Foolish; absurd; ridiculous; inclined to incessant merriment or laughter.
abderite
abderite
Noun
An inhabitant or native of Abdera, in Thrace.
Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher.
abdicate
abdicate
verb
(intransitive) To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.
(transitive) To surrender, renounce or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; to fail to fulfill responsibility for.
(transitive, obsolete) To depose.
(transitive, obsolete) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
(transitive, obsolete) To reject; to cast off; to discard.
(transitive, reflexive, obsolete) To formally separate oneself from or to divest oneself of.
abditive
abditive
adj
(rare) Having the quality of hiding
abdomens
abdomens
noun
plural of abdomen
abducens
abducens
noun
(anatomy) Ellipsis of abducens nerve.
abducent
abducent
adj
(obsolete) Drawing away from the median axis of the body, as a muscle; see etymology abducting.
noun
(neuroanatomy) An abducens nerve.
That which abducts.
abducted
abducted
adj
Having been kidnapped; having become the victim of an abduction
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abduct
abednego
abednego
Proper noun
One of the captives in the Bible who came out of the fiery furnace unharmed.
aberdare
aberdeen
aberdeen
Proper noun
A port city in Scotland, on the North Sea.
A former county in northeastern Scotland; see
A in Florida
A village in the State of Georgia
A city in Idaho
A in Porter County, Indiana
A city in eastern Maryland, home of the Aberdeen Proving Grounds.
A city in Mississippi
A town in New South Wales
A town in North Carolina
A community in Nova Scotia
A village in Ohio
A community in Ontario
A town in Saskatchewan
A town in Eastern Cape, South Africa
A city in northeastern South Dakota, USA, and the county seat of Brown County.
A city in Washington
Noun
A wide evenly curved fishhook. 1976
abhorred
abhorred
adj
(obsolete) Horrified.
Strongly disliked: hated, despised.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abhor
abidance
abidance
noun
Adherence; compliance; conformity.
The act of abiding or continuing; abode; stay; continuance; dwelling.
abjudged
abjudged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abjudge
aboideau
aboideau
noun
(Canada, Acadian) A tide gate, designed to protect marshland, so constructed as to let out water at low tide, but to prevent an influx of water at high tide.
abounded
abounded
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abound
abounder
abounder
noun
One who has plenty, one who abounds (in something).
abraders
abraders
noun
plural of abrader
abridged
abridged
adj
Cut or shortened, especially of a literary work.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abridge
abridger
abridger
noun
One who abridges.
abridges
abridges
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abridge
abscised
abscised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abscise
abseiled
abseiled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abseil
absented
absented
verb
simple past tense and past participle of absent
absolved
absolved
verb
simple past tense and past participle of absolve
absorbed
absorbed
adj
Fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed.
Something that has been absorbed, taken in, engulfed, imbibed, or assimilated.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of absorb
abstrude
abstrude
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To thrust away.
absurder
absurder
adj
comparative form of absurd: more absurd
abulfeda
abusedly
abusedly
adv
In an abused manner.
academes
academes
noun
plural of academe
academia
academia
noun
(collective) The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole.
Continuous study at higher education institutions; scholarship.
academic
academic
adj
(art) Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.
Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato
Having a love of or aptitude for learning.
Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance.
In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.
So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters.
Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.
noun
(archaic) A student in a college.
(plural only) Academic dress; academicals.
(plural only) Academic studies.
(usually capitalized) A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
A member of the Academy; an academician.
A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.
academie
academus
acardite
acardite
noun
(organic chemistry) n-methyl-n',n'-diphenylurea, used to stabilize chemicals and as a plasticizer.
acaridae
acaridea
acaudate
acaudate
adj
(biology, zoology) Tailless.
acceders
acceders
noun
plural of acceder
acceding
acceding
verb
present participle of accede
accensed
accensed
adj
(obsolete) kindled
accented
accented
verb
simple past tense and past participle of accent
accepted
accepted
adj
Generally approved, believed, or recognized.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of accept
accessed
accessed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of access
accident
accident
adj
(transport) Designating any form of transportation involved in an accident.
noun
(derogatory or humorous) A person born from an unintended pregnancy.
(euphemistic) An instance of incontinence.
(euphemistic) An unintended pregnancy.
(geology) A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground.
(geology) An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
(grammar) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.
(heraldry) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
(law) casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
(transport) A collision or crash of a vehicle, aircraft, or other form of transportation that causes damage to the transportation involved; and sometimes injury or death to the transportation's occupants or bystanders in close proximity. (but see Usage notes)
(uncountable) Chance; random chance.
