| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| academically | adverb | In an academical manner. |
| acanthaceous | adjective | Armed with prickles, as a plant., Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the acanthus is the type. |
| acanthopteri | noun pl. | A group of teleostean fishes having spiny fins. See Acanthopterygii. |
| accelerating | present participle & vb. noun | of Accelerate |
| acceleration | noun | The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; — opposed to retardation. |
| accelerative | adjective | Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening. |
| acceleratory | adjective | Accelerative. |
| accentuality | noun | The quality of being accentual. |
| accentuating | present participle & vb. noun | of Accentuate |
| accentuation | noun | Act of accentuating; applications of accent., pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy. |
| acciaccatura | noun | A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; — used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura. |
| accidentally | adverb | In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially. |
| acclimatable | adjective | Capable of being acclimated. |
| acclimatized | imp. & past participle | of Acclimatize |
| accommodable | adjective | That may be accommodated, fitted, or made to agree. |
| accommodated | imp. & past participle | of Accommodate |
| accommodator | noun | He who, or that which, accommodates. |
| accompanable | adjective | Sociable. |
| accompanying | present participle & vb. noun | of Accompany |
| accompletive | adjective | Tending to accomplish. |
| accomplicity | noun | The act or state of being an accomplice. |
| accomplished | imp. & past participle | of Accomplish, Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact., Complete in acquirements as the result usually of training; — commonly in a good sense; as, an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain. |
| accomplisher | noun | One who accomplishes. |
| accordionist | noun | A player on the accordion. |
| accouchement | noun | Delivery in childbed |
| account book | A book in which accounts are kept. | |
| accouplement | noun | The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union., That which couples, as a tie or brace. |
| accroachment | noun | An encroachment; usurpation. |
| accumulating | present participle & vb. noun | of Accumulate |
| accumulation | noun | The act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of honors., The concurrence of several titles to the same proof. |
| accumulative | adjective | Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional. |
| accurateness | noun | The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision. |
| accusatively | adverb | In an accusative manner., In relation to the accusative case in grammar. |
| accusatorial | adjective | Accusatory. |
| accustomable | adjective | Habitual; customary; wonted. |
| accustomably | adverb | According to custom; ordinarily; customarily. |
| accustomance | noun | Custom; habitual use. |
| acephalocyst | noun | A larval entozoon in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hydatid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; — so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin. |
| acetaldehyde | noun | Acetic aldehyde. See Aldehyde. |
| achlamydeous | adjective | Naked; having no floral envelope, neither calyx nor corolla. |
| achromatized | imp. & past participle | of Achromatize |
| achromatopsy | noun | Color blindness; inability to distinguish colors; Daltonism. |
| acknowledged | imp. & past participle | of Acknowledge |
| acknowledger | noun | One who acknowledges. |
| acoustically | adverb | In relation to sound or to hearing. |
| acquaintable | adjective | Easy to be acquainted with; affable. |
| acquaintance | noun | A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him., A person or persons with whom one is acquainted. |
| acquiescence | noun | A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; — distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction., Submission to an injury by the party injured., Tacit concurrence in the action of another. |
| acquiescency | noun | The quality of being acquiescent; acquiescence. |
| acroamatical | adjective | Communicated orally; oral; — applied to the esoteric teachings of Aristotle, those intended for his genuine disciples, in distinction from his exoteric doctrines, which were adapted to outsiders or the public generally. Hence: Abstruse; profound. |
| acrocephalic | adjective | Characterized by a high skull. |
| acrodactylum | noun | The upper surface of the toes, individually. |
| acrostically | adverb | After the manner of an acrostic. |
| acroteleutic | noun | The end of a verse or psalm, or something added thereto, to be sung by the people, by way of a response. |
| actinometric | adjective | Pertaining to the measurement of the intensity of the solar rays, either (a) heating, or (b) actinic. |
| actinotrocha | noun pl. | A peculiar larval form of Phoronis, a genus of marine worms, having a circle of ciliated tentacles. |
| acustumaunce | noun | See Accustomance. |
| acute-angled | adjective | Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle. |
| acutifoliate | adjective | Having sharp-pointed leaves. |