Name Report For First Name ARAM:
ARAM
First name ARAM's origin is Hebrew. ARAM means "father of a multitude". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with ARAM below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of aram.(Brown names are of the same origin (Hebrew) with ARAM and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with ARAM - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming ARAM
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES ARAM AS A WHOLE:
maram sarama sharama arama araminte aramis laramie caramichil araminta baramNAMES RHYMING WITH ARAM (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ram) - Names That Ends with ram:
ikram afram bertram bram bartram ram abiram abram amram barram barthram beorhthram ephram gram joram oram aviram tristram akram byram amiram chiram hiramRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (am) - Names That Ends with am:
esinam selam ahlam hayam in'am siham mirjam lam tham al-sham dar-el-salam derham abdul-hakam abdul-salam adham bassam esam haytham hisham humam husam isam tamam gwynham nizam brigham william uilleam priam abraham shyam adinam chilam mariam maryam miriam myriam abracham adam addam avraham beckham beornham brigbam briggebam caddaham cam cunningham dunham elam fitzadam graham grisham isenham jonam jotham kam liam lyam maeadam odam orham pratham segenam windham wyndham yerucham zemariam venjam gersham amikam macadam wickam isham hallam gresham granthamNAMES RHYMING WITH ARAM (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ara) - Names That Begins with ara:
ara arabella araceli aracelia aracely arachne araina aralt aranck aranka ararinda araseli arav arawnRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ar) - Names That Begins with ar:
arber arcadia arcas arcelia arcene archaimbaud archambault archard archemorus archenhaud archer archerd archere archibald archibaldo archie archimbald arcilla arda ardagh ardal ardala ardaleah ardath ardeen ardel ardelia ardell ardella ardelle arden ardena ardene ardi ardine ardith ardkill ardleig ardleigh ardley ardolf ardolph ardon ardra ardwolf ardy ardyne ardys are areebah areille arela arelis arella aren arena arend arene ares aret areta arete aretha arethusa aretina areyanna arfan argante argi argia argie argo argos argus argyle ari aria ariadna ariadne arian ariana ariane arianell arianna arianrod aricNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ARAM:
First Names which starts with 'a' and ends with 'm':
abdikarim abdul-alim abdul-azim abdul-hakim abdul-halim abdul-karim abdul-rahim absalom acim adom ahsalom akim alalim aldhelm alhsom alim anscom anum asim atum avinoam avsalom avshalom azeem azim azzamEnglish Words Rhyming ARAM
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES ARAM AS A WHOLE:
| aramaean | adjective (a.) Alt. of Aramean |
| aramean | noun (n.) A native of Aram. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic. |
| aramaic | noun (n.) The Aramaic language. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to Aram, or to the territory, inhabitants, language, or literature of Syria and Mesopotamia; Aramaean; -- specifically applied to the northern branch of the Semitic family of languages, including Syriac and Chaldee. |
| aramaism | noun (n.) An idiom of the Aramaic. |
| carambola | noun (n.) An East Indian tree (Averrhoa Carambola), and its acid, juicy fruit; called also Coromandel gooseberry. |
| caramel | noun (n.) Burnt sugar; a brown or black porous substance obtained by heating sugar. It is soluble in water, and is used for coloring spirits, gravies, etc. |
| noun (n.) A kind of confectionery, usually a small cube or square of tenacious paste, or candy, of varying composition and flavor. |
| param | noun (n.) A white crystalline nitrogenous substance (C2H4N4); -- called also dicyandiamide. |
| paramagnetic | noun (n.) A paramagnetic substance. |
| adjective (a.) Magnetic, as opposed to diamagnetic. |
| paramagnetism | noun (n.) Magnetism, as opposed to diamagnetism. |
| paramaleic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from malic acid, and now called fumaric acid. |
| paramalic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid metameric with malic acid. |
| paramastoid | adjective (a.) Situated beside, or near, the mastoid portion of the temporal bone; paroccipital; -- applied especially to a process of the skull in some animals. |
| paramatta | noun (n.) A light fabric of cotton and worsted, resembling bombazine or merino. |
