ABLE
First name ABLE's origin is Hebrew. ABLE means "exhalation of breath. the second son of adam in the bible. the variant able is used as an english surname". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with ABLE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of able.(Brown names are of the same origin (Hebrew) with ABLE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming ABLE
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES ABLE AS A WHOLE:
mable cable ablendanNAMES RHYMING WITH ABLE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ble) - Names That Ends with ble:
roble gamble maible trumbleRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (le) - Names That Ends with le:
kifle njemile udele naile nile tale adele crocale cybele eriphyle eurayle helle hypsipyle myrtle nephele odele omphale semele kiele rachele akinwole bekele kelile sule tekle stille bankole chibale kafele tearle michelle neville scoville maoltuile murthuile somhairle aristotle ercole theophile zale kale daniele emmanuele vasile abbigale abegayle adelle afrodille anabelle angelle annabelle aprille ardelle areille ariele arielle arnelle audrielle belle bernelle bonnibelle brielle camile camille carole cecile cecille chamyle chanelle channelle chantalle chantelle chavelle chenelle cherelle cherrelle chevelle dale danele danelle danielle dannelle danrelle darelle dawnelle dawnielle denelle donelle elle emele francille gabriele gabrielle gale gayle gisselleNAMES RHYMING WITH ABLE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (abl) - Names That Begins with abl:
abla' ablahRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ab) - Names That Begins with ab:
abagail abaigael abaigeal aballach abame aban abantiades abarrane abarron abasi abayomi abba abban abbas abbey abbie abboid abbot abbotson abbott abbud abbudin abby abda abdalla abdalrahman abdel abdelahi abdera abderus abdi abdikarim abdimelech abdiraxman abdul abdul-alim abdul-aliyy abdul-azim abdul-aziz abdul-bari abdul-basit abdul-fattah abdul-ghaf abdul-ghaffar abdul-hadi abdul-hafiz abdul-hakam abdul-hakim abdul-halim abdul-hamid abdul-haqq abdul-hasib abdul-jabbar abdul-jalil abdul-karim abdul-khaliq abdul-latif abdul-majid abdul-malik abdul-mu'izz abdul-muhaimin abdul-mujib abdul-muta'al abdul-nasir abdul-nasser abdul-qahhar abdul-quddus abdul-ra'uf abdul-rafi abdul-rahim abdul-rahman abdul-razzaq abdul-sabur abdul-salam abdul-samad abdul-shakur abdul-tawwab abdul-wadud abdul-wahhab abdul-wahid abdulla abdullah abeba abebe abebi abedabun abeer abel abelard abelia abell abella abellona abena abeodan abequa abeque aberfaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ABLE:
First Names which starts with 'a' and ends with 'e':
aase ace aceline adalene adalie adalwine adare addaneye addergoole addie ade adelaide adelheide adeline adelise adelyte adene adenne adette adibe adilene adine adne adorlee adriane adrianne adrie adriene adrienne aeccestane aedre aefre aegelmaere aelfdane aelfdene aelfwine aelle aerlene aescwine aesoburne aethe aethelhere aethelmaere aethelwine aethelwyne agate agathe agaue agave age aggie aghamore aglarale agnese agurtzane agustine ahane ahave ahelie aherne ahote aibne aife aiglentine ailbe ailbhe aileene ailise ailse ailsie aimee aine ainmire ainslee ainslie aintzane airdsgainne aithne ajanae akibe akintunde akule al-fadee al-hadiye alacoque alaine alane alarice alastrine alayne albe albertine albertyne alcippe alcmene alcyone aldene aldwine aleece aleneEnglish Words Rhyming ABLE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES ABLE AS A WHOLE:
abatable | adjective (a.) Capable of being abated; as, an abatable writ or nuisance. |
abdicable | adjective (a.) Capable of being abdicated. |
abhominable | adjective (a.) Abominable. |
able | adjective (a.) To make able; to enable; to strengthen. |
adjective (a.) To vouch for. | |
superlative (superl.) Fit; adapted; suitable. | |
superlative (superl.) Having sufficient power, strength, force, skill, means, or resources of any kind to accomplish the object; possessed of qualifications rendering competent for some end; competent; qualified; capable; as, an able workman, soldier, seaman, a man able to work; a mind able to reason; a person able to be generous; able to endure pain; able to play on a piano. | |
superlative (superl.) Specially: Having intellectual qualifications, or strong mental powers; showing ability or skill; talented; clever; powerful; as, the ablest man in the senate; an able speech. | |
superlative (superl.) Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property. |
ablegate | noun (n.) A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office. |
verb (v. t.) To send abroad. |
