Name Report For First Name AKIN:
AKIN
First name AKIN's origin is African. AKIN means "yoruba of nigeria name meaning "warrior, hero, brave man."this name is often used in compound names such as akinwole and akintunde". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with AKIN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of akin.(Brown names are of the same origin (African) with AKIN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with AKIN - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming AKIN
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES AKŻN AS A WHOLE:
sakinah dakini shakini akina akinwole akintunde akinsanya akinyemi akins jakinda lakinzi makinzi anakin deakin makin katakin rakinNAMES RHYMING WITH AKŻN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (kin) - Names That Ends with kin:
aiekin aikin hellekin kin perekin perkin randkin rousskin rushkin tomkin rankin parkin jokinRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (in) - Names That Ends with in:
fatin yasmin brengwain camarin maolmin delbin kristin adin gin ixcatzin tepin tlazohtzin xochicotzin yoltzin zeltzin ihrin adwin alafin din kayin yerodin abbudin abdul-muhaimin aladdin amin husain mazin muhsin yasin agravain alain custennin erbin mabonagrain pheredin taliesin tortain txomin zadornin fiamain rivalin ashlin garvin quentin guerin bain banain bealantin cerin coinleain giollanaebhin guin nevin slevin constantin nopaltzin ollin tepiltzin zolin alin calin catalin codrin cosmin costin dorin florentin sorin armin pirmin quirin pin tin airrin aislin aubrin bevin brin cailin caitlin catlin charmain cristin dubhain dylin eadlin eathelinNAMES RHYMING WITH AKŻN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (aki) - Names That Begins with aki:
aki akia akiba akibe akiha akiiki akiko akil akila akilah akili akilina akim akir akira akivaRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ak) - Names That Begins with ak:
akando akansha akantha akecheta akeila akela akello akeno akhenaten akhil akker akosua akpenamawu akram aksel akshamala akshat akshobhya akua akub akuleNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH AKŻN:
First Names which starts with 'a' and ends with 'n':
aahan aaralyn aaron aban abarron abban abbotson abdalrahman abdiraxman abdul-rahman abedabun abeodan abhainn ablendan abooksigun abran abrecan accalon acennan achan acheron ackerman actaeon acteon acwellen adalson adalwen adalwin adalyn adamnan adamson adan addilynn addisen addison addyson adeben adeen adelynn aden adetoun adiran adken adkyn adnan adon adoracion adorjan adriaan adrian adrien adrion adron aedon aekerman aesclin aesctun aescwyn aeshan aeson aethelbeorn aethelisdun aethelstan aethelstun aetheston aethretun afton agamemnon agiefan agoston agrican aguistin agustin agyfen ahearn aheawan ahebban aherin ahern ahreddan ahren ahriman aibhlin aidan aidann aideen aiden aidrian aiken ailean aileen ailein ailen ailin ailison ain aislinn aislynn aiston aitanEnglish Words Rhyming AKIN
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES AKŻN AS A WHOLE:
| akin | adjective (a.) Of the same kin; related by blood; -- used of persons; as, the two families are near akin. |
| adjective (a.) Allied by nature; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind. |
| akinesia | noun (n.) Paralysis of the motor nerves; loss of movement. |
| akinesic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to akinesia. |
| awaking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Awake |
| baking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bake |
| noun (n.) The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold. | |
| noun (n.) The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread. |
| bespeaking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bespeak |
| betaking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Betake |
| breaking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Break |
| cabinetmaking | noun (n.) The art or occupation of making the finer articles of household furniture. |
| caking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cake |
| canakin | noun (n.) A little can or cup. |
| cloaking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cloak |
| noun (n.) The act of covering with a cloak; the act of concealing anything. | |
| noun (n.) The material of which of which cloaks are made. |
| creaking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Creak |
| noun (n.) A harsh grating or squeaking sound, or the act of making such a sound. |
| croaking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Croak |
| dressmaking | noun (n.) The art, process, or occupation, of making dresses. |
| flaking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flake |
| flakiness | noun (n.) The state of being flaky. |
| fleaking | noun (n.) A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatching houses. |
| forespeaking | noun (n.) A prediction; also, a preface. |
