simple past tense and past participle of acuminate
acusection
acutograve
adagiettos
adagiettos
noun
plural of adagietto
adairville
adamancies
adamancies
noun
plural of adamancy
adamantean
adamantean
adj
Of adamant; hard as adamant.
adamantine
adamantine
adj
Like the diamond in hardness or luster.
Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated.
adamellite
adamellite
noun
(mineralogy) monzonite
adamsville
adaptative
adaptative
adj
Of or pertaining to adaptation; adaptive.
adaptitude
adaptitude
noun
Adaptedness; special aptitude.
adaptively
adaptively
adv
In an adaptive manner; with adaptation; in a fitting manner
addictives
addictives
noun
plural of addictive
addieville
additament
additament
noun
(archaic) An addition; something added.
additiment
additively
additively
adv
In an additive manner.
addlebrain
addlebrain
noun
An addlebrained person.
addlepated
addlepated
adj
Addled; confused; stupid; flustered.
addressees
addressees
noun
plural of addressee
addressers
addressers
noun
plural of addresser
addressful
addressful
adj
(archaic) adroit; resourceful
addressing
addressing
noun
(computing) Any of several methods of locating and accessing information within storage
(linguistics) A mode, manner, or form of direct speech to an audience.
A process of putting a person's name and address on an item of mail
verb
present participle of address
adduceable
adduceable
adj
Able to be adduced.
adelantado
adelantado
noun
(historical) A governor of a province; a commander, in Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries.
adelarthra
adendritic
adendritic
adj
(biology) (of a neuron) Not having dendrites.
(biology) (of other cells) Not having cytoplasmic processes.
Not having a branching structure, not tree-like.
adenectomy
adenectomy
noun
(medicine) The removal of all or part of the adenoid glands by surgery.
adenitises
adenitises
noun
plural of adenitis
adenoblast
adenoblast
noun
(cytology) An embryonic cell that can develop to form glandular parenchyma
adenodynia
adenodynia
noun
(pathology) pain in a gland; adenalgia
adenoidism
adenoidism
noun
adenoiditis
adenomyoma
adenomyoma
noun
A complex tumor including components derived from glands and muscle.
adenoneure
adenopathy
adenopathy
noun
(pathology) Swelling or enlargement of the glands (especially the lymph nodes); any glandular disease.
adenophora
adenophore
adenophyma
adenostoma
adenotomic
adenotomic
adj
Pertaining to adenotomy (the dissection of or incision into a gland).
adenoviral
adenoviral
adj
(medicine) Of, pertaining to, or caused by an adenovirus
adenovirus
adenovirus
noun
(medicine) Any virus of the family Adenoviridae, many of which are responsible for respiratory infections in humans
adephagous
adephagous
adj
Relating to the Adephaga
greedy, gluttonous
adequacies
adequacies
noun
plural of adequacy
adequately
adequately
adv
Barely satisfactory or sufficient.
In an adequate manner.
Sufficient to satisfy a requirement or meet a need; sufficiently; satisfactorily.
adequation
adequation
noun
(linguistics) A change in the meaning of a term depending upon context
(obsolete) The act of equalizing; act or result of making adequate; an equivalent.
equivalence
adequative
adequative
adj
(rare) equivalent or sufficient; adequate.
adfreezing
adherences
adherences
noun
plural of adherence
adherently
adherently
adv
In an adherent manner.
adhesional
adhesional
adj
Relating to adhesion.
adhesively
adhesively
adv
In an adhesive manner; by adhesion.
adiathetic
adiathetic
adj
Not diathetic.
adipescent
adipescent
adj
(medicine) Developing fatty deposits.
adiphenine
adiphenine
Noun
An antispasmodic drug.
adipogenic
adipogenic
adj
(biology) That forms fat, or fatty tissue; lipogenic
adipometer
adipometer
noun
A calliper used to estimate the amount of internal fat by measuring the thickness of a fold of skin
adipopexia
adipopexia
noun
Alternative form of adipopexis
adipopexic
adipopexis
adipopexis
noun
(physiology) The storage of fat in tissue.
adjacently
adjacently
adv
In such a way as to be adjacent.
adjectival
adjectival
adj
(grammar) Of or relating to or functioning as an adjective.
