(heraldry) Borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield.
Humbled; lowered, especially in rank, position, or prestige.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abase
abated
abated
adj
(decorative arts) Lowered, beaten down, or cut away, as the background of an ornamental pattern in relief. Used specifically of stone-cutting; also of metal when the pattern or inscription is to show bright on dark, and the ground is therefore worked out with the graving-tool and left rough or hatched in lines.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abate
abboud
abdali
abdest
abdest
noun
(Islam) The Islamic act of washing parts of the body using water for ritual prayers and for handling and reading the Qur'an.
abdias
abdiel
abduce
abduce
verb
(transitive) To draw a conclusion, especially in metanalysis; to deduce.
(transitive, obsolete) To draw; to conduct away; to take away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part; to move a limb out away from the center of the body; abduct.
abduct
abduct
verb
(transitive) To take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap.
(transitive, anatomy) To draw away, as a limb or other part, from the median axis of the body.
abedge
abends
abends
noun
plural of abend
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abend
abidal
abidal
noun
(obsolete) The act or condition of abiding; residence, stay.
abided
abider
abider
noun
(obsolete) One who abides, or continues.
One who dwells or stays; a resident.
abides
abides
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abide
ablend
ablude
ablude
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To be unlike; to differ.
aboard
aboard
adv
(baseball) On base.
(nautical) Alongside.
Into a team, group, or company.
On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.
On or onto a horse, a camel, etc.
prep
(obsolete) Across; athwart; alongside.
On board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane.
Onto a horse.
We all went aboard the ship.
abodah
aboded
aboded
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abode
abodes
abodes
noun
plural of abode
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abode
aborad
aborad
adv
(anatomy) Away from the oral opening or mouth (compare with ventral)
abound
abound
verb
(intransitive) To be copiously supplied
(intransitive) To be full to overflowing.
(intransitive) To be highly productive.
(intransitive) To be present or available in large numbers or quantities; to be plentiful.
(intransitive) To revel in.
(intransitive, obsolete) To be wealthy.
abrade
abrade
verb
(intransitive) To undergo abrasion.
(transitive) Obsolete spelling of abraid
(transitive) To cause the surface to become more rough.
(transitive) To irritate by rubbing; chafe.
(transitive) To rub or wear off; erode.
(transitive) To wear down or exhaust, as a person; irritate.
abraid
abraid
adv
Alternative form of abread
verb
(intransitive, archaic) To spring, start, make a sudden movement.
(intransitive, obsolete) To wake up.
(intransitive, transitive, obsolete) To shout out.
(transitive, obsolete) To rise in the stomach with nausea.
(transitive, obsolete) To wrench (something) out.
abreed
abreed
Adverb
Abroad. 1976
abreid
abroad
abroad
adv
(dated) At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space.
(dated) Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; moving without restriction.
(dated) Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode.
(sports) Played elsewhere than one's home grounds.
Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries.
Not on target; astray; in error; confused; dazed.
noun
(rare, Scotland) Countries or lands abroad.
prep
Throughout, over.
abrood
abrood
adj
(obsolete) Upon a brood; hatching eggs.
adv
(figurative) Mischief.
(obsolete) Upon a brood; on a hatch.
absurd
absurd
adj
(obsolete) Inharmonious; dissonant.
Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; silly.
Dealing with absurdism.
Having no rational or orderly relationship to people's lives; meaningless; lacking order or value.
noun
(obsolete) An absurdity.
(philosophy, often preceded by the) The opposition between the human search for meaning in life and the inability to find any; the state or condition in which man exists in an irrational universe and his life has no meaning outside of his existence.
abused
abused
adj
(obsolete) Deluded, deceived.
Having been a victim of some form of abuse, most commonly child abuse or domestic violence.
Overused; used profligately or in excess.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abuse
abydos
abydos
Proper noun
A ancient city in Egypt with archaeological interest.
A city in Asia Minor at the Hellespont.
acadia
acadie
acarid
acarid
adj
(zoology) Of or pertaining to acarids.
noun
(zoology) Any parasitic arachnid, such as mites and ticks, of the subclass Acarina.
accede
accede
verb
(archaic, intransitive) To approach; to arrive, to come forward.
(intransitive) To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way.
