(rare) Absenteeism, in particular related to landowners.
acanthocarpous
acanthocarpous
adj
(botany) Having the fruit covered with spines.
acanthocephalous
acanthocephalous
adj
(zoology) Having a spiny head, as one of the Acanthocephala.
acanthophis
acanthophorous
acanthophorous
adj
Spine-bearing.
acanthopodous
acanthopodous
adj
Having spiny peduncles.
acanthopomatous
acanthopterous
acanthopterous
adj
(zoology) Acanthopterygious
(zoology) Spiny-winged.
acataphasia
acataphasia
noun
(pathology) A loss of the ability to express oneself using organized syntax
accomplishment
accomplishment
noun
(grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change over time until a natural end point.
Something accomplished; an achievement.
That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training.
The act of accomplishing; completion; fulfilment.
accomplishments
accomplishments
noun
plural of accomplishment
accomplisht
accomplisht
adj
Obsolete form of accomplished.
verb
(obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of accomplish
accountantship
accountantship
noun
The office or employment of an accountant.
acephalist
acephalist
noun
(obsolete) One who acknowledges no head or superior
acephalocyst
acephalocyst
noun
(zoology) A larval entozoön in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hydatid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin.
achondroplastic
achondroplastic
adj
(teratology) Of, related to, or suffering from achondroplasia.
achromatopsia
achromatopsia
noun
achromatopia
achromatopsy
achromatopsy
noun
color blindness; inability to distinguish colors; daltonism, achromatopia
acidosteophyte
acidosteophyte
noun
(medicine) A sharp or needle-shaped osteophyte.
acousticophobia
acousticophobia
noun
Fear of noise.
acquaintanceship
acquaintanceship
noun
(countable) A relationship as acquaintances.
(uncountable) The state of being acquainted.
acquaintanceships
acquaintanceships
noun
plural of acquaintanceship
acroparesthesia
acroparesthesia
noun
(medicine) severe pain in the extremities
acrotrophoneurosis
actinomorphous
actinomorphous
adj
(botany, of a flower) Having petals arranged in a radially symmetric pattern.
actinophorous
actinophorous
adj
(biology) Having straight projecting spines
actinophrys
actinosphaerium
actinotherapeutics
actinotherapeutics
noun
actinotherapy
actorship
actorship
noun
The state or quality associated with being an actor.
actuaryship
actuaryship
noun
The role or status of actuary.
adenohypersthenia
adenopharyngitis
adenotyphus
adenylpyrophosphate
adenylpyrophosphate
noun
Synonym of adenosine triphosphate
adeptship
adeptship
noun
The role or status of an adept.
adiaphorist
adiaphorist
noun
One who believes in adiaphorism.
adiaphoristic
adiaphoristic
adj
(theology) Theologically indifferent.
adjutantship
adjutantship
noun
The role or status of adjutant.
administratorship
administratorship
noun
The position or role of an administrator.
adventureship
advocateship
advocateship
noun
(now rare) The office or function of an advocate; advocacy.
aepyornithiformes
aerophagist
aerophagist
noun
(medicine) A person who gulps in air.
aerophilatelist
aerophilatelist
noun
One who practices aerophilately; a collector of airmail stamps.
aerophotos
aerophotos
noun
plural of aerophoto
aerophysicist
aerotherapeutics
aerotherapeutics
noun
The treatment of disease by the use of air or other gases.
aesthophysiology
aesthophysiology
noun
The science of sensation in relation to the actions of the nerves.
aethrioscope
aethrioscope
noun
(meteorology) A device for measuring temperature variations due to different atmospheric conditions, such as cloud or clear skies.
africanthropus
aftership
afterspeech
agapanthus
agapanthus
noun
Any member of the genus Agapanthus of flowering plants.
agapanthuses
agapanthuses
noun
plural of agapanthus
agastrophus
agentship
agentship
noun
(countable) The office or position of an agent.
(uncountable) A means of effecting something; agency.
agrostographer
agrostographer
noun
One who studies agrostography.
agrostographic
agrostographical
agrostographies
agrostography
agrostography
noun
The scientific description of grasses.
aldoheptose
aldoheptose
noun
(organic chemistry) Any aldose form of a heptose
alectoromorphous
alethopteis
alethoscope
alethoscope
noun
An instrument for viewing pictures by means of a lens, so as to present them in their natural proportions and relations.
algophilist
algophilist
noun
A person who is subject to algophilia; one who derives sexual pleasure from feeling pain.
alloeostropha
allopathies
allopathies
noun
plural of allopathy
allopathist
allopathist
noun
A practitioner of allopathy
allopaths
allopaths
noun
plural of allopath
allophanates
allophanates
noun
plural of allophanate
alphabetics
alphabetics
noun
(dated) The science of representing spoken sounds by letters.
alphabetisation
alphabetisation
noun
The act or process of arranging in alphabetical order.
alphabetise
alphabetise
verb
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of alphabetize.
alphabetised
alphabetised
adj
(Britain) Arranged in alphabetical order.
verb
(Britain) simple past tense and past participle of alphabetise
alphabetiser
alphabetiser
noun
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of alphabetizer.
alphabetising
alphabetising
verb
present participle of alphabetise
alphabetism
alphabetism
noun
An initialism: an abbreviation which is read letter by letter, such as UN.
Discrimination on the basis of the first letter of a name.
Excessive reliance upon the alphabet or alphabetic structures.
The ability to read an alphabet, a rudimentary form of literacy.
alphabetist
alphabetist
noun
Someone who practices alphabetism, discrimination on the basis of the first letter of a name.
alphabetizers
alphabetizers
noun
plural of alphabetizer
alphabetizes
alphabetizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alphabetize
alphabets
alphabets
noun
plural of alphabet
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alphabet
alphitomorphous
alphitomorphous
Adjective
Resembling barleymeal.
alphonist
amateurship
amateurship
noun
The quality or character of an amateur.
ampelographist
ampelographist
noun
One who studies ampelography.
ampherotokous
amphetamines
amphetamines
noun
plural of amphetamine
amphiarthroses
amphiarthroses
noun
plural of amphiarthrosis
amphiarthrosis
amphiarthrosis
noun
(anatomy) The type of movable joint in animals in which the surfaces of bones are connected by ligaments or cartilage.
amphiaster
amphiaster
noun
(biology) The achromatic figure, formed in mitotic cell division, consisting of two asters connected by a spindle-shaped bundle of rod-like fibres diverging from each aster.
amphiblastic
amphiblastic
adj
(biology) Segmenting unequally; said of telolecithal ova with complete segmentation.
amphiblastula
amphiblastula
noun
A larva of some sponges that has equal numbers of both flagellate and nonflagellate cells separated from each other on opposite sides of the blastula
amphiblestritis
amphibolites
amphibolites
noun
plural of amphibolite
amphibolostylous
amphictyonies
amphictyonies
noun
plural of amphictyony
amphictyons
amphictyons
noun
plural of amphictyon
amphicyrtous
amphidiarthrosis
amphierotism
amphigastria
amphigastrium
amphigastrula
amphipneust
amphipneusta
amphipneustic
amphiprostylar
amphiprostylar
adj
amphiprostyle
amphiprostyle
amphiprostyle
adj
(architecture, chiefly historical, of a temple or edifice) Having columns at either end but not along the sides.
noun
(architecture, historical) An amphiprostyle temple or edifice.
amphisporangiate
amphistoma
amphistomatic
amphistomatic
adj
(botany, of a leaf) Having stomata on both sides
amphistome
amphistome
noun
Any trematode of the genus Paramphistomum (previously Amphistoma)
amphistomoid
amphistomous
amphistomous
adj
(zoology) Having a sucker at each extremity.
amphistomum
amphistylar
amphistylic
amphistylic
adj
(anatomy, of a skull) Having the mandibular arch articulated with the hyoid arch and the cranium, as in the cestraciont sharks.
amphistyly
amphithalamus
amphitheaters
amphitheaters
noun
plural of amphitheater
amphithemis
amphithurons
amphithyrons
amphitokous
amphitrichous
amphitrichous
adj
(biology) (of bacteria) Having a single flagellum on each of two opposite ends. (Only one flagellum operates at a time, allowing the bacterium to reverse course rapidly by switching which flagellum is active.)
amphitropous
amphitropous
adj
(botany) Having the ovule bent so that the ends are near each other.
amphoterus
amygdalothripsis
amylophosphate
analphabetism
analphabetism
noun
Illiteracy, the inability to read and write.
analphabets
analphabets
noun
plural of analphabet
ananthropism
anaphalantiasis
anaphalantiasis
noun
Hair loss from the eyebrows
anaphroditous
anaptomorphus
anaptychus
anaptychus
noun
(paleontology) One of a pair of shelly plates found in some cephalopods, such as the ammonites.
anarthropodous
anastrophe
anastrophe
noun
(rhetoric) Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence.