(optics) A lens that imparts little color; a lens that is achromatic.
acrotism
acrotism
noun
(medicine) A lack or defect of the pulse.
admitter
admitter
noun
Someone who or something which admits.
ageratum
ageratum
noun
Any of the genus Ageratum of tropical American herbs, annuals and perennials, from the sunflower family Asteraceae, tribe Eupatorieae; they are sometimes used in floral displays.
agrement
agrement
noun
Obsolete form of agreement.
airtimes
airtimes
noun
plural of airtime
alarmist
alarmist
adj
Of or relating to causing others to become alarmed without cause.
noun
One who causes others to become alarmed without cause.
alastrim
alastrim
noun
(medicine) A milder variant of smallpox
alembert
almistry
altamira
alterman
altruism
altruism
noun
(biology, sociobiology) Action or behaviour that benefits another or others at some cost to the performer.
Regard for others, both natural and moral without regard for oneself; devotion to the interests of others; brotherly kindness.
alumroot
alumroot
noun
Any of several perennial herbs, of the genus Heuchera, native to North America.
Flowering plants of genus Geranium, also called wild geraniums or cranesbills.
amaister
amaranth
amaranth
noun
(chemistry) A red to purple azo dye used as a biological stain, and in some countries in cosmetics and as a food colouring.
(cooking) The seed of these plants, used as a cereal.
(dated, poetic) An imaginary flower that does not wither.
Any of various herbs of the genus Amaranthus.
The characteristic purplish-red colour of the flowers or leaves of these plants.
amarette
amaretto
amaretto
noun
(countable) A glass of that liqueur.
(countable) A light Italian cookie made with almonds.
(uncountable, countable) A sweet-bitter liqueur originating from Italy (but also produced in Turkey), flavored with almonds and a secret blend-specific mix of some 200 ingredients such as the pits from apricots, peaches, cherries or other stone fruits.
amateurs
amateurs
noun
plural of amateur
amatorio
amatrice
amatrice
noun
(rare) A female amateur.
Alternative form of amatrix
amatruda
amberite
amberite
noun
A kind of smokeless powder.
ambivert
ambivert
noun
(psychology) A person who is neither clearly extroverted nor introverted, but has characteristics of each.
ambreate
ambreate
noun
(chemistry) A salt of ambreic acid.
ambrette
ambrette
noun
The essential oil produced from the seeds of the musk mallow.
The musk mallow plant (Abelmoschus moschatus).
ameerate
ameerate
noun
(rare) An emirate.
ametrope
ametrous
amfortas
amintore
amirates
amirates
noun
plural of amirate
amitrole
amitrole
noun
(organic chemistry) The heterocyclic amine 3-amino-1,2,4-triazole that is used as a nonselective systemic triazole herbicide on nonfood croplands
amitular
ammeters
ammeters
noun
plural of ammeter
amorette
amorette
noun
Obsolete form of amoret.
amoretti
amoretto
amoretto
noun
(in art) A cupid or putto (representation of a naked baby or small child, often with wings).
A love poem.
A male sweetheart, lover.
amorists
amorists
noun
plural of amorist
amoritic
amoritic
Adjective
Of or pertaining to the Amorites or their language.
amoritta
amortise
amortise
verb
(British spelling) Alternative form of amortize
amortize
amortize
verb
(transitive) To alienate (property) in mortmain.
(transitive) To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.
(transitive, computer science) To even out the costs of running an algorithm over many iterations, so that high-cost iterations are much less frequent than low-cost iterations, which lowers the average running time.
amounter
amourist
amourist
noun
Alternative form of amorist
amratian
amravati
amreetas
amritsar
amritsar
Proper noun
A large city in India, formerly known as Ramdaspur and sometimes called Ambarsar.
The district (the second most populous in Punjab) which contains this city.
amtracks
amtracks
noun
plural of amtrack
anamirta
angstrom
angstrom
noun
(physics) A unit of length equal to 10⁻¹⁰ meters (that is, one ten-billionth of a meter), approximately the size of an atom, and denoted by the symbol Å, used especially to measure the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation or distances between atoms.
animater
animater
noun
Alternative form of animator
animator
animator
noun
One who animates something; one who brings something to life or the appearance of life.
