Name Report For First Name ADON:
ADON
First name ADON's origin is Hebrew. ADON means "the lord". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with ADON below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of adon.(Brown names are of the same origin (Hebrew) with ADON and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with ADON - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming ADON
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES ADON AS A WHOLE:
ricadonna adoncia adonis ladon adonia gradon hadon jadon seadon bradonNAMES RHYMING WITH ADON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (don) - Names That Ends with don:
aedon sidon dudon celyddon glendon corydon korudon laomedon poseidon sarpedon spyridon raidon ardon beldon bredon brendon burhdon caedon condon creedon croydon don eldon feldon gordon haddon haydon jaedon jaidon jaydon jordon lancdon langdon mardon ogdon randon shandon weldon waldon seldon lyndon landon huntingdon burdon brandon blagdon vardon celidon odon sheldon elsdon kingdon meldon sandon wildon jourdon bardon braddon braedon braydon raydonRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (on) - Names That Ends with on:
afton carnation solon strephon cihuaton nijlon sokanon odion sion accalon hebron pendragon antton erromon gotzon txanton zorion eburacon mabon bendision alston alton benton burton carelton fenton hamilton harrison histion kenton pierson preston ralston rawson remington rexton sexton stanton westonNAMES RHYMING WITH ADON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ado) - Names That Begins with ado:
adofo adok adolf adolfo adolph adolpha adolphus adom adora adoracion adorjan adorlee adowaRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ad) - Names That Begins with ad:
ada adah adahy adair adaira adairia adal adalard adalb adalbeorht adalbert adalbrechta adalene adalgar adalgisa adalhard adalheida adali adalia adalicia adalie adaliz adalric adalrik adalson adalwen adalwin adalwine adalwolf adalwolfa adalyn adam adama adamina adamnan adamson adan adana adanech adanna adar adara adare adda addam addaneye addergoole addie addilynn addis addisen addison addney addo addula addy addyson ade adeben adeela adeen adel adela adelaide adelajda adelbert adele adelhard adelheid adelheide adelia adelina adelinda adeline adelisa adelise adelita adella adelle adelpha adelynn adelyte aden adena adene adenne adeolaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ADON:
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 acennan achan acheron ackerman actaeon acteon acwellen adetoun adin adiran adken adkyn adnan adriaan adrian adrien adrion adron adwin aekerman aesclin aesctun aescwyn aeshan aeson aethelbeorn aethelisdun aethelstan aethelstun aetheston aethretun agamemnon agiefan agoston agravain agrican aguistin agustin agyfen ahearn aheawan ahebban aherin ahern ahreddan ahren ahriman aibhlin aidan aidann aideen aiden aidrian aiekin aiken aikin ailean aileen ailein ailen ailin ailison ain airrin aislin aislinn aislynn aiston aitan akhenaten akin al-asfan aladdin alafin alain alan alanson albern alberteen albin albionEnglish Words Rhyming ADON
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES ADON AS A WHOLE:
| adonean | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic. |
| adonic | noun (n.) An Adonic verse. |
| adjective (a.) Relating to Adonis, famed for his beauty. |
| adonis | noun (n.) A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar. |
| noun (n.) A preeminently beautiful young man; a dandy. | |
| noun (n.) A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceae, containing the pheasant's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower. |
| adonist | noun (n.) One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translated "Jehovah" are really the vowel points of the word "Adonai." See Jehovist. |
| adonai | noun (n.) A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old Testament by the word "Lord". |
| belladonna | noun (n.) An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade. |
| noun (n.) A species of Amaryllis (A. belladonna); the belladonna lily. |
| celadon | noun (n.) A pale sea-green color; also, porcelain or fine pottery of this tint. |
| espadon | noun (n.) A long, heavy, two-handed and two-edged sword, formerly used by Spanish foot soldiers and by executioners. |
| madonna | noun (n.) My lady; -- a term of address in Italian formerly used as the equivalent of Madame, but for which Signora is now substituted. Sometimes introduced into English. |
| noun (n.) A picture of the Virgin Mary (usually with the babe). |
| tetradon | noun (n.) See Tetrodon. |
| tetradont | noun (a. & n.) See Tetrodont. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ADON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (don) - English Words That Ends with don:
| abaddon | noun (n.) The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus. |
| noun (n.) Hell; the bottomless pit. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| acotyledon | noun (n.) A plant which has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants. |
| anodon | noun (n.) A genus of fresh-water bivalves, having no teeth at the hinge. |
| bandon | noun (n.) Disposal; control; license. |
