Designating verse rhythms based on stress accents.
Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.
accounted
accounted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of account
accounter
accounter
noun
A person providing an account of events.
A person providing an accounting of expenditure or other actions.
accumbent
accumbent
adj
(botany) Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf
Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
noun
One who rests in an accumbent position, especially at table.
acentrous
acentrous
adj
(ichthyology) lacking vertebral centra
acidulent
acidulent
adj
Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous.
actinulae
actinulae
noun
plural of actinula
acuminate
acuminate
adj
(botany, mycology) Tapering to a long point in concave manner at its apex.
Tapering to a point; pointed.
verb
(intransitive) To end in or come to a sharp point.
(transitive) To render sharp or keen; to sharpen.
acutances
acutances
noun
plural of acutance
acuteness
acuteness
noun
(medicine) Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.
(of the senses or feelings) The faculty of precise discernment or perception; sensitiveness
Shrewdness, quickness of mind
Shrillness; high pitch; – said of sounds.
The quality of being acute or pointed
adultness
adultness
noun
The state or quality of being an adult.
aduncated
aduncated
adj
Alternative form of aduncate
adventual
adventual
adj
(obsolete) Relating to the Advent.
adventure
adventure
noun
(obsolete) Chance of danger or loss.
(obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.
(obsolete) That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.
(uncountable) A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
(video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.
A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.
The encountering of risks; a bold undertaking, in which dangers are likely to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
verb
(archaic, intransitive) To try the chance; to take the risk.
(archaic, transitive) To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
(archaic, transitive) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
aeronauts
aeronauts
noun
plural of aeronaut
affluents
affluents
noun
plural of affluent
afterguns
afterturn
alaternus
alaternus
noun
Alternative form of alatern
alburnett
alentours
aleuronat
aleuronat
noun
(archaic) flour made of aleurone, used as a substitute for ordinary flour in preparing bread for diabetics
aleutians
aleutians
Noun
of (person)
Proper noun
The Aleutian Islands.
alimentum
altenburg
aluminate
aluminate
noun
(chemistry) A compound, containing aluminium and oxygen with more electropositive elements, that is a salt of the hypothetical aluminic acid
aluminite
aluminite
Noun
A hydrous aluminium sulfate mineral with formula Al2SO4(OH)4·7(H2O).
alumniate
alumstone
alumstone
noun
(mineralogy) alunite
ambulante
amentulum
amounters
amusement
amusement
noun
(countable) An activity that is entertaining or amusing, such as dancing, gunning, or fishing.
(uncountable) Entertainment.
anachueta
anacletus
anatherum
anaunters
anestrous
anestrous
adj
not estrous
of, or pertaining to, anestrus
angulated
angulated
adj
Synonym of angulate
verb
simple past tense and past participle of angulate
angulates
angulates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of angulate
angustate
angustate
adj
narrowed
annuities
annuities
noun
plural of annuity
annulated
annulated
adj
(organic chemistry) Composed of several fused rings
Having rings
annullate
annulment
annulment
noun
(archaic) Total destruction.
(law) A legal (notably judicial) declaration that a marriage is invalid; the procedure leading to it.
(law) An invalidation of something, especially a legal contract.
An act or instance of annulling.
The state of having been annulled.
anoestrum
anoestrus
anoestrus
noun
Alternative spelling of anestrus
antecornu
antecourt
antefurca
antefurca
noun
(anatomy) A forked chitinous structure in the thorax of some insects
antehuman
antelucan
antelucan
Adjective
Before dawn
antemural
antemural
noun
An outwork of a strong, high wall, with turrets, in front gateway (as of an old castle), for defending the entrance.
antenatus
antennula
antennula
noun
Alternative form of antennule
antennule
antennule
noun
(zoology) A small antenna.
antequalm
anthrenus
antiquate
antiquate
verb
(transitive) To cause to become old or obsolete.
antiquely
antiquely
adv
In an antique manner.