| forsaking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forsake |
| freaking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Freak |
| adjective (a.) Freakish. |
| haymaking | noun (n.) The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay. |
| heartbreaking | adjective (a.) Causing overpowering sorrow. |
| housebreaking | noun (n.) The act of breaking open and entering, with a felonious purpose, the dwelling house of another, whether done by day or night. See Burglary, and To break a house, under Break. |
| inbreaking | noun (n.) A breaking in; inroad; invasion. |
| kodaking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Kodak |
| lakin | noun (n.) See Ladykin. |
| lammaking | noun (n.) The enacting of laws; legislation. |
| adjective (a.) Enacting laws; legislative. |
| leaking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leak |
| leakiness | noun (n.) The quality of being leaky. |
| making | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Make |
| noun (n.) The act of one who makes; workmanship; fabrication; construction; as, this is cloth of your own making; the making of peace or war was in his power. | |
| noun (n.) Composition, or structure. | |
| noun (n.) a poem. | |
| noun (n.) That which establishes or places in a desirable state or condition; the material of which something may be made; as, early misfortune was the making of him. | |
| noun (n.) External appearance; from. |
| manakin | noun (n.) Any one of numerous small birds belonging to Pipra, Manacus, and other genera of the family Pipridae. They are mostly natives of Central and South America. some are bright-colored, and others have the wings and tail curiously ornamented. The name is sometimes applied to related birds of other families. |
| noun (n.) A dwarf. See Manikin. |
| matchmaking | noun (n.) The act or process of making matches for kindling or burning. |
| noun (n.) The act or process of trying to bring about a marriage for others. | |
| adjective (a.) Busy in making or contriving marriages; as, a matchmaking woman. |
| meaking | noun (n.) The process of picking out the oakum from the seams of a vessel which is to be recalked. |
| merrymaking | noun (n.) The act of making merry; conviviality; merriment; jollity. |
| adjective (a.) Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly. |
| mistaking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mistake |
| noun (n.) An error; a mistake. |
| oathbreaking | noun (n.) The violation of an oath; perjury. |
| outbreaking | noun (n.) The act of breaking out. |
| noun (n.) That which bursts forth. |
| overraking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overrake |
| overtaking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overtake |
| quaking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quake |
| noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quake | |
| () a. & n. from Quake, v. | |
| () a. & n. from Quake, v. |
| painstaking | noun (n.) The act of taking pains; carefulness and fidelity in performance. |
| adjective (a.) Careful in doing; diligent; faithful; attentive. |
| partaking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Partake |
| peaking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peak |
| adjective (a.) Mean; sneaking. | |
| adjective (a.) Pining; sickly; peakish. |
| raking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rake |
| noun (n.) The act or process of using a rake; the going over a space with a rake. | |
| noun (n.) A space gone over with a rake; also, the work done, or the quantity of hay, grain, etc., collected, by going once over a space with a rake. |
| screaking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Screak |
| shaking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shake |
| shakiness | noun (n.) Quality of being shaky. |
| shakings | noun (n. pl.) Deck sweepings, refuse of cordage, canvas, etc. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH AKŻN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (kin) - English Words That Ends with kin:
| algonkin | noun (n.) One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence. |
| baudekin | noun (n.) The richest kind of stuff used in garments in the Middle Ages, the web being gold, and the woof silk, with embroidery : -- made originally at Bagdad. |
| bearskin | noun (n.) The skin of a bear. |
| noun (n.) A coarse, shaggy, woolen cloth for overcoats. | |
| noun (n.) A cap made of bearskin, esp. one worn by soldiers. |
| birdikin | noun (n.) A young bird. |
| bodkin | noun (n.) A dagger. |
| noun (n.) An implement of steel, bone, ivory, etc., with a sharp point, for making holes by piercing; a /tiletto; an eyeleteer. | |
| noun (n.) A sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking /ut letters from a column or page in making corrections. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of needle with a large eye and a blunt point, for drawing tape, ribbon, etc., through a loop or a hem; a tape needle. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of pin used by women to fasten the hair. | |
