a cheval
phr. - 'on horseback'; astride; straddling.
a corps perdu
phr. - 'with lost body'; impetuously; in desperation.
a fond
phr. - 'to the bottom'; thoroughly.
a la belle étoile
phr. - 'under the beautiful star'; in the open air at night.
a la mort
phr. - 'to the death'; mortally.
a mensa et thoro
adj. - 'from table and bed'; applied to judicial separation of husband and wife.
a outrance
phr. - 'to the utmost'; to the death.
ab initio
phr. - from the beginning; from the very start or outset
ab irato
phr. - from an angry man: hence, not to be taken tooseriously
ab ovo
phr. - from the egg: from the very beginning, hence completely and in
great detail; throughly or voluminously
abderian
adj. - pertaining to foolish or excessive laughter
abdominous
adj. - having or pertaining to a distended stomach
abliguration
n. - extravagance in cooking and serving
ablutomania
n. - a mania for washing oneself
abscissin
n. - hormone which triggers the fall of autumn leaves in certain trees
absquatulate
v. - to leave hurriedly, suddenly, or secretly
abstersive
adv. - serving to cleanse or purge
acalculia
n. - the inability to work with numbers
acapnotic
n. - person who doesn't smoke
acariasis
n. - infestation with mites or ticks; the itch.
acaricide
n. - substance killing mites. acaricidal, adj.
acarpous
adj. - Botany, not yielding fruit.
acatalepsy
n. - state of being impossible to understand; Philosophy, sceptic
doctrine that knowledge cannot be certain. acataleptic, adj.
acataleptic
adj. - incomprehensible
acaudate
adj. - lacking tail.
acaulescent
adj. - lacking a stem.
accensor
n. - Roman Catholic, acolyte.
acceptilation
n. - the settlement of a debt without payment
accessit
n. - honourable mention of one who comes nearest to a prize.
acciaccatura
n. - Music, very short note played before a longer note; short appoggiatura.
accismus
n. - rhetorical device of pretending to refuse.
acclivity
n. - slope upward. acclivitous, acclivous, adj.
accolent
adj. - neighbouring.
accouchement
n. - childbirth. accoucheur, accoucheuse, n. male and female midwife
respectively
accrementition
n. - Biology growth by addition of similar matter.
accrescent
adj. - Botany, growing larger even after flowering.
accubation
n. - act or state of reclining at table; Medicine, accouchement.
accumbent
adj. - Botany, (of plants) lying against something.
acediast
n. - a person who is slothful or wickedly lax when it comes to
spiritual or religious matters
aceldama
n. - field, or scene, of bloodshed.
acephalist
n. - the balky maverick who acknowledges no head or superior or authority
acephalous
adj. - lacking a head or a leader; lacking the first syllable or foot
(of a hexameter).
aceric
adj. - pertaining to the maple.
acerose
adj. - like a needle.
acerous
adj. - without horns or antennae.
acersecomic
n. - one who has never had a haircut
acervate
adj. - Botany, growing in heaps; clustered.
acervation
n. - heaping up.
acervuline
adj. - resembling small heaps
acescent
adj. - becoming, or tending to be, sour.
acetabulum
n. - cuplike hollow on hipbone to receive thighbone.
acetarious
adj. - applied to plants used in salads.
acetometer
n. - instrument measuring strength of acetic acid or vinegar. acetometry, n.
achar
n. - kind of pickles.
achene
n. - small one-seeded fruit of plant; naked seed.
acherontic
adj. - darky, gloomy, forbidding
achlamydeous
adj. - Botany having neither petals nor sepals.
acholous
adj. - lacking bile.
achondroplasia
n. - condition where cartilage does not develop normally, resulting in dwarfism.
achor
n. - Medicine, archaic, eruption on the scalp.
achromatopsia
n. - color-blindness, where only white, grey and black are visible.
achromia
n. - Medicine, pallor. achromic, adj.
acronychal
adj. - Occurring at nightfall
achroous
adj. - colorless.
acicula
n. - a needle-shaped prickle, spine or crystal. acicular, adj.
aciculate, adj. having bristles or spines; with scratched appearance.
acidophilic
adj. - easily stained by acid dyes; thriving in acid environment.
acidulous
adj. - sharp or sour in taste or manner. acidulate, v.
acierage
n. - process of steel-plating. acierate, v. make into steel.
acinous, acinose
adj. - containing small seeds or drupes.
acipenser
n. - sturgeon.
aclastic
adj. - non-refractive.
aclinic
adj. - applied to line passing through all points where there is no
magnetic inclination. aclinic line, magnetic equator.
.
acomia
n. - baldness.
aconite
n. - the monk's-hood or wolf's-bane plant.
aconitine
n. - poisonous alkaloid obtained from aconite.
acopic
n. - & a. Medicine, curative of fatigue.
acor
n. - Medicine, stomach acidity.
acosmism
n. - doctrine denying existence of universe distinct from God. acosmist, n.
acotyledon
n. - plant without differentiated seed lobes. acotyledonous, adj.
acouasm
n. - a ringing sound in the head
acoumeter
n. - instrument measuring keenness of hearing. acoumetry, n.
acousma
n. - ringing noise in head.
acquittance
n. - payment of, or release from, debt; full receipt.
acraein
n. - foul-tasting butterfly's juice
acrasy
n. - anarchy, disorder.
acratia
n. - impotence.
acritochromacy
n. - color-blindness.
acroamatic
adj. - esoteric, told only orally.
acroatic
adj. - pertaining to profound learning
acrocephalic
n.,adj. - pertaining to pointed heads; someone with apointed head
acrodont
adj. - (of a tooth) fused with the jaw; having such teeth.
acrogen
n. - Botany, any flowerless plant where growth takes place at the tip
of the main stem. acrogenous, adj.
acrolith
n. - statue with wooden trunk and stone head and extremities.
acrologic
adj. - pertaining to initials.
acromegaly
n. - gigantism; enlargement of extremities, head, jaw, etc., due to
excess secretion of pituitary gland. acromegalic, adj.
acromonogrammatic
adj. - applied to verse in which each line begins with letter with
which preceding line ended.
acronychal, acronycal,
adj. - Astronomy, happening at sunset, especially of star whose rising
is at sunset.
acronyx
n. - ingrowing nail.
acrophony
n. - The use of a word starting with a letter of the alphabet as the
name of the letter.
acroscopic
adj. - Botany, facing, or moving to, apex.
acrospire
n. - the first real shoot developing in a germinating grain seed.
acroteric
adj. - pertaining to or affecting the extremities.
acroterion
n. - Architecture, ornament or its pedestal at angle of pediment.
acrotic
adj. - pertaining to surface. acrotism, n. failure of pulse.
actamer
n. - a substance preventing the growth of bacteria in cosmetics and soaps.
actinism
n. - property of solar radiation of causing chemical change. actinic,
a.; actinic glass, glass opaque to actinic rays.
actino-chemistry
n. - chemical study of actinism; photo-chemistry.
actinograph
n. - instrument for calculating time of photographic exposures.
actinoid
adj. - star-shaped; like rays.
.
actinometer
n. - instrument measuring heating power of the sun's rays;
Photography, instrument for calculating exposure times. actinometry,
n.
actinomorphic, actinomorphous
adj. - Botany, having symmetrically radiated shape.
actinomycosis
n. - parasitic disease in men and cattle resulting in inflammation of
jaw; 'lumpy jaw'.
actinophone
n. - instrument in which sound is produced by actinic rays. actinophonic, adj.
actinotherapy
n. - use of ultra-violet and other actinic rays in medical treatment.
actum ut supra
phr. - 'done as above' (abbr. a.u.s.).
aculeate
adj. - Botany, bearing many sharp points; Zoology, having sting; incisive.
acuminate
adj. - pointed; tapering; v.t. sharpen; v.i. end in point.
acuminulate
adj. - very sharply pointed; ending in minute point.
acushla
n. - term of address: darling.
acutorsion
n. - twisting artery with needle to stop bleeding.
acyanopsia
n. - color blindness towards blue.
.
ad baculum
phr. - to the rod: appealing to or suggesting the use of force to
settle the question
ad captandum (vulgus)
phr. - 'to capture' the affection or suit the taste (of the crowd).
ad captandum benevolentiam
phr. - with intent to win good will or favor
ad captandum vulgus
phr. - with intent to take in the public: designed to court the crowd
emotionally, even if using unsound reason
ad crumenam
phr. - to the purse: appealing to greed or to the hearer's pocket
ad finem
phr. - 'to the end' (abbr. ad fin.).
ad hanc vocem
phr. - 'to this word' (abbr. a.h.v).
ad hunc locum
phr. - Law, 'at this place'; on this passage (abbr. ad loc. ; a.h.l.).
ad ignorantium
phr. to ignorance: depending for its effect on thehearer's not knowing
something essential; arguing that something is true because it has not
been proven false, or challenging another to disprove rather than
endeavoring to prove
ad interim
adj. - 'at interval'; meanwhile; for the present (abbr. ad int.).
ad judicium
phr. - to judgment: appealing to the common sense of mankind or to the
judgment of the people
ad libitum
adj. - 'at one's pleasure'; as much or long as desired; Music,
according to desire of performer (abbr. ad lib.). ad-lib, v.i. & t.
speak impromptu, especially (of actors) jokes, words, etc., not
written or rehearsed, or to replace forgotten lines; a. said on the
spur of the moment; n. an ad-lib statement.
ad locum
phr. - 'at the place' (abbr. ad loc.)
ad misericordiam
phr. - to compassion: appealing to a sense of pity or mercy; asking compassion
ad populum
phr. - to the people: appealing to popular sentimental weaknesses
rather than to facts or reasons
ad rem
phr. - to the matter: to the point; pertinent to the matter
ad unguem
phr. - to the fingernail: with great precision; finely
ad usum
phr. - 'to usage'; according to custom (abbr. ad us.)
ad valorem
adj. - in proportion to value, especially of import duties of a
percentage of the value of the imports (abbr. ad val.).
ad verbum
phr. - to the word: word for word; literally; verbatim
ad verecundiam
phr. - to modesty: appealing to traditional values, reverence for
authority, or sense of prestige; requiring an opponent to offend
against decorum
ad vitam aut culpam
phr. - 'to life or misdeed'; so long as good behaviour lasts.
adactylous
adj. - lacking fingers, toes or claws. adactylia, n. congenital lack
of toes or fingers.
adaxial
adj. - on, beside, or turned towards, axis of an organ, organism, or plant.
additament
n. - thing added.
addititious
adj. - pertaining to, or resulting from, addition; Astronomy, applied
to force increasing gravitation between planet and satellite.
adduct
v. - (of muscles) draw towards a central axis. adductor, n. such a muscle.
adeciduate
adj. - evergreen.
adelphogamy
n. - form of marriage in which brothers share a wife or wives.
ademonist
n. - person denying existence of demons or the Devil.
ademption
n. - Law, revoking by testator, donor, etc., of legacy, donation,
etc., by previously paying sum or parting with object bequeathed.
adenia
n. - Medicine, enlargement of glands.
.
adenitis
n. - inflammation of glands.
adenoma
n. - usually non-lethal tumour of gland. adenomatous, adj.
adenopathy
n. - glandular disease.
adenotomy
n. - incision into or removal of gland.
adephagous
adj. - gluttonous
adespoton
n. - anonymous saying, poem, etc.
adevism
n. - denial of legendary gods.
adhibit
v. - grant admittance to; apply; attach.
adiabatic
adj. - without losing or gaining heat. adiabatic gradient, rate of
change in temperature of rising or falling air.
adiabolist
n. - person denying existence of the Devil.
adiactinic
adj. - not transmitting actinic rays.
adiaphoresis
n. - absence or lack of perspiration. adiaphoretic, n & adj. (drug)
preventing perspiration.
adiaphoristic
adj. - theologically indifferent
adiaphoron
n. - (pl. -ra), matter of indifference; Theology, religious observance
left to conscience; amoral matter. adiaphorism, n. belief in doctrine
of adiaphora. adiaphorist, n. adiaphoristic, adj. applied to certain
controversies on religious observances. adiaphorous, adj. neutral;
indifferent, neither right nor wrong (of conduct, etc.)
adiaphorous
adj. - neutral; neither right nor wrong; neither deleterious nor salubrious
adiapneustia
n. - defective perspiration.
adiathermic
adj. - impervious to heat. adiathermancy, n.
adient
adj. - tending to expose an organism to, or turn it towards, a
stimulus or situation.
adipescent
adj. - becoming fatty.
adipic
adj. - Chemistry, pertaining to fatty or greasy substance.
adipsy
n. - lack of thirst. adipsous, adj. Medicine, quenching thirst.
adit
n. - entrance, especially horizontal passage into mine.
adjectitious
adj. - added, thrown in
adjuvant
adj. - helping; Medicine, remedial; n. such drug.
admaxillary
adj. - near or connected with jaw.
adminicle
n. - something that helps or supports; corroboratory evidence; explanatory proof
adnate
adj. - Botany closely attached; related; grown together especially
unusually. adnation, n.
adnomination
n. - punning
adonize
v. -i. & t. ornament; adorn oneself (of men).
adoptionism
n. - doctrine that Christ was Son of God by adoption and not birth.
adoptionist, n. & a.
adoral
adj. - near to mouth.
adosculation
n. - sexual impregnation by contact only; wind-pollination.
adrectal
adj. - close to rectum.
adrenergic
adj. - released or activated by adrenalin.
adscititious
adj. - not essential; supplemental; superfluous
adsorb
v. - attract and hold to surface (minute particles of mixture or
molecules of gas or liquid). adsorbate, n. substance or molecules
adsorbed. adsorbent, n. & a. (substance) adsorbing. adsorption, n.
adsum
phr. - 'I am present'.
adumbral
adj. - shadowy.
adumbrate
v. - shadow forth; outline; sketch out. adumbrative, adj. adumbration, n.
aduncous, aduncate
adj. - hook-shaped; crooked. aduncity, n. inward curvature.
adust
adj. - (sun) burnt or scorched; dried up by heat; gloomy, sad.
advection
n. - horizontal movement of an air mass, causing temperature changes.
advenient
adj. - due to outside causes. advenience, n.
adventitious
adj. - Medicine, Botany, added from without; not essential;
accidental; casual; acquired; adventive.
adventive
adj.,n. -. Botany, (plant) not completely naturalized or growing out
of natural habitat.
adversaria
n. - pl. collection of notes and comments; commonplace book.
adversative
adj.,n. -. Grammar, (word or clause) expressing opposition or antithesis.
adynamic
adj. - lacking strength; causing weakness. adynamia, n..
adynaton
n. - magnifying or exaggerating an actual event by reference to
something impossible
adytum
n. - inner sanctuary of temple; secret room.
aedile
n. - head of ancient Roman office of works. aedility, n. aedile's office.
.
aegagrus
n. - mountain goat of Asia Minor.
aegilops
n. - stye in inner corner of eye.
aegrotat
n. - 'he or she is ill'; certificate of student's illness for absence
from university lectures or examination. aegrotat degree, degree given
to student absent from examination by reason of illness.
aeneous
adj. - like brass.
aenos
n. - use of erudite words or allusions to appeal to the learned
aeolipyle, aeolipile
n. - first steam engine, with globe made to revolve by steam jets,
described in 1st century AD.
aeolistic
adj. - long-winded.
aeolotropic
adj. - having different physical properties in different positions or
directions.
aepyornis
n. - large fossil bird of Madagascar.
.
.
aerogenic
adj. - derived from air; gas-forming. aerogenesis, n.
aerolite, aerolith
n. - meteorite.
.
aeromancy
n. - divination by the state of the air; weather forecasting. aeromantic, adj.
.
aerometer
n. - instrument measuring weight or density of gases. aerometry, n.
such measurement; pneumatics.
aeronomy
n. - study of chemical and physical phenomena in the upper atmosphere.
aeronomic, adj.
aeropause
n. - level above surface of earth above which ordinary aircraft cannot fly.
aerophagia
n. - neurotic habit of swallowing air.
aerophobia
n. - fear of air, draughts.
aerophore
n. - apparatus for inflating lungs, especially of still-born child.
aerophyte
n. - plant obtaining all nourishment from the air; epiphyte.
aeropleustic
adj. - pertaining to aerial navigation.
.
aerose
adj. - brassy.
aerospace
n. - the Earth's atmosphere and space beyond it.
aerosphere
n. - the entire atmosphere surrounding the Earth.
aerostat
n. - lighter-than-air craft. aerostatic, adj. aerostation, n.
navigation of aerostats.
aerugo
n. - rust, especially of copper and brass; verdigris. aeruginous, adj.
aesculaceous
adj. - pertaining to or like horse-chestnut; belonging to the horse-
chestnut family of plants.
aesculapian
adj. - relating to that which is medical or to the artof healing
aesthesia
n. - sensibility, sense perception.
aesthesiogenic
adj. - causing sensation.
aesthesiometer
n. - instrument measuring acuteness of sense perception.
aesthesis
n. - sense perception, aesthesia.
aestival
adj. - of summer. aestivation, n. Zoology, sleepiness in animals
during summer; Botany, arrangement of organs in flower bud.
afebrile
adj. - free from fever.
afferent
adj. - carrying towards, especially of nerves carrying impulses to centres.
affiche
n. - poster; placard.
affinal
adj. - related by marriage.
affined
adj. - closely related; connected.
afflatus
n. - divine breath; inspiration. afflation, n. act of breathing upon;
inspiration.
afflux
n. - flowing towards or together.
affranchise
v. - liberate from servitude, debt etc.
affreightment
n. - hiring of a ship to carry freight; such a contract.
affricate
n. - rub; grate on;, n. Phonetics, sound, as or, comprising a stop
developing into a fricative. affrication, n. affricative, n., adj.
affusion
n. - pouring liquid on, especially in baptismal ceremony or as medical
treatment.
afreet
n. - in Arabian mythology, an evil spirit or giant monster.
afrormosia
n. - a dense tropical hardwood resembling teak, used for furniture and
panelling.
afterdamp
n. - poisonous gas (mixture of carbon dioxide and nitrogen) remaining
after explosion of fire-damp in mine; choke-damp.
agalactia
n. - Medicine, absence or lack of milk secretion. agalactic, agalactous, adj.
agamic, agamous
adj. - non-sexual.
agamogenesis
n. - non-sexual reproduction. agamogenetic, adj.
agamy
n. - lack of marriage or sexual reproduction.
agastopia
n. - admiration of a particular part of someone's body
agelast
n. - somebody who absolutely never laughs
agenesis
n. - incomplete development of body or part of body. agenesic, adj.
agenhina
n. - a guest at an inn who, after having stayed for three nights, was
considered one of the family
agenocratia
n. - opposition to birth control
ageotropic
adj. - Botany, turning away from the earth; apogeotropic.
ageustia
n. - absence of sense of taste.
agger
n. - earth rampart or bank, especially Roman.
aggeration
n. - heaping up; mound raised by prehistoric people when erecting
standing stones. aggerose, adj. in heaps; having many heaps.
aggerwator
n. - locks of hair that frame the face
agglomerate
v. - collect, especially into a mass; a. so collected; clustered; n.
Geology, rock comprised of angular volcanic fragments.
agglutinate
v. - join firmly; thicken; make like glue; coagulate; Philology, make
compound words by additions. agglutinin, n. substance in blood causing
coagulation. agglutinogen, n. substance causing production of
agglutinin. agglutinative, adj. applied to agglutinated words or
languages containing many such words. agglutination, n.
agglutination
n. - compound-word formation from discrete word elements, or the
creation of derivatives and inflections, by added affixes, e.g.
'disestablishment' from 'dis', 'establish',and 'ment'
agio
n. - charge made when cash is given for paper currency, or one
currency is exchanged for another. agiotage, n. such exchange;
speculation; brokerage.
agiotage
n. - playing the stock market
agist
v. - Law, care for, feed cattle, horses, for payment. agistment, n.
this practice; pastureland available for this.
aglossal, aglossate
adj. - Zoology, lacking tongue.
aglutition
n. - state of being unable to swallow.
agminate
adj. - grouped.
agnate
adj. - having same male forefather; allied; Law, related on father's
side; n. such relative. agnation, n. kinship.
agnathous
adj. - lacking jaws. agnathia, n.
agnogenic
n. - of unknown cause
.
agnomen
n. - additional name. agnomination, n. surname; punning; alliteration.
agnosia
n. - loss of ability to recognize familiar things or people.
agnosy
n. - ignorance; especially ignorance shared by the wholehuman race
agomphious
adj. - toothless.
agon
n. - struggle, contest (especially athletic); conflict between main
characters in a play, novel etc. agonist, n. competitor; protagonist
in literary work. agonistic, a., competitive; striving for effect.
agonic
adj. - applied to line drawn through all places where magnetic north
is the same as true north.
agonist
n. - a struggler; a person who is contending, whether in a mental or
spiritual conflict or against an opponent for an athletic prize
agonistic
n. - combative; strained for the sake of effect
agraffe
n. - hook, especially on piano-string to prevent rattle.
agraphia
n. - inability to write due to form of aphasia.
agrestial
adj. - growing in country, fields (especially of weeds).
agrestic,
adj. - of the countryside; rustic, uncouth.
