AMET

Name Report For First Name AMET:

First name AMET's origin is German. AMET means "power of an eagle". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with AMET below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of amet.(Brown names are of the same origin (German) with AMET and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with AMET - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming AMET

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES AMET AS A WHOLE:

amethyst necuametl ametta amette amett mohamet

NAMES RHYMING WITH AMET (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (met) - Names That Ends with met:

sakhmet mehemet omet demet hathor-sakmet

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (et) - Names That Ends with et:

abrihet aret amunet auset bastet hehet heqet keket meskhenet naunet nebt-het nekhbet renenet sechet sekhet tauret odelet orzsebet violet nguyet tuyet edet andret anghet magahet oubastet senusnet haslet japhet taavet viet bridget briet devnet elisavet erzsebet ganet gobinet harriet hugiet janet jannet juliet liesbet lilibet lisabet lisavet lisbet lizbet lunet lynet margaret margreet margret nureet scarlet wyanet zoheret arnet barnet barret bennet beornet bret burcet chet dagonet dennet everet garet garnet garret girflet griflet gringalet hacket hamoelet jarret lambret leveret maeret maneet omeet paget preruet pruet rousset senet set yvet shet ornet orneet hamlet sennet

NAMES RHYMING WITH AMET (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ame) - Names That Begins with ame:

ame amedee ameen ameena ameenah ameer ameera ameerah amelia amelie amell amen amen-ra amenhotep amenophis ameretat americus amery ames amey

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (am) - Names That Begins with am:

amabella amabelle amachi amad amada amadahy amadeo amadi amado amaethon amaia amal amala amalasand amalasanda amald amalda amalea amalia amalie amall amalthea amalthia amalur amalure aman amanda amani amanishakhete amany amaor amapola amar amara amarande amaranta amarante amarantha amaravati amare amari amariah amarii amaris amarisa amarise amarissa amarri amaru amaryah amaryllis amasa amata amatullah amaud amaury amayah amayeta amazu amba amber amberlee amberley amberly amberlyn amberlynn ambi ambika amblaoibh ambra ambre ambreen ambrocio ambros ambrose ambrosi ambrosia ambrosine ambrosio ambrosius

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH AMET:

First Names which starts with 'a' and ends with 't':

aart abbot abbott abdul-basit adalbeorht adalbert adelbert aderet advent aethelbeorht aethelberht aethelbert agilberht agramant ailat ailbert akshat albert albrecht alburt alcott aldt alumit amdt amot amott anant anat anett angharat annot anst aralt archambault arkwright arnatt arndt arnett arnot arnott arnt art ascot ascott astolat ateret athracht aubert auhert avent avivit ayawamat

English Words Rhyming AMET

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES AMET AS A WHOLE:

ametabola

noun (n. pl.) A group of insects which do not undergo any metamorphosis.

ametabolian

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to insects that do undergo any metamorphosis.

ametabolic

adjective (a.) Alt. of Ametabolous

ametabolous

adjective (a.) Not undergoing any metamorphosis; as, ametabolic insects.

amethodist

noun (n.) One without method; a quack.

amethystine	adjective (a.) Resembling amethyst, especially in color; bluish violet.
	adjective (a.) Composed of, or containing, amethyst.

ametropia

noun (n.) Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye.

aplanogamete

noun (n.) A nonmotile gamete, found in certain lower algae.

castrametation

noun (n.) The art or act of encamping; the making or laying out of a camp.

decameter

noun (n.) Alt. of Decametre

decametre

noun (n.) A measure of length in the metric system; ten meters, equal to about 393.7 inches.

dekameter

noun (n.) Same as Decameter.

diameter	noun (n.) Any right line passing through the center of a figure or body, as a circle, conic section, sphere, cube, etc., and terminated by the opposite boundaries; a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords drawn in a curve.
	noun (n.) A diametral plane.
	noun (n.) The length of a straight line through the center of an object from side to side; width; thickness; as, the diameter of a tree or rock.
	noun (n.) The distance through the lower part of the shaft of a column, used as a standard measure for all parts of the order. See Module.

diametral	noun (n.) A diameter.
	adjective (a.) Pertaining to a diameter; diametrical.

diametric

adjective (a.) Alt. of Diametrical

diametrical	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a diameter.
	adjective (a.) As remote as possible, as if at the opposite end of a diameter; directly adverse.

dynameter	noun (n.) A dynamometer.
	noun (n.) An instrument for determining the magnifying power of telescopes, consisting usually of a doubleimage micrometer applied to the eye end of a telescope for measuring accurately the diameter of the image of the object glass there formed; which measurement, compared with the actual diameter of the glass, gives the magnifying power.

dynametrical

adjective (a.) Pertaining to a dynameter.

exametron

noun (n.) An hexameter.

filametoid

adjective (a.) Like a filament.

gamete

noun (n.) A sexual cell or germ cell; a conjugating cell which unites with another of like or unlike character to form a new individual. In Bot., gamete designates esp. the similar sex cells of the lower thallophytes which unite by conjugation, forming a zygospore. The gametes of higher plants are of two sorts, sperm (male) and egg (female); their union is called fertilization, and the resulting zygote an oospore. In Zool., gamete is most commonly used of the sexual cells of certain Protozoa, though also extended to the germ cells of higher forms.

gametophyte

noun (n.) In the alternation of generations in plants, that generation or phase which bears sex organs. In the lower plants, as the algae, the gametophyte is the conspicuous part of the plant body; in mosses it is the so-called moss plant; in ferns it is reduced to a small, early perishing body; and in seed plants it is usually microscopic or rudimentary.

haemodynameter

noun (n.) Same as Hemadynamics.

hexameter	noun (n.) A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity.
	adjective (a.) Having six metrical feet, especially dactyls and spondees.

hexametric

adjective (a.) Alt. of Hexametrical

hexametrical

adjective (a.) Consisting of six metrical feet.

hexametrist

noun (n.) One who writes in hexameters.

isodiametric	adjective (a.) Developed alike in the directions of the several lateral axes; -- said of crystals of both the tetragonal and hexagonal systems.
	adjective (a.) Having the several diameters nearly equal; -- said of the cells of ordinary parenchyma.

lametta

noun (n.) Foil or wire made of gold, silver, or brass.

malamethane

noun (n.) A white crystalline substance forming the ethyl salt of malamic acid.

megameter	noun (n.) An instrument for determining longitude by observation of the stars.
	noun (n.) A micrometer.
	noun (n.) Alt. of Megametre

megametre

noun (n.) In the metric system, one million meters, or one thousand kilometers.

myriameter

noun (n.) Alt. of Myriametre

myriametre

noun (n.) A metric measure of length, containing ten thousand meters. It is equal to 6.2137 miles.

octameter

operameter

noun (n.) An instrument or machine for measuring work done, especially for ascertaining the number of rotations made by a machine or wheel in manufacturing cloth; a counter.

oxamethane

noun (n.) Ethyl oxamate, obtained as a white scaly crystalline powder.

oxamethylane

noun (n.) Methyl oxamate, obtained as a pearly white crystalline substance.

parameter	noun (n.) A term applied to some characteristic magnitude whose value, invariable as long as one and the same function, curve, surface, etc., is considered, serves to distinguish that function, curve, surface, etc., from others of the same kind or family.
	noun (n.) Specifically (Conic Sections), in the ellipse and hyperbola, a third proportional to any diameter and its conjugate, or in the parabola, to any abscissa and the corresponding ordinate.
	noun (n.) The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane; also, the fundamental axial ratio for a given species.

parametritis

noun (n.) Inflammation of the cellular tissue in the vicinity of the uterus.

peirameter

noun (n.) A dynamometer for measuring the force required to draw wheel carriages on roads of different constructions.

pentameter	noun (n.) A verse of five feet.
	adjective (a.) Having five metrical feet.

