Name Report For First Name AMIN:
AMIN
First name AMIN's origin is Arabic. AMIN means "faithful; trustworthy". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with AMIN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of amin.(Brown names are of the same origin (Arabic) with AMIN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with AMIN - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming AMIN
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES AMƯN AS A WHOLE:
aminata aminia aminah adamina beniamino ilhicamina amina amineh araminte jessamina yaminah benjamin benkamin binyamin jamin venamin venjamin veniamin araminta jesamina jessamineNAMES RHYMING WITH AMƯN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (min) - Names That Ends with min:
yasmin maolmin abdul-muhaimin txomin cosmin armin pirmin jazmin min yazmin cumin etchemin fermin jaymin osmin jasminRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (in) - Names That Ends with in:
fatin brengwain camarin delbin kristin adin gin ixcatzin tepin tlazohtzin xochicotzin yoltzin zeltzin ihrin adwin akin alafin din kayin yerodin abbudin aladdin husain mazin muhsin yasin agravain alain custennin erbin mabonagrain pheredin taliesin tortain zadornin fiamain rivalin ashlin garvin quentin guerin bain banain bealantin cerin coinleain giollanaebhin guin nevin slevin constantin nopaltzin ollin tepiltzin zolin alin calin catalin codrin costin dorin florentin sorin quirin pin tin airrin aislin aubrin bevin brin cailin caitlin catlin charmain cristin dubhain dylin eadlin eathelin edlin eibhlhin eibhlin etainNAMES RHYMING WITH AMƯN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ami) - Names That Begins with ami:
ami amia amichai amid amie amiel amiera amikam amil amir amira amirah amiram amiri amirykal amisha amista amita amitabha amite amitee amiti amitola amityRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (am) - Names That Begins with am:
amabella amabelle amachi amad amada amadahy amadeo amadi amado amaethon amaia amal amala amalasand amalasanda amald amalda amalea amalia amalie amall amalthea amalthia amalur amalure aman amanda amani amanishakhete amany amaor amapola amar amara amarande amaranta amarante amarantha amaravati amare amari amariah amarii amaris amarisa amarise amarissa amarri amaru amaryah amaryllis amasa amata amatullah amaud amaury amayah amayeta amazu amba amber amberlee amberley amberly amberlyn amberlynn ambi ambika amblaoibh ambra ambre ambreen ambrocio ambros ambrose ambrosiNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH AMƯN:
First Names which starts with 'a' and ends with 'n':
aahan aaralyn aaron aban abarron abban abbotson abdalrahman abdiraxman abdul-rahman abedabun abeodan abhainn ablendan abooksigun abran abrecan accalon acennan achan acheron ackerman actaeon acteon acwellen adalson adalwen adalwin adalyn adamnan adamson adan addilynn addisen addison addyson adeben adeen adelynn aden adetoun adiran adken adkyn adnan adon adoracion adorjan adriaan adrian adrien adrion adron aedon aekerman aesclin aesctun aescwyn aeshan aeson aethelbeorn aethelisdun aethelstan aethelstun aetheston aethretun afton agamemnon agiefan agoston agrican aguistin agustin agyfen ahearn aheawan ahebban aherin ahern ahreddan ahren ahriman aibhlin aidan aidann aideen aiden aidrian aiekin aiken aikin ailean aileen ailein ailen ailin ailison ain aislinn aislynnEnglish Words Rhyming AMIN
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES AMƯN AS A WHOLE:
| amine | noun (n.) One of a class of strongly basic substances derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms by a basic atom or radical. |
| aminol | noun (n.) A colorless liquid prepared from herring brine and containing amines, used as a local antiseptic. |
| balsamine | noun (n.) The Impatiens balsamina, or garden balsam. |
| beaming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beam |
| adjective (a.) Emitting beams; radiant. |
| beaminess | noun (n.) The state of being beamy. |
| benjamin | noun (n.) See Benzoin. |
| noun (n.) A kind of upper coat for men. |
| bilaminar | adjective (a.) Alt. of Bilaminate |
| bilaminate | adjective (a.) Formed of, or having, two laminae, or thin plates. |
| blaming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blame |
| breaming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bream |
| butylamine | noun (n.) A colorless liquid base, C4H9NH2, of which there are four isomeric varieties. |
| calamine | noun (n.) A mineral, the hydrous silicate of zinc. |
| calamint | noun (n.) A genus of perennial plants (Calamintha) of the Mint family, esp. the C. Nepeta and C. Acinos, which are called also basil thyme. |
| carbamine | noun (n.) An isocyanide of a hydrocarbon radical. The carbamines are liquids, usually colorless, and of unendurable odor. |
| cardamine | noun (n.) A genus of cruciferous plants, containing the lady's-smock, cuckooflower, bitter cress, meadow cress, etc. |
| carthamin | noun (n.) A red coloring matter obtained from the safflower, or Carthamus tinctorius. |
| coamings | noun (n. pl.) Raised pieces of wood of iron around a hatchway, skylight, or other opening in the deck, to prevent water from running bellow; esp. the fore-and-aft pieces of a hatchway frame as distinguished from the transverse head ledges. |
