(surgery) Extraction of peritoneal fluid from the abdomen for evaluation, using a trocar
abdominocystic
abdominocystic
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the abdomen and to the bladder.
abdominohysterectomy
abdominohysterectomy
noun
(surgery) Removal of the uterus via an incision made in the abdominal wall rather than via the vagina.
abdominoscope
abdominoscope
noun
An instrument like an endoscope, for use in abdominoscopy.
abdominoscopy
abdominoscopy
noun
(medicine) Examination of the abdomen to detect abdominal disease, using an endoscope.
abdominovesical
abdominovesical
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the abdomen and the urinary bladder
abducens
abducens
noun
(anatomy) Ellipsis of abducens nerve.
abducentes
abducentes
noun
plural of abducens
abductions
abductions
noun
plural of abduction
abecedarians
abecedarians
noun
plural of abecedarian
abencerrages
aberrancies
aberrancies
noun
plural of aberrancy
abeyances
abeyances
noun
plural of abeyance
abeyancies
abeyancies
noun
plural of abeyancy
abhorrences
abhorrences
noun
plural of abhorrence
abidances
abidances
noun
plural of abidance
abjectedness
abjectedness
noun
(rare) The state of being abjected.
abjections
abjections
noun
plural of abjection
abjectness
abjectness
noun
The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility.
abjectnesses
abjectnesses
noun
plural of abjectness
abnormalcies
abnormalcies
noun
plural of abnormalcy
abranchialism
abranchialism
noun
The condition of being without gills.
abranchious
abranchious
adj
Having no gills
abreactions
abreactions
noun
plural of abreaction
abscessing
abscessing
verb
present participle of abscess
abscession
abscession
noun
(obsolete) An abscess.
(rare) A separating; a removal; a going away.
abscind
abscind
verb
(transitive, archaic) To cut off.
abscisin
abscisin
noun
Alternative spelling of abscissin
abscising
abscising
verb
present participle of abscise
abscisins
abscisins
noun
plural of abscisin
abscision
abscision
noun
A cutting away.
abscissin
abscissin
noun
(biochemistry, dated) A plant hormone controlling the dropping off or abscission of certain plant parts, notably the leaves of trees in autumn or cotton bolls.
abscission
abscission
noun
(botany) The natural separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole.
(obsolete) The state of being cut off.
(rhetoric) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly
The act or process of cutting off.
abscissions
abscissions
noun
plural of abscission
absconce
absconce
noun
A dark lantern used in church to read prayers etc during a service.
abscond
abscond
verb
(intransitive) To flee, often secretly; to steal away.
(intransitive) To hide, to be in hiding or concealment.
(intransitive, of bee colonies) To abandon a hive.
(law) To hide, conceal, or absent oneself clandestinely, with the intent to avoid legal process
(obsolete, transitive) To conceal; to take away.
(transitive, uncommon) To evade, to hide or flee from.
absconded
absconded
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abscond
abscondedly
abscondence
abscondence
noun
(rare) The act of absconding, or illicitly escaping; hiding of a fugitive.
absconder
absconder
noun
A person who absconds.
absconders
absconders
noun
plural of absconder
absconding
absconding
noun
An instance in which someone absconds.
verb
present participle of abscond
absconds
absconds
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abscond
absconsa
absconsa
noun
(historical) A kind of dark lantern.
abscound
absecon
absence
absence
noun
(fencing) Lack of contact between blades.
(medicine) Temporary loss or disruption of consciousness, with sudden onset and recovery, and common in epilepsy.
A state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship
Failure to be present where one is expected, wanted, or needed; nonattendance; deficiency.
Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind).
Lack; deficiency; nonexistence.
The period of someone being away.
absences
absences
noun
plural of absence
absinthic
absinthic
adj
(chemistry) Relating to the common wormwood or to an acid obtained from it.
absinthismic
absinthismic
adj
Afflicted with absinthism.
absorbance
absorbance
noun
(physics) A logarithmic measure of the amount of light that is absorbed when passing through a substance; the capacity of a substance to absorb light of a given wavelength; optical density.
absorbances
absorbances
noun
plural of absorbance
absorbancies
absorbancies
noun
plural of absorbancy
absorbancy
absorbancy
noun
(physics) Alternative form of absorbency
absorbefacient
absorbefacient
adj
(medicine) Inducing or increasing absorption (of a drug).
noun
(medicine) Any such medicine that induces absorption.
absorbencies
absorbencies
noun
plural of absorbency
absorbency
absorbency
noun
(obsolete) The action of absorbing.
(physics) The ratio of the absorbance or optical density of a substance to that of a similar body of pure solvent.
The quality of being absorbent.
absorptance
absorptance
noun
(optics, physics) Absorbed radiation and incident radiation in a ratio format; a measurement that shows how well a surface absorbs radiation.
absorptances
absorptances
noun
plural of absorptance
abstinence
abstinence
noun
(business) Delay of spending to accrue capital.
(ecclesiastical) Abstention from certain foods on days of penitential observance.
(obsolete) Self-denial; abstaining; or forebearance of anything.
Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating/alcoholic beverages; total abstinence; teetotalism).
Specifically, the practice of abstaining from sexual intercourse, either permanently or until marriage.
The act or practice of abstaining, refraining from indulging a desire or appetite.
The practice of self-denial; self-restraint; forebearance from anything.
abstinences
abstinences
noun
plural of abstinence
abstinency
abstinency
noun
(rare) Alternative form of abstinence
abstractedness
abstractedness
noun
The state of being abstracted; abstract character.
abstracting
abstracting
verb
present participle of abstract
abstraction
abstraction
noun
(art) An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
(chemistry) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
(computing) Any generalization technique that ignores or hides details to capture some kind of commonality between different instances for the purpose of controlling the intellectual complexity of engineered systems, particularly software systems.
