A complex tumor including components derived from glands and muscle.
adenomyxoma
adenomyxosarcoma
adenophlegmon
adenophlegmon
noun
(obsolete, pathology) inflammation of a lymph gland
adenophthalmia
adenophyma
adenosarcoma
adenosarcoma
noun
An uncommon form of cancer that arises from mesenchymal tissue and has a benign glandular component.
adenosarcomas
adenosarcomata
adenosarcomata
noun
plural of adenosarcoma
adenostemonous
adenostoma
adenotome
adenotomic
adenotomic
adj
Pertaining to adenotomy (the dissection of or incision into a gland).
adenotomy
adenotomy
noun
(anatomy, surgery) Dissection of, or incision into, a gland or glands.
adermin
adermin
Noun
pyridoxine
adermine
adhamant
adhamant
adj
(rare) Clinging, as by hooks.
adiantiform
adiantum
adiantum
noun
The maidenhair fern and related ferns (of the genus Adiantum)
adiathermancy
adiathermancy
noun
(obsolete) A resistance to the flow of heat.
adiathermanous
adjournment
adjournment
noun
(rhetoric) Ampliatio.
The state of being adjourned, or action of adjourning.
adjournments
adjournments
noun
plural of adjournment
adjudgment
adjudgment
noun
The action of imposing judgment.
adjument
adjument
noun
(obsolete) Help; support; that which or one who helps or supports.
adjustment
adjustment
noun
The action of adjusting something
The assessment, by an insurance company, of a claim; the settlement of such a claim
The behavioural process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment.
The result of adjusting something; a small change; a minor correction; a modification or alteration
The settling or balancing of a financial account
adjustmental
adjustmental
adj
Relating to adjustment.
adjustments
adjustments
noun
plural of adjustment
adlumidin
adlumidine
adlumin
adlumine
adlumine
noun
(organic chemistry) An alkaloid found in plants of genus Adlumia.
adman
adman
noun
A person in the business of devising, writing, illustrating or selling advertisements.
admarginate
admarginate
verb
(archaic) To write in the margin.
admeasurement
admeasurement
noun
Apportionment.
admeasuring
admeasuring
verb
present participle of admeasure
admedian
admedian
adj
(anatomy) Near the median plane
admen
admen
noun
plural of adman
admensuration
admensuration
noun
admeasurement
admin
admin
noun
(countable, informal) An administration (a body that administers; the executive part of government).
(countable, informal) An administrator (one who administers affairs).
(countable, informal, Internet) A user of a discussion forum, website, etc. with privileges allowing them to control or restrict the activity of other users.
(countable, informal, computing) A systems administrator (one who maintains a computer system or network).
(uncountable, informal) Administration, or administrative work.
verb
(transitive, computing, informal) To serve as an administrator for or of.
(Scotland, law, transitive) To prove; to corroborate.
adminiculation
adminiculation
noun
(law) proof; corroboration
adminiculum
adminiculum
noun
(medicine) That which gives support to a part.
(medicine) The expansion of fibers extending from the superior pubic ligament to the posterior surface of the linea alba.
administer
administer
verb
(intransitive) To minister (to).
(law) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
(medicine) To give a drug to a patient, be it orally or by any other means.
(transitive) To apportion out, distribute.
(transitive) To cause to ingest (a drug), either by openly offering or through deceit.
(transitive) To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity.
To give, as an oath.
administerd
administerd
verb
(obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of administer
administered
administered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of administer
administerial
administerial
adj
Of or pertaining to administering or administration.
administering
administering
noun
administration
verb
present participle of administer
administerings
administerings
noun
plural of administering
administers
administers
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of administer
administrable
administrable
adj
Able to be administered
administrant
administrant
adj
Administrating
noun
The one who administers.
administrants
administrants
noun
plural of administrant
administrate
administrate
verb
(computing) the act or function of providing maintenance and general housekeeping for computer systems, networks, peripheral equipment, etc.
to administer
administrated
administrated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of administrate
administrates
administrates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of administrate
administrating
administrating
verb
present participle of administrate
administration
administration
noun
(countable) A body that administers; a body of administrators.
