Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abreact
abscised
abscised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abscise
abscises
abscises
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abscise
abscisse
absconce
absconce
noun
A dark lantern used in church to read prayers etc during a service.
absences
absences
noun
plural of absence
academes
academes
noun
plural of academe
academus
acalephs
acalephs
noun
plural of acaleph
acarines
acarines
noun
plural of acarine
acaulose
acaulose
adj
acaulous
acceders
acceders
noun
plural of acceder
accensed
accensed
adj
(obsolete) kindled
accensor
accensor
noun
(Roman Catholicism) One of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers.
accentus
accessed
accessed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of access
accesses
accesses
noun
plural of access
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of access
accessit
accessit
noun
A vote in the election of a pope.
An honorable mention in an academic contest.
accessor
accessor
noun
(object-oriented programming) A function that retrieves a value, usually without changing any data.
Someone or something that accesses.
accidies
accosted
accosted
adj
(heraldry) Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side
verb
simple past tense and past participle of accost
accrease
accrease
noun
(obsolete) An increase.
verb
(obsolete) To increase.
accresce
accresce
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To increase; to grow.
(rare, intransitive) To accrue.
accretes
accretes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accrete
accursed
accursed
adj
(archaic, theology) Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; anathematized.
(prenominal) Hateful; detestable, loathsome.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of accurse
accusers
accusers
noun
plural of accuser
accusive
accusive
adj
accusative; accusing
acediast
acediast
noun
A person who has acedia
acequias
acequias
noun
plural of acequia
acerates
acerates
noun
plural of acerate
acerbest
acerbest
adj
superlative form of acerb: most acerb
acerolas
acerolas
noun
plural of acerola
acervose
acescent
acescent
adj
Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour.
noun
A substance liable to become sour.
acestoma
acetates
acetates
noun
plural of acetate
acetones
acetones
noun
plural of acetone
acheirus
achelous
achelous
Proper noun
a river in western Greece
Deity of water; later, patron deity of the Achelous River.
achesoun
achieves
achieves
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of achieve
achilles
achilles
Proper noun
semi-divine hero, son of Peleus and the nymph Thetis, prince and leader of the Myrmidons; great warrior of the Achaean (Greek) camp, killed in the Trojan War; central character of the Iliad.
achinese
achiness
achiness
noun
The property of being achy.
achiotes
achiotes
noun
plural of achiote
acidness
acidness
noun
acidity, sourness
acidoses
acidoses
noun
plural of acidosis
acinaces
acinaces
noun
(historical, ancient history) A short sword or saber.
acoelous
acoelous
adj
(zoology) Without a coelom.
acolytes
acolytes
noun
plural of acolyte
aconites
aconites
noun
plural of aconite
acquests
acquests
noun
plural of acquest
acquires
acquires
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acquire
acreages
acreages
noun
plural of acreage
acridest
acridest
adj
superlative form of acrid: most acrid
acrogens
acrogens
noun
plural of acrogen
acrosome
acrosome
noun
A structure forming the end of the head of a spermatozoon
actiones
actressy
actressy
adj
Characteristic of an actress
Histrionic or theatrical
actuates
actuates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of actuate
acuerdos
acuities
acuities
noun
plural of acuity
acupress
acupress
verb
(transitive) To apply acupressure to.
acushnet
acylates
acylates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acylate
adducers
adducers
noun
plural of adducer
adolesce
adolesce
verb
(intransitive) To commence or progress through adolescence.
advances
advances
noun
plural of advance
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advance
aeacides
aerobics
aerobics
noun
A form of exercise, designed to enhance one's cardiovascular fitness, normally performed to music.
aerocyst
aerocyst
noun
An air vesicle.
aesculin
aesculin
noun
Alternative form of esculin
aesculus
affectus
affiches
affiches
noun
plural of affiche
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of affiche
agencies
agencies
noun
plural of agency
agenesic
agenesic
adj
(biology) sterile, infertile
noun
Such a person or animal
agrestic
agrestic
adj
Of or pertaining to the fields; rural; rustic, unpolished
aircrews
aircrews
noun
plural of aircrew
airscape
airscape
noun
The view of the sky, or an artistic work that visually represents it.
airscrew
airscrew
noun
Any actuator disk whose working fluid is air.
The propeller of an aircraft; the prop.
airspace
airspace
noun
(aviation) that part of the sky designated for the sole use of aircraft.
(broadcasting) Space (i.e. a few neighboring frequencies) available for broadcasting within a particular frequency band.
(construction) The cavity in a cavity wall containing air for insulation.
(politics, aviation) A specified portion of the atmosphere, especially that under the technical aviation control and/or jurisdiction of a particular state over which territory (and territorial waters) it lies.
