Name Report For First Name AZA:
AZA
First name AZA's origin is African. AZA means "swahili name meaning "powerful."". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with AZA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of aza.(Brown names are of the same origin (African) with AZA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with AZA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming AZA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES AZA AS A WHOLE:
nazahah shahrazad varaza bazar ghazal praza elazar mazatl azaria corazana jazalyn paza azaryah azaryahu balthazar elazaro eliazar lazaro lazarus lazar eleazar azarious azaleaNAMES RHYMING WITH AZA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (za) - Names That Ends with za:
azinza jifunza leza ruza aleeza aziza lujza alonza cadenza fiorenza speranza terza asdza mariutza romanitza gentza honza lojza geza alanza aldonza alitza aliza briza danitza deliza demelza eliza elyza faqueza fayza giza karenza liza lorenza luiza maritza nitza pureza hamza mirza wakiza azeeza constanza roza ritza intiza esperanza thirza lyzaNAMES RHYMING WITH AZA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (az) - Names That Begins with az:
azeem azekel azelia azelie azhaire azhar azhara azi azia azibo aziel azikiwe azim azima aziz azizah azizi azmariah azmera azmik azrael azraff azriel azucena azura azure azurine azusa azusena azzah azzam azzaria azzureNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH AZA:
First Names which starts with 'a' and ends with 'a':
aala aaleahya aarika aarshiya aashka aasiya abba abda abdalla abdera abdulla abeba abelia abella abellona abena abequa aberfa abhaya abia abida abisha abjaja abra abraha abriana abrianna acacia academia acantha acca acharya acima ada adaira adairia adalbrechta adalgisa adalheida adalia adalicia adalwolfa adama adamina adana adanna adara adda addula adeela adela adelajda adelia adelina adelinda adelisa adelita adella adelpha adena adeola adharma adia adianna adiba adiella adila adima adina adira adisa aditya adiva adjoa admeta admina adolpha adoncia adonia adora adowa adra adreana adreanna adriana adrianna adsaluta adsila adwoa adya aeaea aegina aeldra aenedlea aerwyna aethelha aethelreda aethra aetna afafaEnglish Words Rhyming AZA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES AZA AS A WHOLE:
| alcarraza | noun (n.) A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids by evaporation from the exterior surface. |
| alcazar | noun (n.) A fortress; also, a royal palace. |
| azalea | noun (n.) A genus of showy flowering shrubs, mostly natives of China or of North America; false honeysuckle. The genus is scarcely distinct from Rhododendron. |
| azarole | noun (n.) The Neapolitan medlar (Crataegus azarolus), a shrub of southern Europe; also, its fruit. |
| bazaar | noun (n.) Alt. of Bazar |
| bazar | noun (n.) In the East, an exchange, marketplace, or assemblage of shops where goods are exposed for sale. |
| noun (n.) A spacious hall or suite of rooms for the sale of goods, as at a fair. | |
| noun (n.) A fair for the sale of fancy wares, toys, etc., commonly for a charitable objects. |
| chalaza | noun (n.) The place on an ovule, or seed, where its outer coats cohere with each other and the nucleus. |
| noun (n.) A spiral band of thickened albuminous substance which exists in the white of the bird's egg, and serves to maintain the yolk in its position; the treadle. |
| chalazal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the chalaza. |
| ghazal | noun (n.) Alt. of Ghazel |
| haphazard | noun (n.) Extra hazard; chance; accident; random. |
| hazard | noun (n.) A game of chance played with dice. |
| noun (n.) The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty. | |
| noun (n.) Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life. | |
| noun (n.) Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard). | |
| noun (n.) Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming. | |
| noun (n.) To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk. | |
| noun (n.) To venture to incur, or bring on. | |
| noun (n.) Any place into which the ball may not be safely played, such as bunkers, furze, water, sand, or other kind of bad ground. | |
| verb (v. i.) To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger. |
| hazardable | adjective (a.) Liable to hazard or chance; uncertain; risky. |
| adjective (a.) Such as can be hazarded or risked. |
| hazarder | noun (n.) A player at the game of hazard; a gamester. |
| noun (n.) One who hazards or ventures. |
| hazardize | noun (n.) A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. |
| hazardous | adjective (a.) Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky. |
| hazardry | noun (n.) Playing at hazard; gaming; gambling. |
| noun (n.) Rashness; temerity. |
| lazar | noun (n.) A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper. |
| lazaret | noun (n.) Alt. of Lazaretto |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Lazaretto |
| lazaretto | noun (n.) A public building, hospital, or pesthouse for the reception of diseased persons, particularly those affected with contagious diseases. |
| noun (n.) A low space under the after part of the main deck, used as a storeroom. |
| lazarist | noun (n.) Alt. of Lazarite |