ablegation | noun (n.) The act of sending abroad. |
ableness | noun (n.) Ability of body or mind; force; vigor. |
ablepsy | noun (n.) Blindness. |
abler | adjective (a.) comp. of Able. |
superlative (a.) superl. of Able. |
abolishable | adjective (a.) Capable of being abolished. |
abominable | adjective (a.) Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable. |
adjective (a.) Excessive; large; -- used as an intensive. |
abominableness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being abominable; odiousness. |
abrogable | adjective (a.) Capable of being abrogated. |
absolvable | adjective (a.) That may be absolved. |
absorbable | adjective (a.) Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up. |
abusable | adjective (a.) That may be abused. |
accentuable | adjective (a.) Capable of being accented. |
acceptable | adjective (a.) Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us. |
acceptableness | noun (n.) The quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability. |
acclimatable | adjective (a.) Capable of being acclimated. |
acclimatizable | adjective (a.) Capable of being acclimatized. |
accommodable | adjective (a.) That may be accommodated, fitted, or made to agree. |
accommodableness | noun (n.) The quality or condition of being accommodable. |
accompanable | adjective (a.) Sociable. |
accomplishable | adjective (a.) Capable of being accomplished; practicable. |
accomptable | adjective (a.) See Accountable. |
accordable | adjective (a.) Agreeing. |
adjective (a.) Reconcilable; in accordance. |
accostable | adjective (a.) Approachable; affable. |
accountable | adjective (a.) Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct. |
adjective (a.) Capable of being accounted for; explicable. |
accountable ness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being accountable; accountability. |
accusable | adjective (a.) Liable to be accused or censured; chargeable with a crime or fault; blamable; -- with of. |
accustomable | adjective (a.) Habitual; customary; wonted. |
acetable | noun (n.) An acetabulum; or about one eighth of a pint. |
achievable | adjective (a.) Capable of being achieved. |
acidifiable | adjective (a.) Capable of being acidified, or converted into an acid. |
acquaintable | adjective (a.) Easy to be acquainted with; affable. |
acquirable | adjective (a.) Capable of being acquired. |
acreable | adjective (a.) Of an acre; per acre; as, the acreable produce. |
actable | adjective (a.) Capable of being acted. |
actionable | adjective (a.) That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable. |
adaptableness | noun (n.) The quality of being adaptable; suitableness. |
adaptable | adjective (a.) Capable of being adapted. |
addable | adjective (a.) Addible. |
adjustable | adjective (a.) Capable of being adjusted. |
administrable | adjective (a.) Capable of being administered; as, an administrable law. |
admirable | adjective (a.) Fitted to excite wonder; wonderful; marvelous. |
adjective (a.) Having qualities to excite wonder united with approbation; deserving the highest praise; most excellent; -- used of persons or things. |
admirableness | noun (n.) The quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence. |
admittable | adjective (a.) Admissible. |
adoptable | adjective (a.) Capable of being adopted. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ABLE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ble) - English Words That Ends with ble:
abhorrible | adjective (a.) Detestable. |
accendible | adjective (a.) Capable of being inflamed or kindled; combustible; inflammable. |
accessible | adjective (a.) Easy of access or approach; approachable; as, an accessible town or mountain, an accessible person. |
adjective (a.) Open to the influence of; -- with to. | |
adjective (a.) Obtainable; to be got at. |
addible | adjective (a.) Capable of being added. |
adducible | adjective (a.) Capable of being adduced. |
admissible | adjective (a.) Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admissible. |
adorable | adjective (a.) Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors. |
adjective (a.) Worthy of the utmost love or respect. |
adustible | adjective (a.) That may be burnt. |
advantageable | adjective (a.) Advantageous. |
advisable | adjective (a.) Proper to be advised or to be done; expedient; prudent. |
adjective (a.) Ready to receive advice. |
affable | adjective (a.) Easy to be spoken to or addressed; receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; courteous; sociable. |
adjective (a.) Gracious; mild; benign. |
affectible | adjective (a.) That may be affected. |
affiliable | adjective (a.) Capable of being affiliated to or on, or connected with in origin. |