(countable, government, politics) The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are entrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain.
(government, politics) The country's government under the rule of a particular leader.
(uncountable) The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation.
(uncountable) The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction.
(uncountable, business) Management.
(uncountable, law, UK) An arrangement whereby an insolvent company can continue trading under supervision.
administrational
administrational
adj
(nonstandard) Relating to administration.
administrationist
administrations
administrations
noun
plural of administration
administrative
administrative
adj
Of or relating to administering or administration.
administratively
administratively
adv
In an administrative manner, or for purposes of administration.
administrator
administrator
noun
(computing) One who is responsible for software installation, management, information and maintenance of a computer or network
(law) A person who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority
One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager
administrators
administrators
noun
plural of administrator
administratorship
administratorship
noun
The position or role of an administrator.
administratress
administratress
Noun
A female administrator.
administratrices
administratrices
noun
plural of administratrix
administratrix
administratrix
noun
A female administrator.
adminstration
adminstrations
admirableness
admirableness
noun
The state or quality of being admirable.
admirance
admirance
noun
(obsolete) admiration
admiration
admiration
noun
(obsolete) Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise.
(obsolete) Wondering or questioning (without any particular positive or negative attitude to the subject).
A positive emotion including wonder and approbation; the regarding of another as being wonderful
admirations
admirations
noun
plural of admiration
admiring
admiring
adj
Feeling or showing admiration.
noun
admiration
verb
present participle of admire
admiringly
admiringly
adv
In an admiring manner.
admissibleness
admissibleness
noun
The state or quality of being admissible.
admission
admission
noun
(Britain, ecclesiastical law) Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.
(law) Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.
A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence
Permission to enter, or the entrance itself; admittance; entrance; access
The act or practice of admitting.
The cost or fee associated with attendance or entry.
The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something asserted; acknowledgement; concession.
admissions
admissions
noun
The department, section, administrative team, etc., that process admissions for an institution, hospital, etc.; the place where such a department is located.
plural of admission
admittance
admittance
noun
(Britain, law) The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate.
(physics) The reciprocal of impedance
Actual entrance, reception.
Permission to enter, the power or right of entrance.
The act of admitting.
admittances
admittances
noun
plural of admittance
admitting
admitting
noun
An act of admission; an allowing to enter.
verb
present participle of admit
admixing
admixing
verb
present participle of admix
admixtion
admixtion
noun
(archaic) A mingling of different things; an admixture.
admonish
admonish
verb
(transitive) To inform or notify of a fault; to rebuke gently or kindly, but seriously; to tell off.
(transitive) To instruct or direct.
(transitive, with of or against) To advise against wrongdoing; to caution; to warn against danger or an offense.
admonished
admonished
verb
simple past tense and past participle of admonish
admonisher
admonisher
noun
One who admonishes.
admonishers
admonishers
noun
plural of admonisher
admonishes
admonishes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of admonish
admonishing
admonishing
noun
admonishment
verb
present participle of admonish
admonishingly
admonishingly
adv
In an admonishing manner.
admonishment
admonishment
noun
The act of admonishing; a reprimand or rebuke.
admonishments
admonishments
noun
plural of admonishment
admonition
admonition
noun
Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against fault or oversight; warning.
admonitioner
admonitioner
noun
(obsolete) An admonisher; one who admonishes.
admonitionist
admonitionist
noun
One who admonishes, or believes in a policy of doing so.
admonitions
admonitions
noun
plural of admonition
admonitive
admonitive
adj
Of or conveying admonition
admonitively
admonitively
adv
As an admonition.
admonitor
admonitor
noun
An admonisher; a monitor.
admonitorial
admonitorial
adj
(rare) admonitory
admonitorily
admonitorily
adv
In an admonitory manner.
admonitory
admonitory
adj
Of or pertaining to an admonition; serving to reprove, warn or advise.
admonitrix
admonitrix
noun
(archaic) A female admonitor.
admortization
admortization
noun
(law) In feudal law, the reducing of lands or tenements to mortmain.
adnominal
adnominal
adj
(grammar) Involving or relating to words that modify a noun.