antiquers
antiquers
noun
plural of antiquer
antiserum
antiserum
noun
(medicine) A serum prepared from human or animal sources containing antibodies able to counter certain diseases or toxins.
antiulcer
antiulcer
adj
(medicine) Serving to prevent or counteract ulcers.
antluetic
antonescu
anucleate
anucleate
adj
(cytology) Which does not have a nucleus.
anukabiet
anukabiet
noun
An old Thai unit of length, approximately 2.6 centimetres.
anxietude
anxietude
noun
The state or condition of being troubled, worried, or anxious; anxiety.
apemantus
apneustic
apneustic
adj
(pathology) Of or relating to apneusis.
aquatones
aquatones
noun
plural of aquatone
aquitaine
arduinite
areskutan
argenteum
argentous
argentous
adj
(chemistry) Of certain compounds, containing silver in a higher proportion than in argentic compounds.
Of, pertaining to, or containing silver.
argentums
argumenta
argumenta
noun
plural of argumentum
arguments
arguments
noun
plural of argument
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of argument
arpenteur
arzrunite
arzrunite
noun
(mineralogy) A biaxial orthorhombic sulfate chloride mineral.
assinuate
assurgent
assurgent
adj
(botany) Curving upward.
Rising or tending to rise.
noun
(heraldry) A man or beast rising out of the sea.
astounded
astounded
adj
Surprised, amazed, astonished or bewildered.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of astound
athenaeum
athenaeum
noun
A literary or scientific periodical, especially one similar to the London Athenaeum.
Alternative form of Athenaeum: a temple primarily dedicated to Athena or her Roman equivalent Minerva.
An association for the advancement of learning, particularly in science or literature.
The reading room or library of such an association; (by extension) any reading room or library.
athenaeus
atheneums
attenuant
attenuant
adj
Making thin, as fluids; diluting; rendering less dense and viscid.
noun
(medicine, dated) Any medicine that thins or dilutes the fluids; a diluent.
attenuate
attenuate
adj
(botany, of leaves) Gradually tapering into a petiole-like extension toward the base.
verb
(brewing) (of a beer) To become less dense as a result of the conversion of sugar to alcohol.
(intransitive) To become thin or fine; to grow less.
(transitive) To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.
(transitive) To rarefy.
(transitive) To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
(transitive) To weaken.
(transitive, electronics) To reduce the amplitude of an electrical, radio, or optical signal.
(transitive, medicine) To reduce the virulence of a bacterium or virus.
auctioned
auctioned
verb
simple past tense and past participle of auction
augmented
augmented
adj
(music) increased by a semitone.
increased in number, amount or strength.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of augment
augmenter
augmenter
noun
One who, or that which, augments or increases something.
augmentor
augmentor
noun
Alternative form of augmenter
augustine
aunjetitz
auntliest
auntliest
adj
superlative form of auntly: most auntly
aureation
aureation
noun
(rhetoric) The enhancement of the seriousness of a topic by the use of elaborate circumlocutions or polysyllabic or Latinate words for it.
austenite
austenite
noun
A solid solution or carbon or ferric carbide in iron that exists in steel at high temperatures.
authentic
authentic
adj
(music, of a Gregorian mode) Having the final as the lowest note of the mode.
(obsolete) Authoritative.
Conforming to reality and therefore worthy of trust, reliance, or belief.
Of the same origin as claimed; genuine.
authigene
autodynes
autodynes
noun
plural of autodyne
autogenic
autogenic
adj
(specifically, of a process of soldering) Performed by fusing the parts to be joined without adding solder.
Independent of a medium.
Relating to autogenic training.
Self-produced.
autoindex
automedon
automelon
automelon
noun
(Christianity) A composition used in Orthodox Christianity to create other hymns, following its melody and rhythm.
autophone
autophone
noun
(archaic) idiophone
autourine
autunites
autunites
noun
plural of autunite
aventurin
avirulent
avirulent
Adjective
Not virulent.
awunctive
banqueted
banqueted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of banquet
banqueter
banqueter
noun
A guest at a banquet.
banquette
banquette
noun
(Louisiana, Texas) A sidewalk.