affirmable | adjective (a.) Capable of being affirmed, asserted, or declared; -- followed by of; as, an attribute affirmable of every just man. |
affordable | adjective (a.) That may be afforded. |
aggrandizable | adjective (a.) Capable of being aggrandized. |
agible | adjective (a.) Possible to be done; practicable. |
agitable | adjective (a.) Capable of being agitated, or easily moved. |
agreeable | adjective (a.) Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful; as, agreeable manners or remarks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to the taste. |
adjective (a.) Willing; ready to agree or consent. | |
adjective (a.) Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; -- followed by to, rarely by with. | |
adjective (a.) In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; -- in this sense used adverbially for agreeably; as, agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report. |
alarmable | adjective (a.) Easily alarmed or disturbed. |
alible | adjective (a.) Nutritive; nourishing. |
alienable | adjective (a.) Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another; as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state. |
alkalifiable | adjective (a.) Capable of being alkalified, or converted into an alkali. |
allegeable | adjective (a.) Capable of being alleged or affirmed. |
alliable | adjective (a.) Able to enter into alliance. |
allottable | adjective (a.) Capable of being allotted. |
allowable | adjective (a.) Praiseworthy; laudable. |
adjective (a.) Proper to be, or capable of being, allowed; permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends. |
alterable | adjective (a.) Capable of being altered. |
amassable | adjective (a.) Capable of being amassed. |
amble | noun (n.) A peculiar gait of a horse, in which both legs on the same side are moved at the same time, alternating with the legs on the other side. |
noun (n.) A movement like the amble of a horse. | |
verb (v. i.) To go at the easy gait called an amble; -- applied to the horse or to its rider. | |
verb (v. i.) To move somewhat like an ambling horse; to go easily or without hard shocks. |
ameliorable | adjective (a.) Capable of being ameliorated. |
amenable | adjective (a.) Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband. |
adjective (a.) Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law. | |
adjective (a.) Liable to punishment, a charge, a claim, etc. | |
adjective (a.) Willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable. |
amendable | adjective (a.) Capable of being amended; as, an amendable writ or error. |
amerceable | adjective (a.) Liable to be amerced. |
amiable | adjective (a.) Lovable; lovely; pleasing. |
adjective (a.) Friendly; kindly; sweet; gracious; as, an amiable temper or mood; amiable ideas. | |
adjective (a.) Possessing sweetness of disposition; having sweetness of temper, kind-heartedness, etc., which causes one to be liked; as, an amiable woman. | |
adjective (a.) Done out of love. |
amicable | adjective (a.) Friendly; proceeding from, or exhibiting, friendliness; after the manner of friends; peaceable; as, an amicable disposition, or arrangement. |
amissible | adjective (a.) Liable to be lost. |
amortisable | noun (n.) Alt. of Amortisement |
amortizable | adjective (a.) Capable of being cleared off, as a debt. |
amovable | adjective (a.) Removable. |
amusable | adjective (a.) Capable of being amused. |
analyzable | adjective (a.) That may be analyzed. |
anchorable | adjective (a.) Fit for anchorage. |
annihilable | adjective (a.) Capable of being annihilated. |
annullable | adjective (a.) That may be Annulled. |
annunciable | adjective (a.) That may be announced or declared; declarable. |
answerable | adjective (a.) Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages. |
adjective (a.) Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer. | |
adjective (a.) Correspondent; conformable; hence, comparable. | |
adjective (a.) Proportionate; commensurate; suitable; as, an achievement answerable to the preparation for it. | |
adjective (a.) Equal; equivalent; adequate. |
appealable | adjective (a.) Capable of being appealed against; that may be removed to a higher tribunal for decision; as, the cause is appealable. |
adjective (a.) That may be accused or called to answer by appeal; as, a criminal is appealable for manslaughter. |
appeasable | adjective (a.) Capable of being appeased or pacified; placable. |
appellable | adjective (a.) Appealable. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ABLE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (abl) - Words That Begins with abl:
