Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ablegate
abnegated
abnegated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abnegate
abnegates
abnegates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abnegate
abnegator
abnegator
noun
(rare) One who abnegates, denies, or rejects.
abrogated
abrogated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abrogate
abrogates
abrogates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abrogate
absenting
absenting
verb
present participle of absent
absterged
absterged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of absterge
absterges
absterges
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of absterge
abthanage
abthanage
noun
Alternative form of abthanery
accenting
accenting
verb
present participle of accent
accepting
accepting
adj
Characterized by acceptance.
verb
present participle of accept
accreting
accreting
verb
present participle of accrete
adagietto
adagietto
adv
(music) More lighthearted than adagio.
noun
(music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played slightly faster than adagio.
adjustage
adjustage
noun
(rare, obsolete) Adjustment.
adstringe
advantage
advantage
noun
(countable) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable or chance to success, or to any desired end.
(countable, uncountable) Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit
(obsolete) Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.
(soccer) The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position.
(tennis) The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.
Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
verb
(reflexive) to do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of
(transitive) to provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to
advecting
advecting
verb
present participle of advect
adverting
adverting
verb
present participle of advert
aeginetan
aeginetan
Adjective
Of or relating to Aegina.
Noun
An inhabitant of Aegina.
aeginetic
aegisthus
aegisthus
Proper noun
The murderer of Agamemnon and lover of his wife Clytemnestra.
aegritude
aegrotant
aetheling
aetheogam
aetheogam
noun
(botany) A cryptogam; a plant of the obsolete taxonomic class Cryptogamia, having neither stamina nor pistils, and therefore no proper flowers, such as an alga, fern, fungus, lichen or moss.
aetiology
aetiology
noun
(medicine, countable) A cause of disease or of any particular case of a disease (but see pathology § Usage notes).
(medicine, uncountable) The study or investigation of the causes of disease; a scientific explanation for the origin of a disease.
The establishment of a cause, origin, or reason for something.
The study of causes or causation.
affecting
affecting
adj
Producing or causing strong feelings and emotions.
verb
present participle of affect
affreight
affreight
verb
To hire (a ship etc.) for the transportation of freight.
afghanets
aftergame
aftergame
noun
(archaic) A second game played to reverse the outcome of the first; the means employed after the first turn of affairs.
(video games) Bonus features, dialogue, etc. accessed when a previously-beaten video game is revisited.
afterglow
afterglow
noun
An afterparty.
The glow seen in the sky after sunset.
The light emitted by a phosphor after excitation.
The light emitted by an incandescent object while cooling.
The mildly euphoric feeling experienced after a pleasurable experience, especially after an orgasm or drug-induced high.
aftergood
afterguns
afterings
afterings
noun
(by extension) The last of any substance that is of a poorer quality than the earlier substance, e.g. the dregs of coffee.
The last milk that is obtained when milking a cow. Often considered the poorest quality of milk.
afterking
aftersong
agastache
agastache
noun
A plant of genus Agastache, a giant hyssop.
agastreae
agatelike
agatelike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of agate.
agateware
agateware
noun
(ceramics) Pottery decorated with a combination of contrastingly coloured clays, designed to resemble the layers of colour in an agate stone.
agennetic
agentival
agentives
agentives
noun
plural of agentive
agentries
agentries
noun
plural of agentry
agentship
agentship
noun
(countable) The office or position of an agent.
(uncountable) A means of effecting something; agency.
ageratums
ageratums
noun
plural of ageratum
aggravate
aggravate
verb
(by extension) To make worse; to exacerbate.
(now chiefly colloquial) To exasperate; to provoke or irritate.
(now rare) To give extra weight or intensity to; to exaggerate, to magnify.
(obsolete) To pile or heap (something heavy or onerous) on or upon someone.
To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness.
aggregant
aggregant
noun
(medicine) Any drug that promotes the aggregation of platelets.
aggregata
aggregate
aggregate
adj
(botany) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
Consisting or formed of smaller objects or parts.
Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up.
Formed into clusters or groups of lobules.
Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
United into a common organized mass; said of certain compound animals.
noun
(Buddhism) Any of the five attributes that constitute the sentient being.
(mathematics, obsolete) A set (collection of objects).
(music) The full chromatic scale of twelve equal tempered pitches.
