Name Report For First Name AMEN:
AMEN
First name AMEN's origin is African. AMEN means "myth name (god of a united egypt)". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with AMEN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of amen.(Brown names are of the same origin (African) with AMEN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with AMEN - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming AMEN
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES AMEN AS A WHOLE:
amenhotep amenophis amen-ra damenNAMES RHYMING WITH AMEN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (men) - Names That Ends with men:
hymen kelemen carmen karmen kharmen armen daimmen harmen simen ximen trumenRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (en) - Names That Ends with en:
cwen guendolen raven coleen helen hien huyen quyen tien tuyen yen aren essien mekonnen shaheen yameen kadeen arden kailoken nascien bingen evnissyen lairgnen nisien yspaddaden hoben christiansen jorgen joren espen adeben akhenaten aten moswen braden heikkinen mustanen seppanen valkoinen soren vaden camden fagen girven jurgen bastien evzen owen jurrien sebestyen kalen joben sen eugen chien dien nguyen nien vien addisen adeen aideen aileen alberteen aleen ambreen anwen ardeen arleen arwen ashleen ashlen ashten augusteen belen berneen brishen bronwen bysen caden carleen carsten cathleen charleen chereen christeen christen colleen coreenNAMES RHYMING WITH AMEN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ame) - Names That Begins with ame:
ame amedee ameen ameena ameenah ameer ameera ameerah amelia amelie amell ameretat americus amery ames amet amethyst amett ametta amette ameyRhyming 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 ambrocio ambros ambrose ambrosi ambrosia ambrosine ambrosio ambrosiusNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH AMEN:
First Names which starts with 'a' and ends with 'n':
aahan aaralyn aaron aban abarron abban abbotson abbudin abdalrahman abdiraxman abdul-muhaimin abdul-rahman abedabun abeodan abhainn ablendan abooksigun abran abrecan accalon acennan achan acheron ackerman actaeon acteon acwellen adalson adalwen adalwin adalyn adamnan adamson adan addilynn addison addyson adelynn aden adetoun adin adiran adken adkyn adnan adon adoracion adorjan adriaan adrian adrien adrion adron adwin aedon aekerman aesclin aesctun aescwyn aeshan aeson aethelbeorn aethelisdun aethelstan aethelstun aetheston aethretun afton agamemnon agiefan agoston agravain agrican aguistin agustin agyfen ahearn aheawan ahebban aherin ahern ahreddan ahren ahriman aibhlin aidan aidann aiden aidrian aiekin aiken aikin ailean ailein ailen ailin ailison ain airrin aislinEnglish Words Rhyming AMEN
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES AMEN AS A WHOLE:
| additament | noun (n.) An addition, or a thing added. |
| afforciament | noun (n.) See Afforcement. |
| amen | noun (interj., adv., & n.) An expression used at the end of prayers, and meaning, So be it. At the end of a creed, it is a solemn asseveration of belief. When it introduces a declaration, it is equivalent to truly, verily. |
| verb (v. t.) To say Amen to; to sanction fully. |
| amenability | noun (n.) The quality of being amenable; amenableness. |
| amenable | adjective (a.) Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband. |
| adjective (a.) Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law. | |
| adjective (a.) Liable to punishment, a charge, a claim, etc. | |
| adjective (a.) Willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable. |
| amenableness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being amenable; liability to answer charges; answerableness. |
| amenance | noun (n.) Behavior; bearing. |
| amending | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Amend |
| amendable | adjective (a.) Capable of being amended; as, an amendable writ or error. |
| amendatory | adjective (a.) Supplying amendment; corrective; emendatory. |
| amende | noun (n.) A pecuniary punishment or fine; a reparation or recantation. |
| amender | noun (n.) One who amends. |
| amendful | adjective (a.) Much improving. |
| amendment | noun (n.) An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices. |
| noun (n.) In public bodies; Any alternation made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion by adding, changing, substituting, or omitting. | |
| noun (n.) Correction of an error in a writ or process. |
| amends | noun (n. sing. & pl.) Compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation. |
| amenity | noun (n.) The quality of being pleasant or agreeable, whether in respect to situation, climate, manners, or disposition; pleasantness; civility; suavity; gentleness. |
| amenorrhoea | noun (n.) Retention or suppression of the menstrual discharge. |
| amenorrhoeal | adjective (a.) Pertaining to amenorrhoea. |
| ament | noun (n.) A species of inflorescence; a catkin. |
| amentaceous | adjective (a.) Resembling, or consisting of, an ament or aments; as, the chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence. |
| adjective (a.) Bearing aments; having flowers arranged in aments; as, amentaceous plants. |
| amentia | noun (n.) Imbecility; total want of understanding. |
| amentiferous | adjective (a.) Bearing catkins. |
| amentiform | adjective (a.) Shaped like a catkin. |
| amentum | noun (n.) Same as Ament. |
| amerciament | noun (n.) Same as Amercement. |
| antepredicament | noun (n.) A prerequisite to a clear understanding of the predicaments and categories, such as definitions of common terms. |
