| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| academical | adjective | Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy., Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific. |
| acalephans | plural | of Acalephan |
| acalephoid | adjective | Belonging to or resembling the Acalephae or jellyfishes. |
| acanthuses | plural | of Acanthus |
| acatalepsy | noun | Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability. |
| accelerate | verb t. | To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; — opposed to retard., To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc., To hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate our departure. |
| accendible | adjective | Capable of being inflamed or kindled; combustible; inflammable. |
| accentless | adjective | Without accent. |
| accentuate | verb t. | To pronounce with an accent or with accents., To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize., To mark with the written accent. |
| acceptable | adjective | Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us. |
| acceptably | adverb | In an acceptable manner; in a manner to please or give satisfaction. |
| acceptance | noun | The act of accepting; a receiving what is offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; esp., favorable reception; approval; as, the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc., State of being accepted; acceptableness., An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance., The bill itself when accepted., An agreeing to terms or proposals by which a bargain is concluded and the parties are bound; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner., An agreeing to the action of another, by some act which binds the person in law., Meaning; acceptation. |
| acceptancy | noun | Acceptance. |
| acceptedly | adverb | In a accepted manner; admittedly. |
| accessible | adjective | Easy of access or approach; approachable; as, an accessible town or mountain, an accessible person., Open to the influence of; — with to., Obtainable; to be got at. |
| accessibly | adverb | In an accessible manner. |
| accidental | adjective | Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit., Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play., A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally., 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 sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note. |
| accipenser | noun | See Acipenser. |
| accipiters | plural | of Accipiter |
| accipitres | plural | of Accipiter, The order that includes rapacious birds. They have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. There are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls. |
| accipitral | noun | Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a falcon or hawk; hawklike. |
| acclimated | imp. & past participle | of Acclimate |
| accomplice | noun | A cooperator., An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory. |
| accomplish | verb t. | To complete, as time or distance., To bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise., To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish., To gain; to obtain. |
| accomptant | noun | See Accountant. |
| accordable | adjective | Agreeing., Reconcilable; in accordance. |
| accordance | noun | Agreement; harmony; conformity. |
| accordancy | noun | Accordance. |
| accordment | verb | Agreement; reconcilement. |
| accostable | adjective | Approachable; affable. |
| accoucheur | noun | A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician. |
| accounting | present participle & vb. noun | of Account |
| accountant | noun | One who renders account; one accountable., A reckoner., One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts., Accountable. |
| accoutered | imp. & past participle | of Accoutre |
| accoutring | of Accoutre | |
| accredited | imp. & past participle | of Accredit |
| accrescent | adjective | Growing; increasing., Growing larger after flowering. |
| accubation | noun | The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals. |
| accumbency | noun | The state of being accumbent or reclining. |
| accumulate | verb t. | To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money., To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly., Collected; accumulated. |
| accurately | adverb | In an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error or defect. |
| accusation | noun | The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense., That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge. |
| accusative | adjective | Producing accusations; accusatory., Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English., The accusative case. |
| accusatory | adjective | Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel. |
| accusement | noun | Accusation. |
| accusingly | adverb | In an accusing manner. |
| accustomed | imp. & past participle | of Accustom, Familiar through use; usual; customary., Frequented by customers. |
| acephalist | noun | One who acknowledges no head or superior. |
| acephalous | adjective | Headless., Without a distinct head; — a term applied to bivalve mollusks., Having the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries., Without a leader or chief., Wanting the beginning., Deficient and the beginning, as a line of poetry. |