pentamethylene

noun (n.) A hypothetical hydrocarbon, C5H10, metameric with the amylenes, and the nucleus of a large number of derivatives; -- so named because regarded as composed of five methylene residues. Cf. Trimethylene, and Tetramethylene.

pirameter

noun (n.) A dynamometer for ascertaining the power required to draw carriages over roads.

pluviameter

noun (n.) See Pluviometer.

pluviametrical

adjective (a.) See Pluviometrical.

planogamete

noun (n.) One of the motile ciliated gametes, or zoogametes, found in isogamous plants, as many green algae (Chlorophyceae).

samette

noun (n.) See Samite.

semidiameter

noun (n.) Half of a diameter; a right line, or the length of a right line, drawn from the center of a circle, a sphere, or other curved figure, to its circumference or periphery; a radius.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH AMET (According to last letters):

Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (met) - English Words That Ends with met:

armet

noun (n.) A kind of helmet worn in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.

baphomet

noun (n.) An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites.

calumet

noun (n.) A kind of pipe, used by the North American Indians for smoking tobacco. The bowl is usually made of soft red stone, and the tube is a long reed often ornamented with feathers.

comet

noun (n.) A member of the solar system which usually moves in an elongated orbit, approaching very near to the sun in its perihelion, and receding to a very great distance from it at its aphelion. A comet commonly consists of three parts: the nucleus, the envelope, or coma, and the tail; but one or more of these parts is frequently wanting. See Illustration in Appendix.

emmet

noun (n.) An ant.

fewmet

noun (n.) See Fumet.

fumet	noun (n.) The dung of deer.
	noun (n.) Alt. of Fumette
	noun (n.) A high-flavored substance, such as extract of game, for flavoring dishes of food; less properly, a ragout of partridge and rabbit braised in wine.

gourmet

noun (n.) A connoisseur in eating and drinking; an epicure.

gromet

noun (n.) Same as Grommet.

grommet	noun (n.) A ring formed by twisting on itself a single strand of an unlaid rope; also, a metallic eyelet in or for a sail or a mailbag. Sometimes written grummet.
	noun (n.) A ring of rope used as a wad to hold a cannon ball in place.

guillemet

noun (n.) A quotation mark.

helmet	noun (n.) A defensive covering for the head. See Casque, Headpiece, Morion, Sallet, and Illust. of Beaver.
	noun (n.) The representation of a helmet over shields or coats of arms, denoting gradations of rank by modifications of form.
	noun (n.) A helmet-shaped hat, made of cork, felt, metal, or other suitable material, worn as part of the uniform of soldiers, firemen, etc., also worn in hot countries as a protection from the heat of the sun.
	noun (n.) That which resembles a helmet in form, position, etc.
	noun (n.) The upper part of a retort.
	noun (n.) The hood-formed upper sepal or petal of some flowers, as of the monkshood or the snapdragon.
	noun (n.) A naked shield or protuberance on the top or fore part of the head of a bird.

kismet

noun (n.) Destiny; fate.

mammet

noun (n.) An idol; a puppet; a doll.

maumet

noun (n.) See Mawmet.

mawmet

noun (n.) A puppet; a doll; originally, an idol, because in the Middle Ages it was generally believed that the Mohammedans worshiped images representing Mohammed.

plummet	noun (n.) A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water.
	noun (n.) A plumb bob or a plumb line. See under Plumb, n.
	noun (n.) Hence, any weight.
	noun (n.) A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing.

zaimet

noun (n.) A district from which a Zaim draws his revenue.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH AMET (According to first letters):

Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ame) - Words That Begins with ame:

amebean

adjective (a.) See Am/bean.

ameer

noun (n.) Alt. of Amir

amelcorn

noun (n.) A variety of wheat from which starch is produced; -- called also French rice.

ameliorable

adjective (a.) Capable of being ameliorated.

ameliorating

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ameliorate

amelioration

noun (n.) The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration.

ameliorative

adjective (a.) Tending to ameliorate; producing amelioration or improvement; as, ameliorative remedies, efforts.

ameliorator

noun (n.) One who ameliorates.

amen	noun (interj., adv., & n.) An expression used at the end of prayers, and meaning, So be it. At the end of a creed, it is a solemn asseveration of belief. When it introduces a declaration, it is equivalent to truly, verily.
	verb (v. t.) To say Amen to; to sanction fully.

amenability

noun (n.) The quality of being amenable; amenableness.

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.

amenableness

noun (n.) The quality or state of being amenable; liability to answer charges; answerableness.

amenance

noun (n.) Behavior; bearing.

amending

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Amend

amendable

adjective (a.) Capable of being amended; as, an amendable writ or error.

amendatory

adjective (a.) Supplying amendment; corrective; emendatory.

amende

noun (n.) A pecuniary punishment or fine; a reparation or recantation.

amender

noun (n.) One who amends.

amendful

adjective (a.) Much improving.

amendment	noun (n.) An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
	noun (n.) In public bodies; Any alternation made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion by adding, changing, substituting, or omitting.
	noun (n.) Correction of an error in a writ or process.

amends

noun (n. sing. & pl.) Compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation.

amenity

noun (n.) The quality of being pleasant or agreeable, whether in respect to situation, climate, manners, or disposition; pleasantness; civility; suavity; gentleness.

amenorrhoea

noun (n.) Retention or suppression of the menstrual discharge.

amenorrhoeal

adjective (a.) Pertaining to amenorrhoea.

ament

noun (n.) A species of inflorescence; a catkin.

amentaceous	adjective (a.) Resembling, or consisting of, an ament or aments; as, the chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence.
	adjective (a.) Bearing aments; having flowers arranged in aments; as, amentaceous plants.

amentia

noun (n.) Imbecility; total want of understanding.

amentiferous

adjective (a.) Bearing catkins.

amentiform

adjective (a.) Shaped like a catkin.

amentum

noun (n.) Same as Ament.

amercing

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Amerce

amerceable

adjective (a.) Liable to be amerced.

amercement

noun (n.) The infliction of a penalty at the discretion of the court; also, a mulct or penalty thus imposed. It differs from a fine,in that the latter is, or was originally, a fixed and certain sum prescribed by statue for an offense; but an amercement is arbitrary. Hence, the act or practice of affeering. [See Affeer.]

amercer

noun (n.) One who amerces.

amerciament

noun (n.) Same as Amercement.

american	noun (n.) A native of America; -- originally applied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America, and especially to the citizens of the United States.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the United States.

americanism	noun (n.) Attachment to the United States.
	noun (n.) A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea.
	noun (n.) A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.

americanization

noun (n.) The process of Americanizing.

americanizing

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Americanize

amess

noun (n.) Amice, a hood or cape. See 2d Amice.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH AMET:

English Words which starts with 'a' and ends with 't':

abacist

noun (n.) One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.

abandonment	noun (n.) The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
	noun (n.) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.
	noun (n.) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc.
	noun (n.) The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion.
	noun (n.) Careless freedom or ease; abandon.

abanet

noun (n.) See Abnet.

abasement

noun (n.) The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.

abashment

noun (n.) The state of being abashed; confusion from shame.

abatement	noun (n.) The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof.
	noun (n.) The amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed.
	noun (n.) A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon.
	noun (n.) The entry of a stranger, without right, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee.

abbot	noun (n.) The superior or head of an abbey.
	noun (n.) One of a class of bishops whose sees were formerly abbeys.

abdest

noun (n.) Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite.

abdicant	noun (n.) One who abdicates.
	adjective (a.) Abdicating; renouncing; -- followed by of.

aberrant	adjective (a.) Wandering; straying from the right way.
	adjective (a.) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.

