Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ablegate
abnegated
abnegated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abnegate
abnegates
abnegates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abnegate
abnegator
abnegator
noun
(rare) One who abnegates, denies, or rejects.
abrogated
abrogated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abrogate
abrogates
abrogates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abrogate
abrogator
abrogator
noun
Agent noun of abrogate; one who abrogates.
absenting
absenting
verb
present participle of absent
absterged
absterged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of absterge
absterges
absterges
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of absterge
abthanage
abthanage
noun
Alternative form of abthanery
accenting
accenting
verb
present participle of accent
accepting
accepting
adj
Characterized by acceptance.
verb
present participle of accept
accosting
accosting
noun
The act of physically confronting a person.
verb
present participle of accost
accreting
accreting
verb
present participle of accrete
actuating
actuating
verb
present participle of actuate
acylating
acylating
verb
present participle of acylate
adagietto
adagietto
adv
(music) More lighthearted than adagio.
noun
(music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played slightly faster than adagio.
addicting
addicting
adj
(US) Causing addiction.
verb
present participle of addict
addington
adducting
adducting
verb
present participle of adduct
adigranth
adjustage
adjustage
noun
(rare, obsolete) Adjustment.
adjusting
adjusting
noun
Adjustment.
verb
present participle of adjust
admitting
admitting
noun
An act of admission; an allowing to enter.
verb
present participle of admit
adstringe
adulating
adulating
verb
present participle of adulate
advantage
advantage
noun
(countable) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable or chance to success, or to any desired end.
(countable, uncountable) Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit
(obsolete) Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.
(soccer) The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position.
(tennis) The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.
Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
verb
(reflexive) to do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of
(transitive) to provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to
advecting
advecting
verb
present participle of advect
adverting
adverting
verb
present participle of advert
aeginetan
aeginetan
Adjective
Of or relating to Aegina.
Noun
An inhabitant of Aegina.
aeginetic
aegisthus
aegisthus
Proper noun
The murderer of Agamemnon and lover of his wife Clytemnestra.
aegritude
aegrotant
aetheling
aetheogam
aetheogam
noun
(botany) A cryptogam; a plant of the obsolete taxonomic class Cryptogamia, having neither stamina nor pistils, and therefore no proper flowers, such as an alga, fern, fungus, lichen or moss.
aetiology
aetiology
noun
(medicine, countable) A cause of disease or of any particular case of a disease (but see pathology § Usage notes).
(medicine, uncountable) The study or investigation of the causes of disease; a scientific explanation for the origin of a disease.
The establishment of a cause, origin, or reason for something.
The study of causes or causation.
affecting
affecting
adj
Producing or causing strong feelings and emotions.
verb
present participle of affect
affreight
affreight
verb
To hire (a ship etc.) for the transportation of freight.
affrights
affrights
noun
plural of affright
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of affright
afghanets
aftergame
aftergame
noun
(archaic) A second game played to reverse the outcome of the first; the means employed after the first turn of affairs.
(video games) Bonus features, dialogue, etc. accessed when a previously-beaten video game is revisited.
afterglow
afterglow
noun
An afterparty.
The glow seen in the sky after sunset.
The light emitted by a phosphor after excitation.
The light emitted by an incandescent object while cooling.
The mildly euphoric feeling experienced after a pleasurable experience, especially after an orgasm or drug-induced high.
aftergood
afterguns
afterings
afterings
noun
(by extension) The last of any substance that is of a poorer quality than the earlier substance, e.g. the dregs of coffee.
The last milk that is obtained when milking a cow. Often considered the poorest quality of milk.
afterking
aftersong
agalactia
agalactia
noun
(pathology) The failure of a mother (human or otherwise) to produce sufficient milk following birth.
agalactic
agalactic
adj
agalactous
agastache
agastache
noun
A plant of genus Agastache, a giant hyssop.
agastreae
agatelike
agatelike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of agate.
agateware
agateware
noun
(ceramics) Pottery decorated with a combination of contrastingly coloured clays, designed to resemble the layers of colour in an agate stone.
agathosma
agatiform
agatiform
adj
Having the form of an agate; resembling an agate in appearance.
agatizing
agatizing
verb
present participle of agatize
agennetic
agentival
agentives
agentives
noun
plural of agentive
agentries
agentries
noun
plural of agentry
agentship
agentship
noun
(countable) The office or position of an agent.
