(biology) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.
(obsolete) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.
noun
(obsolete, Scotland) An abridgment.
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To speak or write in a brief manner.
(obsolete, transitive) To shorten by omitting parts or details.
(transitive) To make shorter; to shorten (in time); to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned.
(transitive) To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form.
(transitive, mathematics) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
abbreviated
abbreviated
adj
Relatively short; shorter than normal, or compared to others.
Scanty, as in clothing.
Shortened; made briefer.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abbreviate
abbreviately
abbreviately
adv
In an abbreviate way.
abbreviates
abbreviates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abbreviate
abbreviating
abbreviating
verb
present participle of abbreviate
abbreviation
abbreviation
noun
(biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
(linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, utilizing omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @.
(mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
(music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
(music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
The process of abbreviating.
The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
abbreviations
abbreviations
noun
plural of abbreviation
abbreviator
abbreviator
noun
(Roman Catholicism, historical) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty was to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.
A person who abbreviates or shortens.
abbreviators
abbreviators
noun
plural of abbreviator
abbreviatory
abbreviatory
adj
Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.
abbreviature
abbreviature
noun
(obsolete) An abbreviated state or form.
(obsolete) The process of abbreviating.
A shortened form of a word or phrase, used in place of the whole; an abbreviation.
An abridgment; a compendium; an abstract.
aberdavine
aberdevine
aberdevine
noun
(obsolete outside dialects) The Eurasian siskin or spruce siskin, Spinus spinus, a small green and yellow finch related to the goldfinch.
aberduvine
aberduvine
noun
Alternative form of aberdevine.
aberrative
aberrative
adj
Having deviated or been knocked, momentarily and sharply, from the more dominant or expected course or trajectory.
abirritative
abirritative
adj
(pharmacology) Characterized by abirritation or debility.
abnerval
abnerval
adj
(anatomy, of an electric current in a muscle, rare) Away from the nerve.
aborsive
aborsive
adj
(obsolete) abortive from the first.
abortive
abortive
adj
(biology) Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile.
(medicine) Cutting short; acting to halt or slow the progress (of a disease).
(obsolete) Produced by abortion; born prematurely and therefore unnatural.
(obsolete) A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion, abortifacient.
(obsolete) Someone or something born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To cause an abortion; to render without fruit.
abortively
abortively
adv
In an abortive or untimely manner; immaturely; fruitlessly.
abortiveness
abortiveness
noun
(countable) The result or product of being abortive.
(uncountable) The quality of being abortive.
aboveboard
aboveboard
adj
Alternative form of above-board
aboveground
aboveground
adj
Alternative spelling of above ground
aboveproof
abovestairs
abovestairs
noun
Alternative form of above stairs.
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.
abrasively
abrasively
adv
Hardly; roughly; in a rough manner.
In an abrasive manner; in a rude and unkind manner; acting in a way that may hurt other people's feelings.
abrasiveness
abrasiveness
noun
The property, quality or instance of being abrasive.
abrasivenesses
abrasivenesses
noun
plural of abrasiveness
abrasives
abrasives
noun
plural of abrasive
abreuvoir
abreuvoir
noun
(obsolete, masonry) The joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar.
A cold water drinking fountain (for people) typically found in a public location; more generally, any fountain or water source (including for animals like birds, horses etc).
abrogative
abrogative
adj
Tending or designed to abrogate.
absolvatory
absolvatory
adj
Conferring absolution; absolutory.
absolver
absolver
noun
Agent noun of absolve; one who absolves.
absolvers
absolvers
noun
plural of absolver
absolvitor
absolvitor
noun
(Scotland, law) A decision or decree made by a court in favour of the defendant in a given action; dismissal.
absolvitory
absolvitory
adj
Of or pertaining to a dismissal or an acquittal.
absorptive
absorptive
adj
Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe; absorbent.
noun
Any substance that absorbs.
absorptively
absorptively
adv
In an absorptive way.
absorptiveness
absorptiveness
noun
The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power.
absorptivity
absorptivity
noun
(analytical chemistry) The constant a in the Beer's law relation A = abc, where A is the absorbance, b the path length, and c the concentration of solution. Also known as absorptive power. Formerly known as absorbency index; absorption constant; extinction coefficient.