| lazarite | noun (n.) One of the Congregation of the Priests of the Mission, a religious institute founded by Vincent de Paul in 1624, and popularly called Lazarists or Lazarites from the College of St. Lazare in Paris, which was occupied by them until 1792. |
| lazarlike | adjective (a.) Alt. of Lazarly |
| lazarly | adjective (a.) Full of sores; leprous. |
| lazaroni | noun (n. pl.) See Lazzaroni. |
| lazarwort | noun (n.) Laserwort. |
| mazama | noun (n.) Alt. of Mazame |
| mazame | noun (n.) A goatlike antelope (Haplocerus montanus) which inhabits the Rocky Mountains, frequenting the highest parts; -- called also mountain goat. |
| mazard | noun (n.) A kind of small black cherry. |
| noun (n.) The jaw; the head or skull. | |
| verb (v. t.) To knock on the head. |
| mazarine | noun (n.) Mazarine blue. |
| noun (n.) A forcemeat entree. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Cardinal Mazarin, prime minister of France, 1643-1661. |
| naphthazarin | noun (n.) A dyestuff, resembling alizarin, obtained from naphthoquinone as a red crystalline substance with a bright green, metallic luster; -- called also naphthalizarin. |
| nazarene | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Nazareth; -- a term of contempt applied to Christ and the early Christians. |
| noun (n.) One of a sect of Judaizing Christians in the first and second centuries, who observed the laws of Moses, and held to certain heresies. |
| nazarite | noun (n.) A Jew bound by a vow to lave the hair uncut, to abstain from wine and strong drink, and to practice extraordinary purity of life and devotion, the obligation being for life, or for a certain time. The word is also used adjectively. |
| nazariteship | noun (n.) The state of a Nazarite. |
| nazaritic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a Nazarite, or to Nazarites. |
| nazaritism | noun (n.) The vow and practice of a Nazarite. |
| plaza | noun (n.) A public square in a city or town. |
| weazand | noun (n.) See Weasand. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH AZA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (za) - English Words That Ends with za:
| bonanza | noun (n.) In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence, anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income. |
| boza | noun (n.) An acidulated fermented drink of the Arabs and Egyptians, made from millet seed and various astringent substances; also, an intoxicating beverage made from hemp seed, darnel meal, and water. |
| cadenza | noun (n.) A parenthetic flourish or flight of ornament in the course of a piece, commonly just before the final cadence. |
| coleorhiza | noun (n.) A sheath in the embryo of grasses, inclosing the caulicle. |
| colza | noun (n.) A variety of cabbage (Brassica oleracea), cultivated for its seeds, which yield an oil valued for illuminating and lubricating purposes; summer rape. |
| coryza | noun (n.) Nasal catarrh. |
| endorhiza | noun (n.) Any monocotyledonous plant; -- so named because many monocotyledons have an endorhizal embryo. |
| exorhiza | noun (n.) A plant Whose radicle is not inclosed or sheathed by the cotyledons or plumule. |
| extravaganza | noun (n.) A composition, as in music, or in the drama, designed to produce effect by its wild irregularity; esp., a musical caricature. |
| noun (n.) An extravagant flight of sentiment or language. |
| ganza | noun (n.) A kind of wild goose, by a flock of which a virtuoso was fabled to be carried to the lunar world. |
| glycyrrhiza | noun (n.) A genus of papilionaceous herbaceous plants, one species of which (G. glabra), is the licorice plant, the roots of which have a bittersweet mucilaginous taste. |
| noun (n.) The root of Glycyrrhiza glabra (liquorice root), used as a demulcent, etc. |
| guereza | noun (n.) A beautiful Abyssinian monkey (Colobus guereza), having the body black, with a fringe of long, silky, white hair along the sides, and a tuft of the same at the end of the tail. The frontal band, cheeks, and chin are white. |
| huzza | noun (n.) A shout of huzza; a cheer; a hurrah. |
| verb (v. i.) To shout huzza; to cheer. | |
| verb (v. t.) To receive or attend with huzzas. | |
| (interj.) A word used as a shout of joy, exultation, approbation, or encouragement. |
| hydrorhiza | noun (n.) The rootstock or decumbent stem by which a hydroid is attached to other objects. See Illust. under Hydroidea. |
| influenza | noun (n.) An epidemic affection characterized by acute nasal catarrh, or by inflammation of the throat or the bronchi, and usually accompanied by fever. |
| liza | noun (n.) The American white mullet (Mugil curema). |
| matanza | noun (n.) A place where animals are slaughtered for their hides and tallow. |
| mirza | noun (n.) The common title of honor in Persia, prefixed to the surname of an individual. When appended to the surname, it signifies Prince. |
| morbidezza | noun (n.) Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh. |
| noun (n.) A term used as a direction in execution, signifying, with extreme delicacy. |
| murza | noun (n.) One of the hereditary nobility among the Tatars, esp. one of the second class. |
| oryza | noun (n.) A genus of grasses including the rice plant; rice. |
| peziza | noun (n.) A genus of fungi embracing a great number of species, some of which are remarkable for their regular cuplike form and deep colors. |
| piazza | noun (n.) An open square in a European town, especially an Italian town; hence (Arch.), an arcaded and roofed gallery; a portico. In the United States the word is popularly applied to a veranda. |
| pileorhiza | noun (n.) A cap of cells which covers the growing extremity of a root; a rootcap. |
| romanza | noun (n.) See Romance, 5. |
| stanza | noun (n.) A number of lines or verses forming a division of a song or poem, and agreeing in meter, rhyme, number of lines, etc., with other divisions; a part of a poem, ordinarily containing every variation of measure in that poem; a combination or arrangement of lines usually recurring; whether like or unlike, in measure. |
| noun (n.) An apartment or division in a building; a room or chamber. |
| tazza | noun (n.) An ornamental cup or vase with a large, flat, shallow bowl, resting on a pedestal and often having handles. |
| tiza | noun (n.) See Ulexite. |
| tuza | noun (n.) The tucan. |
| tzaritza | noun (n.) The empress of Russia. See Czarina. |
| xanthorhiza | noun (n.) A genus of shrubby ranunculaceous plants of North America, including only the species Xanthorhiza apiifolia, which has roots of a deep yellow color; yellowroot. The bark is intensely bitter, and is sometimes used as a tonic. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH AZA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (az) - Words That Begins with az:
| azedarach | noun (n.) A handsome Asiatic tree (Melia azedarach), common in the southern United States; -- called also, Pride of India, Pride of China, and Bead tree. |
| noun (n.) The bark of the roots of the azedarach, used as a cathartic and emetic. |
| azimuth | noun (n.) The quadrant of an azimuth circle. |
| noun (n.) An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object; as, the azimuth of a star; the azimuth or bearing of a line surveying. |
| azimuthal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the azimuth; in a horizontal circle. |
| azobenzene | noun (n.) A substance (C6H5.N2.C6H5) derived from nitrobenzene, forming orange red crystals which are easily fusible. |
| azoic | adjective (a.) Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was no animal life on the globe; as, the azoic. rocks. |
| azoleic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to an acid produced by treating oleic with nitric acid. |
| azonic | adjective (a.) Confined to no zone or region; not local. |
| azorian | noun (n.) A native of the Azores. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Azores. |
| azote | noun (n.) Same as Nitrogen. |
| noun (n.) A switch or whip. |
| azoth | noun (n.) The first principle of metals, i. e., mercury, which was formerly supposed to exist in all metals, and to be extractable from them. |
| noun (n.) The universal remedy of Paracelsus. |
| azotic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to azote, or nitrogen; formed or consisting of azote; nitric; as, azotic gas; azotic acid. |
| azotite | noun (n.) A salt formed by the combination of azotous, or nitrous, acid with a base; a nitrite. |
| azotizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Azotize |
| azotometer | noun (n.) An apparatus for measuring or determining the proportion of nitrogen; a nitrometer. |
| azotous | adjective (a.) Nitrous; as, azotous acid. |
| aztec | noun (n.) One of the Aztec race or people. |
| adjective (a.) Of or relating to one of the early races in Mexico that inhabited the great plateau of that country at the time of the Spanish conquest in 1519. |
| azure | noun (n.) The lapis lazuli. |
| noun (n.) The clear blue color of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this color. | |
| noun (n.) The blue vault above; the unclouded sky. | |
| noun (n.) A blue color, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines. | |
| adjective (a.) Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue color of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless. | |
| verb (v. t.) To color blue. |
| azured | adjective (a.) Of an azure color; sky-blue. |
| azureous | adjective (a.) Of a fine blue color; azure. |
| azurine | noun (n.) The blue roach of Europe (Leuciscus caeruleus); -- so called from its color. |
| adjective (a.) Azure. |
| azurite | noun (n.) Blue carbonate of copper; blue malachite. |
| azurn | adjective (a.) Azure. |
| azygous | adjective (a.) Odd; having no fellow; not one of a pair; single; as, the azygous muscle of the uvula. |
| azym | noun (n.) Alt. of Azyme |
| azyme | noun (n.) Unleavened bread. |
| azymic | adjective (a.) Azymous. |
| azymite | noun (n.) One who administered the Eucharist with unleavened bread; -- a name of reproach given by those of the Greek church to the Latins. |
| azymous | adjective (a.) Unleavened; unfermented. |
| azogue | noun (n.) Lit.: Quicksilver |
| noun (n.) Silver ores suitable for treatment by amalgamation with mercury. |
| azole | noun (n.) Any of a large class of compounds characterized by a five-membered ring which contains an atom of nitrogen and at least one other noncarbon atom (nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur). The prefixes furo-, thio, and pyrro- are used to distinguish three subclasses of azoles, which may be regarded as derived respectively from furfuran, thiophene, and pyrrol by replacement of the CH group by nitrogen; as, furo-monazole. Names exactly analogous to those for the azines are also used; as, oxazole, diazole, etc. |