One who creates an animation or cartoon; a cartoonist.
ansermet
anteroom
anteroom
noun
A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.
antimark
antimere
antimere
noun
(biology) One of the two halves of bilaterally symmetrical animals; one of any opposite symmetrical or homotypic parts in animals and plants.
apprompt
apterium
apterium
noun
(ornithology) An area of bare (featherless) skin on a bird.
aramanta
aramenta
araminta
arbustum
arctomys
argentum
argument
argument
noun
(also astronomy) A quantity on which the calculation of another quantity depends.
(by extension, humorous or euphemistic) Any dispute, altercation, or collision.
(countable) A process of reasoning; argumentation.
(countable) A verbal dispute; a quarrel.
(countable) An abstract or summary of the content of a literary work such as a book, a poem or a major section such as a chapter, included in the work before the content itself; (figuratively) the contents themselves.
(countable, also figuratively) A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.
(countable, linguistics) Any of the phrases that bears a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
(logic, philosophy) A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.
(uncountable, archaic) Evidence, proof; (countable) an item of such evidence or proof.
A matter in question; a business in hand.
A parameter at a function call; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.
A value, or a reference to a value, passed to a function.
The independent variable of a function.
The phase of a complex number.
The subject matter of an artistic representation, discourse, or writing; a theme or topic.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To adduce evidence, to provide proof.
(intransitive, obsolete, now nonstandard, non-native speakers' English) To put forward as an argument; to argue.
arithmic
armament
armament
noun
(military, naval) All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.
A body of forces equipped for war.
Any equipment for resistance.
The process of building up military capacity.
armatoli
armatoli
noun
plural of armatole.
armature
armature
noun
(computer graphics) A kinematic chain (a system of bones or rigid bodies connected by joints) that is used to pose and deform models, often character models.
(sculpture) A supporting framework in a sculpture.
A piece of soft steel or iron that connects the poles of a magnet, to preserve its strength by forming a circuit.
A protective organ, structure, or covering of an animal or plant, for defense or offense, like claws, teeth, thorns, or the shell of a turtle.
Any apparatus for defence.
Armor, or a suit of armor.
The frame of a pair of glasses.
The moving part in an electromechanical device like a loudspeaker or a buzzer.
The rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo, which mostly consists of coils of wire around a metal core.
verb
To provide with an armature (any sense).
armbrust
armenite
armenite
noun
(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, barium, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.
armgaunt
armgaunt
adj
(nonce word, archaic) Of uncertain meaning; perhaps describing gaunt or slender limbs.
armitage
armorist
armorist
noun
(heraldry) A person skilled in the bearings of coats of arms, and all relating to their emblazonment.
(uncommon) An armorer; one who produces arms and armor.
armplate
armplate
noun
Plate armour worn on one's arms.
armrests
armrests
noun
plural of armrest
arnement
aromatic
aromatic
adj
(organic chemistry) Derived from benzene.
(organic chemistry) Having a closed ring of alternate single and double bonds with delocalized electrons.
Fragrant or spicy.
noun
(organic chemistry) Any aromatic compound.
A fragrant plant or spice added to a dish to flavour it.
arretium
arsmetik
arsmetry
artemisa
arthemis
arythmia
arythmia
noun
Alternative form of arrhythmia
arythmic
arythmic
adj
Alternative spelling of arrhythmic
asarotum
assertum
asterism
asterism
noun
(astronomy) An unofficial constellation (small group of stars that forms a visible pattern).
(mineralogy) A star-shaped figure exhibited by some crystals by reflected light (as in a star sapphire) or by transmitted light (as in some mica).
A rarely used typographical symbol (⁂, three asterisks arranged in a triangle), used to call attention to a passage or to separate subchapters in a book.
athermic
athermic
adj
(chemistry, of a chemical reaction) involving no enthalpy exchange
(medicine) without an increase in temperature
resistant to heat passing through; heat-resistant, heatproof
atheroma
atheroma
noun
(pathology) An abnormal fatty deposit which develops within the walls of arteries.
(pathology, obsolete) A kind of cyst on the scalp.
athyrium
atmiatry
atmiatry
noun
(dated) treatment of disease by vapours or gases, as by inhalation
atomizer
atomizer
noun
An instrument for reducing a liquid to spray or vapor for disinfecting, cooling, medical use or perfume spraying.
atrament
atrament
noun
black ink
blacking
atremata
atremate
atremble
atremble
adj
Trembling.
atropism
atropism
noun
(pathology) atropine poisoning
attemper
attemper
verb
(archaic) To regulate, arrange, organise.
