Name Report For First Name ASTA:
ASTA
First name ASTA's origin is Other. ASTA means "star". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with ASTA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of asta.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with ASTA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with ASTA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming ASTA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES ASTA AS A WHOLE:
vlasta astarte castalia jocasta alastair anastasius anastagio anastasia casta nastassia anastasio nastas anastasiosNAMES RHYMING WITH ASTA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (sta) - Names That Ends with sta:
amista gusta baptista battista esta trista pista calista callista calysta celesta christa crista emesta ernesta kalista krista modesta fausta bautista ansta desta clarestaRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ta) - Names That Ends with ta:
aminata binata binta fanta ismitta leta nasheeta nashita bixenta adsaluta bricta nantosuelta paharita serenata alzbeta agneta almeta gjerta alberta elberta hrothbeorhta fusberta admeta aleta atalanta delta errita giancinta irta kineta minta panagiota rheta zeta zyta gitta amrita anahita jaganmata jarita jivanta samvarta shanta sita vineeta vinata aletta annuziata antonietta benedetta brunetta concetta donata edita elisabetta enrichetta guiditta lunetta renata rosetta traviata kita amayeta awanata awinita ayita huata kuwanlelenta mankalita peta tablita tadita tayanita antoaneta codruta constanta craitaNAMES RHYMING WITH ASTA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ast) - Names That Begins with ast:
astennu asthore astolat astolpho astra astraea astrea astrid astyrianRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (as) - Names That Begins with as:
asa asabi asad asadel asaf asante asaph asayleus ascalaphus ascencion ascot ascott asdza aselma asenka asenke asentzio asfour asfoureh ash asha ashaad ashaki ashar ashburn ashby ashelynn asher ashford ashia ashira ashkii ashla ashlan ashleah ashlee ashleen ashleena ashleigh ashlen ashley ashlie ashlin ashling ashlinn ashly ashlyn ashlynn ashlynne ashquar ashraf ashtaroth ashten ashtin ashton ashtyn ashur ashvik ashvin ashwin ashwyn asia asianne asif asil asim asima asklepios askook askuwheteau asliraf asmina asopus aspasia assaggi assan assana assane assefa asucena asuncion asura aswad aswan asyaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ASTA:
First Names which starts with 'a' and ends with 'a':
aala aaleahya aarika aarshiya aashka aasiya abba abda abdalla abdera abdulla abeba abelia abella abellona abena abequa aberfa abhaya abia abida abisha abjaja abra abraha abriana abrianna acacia academia acantha acca acharya acima ada adaira adairia adalbrechta adalgisa adalheida adalia adalicia adalwolfa adama adamina adana adanna adara adda addula adeela adela adelajda adelia adelina adelinda adelisa adelita adella adelpha adena adeola adharma adia adianna adiba adiella adila adima adina adira adisa aditya adiva adjoa admina adolpha adoncia adonia adora adowa adra adreana adreanna adriana adrianna adsila adwoa adya aeaea aegina aeldra aenedlea aerwyna aethelha aethelreda aethra aetna afafa afia afinaEnglish Words Rhyming ASTA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES ASTA AS A WHOLE:
| anastaltic | noun (a. & n.) Styptic. |
| 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. |
| anastatic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a process or a style of printing from characters in relief on zinc plates. |
| astacus | noun (n.) A genus of crustaceans, containing the crawfish of fresh-water lobster of Europe, and allied species of western North America. See Crawfish. |
| astarte | noun (n.) A genus of bivalve mollusks, common on the coasts of America and Europe. |
| astate | noun (n.) Estate; state. |
| astatic | adjective (a.) Having little or no tendency to take a fixed or definite position or direction: thus, a suspended magnetic needle, when rendered astatic, loses its polarity, or tendency to point in a given direction. |
| astaticism | noun (n.) The state of being astatic. |
| astatizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Astatize |
| astatki | noun (n.) A thick liquid residuum obtained in the distillation of Russian petroleum, much used as fuel. |
| ballastage | noun (n.) A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor. |
| bastard | noun (n.) A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union. |
| noun (n.) An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that / already had several boilings. | |
| noun (n.) A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained. | |
| noun (n.) A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor. | |
| noun (n.) A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper. | |
| noun (n.) Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so. | |
| noun (n.) Of an unusual make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin. | |
| noun (n.) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book. | |
| adjective (a.) Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bastardize. |