| parament | noun (n.) Ornamental hangings, furniture, etc., as of a state apartment; rich and elegant robes worn by men of rank; -- chiefly in the plural. |
| paramento | noun (n.) Ornament; decoration. |
| paramere | noun (n.) One of the symmetrical halves of any one of the radii, or spheromeres, of a radiate animal, as a starfish. |
| 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. |
| paramiographer | noun (n.) A collector or writer of proverbs. |
| paramitome | noun (n.) The fluid portion of the protoplasm of a cell. |
| paramo | noun (n.) A high, bleak plateau or district, with stunted trees, and cold, damp atmosphere, as in the Andes, in South America. |
| paramorph | noun (n.) A kind of pseudomorph, in which there has been a change of physical characters without alteration of chemical composition, as the change of aragonite to calcite. |
| paramorphism | noun (n.) The change of one mineral species to another, so as to involve a change in physical characters without alteration of chemical composition. |
| paramorphous | adjective (a.) Relating to paramorphism; exhibiting paramorphism. |
| paramount | noun (n.) The highest or chief. |
| adjective (a.) Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; preeminent; as, a paramount duty. |
| paramour | noun (n.) A lover, of either sex; a wooer or a mistress (formerly in a good sense, now only in a bad one); one who takes the place, without possessing the rights, of a husband or wife; -- used of a man or a woman. |
| noun (n.) Love; gallantry. | |
| adverb (adv.) Alt. of Paramours |
| paramylum | noun (n.) A substance resembling starch, found in the green frothy scum formed on the surface of stagnant water. |
| scaramouch | noun (n.) A personage in the old Italian comedy (derived from Spain) characterized by great boastfulness and poltroonery; hence, a person of like characteristics; a buffoon. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ARAM (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ram) - English Words That Ends with ram:
| anagram | noun (n.) Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law. |
| verb (v. t.) To anagrammatize. |
| anemogram | noun (n.) A record made by an anemograph. |
| actinogram | noun (n.) A record made by the actinograph. |
| bairam | noun (n.) The name of two Mohammedan festivals, of which one is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and the other seventy days after the fast. |
| noun (n.) Either of two Mohammedan festivals, of which one (the Lesser Bairam) is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and the other (the Greater Bairam) seventy days after the fast. |
| bartram | noun (n.) See Bertram. |
| bertram | noun (n.) Pellitory of Spain (Anacyclus pyrethrum). |
| buckram | noun (n.) A coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise. |
| noun (n.) A plant. See Ramson. | |
| adjective (a.) Made of buckram; as, a buckram suit. | |
| adjective (a.) Stiff; precise. | |
| verb (v. t.) To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff. |
| barogram | noun (n.) A tracing, usually made by the barograph, showing graphically the variations of atmospheric pressure for a given time. |
| cablegram | noun (n.) A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable. |
| centigram | noun (n.) Alt. of Centigramme |
| chronogram | noun (n.) An inscription in which certain numeral letters, made to appear specially conspicuous, on being added together, express a particular date or epoch, as in the motto of a medal struck by Gustavus Adolphus in 1632: ChrIstVs DVX; ergo trIVMphVs.- the capitals of which give, when added as numerals, the sum 1632. |
| noun (n.) The record or inscription made by a chronograph. |
| cram | noun (n.) The act of cramming. |
| noun (n.) Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination. | |
| noun (n.) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed. | |
| verb (v. t.) To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fill with food to satiety; to stuff. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor. | |
| verb (v. i.) To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study. |
| cryptogram | noun (n.) A cipher writing. Same as Cryptograph. |
| cardiogram | noun (n.) The curve or tracing made by a cardiograph. |
| cartogram | noun (n.) A map showing geographically, by shades or curves, statistics of various kinds; a statistical map. |
| decagram | noun (n.) Alt. of Decagramme |
| decigram | noun (n.) Alt. of Decigramme |