| contaminable | adjective (a.) Capable of being contaminated. |
| contaminating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contaminate |
| contaminate | adjective (a.) Contaminated; defiled; polluted; tainted. |
| verb (v. t.) To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile. |
| contamination | noun (n.) The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates. |
| creaming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cream |
| creaminess | noun (n.) The quality of being creamy. |
| cyclamin | noun (n.) A white amorphous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the corm of Cyclamen Europaeum. |
| defaming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Defame |
| delamination | noun (n.) Formation and separation of laminae or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentiated. |
| diamine | noun (n.) A compound containing two amido groups united with one or more basic or positive radicals, -- as contrasted with a diamide. |
| diethylamine | noun (n.) A colorless, volatile, alkaline liquid, NH(C2H5)2, having a strong fishy odor resembling that of herring or sardines. Cf. Methylamine. |
| dreaming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dream |
| dreaminess | noun (n.) The state of being dreamy. |
| ethylamine | noun (n.) A colorless, mobile, inflammable liquid, C2H5.NH2, very volatile and with an ammoniacal odor. It is a strong base, and is a derivative of ammonia. Called also ethyl carbamine, and amido ethane. |
| examinable | adjective (a.) Capable of being examined or inquired into. |
| examinant | noun (n.) One who examines; an examiner. |
| noun (n.) One who is to be examined. |
| examinate | noun (n.) A person subjected to examination. |
| examination | noun (n.) The act of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment. |
| noun (n.) A process prescribed or assigned for testing qualification; as, the examination of a student, or of a candidate for admission to the bar or the ministry. |
| examinator | noun (n.) An examiner. |
| examining | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Examine |
| adjective (a.) Having power to examine; appointed to examine; as, an examining committee. |
| examinee | noun (n.) A person examined. |
| examiner | noun (n.) One who examines, tries, or inspects; one who interrogates; an officer or person charged with the duty of making an examination; as, an examiner of students for a degree; an examiner in chancery, in the patent office, etc. |
| examinership | noun (n.) The office or rank of an examiner. |
| estaminet | noun (n.) A cafe, or room in a cafe, in which smoking is allowed. |
| etamine | noun (n.) A light textile fabric, like a fine bunting. |
| faming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fame |
| famine | noun (n.) General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution. |
| flaming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flame |
| adjective (a.) Emitting flames; afire; blazing; consuming; illuminating. | |
| adjective (a.) Of the color of flame; high-colored; brilliant; dazzling. | |
| adjective (a.) Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly earnest; as, a flaming proclomation or harangue. |
| flamineous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a flamen; flaminical. |
| flamingo | noun (n.) Any bird of the genus Phoenicopterus. The flamingoes have webbed feet, very long legs, and a beak bent down as if broken. Their color is usually red or pink. The American flamingo is P. ruber; the European is P. antiquorum. |
| flaminical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a flamen. |
| foaming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foam |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH AMƯN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (min) - English Words That Ends with min:
| albumin | noun (n.) A thick, viscous nitrogenous substance, which is the chief and characteristic constituent of white of eggs and of the serum of blood, and is found in other animal substances, both fluid and solid, also in many plants. It is soluble in water and is coagulated by heat and by certain chemical reagents. |
| brahmin | noun (n.) A person of the highest or sacerdotal caste among the Hindoos. |
| cumin | noun (n.) A dwarf umbelliferous plant, somewhat resembling fennel (Cuminum Cyminum), cultivated for its seeds, which have a bitterish, warm taste, with an aromatic flavor, and are used like those of anise and caraway. |
| cummin | noun (n.) Same as Cumin. |
| curcumin | noun (n.) The coloring principle of turmeric, or curcuma root, extracted as an orange yellow crystalline substance, C14H14O4, with a green fluorescence. |
| elemin | noun (n.) A transparent, colorless oil obtained from elemi resin by distillation with water; also, a crystallizable extract from the resin. |
| ermin | noun (n.) An Armenian. |
| erythrolitmin | noun (n.) Erythrolein. |
| euonymin | noun (n.) A principle or mixture of principles derived from Euonymus atropurpureus, or spindle tree. |
| gamin | noun (n.) A neglected and untrained city boy; a young street Arab. |
| goemin | noun (n.) A complex mixture of several substances extracted from Irish moss. |
| haemin | noun (n.) Same as Hemin. |
| hemialbumin | noun (n.) Same as Hemialbumose. |
