A book used to teach the alphabet; alphabet book; primer.
An inscription consisting of the letters of an alphabet, almost always listed in order.
abelmoschus
abelmusk
abelmusk
noun
(obsolete) Alternative form of abelmosk in its various senses.
abjurement
abjurement
noun
(rare) renunciation
abnumerable
abnumerable
adj
(mathematics) Not enumerable or denumerable; uncountable.
abouchement
abstemious
abstemious
adj
(rare) Promotive of abstemiousness.
Marked by, or spent in, abstinence.
Refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink; sparing in diet; abstinent, temperate.
Sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.
Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation.
abstemiously
abstemiously
adv
Marked by abstinence or restraint, especially in relation to food or drink.
abstemiousness
abstemiousness
noun
The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing, particularly in the use of food and strong drinks.
absume
absume
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To consume gradually; to waste away.
abumbrellar
abumbrellar
adj
(obsolete) Alternative form of abumbral
abutment
abutment
noun
(architecture) That element that shares a common boundary or surface with its neighbor.
(dentistry) The tooth that supports a denture or bridge.
(engineering) A construction that supports the ends of a bridge; a structure that anchors the cables on a suspension bridge.
(engineering) The part of a valley or canyon wall against which a dam is constructed.
(engineering, architecture) The solid portion of a structure that supports the lateral pressure of an arch or vault.
A fixed point or surface where resistance is obtained.
Something that abuts, or on which something abuts.
The point of junction between two things, in particular a support, that abuts.
The state of abutting.
abutments
abutments
noun
plural of abutment
academus
acarocecidium
acarocecidium
noun
A plant gall caused by an acarid mite
acclimature
acclimature
noun
(rare) The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated.
accouchement
accouchement
noun
Delivery in childbed; parturition
accouchements
accouchements
noun
plural of accouchement
accountment
accountment
noun
Responsibility.
accountrement
accouplement
accouplement
noun
(rare) That which couples, as a tie or brace
(rare) The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union
accouterment
accouterment
noun
(archaic) The act of accoutering; furnishing.
(by extension) An identifying yet superficial characteristic.
(chiefly in the plural) An article of clothing or equipment, in particular when used as an accessory.
(military, chiefly in the plural) A soldier's equipment, other than weapons and uniform.
accouterments
accouterments
noun
plural of accouterment
accoutrement
accoutrement
noun
(Commonwealth) Alternative form of accouterment
accoutrements
accoutrements
noun
plural of accoutrement
accruement
accruement
noun
The act of accruing.
accruements
accruements
noun
plural of accruement
accumbency
accumbency
noun
(rare) The state of being accumbent or reclining.
accumbent
accumbent
adj
(botany) Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf
Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
noun
One who rests in an accumbent position, especially at table.
accumber
accumber
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To encumber; to crush; to overwhelm.
accumulable
accumulable
adj
Able to be accumulated.
accumulate
accumulate
adj
(poetic, rare) Collected; accumulated.
verb
(education, dated) To take a higher degree at the same time with a lower degree, or at a shorter interval than usual.
(intransitive) To gradually grow or increase in quantity or number.
(transitive) To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together (either literally or figuratively)
accumulated
accumulated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of accumulate
accumulates
accumulates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accumulate
accumulative
accumulative
adj
Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass
Having a propensity to amass; acquisitive.
accumulatively
accumulatively
adv
In an accumulative manner
accumulativeness
accumulativeness
noun
The state or qualities of being accumulative.
accustomed
accustomed
adj
(obsolete) Frequented by customers.
(of a person) Familiar with something through repeated experience; adapted to existing conditions.
(of a thing, condition, activity, etc.) Familiar through use; usual; customary.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of accustom
accustomedly
accustomedly
adv
In an accustomed manner.
accustomedness
accustomedness
noun
Habituation; the quality of being used to something.
accustomize
accustomize
verb
(rare) To learn to adapt one's lifestyle to a new or changed environment.
accustomized
accustomized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of accustomize
aceratherium
acessamenus
acetabuliform
acetabuliform
adj
(botany) Shaped like a saucer or shallow cup.
acetabulum
acetabulum
noun
(anatomy) The bony cup of the pelvis which receives the head of the femur.
