noun

1. A pruning device mounted on a pole, so as to reach high branches; a weeding machine.

noun

1. plural of abhorrence

adj

1. Causing abortion; abortifacient.

noun

1. A substance that induces abortion; an abortifacient.

noun

1. (obsolete, zoology) An order of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration, usually including Oligochaeta.
2. (obsolete, zoology)Any of a number of other groupings of gill-less animals.

adj

1. (zoology) Without gills.

noun

1. (zoology) An organism that does not have gills.

adj

1. Having no gills

noun

1. plural of abreaction

noun

1. plural of absorbance

noun

1. (optics, physics) Absorbed radiation and incident radiation in a ratio format; a measurement that shows how well a surface absorbs radiation.

verb

1. present participle of abstract

noun

1. (art) An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
2. (chemistry) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
3. (computing) Any generalization technique that ignores or hides details to capture some kind of commonality between different instances for the purpose of controlling the intellectual complexity of engineered systems, particularly software systems.
4. (computing) Any intellectual construct produced through the technique of abstraction.
5. (engineering) Removal of water from a river, lake, or aquifer.
6. (euphemistic) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
7. (geology) The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so, as to assimilate the smaller.
8. A member of an idealized subgroup when contemplated according to the abstracted quality which defines the subgroup.
9. A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
10. Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
11. Abstraction is necessary for the classification of things into genera and species.
12. An idea of an idealistic, unrealistic or visionary nature.
13. An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
14. Any characteristic of an individual object when that characteristic has been separated from the object and is contemplated alone as a quality having independent existence.
15. The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
16. The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization.
17. The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics; the act of separating said qualities from the object or ideas.
18. The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the product of any mental process involving a synthesis of: separation, despecification, generalization, and ideation in any of a number of combinations.

verb

1. present participle of abstrict

noun

1. (biology, mycology) A method of spore formation in fungi in which successive portions of the sporophore are cut off through the growth of septa; abjunction.

noun

1. (paleontology) A tubular spine in some bryozoans.

adv

1. (music) With a gradual increase in speed.

noun

1. (by extension) Accelerating or exponential advancement or development (of a thing).
2. (music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played at an increasing speed.

noun

1. plural of accelerant

noun

1. An agent that accentuates.

noun

1. One who accessions.

adj

1. (obsolete) accidental; occurring by chance; occasional
2. (obsolete) logically accidental; non-essential

adj

1. (ornithology) Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike.

noun

1. A hawk or a hawk-like bird.

noun

1. Someone or something that accompanies.

noun

1. plural of accordance

adv

1. In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably.

adv

1. (conjunctive) In natural sequence; consequently; so.
2. (manner) Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably

verb

1. present participle of accouter

verb

1. present participle of accredit

noun

1. (rare) Continuous growth; an accretion.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To accuse of a crime.

verb

1. present participle of accroach

noun

1. plural of accruement

noun

1. (medicine) An acetylsalicylate of antipyrine

noun

1. Any dry indehiscent fruit.

noun

1. (obsolete) Savage fierceness; ferocity.

noun

1. plural of achondrite

adj

1. (geology) Of or pertaining to achondrites, a type of stony meteorite.

noun

1. plural of achyranthe

noun

1. Any of the gladioli previously placed in the genus Acidanthera.

adj

1. (botany) Shaped like a scimitar.

adj

1. (zoology) Resembling the Acinetae.

noun

1. (ichthyology) Any member of the Acipenseridae (the true sturgeons)

noun

1. (now rare, chiefly in the plural) Something that has been acquired; an attainment or accomplishment.
2. The act or fact of acquiring something; acquisition.

noun

1. (medicine) An antimicrobial flavonoid dye derived from acridine

adj

1. (archaic) Harsh and sharp, or bitter and not pleasant to the taste; acrid, pungent.
2. (figuratively) Angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies: bitter, mean-spirited, sharp in language or tone.

adj

1. (genetics) (of a chromosome) Having the centromere very near to one end, and thus having a long arm, and a very short arm.

noun

1. A chromosome that has the centromere very near to one end, and thus has a long arm, and a very short arm.

noun

1. (medicine) A soft, pedunculated or pensile wart, consisting of myomatous or edematous fibrous tissue, often found on the neck or eyelids of elderly persons.

noun

1. Any Australian plant of the former genus Acroclinium (now named Rhodanthe)

noun

1. Any passerine songbird of the former taxon Acromyodi

adv

1. In an acronycal manner; rising when the sun sets, and vice versa.

adj

1. (astronomy) acronycal

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of acronymize

noun

1. plural of acrophony

adj

1. Of or befitting an acropolis, especially in lofty glory and in the capacity to inspire awe; compare Acropolitan.

verb

1. present participle of acrospire

noun

1. Any sea anemone of the order Actiniaria

adj

1. Alternative form of actinodromous

noun

1. A recording actinometer.

adj

1. Relating to actinomeres

noun

1. (physics) A device used to measure the heating power of electromagnetic radiation, especially that of solar radiation.