ablactation | noun (n.) The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam. |
noun (n.) The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach. |
ablaqueation | noun (n.) The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water. |
ablastemic | adjective (a.) Non-germinal. |
ablation | noun (n.) A carrying or taking away; removal. |
noun (n.) Extirpation. | |
noun (n.) Wearing away; superficial waste. |
ablatitious | adjective (a.) Diminishing; as, an ablatitious force. |
ablative | adjective (a.) Taking away or removing. |
adjective (a.) Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away. | |
() The ablative case. |
ablaut | noun (n.) The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get, gat, got; sing, song; hang, hung. |
abligurition | noun (n.) Prodigal expense for food. |
abluent | noun (n.) A detergent. |
adjective (a.) Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent. |
ablution | noun (n.) The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite. |
noun (n.) The water used in cleansing. | |
noun (n.) A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest. |
ablutionary | adjective (a.) Pertaining to ablution. |
abluvion | noun (n.) That which is washed off. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ABLE:
English Words which starts with 'a' and ends with 'e':
abaisance | noun (n.) Obeisance. |
abalone | noun (n.) A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks. |
abandonee | noun (n.) One to whom anything is legally abandoned. |
abase | adjective (a.) To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye. |
adjective (a.) To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade. |
abate | noun (n.) Abatement. |
verb (v. t.) To beat down; to overthrow. | |
verb (v. t.) To bring down or reduce from a higher to a lower state, number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; to cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope. | |
verb (v. t.) To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price. | |
verb (v. t.) To blunt. | |
verb (v. t.) To reduce in estimation; to deprive. | |
verb (v. t.) To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ. | |
verb (v. t.) To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets. | |
verb (v. t.) To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates. | |
verb (v. t.) To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates. |
abature | noun (n.) Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. |
abaxile | adjective (a.) Away from the axis or central line; eccentric. |
abbe | noun (n.) The French word answering to the English abbot, the head of an abbey; but commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress. |
abbreviate | noun (n.) An abridgment. |
adjective (a.) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened. | |
adjective (a.) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type. | |
verb (v. t.) To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken. | |
verb (v. t.) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction. |
abbreviature | noun (n.) An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form. |
noun (n.) An abridgment; a compendium or abstract. |
abderite | noun (n.) An inhabitant of Abdera, in Thrace. |
abdicative | adjective (a.) Causing, or implying, abdication. |
abditive | adjective (a.) Having the quality of hiding. |
abearance | noun (n.) Behavior. |
abele | noun (n.) The white poplar (Populus alba). |
abelite | noun (n.) Alt. of Abelonian |
aberrance | noun (n.) Alt. of Aberrancy |
abeyance | noun (n.) Expectancy; condition of being undetermined. |
noun (n.) Suspension; temporary suppression. |
abhorrence | noun (n.) Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike. |
abidance | noun (n.) The state of abiding; abode; continuance; compliance (with). |
abietene | noun (n.) A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California. |
abietine | noun (n.) A resinous obtained from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether. |
abietite | noun (n.) A substance resembling mannite, found in the needles of the common silver fir of Europe (Abies pectinata). |
abime | noun (n.) Alt. of Abyme |
abyme | noun (n.) A abyss. |
abirritative | adjective (a.) Characterized by abirritation or debility. |
abjunctive | adjective (a.) Exceptional. |
abnegative | adjective (a.) Denying; renouncing; negative. |
abodance | noun (n.) An omen; a portending. |
abode | noun (n.) Act of waiting; delay. |
noun (n.) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn. | |
noun (n.) Place of continuance, or where one dwells; abiding place; residence; a dwelling; a habitation. | |
verb (v. t.) An omen. | |
verb (v. t.) To bode; to foreshow. | |