(thermodynamics) The fraction of radiation absorbed by a surface to the total radiation incident on the surface.
Having an abstracting nature or tendency; tending to separate; tending to be withdrawn.
abstractively
abstractively
adv
(now rare) In an abstract manner; in the abstract.
abstractiveness
abstractiveness
noun
The property of being abstractive.
adumbrative
adumbrative
adj
Of or pertaining to adumbration
adumbratively
adumbratively
adv
In an adumbrative manner
adverb
adverb
noun
(grammar) A word that modifies a verb, adjective, other adverbs, or various other types of words, phrases, or clauses.
(modifying a verb)
(programming) In the Raku programming language, a named parameter that modifies the behavior of a routine.
verb
(rare) To make into or become an adverb.
adverbial
adverbial
adj
(grammar) Of or relating to an adverb.
noun
(grammar) An adverbial word or phrase.
adverbiality
adverbiality
noun
The condition of having characteristics of an adverb.
adverbialize
adverbialize
verb
(American spelling) To use as or change into an adverb.
adverbially
adverbially
adv
As, or in the manner of, an adverb.
adverbiation
adverbless
adverbless
adj
Without an adverb or adverbs.
adverbs
adverbs
noun
plural of adverb
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adverb
advertisable
advertisable
adj
Suitable for being advertised.
advertizable
advertizable
adj
Alternative spelling of advertisable
aggravable
aggravable
adj
(obsolete) aggravating
airbrasive
airbrasive
noun
(dentistry) A device that delivers a jet of sodium bicarbonate slurry at teeth in order to remove stains.
albertville
albertville
Proper noun
A town in the département of Savoie.
albrightsville
ambiversion
ambiversion
noun
(psychology) A personality trait having balanced characteristics of both extroversion and introversion.
ambiversions
ambiversive
ambivert
ambivert
noun
(psychology) A person who is neither clearly extroverted nor introverted, but has characteristics of each.
ambiverts
ambiverts
noun
plural of ambivert
antisubversion
antisubversion
adj
Opposing or countering political subversion.
antisubversive
antisubversive
adj
(politics) Opposing or countering political subversion.
noun
One who opposes political subversion.
antivibrating
antivibrator
antivibrator
noun
A device attached to a vehicle or machine, etc. to reduce vibrations.
antivibratory
antivibratory
adj
preventing or reducing vibrations
approbative
approbative
adj
Expressing approval.
Sanctioning officially, giving authorization or approval to something.
noun
(linguistics) A word or grammatical form which denotes a positive affect expressing the appreciation or approval of the speaker.
approbativeness
approbativeness
noun
The state or quality of being approbative.
approvability
approvable
approvable
adj
Able to be confirmed or approved.
approvableness
approvableness
noun
The state or quality of being approvable.
approvably
approvably
adv
In an approvable manner; in a manner that is able to be approved.
arbitrative
arbitrative
adj
Of or relating to arbitration.
arborvitae
arborvitae
noun
(anatomy) The white nerve tissue of the cerebellum that has a branching structure.
Any of several North American or Asian conifers, of the genera Thuja and Thujopsis or the species Platycladus orientalis, grown for timber or ornament.
arborvitaes
arborvitaes
noun
plural of arborvitae
arbovale
arbovirus
arbovirus
noun
(pathology, virology) Any virus that is transmitted by an arthropod.
arboviruses
arboviruses
noun
plural of arbovirus
archvagabond
ariboflavinosis
ariboflavinosis
noun
(pathology) The medical condition caused by deficiency of riboflavin.
artsybashev
artzybashev
attributive
attributive
adj
(grammar, of a word or phrase) Modifying another word, typically a noun, while in the same phrase.