| dekagram | noun (n.) Same as Decagram. |
| diagram | noun (n.) A figure or drawing made to illustrate a statement, or facilitate a demonstration; a plan. |
| noun (n.) Any simple drawing made for mathematical or scientific purposes, or to assist a verbal explanation which refers to it; a mechanical drawing, as distinguished from an artistical one. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put into the form of a diagram. |
| digram | noun (n.) A digraph. |
| dram | noun (n.) A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce, or 27.34375 grains. |
| noun (n.) A minute quantity; a mite. | |
| noun (n.) As much spirituous liquor as is usually drunk at once; as, a dram of brandy; hence, a potation or potion; as, a dram of poison. | |
| noun (n.) A Persian daric. | |
| verb (v. i. & t.) To drink drams; to ply with drams. |
| epigram | noun (n.) A short poem treating concisely and pointedly of a single thought or event. The modern epigram is so contrived as to surprise the reader with a witticism or ingenious turn of thought, and is often satirical in character. |
| noun (n.) An effusion of wit; a bright thought tersely and sharply expressed, whether in verse or prose. | |
| noun (n.) The style of the epigram. |
| gram | noun (n.) The East Indian name of the chick-pea (Cicer arietinum) and its seeds; also, other similar seeds there used for food. |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Gramme | |
| adjective (a.) Angry. |
| grogram | noun (n.) Alt. of Grogran |
| hectogram | noun (n.) A measure of weight, containing a hundred grams, or about 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. |
| hektogram | noun (n.) Alt. of Hektometer |
| hierogram | noun (n.) A form of sacred or hieratic writing. |
| heliogram | noun (n.) A message transmitted by a heliograph. |
| hexagram | noun (n.) A figure of six lines |
| noun (n.) A figure composed of two equal triangles intersecting so that each side of one triangle is parallel to a side of the other, and the six points coincide with those of a hexagon. | |
| noun (n.) In Chinese literature, one of the sixty-four figures formed of six parallel lines (continuous or broken), forming the basis of the Yih King, or "Book of Changes." |
| ideogram | noun (n.) An original, pictorial element of writing; a kind of hieroglyph expressing no sound, but only an idea. |
| noun (n.) A symbol used for convenience, or for abbreviation; as, 1, 2, 3, +, -, /, $, /, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A phonetic symbol; a letter. |
| ihram | noun (n.) The peculiar dress worn by pilgrims to Mecca. |
| joram | noun (n.) See Jorum. |
| kilogram | noun (n.) Alt. of Kilogramme |
| lipogram | noun (n.) A writing composed of words not having a certain letter or letters; -- as in the Odyssey of Tryphiodorus there was no A in the first book, no B in the second, and so on. |
| lockram | noun (n.) A kind of linen cloth anciently used in England, originally imported from Brittany. |
| logogram | noun (n.) A word letter; a phonogram, that, for the sake of brevity, represents a word; as, |, i. e., t, for it. Cf. Grammalogue. |
| lettergram | noun (n.) See Letter, above. |
| marjoram | noun (n.) A genus of mintlike plants (Origanum) comprising about twenty-five species. The sweet marjoram (O. Majorana) is pecularly aromatic and fragrant, and much used in cookery. The wild marjoram of Europe and America is O. vulgare, far less fragrant than the other. |
| marram | noun (n.) A coarse grass found on sandy beaches (Ammophila arundinacea). See Beach grass, under Beach. |
| metergram | noun (n.) A measure of energy or work done; the power exerted in raising one gram through the distance of one meter against gravitation. |
| milligram | noun (n.) Alt. of Milligramme |
| muharram | noun (n.) The first month of the Mohammedan year. |
| noun (n.) A festival of the Shiah sect of the Mohammedans held during the first ten days of the month Mohurrum. |
| monogram | noun (n.) A character or cipher composed of two or more letters interwoven or combined so as to represent a name, or a part of it (usually the initials). Monograms are often used on seals, ornamental pins, rings, buttons, and by painters, engravers, etc., to distinguish their works. |
| noun (n.) A picture in lines; a sketch. | |
| noun (n.) An arbitrary sign for a word. |
| myogram | noun (n.) See Muscle curve, under Muscle. |
| myriagram | noun (n.) Alt. of Myriagramme |
| marconigram | noun (n.) A Marconi wireless message. |
