| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| academic | adjective | Alt. of Academical, One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist., A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician. |
| acalephs | plural | of Acalephan |
| acanthus | noun | A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear’s-breech., An ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of the acanthus (Acanthus spinosus); — used in the capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders. |
| acardiac | adjective | Without a heart; as, an acardiac fetus. |
| acaridan | noun | One of a group of arachnids, including the mites and ticks. |
| acarpous | adjective | Not producing fruit; unfruitful. |
| acaudate | adjective | Tailless. |
| acauline | adjective | Same as Acaulescent. |
| acaulose | adjective | Alt. of Acaulous |
| acaulous | adjective | Same as Acaulescent. |
| accadian | adjective | Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest. |
| acceding | present participle & vb. noun | of Accede |
| accensor | noun | One of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers. |
| accented | imp. & past participle | of Accent |
| accentor | noun | One who sings the leading part; the director or leader., A genus of European birds (so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to the water thrushes. |
| accepted | imp. & past participle | of Accept |
| accepter | noun | A person who accepts; a taker., A respecter; a viewer with partiality., An acceptor. |
| acceptor | noun | One who accepts, one who accepts an order or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted. |
| accident | noun | Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one’s foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident., A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case., A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms., A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute., A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness., Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident., Unusual appearance or effect. |
| accismus | noun | Affected refusal; coyness. |
| accolade | noun | A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword., A brace used to join two or more staves. |
| accorded | imp. & past participle | of Accord |
| accorder | noun | One who accords, assents, or concedes. |
| accosted | imp. & past participle | of Accost, Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side. |
| accouple | verb t. | To join; to couple. |
| accouter | verb t. | Alt. of Accoutre |
| accoutre | verb t. | To furnish with dress, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array. |
| accredit | verb t. | To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction., To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate., To believe; to credit; to put trust in., To credit; to vouch for or consider (some one) as doing something, or (something) as belonging to some one. |
| accresce | verb i. | To accrue., To increase; to grow. |
| accroach | verb t. | To hook, or draw to one’s self as with a hook., To usurp, as jurisdiction or royal prerogatives. |
| accruing | present participle & vb. noun | of Accrue |
| accumber | verb t. | To encumber. |
| accuracy | noun | The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy. |
| accurate | adjective | In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc., Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful. |
| accursed | past participle & adjective | Alt. of Accurst |
| accusant | noun | An accuser. |
| accusing | present participle & vb. noun | of Accuse |
| accustom | verb t. | To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; — with to., To be wont., To cohabit., Custom. |
| aceldama | noun | The potter’s field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. |
| acentric | adjective | Not centered; without a center. |
| acephala | noun pl. | That division of the Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; — so called because they have no evident head. Formerly the group included the Tunicata, Brachiopoda, and sometimes the Bryozoa. See Mollusca. |
| acephali | noun pl. | A fabulous people reported by ancient writers to have heads., A Christian sect without a leader., Bishops and certain clergymen not under regular diocesan control., A class of levelers in the time of K. Henry I. |
| acerbate | verb t. | To sour; to imbitter; to irritate. |
| acerbity | noun | Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit., Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain. |
| acervate | verb t. | To heap up., Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters. |
| acervose | adjective | Full of heaps. |
| acescent | adjective | Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour., A substance liable to become sour. |
| acetable | noun | An acetabulum; or about one eighth of a pint. |
| acetated | adjective | Combined with acetic acid. |
| acetonic | adjective | Of or pertaining to acetone; as, acetonic bodies. |
| achatina | noun | A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa. |