| hemin | noun (n.) A substance, in the form of reddish brown, microscopic, prismatic crystals, formed from dried blood by the action of strong acetic acid and common salt; -- called also Teichmann's crystals. Chemically, it is a hydrochloride of hematin. |
| humin | noun (n.) A bitter, brownish yellow, amorphous substance, extracted from vegetable mold, and also produced by the action of acids on certain sugars and carbohydrates; -- called also humic acid, ulmin, gein, ulmic or geic acid, etc. |
| indihumin | noun (n.) A brown amorphous substance resembling humin, and obtained from indican. |
| lactoabumin | noun (n.) The albumin present on milk, apparently identical with ordinary serum albumin. It is distinct from the casein of milk. |
| legumin | noun (n.) An albuminous substance resembling casein, found as a characteristic ingredient of the seeds of leguminous and grain-bearing plants. |
| metalbumin | noun (n.) A form of albumin found in ascitic and certain serous fluids. It is sometimes regarded as a mixture of albumin and mucin. |
| ovalbumin | noun (n.) Alt. of Ovalbumen |
| palmin | noun (n.) A white waxy or fatty substance obtained from castor oil. |
| noun (n.) Ricinolein. |
| paralbumin | noun (n.) A proteidlike body found in the fluid from ovarian cysts and elsewhere. It is generally associated with a substance related to, if not identical with, glycogen. |
| plasmin | noun (n.) A proteid body, separated by some physiologists from blood plasma. It is probably identical with fibrinogen. |
| protamin | noun (n.) An amorphous nitrogenous substance found in the spermatic fluid of salmon. It is soluble in water, which an alkaline reaction, and unites with acids and metallic bases. |
| sacchulmin | noun (n.) An amorphous huminlike substance resembling sacchulmic acid, and produced together with it. |
| stamin | noun (n.) A kind of woolen cloth. |
| toxalbumin | noun (n.) Any of a class of toxic substances of protein nature; a toxin. |
| ulmin | noun (n.) A brown amorphous substance found in decaying vegetation. Cf. Humin. |
| vermin | noun (n. sing. & pl.) An animal, in general. |
| noun (n. sing. & pl.) A noxious or mischievous animal; especially, noxious little animals or insects, collectively, as squirrels, rats, mice, flies, lice, bugs, etc. | |
| noun (n. sing. & pl.) Hence, in contempt, noxious human beings. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH AMƯN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ami) - Words That Begins with ami:
| amir | noun (n.) Emir. |
| noun (n.) One of the Mohammedan nobility of Afghanistan and Scinde. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Ameer. |
| amia | noun (n.) A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin. |
| amiability | noun (n.) The quality of being amiable; amiableness; sweetness of disposition. |
| amiable | adjective (a.) Lovable; lovely; pleasing. |
| adjective (a.) Friendly; kindly; sweet; gracious; as, an amiable temper or mood; amiable ideas. | |
| adjective (a.) Possessing sweetness of disposition; having sweetness of temper, kind-heartedness, etc., which causes one to be liked; as, an amiable woman. | |
| adjective (a.) Done out of love. |
| amiableness | noun (n.) The quality of being amiable; amiability. |
| amianth | noun (n.) See Amianthus. |
| amianthiform | adjective (a.) Resembling amianthus in form. |
| amianthoid | adjective (a.) Resembling amianthus. |
| amianthus | noun (n.) Earth flax, or mountain flax; a soft silky variety of asbestus. |
| amic | adjective (a.) Related to, or derived, ammonia; -- used chiefly as a suffix; as, amic acid; phosphamic acid. |
| amicability | noun (n.) The quality of being amicable; friendliness; amicableness. |
| amicable | adjective (a.) Friendly; proceeding from, or exhibiting, friendliness; after the manner of friends; peaceable; as, an amicable disposition, or arrangement. |
| amicableness | noun (n.) The quality of being amicable; amicability. |
| amice | noun (n.) A square of white linen worn at first on the head, but now about the neck and shoulders, by priests of the Roman Catholic Church while saying Mass. |
| noun (n.) A hood, or cape with a hood, made of lined with gray fur, formerly worn by the clergy; -- written also amess, amyss, and almuce. |
| amide | noun (n.) A compound formed by the union of amidogen with an acid element or radical. It may also be regarded as ammonia in which one or more hydrogen atoms have been replaced by an acid atom or radical. |
| amidin | noun (n.) Start modified by heat so as to become a transparent mass, like horn. It is soluble in cold water. |
| amido | adjective (a.) Containing, or derived from, amidogen. |
| amidogen | noun (n.) A compound radical, NH2, not yet obtained in a separate state, which may be regarded as ammonia from the molecule of which one of its hydrogen atoms has been removed; -- called also the amido group, and in composition represented by the form amido. |
| amioid | noun (n.) One of the Amioidei. |
| adjective (a.) Like or pertaining to the Amioidei. |
| amioidei | noun (n. pl.) An order of ganoid fishes of which Amia is the type. See Bowfin and Ganoidei. |
| amiss | noun (n.) A fault, wrong, or mistake. |
| adjective (a.) Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice. | |
