(usually in the plural) Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them.
abducts
abducts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abduct
abiuret
abiuret
adj
Not giving the biuret reaction; showing that it does not contain biuret.
abjunct
abjunct
adj
(obsolete) detached, disconnected
ablauts
ablauts
noun
plural of ablaut
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ablaut
abluent
abluent
adj
(pharmacology) Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent.
noun
(pharmacology) A detergent.
abluted
abluted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of ablute
abortus
abortus
noun
An aborted fetus, especially one aborted in early pregnancy.
An abortion.
abought
abought
verb
simple past tense and past participle of aby
abtruse
aburton
aburton
adv
(nautical) With the length athwartship.
abuttal
abuttal
noun
(rare, plural only) The butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; buttals.
An abutment.
The act of abutting.
verb
(transitive) To describe a piece of land in terms of its abuttals.
abutted
abutted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abut
abutter
abutter
noun
One who, or that which, abuts, specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate.
acastus
account
account
noun
(accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.
(archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
(banking) A bank account.
(uncountable) Profit; advantage.
A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
A record of events; a relation or narrative.
A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
verb
(intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for).
(intransitive) To consider that.
(intransitive) To establish the location for someone.
(intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.
(intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.
(intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain.
(intransitive, now rare) To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc.
(obsolete) To count (up), enumerate.
(obsolete) To recount, relate (a narrative etc.).
(obsolete, transitive) To present an account of; to answer for, to justify.
(transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described).
(transitive, now rare) To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time).
accourt
accourt
verb
(obsolete) To treat courteously; to court.
accurst
accurst
adj
Archaic spelling of accursed.
verb
past participle of accurse
acetous
acetous
adj
Causing, or connected with, acetification
Having a sour taste; sour; acid.
achuete
acquent
acquest
acquest
noun
(law) Property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance.
(rare) Acquisition; the thing gained.
acquiet
acquiet
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To quiet.
acquist
acquist
noun
(obsolete) Acquisition; gain.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To acquire.
acquits
acquits
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acquit
actious
actious
adj
(obsolete) active; full of activity; full of energy.
actuals
actuals
noun
(accounting, project management) Documented historical results; things that have happened rather than things that are planned.
(business) Physical commodities or financial instruments which are traded in futures contracts.
plural of actual
actuary
actuary
noun
(dated) Registrar, clerk. [16th-19th c.]
A professional who calculates financial values associated with uncertain events subject to risk, such as insurance premiums or pension contributions.
actuate
actuate
verb
(transitive) To activate, or to put into motion; to animate.
(transitive) To incite to action; to motivate.
actuose
actuose
adj
(obsolete) Very active.
acustom
acutate
acutely
acutely
adv
In an acute manner
acutest
acutest
adj
superlative form of acute: most acute
acutish
acutish
adj
Somewhat acute.
adawlut
adawlut
noun
(India, historical) A court of justice in British India.
additum
additur
additur
noun
(law) The augmentation by a judge of damages awarded by a jury.
adducts
adducts
noun
plural of adduct
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adduct
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
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
aepytus
aesture
aethusa
aetolus
aflatus
aflaunt
aflaunt
adj
In a flaunting state or position.
agoutis
agoutis
noun
plural of agouti
agudist
aguroth
agustin
ahuatle
ahuatle
noun
corixid eggs used in Mexican cuisine
aleutic
aliquot
aliquot
adj
Contained in the whole an integral number of times, a factor or divisor.
noun
(chemistry, biotechnology) A portion of a total amount of a solution or suspension.
verb
(chemistry, biotechnology, transitive, informal) To separate a volume of solution or suspension into aliquots.
almuten
alterum
altumal
alturas
alumite
alunite
alunite
noun
(mineralogy) A gray, water-soluble mineral, potassium aluminium sulphate; the natural source of alum, KAl₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆.
amateur
amateur
adj
Created, done, or populated by amateurs or non-professionals.
Non-professional.
Showing a lack of professionalism, experience or talent.
noun
(now rare) A lover of something.
A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, science, or art (such as music or painting), especially one who cultivates any study, interest, taste, or attachment without engaging in it professionally.
Someone who is unqualified or insufficiently skillful.
ambitus
ambitus
noun
(botany, zoology) The exterior edge or border of a thing, such as a leaf or shell.
(historical, Roman antiquity) A canvassing for votes.
(music) the range of a melody, especially those of ecclesiastical chants
amentum
amentum
noun
catkin
amictus
amounts
amounts
noun
plural of amount
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of amount
amouret
amputee
amputee
noun
A person who has had one or more limbs removed.
amulets
amulets
noun
plural of amulet
amutter
amutter
adj
muttering
anethum
angakut
angekut
anlaute
annicut
annicut
noun
Alternative form of anicut
annuent
annuent
adj
nodding; used in nodding
annuity
annuity
noun
(insurance, pensions) A right to receive amounts of money regularly over a certain fixed period, in perpetuity, or, especially, over the remaining life or lives of one or more beneficiaries.
annulet
annulet
noun
(architecture) A ring-shaped molding at the top of a column.
(heraldry) A small circle borne as a charge in coats of arms.
A small ring.
Charissa obscurata (also Scotch annulet), a moth of the family Geometridae.
antabus
antaeus
anterus
antheus
antibug
antibug
adj
Serving to counteract bugs (surveillance devices).
Serving to kill or repel bugs (insects).
anticum
anticus
antigua
antigun
antigun
adj
(politics) Supportive of greater gun control, often including opposition to the idea of gun rights.