| bastardism | noun (n.) The state of being a bastard; bastardy. |
| bastardizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bastardize |
| bastardly | adjective (a.) Bastardlike; baseborn; spurious; corrupt. |
| adverb (adv.) In the manner of a bastard; spuriously. |
| bastardy | noun (n.) The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy. |
| noun (n.) The procreation of a bastard child. |
| boastance | noun (n.) Boasting. |
| castalian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Castalia, a mythical fountain of inspiration on Mt. Parnassus sacred to the Muses. |
| castanea | noun (n.) A genus of nut-bearing trees or shrubs including the chestnut and chinquapin. |
| castanet | noun (n.) See Castanets. |
| castanets | noun (n. pl.) Two small, concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger; -- used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment to their dance and guitars. |
| castaway | noun (n.) One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked. |
| noun (n.) One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate. | |
| adjective (a.) Of no value; rejected; useless. |
| catastaltic | adjective (a.) Checking evacuations through astringent or styptic qualities. |
| catastasis | noun (n.) That part of a speech, usually the exordium, in which the orator sets forth the subject matter to be discussed. |
| noun (n.) The state, or condition of anything; constitution; habit of body. |
| coastal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a coast. |
| dastard | noun (n.) One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon. |
| adjective (a.) Meanly shrinking from danger; cowardly; dastardly. | |
| verb (v. t.) To dastardize. |
| dastardizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dastardize |
| dastardliness | noun (n.) The quality of being dastardly; cowardice; base fear. |
| dastardly | adjective (a.) Meanly timid; cowardly; base; as, a dastardly outrage. |
| dastardness | noun (n.) Dastardliness. |
| dastardy | noun (n.) Base timidity; cowardliness. |
| devastating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Devastate |
| devastation | noun (n.) The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste. |
| noun (n.) Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator. |
| devastator | noun (n.) One who, or that which, devastates. |
| devastavit | noun (n.) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or an administrator. |
| diastase | noun (n.) A soluble, nitrogenous ferment, capable of converting starch and dextrin into sugar. |
| diastasic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, diastase; as, diastasic ferment. |
| diastasis | noun (n.) A forcible of bones without fracture. |
| diastatic | adjective (a.) Relating to diastase; having the properties of diastase; effecting the conversion of starch into sugar. |
| dynasta | noun (n.) A tyrant. |
| extrastapedial | noun (n.) The extrastapedial part of columella. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to a part of the columella of the ear, which, in many animals, projects beyond the connection with the stapes. |
| flabbergastation | noun (n.) The state of being flabbergasted. |
| haemastatics | noun (n.) Same as Hemastatics. |
| hastate | noun (n.) Alt. of Hastated |
| hastated | noun (n.) Shaped like the head of a halberd; triangular, with the basal angles or lobes spreading; as, a hastate leaf. |
| hemastatic | noun (a. & n.) Alt. of Hemastatical |
| hemastatical | noun (a. & n.) Same as Hemostatic. |
| hemastatics | noun (n.) Laws relating to the equilibrium of the blood in the blood vessels. |
| impastation | noun (n.) The act of making into paste; that which is formed into a paste or mixture; specifically, a combination of different substances by means of cements. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ASTA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (sta) - English Words That Ends with sta:
| arista | noun (n.) An awn. |
| avesta | noun (n.) The Zoroastrian scriptures. See Zend-Avesta. |
| ballista | noun (n.) An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles. |
| costa | noun (n.) A rib of an animal or a human being. |
| noun (n.) A rib or vein of a leaf, especially the midrib. | |
| noun (n.) The anterior rib in the wing of an insect. | |
| noun (n.) One of the riblike longitudinal ridges on the exterior of many corals. |
| crusta | noun (n.) A crust or shell. |
| noun (n.) A gem engraved, or a plate embossed in low relief, for inlaying a vase or other object. |
| cuesta | noun (n.) A sloping plain, esp. one with the upper end at the crest of a cliff; a hill or ridge with one face steep and the opposite face gently sloping. |
| egesta | noun (n. pl.) That which is egested or thrown off from the body by the various excretory channels; excrements; -- opposed to ingesta. |
| enteropneusta | noun (n. pl.) A group of wormlike invertebrates having, along the sides of the body, branchial openings for the branchial sacs, which are formed by diverticula of the alimentary canal. Balanoglossus is the only known genus. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| fiesta | noun (n.) Among Spanish, a religious festival; a saint's day or holiday; also, a holiday or festivity. |