(grammar, dated) Of or pertaining to an adnoun (sensu stricto).
noun
(grammar) The adnominal case: A word or phrase qualifying a noun, such as an adjective or a relative clause.
adnominally
adnominally
adv
(grammar) In an adnominal way; used like an adnoun, adjectivally.
adnomination
adnomination
noun
A form of wordplay in which phonetically similar words are juxtaposed.
adnumber
adoniram
adoptianism
adoptianism
noun
Alternative form of adoptionism
adoptianisms
adoptionism
adoptionism
noun
(Christianity) A form of Christianity which maintains that Jesus is divine only in the sense that God the Father adopted him, either at Jesus' birth, or at his death, as opposed to the orthodox understanding of the nature of the Trinity.
adoptionisms
adornment
adornment
noun
A decoration; that which adorns.
The act of decorating.
adornments
adornments
noun
plural of adornment
adpromission
adrenalectomies
adrenalectomies
noun
plural of adrenalectomy
adrenalectomize
adrenalectomize
verb
(transitive) To subject to an adrenalectomy.
adrenalectomized
adrenalectomized
adj
Having been adrenalectomized (subjected to adrenalectomy).
verb
simple past tense and past participle of adrenalectomize
adrenalectomizing
adrenalectomizing
verb
present participle of adrenalectomize
adrenalectomy
adrenalectomy
noun
(surgery) The removal of one or both adrenal glands, usually advised for patients with tumours in those glands.
adrenochrome
adrenochrome
noun
(biochemistry) An oxidation product of adrenaline or epinephrine; its semicarbazone is used as a drug to reduce bleeding.
(fiction) A fictional drug obtained from human adrenal glands.
adrenomedullary
adrenomedullary
adj
Of or relating to the adrenal medulla.
adriamycin
adriamycin
noun
An anthracycline antibiotic drug used in cancer chemotherapy.
adsmithing
adterminal
adumbrant
adumbrant
adj
Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth.
adumbrating
adumbrating
verb
present participle of adumbrate
adumbration
adumbration
noun
(countable) A faint sketch; a brief representation, an outline.
(countable, philosophy, specifically phenomenology) The form of an object as seen by an observer.
(countable, uncountable, figuratively) A rough or symbolic representation; a vague indication of what is to come, a foreshadowing.
(specifically, heraldry) The outline of a charge (“image displayed on an escutcheon”), sometimes filled in with a darker shade than the field.
(uncountable) The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.
adumbrations
adumbrations
noun
plural of adumbration
advancement
advancement
noun
(law) Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution.
An advance of money or value; payment in advance.
How advanced something is
The act of advancing; promotion to a higher place or dignity
The state of being advanced
advancements
advancements
noun
plural of advancement
adventism
adventurement
adventurement
noun
(obsolete) adventure.
adventuresome
adventuresome
adj
Prone to, or willing to undertake, adventures; daring or bold.
adventuresomely
adventuresomely
adv
In an adventuresome manner.
adventuresomeness
adventuresomeness
noun
The state or quality of being adventuresome.
adventuresomes
adventurism
adventurism
noun
(politics) The taking of excessive risks by a government in their political, economic or foreign affairs.
The behaviour of an adventurer; risk-taking.
adventurisms
adventurisms
noun
plural of adventurism
advertisement
advertisement
noun
(card games) In gin rummy, the discarding of a card of one's preferred suit so as to mislead the opponent into thinking you do not want it.
(marketing) A commercial solicitation designed to sell some commodity, service or similar.
(obsolete) Notoriety.
A public notice.
A recommendation of a particular product, service or person.