| acerbitude | noun | Sourness and harshness. |
| acervation | noun | A heaping up; accumulation. |
| acervative | adjective | Heaped up; tending to heap up. |
| acervuline | adjective | Resembling little heaps. |
| acetabular | adjective | Cup-shaped; saucer-shaped; acetabuliform. |
| acetabulum | noun | A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc., The bony cup which receives the head of the thigh bone., The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body., A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals., The large posterior sucker of the leeches., One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals. |
| acetarious | adjective | Used in salads; as, acetarious plants. |
| acetifying | present participle & vb. noun | of Acetify |
| acetimeter | noun | An instrument for estimating the amount of acetic acid in vinegar or in any liquid containing acetic acid. |
| acetimetry | noun | The act or method of ascertaining the strength of vinegar, or the proportion of acetic acid contained in it. |
| acetometer | noun | Same as Acetimeter. |
| acherontic | adjective | Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund. |
| achievable | adjective | Capable of being achieved. |
| achievance | noun | Achievement. |
| achromatic | adjective | Free from color; transmitting light without decomposing it into its primary colors., Uncolored; not absorbing color from a fluid; — said of tissue. |
| achromatin | noun | Tissue which is not stained by fluid dyes. |
| aciculated | adjective | Furnished with aciculae., Acicular., Marked with fine irregular streaks as if scratched by a needle. |
| acidifying | present participle & vb. noun | of Acidify |
| acidimeter | noun | An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids. |
| acidimetry | noun | The measurement of the strength of acids, especially by a chemical process based on the law of chemical combinations, or the fact that, to produce a complete reaction, a certain definite weight of reagent is required. |
| acidulated | imp. & past participle | of Acidulate |
| acinaceous | adjective | Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them. |
| acolothist | noun | See Acolythist. |
| acolyctine | noun | An organic base, in the form of a white powder, obtained from Aconitum lycoctonum. |
| acolythist | noun | An acolyte. |
| acondylous | adjective | Being without joints; jointless. |
| acotyledon | noun | A plant which has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants. |
| acoustical | adjective | Of or pertaining to acoustics. |
| acquainted | imp. & past participle | of Acquaint, Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t. |
| acquiesced | imp. & past participle | of Acquiesce |
| acquirable | adjective | Capable of being acquired. |
| acquisitor | noun | One who acquires. |
| acquitting | present participle & vb. noun | of Acquit |
| acquitment | noun | Acquittal. |
| acrimonies | plural | of Acrimony |
| acroamatic | adjective | Alt. of Acroamatical |
| acrobatism | noun | Feats of the acrobat; daring gymnastic feats; high vaulting. |
| acrogenous | adjective | Increasing by growth from the extremity; as, an acrogenous plant. |
| acrolithan | adjective | Alt. of Acrolithic |
| acrolithic | adjective | Pertaining to, or like, an acrolith. |
| acromegaly | noun | Chronic enlargement of the extremities and face. |
| acronychal | adjective | Rising at sunset and setting at sunrise, as a star; — opposed to cosmical. |
| acropodium | noun | The entire upper surface of the foot. |
| acrostical | noun | Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics. |
| acroterial | adjective | Pertaining to an acroterium; as, acroterial ornaments. |
| acroterium | noun | One of the small pedestals, for statues or other ornaments, placed on the apex and at the basal angles of a pediment. Acroteria are also sometimes placed upon the gables in Gothic architecture., One of the pedestals, for vases or statues, forming a part roof balustrade. |
| acrotomous | adjective | Having a cleavage parallel with the base. |
| actiniform | adjective | Having a radiated form, like a sea anemone. |
| actinolite | noun | A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses. |
| actinology | noun | The science which treats of rays of light, especially of the actinic or chemical rays. |
| actinomere | noun | One of the radial segments composing the body of one of the Coelenterata. |
| actinosome | noun | The entire body of a coelenterate. |
| actinozoal | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Actinozoa. |
| actinozoon | noun | One of the Actinozoa. |
| actionable | adjective | That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable. |
| actionably | adverb | In an actionable manner. |
| actionless | adjective | Void of action. |
| activeness | noun | The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity. |
| activities | plural | of Activity |
| actualness | noun | Quality of being actual; actuality. |
| acturience | noun | Tendency or impulse to act. |
| aculeiform | adjective | Like a prickle. |
| aculeolate | adjective | Having small prickles or sharp points. |