| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| abaction | noun | Stealing cattle on a large scale. |
| abaculus | noun | A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements. |
| abacuses | plural | of Abacus |
| abasedly | adverb | Abjectly; downcastly. |
| abashing | present participle & vb. noun | of Abash |
| abatable | adjective | Capable of being abated; as, an abatable writ or nuisance. |
| abatised | adjective | Provided with an abatis. |
| abattoir | noun | A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc. |
| abatvoix | noun | The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum. |
| abbacies | plural | of Abbacy |
| abbatial | adjective | Belonging to an abbey; as, abbatial rights. |
| abb wool | See Abb. | |
| abderian | adjective | Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment. |
| abderite | noun | An inhabitant of Abdera, in Thrace. |
| abdicant | adjective | Abdicating; renouncing; — followed by of., One who abdicates. |
| abdicate | verb t. | To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy., To renounce; to relinquish; — said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc., To reject; to cast off., To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit., To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity. |
| abditive | adjective | Having the quality of hiding. |
| abditory | noun | A place for hiding or preserving articles of value. |
| abducing | present participle & vb. noun | of Abduce |
| abducted | imp. & past participle | of Abduct |
| abductor | noun | One who abducts., A muscle which serves to draw a part out, or form the median line of the body; as, the abductor oculi, which draws the eye outward. |
| abearing | noun | Behavior. |
| abelmosk | noun | An evergreen shrub (Hibiscus — formerly Abelmoschus — moschatus), of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; — sometimes called musk mallow. |
| aberrant | adjective | Wandering; straying from the right way., Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal. |
| aberrate | verb i. | To go astray; to diverge. |
| abetting | present participle & vb. noun | of Abet |
| abetment | noun | The act of abetting; as, an abetment of treason, crime, etc. |
| abeyance | noun | Expectancy; condition of being undetermined., Suspension; temporary suppression. |
| abeyancy | noun | Abeyance. |
| abhorred | imp. & past participle | of Abhor |
| abhorrer | noun | One who abhors. |
| abidance | noun | The state of abiding; abode; continuance; compliance (with). |
| abietene | noun | A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California. |
| abietine | noun | A resinous obtained from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether. |
| abietite | noun | A substance resembling mannite, found in the needles of the common silver fir of Europe (Abies pectinata). |
| abiogeny | noun | Same as Abiogenesis. |
| abjectly | adverb | Meanly; servilely. |
| abjugate | verb t. | To unyoke. |
| abjuring | present participle & vb. noun | of Abjure |
| ablation | noun | A carrying or taking away; removal., Extirpation., Wearing away; superficial waste. |
| ablative | adjective | Taking away or removing., Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, — the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away., The ablative case. |
| ablegate | verb t. | To send abroad., A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office. |
| ableness | noun | Ability of body or mind; force; vigor. |
| abligate | verb t. | To tie up so as to hinder from. |
| ablution | noun | The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite., The water used in cleansing., A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest’s thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest. |
| abluvion | noun | That which is washed off. |
| abnegate | verb t. | To deny and reject; to abjure. |
| abnodate | verb t. | To clear (tress) from knots. |
| abnormal | adjective | Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. |
| abodance | noun | An omen; a portending. |
| abomasum | noun | Alt. of Abomasus |
| abomasus | noun | The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. See Ruminantia. |
| aborsive | adjective | Abortive. |
| abortion | noun | The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage., The immature product of an untimely birth., Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed., Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his attempt proved an abortion. |
| abortive | verb | Produced by abortion; born prematurely; as, an abortive child., Made from the skin of a still-born animal; as, abortive vellum., Rendering fruitless or ineffectual., Coming to naught; failing in its effect; miscarrying; fruitless; unsuccessful; as, an abortive attempt., Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc., Causing abortion; as, abortive medicines., Cutting short; as, abortive treatment of typhoid fever., That which is born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion., A fruitless effort or issue., A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion. |
| abounded | imp. & past participle | of Abound |
| abradant | noun | A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc. |
| abrading | present participle & vb. noun | of Abrade |
| abrasion | noun | The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins., The substance rubbed off., A superficial excoriation, with loss of substance under the form of small shreds. |
| abrasive | adjective | Producing abrasion. |
| abricock | noun | See Apricot. |
| abridged | imp. & past participle | of Abridge |
| abridger | noun | One who abridges. |
| abrogate | adjective | Abrogated; abolished., To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or his successor; to repeal; — applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc., To put an end to; to do away with. |
| abruptly | adverb | In an abrupt manner; without giving notice, or without the usual forms; suddenly., Precipitously. |
| abscissa | noun | One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal coordinate axes. |
| absented | imp. & past participle | of Absent |
| absentee | noun | One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. |
| absenter | noun | One who absents one’s self. |
| absently | adverb | In an absent or abstracted manner. |
| absinthe | noun | The plant absinthium or common wormwood., A strong spirituous liqueur made from wormwood and brandy or alcohol. |
| absolute | adjective | Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch., Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty., Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; — opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space., Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing., Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative., Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful., Authoritative; peremptory., Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol., Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative., In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity. |
| absolved | imp. & past participle | of Absolve |
| absolver | noun | One who absolves. |
| absonant | adjective | Discordant; contrary; — opposed to consonant. |
| absonous | adjective | Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous. |
| absorbed | imp. & past participle | of Absorb |
| absorber | noun | One who, or that which, absorbs. |
| absterge | verb t. | To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge. |
| absterse | verb t. | To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away. |
| abstract | adjective | Withdraw; separate., Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult., Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; — opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word., Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, “reptile” is an abstract or general name., Abstracted; absent in mind., To withdraw; to separate; to take away., To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects., To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute., To epitomize; to abridge., To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till., To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used., To perform the process of abstraction., That which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief., A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things., An abstract term., A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance. |
| abstrude | verb t. | To thrust away. |
| abstruse | adjective | Concealed or hidden out of the way., Remote from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning. |
| absurdly | adverb | In an absurd manner. |
| abundant | adjective | Fully sufficient; plentiful; in copious supply; — followed by in, rarely by with. |
| abusable | adjective | That may be abused. |
| abuseful | adjective | Full of abuse; abusive. |
| abutting | present participle & vb. noun | of Abut |
| abutilon | noun | A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; — called also Indian mallow. |
| abutment | noun | State of abutting., That on or against which a body abuts or presses, The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut., A fixed point or surface from which resistance or reaction is obtained, as the cylinder head of a steam engine, the fulcrum of a lever, etc., In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil. |