.
Agrology(done)
n. - scientific study of soils. agrological, adj.
Agrostology(done)
n. - Botany, study of grasses. agrostologic(al), adj. agrostologist, n..
agrypnia
n. - sleeplessness. agrypnotic, n. & a. (stimulant) causing wakefulness.
agynary
adj. - Botany, lacking female organs.
ahimsa
n. - principle of non-violence towards any living creature, in
Hinduism and Buddhism.
ahypnia
n. - insomnia.
aiger
n. - tidal wave in river; bore.
aigrette
n. - spray of feathers; any object in that shape; egret.
aiguille
n. - 'needle'; sharp point; peak.
ailurophile
n. - one fond of cats. ailurophilia, n. ailurophobe, n. one with dread of cats.
ailurophobe
n. - the person who can't stand cats
airmonger
n. - the man or woman who is attracted to visionary ideas and projects
aischrolatreia
n. - worship of filth, dirt, smut; obscenity cult
ait
n. - small island in river or lake; eyot.
akinesia, akinesis
n. - paralysis of motor nerves. akinetic, adj.
ala
n. - (pl. -lae ) 'wing'; wing- shaped projection.
alalia
n. - loss of speech.
alamode
n. - soft, light silk, used in 19th century for shawls, dresses, etc.
alanine
n. - an amino-acid occuring in protein.
alar(y)
adj. - like or pertaining to a wing or shoulder.
alastrim
n. - disease like, or mild form of, smallpox.
alate
adj. - winged. alation, n. state of having wings; disposition of wings
in insect.
alaudine
phr. - adj. belonging to bird family which includes the skylark; like
or pertaining to skylark.
alb
n. - long white priestly garment.
albescent
adj. - becoming white; whitish.
albicant
adj. - growing white. albication, n. formation of white patches in plants.
albificative
adj. - able to whiten.
albiflorous
adj. - having white flowers.
alborado
n. - morning song.
albuginea
n. - white of eye; white fibrous tissue. albugineous, adj. like white
of eye or egg.
albugo
n. - Medicine, white spot on cornea of eye; leucoma; Botany, white rust.
albuminuria
n. - presence of albumin in urine.
aleatoric
adj. - (of electronic music) with random elements inside a framework.
aleatory
adj. - dependent on chance; pertaining to gambling or luck.
alectryomachy
n. - cock-fighting.
alegar
n. - sour ale; malt vinegar.
aleger
n. - in good spirits, happy
alembic
n. - ancient distilling apparatus; purifying or transforming apparatus
or act. alembicate, v. distil. alembicated, adj. rather too refined
(of literary style).
aleph
n. - first letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
.
aleurometer
n. - instrument measuring gluten content of flour.
aleurone
n. - protein granules in plant seeds; external protein layer of cereal seeds.
alevin
n. - young fish, especially salmon just hatched.
alexia
n. - inability to read due to aphasia.
alexipharmic
adj.,n. -. (antidote) against poisoning.
alexipyretic
n. - & a. (drug) curative of fever.
alexiteric
n. - & a. preventive of contagion; antidote against poison.
alfet
n. - test in which an accused person plunges his hand into vat of boiling water
alfin
n. - bishop in game of chess
algedonic
adj. - pertaining to pain, especially in association with pleasure.
algedonica
n. - the science of pleasure and pain
algefacient
adj. - cooling.
algid
adj. - chilly, especially during fever. algidity, n.
algific
adj. - making cold.
alginuresis
n. - Medicine, painful urination.
algivorous
adj. - feeding on algae.
algogenic
adj. - producing pain; reducing body temperature.
algolagnia
n. - taking sexual pleasure in inflicting or enduring pain.
algolagnic, adj. algolagnist, n.
algometer
n. - instrument measuring sensitivity to pain. algometry, n.
algophobia
n. - morbid dread of pain.
algor
n. - coldness; shivering fit in fever.
algorism
n. - art of calculating, especially in Arabic numeration; arithmetic.
algorismic, adj.
algous
adj. - pertaining to algae.
alias
adj. - otherwise called; n. assumed name.
alible
adj. - nourishing.
alicyclic
adj. - denoting organic compounds that are both aliphatic and cyclic,
i.e. aliphatic in chemical behaviour but having their carbon atoms in
a ring.
alidade
n. - instrument used in surveying & navigation.
alienism
n. - study of mental disease. alienist, n. expert in alienism;
American, psychiatrist specialising in legal aspects of mental
illness.
aliferous
adj. - having wings.
.
aligerous
adj. - winged.
aliment
n. - food; nourishment. alimental,, adj. affording food. alimentary,
adj. pertaining to food; nourishing; alimentation, n. act of feeding
or being fed. alimentative, adj. nourishing.
alimentotherapy
n. - Medicine, treatment by dieting.
aliped
adj. - having winged feet; n. such an animal.
aliphatic
adj. - pertaining to fat; Chemistry, applied to group of organic
compounds, including the fats, having open-chain structure.
aliquant
adj. - (number) not dividing exactly into another number; not aliquot.
aliquot
adj.,n. -. (number) contained an exact number of times in another
number; equal share; v.t. divide into equal parts.
aliter
phr. - adv. 'otherwise'; Law, requiring a different rule.
alk
n. - resin obtained from turpentine tree.
alkahest
n. - universal solvent sought by alchemists.
alkalify
v. - & v.i. change into alkali.
allagrugous
adj. - grim and ghastly
allantiasis
n. - sausage poisoning.
allantoic
adj. - pertaining to allantois; sausage-shaped. allantoid, adj.
allantois
n. - sac-like fetal membrane developing into umbilical cord and
forming part of placenta.
allative
n. - & a. Grammar, (case) expressing motion towards.
alliaceous
adj. - having smell or taste of garlic; belonging to the onion family of plants.
alligation
n. - act or state of attaching or being attached; Arithmetic, archaic
method of solving 'mixture' problems; 'rule of mixtures'.
allision
n. - intentional collision, especially of ships.
allocatur
n. - Law, (certificate of) allowance of costs.
allochromatic
adj. - pertaining to change of color; variable in color.
allochroous
adj. - changing in color.
allochthonous
adj. - foreign
allocution
n. - authoritative or exhortatory address; Roman Catholic, formal
papal address to College of Cardinals.
allodium
n. - property under absolute ownership; freehold; American, estates in
fee simple. allodial, adj.
allogamy
n. - cross-fertilization. allogamous, adj.
allogeneous
adj. - different in kind. allegeneity, n.
allograft
n. - surgical graft from a non-identical donor.
allograph
n. - writing especially signature, for another; opposite of autograph.
allolalia
n. - form of aphasia in which words are spoken at random.
allomerism
n. - Chemistry, variation in constitution without variation in form.
allometry
n. - study of growth of a part of an organism in relation to the whole.
allonge
n. - Commerce, slip of paper attached to bill of exchange for
additional endorsements.
allonym
n. - other person's name assumed by writer; work published under an
allonym. allonymous, adj.
allophone
n. - any of several speech sounds regarded as variants of a given phoneme.
allopurinal
adj. - synthetic drug used against gout.
allosematic
adj. - having imitative protective coloration.
allotheism
n. - worship of strange gods
allotriophagy
n. - the craving for weird food
allotropy
n. - existence of an element in more than one form. allotrope, n. form
taken by allotropic element. allotropic, adj.
alluvion
n. - impact of water on shore; flood; alluvium.
almagest
n. - comprehensive treatise or textbook, especially on astronomy,
generally the treatise of Ptolemy.
almandine
n. - kind of violet-colored garnet.
almira
n. - furniture for storing, e.g. cupboard or chest.
almoner
n. - official who distributes alms; hospital official who interviews
prospective patients, etc. almonry, n. place for alms distribution.
almucantar
n. - Astronomy, circle of celestial sphere parallel with horizon;
parallel of altitude; telescope that, in rotating, sweeps out curves
of this kind.
alnico
n. - trademark, permanent magnet alloy of aluminium, nickel and
cobalt, with some iron and sometimes copper.
alogia
n. - speech defect due to brain lesion, etc.
alogism
n. - unreasonableness; absurdity
alopecoid
n. - fox-like.
alpestrine
adj. - pertaining to alpine zone.
alphosis
n. - Medicine, lack of skin pigmentation.
alsike
n. - pink-flowered clover, grown as forage.
alsinaceous
adj. - like or pertaining to chickweed; belonging to chickweed family of plants.
altarage
n. - offerings at altar; payment for masses for dead; certain payments
to priest.
altazimuth
n. - instrument measuring altitude and azimuth of heavenly bodies.
alterative
adj. - causing change; Medicine, changing gradually to healthy state;
n. drug or other treatment changing nutritional processes.
alterity
n. - state of being different.
altiloquence
n. - pompous, high-sounding speech.
altisonant
adj. - high-sounding, pompous.
altivolant
adj. - flying high.
alula
n. - part of a bird's wing, corresponding to thumb.
alveary
n. - beehive; outer canal of ear.
alveola
n. - (pl. -lae ) Botany, small cavity, especially in surface of an organ.
alveolar
adj. - pertaining to alveolus; bearing alveolae; Phonetics, pronounced
with tongue and alveolus; n. sound so pronounced. alveolar arch,
tooth-bearing part of upper jaw.
alveolate
adj. - having many deep cavities; like a honey-comb.
alviducous
adj. - purgative.
alvine
adj. - pertaining to belly or intestines.
amadelphous
adj. - gregarious.
amandine
n. - albumin in sweet almonds; cold cream composed of that substance.
amanous
adj. - lacking hands.
amanuensis
n. - (pl. amanuenses ), employee who writes from dictation; secretary.
amaranthine
adj. - eternally beautiful; unfading; everlasting
amarthritis
n. - arthritis of several joints.
amaryllis
n. - belladonna lily; any of several similar plants; poetic name for
country girl.
amative
adj. - amorous.
amatol
n. - explosive composed of T.N.T. and ammonium nitrate.
amatorculist
n. - an insignificant or hypocritical lover
amaurosis
n. - loss of sight without noticeable change in eye, due to failure of
optic nerve; gutta serena. amaurotic, adj.
amazia
n. - absence of breasts dating back to one's birth
ambages
n. -pl. pl. archaic, circuitous path or approach; circumlocution.
ambagious, adj.
ambari
n. - fibre-yielding plant of E Indies; kenaf.
ambatch
n. - spongy wood, often used for rafts
ambisinister
n. - left-handed in both hands; awkward.
ambit
n. - scope, limits.
ambivert
n. - someone who is both extroverted and introverted.
amblyopia
n. - partial loss of sight not due to disease of eye; early stage of amaurosis.
amblysia
n. - phrasing in such a way as to forewarn or to cushion a dire
announcement, but sometimes thereby alarming in itself
ambo
n. - raised place or pulpit in early Christian Church.
ambry
n. - niche containing sacred vessels in chancel.
ambsace
n. - double ace; lowest score; bad luck.
âme damnée
phr. - "lost soul'; dupe; tool; devoted follower.
amebicide
n. - substance killing amoebas.
amelification
n. - formation of tooth-enamel.
ameloblast
n. - enamel-producing cell of tooth.
amende
n. - fine; reparation. amende honorable, public apology; full
reparation for dishonour.
amenorrhoea
n. - abnormal absence or arrest of menstruation.
ament, amentum
n. - catkin. amentaceous, adj. like or composed of catkins.
amentiferous, adj. bearing catkins..
amentia
n. - severe, usually congenital, mental deficiency.
amerce
v. - punish, especially by fine. amercement, n. amerciable, adj.
ametropia
n. - abnormality in optical refraction, resulting in inability to
focus images on the retina. ametropic, adj.
ami de cour
n. - the fairweather or foul-hearted friend
amiantus, amianthus
n. - asbestos with silky fibres. amianthine, adj.
amice
n. - Roman Catholic, white linen square covering shoulders of celebrant priest.
amicicide
n. - murder or murderer of a friend.
amicron
n. - one of the smallest microscopically detectable particles.
amicus humani generis
n. - a philathropist
amine
n. - compound derived from ammonia.
aminobutene
n. - synthetic pain-relieving drug, less addictive than morphine.
amitosis
n. - direct cell division. amitotic, adj.
ammophilous
adj. - sand-loving.
ammotherapy
n. - medical treatment by sand baths.
amour-propre
n. - self-love; self-respect.
ampelideous
adj. - of or like the vine.
ampelotherapy
n. - Medicine, grape cure.
amphibole
n. - rock-forming silicate similar to asbestos and hornblende.
amphibolic
adj. - able to turn backwards or forwards, especially of joints and
limbs; ambiguous; like amphibole.
amphibolite
n. - rock composed of amphibole; hornblende.
Amphibology(done) amphiboly
n. - ambiguous speech; equivocation; quibble. amphibolous, adj.
amphibolous
adj. - susceptible of two meanings; ambiguous; equivocal,e.g. 'we'll
engage them in battle hopefully after our reinforcementsarrive.'
amphichroic, amphichromatic
adj. - producing two colors. amphichrome, n. such a plant. amphichrom, n.
amphicoelous
adj. - Zoology, having both surfaces concave.
amphictyonic
adj. - applied to ancient Greek council of state-deputies.
amphictyany, n. league of adjacent states.
amphicyrtic
adj. - with both sides convex.
amphigean
adj. - found or occuring throughout the world
amphigony
n. - sexual reproduction.
amphigory
n. - nonsensical writing
amphilogism
n. - circumlocution.
amphimixis
n. - interbreeding; joining of germ plasm of two individuals in sexual
reproduction.
amphipodous
adj. - Zoology, having both walking and swimming feet.
amphiprostyle
adj.,n. -. (building) with columns at each end but not at sides.
amphirhinal
adj. - with two nostrils.
amphisbaena
n. - Mythology double-headed serpent able to move in both directions;
kind of worm-like lizard.
amphiscian
n. - & a. (inhabitant) of tropics, whose shadow falls in different
ways according to the time of year.
amphivorous
adj. - both carnivorous and herbivorous.
amphoteric
adj. - of both kinds; Chemistry, reacting as either alkali or acid.
ampicillin
n. - an improved form of penicillin taken by mouth.
amplexus
n. - the mating embrace of frogs and toads.
ampliative
adj. - supplementary.
ampollosity
n. - bombast; pompous style
amurcous
adj. - stinking; filled with dregs
amyctic
adj. - irritating; abrasive
amygdala
n. - (pl. -lae ) any almond-shaped formation in body, e.g. tonsil.
amygdalin
n. - glucoside in bitter almonds, used as an expectorant. amygdaline,
adj. pertaining to almonds; pertaining to tonsils.
amygdaloid
n. - basaltic rock with almond-shaped cavities, adj. almond-shaped.
amylolysis
n. - conversion of starch into soluble products in digestive process.
amylolytic, adj.
amyotonia
n. - deficiency of muscle tone.
anabasis
n. - (pl. -ses ) upward journey; military advance inland, especially
of Persians and Greeks under Cyrus (401 BC); Medicine, first phase of
disease; increase of fever. anabatic, adj. ascending; Meteorology, (of
wind) moving upwards.
anabiosis
n. - return to life after seeming death.
anacampserote
n. - something which can bring back a lost love
anacardic
adj. - pertaining to cashew nut.
anacathartic
n. - & a. (drug) causing vomiting.
anachorism
n. - foreign to a certain locality; geographically impossible
anachronic
adj. - out of (chronological) order; out of date.
anaclitic
adj. - overly dependent on another
anacoluthon
n. - an abrupt shift in midsentence in syntax to another construction
anacreontic
adj. - jovial, festive and amatory
anacrusis
n. - unaccented syllable(s) at beginning of verse-line, or such notes
at beginning of piece of music. anacrustic, adj.
anadem
n. - band; wreath; fillet.
anadiplosis
n. - rhetorical device of repetition of last word of one clause at
beginning of next.
anadipsia
n. - Medicine, abnormal thirst. anadipsic, adj.
anadipsic
adj. - pertaining to excessive thirst
anadromous
adj. - ascending, especially of fish that ascend rivers to spawn.
anemotrophy
n. - insufficient nourishment of blood.
anaeretic, aneretic
adj. - Medicine destructive.
anaerophyte
n. - Botany, anaerobic plant.
anagalactic
adj. - Astronomy, beyond our galaxy; not galactic.
anagapesis
n. - lack of interest in former loved ones
anagenesis
n. - tissue regeneration.
anagnorisis
n. - denouement in play, arising from recognition.
anagoge, anagogy
n. - spiritual exaltation; mystical interpretation of sacred works
such as the Bible. anagogic(al), adj. mystical.
anagogig
adj. - relating to things spiritual and mystical; occult;gnostic
analects
n. - selected parts of a literary work or works
analects, analecta
n. -pl. pl. collection of writings; literary gleanings. analectic, adj.
analemma
n. - graduated scale in figure-of-eight, showing difference between
actual time and that shown by the sun.
analeptic
adj. n. - Medicine, restorative.
anallagmatic
adj. - Mathematics, unchanged in shape by inversion.
analphabet
n. - an illiterate, or one who is literally ignorant of the abc's
anamnesis
n. - act of reminiscence; history of medical case. anamnestic, adj.
anamnestic
adj. - reminiscent; aiding the memory
anamorphosis
n. - distorted image only recognisable if viewed through appropriate
device; method of making such images; Biology, evolution by slow
changes; Botany, abnormal change of shape. anamorphoscope, n. device
for viewing anamorphosis.
anandrious
adj. - impotent.
anandrous
adj. - Botany, without stamens.
ananias
n. - a teller of untruths; liar (from a follower of the apostles who
was struck dead for lying)
ananthous
adj. - having no flowers.
ananym
n. - name written backwards as pseudonym.
anaphora
n. - repitition of a word or phrase in successive clauses,sentences,
or paragraphs for rhetorical effect, e.g. "a sure man,a sure
alternative, a sure vote!"
anaphrodisia
n. - absence of sexual desire. anaphrodisiac, n. & a. (drug) reducing
sexual desire.
anaphroditic
adj. - asexually produced.
anaplasia
n. - reversion of plant or animal cells to a simpler form.
anapodictic
adj. - undemonstrable
anaptotic
adj. - Philology, with weakened or no case inflections.
anaptyxis
n. - insertion of a vowel between two consonants for ease of pronunciation.
anarthrous
adj. - Zoology, non-jointed; Grammar, without the article (of Greek nouns).
anastomosis
n. - (pl. -ses ) intercommunication between branches of blood-vessels,
nerves, etc., or of rivers; formation of network. anastomotic, adj.
anastrophe
n. - rhetorical device of reversing natural order of words; inversion.
anatocism
n. - compound interest; taking such interest.
anatreptic
adj. - defeating, refuting
anaudia
n. - loss of voice.
anautarchia
n. - perpetual unhappiness
ancilla
n. - a sidekick who helps another to accomplish or master something
difficult or complicated
ancipital, ancipitous
adj. - having two faces or edges; double-headed; twofold.
ancistroid
n. - having shape of hook.
ancon
n. - Architecture, one of a pair of brackets supporting a cornice.
ancoral
adj. - like an anchor; hooked.
ancylostomiasis, ankylostomiasis
n. - infestation with hookworms, leading to anaemia.
andabate
n. - one who is hoodwinked, in the dark or virtually blind to the
realities of a situation
androcentric
adj. - revolving around men; regarding the male sex as primary.
androcephalous
adj. - with human head.
androcracy
n. - domination of society by men. androcratic, adj.
androgyne
n. - hermaphrodite; effeminate man; masculine woman. androgynism, n.
androlepsia
n. - international governmental kidnapping forpolitical gain
andromedotoxin
n. - a poisonous substance extracted from plants of the heath family
and used in medicine to lower high blood pressure.
androphagous
adj. - cannibal.
androphilic
adj. - preferring the male sex, or humans rather than animals.
androphobia
n. - dread or hatred of men.
androphonomania
n. - homicidal mania.
androphorous
adj. - Zoology, having male organs.
androsphinx
n. - figure with man's head and lion's body.
androsterone
n. - androgenic steroid male hormone.
anechoic
adj. - free from echoes and reverberations; sound-absorbent.
anele
v. - archaic anoint; administer extreme unction to.
anemochord
n. - kind of pianoforte having strings vibrated by air currents.
anemograph
n. - recording anemometer. anemogram, n. record made by an anemograph.
anemophilous
adj. - Botany, pollinated by wind. anemophile, n. such plant.
anemophily, n. such pollination.
anemophobia
n. - morbid dread of high winds, hurricanes, etc.
anemoscope
n. - any instrument indicating direction of wind.
anencephaly
n. - state of lacking a brain or a part of the brain. anencephalic,
anencephalous, adj.
anenterous
adj. - lacking intestine or stomach.
anergy
n. - absence of energy; loss of immunity.
aneroid
adj. - not using liquid. aneroid barometer, instrument measuring
atmospheric pressure by recording the movements of the surface of an
air- tight box.
anesis
n. - Medicine, abatement of symptoms; Music, tuning to lower pitch.
aneurin
n. - thiamine.
anfractuous
adj. - winding, tortuous
angary
n. - right of belligerent to take or destroy property of neutral,
subject to compensation.
angelus
n. - prayer(s) said at early morning, noon and sunset. angelus bell,
bell calling to prayer at such times.
angiitis
n. - Medicine, inflammation of vessel.
angioid
n. - like blood or lymph vessel.