Opposed to guns, especially widespread individual use of guns.
antihum
antihum
noun
(historical) A device that reduces the mechanical vibration of telegraph wires to prevent their making a humming sound.
antipus
antiqua
antiqua
noun
Alternative form of Antiqua (“typeface”)
antique
antique
adj
(bookbinding) Embossed without gilt.
(obsolete) Synonym of antic, specifically:
(typography) Designating a style of type.
Belonging to former times, not modern, out of date, old-fashioned.
Fantastic, odd, wild, antic.
Having existed in ancient times, descended from antiquity; used especially in reference to Greece and Rome.
noun
(figuratively, mildly derogatory) An old person.
(in the singular) The style or manner of ancient times, used especially of Greek and Roman art.
(obsolete) A man of ancient times.
(typography) A style of type of thick and bold face in which all lines are of equal or nearly equal thickness.
A performer in an antic; or in general, a burlesque performer, a buffoon.
An object of ancient times.
An old object perceived as having value because of its aesthetic or historical significance.
Grotesque entertainment; an antic.
verb
(intransitive) To search or shop for antiques.
(transitive) To make (an object) appear to be an antique in some way.
(transitive, bookbinding) To emboss without gilding.
antirun
antisun
antisun
noun
(astrophysics, countable) A hypothetical sun composed of antimatter.
sunblock, sunscreen
antrums
apathus
apertum
aquatic
aquatic
adj
Relating to water; living in or near water, taking place in water.
noun
Any aquatic plant.
aquavit
aquavit
noun
A Scandinavian liquor that is about 40% alcohol by volume; distilled from potato or grain mash and flavored with caraway seeds, anise, fennel, dill and other spices and herbs, depending on variety.
aqueity
aqueity
noun
(obsolete) The quality of being watery.
arbusta
arbutes
arbutes
noun
plural of arbute
arbutin
arbutin
noun
(organic chemistry) A glycoside of hydroquinone, found in bearberry, that is used to treat some diseases of the urinary tract
arbutus
arbutus
noun
Any flowering plant in the genus Arbutus: the strawberry tree.
Arbute; the wood of the strawberry tree.
Epigaea repens, the mayflower, the trailing arbutus.
arctium
arcuate
arcuate
adj
curved into the shape of a bow
artamus
artemus
arthaud
aruntas
arustle
arustle
adj
Rustling.
asprout
asprout
adj
sprouting
asquint
asquint
adj
Looking sideways, as though warily.
adv
With narrowed eyes.
asquith
assault
assault
noun
(criminal law) An attempt to commit battery: a violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence, to do hurt to another, but without necessarily touching the person, such as by raising a fist in a threatening manner, or by striking at the person and missing.
(fencing) A non-competitive combat between two fencers.
(singular only, law) The crime whose action is such an attempt.
(singular only, law) The tort whose action is such an act.
(tort law) An act that causes someone to apprehend imminent bodily harm (such as brandishing a weapon).
A violent onset or attack with physical means, for example blows, weapons, etc.
A violent verbal attack, for example with insults, criticism, and the like
verb
(transitive) To attack, physically or figuratively; to assail.
(transitive) To threaten or harass.
assumpt
assumpt
noun
(obsolete) That which is assumed; an assumption.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To take up; to elevate; to assume.
astacus
astound
astound
adj
(obsolete) Stunned; astounded; astonished.
verb
To astonish, bewilder or dazzle.
ataturk
ataunto
ateuchi
atheous
atheous
adj
(obsolete) Without God, neither accepting nor denying him.
(obsolete) atheistic
athumia
atokous
atokous
adj
(zoology) Producing only asexual individuals.
atriums
attacus
attuned
attuned
adj
(of a musical instrument) Tuned to the correct pitch.
Brought into harmony; harmonized.
Having been changed to fit in with a particular context or to be in sync with a phenomenon.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of attune
attunes
attunes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of attune
atumble
atumble
adj
Set in a tumbling motion.
auantic
aubarta
auberta
aubrite
aubrite
noun
An achondrite composed mostly of enstatite
auburta
auchlet
auctary
auction
auction
noun
(bridge) The first stage of a deal, in which players bid to determine the final contract.
A public event where goods or property are sold to the highest bidder.
verb
To sell at an auction.
auctors
auctors
noun
plural of auctor
audette
audient
audient
adj
Listening, paying attention.
noun
(obsolete) A hearer; a member of an audience
(obsolete, specifically) A catechumen (“convert to Christianity under instruction before baptism”) in the early Christian Church.
audited
audited
verb
simple past tense and past participle of audit
auditor
auditor
noun
(Scientology) One trained to perform spiritual guidance procedures.
(rare) One who listens, typically as a member of an audience.
In many jurisdictions, an elected or appointed public official in charge of the public accounts; a comptroller.
One who audits an academic course; who attends the lectures but does not earn academic credit.
One who audits bookkeeping accounts.
auftakt
augelot
augites
augites
noun
plural of augite
augitic
augitic
adj
Containing augite.
augment
augment
noun
(grammar) In some Bantu languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix.
(grammar) In some Indo-European languages, a prefix e- (a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.
An increase.
verb
(grammar, transitive) To add an augment to.
(intransitive, reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
(music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
(music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
(transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement.
augusta
auguste
auguste
noun
(theater) A kind of clown, usually serving as an anarchic foil to the whiteface.