| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| amadavat | noun | The strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; — called also red waxbill. |
| amalgama | noun | Same as Amalgam. |
| amandine | noun | The vegetable casein of almonds., A kind of cold cream prepared from almonds, for chapped hands, etc. |
| amaracus | noun | A fragrant flower. |
| amaranth | noun | An imaginary flower supposed never to fade., A genus of ornamental annual plants (Amaranthus) of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers., A color inclining to purple. |
| amassing | present participle & vb. noun | of Amass |
| amazedly | adverb | In amazement; with confusion or astonishment. |
| amazeful | adjective | Full of amazement. |
| ambes-as | noun | Ambs-ace. |
| ambition | noun | The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing., An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something., To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. |
| amblotic | adjective | Tending to cause abortion. |
| amblygon | noun | An obtuse-angled figure, esp. and obtuse-angled triangle. |
| amblyopy | noun | Weakness of sight, without and opacity of the cornea, or of the interior of the eye; the first degree of amaurosis. |
| ambreate | noun | A salt formed by the combination of ambreic acid with a base or positive radical. |
| ambrosia | noun | The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it., An unguent of the gods., A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell., Formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc. |
| ambrosin | noun | An early coin struck by the dukes of Milan, and bearing the figure of St. Ambrose on horseback. |
| ambs-ace | noun | Double aces, the lowest throw of all at dice. Hence: Bad luck; anything of no account or value. |
| ambulant | adjective | Walking; moving from place to place. |
| ambulate | verb i. | To walk; to move about. |
| ambushed | imp. & past participle | of Ambush |
| ambusher | noun | One lying in ambush. |
| amelcorn | noun | A variety of wheat from which starch is produced; — called also French rice. |
| amenable | adjective | Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband., Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law., Liable to punishment, a charge, a claim, etc., Willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable. |
| amenably | adverb | In an amenable manner. |
| amenance | noun | Behavior; bearing. |
| amending | present participle & vb. noun | of Amend |
| amendful | adjective | Much improving. |
| amercing | present participle & vb. noun | of Amerce |
| american | adjective | Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians., Of or pertaining to the United States., A native of America; — originally applied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America, and especially to the citizens of the United States. |
| ames-ace | noun | Same as Ambs-ace. |
| amethyst | A variety of crystallized quartz, of a purple or bluish violet color, of different shades. It is much used as a jeweler’s stone., A purple color in a nobleman’s escutcheon, or coat of arms. | |
| amicable | adjective | Friendly; proceeding from, or exhibiting, friendliness; after the manner of friends; peaceable; as, an amicable disposition, or arrangement. |
| amicably | adverb | In an amicable manner. |
| amidogen | noun | A compound radical, NH2, not yet obtained in a separate state, which may be regarded as ammonia from the molecule of which one of its hydrogen atoms has been removed; — called also the amido group, and in composition represented by the form amido. |
| amioidei | noun pl. | An order of ganoid fishes of which Amia is the type. See Bowfin and Ganoidei. |
| amission | noun | Deprivation; loss. |
| ammodyte | noun | One of a genus of fishes; the sand eel., A kind of viper in southern Europe. |
| ammoniac | adjective | Alt. of Ammoniacal, Alt. of Gum ammoniac |
| ammonite | noun | A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the Mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis. |
| ammonium | noun | A compound radical, NH4, having the chemical relations of a strongly basic element like the alkali metals. |
| amnestic | adjective | Causing loss of memory. |
| amniotic | adjective | Of or pertaining to the amnion; characterized by an amnion; as, the amniotic fluid; the amniotic sac. |
| amoebean | adjective | Alternately answering. |
| amoebian | noun | One of the Amoebea. |
| amoeboid | adjective | Resembling an amoeba; amoeba-shaped; changing in shape like an amoeba. |
| amoebous | adjective | Like an amoeba in structure. |
| amoneste | verb t. | To admonish. |
| amorette | noun | An amoret. |
| amorphas | plural | of Amorpha |
| amortise | noun | Alt. of Amortisement |
| amortize | verb t. | To make as if dead; to destroy., To alienate in mortmain, that is, to convey to a corporation. See Mortmain., To clear off or extinguish, as a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund. |
| amounted | imp. & past participle | of Amount |
| amovable | adjective | Removable. |
| ampelite | noun | An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; — applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist. |
| amphibia | noun pl. | One of the classes of vertebrates., of Amphibium |
| amphigen | noun | An element that in combination produces amphid salt; — applied by Berzelius to oxygen, sulphur, selenium, and tellurium. |
| amphipod | noun | One of the Amphipoda., Alt. of Amphipodan |
| amphiuma | noun | A genus of amphibians, inhabiting the Southern United States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake. |
| amphoral | adjective | Pertaining to, or resembling, an amphora. |
| amphoric | adjective | Produced by, or indicating, a cavity in the lungs, not filled, and giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter; as, amphoric respiration or resonance. |
| ampliate | verb t. | To enlarge., Having the outer edge prominent; said of the wings of insects. |
| ampullae | plural | of Ampulla |
| ampullar | adjective | Alt. of Ampullary |
| amputate | verb t. | To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils., To cut off (a limb or projecting part of the body) |
| amuletic | adjective | Of or pertaining to an amulet; operating as a charm. |
| amurcous | adjective | Full off dregs; foul. |
| amusable | adjective | Capable of being amused. |
| amusette | noun | A light field cannon, or stocked gun mounted on a swivel. |
| amyelous | adjective | Wanting the spinal cord. |