AREN
First name AREN's origin is African. AREN means "nigerian name meaning "eagle." also, a scandinavian name meaning "rule" or "eagle."". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with AREN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of aren.(Brown names are of the same origin (African) with AREN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming AREN
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES AREN AS A WHOLE:
marenka arene barend darena faren karen karenza larena maren arend daren darence jaren larenzo maclaren tharen waren warenhari arena garen larenNAMES RHYMING WITH AREN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ren) - Names That Ends with ren:
joren soren farren kamren karren koren lauren loren miren seren ahren bren camren corren darren derren efren jarren jeren jerren oren orren perren ren warren keren fyren ehren doren lorren dorren garren torenRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (en) - Names That Ends with en:
cwen guendolen raven coleen helen hien huyen quyen tien tuyen yen essien mekonnen shaheen yameen kadeen arden kailoken nascien bingen evnissyen lairgnen nisien yspaddaden hoben christiansen jorgen espen adeben akhenaten amen aten moswen braden heikkinen mustanen seppanen valkoinen vaden camden fagen girven jurgen bastien evzen hymen owen jurrien kelemen sebestyen kalen joben sen eugen chien dien nguyen nien vien addisen adeen aideen aileen alberteen aleen ambreen anwenNAMES RHYMING WITH AREN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (are) - Names That Begins with are:
are areebah areille arela arelis arella ares aret areta arete aretha arethusa aretina areyannaRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ar) - Names That Begins with ar:
ara arabella araceli aracelia aracely arachne araina aralt aram arama araminta araminte aramis aranck aranka ararinda araseli arav arawn arber arcadia arcas arcelia arcene archaimbaud archambault archard archemorus archenhaud archer archerd archere archibald archibaldo archie archimbald arcilla arda ardagh ardal ardala ardaleah ardath ardeen ardel ardelia ardell ardella ardelle ardena ardene ardi ardine ardith ardkill ardleig ardleigh ardley ardolf ardolph ardon ardra ardwolf ardy ardyne ardys arfan argante argi argia argie argo argos argus argyle ari aria ariadna ariadne arian ariana ariane arianell arianna arianrod aricNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH AREN:
First Names which starts with 'a' and ends with 'n':
aahan aaralyn aaron aban abarron abban abbotson abbudin abdalrahman abdiraxman abdul-muhaimin 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 addison addyson adelynn aden adetoun adin adiran adken adkyn adnan adon adoracion adorjan adriaan adrian adrien adrion adron adwin aedon aekerman 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 ahriman aibhlin aidan aidann aiden aidrian aiekin aiken aikin ailean ailein ailen ailin ailison ain airrin aislin aislinnEnglish Words Rhyming AREN
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES AREN AS A WHOLE:
apparence | noun (n.) Appearance. |
apparency | noun (n.) Appearance. |
noun (n.) Apparentness; state of being apparent. | |
noun (n.) The position of being heir apparent. |
apparent | noun (n.) An heir apparent. |
adjective (a.) Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view. | |
adjective (a.) Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable. | |
adjective (a.) Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming; as the apparent motion or diameter of the sun. |
apparentness | noun (n.) Plainness to the eye or the mind; visibleness; obviousness. |
arena | noun (n.) The area in the central part of an amphitheater, in which the gladiators fought and other shows were exhibited; -- so called because it was covered with sand. |
noun (n.) Any place of public contest or exertion; any sphere of action; as, the arenaof debate; the arena of life. | |
noun (n.) "Sand" or "gravel" in the kidneys. |
arenaceous | adjective (a.) Sandy or consisting largely of sand; of the nature of sand; easily disintegrating into sand; friable; as, arenaceous limestone. |
arenarious | adjective (a.) Sandy; as, arenarious soil. |
arenation | noun (n.) A sand bath; application of hot sand to the body. |
arendator | noun (n.) In some provinces of Russia, one who farms the rents or revenues. |
areng | noun (n.) Alt. of Arenga |
arenga | noun (n.) A palm tree (Saguerus saccharifer) which furnishes sago, wine, and fibers for ropes; the gomuti palm. |
arenicolite | noun (n.) An ancient wormhole in sand, preserved in the rocks. |
arenilitic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to sandstone; as, arenilitic mountains. |
arenose | adjective (a.) Sandy; full of sand. |
arenulous | adjective (a.) Full of fine sand; like sand. |
barenecked | adjective (a.) Having the neck bare. |
bareness | noun (n.) The state of being bare. |
carene | noun (n.) A fast of forty days on bread and water. |
clarence | noun (n.) A close four-wheeled carriage, with one seat inside, and a seat for the driver. |
clarenceux | noun (n.) Alt. of Clarencieux |
clarencieux | noun (n.) See King-at-arms. |
