| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| adaptedness | noun | The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness. |
| additionary | adjective | Additional. |
| addititious | adjective | Additive. |
| addle-brain | noun | Alt. of Addle-pate |
| addle-pated | adjective | Dull-witted; stupid. |
| adenography | noun | That part of anatomy which describes the glands. |
| adfiliation | noun | See Affiliation. |
| adhortation | noun | Advice; exhortation. |
| adhortatory | adjective | Containing counsel or warning; hortatory; advisory. |
| adiaphorism | noun | Religious indifference. |
| adiaphorist | noun | One of the German Protestants who, with Melanchthon, held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical. |
| adiaphorite | noun | Same as Adiaphorist. |
| adiaphorous | adjective | Indifferent or neutral., Incapable of doing either harm or good, as some medicines. |
| adiathermic | adjective | Not pervious to heat. |
| adipocerate | verb t. | To convert into adipocere. |
| adipocerous | adjective | Like adipocere. |
| adiposeness | noun | Alt. of Adiposity |
| adjectional | adjective | Pertaining to adjection; that is, or may be, annexed. |
| adjectiving | present participle & vb. noun | of Adjective |
| adjectively | adverb | In the manner of an adjective; as, a word used adjectively. |
| adjournment | noun | The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day., The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business. |
| adjudicated | imp. & past participle | of Adjudicate |
| adjudicator | noun | One who adjudicates. |
| admarginate | verb t. | To write in the margin. |
| admaxillary | adjective | Near to the maxilla or jawbone. |
| adminicular | adjective | Supplying help; auxiliary; corroborative; explanatory; as, adminicular evidence. |
| admiralship | noun | The office or position oaf an admiral; also, the naval skill of an admiral. |
| admiralties | plural | of Admiralty |
| admonishing | present participle & vb. noun | of Admonish |
| adnubilated | adjective | Clouded; obscured. |
| adolescence | noun | The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals. |
| adolescency | noun | The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness. |
| adoptionist | noun | One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption. |
| adorability | noun | Adorableness. |
| adscriptive | adjective | Attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it. |
| adstrictory | adjective | See Astrictory. |
| adstringent | adjective | See Astringent. |
| adulterated | imp. & past participle | of Adulterate |
| adulterator | noun | One who adulterates or corrupts. |
| adumbration | noun | The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth., A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing., The shadow or outlines of a figure. |
| adumbrative | adjective | Faintly representing; typical. |
| advancement | verb t. | The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning., An advance of money or value; payment in advance. See Advance, 5., Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution., Settlement on a wife, or jointure. |
| advantaging | present participle & vb. noun | of Advantage |
| adventuring | present participle & vb. noun | of Adventure |
| adventuress | noun | A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means. |
| adventurous | noun | Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; — applied to persons., Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; — applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song. |
| adverbially | adverb | In the manner of an adverb. |
| adversaries | plural | of Adversary |
| adversative | adjective | Expressing contrariety, opposition, or antithesis; as, an adversative conjunction (but, however, yet, etc. ); an adversative force., An adversative word. |
| adverseness | noun | The quality or state of being adverse; opposition. |
| adversities | plural | of Adversity |
| advertising | present participle & vb. noun | of Advertise |
| advisedness | noun | Deliberate consideration; prudent procedure; caution. |
| advisership | noun | The office of an adviser. |