(civil law, transitive) To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.
(obsolete) To estrange; to cause alienation of.
abbevilean
abdominals
abdominals
noun
plural of abdominal
aberrantly
aberrantly
adv
In an aberrant manner; abnormally.
ablegation
ablegation
noun
(obsolete) Expulsion; banishment.
ablepharon
ablepharon
noun
(medicine) ablepharia
abnormalcy
abnormalcy
noun
Synonym of abnormality
abnormally
abnormally
adv
In an abnormal manner; in a way that deviates from a standard, norm, or average.
abolishing
abolishing
verb
present participle of abolish
abolitions
abolitions
noun
plural of abolition
abominable
abominable
adj
(obsolete) Excessive, large (used as an intensifier).
Disagreeable or unpleasant.
Very bad or inferior.
Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.
abominably
abominably
adv
In an abominable manner; very odiously; detestably.
aboriginal
aboriginal
adj
Alternative letter-case form of Aboriginal
First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive.
Living in a land before colonization by the Europeans.
noun
An animal or plant native to a region.
abortional
abortional
adj
(rare) Pertaining to abortion; miscarrying; abortive.
abranchial
abranchial
adj
(zoology) Lacking gills.
absinthial
absinthial
adj
Of or pertaining to wormwood; absinthian.
absinthole
absolution
absolution
noun
(civil law, obsolete) An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring an accused person innocent.
(ecclesiastical) An absolving of sins from ecclesiastical penalties by an authority.
(obsolete) Delivery, in speech.
An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense.
The forgiveness of sins, in a general sense.
The form of words by which a penitent is absolved.
abterminal
abterminal
adj
(anatomy, of an electrical current in a muscle) Away from the end and towards the centre
abulomania
abulomania
noun
Alternative form of aboulomania
abundantly
abundantly
adv
Extremely.
In an abundant manner; in a sufficient degree; in large measure.
acanonical
acanonical
adj
Not canonical
accelerant
accelerant
adj
Causing acceleration or speeding up; accelerating.
noun
(figurative) Something that speeds up a process or the uptake of something else.
A substance used to catalyze the vulcanization of rubber.
In the context of fire protection, a substance that accelerates the development of a fire, especially some hydrocarbon-based fuel used to spread a fire caused by arson.
accendible
accendible
adj
(obsolete) Capable of being inflamed or kindled; combustible; inflammable
accentless
accentless
adj
Of a word, having no diacritical mark; unaccented.
Speaking without an accent.
accidental
accidental
adj
(geometry) Being a double point with two distinct tangent planes in 4-dimensional projective space.
(music) Adjusted by one or two semitones, in temporary departure from the key signature.
(philosophy) Nonessential to something's inherent nature (especially in Aristotelian thought).
Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; by accident, unintentional.
Occurring sometimes, by chance; occasional.
Pertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary.
noun
(music) A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.
(painting, plural only) Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.
A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
Part of a text that has a mainly structural purpose, such as spelling, punctuation, or capitalization.
accidently
accidently
adv
(now nonstandard) Accidentally; by chance, unintentionally.
acclaiming
acclaiming
adj
That acclaims; applauding, welcoming enthusiastically.
verb
present participle of acclaim
accusingly
accusingly
adv
In an accusing manner.
acephalina
acephaline
acephaline
adj
Of or pertaining to the parasitic protozoans of the suborder Acephalina
acervuline
acervuline
adj
Resembling little heaps.
acetaminol
acetanilid
acetanilid
noun
Alternative form of acetanilide
acetylenes
acetylenes
noun
plural of acetylene
acetylenic
acetylenic
adj
(organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to acetylene or its derivatives; having a carbon-to-carbon triple bond
acetylenyl
acetylenyl
noun
(organic chemistry) Any radical derived from an acetylene, but especially ethynyl
achilleine
achilleine
noun
(organic chemistry) An alkaloid (C₂₀H₃₈N₂O₁₅) found in plants of the genus Achillea.
