First Names Rhyming ANGELETTE
English Words Rhyming ANGELETTE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES ANGELETTE AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ANGELETTE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 8 Letters (ngelette) - English Words That Ends with ngelette:
Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (gelette) - English Words That Ends with gelette:
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (elette) - English Words That Ends with elette:
novelette | noun (n.) A short novel. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (lette) - English Words That Ends with lette:
aiguillette | noun (n.) A point or tag at the end of a fringe or lace; an aglet. |
| noun (n.) One of the ornamental tags, cords, or loops on some military and naval uniforms. |
ailette | noun (n.) A small square shield, formerly worn on the shoulders of knights, -- being the prototype of the modern epaulet. |
briolette | noun (n.) An oval or pearshaped diamond having its entire surface cut in triangular facets. |
cassolette | noun (n.) a box, or vase, with a perforated cover to emit perfumes. |
epaulette | noun (n.) A shoulder ornament or badge worn by military and naval officers, differences of rank being marked by some peculiar form or device, as a star, eagle, etc.; a shoulder knot. |
epinglette | noun (n.) An iron needle for piercing the cartridge of a cannon before priming. |
gargoulette | noun (n.) A water cooler or jug with a handle and spout; a gurglet. |
lobulette | noun (n.) A little lobule, or subdivision of a lobule. |
palette | noun (n.) A thin, oval or square board, or tablet, with a thumb hole at one end for holding it, on which a painter lays and mixes his pigments. |
| noun (n.) One of the plates covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows. |
| noun (n.) A breastplate for a breast drill. |
parasolette | noun (n.) A small parasol. |
roulette | noun (n.) A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game. |
| noun (n.) A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to order to produce rows of dots. |
| noun (n.) A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint. |
| noun (n.) the curve traced by any point in the plane of a given curve when the latter rolls, without sliding, over another fixed curve. See Cycloid, and Epycycloid. |
| noun (n.) A small toothed wheel used to make short incisions in paper, as a sheet of postage stamps to facilitate their separation. |
| verb (v. t.) To make short incisions in with a roulette; to separate by incisions made with a roulette; as, to roulette a sheet of postage stamps. |
rigolette | noun (n.) A woman's light scarflike head covering, usually knit or crocheted of wool. |
toilette | noun (n.) See Toilet, 3. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (ette) - English Words That Ends with ette:
aigrette | noun (n.) The small white European heron. See Egret. |
| noun (n.) A plume or tuft for the head composed of feathers, or of gems, etc. |
| noun (n.) A tuft like that of the egret. |
| noun (n.) A feathery crown of seed; egret; as, the aigrette or down of the dandelion or the thistle. |
allumette | noun (n.) A match for lighting candles, lamps, etc. |
amassette | noun (n.) An instrument of horn used for collecting painters' colors on the stone in the process of grinding. |
amorette | noun (n.) An amoret. |
amusette | noun (n.) A light field cannon, or stocked gun mounted on a swivel. |
anisette | noun (n.) A French cordial or liqueur flavored with anise seeds. |
ariette | noun (n.) A short aria, or air. |
aviette | noun (n.) A heavier-than-air flying machine in which the motive power is furnished solely by the aviator. |
baguette | noun (n.) A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead. |
| noun (n.) One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation. |
banquette | noun (n.) A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy. |
| noun (n.) A narrow window seat; a raised shelf at the back or the top of a buffet or dresser. |
| noun (n.) A bench or seat for passengers on the top of a diligence or other public vehicle. |
barbette | noun (n.) A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet. |
blanquette | noun (n.) A white fricassee. |
bombazet bombazette | noun (n.) A sort of thin woolen cloth. It is of various colors, and may be plain or twilled. |
brunette | adjective (a.) A girl or woman with a somewhat brown or dark complexion. |
| adjective (a.) Having a dark tint. |
burette | noun (n.) An apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquid or for measuring the quantity of liquid or gas received or discharged. It consists essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnished with a small aperture and stopcock. |
briquette | noun (n.) A block of compacted coal dust, or peat, etc., for fuel. |
| noun (n.) A block of artificial stone in the form of a brick, used for paving; also, a molded sample of solidified cement or mortar for use as a test piece for showing the strength of the material. |
brochette | noun (n.) A small spit or skewer. |
cashmerette | noun (n.) A kind of dress goods, made with a soft and glossy surface like cashmere. |