(law) Of or relating to procedure, especially to technicalities thereof.
noun
An adjectival phrase or clause.
adjectives
adjectives
noun
plural of adjective
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adjective
adjoinedly
adjoinedly
adv
In an adjoined manner; connectedly.
adjudgment
adjudgment
noun
The action of imposing judgment.
adjudicate
adjudicate
verb
(Scotland, law) To seize, or convey, a debtor's estate as security.
To act as a judge.
To settle a legal case or other dispute.
adjunctive
adjunctive
adj
(logic) the property of two operations x and y, such that ax(ayb) = a, and ay(axb) = a
additional; neither basic nor primary
forming an adjunct
noun
(grammar) a connector joining two components of the same weight, such as a coordinating conjunction
(manufacturing) a substance added as a supplement; often in the phrase "additives and adjunctives."
adjustable
adjustable
adj
capable of being adjusted
noun
Anything that can be adjusted.
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
adjustores
adlegation
adlegation
noun
A right formerly claimed by the states of the German Empire of joining their own ministers with those of the emperor in public treaties and negotiations to the common interest of the empire.
adlumidine
admeasured
admeasured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of admeasure
admeasurer
admeasurer
noun
Agent noun of admeasure; one who admeasures.
administer
administer
verb
(intransitive) To minister (to).
(law) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
(medicine) To give a drug to a patient, be it orally or by any other means.
(transitive) To apportion out, distribute.
(transitive) To cause to ingest (a drug), either by openly offering or through deceit.
(transitive) To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity.
To give, as an oath.
admirative
admirative
adj
Characterized by admiration.
noun
(An instance of) a verb form similar to mirative, found primarily in some languages of the Balkan sprachbund (i.e. namely Albanian, Bulgarian and Macedonian), which expresses surprise, irony, doubt, or reportedness on the part of the speaker (compare mirative).
admissable
admissable
adj
Alternative spelling of admissible
admissible
admissible
adj
(artificial intelligence) Describing a heuristic that never overestimates the cost of reaching a goal.
Capable or deserving to be admitted, accepted or allowed; allowable, permissible, acceptable.
admittable
admittable
adj
Able to be admitted.
admittance
admittance
noun
(Britain, law) The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate.
(physics) The reciprocal of impedance
Actual entrance, reception.
Permission to enter, the power or right of entrance.
The act of admitting.
admittedly
admittedly
adv
As is acknowledged to be true; by general admission; confessedly.
admittible
admittible
adj
Archaic spelling of admittable.
admixtures
admixtures
noun
plural of admixture
admonished
admonished
verb
simple past tense and past participle of admonish
admonisher
admonisher
noun
One who admonishes.
admonishes
admonishes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of admonish
admonitive
admonitive
adj
Of or conveying admonition
adnascence
adnascence
noun
Adhesion of parts to each other by the whole surface.
adnephrine
adnexopexy
adolescent
adolescent
adj
Of, relating to, or at the age of adolescence; at the stage between being a child and an adult.
noun
A person who is in adolescence; someone who has reached puberty but is not yet an adult.
adolescing
adolescing
verb
present participle of adolesce
adoptative
adoptative
adj
(rare) adoptive
adoptively
adoptively
adv
In a adoptive manner; by adoption.
adornments
adornments
noun
plural of adornment
adoxaceous
adramelech
adrenaline
adrenaline
noun
(biochemistry) epinephrine, the hormone and neurotransmitter.
Excitement; thrills.
adrenalize
adrenalize
verb
American spelling and Oxford British English standard spelling of adrenalise.
adrenalone
adrenalone
noun
An adrenergic agonist used as a topical vasoconstrictor and hemostatic.
adrenergic
adrenergic
adj
Activated by an adrenal mechanism
Containing or releasing adrenaline.
