(anatomy) 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.
(law) The wrongful, and usually forcible, carrying off of a human being.
(logic) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major premise is evident, but the minor is only probable.
Leading away; a carrying away.
abnegated
abnegated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abnegate
abodement
abodement
noun
(obsolete) A foreboding; an omen.
abradants
abradants
noun
plural of abradant
abstained
abstained
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abstain
acanthoid
acanthoid
adj
Having the shape of a spine or thorn
accidents
accidents
noun
plural of accident
accordant
accordant
adj
In agreement; agreeing.
accounted
accounted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of account
acidulant
acidulant
noun
A food additive used to increase acidity or to give a tart taste
acidulent
acidulent
adj
Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous.
acrodonts
acrodonts
noun
plural of acrodont
actinides
actinides
noun
plural of actinide
actinidia
actinoida
actinoids
actinoids
noun
plural of actinoid
actinopod
actinopod
noun
(zoology) Any member of the variously ranked group Actinopoda of protozoa.
adamantly
adamantly
adv
In an immovable or inflexible manner.
adamstown
adamstown
Proper noun
The capital and only settlement of the
A village in Ireland
A in Maryland.
A borough in Pennsylvania.
adaptions
adaptions
noun
plural of adaption
addicting
addicting
adj
(US) Causing addiction.
verb
present participle of addict
addiction
addiction
noun
(medicine) A state that is characterized by compulsive drug use or compulsive engagement in rewarding behavior, despite negative consequences.
A habit or practice that damages, jeopardizes or shortens one's life but when ceased causes trauma.
A pathological relationship to mood altering experience that has life damaging consequences.
The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination.
addington
additions
additions
noun
plural of addition
addlement
addlement
noun
confusion; an addled state
adducting
adducting
verb
present participle of adduct
adduction
adduction
noun
(anatomy) The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its axis; -- opposed to abduction.
The act of adducing or bringing forward.
ademonist
ademption
ademption
noun
(law) In the law of wills, the determination of what happens when property left under a will is no longer in the testator's estate when the testator dies.
adenocyst
adenomata
adenomata
noun
plural of adenoma
adenotome
adenotomy
adenotomy
noun
(anatomy, surgery) Dissection of, or incision into, a gland or glands.
adeptness
adeptness
noun
The quality of being adept.
adespoton
adherents
adherents
noun
plural of adherent
adigranth
adjection
adjection
noun
Act of adjecting or adding, or the thing added.
adjoinant
adjoinant
adj
(obsolete) Contiguous, adjoining.
adjunctly
adjunctly
adv
In an adjunct manner.
adjusting
adjusting
noun
Adjustment.
verb
present participle of adjust
adjutancy
adjutancy
noun
The state or office of being an adjutant, assistant, or helper.
adjutants
adjutants
noun
plural of adjutant
adjuvants
adjuvants
noun
plural of adjuvant
admitting
admitting
noun
An act of admission; an allowing to enter.
verb
present participle of admit
admixtion
admixtion
noun
(archaic) A mingling of different things; an admixture.
admonitor
admonitor
noun
An admonisher; a monitor.
adnascent
adnascent
adj
Growing to or on something else.
adnations
adnations
noun
plural of adnation
adnescent
adnexitis
adnexitis
noun
(medicine) inflammation of the adnexa of the uterus, i.e. the Fallopian tubes or ovaries.
adoptions
adoptions
noun
plural of adoption
adorantes
adoration
adoration
noun
(countable) An act of religious worship.
(historical) The selection of a pope by acclamation and before any formal ballot (excluded as a voting method in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV).
(religion) Worship of Christ in the Eucharistic host in the Catholic Church, often while exposed in a monstrance.
(uncountable) Admiration or esteem.
(uncountable) The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination.
adornment
adornment
noun
A decoration; that which adorns.
The act of decorating.
adrenitis
adrenitis
noun
Alternative form of adrenalitis
adsorbent
adsorbent
adj
Tending to adsorb.
noun
The solid or liquid in the process of adsorption on which the adsorbate accumulates.
adstringe
adulating
adulating
verb
present participle of adulate
adulation
adulation
noun
Flattery; fulsome praise.
adultness
adultness
noun
The state or quality of being an adult.
adumbrant
adumbrant
adj
Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth.
adunation
adunation
noun
The act of uniting; union.
aduncated
aduncated
adj
Alternative form of aduncate
advantage
advantage
noun
(countable) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable or chance to success, or to any desired end.
(countable, uncountable) Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit
(obsolete) Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.
(soccer) The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position.
(tennis) The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.
Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
verb
(reflexive) to do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of
(transitive) to provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to
advecting
advecting
verb
present participle of advect
advection
advection
noun
(earth science, chemistry) The horizontal movement of a body of atmosphere (or other fluid) along with a concurrent transport of its temperature, humidity etc.
The transport of a scalar by bulk fluid motion.
advenient
advenient
adj
(now rare) Caused by outside forces; coming from without; external, additional.
advential
adventism
adventist
adventive
adventive
adj
(biology) Of a plant that is not native, but was introduced by humans to a place and has since become naturalized.
Accidental.
Adventitious.
noun
A non-native plant that has become naturalized.
adventual
adventual
adj
(obsolete) Relating to the Advent.
adventure
adventure
noun
(obsolete) Chance of danger or loss.
(obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.
(obsolete) That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.
(uncountable) A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
(video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.
A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.
The encountering of risks; a bold undertaking, in which dangers are likely to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
verb
(archaic, intransitive) To try the chance; to take the risk.
(archaic, transitive) To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
(archaic, transitive) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
adversant
advertent
advertent
adj
Attentive.
