(historical) In Ancient Greece, an enclosure in the temple of Asclepios where patients slept.
abator
abator
noun
(law) a person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee
(law) one who abates, ends, or does away with a nuisance
abbots
abbots
noun
plural of abbot
abbott
abbott
Proper noun
name transferred from the surname.
abboud
abhors
abhors
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abhor
abilao
abilao
noun
Alternative form of abilo.
abipon
ablock
abloom
abloom
adj
(figuratively) Having something growing or grown.
Blooming; covered in flowers.
Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; exhibiting youth-like beauty.
adv
(postpositive) In or into bloom; in a blooming state; having flower blooms unfolding.
abmhos
abmhos
noun
plural of abmho
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.
abobra
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
abohms
abohms
noun
plural of abohm
abolla
abolla
noun
A cloak made of a piece of cloth folded double, worn by Ancient Greeks and Romans draped over one shoulder and fastened with a brooch.
abomas
abomas
noun
plural of aboma
abongo
abongo
Proper noun
A Negrillo people of Gabon.
Noun
The people of the Abongo tribe.
abonne
aborad
aborad
adv
(anatomy) Away from the oral opening or mouth (compare with ventral)
aboral
aboral
adj
(zoology) Situated opposite to, or away from, the mouth.
aborts
aborts
noun
plural of abort
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abort
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.
abouts
abouts
adv
(obsolete) About.
aboves
abramo
abrazo
abrazo
noun
A Latin American embrace.
abrico
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.
abroma
abroms
abrood
abrood
adj
(obsolete) Upon a brood; hatching eggs.
adv
(figurative) Mischief.
(obsolete) Upon a brood; on a hatch.
abrook
abrook
verb
To brook; to endure.
absmho
absohm
absohm
noun
Alternative form of abohm
absoil
absorb
absorb
verb
(transitive) Assimilate mentally.
(transitive) To accept or purchase in quantity.
(transitive) To defray the costs.
(transitive) To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully.
(transitive) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.
(transitive) To occupy or consume time.
(transitive) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.
(transitive, business) To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction.
(transitive, obsolete) To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.
(transitive, physics) in receiving a physical impact or vibration without recoil.
(transitive, physics) in receiving sound energy without repercussion or echo.
(transitive, physics) taking in radiant energy and converting it to a different form of energy, like heat.
(transitive, physics, chemistry) To take in energy and convert it, as
abucco
abucco
noun
(historical) A unit of mass used for gold and silver, used in Burma, approximately 196.44 grams or 6.316 troy ounces.
abvolt
abvolt
noun
(electricity, electrical engineering, dated) A unit of electrical potential equal to one hundred millionth of a volt (10⁻⁸ volts), used in the centimeter-gram-second system of units.
abydos
abydos
Proper noun
A ancient city in Egypt with archaeological interest.
A city in Asia Minor at the Hellespont.
acajou
acajou
noun
A cashew nut.
A moderate reddish brown that is slightly yellower and stronger than mahogany
The cashew tree.
The wood from the mahogany tree or other trees from the family Meliaceae.
acajou:
acampo
acarol
accloy
accloy
verb
(transitive, archaic) To be disgusting to.
(transitive, obsolete) To clog, clog up; to block.
(transitive, obsolete) To drive a nail into a horseshoe; to lame.
(transitive, obsolete) To overfill; to fill to satiety; to stuff full.
accoil
accoil
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To gather together; to collect.
accoll
accoll
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To embrace; cling to.
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.
accost
accost
noun
(rare) Address; greeting.
An attack.
verb
(by extension, transitive, obsolete) To sail along the coast or side of.
(intransitive, obsolete) To adjoin; to lie alongside.
(transitive) To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
(transitive) To assault.
(transitive) To solicit sexually.
(transitive) To speak to first; to address; to greet.
(transitive, obsolete) To approach; to come up to.
(transitive, obsolete) To join side to side; to border.
acetol
acetol
noun
(organic chemistry) hydroxyacetone
achoke
achorn
achorn
noun
(Chester) An acorn.
acknow
acknow
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To acknowledge; confess (often with "of" or "on"), reveal, disclose, realize
(transitive, obsolete) To recognize.
ackton
acloud
acloud
adj
(poetic) Made cloudy; clouded.
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.
acoasm
acoasm
noun
Alternative form of akoasm
acoela
acoine
acomia
acomia
noun
alopecia
aconic
aconin
acopic
acopic
adj
(medicine) Relieving weariness; restorative.
(medicine) Unable to function or cope.
acopon
acorea
acorea
noun
(pathology) the congenital absence of the pupil in an eye
acoria
acoria
noun
(pathology, obsolete) Excessive eating due to a lack of the sensation of satiety.
acorns
acorns
noun
plural of acorn
acorus
acosta
acoupa
acoupe
acrock
acrook
acrook
adj
(regional) Not in its proper place or properly oriented.
(regional, of a body part) Bent or formed into a hook.
adv
(archaic) In an oblique or crooked direction.
acrose
acrose
noun
(biochemistry) A racemic form of fructose
across
across
adv
(crosswords) Horizontally.
From one side to the other.
In a particular direction.
On the other side.
noun
(crosswords, often in combination) A word that runs horizontally in the completed puzzle grid or its associated clue.
prep
(Southern US, African-American Vernacular) across from: on the opposite side, relative to something that lies between, from (a point of interest).
At or near the far end of (a space).
From one side to the other within (a space being traversed).
In possession of full, up-to-date information about; abreast of.
