(botany) A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus.
adelbert
adenanthera
adendritic
adendritic
adj
(biology) (of a neuron) Not having dendrites.
(biology) (of other cells) Not having cytoplasmic processes.
Not having a branching structure, not tree-like.
adenemphractic
adenocarcinomata
adenocarcinomatous
adenocarcinomatous
adj
Of or pertaining to adenocarcinomas
adenohypersthenia
adenometritis
adenopharyngitis
adenosarcomata
adenosarcomata
noun
plural of adenosarcoma
adenylpyrophosphate
adenylpyrophosphate
noun
Synonym of adenosine triphosphate
adepter
adepter
adj
(archaic) comparative form of adept: more adept
adherant
adherent
adherent
adj
(botany) Attaching or pressing against a different organ.
Adhesive, sticking to something.
Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.
noun
A person who has membership in some group, association or religion.
adherently
adherently
adv
In an adherent manner.
adherents
adherents
noun
plural of adherent
adherescent
adhesivemeter
adhesivemeter
noun
An instrument for measuring the adhesive qualities of a substance.
adhort
adhort
verb
(obsolete) To exhort; to advise.
adiantiform
adiaphoretic
adiaphorist
adiaphorist
noun
One who believes in adiaphorism.
adiaphoristic
adiaphoristic
adj
(theology) Theologically indifferent.
adiaphorite
adiaphorite
Noun
One who believes in adiaphorism; an adiaphorist.
adiathermal
adiathermal
adj
(thermodynamics) adiabatic; not involving transmission of heat
adiathermancy
adiathermancy
noun
(obsolete) A resistance to the flow of heat.
adiathermanous
adiathermic
adiathermic
adj
impervious to heat
adigranth
adipocerite
adipometer
adipometer
noun
A calliper used to estimate the amount of internal fat by measuring the thickness of a fold of skin
adiponitrile
adiponitrile
noun
(organic chemistry) The nitrile derived from adipic acid
adjournment
adjournment
noun
(rhetoric) Ampliatio.
The state of being adjourned, or action of adjourning.
adjournments
adjournments
noun
plural of adjournment
adjudicator
adjudicator
noun
One who adjudicates.
adjudicators
adjudicators
noun
plural of adjudicator
adjudicatory
adjudicatory
adj
Of or pertaining to an adjudication.
adjudicature
adjudicature
noun
An act of adjudication; a judgment.
adjuration
adjuration
noun
A grave warning.
A solemn oath.
adjurations
adjurations
noun
plural of adjuration
adjuratory
adjuratory
adj
Of or pertaining to an adjuration.
adjuster
adjuster
noun
One who adjusts, especially for the insurance industry's employment title "loss adjuster" (or "claims adjuster" in the United States).
adjusters
adjusters
noun
plural of adjuster
adjustor
adjustor
noun
Alternative form of adjuster
adjustores
adjustoring
adjustors
adjustors
noun
plural of adjustor
adjutator
adjutator
noun
(archaic) Alternative spelling of agitator
adjutor
adjutor
noun
An adjutant; a helper or assistant;
adjutorious
adjutory
adjutory
adj
(obsolete) Serving to help or assist.
adjutrice
adjutrice
noun
Alternative form of adjutrix (“female adjutor”)
adjutrix
adjutrix
noun
A female adjutor.
admarginate
admarginate
verb
(archaic) To write in the margin.
admeasurement
admeasurement
noun
Apportionment.
admensuration
admensuration
noun
admeasurement
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
admirability
admirability
noun
That quality which produces admiration or wonder
admiralties
admiralties
noun
plural of admiralty
admiralty
admiralty
noun
(law) The court which has jurisdiction of maritime questions and offenses.
(law) The system of jurisprudence of admiralty courts.
(military) The building in which the lords of the admiralty, in England, transact business.
(military) The department or officers having authority over naval affairs generally.
(military) The office or jurisdiction of an admiral.