cassinette | noun (n.) A cloth with a cotton warp, and a woof of very fine wool, or wool and silk. |
chansonnette | noun (n.) A little song. |
chemisette | noun (n.) An under-garment, worn by women, usually covering the neck, shoulders, and breast. |
chevrette | noun (n.) A machine for raising guns or mortar into their carriages. |
cigarette | noun (n.) A little cigar; a little fine tobacco rolled in paper for smoking. |
coquette | noun (n.) A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men. |
| noun (n.) A tropical humming bird of the genus Lophornis, with very elegant neck plumes. Several species are known. See Illustration under Spangle, v. t. |
corvette | noun (n.) A war vessel, ranking next below a frigate, and having usually only one tier of guns; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war. |
crossette | noun (n.) A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow. |
| noun (n.) The shoulder of a joggled keystone. |
cunette | noun (n.) A drain trench, in a ditch or moat; -- called also cuvette. |
curette | noun (n.) A scoop or ring with either a blunt or a cutting edge, for removing substances from the walls of a cavity, as from the eye, ear, or womb. |
| verb (v. t.) To scrape with a curette. |
cuvette | noun (n.) A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table. |
| noun (n.) A cunette. |
| noun (n.) A small vessel with at least two flat and transparent sides, used to hold a liquid sample to be analysed in the light path of a spectrometer. |
cassette | noun (n.) Same as Seggar. |
collarette | noun (n.) A small collar; specif., a woman's collar of lace, fur, or other fancy material. |
cossette | noun (n.) One of the small chips or slices into which beets are cut in sugar making. |
dancette | adjective (a.) Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancette has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon. |
echauguette | noun (n.) A small chamber or place of protection for a sentinel, usually in the form of a projecting turret, or the like. See Castle. |
egrette | noun (n.) Same as Egret, n., 2. |
eprouvette | noun (n.) An apparatus for testing or proving the strength of gunpowder. |
escopette | noun (n.) A kind of firearm; a carbine. |
estafette | noun (n.) A courier who conveys messages to another courier; a military courier sent from one part of an army to another. |
etiquette | noun (n.) The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society. |
facette | noun (n.) See Facet, n. |
fauvette | noun (n.) A small singing bird, as the nightingale and warblers. |
fossette | noun (n.) A little hollow; hence, a dimple. |
| noun (n.) A small, deep-centered ulcer of the transparent cornea. |
fourchette | noun (n.) A table fork. |
| noun (n.) A small fold of membrane, connecting the labia in the posterior part of the vulva. |
| noun (n.) The wishbone or furculum of birds. |
| noun (n.) The frog of the hoof of the horse and allied animals. |
| noun (n.) An instrument used to raise and support the tongue during the cutting of the fraenum. |
| noun (n.) The forked piece between two adjacent fingers, to which the front and back portions are sewed. |
| noun (n.) The combination of the card immediately above and the one immediately below a given card. |
frizette | noun (n.) A curl of hair or silk; a pad of frizzed hair or silk worn by women under the hair to stuff it out. |
| noun (n.) a fringe of hair or curls worn about the forehead by women. |
fumette | noun (n.) The stench or high flavor of game or other meat when kept long. |
frisette | noun (n.) Alt. of Frizette |
gazette | noun (n.) A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically; esp., the official journal published by the British government, and containing legal and state notices. |
| verb (v. t.) To announce or publish in a gazette; to announce officially, as an appointment, or a case of bankruptcy. |
genette | noun (n.) One of several species of small Carnivora of the genus Genetta, allied to the civets, but having the scent glands less developed, and without a pouch. |
| noun (n.) The fur of the common genet (Genetta vulgaris); also, any skin dressed in imitation of this fur. |
glissette | noun (n.) The locus described by any point attached to a curve that slips continuously on another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotation at any instant. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (tte) - English Words That Ends with tte:
alouatte | noun (n.) One of the several species of howling monkeys of South America. See Howler, 2. |
bayatte | noun (n.) A large, edible, siluroid fish of the Nile, of two species (Bagrina bayad and B. docmac). |
butte | noun (n.) A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region. |
calotte | noun (n.) Alt. of Callot |
charlotte | noun (n.) A kind of pie or pudding made by lining a dish with slices of bread, and filling it with bread soaked in milk, and baked. |
carotte | noun (n.) A cylindrical roll of tobacco; as, a carotte of perique. |
euosmitte | noun (n.) A fossil resin, so called from its strong, peculiar, pleasant odor. |