| noun (n.) See Baudekin. |
| boomkin | noun (n.) Same as Bumkin. |
| bootikin | noun (n.) A little boot, legging, or gaiter. |
| noun (n.) A covering for the foot or hand, worn as a cure for the gout. |
| boydekin | noun (n.) A dagger; a bodkin. |
| brodekin | noun (n.) A buskin or half-boot. |
| buckskin | noun (n.) The skin of a buck. |
| noun (n.) A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin. | |
| noun (n.) A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war. | |
| noun (n.) Breeches made of buckskin. |
| bumkin | noun (n.) A projecting beam or boom; as: (a) One projecting from each bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b) One from each quarter, for the main-brace blocks, and called brace bumpkin. (c) A small outrigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizzen. |
| bumpkin | noun (n.) An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout. |
| buskin | noun (n.) A strong, protecting covering for the foot, coming some distance up the leg. |
| noun (n.) A similar covering for the foot and leg, made with very thick soles, to give an appearance of elevation to the stature; -- worn by tragic actors in ancient Greece and Rome. Used as a symbol of tragedy, or the tragic drama, as distinguished from comedy. |
| calfskin | noun (n.) The hide or skin of a calf; or leather made of the skin. |
| calkin | noun (n.) A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1. |
| cannikin | noun (n.) A small can or drinking vessel. |
| catkin | noun (n.) An ament; a species of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar, and (as to the staminate flowers) in the chestnut, oak, hickory, etc. -- so called from its resemblance to a cat's tail. See Illust. of Ament. |
| ciderkin | noun (n.) A kind of weak cider made by steeping the refuse pomace in water. |
| cuskin | noun (n.) A kind of drinking cup. |
| damaskin | noun (n.) A sword of Damask steel. |
| deerskin | noun (n.) The skin of a deer, or the leather which is made from it. |
| devilkin | noun (n.) A little devil; a devilet. |
| dodkin | noun (n.) A doit; a small coin. |
| doeskin | noun (n.) The skin of the doe. |
| noun (n.) A firm woolen cloth with a smooth, soft surface like a doe's skin; -- made for men's wear. |
| dogskin | noun (n.) The skin of a dog, or leather made of the skin. Also used adjectively. |
| doitkin | noun (n.) A very small coin; a doit. |
| elfkin | noun (n.) A little elf. |
| finikin | adjective (a.) Precise in trifles; idly busy. |
| finnikin | noun (n.) A variety of pigeon, with a crest somewhat resembling the mane of a horse. |
| firkin | noun (n.) A varying measure of capacity, usually being the fourth part of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons. |
| noun (n.) A small wooden vessel or cask of indeterminate size, -- used for butter, lard, etc. |
| fishskin | noun (n.) The skin of a fish (dog fish, shark, etc.) |
| noun (n.) See Ichthyosis. |
| foreskin | noun (n.) The fold of skin which covers the glans of the penis; the prepuce. |
| gherkin | noun (n.) A kind of small, prickly cucumber, much used for pickles. |
| noun (n.) See Sea gherkin. |
| girkin | noun (n.) See Gherkin. |
| goatskin | noun (n.) The skin of a goat, or leather made from it. |
| adjective (a.) Made of the skin of a goat. |
| grimalkin | noun (n.) An old cat, esp. a she-cat. |
| griskin | noun (n.) The spine of a hog. |
| hogskin | noun (n.) Leather tanned from a hog's skin. Also used adjectively. |
| jerkin | noun (n.) A jacket or short coat; a close waistcoat. |
| noun (n.) A male gyrfalcon. |
| kilderkin | noun (n.) A small barrel; an old liquid measure containing eighteen English beer gallons, or nearly twenty-two gallons, United States measure. |
| kin | noun (n.) A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings. |
| noun (n.) Relationship, consanguinity, or affinity; connection by birth or marriage; kindred; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent. | |
| noun (n.) Relatives; persons of the same family or race. | |
| adjective (a.) Of the same nature or kind; kinder. | |
| () A diminutive suffix; as, manikin; lambkin. | |
| () Alt. of Kine |
| kipskin | noun (n.) Leather prepared from the skin of young or small cattle, intermediate in grade between calfskin and cowhide. |
| ladkin | noun (n.) A little lad. |
| ladykin | noun (n.) A little lady; -- applied by the writers of Queen Elizabeth's time, in the abbreviated form Lakin, to the Virgin Mary. |
| lambkin | noun (n.) A small lamb. |
| lambskin | noun (n.) The skin of a lamb; especially, a skin dressed with the wool on, and used as a mat. Also used adjectively. |
| noun (n.) A kind of woolen. |
| latterkin | noun (n.) A pointed wooden tool used in glazing leaden lattice. |
| libkin | noun (n.) A house or lodging. |
