(chiefly law) The act of abetting or assisting in a crime, wrongdoing etc.
Encouragement or assistance.
abutment
abutment
noun
(architecture) That element that shares a common boundary or surface with its neighbor.
(dentistry) The tooth that supports a denture or bridge.
(engineering) A construction that supports the ends of a bridge; a structure that anchors the cables on a suspension bridge.
(engineering) The part of a valley or canyon wall against which a dam is constructed.
(engineering, architecture) The solid portion of a structure that supports the lateral pressure of an arch or vault.
A fixed point or surface where resistance is obtained.
Something that abuts, or on which something abuts.
The point of junction between two things, in particular a support, that abuts.
The state of abutting.
acemetae
acemetic
acestoma
acetamid
acetamid
noun
Obsolete spelling of acetamide
acetoxim
achmetha
acoemeti
adamsite
adamsite
noun
An organic compound, diphenylaminechlorarsine, used as a riot-control agent.
addiment
addiment
noun
(immunology, archaic) Synonym of complement
adempted
adempted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of adempt
adjument
adjument
noun
(obsolete) Help; support; that which or one who helps or supports.
admitted
admitted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of admit
admittee
admittee
noun
One who is admitted.
admitter
admitter
noun
Someone who or something which admits.
affectum
agametes
agametes
noun
plural of agamete
ageratum
ageratum
noun
Any of the genus Ageratum of tropical American herbs, annuals and perennials, from the sunflower family Asteraceae, tribe Eupatorieae; they are sometimes used in floral displays.
agmatine
agmatine
noun
(biochemistry) The amine (4-aminobutyl)guanidine which is a decarboxylation product of arginine and an intermediate in polyamine biosynthesis
agminate
agminate
adj
(biology) Grouped together.
agrement
agrement
noun
Obsolete form of agreement.
ailments
ailments
noun
plural of ailment
airtimes
airtimes
noun
plural of airtime
ajutment
alembert
aliments
aliments
noun
plural of aliment
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aliment
almagest
almagest
noun
A comprehensive treatise on astronomy, alchemy, geography and/or mathematics (originally compiled by Ptolemy circa 150 C.E.).
alterman
amaethon
amaister
amalthea
amalthea
Proper noun
The most frequently mentioned foster mother of Zeus, sometimes represented as the goat who suckled the infant-god in a mountain cave, sometimes as a goat-tending nymph.
The third most distant moon of Jupiter.
amarette
amaretto
amaretto
noun
(countable) A glass of that liqueur.
(countable) A light Italian cookie made with almonds.
(uncountable, countable) A sweet-bitter liqueur originating from Italy (but also produced in Turkey), flavored with almonds and a secret blend-specific mix of some 200 ingredients such as the pits from apricots, peaches, cherries or other stone fruits.
amatembu
amateurs
amateurs
noun
plural of amateur
amatrice
amatrice
noun
(rare) A female amateur.
Alternative form of amatrix
amberite
amberite
noun
A kind of smokeless powder.
ambients
ambients
noun
plural of ambient
ambivert
ambivert
noun
(psychology) A person who is neither clearly extroverted nor introverted, but has characteristics of each.
ambonite
ambreate
ambreate
noun
(chemistry) A salt of ambreic acid.
ambrette
ambrette
noun
The essential oil produced from the seeds of the musk mallow.
The musk mallow plant (Abelmoschus moschatus).
ambulate
ambulate
verb
(intransitive) To walk; to relocate oneself under the power of one's own legs.
ameerate
ameerate
noun
(rare) An emirate.
ameiotic
ameiotic
adj
(biology) Not undergoing meiosis; relating to ameiosis
amentias
amentias
noun
plural of amentia
amentula
amethist
amethyst
amethyst
adj
Having a colour similar to that of the gemstone
noun
(heraldry) The tincture purpure, when emblazoning the arms of the English nobility.
(uncountable) A purple colour.