| adverb (adv.) Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill. |
| amissible | adjective (a.) Liable to be lost. |
| amission | noun (n.) Deprivation; loss. |
| amity | noun (n.) Friendship, in a general sense, between individuals, societies, or nations; friendly relations; good understanding; as, a treaty of amity and commerce; the amity of the Whigs and Tories. |
| amidol | noun (n.) A salt of a diamino phenol, C6H3(OH)(NH2)2, used as a developer. |
| amigo | noun (n.) A friend; -- a Spanish term applied in the Philippine Islands to friendly natives. |
| amish | noun (n. pl.) The Amish Mennonites. |
| adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the followers of Jacob Amman, a strict Mennonite of the 17th century, who even proscribed the use of buttons and shaving as "worldly conformity". There are several branches of Amish Mennonites in the United States. |
| amitosis | noun (n.) Cell division in which there is first a simple cleavage of the nucleus without change in its structure (such as the formation of chromosomes), followed by the division of the cytoplasm; direct cell division; -- opposed to mitosis. It is not the usual mode of division, and is believed by many to occur chiefly in highly specialized cells which are incapable of long-continued multiplication, in transitory structures, and in those in early stages of degeneration. |
| amitotic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to amitosis; karyostenotic; -- opposed to mitotic. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH AMƯN:
English Words which starts with 'a' and ends with 'n':
| abacination | noun (n.) The act of abacinating. |
| abaction | noun (n.) Stealing cattle on a large scale. |
| abaddon | noun (n.) The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus. |
| noun (n.) Hell; the bottomless pit. |
| abalienation | noun (n.) The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement. |
| abandon | noun (n.) A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease. |
| verb (v. t.) To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject. | |
| verb (v. t.) To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender. | |
| verb (v. t.) Reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense. | |
| verb (v. t.) To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against. | |
| verb (v.) Abandonment; relinquishment. |
| abannation | noun (n.) Alt. of Abannition |
| abannition | noun (n.) Banishment. |
| abarticulation | noun (n.) Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis. |
| abbreviation | noun (n.) The act of shortening, or reducing. |
| noun (n.) The result of abbreviating; an abridgment. | |
| noun (n.) The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America. | |
| noun (n.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers. |
| abderian | adjective (a.) Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment. |
| abdication | noun (n.) The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority. |
| abdomen | noun (n.) The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity. |
| noun (n.) The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda. |
| abduction | noun (n.) The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away. |
| noun (n.) The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body. | |
| noun (n.) The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being; as, the abduction of a child, the abduction of an heiress. | |
| noun (n.) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is evident, but the minor is only probable. |
| abecedarian | noun (n.) One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro. |
| noun (n.) One engaged in teaching the alphabet. | |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Abecedary |
| abelian | noun (n.) Alt. of Abelonian |
| abelonian | noun (n.) One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel. |
| aberration | noun (n.) The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type. |
| noun (n.) A partial alienation of reason. | |
| noun (n.) A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and daily or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4", and in the latter, to 0.3". Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of the planet relative to the earth. | |
| noun (n.) The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; called spherical aberration, when due to the spherical form of the lens or mirror, such form giving different foci for central and marginal rays; and chromatic aberration, when due to different refrangibilities of the colored rays of the spectrum, those of each color having a distinct focus. | |
| noun (n.) The passage of blood or other fluid into parts not appropriate for it. | |
| noun (n.) The producing of an unintended effect by the glancing of an instrument, as when a shot intended for A glances and strikes B. |
| abevacuation | noun (n.) A partial evacuation. |
| abietin | noun (n.) Alt. of Abietine |
| abirritation | noun (n.) A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia. |
| abjection | noun (n.) The act of bringing down or humbling. |
| noun (n.) The state of being rejected or cast out. | |
| noun (n.) A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation. |
| abjudication | noun (n.) Rejection by judicial sentence. |