achronical
achronical
adj
(astronomy) Alternative form of achronic
acolyctine
acolyctine
noun
(organic chemistry) An organic base, in the form of a white powder, obtained from Aconitum lycoctonum.
acondylose
acondylose
adj
Alternative form of acondylous
acondylous
acondylous
adj
(anatomy) Without joints; jointless.
aconelline
acotyledon
acotyledon
noun
(botany) A plant that has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants.
acriflavin
acriflavin
noun
Alternative form of acriflavine
acrindolin
acrolithan
acrolithan
Adjective
Relating to, or like, an acrolith.
acronichal
acronychal
acronychal
adj
Alternative form of acronical
actinolite
actinolite
noun
(mineralogy) A mineral with monoclinic crystals of the chemical formula Ca₂(Mg,Fe)₅Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂, belonging to the amphibole group.
actinology
actinology
noun
(sciences) The study of the effect of light on chemicals.
actinozoal
actinozoal
adj
(zoology) Of or pertaining to the Actinozoa.
actionable
actionable
adj
(law) Affording grounds for legal action.
I'm sure it's not good of me to write that he's a lush, but is it actionable?
That can be acted on; that can be used as the basis for taking action.
actionably
actionably
adv
In an actionable manner.
actionless
actionless
adj
Lacking action; particularly with respect to entertainment, dull, boring.
actualness
actualness
noun
The state or quality of being actual.
adaptional
adaptional
adj
(biology) Applied to the process by which an organism is fitted or adapted to its environment
Relating or pertaining to adaptation, or the action of adapting.
additional
additional
adj
Supplemental or added to something.
noun
Something added.
addlebrain
addlebrain
noun
An addlebrained person.
adelantado
adelantado
noun
(historical) A governor of a province; a commander, in Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries.
adenoblast
adenoblast
noun
(cytology) An embryonic cell that can develop to form glandular parenchyma
adenoviral
adenoviral
adj
(medicine) Of, pertaining to, or caused by an adenovirus
adherently
adherently
adv
In an adherent manner.
adhesional
adhesional
adj
Relating to adhesion.
adjacently
adjacently
adv
In such a way as to be adjacent.
adjoinedly
adjoinedly
adv
In an adjoined manner; connectedly.
adlegation
adlegation
noun
A right formerly claimed by the states of the German Empire of joining their own ministers with those of the emperor in public treaties and negotiations to the common interest of the empire.
adlumidine
adminicula
admiringly
admiringly
adv
In an admiring manner.
adolescent
adolescent
adj
Of, relating to, or at the age of adolescence; at the stage between being a child and an adult.
noun
A person who is in adolescence; someone who has reached puberty but is not yet an adult.
adolescing
adolescing
verb
present participle of adolesce
adoptional
adoptional
adj
Of or relating to adoption.
adorningly
adorningly
adv
decoratively; using adornments.
adrenaline
adrenaline
noun
(biochemistry) epinephrine, the hormone and neurotransmitter.
Excitement; thrills.
adrenalize
adrenalize
verb
American spelling and Oxford British English standard spelling of adrenalise.
adrenalone
adrenalone
noun
An adrenergic agonist used as a topical vasoconstrictor and hemostatic.
adrianople
adterminal
adulterant
adulterant
noun
That which adulterates, or reduces the purity of something.
adulterine
adulterine
adj
Born of adultery.
Illegal; unlicensed.
Pertaining to adultery.
Spurious; due to adulteration.
noun
(rare) One born of an adulterous union.
advolution
advolution
noun
A rolling toward something; goal orientation.
aedilitian
aefaldness
aeolodicon
aeolodicon
noun
(music) An obsolete keyed wind instrument resembling the harmonium, its tone produced from steel springs.
aerialness
aerialness
noun
The state or quality of being aerial.
aeroplaner
aeroplaner
noun
(archaic) An aeroplane pilot.
aeroplanes
aeroplanes
noun
plural of aeroplane
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aeroplane
aeschylean
aeschylean
Adjective
Of or relating to Aeschylus, an ancient Greek dramatic poet.
aesculetin
aesculetin
noun
A derivative of coumarin found in chicory and many other plants.
aeviternal
aeviternal
adj
(theology) Pertaining to aeviternity, a state between eternity, which is unchanging and outside of time, and temporality, which is subject to change and to death or annihilation. Things aeviternal are creations, like the temporal, but everlasting, like the eternal.
afferently
afferently
adv
Inwardly, toward the center.
afflicting
afflicting
noun
An affliction.
verb
present participle of afflict
affliction
affliction
noun
A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.
