A device or application used to achieve operative compatibility between devices that otherwise are incompatible.
One who adapts a thing, e.g. a play.
One who is capable of adapting to differing situations.
Specifically, a device that allows one format of plug to be used with a different format of socket.
Specifically, a device that permits two, three, or more plugs to be used at a single electrical power point.
Specifically, an AC adapter: a device that reduces voltage and converts AC to DC to allow a battery-powered device to use mains power.
adaptor
adaptor
noun
Alternative form of adapter
adepter
adepter
adj
(archaic) comparative form of adept: more adept
adopter
adopter
noun
one who adopts
adpress
adpress
verb
Alternative form of appress
aggroup
aggroup
verb
(archaic) To bring together in a group; to group.
agrapha
agrapha
noun
plural of agraphon
agriope
agrippa
airampo
airampo
noun
The erect prickly pear Opuntia stricta.
airdrop
airdrop
noun
(cryptocurrencies) The distribution of free tokens to help bootstrap a new cryptocurrency.
The act of delivering goods, equipment, or personnel by dropping them from an aircraft in flight.
verb
To delivery goods, equipment, or personnel by dropping them from an aircraft in flight.
airpark
airpark
noun
(US) A small airport sometimes found near an industrial or business area.
airplay
airplay
noun
The playing of a particular song, band or genre on the radio, or the frequency with which it is played.
airplot
airport
airport
noun
An airfield (an area designated for the takeoff and landing of aircraft), including one or more runways and (for commercial airports) one or more passenger terminals.
airpost
airpost
noun
Synonym of airmail
airship
airship
noun
(Britain, derogatory, chiefly in the plural) A high ranking official of the RAF, viewed as arrogant and distant.
(US, law enforcement, aviation) A police air unit, a police helicopter
(aviation) A lighter-than-air aircraft that can be propelled forward through the air as well as steered.
(aviation, informal) Any aircraft.
verb
To transport goods by aircraft.
akepiro
akepiro
noun
A small tree of New Zealand (Olearia furfuracea).
allport
alphard
alphard
Proper noun
An orange giant star in the constellation of Hydra; Alpha (α) Hydrae,
alphorn
alphorn
noun
(music) A long, curved, wooden horn used by mountain-dwelling herders in the Alps, originally to call cattle but now only as musical instrument in classical and folk tunes.
amorpha
amorpha
noun
Any species of the genus Amorpha of leguminous shrubs.
amorphi
amorphi
noun
plural of amorphus
amorphy
amorphy
noun
(obsolete) shapelessness
amperes
amperes
noun
plural of ampere
amphora
amphora
noun
(botany) A lower valve of a fruit that opens transversely.
(chiefly historical) A large vessel, especially a thin-necked clay vat used in ancient Greece and Rome for storing and transporting wine and oil.
(historical) A Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of 80 Roman pounds of wine and equivalent to about 26 L although differing slightly over time.
(historical) A Roman unit of ship capacity, similar to tonnage.
amphore
angarep
anthrop
antwerp
antwerp
Proper noun
The most populous province of Flanders and Belgium.
The capital city of the eponymous
apandry
apardon
aparejo
aparejo
noun
A kind of packsaddle formerly used in the American military and among the Spanish Americans, made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or the like.
apargia
apastra
apeiron
apeiron
noun
A kind of infinite primal chaos in the cosmological theory of Anaximander.
(mineralogy) A foliated or chalk-like variety of calcite.
aphyric
aphyric
adj
(geology) Not porphyritic; having few or no phenocrysts.
apiator
apiator
noun
A beekeeper.
apilary
apocarp
apokrea
aporiae
aporias
aporias
noun
plural of aporia
aporosa
aporose
aporose
adj
(biology) imperforate; not porous.
aposoro
apparat
apparat
noun
The Soviet machinery of state bureaucratic administration, or a similar communistic structure.
apparel
apparel
noun
(figurative) Aspect, guise, form.
(nautical) The furniture of a ship, such as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.
A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.
Clothing.
verb
(transitive) To dress or clothe; to attire.
(transitive) To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental
(transitive) To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.
appears
appears
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of appear
apperil
apperil
noun
(obsolete) peril
applier
applier
noun
A person or device that applies something.
apposer
apposer
noun
(historical) In the English Court of Exchequer, an officer who audited the sheriffs' accounts.
An examiner; one whose business is to put questions.
apprend
appress
appress
verb
(transitive) To press close to.
apprest
appreve
apprise
apprise
verb
(rare) To formally impart (information) to someone; to advise, to notify.
(specifically, Scotland, law) To put a price on (something) for the purpose of sale; to appraise.
Synonym of appraise (“to determine the value or worth of (something)”)
To make (someone or oneself) aware of some information; to inform, to notify.
apprize
apprize
verb
Archaic form of appraise.