An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans.
Any chance event.
Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive.
Urine or feces excreted due to incontinence.
accidies
accinged
accinged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of accinge
accolade
accolade
noun
(US) Written Presidential certificate recognizing service by military personnel or civilians serving the US armed forces who died or were wounded in action between 1917 and 1918, or who died in service between 1941 and 1947, or died of wounds received in Korea between June 27, 1950 and July 27, 1954.
(architecture) An ornament composed of two ogee curves meeting in the middle, each concave toward its outer extremity and convex toward the point at which it meets the other.
(historical) A salutation marking the conferring of knighthood, consisting of an embrace or a kiss, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat of a sword.
(music) A brace used to join two or more staves.
A special acknowledgment; an award.
An embrace of greeting or salutation.
An expression of approval; praise.
Synonym of curly bracket
verb
(transitive) To confer praise or awards on.
(transitive) To embrace or kiss in salutation.
(transitive, historical) To confer a knighthood on.
accolled
accolled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of accoll
accorded
accorded
verb
simple past tense and past participle of accord
accorder
accorder
noun
(rare) One who accords.
accosted
accosted
adj
(heraldry) Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side
verb
simple past tense and past participle of accost
accredit
accredit
verb
(transitive) To ascribe; attribute; credit with.
(transitive) To believe; to put trust in.
(transitive) To certify as meeting a predetermined standard; to certify an educational institution as upholding the specified standards necessary for the students to advance.
(transitive) To enter on the credit side of an account book.
(transitive) To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.
(transitive) To recognize as outstanding.
(transitive) To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate.
(transitive, literally) To credit.
accreted
accreted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of accrete
accursed
accursed
adj
(archaic, theology) Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; anathematized.
(prenominal) Hateful; detestable, loathsome.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of accurse
acediast
acediast
noun
A person who has acedia
aceldama
aceldama
noun
A field of bloodshed, a place of slaughter.
The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his master, and therefore called the field of blood.
acerated
acerated
adj
Synonym of acerate
acetamid
acetamid
noun
Obsolete spelling of acetamide
acetated
acetated
adj
(chemistry) Combined with acetic acid.
acetylid
acheweed
achieved
achieved
adj
(of a goal or status) Having been reached, attained or accomplished.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of achieve
acidemia
acidemia
noun
Alternative form of acidaemia
acidhead
acidhead
noun
(slang, derogatory) A person who uses the hallucinogenic drug LSD.
acidized
acidized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of acidize
acidness
acidness
noun
acidity, sourness
acidoses
acidoses
noun
plural of acidosis
acquired
acquired
adj
(medicine) Developed after birth; not congenital.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of acquire
acredula
acridane
acridane
noun
Alternative form of acridan
acridest
acridest
adj
superlative form of acrid: most acrid
acridine
acridine
noun
(countable, organic chemistry) Any of many derivatives of this compound
(uncountable, organic chemistry) A tricyclic aromatic heterocycle, dibenzopyridine, obtained from coal tar; it is used in the manufacture of dyes and drugs
acridone
acridone
noun
(organic chemistry) An tricyclic heterocyclic ketone derived from acridine; any derivative of this compound
acritude
acritude
noun
acridity; pungency combined with heat.
actinide
actinide
noun
(chemistry) Any of the 14 elements from actinium to nobelium (lawrencium is excluded by some authors as it is a d-block rather than an f-block element).
(chemistry) Any of the 15 radioactive elements of the periodic table from actinium to lawrencium that are positioned under the lanthanides, to which they have similar chemistry.
(chemistry, dated) Any of the 14 elements from thorium to lawrencium (actinium having been mistakenly excluded because it was thought to be a d-block element in the past).
actuated
actuated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of actuate
acuerdos
acylated
acylated
adj
(organic chemistry) Having an acyl functional group; modified by addition of an acyl group
verb
simple past tense and past participle of acylate
adabelle
adalbert
adalheid
adamance
adamance
noun
The quality of being adamant
adamello
adamsite
adamsite
noun
An organic compound, diphenylaminechlorarsine, used as a riot-control agent.
adapters
adapters
noun
plural of adapter
adaptive
adaptive
adj
(psychology) Of a trait: that helps an individual to function well in society.
Capable of being adapted or of adapting; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change.
Of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable.
addebted
addebted
adj
(obsolete) indebted
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.
addicent
addicted
addicted
adj
Devoted to or obsessed with something.