| abjuration | noun (n.) The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return. |
| noun (n.) A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of heresy. |
| ablactation | noun (n.) The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam. |
| noun (n.) The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach. |
| ablaqueation | noun (n.) The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water. |
| ablation | noun (n.) A carrying or taking away; removal. |
| noun (n.) Extirpation. | |
| noun (n.) Wearing away; superficial waste. |
| ablegation | noun (n.) The act of sending abroad. |
| abligurition | noun (n.) Prodigal expense for food. |
| ablution | noun (n.) The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite. |
| noun (n.) The water used in cleansing. | |
| noun (n.) A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest. |
| abluvion | noun (n.) That which is washed off. |
| abnegation | noun (n.) a denial; a renunciation. |
| abnodation | noun (n.) The act of cutting away the knots of trees. |
| abolition | noun (n.) The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc. |
| abomination | noun (n.) The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination. |
| noun (n.) That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution. | |
| noun (n.) A cause of pollution or wickedness. |
| abortion | noun (n.) The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage. |
| noun (n.) The immature product of an untimely birth. | |
| noun (n.) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed. | |
| noun (n.) Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his attempt proved an abortion. |
| abrasion | noun (n.) The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins. |
| noun (n.) The substance rubbed off. | |
| noun (n.) A superficial excoriation, with loss of substance under the form of small shreds. |
| abrenunciation | noun (n.) Absolute renunciation or repudiation. |
| abreption | noun (n.) A snatching away. |
| abrogation | noun (n.) The act of abrogating; repeal by authority. |
| abruption | noun (n.) A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies. |
| abscession | noun (n.) A separating; removal; also, an abscess. |
| abscision | noun (n.) See Abscission. |
| abscission | noun (n.) The act or process of cutting off. |
| noun (n.) The state of being cut off. | |
| noun (n.) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, "He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more." |
| absentation | noun (n.) The act of absenting one's self. |
| absinthian | noun (n.) Of the nature of wormwood. |
| absinthin | noun (n.) The bitter principle of wormwood (Artemisia absinthium). |
| absolution | noun (n.) An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense. |
| noun (n.) An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent. | |
| noun (n.) The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven. | |
| noun (n.) An absolving from ecclesiastical penalties, -- for example, excommunication. | |
| noun (n.) The form of words by which a penitent is absolved. | |
| noun (n.) Delivery, in speech. |
| absorbition | noun (n.) Absorption. |
| absorption | noun (n.) The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger. |
| noun (n.) An imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action; as, the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc. | |
| noun (n.) In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs. | |
| noun (n.) Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment. |
| abstention | adjective (a.) The act of abstaining; a holding aloof. |
| abstersion | noun (n.) Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging. |
| abstraction | adjective (a.) The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal. |
| adjective (a.) The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects. | |
| adjective (a.) An idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical nature; as, to fight for mere abstractions. | |
| adjective (a.) A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction. | |
| adjective (a.) Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects. | |
| adjective (a.) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining. | |
| adjective (a.) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation. |
| abstrusion | noun (n.) The act of thrusting away. |
| absumption | noun (n.) Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction. |
| abutilon | noun (n.) A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow. |
| abyssinian | noun (n.) A native of Abyssinia. |
| noun (n.) A member of the Abyssinian Church. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Abyssinia. |
| acacin | noun (n.) Alt. of Acacine |
| academian | noun (n.) A member of an academy, university, or college. |
| academician | noun (n.) A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts. |
| noun (n.) A collegian. |
| acadian | noun (n.) A native of Acadie. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia. |
| acalephan | noun (n.) One of the Acalephae. |
| acanthopterygian | noun (n.) A spiny-finned fish. |
| adjective (a.) Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch. |
| acaridan | noun (n.) One of a group of arachnids, including the mites and ticks. |
