(intransitive) To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.
(obsolete, intransitive) To conclude, to turn out.
(obsolete, transitive) To conclude, finish, especially successfully.
(transitive) To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
(transitive) To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.
(transitive, now literary) To obtain (a material thing).
Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved.
actives
actives
noun
plural of active
activin
activin
noun
A peptide that participates in the regulation of the menstrual cycle, cell proliferation, apoptosis, metabolism, and many other diverse functions.
adevism
adevism
noun
(dated) The denial of the existence of gods, especially the legendary gods of Hinduism.
adivasi
adtevac
adtevac
noun
A technique for drying blood plasma.
advaita
advance
advance
adj
Completed before necessary or a milestone event.
Forward.
Preceding.
noun
(in the plural) An opening approach or overture, now especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
A forward move; improvement or progression.
An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
verb
(intransitive) To make a higher bid at an auction.
(intransitive) To make progress; to do well, to succeed.
(intransitive) To move forward in time; to progress towards completion.
(intransitive) To move forwards; to approach.
(transitive, now archaic) To raise; to lift or elevate.
To help the progress of (something); to further.
To increase (a number or amount).
To make (something) happen at an earlier time or date; to bring forward, to hasten.
To move or push (something) forwards, especially forcefully.
To provide (money or other value) before it is due, or in expectation of some work; to lend.
To put forward (an idea, argument etc.); to propose.
To raise (someone) in rank or office; to prefer, to promote.
To raise or increase (a price, rate).
advects
advects
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advect
advenae
advents
advents
noun
plural of advent
adverbs
adverbs
noun
plural of adverb
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adverb
adversa
adverse
adverse
adj
(not comparable) Opposite; confronting.
Opposed; contrary; opposing one's interests or desire.
Unfavorable; antagonistic in purpose or effect; hostile; actively opposing one's interests or wishes; contrary to one's welfare; acting against; working in an opposing direction.
adverts
adverts
noun
plural of advert
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advert
advices
advices
noun
(obsolete or programming) plural of advice
advisal
advisal
noun
The act of advising.
advised
advised
adj
Considered or thought out; resulting from deliberation.
Informed, appraised or made aware.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of advise
advisee
advisee
noun
someone who receives advice
adviser
adviser
noun
one who advises
advises
advises
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advise
advisor
advisor
noun
(xiangqi) A xiangqi piece, that is moved one point diagonally and confined within the palace.
One who offers advice.
advowee
advowee
noun
One who has an advowson.
advowry
advowry
noun
Alternative form of avowry
advoyer
advoyer
noun
Obsolete form of avoyer.
aestive
aestive
adj
(rare) Of or relating to summer.
agavose
agavose
noun
(obsolete) A sugar derived from Agave americana, now known to be sucrose.
agravic
agravic
adj
Of or pertaining to the condition of zero gravity.
airview
airview
noun
A view from the air; a photograph taken from an aircraft.
airwave
airwave
noun
singular of airwaves; thus often "radio" or "frequency".
ajivika
akvavit
akvavit
noun
Alternative spelling of aquavit
alcoved
alcoved
adj
(sometimes in combination) Having (a specified type or number of) alcoves
alcoves
alcoves
noun
plural of alcove
alevins
alevins
noun
plural of alevin
algarve
algarve
Proper noun
The southernmost region of Portugal.
allover
allover
adj
Alternative spelling of all-over
alluvia
alluvio
allveta
alvarez
alvaton
alveary
alveary
noun
(anatomy) The hollow of the external ear.
A beehive, or anything resembling a beehive.
A repository, especially of knowledge or information.
alvelos
alveloz
alveloz
noun
(medicine, obsolete) The milky exudation of Euphorbia hetrodoxa, formerly used to treat ulcers.
alveola
alveole
alveole
noun
Archaic form of alveolus.
alveoli
alveoli
noun
plural of alveolus
alverda
alverta
alviani
alvinia
amarvel
amative
amative
adj
Pertaining to love; amorous.
amoving
amoving
verb
present participle of amove
amusive
amusive
adj
(now rare) Amusing, humorous.
(now rare) Giving entertainment or interest; recreative, diverting, engaging.
(obsolete) Illusive, deceitful.
anchovy
anchovy
noun
Any small saltwater fish of the Engraulidae family, consisting of 160 species in 16 genera, of which the genus Engraulis is widely sold as food.
andover
andover
Proper noun
A town in Hampshire, southern UK.
andvare
andvari
angevin
antaiva
anviled
anzovin
apojove
apojove
noun
(astronomy) apoapsis around Jupiter
appreve
approve
approve
verb
(archaic, transitive, usually with a reflexive pronoun) To show to be worthy; to demonstrate the merits of.
(intransitive, followed by "of") To consider worthy (to); to be pleased (with); to accept.
(transitive) To officially sanction; to ratify; to confirm; to set as satisfactory.