verb (v. i.) To be ominous. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Abide | |
() pret. of Abide. |
aborsive | adjective (a.) Abortive. |
aborticide | noun (n.) The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide. |
abortive | noun (n.) That which is born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion. |
noun (n.) A fruitless effort or issue. | |
noun (n.) A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion. | |
verb (v.) Produced by abortion; born prematurely; as, an abortive child. | |
verb (v.) Made from the skin of a still-born animal; as, abortive vellum. | |
verb (v.) Rendering fruitless or ineffectual. | |
verb (v.) Coming to naught; failing in its effect; miscarrying; fruitless; unsuccessful; as, an abortive attempt. | |
verb (v.) Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc. | |
verb (v.) Causing abortion; as, abortive medicines. | |
verb (v.) Cutting short; as, abortive treatment of typhoid fever. |
abranchiate | adjective (a.) Without gills. |
abrase | adjective (a.) Rubbed smooth. |
abrasive | adjective (a.) Producing abrasion. |
abrogate | adjective (a.) Abrogated; abolished. |
verb (v. t.) To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or his successor; to repeal; -- applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To put an end to; to do away with. |
abrogative | adjective (a.) Tending or designed to abrogate; as, an abrogative law. |
abscondence | noun (n.) Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding. |
absence | noun (n.) A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence. |
noun (n.) Want; destitution; withdrawal. | |
noun (n.) Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind); as, absence of mind. |
absentee | noun (n.) One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. |
absinthate | noun (n.) A combination of absinthic acid with a base or positive radical. |
absinthe | noun (n.) The plant absinthium or common wormwood. |
noun (n.) A strong spirituous liqueur made from wormwood and brandy or alcohol. |
absistence | noun (n.) A standing aloof. |
absolute | noun (n.) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity. |
adjective (a.) Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch. | |
adjective (a.) Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty. | |
adjective (a.) Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space. | |
adjective (a.) Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing. | |
adjective (a.) Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative. | |
adjective (a.) Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful. | |
adjective (a.) Authoritative; peremptory. | |
adjective (a.) Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol. | |
adjective (a.) Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative. |
absorptive | adjective (a.) Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe. |
abstersive | noun (n.) Something cleansing. |
adjective (a.) Cleansing; purging. |
abstinence | noun (n.) The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence. |
noun (n.) The practice of self-denial by depriving one's self of certain kinds of food or drink, especially of meat. |
abstractive | adjective (a.) Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature. |
abstruse | adjective (a.) Concealed or hidden out of the way. |
adjective (a.) Remote from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning. |
abundance | noun (n.) An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. |
abusage | noun (n.) Abuse. |
abusive | adjective (a.) Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied. |
adjective (a.) Given to misusing; also, full of abuses. | |
adjective (a.) Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow. | |
adjective (a.) Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous. | |
adjective (a.) Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating. |
acacine | noun (n.) Gum arabic. |
academe | noun (n.) An academy. |
acalephae | noun (n. pl.) A group of Coelenterata, including the Medusae or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. Sometimes called sea nettles. |
acalycine | adjective (a.) Alt. of Acalysinous |
acanthine | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus. |
acarine | adjective (a.) Of or caused by acari or mites; as, acarine diseases. |
acaudate | adjective (a.) Tailless. |
acauline | adjective (a.) Same as Acaulescent. |
acaulose | adjective (a.) Alt. of Acaulous |
accedence | noun (n.) The act of acceding. |
accelerative | adjective (a.) Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening. |
