| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| available | adjective | Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy, for the object; effectual; valid; as, an available plea., Such as one may avail one’s self of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose; usable; profitable; advantageous; convertible into a resource; as, an available measure; an available candidate. |
| availment | noun | Profit; advantage. |
| avalanche | noun | A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice., A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice., A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx of anything. |
| avauntour | noun | A boaster. |
| ave maria | Alt. of Ave Mary | |
| avengeful | adjective | Vengeful. |
| averaging | present participle & vb. noun | of Average |
| averpenny | noun | Money paid by a tenant in lieu of the service of average. |
| averroism | noun | The tenets of the Averroists. |
| averroist | noun | One of a sect of peripatetic philosophers, who appeared in Italy before the restoration of learning; so denominated from Averroes, or Averrhoes, a celebrated Arabian philosopher. He held the doctrine of monopsychism. |
| avertible | adjective | Capable of being averted; preventable. |
| avisement | noun | Advisement; observation; deliberation. |
| avocation | noun | A calling away; a diversion., That which calls one away from one’s regular employment or vocation., Pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one’s time; usual employment; vocation. |
| avocative | adjective | Calling off., That which calls aside; a dissuasive. |
| avoidable | adjective | Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable., Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped. |
| avoidance | noun | The act of annulling; annulment., The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; — specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent., A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal., The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of., The courts by which anything is carried off. |
| avoidless | adjective | Unavoidable; inevitable. |
| avolation | noun | The act of flying; flight; evaporation. |
| avouching | present participle & vb. noun | of Avouch |
| avuncular | adjective | Of or pertaining to an uncle. |