On the opposite side of (something that lies between two points of interest).
So as to intersect or pass through or over at an angle.
Spanning.
Throughout.
To, toward, or from the far side of (something that lies between two points of interest).
action
action
adj
(Manglish) arrogant
intj
Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually a performance.
noun
(art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
(bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
(firearms) The way in which cartridges are loaded, locked, and extracted from the mechanism.
(law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
(mathematics) A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual structures. The pairing is typically a Cartesian product or a tensor product. The object that is not part of the output is said to act on the other object. In any given context, action is used as an abbreviation for a more fully named notion, like group action or left group action.
(military) Combat.
(music) The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano, which transfers the motion of the key to the sound-making device.
(music, lutherie) The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on a guitar or other string instrument.
(obsolete) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds.
(physics) The product of energy and time, especially the product of the Lagrangian and time.
(religion) A religious performance or solemn function, i.e. action sermon, a sacramental sermon in the Scots Presbyterian Church.
(sciences) a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings).
(slang, typically with a quantifier) Sexual intercourse.
A way of motion or functioning.
Fast-paced activity.
Something done, often so as to accomplish a purpose.
The effort of performing or doing something.
The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
The way in which a mechanical device acts when used; especially a firearm.
verb
(transitive, chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone.
(transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
actors
actors
noun
plural of actor
actory
actory
adj
Like, characteristic, or typical of an actor
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.
adamok
adatom
adatom
noun
(materials science) An atom that lies on a crystal surface
adcons
addoom
addoom
verb
(obsolete) To adjudge.
adeona
adhort
adhort
verb
(obsolete) To exhort; to advise.
aditio
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).
admove
admove
verb
(obsolete) To move or conduct to or toward.
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.
Noun
A verse consisting of a dactyl and spondee.
adonin
adonis
adonoy
adoors
adoors
adv
(obsolete) At the door, or through the door.
adopts
adopts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adopt
adoral
adoral
adj
Located near the mouth.
adored
adored
verb
simple past tense and past participle of adore
adoree
adorer
adorer
noun
Someone who has a deep admiration, fondness or love (of someone or something).
Someone who worships.
adores
adores
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adore
adorne
adorno
adorns
adorns
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adorn
adoula
adreno
adroit
adroit
adj
Deft, dexterous, or skillful.
adroop
adroop
adj
Covered (with something that droops); having something drooping over it.
Drooping.
adsorb
adsorb
verb
(transitive, chemistry) To accumulate on a surface, by adsorption
adurol
adviso
adviso
noun
(obsolete) An advice boat or dispatch boat.
(obsolete) An advisory; information; advice; intelligence.
advoke
advoke
verb
To summon or call (to a higher tribunal).
adyton
adyton
noun
Synonym of adytum
aeolia
aeolic
aeolic
adj
Alternative spelling of eolic
aeolid
aeolid
noun
A sea slug of the suborder Aeolidina.
aeolis
aeolus
aeonic
aeonic
adj
(rare) Alternative spelling of eonic
aequor
aerobe
aerobe
noun
(biology) Any organism (but especially a bacterium) that can tolerate the presence of oxygen, or that needs oxygen to survive.
aerope
aerose
aerose
adj
Of, or like copper or brass; brassy.
aerugo
aerugo
noun
metallic rust, particularly of brass or copper; verdigris
aethon
afford
afford
verb
(obsolete) To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting or expending, with profit, or without too great a loss.
(rare) To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue.
To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish.
To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious; (usually after an expression of ability, as could, able, difficult) to be able or rich enough.
aflcio
afloat
afloat
adv
(dated, of ideas, information, etc.) Being believed or discussed by many people; being passed from person to person.
(figurative) Covered, overspread (with or in something).
(obsolete) In a state of confusion or bewilderment.
(obsolete, of an emotional state) Stimulated, aroused.
(of an organization) Having enough money to continue to operate; (of a private individual, family, etc.) able to pay one's expenses, able to keep one's head above water.
(of hair or clothing) Floating in the air; flowing freely; not tied, braided, etc.
Covered with water (bearing floating objects).
Floating.
In a vessel at sea or on another body of water.
prep
(obsolete) Floating on.
afocal
afocal
adj
(optics, of a lens) Neither concave or convex (focal point at infinity)
(optics, of an imaging system) Not focused
afront
afront
adv
in front; face to face
afrown
afrown
adj
frowning
aftosa
aftosa
noun
(veterinary medicine) foot-and-mouth disease
agatho
agenor
aggros
aghori
aglaos
agnola
agnosy
agnosy
noun
(countable, neurology) A deficit in the ability to perceive.
(countable, neurology) A patient suffering from an agnosy.
(uncountable) A lack of spiritual understanding or insight; a lack of enlightenment.
(uncountable, rare) Ignorance, especially that which is common to a group or category of people.
agogic
agogic
noun
(music) an accent that accentuates a note by extending it slightly beyond its normal time value
agoing
agoing
verb
(archaic, dialectal) present participle of go
agonal
agonal
adj
Of or pertaining to struggle, competition or conflict; of or pertaining to an agon.
Of or pertaining to the pain of death.
agones
agones
Noun
agons
agonia
agonic
agonic
adj
(cartography, navigation) Having a magnetic deviation of zero.
(geometry) Lacking an angle.
(medicine, obsolete) Occurring shortly before death; agonal.
(psychology) Of a mode of social interaction based on threats, displays of power, or inducements of anxiety.