(uncountable) A means of effecting something; agency.
ageratums
ageratums
noun
plural of ageratum
aggravate
aggravate
verb
(by extension) To make worse; to exacerbate.
(now chiefly colloquial) To exasperate; to provoke or irritate.
(now rare) To give extra weight or intensity to; to exaggerate, to magnify.
(obsolete) To pile or heap (something heavy or onerous) on or upon someone.
To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness.
aggregant
aggregant
noun
(medicine) Any drug that promotes the aggregation of platelets.
aggregata
aggregate
aggregate
adj
(botany) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
Consisting or formed of smaller objects or parts.
Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up.
Formed into clusters or groups of lobules.
Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
United into a common organized mass; said of certain compound animals.
noun
(Buddhism) Any of the five attributes that constitute the sentient being.
(mathematics, obsolete) A set (collection of objects).
(music) The full chromatic scale of twelve equal tempered pitches.
(roofing) Crushed stone, crushed slag or water-worn gravel used for surfacing a built-up roof system.
(sports) The total score in a set of games between teams or competitors, usually the combination of the home and away scores.
A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; – in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.
A mechanical mixture of more than one phase.
Solid particles of low aspect ratio added to a composite material, as distinguished from the matrix and any fibers or reinforcements; especially the gravel and sand added to concrete.
verb
(archaic, transitive) To add or unite (e.g. a person), to an association.
(transitive) To amount in the aggregate to.
(transitive) To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum.
aghlabite
agilities
agilities
noun
plural of agility
agilmente
agincourt
agiotages
agiotages
noun
plural of agiotage
agistator
agistator
noun
Alternative form of agistor
agistment
agistment
noun
(historical) The taking and feeding of other people's cattle in the king's forests; the price paid for such a feeding.
A charge or rate against lands
The taking in by any one of other people's livestock to graze at a certain rate.
agitating
agitating
verb
present participle of agitate
agitation
agitation
noun
(archaic) Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate.
A disturbance of personal tranquillity; disturbance of someone's peace of mind.
Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.
The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being disrupted with violence, or with irregular action; commotion.
agitative
agitative
adj
Tending to agitate.
agitators
agitators
noun
plural of agitator
agitatrix
agitatrix
noun
(rare) A woman who agitates; a female agitator.
agitprops
agitprops
noun
plural of agitprop
agitpunkt
aglethead
aglossate
agminated
agminated
adj
agminate
agnathous
agnathous
adj
(pathology) Afflicted by or characteristic of agnathia.
Jawless.
agnatical
agnatical
adj
agnatic
agnations
agnations
noun
plural of agnation
agnoetism
agnostics
agnostics
noun
plural of agnostic
agonistic
agonistic
adj
(pharmacology, biochemistry) Pertaining to an agonist.
(rhetoric) Argumentative; combative.
(zoology, anthropology) Characterised by conflict or hostility.
Of or relating to contests that were originally participated in by the Ancient Greeks; athletic.
Struggling to achieve an effect; strained and contrived.
agonothet
agreation
agreement
agreement
noun
(countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
(obsolete, chiefly in the plural) An agreeable quality.
(uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
(uncountable, law) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
(uncountable, linguistics, grammar) Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.
agrements
agrements
noun
plural of agrement
agrestial
agrestial
adj
Synonym of agrestic
agrestian
agrestian
adj
Synonym of agrestic (“rural, rustic”)
agrigento
agrigento
Proper noun
The capital city of Agrigento.
agrimotor
agrimotor
noun
(dated) A tractor (farm vehicle).
agriotype
agriotype
noun
An ancestral wild form of a domestic animal or plant.
aigrettes
aigrettes
noun
plural of aigrette
aitiology
aitiology
noun
Alternative form of aetiology
akutagawa
aldington
aleknight
alginates
alginates
noun
plural of alginate
algometer
algometer
noun
An instrument for measuring pain-inducing stimuli, and the sensitivity to such stimuli.
algometry
algometry
noun
(medicine) The scientific measurement of responses to pain stimuli.
algorithm
algorithm
noun
(countable) A collection of ordered steps that solve a mathematical problem. A precise step-by-step plan for a computational procedure that possibly begins with an input value and yields an output value in a finite number of steps.
