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- ABACIplural of abacus
- ABACTOROne who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves; a cattle rustler.
- ABASHTo make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit.
- ABBACYThe dignity, estate, term, or jurisdiction of an abbot or abbess.
- ABBEYThe office or dominion of an abbot or abbess.
- ABDICATETo disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
- ABDICATIONThe act of disowning or disinheriting a child.
- ABDOMENThe fat surrounding the belly.
- ABDOMINALOf or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral.
- ABDUCETo draw; to conduct away; to take away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part; to move a limb out away from the center of the body; abduct.
- ABDUCENTDrawing away from the median axis of the body, as a muscle; see etymology abducting.
- ABDUCTTo take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap.
- ABDUCTIONA leading away; a carrying away.
- ABDUCTOROne who abducts; a kidnapper.
- ABELEThe white poplar (Populus alba).
- ABELMOSKThe edible and aromatic seed pods (properly, capsules) of the Abelmoschus moschatus.
- ABEYANCEExpectancy; a condition when an ownership of real property is undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title.
- ABHORTo regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward.
- ABIETICOf, pertaining to, or derived from fir trees
- ABILITYSuitableness.
- ABJECTIONA low or downcast condition; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation.
- ABJURATIONA solemn recantation or renunciation on oath; as, an abjuration of heresy.
- ABLATETo remove or decrease something by cutting, erosion, melting, evaporation, or vaporization.
- ABLATIONA carrying or taking away; removal.
- ABLATIVEApplied to one of the cases of the noun in some languages, the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away, and to a lesser degree, instrument, place,
- ABLEHaving the necessary powers or the needed resources to accomplish a task.
- ABLEGATETo send abroad.
- ABLUENTWashing away; carrying off impurities; detergent.
- ABLUTIONThe act of washing something. Originally, the purifying of oils and other substances by emulsification with hot water; now more generally, a thorough cleansing of a precipitate or
- ABNEGATOROne who abnegates, denies, or rejects.
- ABNORMITYAlternative form of abnormality
- ABNORMOUSAbnormal; irregular; misshapen.
- ABOLISHTo end a law, system, institution, custom or practice.
- ABOLITIONThe act of abolishing; an annulling; abrogation.
- ABOMINABLEWorthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.
- ABOMINATEAbominable; detested.
- ABOMINATOROne who abominates.
- ABORIGINESplural of aborigine
- ABORTAn early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
- ABORTIONThe expulsion from the womb of a foetus or embryo before it is fully developed, with loss of the foetus. A spontaneous abortion; a miscarriage. An induced abortion.
- ABORTIVEProduced by abortion; born prematurely and therefore unnatural.
- ABORTUSAn abortion.
- ABRADETo rub or wear off; erode.
- ABRASIONThe act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.
- ABRASIVEProducing abrasion; rough enough to wear away the outer surface.
- ABRIDGETo deprive; to cut off.
- ABROGATETo annul (as a law, decree, ordinance, etc.) by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or their successor; to repeal.
- ABROGATIONThe act of abrogating. A repeal by authority; abolition.
- ABRUPTBroken away (from restraint).
- ABRUPTIONA sudden termination or interruption.
- ABSCINDTo cut off.
- ABSCONDTo flee, often secretly; to steal away.
- ABSENCEA state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship
- ABSENTBeing away from a place; withdrawn from a place; existing but not present; missing.
- ABSITFormal permission to be away from a college for the greater part of the day or more.
- ABSOLUTEFree of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional. Unrestricted by laws, a constitution, or parliamentary or judicial or other checks; (legally) unlimi
- ABSOLUTIONAn absolving of sins from ecclesiastical penalties by an authority.
- ABSOLVETo set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.).
- ABSOLVENTAbsolving.
- ABSOLVITORA decision or decree made by a court in favour of the defendant in a given action; dismissal.
- ABSORBENTHaving the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive.
- ABSORPTIONThe act or process of absorbing or of being absorbed as,
- ABSTAINKeep or withhold oneself.
- ABSTERGETo make clean by wiping; to wipe away.
- ABSTERGENTCleansing, detergent.
- ABSURDContrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridicul
- ABSURDITYThat which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.
- ABTHANEA title used in medieval Scotland.
- ABUNDANTFully sufficient; found in copious supply; in great quantity; overflowing.
- ABUSEImproper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom.
- ABUSIONMisuse, abuse; in particular, illegal behaviour; verbal, physical or sexual abuse.
- ABUSIVEProne to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
- ABUTTo touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land)
- ABUTILONAny of the various tropical flowering plants of the genus Abutilon, such as the flowering maple, Indian mallow, or Chinese lantern.
- ACAROIDShaped like or resembling a mite.
- ACCEDETo agree or assent [with to ‘a proposal, a request’]; to give way.
- ACCENDTo set on fire; to kindle.
- ACCENTA higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to emphasize it.
- ACCESSA way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.
- ACCIDENTAn unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans.
- ACCOUNTA registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.
- ACCRUETo increase, to rise
- ACCUBATIONThe act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals.
- ACERA plant of the genus Acer; a maple.
- ACERBSour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, such as unripe fruit.
- ACERBATEEmbittered; having a sour disposition or nature.
- ACERBITYSourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.
- ACEROSEHaving the nature of chaff; chaffy.
- ACERVATEHeaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters.
- ACERVATIONA heaping up; accumulation
- ACERVULUSA small cluster, as of fungi appearing on bark or leaves.
- ACETABULUMThe bony cup of the hip bone which receives the head of the femur.
- ACETICOf, pertaining to, or producing vinegar.
- ACETIFYTo convert into acid or vinegar.
- ACETOUSHaving a sour taste; sour; acid.
- ACETUMVinegar, sometimes medicated.
- ACIDSour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
- ACIDIFYTo make something (more) acidic or sour; to convert into an acid.
- ACIDIMETERAn instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids.
- ACIDITYThe quality or state of being acid.