| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| auchenium | noun | The part of the neck nearest the back. |
| audacious | adjective | Daring; spirited; adventurous., Contemning the restraints of law, religion, or decorum; bold in wickedness; presumptuous; impudent; insolent., Committed with, or proceedings from, daring effrontery or contempt of law, morality, or decorum. |
| audiphone | noun | An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or less distinctly; a dentiphone. |
| auditress | noun | A female hearer. |
| augmented | imp. & past participle | of Augment |
| augmenter | noun | One who, or that which, augments or increases anything. |
| augurship | noun | The office, or period of office, of an augur. |
| augustine | noun | Alt. of Augustinian |
| auriculae | plural | of Auricula |
| auriculas | plural | of Auricula |
| auricular | adjective | Of or pertaining to the ear, or to the sense of hearing; as, auricular nerves., Told in the ear, i. e., told privately; as, auricular confession to the priest., Recognized by the ear; known by the sense of hearing; as, auricular evidence., Received by the ear; known by report., Pertaining to the auricles of the heart. |
| auriscalp | noun | An earpick. |
| auriscope | noun | An instrument for examining the condition of the ear. |
| auriscopy | noun | Examination of the ear by the aid of the auriscope. |
| auspicate | adjective | Auspicious., To foreshow; to foretoken., To give a favorable turn to in commencing; to inaugurate; — a sense derived from the Roman practice of taking the auspicium, or inspection of birds, before undertaking any important business. |
| auspicial | adjective | Of or pertaining to auspices; auspicious. |
| austerely | adverb | Severely; rigidly; sternly. |
| austerity | noun | Sourness and harshness to the taste., Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline., Plainness; freedom from adornment; severe simplicity. |
| authentic | noun | Having a genuine original or authority, in opposition to that which is false, fictitious, counterfeit, or apocryphal; being what it purports to be; genuine; not of doubtful origin; real; as, an authentic paper or register., Authoritative., Of approved authority; true; trustworthy; credible; as, an authentic writer; an authentic portrait; authentic information., Vested with all due formalities, and legally attested., Having as immediate relation to the tonic, in distinction from plagal, which has a correspondent relation to the dominant in the octave below the tonic., An original (book or document). |
| authoress | noun | A female author. |
| authorial | adjective | Of or pertaining to an author. |
| authorism | noun | Authorship. |
| authority | noun | Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority of a court., Government; the persons or the body exercising power or command; as, the local authorities of the States; the military authorities., The power derived from opinion, respect, or esteem; influence of character, office, or station, or mental or moral superiority, and the like; claim to be believed or obeyed; as, an historian of no authority; a magistrate of great authority., That which, or one who, is claimed or appealed to in support of opinions, actions, measures, etc., Testimony; witness., A precedent; a decision of a court, an official declaration, or an opinion, saying, or statement worthy to be taken as a precedent., A book containing such a statement or opinion, or the author of the book., Justification; warrant. |
| authorize | verb t. | To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary., To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage., To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage., To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report., To justify; to furnish a ground for. |
| authotype | noun | A type or block containing a facsimile of an autograph. |
| autoclave | noun | A kind of French stewpan with a steam-tight lid. |
| autocracy | noun | Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy., Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat., Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy., The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle. |
| autograph | noun | That which is written with one’s own hand; an original manuscript; a person’s own signature or handwriting., In one’s own handwriting; as, an autograph letter; an autograph will. |
| autolatry | noun | Self-worship. |
| automatic | adjective | Alt. of Automatical |
| automaton | verb i. | Any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action., A self-moving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself; — applied chiefly to machines which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, etc. |
| autonomic | adjective | Having the power of self-government; autonomous. |
| autoomist | noun | One who advocates autonomy. |
| autophagi | noun pl. | Birds which are able to run about and obtain their own food as soon as hatched. |
| autophoby | noun | Fear of one’s self; fear of being egotistical. |
| autophony | noun | An auscultatory process, which consists in noting the tone of the observer’s own voice, while he speaks, holding his head close to the patient’s chest. |
| auxiliary | adjective | Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops., A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise., Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force., A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; — called, also, an auxiliary verb; as, have, be, may, can, do, must, shall, and will, in English; etre and avoir, in French; avere and essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish., A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulae. |