noun

1. (anatomy) Ellipsis of abducens nerve.

adj

1. (obsolete) Drawing away from the median axis of the body, as a muscle; see etymology abducting.

noun

1. (neuroanatomy) An abducens nerve.
2. That which abducts.

noun

1. plural of abducens

noun

1. Alternative form of aberdevine.

verb

1. (rare, transitive) To eradicate; to pull up by the roots.

noun

1. A pruning device mounted on a pole, so as to reach high branches; a weeding machine.

noun

1. (medicine) An abnormal evacuation.
2. (medicine) Metastases.

adj

1. (botany) Of or relating to the Abietineae.

adj

1. (biology) Produced by spontaneous generation.

adj

1. (rare) Exceptional, isolated, disconnected, separate,

noun

1. (rare) renunciation

adj

1. (pharmacology) Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent.

noun

1. (pharmacology) A detergent.

noun

1. plural of abluent

adj

1. Away from the neural (cerebrospinal) axis

adj

1. (mathematics) Not enumerable or denumerable; uncountable.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of abound

noun

1. One who has plenty, one who abounds (in something).

adj

1. Alternative spelling of above ground

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To renounce; to contradict.

noun

1. (archaic) Absolute renunciation; repudiation; retraction.

noun

1. Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence.
2. The state of being abrupt or broken

noun

1. plural of abruptness

noun

1. (obsolete) The fact of being finished or perfected; completeness.
2. Absolute authority, unlimited power; absolutism, despotism.
3. Independent autonomy.
4. The characteristic of being absolute in nature or scope.
5. The fact of being without qualifications or conditions; certainty, unconditionality.

noun

1. The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing, particularly in the use of food and strong drinks.

adj

1. Characterized by abstinence; self-restraint.

noun

1. The property of being abstruse; abstrusity.

noun

1. plural of abstruseness

noun

1. (rare) The quality of being absurd; absurdity.

noun

1. plural of absurdness

noun

1. (Scotland) enough, sufficiency.
2. (card games) A bid to take nine or more tricks in solo whist.
3. A large quantity; many.
4. An overflowing fullness or ample sufficiency; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; plentifulness.
5. Frequency, amount, ratio of something within a given environment or sample.
6. Wealth; affluence; plentiful amount of resources.

noun

1. plural of abundance

noun

1. (Northern England, Scotland) Alternative form of aboon

noun

1. The characteristic of being abuseful.

noun

1. The quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person.

noun

1. (architecture) That element that shares a common boundary or surface with its neighbor.
2. (dentistry) The tooth that supports a denture or bridge.
3. (engineering) A construction that supports the ends of a bridge; a structure that anchors the cables on a suspension bridge.
4. (engineering) The part of a valley or canyon wall against which a dam is constructed.
5. (engineering, architecture) The solid portion of a structure that supports the lateral pressure of an arch or vault.
6. A fixed point or surface where resistance is obtained.
7. Something that abuts, or on which something abuts.
8. The point of junction between two things, in particular a support, that abuts.
9. The state of abutting.

noun

1. plural of abutment

adj

1. (very rare) Bearing prickles or thistles; prickly.

adj

1. (botany): Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a member of the Acanthaceae family.
2. Armed with prickles, as a plant.

adj

1. (zoology) Having a spiny head, as one of the Acanthocephala.

adj

1. (zoology) Acanthopterygious
2. (zoology) Spiny-winged.

noun

1. plural of acanthus

noun

1. The condition of being acaulescent

adj

1. (botany) Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground.

Adjective

1. acaulescent

adj

1. Capable of being accentuated

adj

1. Designating verse rhythms based on stress accents.
2. Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.

noun

1. The quality of being accentual.

adv

1. In an accentual manner; in accordance with accent.

verb

1. (transitive) To bring out distinctly; to make more noticeable or prominent; to emphasize.
2. (transitive) To mark with a written accent.
3. (transitive) To pronounce with an accent or vocal stress.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of accentuate

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accentuate

verb

1. present participle of accentuate

noun

1. (ecclesiastical, music) Pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy.
2. Act of accentuating; applications of accent.

noun

1. plural of accentuation

noun

1. An agent that accentuates.

noun

1. Delivery in childbed; parturition

noun

1. plural of accouchement

noun

1. plural of accountability

adj

1. (rare) Capable of being accounted for; explicable; explainable.
2. Liable to be called on to render an account.
3. Obliged to keep accurate records (of property or funds).
4. Obliged, when called upon, to answer (for one’s deeds); answerable.