| genista | noun (n.) A genus of plants including the common broom of Western Europe. |
| ingesta | noun (n. pl.) That which is introduced into the body by the stomach or alimentary canal; -- opposed to egesta. |
| locusta | noun (n.) The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses. |
| organista | noun (n.) Any one of several South American wrens, noted for the sweetness of their song. |
| pharyngopneusta | noun (n. pl.) A group of invertebrates including the Tunicata and Enteropneusta. |
| podesta | noun (n.) One of the chief magistrates of the Italian republics in the Middle Ages. |
| noun (n.) A mayor, alderman, or other magistrate, in some towns of Italy. |
| protista | noun (n. pl.) A provisional group in which are placed a number of low microscopic organisms of doubtful nature. Some are probably plants, others animals. |
| (pl. ) of Protiston |
| protoplasta | noun (n. pl.) A division of fresh-water rhizopods including those that have a soft body and delicate branched pseudopodia. The genus Gromia is one of the best-known. |
| siesta | noun (n.) A short sleep taken about the middle of the day, or after dinner; a midday nap. |
| shasta | noun (n.) A mountain peak, etc., in California. |
| testa | noun (n.) The external hard or firm covering of many invertebrate animals. |
| noun (n.) The outer integument of a seed; the episperm, or spermoderm. |
| vesta | noun (n.) One of the great divinities of the ancient Romans, identical with the Greek Hestia. She was a virgin, and the goddess of the hearth; hence, also, of the fire on it, and the family round it. |
| noun (n.) An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807. | |
| noun (n.) A wax friction match. |
| vista | noun (n.) A view; especially, a view through or between intervening objects, as trees; a view or prospect through an avenue, or the like; hence, the trees or other objects that form the avenue. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ASTA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ast) - Words That Begins with ast:
| asteism | noun (n.) Genteel irony; a polite and ingenious manner of deriding another. |
| astel | noun (n.) An arch, or ceiling, of boards, placed over the men's heads in a mine. |
| aster | noun (n.) A genus of herbs with compound white or bluish flowers; starwort; Michaelmas daisy. |
| noun (n.) A plant of the genus Callistephus. Many varieties (called China asters, German asters, etc.) are cultivated for their handsome compound flowers. | |
| noun (n.) A star-shaped figure of achromatic substance found chiefly in cells dividing by mitosis. |
| asterias | noun (n.) A genus of echinoderms. |
| asteriated | adjective (a.) Radiated, with diverging rays; as, asteriated sapphire. |
| asteridian | noun (n.) A starfish; one of the Asterioidea. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Asterioidea. |
| asterioidea | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Asteridea |
| asteridea | noun (n. pl.) A class of Echinodermata including the true starfishes. The rays vary in number and always have ambulacral grooves below. The body is star-shaped or pentagonal. |
| asterion | noun (n.) The point on the side of the skull where the lambdoid, parieto-mastoid and occipito-mastoid sutures. |
| asteriscus | noun (n.) The smaller of the two otoliths found in the inner ear of many fishes. |
| asterisk | noun (n.) The figure of a star, thus, /, used in printing and writing as a reference to a passage or note in the margin, to supply the omission of letters or words, or to mark a word or phrase as having a special character. |
| asterism | noun (n.) A constellation. |
| noun (n.) A small cluster of stars. | |
| noun (n.) An asterisk, or mark of reference. | |
| noun (n.) Three asterisks placed in this manner, /, to direct attention to a particular passage. | |
| noun (n.) An optical property of some crystals which exhibit a star-shaped by reflected light, as star sapphire, or by transmitted light, as some mica. |
| asternal | adjective (a.) Not sternal; -- said of ribs which do not join the sternum. |
| asteroid | noun (n.) A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; -- called also planetoids and minor planets. |
| asteroidal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an asteroid, or to the asteroids. |
| asterolepis | noun (n.) A genus of fishes, some of which were eighteen or twenty feet long, found in a fossil state in the Old Red Sandstone. |
| asterophyllite | noun (n.) A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites. |
| asthenia | noun (n.) Alt. of Astheny |
| astheny | noun (n.) Want or loss of strength; debility; diminution of the vital forces. |
| asthenic | adjective (a.) Characterized by, or pertaining to, debility; weak; debilitating. |
| asthenopia | noun (n.) Weakness of sight. |
| asthma | noun (n.) A disease, characterized by difficulty of breathing (due to a spasmodic contraction of the bronchi), recurring at intervals, accompanied with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, a cough, and expectoration. |
