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- AVIDEnthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest in something or desire to do something.
- AVIDINA tetrameric protein produced in the oviducts of birds, reptiles and amphibians and deposited in the whites of their eggs.
- AVIDITYGreediness; strong appetite.
- AVIDLYIn an avid manner; greedily; eagerly.
- AVIFORMHaving the shape of a bird
- AVINECharacteristic of or pertaining to birds, or to bird-like or flying creatures.
- AVIONICSThe science and technology of the development and use of electrical and electronic devices in aviation.
- AVIRULENTNot virulent.
- AVISOAdvisory; information; advice; intelligence.
- AVITALRelating to a grandfather or ancestor.
- AVOCADOThe large, usually yellowish-green or black, savory fruit of the avocado tree.
- AVOCATIONA calling away; a diversion.
- AVOCETAny of four species of wading birds in the genus Recurvirostra, with long, slender recurved bills, long legs, and webbed feet.
- AVOIDTo try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun.
- AVOIDABLECapable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable.
- AVOIDABLYIn a manner so as to be avoidable.
- AVOIDANCEThe act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.
- AVOIDANTExhibiting avoidance; avoiding something.
- AVOIDANTLYIn an avoidant manner.
- AVOIDEROne who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away.
- AVOIRDUPOISThe official system of weights used in the UK between 1856 and 1963. It had been the customary system in London since 1300.
- AVOISIONNonpayment of tax that cannot clearly be seen as either tax avoidance, which is legal, or tax evasion, which is illegal.
- AVOLITIONLack of initiative or goals; one of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia. The person may wish to do something, but the desire is without power or energy.
- AVOUCHTo declare freely and openly; to assert.
- AVOUCHEROne who avouches.
- AVOUCHMENTThe act of avouching.
- AVOWTo declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly.
- AVOWABLECapable of being avowed or openly acknowledged with confidence.
- AVOWABLYIn an avowable manner.
- AVOWALAn open declaration of affirmation or admission of knowledge.
- AVOWEDsimple past and past participle of avow
- AVOWEDLYWith open acknowledgment, declaration or verification.
- AVOWERA person who avows
- AVOWRYThe act of avowing and justifying in one's own right the distraining of goods.
- AVOYERA chief magistrate of various free imperial cities or cantons of Switzerland.
- AVULSETo tear off forcibly.
- AVULSIONThe loss or separation of a body part, either by surgery or due to trauma.
- AVUNCULARIn the manner of an uncle, pertaining to an uncle.
- AVUNCULARITYThe condition of being avuncular.
- AVUNCULATEThe relationship between a man and his sister's children, generally her sons.
- AWAITTo wait for.
- AWAITEROne who awaits.
- AWAKENot asleep; conscious.
- AWAKENTo cause to become awake.
- AWAKENEROne who, or that which, awakens.
- AWARDA judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
- AWAREVigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.
- AWASHWashed by the waves or tide (of a rock or strip of shore, or of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it); covered with water.
- AWATCHWatching; in a state of vigilance.
- AWAVEwaving
- AWAYFrom a place, hence.
- AWDLA long poem written in Welsh using cynghanedd and one of twenty-four strict meters.
- AWEARIEDweary; made tired
- AWEATHEROn the weather side, or toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows (See upwind)
- AWEIGHOf a ship's anchor: Having been lifted off the sea bed in preparation for sailing; hanging by its rode, atrip.
- AWESOMECausing awe or terror; inspiring wonder or excitement.
- AWESOMELYIn a manner inspiring awe.
- AWESTRICKENFilled with awe.
- AWESTRUCKFilled or overcome with awe or wonder.
- AWFULVery bad.
- AWFULLYBadly, terribly.
- AWFULNESSThe state or quality of being awful.
- AWHAPETo confound; to terrify; to amaze.
- AWHEELRiding a bicycle.
- AWHETOSynonym of caterpillar fungus (“Ophiocordyceps sinensis”).
- AWHILEFor some time; for a short time.
- AWHIRLWhirling.
- AWINGOn the wing; flying; fluttering.
- AWKSAwkward.
- AWMRYA cupboard or wardrobe.
- AWNEDFurnished with an awn, or long bristle-shaped tip; bearded.
- AWNERA device for cutting the awns from grain.
- AWNYHaving awns; bearded, bristly
- AWOKENpast participle of awake
- AWORKAt work; in action.
- AWRACKWrecked; in ruins.
- AWRONGWrongly.
- AWRYObliquely, crookedly; askew.
- AXELA jump that includes one (or more than one) complete turn and a half turn while in the air.
- AXEMANA man who wields an axe.
- AXENICContaining only a single species of microorganism.
- AXESplural of ax
- AXIALRelating to, resembling, or situated on an axis
- AXIALITYThe state of being axial
- AXILThe angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs.
- AXILESituated in the axis of anything; as an embryo which lies in the axis of a seed.
- AXINITEA borosilicate of aluminum, iron, and lime, commonly found in glassy, brown crystals with acute edges.
- AXIOLOGISTA person, especially a philosopher, who studies theory of value.
- AXIOLOGYThe study of value(s), as regards origin, nature, functions, types, and interrelations; value theory.
- AXIOMA seemingly self-evident or necessary truth which is based on assumption; a principle or proposition which cannot actually be proved or disproved.
- AXIOMATICSelf-evident or unquestionable.
- AXIOMATICSThe study of all the axioms associated with a particular subject.
- AXIONA hypothetical subatomic particle postulated to resolve certain symmetry problems concerning the strong nuclear force.
- AXISAn imaginary line around which an object spins (an axis of rotation) or is symmetrically arranged (an axis of symmetry).
- AXISEDHaving the specified number or kind of axes.
- AXLEShoulder.
- AXLEDHaving (a specified number or kind of) axles.
- AXLIKEResembling or characteristic of an ax.
- AXMANAlternative spelling of axeman.
- AXONA nerve fibre which is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, and which conducts nerve impulses away from the body of the cell to a synapse.