Name Report For First Name ABAN:
ABAN
First name ABAN's origin is Arabic. ABAN means "old arabic name; meaning unknown". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with ABAN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of aban.(Brown names are of the same origin (Arabic) with ABAN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with ABAN - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming ABAN
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES ABAN AS A WHOLE:
taban shaaban abantiades sabana labanNAMES RHYMING WITH ABAN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ban) - Names That Ends with ban:
ban gelban abban bearcban corban eban esteban palban rueban iban ahebban serbanRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (an) - Names That Ends with an:
achan ayan iman lishan loiyan nishan saran anan hanan janan rukan sawsan wijdan shoushan siran morgan regan nuallan jolan yasiman siobhan ran papan teyacapan tonalnan shuman lilian bian tan abdiraxman aman hassan labaan sultan aidan germian nechtan willan al-asfan aswan bourkan farhan ferhan foursan lahthan lamaan ramadan sahran shoukran abdul-rahman arfan ayman burhan ghassan hamdan ihsan imran irfan luqman ma'n marwan nabhan nu'man omran othman rahman rayhan ridwan safwan salman sofian sulaiman yaman bedrosian dickran hovan izmirlian karayan korian vartan laodegan leodegan adiran alan condan duncan fiallan hafganNAMES RHYMING WITH ABAN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (aba) - Names That Begins with aba:
abagail abaigael abaigeal aballach abame abarrane abarron abasi abayomiRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ab) - Names That Begins with ab:
abba abbas abbey abbie abbigale abboid abbot abbotson abbott abbud abbudin abby abda abdalla abdalrahman abdel abdelahi abdera abderus abdi abdikarim abdimelech abdul abdul-alim abdul-aliyy abdul-azim abdul-aziz abdul-bari abdul-basit abdul-fattah abdul-ghaf abdul-ghaffar abdul-hadi abdul-hafiz abdul-hakam abdul-hakim abdul-halim abdul-hamid abdul-haqq abdul-hasib abdul-jabbar abdul-jalil abdul-karim abdul-khaliq abdul-latif abdul-majid abdul-malik abdul-mu'izz abdul-muhaimin abdul-mujib abdul-muta'al abdul-nasir abdul-nasser abdul-qahhar abdul-quddus abdul-ra'uf abdul-rafi abdul-rahim abdul-razzaq abdul-sabur abdul-salam abdul-samad abdul-shakur abdul-tawwab abdul-wadud abdul-wahhab abdul-wahid abdulla abdullah abeba abebe abebi abedabun abeer abegayle abel abelard abelia abell abella abellona abena abeodan abequa abeque aberfa aberthol aberto abetzi abey abeytuNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ABAN:
First Names which starts with 'a' and ends with 'n':
aahan aaralyn aaron abhainn ablendan abooksigun abran abrecan accalon acennan acheron ackerman actaeon acteon acwellen adalson adalwen adalwin adalyn adamnan adamson adan addilynn addisen addison addyson adeben adeen adelynn aden adetoun adin 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 aherin ahern ahreddan ahren ahriman aibhlin aidann aideen aiden aidrian aiekin aiken aikin ailean aileen ailein ailen ailin ailison ain airrin aislin aislinn aislynn aiston aitan akhenaten akin aladdin alafin alain alansonEnglish Words Rhyming ABAN
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES ABAN AS A WHOLE:
| abandoning | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abandon |
| 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. |
| abandoned | adjective (a.) Forsaken, deserted. |
| adjective (a.) Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Abandon |
| abandonee | noun (n.) One to whom anything is legally abandoned. |
| abandoner | noun (n.) One who abandons. |
| abandonment | noun (n.) The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. |
| noun (n.) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against. | |
| noun (n.) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion. | |
| noun (n.) Careless freedom or ease; abandon. |
| abandum | noun (n.) Anything forfeited or confiscated. |
| abanet | noun (n.) See Abnet. |
| abanga | noun (n.) A West Indian palm; also the fruit of this palm, the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest. |
| abannation | noun (n.) Alt. of Abannition |
| abannition | noun (n.) Banishment. |
| brabantine | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Brabant, an ancient province of the Netherlands. |
| contraband | noun (n.) Illegal or prohibited traffic. |
| noun (n.) Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden. | |
| noun (n.) A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war. | |
| adjective (a.) Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade. | |
| verb (v. t.) To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle. | |
| verb (v. t.) To declare prohibited; to forbid. |
| contrabandism | noun (n.) Traffic in contraband goods; smuggling. |
| contrabandist | noun (n.) One who traffics illegally; a smuggler. |
| fleabane | noun (n.) One of various plants, supposed to have efficacy in driving away fleas. They belong, for the most part, to the genera Conyza, Erigeron, and Pulicaria. |
| parabanic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid which is obtained by the oxidation of uric acid, as a white crystalline substance (C3N2H2O3); -- also called oxalyl urea. |
| saraband | noun (n.) A slow Spanish dance of Saracenic origin, to an air in triple time; also, the air itself. |
| tabanus | noun (n.) A genus of blood sucking flies, including the horseflies. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ABAN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ban) - English Words That Ends with ban:
| alban | noun (n.) A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta-percha by the action of alcohol or ether. |
| ban | noun (n.) A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation. |
| noun (n.) A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army. | |
| noun (n.) Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense). | |
| noun (n.) An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription. | |
| noun (n.) A curse or anathema. | |
| noun (n.) A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes. | |
| noun (n.) An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia. | |
| verb (v. t.) To curse; to invoke evil upon. | |
| verb (v. t.) To forbid; to interdict. | |
| verb (v. i.) To curse; to swear. |
| corban | noun (n.) An offering of any kind, devoted to God and therefore not to be appropriated to any other use; esp., an offering in fulfillment of a vow. |
| noun (n.) An alms basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited. |
| cuban | noun (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Cuba. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Cuba or its inhabitants. |
| galban | noun (n.) Alt. of Galbanum |
| interurban | adjective (a.) Going between, or connecting, cities or towns; as, interurban electric railways. |
