(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
abbrev
abbrev
noun
Alternative spelling of abbrev.
aberia
abhors
abhors
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abhor
abider
abider
noun
(obsolete) One who abides, or continues.
One who dwells or stays; a resident.
abjure
abjure
verb
(transitive) To abstain from; to avoid; to shun.
(transitive) To reject with solemnity; to abandon forever; to repudiate; to disclaim.
(transitive) To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow.
(transitive, obsolete, historical) To cause one to renounce or recant.
abkari
abkari
noun
(India) A revenue tax on the manufacture or sale of liquors and drugs.
(India) The manufacture or sale of liquors or drugs.
abkary
abkary
noun
Alternative form of abkari
ablare
ablare
adj
Blaring.
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
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
abrade
abrade
verb
(intransitive) To undergo abrasion.
(transitive) Obsolete spelling of abraid
(transitive) To cause the surface to become more rough.
(transitive) To irritate by rubbing; chafe.
(transitive) To rub or wear off; erode.
(transitive) To wear down or exhaust, as a person; irritate.
abraid
abraid
adv
Alternative form of abread
verb
(intransitive, archaic) To spring, start, make a sudden movement.
(intransitive, obsolete) To wake up.
(intransitive, transitive, obsolete) To shout out.
(transitive, obsolete) To rise in the stomach with nausea.
(transitive, obsolete) To wrench (something) out.
abramo
abrams
abrams
noun
plural of abram
abrase
abrase
adj
(obsolete) Rubbed smooth or blank.
verb
(transitive) To wear down; rub clean; smoothen; abrade.
abrash
abrash
noun
A variation in color (often applied to Oriental rugs).
abraum
abraum
noun
A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium.
abrazo
abrazo
noun
A Latin American embrace.
abreed
abreed
Adverb
Abroad. 1976
abrege
abreid
abrico
abrine
abrine
noun
An toxic amino acid obtained from jequirity beans; C₁₂H₁₄N₂O₂, that is different than abrin.
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.
abrupt
abrupt
adj
(botany) Suddenly terminating, as if cut off; truncate.
(obsolete) Broken off.
(obsolete, rare) Broken away (from restraint).
Curt in manner.
Extremely steep or craggy as if broken up; precipitous.
Having sudden transitions from one subject or state to another; unconnected; disjointed.
Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.
noun
(poetic) Something which is abrupt; an abyss.
verb
(transitive, archaic) To tear off or asunder.
To interrupt suddenly.
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
absurd
absurd
adj
(obsolete) Inharmonious; dissonant.
Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; silly.
Dealing with absurdism.
Having no rational or orderly relationship to people's lives; meaningless; lacking order or value.
noun
(obsolete) An absurdity.
(philosophy, often preceded by the) The opposition between the human search for meaning in life and the inability to find any; the state or condition in which man exists in an irrational universe and his life has no meaning outside of his existence.
abukir
aburst
aburst
adj
In a bursting condition.
abuser
abuser
noun
(obsolete) One who uses in an illegal or wrongful use.
One who abuses someone or something.
acamar
acarid
acarid
adj
(zoology) Of or pertaining to acarids.
noun
(zoology) Any parasitic arachnid, such as mites and ticks, of the subclass Acarina.
acarol
acarus
acarus
noun
(zoology, acarology) Any member of the subclass Acari (aka Acarina): thus, a mite or a tick; specifically, any mite of the genus Acarus.
acater
acater
noun
(obsolete) caterer
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.
accrue
accrue
noun
(obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing
verb
(intransitive) To increase, to rise
(intransitive) To reach or come to by way of increase; to arise or spring up because of growth or result, especially as the produce of money lent.
(intransitive, accounting) To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
(intransitive, law) To become an enforceable and permanent right.
(transitive) To accumulate.
acerae
aceric
aceric
adj
Pertaining to, or obtained from, the maple.
acerin
acerli
acerra
acerra
noun
(historical) In Ancient Rome, a small box for holding incense.
(historical) In Ancient Rome, a small sacrificial altar.
acheer
achier
achier
adj
comparative form of achy: more achy
achira
achira
noun
Canna indica (syn. Canna edulis), similar to arrowroot: the canna lily, the seeds of which yield a purple dye.
The edible rhizome of this plant.
achorn
achorn
noun
(Chester) An acorn.
achras
achree
achter
acider
acider
adj
comparative form of acid: more acid
acinar
acinar
adj
(anatomy) Of, pertaining to, or located in an acinus.
ackler
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
acracy
acracy
noun
(politics, philosophy) In political philosophy, the negation of rule by "regency", or hierarchical "government". The absence of a "ruling class". A society with the absence of imposition or coercion; one of voluntary order.
acraea
acrasy
acrasy
noun
(rare) Disorderly behavior; lack of self-control; intemperance.
acrawl
acrawl
adj
Crawling.
Full of or covered (with something that crawls or moves as if crawling).
acraze
acraze
verb
(transitive) To weaken, impair, or enfeeble in mind, body, or estate; craze.
acreak
acreak
adj
(rare) creaking
acream
acrisy
acrisy
noun
(obsolete, medicine) An inability to judge the outcome of a disease
acrita
acrita
Noun
The lowest groups of animals, in which no nervous system has been observed.
acrite
acrite
adj
(obsolete) Relating to, or characteristic of the Acrita
acrity
acrity
noun
(obsolete) sharpness; keenness
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).
actors
actors
noun
plural of actor
actory
actory
adj
Like, characteristic, or typical of an actor
acture
acture
noun
(obsolete) Action.
acuter
acuter
adj
comparative form of acute: more acute
adarme
adarme
noun
(historical) A traditional Spanish unit of mass, equivalent to about 1.8 g.
(historical) Synonym of peso, during periods when it was a Spanish coin notionally equivalent to an adarme of gold.
adaurd
adders
adders
noun
plural of adder
adhara
adhere
adhere
verb
(Scotland, law) To affirm a judgment.
(intransitive) To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united.
(intransitive, figurative) To be attached or devoted by personal union, in belief, on principle, etc.
(intransitive, figurative) To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree.
adhern
adhort
adhort
verb
(obsolete) To exhort; to advise.
adjure
adjure
verb
(transitive) To earnestly appeal to or advise; to charge solemnly.
(transitive, often law) To issue a formal command.
adlare
admire
admire
verb
(US, dialectal, rare) To be enthusiastic about (doing something); to want or like (to do something). (Sometimes followed by to.)
(obsolete, transitive) To be amazed at; to view with surprise; to marvel at.
(transitive) To estimate or value highly; to hold in high esteem.
(transitive) To look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love or reverence.
(transitive) To regard with wonder and delight.
adoors
adoors
adv
(obsolete) At the door, or through the door.
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
adread
adread
adj
(archaic) Affected by or full of dread; fearful.
verb
(intransitive or reflexive, obsolete) To fear, be afraid.
(transitive, obsolete) To dread, fear greatly.
adream
adream
adj
(poetic) dreaming; in dreams
adrell
adreno
adrent
adrial
adrian
adriel
adrien
adrift
adrift
adj
(chiefly UK, often with of) Behind one's opponents, or below a required threshold in terms of score, number or position.
(of a seaman) Absent from his watch.
Floating at random.
adv
In a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves.
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
adular
adurol
adverb
adverb
noun
(grammar) A word that modifies a verb, adjective, other adverbs, or various other types of words, phrases, or clauses.
(modifying a verb)
(programming) In the Raku programming language, a named parameter that modifies the behavior of a routine.
verb
(rare) To make into or become an adverb.
advert
advert
noun
(Britain, informal) An advertisement, an ad.
verb
(intransitive) To call attention, refer (to).
(intransitive) To take notice, to pay attention (to).
(obsolete, transitive) To turn attention to, to take notice of (something).
adward
adward
noun
Obsolete form of award.
aelber
aequor
aerage
aerate
aerate
verb
(intransitive) To bubble or sparge with a gas, especially oxygen or air. Example: "The microbial growth medium was aerated at a rate of 5 litres per minute."
(transitive) To bubble or sparge with a gas, especially oxygen or air. Example: "The drink was aerated with carbon dioxide, making it fizzy."
(transitive) To incorporate a gas, especially oxygen or air, into a solid or semisolid material. Example: "The mousse was aerated by beating rapidly."
(transitive) To supply with oxygen or air. Example: "Blood is aerated in the lungs."
aerial
aerial
adj
(aviation) Pertaining to a vehicle which travels through the air; airborne; relating to or conducted by means of aircraft.
(botany) Above the ground
(now literary or historical) Made up of air or gas; gaseous.
Ethereal, insubstantial; imaginary.
Living or taking place in the air.
Pertaining to the air or atmosphere; atmospheric.
Positioned high up; elevated.
noun
(chiefly UK, Australia) A rod, wire, or other structure for receiving or transmitting radio, television signals etc.
(photography) An aerial photograph.
A move, as in dancing or skateboarding, involving one or both feet leaving the ground.
aeried
aeried
adj
Having aeries
aeriel
aerier
aerier
adj
comparative form of aery: more aery
aeries
aeries
noun
plural of aerie
aerify
aerify
verb
(transitive) To mix with air.
(transitive) To vaporize.
aerily
aerily
adv
In an aerial manner
atmospherically (all senses)
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
aether
aether
noun
Alternative spelling of ether
aethra
afeard
afeard
adj
(archaic or dialectal) Afraid.
affair
affair
noun
(military) An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle.
(often in the plural) Something which is done or is to be done; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public.
(slang, now rare) The (male or female) genitals.
A material object (vaguely designated).
A party or social gathering, especially of a formal nature.
A person with whom someone has an adulterous relationship.
A romantic relationship with someone who is not one's regular partner (boyfriend, girlfriend).
An adulterous relationship (from affaire de cœur, affair of the heart).
Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely.
affeer
affeer
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To confirm; to assure.
(transitive, obsolete, law) To assess or reduce an arbitrary penalty or amercement to a precise sum; to fix the market value of.
affeir
affere
affirm
affirm
verb
(law) To state under a solemn promise to tell the truth which is considered legally equivalent to an oath, especially of those who have religious or other moral objections to swearing oaths; also solemnly affirm.
To agree, verify or concur; to answer positively.
To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true.
To make firm; to confirm, or ratify; especially (law) to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review.
To support or encourage.
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.
affrap
affrap
verb
(obsolete, rare) To strike; to strike down.
affray
affray
noun
(obsolete) Terror.
A tumultuous assault or quarrel.
The act of suddenly disturbing anyone; an assault or attack.
The fighting of two or more persons, in a public place, to the terror of others.
verb
(archaic, transitive) To frighten; to scare; to frighten away.
(archaic, transitive) To startle from quiet; to alarm.
affret
affret
noun
(obsolete) An attack.
aflare
aflare
adj
Flaring (blazing or shining brightly or suddenly; also figuratively, of a strong emotion).