.
angioma
n. - tumour due to dilated blood vessels. angiomatosis, n. state of
having many angiomas. angiomatous, adj.
angiospasm
n. - sudden contraction of blood vessels. angiospastic, a.; n.
substance causing angiospasm.
angiotomy
n. - dissection of or incision into blood vessel.
angostura
n. - Brazilian tree and its bark; tonic fluid extracted from the bark.
anguine, anguinous
adj. - pertaining to or like a snake.
anhedonia
n. - the inability to be happy
anhedral
n. - denoting the angle at which the main planes of an aircraft are
inclined downwards to the lateral axis.
anhelation
n. - shortness of breath.
aniconic
adj. - without idols; (of objects of worship) portrayed symbolically
rather than representationally. aniconism, n. worship of object
symbolising but not representing god; iconoclasm.
anicular
adj. - old-womanish, weak; feeble-minded
anidian
adj. - (of an embryo) shapeless.
anile
adj. - like a very old woman; imbecile.
anililagnia
n. - sexual desire for older women
aniline
n. - poisonous substance obtained from indigo, nitro-benzene, etc.,
used in manufacture of dyes; a. applied to dye prepared with aniline.
animadversion
n. - generally adverse criticism
animadvert
v. -i. take notice; comment; criticize; reprove. animadversion, n.
anion
n. - negatively charged ion. anionic, adj.
aniseed
n. - dried fruit of anise; cordial made from it.
anisometropia
n. - condition of eyes having unequal refractive power. anisometropic, adj.
anisosthenic
adj. - of unequal strength.
ankus
n. - elephant goad with hook and spike.
ankylosis, anchylosis
n. - joining together of bones or hard parts; resulting stiffness.
ankylose, v.i. (of bones) to fuse or stiffen in this way.
ankylostoma
n. - lockjaw.
ankyroid, ancyroid
adj. - having shape of hook.
anlace
n. - short double-edged sword or long dagger.
annatto
n. - reddish dye used for coloring foodstuffs; tropical American tree
from seeds of which it is obtained.
anneal
v. - strengthen; temper, especially by subjecting to great heat and
slow cooling.
annectant, annectent
adj. - connecting; Biology, linking, especially of species.
annomination
n. - play on words; pun.
annos vixit
phr. - 'lived (so many) years'; was aged (abbr. a.v.).
annotine
n. - one-year-old, especially bird after first moult.
annuent
adj. - nodding, especially of muscles that nod the head.
annulism
n. - ringed structure.
annunciate
v. - announce; proclaim. Annunciation, n. announcement of the
Incarnation to Mary, mother of Jesus; feast celebrated on Lady Day
(March 25); Annunciation lily, madonna lily. annunciative,
annunciatory, adj.
anoa
n. - wild ox of Celebes.
anobiid
n. - one of the family of beetles which includes the deathwatch and
the furniture beetle.
anocathartic
adj.,n. -. (drug) causing vomiting or expectoration.
anode
n. - Electricity, positive terminal; electrode by which current
enters, or to which electrons flow. anodal, anodic, adj. anodize, v.
coat with protective film electrolytically.
anodon
n. - hingeless and toothless bivalve; freshwater mussel.
anodontia
n. - absence of teeth.
anodyne
adj. - painless, soothing
anoesia, anoia
n. - imbecility.
anoesis
n. - Psychology, mere reception of impressions without understanding
or intellectual effort.
anoestrus
n. - period between two periods of sexual activity in animals. anoestrous, adj.
anoetic
adj. - pertaining to anoesis.
anogenic
adj. - Geology, formed from below; plutonic.
anolyte
n. - Electricity, portion of electrolyte about anode.
anomalistic
adj. - Astronomy, pertaining to anomaly. anomalistic month, interval
between two perigees of moon. anomalistic year, interval between two
perihelion passages of Earth.
anomaloscope
n. - device for testing for color blindness.
anonymuncule
n. - an insignificant anonymous writer
anoopsia, anopsia
n. - upward squint.
anopheles
n. - kind of mosquito. anopheline, adj.
anopisthographic
adj. - bearing writing, etc., on one side only.
anorchous
adj. - without testicles; or gutless
anosmia, anosphresia
n. - loss of sense of smell. anosmic, adj.
anosognosia
n. - the lack of interest or belief in the existence of one's disease
anourous
adj. - lacking a tail, especially applied to frog.
anovulatory
adj. - not associated with ovulation; suppressing ovulation.
ansate
adj. - having a handle. ansate cross, ankh. ansation, n. handlemaking.
Anschauung
n. - intuition; sense awareness of perception
anserine
adj. - like or pertaining to a goose; foolish.
antalgic
adj.,n. -. (drug) alleviating pain.
antanaclasis
n. - a phrasing in which the topic or key word is repeated, sometimes
with a different sense or connotation, for a play on words, e.g. "the
business of america is business"
antapex
n. - Astronomy, point 180° from that to which sun is moving.
antarthritic
adj. - (drug) used against gout.
ante mortem
phr. - 'before death'.
antecedaneous
adj. - before in time.
antefix
n. - (pl. -xes, -xa) ornament at end of classical building, hiding
ends of roof tiles.
antelucan
adj. - pertaining to or occurring before dawn
antemetic
adj.,n. -. (drug) preventive of vomiting.
antemundane
adj. - before the Creation.
antenatal
adj. - before birth.
antenuptial
adj. - before marriage.
antepaschal
adj. - before Easter or the Passover.
antepast
n. - foretaste, especially a first course.
antependium
n. - altar frontal; similar cloth on pulpit or lectern.
antepenult
n. - antepenultimate syllable or word. antepenultimate, adj. third from last.
antephialtic
adj. - preventive of nightmares
anteprandial
adj. - before dinner.
antevenient
adj. - preceding.
antevert
v. - to displace a body organ forwards. anteversion, n.
antevocalic
adj. - immediately preceding a vowel.
anthelion
n. - kind of solar halo opposite sun; antisun.
anthelmintic
n. - (remedy) used against intestinal worms.
anthemion
n. - (pl. -ia) flat cluster of leaves or flowers as ornament in
classical art; Architecture, honeysuckle ornament.
anther
n. - Botany, male, pollen-bearing organ of flower. antheral, adj.
antherozoid, n. male sexual element in lower plants; spermatozoid.
antheridium
n. - (pl. -dia) male organ in cryptogams.
anthesis
n. - the process or period of flowering.
anthimeria
n. - the using of one part of speech for another for a strking effect
anthomania
n. - great love of flowers.
anthophagous
adj. - feeding on flowers.
anthophilous, anthophilian
adj. - flower-loving; feeding on flowers.
anthophorous
adj. - Botany, flower-bearing.
anthorism
n. - a counterdefinition, or a delineation or description differing
from that of an opponent
anthotaxy
n. - Botany, disposition of flowers in cluster.
anthozoan
n. - sea-anemone; coral polyp; any creature of the natural class
Anthozoa. anthozoan, anthozoic, adj. anthozooid, n. coral polyp.
anthracoid
adj. - resembling anthrax; resembling carbon, coal or charcoal.
anthropogenesis, anthropogeny
n. - study of human generation or evolution. anthropogenetic, adj.
anthropogenic
adj. - pertaining to the effect of human beings on the natural world.
.
anthropoglot
n. - animal with human-like tongue; parrot.
anthropolatry
n. - worship, deification of a human being.
anthropolith, anthropolite
n. - petrified human remains.
anthropometry
n. - measurement of parts and functions of human body, especially as
part of study of evolution.
anthropopathy
n. - ascribing human feelings to a god or inanimate object. anthropopathic, adj.
anthropophaginia
n. - a cannibal
anthropophobia
n. - fear of meeting people; fear of society
anthropophuism
n. - ascribing human nature to God.
anthropopsychism
n. - ascribing human-like soul to nature.
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Anthroposophy(done)
n. - knowledge of human nature; human wisdom; form of mysticism akin
to theosophy. anthroposophical, adj.
anthropotheism
n. - belief that gods have human nature or are only deified human beings.
anthropotomy
n. - human anatomy.
antibasilican
adj. - opposed to principle of monarchy.
antiblastic
adj. - opposing growth, especially of harmful substances; giving
natural immunity.
antibrachial
adj. - pertaining to forearm.
antibromic
adj. - causing the elimination of odors; deodorizing
anticholinergic
adj. - blocking nerve impulses, in order to control intestinal spasms.
antichresis
n. - (pl. -ses ) possession and enjoyment of mortgaged property by
mortgagee in lieu of interest payments.
anticlastic
adj. - having transverse and opposite curvatures of surface.
anticline
n. - Geology, upward fold. anticlinal, adj. anticlinorium, n.
arch-shaped group of anticlines and synclines.
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anticryptic
adj. - Zoology, having protective resemblance to environment.
antidromic
adj. - (of nerve fibres) conducting impulses in the opposite direction
to normal; Botany, twining towards right and left in members of one
species.
antifebrile
n. - & a. preventive or curative of fever.
antigalactic
adj.,n. -. preventive of milk-secretion.
antihydropic
adj.,n. -. (drug) used against jaundice.
antilapsarian
adj.,n. -. (person) denying doctrine of the fall of Man.
antilibration
n. - counterpoising.
antilogarithm
n. - number of which logarithm is a power of 10 or other base (abbr. antilog.).
antilogism
n. - Logic, statement containing three propositions two of which
contradict the third. antilogistic, adj.
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antimetabole
n. - repetition of words or ideas in different order.
antimetathesis
n. - repetition of parts of antithesis in reverse order. antimetathetic, adj.
antineuritic
adj.,n. -. preventive of neuritis, especially applied to vitamin B or
food containing it.
antinomian
n. - one believing that belief in Christ frees someone from normal
legal and moral obligations.
antinomy
n. - an inconsistency, or built-in contradiction; opposition of one
law to another
antiodontalgic
adj.,n. -. (drug) used against toothache.
antiorgastic
adj.,n. -. sedative.
antipedobaptist
adj.,n. -. (person) denying validity of infant baptism.
antiperistasis
n. - opposition; resistance; denying an inference while admitting the
fact on which it is based.
antiphlogistic
n. - & a. (drug) used against inflammation.
antiphon
n. - a response said or sung as part of the liturgy; a psalm etc. sung
alternately by two choirs. antiphonal, adj. (of music) sung
alternately.
antiphrasis
n. - Rhetoric use of a word in the opposite sense to its usual one,
for humorous or ironic purposes.
antipodagric
adj. - used against gout.
antipruritic
adj.,n. -. (drug) alleviating itching.
antipsychiatry
n. - treatment of mental illness not relying on drugs, etc.
antipyrotic
adj.,n. -. (treatment) used against burns.
antirachitic
adj. - preventive of rickets, especially applied to vitamin D or food
containing it.
antiscians
n. -pl. pl. persons living on opposite sides of equator but in same longitude.
antiscorbutic
n. - & a. preventive of scurvy, especially applied to vitamin C or
food containing it.
antisideric
adj.,n. -. (substance) counteracting effect of iron.
antispast
n. - metrical foot comprising an iambus followed by a trochee.
antistasis
n. - the defense of an action that prevented something worse from happening
antistrophe
n. - stanza answering strophe in Greek chorus, recited during movement
from left to right. antistrophic, adj.
antistrumatic
n. - remedy for scrofula.
antithalian
adj. - disapproving of festivity and laughter.
antithrombin
n. - substance in blood preventing coagulation of blood.
antitoxic
adj. - neutralizing poison. antitoxin, n. antibody, especially
obtained from infected animal.
antitropic
adj. - Zoology, symmetrically reversed, as right and left hands.
antitrope, n. such appendage. antitropy, n. state of being antitropic.
antitussive
n. - & a. (drug, etc.) that alleviates or prevents coughing.
antitype
n. - object or person prefigured by the type or symbol. antitypic,
antitypical, adj.
antitypy
n. - resistance to penetration or alteration.
antizymic
adj.,n. -. preventive of fermentation. antizymotic n.
antoecial
adj. - applied to places in opposite hemispheres but in same latitude
and longitude. antoecians, n.pl. persons living in such places.
antonomasia
n. - literary device of using descriptive epithet or phrase instead of
person's name; using proper name as epithet.
antrorse
adj. - Biology, turning upward and forward.
antrum
n. - (pl. -ra) sinus; cavity, especially leading into nose.
anuptaphobia
n. - fear of staying single
anuran
n. - any of the order of amphibians which includes frogs and toads.
anuresis
n. - inability to urinate. anuretic a.
anuria
n. - inability to produce urine.
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aolist
n. - a person who claims to be inspired--to feel within that sudden
wind of genius or artistic urgency; the wind is sometimesmore like a
draft
aorist
n. - Grammar, (tense) signifying happening in unrestricted or
unspecified past. aoristic, adj. indefinite; pertaining to aorist.
apaesthesia
n. - loss of feeling in limb.
apaetesis
n. - the angry putting aside of a matter to be takenup later
apagoge
n. - Mathematics, argument by reductio ad absurdum. apogogic(-al), adj.
apagogic
adj. - pertaining to a proof by reductio ad absurdum; an indirect
demonstration of a proof
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apanthropy
n. - dislike of being with people; love of solitude
apatetic
adj. - Zoology, having protective imitative coloration or shape.
apercu
n. - a quick, penetrating insight; immediate impression,intuition, or estimate
aperient
n. - & a. laxative (medicine). aperitive, adj.
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aphaeresis
n. - cutting off beginning of word. aphaeretic, adj.
aphagia
n. - inability to swallow.
apheliotropic
adj. - growing away from the sun. apheliotropism, n.
aphemia
n. - loss of power of articulate speech; motor aphasia.
aphephobe
n. - the person who doesn't like being touched
aphesis
n. - (pl. -ses) loss of unaccented vowel at beginning of word. aphetic, adj.
aphilophrenia
n. - a feeling that one is unloved or unwanted
aphis
n. - (pl. -ides, plant-louse; member of genus Aphis which includes
greenfly, etc. aphidiphagous,(done) adj. feeding on aphides .
aphonia
n. - loss of voice. aphonic, adj. voiceless.
aphotic
adj. - without light.
aphrasia
n. - inability to speak, or to make intelligible phrases.
aphylly
n. - absence of leaves. Aphyllous(done), adj.
apian
adj. - pertaining to bees.
apical
adj. - at the summit or tip; Phonetics, pertaining to a consonant
formed with help of tip of tongue. apicad, adv. towards the summit.
apiculate
adj. - (of leaves) having short point at tip.
apiculture
n. - bee-keeping. apiculturist, n.
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aplanat
n. - aplanatic lens. aplanatic, adj. free from spherical aberration.
aplanatism, n.
aplasia
n. - Medicine, incomplete development. aplastic, adj.
aplotomy
n. - simple surgical cut.
apocarteresis
n. - suicide by starvation
apocatastisis
n. - restoration; Medicine, relapse; subsidence; Astronomy, reversion
to same position; Theology, conversion of whole world to Christianity.
apocentre
n. - point in orbit opposite centre of attraction. apocentric, adj.
different from archetype. apocentricity, n.
apocope
n. - cutting off end of word. apocopate, v. & a.
apocrisis
n. - replying to one's own arguments
apocrustic
adj.,n. -. astringent (medicine).
apocynthion
n. - point in an orbit of the moon which is farthest from the moon's centre.
apodeictic, apodictic
adj. - evident; demonstrable; incontrovertible.
apodiabolosis
n. - diabolical treatment
apodictic
adj. - absolutely certain or necessarily true;uncontestable
apodixis
n. - indisputable evidence or proof
apodosis
n. - (pl. -ses ) main clause in conditional sentence.
apodysophilia
n. - feverish desire to undress
apogaic
adj. - pertaining to apogee.
apogamy
n. - Biology, interbreeding in a separated group which has no
characteristic differentiating it from parents; Botany, non-sexual
reproduction in some ferns.
apogeny
n. - Botany, sterility. apogenous, adj.
apogeotropic
adj. - Botany, bending up or away from the ground. apogeotropism, n.
apograph
n. - copy; facsimile. apographal, adj.
apolaustic
adj. - given to enjoyment; self indulgent
apolegamic
adj. - Biology, pertaining to selection, especially sexual.
apologue
n. - parable, moral tale.
apolune
n. - point in the orbit of body revolving round the moon that is
farthest from the centre of the moon.
apomecometer
n. - instrument measuring height and distance.
apomict
n. - organism reproducing by, or formed by, apomixis.
apomixis
n. - non-sexual reproduction. apomictic, adj.
apomnemonysis
n. - quoting an approved authority
apophasis
n. - rhetorical device of emphasizing a fact, by pretending to ignore
or deny it.
apophthegm
n. - brief wise saying. apophthegmatic, adj.
apophyge
n. - Architecture, curve between shaft and base, or between shaft &
capital, in a column.
apophysis
n. - offshoot; projecting part, especially of bone. apophyseal,
apophysial, adj. apophysate, adj. Botany, having an apophysis.
aporia
n. - professing to be at a loss as to what to say, where to begin, or
how to express something; true or feigned doubt or deliberation about
an issue
aposematic
adj. - Zoology, giving warning, applied to coloration, odour, etc., of animals.
aposiopesis
n. - a conscious breaking off in the middle of a sentence because of
emotion, a dramatic change in thought, or, sometimes, a shifting to
understatement or irony
apostasy
n. - desertion from religion or similar body.
apostate
n. - & a. (person) committing apostasy. apostatize, v.i. change one's
religious allegiance; forsake one's principles.
apostil(le)
n. - comment; note in margin.
apotelesm
n. - casting of horoscope.
apothegm
n. - a concise formulation of a truth; an aphorism
apothem
n. - perpendicular from centre of regular polygon to any of its sides.
apothesis
n. - Medicine, setting of broken limb.
apotropaic
adj. - averting or combating evil. apotropaism, n. such magical practice.
apotypic
adj. - differing from type.
appanage, apanage
n. - perquisite; provision, such as land or office, for younger son(s)
of king or high official.
apparitor
n. - herald; harbinger; officer executing order of ecclesiastical court.
apperception
n. - perception of inner meaning, and of relation of new facts to
facts already known; mental assimilation; state of being conscious of
perceiving. apperceptive, adj. apperceive, v.
appersonation
n. - delusion of insane person that he is another, generally famous, person.
appetence, appetency
n. - strong desire; craving; powerful instinct. appetent, adj.
appetible
adj. - desirable. appetition, n. yearning.
applanate
adj. - flattened. applanation, n.
appoggiatura
n. - Music, short note placed before a longer one. short appoggiatura,
acciaccatura.
apport
n. - tangible object caused to appear by spiritualist medium;
production of such object.
appose
v. - to place (things) side by side or next to each other.
apposite
adj. - appropriate, fitting, apt, suitable
apposition
n. - juxtaposition; Grammar, putting two nouns or phrases together as
attributive or adjunct terms; relationship of such nouns or phrases.
appositive, adj.
appulse
n. - act of striking against; Astronomy, close approach of two
celestial objects.
apraxia
n. - impaired ability to execute complex muscular movements.
aprosexia
n. - inability to concentrate on anything
apse
n. - rounded extension at end of building, especially at east end of
church; Astronomy, apsis.
apsidal
adj. - having shape of apse; pertaining to apsides.
apsis
n. - (pl. -sides ) Astronomy, point at which heavenly body is most or
least distant from centre of attraction. higher apsis, most distant
point. lower apsis, least distant point.
apteral
adj. - (of classical temple) having columns at front or back only; (of
church) lacking aisles: apterous.
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apterygial
adj. - wingless; finless.
aptronym
n. - a name befitting the occupation, role or nature of a person or
character, e.g. doctor sawbones
aptyalism
n. - lack or absence of saliva.
apyretic
adj. - without fever. apyrexy, n. absence or abatement of fever.
.
aqua regia
n. - 'royal water'; mixture of hydrochloric and nitric acids which
dissolves some metals. Used in etching and by alchemists to dissolve
gold.
aquarelle
n. - method of painting in transparent water-color; such painting.
aquarellist, n. artist painting aquarelles.
aquarist
n. - person who studies aquatic life; owner of an aquarium.
aquatint
n. - (print made by) a method of etching having effect of water- color drawing.
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araneid, araneidan
n. - spider; a. pertaining to spiders. araneiform, adj. shaped like a spider.
Araneous(done), araneose
adj. - like a spider's web; transparent; delicate.
araphorostic, araphostic
adj. - seamless.
arbalest, arbalist
n. - cross-bow with mechanism for drawing string.
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arborescent
adj. - branched; having shape or growth like a tree. arborescence, n.
arborical
adj. - pertaining to trees.
arboricole
n. - living in trees.
arborize
v. - take on or give tree-like shape. arborization, n.
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arbuscle, arbuscula
n. - dwarf tree; shrub-like tree. arbuscular, adj.
arbuscule
n. - tuft of hairs.
arbustum
n. - (pl. -ta) copse; orchard.
arbutus
n. - strawberry tree.
arcate
adj. - shaped like a bow. arcature, n. small or blind arcade.
arc-boutant
n. - (pl. arcs-boutants [pron. same]) flying buttress.
archaeozoic
adj. - living in the earliest geological era.
archecentric
adj. - pertaining to archetype.
archeolatry
n. - worship of archaic customs, expressions, etc.
archididascalos, archididascalus
n. - headteacher of school etc. archididascalian, adj.
archiepiscopal
adj. - pertaining to an archbishop.
archil, orchil
n. - dye obtained from certain lichens; lichens yielding this.
archimage, archimagus
n. - (pl. -gi ) great magician.
archimandrite
n. - superior of large monastery of Greek Church; abbot.
architectonic
adj. - pertaining to architecture, or to the systematization of
knowledge; resembling architecture; structural; showing constructive
ability; n. pl. science of architecture; constructive skill.
architrave
n. - beam resting directly on columns; epistyle; moulding at head and
sides of window or doorway.
archivolt
n. - curved moulding on face of arch.
archizoic
adj. - pertaining to earliest living things.
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archon
n. - a chief magistrate of ancient Athens. archontic, adj.
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arctogeal
adj. - pertaining to the region including Europe, Africa, Asia and N America.
arctoid
n. - like a bear.
arctophile
n. - person who loves or collects teddy bears.
arcuate, arcual
adj. - bow-shaped. arcuation, n.
arcus senilis
n. - 'senile ring'; whitish ring round iris in eyes of old people.
areca
n. - several palm trees, especially the betel. areca nut, betel-nut.
.
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arenilitic
adj. - pertaining to sandstone.
arenoid
adj. - like sand.
arenose
adj. - sandy; containing much sand.
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Areopagus
n. - highest legal tribunal in ancient Athens; any important tribunal.
Areopagite, n. member of such a tribunal.
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argent
n. - silver; silver-like. argentate, argenteous, argentic, argentine,
argentous, adj. argentiferous, adj. yielding silver. argentine, n.
silvery metal. argentometer, n. instrument measuring strength of
silver solutions.
argil
n. - clay, especially used in pottery. argillaceous, argillous, adj.
containing clay; clay-like. argilliferous, adj. yielding or containing
clay. argilloid, adj. like clay.
argol, argal
n. - crust formed on long-kept wine.
Argus
n. - monster with a hundred eyes; careful watcher. Argus-eyed, adj.
ever watchful. argus, n. any of several small brown butterflies with
eyespots.
argute
adj. - quick; sharp; shrill; astute; subtle.
argyrocephalous
adj. - with silvery or shining head.
arietta
n. - short aria.
ariose
adj. - characterized by or like melody.
aristarch
n. - severe critic.
aristarchian
adj. - extremely critical
Aristology(done)
n. - art or science of dining . aristological, adj. aristologist, n.
aristophrenia
n. - condition of having a superior intellect
arithmancy
n. - divination by numbers.
arithmocracy
n. - rule of the numerical majority
arithmogram
n. - number composed of numerical values assigned to letters in a
word. arithmocracy, n. government by the majority. . arithmomania, n.
obsession with numbers, especially compulsion to count things.
arithmometer, n. early adding machine.
armiferous
adj. - carrying weapons or arms.
armiger
n. - armour-bearer; knight's squire; person bearing heraldic arms.
armigerous, armigeral, adj.
armillary
adj. - like, pertaining to or composed of rings. armillary sphere,
celestial globe composed only of rings marking equator, tropics, etc.
armipotent
adj. - having strong armament. armipotence, n.
armisonant, armisonous
adj. - resounding with the clash of arms.
arnica
n. - genus of plants including the mountain tobacco; tincture obtained
from mountain tobacco used for bruises, etc.
aroint
v. -i. archaic, (imperative) begone!
arquebus(e), harquebus
n. - ancient hand gun supported on tripod. arquebusier, n. soldier
armed with arquebus.
arras
n. - tapestry, especially covering wall. arrasene, n. embroidery
material of silk and wool.
arrect
adj. - raised up; attentive.
arrha
n. - (pl. -ae ) pledge; earnest money. arrhal, adj.
arrhenotoky
n. - to only give birth to boys
arrhizal
adj. - rootless.
arrière-ban
n. - summoning by king of his feudatories and their vassals to
military service; vassals so called; the nobility.
arrière-pensée
n. - hidden meaning; ulterior motive; mental reservation.
arris
n. - sharp edge formed by two angled surfaces, especially edge of
fluting on column. arriswise, adj. edgewise.
arriviste
n. - pushful, ambitious person.
arrogate
v. - take or claim beyond one's rights. arrogation, n.
arrondissement
n. - largest subdivision of a French department.
arsinotherium
n. - rhinoceros-like fossil mammal.
arthralgia
n. - pain in a joint.
arthrosis
n. - joint or articulation connecting two bones.
articular
adj. - pertaining to joints.
artuate
v. - to tear limb from limb
arum
n. - large-spathed plant, called 'cuckoo-pint' or 'lords and ladies'.
arum lily, calla lily.
arundinaceous
adj. - like or pertaining to a reed.
arvicoline
adj. - living in the fields or countryside. arviculture, n.
cultivation of fields.
ascian
n. - one without a shadow: applied to the inhabitants of the torrid
zone, where the sun is vertical at noon for a few days every year
ascidian
n. - sea-squirt.
aseismic
adj. - free from earthquakes; designed to withstand earthquakes.
aseismatic, adj. reducing or withstanding effect of earthquakes.
ashlar
n. - squared building stone; stonework composed of these; thin,
dressed stone for facing rough wall. ashlaring, n. partition in attic
to cut off angle made by rafters and floor.
asomatous
adj. - incorporeal; lacking body. asomatophyte, n. Botany, plant in
which body and reproductive cells are undifferentiated.
asparaginous
adj. - pertaining to, like or eaten like asparagus.
asperate
adj. - rather rough; v.t. make rough. asperation, n.
asperge
v. - sprinkle. asperges, n. Roman Catholic, ceremony of sprinkling holy water.
aspergil, aspergill(um)
n. - Roman Catholic, brush-like implement used to sprinkle holy water.
aspergillus
n. - (pl. -li ) minute fungus forming mould. aspergilliform,
aspergillosis, n. animal disease caused by aspergilli.
asperity
n. - roughness, acrimony.
aspermatism, aspermia
n. - failure of male generative powers. aspermic, adj.
aspersorium
n. - Roman Catholic, vessel holding holy water; aspergil.
asperulous
adj. - Botany, rather rough.
asphalia
n. - emphatic guaranteeing of what one is saying, as by assuring
others, wagering about the truth of something
aspheterism
n. - doctrine that there should be no private property.
asphodel
n. - kind of liliaceous plant; daffodil; Literature, flower of the
Elysian fields. bog asphodel, British grass-like moorland plant.
aspidate
adj. - shield-shaped.
asportation
n. - removal, especially crime of removing property.
assecuration
n. - marine insurance.
assentaneous
adj. - acquiescent.
assentation
n. - ready, insincere assent. assentatious, adj. willing to assent.
assentator, n. flatterer; one assenting insincerely or conniving.
assentatory, adj.
asseverate
v. - to state positively, emphatically
assibilate
v. - pronounce with sibilant sound or hiss. assibilation, n.
assiduity
n. - unremitting care; unflagging or obsequious attention. assiduous, adj.
assoil(zie)
v. - pardon; absolve; acquit; release. assoilment, n.
assuetude
n. - custom or habit
assumpsit
n. - Law, contract (not under seal); suit for breach of such contract.
assurgent
adj. - ascending; Botany, upward-curving. assurgency, n.
astasia
n. - inability, due to imperfect muscular co-ordination, to keep erect.
astatic
adj. - unstable; in neutral equilibrium; Electricity, not tending to
assume a definite position. astatic pair, pair of magnetized needles
of opposite charges..
astatine
n. - radioactive element of the halogen group.
asteism
n. - an ingeniously polite insult
asteria
n. - gem cut so as to show asterism.
asterial
adj. - starlike; n. a fossil starfish.
asteriated
adj. - having star-like rays.
asterism
n. - constellation of stars; group of asterisks; appearance of
star-like reflection by certain crystals. asterismal, adj.
asthenia
n. - debility. asthenic, adj. weak; of slender build; weakening.
asthenophobe
n. - the circumspect stoic, the stiff-upper-lip afraid to admit to
weakness of any sort
asthenopia
n. - optical weakness, especially muscular. asthenopic, adj.
asthenosphere
n. - hypothetical layer of fluid matter below rigid surface of earth's crust.
astomatal, astomous
adj. - having no stomata.
astragal
n. - ankle-bone; rounded beading or moulding on column; pl., dice.
astragalar, adj. astragalomancy, n. divination by ankle-bones or dice.
astragalus n. Medicine, ankle-bone.
astrakhan
n. - closely-curled black or grey fur from fleece of karakul lambs:
cloth resembling this.
astraphobia, astrapophobia
n. - morbid fear of thunder and lightning.
astrict
v. - astringe. astriction, n. astrictive, adj.
astringe
v. - bind; brace; restrict; constipate.
astrogate
v. - guide (spaceship, etc.); v.i. navigate in space.
astrognosy
n. - knowledge of fixed stars.
astrogony
n. - theory of the origin of the stars.
astroid
n. - star-shaped.
astrolatry
n. - worship of stars.
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astrophile, astrophil
n. - person fond of learning about stars.
astucious
adj. - having keen perception; of astute and penetrating discernment
astylar
adj. - Architecture, lacking columns.
asymptote
n. - line approaching a curve but meeting it only at infinity. asymptotic, adj.
asyndetic
adj. - not connected by conjunctions: I came, I saw, I conquered
asyndeton
n. - rhetorical device of omitting conjunctions. asyndetic, adj.
asynergy, asynergia
n. - Medicine, lack of co-ordination, especially of muscles.
asyngamy
n. - Botany, failure to effect cross-fertilization due to asynchronous
development of flowers.
atactic
adj. - asyntactic; irregular; pertaining to ataxy.
ataraxia
n. - imperturbability; utter calmness
ataraxic
adj. - of or pertaining to freedom from anxiety or emotional
disturbance; calm and imperturbable
ataraxy, ataraxia
n. - tranquillity of mind; imperturbability. ataractic, ataraxic, n. &
a. (drug) able to calm or tranquillize.
ataxaphasia
n. - inability, due to imperfect muscular co-ordination, to speak sentences.
ataxy, ataxia
n. - inability to co-ordinate muscles; lack of order. ataxic, adj.
ateknia
n. - childlessness.
atelectasis
n. - incomplete dilatation or collapse of lungs.
ateliosis
n. - imperfect development; dwarfism.
atelophobe
n. - the driven perfectionist, one with a morbid fear of having things
less than perfect
athanasia
n. - immortality
atheling
n. - Anglo-Saxon noble; prince, especially heir apparent.
athermanous
adj. - impervious to radiant heat. athermancy, n.
atherogenic
adj. - leading to atheroma.
atheroma
n. - fatty degeneration of the arteries. atherosclerosis, n. hardening
of the inner lining of the arteries with fatty degeneration.
atheromatous, adj.
athetise
v. - to spurn, reject
athetosis
n. - nervous twitching of fingers and toes.
athrepsia
n. - complete debility in children. athreptic, adj.
athymy
n. - melancholy.
atlantes
n. - pl. male figures used as columns.
atmogenic
adj. - Geology, of atmospheric origin.
.
atmolysis
n. - method of separating gases of different densities.
atmometer
n. - instrument measuring rate of evaporation into atmosphere. atmometry, n.
atokous
adj. - lacking offspring.
atomy
n. - very small creature; skeleton.
atrabilarian
n. - a gloomy hypochondriac
atrabilious
adj. - very melancholic; hypochondriac.
atrament
n. - very dark liquid; ink. atramentous, adj.
atresia
n. - lack or closing of a passage of the body. atretic, adj.
atrichia
n. - baldness.
atrous
adj. - jet black.
attainder
n. - loss of civil rights, formerly result of outlawry or death sentence.
attaint
v. - pass sentence of attainder on; sully; attach disgrace to; infect;
n. dishonour; misfortune. attainture, n.
attemper
v. - alter quality by addition or mixture; moderate. attemperate, v.
archaic, moderate temperature. attemporator, n. apparatus for
moderating temperature.
attingent
adj. - touching, in contact.
attrahent
adj. - attracting; drawing towards or forward; n. such thing or muscle.
au fait
phr. - 'to the fact'; having complete and up-to-date knowledge; conversant.
aubade
n. - musical piece performed at or describing dawn.
auctorial
adj. - pertaining to an author.
audile
n. - person whose mental processes are stimulated more strongly by
hearing than by other senses; a. pertaining to such persons; auditory.
audiogenic
adj. - caused by sound waves, especially of high frequency.
aularian
adj. - pertaining to hall
aulete
n. - flautist.
aulic
adj. - courtly; ceremonious.
aurated
adj. - gilded.
aureate, aureous
adj. - golden-colored; ornate.
aureity
n. - properties of gold.
aureomycin
n. - trademark, an antibiotic drug extracted from a soil mould, used
in treatment of infections, especially of eyes, skin, etc.
auric
adj. - pertaining to, like or composed of gold.
auricle
n. - external ear; ear-shaped appendage; upper cavity of heart.
auricomous
adj. - having golden hair; making hair golden.
auricular
adj. - pertaining to hearing, or to the ear; spoken secretly.
auricular finger, the little finger.
auriculate
adj. - having ears or ear-shaped outgrowths; lobed; ear-like.
auriferous
adj. - containing gold.
aurify
v. - change into gold. aurific, adj. producing gold. aurification, n.
working with gold.
auriphrygia
n. - gold embroidery. auriphrygiate, adj.
aurist
n. - specialist on the ear and its diseases.
aurous
adj. - pertaining to, containing, or made of gold.
aurulent
adj. - gold-colored.
auscultate
v. - Medicine, listen to sounds in human body; examine in this manner.
auscultation, n. auscultative, adj. auscultator, n. person practising
auscultation; stethoscope. auscultatory, adj.
auscultation
n. - the process of listening
auslaut
n. - final sound of syllable or word.
autacoid
n. - hormone. autacoidal, adj.
autarchia
n. - perpetual happiness
autarchy
n. - absolute sovereignty; autocracy. autarchic, autarchical, adj.
.
autoangelist
n. - one who does his own communicating
autocephalous
adj. - Ecclesiastical, self-governing. autocephaly, n.
autochthon
n. - native; aboriginal species. autochthonous, adj. autochthony, n.
autochthonous
adj. - native, aboriginal, indigenous
autoclesis
n. - introducing an idea or subject by seeming to refuse discussion of
it, thereby arousing interest
autoecious
adj. - (of fungus, etc.) passing through all life stages on same
species of host.
autogamy
n. - self-fertilization. autogamic, autogamous, adj.
autogenesis
n. - spontaneous generation. autogenetic, adj.
autogenous
adj. - self-generated.
autognosis
n. - knowledge of self, especially the appreciation of one's own
emotional conflicts
autointoxication
n. - poisoning due to toxins produced in body.
autokinesis
n. - voluntary or automatic movement. autokinetic, adj.
autolatry
n. - self-worship.
autological
adj. - self-descriptive, or being a word that exemplifies what it
means, e.g. "english" is english, "polysyllabic" is polysyllabic
automorphic
adj. - formed after its or one's own pattern. automorphism, n.
autonym
n. - writer's own name; work published under own name.
autophagy
n. - devouring of cell constituents by enzymes of same cell. autophagous, adj.
autophobe
n. - the socializer who does not like to be alone
autophobia
n. - fear of solitude.
autophony
n. - apparent distortion of one's own voice due to infection or
stoppage of ears; sound of auscultator's voice as reverberating in
patient's chest.
autophyte
n. - plant able to organize its foodstuffs; nonsaprophytic plant.
autophytic, adj.
autoplasty
n. - grafting tissue from patient's own body. autoplastic, a.;
Biology, pertaining to self-adaptation to environment; pertaining to
autoplasty.
autoschediasm
n. - improvization. autoschediastic, adj.
autoschediastic
adj. - impromptu; on the spur of the moment
autoskeleton
n. - internal skeleton.
autostrada
n. - motorway.
autotelic
adj. - having itself as its only purpose.
autothaumaturgist
n. - the coy or cagey person whose mission is to appear mysterious or
quite remarkable
autotheism
n. - belief in self-subsistence of God the Son; deification of oneself.
autotheist
n. - the individual who is not only self-centered but self-deifying,
or at least self-worshipping
autotomy
n. - reflex loss of part of the body to save the whole (in lizards, etc.)
autotrophic
adj. - Botany, nourishing itself; autophytic.
autotropic
adj. - Botany, tending to grow in straight line.
autotype
n. - facsimile; true copy. autotypy, n. process of producing such copies.
auxanometer
n. - instrument measuring rate of growth of plants.
auxesis
n. - an ordering of thoughts expressed in a sequence of ascending importance
auxin
n. - Chemistry, substance increasing growth of plants; plant hormone.
auxograph
n. - instrument recording variations in volume.
.
auxotonic
adj. - according or due to growth.
avellaneous
adj. - hazel.
avenaceous
adj. - pertaining to or like oats. aveniform, adj. like oats in shape.
avenous
adj. - lacking veins.
aventurine
n. - glass containing golden or green flecks; quartz containing mica flakes.
averruncate
v. - avert; weed out.
avicide
n. - killing of birds.
avicular
adj. - pertaining to small birds.
aviculture
n. - rearing of birds.
avifauna
n. - birdlife of a region.
avigation
n. - aerial navigation.
avirulent
adj. - (of bacteria) not virulent.
avolitional
adj. - involuntary.
avulsion
n. - act of pulling away part of body, either by injury or surgery.
avulsive, adj.
axenic
adj. - free of parasites and similar forms of life; surgically sterile.
axifugal
adj. - centrifugal.
axil
n. - upper angle between leaf and stem, or branch and trunk. axile, adj.
axilla
n. - (pl. -las, -lae ,) armpit; shoulder. axillary a. of arm-pit; of
or growing in an axil.
Axiology(done)
n. - study of ultimate values . axiological, adj. axiologist, n.
axonometry
n. - measurement of or by axes. axonometric projectio, n. method of
representing three-dimensional object in two-dimensional drawing.
axunge
n. - medicinal lard or grease.
azofication
n. - nitrogenization of soil by bacteria. azofier, n. bacterium
causing azofication.
azoic
adj. - lacking life, especially of geological period.
.
azote
n. - nitrogen. azotaemia, azotemia, n. excess of nitrogen in blood.
azotic, adj. azotize, v. combine with nitrogen.
azoth
n. - alchemists' name for mercury; Paracelsus' postulated panacea.
azulejo
n. - brightly colored tile of Near East, Spain and Holland.
azygous
adj. - unpaired; odd.
azym(e)
n. - unleavened bread; Passover cake; pl. feast of such bread.
phr. - 'on horseback'; astride; straddling.
a corps perdu
phr. - 'with lost body'; impetuously; in desperation.
a fond
phr. - 'to the bottom'; thoroughly.
a la belle étoile
phr. - 'under the beautiful star'; in the open air at night.
a la mort
phr. - 'to the death'; mortally.
a mensa et thoro
adj. - 'from table and bed'; applied to judicial separation of husband and wife.
a outrance
phr. - 'to the utmost'; to the death.
ab initio
phr. - from the beginning; from the very start or outset
ab irato
phr. - from an angry man: hence, not to be taken tooseriously
ab ovo
phr. - from the egg: from the very beginning, hence completely and in
great detail; throughly or voluminously
abderian
adj. - pertaining to foolish or excessive laughter
abdominous
adj. - having or pertaining to a distended stomach
abliguration
n. - extravagance in cooking and serving
ablutomania
n. - a mania for washing oneself
abscissin
n. - hormone which triggers the fall of autumn leaves in certain trees
absquatulate
v. - to leave hurriedly, suddenly, or secretly
abstersive
adv. - serving to cleanse or purge
acalculia
n. - the inability to work with numbers
acapnotic
n. - person who doesn't smoke
acariasis
n. - infestation with mites or ticks; the itch.
acaricide
n. - substance killing mites. acaricidal, adj.
acarpous
adj. - Botany, not yielding fruit.
acatalepsy
n. - state of being impossible to understand; Philosophy, sceptic
doctrine that knowledge cannot be certain. acataleptic, adj.
acataleptic
adj. - incomprehensible
acaudate
adj. - lacking tail.
acaulescent
adj. - lacking a stem.
accensor
n. - Roman Catholic, acolyte.
acceptilation
n. - the settlement of a debt without payment
accessit
n. - honourable mention of one who comes nearest to a prize.
acciaccatura
n. - Music, very short note played before a longer note; short appoggiatura.
accismus
n. - rhetorical device of pretending to refuse.
acclivity
n. - slope upward. acclivitous, acclivous, adj.
accolent
adj. - neighbouring.
accouchement
n. - childbirth. accoucheur, accoucheuse, n. male and female midwife
respectively
accrementition
n. - Biology growth by addition of similar matter.
accrescent
adj. - Botany, growing larger even after flowering.
accubation
n. - act or state of reclining at table; Medicine, accouchement.
accumbent
adj. - Botany, (of plants) lying against something.
acediast
n. - a person who is slothful or wickedly lax when it comes to
spiritual or religious matters
aceldama
n. - field, or scene, of bloodshed.
acephalist
n. - the balky maverick who acknowledges no head or superior or authority
acephalous
adj. - lacking a head or a leader; lacking the first syllable or foot
(of a hexameter).
aceric
adj. - pertaining to the maple.
acerose
adj. - like a needle.
acerous
adj. - without horns or antennae.
acersecomic
n. - one who has never had a haircut
acervate
adj. - Botany, growing in heaps; clustered.
acervation
n. - heaping up.
acervuline
adj. - resembling small heaps
acescent
adj. - becoming, or tending to be, sour.
acetabulum
n. - cuplike hollow on hipbone to receive thighbone.
acetarious
adj. - applied to plants used in salads.
acetometer
n. - instrument measuring strength of acetic acid or vinegar. acetometry, n.
achar
n. - kind of pickles.
achene
n. - small one-seeded fruit of plant; naked seed.
acherontic
adj. - darky, gloomy, forbidding
achlamydeous
adj. - Botany having neither petals nor sepals.
acholous
adj. - lacking bile.
achondroplasia
n. - condition where cartilage does not develop normally, resulting in dwarfism.
achor
n. - Medicine, archaic, eruption on the scalp.
achromatopsia
n. - color-blindness, where only white, grey and black are visible.
achromia
n. - Medicine, pallor. achromic, adj.
acronychal
adj. - Occurring at nightfall
achroous
adj. - colorless.
acicula
n. - a needle-shaped prickle, spine or crystal. acicular, adj.
aciculate, adj. having bristles or spines; with scratched appearance.
acidophilic
adj. - easily stained by acid dyes; thriving in acid environment.
acidulous
adj. - sharp or sour in taste or manner. acidulate, v.
acierage
n. - process of steel-plating. acierate, v. make into steel.
acinous, acinose
adj. - containing small seeds or drupes.
acipenser
n. - sturgeon.
aclastic
adj. - non-refractive.
aclinic
adj. - applied to line passing through all points where there is no
magnetic inclination. aclinic line, magnetic equator.
.
acomia
n. - baldness.
aconite
n. - the monk's-hood or wolf's-bane plant.
aconitine
n. - poisonous alkaloid obtained from aconite.
acopic
n. - & a. Medicine, curative of fatigue.
acor
n. - Medicine, stomach acidity.
acosmism
n. - doctrine denying existence of universe distinct from God. acosmist, n.
acotyledon
n. - plant without differentiated seed lobes. acotyledonous, adj.
acouasm
n. - a ringing sound in the head
acoumeter
n. - instrument measuring keenness of hearing. acoumetry, n.
acousma
n. - ringing noise in head.
acquittance
n. - payment of, or release from, debt; full receipt.
acraein
n. - foul-tasting butterfly's juice
acrasy
n. - anarchy, disorder.
acratia
n. - impotence.
acritochromacy
n. - color-blindness.
acroamatic
adj. - esoteric, told only orally.
acroatic
adj. - pertaining to profound learning
acrocephalic
n.,adj. - pertaining to pointed heads; someone with apointed head
acrodont
adj. - (of a tooth) fused with the jaw; having such teeth.
acrogen
n. - Botany, any flowerless plant where growth takes place at the tip
of the main stem. acrogenous, adj.
acrolith
n. - statue with wooden trunk and stone head and extremities.
acrologic
adj. - pertaining to initials.
acromegaly
n. - gigantism; enlargement of extremities, head, jaw, etc., due to
excess secretion of pituitary gland. acromegalic, adj.
acromonogrammatic
adj. - applied to verse in which each line begins with letter with
which preceding line ended.
acronychal, acronycal,
adj. - Astronomy, happening at sunset, especially of star whose rising
is at sunset.
acronyx
n. - ingrowing nail.
acrophony
n. - The use of a word starting with a letter of the alphabet as the
name of the letter.
acroscopic
adj. - Botany, facing, or moving to, apex.
acrospire
n. - the first real shoot developing in a germinating grain seed.
acroteric
adj. - pertaining to or affecting the extremities.
acroterion
n. - Architecture, ornament or its pedestal at angle of pediment.
acrotic
adj. - pertaining to surface. acrotism, n. failure of pulse.
actamer
n. - a substance preventing the growth of bacteria in cosmetics and soaps.
actinism
n. - property of solar radiation of causing chemical change. actinic,
a.; actinic glass, glass opaque to actinic rays.
actino-chemistry
n. - chemical study of actinism; photo-chemistry.
actinograph
n. - instrument for calculating time of photographic exposures.
actinoid
adj. - star-shaped; like rays.
.
actinometer
n. - instrument measuring heating power of the sun's rays;
Photography, instrument for calculating exposure times. actinometry,
n.
actinomorphic, actinomorphous
adj. - Botany, having symmetrically radiated shape.
actinomycosis
n. - parasitic disease in men and cattle resulting in inflammation of
jaw; 'lumpy jaw'.
actinophone
n. - instrument in which sound is produced by actinic rays. actinophonic, adj.
actinotherapy
n. - use of ultra-violet and other actinic rays in medical treatment.
actum ut supra
phr. - 'done as above' (abbr. a.u.s.).
aculeate
adj. - Botany, bearing many sharp points; Zoology, having sting; incisive.
acuminate
adj. - pointed; tapering; v.t. sharpen; v.i. end in point.
acuminulate
adj. - very sharply pointed; ending in minute point.
acushla
n. - term of address: darling.
acutorsion
n. - twisting artery with needle to stop bleeding.
acyanopsia
n. - color blindness towards blue.
.
ad baculum
phr. - to the rod: appealing to or suggesting the use of force to
settle the question
ad captandum (vulgus)
phr. - 'to capture' the affection or suit the taste (of the crowd).
ad captandum benevolentiam
phr. - with intent to win good will or favor
ad captandum vulgus
phr. - with intent to take in the public: designed to court the crowd
emotionally, even if using unsound reason
ad crumenam
phr. - to the purse: appealing to greed or to the hearer's pocket
ad finem
phr. - 'to the end' (abbr. ad fin.).
ad hanc vocem
phr. - 'to this word' (abbr. a.h.v).
ad hunc locum
phr. - Law, 'at this place'; on this passage (abbr. ad loc. ; a.h.l.).
ad ignorantium
phr. to ignorance: depending for its effect on thehearer's not knowing
something essential; arguing that something is true because it has not
been proven false, or challenging another to disprove rather than
endeavoring to prove
ad interim
adj. - 'at interval'; meanwhile; for the present (abbr. ad int.).
ad judicium
phr. - to judgment: appealing to the common sense of mankind or to the
judgment of the people
ad libitum
adj. - 'at one's pleasure'; as much or long as desired; Music,
according to desire of performer (abbr. ad lib.). ad-lib, v.i. & t.
speak impromptu, especially (of actors) jokes, words, etc., not
written or rehearsed, or to replace forgotten lines; a. said on the
spur of the moment; n. an ad-lib statement.
ad locum
phr. - 'at the place' (abbr. ad loc.)
ad misericordiam
phr. - to compassion: appealing to a sense of pity or mercy; asking compassion
ad populum
phr. - to the people: appealing to popular sentimental weaknesses
rather than to facts or reasons
ad rem
phr. - to the matter: to the point; pertinent to the matter
ad unguem
phr. - to the fingernail: with great precision; finely
ad usum
phr. - 'to usage'; according to custom (abbr. ad us.)
ad valorem
adj. - in proportion to value, especially of import duties of a
percentage of the value of the imports (abbr. ad val.).
ad verbum
phr. - to the word: word for word; literally; verbatim
ad verecundiam
phr. - to modesty: appealing to traditional values, reverence for
authority, or sense of prestige; requiring an opponent to offend
against decorum
ad vitam aut culpam
phr. - 'to life or misdeed'; so long as good behaviour lasts.
adactylous
adj. - lacking fingers, toes or claws. adactylia, n. congenital lack
of toes or fingers.
adaxial
adj. - on, beside, or turned towards, axis of an organ, organism, or plant.
additament
n. - thing added.
addititious
adj. - pertaining to, or resulting from, addition; Astronomy, applied
to force increasing gravitation between planet and satellite.
adduct
v. - (of muscles) draw towards a central axis. adductor, n. such a muscle.
adeciduate
adj. - evergreen.
adelphogamy
n. - form of marriage in which brothers share a wife or wives.
ademonist
n. - person denying existence of demons or the Devil.
ademption
n. - Law, revoking by testator, donor, etc., of legacy, donation,
etc., by previously paying sum or parting with object bequeathed.
adenia
n. - Medicine, enlargement of glands.
.
adenitis
n. - inflammation of glands.
adenoma
n. - usually non-lethal tumour of gland. adenomatous, adj.
adenopathy
n. - glandular disease.
adenotomy
n. - incision into or removal of gland.
adephagous
adj. - gluttonous
adespoton
n. - anonymous saying, poem, etc.
adevism
n. - denial of legendary gods.
adhibit
v. - grant admittance to; apply; attach.
adiabatic
adj. - without losing or gaining heat. adiabatic gradient, rate of
change in temperature of rising or falling air.
adiabolist
n. - person denying existence of the Devil.
adiactinic
adj. - not transmitting actinic rays.
adiaphoresis
n. - absence or lack of perspiration. adiaphoretic, n & adj. (drug)
preventing perspiration.
adiaphoristic
adj. - theologically indifferent
adiaphoron
n. - (pl. -ra), matter of indifference; Theology, religious observance
left to conscience; amoral matter. adiaphorism, n. belief in doctrine
of adiaphora. adiaphorist, n. adiaphoristic, adj. applied to certain
controversies on religious observances. adiaphorous, adj. neutral;
indifferent, neither right nor wrong (of conduct, etc.)
adiaphorous
adj. - neutral; neither right nor wrong; neither deleterious nor salubrious
adiapneustia
n. - defective perspiration.
adiathermic
adj. - impervious to heat. adiathermancy, n.
adient
adj. - tending to expose an organism to, or turn it towards, a
stimulus or situation.
adipescent
adj. - becoming fatty.
adipic
adj. - Chemistry, pertaining to fatty or greasy substance.
adipsy
n. - lack of thirst. adipsous, adj. Medicine, quenching thirst.
adit
n. - entrance, especially horizontal passage into mine.
adjectitious
adj. - added, thrown in
adjuvant
adj. - helping; Medicine, remedial; n. such drug.
admaxillary
adj. - near or connected with jaw.
adminicle
n. - something that helps or supports; corroboratory evidence; explanatory proof
adnate
adj. - Botany closely attached; related; grown together especially
unusually. adnation, n.
adnomination
n. - punning
adonize
v. -i. & t. ornament; adorn oneself (of men).
adoptionism
n. - doctrine that Christ was Son of God by adoption and not birth.
adoptionist, n. & a.
adoral
adj. - near to mouth.
adosculation
n. - sexual impregnation by contact only; wind-pollination.
adrectal
adj. - close to rectum.
adrenergic
adj. - released or activated by adrenalin.
adscititious
adj. - not essential; supplemental; superfluous
adsorb
v. - attract and hold to surface (minute particles of mixture or
molecules of gas or liquid). adsorbate, n. substance or molecules
adsorbed. adsorbent, n. & a. (substance) adsorbing. adsorption, n.
adsum
phr. - 'I am present'.
adumbral
adj. - shadowy.
adumbrate
v. - shadow forth; outline; sketch out. adumbrative, adj. adumbration, n.
aduncous, aduncate
adj. - hook-shaped; crooked. aduncity, n. inward curvature.
adust
adj. - (sun) burnt or scorched; dried up by heat; gloomy, sad.
advection
n. - horizontal movement of an air mass, causing temperature changes.
advenient
adj. - due to outside causes. advenience, n.
adventitious
adj. - Medicine, Botany, added from without; not essential;
accidental; casual; acquired; adventive.
adventive
adj.,n. -. Botany, (plant) not completely naturalized or growing out
of natural habitat.
adversaria
n. - pl. collection of notes and comments; commonplace book.
adversative
adj.,n. -. Grammar, (word or clause) expressing opposition or antithesis.
adynamic
adj. - lacking strength; causing weakness. adynamia, n..
adynaton
n. - magnifying or exaggerating an actual event by reference to
something impossible
adytum
n. - inner sanctuary of temple; secret room.
aedile
n. - head of ancient Roman office of works. aedility, n. aedile's office.
.
aegagrus
n. - mountain goat of Asia Minor.
aegilops
n. - stye in inner corner of eye.
aegrotat
n. - 'he or she is ill'; certificate of student's illness for absence
from university lectures or examination. aegrotat degree, degree given
to student absent from examination by reason of illness.
aeneous
adj. - like brass.
aenos
n. - use of erudite words or allusions to appeal to the learned
aeolipyle, aeolipile
n. - first steam engine, with globe made to revolve by steam jets,
described in 1st century AD.
aeolistic
adj. - long-winded.
aeolotropic
adj. - having different physical properties in different positions or
directions.
aepyornis
n. - large fossil bird of Madagascar.
.
.
aerogenic
adj. - derived from air; gas-forming. aerogenesis, n.
aerolite, aerolith
n. - meteorite.
.
aeromancy
n. - divination by the state of the air; weather forecasting. aeromantic, adj.
.
aerometer
n. - instrument measuring weight or density of gases. aerometry, n.
such measurement; pneumatics.
aeronomy
n. - study of chemical and physical phenomena in the upper atmosphere.
aeronomic, adj.
aeropause
n. - level above surface of earth above which ordinary aircraft cannot fly.
aerophagia
n. - neurotic habit of swallowing air.
aerophobia
n. - fear of air, draughts.
aerophore
n. - apparatus for inflating lungs, especially of still-born child.
aerophyte
n. - plant obtaining all nourishment from the air; epiphyte.
aeropleustic
adj. - pertaining to aerial navigation.
.
aerose
adj. - brassy.
aerospace
n. - the Earth's atmosphere and space beyond it.
aerosphere
n. - the entire atmosphere surrounding the Earth.
aerostat
n. - lighter-than-air craft. aerostatic, adj. aerostation, n.
navigation of aerostats.
aerugo
n. - rust, especially of copper and brass; verdigris. aeruginous, adj.
aesculaceous
adj. - pertaining to or like horse-chestnut; belonging to the horse-
chestnut family of plants.
aesculapian
adj. - relating to that which is medical or to the artof healing
aesthesia
n. - sensibility, sense perception.
aesthesiogenic
adj. - causing sensation.
aesthesiometer
n. - instrument measuring acuteness of sense perception.
aesthesis
n. - sense perception, aesthesia.
aestival
adj. - of summer. aestivation, n. Zoology, sleepiness in animals
during summer; Botany, arrangement of organs in flower bud.
afebrile
adj. - free from fever.
afferent
adj. - carrying towards, especially of nerves carrying impulses to centres.
affiche
n. - poster; placard.
affinal
adj. - related by marriage.
affined
adj. - closely related; connected.
afflatus
n. - divine breath; inspiration. afflation, n. act of breathing upon;
inspiration.
afflux
n. - flowing towards or together.
affranchise
v. - liberate from servitude, debt etc.
affreightment
n. - hiring of a ship to carry freight; such a contract.
affricate
n. - rub; grate on;, n. Phonetics, sound, as or, comprising a stop
developing into a fricative. affrication, n. affricative, n., adj.
affusion
n. - pouring liquid on, especially in baptismal ceremony or as medical
treatment.
afreet
n. - in Arabian mythology, an evil spirit or giant monster.
afrormosia
n. - a dense tropical hardwood resembling teak, used for furniture and
panelling.
afterdamp
n. - poisonous gas (mixture of carbon dioxide and nitrogen) remaining
after explosion of fire-damp in mine; choke-damp.
agalactia
n. - Medicine, absence or lack of milk secretion. agalactic, agalactous, adj.
agamic, agamous
adj. - non-sexual.
agamogenesis
n. - non-sexual reproduction. agamogenetic, adj.
agamy
n. - lack of marriage or sexual reproduction.
agastopia
n. - admiration of a particular part of someone's body
agelast
n. - somebody who absolutely never laughs
agenesis
n. - incomplete development of body or part of body. agenesic, adj.
agenhina
n. - a guest at an inn who, after having stayed for three nights, was
considered one of the family
agenocratia
n. - opposition to birth control
ageotropic
adj. - Botany, turning away from the earth; apogeotropic.
ageustia
n. - absence of sense of taste.
agger
n. - earth rampart or bank, especially Roman.
aggeration
n. - heaping up; mound raised by prehistoric people when erecting
standing stones. aggerose, adj. in heaps; having many heaps.
aggerwator
n. - locks of hair that frame the face
agglomerate
v. - collect, especially into a mass; a. so collected; clustered; n.
Geology, rock comprised of angular volcanic fragments.
agglutinate
v. - join firmly; thicken; make like glue; coagulate; Philology, make
compound words by additions. agglutinin, n. substance in blood causing
coagulation. agglutinogen, n. substance causing production of
agglutinin. agglutinative, adj. applied to agglutinated words or
languages containing many such words. agglutination, n.
agglutination
n. - compound-word formation from discrete word elements, or the
creation of derivatives and inflections, by added affixes, e.g.
'disestablishment' from 'dis', 'establish',and 'ment'
agio
n. - charge made when cash is given for paper currency, or one
currency is exchanged for another. agiotage, n. such exchange;
speculation; brokerage.
agiotage
n. - playing the stock market
agist
v. - Law, care for, feed cattle, horses, for payment. agistment, n.
this practice; pastureland available for this.
aglossal, aglossate
adj. - Zoology, lacking tongue.
aglutition
n. - state of being unable to swallow.
agminate
adj. - grouped.
agnate
adj. - having same male forefather; allied; Law, related on father's
side; n. such relative. agnation, n. kinship.
agnathous
adj. - lacking jaws. agnathia, n.
agnogenic
n. - of unknown cause
.
agnomen
n. - additional name. agnomination, n. surname; punning; alliteration.
agnosia
n. - loss of ability to recognize familiar things or people.
agnosy
n. - ignorance; especially ignorance shared by the wholehuman race
agomphious
adj. - toothless.
agon
n. - struggle, contest (especially athletic); conflict between main
characters in a play, novel etc. agonist, n. competitor; protagonist
in literary work. agonistic, a., competitive; striving for effect.
agonic
adj. - applied to line drawn through all places where magnetic north
is the same as true north.
agonist
n. - a struggler; a person who is contending, whether in a mental or
spiritual conflict or against an opponent for an athletic prize
agonistic
n. - combative; strained for the sake of effect
agraffe
n. - hook, especially on piano-string to prevent rattle.
agraphia
n. - inability to write due to form of aphasia.
agrestial
adj. - growing in country, fields (especially of weeds).
agrestic,
adj. - of the countryside; rustic, uncouth.