euritte | noun (n.) A compact feldspathic rock; felsite. See Felsite. |
fytte | noun (n.) See Fit a song. |
grisette | noun (n.) A French girl or young married woman of the lower class; more frequently, a young working woman who is fond of gallantry. |
historiette | noun (n.) Historical narration on a small scale; a brief recital; a story. |
kerseynette | noun (n.) See Cassinette. |
kitchenette | noun (n.) A room combining a very small kitchen and a pantry, with the kitchen conveniences compactly arranged, sometimes so that they fold up out of sight and allow the kitchen to be made a part of the adjoining room by opening folding doors. |
lafayette | noun (n.) The dollar fish. |
| noun (n.) A market fish, the goody, or spot (Liostomus xanthurus), of the southern coast of the United States. |
leatherette | noun (n.) An imitation of leather, made of paper and cloth. |
lorette | noun (n.) In France, a name for a woman who is supported by her lovers, and devotes herself to idleness, show, and pleasure; -- so called from the church of Notre Dame de Lorette, in Paris, near which many of them resided. |
lorgnette | noun (n.) An opera glass |
| noun (n.) elaborate double eyeglasses. |
lunette | noun (n.) A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion. |
| noun (n.) A half horseshoe, which wants the sponge. |
| noun (n.) A kind of watch crystal which is more than ordinarily flattened in the center; also, a species of convexoconcave lens for spectacles. |
| noun (n.) A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse. |
| noun (n.) Any surface of semicircular or segmental form; especially, the piece of wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line. |
| noun (n.) An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage. |
layette | noun (n.) The outfit of clothing, blankets, etc., prepared for a newborn infant, and placed ready for used. |
marionette | noun (n.) A puppet moved by strings, as in a puppet show. |
| noun (n.) The buffel duck. |
mascotte | noun (n.) A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck. |
matte | noun (n.) A partly reduced copper sulphide, obtained by alternately roasting and melting copper ore in separating the metal from associated iron ores, and called coarse metal, fine metal, etc., according to the grade of fineness. On the exterior it is dark brown or black, but on a fresh surface is yellow or bronzy in color. |
| noun (n.) A dead or dull finish, as in gilding where the gold leaf is not burnished, or in painting where the surface is purposely deprived of gloss. |
mignonette | noun (n.) A plant (Reseda odorata) having greenish flowers with orange-colored stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. In Africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual herb. |
minette | noun (n.) The smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs. |
minionette | noun (n.) A size of type between nonpareil and minion; -- used in ornamental borders, etc. |
| adjective (a.) Small; delicate. |
moquette | noun (n.) A kind of carpet having a short velvety pile. |
motte | noun (n.) A clump of trees in a prairie. |
musette | noun (n.) A small bagpipe formerly in use, having a soft and sweet tone. |
| noun (n.) An air adapted to this instrument; also, a kind of rustic dance. |
matelotte | noun (n.) A stew, commonly of fish, flavored with wine, and served with a wine sauce containing onions, mushrooms, etc. |
| noun (n.) An old dance of sailors, in double time, and somewhat like a hornpipe. |
noisette | noun (n.) A hybrid rose produced in 1817, by a French gardener, Noisette, of Charleston, South Carolina, from the China rose and the musk rose. It has given rise to many fine varieties, as the Lamarque, the Marechal (or Marshal) Niel, and the Cloth of gold. Most roses of this class have clustered flowers and are of vigorous growth. |
oubliette | noun (n.) A dungeon with an opening only at the top, found in some old castles and other strongholds, into which persons condemned to perpetual imprisonment, or to perish secretly, were thrust, or lured to fall. |
quartette | noun (n.) A composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument. |
| noun (n.) The set of four person who perform a piece of music in four parts. |
| noun (n.) A stanza of four lines. |
| noun (n.) A composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument. |
| noun (n.) The set of four person who perform a piece of music in four parts. |
| noun (n.) A stanza of four lines. |
quintette | noun (n.) A composition for five voices or instruments; also, the set of five persons who sing or play five-part music. |
| noun (n.) A composition for five voices or instruments; also, the set of five persons who sing or play five-part music. |
palmette | noun (n.) A floral ornament, common in Greek and other ancient architecture; -- often called the honeysuckle ornament. |
parquette | noun (n.) See Parquet. |
patte | adjective (a.) Alt. of Pattee |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ANGELETTE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 8 Letters (angelett) - Words That Begins with angelett:
Rhyming Words According to First 7 Letters (angelet) - Words That Begins with angelet:
angelet | noun (n.) A small gold coin formerly current in England; a half angel. |
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (angele) - Words That Begins with angele:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (angel) - Words That Begins with angel:
angel | noun (n.) A messenger. |
| noun (n.) A spiritual, celestial being, superior to man in power and intelligence. In the Scriptures the angels appear as God's messengers. |
| noun (n.) One of a class of "fallen angels;" an evil spirit; as, the devil and his angels. |
| noun (n.) A minister or pastor of a church, as in the Seven Asiatic churches. |
| noun (n.) Attendant spirit; genius; demon. |
| noun (n.) An appellation given to a person supposed to be of angelic goodness or loveliness; a darling. |
| noun (n.) An ancient gold coin of England, bearing the figure of the archangel Michael. It varied in value from 6s. 8d. to 10s. |
angelage | noun (n.) Existence or state of angels. |
angelhood | noun (n.) The state of being an angel; angelic nature. |
angelic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Angelical |
| adjective (a.) Of or derived from angelica; as, angelic acid; angelic ether. |
angelical | adjective (a.) Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel; heavenly; divine. |
angelica | noun (n.) An aromatic umbelliferous plant (Archangelica officinalis or Angelica archangelica) the leaf stalks of which are sometimes candied and used in confectionery, and the roots and seeds as an aromatic tonic. |
| noun (n.) The candied leaf stalks of angelica. |
angelicalness | noun (n.) The quality of being angelic; excellence more than human. |
angelolatry | noun (n.) Worship paid to angels. |
angelology | noun (n.) A discourse on angels, or a body of doctrines in regard to angels. |
angelophany | noun (n.) The actual appearance of an angel to man. |
angelot | noun (n.) A French gold coin of the reign of Louis XI., bearing the image of St. Michael; also, a piece coined at Paris by the English under Henry VI. |
| noun (n.) An instrument of music, of the lute kind, now disused. |
| noun (n.) A sort of small, rich cheese, made in Normandy. |
angelus | noun (n.) A form of devotion in which three Ave Marias are repeated. It is said at morning, noon, and evening, at the sound of a bell. |
| noun (n.) The Angelus bell. |
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (ange) - Words That Begins with ange:
anger | noun (n.) Trouble; vexation; also, physical pain or smart of a sore, etc. |
| noun (n.) A strong passion or emotion of displeasure or antagonism, excited by a real or supposed injury or insult to one's self or others, or by the intent to do such injury. |
| verb (v. t.) To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame. |
| verb (v. t.) To excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke. |
angering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Anger |
angevine | noun (n.) A native of Anjou. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Anjou in France. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ang) - Words That Begins with ang:
angariation | noun (n.) Exaction of forced service; compulsion. |
angienchyma | noun (n.) Vascular tissue of plants, consisting of spiral vessels, dotted, barred, and pitted ducts, and laticiferous vessels. |
angina | noun (n.) Any inflammatory affection of the throat or faces, as the quinsy, malignant sore throat, croup, etc., especially such as tends to produce suffocation, choking, or shortness of breath. |
anginous | adjective (a.) Alt. of Anginose |
anginose | adjective (a.) Pertaining to angina or angina pectoris. |
angiocarpous | adjective (a.) Having fruit inclosed within a covering that does not form a part of itself; as, the filbert covered by its husk, or the acorn seated in its cupule. |
| adjective (a.) Having the seeds or spores covered, as in certain lichens. |
angiography | noun (n.) A description of blood vessels and lymphatics. |
angiology | noun (n.) That part of anatomy which treats of blood vessels and lymphatics. |
angioma | noun (n.) A tumor composed chiefly of dilated blood vessels. |
| noun (n.) A tumor composed chiefly of dilated blood or lymph vessels. |
angiomonospermous | adjective (a.) Producing one seed only in a seed pod. |
angioscope | noun (n.) An instrument for examining the capillary vessels of animals and plants. |
angiosperm | noun (n.) A plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp. |
angiospermatous | adjective (a.) Same as Angiospermous. |
angiospermous | adjective (a.) Having seeds inclosed in a pod or other pericarp. |
angiosporous | adjective (a.) Having spores contained in cells or thecae, as in the case of some fungi. |
angiostomous | adjective (a.) With a narrow mouth, as the shell of certain gastropods. |
angiotomy | noun (n.) Dissection of the blood vessels and lymphatics of the body. |
angle | noun (n.) The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook. |
| noun (n.) The figure made by. two lines which meet. |
| noun (n.) The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle. |