noun

1. the measurement of the chemical or actinic energy of light
2. the measurement of the heating power of electromagnetic radiation, especially that of solar radiation

noun

1. (biology) A cartilaginous spine that supports the fin rays of fish

noun

1. The insertion of needles into the (living) tissue of the body, especially for purposes of pain relief.

verb

1. (transitive) To treat with acupuncture.

adj

1. (geometry) acute-angled.

noun

1. A red pigment present in the branchial heart tissue of the octopus

Proper noun

1. A range of mountains in New York State.

adj

1. (obsolete) Supplying help; auxiliary; corroborative; explanatory.

adj

1. (biochemistry) That inhibits the production or function of adrenaline

noun

1. The state of being joined, bound or annexed

noun

1. plural of advertence

noun

1. aeration
2. hyperinflation (of the lungs)

adj

1. Relating to aerodonetics.

adj

1. having a shape that reduces drag when moving through the air
2. of, or relating to the science of aerodynamics

noun

1. The design, construction, mathematics and mechanics of aircraft and other flying objects
2. The theory and practice of aircraft navigation

adj

1. Of or pertaining to aeronomy

noun

1. plural of affirmance

noun

1. (obsolete) A reinforcement; a strengthening.

verb

1. (transitive) To free from obligation, servitude or service.

verb

1. present participle of affricate

noun

1. (phonetics, uncountable, of a consonant) Becoming an affricate sound.

adj

1. (obstetrics) Specifically, of a baby's head: following the rest of the body out of the womb, rather than (as is usual) preceding it.
2. Succeeding, following.

noun

1. A following state, sequel, consequence, or result; an aftercome.

noun

1. oppression; hardship; grievance.

noun

1. (Ancient Greece) One who trained persons to compete in public games and contests.

adj

1. agronomic

noun

1. A member of the lowest rank in the Royal Air Force or the air forces of various other Commonwealth countries.

noun

1. plural of aircraftman

noun

1. A feeling of nausea, dizziness etc. caused by the motion of an aircraft; a form of motion sickness.

adj

1. showing the symptom albuminuria, i.e. having albumen in the urine

noun

1. (zoology) Any of the Alcyonaria, a subclass of the Anthozoa.

noun

1. divination using flour or related products such as dough or cakes and fortune cookies

adj

1. (biology, of bivalves) Having the longer axis transverse to the hinge line

verb

1. present participle of altercate

noun

1. Heated or angry dispute

noun

1. Any tree or shrub in the genus Amelanchier of the pome fruit subtribe Malinae of the family Rosaceae, with edible, blueberry-like fruit.

adj

1. Alternative spelling of amenorrhoeic

noun

1. plural of amercement

noun

1. Alternative form of amercement

Proper noun

1. American English

Noun

1. A custom peculiar to the United States or the Americans.
2. A word, phrase or linguistic feature originating from or specific to American language usage.
3. A preference to the United States and the ideas it represents.

Noun

1. Somebody who favors the values of the USA.
2. An expert in the study of America.

Adjective

1. Favoring the values of the USA.
2. Of or relating to a phonetic notation developed for transcription of Native American and European languages. See

Adjective

1. Characteristic of or resembling Native American peoples.
2. Of or related to the race to which Native Americans belong, according to theories that divide humanity into races.

Noun

1. An individual who is Americanoid.

noun

1. (pathology) A headache affecting both sides of the head.

noun

1. plural of anabranch

noun

1. A chronological mistake; the erroneous dating of an event, circumstance, or object. [from 17th c.]
2. A person or thing which seems to belong to a different time or period of time. [from 19th c.]
3. The aberrant projection of the present onto the past.

noun

1. A person who has anachronistic views or habits

verb

1. To refer to, or put into, a wrong time.

Adjective

1. anachronistic

adj

1. (prosody) Pertaining to the style of the Greek poet Anacreon, who wrote of wine and love; (specifically) designating a metre based on an anaclastic ionic dimeter.
2. Characterised by festivity and the celebration of love and/or drinking; bacchanalian, amorous.

noun

1. (poetry) A short lyrical piece about love and wine.

adj

1. Synonym of anacrotic

adj

1. Caused by prolonged exercise of a muscle.

adj

1. Synonym of anaphoric

adj

1. (biochemistry, of a reaction) Forming intermediates of a metabolic pathway (eg. the tricarboxylic acid cycle).
2. (medicine, dated) Filling up; promoting granulation of wounds or ulcers.

noun

1. A remedy which promotes such granulation.

adj

1. Anarchic; chaotic or free-spirited.
2. Of or relating to anarchism or anarchy.

adj

1. Ancestral.

verb

1. present participle of ancestor

adv

1. Pertaining to ancestry.

noun

1. plural of anchoress

noun

1. The practice or mode of life of an anchorite.

noun

1. A female anchorite; an anchoress.