(roofing) Crushed stone, crushed slag or water-worn gravel used for surfacing a built-up roof system.
(sports) The total score in a set of games between teams or competitors, usually the combination of the home and away scores.
A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; – in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.
A mechanical mixture of more than one phase.
Solid particles of low aspect ratio added to a composite material, as distinguished from the matrix and any fibers or reinforcements; especially the gravel and sand added to concrete.
verb
(archaic, transitive) To add or unite (e.g. a person), to an association.
(transitive) To amount in the aggregate to.
(transitive) To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum.
aghlabite
agilities
agilities
noun
plural of agility
agilmente
agiotages
agiotages
noun
plural of agiotage
agistment
agistment
noun
(historical) The taking and feeding of other people's cattle in the king's forests; the price paid for such a feeding.
A charge or rate against lands
The taking in by any one of other people's livestock to graze at a certain rate.
agitative
agitative
adj
Tending to agitate.
aglethead
aglossate
agminated
agminated
adj
agminate
agnoetism
agonothet
agreation
agreement
agreement
noun
(countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
(obsolete, chiefly in the plural) An agreeable quality.
(uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
(uncountable, law) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
(uncountable, linguistics, grammar) Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.
agrements
agrements
noun
plural of agrement
agrestial
agrestial
adj
Synonym of agrestic
agrestian
agrestian
adj
Synonym of agrestic (“rural, rustic”)
agrigento
agrigento
Proper noun
The capital city of Agrigento.
agriotype
agriotype
noun
An ancestral wild form of a domestic animal or plant.
aigrettes
aigrettes
noun
plural of aigrette
aleknight
alginates
alginates
noun
plural of alginate
algometer
algometer
noun
An instrument for measuring pain-inducing stimuli, and the sensitivity to such stimuli.
algometry
algometry
noun
(medicine) The scientific measurement of responses to pain stimuli.
alignment
alignment
noun
(astronomy) The conjunction of two celestial objects.
(bioinformatics) A way of arranging DNA, RNA or protein sequences in order to identify regions of similarity.
(role-playing games) In a roleplaying game, one of a set number of philosophical attitudes a character can take.
(transport) The precise route or course taken by a linear way (road, railway, footpath, etc.) between two points.
An alliance of factions.
An arrangement of items in a line.
The process of adjusting a mechanism such that its parts are aligned; the condition of having its parts so adjusted.
allegator
allegator
noun
(obsolete) A person who alleges
allegatum
allegiant
allegiant
adj
Steadfastly loyal, especially to a monarch or government.
allergist
allergist
noun
A doctor who specializes in the treatment of allergies.
allgovite
alligated
alligated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of alligate
almagests
almagests
noun
plural of almagest
altenburg
analgetic
analgetic
noun
analgesic
angetenar
angiotome
anglesite
anglesite
noun
(mineralogy) A crystalline mineral form of lead sulfate, PbSO₄, formed by the weathering of galena.
angulated
angulated
adj
Synonym of angulate
verb
simple past tense and past participle of angulate
angulates
angulates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of angulate
angustate
angustate
adj
narrowed
antegrade
antegrade
adj
moving or directed forward
antelegal
antheming
antheming
verb
present participle of anthem
antigenes
antigenes
noun
plural of antigene
antigenic
antigenic
adj
(biology, obsolete) Sexually dimorphic, especially with reference to lepidopterans.
(immunology) Of or relating to an antigen.
antiglare
antiglare
adj
Acting to reduce or combat glare
antinegro
antinegro
adj
Opposing Negros.
antiwedge
apologete
apothegms
apothegms
noun
plural of apothegm
applegate
apteryges
aragonite
aragonite
noun
(mineralogy) An evaporite consisting of anhydrous calcium carbonate with the chemical formula CaCO₃; it is dimorphous with calcite.
arbitrage
arbitrage
noun
(archaic) Arbitration.