| accadian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest. |
| acceleration | noun (n.) The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; -- opposed to retardation. |
| accension | noun (n.) The act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition. |
| accentuation | noun (n.) Act of accentuating; applications of accent. |
| noun (n.) pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy. |
| acceptation | noun (n.) Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable. |
| noun (n.) The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received; as, term is to be used according to its usual acceptation. |
| acceptilation | noun (n.) Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission. |
| acception | noun (n.) Acceptation; the received meaning. |
| accession | noun (n.) A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy. |
| noun (n.) Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without; as, an accession of wealth or territory. | |
| noun (n.) A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf. | |
| noun (n.) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers. | |
| noun (n.) The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity; as, the accession of the house of Stuart; -- applied especially to the epoch of a new dynasty. | |
| noun (n.) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm. |
| acclamation | noun (n.) A shout of approbation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud applause. |
| noun (n.) A representation, in sculpture or on medals, of people expressing joy. | |
| noun (n.) In parliamentary usage, the act or method of voting orally and by groups rather than by ballot, esp. in elections; | |
| noun (n.) the election of a pope or other ecclesiastic by unanimous consent of the electors, without a ballot. |
| acclimatation | noun (n.) Acclimatization. |
| acclimation | noun (n.) The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization. |
| acclimatization | noun (n.) The act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured. |
| accombination | noun (n.) A combining together. |
| accommodation | noun (n.) The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. |
| noun (n.) Willingness to accommodate; obligingness. | |
| noun (n.) Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accommodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn. | |
| noun (n.) An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. | |
| noun (n.) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. | |
| noun (n.) A loan of money. | |
| noun (n.) An accommodation bill or note. |
| accordion | noun (n.) A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds. |
| accreditation | noun (n.) The act of accrediting; as, letters of accreditation. |
| accrementition | noun (n.) The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds. |
| accretion | noun (n.) The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth. |
| noun (n.) The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth. | |
| noun (n.) Concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass. | |
| noun (n.) A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers toes. | |
| noun (n.) The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark. | |
| noun (n.) Gain to an heir or legatee, failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share. |
| accubation | noun (n.) The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals. |
| accumulation | noun (n.) The act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of honors. |
| noun (n.) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof. |
| accusation | noun (n.) The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense. |
| noun (n.) That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge. |
| acephalan | noun (n.) Same as Acephal. |
| adjective (a.) Belonging to the Acephala. |
| acervation | noun (n.) A heaping up; accumulation. |
| acetification | noun (n.) The act of making acetous or sour; the process of converting, or of becoming converted, into vinegar. |
| acetin | noun (n.) A combination of acetic acid with glycerin. |
| achaean | adjective (a.) Alt. of Achaian |
| achaian | noun (n.) A native of Achaia; a Greek. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Achaia in Greece; also, Grecian. |
| achean | noun (a & n.) See Achaean, Achaian. |
| acheron | noun (n.) A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf. |
| achillean | adjective (a.) Resembling Achilles, the hero of the Iliad; invincible. |
| achilles' tendon | noun (n.) The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx. |
| achromatin | noun (n.) Tissue which is not stained by fluid dyes. |
| achromatization | noun (n.) The act or process of achromatizing. |
| achroodextrin | noun (n.) Dextrin not colorable by iodine. See Dextrin. |
| acidification | noun (n.) The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid. |
| acorn | noun (n.) The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule. |
| noun (n.) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head. | |
| noun (n.) See Acorn-shell. |
| acotyledon | noun (n.) A plant which has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants. |
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