(computing) Any intellectual construct produced through the technique of abstraction.
(engineering) Removal of water from a river, lake, or aquifer.
(euphemistic) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
(geology) The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so, as to assimilate the smaller.
A member of an idealized subgroup when contemplated according to the abstracted quality which defines the subgroup.
A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
Abstraction is necessary for the classification of things into genera and species.
An idea of an idealistic, unrealistic or visionary nature.
An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
Any characteristic of an individual object when that characteristic has been separated from the object and is contemplated alone as a quality having independent existence.
The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization.
The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics; the act of separating said qualities from the object or ideas.
The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the product of any mental process involving a synthesis of: separation, despecification, generalization, and ideation in any of a number of combinations.
abstractional
abstractional
adj
Pertaining to abstraction.
abstractionism
abstractionism
noun
The creation, principles, or ideals of abstractions, in particular art.
The presentation of ideas in an abstract manner.
abstractionist
abstractionist
adj
Related or tending to abstractionism, particularly art.
noun
(art) Someone who supports or creates abstract art.
An idealist.
abstractionists
abstractionists
noun
plural of abstractionist
abstractions
abstractions
noun
plural of abstraction
abstractiveness
abstractiveness
noun
The property of being abstractive.
abstractness
abstractness
noun
The quality of being abstract.
abstractnesses
abstractnesses
noun
plural of abstractness
abstricting
abstricting
verb
present participle of abstrict
abstriction
abstriction
noun
(biology, mycology) A method of spore formation in fungi in which successive portions of the sporophore are cut off through the growth of septa; abjunction.
abundances
abundances
noun
plural of abundance
abyssobenthonic
acceptableness
acceptableness
noun
The quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability.
accessibleness
accessibleness
noun
The property that someone or something can be accessed.
accommodableness
accommodableness
noun
(rare) The quality or condition of being accommodable
accountabilities
accountabilities
noun
plural of accountability
accountableness
accountableness
noun
The quality or state of being accountable; accountability.
actinobacillosis
actinobacillosis
noun
(pathology) A zoonotic disease, most commonly associated with animals, caused by the Actinobacillus bacteria, and which forms radiating structures in the tissues
actinobacillus
actinobacillus
noun
Any bacterium of the genus Actinobacillus.
actinoblast
acubens
acyanoblepsia
acyanoblepsia
noun
Inability to see the colour blue.
albescence
albescence
noun
The act of becoming white; whitishness.
albescent
albescent
adj
Becoming white or whitish; moderately white.
albicans
albinistic
albinistic
adj
Of or pertaining to albinism.
albocinereous
albuminoscope
ambiances
ambiances
noun
plural of ambiance
ambiences
ambiences
noun
plural of ambience
ambitendencies
ambitendencies
noun
plural of ambitendency
ambivalences
ambivalences
noun
plural of ambivalence
amblyrhynchus
ambulances
ambulances
noun
plural of ambulance
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ambulance
ambuscading
ambuscading
verb
present participle of ambuscade
amicableness
amicableness
noun
The state or quality of being amicable.
ammonobasic
ammonocarbonous
amphisbaenic
amphisbaenic
adj
(mythology) Relating to an amphisbaena.
anabaptistic
anabaptistical
anabaptistically
anabranches
anabranches
noun
plural of anabranch
angioblastic
angioblastic
adj
Relating to angioblasts.
anisobranchiate
antechambers
antechambers
noun
plural of antechamber
antibacchius
antibacchius
noun
(poetry) A rare metrical foot consisting of two accented syllables followed by one unaccented syllable.
antibacklash
antibacklash
adj
(mechanics) Countering or preventing backlash (jarring reflex motion in machinery).
antiballistic
antiballistic
adj
(military, of a missile, or system) designed to detect, intercept, and destroy a ballistic missile in flight
antibasilican
antibiotics
antibiotics
noun
plural of antibiotic
antiblackism
antiblackism
noun
Antiblack sentiments or politics.
antiblastic
antiblastic
adj
(biology, of a host) antagonistic to the metabolism of a parasite
antiliberalistic
antirepublicanism
antiscabious
antiscorbutic
antiscorbutic
adj
(pharmacology) preventing or curing scurvy
noun
(pharmacology) A medicine that prevents or cures scurvy.
antiscorbutical
antiscorbutical
adj
Archaic form of antiscorbutic.
antisubstance
antisubstance
noun
Synonym of antibody
Synonym of antimatter
antitobacconist
antitobacconist
noun
(dated) One who opposes the habit of smoking tobacco.
antituberculosis
antituberculosis
adj
(pharmacology) Acting to combat or counteract tuberculosis
antituberculous
antituberculous
adj
(pharmacology) Acting to combat or counteract tuberculosis.
applicableness
applicableness
noun
The state or quality of being applicable.
approachableness
approachableness
noun
The state or quality of being approachable.
aquincubitalism
aquincubitalism
noun
The quality of being aquincubital.
aquintocubitalism
arabinosic
arabinosic
adj
Of or relating to arabinose.
arborescence
arborescence
noun
(graph theory) A directed rooted tree in which all vertices can be reached from the root.
A tree-like structure.
arborescent
arborescent
adj
(philosophy) Marked by insistence on totalizing principles, binarism and dualism (as opposed to the rhizome theory).
Like a tree; having a structure or appearance similar to that of a tree; branching.