| leban | noun (n.) Alt. of Lebban |
| lebban | noun (n.) Coagulated sour milk diluted with water; -- a common beverage among the Arabs. Also, a fermented liquor made of the same. |
| oliban | noun (n.) See Olibanum. |
| riban | noun (n.) See Ribbon. |
| sesban | noun (n.) A leguminous shrub (Sesbania aculeata) which furnishes a fiber used for making ropes. |
| suburban | noun (n.) One who dwells in the suburbs. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to suburbs; inhabiting, or being in, the suburbs of a city. |
| theban | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Thebes; also, a wise man. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Thebes. |
| turban | noun (n.) A headdress worn by men in the Levant and by most Mohammedans of the male sex, consisting of a cap, and a sash, scarf, or shawl, usually of cotton or linen, wound about the cap, and sometimes hanging down the neck. |
| noun (n.) A kind of headdress worn by women. | |
| noun (n.) The whole set of whorls of a spiral shell. |
| urban | adjective (a.) Of or belonging to a city or town; as, an urban population. |
| adjective (a.) Belonging to, or suiting, those living in a city; cultivated; polite; urbane; as, urban manners. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ABAN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (aba) - Words That Begins with aba:
| abaca | noun (n.) The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila. |
| abacination | noun (n.) The act of abacinating. |
| abaciscus | noun (n.) One of the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement; an abaculus. |
| abacist | noun (n.) One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator. |
| aback | noun (n.) An abacus. |
| adverb (adv.) Toward the back or rear; backward. | |
| adverb (adv.) Behind; in the rear. | |
| adverb (adv.) Backward against the mast; -- said of the sails when pressed by the wind. |
| abactinal | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the surface or end opposite to the mouth in a radiate animal; -- opposed to actinal. |
| abaction | noun (n.) Stealing cattle on a large scale. |
| abactor | noun (n.) One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves. |
| abaculus | noun (n.) A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements. |
| abacus | noun (n.) A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc. |
| noun (n.) A calculating table or frame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China. | |
| noun (n.) The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column. | |
| noun (n.) A tablet, panel, or compartment in ornamented or mosaic work. | |
| noun (n.) A board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard. |
| abada | noun (n.) The rhinoceros. |
| abaddon | noun (n.) The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus. |
| noun (n.) Hell; the bottomless pit. |
| abaisance | noun (n.) Obeisance. |
| abaiser | noun (n.) Ivory black or animal charcoal. |
| abalienation | noun (n.) The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement. |
| abalone | noun (n.) A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks. |
| abarticulation | noun (n.) Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis. |
| abasing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abase |
| abase | adjective (a.) To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye. |
| adjective (a.) To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade. |
| abased | adjective (a.) Lowered; humbled. |
| adjective (a.) Borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Abase |
| abasement | noun (n.) The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation. |
| abaser | noun (n.) He who, or that which, abases. |
| abashing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abash |
| abashment | noun (n.) The state of being abashed; confusion from shame. |
| abassi | noun (n.) Alt. of Abassis |
| abassis | noun (n.) A silver coin of Persia, worth about twenty cents. |
| abatable | adjective (a.) Capable of being abated; as, an abatable writ or nuisance. |
| abating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abate |
| abate | noun (n.) Abatement. |
| verb (v. t.) To beat down; to overthrow. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bring down or reduce from a higher to a lower state, number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; to cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope. | |
| verb (v. t.) To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price. | |
| verb (v. t.) To blunt. | |
| verb (v. t.) To reduce in estimation; to deprive. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ. | |
| verb (v. t.) To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets. | |
| verb (v. t.) To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates. | |
| verb (v. t.) To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates. |
| abatement | noun (n.) The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof. |
| noun (n.) The amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed. | |
| noun (n.) A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon. | |
| noun (n.) The entry of a stranger, without right, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. |
| abater | noun (n.) One who, or that which, abates. |
| abatis | noun (n.) Alt. of Abattis |
| abattis | noun (n.) A means of defense formed by felled trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy. |
| abatised | adjective (a.) Provided with an abatis. |
| abator | noun (n.) One who abates a nuisance. |
| noun (n.) A person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. |
| abattoir | noun (n.) A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc. |
| abature | noun (n.) Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. |
| abatvoix | noun (n.) The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum. |
| abaxial | adjective (a.) Alt. of Abaxile |
| abaxile | adjective (a.) Away from the axis or central line; eccentric. |
| abay | noun (n.) Barking; baying of dogs upon their prey. See Bay. |
| abasia | noun (n.) Inability to coordinate muscular actions properly in walking. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ABAN:
English Words which starts with 'a' and ends with 'n':
| 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. |
| 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. |
| acrogen | noun (n.) A plant of the highest class of cryptogams, including the ferns, etc. See Cryptogamia. |
| acrolein | noun (n.) A limpid, colorless, highly volatile liquid, obtained by the dehydration of glycerin, or the destructive distillation of neutral fats containing glycerin. Its vapors are intensely irritating. |
| acrolithan | adjective (a.) Alt. of Acrolithic |
| acromion | noun (n.) The outer extremity of the shoulder blade. |
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