(law, obsolete) One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves; a cattle rustler.
abators
abators
noun
plural of abator
abbotcy
abbotcy
noun
(obscure) abbacy
office of the superior of a monastery.
abettor
abettor
noun
A supporter or advocate.
One that abets an offender; one that incites; instigates; encourages.
abiotic
abiotic
adj
Nonliving, inanimate, characterised by the absence of life; of inorganic matter.
Tending to inhibit or destroy life; antibiotic; incompatible with life.
noun
Any such material
abiston
abjoint
abjoint
verb
(intransitive, botany, mycology) To separate from the hypha of a fungus by the formation of a septum.
(transitive, botany, mycology) To form by cutting off as a protrusion from a parent cell.
ablator
ablator
noun
A material that ablates, vaporizes, wears away, burns off, erodes, or abrades.
abolete
aborted
aborted
adj
(biology) Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped.
Brought forth prematurely.
Checked in normal development at an early stage.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abort
aborter
aborter
noun
(derogatory) One who has an abortion.
(rare) One who performs an abortion.
One who or that which aborts.
abortin
abortin
noun
An extract manufactured from the bacterium Brucella abortus, and is used to study contagious abortions in cattle.
abortus
abortus
noun
An aborted fetus, especially one aborted in early pregnancy.
An abortion.
abought
abought
verb
simple past tense and past participle of aby
abricot
abrotin
absorpt
absorpt
adj
absorbed
verb
(archaic) past participle of absorb
abstort
absvolt
aburton
aburton
adv
(nautical) With the length athwartship.
abvolts
abvolts
noun
plural of abvolt
accoast
accoast
verb
(obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To lie or sail along the coast or side (of); to accost.
accompt
accompt
noun
(archaic) Account.
verb
(archaic) To account.
accosts
accosts
noun
plural of accost
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accost
account
account
noun
(accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.
(archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
(banking) A bank account.
(uncountable) Profit; advantage.
A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
A record of events; a relation or narrative.
A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
verb
(intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for).
(intransitive) To consider that.
(intransitive) To establish the location for someone.
(intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.
(intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.
(intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain.
(intransitive, now rare) To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc.
(obsolete) To count (up), enumerate.
(obsolete) To recount, relate (a narrative etc.).
(obsolete, transitive) To present an account of; to answer for, to justify.
(transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described).
(transitive, now rare) To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time).
accourt
accourt
verb
(obsolete) To treat courteously; to court.
acepots
acepots
noun
Synonym of acepot
acetoin
acetoin
noun
(organic chemistry) The compound 3-hydroxybutanone CH₃-CO-CH(OH)-CH₃ that is one of the constituents of the flavour of butter
acetone
acetone
noun
(organic chemistry) A colourless, volatile, flammable liquid ketone, (CH₃)₂CO, used as a solvent.
acetose
acetose
adj
Sour like vinegar; acetous.
acetous
acetous
adj
Causing, or connected with, acetification
Having a sour taste; sour; acid.
achiote
achiote
noun
A tropical American evergreen shrub, Bixa orellana; the lipstick tree.
An orange-red dye obtained from this seed.
The seed of this tree used as a colouring or in Latin American cooking.
acocotl
acocotl
noun
(music) A Mexican musical instrument made from a gourd.
acolyte
acolyte
noun
(Christianity) An altar server.
(Christianity) One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic Church, being ordained to carry the wine, water and lights at Mass.
An attendant, assistant or follower.
acolyth
acolyth
noun
Obsolete form of acolyte.
aconite
aconite
noun
(toxicology) An extract or tincture obtained from Aconitum napellus, used as a poison and medicinally.
The herb wolfsbane, or monkshood; any plant of the genus Aconitum, all the species of which are poisonous.
acontia
acontia
noun
(zoology) Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidae), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniae when irritated.
acritol
acrobat
acrobat
noun
An athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination, often as part of a circus performance.
verb
(figurative) To move like an acrobat (with agility, balance, long leaps, etc.).
To practise acrobatics.
acroter
acroter
Noun
An acroterium.
acrotic
acrotic
adj
(medicine) Pertaining to or affecting the surface.
actaeon
actinon
actinon
noun
(chemistry, physics, dated) Radon-219 (²¹⁹₈₆Rn; symbol An), an isotope of radon
(obsolete) Synonym of radon
(physics, dated) An actinide
actions
actions
noun
plural of action
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of action
actious
actious
adj
(obsolete) active; full of activity; full of energy.
actuose
actuose
adj
(obsolete) Very active.
acustom
acworth
adaptor
adaptor
noun
Alternative form of adapter
adjoint
adjoint
adj
(geometry, of one curve to another curve) Having a relationship of the nature of an adjoint (adjoint curve); sharing multiple points with.
(mathematics) Used in certain contexts, in each case involving a pair of transformations, one of which is, or is analogous to, conjugation (either inner automorphism or complex conjugation).
(mathematics, category theory, of a functor) That is related to another functor by an adjunction.
noun
(geometry, algebraic geometry) A curve A such that any point of a given curve C of multiplicity r has multiplicity at least r–1 on A. Sometimes the multiple points of C are required to be ordinary, and if this condition is not satisfied the term sub-adjoint is used.
(mathematics) The transpose of the cofactor matrix of a given square matrix.
(mathematics, category theory) A functor related to another functor by an adjunction.
(mathematics, linear algebra, of a matrix) Transpose conjugate.
(mathematics, mathematical analysis, of an operator) Hermitian conjugate.
An assistant mayor of a French commune.
An assistant to someone who holds a position in the military or civil service.
adjoust
adjutor
adjutor
noun
An adjutant; a helper or assistant;
adonist
adonist
noun
One who maintains that the vowel points of the Tetragrammaton translated "Jehovah" are the vowel points that belong to the word Adonai.
adonite
adopted
adopted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of adopt
adoptee
adoptee
noun
A person who was adopted as a child.