| optogram | noun (n.) An image of external objects fixed on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple. See Optography. |
| ondogram | noun (n.) The record of an ondograph. |
| oscillogram | noun (n.) An autographic record made by an oscillograph. |
| paragram | noun (n.) A pun. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ARAM (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ara) - Words That Begins with ara:
| ara | noun (n.) The Altar; a southern constellation, south of the tail of the Scorpion. |
| noun (n.) A name of the great blue and yellow macaw (Ara ararauna), native of South America. |
| arab | noun (n.) One of a swarthy race occupying Arabia, and numerous in Syria, Northern Africa, etc. |
| arabesque | noun (n.) A style of ornamentation either painted, inlaid, or carved in low relief. It consists of a pattern in which plants, fruits, foliage, etc., as well as figures of men and animals, real or imaginary, are fantastically interlaced or put together. |
| adjective (a.) Arabian. | |
| adjective (a.) Relating to, or exhibiting, the style of ornament called arabesque; as, arabesque frescoes. |
| arabesqued | adjective (a.) Ornamented in the style of arabesques. |
| arabian | noun (n.) A native of Arabia; an Arab. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Arabia or its inhabitants. |
| arabic | noun (n.) The language of the Arabians. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Arabia or the Arabians. |
| arabical | adjective (a.) Relating to Arabia; Arabic. |
| arabin | noun (n.) A carbohydrate, isomeric with cane sugar, contained in gum arabic, from which it is extracted as a white, amorphous substance. |
| noun (n.) Mucilage, especially that made of gum arabic. |
| arabinose | noun (n.) A sugar of the composition C5H10O5, obtained from cherry gum by boiling it with dilute sulphuric acid. |
| arabism | noun (n.) An Arabic idiom peculiarly of language. |
| arabist | noun (n.) One well versed in the Arabic language or literature; also, formerly, one who followed the Arabic system of surgery. |
| arable | noun (n.) Arable land; plow land. |
| adjective (a.) Fit for plowing or tillage; -- hence, often applied to land which has been plowed or tilled. |
| araby | noun (n.) The country of Arabia. |
| aracanese | noun (n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Aracan. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Aracan, a province of British Burmah. |
| aracari | noun (n.) A South American bird, of the genus Pleroglossius, allied to the toucans. There are several species. |
| araceous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an order of plants, of which the genus Arum is the type. |
| arachnid | noun (n.) An arachnidan. |
| arachnida | noun (n. pl.) One of the classes of Arthropoda. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| arachnidan | noun (n.) One of the Arachnida. |
| arachnidial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Arachnida. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to the arachnidium. |
| arachnidium | noun (n.) The glandular organ in which the material for the web of spiders is secreted. |
| arachnitis | noun (n.) Inflammation of the arachnoid membrane. |
| arachnoid | noun (n.) The arachnoid membrane. |
| noun (n.) One of the Arachnoidea. | |
| adjective (a.) Resembling a spider's web; cobweblike. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to a thin membrane of the brain and spinal cord, between the dura mater and pia mater. | |
| adjective (a.) Covered with, or composed of, soft, loose hairs or fibers, so as to resemble a cobweb; cobwebby. |
| arachnoidal | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the arachnoid membrane; arachnoid. |
| arachnoidea | noun (n. pl.) Same as Arachnida. |
| arachnological | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to arachnology. |
| arachnologist | noun (n.) One who is versed in, or studies, arachnology. |
| arachnology | noun (n.) The department of zoology which treats of spiders and other Arachnida. |
| araeostyle | noun (a. & n.) See Intercolumniation. |
| araeosystyle | noun (a. & n.) See Intercolumniation. |
| aragonese | noun (n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Aragon, in Spain. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Aragon, in Spain, or to its inhabitants. |
| aragonite | noun (n.) A mineral identical in composition with calcite or carbonate of lime, but differing from it in its crystalline form and some of its physical characters. |
| araguato | noun (n.) A South American monkey, the ursine howler (Mycetes ursinus). See Howler, n., 2. |
| arak | noun (n.) Same as Arrack. |
| araneida | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Araneoidea |
| araneoidea | noun (n. pl.) See Araneina. |
| araneidan | noun (n.) One of the Araneina; a spider. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Araneina or spiders. |
| araneiform | adjective (a.) Having the form of a spider. |
| araneina | noun (n. pl.) The order of Arachnida that includes the spiders. |
| araneose | adjective (a.) Of the aspect of a spider's web; arachnoid. |
| araneous | adjective (a.) Cobweblike; extremely thin and delicate, like a cobweb; as, the araneous membrane of the eye. See Arachnoid. |
| arango | noun (n.) A bead of rough carnelian. Arangoes were formerly imported from Bombay for use in the African slave trade. |
| arapaima | noun (n.) A large fresh-water food fish of South America. |
| arara | noun (n.) The palm (or great black) cockatoo, of Australia (Microglossus aterrimus). |
| aration | noun (n.) Plowing; tillage. |
| aratory | adjective (a.) Contributing to tillage. |
| araucaria | noun (n.) A genus of tall conifers of the pine family. The species are confined mostly to South America and Australia. The wood cells differ from those of other in having the dots in their lateral surfaces in two or three rows, and the dots of contiguous rows alternating. The seeds are edible. |
| araucarian | adjective (a.) Relating to, or of the nature of, the Araucaria. The earliest conifers in geological history were mostly Araucarian. |
| araba | noun (n.) A wagon or cart, usually heavy and without springs, and often covered. |
| araroba | noun (n.) Goa powder. |
| noun (n.) A fabaceous tree of Brazil (Centrolobium robustum) having handsomely striped wood; -- called also zebrawood. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ARAM:
English Words which starts with 'a' and ends with 'm':
| aam | noun (n.) A Dutch and German measure of liquids, varying in different cities, being at Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, at Antwerp 36 1/2, at Hamburg 38 1/4. |
| abandum | noun (n.) Anything forfeited or confiscated. |
| abolitionism | noun (n.) The principles or measures of abolitionists. |
| abomasum | noun (n.) Alt. of Abomasus |
| abraum | noun (n.) Alt. of Abraum salts |
| absenteeism | noun (n.) The state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated. |
| absinthism | noun (n.) The condition of being poisoned by the excessive use of absinth. |
| absinthium | noun (n.) The common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter plant, used as a tonic and for making the oil of wormwood. |
| absolutism | noun (n.) The state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism. |
| noun (n.) Doctrine of absolute decrees. |
| abysm | noun (n.) An abyss; a gulf. |
| academicism | noun (n.) A tenet of the Academic philosophy. |
| noun (n.) A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy. |
| academism | noun (n.) The doctrines of the Academic philosophy. |
| accidentalism | noun (n.) Accidental character or effect. |
| acclaim | noun (n.) Acclamation. |
| verb (v. t.) To applaud. | |
| verb (v. t.) To declare by acclamations. | |
| verb (v. t.) To shout; as, to acclaim my joy. | |
| verb (v. i.) To shout applause. |
| accustom | noun (n.) Custom. |
| verb (v. t.) To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be wont. | |
| verb (v. i.) To cohabit. |
| acetabuliform | adjective (a.) Shaped like a shallow cup; saucer-shaped; as, an acetabuliform calyx. |
| acetabulum | noun (n.) A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc. |
| noun (n.) The bony cup which receives the head of the thigh bone. | |
| noun (n.) The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body. | |
| noun (n.) A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals. | |
| noun (n.) The large posterior sucker of the leeches. | |
| noun (n.) One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals. |
| achenium | noun (n.) A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists. |
| achromatism | noun (n.) The state or quality of being achromatic; as, the achromatism of a lens; achromaticity. |
| aciculiform | adjective (a.) Needle-shaped; acicular. |
| aciform | adjective (a.) Shaped like a needle. |
| acinaciform | adjective (a.) Scimeter-shaped; as, an acinaciform leaf. |
| acinetiform | adjective (a.) Resembling the Acinetae. |
