Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abate
abatis
abatis
noun
(historical) In the Middle Ages, an officer of the stables who had the care of measuring out the provender; an avenor.
A means of defense formed by felled trees, or sometimes by bent trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy, and more recently fortified with barbed wire.
In coal-mining, walls of cord-wood piled up crosswise to keep the underground roads open so as to secure ventilation.
abbest
abbots
abbots
noun
plural of abbot
abdest
abdest
noun
(Islam) The Islamic act of washing parts of the body using water for ritual prayers and for handling and reading the Qur'an.
ablest
ablest
adj
superlative form of able: most able
aborts
aborts
noun
plural of abort
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abort
abouts
abouts
adv
(obsolete) About.
absent
absent
adj
(comparable) Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied.
(not comparable) Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present; missing.
(not comparable) Not existing; lacking.
noun
(obsolete, Scotland) An absentee; a person who is not there.
(with definite article) Something absent, especially absent people collectively; those who were or are not there.
prep
In the absence of; without; except.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) Stay away; withdraw.
(reflexive) To keep (oneself) away.
(transitive, archaic) To keep (someone) away.
(transitive, rare) Leave.
absist
absist
verb
(obsolete) To stand apart from; to leave off; to desist.
aburst
aburst
adj
In a bursting condition.
acates
acates
noun
(obsolete) Cates: provisions; food.
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.
acetes
acosta
acsnet
actins
actins
noun
plural of actin
actors
actors
noun
plural of actor
acutes
acutes
noun
plural of acute
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acute
adapts
adapts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adapt
adatis
adatis
noun
plural of adati
adepts
adepts
noun
plural of adept
adeste
aditus
aditus
noun
the entrance to a cavity or channel
adjust
adjust
verb
(intransitive) To change to fit circumstances.
(transitive) To improve or rectify.
(transitive) To modify.
(transitive) To settle an insurance claim.
admits
admits
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of admit
adopts
adopts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adopt
adults
adults
noun
plural of adult
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adult
aeetes
aestii
aestus
afacts
afatds
afrits
afrits
noun
plural of afrit
afters
afters
noun
(Britain, Ireland, informal, sports) fighting or arguing off the ball or when play has stopped
(Britain, informal) dessert
(informal) The festivities held after a wedding meal.
aftosa
aftosa
noun
(veterinary medicine) foot-and-mouth disease
agates
agates
noun
plural of agate
ageist
ageist
adj
Unfairly discriminatory against someone based on their age.
noun
A person who behaves in an ageist manner.
agents
agents
noun
plural of agent
aggest
aggest
Verb
To heap up.
aghast
aghast
adj
Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.
agists
agists
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of agist
aglets
aglets
noun
plural of aglet
agosto
agrest
aguste
airest
airest
verb
(archaic) second-person singular simple present form of air
airths
alants
alants
noun
plural of alant
alates
alates
noun
plural of alate
alerts
alerts
noun
plural of alert
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alert
aletes
algist
algist
noun
One who studies algae and seaweed.
allots
allots
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of allot
almost
almost
adv
(mathematics) Up to, except for a negligible set (where negligible is not universally but contextually defined).
(measure theory, probability theory) Up to a null set; except for a set of measure 0.
Very close to, but not quite.
noun
(informal) Something or someone that doesn't quite make it.
alpist
alston
alston
Proper noun
A market town in Cumbria, England.
A village in Devon, England.
A village in Lancashire, England.
A small town in Georgia, USA.
altars
altars
noun
plural of altar
alters
alters
noun
plural of alter
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alter
alytes
amaist
amasta
amasty
amatps
ambits
ambits
noun
plural of ambit
aments
aments
noun
plural of ament
amidst
amidst
prep
In the midst or middle of; surrounded or encompassed by; among.
amotus
amsath
amston
anenst
anenst
prep
(UK, dialect, Scotland) About; concerning; anent.