An adopted son or daughter.
Synonym of adopter
adopter
adopter
noun
one who adopts
adorant
adorant
adj
(poetic) Adoring.
aeolist
aeonist
aerator
aerator
noun
A device used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water.
A device which mixes air with a substance, particularly soil or a liquid.
A fumigator used to bleach grain, destroying fungi and insects.
aerojet
aeronat
aeronat
noun
(archaic) A dirigible balloon.
aerosat
aerotow
aetolia
aetolus
affront
affront
noun
(obsolete) A hostile encounter or meeting.
An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.
verb
(obsolete) To meet or encounter face to face.
To insult intentionally, especially openly.
To meet defiantly; to confront.
aftergo
aftmost
aftmost
adj
Furthest aft, most sternward, as far back as possible.
aftosas
agamont
agamont
noun
a cell that divides by schizogony
agathon
agatoid
agistor
agistor
noun
(historical) an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.
One who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer.
agitato
agitato
adv
(music) Played in a restless agitated style.
noun
(music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a restless agitated style.
agnoete
agnoite
agonist
agonist
noun
(biochemistry, pharmacology) A molecule that can combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction.
Someone involved in a contest or battle (as in an agon), protagonist.
The muscle that contracts while the other relaxes.
agoroth
agoroth
noun
plural of agora
agoutis
agoutis
noun
plural of agouti
agritos
agrotis
aguroth
ailanto
ailanto
noun
ailanthus (tree)
airboat
airboat
noun
A flat-bottomed boat driven by an in-air propeller and used in shallow water.
airplot
airport
airport
noun
An airfield (an area designated for the takeoff and landing of aircraft), including one or more runways and (for commercial airports) one or more passenger terminals.
airpost
airpost
noun
Synonym of airmail
akihito
akontae
akroter
alamort
alamort
adj
(obsolete) Half-dead; in a depressed condition; dejected.
adv
(obsolete) to the death; mortally
alamota
alamoth
alamoth
adj
(biblical, music) soprano or, possibly, virgin
alantol
alantol
noun
Synonym of inulol
alastor
alastor
noun
An avenging spirit or deity.
alation
alation
noun
(countable) A wing or wing-like structure.
(uncountable) The state of being winged.
alberto
alcoate
alcoate
noun
alcoholate
alditol
alditol
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of a class of acyclic polyols formally derived from an aldose by reduction of the carbonyl functional group.
alecost
alecost
noun
The plant costmary (Tanacetum balsamita), formerly much used for flavouring ale.
aleshot
algarot
algarot
noun
A pale white emetic powder formerly used in alchemy, consisting of a compound of trichloride and trioxide of antimony.
alinota
aliquot
aliquot
adj
Contained in the whole an integral number of times, a factor or divisor.
noun
(chemistry, biotechnology) A portion of a total amount of a solution or suspension.
verb
(chemistry, biotechnology, transitive, informal) To separate a volume of solution or suspension into aliquots.
aliyoth
alloted
allotee
allotee
noun
Alternative form of allottee
allport
allston
alnoite
aloetic
aloetic
adj
Consisting chiefly of aloes; of the nature of aloes.
noun
A medicine containing mainly aloes.
alongst
alongst
adv
(archaic) along
alorton
aloxite
aloxite
noun
Synonym of aluminium oxide
altdorf
althorn
althorn
noun
(music) An alto or tenor saxhorn
altoist
altoist
noun
A person playing alto saxophone or some other alto instrument.
altoona
altrose
altrose
noun
(biochemistry) An aldohexose epimeric with mannose
alvaton
amatito
amatols
amatory
amatory
adj
Of or relating to love, especially sexual love.
amintor
amniota
amniote
amniote
noun
(biology) Any of the Amniota group of vertebrates having an amnion during the development of the embryo; mammals, birds and reptiles.
amonate
amongst
amongst
prep
Denotes a mingling or intermixing with distinct or separable objects. See usage note at amidst.
amoreta
amorete
amorist
amorist
noun
Someone who is in love.
Someone who writes about love.
amorita
amorite
amosite
amosite
noun
(mineralogy) A variety of grunerite asbestos, once used in insulation.
amotion
amotion
noun
deprivation of possession
removal; ousting, especially, of a corporate officer from office
amounts
amounts
noun
plural of amount
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of amount
amouret
amroati
amyntor
amyroot
anastos
anatola
anatole
anatomy
anatomy
noun
(archaic) A skeleton, or dead body.
(by extension) The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts.
(colloquial) The form of an individual.
(countable) A treatise or book on anatomy.
(euphemistic) The human body, especially in reference to the private parts.
The art of studying the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy.
The physical or functional organization of an organism, or part of it.
The science that deals with the form and structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.
anatone
anatron
anatron
noun
(obsolete) native carbonate of soda; natron
(obsolete) saltpetre
(obsolete) sandiver
anattos
anethol
anethol
noun
Dated form of anethole.
angelot
angelot
noun
(music) An old musical instrument of the lute kind.
A French gold coin of the reign of Louis XI, bearing the image of Saint Michael; also, a piece coined at Paris by the English under Henry VI.
A sort of small, rich cheese made in Normandy.
animato
animato
adv
(music) (To be played) in a lively, animated manner.
noun
(music) A passage to be played in a lively, animated manner.
annatol
annatto
annatto
noun
(countable) A tropical American evergreen shrub, Bixa orellana; the lipstick tree; the fruit of the tree.
(uncountable) An orange-red dye obtained from this seed.
(uncountable) The seed of this tree used as a colouring or in Latin American cooking.