| limpkin | noun (n.) Either one of two species of wading birds of the genus Aramus, intermediate between the cranes and rails. The limpkins are remarkable for the great length of the toes. One species (A. giganteus) inhabits Florida and the West Indies; the other (A. scolopaceus) is found in South America. Called also courlan, and crying bird. |
| lordkin | noun (n.) A little lord. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH AKŻN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (aki) - Words That Begins with aki:
| akimbo | adjective (a.) With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH AKŻN:
English Words which starts with 'a' and ends with 'n':
| abacination | noun (n.) The act of abacinating. |
| abaction | noun (n.) Stealing cattle on a large scale. |
| abaddon | noun (n.) The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus. |
| noun (n.) Hell; the bottomless pit. |
| abalienation | noun (n.) The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement. |
| abandon | noun (n.) A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease. |
| verb (v. t.) To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject. | |
| verb (v. t.) To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender. | |
| verb (v. t.) Reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense. | |
| verb (v. t.) To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against. | |
| verb (v.) Abandonment; relinquishment. |
| abannation | noun (n.) Alt. of Abannition |
| abannition | noun (n.) Banishment. |
| abarticulation | noun (n.) Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis. |
| abbreviation | noun (n.) The act of shortening, or reducing. |
| noun (n.) The result of abbreviating; an abridgment. | |
| noun (n.) The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America. | |
| noun (n.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers. |
| abderian | adjective (a.) Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment. |
| abdication | noun (n.) The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority. |
| abdomen | noun (n.) The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity. |
| noun (n.) The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda. |
| abduction | noun (n.) The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away. |
| noun (n.) The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body. | |
| noun (n.) The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being; as, the abduction of a child, the abduction of an heiress. | |
| noun (n.) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is evident, but the minor is only probable. |
| abecedarian | noun (n.) One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro. |
| noun (n.) One engaged in teaching the alphabet. | |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Abecedary |
| abelian | noun (n.) Alt. of Abelonian |
| abelonian | noun (n.) One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel. |
| aberration | noun (n.) The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type. |
| noun (n.) A partial alienation of reason. | |
| noun (n.) A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and daily or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4", and in the latter, to 0.3". Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of the planet relative to the earth. | |
| noun (n.) The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; called spherical aberration, when due to the spherical form of the lens or mirror, such form giving different foci for central and marginal rays; and chromatic aberration, when due to different refrangibilities of the colored rays of the spectrum, those of each color having a distinct focus. | |
| noun (n.) The passage of blood or other fluid into parts not appropriate for it. | |
| noun (n.) The producing of an unintended effect by the glancing of an instrument, as when a shot intended for A glances and strikes B. |
| abevacuation | noun (n.) A partial evacuation. |
| abietin | noun (n.) Alt. of Abietine |
| abirritation | noun (n.) A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia. |
| abjection | noun (n.) The act of bringing down or humbling. |
| noun (n.) The state of being rejected or cast out. | |
| noun (n.) A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation. |
| abjudication | noun (n.) Rejection by judicial sentence. |
| abjuration | noun (n.) The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return. |
| noun (n.) A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of heresy. |
| ablactation | noun (n.) The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam. |
| noun (n.) The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach. |
| ablaqueation | noun (n.) The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water. |
| ablation | noun (n.) A carrying or taking away; removal. |
| noun (n.) Extirpation. | |
| noun (n.) Wearing away; superficial waste. |
| ablegation | noun (n.) The act of sending abroad. |
