| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| abacination | noun | The act of abacinating. |
| abandonedly | adverb | Unrestrainedly. |
| abandonment | noun | The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment., The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against., The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc., The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion., Careless freedom or ease; abandon. |
| abbreviated | imp. & past participle | of Abbreviate, Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate. |
| abbreviator | noun | One who abbreviates or shortens., One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form. |
| abdominales | plural | of Abdominal, A group including the greater part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals. |
| abdominalia | noun pl. | A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages. |
| abecedarian | noun | One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro., One engaged in teaching the alphabet., Alt. of Abecedary |
| aberuncator | noun | A weeding machine. |
| abhominable | adjective | Abominable. |
| abhorrently | adverb | With abhorrence. |
| abiogenesis | noun | The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; — called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis. |
| abiogenetic | adjective | Of or pertaining to abiogenesis. |
| abiological | adjective | Pertaining to the study of inanimate things. |
| ablactation | noun | The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam., The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach. |
| ablatitious | adjective | Diminishing; as, an ablatitious force. |
| able-bodied | adjective | Having a sound, strong body; physically competent; robust. |
| able-minded | adjective | Having much intellectual power. |
| ablutionary | adjective | Pertaining to ablution. |
| abnormality | noun | The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity., Something abnormal. |
| abnormities | plural | of Abnormity |
| abolishable | adjective | Capable of being abolished. |
| abolishment | noun | The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. |
| abominating | present participle & vb. noun | of Abominate |
| abomination | noun | The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination., That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution., A cause of pollution or wickedness. |
| abortionist | noun | One who procures abortion or miscarriage. |
| above-cited | adjective | Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing. |
| above-named | adjective | Mentioned or named before; aforesaid. |
| abracadabra | noun | A mystical word or collocation of letters written as in the figure. Worn on an amulet it was supposed to ward off fever. At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning; jargon. |
| abrahamitic | adjective | Alt. of ical |
| abraham-man | noun | Alt. of Abram-man |
| abranchiata | noun pl. | A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration. |
| abranchiate | adjective | Without gills. |
| abscondence | noun | Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding. |
| absentation | noun | The act of absenting one’s self. |
| absenteeism | noun | The state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one’s self from the country or district where one’s estate is situated. |
| absinthiate | verb t. | To impregnate with wormwood. |
| absolvatory | adjective | Conferring absolution; absolutory. |
| absorbition | noun | Absorption. |
| abstentious | adjective | Characterized by abstinence; self-restraining. |
| abstinently | adverb | With abstinence. |
| abstracting | present participle & vb. noun | of Abstract |
| abstraction | adjective | The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal., The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects., An idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical nature; as, to fight for mere abstractions., A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit’s abstraction., Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects., The taking surreptitiously for one’s own use part of the property of another; purloining., A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation. |
| abstractive | adjective | Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature. |
| absurdities | plural | of Absurdity |
| abusiveness | noun | The quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person. |