| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| againbuy | verb t. | To redeem. |
| againsay | verb t. | To gainsay. |
| agalloch | noun | Alt. of Agallochum |
| agastric | adjective | Having to stomach, or distinct digestive canal, as the tapeworm. |
| agedness | noun | The quality of being aged; oldness. |
| agencies | plural | of Agency |
| agenesic | adjective | Characterized by sterility; infecund. |
| agenesis | noun | Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization. |
| agential | adjective | Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency. |
| ageratum | noun | A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters. |
| aggerate | verb t. | To heap up. |
| aggerose | adjective | In heaps; full of heaps. |
| aggrieve | verb t. | To give pain or sorrow to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one’s rights; to bear heavily upon; — now commonly used in the passive TO be aggrieved., To grieve; to lament. |
| agiotage | noun | Exchange business; also, stockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds. |
| agitable | adjective | Capable of being agitated, or easily moved. |
| agitated | imp. & past participle | of Agitate |
| agitator | noun | One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others; as, political reformers and agitators., One of a body of men appointed by the army, in Cromwell’s time, to look after their interests; — called also adjutators., An implement for shaking or mixing. |
| aglimmer | adverb & adjective | In a glimmering state. |
| aglitter | adverb & adjective | Glittering; in a glitter. |
| aglossal | adjective | Without tongue; tongueless. |
| agminate | adjective | Alt. of Agminated |
| agnation | noun | Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation. |
| agnition | noun | Acknowledgment. |
| agnostic | adjective | Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism., One who professes ignorance, or denies that we have any knowledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc. |
| agonized | imp. & past participle | of Agonize |
| agraphia | noun | The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia. |
| agraphic | adjective | Characterized by agraphia. |
| agrappes | noun pl. | Hooks and eyes for armor, etc. |
| agrarian | adjective | Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens., Wild; — said of plants growing in the fields., One in favor of an equal division of landed property., An agrarian law. |
| agreeing | present participle & vb. noun | of Agree |
| agrestic | adjective | Pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth. |
| agrimony | noun | A genus of plants of the Rose family., The name is also given to various other plants; as, hemp agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum); water agrimony (Bidens). |
| agronomy | noun | The management of land; rural economy; agriculture. |
| agrostis | noun | A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable pasture grasses. |