(law) The augmentation by a judge of damages awarded by a jury.
addrest
addrest
verb
(obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of address
adducts
adducts
noun
plural of adduct
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adduct
adelite
adelite
noun
(mineralogy) A rare mineral, a calcium-magnesium arsenate, forming blue, green, yellow or grey orthorhombic crystals.
adepter
adepter
adj
(archaic) comparative form of adept: more adept
adeptly
adeptly
adv
With great skill or knowledge.
adhibit
adhibit
verb
To affix.
To allow in; to admit.
To apply or administer (something, such as a remedy).
adiabat
adiabat
noun
(physics) The curve on a graph of pressure and temperature which gives the adiabatic heating or cooling of a gas.
adiated
adiated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of adiate
adicity
adicity
noun
(chemistry, obsolete) Valence.
adipate
adipate
noun
(organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of adipic acid
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
adjunct
adjunct
adj
Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.
Connected in a subordinate function.
noun
(brewing) An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
(category theory) One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
(dated, metaphysics) A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.
(grammar) A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that modifies its meaning.
(music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
(rhetoric) Symploce.
(syntax, X-bar theory) A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
adjusts
adjusts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adjust
adjutor
adjutor
noun
An adjutant; a helper or assistant;
admetus
admitty
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.
adreamt
adreamt
adj
(obsolete) Alternative form of adreamed
adsmith
adsmith
noun
A writer of advertising copy.
adtevac
adtevac
noun
A technique for drying blood plasma.
adulate
adulate
verb
To flatter effusively.
adulter
adulter
noun
An adulterer, especially a male one.
verb
To commit adultery.
To pollute something; to adulterate.
adultly
adultly
adv
In an adult manner, not childishly.
adurent
advaita
advects
advects
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advect
advents
advents
noun
plural of advent
adverts
adverts
noun
plural of advert
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advert
aegates
aegesta
aelbert
aeolist
aeonist
aepytus
aerated
aerated
adj
(UK, informal) Annoyed or agitated.
Supplied or infused with air or oxygen.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of aerate
aerates
aerates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aerate
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.
aeriest
aeriest
adj
superlative form of aery: most aery
aerojet
aeronat
aeronat
noun
(archaic) A dirigible balloon.
aerosat
aerotow
aestive
aestive
adj
(rare) Of or relating to summer.
aesture
aethers
aethers
noun
plural of aether
aethusa
aetites
aetites
noun
An eaglestone.
aetolia
aetolus
affaite
affects
affects
noun
plural of affect
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of affect
affiant
affiant
noun
(law) The individual witness whose statement is contained in an affidavit or sworn deposition.
afflate
afflate
verb
(obsolete) To fill, especially with divine inspiration.
afflict
afflict
verb
(obsolete) To make low or humble.
(obsolete) To strike or cast down; to overthrow.
(transitive) To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.
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.
aflatus
aflaunt
aflaunt
adj
In a flaunting state or position.
aflight
aflight
adj
(obsolete) Showing distress, anxiety or other strong emotion.
Covered or filled (with something flying).
Fleeing.
Flying.
afreets
afreets
noun
plural of afreet
afright
afright
adj
Alternative form of affright
aftergo
aftmost
aftmost
adj
Furthest aft, most sternward, as far back as possible.
aftosas
aftward
aftward
adv
(nautical) Toward the stern.
agacant
against
against
conj
(obsolete) By the time that (something happened); before.
prep
(Hollywood) To be paid now in contrast to the following amount to be paid later under specified circumstances, usually that a movie is made or has started filming.
(obsolete) Exposed to.
As a charge on.
As counterbalance to.
As protection from.
Close to, alongside.
Contrary to; in conflict with.
In a contrary direction to.
In anticipation of; in preparation for (a particular time, event etc.).
In competition with, versus.
In contrast or comparison with.
In exchange for.
In front of; before (a background).
In opposition to.
In physical contact with, so as to abut or be supported by.
In physical opposition to; in collision with.