| bombardon | noun (n.) Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide. |
| bourdon | noun (n.) A pilgrim's staff. |
| noun (n.) A drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy. See Burden (of a song.) | |
| noun (n.) A kind of organ stop. |
| boustrophedon | noun (n.) An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite. |
| burdon | noun (n.) A pilgrim's staff. |
| calcedon | noun (n.) A foul vein, like chalcedony, in some precious stones. |
| chelidon | noun (n.) The hollow at the flexure of the arm. |
| clarendon | noun (n.) A style of type having a narrow and heave face. It is made in all sizes. |
| cordon | noun (n.) A cord or ribbon bestowed or borne as a badge of honor; a broad ribbon, usually worn after the manner of a baldric, constituting a mark of a very high grade in an honorary order. Cf. Grand cordon. |
| noun (n.) The cord worn by a Franciscan friar. | |
| noun (n.) The coping of the scarp wall, which projects beyong the face of the wall a few inches. | |
| noun (n.) A line or series of sentinels, or of military posts, inclosing or guarding any place or thing. | |
| noun (n.) A rich and ornamental lace or string, used to secure a mantle in some costumes of state. |
| corindon | noun (n.) See Corrundum. |
| coryphodon | noun (n.) A genus of extinct mammals from the eocene tertiary of Europe and America. Its species varied in size between the tapir and rhinoceros, and were allied to those animals, but had short, plantigrade, five-toed feet, like the elephant. |
| cotyledon | noun (n.) One of the patches of villi found in some forms of placenta. |
| noun (n.) A leaf borne by the caulicle or radicle of an embryo; a seed leaf. |
| croydon | noun (n.) A kind of carriage like a gig, orig. of wicker-work. |
| noun (n.) A kind of cotton sheeting; also, a calico. |
| decachordon | noun (n.) An ancient Greek musical instrument of ten strings, resembling the harp. |
| noun (n.) Something consisting of ten parts. |
| dicotyledon | noun (n.) A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating. |
| diodon | noun (n.) A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. Called also porcupine fishes, and sea hedgehogs. |
| noun (n.) A genus of whales. |
| diprotodon | noun (n.) An extinct Quaternary marsupial from Australia, about as large as the hippopotamus; -- so named because of its two large front teeth. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| don | noun (n.) Sir; Mr; Signior; -- a title in Spain, formerly given to noblemen and gentlemen only, but now common to all classes. |
| noun (n.) A grand personage, or one making pretension to consequence; especially, the head of a college, or one of the fellows at the English universities. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put on; to dress in; to invest one's self with. |
| euroclydon | noun (n.) A tempestuous northeast wind which blows in the Mediterranean. See Levanter. |
| fondon | noun (n.) A large copper vessel used for hot amalgamation. |
| formedon | noun (n.) A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished. |
| gardon | noun (n.) A European cyprinoid fish; the id. |
| glyptodon | noun (n.) An extinct South American quaternary mammal, allied to the armadillos. It was as large as an ox, was covered with tessellated scales, and had fluted teeth. |
| guerdon | noun (n.) A reward; requital; recompense; -- used in both a good and a bad sense. |
| noun (n.) To give guerdon to; to reward; to be a recompense for. |
| hagdon | noun (n.) One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus; esp., P. major, the greater shearwarter, and P. Stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater; -- called also hagdown, haglin, and hag. See Shearwater. |
| hecatompedon | noun (n.) A name given to the old Parthenon at Athens, because measuring 100 Greek feet, probably in the width across the stylobate. |
| iguanodon | noun (n.) A genus of gigantic herbivorous dinosaurs having a birdlike pelvis and large hind legs with three-toed feet capable of supporting the entire body. Its teeth resemble those of the iguana, whence its name. Several species are known, mostly from the Wealden of England and Europe. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| jurdon | noun (n.) Jordan. |
| labyrinthodon | noun (n.) A genus of very large fossil amphibians, of the Triassic period, having bony plates on the under side of the body. It is the type of the order Labyrinthodonta. Called also Mastodonsaurus. |
| lardon | noun (n.) Alt. of Lardoon |
| leontodon | noun (n.) A genus of liguliflorous composite plants, including the fall dandelion (L. autumnale), and formerly the true dandelion; -- called also lion's tooth. |
| london | noun (n.) The capital city of England. |
| lycoperdon | noun (n.) A genus of fungi, remarkable for the great quantity of spores, forming a fine dust, which is thrown out like smoke when the plant is compressed or burst; puffball. |
| mastodon | noun (n.) An extinct genus of mammals closely allied to the elephant, but having less complex molar teeth, and often a pair of lower, as well as upper, tusks, which are incisor teeth. The species were mostly larger than elephants, and their romains occur in nearly all parts of the world in deposits ranging from Miocene to late Quaternary time. |