The portion of an enclosed area which contains air, especially breathable air.
akinesic
akinesic
adj
Of or pertaining to akinesia.
alcahest
alcahest
noun
Alternative form of alkahest
alcaides
alcaides
noun
plural of alcaide
alcaldes
alcaldes
noun
plural of alcalde
alcaydes
alcaydes
noun
plural of alcayde
alcester
alcestis
alcyones
alembics
alembics
noun
plural of alembic
alencons
alfresco
alfresco
adj
Outdoors, open to the atmosphere.
adv
(art) Onto fresh plaster that is still moist.
Outdoors; in fresh air.
allspice
allspice
noun
(countable) Pimenta dioica, an evergreen tree of tropical America with aromatic berries.
(uncountable) A spice; the dried and ground unripe fruit of Pimenta dioica, thought to combine the flavours of several spices, such as cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves.
alnicoes
alopecus
altrices
altrices
noun
(zoology) nursers; those birds whose young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time.
ambsaces
ambsaces
noun
plural of ambsace
amercers
amercers
noun
plural of amercer
americas
americus
americus
Proper noun
a city in Georgia, USA
a CDP in Indiana, USA.
a small city in Kansas, USA.
an unincorporated community in Missouri, USA.
amesaces
amnesiac
amnesiac
noun
Person who suffers from loss of memory (amnesia).
amnesics
amnesics
noun
plural of amnesic
amnestic
amnestic
adj
(medicine) Synonym of amnesic (adj).
noun
Synonym of amnesic (noun)
analects
analects
noun
A collection of excerpts or quotes.
anastice
ancestor
ancestor
noun
(figuratively) One who had the same role or function in former times.
(law) One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir.
(linguistics) A word or phrase which serves as the origin of a term in another language.
An earlier type; a progenitor
One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather.
verb
(transitive) To be an ancestor of.
ancestry
ancestry
noun
A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.
Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
anchises
anchises
Proper noun
A mythical Trojan elder in the Iliad and the Aeneid, father of Aeneas.
ancients
ancients
noun
The people of classical antiquity, especially such writers and philosophers.
plural of ancient
anconeus
anconeus
noun
(anatomy) A muscle of the elbow and forearm.
ancylose
anicetus
anicetus
Proper noun
One of the twin sons of Heracles and Hebe, his twin brother is Alexiares. Along with their father, Anicetus and Alexiares are the guardians and gatekeepers of the gates of Mount Olympus.
anoscope
anoscope
noun
The instrument used in anoscopy.
apocopes
apocopes
noun
plural of apocope
araceous
araceous
adj
(botany) Of or relating to a family of plants, Araceae, of which the genus Arum is the type.
arbuscle
arbuscle
noun
(botany) A plant midway in height between a shrub and a tree; a dwarf tree.
(mycology) A branched hypha in some fungi.
(mycology) The site at which a symbiotic fungus attaches to the roots of a plant and exchanges nutrients, etc., with it.
(zoology) A clump of feather-like cilia (hairlike structures).
arcesius
archaeus
archaeus
noun
Alternative form of archeus
archaise
archaise
verb
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of archaize.
archines
archines
noun
plural of archine
archives
archives
noun
plural of archive
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of archive
archness
archness
noun
The state of being arch.
archwise
archwise
adj
In the shape of an arch.
arcsines
arcsines
noun
plural of arcsine
arecales
aretaics
aretaics
noun
(ethics) The ethical theory which excludes all relations between virtue and happiness; the science of virtue; contrasted with eudaemonics.
arsenics
arsenics
noun
plural of arsenic
articles
articles
noun
(law) the period during which a person works as an articled clerk; articling
(slang) Breeches; coat and waistcoat.
plural of article
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of article
aruspice
aruspice
noun
Alternative form of haruspex
asbestic
asbestic
adj
Relating to, or resembling, asbestos.
ascellus
ascended
ascended
verb
simple past tense and past participle of ascend
ascender
ascender
noun
(climbing) a mechanical device used for ascending on a rope; ascendeur.
(typography, graphology) The portion of a lowercase letter that extends above the midline.
A person or thing that ascends.
ascensor
ascetics
ascetics
noun
plural of ascetic
ascidiae
asclepin
asclepin
Noun
A particular steroid glycoside.
ascogone
ascribed
ascribed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of ascribe
ascribes
ascribes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ascribe
ascutney
aseismic
aseismic
adj
(seismology) applied to earth fault slip movement that does not produce any seismic shock.
(seismology) seismically inactive
aspermic
aspermic
adj
(medicine) Of or relating to aspermia.
(of a male animal) Unable to produce sperm.
aspheric
aspheric
adj
aspherical
assecure
assecure
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To make safe or sure; to assure.
asthenic
asthenic
adj
Characterized by, or pertaining to, debility; weak; debilitating.
noun
A person who has asthenia.
atcheson
ateuchus
attaches
attaches
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of attach