Archaic form of apprise.
approof
approof
noun
(archaic) approval; commendation
(archaic) trial; proof; testimony; affirmation.
approve
approve
verb
(archaic, transitive, usually with a reflexive pronoun) To show to be worthy; to demonstrate the merits of.
(intransitive, followed by "of") To consider worthy (to); to be pleased (with); to accept.
(transitive) To officially sanction; to ratify; to confirm; to set as satisfactory.
(transitive) To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of.
(transitive, archaic) To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.
(transitive, law, English law) To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit — said especially of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.
apraxia
apraxia
noun
(neurology) Total or partial loss of the ability to perform coordinated movements or manipulate objects in the absence of motor or sensory impairment; specifically, a disorder of motor planning.
apraxic
apraxic
adj
(neurology) Relating to or exhibiting apraxia.
apricot
apricot
adj
Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.
noun
(color) A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.
(slang, Australia, dated, usually in the plural) A testicle.
(sniper slang) The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill.
A dog with an orange-coloured coat.
A round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside.
The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca
aprilis
apriori
apriori
adv
Alternative form of a priori
apritif
aprocta
aproned
aproned
adj
Wearing an apron.
apropos
apropos
adj
Of an appropriate or pertinent nature.
by the way, incidental
adv
By the way.
Timely; at a good time.
To the purpose; appropriately.
prep
Regarding or concerning.
apsaras
apsaras
noun
Alternative form of apsara
apteral
apteral
adj
(architecture) Without lateral columns; applied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle.
(zoology) apterous, wingless
apteran
apteran
adj
Alternative form of apterous
noun
(zoology) Any of the Aptera, an obsolete taxonomic category of wingless arthropods.
apteria
apteria
noun
plural of apterium
apteryx
apteryx
noun
(dated) kiwi bird
apthorp
apyrase
apyrase
noun
(biochemistry) Any of a family of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of ATP, releasing phosphate and available energy
apyrene
apyrene
adj
(zoology) Of sperm in species that exhibit sperm heteromorphism, infertile.
apyrexy
apyrexy
noun
apyrexia
apyrous
apyrous
adj
Not combustible; capable of tolerating great heat without alteration of form or properties.
arapaho
arapesh
archspy
argiope
arimasp
aripeka
aripple
aripple
adj
rippling
arkport
armhoop
armpits
armpits
noun
plural of armpit
arpanet
arpents
arpents
noun
plural of arpent
arsippe
aruspex
asaprol
ascript
asperge
asperge
noun
An aspergillum.
verb
(transitive) To sprinkle.
asperly
asperse
asperse
verb
To falsely or maliciously charge another; to slander.
To sprinkle or scatter (liquid or dust).
aspired
aspired
verb
simple past tense and past participle of aspire
aspiree
aspirer
aspirer
Noun
One who aspires to something.
aspires
aspires
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aspire
aspirin
aspirin
noun
(countable) a tablet containing this substance
(uncountable, pharmacology) an analgesic drug, acetylsalicylic acid
asprawl
asprawl
adj
Sprawling; covered or filled (with something sprawling).
prep
Sprawling over or across.
aspread
aspread
adj
spread out
aspredo
asprete
aspring
asprout
asprout
adj
sprouting
atrepsy
atropal
atrophy
atrophy
noun
(pathology) A reduction in the functionality of an organ caused by disease, injury or lack of use.
verb
(intransitive) To wither or waste away.
(transitive) To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.
atropia
atropia
noun
Dated form of atropine.
atropic
atropin
atropin
noun
Alternative spelling of atropine
atropos
attntrp
azpurua
barhops
barhops
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of barhop
barkeep
barkeep
noun
(informal) a bartender
barpost
barpost
noun
A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field.
bastrop
bayport
bearpaw
bechirp
becramp
becreep
becreep
verb
(transitive) To creep up on; stalk
bedrape
bedrape
verb
(archaic) To dress, clothe.
To drape, cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery.
beepers
beepers
noun
plural of beeper
begripe
begripe
verb
(transitive) To lay hold of; apprehend; grip; grasp.
beleper
bepaper
beparch
beparse
bepearl
bepearl
verb
To deck with pearls or shiny objects resembling pearls.
beprank
bepress
bepride
beprose
beprose
verb
(transitive, rare) To reduce to prose.
bespray
bespurt
bespurt
verb
(obsolete) To spurt on or over; to asperse.
bewpers
bewraps
bewraps
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bewrap
bewrapt
bewrapt
adj
(archaic, poetic) wrapped
bijapur
bimorph
bimorph
noun
A cantilever that consists of two active layers: piezoelectric and metal.
biophor
biophor
noun
(obsolete, genetics) A supposed supramolecular unit of heredity