Of betting odds, denoting a worse-than-even chance.
agalite
agamete
agamete
noun
(biology) A nonsexual gamete; a gamete involved in asexual reproduction
agamist
agamist
noun
An unmarried person celibate by choice.
agamont
agamont
noun
a cell that divides by schizogony
agapeti
agarita
agarita
noun
(US, dialectal) A rounded evergreen barberry, Mahonia trifoliolata, native to the United States and Mexico, or its berry.
agastya
agastya
Proper noun
He is one of the Saptarishis (meaning "seven sages"), a revered Vedic sage and the author of Agastya Samhita.
agathin
agathis
agathon
agatine
agatine
adj
Resembling or pertaining to agate.
agatize
agatize
verb
(transitive) To convert a living thing into the form of an agate; to fossilize.
agatoid
ageists
ageists
noun
plural of ageist
agelast
agelast
noun
(rare) one who never laughs (especially at jokes); a mirthless person
agentry
agentry
noun
The position of being an agent.
aggrate
aggrate
verb
(obsolete) To gratify, cause pleasure to.
agility
agility
noun
(countable) A faculty of being agile in body, mind, or figuratively.
(uncountable) The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; quickness of motion
agisted
agisted
adj
(now chiefly Australia, New Zealand) That has been put out to pasture (of an animal), especially on hired land not belonging to the animal's owner.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of agist
agister
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.
agitant
agitant
adj
That agitates.
noun
A person who agitates.
A thing that agitates.
Obsolete spelling of adjutant
agitate
agitate
verb
(transitive) To cause to move with a violent, irregular action; to shake.
(transitive) To disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up (a person).
(transitive, now rare) To discuss or debate.
(transitive, now rare) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to consider, to devise.
(transitive, obsolete) To set in motion; to actuate.
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.
agnates
agnates
noun
plural of agnate
agnatha
agnatha
noun
An agnathan.
agnatic
agnatic
adj
of the male bloodline; patrilineal
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
agpaite
agpaite
noun
(mineralogy) Any of various peralkaline igneous rocks, typically nepheline syenite or phonolite.
agretha
agritos
agrotis
agudist
aguroth
agustin
agyrate
aheight
aheight
adv
(obsolete) From high, from a high point.
ahrendt
ahuatle
ahuatle
noun
corixid eggs used in Mexican cuisine
aiglets
aiglets
noun
plural of aiglet
aigrets
aigrets
noun
plural of aigret
ailanto
ailanto
noun
ailanthus (tree)
ailbert
ailette
ailette
noun
(historical) A small square shield, formerly worn on the shoulders of knights, being the prototype of the epaulet.
ailment
ailment
noun
Something which ails one; a disease; sickness.
ailsyte
airboat
airboat
noun
A flat-bottomed boat driven by an in-air propeller and used in shallow water.
airdate
airdate
noun
The date on which a television or radio program is broadcast.
airiest
airiest
adj
superlative form of airy: most airy
airlift
airlift
noun
(archaeology) A pipe that is used to suck up objects from the sea bed.
Such a flight.
The transportation of troops, civilians or supplies by air, especially in an emergency.
verb
(transitive) To transport (troops etc) in an airlift.
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
airthed
airtime
airtime
noun
(by extension) The duration spent talking during a conversation.
The chargeable use of a mobile phone, either in minutes or in units dependent on the use or traffic.
The duration during which a radio or television program (or part of one) is transmitted.
The period during which a person riding a rollercoaster or similar ride experiences a feeling of weightlessness.
airting
airting
verb
present participle of airt
aitches
aitches
noun
plural of aitch
aitesis
ajitter
akerite
akerite
noun
(mineralogy) Various varieties of calcialkalic microsyenite and micromonzonite.
akihito
akinete
akinete
noun
(biology) A thick-walled, dormant cell found in cyanobacteria and green algae
akontae
akroter
akvavit
akvavit
noun
Alternative spelling of aquavit
alalite
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
alantic
alantin
alantin
noun
(chemistry, obsolete) Inulin.
alantol
alantol
noun
Synonym of inulol
alaster
alastor
alastor
noun
An avenging spirit or deity.
alatern
alatern
noun
An ornamental evergreen shrub (Rhamnus alaternus; Italian buckthorn).