| asthmatic | noun (n.) A person affected with asthma. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Asthmatical |
| asthmatical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to asthma; as, an asthmatic cough; liable to, or suffering from, asthma; as, an asthmatic patient. |
| astigmatic | adjective (a.) Affected with, or pertaining to, astigmatism; as, astigmatic eyes; also, remedying astigmatism; as, astigmatic lenses. |
| astigmatism | noun (n.) A defect of the eye or of a lens, in consequence of which the rays derived from one point are not brought to a single focal point, thus causing imperfect images or indistinctness of vision. |
| astipulation | noun (n.) Stipulation; agreement. |
| astomatous | adjective (a.) Alt. of Astomous |
| astomous | adjective (a.) Not possessing a mouth. |
| astonishing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Astonish |
| adjective (a.) Very wonderful; of a nature to excite astonishment; as, an astonishing event. |
| astonishment | noun (n.) The condition of one who is stunned. Hence: Numbness; loss of sensation; stupor; loss of sense. |
| noun (n.) Dismay; consternation. | |
| noun (n.) The overpowering emotion excited when something unaccountable, wonderful, or dreadful is presented to the mind; an intense degree of surprise; amazement. | |
| noun (n.) The object causing such an emotion. |
| astonying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Astony |
| astound | adjective (a.) Stunned; astounded; astonished. |
| adjective (a.) To stun; to stupefy. | |
| adjective (a.) To astonish; to strike with amazement; to confound with wonder, surprise, or fear. | |
| () of Astone | |
| () of Astound |
| astounding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Astound |
| adjective (a.) Of a nature to astound; astonishing; amazing; as, an astounding force, statement, or fact. |
| astoundment | noun (n.) Amazement. |
| astrachan | noun (a. & n.) See Astrakhan. |
| astraean | noun (n.) A coral of the family Astraeidae; a star coral. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to the genus Astraea or the family Astraeidae. |
| astragal | noun (n.) A convex molding of rounded surface, generally from half to three quarters of a circle. |
| noun (n.) A round molding encircling a cannon near the mouth. |
| astragalar | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the astragalus. |
| astragaloid | adjective (a.) Resembling the astragalus in form. |
| astragalomancy | noun (n.) Divination by means of small bones or dice. |
| astragalus | noun (n.) The ankle bone, or hock bone; the bone of the tarsus which articulates with the tibia at the ankle. |
| noun (n.) A genus of papilionaceous plants, of the tribe Galegeae, containing numerous species, two of which are called, in English, milk vetch and licorice vetch. Gum tragacanth is obtained from different oriental species, particularly the A. gummifer and A. verus. | |
| noun (n.) See Astragal, 1. |
| astrakhan | noun (n.) The skin of stillborn or young lambs of that region, the curled wool of which resembles fur. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Astrakhan in Russia or its products; made of an Astrakhan skin. |
| astral | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, coming from, or resembling, the stars; starry; starlike. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an aster; as, astral rays; astral sphere. | |
| adjective (a.) Consisting of, belonging to, or designating, a kind of supersensible substance alleged to be next above the tangible world in refinement; as, astral spirits; astral bodies of persons; astral current. |
| astricting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Astrict |
| astrict | adjective (a.) Concise; contracted. |
| verb (v. t.) To bind up; to confine; to constrict; to contract. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bind; to constrain; to restrict; to limit. | |
| verb (v. t.) To restrict the tenure of; as, to astrict lands. See Astriction, 4. |
| astriction | noun (n.) The act of binding; restriction; also, obligation. |
| noun (n.) A contraction of parts by applications; the action of an astringent substance on the animal economy. | |
| noun (n.) Constipation. | |
| noun (n.) Astringency. | |
| noun (n.) An obligation to have the grain growing on certain lands ground at a certain mill, the owner paying a toll. |
| astrictive | noun (n.) An astringent. |
| adjective (a.) Binding; astringent. |
| astrictory | adjective (a.) Astrictive. |
| astriferous | adjective (a.) Bearing stars. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ASTA:
English Words which starts with 'a' and ends with 'a':
| abaca | noun (n.) The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila. |
| abada | noun (n.) The rhinoceros. |
| abanga | noun (n.) A West Indian palm; also the fruit of this palm, the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest. |
| abba | noun (n.) Father; religious superior; -- in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch. |
| abdominalia | noun (n. pl.) A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages. |
| aboma | noun (n.) A large South American serpent (Boa aboma). |
