Name Report For First Name AMAN:
AMAN
First name AMAN's origin is African. AMAN means "amharic of ethiopia name meaning "peace."it is often used as a nickname". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with AMAN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of aman.(Brown names are of the same origin (African) with AMAN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with AMAN - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming AMAN
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES AMAN AS A WHOLE:
amanishakhete amani samantha yaman agramant rhadamanthus amanda diamanda diamante eramana tamanna daman damani lamandre leaman redamann amany beaman eraman diamanta naaman yolyamanitzinNAMES RHYMING WITH AMAN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (man) - Names That Ends with man:
iman yasiman shuman abdiraxman abdul-rahman ayman luqman ma'n nu'man othman rahman salman sulaiman siman deman geldersman woudman zeeman lukman uthman ackerman raedeman whiteman syman ahriman atman ueman carman abdalrahman aekerman altman brickman coleman colman coman delman eman firman freeman freman garman garrman german gorman hardtman harman harriman hartman herman holman kalman leman leyman loman luxman marchman milman nachman norman ordman ormeman osman rayman readman redman rickman ricman rodman roman sherman steadman stedeman stilleman tedman tillman treoweman truman wacuman whitman wigman wyman yoman kellman hyman jarman hariman yeoman wakeman tilman stillman ryman richman orman millman lyman chapman toman sulayman stedman emmanNAMES RHYMING WITH AMAN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ama) - Names That Begins with ama:
amabella amabelle amachi amad amada amadahy amadeo amadi amado amaethon amaia amal amala amalasand amalasanda amald amalda amalea amalia amalie amall amalthea amalthia amalur amalure amaor amapola amar amara amarande amaranta amarante amarantha amaravati amare amari amariah amarii amaris amarisa amarise amarissa amarri amaru amaryah amaryllis amasa amata amatullah amaud amaury amayah amayeta amazuRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (am) - Names That Begins with am:
amba amber amberlee amberley amberly amberlyn amberlynn ambi ambika amblaoibh ambra ambre ambreen ambrocio ambros ambrose ambrosi ambrosia ambrosine ambrosio ambrosius ambrotosa ambrus ambry amd amdt ame amedee ameen ameena ameenah ameer ameera ameerah amelia amelie amell amen amen-ra amenhotep amenophis ameretat americus amery ames ametNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH AMAN:
First Names which starts with 'a' and ends with 'n':
aahan aaralyn aaron aban abarron abban abbotson abbudin abdul-muhaimin abedabun abeodan abhainn ablendan abooksigun abran abrecan accalon acennan achan acheron actaeon acteon acwellen adalson adalwen adalwin adalyn adamnan adamson adan addilynn addisen addison addyson adeben adeen adelynn aden adetoun adin adiran adken adkyn adnan adon adoracion adorjan adriaan adrian adrien adrion adron adwin aedon aesclin aesctun aescwyn aeshan aeson aethelbeorn aethelisdun aethelstan aethelstun aetheston aethretun afton agamemnon agiefan agoston agravain agrican aguistin agustin agyfen ahearn aheawan ahebban aherin ahern ahreddan ahren aibhlin aidan aidann aideen aiden aidrian aiekin aiken aikin ailean aileen ailein ailen ailin ailison ain airrin aislin aislinnEnglish Words Rhyming AMAN
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES AMAN AS A WHOLE:
| adamant | noun (n.) A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. |
| noun (n.) Lodestone; magnet. |
| adamantean | adjective (a.) Of adamant; hard as adamant. |
| adamantine | adjective (a.) Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains. |
| adjective (a.) Like the diamond in hardness or luster. |
| adhamant | adjective (a.) Clinging, as by hooks. |
| amandine | noun (n.) The vegetable casein of almonds. |
| noun (n.) A kind of cold cream prepared from almonds, for chapped hands, etc. |
| amanitine | noun (n.) The poisonous principle of some fungi. |
| amanuensis | noun (n.) A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written. |
| ataman | noun (n.) A hetman, or chief of the Cossacks. |
| amanita | noun (n.) A genus of poisonous fungi of the family Agaricaceae, characterized by having a volva, an annulus, and white spores. The species resemble edible mushrooms, and are frequently mistaken for them. Amanita muscaria, syn. Agaricus muscarius, is the fly amanita, or fly agaric; and A. phalloides is the death cup. |
| calamanco | noun (n.) A glossy woolen stuff, plain, striped, or checked. |
| chinaman | noun (n.) A native of China; a Chinese. |
| clamant | adjective (a.) Crying earnestly, beseeching clamorously. |
| daman | noun (n.) A small herbivorous mammal of the genus Hyrax. The species found in Palestine and Syria is Hyrax Syriacus; that of Northern Africa is H. Brucei; -- called also ashkoko, dassy, and rock rabbit. See Cony, and Hyrax. |