clarendon | noun (n.) A style of type having a narrow and heave face. It is made in all sizes. |
harengiform | adjective (a.) Herring-shaped. |
lactarene | noun (n.) A preparation of casein from milk, used in printing calico. |
linearensate | adjective (a.) Having the form of a sword, but very long and narrow. |
marena | noun (n.) A European whitefish of the genus Coregonus. |
nazarene | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Nazareth; -- a term of contempt applied to Christ and the early Christians. |
noun (n.) One of a sect of Judaizing Christians in the first and second centuries, who observed the laws of Moses, and held to certain heresies. |
parenchyma | noun (n.) The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like. |
parenchymal | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, parenchyma. |
parenchymatous | adjective (a.) Alt. of Parenchymous |
parenchymous | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the parenchyma of a tissue or an organ; as, parenchymatous degeneration. |
parenesis | noun (n.) Exhortation. |
parenetic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Parenetioal |
parenetioal | adjective (a.) Hortatory; encouraging; persuasive. |
parent | noun (n.) One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother. |
noun (n.) That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter; as, idleness is the parent of vice. |
parentage | noun (n.) Descent from parents or ancestors; parents or ancestors considered with respect to their rank or character; extraction; birth; as, a man of noble parentage. |
parental | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a parent or to parents; as, parental authority; parental obligations. |
adjective (a.) Becoming to, or characteristic of, parents; tender; affectionate; devoted; as, parental care. |
parentation | noun (n.) Something done or said in honor of the dead; obsequies. |
parentele | noun (n.) Kinship; parentage. |
parenthesis | noun (n.) A word, phrase, or sentence, by way of comment or explanation, inserted in, or attached to, a sentence which would be grammatically complete without it. It is usually inclosed within curved lines (see def. 2 below), or dashes. |
noun (n.) One of the curved lines () which inclose a parenthetic word or phrase. |
parenthetic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Parenthetical |
parenthetical | adjective (a.) Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark. |
adjective (a.) Using or containing parentheses. |
parenthood | noun (n.) The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent. |
parentticide | noun (n.) The act of one who kills one's own parent. |
noun (n.) One who kills one's own parent; a parricide. |
parentless | adjective (a.) Deprived of parents. |
rareness | noun (n.) The state or quality of being rare. |
semitransparency | noun (n.) Imperfect or partial transparency. |
semitransparent | adjective (a.) Half or imperfectly transparent. |
spareness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being lean or thin; leanness. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH AREN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ren) - English Words That Ends with ren:
barren | noun (n.) A tract of barren land. |
noun (n.) Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile. | |
adjective (a.) Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals. | |
adjective (a.) Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; /rile. | |
adjective (a.) Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty. | |
adjective (a.) Mentally dull; stupid. |
bren | noun (n.) Bran. |
verb (v. t. & i.) Alt. of Brenne |
brethren | noun (n.) pl. of Brother. |
(pl. ) of Brother | |
(pl. ) of Brother |
children | noun (n.) pl. of Child. |
(pl. ) of Child |
dohtren | noun (n. pl.) Daughters. |
doughtren | noun (n. pl.) Daughters. |
dzeren | noun (n.) Alt. of Dzeron |
eyren | noun (n. pl.) See Ey, an egg. |
(pl. ) of Ey |
floren | noun (n.) A cerain gold coin; a Florence. |
fren | adjective (a.) A stranger. |
hairen | adjective (a.) Hairy. |
heren | adjective (a.) Made of hair. |
lepidosiren | noun (n.) An eel-shaped ganoid fish of the order Dipnoi, having both gills and lungs. It inhabits the rivers of South America. The name is also applied to a related African species (Protopterus annectens). The lepidosirens grow to a length of from four to six feet. Called also doko. |
overbarren | adjective (a.) Excessively barren. |
ren | noun (n.) A run. |
verb (v. t. & i.) See Renne. |
siren | noun (n.) One of three sea nymphs, -- or, according to some writers, of two, -- said to frequent an island near the coast of Italy, and to sing with such sweetness that they lured mariners to destruction. |
noun (n.) An enticing, dangerous woman. | |
noun (n.) Something which is insidious or deceptive. | |
noun (n.) A mermaid. | |
noun (n.) Any long, slender amphibian of the genus Siren or family Sirenidae, destitute of hind legs and pelvis, and having permanent external gills as well as lungs. They inhabit the swamps, lagoons, and ditches of the Southern United States. The more common species (Siren lacertina) is dull lead-gray in color, and becames two feet long. | |