(dated) A bench or similar seat on top of a diligence or other public vehicle.
(military) A narrow area behind a defensive wall's parapet elevated above its terreplein and used by defenders to shoot at attackers.
A bench built into a wall, especially (military) one built into a wall of a defensive trench, used for sitting and for shooting at attackers.
An upholstered bench, e.g., along a wall of a restaurant or lounge area.
bealtuinn
beauseant
beauseant
noun
The black and white standard of the Knights Templar.
beechnuts
beechnuts
noun
plural of beechnut
befortune
befortune
verb
(poetic, dated, transitive) To befall.
begruntle
begruntle
verb
(transitive) To make or render uneasy; disconcert.
begrutten
begrutten
adj
(dialectal, Scotland) Showing the effects of much weeping; marred or swollen in the face through continued weeping.
benvenuto
beothukan
beraunite
beraunite
Noun
A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and phosphorus.
betelnuts
betelnuts
noun
plural of betelnut
bethunder
betulinic
betulinic
adj
(organic chemistry) Relating to betulinic acid or its derivatives
betulinol
beudanite
bhutanese
bicornute
bicornute
adj
Synonym of bicornuate
biltongue
biltongue
noun
Archaic form of biltong.
bisinuate
bisinuate
adj
(botany) doubly sinuate
bitternut
bitternut
noun
Its fruit, a bitter nut sometimes used as feed for livestock.
The bitternut hickory, Carya cordiformis, a common hickory tree native to the eastern United States and southeast Canada.
bluejoint
bluepoint
bluepoint
noun
(felinology) A colourpoint cat with blue markings.
(marine biology) A small oyster, Crassostrea virginica, from the eastern United States seaboard.
blueprint
blueprint
noun
(architecture, engineering, by extension) A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).
(informal, by extension) Any detailed plan, whether literal or figurative.
A print produced with this process.
A type of paper-based reproduction process producing white-on-blue images, used primarily for technical and architecture's drawings, now largely replaced by other technologies.
verb
To make a blueprint for.
To make a detailed operational plan for.
bluestone
bluestone
noun
(Australia, New Zealand) A bluish grey basalt or olivine basalt.
(Australia, South Australia) Slate, such as comes from quarries in or near Adelaide.
(UK) A form of dolerite which appears blue when wet or freshly broken.
(UK) Any of the several (massive) kinds of non-local stone (particularly dolerite) used to construct Stonehenge.
(US) A form of limestone found in the Shenandoah Valley and some other places.
(US, Canada) A feldspathic sandstone found in the US and Canada.
Any of several bluish grey varieties of stone used for construction:
Chalcanthite, a water-soluble sulfate mineral, CuSO₄·5H₂O.
Copper(II) sulfate, CuSO₄(H₂O)ₓ where x is 0-5, used as a coloring agent in glass-making and pottery and for other purposes.
Lapis lazuli, or its core constituent, lazurite.
blunthead
bluntness
bluntness
noun
The characteristic of being blunt.
bontebuck
bontebuck
noun
Alternative form of bontebok (“South African antelope”)
bosanquet
bottineau
bottineau
Proper noun
A city in North Dakota.
bouffante
bounciest
bounciest
adj
superlative form of bouncy: most bouncy
bounteous
bounteous
adj
(of a gift, etc.) Liberal or abundant.
(of a person) Inclined to be generous.
bouquetin
bouquetin
noun
ibex
braunites
braunites
noun
plural of braunite
breadnuts
breadnuts
noun
plural of breadnut
brucetown
brumstane
brumstone
brunettes
brunettes
noun
plural of brunette
bruteness
bruteness
noun
The state or quality of being brute.
bucentaur
bucentaur
noun
A Venetian barge modelled on the state barge (called Bucentaur) used annually on Ascension Day in the ancient ceremony of the marriage of the state with the Adriatic.