abet	noun (n.) Act of abetting; aid.
	verb (v. t.) To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; -- used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection.
	verb (v. t.) To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; -- in a good sense.
	verb (v. t.) To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the commission of an offense.

abetment

noun (n.) The act of abetting; as, an abetment of treason, crime, etc.

abeyant

adjective (a.) Being in a state of abeyance.

abhorrent	adjective (a.) Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts.
	adjective (a.) Contrary or repugnant; discordant; inconsistent; -- followed by to.
	adjective (a.) Detestable.

abiliment

noun (n.) Habiliment.

abiogenist

noun (n.) One who believes that life can be produced independently of antecedent.

abirritant

noun (n.) A medicine that diminishes irritation.

abject	noun (n.) A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway.
	adjective (a.) Cast down; low-lying.
	adjective (a.) Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts.
	adjective (a.) To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.

abjurement

noun (n.) Renunciation.

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.

abluent	noun (n.) A detergent.
	adjective (a.) Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent.

abnet

noun (n.) The girdle of a Jewish priest or officer.

abodement

noun (n.) A foreboding; an omen.

abolishment

noun (n.) The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction.

abolitionist

noun (n.) A person who favors the abolition of any institution, especially negro slavery.

aborsement

noun (n.) Abortment; abortion.

abort	noun (n.) An untimely birth.
	noun (n.) An aborted offspring.
	verb (v. i.) To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.
	verb (v. i.) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile.

abortifacient	noun (n.) A drug or an agent that causes premature delivery.
	verb (v.) Producing miscarriage.

abortionist

noun (n.) One who procures abortion or miscarriage.

abortment

noun (n.) Abortion.

abradant

noun (n.) A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc.

abridgment	noun (n.) The act of abridging, or the state of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses.
	noun (n.) An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation.
	noun (n.) That which abridges or cuts short; hence, an entertainment that makes the time pass quickly.

abrupt	noun (n.) An abrupt place.
	adjective (a.) Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places.
	adjective (a.) Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.
	adjective (a.) Having sudden transitions from one subject to another; unconnected.
	adjective (a.) Suddenly terminating, as if cut off.
	verb (v. t.) To tear off or asunder.

absent	adjective (a.) Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present.
	adjective (a.) Not existing; lacking; as, the part was rudimental or absent.
	adjective (a.) Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied; as, an absent air.
	verb (v. t.) To take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun.
	verb (v. t.) To withhold from being present.

absentment

noun (n.) The state of being absent; withdrawal.

absolutist	noun (n.) One who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government.
	noun (n.) One who believes that it is possible to realize a cognition or concept of the absolute.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to absolutism; arbitrary; despotic; as, absolutist principles.

absolvent	noun (n.) An absolver.
	adjective (a.) Absolving.

absonant

adjective (a.) Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant.

absorbent	noun (n.) Anything which absorbs.
	noun (n.) Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance e. g., iodine) which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.
	noun (n.) The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.
	adjective (a.) Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.

absorpt

adjective (a.) Absorbed.

abstergent	noun (n.) A substance used in cleansing; a detergent; as, soap is an abstergent.
	adjective (a.) Serving to cleanse, detergent.

abstinent	noun (n.) One who abstains.
	noun (n.) One of a sect who appeared in France and Spain in the 3d century.
	adjective (a.) Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate.

abstract	adjective (a.) Withdraw; separate.
	adjective (a.) Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult.
	adjective (a.) Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word.
	adjective (a.) Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name.
	adjective (a.) Abstracted; absent in mind.
	adjective (a.) To withdraw; to separate; to take away.
	adjective (a.) To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects.
	adjective (a.) To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute.
	adjective (a.) To epitomize; to abridge.
	adjective (a.) To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.
	adjective (a.) To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used.
	adjective (a.) That which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief.
	adjective (a.) A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things.
	adjective (a.) An abstract term.
	adjective (a.) A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance.
	verb (v. t.) To perform the process of abstraction.

abstractionist

noun (n.) An idealist.