(UK, dialect, Scotland) Over against.
angsts
angsts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of angst
angust
angust
adj
(obsolete) Narrow; strait; contracted; not spacious.
anitos
anitos
noun
plural of anito
annats
annats
noun
plural of annat
annist
anotus
ansate
ansate
adj
That has a handle or a part that resembles a handle.
ansted
anstus
anthas
anthos
anthus
antics
antics
noun
plural of antic
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of antic
antisi
antons
antres
antres
noun
plural of antre
aorist
aorist
adj
(grammar) Of or pertaining to a verb in the aorist aspect.
noun
(grammar) A particular verb in the aorist.
(grammar) A verb paradigm found in certain languages, usually an unmarked form or one that expresses the perfective or aorist aspect.
aortas
appast
aptest
aptest
adj
superlative form of apt: most apt
aratus
arbust
arbust
noun
(not attested in dictionaries) a bush, shrub
arctos
aretes
aretes
noun
plural of arete
aretus
argots
argots
noun
plural of argot
arhats
arhats
noun
plural of arhat
arista
arista
noun
(biology) One of the fibrils found on grains or fishes.
(entomology) A bristle on the third segment of a fly's antenna.
ariste
aristo
aristo
noun
(informal) An aristocrat
(slang, Nigeria) A wealthy man, especially married, who has sexual affairs with much younger women and spends money on them
armets
armets
noun
plural of armet
aroast
arrest
arrest
noun
(farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse
(law) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
(nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
(obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
A device to physically arrest motion.
The condition of being stopped, standstill.
verb
(intransitive, medicine) To undergo cardiac arrest.
(obsolete, intransitive) To stay, remain.
(obsolete, transitive) To stop the motion of (a person, animal, or body part).
(transitive) To catch the attention of.
(transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
(transitive) To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).
artels
artels
noun
plural of artel
artist
artist
adj
(archaic) Artistic.
noun
A person who creates art as an occupation.
A person who creates art.
A person who is skilled at some activity.
A recording artist.
artois
asante
asarta
asbest
ascent
ascent
noun
(typography) The ascender height in a typeface.
An eminence, hill, or high place.
An increase, for example in popularity or hierarchy
The act of ascending; a motion upwards.
The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; gradient; steepness
The way or means by which one ascends.
ascitb
ascite
ascots
ascots
noun
plural of ascot
aseity
aseity
noun
(theology, metaphysics, usually ascribed to deity) The attribute of being entirely self-derived, in contrast to being derived from or dependent on another; the quality of having within oneself the entire reason for one's being; utter independent self-existence and self-sustenance.
asfast
ashpit
ashpit
noun
(rail transport) a pit between the rails where a steam locomotive can drop its fire at the end of a day's work, before going "on shed".
A pit for the disposal of ashes.
ashton
ashton
Proper noun
A common place name in England.
derived from the place names.
name transferred from the surname.
A town in South Australia, Australia.
A ghost town in California, US.
A city in Idaho, US.
A village in Illinois, US.
A city/town in Iowa, US.
A village in Nebraska, US.
A city/town in South Dakota, US.
asitia
asitia
noun
(medicine, archaic) Lack of appetite; loathing of food.
askant
askant
adj
(dated) Aslant, or sloping.
adv
(dated) Aslant, or askance, or sideways
verb
Dated form of askance.
aslant
aslant
adj
(archaic, literary) Slanting.
adv
(archaic, literary) At a slant.
prep
(archaic, literary) Diagonally over or across.
asnort
asnort
adj
Snorting.
asotin
asouth
aspect
aspect
noun
(astrology) The relative position of heavenly bodies as they appear to an observer on earth; the angular relationship between points in a horoscope.
(grammar) A grammatical quality of a verb which determines the relationship of the speaker to the internal temporal flow of the event which the verb describes, or whether the speaker views the event from outside as a whole, or from within as it is unfolding.
(obsolete) Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.
(obsolete) The act of looking at something; gaze.
