One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.
abactor
abactor
noun
(law, obsolete) One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves; a cattle rustler.
abbotcy
abbotcy
noun
(obscure) abbacy
office of the superior of a monastery.
abducts
abducts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abduct
abietic
abietic
adj
(organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to abietic acid or its derivatives
Of, pertaining to, or derived from fir trees
abiotic
abiotic
adj
Nonliving, inanimate, characterised by the absence of life; of inorganic matter.
Tending to inhibit or destroy life; antibiotic; incompatible with life.
noun
Any such material
abjunct
abjunct
adj
(obsolete) detached, disconnected
abreact
abreact
verb
(transitive, psychoanalysis) To eliminate previously repressed emotions by reliving past experiences.
abricot
acantha
acantha
noun
(anatomy) A spinous process of a vertebra.
(botany) A prickle.
(zoology) A spine or prickly fin.
acanthi
acastus
acatery
accents
accents
noun
plural of accent
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accent
accepts
accepts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accept
accoast
accoast
verb
(obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To lie or sail along the coast or side (of); to accost.
accompt
accompt
noun
(archaic) Account.
verb
(archaic) To account.
accosts
accosts
noun
plural of accost
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accost
account
account
noun
(accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.
(archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
(banking) A bank account.
(uncountable) Profit; advantage.
A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
A record of events; a relation or narrative.
A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
verb
(intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for).
(intransitive) To consider that.
(intransitive) To establish the location for someone.
(intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.
(intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.
(intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain.
(intransitive, now rare) To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc.
(obsolete) To count (up), enumerate.
(obsolete) To recount, relate (a narrative etc.).
(obsolete, transitive) To present an account of; to answer for, to justify.
(transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described).
(transitive, now rare) To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time).
accourt
accourt
verb
(obsolete) To treat courteously; to court.
accrete
accrete
adj
(botany) Grown together
Characterized by accretion; made up
verb
(intransitive) To adhere; to grow or to be added to gradually.
(intransitive) To grow together, combine; to fuse.
(transitive) To make adhere; to add; to make larger or more, as by growing.
accurst
accurst
adj
Archaic spelling of accursed.
verb
past participle of accurse
acepots
acepots
noun
Synonym of acepot
acerata
acerata
Adjective
Sharp? Sharpened?
acerate
acerate
adj
Acerose; needle-shaped; long and pointed
noun
(chemistry) A combination of aceric acid with a salifiable base.
acestes
acetals
acetals
noun
plural of acetal
acetars
acetary
acetary
noun
An acid pulp in certain fruits, such as the pear.
acetate
acetate
noun
(organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of acetic acid.
A transparent sheet used for overlays.
Cellulose acetate.
Ellipsis of acetate disc.: a disc of aluminium covered in a wax used to make demonstration copies of a phonograph record.
acetiam
acetify
acetify
verb
(intransitive) To turn acid
(transitive) To convert into acid or vinegar.
acetine
acetins
acetins
noun
plural of acetin
acetite
acetize
acetize
verb
(rare) To acetify.
acetoin
acetoin
noun
(organic chemistry) The compound 3-hydroxybutanone CH₃-CO-CH(OH)-CH₃ that is one of the constituents of the flavour of butter
acetone
acetone
noun
(organic chemistry) A colourless, volatile, flammable liquid ketone, (CH₃)₂CO, used as a solvent.
acetose
acetose
adj
Sour like vinegar; acetous.
acetous
acetous
adj
Causing, or connected with, acetification
Having a sour taste; sour; acid.
acetyls
acetyls
noun
plural of acetyl
achaeta
achates
achates
noun
plural of achate
achiest
achiest
adj
superlative form of achy: most achy
achiote
achiote
noun
A tropical American evergreen shrub, Bixa orellana; the lipstick tree.
An orange-red dye obtained from this seed.
The seed of this tree used as a colouring or in Latin American cooking.
achuete
acidite
acidity
acidity
noun
(figurative) A caustic, sour, biting, or bitter quality.
(pathology) Excessive acid quality, as in gastric secretions.
Sourness; tartness; sharpness to the taste.
The quality or state of being acid.
acineta
acmatic
acmatic
adj
(rare) relating to the acme of something, highest.
acocotl
acocotl
noun
(music) A Mexican musical instrument made from a gourd.
acolyte
acolyte
noun
(Christianity) An altar server.
