(obsolete) The act of disowning or disinheriting a child.
(obsolete) The action of being deposed from the seat of power.
(obsolete, law) The renunciation of interest in a property or a legal claim; abandonment.
The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder.
The voluntary renunciation of sovereign power.
abducentes
abducentes
noun
plural of abducens
abductions
abductions
noun
plural of abduction
absconders
absconders
noun
plural of absconder
absconding
absconding
noun
An instance in which someone absconds.
verb
present participle of abscond
abundances
abundances
noun
plural of abundance
acanthodea
acanthodei
acanthodes
acanthodii
acanthopod
acanthopod
adj
Spiny-footed.
accendible
accendible
adj
(obsolete) Capable of being inflamed or kindled; combustible; inflammable
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.
accidented
accidented
adj
(possessional) Having had an accident
That has an uneven or undulating surface
accidently
accidently
adv
(now nonstandard) Accidentally; by chance, unintentionally.
accordance
accordance
noun
Agreement; harmony; conformity; compliance.
The act of granting something.
accordancy
accordancy
noun
(obsolete, rare) accordance
accordions
accordions
noun
plural of accordion
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accordion
acediamine
acensuador
acetamidin
acetanilid
acetanilid
noun
Alternative form of acetanilide
achaemenid
achaenodon
achenodium
achondrite
achondrite
noun
(astronomy, geology) Any stony meteorite that contains no chondrules
acidifiant
acidifiant
noun
Any acidifying agent.
acidifying
acidifying
verb
present participle of acidify
acidnesses
acidogenic
acidogenic
adj
Which generates acid or acidity.
acondylose
acondylose
adj
Alternative form of acondylous
acondylous
acondylous
adj
(anatomy) Without joints; jointless.
acotyledon
acotyledon
noun
(botany) A plant that has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants.
acquainted
acquainted
adj
Personally known; familiar.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of acquaint
acquirenda
acquirenda
noun
plural of acquirendum
acridinium
acridinium
noun
(organic chemistry, especially in combination) Any cation produced by protonation of an acridine.
acridonium
acridonium
noun
Alternative form of acridinium
acrindolin
actinoidea
actinopoda
actionized
actionized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of actionize
acuminated
acuminated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of acuminate
adamancies
adamancies
noun
plural of adamancy
addictions
addictions
noun
plural of addiction
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.
adenectomy
adenectomy
noun
(medicine) The removal of all or part of the adenoid glands by surgery.
adenotomic
adenotomic
adj
Pertaining to adenotomy (the dissection of or incision into a gland).
adherences
adherences
noun
plural of adherence
adiactinic
adiactinic
adj
(chemistry) Not transmitting the actinic rays.
adipescent
adipescent
adj
(medicine) Developing fatty deposits.
adipogenic
adipogenic
adj
(biology) That forms fat, or fatty tissue; lipogenic
adirondack
adirondack
Noun
A member of an Algonquin people that lived along the Ottawa River in Ontario and Quebec.
Proper noun
The Adirondacks
adjacently
adjacently
adv
In such a way as to be adjacent.
adjunction
adjunction
noun
(category theory) Given a pair of categories 𝒞 and 𝒟: an anti-parallel pair of functors F:𝒞→𝒟 and G:𝒟→𝒞 and a natural transformation 𝜂: mbox id_C→GF called “unit” such that for any object A∈𝒞, for any object B∈𝒟, and for any morphism f:A→GB, there is a unique morphism g:FA→B such that Gg∘𝜂_A=f. (Note: there is another natural transformation called “counit” as well but its existence may be derived by theorem.) The pair of functors express a similarity between the pair of categories which is weaker than that of an equivalence of categories.
(law) The joining of personal property owned by one to that owned by another.
The act of joining; the thing joined or added.
adjunctive
adjunctive
adj
(logic) the property of two operations x and y, such that ax(ayb) = a, and ay(axb) = a
additional; neither basic nor primary
forming an adjunct
noun
(grammar) a connector joining two components of the same weight, such as a coordinating conjunction
(manufacturing) a substance added as a supplement; often in the phrase "additives and adjunctives."
adminicula
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.
adnascence
adnascence
noun
Adhesion of parts to each other by the whole surface.
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
adrenergic
adrenergic
adj
Activated by an adrenal mechanism
Containing or releasing adrenaline.
Having the quality of adrenaline or epinephrine.
noun
Any adrenergic compound
adriamycin
adriamycin
noun
An anthracycline antibiotic drug used in cancer chemotherapy.
adscendent
advenience
advenience
noun
The property of being advenient.
advertence
advertence
noun
The quality of being advertent
advertency
advertency
noun
The quality of being advertent.
advocating
advocating
verb
present participle of advocate
advocation
advocation
noun
(Britain, law) The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church.
(Scotland, law) The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court.
(archaic) Advocacy; the act of advocating or pleading.
advowsance
aeolodicon
aeolodicon
noun
(music) An obsolete keyed wind instrument resembling the harmonium, its tone produced from steel springs.
aerodontic
aficionada
aficionada
noun
(rare) A devoted female admirer; a female aficionado.
(rare) A lesser aficionado; alternative spelling of aficionado
aficionado
aficionado
noun
(obsolete) An amateur bullfighter.
A person who likes, knows about, and appreciates a particular interest or activity (originally bullfighting); a fan or devotee.
africander
africanoid
africanoid
Noun
A Negroid.
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.
algedonics
algedonics
noun
(management) The handling of critical events in ways that bypass the usual chain of reporting in order to respond more urgently.
