A bushy wormwood from Europe, sometimes used in the brewing of beer., southernwood, Artemisia abrotanum.
abruption
abruption
noun
(archaic) A sudden termination or interruption.
A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies.
accounter
accounter
noun
A person providing an account of events.
A person providing an accounting of expenditure or other actions.
accursing
accursing
verb
present participle of accurse
acentrous
acentrous
adj
(ichthyology) lacking vertebral centra
acquiring
acquiring
verb
present participle and gerund of acquire
actuarian
actuarian
adj
Synonym of actuarial
noun
Synonym of actuary
adjournal
adjournal
noun
adjournment; postponement
adjourned
adjourned
adj
(of a meeting, event or trial) Having been adjourned; suspended or paused.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of adjourn
adumbrant
adumbrant
adj
Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth.
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.
aequorins
aequorins
noun
plural of aequorin
aeronauts
aeronauts
noun
plural of aeronaut
afterguns
afterturn
agincourt
ahungered
ahungered
adj
pinched with hunger; very hungry
alaruming
alaruming
verb
(archaic, rare) present participle of alarum
alaternus
alaternus
noun
Alternative form of alatern
albinuria
albinuria
noun
Synonym of albiduria
alburnett
alburnous
alburnous
adj
Of or pertaining to alburnum.
alburnums
alburnums
noun
plural of alburnum
alentours
aleuronat
aleuronat
noun
(archaic) flour made of aleurone, used as a substitute for ordinary flour in preparing bread for diabetics
aleurones
aleurones
noun
plural of aleurone
aleuronic
aleuronic
adj
Of or pertaining to aleurone.
alluminor
alluminor
noun
(obsolete) An illuminator of manuscripts and books; a limner.
allurance
allurance
noun
(archaic) allurement
almuredin
altenburg
amarantus
amarantus
noun
amaranth (rare, formal)
amounters
anacruses
anacruses
noun
plural of anacrusis
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.
anandrous
anandrous
adj
(botany) Lacking stamens; devoid of male parts in plants
anangular
anangular
adj
Containing no angle.
anatherum
anaunters
androclus
androgeus
anestrous
anestrous
adj
not estrous
of, or pertaining to, anestrus
aneurisms
aneurisms
noun
plural of aneurism
aneurysms
aneurysms
noun
plural of aneurysm
angostura
angostura
noun
A South American tree, with bark used in tradition medicine and as an ingredient in various bitters (but not Angostura bitters), Angostura trifoliata.
Angostura bitters
angraecum
anguiform
anguiform
adj
Shaped like a snake.
angularia
angularly
angularly
adv
In an angular manner
angurboda
angustura
angustura
noun
Archaic form of angostura.
anhydrous
anhydrous
adj
(chemistry) Having no water of crystallization.
Having little or no water.
annapurna
annapurna
Proper noun
The Hindu goddess Durga.
name, used in India.
announcer
announcer
noun
One who makes announcements.
radio announcer
annueller
annularia
annularly
annularly
adv
In an annular manner.
anoestrum
anoestrus
anoestrus
noun
Alternative spelling of anestrus
anomalure
anomalure
noun
A rodent of any species of the family Anomaluridae, having membranes between their front and hind legs like those of a flying squirrel (Sciuridae), found in central Africa
anomouran
anomurous
anorchous
ansgarius
antecornu
antecourt
antefurca
antefurca
noun
(anatomy) A forked chitinous structure in the thorax of some insects
antemural
antemural
noun
An outwork of a strong, high wall, with turrets, in front gateway (as of an old castle), for defending the entrance.
anthrenus
anthurium
anthurium
noun
Any of several tropical American evergreen plants, of the genus Anthurium, grown for their ornamental leaves and spathes.
anticourt
anticourt
adj
Opposing a legal court.
Opposing a royal court.
antifraud
antifraud
adj
Acting against fraud.
antiquary
antiquary
adj
Relating to antiquity.
noun
A person who is knowledgeable of, or who collects antiques; an antiquarian.
An aficionado or student of antiquities, ancient artifacts, historic sites, ancient writings, or things of the past.
antiquers
antiquers
noun
plural of antiquer
antirumor
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.
antitrust
antitrust
adj
(law) Opposed to or against the establishment or existence of trusts (monopolies), usually referring to legislation.
antitumor
antitumor
adj
(oncology) Inhibiting the development of a tumor.
noun
Any substance that inhibits tumors.
antiulcer
antiulcer
adj
(medicine) Serving to prevent or counteract ulcers.
antiurban
antiurban
adj
(sociology) Showing a negative view of cities or city life
antivirus
antivirus
noun
(computing) A piece of software that is used to detect, delete and or neutralize computer-based viruses.
antocular
antthrush
antthrush
noun
Any of the tropical birds in the family Formicariidae, found in Central and South America.
aposaturn
aquagreen
aquarians
aquarians
noun
plural of aquarian
araucania
arbuthnot
archcount
arcturian
arcuation
arcuation
noun
(botany) A method of propagating trees by bending branches to the ground and covering the small shoots with earth; layering.