(Christianity) One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic Church, being ordained to carry the wine, water and lights at Mass.
An attendant, assistant or follower.
acolyth
acolyth
noun
Obsolete form of acolyte.
aconite
aconite
noun
(toxicology) An extract or tincture obtained from Aconitum napellus, used as a poison and medicinally.
The herb wolfsbane, or monkshood; any plant of the genus Aconitum, all the species of which are poisonous.
acontia
acontia
noun
(zoology) Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidae), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniae when irritated.
acquent
acquest
acquest
noun
(law) Property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance.
(rare) Acquisition; the thing gained.
acquiet
acquiet
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To quiet.
acquist
acquist
noun
(obsolete) Acquisition; gain.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To acquire.
acquits
acquits
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acquit
acratia
acratia
noun
(medicine) Feebleness; impotence or lack of strength due to lack of tone.
acritan
acritan
noun
(obsolete) Any animal that is a member of the Acrita
acritol
acrobat
acrobat
noun
An athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination, often as part of a circus performance.
verb
(figurative) To move like an acrobat (with agility, balance, long leaps, etc.).
To practise acrobatics.
acroter
acroter
Noun
An acroterium.
acrotic
acrotic
adj
(medicine) Pertaining to or affecting the surface.
actable
actable
adj
Able to be acted, as by an actor.
actaeon
actinal
actinal
adj
(zoology) Pertaining to the axis of rotational symmetry in radiate animals.
(zoology) Pertaining to the side or surface around the mouth in an animal that has radial symmetry such as a starfish.
actings
actings
noun
plural of acting
actinia
actinia
noun
A sea anemone, specifically a member of the genus Actinia.
actinic
actinic
adj
Composed of actin.
Of or relating to actinism.
Related to or caused by radiation (used most often in reference to light, especially that in the ultraviolet range). In medicine, actinic keratoses usually occur in sundamaged skin and exhibit hyperkeratosis.
actinon
actinon
noun
(chemistry, physics, dated) Radon-219 (²¹⁹₈₆Rn; symbol An), an isotope of radon
(obsolete) Synonym of radon
(physics, dated) An actinide
actions
actions
noun
plural of action
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of action
actious
actious
adj
(obsolete) active; full of activity; full of energy.
actives
actives
noun
plural of active
activin
activin
noun
A peptide that participates in the regulation of the menstrual cycle, cell proliferation, apoptosis, metabolism, and many other diverse functions.
actless
actless
adj
Without action or spirit.
actress
actress
noun
(now rare) A female doer or "actor" (in a general sense).
A female who performs on the stage or in films.
actuals
actuals
noun
(accounting, project management) Documented historical results; things that have happened rather than things that are planned.
(business) Physical commodities or financial instruments which are traded in futures contracts.
plural of actual
actuary
actuary
noun
(dated) Registrar, clerk. [16th-19th c.]
A professional who calculates financial values associated with uncertain events subject to risk, such as insurance premiums or pension contributions.
actuate
actuate
verb
(transitive) To activate, or to put into motion; to animate.
(transitive) To incite to action; to motivate.
actuose
actuose
adj
(obsolete) Very active.
acustom
acutate
acutely
acutely
adv
In an acute manner
acutest
acutest
adj
superlative form of acute: most acute
acutish
acutish
adj
Somewhat acute.
acworth
acyetic
acylate
acylate
verb
(transitive, organic chemistry) To add one or more acyl groups to a compound.
acystia
adactyl
adactyl
adj
(obsolete, rare) Alternative spelling of adactylous
adcraft
addicts
addicts
noun
plural of addict
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of addict
adducts
adducts
noun
plural of adduct
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adduct
adicity
adicity
noun
(chemistry, obsolete) Valence.
adjunct
adjunct
adj
Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.
Connected in a subordinate function.
noun
(brewing) An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
(category theory) One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
(dated, metaphysics) A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.
(grammar) A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that modifies its meaning.
(music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
(rhetoric) Symploce.
(syntax, X-bar theory) A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
adtevac
adtevac
noun
A technique for drying blood plasma.
advects
advects
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advect
affects
affects
noun
plural of affect
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of affect
afflict
afflict
verb
(obsolete) To make low or humble.
(obsolete) To strike or cast down; to overthrow.