abundant

adjective (a.) Fully sufficient; plentiful; in copious supply; -- followed by in, rarely by with.

abutment	noun (n.) State of abutting.
	noun (n.) That on or against which a body abuts or presses
	noun (n.) The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut.
	noun (n.) A fixed point or surface from which resistance or reaction is obtained, as the cylinder head of a steam engine, the fulcrum of a lever, etc.
	noun (n.) In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil.

academist	noun (n.) An Academic philosopher.
	noun (n.) An academician.

acaulescent

adjective (a.) Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground.

accent	noun (n.) A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.
	noun (n.) A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of the spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the French accents.
	noun (n.) Modulation of the voice in speaking; manner of speaking or pronouncing; peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent.
	noun (n.) A word; a significant tone
	noun (n.) expressions in general; speech.
	noun (n.) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
	noun (n.) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.
	noun (n.) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
	noun (n.) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
	noun (n.) The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.
	noun (n.) A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y', y".
	noun (n.) A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc.; as, 12'27", i. e., twelve minutes twenty seven seconds.
	noun (n.) A mark used to denote feet and inches; as, 6' 10" is six feet ten inches.
	verb (v. t.) To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent.
	verb (v. t.) To mark emphatically; to emphasize.

accept	adjective (a.) Accepted.
	verb (v. t.) To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.
	verb (v. t.) To receive with favor; to approve.
	verb (v. t.) To receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; as, I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.
	verb (v. t.) To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted?
	verb (v. t.) To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange.
	verb (v. t.) In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.]

acceptant	noun (n.) An accepter.
	adjective (a.) Accepting; receiving.

accident	noun (n.) Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident.
	noun (n.) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.
	noun (n.) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
	noun (n.) A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.
	noun (n.) A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.
	noun (n.) Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident.
	noun (n.) Unusual appearance or effect.

accipient

noun (n.) A receiver.

acclimatement

noun (n.) Acclimation.

accompaniment	noun (n.) That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry.
	noun (n.) A part performed by instruments, accompanying another part or parts performed by voices; the subordinate part, or parts, accompanying the voice or a principal instrument; also, the harmony of a figured bass.

accompanist

noun (n.) The performer in music who takes the accompanying part.

accomplishment	noun (n.) The act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc.
	noun (n.) That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training.

accompt

noun (n.) See Account.

accomptant

noun (n.) See Accountant.

accordant

adjective (a.) Agreeing; consonant; harmonious; corresponding; conformable; -- followed by with or to.

accordionist

noun (n.) A player on the accordion.

accost	noun (n.) Address; greeting.
	verb (v. t.) To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.
	verb (v. t.) To approach; to make up to.
	verb (v. t.) To speak to first; to address; to greet.
	verb (v. i.) To adjoin; to lie alongside.

accouchement

noun (n.) Delivery in childbed

account	noun (n.) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.
	noun (n.) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.
	noun (n.) A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.
	noun (n.) A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle.
	noun (n.) A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon.
	noun (n.) An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
	noun (n.) Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.
	verb (v. t.) To reckon; to compute; to count.
	verb (v. t.) To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; -- with to.
	verb (v. t.) To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.
	verb (v. t.) To recount; to relate.
	verb (v. i.) To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
	verb (v. i.) To render an account; to answer in judgment; -- with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities.
	verb (v. i.) To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.

accountant	noun (n.) One who renders account; one accountable.
	noun (n.) A reckoner.
	noun (n.) One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.
	adjective (a.) Accountable.

accouplement	noun (n.) The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union.
	noun (n.) That which couples, as a tie or brace.

accrescent	adjective (a.) Growing; increasing.
	adjective (a.) Growing larger after flowering.

accroachment

noun (n.) An encroachment; usurpation.

accrument

noun (n.) The process of accruing, or that which has accrued; increase.

accumbent	noun (n.) One who reclines at table.
	adjective (a.) Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
	adjective (a.) Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf.