Having the quality of adrenaline or epinephrine.
noun
Any adrenergic compound
adrianople
adroitness
adroitness
noun
skillfulness or ease of ability.
adscendent
adscripted
adscripted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of adscript
adsorbable
adsorbable
adj
Able to be adsorbed
adsorbates
adsorbates
noun
plural of adsorbate
adsorbents
adsorbents
noun
plural of adsorbent
adsorptive
adsorptive
adj
Pertaining to, tending toward, or characterized by adsorption.
noun
Any substance that adsorbs.
adterminal
adulatress
adulatress
noun
(archaic) A female adulator.
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.
adulterant
adulterant
noun
That which adulterates, or reduces the purity of something.
adulterate
adulterate
adj
Corrupted or made impure by being mixed with something else; adulterated.
Tending to commit adultery; relating to or being the product of adultery; adulterous.
verb
(intransitive, also figuratively, archaic) To commit adultery.
(transitive) To corrupt, to debase (someone or something).
(transitive) To make less valuable or spoil (something) by adding impurities or other substances.
(transitive, archaic) To commit adultery with (someone).
(transitive, archaic) To defile (someone) by adultery.
adulterers
adulterers
noun
plural of adulterer
adulteress
adulteress
noun
A female adulterer, a married woman or wife who commits adultery.
adulteries
adulteries
noun
plural of adultery
adulterine
adulterine
adj
Born of adultery.
Illegal; unlicensed.
Pertaining to adultery.
Spurious; due to adulteration.
noun
(rare) One born of an adulterous union.
adulterize
adulterize
verb
(intransitive, largely obsolete) To commit adultery.
(transitive, intransitive, uncommon) To adulterate.
adulterous
adulterous
adj
Of, or characterized by adultery.
adulticide
adulticide
noun
A pesticide designed to kill adult insects rather than their larvae.
verb
(transitive) To treat with adulticide.
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
advantaged
advantaged
adj
(of a person) Financially secure; elite and economically successful.
Having been given an advantage, such as by biased referees in a competition.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of advantage
advantages
advantages
noun
plural of advantage
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advantage
advenience
advenience
noun
The property of being advenient.
adventists
adventitia
adventitia
noun
(anatomy, histology) The outermost layer of epithelial tissue encasing a visceral organ.
adventured
adventured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of adventure
adventurer
adventurer
noun
(video games) A player of adventure games or text adventures.
A person who seeks a fortune in new and possibly dangerous enterprises.
A person who tries to advance their social position by somewhat devious means.
A soldier of fortune, a speculator.
One who enjoys adventures.
adventures
adventures
noun
plural of adventure
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adventure
adverbless
adverbless
adj
Without an adverb or adverbs.
adversaria
adversaria
noun
(plural only, obsolete) A collection of notes or commentaries; a commonplace book.
(plural only, obsolete) Originally, a book of accounts, so named from the placing of debt and credit in opposition to each other.
advertence
advertence
noun
The quality of being advertent
advertency
advertency
noun
The quality of being advertent.
advertised
advertised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of advertise
advertisee
advertisee
noun
One who views or reads an advertisement; the target of advertising.
advertiser
advertiser
noun
A periodical in which advertisements can be published by individuals.
One who advertises.
advertises
advertises
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advertise
advertized
advertized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of advertize
advertizer
advertizer
noun
One who advertizes.
advertizes
advertizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advertize
advisement
advisement
noun
(archaic) Advice, counsel.
(now US) Consideration or deliberation.
advisories
advisories
noun
plural of advisory
advocacies
advocacies
noun
plural of advocacy
advocatess
advocatess
noun
(rare, obsolete) A female advocate.
advocative
advocative
adj
(law) Related to advocation
advowsance
aeciospore
aeciospore
noun
(botany) A binucleate spore of a rust fungus, formed in a chainlike series in an aecium.
aeciostage
aeciotelia
aedilberct
aedileship
aedileship
noun
(historical) The office of an aedile.
(historical) The period or duration of this office.