| monocotyledon | noun (n.) A plant with only one cotyledon, or seed lobe. |
| mylodon | noun (n.) An extinct genus of large slothlike American edentates, allied to Megatherium. |
| myrmidon | noun (n.) One of a fierce tribe or troop who accompained Achilles, their king, to the Trojan war. |
| noun (n.) A soldier or a subordinate civil officer who executes cruel orders of a superior without protest or pity; -- sometimes applied to bailiffs, constables, etc. |
| oreodon | noun (n.) A genus of extinct herbivorous mammals, abundant in the Tertiary formation of the Rocky Mountains. It is more or less related to the camel, hog, and deer. |
| parallelopipedon | noun (n.) A parallelopiped. |
| polycotyledon | noun (n.) A plant that has many, or more than two, cotyledons in the seed. |
| pteranodon | noun (n.) A genus of American Cretaceous pterodactyls destitute of teeth. Several species are known, some of which had an expanse of wings of twenty feet or more. |
| randon | noun (n.) Random. |
| verb (v. i.) To go or stray at random. |
| sindon | noun (n.) A wrapper. |
| noun (n.) A small rag or pledget introduced into the hole in the cranium made by a trephine. |
| siredon | noun (n.) The larval form of any salamander while it still has external gills; especially, one of those which, like the axolotl (Amblystoma Mexicanum), sometimes lay eggs while in this larval state, but which under more favorable conditions lose their gills and become normal salamanders. See also Axolotl. |
| skaddon | noun (n.) The larva of a bee. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ADON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ado) - Words That Begins with ado:
| ado | noun (n.) To do; in doing; as, there is nothing ado. |
| noun (n.) Doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles. |
| adobe | noun (n.) An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico. |
| noun (n.) Earth from which unburnt bricks are made. | |
| noun (n.) Alluvial and playa clays of desert and arid regions, differing from ordinary clays of humid regions in containing carbonates and other soluble minerals. |
| adolescence | noun (n.) The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals. |
| adolescency | noun (n.) The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness. |
| adolescent | noun (n.) A youth. |
| adjective (a.) Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. |
| adopting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adopt |
| adoptable | adjective (a.) Capable of being adopted. |
| adopted | adjective (a.) Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Adopt |
| adopter | noun (n.) One who adopts. |
| noun (n.) A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters. |
| adoption | noun (n.) The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child. |
| noun (n.) Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another. | |
| noun (n.) The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions. |
| adoptionist | noun (n.) One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption. |
| adoptious | adjective (a.) Adopted. |
| adoptive | adjective (a.) Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language. |
| adorability | noun (n.) Adorableness. |
| adorable | adjective (a.) Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors. |
| adjective (a.) Worthy of the utmost love or respect. |
| adorableness | noun (n.) The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration. |
| adoration | noun (n.) The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god. |
| noun (n.) Homage paid to one in high esteem; profound veneration; intense regard and love; fervent devotion. | |
| noun (n.) A method of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave. |
| adoring | noun (imp. & p. p. Adored (/); p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adore |
| adorement | noun (n.) The act of adoring; adoration. |
| adorer | noun (n.) One who adores; a worshiper; one who admires or loves greatly; an ardent admirer. |
| adorning | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adorn |
| adorn | noun (n.) Adornment. |
| adjective (a.) Adorned; decorated. | |
| verb (v. t.) To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive. |
| adornation | noun (n.) Adornment. |
| adorner | noun (n.) He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier. |
| adornment | noun (n.) An adorning; an ornament; a decoration. |
| adosculation | noun (n.) Impregnation by external contact, without intromission. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ADON:
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. |
| abalienation | noun (n.) The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| acoustician | noun (n.) One versed in acoustics. |
| acquisition | noun (n.) The act or process of acquiring. |
| noun (n.) The thing acquired or gained; an acquirement; a gain; as, learning is an acquisition. |
| acritan | noun (n.) An individual of the Acrita. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Acrita. |
| acroceraunian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the high mountain range of "thunder-smitten" peaks (now Kimara), between Epirus and Macedonia. |
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