| abracadabra | noun (n.) A mystical word or collocation of letters written as in the figure. Worn on an amulet it was supposed to ward off fever. At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning; jargon. |
| abranchiata | noun (n. pl.) A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration. |
| abscissa | noun (n.) One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal coordinate axes. |
| abuna | noun (n.) The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church. |
| acacia | noun (n.) A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals. |
| noun (n.) A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates. | |
| noun (n.) The inspissated juice of several species of acacia; -- called also gum acacia, and gum arabic. |
| acantha | noun (n.) A prickle. |
| noun (n.) A spine or prickly fin. | |
| noun (n.) The vertebral column; the spinous process of a vertebra. |
| acanthocephala | noun (n. pl.) A group of intestinal worms, having the proboscis armed with recurved spines. |
| acarina | noun (n. pl.) The group of Arachnida which includes the mites and ticks. Many species are parasitic, and cause diseases like the itch and mange. |
| acciaccatura | noun (n.) A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura. |
| aceldama | noun (n.) The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. |
| acephala | noun (n. pl.) That division of the Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; -- so called because they have no evident head. Formerly the group included the Tunicata, Brachiopoda, and sometimes the Bryozoa. See Mollusca. |
| acetabulifera | noun (n. pl.) The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda. |
| achatina | noun (n.) A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa. |
| acholia | noun (n.) Deficiency or want of bile. |
| acicula | noun (n.) One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal. |
| acinesia | noun (n.) Same as Akinesia. |
| aconitia | noun (n.) Same as Aconitine. |
| acontia | noun (n. pl.) Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidae), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniae when irritated. |
| acrania | noun (n.) Partial or total absence of the skull. |
| noun (n.) The lowest group of Vertebrata, including the amphioxus, in which no skull exists. |
| acrasia | noun (n.) Alt. of Acrasy |
| acraspeda | noun (n. pl.) A group of acalephs, including most of the larger jellyfishes; the Discophora. |
| acrisia | noun (n.) Alt. of Acrisy |
| acrita | noun (n. pl.) The lowest groups of animals, in which no nervous system has been observed. |
| actinaria | noun (n. pl.) A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not. |
| actinia | noun (n.) An animal of the class Anthozoa, and family Actinidae. From a resemblance to flowers in form and color, they are often called animal flowers and sea anemones. [See Polyp.]. |
| noun (n.) A genus in the family Actinidae. |
| actinotrocha | noun (n. pl.) A peculiar larval form of Phoronis, a genus of marine worms, having a circle of ciliated tentacles. |
| actinozoa | noun (n. pl.) A group of Coelenterata, comprising the Anthozoa and Ctenophora. The sea anemone, or actinia, is a familiar example. |
| actinula | noun (n. pl.) A kind of embryo of certain hydroids (Tubularia), having a stellate form. |
| adansonia | noun (n.) A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. |
| adelphia | noun (n.) A "brotherhood," or collection of stamens in a bundle; -- used in composition, as in the class names, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, etc. |
| adenalgia | noun (n.) Alt. of Adenalgy |
| adularia | noun (n.) A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone. |
| adversaria | noun (n. pl.) A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes. |
| adynamia | noun (n.) Considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever. |
| aegicrania | noun (n. pl.) Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls. |
| aerophobia | noun (n.) Alt. of Aerophoby |
| aesthesia | noun (n.) Perception by the senses; feeling; -- the opposite of anaesthesia. |
| aga | noun (n.) Alt. of Agha |
| agha | noun (n.) In Turkey, a commander or chief officer. It is used also as a title of respect. |
| agalactia | noun (n.) Alt. of Agalaxy |
| agama | noun (n.) A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances; also, one of these lizards. |
| agora | noun (n.) An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city. |
| agouara | noun (n.) The crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), found in the tropical parts of America. |
| agouta | noun (n.) A small insectivorous mammal (Solenodon paradoxus), allied to the moles, found only in Hayti. |
| agraphia | noun (n.) The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia. |
| aha | noun (n.) A sunk fence. See Ha-ha. |
| (interj.) An exclamation expressing, by different intonations, triumph, mixed with derision or irony, or simple surprise. |
| ailuroidea | noun (n. pl.) A group of the Carnivora, which includes the cats, civets, and hyenas. |
| akinesia | noun (n.) Paralysis of the motor nerves; loss of movement. |