To mitigate, assuage.
To temper by adjusting relative quantities, or blending qualities.
attempre
attempre
verb
Obsolete form of attemper.
austrium
austrium
noun
A supposed chemical element proposed by Eduard Linnemann in 1886, later found to be gallium.
autogram
autogram
noun
A sentence that describes itself, in the sense of providing an inventory of its own characters.
averment
averment
noun
A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.
The act of averring, or that which is averred; positive assertion.
verification; establishment by evidence.
axmaster
axometer
axometry
barmiest
barmiest
adj
superlative form of barmy: most barmy
barometz
barometz
noun
(mythology) A purported zoophyte, half-animal and half-plant, said to grow in the form of a sheep.
The golden chicken fern or woolly fern (Cibotium barometz), the rhizomes of which are covered in furry brown hair; the legend (sense 1) is supposed to have arisen because, when inverted, the rhizomes with stalks growing out of them resemble lambs.
bartlemy
bathroom
bathroom
noun
(chiefly US, South Africa, Canada, euphemistic) A lavatory: a room containing a toilet and (typically but not necessarily) a bathtub.
A room containing a shower and/or bathtub, and (typically but not necessarily) a toilet.
beamster
beamster
noun
A workman engaged in beaming or slicking hides.
beltrami
beltrami
Proper noun
a tiny "city" in Polk County, Minnesota, USA
a neighbourhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
bemartyr
bemaster
bemaster
verb
(obsolete) To master throughly; dominate.
bemitred
bergamot
bergamot
noun
A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair.
A tree of the orange family (Citrus × limon, syn. Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume.
A variety of pear.
A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot.
Mentha × piperita, nothosubspecies citrata, more commonly known as bergamot mint
Monarda didyma, also known as American bergamot or bee balm.
The essence or perfume made from the fruit.
The fruit from the bergamot tree
bestream
bestream
verb
(intransitive) To stream around, about, or all over; flood.
(transitive) To drench; mark by streams of.
(transitive) To flow in a stream; stream down.
(transitive, by extension) To cover or be covered in; adorn; wear.
betimber
betimber
verb
(transitive) To build.
(transitive) To furnish with timber; timber.
biltmore
bimester
bimester
noun
A period of two months.
bimotors
bimotors
noun
plural of bimotor
biometer
biometer
noun
(biology) A device that is used to detect the presence of life by detecting and measuring minute amounts of evolved carbon dioxide.
biometry
biometry
noun
(dated) The measurement of biological data.
The analysis of biological statistics; biostatistics.
The application of biostatistics to security; biometrics.
birthdom
birthdom
noun
Privilege of birth; one's inheritance; birthright.
The land of one's birth.
boomster
boomster
noun
One engaged in booming the market or a political candidate for office; one who works up a boom.
bothrium
bothrium
noun
(zoology) A tentacle; a nerve ending that has a similar morphology
bottomer
bottomer
noun
(mining) A person employed to attend to the bottom of the shaft.
A person who makes the seat part of a chair.
bottomry
bottomry
noun
(nautical) An early form of maritime contract in which the owner of a ship could borrow money using the ship as collateral.
bramante
bregmata
bregmata
noun
plural of bregma
bregmate
bromated
bromated
adj
(chemistry) brominated
bromates
bromates
noun
plural of bromate
bromlite
bromlite
noun
(mineralogy) The mineral alstonite.
bromuret
bromuret
noun
(chemistry, obsolete) A bromide.
bronteum
brottman
brutedom
brutedom
noun
The condition of being a brute; brutality.
brutisms
brutisms
noun
plural of brutism
burgamot
burgamot
noun
Archaic form of bergamot.
burhmoot
camarata
camerata
camerate
camerate
adj
Divided into chambers
verb
(transitive) To build in the form of a vault; to arch over.
(transitive) To divide into chambers.
camerist
camister
camorist
carmenta
carmetta
carsmith
carthame
cementer
cementer
noun
(figurative) That which confirms or unites.
A person who applies cement.
A substance that cements.
cemetary
cemetary
noun
Misspelling of cemetery.
cemetery
cemetery
noun
A place where the dead are buried; a graveyard or memorial park.