A transparent purple variety of quartz, used as a gemstone.
ametrope
ametrous
amidated
amidated
adj
(organic chemistry) Converted into, or reacted with an amide
aminated
aminated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of aminate
amintore
amirates
amirates
noun
plural of amirate
amitoses
amitoses
noun
plural of amitosis
amitrole
amitrole
noun
(organic chemistry) The heterocyclic amine 3-amino-1,2,4-triazole that is used as a nonselective systemic triazole herbicide on nonfood croplands
ammanite
ammeters
ammeters
noun
plural of ammeter
ammocete
ammocete
noun
Alternative form of ammocoete
ammodyte
ammodyte
noun
(obsolete) A species of viper (Vipera ammodytes) of southeastern Europe.
(obsolete) One of the genus Ammodytes of fishes; the sand eel.
ammonate
ammonite
ammonite
noun
(paleontology) Any of an extinct group of cephalopods of the subclass Ammonoidea; a fossil shell of such an animal.
An explosive prepared from a mixture of TNT and ammonium nitrate; a form of amatol, popular in Eastern Europe and China.
amnestic
amnestic
adj
(medicine) Synonym of amnesic (adj).
noun
Synonym of amnesic (noun)
amniotes
amniotes
noun
plural of amniote
amoibite
amorette
amorette
noun
Obsolete form of amoret.
amoretti
amoretto
amoretto
noun
(in art) A cupid or putto (representation of a naked baby or small child, often with wings).
A love poem.
A male sweetheart, lover.
amortise
amortise
verb
(British spelling) Alternative form of amortize
amortize
amortize
verb
(transitive) To alienate (property) in mortmain.
(transitive) To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.
(transitive, computer science) To even out the costs of running an algorithm over many iterations, so that high-cost iterations are much less frequent than low-cost iterations, which lowers the average running time.
amounted
amounted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of amount
amounter
ampelite
ampelite
noun
(mineralogy) A carbonaceous alum schist.
(mineralogy) An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines.
ampliate
ampliate
adj
(zoology) Having the outer edge prominent; said of the wings of insects.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To enlarge.
ampulate
amputate
amputate
verb
(obsolete) To cut off, to prune. [17th–18th c.]
To surgically remove a part of the body, especially a limb. [from 17th c.]
amputees
amputees
noun
plural of amputee
amreetas
amuletic
amuletic
adj
Of or pertaining to an amulet; operating as a charm.
amusette
amusette
noun
A light field cannon, or stocked gun mounted on a swivel.
anathema
anathema
noun
(by extension) Something which is vehemently disliked by somebody.
(ecclesiastical) Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority to unending punishment.
(ecclesiastical, historical) A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; something denounced as accursed.
(literary) An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
anatheme
anemotis
animated
animated
adj
Composed of inanimate objects or drawings that appear to move through the use of computer graphics or stop-action filming.
Endowed with life.
Full of life or spirit; lively; vigorous; spritely.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of animate
animater
animater
noun
Alternative form of animator
animates
animates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of animate
animetta
annamite
ansermet
antemask
anteroom
anteroom
noun
A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.
antethem
anthelme
anthemas
anthemed
anthemed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of anthem
anthemia
anthemia
noun
plural of anthemion
anthemis
anthemis
noun
camomile, in genus Anthemis.
antietam
antifame
antifame
adj
Opposing fame.
antimale
antimale
adj
Averse to, or acting against, males.
antimere
antimere
noun
(biology) One of the two halves of bilaterally symmetrical animals; one of any opposite symmetrical or homotypic parts in animals and plants.
antinome
antinome
noun
(archaic, rare) Synonym of antinomy
apectomy
aphetism
aphetism
noun
Aphesis.
The aphetized form of a word, i.e. a word which has dropped its initial vowel or syllable, such as squire.
aposteme
aposteme
noun
(medicine) An abscess; a pustulent swelling.
apostume
apostume
noun
Obsolete form of aposteme.
apothegm
apothegm
noun
A short, witty, instructive saying; an aphorism or maxim.
apothems
apothems
noun
plural of apothem
apterium
apterium
noun
(ornithology) An area of bare (featherless) skin on a bird.
aramenta
argentum
argument
argument
noun
(also astronomy) A quantity on which the calculation of another quantity depends.