| appropriament | noun (n.) What is peculiarly one's own; peculiar qualification. |
| arbitrament | noun (n.) Determination; decision; arbitration. |
| noun (n.) The award of arbitrators. |
| armament | noun (n.) A body of forces equipped for war; -- used of a land or naval force. |
| noun (n.) All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification. | |
| noun (n.) Any equipment for resistance. |
| armamentary | noun (n.) An armory; a magazine or arsenal. |
| atramentaceous | adjective (a.) Black, like ink; inky; atramental. |
| atramental | adjective (a.) Alt. of Atramentous |
| atramentous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to ink; inky; black, like ink; as, atramental galls; atramentous spots. |
| atramentarious | adjective (a.) Like ink; suitable for making ink. Sulphate of iron (copperas, green vitriol) is called atramentarious, as being used in making ink. |
| attemperament | noun (n.) A tempering, or mixing in due proportion. |
| capillament | noun (n.) A filament. |
| noun (n.) Any villous or hairy covering; a fine fiber or filament, as of the nerves. |
| catamenia | noun (n. pl.) The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses. |
| catamenial | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the catamenia, or menstrual discharges. |
| cinnamene | noun (n.) Styrene (which was formerly called cinnamene because obtained from cinnamic acid). See Styrene. |
| colliquament | noun (n.) The first rudiments of an embryo in generation. |
| coronamen | noun (n.) The upper margin of a hoof; a coronet. |
| crassament | adjective (a.) Alt. of Crassamentum |
| crassamentum | adjective (a.) A semisolid mass or clot, especially that formed in coagulation of the blood. |
| cyclamen | noun (n.) A genus of plants of the Primrose family, having depressed rounded corms, and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbits' ears. It is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms. |
| delirament | noun (n.) A wandering of the mind; a crazy fancy. |
| dictamen | noun (n.) A dictation or dictate. |
| disarmament | noun (n.) The act of disarming. |
| duramen | noun (n.) The heartwood of an exogenous tree. |
| eliquament | noun (n.) A liquid obtained from fat, or fat fish, by pressure. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH AMEN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (men) - English Words That Ends with men:
| 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. |
| acumen | noun (n.) Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination. |
| agnomen | noun (n.) An additional or fourth name given by the Romans, on account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus. |
| noun (n.) An additional name, or an epithet appended to a name; as, Aristides the Just. |
| albumen | noun (n.) The white of an egg. |
| noun (n.) Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Albumin. |
| alumen | noun (n.) Alum. |
| bitumen | noun (n.) Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; Jew's pitch. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc. See Asphalt. |
| noun (n.) By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petroleums, and even the light, volatile naphthas. |
| cerumen | noun (n.) The yellow, waxlike secretion from the glands of the external ear; the earwax. |
| cognomen | noun (n.) The last of the three names of a person among the ancient Romans, denoting his house or family. |
| noun (n.) A surname. |
| culmen | noun (n.) Top; summit; acme. |
| noun (n.) The dorsal ridge of a bird's bill. |
| dolmen | noun (n.) A cromlech. See Cromlech. |
| elmen | adjective (a.) Belonging to elms. |
| energumen | noun (n.) One possessed by an evil spirit; a demoniac. |
| examen | adjective (a.) Examination; inquiry. |
| farcimen | noun (n.) Alt. of Farcin |
| flamen | noun (n.) A priest devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis. |
| foramen | noun (n.) A small opening, perforation, or orifice; a fenestra. |
| germen | noun (n.) See Germ. |
| gravamen | adjective (a.) The grievance complained of; the substantial cause of the action; also, in general, the ground or essence of a complaint. Bouvier. |
| highmen | noun (n. pl.) Loaded dice so contrived as to turn up high numbers. |
| hymen | noun (n.) A fold of muscous membrane often found at the orifice of the vagina; the vaginal membrane. |
| noun (n.) A fabulous deity; according to some, the son of Apollo and Urania, according to others, of Bacchus and Venus. He was the god of marriage, and presided over nuptial solemnities. | |
| noun (n.) Marriage; union as if by marriage. |
| legumen | noun (n.) Same as Legume. |
| lumen | noun (n.) A unit of illumination, being the amount of illumination of a unit area of spherical surface, due to a light of unit intensity placed at the center of the sphere. |
| noun (n.) A unit of light flux, being the flux through one square meter of surface the illumination of which is uniform and of unit brightness. | |
| noun (n.) An opening, space, or cavity, esp. a tubular cavity; a vacuole. |
| men | noun (n.) pl. of Man. |
| noun (pron.) A man; one; -- used with a verb in the singular, and corresponding to the present indefinite one or they. | |
| (pl. ) of Keelman | |
| (pl. ) of Man |
| oleamen | noun (n.) A soft ointment prepared from oil. |
| omen | noun (n.) An occurrence supposed to portend, or show the character of, some future event; any indication or action regarded as a foreshowing; a foreboding; a presage; an augury. |
| verb (v. t.) To divine or to foreshow by signs or portents; to have omens or premonitions regarding; to predict; to augur; as, to omen ill of an enterprise. |