| noun (n.) A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment. |
| noun (n.) A name given to four of the twelve astrological "houses." |
| noun (n.) A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod. |
| verb (v. i.) To fish with an angle (fishhook), or with hook and line. |
| verb (v. i.) To use some bait or artifice; to intrigue; to scheme; as, to angle for praise. |
| verb (v. t.) To try to gain by some insinuating artifice; to allure. |
angling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Angle |
| noun (n.) The act of one who angles; the art of fishing with rod and line. |
angled | adjective (a.) Having an angle or angles; -- used in compounds; as, right-angled, many-angled, etc. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Angle |
anglemeter | noun (n.) An instrument to measure angles, esp. one used by geologists to measure the dip of strata. |
angler | noun (n.) One who angles. |
| noun (n.) A fish (Lophius piscatorius), of Europe and America, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with the mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice fishes within reach. Called also fishing frog, frogfish, toadfish, goosefish, allmouth, monkfish, etc. |
angles | noun (n. pl.) An ancient Low German tribe, that settled in Britain, which came to be called Engla-land (Angleland or England). The Angles probably came from the district of Angeln (now within the limits of Schleswig), and the country now Lower Hanover, etc. |
anglesite | noun (n.) A native sulphate of lead. It occurs in white or yellowish transparent, prismatic crystals. |
angleworm | noun (n.) A earthworm of the genus Lumbricus, frequently used by anglers for bait. See Earthworm. |
anglian | noun (n.) One of the Angles. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Angles. |
anglic | adjective (a.) Anglian. |
anglican | noun (n.) A member of the Church of England. |
| noun (n.) In a restricted sense, a member of the High Church party, or of the more advanced ritualistic section, in the Church of England. |
| adjective (a.) English; of or pertaining to England or the English nation; especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of England; as, the Anglican church, doctrine, orders, ritual, etc. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, characteristic of, or held by, the high church party of the Church of England. |
anglicanism | noun (n.) Strong partiality to the principles and rites of the Church of England. |
| noun (n.) The principles of the established church of England; also, in a restricted sense, the doctrines held by the high-church party. |
| noun (n.) Attachment to England or English institutions. |
anglicism | noun (n.) An English idiom; a phrase or form language peculiar to the English. |
| noun (n.) The quality of being English; an English characteristic, custom, or method. |
anglicity | noun (n.) The state or quality of being English. |
anglicization | noun (n.) The act of anglicizing, or making English in character. |
anglicizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Anglicize |
anglifying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Anglify |
anglomania | noun (n.) A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, English customs, institutions, etc. |
anglomaniac | noun (n.) One affected with Anglomania. |
anglophobia | noun (n.) Intense dread of, or aversion to, England or the English. |
angola | noun (n.) A fabric made from the wool of the Angora goat. |
angor | noun (n.) Great anxiety accompanied by painful constriction at the upper part of the belly, often with palpitation and oppression. |
angora | noun (n.) A city of Asia Minor (or Anatolia) which has given its name to a goat, a cat, etc. |
angriness | noun (n.) The quality of being angry, or of being inclined to anger. |
anguiform | adjective (a.) Snake-shaped. |
anguilliform | adjective (a.) Eel-shaped. |
anguine | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a snake or serpent. |
anguineal | adjective (a.) Anguineous. |
anguineous | adjective (a.) Snakelike. |
anguish | noun (n.) Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress. |
| verb (v. t.) To distress with extreme pain or grief. |
angular | noun (n.) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes. |
| adjective (a.) Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure. |
| adjective (a.) Measured by an angle; as, angular distance. |
| adjective (a.) Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female. |
angularity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being angular; angularness. |
angularness | noun (n.) The quality of being angular. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ANGELETTE:
English Words which starts with 'ange' and ends with 'ette':
English Words which starts with 'ang' and ends with 'tte':
English Words which starts with 'an' and ends with 'te':
analcite | noun (n.) Analcime. |
anastate | noun (n.) One of a series of substances formed, in secreting cells, by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm; -- opposed to katastate. |
anchorate | adjective (a.) Anchor-shaped. |
