| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |