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Ask
  • (n.) A water newt.
  • (v. i.) To make inquiry, or seek by request
  • (v. t.) To interrogate or inquire of or concerning

    Askance
  • (v. t.) To turn aside.

    Askew
  • (adv. & a.) Awry

    Aslant
  • (adv. & a.) Toward one side
  • (prep.) In a slanting direction over

    Asleep
  • (a. & adv.) In a state of sleep

    Aslope
  • (adv. & a.) Slopingly

    Asp
  • (n.) A small, hooded, poisonous serpent of Egypt and adjacent countries, whose bite is often fatal

    Asparagine
  • (n.) A white, nitrogenous, crystallizable substance, C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus

    Asparagus
  • (n.) A genus of perennial plants belonging to the natural order Liliaceae, and having erect much branched stems, and very slender branchlets which are sometimes mistaken for leaves

    Aspect
  • (n.) Appearance to the eye or the mind

    Aspen
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the aspen, or resembling it

    Asper
  • (a.) Rough
  • (n.) A Turkish money of account (formerly a coin), of little value

    Asphalt
  • (v. t.) To cover with asphalt

    Asphodel
  • (n.) A general name for a plant of the genus Asphodelus. The asphodels are hardy perennial plants, several species of which are cultivated for the beauty of their flowers

    Asphyxiate
  • (v. t.) To bring to a state of asphyxia

    Aspic
  • (n.) A European species of lavender (Lavandula spica), which produces a volatile oil.

    Aspirant
  • (a.) Aspiring.
  • (n.) One who aspires

    Aspirate
  • (n.) A mark of aspiration (/) used in Greek
  • (v. t.) To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound

    Aspiration
  • (n.) The act of aspirating

    Aspirator
  • (n.) An apparatus for passing air or gases through or over certain liquids or solids, or for exhausting a closed vessel, by means of suction

    Aspire
  • (n.) Aspiration.
  • (v. t.) To aspire to

    Aspirin
  • (n.) A white crystalline compound of acetyl and salicylic acid used as a drug for the salicylic acid liberated from it in the intestines

    Asquint
  • (adv.) With the eye directed to one side

    Ass
  • (n.) A dull, heavy, stupid fellow

    Assail
  • (v. t.) To attack morally, or with a view to produce changes in the feelings, character, conduct, existing usages, institutions

    Assamese
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Assam, a province of British India, or to its inhabitants.
  • (n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Assam.

    Assassin
  • (n.) One who kills, or attempts to kill, by surprise or secret assault
  • (v. t.) To assassinate.

    Assault
  • (n.) An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another

    Assay
  • (n.) Examination and determination
  • (v.) To affect.
  • (v. i.) To attempt, try, or endeavor.

    Assegai
  • (n.) A spear used by tribes in South Africa as a missile and for stabbing, a kind of light javelin

    Assemblage
  • (n.) A collection of individuals, or of individuals, or of particular things

    Assemble
  • (v. i.) To liken
  • (v. t.) To collect and put together the parts of

    Assembly
  • (n.) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.

    Assent
  • (v.) The act of assenting
  • (v. t.) To admit a thing as true

    Assert
  • (v. t.) To affirm

    Assess
  • (v.) To apportion a sum to be paid by (a person, a community, or an estate), in the nature of a tax, fine, etc

    Asset
  • (n.) Any article or separable part of one's assets.

    Asseverate
  • (v. t.) To affirm or aver positively, or with solemnity.

    Assibilate
  • (v. t.) To make sibilant

    Assiduity
  • (n.) Constant or close application or attention, particularly to some business or enterprise

    Assiduous
  • (a.) Constant in application or attention

    Assign
  • (n.) A person to whom property or an interest is transferred
  • (v.) A thing pertaining or belonging to something else
  • (v. i.) To transfer or pass over property to another, whether for the benefit of the assignee or of the assignor's creditors, or in furtherance of some trust
  • (v. t.) To appoint

    Assimilable
  • (a.) That may be assimilated

    Assimilate
  • (v. i.) To become similar or like something else.
  • (v. t.) To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body

    Assimilation
  • (n.) The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity

    Assimilatory
  • (a.) Tending to assimilate, or produce assimilation

    Assist
  • (v. i.) To be present as a spectator
  • (v. t.) To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress

    Assize
  • (n.) A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury
  • (v.) To assess

    Associable
  • (a.) Capable of being associated or joined.

    Associate
  • (a.) Admitted to some, but not to all, rights and privileges
  • (n.) A companion
  • (v. i.) To unite in action, or to be affected by the action of a different part of the body.
  • (v. t.) To accompany

    Association
  • (n.) Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing.

    Associative
  • (a.) Having the quality of associating

    Assoil
  • (v. t.) To expiate

    Assonance
  • (n.) A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last acce`ted vow`l and tnose whioh follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound

    Assort
  • (v. i.) To agree
  • (v. t.) To furnish with, or make up of, various sorts or a variety of goods

    Assuage
  • (v. i.) To abate or subside.
  • (v. t.) To soften, in a figurative sense

    Assumable
  • (a.) That may be assumed.

    Assume
  • (v. i.) To be arrogant or pretentious
  • (v. t.) To pretend to possess

    Assuming
  • (a.) Pretentious

    Assumpsit
  • (n.) An action to recover damages for a breach or nonperformance of a contract or promise, express or implied, oral or in writing not under seal

    Assumption
  • (n.) A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven.

    Assumptive
  • (a.) Assumed, or capable of being assumed

    Assurance
  • (n.) Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property

    Assure
  • (v. t.) To affiance

    Assyrian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Assyria, or to its inhabitants.
  • (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Assyria

    Astarte
  • (n.) A genus of bivalve mollusks, common on the coasts of America and Europe.

    Astatic
  • (a.) Having little or no tendency to take a fixed or definite position or direction: thus, a suspended magnetic needle, when rendered astatic, loses its polarity, or tendency to point in a given direction

    Aster
  • (n.) A genus of herbs with compound white or bluish flowers

    Asthenic
  • (a.) Characterized by, or pertaining to, debility

    Asthma
  • (n.) A disease, characterized by difficulty of breathing (due to a spasmodic contraction of the bronchi), recurring at intervals, accompanied with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, a cough, and expectoration

    Astigmatism
  • (n.) A defect of the eye or of a lens, in consequence of which the rays derived from one point are not brought to a single focal point, thus causing imperfect images or indistinctness of vision

    Astir
  • (adv. & a.) Stirring

    Astonied
  • (p. p.) Stunned

    Astonish
  • (v. t.) To strike with sudden fear, terror, or wonder

    Astound
  • (a.) Stunned

    Astraddle
  • (adv.) In a straddling position

    Astragal
  • (n.) A convex molding of rounded surface, generally from half to three quarters of a circle.

    Astrakhan
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Astrakhan in Russia or its products
  • (n.) The skin of stillborn or young lambs of that region, the curled wool of which resembles fur

    Astral
  • (a.) Consisting of, belonging to, or designating, a kind of supersensible substance alleged to be next above the tangible world in refinement

    Astray
  • (adv. & a.) Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense

    Astride
  • (adv.) With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback

    Astringent
  • (a.) Drawing together the tissues
  • (n.) A medicine or other substance that produces contraction in the soft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc

    Astrolabe
  • (n.) An instrument for observing or showing the positions of the stars. It is now disused.

    Astrology
  • (n.) In its etymological signification, the science of the stars

    Astrometry
  • (n.) The art of making measurements among the stars, or of determining their relative magnitudes

    Astronomer
  • (n.) An astrologer.

    Astronomical
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to astronomy

    Astronomy
  • (n.) Astrology.

    Astrophotography
  • (n.) The application of photography to the delineation of the sun, moon, and stars.

    Astrophysics
  • (n.) The science treating of the physical characteristics of the stars and other heavenly bodies, their chemical constitution, light, heat, atmospheres, etc

    Astute
  • (a.) Critically discerning

    Astylar
  • (a.) Without columns or pilasters.

    Asunder
  • (adv.) Apart

    Asura
  • (n.) An enemy of the gods, esp. one of a race of demons and giants.

    Aswoon
  • (adv.) In a swoon.

    Asymmetrical
  • (a.) Incommensurable.

    Asymmetry
  • (n.) Incommensurability.

    Asymptote
  • (n.) A line which approaches nearer to some curve than assignable distance, but, though infinitely extended, would never meet it

    Asyndeton
  • (n.) A figure which omits the connective

    Asystole
  • (n.) A weakening or cessation of the contractile power of the heart.

    At
  • (prep.) A relation of proximity to, or of presence in or on, something

    Ataman
  • (n.) A hetman, or chief of the Cossacks.

    Atavism
  • (n.) The recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties

    Ate
  • (imp.) of Eat
  • (n.) The goddess of mischievous folly

    Atelier
  • (n.) A workshop

    Atheism
  • (n.) Godlessness.

    Atheist
  • (n.) A godless person.

    Atheling
  • (n.) An Anglo-Saxon prince or nobleman

    Athenaeum
  • (n.) A building or an apartment where a library, periodicals, and newspapers are kept for use

    Athenian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Athens, the metropolis of Greece.
  • (n.) A native or citizen of Athens.

    Athermancy
  • (n.) Inability to transmit radiant heat

    Atheroma
  • (n.) A disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries

    Athetosis
  • (n.) A variety of chorea, marked by peculiar tremors of the fingers and toes.

    Athirst
  • (a.) Having a keen appetite or desire

    Athlete
  • (n.) Any one trained to contend in exercises requiring great physical agility and strength

    Athletic
  • (a.) Befitting an athlete

    Athwart
  • (adv.) Across, especially in an oblique direction
  • (prep.) Across

    Atilt
  • (adv.) In the manner of a tilter

    Atlantes
  • (n. pl.) Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature

    Atlantic
  • (a.) Descended from Atlas.

    Atlas
  • (n.) A collection of maps in a volume

    Atman
  • (n.) The life principle, soul, or individual essence.

    Atmosphere
  • (n.) Any gaseous envelope or medium.

    Atoll
  • (n.) A coral island or islands, consisting of a belt of coral reef, partly submerged, surrounding a central lagoon or depression

    Atom
  • (n.) A constituent particle of matter, or a molecule supposed to be made up of subordinate particles
  • (v. t.) To reduce to atoms.

    Atone
  • (v. i.) To agree
  • (v. t.) To make satisfaction for

    Atonic
  • (a.) Characterized by atony, or want of vital energy
  • (n.) An element of speech entirely destitute of vocality, or produced by the breath alone

    Atony
  • (n.) Want of tone

    Atop
  • (adv.) On or at the top.

    Atrabilious
  • (a.) Melancholic or hypochondriac

    Atresia
  • (n.) Absence or closure of a natural passage or channel of the body

    Atrium
  • (n.) A cavity, entrance, or passage

    Atrocious
  • (a.) Characterized by, or expressing, great atrocity.

    Atrocity
  • (n.) An atrocious or extremely cruel deed.

    Atrophy
  • (n.) A wasting away from want of nourishment
  • (v. i.) To waste away
  • (v. t.) To cause to waste away or become abortive

    Atropine
  • (n.) A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple

    Attach
  • (n.) An attachment.
  • (v. i.) To adhere
  • (v. t.) To bind, fasten, tie, or connect

    Attack
  • (n.) An access of disease
  • (v. i.) To make an onset or attack.
  • (v. t.) To assail with unfriendly speech or writing

    Attain
  • (n.) Attainment.
  • (v. i.) To come or arrive, by an effort of mind.
  • (v. t.) To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts

    Attar
  • (n.) A fragrant essential oil

    Attempt
  • (n.) A essay, trial, or endeavor
  • (v. i.) To make an attempt
  • (v. t.) To attack

    Attend
  • (v. i.) (with to) To take charge of
  • (v. t.) To be present at

    Attention
  • (n.) An act of civility or courtesy

    Attentive
  • (a.) Heedful

    Attenuate
  • (v. i.) To become thin, slender, or fine
  • (v. t.) To lessen the amount, force, or value of

    Attest
  • (n.) Witness
  • (v. t.) To bear witness to

    Attic
  • (a.) A low story above the main order or orders of a facade, in the classical styles

    Attire
  • (n.) Dress
  • (v. t.) To dress

    Attitudinal
  • (a.) Relating to attitude.

    Attitudinize
  • (v. i.) To assume affected attitudes

    Attorney
  • (n.) A legal agent qualified to act for suitors and defendants in legal proceedings
  • (v. t.) To perform by proxy

    Attract
  • (n.) Attraction.
  • (v. t.) To draw by influence of a moral or emotional kind

    Attributable
  • (a.) Capable of being attributed

    Attribute
  • (n.) A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure
  • (v. t.) To ascribe

    Attribution
  • (n.) That which is ascribed or attributed.