The act of bending or curving; the state of being bent; crookedness.
arduinite
arenulous
arenulous
adj
(obsolete) Full of fine sand.
(obsolete) Resembling sand.
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
argonauta
argonauts
argonauts
noun
plural of argonaut
argufying
argufying
verb
present participle of argufy
argumenta
argumenta
noun
plural of argumentum
arguments
arguments
noun
plural of argument
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of argument
armouring
armouring
noun
Armour or shielding.
verb
present participle of armour
arpenteur
arrhenius
arsenious
arsenious
adj
(chemistry) Of or containing arsenic with a valence of 3.
arthurian
arthurian
Adjective
Of or pertaining to the legend of Arthur, king of the Britons, and his court at Camelot.
arzrunite
arzrunite
noun
(mineralogy) A biaxial orthorhombic sulfate chloride mineral.
ascenseur
ashburton
ashburton
Proper noun
a small town on the edge of Dartmoor, Devon, England.
a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria.
a river in Western Australia, which flows into the Indian Ocean.
a large town in Canterbury, New Zealand.
a river (with two branches) in Canterbury which flows past the town to the Pacific Ocean.
a town in Natal, South Africa.
a neighbourhood in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
assurance
assurance
noun
(insurance) Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death. Assurance is used in relation to life contingencies, and insurance in relation to other contingencies. It is called temporary assurance, in the time within which the contingent event must happen is limited.
(law) Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.
(obsolete) Betrothal; affiance.
(theology) Subjective certainty of one's salvation.
Excessive boldness; impudence; audacity
Firmness of mind; undoubting steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance.
The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; something designed to give confidence.
The state of being assured; total confidence or trust; a lack of doubt; certainty.
assurgent
assurgent
adj
(botany) Curving upward.
Rising or tending to rise.
noun
(heraldry) A man or beast rising out of the sea.
astronaut
astronaut
noun
(Hong Kong) A returnee who frequently flies back and forth between Hong Kong and their adopted home country.
A member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft that travels beyond Earth's atmosphere, or someone trained to serve that purpose.
An American space traveler, when contrasted against equivalent terms from other countries such as cosmonaut, taikonaut, spationaut, and vyomanaut.
aubergine
aubergine
noun
(Britain) An Asian plant, Solanum melongena, cultivated for its edible purple, green, or white ovoid fruit; eggplant.
(Britain) The fruit of this plant, eaten as a vegetable.
(color) A dark purple colour; eggplant.
audiencer
aufklrung
augmenter
augmenter
noun
One who, or that which, augments or increases something.
augmentor
augmentor
noun
Alternative form of augmenter
aumoniere
aurangzeb
aurantium
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.
aureoline
aureoling
aurifying
aurifying
verb
present participle of aurify
aurinasal
aurinasal
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the ear and the nose.
auriphone
aurungzeb
auslander
austrians
authoring
authoring
noun
The process of creating the content of a document or other content item, i.e., writing or composition.
The result of this process; a writing or composition.
verb
present participle of author
autourine
aventurin
avirulent
avirulent
Adjective
Not virulent.
avourneen
avourneen
Noun
darling, sweetheart
avuncular
avuncular
adj
(by extension) Kind, genial, benevolent, or tolerant.
In the manner of an uncle, pertaining to an uncle.
axoneuron
azorubine
azorubine
noun
(organic chemistry) a red azo dye used as a food colouring, mostly in baked goods
azureness
azureness
noun
The quality of being azure in colour.
babungera
bandurria
bandurria
noun
A bird, the black-faced ibis.
A plectrum-plucked stringed instrument with a flat-backed pear-shaped body, with twelve strings in six courses in its most common modern form, originating in Spain.
bankrupcy
bankrupcy
noun
Misspelling of bankruptcy.
bankrupts
bankrupts
noun
plural of bankrupt
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bankrupt
(uncountable, specifically, historical) A pidgin spoken by French and First Nations people in the 17th century in the region of North America now called Montreal.
barkbound
barkbound
adj
Prevented from growing, by having the bark too firm or close.
barnumism
barnumize
barnumize
verb
Alternative form of Barnumize
baronduki
bearhound
bearhound
noun
A dog for baiting or hunting bears.
beraunite
beraunite
Noun
A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and phosphorus.
bermudian
bermudian
Adjective
Of, from, or pertaining to Bermuda, or the Bermudian people.
Personal legal status equivalent to citizenship for the country of Bermuda.