(countable) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
(uncountable) A state of being acquainted with a person; originally indicating friendship, intimacy, but now suggesting a slight knowledge less deep than that of friendship; acquaintanceship.
(uncountable) Such people collectively; one's circle of acquaintances (with plural concord).
Personal knowledge (with a specific subject etc.).
acquiescence
acquiescence
noun
(law) Inaction, passivity, or neglect to take legal action when it is called for in order to assert, preserve, or safeguard a right, and which inaction implies the abandonment of said right.
A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content, distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.
acquiescency
acquiescency
noun
The quality of being acquiescent; acquiescence.
acquirements
acquirements
noun
plural of acquirement
acquittances
acquittances
noun
plural of acquittance
altiloquence
altiloquence
noun
Pompous language; lofty speech.
anticritique
anticritique
noun
A critique written in response to another critique.
aquapuncture
aquapuncture
noun
(medicine) The subcutaneous injection of water, once thought to relieve pain.
cinematheque
cinematheque
noun
A film archive with small cinemas, screening classic and art-house films.
colliquament
colliquament
noun
The first rudiments of an embryo in generation.
conquinamine
conquinamine
noun
(organic chemistry) quinidamine
contramarque
equibalanced
equibalanced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of equibalance
equidistance
equidistance
noun
(countable, uncountable) Equal distance.
equilocation
equinoctials
equinoctials
noun
plural of equinoctial
equivalenced
equivalenced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of equivalence
equivalences
equivalences
noun
plural of equivalence
equivocating
equivocating
verb
present participle of equivocate
equivocation
equivocation
noun
(logic) A logical fallacy resulting from the use of multiple meanings of a single expression.
The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, possibly intentionally and with the aim of misleading.
foreacquaint
foreacquaint
verb
(transitive) To make familiar (with something) in advance.
inadequacies
inadequacies
noun
plural of inadequacy
inquaintance
liquefacient
liquefacient
adj
That liquefies.
noun
(medicine, obsolete) Any agent, such as mercury, iodine, etc., that promotes the liquefying processes of the system, and increases the secretions.
That which serves to liquefy.
liquefaction
liquefaction
noun
Process of being, or state of having been, made liquid (from either a solid or a gas)
The liquid or semiliquid that results from this process.
nonequivocal
nonsequacity
pauciloquent
pauciloquent
adj
Using few words when speaking.
preacquiring
preacquiring
verb
present participle of preacquire
quackishness
quackishness
noun
The state or condition of being quackish.
quaternionic
quaternionic
adj
(mathematics) Of or pertaining to a quaternion
quattrocento
quattrocento
noun
The 1400s, the fifteenth-century Renaissance Italian period.
quercitannic
quercitannic
adj
Of or pertaining to quercitannic acid or its derivatives
quercitannin
quercitannin
noun
tannic acid derived from oak galls
quindecangle
quindecangle
noun
(obsolete, geometry) quindecagon
quindecaplet
reacquainted
reacquainted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of reacquaint
relacquering
relacquering
verb
present participle of relacquer
unacquainted
unacquainted
adj
(obsolete) Not usual; unfamiliar; strange.
Not acquainted, unfamiliar (with someone or something).