acceptance | noun (n.) The act of accepting; a receiving what is offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; esp., favorable reception; approval; as, the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc. |
noun (n.) State of being accepted; acceptableness. | |
noun (n.) An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance. | |
noun (n.) The bill itself when accepted. | |
noun (n.) An agreeing to terms or proposals by which a bargain is concluded and the parties are bound; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner. | |
noun (n.) An agreeing to the action of another, by some act which binds the person in law. | |
noun (n.) Meaning; acceptation. |
acceptive | adjective (a.) Fit for acceptance. |
adjective (a.) Ready to accept. |
accessive | adjective (a.) Additional. |
accidence | noun (n.) The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar. |
noun (n.) The rudiments of any subject. |
accidie | noun (n.) Sloth; torpor. |
accipitrine | adjective (a.) Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike. |
acclimature | noun (n.) The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated. |
acclive | adjective (a.) Acclivous. |
accolade | noun (n.) A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword. |
noun (n.) A brace used to join two or more staves. |
accommodate | adjective (a.) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. |
verb (v. t.) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. | |
verb (v. t.) To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings. | |
verb (v. t.) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events. | |
verb (v. i.) To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. |
accompletive | adjective (a.) Tending to accomplish. |
accomplice | noun (n.) A cooperator. |
noun (n.) An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory. |
accordance | noun (n.) Agreement; harmony; conformity. |
accoucheuse | noun (n.) A midwife. |
accrescence | noun (n.) Continuous growth; an accretion. |
accrete | adjective (a.) Characterized by accretion; made up; as, accrete matter. |
adjective (a.) Grown together. | |
verb (v. i.) To grow together. | |
verb (v. i.) To adhere; to grow (to); to be added; -- with to. | |
verb (v. t.) To make adhere; to add. |
accretive | adjective (a.) Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth. |
accrue | noun (n.) To increase; to augment. |
noun (n.) To come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent. | |
noun (n.) Something that accrues; advantage accruing. |
accumulate | adjective (a.) Collected; accumulated. |
verb (v. t.) To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money. | |
verb (v. i.) To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly. |
accumulative | adjective (a.) Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional. |
accurate | adjective (a.) In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc. |
adjective (a.) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful. |
accusative | noun (n.) The accusative case. |
adjective (a.) Producing accusations; accusatory. | |
adjective (a.) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English. |
accuse | noun (n.) Accusation. |
verb (v. t.) To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense | |
verb (v. t.) to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; -- with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor. | |
verb (v. t.) To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure. | |
verb (v. t.) To betray; to show. [L.] |
accustomance | noun (n.) Custom; habitual use. |
ace | noun (n.) A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds. |
noun (n.) Hence: A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot. | |
noun (n.) A single point won by a stroke, as in handball, rackets, etc.; in tennis, frequently, a point won by a service stroke. |
acerate | noun (n.) A combination of aceric acid with a salifiable base. |
adjective (a.) Acerose; needle-shaped. |
acerbitude | noun (n.) Sourness and harshness. |
acerose | adjective (a.) Having the nature of chaff; chaffy. |
adjective (a.) Needle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine. |
acervate | adjective (a.) Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters. |
verb (v. t.) To heap up. |
acervative | adjective (a.) Heaped up; tending to heap up. |
acervose | adjective (a.) Full of heaps. |
acervuline | adjective (a.) Resembling little heaps. |
acescence | noun (n.) Alt. of Acescency |
acetaldehyde | noun (n.) Acetic aldehyde. See Aldehyde. |
acetamide | noun (n.) A white crystalline solid, from ammonia by replacement of an equivalent of hydrogen by acetyl. |
acetanilide | noun (n.) A compound of aniline with acetyl, used to allay fever or pain; -- called also antifebrine. |