(transitive) To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of.
(transitive, archaic) To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.
(transitive, law, English law) To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit — said especially of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.
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.
aquiver
aquiver
adj
In a state of excitement, trepidation or agitation; quivering.
archive
archive
noun
(ecology) Natural deposits of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.
A place for storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records, newspapers, etc.) or other types of media kept for historical interest.
The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).
verb
(transitive) To put (something) into an archive.
argovie
arivaca
armavir
armavir
Proper noun
A region (marz) of the Republic of Armenia.
A town in that region.
A city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia.
arrival
arrival
noun
A person who has arrived; a thing that has arrived.
The act of arriving (reaching a certain place).
The attainment of an objective, especially as a result of effort.
The fact of beginning to occur; the initial phase of something.
The fact of reaching a particular point in time.
arrived
arrived
verb
simple past tense and past participle of arrive
arriver
arriver
noun
One who arrives; usually, one who arrives in a specified way.
arrives
arrives
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of arrive
arvales
arvarva
arvejon
arverni
arverni
Noun
A member of an ancient, powerful Gallic tribe living in what is now the Auvergne region of France, who opposed the Romans on several occasions.
arvilla
arvonia
arvonio
ascrive
ashiver
ashiver
adj
Shivering.
aslaver
asserve
assever
assever
verb
Archaic form of asseverate.
atavism
atavism
noun
(sociology) Reversion to past primitive behavior, especially violence.
The reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence; a throwback.
The recurrence or reversion to a past behaviour, method, characteristic or style after a long period of absence.
atavist
atavist
noun
A genetic characteristic emerging after absence from several generations.
A person of atavistic beliefs or habits.
athrive
autovon
autovon
Proper noun
of: a worldwide US military telephone system from the 1960s to the 1990s.
avadana
avadana
noun
(Buddhism) A form of Buddhist literature correlating the virtuous deeds of past lives with events taking place in subsequent lives.
availed
availed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of avail
availer
avalent
avalent
adj
(grammar, rare, of a verb or predicate) Non-valent, having valency zero: taking no arguments.
avallon
avarian
avarian
Adjective
Of or relating to Avaria.
Noun
A native or inhabitant of Avaria.
avarice
avarice
noun
Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greed for wealth
Inordinate desire for some supposed good.
avarish
avatara
avatars
avatars
noun
plural of avatar
avebury
avelina
aveline
avellan
avenage
avenage
noun
(obsolete, law) A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent.
avenant
avenary
avenery
avenged
avenged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of avenge
avenger
avenger
noun
One who avenges or vindicates
One who takes vengeance.
avenges
avenges
noun
plural of avenge
avenida
avenine
avenous
avenses
aventre
aventre
verb
(obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear.
avenues
avenues
noun
plural of avenue
average
average
adj
(informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.
(not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.
Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.
Typical.
noun
(UK, in the plural) In the corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.
(UK, law, obsolete) The service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.
(law, marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
(mathematics) The arithmetic mean.
(sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
(statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.
Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.
verb
(intransitive) To be, generally or on average.
(transitive) Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.
(transitive) To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.
(transitive) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.
averell
averill
averish
avernal
avernal
Adjective
Avernian
avernus
avernus
Proper noun
The entrance to Hell or the underworld, or the underworld itself.
A lake in Southern Italy.
averral
averral
noun
(nonstandard) The act of averring; an assertion of truth.
averred
averred
verb
simple past tense and past participle of aver
averrer
averrer
noun
One who avers.
averted
averted
adj
Turned away, especially as an expression of feeling; also, offended; unpropitious.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of avert
averter
averter
noun
One who, or that which, averts.
avertin
avertin
noun
(organic chemistry) The brominated alcohol 2,2,2-tribromoethanol that is used as an anaesthetic for small animals
avestan
avestan
Proper noun
An ancient Eastern Old Iranian language that was used to compose the sacred hymns and canon of the Zoroastrian Avesta.
An alphabet which was developed based on Pahlavi scripts and used to write Avestan and Middle Persian languages.
Adjective
Of or pertaining to Avesta or Avestan.
aveugle
aveyron
aveyron
Proper noun
One of the départements of Midi-Pyrénées, France (INSEE code 12)
avgases
avgases
noun
plural of avgas
aviador
aviated
aviated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of aviate
aviates
aviates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aviate
aviatic
aviatic
adj
Relating to aviation
aviator
aviator
noun
(obsolete) A flying machine.
(obsolete) An experimenter in aviation.
An aircraft pilot. The use of the word may imply claims of superior airmanship, as in navy aviator vs. air force pilot.
avicide
avicide
noun
Any substance used to kill birds.
avictor
avicula
avidins
avidins
noun
plural of avidin
avidity
avidity
noun
(biochemistry) The measure of the synergism of the strength of individual interactions between proteins.