(intransitive) To become a party to an agreement or a treaty.
(intransitive) To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position).
(intransitive, now rare) To give one's adhesion; to join up with (a group, etc.); to become part of.
accend
accend
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To set on fire; to kindle.
accord
accord
noun
(countable, perfumery) A distinctive mixture of fragrances or the odor thereof.
(international law) An international agreement.
(law) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
(obsolete) Assent
A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
Agreement or harmony of things in general.
Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.
verb
(intransitive) To agree in pitch and tone.
(intransitive) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.
(intransitive, archaic) To arrive at an agreement.
(intransitive, obsolete) To give consent.
(transitive) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
(transitive) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
(transitive, law) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
acedia
acedia
noun
Apathy; a lack of care or interest; indifference.
Boredom.
Spiritual or mental sloth.
achmed
acider
acider
adj
comparative form of acid: more acid
acidic
acidic
adj
(chemistry) Having a pH less than 7, or being sour, or having the strength to neutralize alkalis, or turning a litmus paper red.
(mineralogy) Containing a high percentage of silica; opposed to basic.
Of or relating to acid; having the character of an acid.
acidly
acidly
adv
sourly; tartly
acidyl
acidyl
noun
(dated, organic chemistry) acyl
acloud
acloud
adj
(poetic) Made cloudy; clouded.
acnida
acnode
acnode
noun
(geometry) An isolated point not upon a curve, but whose coordinates satisfy the equation of the curve so that it is considered as belonging to the curve.
actiad
adabel
adachi
adachi
Proper noun
A special ward in Tokyo that is surrounded by (clockwise from north) Saitama Prefecture, Katsushika, Sumida, Arakawa, and Kita special wards
adages
adages
noun
plural of adage
adagio
adagio
adv
(music) Played rather slowly.
noun
(dance) A male-female duet or mixed trio ballet displaying demanding balance, spins and/or lifts.
(music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played rather slowly, leisurely and gracefully.
adaiha
adaize
adalai
adalat
adalia
adalid
adalie
adamas
adamec
adamek
adamic
adamic
Adjective
Of, relating to, or resembling the Biblical character Adam.
adamik
adamis
adamok
adance
adance
adv
Dancing.
adapid
adapid
noun
(zoology) Any extinct primate of the family Adapidae
adapis
adapts
adapts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adapt
adarme
adarme
noun
(historical) A traditional Spanish unit of mass, equivalent to about 1.8 g.
(historical) Synonym of peso, during periods when it was a Spanish coin notionally equivalent to an adarme of gold.
adatis
adatis
noun
plural of adati
adatom
adatom
noun
(materials science) An atom that lies on a crystal surface
adaunt
adaunt
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To subdue.
adaurd
adcons
addams
addeem
addeem
verb
(transitive, now rare, archaic) To adjudge; to try, test.
(transitive, obsolete) To deem; think; judge; esteem; account; determine; be of an opinion.
addend
addend
noun
(mathematics) Addendum, any one of two or more numbers or other terms that are to be added together.
(organic chemistry) A moiety added to another molecule.
verb
(organic chemistry) To furnish with an addend.
To furnish with an addendum.
adders
adders
noun
plural of adder
addice
addice
noun
(archaic) An adze.
addict
addict
noun
A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug
An adherent or fan (of something)
verb
(reflexive, now rare, archaic) To devote (oneself) to a given activity, occupation, thing etc.
(reflexive, obsolete) To devote or pledge (oneself) to a given person, cause etc.
(transitive) To make (someone) become devoted to a given thing or activity; to cause to be addicted.
(transitive, Ancient Rome) To deliver (someone or something) following a judicial decision.
(transitive, now rare, archaic) To devote (one's mind, talent etc.) to a given activity, occupation, thing etc.
(transitive, obsolete) To bind (a person or thing) to the service of something.
addiel
adding
adding
verb
present participle of add
addita
addled
addled
adj
(obsolete) Morbid, corrupt, putrid, or barren.
(of eggs) Bad, rotten; inviable, containing a dead embryo.