Attributing; characterized by attributing; effecting attribution.
noun
(grammar) An attributive word or phrase (see above), contrasted with predicative or substantive.
attributively
attributively
adv
In an attributive manner.
attributiveness
attributiveness
noun
The state or quality of being attributive.
attributives
attributives
noun
plural of attributive
aubervilliers
avebury
averrable
averrable
adj
Capable of being averred.
avertable
avertable
adj
Preventable.
avertible
avertible
adj
Capable of being averted; preventable.
avicebron
baccivorous
baccivorous
adj
(zoology) Eating, or having a diet based on, berries
backvelder
backvelder
noun
A native or inhabitant of the backveld.
bacteriosolvent
bahuvrihi
bahuvrihi
noun
(grammar, also attributive) A type of nominal compound in which the first part modifies the second and neither part alone conveys the intended meaning.
bahuvrihis
bahuvrihis
noun
plural of bahuvrihi
bakersville
bakersville
Proper noun
an unincorporated community in Mercer County, New Jersey, USA.
a town in North Carolina, USA, and the county seat of Mitchell County.
an unincorporated community in Coshocton County, Ohio, USA.
balakirev
bananivorous
bananivorous
adj
(rare) Feeding on bananas; banana-eating.
baranov
barberville
barboursville
barbourville
barbourville
Proper noun
a home-rule class city in Kentucky, USA
bargersville
barhamsville
barkevikite
barkevikite
noun
(mineralogy) A particular hornblende mineral.
barkevikitic
barkevikitic
adj
Of or relating to the mineral barkevikite.
barnardsville
barnesville
barnesville
Proper noun
a ghost town in Alabama, USA.
a city in Georgia, USA
an unincorporated community in Kansas, USA.
a small town in Maryland, USA.
a city in Minnesota, USA.
unincorporated communities in and Missouri, USA.
an unincorporated community in North Carolina, USA.
a village in Ohio, USA.
an unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, USA.
barneveld
barneveldt
barrackville
barryville
bartlesville
bartonsville
bartonville
barvel
barvell
barvick
basialveolar
basialveolar
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the basion and the alveolus (or to their separation)
basinerved
basiventral
basiventral
adj
At the base of the front
basivertebral
basivertebral
adj
Of or pertaining to the base or centrum of a vertebral structure
baskerville
baskerville
Proper noun
A serif typeface from the 18th century.
bassirilievi
bavardage
bavardage
noun
chatter, banter
bavaria
bavarian
bavarian
noun
A type of custard-like food, made with fruit.
bavarois
bavarois
noun
A pudding similar to pastry cream but thickened with gelatin or isinglass instead of flour or cornstarch, and flavoured with liqueur.
bavaroise
bavaroise
noun
(sometimes proscribed) A cold dessert made from custard, cream and gelatine.
A drink of sweetened milk, eggs and tea, often with some sort of spirit.
bavaroy
bavaroy
noun
(obsolete) A kind of cloak or surtout.
bavary
baviere
bdellovibrio
bearsville
beauvoir
beaver
beaver
noun
(Canada, US) Beaver pelts as an article of exchange or as a standard of value.
(US, offensive) A woman, especially one who is sexually attractive.
(chiefly Canada, US) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself; (attributively) denoting films or literature featuring nude women.
(countable) A beard or a bearded person.
(countable) A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
(countable) A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet.
(countable, backgammon) A move in response to being doubled, in which one immediately doubles the stakes again, keeping the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
(uncountable, historical) A game, in which points are scored by spotting beards.
A brown colour, like that of a beaver.
Alternative letter-case form of Beaver (“member of the youngest wing of the Scout movement”).
Alternative spelling of bevor (“part of a helmet”).
Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
Butter.
The fur of the beaver.
verb
(backgammon) After being doubled, to immediately double the stakes again, a move that keeps the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
(logging, slang) To cut a continuous ring around a tree that one is felling.
To form a felt-like texture, similar to the way beaver fur is used for felt-making.
To spot a beard in a game of beaver.
To work hard.
beaverboard
beaverboard
noun
A form of fiberboard made of wood pulp compressed into sheets.
beaverboards
beaverboards
noun
plural of beaverboard
beaverbrook
beaverdale
beavered
beavered
adj
(historical) Having or wearing a beaver (part of a helmet covering the lower face).