| abligurition | noun (n.) Prodigal expense for food. |
| ablution | noun (n.) The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite. |
| noun (n.) The water used in cleansing. | |
| noun (n.) A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest. |
| abluvion | noun (n.) That which is washed off. |
| abnegation | noun (n.) a denial; a renunciation. |
| abnodation | noun (n.) The act of cutting away the knots of trees. |
| abolition | noun (n.) The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc. |
| abomination | noun (n.) The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination. |
| noun (n.) That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution. | |
| noun (n.) A cause of pollution or wickedness. |
| abortion | noun (n.) The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage. |
| noun (n.) The immature product of an untimely birth. | |
| noun (n.) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed. | |
| noun (n.) Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his attempt proved an abortion. |
| abrasion | noun (n.) The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins. |
| noun (n.) The substance rubbed off. | |
| noun (n.) A superficial excoriation, with loss of substance under the form of small shreds. |
| abrenunciation | noun (n.) Absolute renunciation or repudiation. |
| abreption | noun (n.) A snatching away. |
| abrogation | noun (n.) The act of abrogating; repeal by authority. |
| abruption | noun (n.) A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies. |
| abscession | noun (n.) A separating; removal; also, an abscess. |
| abscision | noun (n.) See Abscission. |
| abscission | noun (n.) The act or process of cutting off. |
| noun (n.) The state of being cut off. | |
| noun (n.) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, "He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more." |
| absentation | noun (n.) The act of absenting one's self. |
| absinthian | noun (n.) Of the nature of wormwood. |
| absinthin | noun (n.) The bitter principle of wormwood (Artemisia absinthium). |
| absolution | noun (n.) An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense. |
| noun (n.) An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent. | |
| noun (n.) The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven. | |
| noun (n.) An absolving from ecclesiastical penalties, -- for example, excommunication. | |
| noun (n.) The form of words by which a penitent is absolved. | |
| noun (n.) Delivery, in speech. |
| absorbition | noun (n.) Absorption. |
| absorption | noun (n.) The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger. |
| noun (n.) An imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action; as, the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc. | |
| noun (n.) In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs. | |
| noun (n.) Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment. |
| abstention | adjective (a.) The act of abstaining; a holding aloof. |
| abstersion | noun (n.) Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging. |
| abstraction | adjective (a.) The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal. |
| adjective (a.) The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects. | |
| adjective (a.) An idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical nature; as, to fight for mere abstractions. | |
| adjective (a.) A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction. | |
| adjective (a.) Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects. | |
| adjective (a.) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining. | |
| adjective (a.) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation. |
| abstrusion | noun (n.) The act of thrusting away. |
| absumption | noun (n.) Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction. |
| abutilon | noun (n.) A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow. |
| abyssinian | noun (n.) A native of Abyssinia. |
| noun (n.) A member of the Abyssinian Church. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Abyssinia. |
| acacin | noun (n.) Alt. of Acacine |
| academian | noun (n.) A member of an academy, university, or college. |
| academician | noun (n.) A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts. |
| noun (n.) A collegian. |
| acadian | noun (n.) A native of Acadie. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia. |
| acalephan | noun (n.) One of the Acalephae. |
| acanthopterygian | noun (n.) A spiny-finned fish. |
| adjective (a.) Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch. |
| acaridan | noun (n.) One of a group of arachnids, including the mites and ticks. |
| accadian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest. |
| acceleration | noun (n.) The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; -- opposed to retardation. |
| accension | noun (n.) The act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition. |