anchorite | noun (n.) One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for religious reasons; a hermit; a recluse. |
| noun (n.) Same as Anchoret. |
andalusite | noun (n.) A silicate of aluminium, occurring usually in thick rhombic prisms, nearly square, of a grayish or pale reddish tint. It was first discovered in Andalusia, Spain. |
andante | noun (n.) A movement or piece in andante time. |
| adjective (a.) Moving moderately slow, but distinct and flowing; quicker than larghetto, and slower than allegretto. |
andesite | noun (n.) An eruptive rock allied to trachyte, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar, with pyroxene, hornblende, or hypersthene. |
anecdote | noun (n.) Unpublished narratives. |
| noun (n.) A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life. |
angulate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Angulated |
| verb (v. t.) To make angular. |
angustate | adjective (a.) Narrowed. |
angustifoliate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Angustifolious |
anhydrite | noun (n.) A mineral of a white or a slightly bluish color, usually massive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not containing water (whence the name). |
animate | adjective (a.) Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively. |
| verb (v. t.) To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body. |
| verb (v. t.) To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of; as, to animate a lyre. |
| verb (v. t.) To give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven. |
ankerite | noun (n.) A mineral closely related to dolomite, but containing iron. |
annihilate | adjective (a.) Annihilated. |
| verb (v. t.) To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the existence of; to cause to cease to be. |
| verb (v. t.) To destroy the form or peculiar distinctive properties of, so that the specific thing no longer exists; as, to annihilate a forest by cutting down the trees. |
| verb (v. t.) To destroy or eradicate, as a property or attribute of a thing; to make of no effect; to destroy the force, etc., of; as, to annihilate an argument, law, rights, goodness. |
annotate | noun (n.) To explain or criticize by notes; as, to annotate the works of Bacon. |
| verb (v. i.) To make notes or comments; -- with on or upon. |
annulate | noun (n.) One of the Annulata. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Annulated |
annunciate | adjective (p. p. & a.) Foretold; preannounced. |
| verb (v. t.) To announce. |
anophyte | noun (n.) A moss or mosslike plant which cellular stems, having usually an upward growth and distinct leaves. |
anorthite | noun (n.) A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime feldspar. See Feldspar. |
ante | noun (n.) Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins. |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To put up (an ante). |
antedate | noun (n.) Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date. |
| noun (n.) Anticipation. |
| verb (v. t.) To date before the true time; to assign to an earlier date; thus, to antedate a deed or a bond is to give it a date anterior to the true time of its execution. |
| verb (v. t.) To precede in time. |
| verb (v. t.) To anticipate; to make before the true time. |
antepenultimate | noun (n.) The antepenult. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the last syllable but two. |
antholite | noun (n.) A fossil plant, like a petrified flower. |
anthophyllite | noun (n.) A mineral of the hornblende group, of a yellowish gray or clove brown color. |
anthracite | noun (n.) A hard, compact variety of mineral coal, of high luster, differing from bituminous coal in containing little or no bitumen, in consequence of which it burns with a nearly non luminous flame. The purer specimens consist almost wholly of carbon. Also called glance coal and blind coal. |
anthraconite | noun (n.) A coal-black marble, usually emitting a fetid smell when rubbed; -- called also stinkstone and swinestone. |
anthropolite | noun (n.) A petrifaction of the human body, or of any portion of it. |
anthropomorphite | noun (n.) One who ascribes a human form or human attributes to the Deity or to a polytheistic deity. Taylor. Specifically, one of a sect of ancient heretics who believed that God has a human form, etc. Tillotson. |
anthropophagite | noun (n.) A cannibal. |
antidote | noun (n.) A remedy to counteract the effects of poison, or of anything noxious taken into the stomach; -- used with against, for, or to; as, an antidote against, for, or to, poison. |
| noun (n.) Whatever tends to prevent mischievous effects, or to counteract evil which something else might produce. |
| verb (v. t.) To counteract or prevent the effects of, by giving or taking an antidote. |
| verb (v. t.) To fortify or preserve by an antidote. |
antimonate | noun (n.) A compound of antimonic acid with a base or basic radical. |
antimonite | noun (n.) A compound of antimonious acid and a base or basic radical. |
| noun (n.) Stibnite. |
anorthosite | noun (n.) A granular igneous rock composed almost exclusively of a soda-lime feldspar, usually labradorite. |
anthropopathite | noun (n.) One who ascribes human feelings to deity. |