(programming) In aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a program independent of any inheritance hierarchy.
(rail transport) The visual indication of a colour light (or mechanical) signal as displayed to the driver. With colour light signals this would be red, yellow or green.
(religion, mythology) The personified manifestation of a deity that represents one or more of its characteristics or functions.
A phase or a partial, but significant view or description of something.
Any specific feature, part, or element of something.
One's appearance or expression.
Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass.
Prospect; outlook.
The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view.
The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective.
verb
(Wicca) To channel a divine being.
(astrology, of a planet) To have a particular aspect or type of aspect.
(obsolete) To look at.
asport
asport
noun
(parapsychology) An object that is spontaneously moved or "teleported" to another place.
verb
To take and move to a certain other place, to carry away.
aspout
aspout
adj
spouting
asquat
asquat
adj
squatting
assart
assart
noun
(law, obsolete) The act or offence of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the thickets or coverts of a forest.
Forest land cleared for agriculture.
verb
To clear forest land for agriculture; remove stumps.
assate
assaut
assent
assent
noun
agreement; act of agreeing
verb
(intransitive) To agree to a proposal.
assert
assert
noun
(computer science) an assertion; a section of source code which tests whether an expected condition is true.
verb
(electronics) To set a signal on a line using a voltage or electric current.
(programming) To specify that a condition or expression is true at a certain point in the code.
(reflexive) To insist on the legitimacy of one's rights, opinion, etc; not to allow oneself to be dismissed; to ensure that one is taken into consideration; to make oneself respected; to be assertive.
He would often assert that there was life on other planets.
To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to
To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.
asseth
assets
assets
noun
(accounting) The left side of a balance sheet.
(finance) Any property or object of value that one possesses, usually considered as applicable to the payment of one's debts.
(law) Sufficient estate; property sufficient in the hands of an executor or heir to pay the debts or legacies of the testator or ancestor to satisfy claims against it.
(slang, vulgar, usually in the plural) Private parts; a woman's breasts or buttocks, or a man's genitalia.
Any goods or property properly available for the payment of a bankrupt's or a deceased person's obligations or debts.
plural of asset
assist
assist
noun
(baseball) A defensive play, allowing a teammate to record a putout.
(soccer) A decisive pass made to the goal scorer
A helpful action or an act of giving.
verb
(archaic) To stand (at a place) or to (an opinion).
(medicine) To help compensate for what is missing with the help of a medical technique or therapy.
(now archaic) To be present (at an event, occasion etc.).
(sports) To make a pass that leads directly towards scoring.
To help.
assith
assiut
assort
assort
verb
(intransitive) To be associated with; to consort with.
(intransitive) To be of a kind with, to harmonise or match.
(transitive) To furnish with, or make up of, various sorts or a variety of goods.
(transitive) To sort or arrange according to characteristic or class.
assyth
assyut
astalk
astare
astare
adv
Staring; amazed.
astart
astart
adv
(obsolete) With a start; suddenly.
verb
(intransitive) To be escaped from.
(intransitive) To start up.
(obsolete) To get away, escape; escape from.
(transitive, obsolete) To cause to start; startle; start up; jump.
astate
asteam
asteam
adj
Covered with condensation.
Giving off steam, water vapour or smoke.
asteep
asteer
asteer
adj
(Scotland) Alternative form of astir
astely
astely
noun
(botany) Absence of steles.
astera
astern
astern
adj
Behind a vessel; having a bearing of 180 degrees from ahead.
adv
(obsolete or rare) At or toward the rear of a vessel.
Behind (a vessel); in the rear.
In the direction of the stern; backward (motion); to the rear.
asters
asters
noun
plural of aster
astert
asthma
asthma
noun
(pathology) A long-term respiratory condition, in which the airways may unexpectedly and suddenly narrow, often in response to an allergen, cold air, exercise, or emotional stress. Symptoms include wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and coughing.