(transitive) To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.
agacant
agnatic
agnatic
adj
of the male bloodline; patrilineal
aitches
aitches
noun
plural of aitch
alantic
albitic
albitic
adj
Of or relating to the mineral albite.
alceste
alcoate
alcoate
noun
alcoholate
alecost
alecost
noun
The plant costmary (Tanacetum balsamita), formerly much used for flavouring ale.
alethic
alethic
adj
(logic) Of or pertaining to the various modalities of truth, such as the possibility or impossibility of something being true.
aleutic
algetic
algetic
adj
Producing or having relation to pain.
alicant
alicant
noun
A kind of wine, formerly much esteemed, said to have been made near Alicante in Spain.
aliptic
allicit
aloetic
aloetic
adj
Consisting chiefly of aloes; of the nature of aloes.
noun
A medicine containing mainly aloes.
ambatch
ambatch
noun
(countable) A raft made from bundles of the stems of this plant.
A large shrub or small tree found in and around water in the African tropics, Aeschynomene elaphroxylon, formerly used to make rafts due to its extremely lightweight wood.
amictus
amplect
amplect
verb
(formal) To embrace
amtrack
amtracs
amtracs
noun
plural of amtrac
amyctic
ancient
ancient
adj
(history) Relating to antiquity as a primarily European historical period; the time before the Middle Ages.
(obsolete) Experienced; versed.
(obsolete) Former; sometime.
Existent or occurring in time long past, usually in remote ages; belonging to or associated with antiquity; old, as opposed to modern.
Having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age, very old.
noun
(UK, law) One of the senior members of the Inns of Court or of Chancery.
(heraldry, archaic) A flag, banner, standard or ensign.
(obsolete) A senior; an elder; a predecessor.
(obsolete, rare) the bearer of a flag; ensign
A person who is very old.
A person who lived in ancient times.
anfract
annicut
annicut
noun
Alternative form of anicut
anoetic
anoetic
adj
(rare) unthinkable; incapable of being thought
Of or relating to anoesis.
anstice
antacid
antacid
adj
Counteracting or neutralizing acidity, especially in the stomach. [from 18th c.]
noun
An agent that counteracts or neutralizes acidity, especially in the stomach. [from 18th c.]
anteact
anteact
noun
A preceding act.
antical
antical
adj
(botany) Of or pertaining to the surface of a prostrate thallus that is oriented away from the substrate.
(botany) Oriented towards the apex.
anticar
anticar
adj
Opposed to automobiles or the excessive use of automobiles
noun
An automobile that defies the normal idea of a car
anticks
anticks
noun
plural of antick
antickt
anticly
anticly
adv
In an odd or grotesque manner.
anticor
anticor
noun
(obsolete) A dangerous inflammatory swelling of a horse's breast, just opposite the heart.
anticum
anticus
antioch
antioch
Proper noun
the name of a number of cities founded by kings of the Seleucid dynasty, the most famous being "Antioch on the Orontes" in ancient Syria (modern-day Antakya in south-eastern Turkey).
A city in California.
A village in Illinois.
An unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Clinton County, Indiana, USA
An unincorporated community in Wright Township, Greene County, Indiana, USA
An unincorporated community in Pike Township, Jay County, Indiana, USA
An unincorporated community in Posey Township, Switzerland County, Indiana, USA
A ghost town in Nebraska.
A village in Ohio.
antoeci
antoeci
noun
The inhabitants at two points on the globe that share a longitude and for which the sum of their degrees of latitude equals zero.
apathic
apeptic
apeptic
adj
Having or relating to apepsy.
aphetic
aphetic
adj
(astrology) Of or relating to the apheta; life-giving.
(phonology) Of, relating to, or formed by aphesis.
aphotic
aphotic
adj
Having no light, especially no sunlight; specifically (biology, oceanography) describing that part of deep lakes and oceans where less than one per cent of sunlight penetrates and where photosynthesis is not possible.
aphthic
aphthic
adj
Of or relating to aphtha.
aplitic
aplitic
adj
(geology) Composed of, or relating to, aplite.
apocyte
apocyte
noun
(cytology) A multinucleate cell
apomict
apomict
noun
(botany, zoology) Any apomictic plant or organism.
apothec
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
aprocta
aptotic
aptotic
adj
(biology, rare) Misspelling of apoptotic.
(grammar, linguistics, now rare) Uninflected.
aquatic
aquatic
adj
Relating to water; living in or near water, taking place in water.
noun
Any aquatic plant.
archest
archest
adj
superlative form of arch: most arch
verb
(archaic) second-person singular simple present form of arch