| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| academial | adjective | Academic. |
| academian | noun | A member of an academy, university, or college. |
| academism | noun | The doctrines of the Academic philosophy. |
| academist | noun | An Academic philosopher., An academician. |
| academies | plural | of Academy |
| acalephan | noun | One of the Acalephae. |
| acalephae | noun pl. | A group of Coelenterata, including the Medusae or jellyfishes, and hydroids; — so called from the stinging power they possess. Sometimes called sea nettles. |
| acalycine | adjective | Alt. of Acalysinous |
| acanthine | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus. |
| acapsular | adjective | Having no capsule. |
| accedence | noun | The act of acceding. |
| accension | noun | The act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition. |
| accenting | present participle & vb. noun | of Accent |
| accentual | adjective | Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent. |
| accepting | present participle & vb. noun | of Accept |
| acceptant | adjective | Accepting; receiving., An accepter. |
| acception | noun | Acceptation; the received meaning. |
| acceptive | adjective | Fit for acceptance., Ready to accept. |
| accessary | adjective | Accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Accessory., One who, not being present, contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense. |
| accession | noun | A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king’s accession to a confederacy., Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without; as, an accession of wealth or territory., A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf., The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers., The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity; as, the accession of the house of Stuart; — applied especially to the epoch of a new dynasty., The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm. |
| accessive | adjective | Additional. |
| accessory | adjective | Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music., That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate., Same as Accessary, n., Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts. |
| accidence | noun | The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar., The rudiments of any subject. |
| accipient | noun | A receiver. |
| accipiter | noun | A genus of rapacious birds; one of the Accipitres or Raptores., A bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk. |
| acclaimer | noun | One who acclaims. |
| acclimate | verb t. | To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize. |
| acclivity | noun | A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; ascent. |
| acclivous | adjective | Sloping upward; rising as a hillside; — opposed to declivous. |
| accompany | verb t. | To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with; — followed by with or by; as, he accompanied his speech with a bow., To cohabit with., To associate in a company; to keep company., To cohabit (with)., To perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition. |
| according | present participle & vb. noun | of Accord, Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious., Accordingly; correspondingly. |
| accordant | adjective | Agreeing; consonant; harmonious; corresponding; conformable; — followed by with or to. |
| accordion | noun | A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds. |
| accosting | present participle & vb. noun | of Accost |
| accounted | imp. & past participle | of Account |
| accourage | verb t. | To encourage. |
| accoutred | of Accoutre | |
| accretion | noun | The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth., The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth., Concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass., A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers toes., The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark., Gain to an heir or legatee, failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share. |
| accretive | adjective | Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth. |
| accrument | noun | The process of accruing, or that which has accrued; increase. |
| accumbent | adjective | Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals., Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf., One who reclines at table. |
| accusable | adjective | Liable to be accused or censured; chargeable with a crime or fault; blamable; — with of. |
| acephalan | noun | Same as Acephal., Belonging to the Acephala. |
| acescence | noun | Alt. of Acescency |
| acescency | noun | The quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness. |
| acetamide | noun | A white crystalline solid, from ammonia by replacement of an equivalent of hydrogen by acetyl. |
| acetifier | noun | An apparatus for hastening acetification. |
| acetified | imp. & past participle | of Acetify |
| acetosity | noun | The quality of being acetous; sourness. |
| acetylene | noun | A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant. |
| achieving | present participle & vb. noun | of Achieve |
| achillean | adjective | Resembling Achilles, the hero of the Iliad; invincible. |
| aciculate | adjective | Alt. of Aciculated |
| aciculite | noun | Needle ore. |
| acidifier | noun | A simple or compound principle, whose presence is necessary to produce acidity, as oxygen, chlorine, bromine, iodine, etc. |
| acidified | imp. & past participle | of Acidify |
| acidulate | verb t. | To make sour or acid in a moderate degree; to sour somewhat. |
| acidulent | adjective | Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous. |
| acidulous | adjective | Slightly sour; sub-acid; sourish; as, an acidulous tincture. |
| aciniform | adjective | Having the form of a cluster of grapes; clustered like grapes., Full of small kernels like a grape. |
| acipenser | noun | A genus of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons, having the body armed with bony scales, and the mouth on the under side of the head. See Sturgeon. |
| acockbill | adverb | Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor., Topped up; having one yardarm higher than the other. |
| aconitine | noun | An intensely poisonous alkaloid, extracted from aconite. |
| acorn cup | The involucre or cup in which the acorn is fixed. | |
| acoumeter | noun | An instrument for measuring the acuteness of the sense of hearing. |
| acoumetry | noun | The measuring of the power or extent of hearing. |
| acoustics | noun | The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena, and laws. |
| acquiesce | verb i. | To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object; — followed by in, formerly also by with and to., To concur upon conviction; as, to acquiesce in an opinion; to assent to; usually, to concur, not heartily but so far as to forbear opposition. |
| acquiring | present participle & vb. noun | of Acquire |
| acquisite | adjective | Acquired. |
| acquitted | imp. & past participle | of Acquit |
| acquittal | noun | The act of acquitting; discharge from debt or obligation; acquittance., A setting free, or deliverance from the charge of an offense, by verdict of a jury or sentence of a court. |
| acquitter | noun | One who acquits or releases. |
| acraspeda | noun pl. | A group of acalephs, including most of the larger jellyfishes; the Discophora. |
| acridness | noun | The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of a speech. |
| acritical | adjective | Having no crisis; giving no indications of a crisis; as, acritical symptoms, an acritical abscess. |
| acrobatic | adjective | Pertaining to an acrobat. |
| acropetal | adjective | Developing from below towards the apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; — said of certain inflorescence. |
| acrophony | noun | The use of a picture symbol of an object to represent phonetically the initial sound of the name of the object. |
| acropolis | noun | The upper part, or the citadel, of a Grecian city; especially, the citadel of Athens. |
| acrospire | noun | The sprout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate; the plumule in germination; — so called from its spiral form., To put forth the first sprout. |
| acrospore | noun | A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi. |
| acroteria | plural | of Acroterium |
| actinaria | noun pl. | A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not. |
| actinozoa | noun pl. | A group of Coelenterata, comprising the Anthozoa and Ctenophora. The sea anemone, or actinia, is a familiar example. |
| actionary | noun | Alt. of Actionist |
| actionist | noun | A shareholder in joint-stock company. |
| actualist | noun | One who deals with or considers actually existing facts and conditions, rather than fancies or theories; — opposed to idealist. |
| actuality | noun | The state of being actual; reality; as, the actuality of God’s nature. |
| actualize | verb t. | To make actual; to realize in action. |
| actuarial | adjective | Of or pertaining to actuaries; as, the actuarial value of an annuity. |
| actuaries | plural | of Actuary |
| actuating | present participle & vb. noun | of Actuate |
| actuation | noun | A bringing into action; movement. |
| actuosity | noun | Abundant activity. |
| aculeated | adjective | Having a sharp point; armed with prickles; prickly; aculeate. |
| acuminate | adjective | Tapering to a point; pointed; as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc., To render sharp or keen., To end in, or come to, a sharp point. |
| acuminose | adjective | Terminating in a flat, narrow end. |
| acuminous | adjective | Characterized by acumen; keen. |
| acuteness | noun | The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle., The faculty of nice discernment or perception; acumen; keenness; sharpness; sensitiveness; — applied to the senses, or the understanding. By acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions., Shrillness; high pitch; — said of sounds., Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis. |