.
Agrology(done)
n. - scientific study of soils. agrological, adj.
Agrostology(done)
n. - Botany, study of grasses. agrostologic(al), adj. agrostologist, n..
agrypnia
n. - sleeplessness. agrypnotic, n. & a. (stimulant) causing wakefulness.
agynary
adj. - Botany, lacking female organs.
ahimsa
n. - principle of non-violence towards any living creature, in
Hinduism and Buddhism.
ahypnia
n. - insomnia.
aiger
n. - tidal wave in river; bore.
aigrette
n. - spray of feathers; any object in that shape; egret.
aiguille
n. - 'needle'; sharp point; peak.
ailurophile
n. - one fond of cats. ailurophilia, n. ailurophobe, n. one with dread of cats.
ailurophobe
n. - the person who can't stand cats
airmonger
n. - the man or woman who is attracted to visionary ideas and projects
aischrolatreia
n. - worship of filth, dirt, smut; obscenity cult
ait
n. - small island in river or lake; eyot.
akinesia, akinesis
n. - paralysis of motor nerves. akinetic, adj.
ala
n. - (pl. -lae ) 'wing'; wing- shaped projection.
alalia
n. - loss of speech.
alamode
n. - soft, light silk, used in 19th century for shawls, dresses, etc.
alanine
n. - an amino-acid occuring in protein.
alar(y)
adj. - like or pertaining to a wing or shoulder.
alastrim
n. - disease like, or mild form of, smallpox.
alate
adj. - winged. alation, n. state of having wings; disposition of wings
in insect.
alaudine
phr. - adj. belonging to bird family which includes the skylark; like
or pertaining to skylark.
alb
n. - long white priestly garment.
albescent
adj. - becoming white; whitish.
albicant
adj. - growing white. albication, n. formation of white patches in plants.
albificative
adj. - able to whiten.
albiflorous
adj. - having white flowers.
alborado
n. - morning song.
albuginea
n. - white of eye; white fibrous tissue. albugineous, adj. like white
of eye or egg.
albugo
n. - Medicine, white spot on cornea of eye; leucoma; Botany, white rust.
albuminuria
n. - presence of albumin in urine.
aleatoric
adj. - (of electronic music) with random elements inside a framework.
aleatory
adj. - dependent on chance; pertaining to gambling or luck.
alectryomachy
n. - cock-fighting.
alegar
n. - sour ale; malt vinegar.
aleger
n. - in good spirits, happy
alembic
n. - ancient distilling apparatus; purifying or transforming apparatus
or act. alembicate, v. distil. alembicated, adj. rather too refined
(of literary style).
aleph
n. - first letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
.
aleurometer
n. - instrument measuring gluten content of flour.
aleurone
n. - protein granules in plant seeds; external protein layer of cereal seeds.
alevin
n. - young fish, especially salmon just hatched.
alexia
n. - inability to read due to aphasia.
alexipharmic
adj.,n. -. (antidote) against poisoning.
alexipyretic
n. - & a. (drug) curative of fever.
alexiteric
n. - & a. preventive of contagion; antidote against poison.
alfet
n. - test in which an accused person plunges his hand into vat of boiling water
alfin
n. - bishop in game of chess
algedonic
adj. - pertaining to pain, especially in association with pleasure.
algedonica
n. - the science of pleasure and pain
algefacient
adj. - cooling.
algid
adj. - chilly, especially during fever. algidity, n.
algific
adj. - making cold.
alginuresis
n. - Medicine, painful urination.
algivorous
adj. - feeding on algae.
algogenic
adj. - producing pain; reducing body temperature.
algolagnia
n. - taking sexual pleasure in inflicting or enduring pain.
algolagnic, adj. algolagnist, n.
algometer
n. - instrument measuring sensitivity to pain. algometry, n.
algophobia
n. - morbid dread of pain.
algor
n. - coldness; shivering fit in fever.
algorism
n. - art of calculating, especially in Arabic numeration; arithmetic.
algorismic, adj.
algous
adj. - pertaining to algae.
alias
adj. - otherwise called; n. assumed name.
alible
adj. - nourishing.
alicyclic
adj. - denoting organic compounds that are both aliphatic and cyclic,
i.e. aliphatic in chemical behaviour but having their carbon atoms in
a ring.
alidade
n. - instrument used in surveying & navigation.
alienism
n. - study of mental disease. alienist, n. expert in alienism;
American, psychiatrist specialising in legal aspects of mental
illness.
aliferous
adj. - having wings.
.
aligerous
adj. - winged.
aliment
n. - food; nourishment. alimental,, adj. affording food. alimentary,
adj. pertaining to food; nourishing; alimentation, n. act of feeding
or being fed. alimentative, adj. nourishing.
alimentotherapy
n. - Medicine, treatment by dieting.
aliped
adj. - having winged feet; n. such an animal.
aliphatic
adj. - pertaining to fat; Chemistry, applied to group of organic
compounds, including the fats, having open-chain structure.
aliquant
adj. - (number) not dividing exactly into another number; not aliquot.
aliquot
adj.,n. -. (number) contained an exact number of times in another
number; equal share; v.t. divide into equal parts.
aliter
phr. - adv. 'otherwise'; Law, requiring a different rule.
alk
n. - resin obtained from turpentine tree.
alkahest
n. - universal solvent sought by alchemists.
alkalify
v. - & v.i. change into alkali.
allagrugous
adj. - grim and ghastly
allantiasis
n. - sausage poisoning.
allantoic
adj. - pertaining to allantois; sausage-shaped. allantoid, adj.
allantois
n. - sac-like fetal membrane developing into umbilical cord and
forming part of placenta.
allative
n. - & a. Grammar, (case) expressing motion towards.
alliaceous
adj. - having smell or taste of garlic; belonging to the onion family of plants.
alligation
n. - act or state of attaching or being attached; Arithmetic, archaic
method of solving 'mixture' problems; 'rule of mixtures'.
allision
n. - intentional collision, especially of ships.
allocatur
n. - Law, (certificate of) allowance of costs.
allochromatic
adj. - pertaining to change of color; variable in color.
allochroous
adj. - changing in color.
allochthonous
adj. - foreign
allocution
n. - authoritative or exhortatory address; Roman Catholic, formal
papal address to College of Cardinals.
allodium
n. - property under absolute ownership; freehold; American, estates in
fee simple. allodial, adj.
allogamy
n. - cross-fertilization. allogamous, adj.
allogeneous
adj. - different in kind. allegeneity, n.
allograft
n. - surgical graft from a non-identical donor.
allograph
n. - writing especially signature, for another; opposite of autograph.
allolalia
n. - form of aphasia in which words are spoken at random.
allomerism
n. - Chemistry, variation in constitution without variation in form.
allometry
n. - study of growth of a part of an organism in relation to the whole.
allonge
n. - Commerce, slip of paper attached to bill of exchange for
additional endorsements.
allonym
n. - other person's name assumed by writer; work published under an
allonym. allonymous, adj.
allophone
n. - any of several speech sounds regarded as variants of a given phoneme.
allopurinal
adj. - synthetic drug used against gout.
allosematic
adj. - having imitative protective coloration.
allotheism
n. - worship of strange gods
allotriophagy
n. - the craving for weird food
allotropy
n. - existence of an element in more than one form. allotrope, n. form
taken by allotropic element. allotropic, adj.
alluvion
n. - impact of water on shore; flood; alluvium.
almagest
n. - comprehensive treatise or textbook, especially on astronomy,
generally the treatise of Ptolemy.
almandine
n. - kind of violet-colored garnet.
almira
n. - furniture for storing, e.g. cupboard or chest.
almoner
n. - official who distributes alms; hospital official who interviews
prospective patients, etc. almonry, n. place for alms distribution.
almucantar
n. - Astronomy, circle of celestial sphere parallel with horizon;
parallel of altitude; telescope that, in rotating, sweeps out curves
of this kind.
alnico
n. - trademark, permanent magnet alloy of aluminium, nickel and
cobalt, with some iron and sometimes copper.
alogia
n. - speech defect due to brain lesion, etc.
alogism
n. - unreasonableness; absurdity
alopecoid
n. - fox-like.
alpestrine
adj. - pertaining to alpine zone.
alphosis
n. - Medicine, lack of skin pigmentation.
alsike
n. - pink-flowered clover, grown as forage.
alsinaceous
adj. - like or pertaining to chickweed; belonging to chickweed family of plants.
altarage
n. - offerings at altar; payment for masses for dead; certain payments
to priest.
altazimuth
n. - instrument measuring altitude and azimuth of heavenly bodies.
alterative
adj. - causing change; Medicine, changing gradually to healthy state;
n. drug or other treatment changing nutritional processes.
alterity
n. - state of being different.
altiloquence
n. - pompous, high-sounding speech.
altisonant
adj. - high-sounding, pompous.
altivolant
adj. - flying high.
alula
n. - part of a bird's wing, corresponding to thumb.
alveary
n. - beehive; outer canal of ear.
alveola
n. - (pl. -lae ) Botany, small cavity, especially in surface of an organ.
alveolar
adj. - pertaining to alveolus; bearing alveolae; Phonetics, pronounced
with tongue and alveolus; n. sound so pronounced. alveolar arch,
tooth-bearing part of upper jaw.
alveolate
adj. - having many deep cavities; like a honey-comb.
alviducous
adj. - purgative.
alvine
adj. - pertaining to belly or intestines.
amadelphous
adj. - gregarious.
amandine
n. - albumin in sweet almonds; cold cream composed of that substance.
amanous
adj. - lacking hands.
amanuensis
n. - (pl. amanuenses ), employee who writes from dictation; secretary.
amaranthine
adj. - eternally beautiful; unfading; everlasting
amarthritis
n. - arthritis of several joints.
amaryllis
n. - belladonna lily; any of several similar plants; poetic name for
country girl.
amative
adj. - amorous.
amatol
n. - explosive composed of T.N.T. and ammonium nitrate.
amatorculist
n. - an insignificant or hypocritical lover
amaurosis
n. - loss of sight without noticeable change in eye, due to failure of
optic nerve; gutta serena. amaurotic, adj.
amazia
n. - absence of breasts dating back to one's birth
ambages
n. -pl. pl. archaic, circuitous path or approach; circumlocution.
ambagious, adj.
ambari
n. - fibre-yielding plant of E Indies; kenaf.
ambatch
n. - spongy wood, often used for rafts
ambisinister
n. - left-handed in both hands; awkward.
ambit
n. - scope, limits.
ambivert
n. - someone who is both extroverted and introverted.
amblyopia
n. - partial loss of sight not due to disease of eye; early stage of amaurosis.
amblysia
n. - phrasing in such a way as to forewarn or to cushion a dire
announcement, but sometimes thereby alarming in itself
ambo
n. - raised place or pulpit in early Christian Church.
ambry
n. - niche containing sacred vessels in chancel.
ambsace
n. - double ace; lowest score; bad luck.
âme damnée
phr. - "lost soul'; dupe; tool; devoted follower.
amebicide
n. - substance killing amoebas.
amelification
n. - formation of tooth-enamel.
ameloblast
n. - enamel-producing cell of tooth.
amende
n. - fine; reparation. amende honorable, public apology; full
reparation for dishonour.
amenorrhoea
n. - abnormal absence or arrest of menstruation.
ament, amentum
n. - catkin. amentaceous, adj. like or composed of catkins.
amentiferous, adj. bearing catkins..
amentia
n. - severe, usually congenital, mental deficiency.
amerce
v. - punish, especially by fine. amercement, n. amerciable, adj.
ametropia
n. - abnormality in optical refraction, resulting in inability to
focus images on the retina. ametropic, adj.
ami de cour
n. - the fairweather or foul-hearted friend
amiantus, amianthus
n. - asbestos with silky fibres. amianthine, adj.
amice
n. - Roman Catholic, white linen square covering shoulders of celebrant priest.
amicicide
n. - murder or murderer of a friend.
amicron
n. - one of the smallest microscopically detectable particles.
amicus humani generis
n. - a philathropist
amine
n. - compound derived from ammonia.
aminobutene
n. - synthetic pain-relieving drug, less addictive than morphine.
amitosis
n. - direct cell division. amitotic, adj.
ammophilous
adj. - sand-loving.
ammotherapy
n. - medical treatment by sand baths.
amour-propre
n. - self-love; self-respect.
ampelideous
adj. - of or like the vine.
ampelotherapy
n. - Medicine, grape cure.
amphibole
n. - rock-forming silicate similar to asbestos and hornblende.
amphibolic
adj. - able to turn backwards or forwards, especially of joints and
limbs; ambiguous; like amphibole.
amphibolite
n. - rock composed of amphibole; hornblende.
Amphibology(done) amphiboly
n. - ambiguous speech; equivocation; quibble. amphibolous, adj.
amphibolous
adj. - susceptible of two meanings; ambiguous; equivocal,e.g. 'we'll
engage them in battle hopefully after our reinforcementsarrive.'
amphichroic, amphichromatic
adj. - producing two colors. amphichrome, n. such a plant. amphichrom, n.
amphicoelous
adj. - Zoology, having both surfaces concave.
amphictyonic
adj. - applied to ancient Greek council of state-deputies.
amphictyany, n. league of adjacent states.
amphicyrtic
adj. - with both sides convex.
amphigean
adj. - found or occuring throughout the world
amphigony
n. - sexual reproduction.
amphigory
n. - nonsensical writing
amphilogism
n. - circumlocution.
amphimixis
n. - interbreeding; joining of germ plasm of two individuals in sexual
reproduction.
amphipodous
adj. - Zoology, having both walking and swimming feet.
amphiprostyle
adj.,n. -. (building) with columns at each end but not at sides.
amphirhinal
adj. - with two nostrils.
amphisbaena
n. - Mythology double-headed serpent able to move in both directions;
kind of worm-like lizard.
amphiscian
n. - & a. (inhabitant) of tropics, whose shadow falls in different
ways according to the time of year.
amphivorous
adj. - both carnivorous and herbivorous.
amphoteric
adj. - of both kinds; Chemistry, reacting as either alkali or acid.
ampicillin
n. - an improved form of penicillin taken by mouth.
amplexus
n. - the mating embrace of frogs and toads.
ampliative
adj. - supplementary.
ampollosity
n. - bombast; pompous style
amurcous
adj. - stinking; filled with dregs
amyctic
adj. - irritating; abrasive
amygdala
n. - (pl. -lae ) any almond-shaped formation in body, e.g. tonsil.
amygdalin
n. - glucoside in bitter almonds, used as an expectorant. amygdaline,
adj. pertaining to almonds; pertaining to tonsils.
amygdaloid
n. - basaltic rock with almond-shaped cavities, adj. almond-shaped.
amylolysis
n. - conversion of starch into soluble products in digestive process.
amylolytic, adj.
amyotonia
n. - deficiency of muscle tone.
anabasis
n. - (pl. -ses ) upward journey; military advance inland, especially
of Persians and Greeks under Cyrus (401 BC); Medicine, first phase of
disease; increase of fever. anabatic, adj. ascending; Meteorology, (of
wind) moving upwards.
anabiosis
n. - return to life after seeming death.
anacampserote
n. - something which can bring back a lost love
anacardic
adj. - pertaining to cashew nut.
anacathartic
n. - & a. (drug) causing vomiting.
anachorism
n. - foreign to a certain locality; geographically impossible
anachronic
adj. - out of (chronological) order; out of date.
anaclitic
adj. - overly dependent on another
anacoluthon
n. - an abrupt shift in midsentence in syntax to another construction
anacreontic
adj. - jovial, festive and amatory
anacrusis
n. - unaccented syllable(s) at beginning of verse-line, or such notes
at beginning of piece of music. anacrustic, adj.
anadem
n. - band; wreath; fillet.
anadiplosis
n. - rhetorical device of repetition of last word of one clause at
beginning of next.
anadipsia
n. - Medicine, abnormal thirst. anadipsic, adj.
anadipsic
adj. - pertaining to excessive thirst
anadromous
adj. - ascending, especially of fish that ascend rivers to spawn.
anemotrophy
n. - insufficient nourishment of blood.
anaeretic, aneretic
adj. - Medicine destructive.
anaerophyte
n. - Botany, anaerobic plant.
anagalactic
adj. - Astronomy, beyond our galaxy; not galactic.
anagapesis
n. - lack of interest in former loved ones
anagenesis
n. - tissue regeneration.
anagnorisis
n. - denouement in play, arising from recognition.
anagoge, anagogy
n. - spiritual exaltation; mystical interpretation of sacred works
such as the Bible. anagogic(al), adj. mystical.
anagogig
adj. - relating to things spiritual and mystical; occult;gnostic
analects
n. - selected parts of a literary work or works
analects, analecta
n. -pl. pl. collection of writings; literary gleanings. analectic, adj.
analemma
n. - graduated scale in figure-of-eight, showing difference between
actual time and that shown by the sun.
analeptic
adj. n. - Medicine, restorative.
anallagmatic
adj. - Mathematics, unchanged in shape by inversion.
analphabet
n. - an illiterate, or one who is literally ignorant of the abc's
anamnesis
n. - act of reminiscence; history of medical case. anamnestic, adj.
anamnestic
adj. - reminiscent; aiding the memory
anamorphosis
n. - distorted image only recognisable if viewed through appropriate
device; method of making such images; Biology, evolution by slow
changes; Botany, abnormal change of shape. anamorphoscope, n. device
for viewing anamorphosis.
anandrious
adj. - impotent.
anandrous
adj. - Botany, without stamens.
ananias
n. - a teller of untruths; liar (from a follower of the apostles who
was struck dead for lying)
ananthous
adj. - having no flowers.
ananym
n. - name written backwards as pseudonym.
anaphora
n. - repitition of a word or phrase in successive clauses,sentences,
or paragraphs for rhetorical effect, e.g. "a sure man,a sure
alternative, a sure vote!"
anaphrodisia
n. - absence of sexual desire. anaphrodisiac, n. & a. (drug) reducing
sexual desire.
anaphroditic
adj. - asexually produced.
anaplasia
n. - reversion of plant or animal cells to a simpler form.
anapodictic
adj. - undemonstrable
anaptotic
adj. - Philology, with weakened or no case inflections.
anaptyxis
n. - insertion of a vowel between two consonants for ease of pronunciation.
anarthrous
adj. - Zoology, non-jointed; Grammar, without the article (of Greek nouns).
anastomosis
n. - (pl. -ses ) intercommunication between branches of blood-vessels,
nerves, etc., or of rivers; formation of network. anastomotic, adj.
anastrophe
n. - rhetorical device of reversing natural order of words; inversion.
anatocism
n. - compound interest; taking such interest.
anatreptic
adj. - defeating, refuting
anaudia
n. - loss of voice.
anautarchia
n. - perpetual unhappiness
ancilla
n. - a sidekick who helps another to accomplish or master something
difficult or complicated
ancipital, ancipitous
adj. - having two faces or edges; double-headed; twofold.
ancistroid
n. - having shape of hook.
ancon
n. - Architecture, one of a pair of brackets supporting a cornice.
ancoral
adj. - like an anchor; hooked.
ancylostomiasis, ankylostomiasis
n. - infestation with hookworms, leading to anaemia.
andabate
n. - one who is hoodwinked, in the dark or virtually blind to the
realities of a situation
androcentric
adj. - revolving around men; regarding the male sex as primary.
androcephalous
adj. - with human head.
androcracy
n. - domination of society by men. androcratic, adj.
androgyne
n. - hermaphrodite; effeminate man; masculine woman. androgynism, n.
androlepsia
n. - international governmental kidnapping forpolitical gain
andromedotoxin
n. - a poisonous substance extracted from plants of the heath family
and used in medicine to lower high blood pressure.
androphagous
adj. - cannibal.
androphilic
adj. - preferring the male sex, or humans rather than animals.
androphobia
n. - dread or hatred of men.
androphonomania
n. - homicidal mania.
androphorous
adj. - Zoology, having male organs.
androsphinx
n. - figure with man's head and lion's body.
androsterone
n. - androgenic steroid male hormone.
anechoic
adj. - free from echoes and reverberations; sound-absorbent.
anele
v. - archaic anoint; administer extreme unction to.
anemochord
n. - kind of pianoforte having strings vibrated by air currents.
anemograph
n. - recording anemometer. anemogram, n. record made by an anemograph.
anemophilous
adj. - Botany, pollinated by wind. anemophile, n. such plant.
anemophily, n. such pollination.
anemophobia
n. - morbid dread of high winds, hurricanes, etc.
anemoscope
n. - any instrument indicating direction of wind.
anencephaly
n. - state of lacking a brain or a part of the brain. anencephalic,
anencephalous, adj.
anenterous
adj. - lacking intestine or stomach.
anergy
n. - absence of energy; loss of immunity.
aneroid
adj. - not using liquid. aneroid barometer, instrument measuring
atmospheric pressure by recording the movements of the surface of an
air- tight box.
anesis
n. - Medicine, abatement of symptoms; Music, tuning to lower pitch.
aneurin
n. - thiamine.
anfractuous
adj. - winding, tortuous
angary
n. - right of belligerent to take or destroy property of neutral,
subject to compensation.
angelus
n. - prayer(s) said at early morning, noon and sunset. angelus bell,
bell calling to prayer at such times.
angiitis
n. - Medicine, inflammation of vessel.
angioid
n. - like blood or lymph vessel.