(by extension, humorous or euphemistic) Any dispute, altercation, or collision.
(countable) A process of reasoning; argumentation.
(countable) A verbal dispute; a quarrel.
(countable) An abstract or summary of the content of a literary work such as a book, a poem or a major section such as a chapter, included in the work before the content itself; (figuratively) the contents themselves.
(countable, also figuratively) A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.
(countable, linguistics) Any of the phrases that bears a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
(logic, philosophy) A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.
(uncountable, archaic) Evidence, proof; (countable) an item of such evidence or proof.
A matter in question; a business in hand.
A parameter at a function call; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.
A value, or a reference to a value, passed to a function.
The independent variable of a function.
The phase of a complex number.
The subject matter of an artistic representation, discourse, or writing; a theme or topic.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To adduce evidence, to provide proof.
(intransitive, obsolete, now nonstandard, non-native speakers' English) To put forward as an argument; to argue.
armament
armament
noun
(military, naval) All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.
A body of forces equipped for war.
Any equipment for resistance.
The process of building up military capacity.
armature
armature
noun
(computer graphics) A kinematic chain (a system of bones or rigid bodies connected by joints) that is used to pose and deform models, often character models.
(sculpture) A supporting framework in a sculpture.
A piece of soft steel or iron that connects the poles of a magnet, to preserve its strength by forming a circuit.
A protective organ, structure, or covering of an animal or plant, for defense or offense, like claws, teeth, thorns, or the shell of a turtle.
Any apparatus for defence.
Armor, or a suit of armor.
The frame of a pair of glasses.
The moving part in an electromechanical device like a loudspeaker or a buzzer.
The rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo, which mostly consists of coils of wire around a metal core.
verb
To provide with an armature (any sense).
armenite
armenite
noun
(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, barium, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.
armitage
armplate
armplate
noun
Plate armour worn on one's arms.
armrests
armrests
noun
plural of armrest
arnement
arretium
arsmetik
arsmetry
artemisa
arthemis
assertum
assument
assument
noun
(obsolete) A patch; an addition; a piece put on.
asterism
asterism
noun
(astronomy) An unofficial constellation (small group of stars that forms a visible pattern).
(mineralogy) A star-shaped figure exhibited by some crystals by reflected light (as in a star sapphire) or by transmitted light (as in some mica).
A rarely used typographical symbol (⁂, three asterisks arranged in a triangle), used to call attention to a passage or to separate subchapters in a book.
asymtote
atheisms
atheisms
noun
plural of atheism
atheneum
athermic
athermic
adj
(chemistry, of a chemical reaction) involving no enthalpy exchange
(medicine) without an increase in temperature
resistant to heat passing through; heat-resistant, heatproof
atheroma
atheroma
noun
(pathology) An abnormal fatty deposit which develops within the walls of arteries.
(pathology, obsolete) A kind of cyst on the scalp.
atmolyze
atmolyze
verb
Alternative form of atmolyse
atmostea
atomised
atomised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of atomise
atomises
atomises
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of atomise
atomized
atomized
adj
Converted from liquid to a spray or mist.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of atomize
atomizer
atomizer
noun
An instrument for reducing a liquid to spray or vapor for disinfecting, cooling, medical use or perfume spraying.
atomizes
atomizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of atomize
atrament
atrament
noun
black ink
blacking
atremata
atremate
atremble
atremble
adj
Trembling.
attemper
attemper
verb
(archaic) To regulate, arrange, organise.
To mitigate, assuage.
To temper by adjusting relative quantities, or blending qualities.
attempre
attempre
verb
Obsolete form of attemper.
attempts
attempts
noun
plural of attempt
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of attempt
augments
augments
noun
plural of augment
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of augment
autecism
automate
automate
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To replace or enhance human labor with machines.
autompne
autosome
autosome
noun
(genetics) Any chromosome other than sex chromosomes.
averment
averment
noun
A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.
The act of averring, or that which is averred; positive assertion.