| aciniform | adjective (a.) Having the form of a cluster of grapes; clustered like grapes. |
| adjective (a.) Full of small kernels like a grape. |
| aconitum | noun (n.) The poisonous herb aconite; also, an extract from it. |
| acosmism | noun (n.) A denial of the existence of the universe as distinct from God. |
| acrobatism | noun (n.) Feats of the acrobat; daring gymnastic feats; high vaulting. |
| acrodactylum | noun (n.) The upper surface of the toes, individually. |
| acropodium | noun (n.) The entire upper surface of the foot. |
| acrotarsium | noun (n.) The instep or front of the tarsus. |
| acroterium | noun (n.) One of the small pedestals, for statues or other ornaments, placed on the apex and at the basal angles of a pediment. Acroteria are also sometimes placed upon the gables in Gothic architecture. |
| noun (n.) One of the pedestals, for vases or statues, forming a part roof balustrade. |
| acrotism | noun (n.) Lack or defect of pulsation. |
| actiniform | adjective (a.) Having a radiated form, like a sea anemone. |
| actinism | noun (n.) The property of radiant energy (found chiefly in solar or electric light) by which chemical changes are produced, as in photography. |
| actinium | noun (n.) A supposed metal, said by Phipson to be contained in commercial zinc; -- so called because certain of its compounds are darkened by exposure to light. |
| aculeiform | adjective (a.) Like a prickle. |
| adam | noun (n.) The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race. |
| noun (n.) "Original sin;" human frailty. |
| addendum | noun (n.) A thing to be added; an appendix or addition. |
| adeniform | adjective (a.) Shaped like a gland; adenoid. |
| adiantum | noun (n.) A genus of ferns, the leaves of which shed water; maidenhair. Also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort. |
| adiaphorism | noun (n.) Religious indifference. |
| adipoceriform | adjective (a.) Having the form or appearance of adipocere; as, an adipoceriform tumor. |
| adytum | noun (n.) The innermost sanctuary or shrine in ancient temples, whence oracles were given. Hence: A private chamber; a sanctum. |
| aecidium | noun (n.) A form of fruit in the cycle of development of the Rusts or Brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants. |
| aeriform | adjective (a.) Having the form or nature of air, or of an elastic fluid; gaseous. Hence fig.: Unreal. |
| aestheticism | noun (n.) The doctrine of aesthetics; aesthetic principles; devotion to the beautiful in nature and art. |
| africanism | noun (n.) A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. |
| agallochum | noun (n.) A soft, resinous wood (Aquilaria Agallocha) of highly aromatic smell, burnt by the orientals as a perfume. It is called also agalwood and aloes wood. The name is also given to some other species. |
| agendum | noun (n.) Something to be done; in the pl., a memorandum book. |
| noun (n.) A church service; a ritual or liturgy. [In this sense, usually Agenda.] |
| ageratum | noun (n.) A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters. |
| agnosticism | noun (n.) That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies. |
| noun (n.) The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism. |
| agonism | noun (n.) Contention for a prize; a contest. |
| agrarianism | noun (n.) An equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land. |
| agriculturism | noun (n.) Agriculture. |
| agrom | noun (n.) A disease occurring in Bengal and other parts of the East Indies, in which the tongue chaps and cleaves. |
| alabastrum | noun (n.) A flower bud. |
| alarm | noun (n.) A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. |
| noun (n.) Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. | |
| noun (n.) A sudden attack; disturbance; broil. | |
| noun (n.) Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise. | |
| noun (n.) A mechanical contrivance for awaking persons from sleep, or rousing their attention; an alarum. | |
| verb (v. t.) To call to arms for defense; to give notice to (any one) of approaching danger; to rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert. | |
| verb (v. t.) To keep in excitement; to disturb. | |
| verb (v. t.) To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear. |
| alarum | noun (n.) See Alarm. |
| albinism | noun (n.) The state or condition of being an albino: abinoism; leucopathy. |
| albinoism | noun (n.) The state or condition of being an albino; albinism. |