| achatour | noun | Purveyor; acater. |
| achenium | noun | A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; — called a naked seed by the earlier botanists. |
| achenial | adjective | Pertaining to an achene. |
| achieved | imp. & past participle | of Achieve |
| achiever | noun | One who achieves; a winner. |
| achilous | adjective | Without a lip. |
| acholous | adjective | Lacking bile. |
| achronic | adjective | See Acronyc. |
| achroous | adjective | Colorless; achromatic. |
| achylous | adjective | Without chyle. |
| achymous | adjective | Without chyme. |
| aciculae | plural | of Acicula |
| acicular | adjective | Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needless. |
| acidific | adjective | Producing acidity; converting into an acid. |
| acidness | noun | Acidity; sourness. |
| acierage | noun | The process of coating the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling. |
| acinaces | noun | A short sword or saber. |
| acinesia | noun | Same as Akinesia. |
| acinetae | noun pl. | A group of suctorial Infusoria, which in the adult stage are stationary. See Suctoria. |
| acologic | adjective | Pertaining to acology. |
| aconital | adjective | Of the nature of aconite. |
| aconitia | noun | Same as Aconitine. |
| aconitic | adjective | Of or pertaining to aconite. |
| aconitum | noun | The poisonous herb aconite; also, an extract from it. |
| acontias | noun | Anciently, a snake, called dart snake; now, one of a genus of reptiles closely allied to the lizards. |
| acosmism | noun | A denial of the existence of the universe as distinct from God. |
| acosmist | noun | One who denies the existence of the universe, or of a universe as distinct from God. |
| acoustic | adjective | Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds; auditory., A medicine or agent to assist hearing. |
| acquaint | verb t. | Acquainted., To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar; — followed by with., To communicate notice to; to inform; to make cognizant; — followed by with (formerly, also, by of), or by that, introducing the intelligence; as, to acquaint a friend with the particulars of an act., To familiarize; to accustom. |
| acquired | imp. & past participle | of Acquire |
| acquirer | noun | A person who acquires. |
| acranial | adjective | Wanting a skull. |
| acreable | adjective | Of an acre; per acre; as, the acreable produce. |
| acridity | noun | Alt. of Acridness |
| acrimony | noun | A quality of bodies which corrodes or destroys others; also, a harsh or biting sharpness; as, the acrimony of the juices of certain plants., Sharpness or severity, as of language or temper; irritating bitterness of disposition or manners. |
| acritude | noun | Acridity; pungency joined with heat. |
| acroatic | adjective | Same as Acroamatic. |
| acrodont | noun | One of a group of lizards having the teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge., Of or pertaining to the acrodonts. |
| acrolein | noun | A limpid, colorless, highly volatile liquid, obtained by the dehydration of glycerin, or the destructive distillation of neutral fats containing glycerin. Its vapors are intensely irritating. |
| acrolith | noun | A statue whose extremities are of stone, the trunk being generally of wood. |
| acromial | adjective | Of or pertaining to the acromion. |
| acromion | noun | The outer extremity of the shoulder blade. |
| acrostic | noun | A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto., A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian., Alt. of Acrostical |
| acrotism | noun | Lack or defect of pulsation. |
| actiniae | plural | of Actinia |
| actinias | plural | of Actinia |
| actinism | noun | The property of radiant energy (found chiefly in solar or electric light) by which chemical changes are produced, as in photography. |
| actinium | noun | A supposed metal, said by Phipson to be contained in commercial zinc; — so called because certain of its compounds are darkened by exposure to light. |
| actinoid | adjective | Having the form of rays; radiated, as an actinia. |
| actinost | noun | One of the bones at the base of a paired fin of a fish. |
| actinula | noun pl. | A kind of embryo of certain hydroids (Tubularia), having a stellate form. |
| activate | verb t. | To make active. |
| actively | adverb | In an active manner; nimbly; briskly; energetically; also, by one’s own action; voluntarily, not passively., In an active signification; as, a word used actively. |
| activity | noun | The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. |
| actually | adverb | Actively., In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively. |
| actuated | imp. & past participle | of Actuate |
| actuator | noun | One who actuates, or puts into action. |
| acuation | noun | Act of sharpening. |
| acuition | noun | The act of sharpening. |
| aculeate | adjective | Having a sting; covered with prickles; sharp like a prickle., Having prickles, or sharp points; beset with prickles., Severe or stinging; incisive. |
| aculeous | adjective | Aculeate. |