| diamantiferous | adjective (a.) Yielding diamonds. |
| diamantine | adjective (a.) Adamantine. |
| indiaman | noun (n.) A large vessel in the India trade. |
| lamantin | noun (n.) The manatee. |
| militiaman | noun (n.) One who belongs to the militia. |
| monothalaman | noun (n.) A foraminifer having but one chamber. |
| panamanian | noun (n.) A native or citizen of Panama. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pert. to Panama. |
| rhadamanthine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Rhadamanthus; rigorously just; as, a Rhadamanthine judgment. |
| rhadamanthus | noun (n.) One of the three judges of the infernal regions; figuratively, a strictly just judge. |
| salamander | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of Urodela, belonging to Salamandra, Amblystoma, Plethodon, and various allied genera, especially those that are more or less terrestrial in their habits. |
| noun (n.) The pouched gopher (Geomys tuza) of the Southern United States. | |
| noun (n.) A culinary utensil of metal with a plate or disk which is heated, and held over pastry, etc., to brown it. | |
| noun (n.) A large poker. | |
| noun (n.) Solidified material in a furnace hearth. |
| salamandrina | noun (n.) A suborder of Urodela, comprising salamanders. |
| salamandrine | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a salamander; enduring fire. |
| salamandroid | adjective (a.) Like or pertaining to the salamanders. |
| salamandroidea | noun (n. pl.) A division of Amphibia including the Salamanders and allied groups; the Urodela. |
| seaman | noun (n.) A merman; the male of the mermaid. |
| noun (n.) One whose occupation is to assist in the management of ships at sea; a mariner; a sailor; -- applied both to officers and common mariners, but especially to the latter. Opposed to landman, or landsman. |
| seamanlike | adjective (a.) Having or showing the skill of a practical seaman. |
| seamanship | noun (n.) The skill of a good seaman; the art, or skill in the art, of working a ship. |
| shaman | noun (n.) A priest of Shamanism; a wizard among the Shamanists. |
| shamanic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Shamanism. |
| shamanism | noun (n.) The type of religion which once prevalied among all the Ural-Altaic peoples (Tungusic, Mongol, and Turkish), and which still survives in various parts of Northern Asia. The Shaman, or wizard priest, deals with good as well as with evil spirits, especially the good spirits of ancestors. |
| shamanist | noun (n.) An adherent of Shamanism. |
| siamang | noun (n.) A gibbon (Hylobates syndactylus), native of Sumatra. It has the second and third toes partially united by a web. |
| tamandu | noun (n.) A small ant-eater (Tamandua tetradactyla) native of the tropical parts of South America. |
| tamanoir | noun (n.) The ant-bear. |
| tephramancy | noun (n.) Divination by the ashes of the altar on which a victim had been consumed in sacrifice. |
| zamang | noun (n.) An immense leguminous tree (Pithecolobium Saman) of Venezuela. Its branches form a hemispherical mass, often one hundred and eighty feet across. The sweet pulpy pods are used commonly for feeding cattle. Also called rain tree. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH AMAN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (man) - English Words That Ends with man:
| ahriman | noun (n.) The Evil Principle or Being of the ancient Persians; the Prince of Darkness as opposer to Ormuzd, the King of Light. |
| alderman | noun (n.) A senior or superior; a person of rank or dignity. |
| noun (n.) One of a board or body of municipal officers next in order to the mayor and having a legislative function. They may, in some cases, individually exercise some magisterial and administrative functions. |
| alman | noun (n.) A German. |
| (adj.) German. | |
| (adj.) The German language. | |
| (adj.) A kind of dance. See Allemande. |
| almsman | noun (n.) A recipient of alms. |
| noun (n.) A giver of alms. |
| alongshoreman | noun (n.) See Longshoreman. |
| ariman | noun (n.) See Ahriman. |
| artilleryman | noun (n.) A man who manages, or assists in managing, a large gun in firing. |
| artsman | noun (n.) A man skilled in an art or in arts. |
| assemblyman | noun (n.) A member of an assembly, especially of the lower branch of a state legislature. |
| axman | noun (n.) One who wields an ax. |
| airman | noun (n.) A man who ascends or flies in an aircraft; a flying machine pilot. |
| airwoman | noun (n.) A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft. |
| atman | noun (n.) The life principle, soul, or individual essence. |
| noun (n.) The universal ego from whom all individual atmans arise. This sense is a European excrescence on the East Indian thought. |
| backwoodsman | noun (n.) A man living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States. |