(finance) A market activity in which a security, commodity, currency or other tradable item is bought in one market and sold simultaneously in another, in order to profit from price differences between the markets.
verb
(intransitive, finance) To employ arbitrage
(transitive, finance) To engage in arbitrage in, between, or among
arclength
arclength
noun
(geometry) The length of an arc.
arctogaea
arctogean
arctogeic
aretalogy
aretalogy
noun
A form of sacred biography in which a deity's attributes are listed, in the form of poem or text, in the first person.
argentate
argentate
adj
(botany, dated, rare) silvery white
verb
To treat with a silver salt
argenteum
argentide
argentina
argentine
argentine
adj
Containing or resembling silver.
noun
(mineralogy) A siliceous variety of calcite, or lime carbonate, having a silvery-white, pearly lustre, and a waving or curved lamellar structure.
Any osmeriform fish of the genus Argentina, especially European argentine (Argentina sphyraena).
White metal coated with silver.
argentino
argention
argention
noun
(chemistry, archaic) ionized silver
argentite
argentite
noun
(mineralogy) Silver sulfide, (Ag₂S), a primary ore of silver, in cubic or hexoctahedral crystals.
argentose
argentous
argentous
adj
(chemistry) Of certain compounds, containing silver in a higher proportion than in argentic compounds.
Of, pertaining to, or containing silver.
argentums
argillite
argillite
noun
(geology) A fine-grained sedimentary rock, intermediate between shale and slate, sometimes used as a building material
argumenta
argumenta
noun
plural of argumentum
arguments
arguments
noun
plural of argument
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of argument
armangite
armangite
noun
(mineralogy) A trigonal-rhombohedral black mineral containing arsenic, carbon, hydrogen, manganese, and oxygen.
arresting
arresting
adj
striking, gripping
verb
present participle of arrest
arrogated
arrogated
adj
claimed falsely
verb
simple past tense and past participle of arrogate
arrogates
arrogates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of arrogate
arterying
assenting
assenting
verb
present participle of assent
asserting
asserting
noun
The act of making assertions.
verb
present participle of assert
assurgent
assurgent
adj
(botany) Curving upward.
Rising or tending to rise.
noun
(heraldry) A man or beast rising out of the sea.
astringed
astringed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of astringe
astringer
astringer
noun
Obsolete form of austringer.
astringes
astringes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of astringe
astrogate
astrogate
verb
(science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To astronavigate; to control and guide a spacecraft.
astrogeny
astrogeny
noun
The creation or evolution of the stars or heavens.
astrologe
athelings
athelings
noun
plural of atheling
atheology
atheology
noun
Antagonism to theology; the study or profession of atheism.
atmogenic
attending
attending
adj
Serving on the staff of a teaching hospital as a doctor.
That attend or attends; that is or are in attendance; attendant.
noun
(Canada, US) A physician on the staff of a hospital, especially the principal one that supervises a patient's care.
verb
present participle of attend
attesting
attesting
verb
present participle of attest
attingent
attingent
adj
touching; adjacent
augmented
augmented
adj
(music) increased by a semitone.
increased in number, amount or strength.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of augment
augmenter
augmenter
noun
One who, or that which, augments or increases something.
augmentor
augmentor
noun
Alternative form of augmenter
augustest
augustest
adj
superlative form of august: most august
augustine
authigene
autogauge
autogenic
autogenic
adj
(specifically, of a process of soldering) Performed by fusing the parts to be joined without adding solder.
Independent of a medium.
Relating to autogenic training.
Self-produced.
autostage
autostage
noun
(historical) An electric bus.
backstage
backstage
adj
Relating to, or situated in the area behind a stage.
Secret, concealed from the public.
adv
Out of view of the public.
Towards the area behind the stage.
noun
The area behind a stage out of view of the audience where performers wait to give their show; especially that of the dressing rooms.
The private portion of the space used by a business or enterprise.
bagatelle
bagatelle
noun
(literature, music) A short piece of literature or of instrumental music, typically light or playful in character.
A game similar to billiards played on an oblong table with pockets or arches at one end only.
A trifle; an insubstantial thing.
Any of several smaller, wooden table top games developed from the original bagatelle in which the pockets are made of pins; also called pin bagatelle, hit-a-pin bagatelle, jaw ball.
verb
(intransitive, rare) To meander or move around, in a manner similar to the ball in the game of bagatelle.
(transitive, rare) To bagatellize; to regard as a bagatelle.
baguettes
baguettes
noun
plural of baguette
ballotage
ballotage
noun
In France, a second ballot taken after an indecisive first ballot to decide between two or several candidates; a runoff election.