(historical) A Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of 2½ Roman ounces of wine and equivalent to about 66 mL although differing slightly over time.
(zootomy) A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.
(zootomy) One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.
(zootomy) The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body.
(zootomy) The large posterior sucker of the leeches.
A vinegar saucer, especially (historical) in ancient Roman contexts.
acetabulums
acetonurometer
acetum
acetum
noun
(obsolete) Vinegar, sometimes medicated.
achenium
achenium
noun
(botany) achene
achenodium
achlamydeous
achlamydeous
adj
(botany) having no perianth
acoelomatous
acoelomous
acoelomous
adj
Synonym of acoelomate
acoumeter
acoumeter
noun
(physics) An instrument for measuring the acuteness of the sense of hearing.
acoumetry
acoumetry
noun
The measuring of the power or extent of hearing.
acouometer
acquiescement
acquirement
acquirement
noun
(now rare, chiefly in the plural) Something that has been acquired; an attainment or accomplishment.
The act or fact of acquiring something; acquisition.
acquirements
acquirements
noun
plural of acquirement
acquitment
acquitment
noun
(law) Acquittal.
acrimoniousness
acrimoniousness
noun
The quality of being acrimonious.
acromiohumeral
acromiohumeral
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the acromion and the humerus
acrorrheuma
acroterium
acroterium
noun
(architecture) One of the small pedestals, for statues or other ornaments, placed on the apex and at the basal angles of a pediment, or upon the gables in Gothic architecture.
One of the pedestals, for vases or statues, forming a part roof balustrade.
actinomycesous
actinomycetous
actinomycetous
adj
Of or relating to actinomycetes.
actinosphaerium
aculeiform
aculeiform
adj
Like a prickle or thorn
acumble
acumen
acumen
noun
(anatomy) A bony, often sharp, protuberance, especially that of the ischium.
(botany) A sharp, tapering point extending from a plant.
Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination.
acumens
acumens
noun
plural of acumen
acuminate
acuminate
adj
(botany, mycology) Tapering to a long point in concave manner at its apex.
Tapering to a point; pointed.
verb
(intransitive) To end in or come to a sharp point.
(transitive) To render sharp or keen; to sharpen.
acuminated
acuminated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of acuminate
acuminose
acuminose
adj
Terminating in a flat, narrow end.
acuminulate
acuminulate
adj
(rare) Somewhat or slightly acuminate.
acutenaculum
addendum
addendum
noun
(engineering) The height by which the tooth of a gear projects beyond (outside for external, or inside for internal) the standard pitch circle or pitch line.
A postscript.
Something to be added; especially text added as an appendix or supplement to a document.
addendums
adelarthrosomatous
adelomorphous
adelomorphous
adj
(medicine) Having a form that is not clearly defined, especially as applied to the principal cells in the pepsin glands of the stomach.
adenocarcinomatous
adenocarcinomatous
adj
Of or pertaining to adenocarcinomas
adenocystomatous
adenomatous
adenomatous
adj
Of or pertaining to adenoma
adenostemonous
adeuism
adiathermanous
adjournment
adjournment
noun
(rhetoric) Ampliatio.
The state of being adjourned, or action of adjourning.
adjournments
adjournments
noun
plural of adjournment
adjudgment
adjudgment
noun
The action of imposing judgment.
adjument
adjument
noun
(obsolete) Help; support; that which or one who helps or supports.
adjustment
adjustment
noun
The action of adjusting something
The assessment, by an insurance company, of a claim; the settlement of such a claim
The behavioural process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment.
The result of adjusting something; a small change; a minor correction; a modification or alteration
The settling or balancing of a financial account
adjustmental
adjustmental
adj
Relating to adjustment.
adjustments
adjustments
noun
plural of adjustment
adlumidine
adlumine
adlumine
noun
(organic chemistry) An alkaloid found in plants of genus Adlumia.
admeasure
admeasure
verb
(transitive) To apportion.
(transitive, law, obsolete) To survey and lay off a due portion to, as of dower in real estate or of pasture held in common.
admeasured
admeasured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of admeasure
admeasurement
admeasurement
noun
Apportionment.
admeasurer
admeasurer
noun
Agent noun of admeasure; one who admeasures.
admeasuring
admeasuring
verb
present participle of admeasure
admensuration
admensuration
noun
admeasurement
admetus
adminiculate
adminiculate
verb
(Scotland, law, transitive) To prove; to corroborate.
admixture
admixture
noun
(epilepsy) a mixture composed of entities retaining their individual properties.