| ala | noun (n.) A winglike organ, or part. |
| alalonga | noun (n.) Alt. of Alilonghi |
| albata | noun (n.) A white metallic alloy; which is made into spoons, forks, teapots, etc. British plate or German silver. See German silver, under German. |
| albuminuria | noun (n.) A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine. |
| alcanna | noun (n.) An oriental shrub (Lawsonia inermis) from which henna is obtained. |
| alcarraza | noun (n.) A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids by evaporation from the exterior surface. |
| alcyonacea | noun (n. pl.) A group of soft-bodied Alcyonaria, of which Alcyonium is the type. See Illust. under Alcyonaria. |
| alcyonaria | noun (n. pl.) One of the orders of Anthozoa. It includes the Alcyonacea, Pennatulacea, and Gorgonacea. |
| alfa | noun (n.) Alt. of Alfa grass |
| alfalfa | noun (n.) The lucern (Medicago sativa); -- so called in California, Texas, etc. |
| alfilaria | noun (n.) The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California. |
| alga | noun (n.) A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervae, etc. |
| algaroba | noun (n.) The Carob, a leguminous tree of the Mediterranean region; also, its edible beans or pods, called St. John's bread. |
| noun (n.) The Honey mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), a small tree found from California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuable gum, resembling gum arabic, is collected from the tree in Texas and Mexico. |
| algarovilla | noun (n.) The agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree (Inga Marthae). It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye. |
| algebra | noun (n.) That branch of mathematics which treats of the relations and properties of quantity by means of letters and other symbols. It is applicable to those relations that are true of every kind of magnitude. |
| noun (n.) A treatise on this science. |
| alhambra | noun (n.) The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada. |
| alhenna | noun (n.) See Henna. |
| allantoidea | noun (n. pl.) The division of Vertebrata in which the embryo develops an allantois. It includes reptiles, birds, and mammals. |
| alleluia | noun (n.) Alt. of Alleluiah |
| alma | noun (n.) Alt. of Almah |
| almadia | noun (n.) Alt. of Almadie |
| almagra | noun (n.) A fine, deep red ocher, somewhat purplish, found in Spain. It is the sil atticum of the ancients. Under the name of Indian red it is used for polishing glass and silver. |
| alopecia | noun (n.) Alt. of Alopecy |
| alpaca | noun (n.) An animal of Peru (Lama paco), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama. |
| noun (n.) Wool of the alpaca. | |
| noun (n.) A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton. |
| alpha | noun (n.) The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to A, and hence used to denote the beginning. |
| alpia | noun (n.) The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds. |
| althaea | noun (n.) Alt. of Althea |
| althea | noun (n.) A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks. |
| noun (n.) An ornamental shrub (Hibiscus Syriacus) of the Mallow family. |
| alula | noun (n.) A false or bastard wing. See under Bastard. |
| alumina | noun (n.) One of the earths, consisting of two parts of aluminium and three of oxygen, Al2O3. |
| alumna | noun (n. fem.) A female pupil; especially, a graduate of a school or college. |
| amalgama | noun (n.) Same as Amalgam. |
| amblyopia | noun (n.) Alt. of Amblyopy |
| amblypoda | noun (n. pl.) A group of large, extinct, herbivorous mammals, common in the Tertiary formation of the United States. |
| ambrosia | noun (n.) The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it. |
| noun (n.) An unguent of the gods. | |
| noun (n.) A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell. | |
| noun (n.) Formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The food of certain small bark beetles, family Scolytidae believed to be fungi cultivated by the beetles in their burrows. |
| amenorrhoea | noun (n.) Retention or suppression of the menstrual discharge. |
| amentia | noun (n.) Imbecility; total want of understanding. |
| ametabola | noun (n. pl.) A group of insects which do not undergo any metamorphosis. |
| ametropia | noun (n.) Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye. |
| amia | noun (n.) A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin. |
| amma | noun (n.) An abbes or spiritual mother. |
| ammonia | noun (n.) A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste: -- often called volatile alkali, and spirits of hartshorn. |
| ammonitoidea | noun (n. pl.) An extensive group of fossil cephalopods often very abundant in Mesozoic rocks. See Ammonite. |
| amnesia | noun (n.) Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ. |
| amniota | noun (n. pl.) That group of vertebrates which develops in its embryonic life the envelope called the amnion. It comprises the reptiles, the birds, and the mammals. |
| amoeba | noun (n.) A rhizopod. common in fresh water, capable of undergoing many changes of form at will. See Rhizopoda. |
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