| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| affability | noun | The quality of being affable; readiness to converse; courteousness in receiving others and in conversation; complaisant behavior. |
| affectedly | adverb | In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality., Lovingly; with tender care. |
| affectible | adjective | That may be affected. |
| affectuous | adjective | Full of passion or emotion; earnest. |
| affeerment | noun | The act of affeering. |
| affettuoso | adverb | With feeling. |
| affiancing | present participle / vb. noun | of Affiance |
| affiliable | adjective | Capable of being affiliated to or on, or connected with in origin. |
| affiliated | imp. & past participle | of Affiliate |
| affinitive | adjective | Closely connected, as by affinity. |
| affinities | plural | of Affinity |
| affirmable | adjective | Capable of being affirmed, asserted, or declared; — followed by of; as, an attribute affirmable of every just man. |
| affirmance | noun | Confirmation; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act., A strong declaration; affirmation. |
| afflicting | present participle & vb. noun | of Afflict, Grievously painful; distressing; afflictive; as, an afflicting event. — Af*flict”ing*ly, adv. |
| affliction | noun | The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief., The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or grief. |
| afflictive | adjective | Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. |
| affluently | adverb | Abundantly; copiously. |
| affordable | adjective | That may be afforded. |
| affordment | noun | Anything given as a help; bestowal. |
| affrayment | noun | Affray. |
| affriction | noun | The act of rubbing against. |
| affriended | past participle | Made friends; reconciled. |
| affrighted | imp. & past participle | of Affright |
| affrighten | verb t. | To frighten. |
| affrighter | noun | One who frightens. |
| affronting | present participle & vb. noun | of Affront |
| affrontive | adjective | Tending to affront or offend; offensive; abusive. |
| aforecited | adjective | Named or quoted before. |
| aforegoing | adjective | Going before; foregoing. |
| aforenamed | adjective | Named before. |
| africander | noun | One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a “colored” mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers. |
| africanism | noun | A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. |
| africanize | verb t. | To place under the domination of Africans or negroes. |
| afterbirth | noun | The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, and which come away after delivery. |
| after damp | An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid. | |
| after-glow | noun | A glow of refulgence in the western sky after sunset. |
| aftergrass | noun | The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown; aftermath. |
| afterguard | noun | The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after-sails. |
| after-note | noun | One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note. |
| afterpains | noun pl. | The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth. |
| afterpiece | noun | A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment., The heel of a rudder. |
| aftershaft | noun | The hypoptilum. |
| aftertaste | noun | A taste which remains in the mouth after eating or drinking. |
| afterwards | adverb | Alt. of Afterward |