The state or quality of being amorous; amorousness.
amorphism
amorphism
noun
An amorphous quality.
amortised
amortised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of amortise
amortises
amortises
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of amortise
amortizes
amortizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of amortize
anabrosis
anabrosis
noun
(obsolete, medicine) wasting away
anacharis
anacharis
noun
(obsolete) A freshwater weed of the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharitaceae), native to America; the waterweed or water thyme.
anacrisis
anacrisis
noun
(historical) A stage of the Ancient Greek judicial process in which all of the evidence is produced prior to the trial.
(literary criticism) A dialog or plot event that causes a character to reveal his or her beliefs and motivations.
An interrogation that provokes its subject to make explicit his or her underlying assumptions and deeply held values.
anacrusis
anacrusis
noun
(music) An unstressed note or notes before the first strong beat (or downbeat) of a phrase.
(prosody) An unstressed syllable at the start of a verse.
anarchies
anarchies
noun
plural of anarchy
anarchism
anarchism
noun
A belief that proposes the abolition of hierarchy and authority in most forms.
A political and philosophical belief that all forms of involuntary rule or government are undesirable, unnecessary, or unethical, and as such that society would function without a state.
anarchist
anarchist
adj
(somewhat rare) Relating to anarchism or to anarchists; anarchistic.
noun
(by extension) One who promotes chaos and lawlessness.
One who believes in or advocates the absence of hierarchy and authority in most forms (compare anarchism), especially one who works toward the realization of such.
One who disregards laws and social norms as a form of rebellion against authority.
One who resents outside control or influence on their life, in particular a government, and therefore desires the absence of political control.
androides
androides
noun
Dated form of android.
anesidora
aneurisms
aneurisms
noun
plural of aneurism
angriness
angriness
Noun
The state of being angry.
anidrosis
anidrosis
noun
(pathology) An inability to tolerate heat, typically as a result of reduced sweating
animaters
animaters
noun
plural of animater
animators
animators
noun
plural of animator
aniseroot
aniseroot
noun
Any of certain North American herbs of the genus Osmorhiza.
ankerites
ankerites
noun
plural of ankerite
anniverse
anniverse
noun
Obsolete form of anniversary.
anointers
anointers
noun
plural of anointer
anorchism
anorchism
noun
anorchia
anorexias
anorexias
noun
plural of anorexia
anorexics
anorexics
noun
plural of anorexic
anorexies
anorexies
noun
plural of anorexy
anserinae
anserines
anserines
noun
plural of anserine
ansgarius
answering
answering
noun
The act of giving an answer.
verb
present participle of answer
anteriors
antherids
antiarins
antiarins
noun
plural of antiarin
antifrost
antifrost
adj
Preventing, or countering the effects of frost.
antimeres
antimeres
noun
plural of antimere
antiprism
antiprism
noun
A polyhedron composed of two parallel copies of some particular polygon, connected by an alternating band of triangles.
antiquers
antiquers
noun
plural of antiquer
antirusts
antirusts
noun
plural of antirust
antiserum
antiserum
noun
(medicine) A serum prepared from human or animal sources containing antibodies able to counter certain diseases or toxins.
antisolar
antisolar
adj
(astronomy) opposite to the sun (from the Earth)
antitrust
antitrust
adj
(law) Opposed to or against the establishment or existence of trusts (monopolies), usually referring to legislation.
antivirus
antivirus
noun
(computing) A piece of software that is used to detect, delete and or neutralize computer-based viruses.
antshrike
antshrike
noun
Any of several passerine bird species of various genera in the antbird (Thamnophilidae) family.
antsirane
apatornis
aperients
aperients
noun
plural of aperient
aperitifs
aperitifs
noun
plural of aperitif
apheresis
apheresis
noun
(linguistics, prosody) Elision, suppression, or complete loss of a letter or sound (syllable) from the beginning of a word, such as the development of special from especial; procope.
(medicine, general, obsolete) Extirpation or extraction of a superfluity (especially a pathological one) from the body, especially blood.
(medicine, specific, still current) The removal of blood from a patient, and the removal of certain components (such as platelets) from that blood, followed by the transfusion of the filtered blood back to the donor (patient).
aphorised
aphorised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of aphorise
aphoriser
aphoriser
noun
An aphorist.
aphorises
aphorises
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aphorise
aphorisms
aphorisms
noun
plural of aphorism
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aphorism
aphorists
aphorists
noun
plural of aphorist
aphorizes
aphorizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aphorize
apiarians
apiarians
noun
plural of apiarian
apiarists
apiarists
noun
plural of apiarist
apikorsim
apikorsim
noun
plural of apikoros
apivorous
apivorous
adj
That feeds on bees
aplustria
aporrhais
aportoise
aposporic
aposporic
adj
Alternative form of aposporous
appertise
appetiser
appetiser
noun
Alternative spelling of appetizer.
appraisal
appraisal
noun
A judgment or assessment of the value of something, especially a formal one.
The act or process of developing an opinion of value.
appraised
appraised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of appraise
appraiser
appraiser
noun
One who performs appraisals.
appraises
appraises
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of appraise
apprisers
apprisers
noun
plural of appriser
apprising
apprising
noun
(Scotland, law, historical) The appraisal of the value of goods, land, etc., often in order to pay the debts of a deceased person.
verb
present participle of apprise
apprizers
apprizers
noun
plural of apprizer
apriorism
apriorism
noun
(philosophy) The idea that some knowledge of the physical world can be derived logically from general principles.
apriorist
apriorist
noun
(philosophy) A believer in apriorism.
aprosexia
aprosexia
noun
(psychology) Inability to concentrate.
aprosopia
aprosopia
noun
(teratology) having an underdeveloped face, or having no face
aquarians
aquarians
noun
plural of aquarian
aquariist
aquariist
noun
(dated) One who keeps fish in an aquarium.
aquarists
aquarists
noun
plural of aquarist
aquariums
arabicism
arabinose
arabinose
noun
(biochemistry) An aldopentose that occurs most often in polysaccharides such as hemicellulose and pectin.
arachnids
arachnids
noun
plural of arachnid
arachnism
arachnism
noun
Alternative form of arachnidism
aramitess
arapaimas
arapaimas
noun
plural of arapaima
arbalists
arbalists
noun
plural of arbalist
arbitress
arbitress
noun
A female arbiter.
arborists
arborists
noun
plural of arborist
arborizes
arborizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of arborize
arbovirus
arbovirus
noun
(pathology, virology) Any virus that is transmitted by an arthropod.
arcadians
arcadings
arcadings
noun
plural of arcading
arccosine
arccosine
noun
(trigonometry) Any of several single-valued or multivalued functions that are inverses of the cosine function.
archaised
archaised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of archaise
archaiser
archaiser
noun
Alternative form of archaizer
archaises
archaises
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of archaise
archaisms
archaisms
noun
plural of archaism
archaists
archaists
noun
plural of archaist
archaizes
archaizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of archaize
archarios
archeries
archeries
noun
plural of archery
archivers
archivers
noun
plural of archiver
archivist
archivist
noun
One who is in charge of, or performs the task of creating, collecting, cataloguing, organising, and archives.
archsaint
arcosolia
arcosolia
noun
plural of arcosolium
ardassine
ardassine
noun
(archaic) A kind of fine Persian silk.
ardencies
ardencies
noun
plural of ardency
areithous
arenosity
arenosity
noun
The quality or degree of being arenose.
argasidae
argillous
argillous
adj
clayey; argillaceous
arginases
arginases
noun
plural of arginase
arginines
arginines
noun
plural of arginine
argufiers
argufiers
noun
plural of argufier
argusfish
arguslike
argyrosis
argyrosis
noun
Synonym of argyria
arhatship
arhatship
Noun
The state of being an arhat.
ariadaeus
arianists
aridities
aridities
noun
plural of aridity
arillodes
arillodes
noun
plural of arillode
aristaeus
aristarch
aristarch
Noun
A
aristides
aristotle
aristotle
noun
(Cockney rhyming slang) bottle
arizonans
arkansian
arkansian
Adjective
Of or from Arkansas.
Noun
A native or resident of Arkansas.
arkansite
arkansite
noun
(mineralogy) Synonym of brookite
arksutite
arksutite
noun
(mineralogy) chiolite
armchairs
armchairs
noun
plural of armchair
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of armchair
armenians
armigeros
armistice
armistice
name
Alternative letter-case form of Armistice (“the armistice agreement signed between the Allies and Germany on 11 November 1918 to end World War I; (by extension) the end of World War I.”)
noun
A (short) cessation of combat; a cease-fire, a truce.
A formal agreement, especially between nations, to end combat.
armonicas
armonicas
noun
plural of armonica
armorials
armorials
noun
plural of armorial
armorwise
armouries
armouries
noun
plural of armoury
arnoldist
arnoseris
aroideous
aroideous
adj
(botany) Of or relating to the aroids.
aromatics
aromatics
noun
plural of aromatic
aromatise
aromatise
verb
Alternative spelling of aromatize
arpeggios
arpeggios
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of arpeggio
arresting
arresting
adj
striking, gripping
verb
present participle of arrest
arrestive
arrestive
adj
(dated) Tending to capture people’s attention.
Tending to stop or slow a process.
arrhenius
arrhizous
arrhizous
adj
(botany) Having no root: applied to parasitical plants which have no root, but adhere to other plants by any part of their surface, and derive their nourishment from them; also to mosses and Hepaticœ which are destitute of rhizoids.
arribadas
arribadas
noun
plural of arribada
arriccios
arriccios
noun
plural of arriccio
arrisways
arriswise
arriswise
adv
(tiling) Diagonally, tiles so laid relative to walls or walkway.
(timber) method of sawing lengthwise a timber beam of rectangular cross section, diagonally from corner to corner, to form two beams of triangular cross section.
arrivisme
arrivisme
noun
(sociology) The state or behaviour of an arriviste.
arriviste
arriviste
noun
(derogatory) An upstart or newcomer; nouveau riche; parvenu; an ambitious, brash or arrogant person who has yet to integrate with his or her new social group.