noun

1. The quality or state of being accountable; accountability.

noun

1. plural of accountancy

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of account

noun

1. A person providing an account of events.
2. A person providing an accounting of expenditure or other actions.

noun

1. plural of accounter

noun

1. Responsibility.

noun

1. (rare) That which couples, as a tie or brace
2. (rare) The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union

verb

1. present participle of accouter

noun

1. (archaic) The act of accoutering; furnishing.
2. (by extension) An identifying yet superficial characteristic.
3. (chiefly in the plural) An article of clothing or equipment, in particular when used as an accessory.
4. (military, chiefly in the plural) A soldier's equipment, other than weapons and uniform.

noun

1. plural of accouterment

noun

1. (Commonwealth) Alternative form of accouterment

noun

1. plural of accoutrement

noun

1. The act of accruing.

noun

1. plural of accruement

noun

1. (rare) The state of being accumbent or reclining.

adj

1. (botany) Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf
2. Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.

noun

1. One who rests in an accumbent position, especially at table.

noun

1. The state or qualities of being accumulative.

noun

1. The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy

noun

1. The quality of being accursed.

noun

1. (linguistics) The characteristics of the accusative case of a noun or pronoun.
2. The condition of tending to accuse.

noun

1. Habituation; the quality of being used to something.

adj

1. (ichthyology) lacking vertebral centra

adj

1. Resembling little heaps.

noun

1. (pathology) A form of ketonuria characterized by the presence of acetone in the urine

noun

1. (botany) achene

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to a lower Paleolithic period characterized by the presence of flaked bifacial hand axes.

Noun

1. A lower Paleolithic period characterized by the presence of flaked bifacial hand axes.

adj

1. Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous.

noun

1. A state of or tendency toward being acidulous or somewhat sour or acid.

adj

1. (botany) Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them.

noun

1. (pathology) urinary incontinence (inability to control urination)

adj

1. Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc.

noun

1. (countable) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
2. (uncountable) A state of being acquainted with a person; originally indicating friendship, intimacy, but now suggesting a slight knowledge less deep than that of friendship; acquaintanceship.
3. (uncountable) Such people collectively; one's circle of acquaintances (with plural concord).
4. Personal knowledge (with a specific subject etc.).

noun

1. plural of acquaintance

noun

1. (countable) A relationship as acquaintances.
2. (uncountable) The state of being acquainted.

noun

1. plural of acquaintanceship

adj

1. Personally known; familiar.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of acquaint

noun

1. (rare) State of being acquainted; degree of acquaintance.

noun

1. (law) Inaction, passivity, or neglect to take legal action when it is called for in order to assert, preserve, or safeguard a right, and which inaction implies the abandonment of said right.
2. A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content, distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.

noun

1. plural of acquiescence

noun

1. The quality of being acquiescent; acquiescence.

adj

1. resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit
2. willing to acquiesce, accept or agree to something without objection, protest or resistance

adv

1. In an acquiescent manner.

verb

1. present participle of acquiesce

adv

1. in an acquiescing manner

noun

1. (now rare, chiefly in the plural) Something that has been acquired; an attainment or accomplishment.
2. The act or fact of acquiring something; acquisition.

noun

1. plural of acquirement

noun

1. plural of acquirendum

noun

1. (phrenology) The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing.
2. The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.

noun

1. (law) Acquittal.

noun

1. (now historical) A writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand.
2. (now historical) The release from a debt, or from some obligation or duty; exemption.
3. (now rare) Payment of debt; settlement.
4. (now rare) The acquittal of one's duties; the carrying out of fulfilment of a job or role.
5. (obsolete) The dismissal of a legal charge against someone; acquittal.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To acquit.

noun

1. plural of acquittance

noun

1. The quality of being acrimonious.

Adjective

1. Of or relating to the high mountain range of "thunder-smitten" peaks (now Kimara), between Albania and Macedonia.

noun

1. (pathology) contracture of the joints of the hands or feet

adj

1. (botany) Increasing by growth from the extremity.

adv

1. In an acrogenous manner.

adj

1. Containing or producing actinium

noun

1. (biology) Part of an actinomere

adj

1. Of or relating to actinomycetes.

adj

1. Relating to actinotherapy.

noun

1. actinotherapy

noun

1. plural of actinula