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- ABATTOIRA public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.
- ABHORTo regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward.
- ABLATIONA carrying or taking away; removal.
- ABLUTETo wash oneself.
- 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
- ABLUTIONSplural of ablution
- ABODEAct of waiting; delay.
- 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)
- ABYSMALPertaining to, or resembling an abyss.
- ACROSTICA poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.
- ADJURETo formally command or request (someone) to do something, either in the name of a deity, or to suffer a curse or punishment if they do not comply; to bind (someone) under oath; to
- ADMONISHTo inform or notify of a fault; to rebuke in a serious tone; to tell off.
- ADZEA cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood.
- AGORAA place for gathering.
- ALACKAn expression of sorrow or mourning.
- ALBUMINAny of a class of monomeric proteins that are soluble in water, and are coagulated by heat; they occur in egg white, milk etc; they function as carrier protein for steroids, fatty
- AMBULATETo walk; to relocate oneself under the power of one's own legs.
- AMBULATORYOf, relating to, or adapted to walking.
- AMOKOut of control, especially when armed and dangerous.
- AMORPHOUSLacking a definite form or clear shape.
- AMPHORAA large, two-handled vessel, especially a thin-necked clay vat used in ancient Greece and Rome for storing and transporting wine and oil.
- ANTALGICalleviating pain
- ANTIPATHYOften followed by against, between, for, or to: a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance, normally towards a person and less often towards a thing, often without any conscious rea
- APATHYLack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something).
- APOGEEThe point, in an orbit about the Earth, that is farthest from the Earth: the apoapsis of an Earth orbiter.
- APOSTOLICPertaining to apostles or their practice or teaching; pertaining to the apostles (of early Christianity) or their teachings.
- ARTISANALOf or pertaining to artisans or the work of artisans.
- ATONALLacking a tonal center or key.
- AVARICEExcessive or inordinate desire of gain; greed for wealth
- AVASTHold fast! Cease! Stop! Desist!
- AVERTo assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner.
- AXIALRelating to, resembling, or situated on an axis
- AXIOMA seemingly self-evident or necessary truth which is based on assumption; a principle or proposition which cannot actually be proved or disproved.
- AXIONA hypothetical subatomic particle postulated to resolve certain symmetry problems concerning the strong nuclear force.
- BALLETICPertaining to or suitable for ballet.
- BANTERSharp, good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.
- BASILA plant (Ocimum basilicum).
- BIFURCATETo divide or fork into two channels or branches.
- BIOMEAny major regional biological community such as that of forest or desert.
- BIPEDALWalking on two feet or two legs; biped.
- BISECTTo cut or divide into two parts.
- BISMUTHA chemical element (symbol Bi) with an atomic number of 83: a brittle silvery-white metal. An atom of this element.
- BITUMENA sticky, black, highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum, burning with a bright flame. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of th
- BIVOUACAn encampment for the night, usually without tents or covering.
- BLOVIATETo speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner.
- BODICEA corset-like sleeveless overgarment for women, sometimes provided with detachable sleeves.
- BORICOf, pertaining to, or containing the element boron.
- BOVINEOf, relating to, or characteristic of cattle, buffaloes, or bison.
- BOWERA bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
- BRACKENAny of several coarse ferns, of the genus Pteridium, that form dense thickets; often poisonous to livestock.
- BREVIS
- BRIGANDAn outlaw or bandit.
- BROMIDEA binary compound of bromine and some other element or radical.
- BROUGHAMA four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with an open seat for the driver in front of a closed cabin for two or four passengers, designed in 1839.
- BUCOLICRustic, pastoral, country-styled.
- BUTYLAny of four isomeric univalent hydrocarbon radicals, C4H9, formally derived from butane by the loss of a hydrogen atom.
- BUXOMHaving a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts.
- CADREA frame or framework.
- CAIRNA rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.
- CALIPERAlternative form of calipers, a device used to measure dimensions.
- CANKERA plant disease marked by gradual decay.
- CANTATAA vocal composition accompanied by instruments and generally containing more than one movement, typical of 17th and 18th century Italian music.
- CAPUTThe head.
- CAUDALPertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body.
- CAULA style of close-fitting circular cap worn by women in the sixteenth century and later, often made of linen.
- CAUSTICCapable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue.
- CAVALIERLacking the proper care or concern for something important, reckless, rash, high-handed.
- CAVORTTo prance, frolic, gambol.
- CENOTEA deep natural well or sinkhole, especially in Mexico and Central America, formed by the collapse of surface limestone that exposes groundwater underneath, and sometimes used by th
- CHANTEROne who chants or sings.
- CHIMERAAlternative letter-case form of Chimera, a supposed monster in Lycia with the head of a lion, body of a goat, and tail of a dragon or serpent, killed by the hero Bellerophon.
- CHROMATEany salt of chromic acid; in solution the yellow chromate anion (CrO4) is in equilibrium with the orange dichromate anion (Cr2O7), the relative amount of each ion depending on the
- CIPHERA numeric character.
- CISTERNA reservoir or tank for holding water, especially for catching and holding rainwater for later use.
- CIVETAny of the small carnivorous catlike mammals encompassing certain species from the families Viverridae, Eupleridae, and Nandiniidae, native to tropical Africa and Asia.
- CLAMOREDsimple past and past participle of clamor
- CLAXONAlternative spelling of klaxon.
- CLOUTInfluence or effectiveness, especially political.
- CLOVENpast participle of cleave
- COGENTReasonable and convincing; based on evidence.
- COGITATETo meditate, to ponder, to think deeply.
- COHERETo stick together physically, by adhesion.
- COMATOSEIn a coma: unconscious.
- CONCATTo concatenate.
- CONDYLEA smooth prominence on a bone where it forms a joint with another bone.
- CONFABULATETo speak casually with; to chat.
- CONFLATETo combine or mix together.
- CONGEALTo change from a liquid to solid state, perhaps due to cold; called to freeze in nontechnical usage.
- CONIFERA plant belonging to the order Coniferales; a cone-bearing seed plant with vascular tissue, usually a tree.
- CONIFEROUSBearing cones, as the pine and cypress.
- CONVOKETo convene, to cause to assemble for a meeting.
- CORPULENTLarge in body; fat; overweight.
- CRAVATA wide fabric band worn as a necktie by men having long ends hanging in front.
- CRAVENUnwilling to fight; lacking even the rudiments of courage; extremely cowardly.
- CRONEAn old woman.
- CRUXThe basic, central, or essential point or feature.
- CRYPTIDA creature known only from folklore or legend, the existence of which is not proven by scientific observation.
- CUDGELA short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.
- CULLTo pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
- CULMINATEOf a heavenly body, to be at the highest point, reach its greatest altitude.