| album | noun (n.) A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc. |
| noun (n.) A register for visitors' names; a visitors' book. | |
| noun (n.) A blank book, in which to insert autographs sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs, etc. |
| alburnum | noun (n.) The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood. |
| alcoholism | noun (n.) A diseased condition of the system, brought about by the continued use of alcoholic liquors. |
| alcyonium | noun (n.) A genus of fleshy Alcyonaria, its polyps somewhat resembling flowers with eight fringed rays. The term was also formerly used for certain species of sponges. |
| algorism | noun (n.) Alt. of Algorithm |
| algorithm | noun (n.) The art of calculating by nine figures and zero. |
| noun (n.) The art of calculating with any species of notation; as, the algorithms of fractions, proportions, surds, etc. |
| algum | noun (n.) Same as Almug (and etymologically preferable). |
| noun (n.) A tree or wood of the Bible (2 Chron. ii. 8; 1 K. x. 11). |
| alienism | noun (n.) The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage. |
| noun (n.) The study or treatment of diseases of the mind. |
| aliform | adjective (a.) Wing-shaped; winglike. |
| allium | noun (n.) A genus of plants, including the onion, garlic, leek, chive, etc. |
| allodialism | noun (n.) The allodial system. |
| allodium | noun (n.) Freehold estate; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud. |
| allomerism | noun (n.) Variability in chemical constitution without variation in crystalline form. |
| allomorphism | noun (n.) The property which constitutes an allomorph; the change involved in becoming an allomorph. |
| allonym | noun (n.) The name of another person assumed by the author of a work. |
| noun (n.) A work published under the name of some one other than the author. |
| allotheism | noun (n.) The worship of strange gods. |
| allotropism | noun (n.) Alt. of Allotropy |
| alluvium | noun (n.) Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. |
| alphabetism | noun (n.) The expression of spoken sounds by an alphabet. |
| altruism | noun (n.) Regard for others, both natural and moral; devotion to the interests of others; brotherly kindness; -- opposed to egoism or selfishness. |
| alum | noun (n.) A double sulphate formed of aluminium and some other element (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystallization. |
| verb (v. t.) To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum. |
| aluminiform | adjective (a.) Having the form of alumina. |
| aluminium | noun (n.) The metallic base of alumina. This metal is white, but with a bluish tinge, and is remarkable for its resistance to oxidation, and for its lightness, having a specific gravity of about 2.6. Atomic weight 27.08. Symbol Al. |
| aluminum | noun (n.) See Aluminium. |
| alveoliform | adjective (a.) Having the form of alveoli, or little sockets, cells, or cavities. |
| alyssum | noun (n.) A genus of cruciferous plants; madwort. The sweet alyssum (A. maritimum), cultivated for bouquets, bears small, white, sweet-scented flowers. |
| amalgam | noun (n.) An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; as, an amalgam of tin, bismuth, etc. |
| noun (n.) A mixture or compound of different things. | |
| noun (n.) A native compound of mercury and silver. | |
| verb (v. t. / i.) To amalgamate. |
| amateurism | noun (n.) The practice, habit, or work of an amateur. |
| ambulacriform | adjective (a.) Having the form of ambulacra. |
| ambulacrum | noun (n.) One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays. |
| noun (n.) One of the suckers on the feet of mites. |
| amentiform | adjective (a.) Shaped like a catkin. |
| amentum | noun (n.) Same as Ament. |
| 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. |
| amianthiform | adjective (a.) Resembling amianthus in form. |
| ammonium | noun (n.) A compound radical, NH4, having the chemical relations of a strongly basic element like the alkali metals. |
| amoebaeum | noun (n.) A poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil. |
| amoebiform | adjective (a.) Alt. of Amoeboid |
| amomum | noun (n.) A genus of aromatic plants. It includes species which bear cardamoms, and grains of paradise. |
| amorphism | noun (n.) A state of being amorphous; esp. a state of being without crystallization even in the minutest particles, as in glass, opal, etc. |
| amphibium | noun (n.) An amphibian. |
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