The scientific study of pleasure and pain responses.
allowanced
allowanced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of allowance
almochoden
aluconidae
ambulanced
ambulanced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of ambulance
anacardium
anchorhold
anchorhold
noun
(figurative) Firm hold; security.
The hold or grip of an anchor, or that to which it holds.
The residence of an anchorite or anchoress.
anchylosed
anchylosed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of anchylose
ancistroid
ancistroid
adj
Hook-shaped.
ancramdale
ancylopoda
anderlecht
androconia
androconia
noun
plural of androconium
androcracy
androcracy
noun
(government, sociology) Government or rule by men.
androeccia
androecial
androecial
adj
(botany) Relating to the androecium
androecium
androecium
noun
(botany) The set of a flower's stamens.
androgenic
androgenic
adj
(biochemistry) Of, relating to, or being an androgen.
androgynic
andromache
andromache
Proper noun
the wife of Hector
andronicus
anecdotage
anecdotage
noun
anecdotes considered as a group
garrulous old age
anecdotist
anecdotist
noun
One who relates anecdotes.
anemochord
anglicised
anglicised
adj
Made into a form similar to that used by the English.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of anglicise
anglicized
anglicized
adj
Alternative spelling of anglicised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of anglicize
anhidrotic
anhidrotic
adj
lacking the ability to sweat
noun
(pharmacology) A substance that prevents sweating
anhydremic
anhydrotic
annunciade
anodically
anodically
adv
In an anodic manner.
antecedent
antecedent
adj
Earlier, either in time or in order.
Presumptive.
noun
(chiefly in the plural) Previous principles, conduct, history, etc.
(grammar) A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun.
(logic) The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition, i.e. p→q, where p is the antecedent, and q is the consequent.
(logic) The first of two subsets of a sequent, consisting of all the sequent's formulae which are valuated as true.
(mathematics) The first term of a ratio, i.e. the term a in the ratio a:b, the other being the consequent.
An ancestor.
Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
anteceding
anteceding
verb
present participle of antecede
anthicidae
anthracoid
anthracoid
adj
(biology) Resembling anthrax.
antidactyl
antidorcas
antidromic
antidromic
adj
(neurology, of a nerve impulse) flowing in the opposite direction from normal
antiedemic
antiedemic
noun
An agent or substance that counters edema.
anucleated
anucleated
adj
From which the nucleus has been removed.
Not nucleated; anucleate.
apocodeine
apocodeine
noun
An alkaloid with chemical formula C₁₈H₁₉NO₂, prepared from codeine, with effects like those of apomorphine.
appendance
appendance
noun
Something appendant.
appendancy
appendancy
noun
Alternative form of appendance
appendence
appendency
appendency
noun
(obsolete) Something that is appendant.
(obsolete) State of being appendant.
appendical
appendical
adj
(rare, biology, specifically) Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of the vermiform appendix.
Of, relating to, or of the nature of an appendix or appendices (chiefly of books).
appendices
appendices
noun
plural of appendice
plural of appendix
appendicle
appendicle
noun
A small appendage.
arachnidan
arachnidan
noun
(zoology) Any of the Arachnida.
arcadianly
archdeacon
archdeacon
noun
(Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy) A senior administrative official in a diocese, just under the bishop, often in charge of an archdeaconry. As a title, it can be filled by either a deacon or priest.
archdivine
archfiends
archfiends
noun
plural of archfiend
archfriend
arctoidean
arecaidine
arecaidine
noun
(organic chemistry) An alkaloid,1-methyl-3,6-dihydro-2H-pyridine-5-carboxylic acid, found in areca nuts
arecolidin
arsenicked
arsenicked
adj
(rare) Poisoned with arsenic.
ascendable
ascendable
adj
Capable of being ascended.
ascendance
ascendance
noun
Ascendancy, superiority; the act of ascending.
ascendancy
ascendancy
noun
(ecology) A quantitative attribute of an ecosystem, defined as a function of the ecosystem's trophic network, and intended to indicate its ability to prevail against disturbance by virtue of its combined organization and size.
(historical, Ireland, sometimes capitalized) A class of Protestant landowners and professionals that dominated political and social life in Ireland up to the early 20th century
Supremacy; dominant control; the quality of being in the ascendant.
ascendants
ascendants
noun
plural of ascendant
ascendence
ascendence
noun
Alternative form of ascendance
ascendency
ascendency
noun
Alternative spelling of ascendancy
ascendible
ascendible
adj
Capable of being ascended; climbable.
asclepidin
assonanced
assonanced
adj
(prosody) Containing assonance
attendance
attendance
noun
(obsolete) Attention paid to something; careful regard.
The act of attending; the state of being present; presence.
The frequency with which one has been present for a regular activity or set of events.
The persons or number of persons present.
attendancy
attendancy
noun
(obsolete) A retinue.
(obsolete) Relative position.
audiencier
audiencier
noun
A bailiff in certain French courts.
audiogenic
audiogenic
adj
Produced by sound.
avalanched
avalanched
verb
simple past tense and past participle of avalanche
avoidances
avoidances
noun
plural of avoidance
azocyanide
backberand
backberend
backdating
backdating
noun
The act by which something is backdated.
verb
present participle of backdate
backfriend
backfriend
noun
(UK, dialectal) A friend at one's back; a backer; one who does his best for another; a supporter.
(UK, dialectal) A hangnail.
(UK, dialectal, obsolete) A false friend; a secret enemy.