| ostmen | noun (n. pl.) East men; Danish settlers in Ireland, formerly so called. |
| ovalbumen | noun (n.) The albumin from white of eggs; egg albumin; -- in distinction from serum albumin. See Albumin. |
| praenomen | noun (n.) The first name of a person, by which individuals of the same family were distinguished, answering to our Christian name, as Caius, Lucius, Marcus, etc. |
| prenomen | noun (n.) See Praenomen. |
| putamen | noun (n.) The shell of a nut; the stone of a drupe fruit. See Endocarp. |
| regimen | noun (n.) Orderly government; system of order; adminisration. |
| noun (n.) Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation | |
| noun (n.) a systematic course of diet, etc., pursed with a view to improving or preserving the health, or for the purpose of attaining some particular effect, as a reduction of flesh; -- sometimes used synonymously with hygiene. | |
| noun (n.) A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government. | |
| noun (n.) The word or words governed. |
| rumen | noun (n.) The first stomach of ruminants; the paunch; the fardingbag. See Illust. below. |
| noun (n.) The cud of a ruminant. |
| semen | noun (n.) The seed of plants. |
| noun (n.) The seed or fecundating fluid of male animals; sperm. It is a white or whitish viscid fluid secreted by the testes, characterized by the presence of spermatozoids to which it owes its generative power. |
| seralbumen | noun (n.) Serum albumin. |
| specimen | noun (n.) A part, or small portion, of anything, or one of a number of things, intended to exhibit the kind and quality of the whole, or of what is not exhibited; a sample; as, a specimen of a man's handwriting; a specimen of painting; aspecimen of one's art. |
| stamen | noun (n.) A thread; especially, a warp thread. |
| noun (n.) The male organ of flowers for secreting and furnishing the pollen or fecundating dust. It consists of the anther and filament. |
| tegmen | noun (n.) A tegument or covering. |
| noun (n.) The inner layer of the coating of a seed, usually thin and delicate; the endopleura. | |
| noun (n.) One of the elytra of an insect, especially of certain Orthoptera. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Tectrices. |
| tolmen | noun (n.) See Dolmen. |
| vimen | noun (n.) A long, slender, flexible shoot or branch. |
| yamen | noun (n.) In China, the official headquarters or residence of a mandarin, including court rooms, offices, gardens, prisons, etc.; the place where the business of any public department is transcated. |
| noun (n.) In China, the official headquarters or residence of a mandarin, including court rooms, offices, gardens, prisons, etc.; the place where the business of any public department is transcated. |
| women | noun (n.) pl. of Woman. |
| (pl. ) of Herdswoman | |
| (pl. ) of Woman |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH AMEN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ame) - Words That Begins with ame:
| amebean | adjective (a.) See Am/bean. |
| ameer | noun (n.) Alt. of Amir |
| amelcorn | noun (n.) A variety of wheat from which starch is produced; -- called also French rice. |
| ameliorable | adjective (a.) Capable of being ameliorated. |
| ameliorating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ameliorate |
| amelioration | noun (n.) The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration. |
| ameliorative | adjective (a.) Tending to ameliorate; producing amelioration or improvement; as, ameliorative remedies, efforts. |
| ameliorator | noun (n.) One who ameliorates. |
| amercing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Amerce |
| amerceable | adjective (a.) Liable to be amerced. |
| amercement | noun (n.) The infliction of a penalty at the discretion of the court; also, a mulct or penalty thus imposed. It differs from a fine,in that the latter is, or was originally, a fixed and certain sum prescribed by statue for an offense; but an amercement is arbitrary. Hence, the act or practice of affeering. [See Affeer.] |
| amercer | noun (n.) One who amerces. |
| american | noun (n.) A native of America; -- originally applied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America, and especially to the citizens of the United States. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the United States. |
| americanism | noun (n.) Attachment to the United States. |
| noun (n.) A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. | |
| noun (n.) A word or phrase peculiar to the United States. |
| americanization | noun (n.) The process of Americanizing. |
| americanizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Americanize |
| amess | noun (n.) Amice, a hood or cape. See 2d Amice. |
| ametabola | noun (n. pl.) A group of insects which do not undergo any metamorphosis. |
| ametabolian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to insects that do undergo any metamorphosis. |
| ametabolic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Ametabolous |
| ametabolous | adjective (a.) Not undergoing any metamorphosis; as, ametabolic insects. |
| amethodist | noun (n.) One without method; a quack. |
| amethystine | adjective (a.) Resembling amethyst, especially in color; bluish violet. |
| adjective (a.) Composed of, or containing, amethyst. |
| ametropia | noun (n.) Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH AMEN:
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. |
| 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. |
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