Having a biochemical addiction.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of addict
addiment
addiment
noun
(immunology, archaic) Synonym of complement
additive
additive
adj
(chemistry) Pertaining to chemical addition.
(genetics) Of or pertaining to genes (or the interaction etc. of such genes) which govern the same trait and whose effects work together on the phenotype.
(group theory, of a group, semigroup, etc.) Whose operator is identified as addition.
(mathematics) Pertaining to addition; that can be, or has been, added.
(mathematics, of a function, etc.) That is distributive over addition.
noun
(grammar) A word or phrase that adds something, such as also, even, or nor.
A substance added to another substance or product to produce specific properties in the combined substance.
addorsed
addorsed
adj
(heraldry, of animals or wings) Set back to back, facing away from each other.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of addorse
addossed
adducent
adducent
adj
(physiology) Related to the muscles of the body which pull one part towards another.
adducers
adducers
noun
plural of adducer
adducted
adducted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of adduct
adeeming
adeeming
verb
present participle of adeem
adelaida
adelaide
adelante
adelanto
adelbert
adelheid
adelopod
adelopod
noun
(zoology) An animal having feet that are not apparent.
adelphia
adelphia
noun
Any plant of the genus Adelphia, of Latin America.
adelphic
adelphic
adj
Describing a form of polyandry in which a woman is married to two or more brothers
fraternal
adelphoi
adempted
adempted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of adempt
adenalgy
adenauer
adendric
adendric
adj
Not dendric.
adenines
adenines
noun
plural of adenine (multiple adenine molecules)
adenitis
adenitis
noun
(medicine, pathology) Glandular inflammation.
adenoids
adenoids
noun
plural of adenoid
adenomas
adenoses
adenoses
noun
plural of adenosis
adenosis
adenosis
noun
(medicine) Benign swelling, scarring or enlargement of the lymph glands; a minor, low-risk glandular condition.
adenylic
adenylic
adj
Of or pertaining to adenylic acid or its derivatives
adephaga
adeptest
adeptest
adj
(archaic) superlative form of adept: most adept
adeption
adeption
noun
(obsolete) An obtaining; attainment.
adequacy
adequacy
noun
The quality of being sufficient, adequate or able to meet the needs.
adequate
adequate
adj
Equal to or fulfilling some requirement.
det
A sufficient amount of; enough.
verb
(obsolete) To equal.
(obsolete) To equalize; to make adequate.
adermine
adespota
adespota
noun
(bibliography) Literary works not attributed to (or claimed by) an author. (Originally used as a title of collections of anonymous Greek poetry.)
adessive
adessive
adj
(grammar) of or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates adjacent location
noun
(grammar) the adessive case, or a word in that case.
adfected
adfected
adj
(algebra, archaic, of an equation) Having different powers of the unknown quantity in its various terms.
adffroze
adfreeze
adfrozen
adhafera
adherant
adherend
adherend
noun
That which adheres to something else by adhesion.
adherent
adherent
adj
(botany) Attaching or pressing against a different organ.
Adhesive, sticking to something.
Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.
noun
A person who has membership in some group, association or religion.
adherers
adherers
noun
plural of adherer
adhering
adhering
verb
present participle of adhere
adhesion
adhesion
noun
(biochemistry) The binding of a cell to a surface or substrate.
(medicine) An abnormal union of surface by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.
An agreement to adhere.
Persistent attachment or loyalty.
The ability of a substance to stick to an unlike substance.
The frictional grip on a surface, of wheels, shoes etc.
adhesive
adhesive
adj
apt or tending to adhere; clinging
sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances
noun
a substance, such as glue, that provides or promotes adhesion
adiposes
adiposes
noun
plural of adiposis
adjacent
adjacent
adj
(figuratively, postpositive) Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
Just before, after, or facing.
Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
noun
Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.
prep
(figuratively) Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
Next to; beside.
adjoined
adjoined
verb
simple past tense and past participle of adjoin
adjoiner
adjudged
adjudged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of adjudge
adjudger
adjudger
noun
One who adjudges.
adjudges
adjudges
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adjudge
adjugate
adjugate
noun
(mathematics) The transpose of the respective cofactor matrix, for a given matrix. One of the factors in calculating the inverse of a matrix. Commonly notated as adj(A), where A is the given matrix.
verb
(obsolete) To yoke an animal to something
adjument
adjument
noun
(obsolete) Help; support; that which or one who helps or supports.