A mixing-in of a biologically or genetically differentiated group to an established stock.
A mixture, in some contexts
An instance of admixing, a mixing in of something.
admixtures
admixtures
noun
plural of admixture
adnumber
adrenomedullary
adrenomedullary
adj
Of or relating to the adrenal medulla.
adullamite
adullamite
Noun
An inhabitant of Adullam. Near this town there was a cave where David and his allies sought refuge from Saul.
A member of the anti-reform faction of the British Liberal Party in the 19th century.
adumbrate
adumbrate
verb
To foreshadow vaguely.
To give a vague outline.
To obscure or overshadow.
adumbrated
adumbrated
adj
(comparable) Foreshadowed.
(comparable) Obscured.
(heraldry) Depicted on a shield as an outline instead of a solid figure.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of adumbrate
adumbrates
adumbrates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adumbrate
adumbrative
adumbrative
adj
Of or pertaining to adumbration
adumbratively
adumbratively
adv
In an adumbrative manner
adumbrellar
adventurement
adventurement
noun
(obsolete) adventure.
adventuresome
adventuresome
adj
Prone to, or willing to undertake, adventures; daring or bold.
adventuresomely
adventuresomely
adv
In an adventuresome manner.
adventuresomeness
adventuresomeness
noun
The state or quality of being adventuresome.
adventuresomes
adventurism
adventurism
noun
(politics) The taking of excessive risks by a government in their political, economic or foreign affairs.
The behaviour of an adventurer; risk-taking.
adventurisms
adventurisms
noun
plural of adventurism
aechmophorus
aecidium
aecidium
noun
(mycology) A member of the form genus Aecidium.
The cupulate fruiting body borne upon the mycelium of certain fungi commonly parasitic upon specimens of the Compositae, Lamiaceae, Leguminosae, and Ranunculaceae families
aeciotelium
aecium
aecium
noun
(mycology) A cuplike fruiting structure of some parasitic rust fungi that contains chains of aeciospores.
aegimius
aegium
aegopodium
aerarium
aerarium
noun
(historical) The state treasury of Ancient Rome.
aerobium
aeronautism
aeronautism
noun
The practice of aeronautic travel.
aeroperitoneum
aeschynomenous
aethalium
aethalium
noun
A flat, plump fruiting body, formed by the aggregation of plasmodia, in certain slime molds.
aetheogamous
aetheogamous
adj
(botany) Of the nature of an aetheogam.
aevum
aevum
noun
(Scholastic philosophy) The temporal mode of existence between time and eternity, said to be experienced by angels, saints, and celestial bodies (which medieval astronomy believed to be unchanging.
affectum
agammaglobulinemia
agammaglobulinemia
noun
(medicine) A condition in which gammaglobulins such as immunoglobulins are absent from the blood, or present only in low concentrations
agammaglobulinemic
agammaglobulinemic
adj
Relating to or exhibiting agammaglobulinemia.
noun
An individual with agammaglobulinemia.
agendum
agendum
noun
(obsolete) A task which ought to be done.
(theology) Something to be done; a practical duty, rather than an article of faith.
agendums
agendums
noun
plural of agendum
ageratum
ageratum
noun
Any of the genus Ageratum of tropical American herbs, annuals and perennials, from the sunflower family Asteraceae, tribe Eupatorieae; they are sometimes used in floral displays.
ageratums
ageratums
noun
plural of ageratum
aggroupment
aggroupment
noun
Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.
agrauleum
agrobacterium
agrobacterium
noun
A soil bacterium, of the genus Agrobacterium, which can fix nitrogen, and causes the formation of crown galls in plants.
aguamiel
ajutment
akuammine
akuammine
noun
(organic chemistry) An indole alkaloid found in the seeds of the tree Picralima nitida.
alalcomeneus
alambique
alarumed
alarumed
verb
(archaic, rare) simple past tense and past participle of alarum
albumean
albumen
albumen
noun
The white part of an egg; being mostly the protein albumin and water.