noun (n.) An instrument for producing musical tones and for ascertaining the number of sound waves or vibrations per second which produce a note of a given pitch. The sounds are produced by a perforated rotating disk or disks. A form with two disks operated by steam or highly compressed air is used sounding an alarm to vessels in fog. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a siren; bewitching, like a siren; fascinating; alluring; as, a siren song. |
sistren | noun (n. pl.) Sisters. |
southren | adjective (a.) Southern. |
syren | noun (n.) See Siren. |
tren | noun (n.) A fish spear. |
yren | noun (n.) Iron. |
warren | noun (n.) A place privileged, by prescription or grant the king, for keeping certain animals (as hares, conies, partridges, pheasants, etc.) called beasts and fowls of warren. |
noun (n.) A privilege which one has in his lands, by royal grant or prescription, of hunting and taking wild beasts and birds of warren, to the exclusion of any other person not entering by his permission. | |
noun (n.) A piece of ground for the breeding of rabbits. | |
noun (n.) A place for keeping flash, in a river. |
wren | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to Troglodytes and numerous allied of the family Troglodytidae. |
noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds more or less resembling the true wrens in size and habits. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH AREN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (are) - Words That Begins with are:
are | noun (n.) The unit of superficial measure, being a square of which each side is ten meters in length; 100 square meters, or about 119.6 square yards. |
() The present indicative plural of the substantive verb to be; but etymologically a different word from be, or was. Am, art, are, and is, all come from the root as. |
area | noun (n.) Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building. |
noun (n.) The inclosed space on which a building stands. | |
noun (n.) The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building. | |
noun (n.) An extent of surface; a tract of the earth's surface; a region; as, vast uncultivated areas. | |
noun (n.) The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle. | |
noun (n.) A spot or small marked space; as, the germinative area. | |
noun (n.) Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of thought. |
areal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an area; as, areal interstices (the areas or spaces inclosed by the reticulate vessels of leaves). |
areca | noun (n.) A genus of palms, one species of which produces the areca nut, or betel nut, which is chewed in India with the leaf of the Piper Betle and lime. |
arefaction | noun (n.) The act of drying, or the state of growing dry. |
areola | noun (n.) An interstice or small space, as between the cracks of the surface in certain crustaceous lichens; or as between the fibers composing organs or vessels that interlace; or as between the nervures of an insect's wing. |
noun (n.) The colored ring around the nipple, or around a vesicle or pustule. |
areolar | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or like, an areola; filled with interstices or areolae. |
areolate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Areolated |
areolated | adjective (a.) Divided into small spaces or areolations, as the wings of insects, the leaves of plants, or the receptacle of compound flowers. |
areolation | noun (n.) Division into areolae. |
noun (n.) Any small space, bounded by some part different in color or structure, as the spaces bounded by the nervures of the wings of insects, or those by the veins of leaves; an areola. |
areole | noun (n.) Same as Areola. |
areolet | noun (n.) A small inclosed area; esp. one of the small spaces on the wings of insects, circumscribed by the veins. |
areometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the specific gravity of fluids; a form hydrometer. |
areometric | adjective (a.) Alt. of Areometrical |
areometrical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or measured by, an areometer. |
areometry | noun (n.) The art or process of measuring the specific gravity of fluids. |
areopagist | noun (n.) See Areopagite. |
areopagite | noun (n.) A member of the Areopagus. |
areopagitic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Areopagus. |
areopagus | noun (n.) The highest judicial court at Athens. Its sessions were held on Mars' Hill. Hence, any high court or tribunal |
areostyle | noun (a. & n.) See Intercolumniation, and Araeostyle. |
areosystyle | noun (a. & n.) See Intercolumniation, and Araeosystyle. |
arest | noun (n.) A support for the spear when couched for the attack. |
aretaics | noun (n.) The ethical theory which excludes all relations between virtue and happiness; the science of virtue; -- contrasted with eudemonics. |
aretology | noun (n.) That part of moral philosophy which treats of virtue, its nature, and the means of attaining to it. |
arete | noun (n.) An acute and rugged crest of a mountain range or a subsidiary ridge between two mountain gorges. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH AREN:
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. |