Confused; mixed up.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of addle
addles
addles
noun
plural of addle
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of addle
addoom
addoom
verb
(obsolete) To adjudge.
adduce
adduce
verb
(transitive) To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
adduct
adduct
noun
(chemistry) The product of an addition reaction.
verb
(transitive, physiology) To draw towards a center or a middle line.
adeems
adeems
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adeem
adelea
adelia
adella
adelle
adempt
adempt
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To take away.
adenia
adenia
noun
(dated) Synonym of lymphadenia.
Any plant in the genus Adenia, especially those which, like the genus Adenium (family Apocynaceae), are grown by collectors for their distinctive swollen stems or trunks.
adenin
adenyl
adenyl
noun
(biochemistry) The univalent radical derived from adenine.
adeona
adepts
adepts
noun
plural of adept
adesmy
adesmy
noun
(botany) The division or defective coherence of an organ that is usually whole.
adeste
adhaka
adhaka
noun
An ancient Indian unit of weight, equivalent to around 2.5 kilograms.
adhamh
adhara
adhere
adhere
verb
(Scotland, law) To affirm a judgment.
(intransitive) To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united.
(intransitive, figurative) To be attached or devoted by personal union, in belief, on principle, etc.
(intransitive, figurative) To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree.
adhern
adhort
adhort
verb
(obsolete) To exhort; to advise.
adiana
adiate
adiate
verb
(South Africa, law) To receive an inheritance.
adicea
adiell
adient
adieus
adieux
adieux
noun
plural of adieu
adigei
adighe
adight
adight
Verb
To set in order; to array.
adigun
adipic
adipic
adj
(organic chemistry) Of, or derived from adipic acid.
(organic chemistry) Pertaining to, or derived from, fatty or oily substances; applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid.
adipsy
adipsy
noun
Archaic form of adipsia.
adipyl
adipyl
noun
(organic chemistry) The univalent radical obtained by removing the only one hydroxyl group from adipic acid
adipoyl
adital
aditio
aditus
aditus
noun
the entrance to a cavity or channel
aditya
aditya
Noun
Any of a group of solar deities, the sons of Aditi and Kashyapa.
Proper noun
name used in India.
adject
adject
verb
(obsolete) To annex
adjiga
adjoin
adjoin
verb
(transitive) To be in contact or connection with.
(transitive, mathematics, chiefly algebra and number theory) To extend an algebraic object (e.g. a field, a ring, etc.) by adding to it (an element not belonging to it) and all finite power series of (the element).
adjure
adjure
verb
(transitive) To earnestly appeal to or advise; to charge solemnly.
(transitive, often law) To issue a formal command.
adjust
adjust
verb
(intransitive) To change to fit circumstances.
(transitive) To improve or rectify.
(transitive) To modify.
(transitive) To settle an insurance claim.
adjute
adjute
verb
(obsolete) To add.
adkins
adlare
adless
adless
adj
Without ads (advertising).
admass
admass
noun
(dated, Britain) That part of society that is influenced by mass media advertising.
admete
admire
admire
verb
(US, dialectal, rare) To be enthusiastic about (doing something); to want or like (to do something). (Sometimes followed by to.)
(obsolete, transitive) To be amazed at; to view with surprise; to marvel at.
(transitive) To estimate or value highly; to hold in high esteem.
(transitive) To look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love or reverence.
(transitive) To regard with wonder and delight.
admits
admits
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of admit
admixt
admixt
verb
simple past tense and past participle of admix; alternative spelling of admixed
admove
admove
verb
(obsolete) To move or conduct to or toward.
adnate
adnate
adj
(botany, mycology) Linked or fused to a structure of a type different from itself; for example, attachment of a stamen to a petal is adnate, while attachment of a stamen to another stamen is connate.
(zoology) Growing with one side adherent to a stem; applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals. in fish, having the eyes fused and unable to rotate independently
adnexa
adnexa
noun
(anatomy) The appendages of an organ, such as the Fallopian tubes of the uterus.
adnoun
adnoun
noun
(grammar) an adjective used as a noun (sensu stricto), an absolute adjective
(grammar, dated) an adjective
adobes
adobes
noun
plural of adobe
adobos
adobos
noun
plural of adobo
adolfo
adolph
adonai
adonia
adonic
adonic
Adjective
Of or pertaining to Adonis.
Very beautiful or handsome; physically perfect.
having a dactyl followed by either a spondee or a trochee.