    Attributive
  • (a.) Attributing
  • (n.) A word that denotes an attribute

    Attrition
  • (n.) Grief for sin arising only from fear of punishment or feelings of shame.

    Attune
  • (v. t.) To arrange fitly

    Atypical
  • (a.) That has no type

    Aubade
  • (n.) An open air concert in the morning, as distinguished from an evening serenade

    Auburn
  • (a.) Flaxen-colored.

    Auction
  • (n.) A public sale of property to the highest bidder, esp. by a person licensed and authorized for the purpose
  • (v. t.) To sell by auction.

    Audacious
  • (a.) Committed with, or proceedings from, daring effrontery or contempt of law, morality, or decorum

    Audacity
  • (n.) Daring spirit, resolution, or confidence

    Audible
  • (a.) Capable of being heard
  • (n.) That which may be heard.

    Audibly
  • (adv.) So as to be heard.

    Audience
  • (a.) Admittance to a hearing

    Audile
  • (n.) One whose thoughts take the form of mental sounds or of internal discourse rather than of visual or motor images

    Audiometer
  • (n.) An instrument by which the power of hearing can be gauged and recorded on a scale.

    Audit
  • (a.) A general receptacle or receiver.
  • (v. i.) To settle or adjust an account.
  • (v. t.) To examine and adjust, as an account or accounts

    Augean
  • (a.) Hence: Exceedingly filthy or corrupt.

    Auger
  • (n.) A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands

    Aught
  • (adv.) At all

    Augite
  • (n.) A variety of pyroxene, usually of a black or dark green color, occurring in igneous rocks, such as basalt

    Augment
  • (n.) A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs
  • (v. i.) To increase
  • (v. t.) To add an augment to.

    Augur
  • (n.) An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences
  • (v. i.) To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue
  • (v. t.) To predict or foretell, as from signs or omens

    August
  • (a.) Of a quality inspiring mingled admiration and reverence

    Auk
  • (n.) A name given to various species of arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae. The great auk, now extinct, is Alca (/ Plautus) impennis

    Aunt
  • (n.) A bawd, or a prostitute.

    Aura
  • (n.) Any subtile, invisible emanation, effluvium, or exhalation from a substance, as the aroma of flowers, the odor of the blood, a supposed fertilizing emanation from the pollen of flowers, etc

    Aureate
  • (a.) Golden

    Aureole
  • (n.) A celestial crown or accidental glory added to the bliss of heaven, as a reward to those (as virgins, martyrs, preachers, etc

    Auric
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to gold.

    Auriferous
  • (a.) Gold-bearing

    Auriga
  • (n.) The Charioteer, or Wagoner, a constellation in the northern hemisphere, situated between Perseus and Gemini

    Aurochs
  • (n.) The European bison (Bison bonasus, / Europaeus), once widely distributed, but now nearly extinct, except where protected in the Lithuanian forests, and perhaps in the Caucasus

    Aurora
  • (n.) A species of crowfoot.

    Auscultate
  • (v. i. & t.) To practice auscultation

    Auscultation
  • (n.) An examination by listening either directly with the ear (immediate auscultation) applied to parts of the body, as the abdomen

    Auspice
  • (a.) A divining or taking of omens by observing birds

    Auspicious
  • (a.) Favoring

    Austerity
  • (n.) Plainness

    Austral
  • (a.) Designating, or pert. to, a zone extending across North America between the Transition and Tropical zones, and including most of the United States and central Mexico except the mountainous parts

    Autarchy
  • (n.) Self-sufficiency.

    Authentic
  • (n.) An original (book or document).

    Author
  • (n.) An informant.
  • (v. t.) To occasion

    Autobiographical
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, autobiography

    Autobiography
  • (n.) A biography written by the subject of it

    Autocatalysis
  • (n.) Self-catalysis

    Autocephalous
  • (a.) Having its own head

    Autochthon
  • (n.) One who is supposed to rise or spring from the ground or the soil he inhabits

    Autoclave
  • (n.) A kind of French stewpan with a steam-tight lid.

    Autocracy
  • (n.) Independent or self-derived power

    Autocrat
  • (a.) An absolute sovereign

    Autodidact
  • (n.) One who is self-taught

    Autoecious
  • (a.) Passing through all its stages on one host, as certain parasitic fungi

    Autogamy
  • (n.) Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon

    Autogenesis
  • (n.) Spontaneous generation.

    Autogenous
  • (a.) Autogenetic.

    Autograph
  • (a.) In one's own handwriting
  • (n.) That which is written with one's own hand

    Autoharp
  • (n.) A zitherlike musical instrument, provided with dampers which, when depressed, deaden some strings, leaving free others that form a chord

    Automatism
  • (n.) The state or quality of being automatic

    Automaton
  • (v. i.) Any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action.

    Automobile
  • (n.) An automobile vehicle or mechanism

    Autonomic
  • (a.) Having the power of self-government

    Autonomous
  • (a.) Having independent existence or laws.

    Autonomy
  • (n.) The power or right of self-government

    Autoplasty
  • (n.) The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds

    Autopsy
  • (a.) Dissection of a dead body, for the purpose of ascertaining the cause, seat, or nature of a disease

    Autosuggestion
  • (n.) Self-suggestion as distinguished from suggestion coming from another, esp. in hypnotism

    Autotransformer
  • (n.) A transformer in which part of the primary winding is used as a secondary winding, or vice versa

    Autotrophic
  • (a.) Capable of self-nourishment

    Autumn
  • (n.) The harvest or fruits of autumn.

    Autunite
  • (n.) A lemon-yellow phosphate of uranium and calcium occurring in tabular crystals with basal cleavage, and in micalike scales

    Auxesis
  • (n.) A figure by which a grave and magnificent word is put for the proper word

    Auxiliary
  • (a.) Conferring aid or help
  • (n.) A helper
  • (sing.) A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulae

    Avail
  • (n.) Proceeds
  • (v. i.) To be of use or advantage
  • (v. t.) To promote

    Avalanche
  • (n.) A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.

    Avarice
  • (n.) An excessive or inordinate desire of gain

    Avaricious
  • (a.) Actuated by avarice

    Avast
  • (a.) Cease

    Avatar
  • (n.) Incarnation

    Avaunt
  • (interj.) Begone
  • (n.) A vaunt
  • (v. t. & i.) To advance

    Ave
  • (n.) An ave Maria.

    Avenge
  • (n.) Vengeance
  • (v. i.) To take vengeance.
  • (v. t.) To take vengeance for

    Avens
  • (n.) A plant of the genus Geum, esp. Geum urbanum, or herb bennet.

    Aventurine
  • (n.) A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass

    Avenue
  • (n.) A broad street

    Aver
  • (n.) A work horse, or working ox.
  • (v. t.) To affirm with confidence

    Avesta
  • (n.) The Zoroastrian scriptures.

    Avian
  • (a.) Of or instrument to birds.

    Aviary
  • (n.) A house, inclosure, large cage, or other place, for keeping birds confined

    Aviation
  • (n.) The art or science of flying.

    Aviator
  • (n.) A flying machine.

    Aviculture
  • (n.) Rearing and care of birds.

    Avid
  • (a.) Longing eagerly for

    Avifauna
  • (n.) The birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting a region.

    Avocado
  • (n.) The pulpy fruit of Persea gratissima, a tree of tropical America. It is about the size and shape of a large pear

    Avocation
  • (n.) A calling away

    Avoid
  • (a.) To defeat or evade
  • (v. i.) To become void or vacant.

    Avoirdupois
  • (n.) Avoirdupois weight.

    Avouch
  • (n.) Evidence
  • (v. t.) To acknowledge deliberately

    Avow
  • (n.) Avowal.
  • (v. t.) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done.

    Avulsion
  • (n.) A fragment torn off.

    Avuncular
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to an uncle.

    Await
  • (n.) A waiting for
  • (v. i.) To wait (on or upon).
  • (v. t.) To be in store for

    Awake
  • (a.) Not sleeping or lethargic
  • (v. i.) To cease to sleep
  • (v. t.) To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction

    Award
  • (v. i.) To determine
  • (v. t.) A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted

    Aware
  • (a.) Apprised

    Awash
  • (a.) Washed by the waves or tide

    Away
  • (adv.) Absent

    Awe
  • (n.) Dread
  • (v. t.) To strike with fear and reverence

    Aweather
  • (adv.) On the weather side, or toward the wind

    Aweigh
  • (adv.) Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly

    Awesome
  • (a.) Causing awe

    Awful
  • (a.) Frightful

    Awhile
  • (adv.) For a while

    Awkward
  • (a.) Not easily managed or effected

    Awl
  • (n.) A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood

    Awn
  • (n.) The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage

    Awning
  • (n.) A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind

    Awoke
  • (imp.) of Awake

    Awry
  • (adv. & a.) Aside from the line of truth, or right reason

    Ax
  • (v. t. & i.) To ask

    Axe
  • (n.) A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc

    Axial
  • (a.) Belonging to the axis of the body

    Axil
  • (n.) The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs

    Axinite
  • (n.) A borosilicate of alumina, iron, and lime, commonly found in glassy, brown crystals with acute edges

    Axiom
  • (a.) An established principle in some art or science, which, though not a necessary truth, is universally received

    Axis
  • (n.) Also used of the body only of the vertebra, which is prolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head to turn upon

    Axle
  • (n.) An axis

    Axman
  • (n.) One who wields an ax.

    Axminster
  • (n.) An Axminster carpet, an imitation Turkey carpet, noted for its thick and soft pile

    Axolotl
  • (n.) An amphibian of the salamander tribe found in the elevated lakes of Mexico

    Ay
  • (a.) Always
  • (interj.) Ah! alas!

    Ayah
  • (n.) A native nurse for children

    Aye
  • (n.) An affirmative vote

    Azalea
  • (n.) A genus of showy flowering shrubs, mostly natives of China or of North America

    Azimuth
  • (n.) An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object

    Azobenzene
  • (n.) A substance (C6H5.N2.C6H5) derived from nitrobenzene, forming orange red crystals which are easily fusible

    Azoic
  • (a.) Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life

    Azole
  • (n.) Any of a large class of compounds characterized by a five-membered ring which contains an atom of nitrogen and at least one other noncarbon atom (nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur)

    Azonic
  • (a.) Confined to no zone or region

    Azotic
  • (a.) Pertaining to azote, or nitrogen

    Aztec
  • (a.) Of or relating to one of the early races in Mexico that inhabited the great plateau of that country at the time of the Spanish conquest in 1519
  • (n.) One of the Aztec race or people.

    Azure
  • (a.) Sky-blue
  • (n.) A blue color, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.
  • (v. t.) To color blue.

    Azurite
  • (n.) Blue carbonate of copper

    Ba
  • (v. i.) To kiss.

    Baa
  • (n.) The cry or bleating of a sheep
  • (v. i.) To cry baa, or bleat as a sheep.

    Baal
  • (n.) The supreme male divinity of the Phoenician and Canaanitish nations.

    Bab
  • (n.) Lit., gate

    Baba
  • (n.) A kind of plum cake.

    Babbitt
  • (v. t.) To line with Babbitt metal.

    Babble
  • (n.) Idle talk
  • (v. i.) To disclose by too free talk, as a secret.

    Babe
  • (n.) A doll for children.

    Baboon
  • (n.) One of the Old World Quadrumana, of the genera Cynocephalus and Papio

    Babu
  • (n.) A Hindoo gentleman

    Baby
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an infant
  • (n.) An infant or young child of either sex
  • (v. i.) To treat like a young child

    Bac
  • (n.) A broad, flatbottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope.

    Baccalaureate
  • (a.) Pertaining to a bachelor of arts.
  • (n.) A baccalaureate sermon.

    Baccarat
  • (n.) A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters.

    Baccate
  • (a.) Pulpy throughout, like a berry

    Bacchanal
  • (a.) Engaged in drunken revels
  • (n.) A devotee of Bacchus

    Bacchant
  • (a.) Bacchanalian
  • (n.) A bacchanal

    Bacchus
  • (n.) The god of wine, son of Jupiter and Semele.

    Bachelor
  • (n.) A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish (Pomoxys annularis) of the southern United States

    Bacillary
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to bacilli

    Bacillus
  • (n.) A variety of bacterium

    Back
  • (a.) Being at the back or in the rear
  • (adv.) (Of time) In times past
  • (n.) A ferryboat.
  • (v. i.) To adjoin behind

    Bacon
  • (n.) The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked

    Bacterial
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to bacteria.

    Bacteriology
  • (n.) The science relating to bacteria.

    Bacteriolysis
  • (n.) Chemical decomposition brought about by bacteria without the addition of oxygen.

    Bacterium
  • (n.) A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putrefying organic infusions


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