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
admirative
admirative
adj
Characterized by admiration.
noun
(An instance of) a verb form similar to mirative, found primarily in some languages of the Balkan sprachbund (i.e. namely Albanian, Bulgarian and Macedonian), which expresses surprise, irony, doubt, or reportedness on the part of the speaker (compare mirative).
admiratively
admiratively
adv
In an admirative manner.
admirator
admirator
noun
(archaic) An admirer; one who admires.
admittatur
admittatur
noun
The certificate of admission given in some American colleges.
admitter
admitter
noun
Someone who or something which admits.
admitters
admitters
noun
plural of admitter
admixture
admixture
noun
(epilepsy) a mixture composed of entities retaining their individual properties.
A mixing-in of a biologically or genetically differentiated group to an established stock.
A mixture, in some contexts
An instance of admixing, a mixing in of something.
admixtures
admixtures
noun
plural of admixture
admonitioner
admonitioner
noun
(obsolete) An admonisher; one who admonishes.
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.
adoperate
adoperation
adopter
adopter
noun
one who adopts
adopters
adopters
noun
plural of adopter
adorability
adorability
noun
The quality of being adorable; adorableness.
adorant
adorant
adj
(poetic) Adoring.
adorantes
adoration
adoration
noun
(countable) An act of religious worship.
(historical) The selection of a pope by acclamation and before any formal ballot (excluded as a voting method in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV).
(religion) Worship of Christ in the Eucharistic host in the Catholic Church, often while exposed in a monstrance.
(uncountable) Admiration or esteem.
(uncountable) The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination.
adorations
adorations
noun
plural of adoration
adoratory
adoratory
adj
Expressing adoration.
noun
A room in a temple for the adoration of idols.
adoretus
adornation
adornation
Noun
adornment
adornment
adornment
noun
A decoration; that which adorns.
The act of decorating.
adornments
adornments
noun
plural of adornment
adrastea
adrastea
Proper noun
The goddess of divine retribution
Smallest of the four inner moons of Jupiter.
adrastos
adrastus
adreamt
adreamt
adj
(obsolete) Alternative form of adreamed
adrectal
adrenalcortical
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.
adrenitis
adrenitis
noun
Alternative form of adrenalitis
adrenocortical
adrenocortical
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the adrenal cortex.
adrenocorticosteroid
adrenocorticosteroid
noun
(biochemistry) adrenal corticosteroid
adrenocorticotrophic
adrenocorticotrophic
adj
Alternative form of adrenocorticotropic
adrenocorticotrophin
adrenocorticotrophin
noun
(biochemistry) adrenocorticotropic hormone
adrenocorticotropic
adrenocorticotropic
adj
That stimulates the adrenal cortex.
adrenolytic
adrenolytic
adj
(biochemistry) That inhibits the production or function of adrenaline
adrenosterone
adrenosterone
noun
(biochemistry) A hormone, originally isolated from the adrenal cortex, that has weak androgenic effects.
adrenotrophin
adrenotropic
adrenotropic
adj
That stimulates the adrenal glands or adrenal cortex
adrent
adrestus
adret
adret
noun
(geography) The sun-facing side of a mountain.
adriatic
adriatic
Adjective
Of or pertaining to the Adriatic Sea
Proper noun
The Adriatic Sea, an extension of the Mediterranean Sea located between Italy and the Dalmatian coast of the Balkans.
adrift
adrift
adj
(chiefly UK, often with of) Behind one's opponents, or below a required threshold in terms of score, number or position.
(of a seaman) Absent from his watch.
Floating at random.
adv
In a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves.
adrogate
adrogate
verb
(transitive, Ancient Rome, law, historical) To adopt (a person who is his own master).
adroit
adroit
adj
Deft, dexterous, or skillful.
adroiter
adroiter
adj
comparative form of adroit: more adroit
adroitest
adroitest
adj
superlative form of adroit: most adroit
adroitly
adroitly
adv
Deftly; in an adroit manner.
In a manner exhibiting skill at handling situations, particularly difficult situations.