| accentuation | noun (n.) Act of accentuating; applications of accent. |
| noun (n.) pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy. |
| acceptation | noun (n.) Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable. |
| noun (n.) The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received; as, term is to be used according to its usual acceptation. |
| acceptilation | noun (n.) Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission. |
| acception | noun (n.) Acceptation; the received meaning. |
| accession | noun (n.) A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy. |
| noun (n.) Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without; as, an accession of wealth or territory. | |
| noun (n.) A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf. | |
| noun (n.) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers. | |
| noun (n.) The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity; as, the accession of the house of Stuart; -- applied especially to the epoch of a new dynasty. | |
| noun (n.) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm. |
| acclamation | noun (n.) A shout of approbation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud applause. |
| noun (n.) A representation, in sculpture or on medals, of people expressing joy. | |
| noun (n.) In parliamentary usage, the act or method of voting orally and by groups rather than by ballot, esp. in elections; | |
| noun (n.) the election of a pope or other ecclesiastic by unanimous consent of the electors, without a ballot. |
| acclimatation | noun (n.) Acclimatization. |
| acclimation | noun (n.) The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization. |
| acclimatization | noun (n.) The act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured. |
| accombination | noun (n.) A combining together. |
| accommodation | noun (n.) The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. |
| noun (n.) Willingness to accommodate; obligingness. | |
| noun (n.) Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accommodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn. | |
| noun (n.) An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. | |
| noun (n.) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. | |
| noun (n.) A loan of money. | |
| noun (n.) An accommodation bill or note. |
| accordion | noun (n.) A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds. |
| accreditation | noun (n.) The act of accrediting; as, letters of accreditation. |
| accrementition | noun (n.) The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds. |
| accretion | noun (n.) The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth. |
| noun (n.) The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth. | |
| noun (n.) Concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass. | |
| noun (n.) A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers toes. | |
| noun (n.) The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark. | |
| noun (n.) Gain to an heir or legatee, failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share. |
| accubation | noun (n.) The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals. |
| accumulation | noun (n.) The act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of honors. |
| noun (n.) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof. |
| accusation | noun (n.) The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense. |
| noun (n.) That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge. |
| acephalan | noun (n.) Same as Acephal. |
| adjective (a.) Belonging to the Acephala. |
| acervation | noun (n.) A heaping up; accumulation. |
| acetification | noun (n.) The act of making acetous or sour; the process of converting, or of becoming converted, into vinegar. |
| acetin | noun (n.) A combination of acetic acid with glycerin. |
| achaean | adjective (a.) Alt. of Achaian |
| achaian | noun (n.) A native of Achaia; a Greek. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Achaia in Greece; also, Grecian. |
| achean | noun (a & n.) See Achaean, Achaian. |
| acheron | noun (n.) A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf. |
| achillean | adjective (a.) Resembling Achilles, the hero of the Iliad; invincible. |
| achilles' tendon | noun (n.) The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx. |
| achromatin | noun (n.) Tissue which is not stained by fluid dyes. |
| achromatization | noun (n.) The act or process of achromatizing. |
| achroodextrin | noun (n.) Dextrin not colorable by iodine. See Dextrin. |
| acidification | noun (n.) The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid. |
| acorn | noun (n.) The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule. |
| noun (n.) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head. | |
| noun (n.) See Acorn-shell. |
| acotyledon | noun (n.) A plant which has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants. |
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