(uncountable, obsolete) Calculation with Arabic numerals; algorism.
alighting
alighting
noun
The act of one who alights.
verb
present participle of alight
alignment
alignment
noun
(astronomy) The conjunction of two celestial objects.
(bioinformatics) A way of arranging DNA, RNA or protein sequences in order to identify regions of similarity.
(role-playing games) In a roleplaying game, one of a set number of philosophical attitudes a character can take.
(transport) The precise route or course taken by a linear way (road, railway, footpath, etc.) between two points.
An alliance of factions.
An arrangement of items in a line.
The process of adjusting a mechanism such that its parts are aligned; the condition of having its parts so adjusted.
aliturgic
aliturgic
adj
Not liturgic; without a liturgy.
allegator
allegator
noun
(obsolete) A person who alleges
allegatum
allegiant
allegiant
adj
Steadfastly loyal, especially to a monarch or government.
allergist
allergist
noun
A doctor who specializes in the treatment of allergies.
allgovite
alligated
alligated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of alligate
alligator
alligator
intj
Used in a common chronometric counting scheme, in which the speaker counts out loud, saying the word "alligator" between the numbers so that each number is spoken approximately one second after the last one.
noun
(Nigeria) dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis)
(formerly) Applied to any species of crocodile.
(metalworking) A form of squeezer for the puddle ball.
(mining) A rock breaker.
(obsolete) One who binds or ties.
(paleontology) A member of the family Alligatoridae, which includes the caimans.
(printing) A kind of job press.
Any of various vehicles that have relatively long, low noses in front of a cab or other, usually windowed, structure.
Either of two species of large amphibious reptile, Alligator mississippiensis or Alligator sinensis, in the genus Alligator within order Crocodilia, which have sharp teeth and very strong jaws and are native to the Americas and China, respectively.
verb
(intransitive, of paint or other coatings) To crack in a pattern resembling an alligator's skin.
allograft
allograft
noun
(surgery) A surgical transplant of tissue between genetically different individuals of the same species.
verb
To perform a transplant of this kind.
allotting
allotting
verb
present participle of allot
almagests
almagests
noun
plural of almagest
alpargata
alpargata
noun
Synonym of espadrille
altenburg
altigraph
altigraph
noun
An altimeter that makes a recording on a chart.
ambiguity
ambiguity
noun
(countable) words or statements that are open to more than one interpretation, explanation or meaning, especially if that meaning cannot be determined from its context.
(uncountable) The state of being ambiguous.
amidating
amidating
adj
(organic chemistry) That causes an amidation reaction
aminating
aminating
verb
present participle of aminate
amounting
amounting
verb
present participle of amount
anaglypta
anaglypta
noun
A thick, embossed wallpaper.
analgetic
analgetic
noun
analgesic
analogist
analogist
noun
One who reasons from analogy, or represents by an analogy.
angdistis
angetenar
angiocyst
angiolith
angiolith
noun
A calcareous deposit in the wall of a blood vessel
angiomata
angiotome
angiotomy
angiotomy
noun
(anatomy) dissection of the blood vessels and lymphatics of the body
anglesite
anglesite
noun
(mineralogy) A crystalline mineral form of lead sulfate, PbSO₄, formed by the weathering of galena.
anglicist
anglicist
Noun
Expert on English studies.
angostura
angostura
noun
A South American tree, with bark used in tradition medicine and as an ingredient in various bitters (but not Angostura bitters), Angostura trifoliata.
Angostura bitters
angstroms
angstroms
noun
plural of angstrom
angulated
angulated
adj
Synonym of angulate
verb
simple past tense and past participle of angulate
angulates
angulates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of angulate