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angioma
n. - tumour due to dilated blood vessels. angiomatosis, n. state of
having many angiomas. angiomatous, adj.
angiospasm
n. - sudden contraction of blood vessels. angiospastic, a.; n.
substance causing angiospasm.
angiotomy
n. - dissection of or incision into blood vessel.
angostura
n. - Brazilian tree and its bark; tonic fluid extracted from the bark.
anguine, anguinous
adj. - pertaining to or like a snake.
anhedonia
n. - the inability to be happy
anhedral
n. - denoting the angle at which the main planes of an aircraft are
inclined downwards to the lateral axis.
anhelation
n. - shortness of breath.
aniconic
adj. - without idols; (of objects of worship) portrayed symbolically
rather than representationally. aniconism, n. worship of object
symbolising but not representing god; iconoclasm.
anicular
adj. - old-womanish, weak; feeble-minded
anidian
adj. - (of an embryo) shapeless.
anile
adj. - like a very old woman; imbecile.
anililagnia
n. - sexual desire for older women
aniline
n. - poisonous substance obtained from indigo, nitro-benzene, etc.,
used in manufacture of dyes; a. applied to dye prepared with aniline.
animadversion
n. - generally adverse criticism
animadvert
v. -i. take notice; comment; criticize; reprove. animadversion, n.
anion
n. - negatively charged ion. anionic, adj.
aniseed
n. - dried fruit of anise; cordial made from it.
anisometropia
n. - condition of eyes having unequal refractive power. anisometropic, adj.
anisosthenic
adj. - of unequal strength.
ankus
n. - elephant goad with hook and spike.
ankylosis, anchylosis
n. - joining together of bones or hard parts; resulting stiffness.
ankylose, v.i. (of bones) to fuse or stiffen in this way.
ankylostoma
n. - lockjaw.
ankyroid, ancyroid
adj. - having shape of hook.
anlace
n. - short double-edged sword or long dagger.
annatto
n. - reddish dye used for coloring foodstuffs; tropical American tree
from seeds of which it is obtained.
anneal
v. - strengthen; temper, especially by subjecting to great heat and
slow cooling.
annectant, annectent
adj. - connecting; Biology, linking, especially of species.
annomination
n. - play on words; pun.
annos vixit
phr. - 'lived (so many) years'; was aged (abbr. a.v.).
annotine
n. - one-year-old, especially bird after first moult.
annuent
adj. - nodding, especially of muscles that nod the head.
annulism
n. - ringed structure.
annunciate
v. - announce; proclaim. Annunciation, n. announcement of the
Incarnation to Mary, mother of Jesus; feast celebrated on Lady Day
(March 25); Annunciation lily, madonna lily. annunciative,
annunciatory, adj.
anoa
n. - wild ox of Celebes.
anobiid
n. - one of the family of beetles which includes the deathwatch and
the furniture beetle.
anocathartic
adj.,n. -. (drug) causing vomiting or expectoration.
anode
n. - Electricity, positive terminal; electrode by which current
enters, or to which electrons flow. anodal, anodic, adj. anodize, v.
coat with protective film electrolytically.
anodon
n. - hingeless and toothless bivalve; freshwater mussel.
anodontia
n. - absence of teeth.
anodyne
adj. - painless, soothing
anoesia, anoia
n. - imbecility.
anoesis
n. - Psychology, mere reception of impressions without understanding
or intellectual effort.
anoestrus
n. - period between two periods of sexual activity in animals. anoestrous, adj.
anoetic
adj. - pertaining to anoesis.
anogenic
adj. - Geology, formed from below; plutonic.
anolyte
n. - Electricity, portion of electrolyte about anode.
anomalistic
adj. - Astronomy, pertaining to anomaly. anomalistic month, interval
between two perigees of moon. anomalistic year, interval between two
perihelion passages of Earth.
anomaloscope
n. - device for testing for color blindness.
anonymuncule
n. - an insignificant anonymous writer
anoopsia, anopsia
n. - upward squint.
anopheles
n. - kind of mosquito. anopheline, adj.
anopisthographic
adj. - bearing writing, etc., on one side only.
anorchous
adj. - without testicles; or gutless
anosmia, anosphresia
n. - loss of sense of smell. anosmic, adj.
anosognosia
n. - the lack of interest or belief in the existence of one's disease
anourous
adj. - lacking a tail, especially applied to frog.
anovulatory
adj. - not associated with ovulation; suppressing ovulation.
ansate
adj. - having a handle. ansate cross, ankh. ansation, n. handlemaking.
Anschauung
n. - intuition; sense awareness of perception
anserine
adj. - like or pertaining to a goose; foolish.
antalgic
adj.,n. -. (drug) alleviating pain.
antanaclasis
n. - a phrasing in which the topic or key word is repeated, sometimes
with a different sense or connotation, for a play on words, e.g. "the
business of america is business"
antapex
n. - Astronomy, point 180° from that to which sun is moving.
antarthritic
adj. - (drug) used against gout.
ante mortem
phr. - 'before death'.
antecedaneous
adj. - before in time.
antefix
n. - (pl. -xes, -xa) ornament at end of classical building, hiding
ends of roof tiles.
antelucan
adj. - pertaining to or occurring before dawn
antemetic
adj.,n. -. (drug) preventive of vomiting.
antemundane
adj. - before the Creation.
antenatal
adj. - before birth.
antenuptial
adj. - before marriage.
antepaschal
adj. - before Easter or the Passover.
antepast
n. - foretaste, especially a first course.
antependium
n. - altar frontal; similar cloth on pulpit or lectern.
antepenult
n. - antepenultimate syllable or word. antepenultimate, adj. third from last.
antephialtic
adj. - preventive of nightmares
anteprandial
adj. - before dinner.
antevenient
adj. - preceding.
antevert
v. - to displace a body organ forwards. anteversion, n.
antevocalic
adj. - immediately preceding a vowel.
anthelion
n. - kind of solar halo opposite sun; antisun.
anthelmintic
n. - (remedy) used against intestinal worms.
anthemion
n. - (pl. -ia) flat cluster of leaves or flowers as ornament in
classical art; Architecture, honeysuckle ornament.
anther
n. - Botany, male, pollen-bearing organ of flower. antheral, adj.
antherozoid, n. male sexual element in lower plants; spermatozoid.
antheridium
n. - (pl. -dia) male organ in cryptogams.
anthesis
n. - the process or period of flowering.
anthimeria
n. - the using of one part of speech for another for a strking effect
anthomania
n. - great love of flowers.
anthophagous
adj. - feeding on flowers.
anthophilous, anthophilian
adj. - flower-loving; feeding on flowers.
anthophorous
adj. - Botany, flower-bearing.
anthorism
n. - a counterdefinition, or a delineation or description differing
from that of an opponent
anthotaxy
n. - Botany, disposition of flowers in cluster.
anthozoan
n. - sea-anemone; coral polyp; any creature of the natural class
Anthozoa. anthozoan, anthozoic, adj. anthozooid, n. coral polyp.
anthracoid
adj. - resembling anthrax; resembling carbon, coal or charcoal.
anthropogenesis, anthropogeny
n. - study of human generation or evolution. anthropogenetic, adj.
anthropogenic
adj. - pertaining to the effect of human beings on the natural world.
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anthropoglot
n. - animal with human-like tongue; parrot.
anthropolatry
n. - worship, deification of a human being.
anthropolith, anthropolite
n. - petrified human remains.
anthropometry
n. - measurement of parts and functions of human body, especially as
part of study of evolution.
anthropopathy
n. - ascribing human feelings to a god or inanimate object. anthropopathic, adj.
anthropophaginia
n. - a cannibal
anthropophobia
n. - fear of meeting people; fear of society
anthropophuism
n. - ascribing human nature to God.
anthropopsychism
n. - ascribing human-like soul to nature.
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Anthroposophy(done)
n. - knowledge of human nature; human wisdom; form of mysticism akin
to theosophy. anthroposophical, adj.
anthropotheism
n. - belief that gods have human nature or are only deified human beings.
anthropotomy
n. - human anatomy.
antibasilican
adj. - opposed to principle of monarchy.
antiblastic
adj. - opposing growth, especially of harmful substances; giving
natural immunity.
antibrachial
adj. - pertaining to forearm.
antibromic
adj. - causing the elimination of odors; deodorizing
anticholinergic
adj. - blocking nerve impulses, in order to control intestinal spasms.
antichresis
n. - (pl. -ses ) possession and enjoyment of mortgaged property by
mortgagee in lieu of interest payments.
anticlastic
adj. - having transverse and opposite curvatures of surface.
anticline
n. - Geology, upward fold. anticlinal, adj. anticlinorium, n.
arch-shaped group of anticlines and synclines.
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anticryptic
adj. - Zoology, having protective resemblance to environment.
antidromic
adj. - (of nerve fibres) conducting impulses in the opposite direction
to normal; Botany, twining towards right and left in members of one
species.
antifebrile
n. - & a. preventive or curative of fever.
antigalactic
adj.,n. -. preventive of milk-secretion.
antihydropic
adj.,n. -. (drug) used against jaundice.
antilapsarian
adj.,n. -. (person) denying doctrine of the fall of Man.
antilibration
n. - counterpoising.
antilogarithm
n. - number of which logarithm is a power of 10 or other base (abbr. antilog.).
antilogism
n. - Logic, statement containing three propositions two of which
contradict the third. antilogistic, adj.
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antimetabole
n. - repetition of words or ideas in different order.
antimetathesis
n. - repetition of parts of antithesis in reverse order. antimetathetic, adj.
antineuritic
adj.,n. -. preventive of neuritis, especially applied to vitamin B or
food containing it.
antinomian
n. - one believing that belief in Christ frees someone from normal
legal and moral obligations.
antinomy
n. - an inconsistency, or built-in contradiction; opposition of one
law to another
antiodontalgic
adj.,n. -. (drug) used against toothache.
antiorgastic
adj.,n. -. sedative.
antipedobaptist
adj.,n. -. (person) denying validity of infant baptism.
antiperistasis
n. - opposition; resistance; denying an inference while admitting the
fact on which it is based.
antiphlogistic
n. - & a. (drug) used against inflammation.
antiphon
n. - a response said or sung as part of the liturgy; a psalm etc. sung
alternately by two choirs. antiphonal, adj. (of music) sung
alternately.
antiphrasis
n. - Rhetoric use of a word in the opposite sense to its usual one,
for humorous or ironic purposes.
antipodagric
adj. - used against gout.
antipruritic
adj.,n. -. (drug) alleviating itching.
antipsychiatry
n. - treatment of mental illness not relying on drugs, etc.
antipyrotic
adj.,n. -. (treatment) used against burns.
antirachitic
adj. - preventive of rickets, especially applied to vitamin D or food
containing it.
antiscians
n. -pl. pl. persons living on opposite sides of equator but in same longitude.
antiscorbutic
n. - & a. preventive of scurvy, especially applied to vitamin C or
food containing it.
antisideric
adj.,n. -. (substance) counteracting effect of iron.
antispast
n. - metrical foot comprising an iambus followed by a trochee.
antistasis
n. - the defense of an action that prevented something worse from happening
antistrophe
n. - stanza answering strophe in Greek chorus, recited during movement
from left to right. antistrophic, adj.
antistrumatic
n. - remedy for scrofula.
antithalian
adj. - disapproving of festivity and laughter.
antithrombin
n. - substance in blood preventing coagulation of blood.
antitoxic
adj. - neutralizing poison. antitoxin, n. antibody, especially
obtained from infected animal.
antitropic
adj. - Zoology, symmetrically reversed, as right and left hands.
antitrope, n. such appendage. antitropy, n. state of being antitropic.
antitussive
n. - & a. (drug, etc.) that alleviates or prevents coughing.
antitype
n. - object or person prefigured by the type or symbol. antitypic,
antitypical, adj.
antitypy
n. - resistance to penetration or alteration.
antizymic
adj.,n. -. preventive of fermentation. antizymotic n.
antoecial
adj. - applied to places in opposite hemispheres but in same latitude
and longitude. antoecians, n.pl. persons living in such places.
antonomasia
n. - literary device of using descriptive epithet or phrase instead of
person's name; using proper name as epithet.
antrorse
adj. - Biology, turning upward and forward.
antrum
n. - (pl. -ra) sinus; cavity, especially leading into nose.
anuptaphobia
n. - fear of staying single
anuran
n. - any of the order of amphibians which includes frogs and toads.
anuresis
n. - inability to urinate. anuretic a.
anuria
n. - inability to produce urine.
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aolist
n. - a person who claims to be inspired--to feel within that sudden
wind of genius or artistic urgency; the wind is sometimesmore like a
draft
aorist
n. - Grammar, (tense) signifying happening in unrestricted or
unspecified past. aoristic, adj. indefinite; pertaining to aorist.
apaesthesia
n. - loss of feeling in limb.
apaetesis
n. - the angry putting aside of a matter to be takenup later
apagoge
n. - Mathematics, argument by reductio ad absurdum. apogogic(-al), adj.
apagogic
adj. - pertaining to a proof by reductio ad absurdum; an indirect
demonstration of a proof
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apanthropy
n. - dislike of being with people; love of solitude
apatetic
adj. - Zoology, having protective imitative coloration or shape.
apercu
n. - a quick, penetrating insight; immediate impression,intuition, or estimate
aperient
n. - & a. laxative (medicine). aperitive, adj.
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aphaeresis
n. - cutting off beginning of word. aphaeretic, adj.
aphagia
n. - inability to swallow.
apheliotropic
adj. - growing away from the sun. apheliotropism, n.
aphemia
n. - loss of power of articulate speech; motor aphasia.
aphephobe
n. - the person who doesn't like being touched
aphesis
n. - (pl. -ses) loss of unaccented vowel at beginning of word. aphetic, adj.
aphilophrenia
n. - a feeling that one is unloved or unwanted
aphis
n. - (pl. -ides, plant-louse; member of genus Aphis which includes
greenfly, etc. aphidiphagous,(done) adj. feeding on aphides .
aphonia
n. - loss of voice. aphonic, adj. voiceless.
aphotic
adj. - without light.
aphrasia
n. - inability to speak, or to make intelligible phrases.
aphylly
n. - absence of leaves. Aphyllous(done), adj.
apian
adj. - pertaining to bees.
apical
adj. - at the summit or tip; Phonetics, pertaining to a consonant
formed with help of tip of tongue. apicad, adv. towards the summit.
apiculate
adj. - (of leaves) having short point at tip.
apiculture
n. - bee-keeping. apiculturist, n.
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aplanat
n. - aplanatic lens. aplanatic, adj. free from spherical aberration.
aplanatism, n.
aplasia
n. - Medicine, incomplete development. aplastic, adj.
aplotomy
n. - simple surgical cut.
apocarteresis
n. - suicide by starvation
apocatastisis
n. - restoration; Medicine, relapse; subsidence; Astronomy, reversion
to same position; Theology, conversion of whole world to Christianity.
apocentre
n. - point in orbit opposite centre of attraction. apocentric, adj.
different from archetype. apocentricity, n.
apocope
n. - cutting off end of word. apocopate, v. & a.
apocrisis
n. - replying to one's own arguments
apocrustic
adj.,n. -. astringent (medicine).
apocynthion
n. - point in an orbit of the moon which is farthest from the moon's centre.
apodeictic, apodictic
adj. - evident; demonstrable; incontrovertible.
apodiabolosis
n. - diabolical treatment
apodictic
adj. - absolutely certain or necessarily true;uncontestable
apodixis
n. - indisputable evidence or proof
apodosis
n. - (pl. -ses ) main clause in conditional sentence.
apodysophilia
n. - feverish desire to undress
apogaic
adj. - pertaining to apogee.
apogamy
n. - Biology, interbreeding in a separated group which has no
characteristic differentiating it from parents; Botany, non-sexual
reproduction in some ferns.
apogeny
n. - Botany, sterility. apogenous, adj.
apogeotropic
adj. - Botany, bending up or away from the ground. apogeotropism, n.
apograph
n. - copy; facsimile. apographal, adj.
apolaustic
adj. - given to enjoyment; self indulgent
apolegamic
adj. - Biology, pertaining to selection, especially sexual.
apologue
n. - parable, moral tale.
apolune
n. - point in the orbit of body revolving round the moon that is
farthest from the centre of the moon.
apomecometer
n. - instrument measuring height and distance.
apomict
n. - organism reproducing by, or formed by, apomixis.
apomixis
n. - non-sexual reproduction. apomictic, adj.
apomnemonysis
n. - quoting an approved authority
apophasis
n. - rhetorical device of emphasizing a fact, by pretending to ignore
or deny it.
apophthegm
n. - brief wise saying. apophthegmatic, adj.
apophyge
n. - Architecture, curve between shaft and base, or between shaft &
capital, in a column.
apophysis
n. - offshoot; projecting part, especially of bone. apophyseal,
apophysial, adj. apophysate, adj. Botany, having an apophysis.
aporia
n. - professing to be at a loss as to what to say, where to begin, or
how to express something; true or feigned doubt or deliberation about
an issue
aposematic
adj. - Zoology, giving warning, applied to coloration, odour, etc., of animals.
aposiopesis
n. - a conscious breaking off in the middle of a sentence because of
emotion, a dramatic change in thought, or, sometimes, a shifting to
understatement or irony
apostasy
n. - desertion from religion or similar body.
apostate
n. - & a. (person) committing apostasy. apostatize, v.i. change one's
religious allegiance; forsake one's principles.
apostil(le)
n. - comment; note in margin.
apotelesm
n. - casting of horoscope.
apothegm
n. - a concise formulation of a truth; an aphorism
apothem
n. - perpendicular from centre of regular polygon to any of its sides.
apothesis
n. - Medicine, setting of broken limb.
apotropaic
adj. - averting or combating evil. apotropaism, n. such magical practice.
apotypic
adj. - differing from type.
appanage, apanage
n. - perquisite; provision, such as land or office, for younger son(s)
of king or high official.
apparitor
n. - herald; harbinger; officer executing order of ecclesiastical court.
apperception
n. - perception of inner meaning, and of relation of new facts to
facts already known; mental assimilation; state of being conscious of
perceiving. apperceptive, adj. apperceive, v.
appersonation
n. - delusion of insane person that he is another, generally famous, person.
appetence, appetency
n. - strong desire; craving; powerful instinct. appetent, adj.
appetible
adj. - desirable. appetition, n. yearning.
applanate
adj. - flattened. applanation, n.
appoggiatura
n. - Music, short note placed before a longer one. short appoggiatura,
acciaccatura.
apport
n. - tangible object caused to appear by spiritualist medium;
production of such object.
appose
v. - to place (things) side by side or next to each other.
apposite
adj. - appropriate, fitting, apt, suitable
apposition
n. - juxtaposition; Grammar, putting two nouns or phrases together as
attributive or adjunct terms; relationship of such nouns or phrases.
appositive, adj.
appulse
n. - act of striking against; Astronomy, close approach of two
celestial objects.
apraxia
n. - impaired ability to execute complex muscular movements.
aprosexia
n. - inability to concentrate on anything
apse
n. - rounded extension at end of building, especially at east end of
church; Astronomy, apsis.
apsidal
adj. - having shape of apse; pertaining to apsides.
apsis
n. - (pl. -sides ) Astronomy, point at which heavenly body is most or
least distant from centre of attraction. higher apsis, most distant
point. lower apsis, least distant point.
apteral
adj. - (of classical temple) having columns at front or back only; (of
church) lacking aisles: apterous.