| bagman | noun (n.) A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen. |
| bargeman | noun (n.) The man who manages a barge, or one of the crew of a barge. |
| batman | noun (n.) A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds. |
| noun (n.) A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load. |
| batsman | noun (n.) The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc. |
| beadsman | noun (n.) Alt. of Bedesman |
| bedesman | noun (n.) A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman. |
| noun (n.) Same as Beadsman. |
| beadswoman | noun (n.) Alt. of Bedeswoman |
| bedeswoman | noun (n.) Fem. of Beadsman. |
| bellman | noun (n.) A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours. |
| billman | noun (n.) One who uses, or is armed with, a bill or hooked ax. |
| birdman | noun (n.) A fowler or birdcatcher. |
| noun (n.) An aviator; airman. |
| boatman | noun (n.) A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat. |
| noun (n.) A boat bug. See Boat bug. |
| boatsman | noun (n.) A boatman. |
| boatwoman | noun (n.) A woman who manages a boat. |
| bombardman | noun (n.) One who carried liquor or beer in a can or bombard. |
| bondman | noun (n.) A man slave, or one bound to service without wages. |
| noun (n.) A villain, or tenant in villenage. |
| bondsman | noun (n.) A slave; a villain; a serf; a bondman. |
| noun (n.) A surety; one who is bound, or who gives security, for another. |
| bondswoman | noun (n.) See Bondwoman. |
| bondwoman | noun (n.) A woman who is a slave, or in bondage. |
| bookman | noun (n.) A studious man; a scholar. |
| bordman | noun (n.) A bordar; a tenant in bordage. |
| bosjesman | noun (n.) See Bushman. |
| bowman | noun (n.) A man who uses a bow; an archer. |
| noun (n.) The man who rows the foremost oar in a boat; the bow oar. |
| brachman | noun (n.) See Brahman. |
| brahman | noun (n.) Alt. of Brahmin |
| brakeman | noun (n.) A man in charge of a brake or brakes. |
| noun (n.) The man in charge of the winding (or hoisting) engine for a mine. |
| breakman | noun (n.) See Brakeman. |
| brideman | noun (n.) See Bridesmaid, Bridesman. |
| bridesman | noun (n.) A male friend who attends upon a bridegroom and bride at their marriage; the "best man." |
| briefman | noun (n.) One who makes a brief. |
| noun (n.) A copier of a manuscript. |
| burman | noun (n.) A member of the Burman family, one of the four great families Burmah; also, sometimes, any inhabitant of Burmah; a Burmese. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Burmans or to Burmah. |
| bushelman | noun (n.) A tailor's assistant for repairing garments; -- called also busheler. |
| bushman | noun (n.) A woodsman; a settler in the bush. |
| noun (n.) One of a race of South African nomads, living principally in the deserts, and not classified as allied in race or language to any other people. |
| butterman | noun (n.) A man who makes or sells butter. |
| bayman | noun (n.) In the United States navy, a sick-bay nurse; -- now officially designated as hospital apprentice. |
| birdwoman | noun (n.) An airwoman; an aviatress. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH AMAN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ama) - Words That Begins with ama:
| amability | noun (n.) Lovableness. |
| amacratic | adjective (a.) Amasthenic. |
| amadavat | noun (n.) The strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill. |
| amadou | noun (n.) A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter. |
| amain | noun (n.) With might; with full force; vigorously; violently; exceedingly. |
| noun (n.) At full speed; in great haste; also, at once. | |
| verb (v. t.) To lower, as a sail, a yard, etc. | |
| verb (v. i.) To lower the topsail, in token of surrender; to yield. |
| amalgam | noun (n.) An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; as, an amalgam of tin, bismuth, etc. |
| noun (n.) A mixture or compound of different things. | |
| noun (n.) A native compound of mercury and silver. | |
| verb (v. t. / i.) To amalgamate. |
| amalgama | noun (n.) Same as Amalgam. |
| amalgamating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Amalgamate |
| amalgamate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Amalgamated |
| verb (v. t.) To compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to unite, combine, or alloy with mercury. | |
| verb (v. t.) To mix, so as to make a uniform compound; to unite or combine; as, to amalgamate two races; to amalgamate one race with another. | |
| verb (v. i.) To unite in an amalgam; to blend with another metal, as quicksilver. | |
| verb (v. i.) To coalesce, as a result of growth; to combine into a uniform whole; to blend; as, two organs or parts amalgamate. |
| amalgamated | adjective (a.) Coalesced; united; combined. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Amalgamate |