Something which causes pain, suffering, distress or agony.
affluences
affluences
noun
plural of affluence
affluently
affluently
adv
In an affluent manner.
agalenidae
agendaless
agendaless
adj
Without an agenda.
aggelation
agglutinin
agglutinin
noun
(specifically) A protein found in cow's milk.
A substance that causes particles or cells to clump; it may be an antibody, a lectin, or otherwise.
aglaozonia
aglipayano
aglutition
aglutition
noun
(medicine) Inability to swallow.
agnoiology
agnoiology
noun
The study of things of which cannot be known.
agnostical
agnostical
adj
Alternative form of agnostic
agonizedly
agonizedly
adv
In an agonized manner
agrarianly
agrarianly
adv
In an agrarian manner; agriculturally.
agreeingly
agreeingly
adv
In a manner that agrees or corresponds; in agreement.
agronomial
agronomial
adj
Synonym of agronomic
aguinaldos
aguinaldos
noun
plural of aguinaldo
airlifting
airlifting
verb
present participle of airlift
airmailing
airmailing
verb
present participle of airmail
airplaning
airplaning
verb
present participle of airplane
airplanist
airplanist
noun
(archaic) An airplane pilot.
akoulalion
alabamians
alabandine
alabandite
alabandite
noun
(mineralogy) A mineral form of manganese sulfide, MnS, sometimes found in meteorites
alabastron
alabastron
noun
A kind of ancient pottery vase used for holding oils, and originally made from alabaster.
aladdinize
alamannian
alanbrooke
alarmingly
alarmingly
adv
Causing fear or concern.
In an alarming way, frighteningly.
To an extent that causes alarm.
albanenses
albaspidin
albescence
albescence
noun
The act of becoming white; whitishness.
albication
albication
noun
The process of becoming white, or developing white patches or streaks.
albigenses
albinistic
albinistic
adj
Of or pertaining to albinism.
albocarbon
albopannin
alboranite
albumenise
albumenise
verb
Non-Oxford British English spelling of albumenize
albumenize
albumenize
verb
(transitive) To coat or saturate with albumen.
(transitive) To convert into albumen.
albumenoid
albumenoid
noun
Alternative form of albuminoid
albuminate
albuminate
noun
(chemistry) A compound of albumin and a base or acid
albuminise
albuminise
verb
Non-Oxford British English spelling of albuminize
albuminize
albuminize
verb
Alternative form of albumenize
albuminoid
albuminoid
adj
like albumen
of albumin
noun
A simple protein of a subclass mainly derived from animal connective or supportive tissue
albuminone
albuminone
noun
(organic chemistry, dated) A principle derived from certain albuminoids; it is soluble in alcohol and is not coagulable by heat.
albuminose
albuminose
noun
Alternative form of albuminous
albuminous
albuminous
adj
Relating to, containing, or having the properties of albumen or albumin.
albutannin
albutannin
noun
exsiccated tannin albuminate
alcheringa
alcoranist
alcoranist
Noun
One who follows the Qur'an exactly as it is written.
alcornoque
alcornoque
noun
The plant Bowdichia virgilioides.
alcyonacea
alcyonaria
aldehydine
aldenville
aldermancy
aldermancy
noun
The office or position of an alderman.
aldermanic
aldermanic
adj
(Of a sum) substantial, considerable, sizeable.
(Of size) plump, rotund, fleshy.
Of or pertaining to an alderman.
aldermanly
aldermanly
adj
Relating to, or like, an alderman.
adv
In the manner of an alderman.
aldermanry
aldermanry
noun
(countable) the district in which an alderman serves