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apterygial
adj. - wingless; finless.
aptronym
n. - a name befitting the occupation, role or nature of a person or
character, e.g. doctor sawbones
aptyalism
n. - lack or absence of saliva.
apyretic
adj. - without fever. apyrexy, n. absence or abatement of fever.
.
aqua regia
n. - 'royal water'; mixture of hydrochloric and nitric acids which
dissolves some metals. Used in etching and by alchemists to dissolve
gold.
aquarelle
n. - method of painting in transparent water-color; such painting.
aquarellist, n. artist painting aquarelles.
aquarist
n. - person who studies aquatic life; owner of an aquarium.
aquatint
n. - (print made by) a method of etching having effect of water- color drawing.
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araneid, araneidan
n. - spider; a. pertaining to spiders. araneiform, adj. shaped like a spider.
Araneous(done), araneose
adj. - like a spider's web; transparent; delicate.
araphorostic, araphostic
adj. - seamless.
arbalest, arbalist
n. - cross-bow with mechanism for drawing string.
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arborescent
adj. - branched; having shape or growth like a tree. arborescence, n.
arborical
adj. - pertaining to trees.
arboricole
n. - living in trees.
arborize
v. - take on or give tree-like shape. arborization, n.
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arbuscle, arbuscula
n. - dwarf tree; shrub-like tree. arbuscular, adj.
arbuscule
n. - tuft of hairs.
arbustum
n. - (pl. -ta) copse; orchard.
arbutus
n. - strawberry tree.
arcate
adj. - shaped like a bow. arcature, n. small or blind arcade.
arc-boutant
n. - (pl. arcs-boutants [pron. same]) flying buttress.
archaeozoic
adj. - living in the earliest geological era.
archecentric
adj. - pertaining to archetype.
archeolatry
n. - worship of archaic customs, expressions, etc.
archididascalos, archididascalus
n. - headteacher of school etc. archididascalian, adj.
archiepiscopal
adj. - pertaining to an archbishop.
archil, orchil
n. - dye obtained from certain lichens; lichens yielding this.
archimage, archimagus
n. - (pl. -gi ) great magician.
archimandrite
n. - superior of large monastery of Greek Church; abbot.
architectonic
adj. - pertaining to architecture, or to the systematization of
knowledge; resembling architecture; structural; showing constructive
ability; n. pl. science of architecture; constructive skill.
architrave
n. - beam resting directly on columns; epistyle; moulding at head and
sides of window or doorway.
archivolt
n. - curved moulding on face of arch.
archizoic
adj. - pertaining to earliest living things.
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archon
n. - a chief magistrate of ancient Athens. archontic, adj.
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arctogeal
adj. - pertaining to the region including Europe, Africa, Asia and N America.
arctoid
n. - like a bear.
arctophile
n. - person who loves or collects teddy bears.
arcuate, arcual
adj. - bow-shaped. arcuation, n.
arcus senilis
n. - 'senile ring'; whitish ring round iris in eyes of old people.
areca
n. - several palm trees, especially the betel. areca nut, betel-nut.
.
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arenilitic
adj. - pertaining to sandstone.
arenoid
adj. - like sand.
arenose
adj. - sandy; containing much sand.
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Areopagus
n. - highest legal tribunal in ancient Athens; any important tribunal.
Areopagite, n. member of such a tribunal.
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argent
n. - silver; silver-like. argentate, argenteous, argentic, argentine,
argentous, adj. argentiferous, adj. yielding silver. argentine, n.
silvery metal. argentometer, n. instrument measuring strength of
silver solutions.
argil
n. - clay, especially used in pottery. argillaceous, argillous, adj.
containing clay; clay-like. argilliferous, adj. yielding or containing
clay. argilloid, adj. like clay.
argol, argal
n. - crust formed on long-kept wine.
Argus
n. - monster with a hundred eyes; careful watcher. Argus-eyed, adj.
ever watchful. argus, n. any of several small brown butterflies with
eyespots.
argute
adj. - quick; sharp; shrill; astute; subtle.
argyrocephalous
adj. - with silvery or shining head.
arietta
n. - short aria.
ariose
adj. - characterized by or like melody.
aristarch
n. - severe critic.
aristarchian
adj. - extremely critical
Aristology(done)
n. - art or science of dining . aristological, adj. aristologist, n.
aristophrenia
n. - condition of having a superior intellect
arithmancy
n. - divination by numbers.
arithmocracy
n. - rule of the numerical majority
arithmogram
n. - number composed of numerical values assigned to letters in a
word. arithmocracy, n. government by the majority. . arithmomania, n.
obsession with numbers, especially compulsion to count things.
arithmometer, n. early adding machine.
armiferous
adj. - carrying weapons or arms.
armiger
n. - armour-bearer; knight's squire; person bearing heraldic arms.
armigerous, armigeral, adj.
armillary
adj. - like, pertaining to or composed of rings. armillary sphere,
celestial globe composed only of rings marking equator, tropics, etc.
armipotent
adj. - having strong armament. armipotence, n.
armisonant, armisonous
adj. - resounding with the clash of arms.
arnica
n. - genus of plants including the mountain tobacco; tincture obtained
from mountain tobacco used for bruises, etc.
aroint
v. -i. archaic, (imperative) begone!
arquebus(e), harquebus
n. - ancient hand gun supported on tripod. arquebusier, n. soldier
armed with arquebus.
arras
n. - tapestry, especially covering wall. arrasene, n. embroidery
material of silk and wool.
arrect
adj. - raised up; attentive.
arrha
n. - (pl. -ae ) pledge; earnest money. arrhal, adj.
arrhenotoky
n. - to only give birth to boys
arrhizal
adj. - rootless.
arrière-ban
n. - summoning by king of his feudatories and their vassals to
military service; vassals so called; the nobility.
arrière-pensée
n. - hidden meaning; ulterior motive; mental reservation.
arris
n. - sharp edge formed by two angled surfaces, especially edge of
fluting on column. arriswise, adj. edgewise.
arriviste
n. - pushful, ambitious person.
arrogate
v. - take or claim beyond one's rights. arrogation, n.
arrondissement
n. - largest subdivision of a French department.
arsinotherium
n. - rhinoceros-like fossil mammal.
arthralgia
n. - pain in a joint.
arthrosis
n. - joint or articulation connecting two bones.
articular
adj. - pertaining to joints.
artuate
v. - to tear limb from limb
arum
n. - large-spathed plant, called 'cuckoo-pint' or 'lords and ladies'.
arum lily, calla lily.
arundinaceous
adj. - like or pertaining to a reed.
arvicoline
adj. - living in the fields or countryside. arviculture, n.
cultivation of fields.
ascian
n. - one without a shadow: applied to the inhabitants of the torrid
zone, where the sun is vertical at noon for a few days every year
ascidian
n. - sea-squirt.
aseismic
adj. - free from earthquakes; designed to withstand earthquakes.
aseismatic, adj. reducing or withstanding effect of earthquakes.
ashlar
n. - squared building stone; stonework composed of these; thin,
dressed stone for facing rough wall. ashlaring, n. partition in attic
to cut off angle made by rafters and floor.
asomatous
adj. - incorporeal; lacking body. asomatophyte, n. Botany, plant in
which body and reproductive cells are undifferentiated.
asparaginous
adj. - pertaining to, like or eaten like asparagus.
asperate
adj. - rather rough; v.t. make rough. asperation, n.
asperge
v. - sprinkle. asperges, n. Roman Catholic, ceremony of sprinkling holy water.
aspergil, aspergill(um)
n. - Roman Catholic, brush-like implement used to sprinkle holy water.
aspergillus
n. - (pl. -li ) minute fungus forming mould. aspergilliform,
aspergillosis, n. animal disease caused by aspergilli.
asperity
n. - roughness, acrimony.
aspermatism, aspermia
n. - failure of male generative powers. aspermic, adj.
aspersorium
n. - Roman Catholic, vessel holding holy water; aspergil.
asperulous
adj. - Botany, rather rough.
asphalia
n. - emphatic guaranteeing of what one is saying, as by assuring
others, wagering about the truth of something
aspheterism
n. - doctrine that there should be no private property.
asphodel
n. - kind of liliaceous plant; daffodil; Literature, flower of the
Elysian fields. bog asphodel, British grass-like moorland plant.
aspidate
adj. - shield-shaped.
asportation
n. - removal, especially crime of removing property.
assecuration
n. - marine insurance.
assentaneous
adj. - acquiescent.
assentation
n. - ready, insincere assent. assentatious, adj. willing to assent.
assentator, n. flatterer; one assenting insincerely or conniving.
assentatory, adj.
asseverate
v. - to state positively, emphatically
assibilate
v. - pronounce with sibilant sound or hiss. assibilation, n.
assiduity
n. - unremitting care; unflagging or obsequious attention. assiduous, adj.
assoil(zie)
v. - pardon; absolve; acquit; release. assoilment, n.
assuetude
n. - custom or habit
assumpsit
n. - Law, contract (not under seal); suit for breach of such contract.
assurgent
adj. - ascending; Botany, upward-curving. assurgency, n.
astasia
n. - inability, due to imperfect muscular co-ordination, to keep erect.
astatic
adj. - unstable; in neutral equilibrium; Electricity, not tending to
assume a definite position. astatic pair, pair of magnetized needles
of opposite charges..
astatine
n. - radioactive element of the halogen group.
asteism
n. - an ingeniously polite insult
asteria
n. - gem cut so as to show asterism.
asterial
adj. - starlike; n. a fossil starfish.
asteriated
adj. - having star-like rays.
asterism
n. - constellation of stars; group of asterisks; appearance of
star-like reflection by certain crystals. asterismal, adj.
asthenia
n. - debility. asthenic, adj. weak; of slender build; weakening.
asthenophobe
n. - the circumspect stoic, the stiff-upper-lip afraid to admit to
weakness of any sort
asthenopia
n. - optical weakness, especially muscular. asthenopic, adj.
asthenosphere
n. - hypothetical layer of fluid matter below rigid surface of earth's crust.
astomatal, astomous
adj. - having no stomata.
astragal
n. - ankle-bone; rounded beading or moulding on column; pl., dice.
astragalar, adj. astragalomancy, n. divination by ankle-bones or dice.
astragalus n. Medicine, ankle-bone.
astrakhan
n. - closely-curled black or grey fur from fleece of karakul lambs:
cloth resembling this.
astraphobia, astrapophobia
n. - morbid fear of thunder and lightning.
astrict
v. - astringe. astriction, n. astrictive, adj.
astringe
v. - bind; brace; restrict; constipate.
astrogate
v. - guide (spaceship, etc.); v.i. navigate in space.
astrognosy
n. - knowledge of fixed stars.
astrogony
n. - theory of the origin of the stars.
astroid
n. - star-shaped.
astrolatry
n. - worship of stars.
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astrophile, astrophil
n. - person fond of learning about stars.
astucious
adj. - having keen perception; of astute and penetrating discernment
astylar
adj. - Architecture, lacking columns.
asymptote
n. - line approaching a curve but meeting it only at infinity. asymptotic, adj.
asyndetic
adj. - not connected by conjunctions: I came, I saw, I conquered
asyndeton
n. - rhetorical device of omitting conjunctions. asyndetic, adj.
asynergy, asynergia
n. - Medicine, lack of co-ordination, especially of muscles.
asyngamy
n. - Botany, failure to effect cross-fertilization due to asynchronous
development of flowers.
atactic
adj. - asyntactic; irregular; pertaining to ataxy.
ataraxia
n. - imperturbability; utter calmness
ataraxic
adj. - of or pertaining to freedom from anxiety or emotional
disturbance; calm and imperturbable
ataraxy, ataraxia
n. - tranquillity of mind; imperturbability. ataractic, ataraxic, n. &
a. (drug) able to calm or tranquillize.
ataxaphasia
n. - inability, due to imperfect muscular co-ordination, to speak sentences.
ataxy, ataxia
n. - inability to co-ordinate muscles; lack of order. ataxic, adj.
ateknia
n. - childlessness.
atelectasis
n. - incomplete dilatation or collapse of lungs.
ateliosis
n. - imperfect development; dwarfism.
atelophobe
n. - the driven perfectionist, one with a morbid fear of having things
less than perfect
athanasia
n. - immortality
atheling
n. - Anglo-Saxon noble; prince, especially heir apparent.
athermanous
adj. - impervious to radiant heat. athermancy, n.
atherogenic
adj. - leading to atheroma.
atheroma
n. - fatty degeneration of the arteries. atherosclerosis, n. hardening
of the inner lining of the arteries with fatty degeneration.
atheromatous, adj.
athetise
v. - to spurn, reject
athetosis
n. - nervous twitching of fingers and toes.
athrepsia
n. - complete debility in children. athreptic, adj.
athymy
n. - melancholy.
atlantes
n. - pl. male figures used as columns.
atmogenic
adj. - Geology, of atmospheric origin.
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atmolysis
n. - method of separating gases of different densities.
atmometer
n. - instrument measuring rate of evaporation into atmosphere. atmometry, n.
atokous
adj. - lacking offspring.
atomy
n. - very small creature; skeleton.
atrabilarian
n. - a gloomy hypochondriac
atrabilious
adj. - very melancholic; hypochondriac.
atrament
n. - very dark liquid; ink. atramentous, adj.
atresia
n. - lack or closing of a passage of the body. atretic, adj.
atrichia
n. - baldness.
atrous
adj. - jet black.
attainder
n. - loss of civil rights, formerly result of outlawry or death sentence.
attaint
v. - pass sentence of attainder on; sully; attach disgrace to; infect;
n. dishonour; misfortune. attainture, n.
attemper
v. - alter quality by addition or mixture; moderate. attemperate, v.
archaic, moderate temperature. attemporator, n. apparatus for
moderating temperature.
attingent
adj. - touching, in contact.
attrahent
adj. - attracting; drawing towards or forward; n. such thing or muscle.
au fait
phr. - 'to the fact'; having complete and up-to-date knowledge; conversant.
aubade
n. - musical piece performed at or describing dawn.
auctorial
adj. - pertaining to an author.
audile
n. - person whose mental processes are stimulated more strongly by
hearing than by other senses; a. pertaining to such persons; auditory.
audiogenic
adj. - caused by sound waves, especially of high frequency.
aularian
adj. - pertaining to hall
aulete
n. - flautist.
aulic
adj. - courtly; ceremonious.
aurated
adj. - gilded.
aureate, aureous
adj. - golden-colored; ornate.
aureity
n. - properties of gold.
aureomycin
n. - trademark, an antibiotic drug extracted from a soil mould, used
in treatment of infections, especially of eyes, skin, etc.
auric
adj. - pertaining to, like or composed of gold.
auricle
n. - external ear; ear-shaped appendage; upper cavity of heart.
auricomous
adj. - having golden hair; making hair golden.
auricular
adj. - pertaining to hearing, or to the ear; spoken secretly.
auricular finger, the little finger.
auriculate
adj. - having ears or ear-shaped outgrowths; lobed; ear-like.
auriferous
adj. - containing gold.
aurify
v. - change into gold. aurific, adj. producing gold. aurification, n.
working with gold.
auriphrygia
n. - gold embroidery. auriphrygiate, adj.
aurist
n. - specialist on the ear and its diseases.
aurous
adj. - pertaining to, containing, or made of gold.
aurulent
adj. - gold-colored.
auscultate
v. - Medicine, listen to sounds in human body; examine in this manner.
auscultation, n. auscultative, adj. auscultator, n. person practising
auscultation; stethoscope. auscultatory, adj.
auscultation
n. - the process of listening
auslaut
n. - final sound of syllable or word.
autacoid
n. - hormone. autacoidal, adj.
autarchia
n. - perpetual happiness
autarchy
n. - absolute sovereignty; autocracy. autarchic, autarchical, adj.
.
autoangelist
n. - one who does his own communicating
autocephalous
adj. - Ecclesiastical, self-governing. autocephaly, n.
autochthon
n. - native; aboriginal species. autochthonous, adj. autochthony, n.
autochthonous
adj. - native, aboriginal, indigenous
autoclesis
n. - introducing an idea or subject by seeming to refuse discussion of
it, thereby arousing interest
autoecious
adj. - (of fungus, etc.) passing through all life stages on same
species of host.
autogamy
n. - self-fertilization. autogamic, autogamous, adj.
autogenesis
n. - spontaneous generation. autogenetic, adj.
autogenous
adj. - self-generated.
autognosis
n. - knowledge of self, especially the appreciation of one's own
emotional conflicts
autointoxication
n. - poisoning due to toxins produced in body.
autokinesis
n. - voluntary or automatic movement. autokinetic, adj.
autolatry
n. - self-worship.
autological
adj. - self-descriptive, or being a word that exemplifies what it
means, e.g. "english" is english, "polysyllabic" is polysyllabic
automorphic
adj. - formed after its or one's own pattern. automorphism, n.
autonym
n. - writer's own name; work published under own name.
autophagy
n. - devouring of cell constituents by enzymes of same cell. autophagous, adj.
autophobe
n. - the socializer who does not like to be alone
autophobia
n. - fear of solitude.
autophony
n. - apparent distortion of one's own voice due to infection or
stoppage of ears; sound of auscultator's voice as reverberating in
patient's chest.
autophyte
n. - plant able to organize its foodstuffs; nonsaprophytic plant.
autophytic, adj.
autoplasty
n. - grafting tissue from patient's own body. autoplastic, a.;
Biology, pertaining to self-adaptation to environment; pertaining to
autoplasty.
autoschediasm
n. - improvization. autoschediastic, adj.
autoschediastic
adj. - impromptu; on the spur of the moment
autoskeleton
n. - internal skeleton.
autostrada
n. - motorway.
autotelic
adj. - having itself as its only purpose.
autothaumaturgist
n. - the coy or cagey person whose mission is to appear mysterious or
quite remarkable
autotheism
n. - belief in self-subsistence of God the Son; deification of oneself.
autotheist
n. - the individual who is not only self-centered but self-deifying,
or at least self-worshipping
autotomy
n. - reflex loss of part of the body to save the whole (in lizards, etc.)
autotrophic
adj. - Botany, nourishing itself; autophytic.
autotropic
adj. - Botany, tending to grow in straight line.
autotype
n. - facsimile; true copy. autotypy, n. process of producing such copies.
auxanometer
n. - instrument measuring rate of growth of plants.
auxesis
n. - an ordering of thoughts expressed in a sequence of ascending importance
auxin
n. - Chemistry, substance increasing growth of plants; plant hormone.
auxograph
n. - instrument recording variations in volume.
.
auxotonic
adj. - according or due to growth.
avellaneous
adj. - hazel.
avenaceous
adj. - pertaining to or like oats. aveniform, adj. like oats in shape.
avenous
adj. - lacking veins.
aventurine
n. - glass containing golden or green flecks; quartz containing mica flakes.
averruncate
v. - avert; weed out.
avicide
n. - killing of birds.
avicular
adj. - pertaining to small birds.
aviculture
n. - rearing of birds.
avifauna
n. - birdlife of a region.
avigation
n. - aerial navigation.
avirulent
adj. - (of bacteria) not virulent.
avolitional
adj. - involuntary.
avulsion
n. - act of pulling away part of body, either by injury or surgery.
avulsive, adj.
axenic
adj. - free of parasites and similar forms of life; surgically sterile.
axifugal
adj. - centrifugal.
axil
n. - upper angle between leaf and stem, or branch and trunk. axile, adj.
axilla
n. - (pl. -las, -lae ,) armpit; shoulder. axillary a. of arm-pit; of
or growing in an axil.
Axiology(done)
n. - study of ultimate values . axiological, adj. axiologist, n.
axonometry
n. - measurement of or by axes. axonometric projectio, n. method of
representing three-dimensional object in two-dimensional drawing.
axunge
n. - medicinal lard or grease.
azofication
n. - nitrogenization of soil by bacteria. azofier, n. bacterium
causing azofication.
azoic
adj. - lacking life, especially of geological period.
.
azote
n. - nitrogen. azotaemia, azotemia, n. excess of nitrogen in blood.
azotic, adj. azotize, v. combine with nitrogen.
azoth
n. - alchemists' name for mercury; Paracelsus' postulated panacea.
azulejo
n. - brightly colored tile of Near East, Spain and Holland.
azygous
adj. - unpaired; odd.
azym(e)
n. - unleavened bread; Passover cake; pl. feast of such bread.
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