| amalgamation | noun (n.) The act or operation of compounding mercury with another metal; -- applied particularly to the process of separating gold and silver from their ores by mixing them with mercury. |
| noun (n.) The mixing or blending of different elements, races, societies, etc.; also, the result of such combination or blending; a homogeneous union. |
| amalgamative | adjective (a.) Characterized by amalgamation. |
| amalgamator | noun (n.) One who, or that which, amalgamates. Specifically: A machine for separating precious metals from earthy particles by bringing them in contact with a body of mercury with which they form an amalgam. |
| amaracus | noun (n.) A fragrant flower. |
| amarant | noun (n.) Amaranth, 1. |
| amarantaceous | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the amaranth is the type. |
| amaranth | noun (n.) An imaginary flower supposed never to fade. |
| noun (n.) A genus of ornamental annual plants (Amaranthus) of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers. | |
| noun (n.) A color inclining to purple. |
| amaranthine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to amaranth. |
| adjective (a.) Unfading, as the poetic amaranth; undying. | |
| adjective (a.) Of a purplish color. |
| amaranthus | noun (n.) Alt. of Amarantus |
| amarantus | noun (n.) Same as Amaranth. |
| amarine | noun (n.) A characteristic crystalline substance, obtained from oil of bitter almonds. |
| amaritude | noun (n.) Bitterness. |
| amaryllidaceous | adjective (a.) Alt. of Amaryllideous |
| amaryllideous | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants differing from the lily family chiefly in having the ovary below the /etals. The narcissus and daffodil are members of this family. |
| amaryllis | noun (n.) A pastoral sweetheart. |
| noun (n.) A family of plants much esteemed for their beauty, including the narcissus, jonquil, daffodil, agave, and others. | |
| noun (n.) A genus of the same family, including the Belladonna lily. |
| amassing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Amass |
| amass | noun (n.) A mass; a heap. |
| verb (v. t.) To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases. |
| amassable | adjective (a.) Capable of being amassed. |
| amasser | noun (n.) One who amasses. |
| amassette | noun (n.) An instrument of horn used for collecting painters' colors on the stone in the process of grinding. |
| amassment | noun (n.) An amassing; a heap collected; a large quantity or number brought together; an accumulation. |
| amasthenic | adjective (a.) Uniting the chemical rays of light into one focus, as a certain kind of lens; amacratic. |
| amateur | noun (n.) A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally. |
| amateurish | adjective (a.) In the style of an amateur; superficial or defective like the work of an amateur. |
| amateurism | noun (n.) The practice, habit, or work of an amateur. |
| amateurship | noun (n.) The quality or character of an amateur. |
| amative | adjective (a.) Full of love; amatory. |
| amativeness | noun (n.) The faculty supposed to influence sexual desire; propensity to love. |
| amatorial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a lover or to love making; amatory; as, amatorial verses. |
| amatorian | adjective (a.) Amatory. |
| amatorious | adjective (a.) Amatory. |
| amatory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, producing, or expressing, sexual love; as, amatory potions. |
| amaurosis | noun (n.) A loss or decay of sight, from loss of power in the optic nerve, without any perceptible external change in the eye; -- called also gutta serena, the "drop serene" of Milton. |
| amaurotic | adjective (a.) Affected with amaurosis; having the characteristics of amaurosis. |
| amazing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Amaze |
| adjective (a.) Causing amazement; very wonderful; as, amazing grace. |
| amazedness | noun (n.) The state of being amazed, or confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder. |
| amazeful | adjective (a.) Full of amazement. |
| amazement | noun (n.) The condition of being amazed; bewilderment [Obs.]; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration. |
| noun (n.) Frenzy; madness. |
| amazon | noun (n.) One of a fabulous race of female warriors in Scythia; hence, a female warrior. |
| noun (n.) A tall, strong, masculine woman; a virago. | |
| noun (n.) A name numerous species of South American parrots of the genus Chrysotis |
| amazonian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to or resembling an Amazon; of masculine manners; warlike. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the river Amazon in South America, or to its valley. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH AMAN:
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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