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- ADROITLYDeftly; in an adroit manner.
- ADRYDry.
- ADSCRIPTA feudal serf or labourer who is attached to an estate and sold or transferred with it.
- ADSORBTo accumulate on a surface, by adsorption.
- ADSORBABLEAble to be adsorbed
- ADSORBATEA substance that has been adsorbed
- ADSORPTIONThe adhesion of a liquid or gas on the surface of a solid material, forming a thin film on the surface.
- ADULATETo flatter effusively.
- ADULATIONFlattery; fulsome praise.
- ADULATOROne who lavishes excessive praises or flattery; one who adulates.
- ADULATORYExhibiting adulation; overly flattering.
- ADULTAn animal that is full-grown.
- ADULTERINESpurious; due to adulteration.
- ADULTERIZETo commit adultery.
- ADULTERYSexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse. See more synonyms at Thesaurus:cuckoldry
- ADUMBRATETo foreshadow vaguely.
- ADUMBRATIONThe state of being in shadow or shade; a shadow.
- ADUMBRATIVELYIn an adumbrative manner
- ADUNCCurved inward, hooked.
- ADUNCITYCrookedness, curvaceousness, hookedness.
- ADUSTAbnormally dark or over-concentrated (associated with various states of discomfort or illness, specifically being too hot or dry).
- ADVANCETo promote or advantage. To help the progress of (something); to further. To raise (someone) in rank or office; to prefer, to promote.
- ADVANCEROne who advances or puts forward.
- ADVECTTo transport (something) by advection.
- ADVECTIONThe horizontal movement of a body of atmosphere (or other fluid) along with a concurrent transport of its temperature, humidity etc.
- ADVENETo accede or to come to; to be superadded to, to be added to something or become a part of it, though inessential.
- ADVENTArrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears; the time when it is approaching.
- ADVENTITIOUSFrom an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
- ADVENTITIOUSLYin an adventitious manner; sporadically.
- ADVENTUREA feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
- ADVENTURESOMECharacterised or marked by adventure.
- ADVENTURISMThe behavior of an adventurer; risk-taking.
- ADVENTURISTICRelating to or exhibiting adventurism.
- ADVENTUROUSInclined to adventure; willing to take risks; prone to embark on hazardous enterprises; daring.
- ADVENTUROUSLYIn an adventurous manner.
- ADVERBA word that modifies a verb, adjective, other adverbs, or various other types of words, phrases, or clauses.
- ADVERBIALOf or relating to an adverb.
- ADVERSEUnfavorable; antagonistic in purpose or effect; hostile; actively opposing one's interests or wishes; contrary to one's welfare; acting against; working in an opposing direction.
- ADVERSELYIn an adverse manner.
- ADVERSITYThe state of adverse conditions; state of misfortune or calamity.
- ADVERTAn advertisement, an ad.
- ADVERTENTAttentive.
- ADVERTENTLYintentionally, on purpose, purposely
- ADVERTISETo give (especially public) notice of (something); to announce publicly.
- ADVERTISINGCommunication whose purpose is to influence potential customers about products and services.
- ADVERTIZEAlternative spelling of advertise.
- ADVICEAn opinion offered to guide behavior in an effort to be helpful.
- ADVISABLYWisely, in an advisable manner.
- ADVISETo give advice to; to offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed.
- ADVISEEsomeone who receives advice.
- ADVISEMENTConsideration or deliberation.
- ADVISEROne who advises.
- ADVISOROne who offers advice.
- ADVISORYAble to give advice.
- ADVOCACYThe profession of an advocate.
- ADVOCATESomeone whose job is to speak for someone's case in a court of law; a counsel.
- ADVOCATIONAdvocacy; the act of advocating or pleading.
- ADVOCATOROne who advocates; an advocate.
- ADVOCATORYCharacteristic of an advocate.
- ADVOWSONThe right to present a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice or church office.
- ADWOMANA woman working in advertising; a female adman.
- ADYNAMICNot dynamic; without strength or vigor.
- ADYTUMThe innermost sanctuary or shrine in a temple, from where oracles were given.
- ADZEA cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood.
- ADZUKIEither the plant or the seed of the azuki bean.
- AECIDIUMThe cupulate fruiting body borne upon the mycelium of certain fungi commonly parasitic upon specimens of the Compositae, Lamiaceae, Leguminosae, and Ranunculaceae families
- AECIOSPOREA binucleate spore of a rust fungus, formed in a chainlike series in an aecium.
- AECIUMA cuplike fruiting structure of some parasitic rust fungi that contains chains of aeciospores.
- AEDICULEA small house or room.
- AEDILEAn elected official who was responsible for the maintenance of public buildings, regulation of festivals, supervision of markets and the supply of grain and water.
- AEDILESHIPThe office of an aedile.
- AEDINERelating to, or characteristic of mosquitos of the genus Aedes
- AEGIRITEaegirine
- AEGISA mythological shield associated with the Greek deities Zeus and Athena (and their Roman counterparts Jupiter and Minerva) shown as a short cloak made of goatskin worn on the shoul
- AEMULEObsolete form of emulate (“to emulate”).
- AENEOUSBronze-colored.
- AENEUSA kind of freshwater catfish, the bronze corydoras (Corydoras aeneus).
- AEOLIANof, or relating to the wind.
- AEONCommonwealth standard spelling of eon.
- AEQUORINA photoprotein, isolated from luminescent jellyfish and other marine organisms, composed of two distinct units: the apoprotein apoaequorin and the prosthetic group coelenterazine.
- AERATETo supply with oxygen or air.
- AERENCHYMAA spongy, airy tissue found especially in the roots of aquatic plants.
- AERIALLiving or taking place in the air.
- AERIALISTAn acrobat performing high off the ground, defying a fall to earth, as on a trapeze or a tightrope.
- AERIALITYThe state of being aerial or airy; insubstantiality.
- AERIALSAerial skiing.
- AERIEDHaving aeries
- AERIFYTo mix with air.
- AERILYIn an aerial manner
- AEROOf or pertaining to aviation.
- AEROBATICHaving to do with acrobatic maneuvers, such as spins, twirls, and flips, performed by an airplane.
- AEROBATICSThe practice of flying maneuvers involving aircraft attitudes that are not used in conventional passenger-carrying flights.
- AEROBEAny organism (but especially a bacterium) that can tolerate the presence of oxygen, or that needs oxygen to survive.
- AEROBICLiving or occurring only in the presence of oxygen e.g. aerobic bacteria.
- AEROBICALLYIn an aerobic manner.
- AEROBICSA form of exercise, designed to enhance one's cardiovascular fitness, normally performed to music.
- AEROBIOSISAny form of life that is sustained by the presence of air (or oxygen)
- AEROBIOTICOf or pertaining to aerobiosis
- AEROBOTAn autonomous flying robot used in the context of unmanned space probes for research within planetary atmospheres.
- AERODUCTA proposed form of ramjet that harnesses charged particles in the upper atmosphere