Not inadvertent; intentional.
adverting
adverting
verb
present participle of advert
affronted
affronted
adj
(heraldry) Synonym of affronté
Defiant
verb
simple past tense and past participle of affront
afterband
afterhand
afterhand
adj
(Scotland, law, archaic) Paid afterwards, rather than in advance.
adv
(archaic) Afterwards; subsequently.
afterhend
aftersend
agminated
agminated
adj
agminate
aladinist
aladinist
Noun
One of a sect of freethinkers among the Muslims.
aldeament
aldington
alienated
alienated
adj
Isolated; excluded; estranged.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of alienate
alimented
alimented
verb
simple past tense and past participle of aliment
allantoid
allantoid
adj
(chiefly embryology) Allantoic.
(now chiefly mycology) Sausage-shaped; especially with reference to fungal spores that are long with rounded ends.
noun
(obsolete, embryology) The allantois.
almandite
almandite
noun
(mineralogy) almandine
alvordton
amendment
amendment
noun
(especially US) An addition to and/or alteration to the Constitution.
(law) Correction of an error in a writ or process.
An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
In public bodies, any alteration made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion that adds, changes, substitutes, or omits.
That which is added; that which is used to increase or supplement something.
amidating
amidating
adj
(organic chemistry) That causes an amidation reaction
amidation
amidation
noun
(organic chemistry) Reaction with, or formation of an amide
amnestied
amnestied
adj
That has been given amnesty; whose past offences have been forgiven.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of amnesty
amynodont
anabantid
anabantid
noun
(zoology) Any member of the family Anabantidae of climbing perches.
anacidity
anacidity
noun
Lack of acidity, as of the stomach.
andamenta
andamento
andantini
andantino
andantino
adv
(music) Of a tempo that is slightly faster than andante but slower than moderato.
noun
A piece of music played in this style.
andesites
andesites
noun
plural of andesite
andesitic
andesitic
adj
(geology) Pertaining to, or composed of andesite
andesytes
andesytes
noun
plural of andesyte
andradite
andradite
noun
A nesosilicate mineral of the garnet group with chemical formula Ca₃Fe₂Si₃O₁₂.
andreotti
andriette
androcyte
androtomy
androtomy
noun
The dissection of the human body, as distinguished from zootomy.
anecdotal
anecdotal
adj
Containing or abounding in anecdotes.
Of the nature of or relating to an anecdote.
anecdotes
anecdotes
noun
plural of anecdote
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of anecdote
anecdotic
anecdotic
adj
Anecdotal; of or pertaining to anecdotes.
Tending to tell anecdotes.
angdistis
angulated
angulated
adj
Synonym of angulate
verb
simple past tense and past participle of angulate
anhydrate
anhydrate
noun
(chemistry) The anhydrous form of a normally hydrated compound
(organic chemistry) An acid anhydride
verb
To dehydrate, especially in food processing.
anhydrite
anhydrite
noun
(mineralogy) An evaporite mineral made of anhydrous calcium sulfate.
anisodont
anisodont
adj
(zoology) Having irregular teeth.
annodated
annodated
adj
curved into the form of a letter S
annotated
annotated
adj
Contains or is accompanied by annotations or labelled notes.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of annotate
annulated
annulated
adj
(organic chemistry) Composed of several fused rings
Having rings
anodontia
anodontia
noun
The congenital absence of some or all primary or permanent teeth, caused by a rare genetic disorder.
anomodont
anomodont
noun
(zoology) Any therapsid of the suborder Anomodontia.
anserated
anserated
adj
(heraldry) Having the extremities terminate in the heads of eagles, lions, etc.
antecedal
anteceded
anteceded
verb
simple past tense and past participle of antecede
antecedes
antecedes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of antecede
antedated
antedated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of antedate
antedates
antedates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of antedate
antedonin
antegrade
antegrade
adj
moving or directed forward
antenodal
antenodal
adj
Before a node or nodus
noun
An antenodal vein.
antherids
antheroid
antheroid
adj
Resembling an anther.
anthidium
anthodium
anthodium
noun
(botany) The inflorescence of a compound flower in which many florets are gathered into an involucrate head.
anthribid
anthribid
noun
Any weevil of the family Anthribidae.
anticodon
anticodon
noun
(genetics) A sequence of three nucleotides in transfer RNA that binds to the complementary triplet (codon) in messenger RNA to specify an amino acid during protein synthesis.
antidinic
antidinic
adj
Preventing vertigo or dizziness.
antidoron
antidoron
noun
(Christianity, Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Catholicism) A piece of ordinary leavened bread, taken from remnants of loaves used for the Eucharist, which has been blessed but not consecrated; distributed in churches that use the Byzantine Rite.
antidotal
antidotal
adj
(pharmacology) Relating to or being an antidote.
antidoted
antidoted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of antidote
antidotes
antidotes
noun
plural of antidote
antidraft
antidraft
adj
Opposing the draft (military conscription).
antidromy
antifraud
antifraud
adj
Acting against fraud.
antimodel
antimodel
noun
Somebody or something that serves as the opposite of a model, representing what one does not want to be or achieve.
antimonid
antinodal
antinodal
adj
(physics) Of, pertaining to, or located at an antinode
antinodes
antinodes
noun
plural of antinode
antiodont
antipedal
antipodal
antipodal
adj
On opposite sides of the globe; pertaining to antipodes
diametrically opposite
noun
(biology) One of the cells at the chalazal pole of an embryo sac.
antipodes
antipodes
noun
(UK, now rare) Australia and New Zealand.
(figuratively, by extension) The opposite of something.
The Southern Hemisphere.
The place on the diametrically opposite side of the earth from a given point.