accurst

adjective (p. p. & a.) Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; hence, bad enough to be under the curse; execrable; detestable; exceedingly hateful; -- as, an accursed deed.

accusant

noun (n.) An accuser.

accusement

noun (n.) Accusation.

acephalist

noun (n.) One who acknowledges no head or superior.

acephalocyst

noun (n.) A larval entozoon in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hydatid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin.

acescent	noun (n.) A substance liable to become sour.
	adjective (a.) Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour.

acharnement

noun (n.) Savage fierceness; ferocity.

achievement	noun (n.) The act of achieving or performing; an obtaining by exertion; successful performance; accomplishment; as, the achievement of his object.
	noun (n.) A great or heroic deed; something accomplished by valor, boldness, or praiseworthy exertion; a feat.
	noun (n.) An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment.

acidulent

adjective (a.) Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous.

acknowledgment	noun (n.) The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession.
	noun (n.) The act of owning or recognized in a particular character or relationship; recognition as regards the existence, authority, truth, or genuineness.
	noun (n.) The owning of a benefit received; courteous recognition; expression of thanks.
	noun (n.) Something given or done in return for a favor, message, etc.
	noun (n.) A declaration or avowal of one's own act, to give it legal validity; as, the acknowledgment of a deed before a proper officer. Also, the certificate of the officer attesting such declaration.

acolothist

noun (n.) See Acolythist.

acolythist

noun (n.) An acolyte.

acosmist

noun (n.) One who denies the existence of the universe, or of a universe as distinct from God.

acquaintant

noun (n.) An acquaintance.

acquest	noun (n.) Acquisition; the thing gained.
	noun (n.) Property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance.

acquiescent

adjective (a.) Resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit; assentive; as, an acquiescent policy.

acquirement

noun (n.) The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment.

acquist

noun (n.) Acquisition; gain.

acquitment

noun (n.) Acquittal.

acrobat

noun (n.) One who practices rope dancing, high vaulting, or other daring gymnastic feats.

acrodont	noun (n.) One of a group of lizards having the teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the acrodonts.

act	noun (n.) That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.
	noun (n.) The result of public deliberation; the decision or determination of a legislative body, council, court of justice, etc.; a decree, edit, law, judgment, resolve, award; as, an act of Parliament, or of Congress.
	noun (n.) A formal solemn writing, expressing that something has been done.
	noun (n.) A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the action is completed.
	noun (n.) A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
	noun (n.) A state of reality or real existence as opposed to a possibility or possible existence.
	noun (n.) Process of doing; action. In act, in the very doing; on the point of (doing).
	verb (v. t.) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.
	verb (v. t.) To perform; to execute; to do.
	verb (v. t.) To perform, as an actor; to represent dramatically on the stage.
	verb (v. t.) To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the hero.
	verb (v. t.) To feign or counterfeit; to simulate.
	verb (v. i.) To exert power; to produce an effect; as, the stomach acts upon food.
	verb (v. i.) To perform actions; to fulfill functions; to put forth energy; to move, as opposed to remaining at rest; to carry into effect a determination of the will.
	verb (v. i.) To behave or conduct, as in morals, private duties, or public offices; to bear or deport one's self; as, we know not why he has acted so.
	verb (v. i.) To perform on the stage; to represent a character.

actinost

noun (n.) One of the bones at the base of a paired fin of a fish.

actionist

noun (n.) A shareholder in joint-stock company.

actualist

noun (n.) One who deals with or considers actually existing facts and conditions, rather than fancies or theories; -- opposed to idealist.

adamant	noun (n.) A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.
	noun (n.) Lodestone; magnet.

adapt	adjective (a.) Fitted; suited.
	verb (v. t.) To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; -- sometimes followed by to or for.

adderwort

noun (n.) The common bistort or snakeweed (Polygonum bistorta).

additament

noun (n.) An addition, or a thing added.

adducent

adjective (a.) Bringing together or towards a given point; -- a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. Opposed to abducent.

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