| azoted | adjective (a.) Nitrogenized; nitrogenous. |
| azoturia | noun (n.) Excess of urea or other nitrogenous substances in the urine. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH AZA:
English Words which starts with 'a' and ends with 'a':
| abaca | noun (n.) The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila. |
| abada | noun (n.) The rhinoceros. |
| 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. |
| abba | noun (n.) Father; religious superior; -- in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch. |
| abdominalia | noun (n. pl.) A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages. |
| aboma | noun (n.) A large South American serpent (Boa aboma). |
| abracadabra | noun (n.) A mystical word or collocation of letters written as in the figure. Worn on an amulet it was supposed to ward off fever. At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning; jargon. |
| abranchiata | noun (n. pl.) A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration. |
| abscissa | noun (n.) One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal coordinate axes. |
| abuna | noun (n.) The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church. |
| acacia | noun (n.) A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals. |
| noun (n.) A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates. | |
| noun (n.) The inspissated juice of several species of acacia; -- called also gum acacia, and gum arabic. |
| acantha | noun (n.) A prickle. |
| noun (n.) A spine or prickly fin. | |
| noun (n.) The vertebral column; the spinous process of a vertebra. |
| acanthocephala | noun (n. pl.) A group of intestinal worms, having the proboscis armed with recurved spines. |
| acarina | noun (n. pl.) The group of Arachnida which includes the mites and ticks. Many species are parasitic, and cause diseases like the itch and mange. |
| acciaccatura | noun (n.) A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura. |
| aceldama | noun (n.) The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. |
| acephala | noun (n. pl.) That division of the Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; -- so called because they have no evident head. Formerly the group included the Tunicata, Brachiopoda, and sometimes the Bryozoa. See Mollusca. |
| acetabulifera | noun (n. pl.) The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda. |
| achatina | noun (n.) A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa. |
| acholia | noun (n.) Deficiency or want of bile. |
| acicula | noun (n.) One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal. |
| acinesia | noun (n.) Same as Akinesia. |
| aconitia | noun (n.) Same as Aconitine. |
| acontia | noun (n. pl.) Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidae), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniae when irritated. |
| acrania | noun (n.) Partial or total absence of the skull. |
| noun (n.) The lowest group of Vertebrata, including the amphioxus, in which no skull exists. |
| acrasia | noun (n.) Alt. of Acrasy |
| acraspeda | noun (n. pl.) A group of acalephs, including most of the larger jellyfishes; the Discophora. |
| acrisia | noun (n.) Alt. of Acrisy |
| acrita | noun (n. pl.) The lowest groups of animals, in which no nervous system has been observed. |
| actinaria | noun (n. pl.) A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not. |
| actinia | noun (n.) An animal of the class Anthozoa, and family Actinidae. From a resemblance to flowers in form and color, they are often called animal flowers and sea anemones. [See Polyp.]. |
| noun (n.) A genus in the family Actinidae. |
| actinotrocha | noun (n. pl.) A peculiar larval form of Phoronis, a genus of marine worms, having a circle of ciliated tentacles. |
| actinozoa | noun (n. pl.) A group of Coelenterata, comprising the Anthozoa and Ctenophora. The sea anemone, or actinia, is a familiar example. |
| actinula | noun (n. pl.) A kind of embryo of certain hydroids (Tubularia), having a stellate form. |
| adansonia | noun (n.) A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. |
| adelphia | noun (n.) A "brotherhood," or collection of stamens in a bundle; -- used in composition, as in the class names, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, etc. |
| adenalgia | noun (n.) Alt. of Adenalgy |
| adularia | noun (n.) A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone. |
| adversaria | noun (n. pl.) A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes. |
| adynamia | noun (n.) Considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever. |
| aegicrania | noun (n. pl.) Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls. |
| aerophobia | noun (n.) Alt. of Aerophoby |
| aesthesia | noun (n.) Perception by the senses; feeling; -- the opposite of anaesthesia. |
| aga | noun (n.) Alt. of Agha |
| agha | noun (n.) In Turkey, a commander or chief officer. It is used also as a title of respect. |
| agalactia | noun (n.) Alt. of Agalaxy |
| agama | noun (n.) A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances; also, one of these lizards. |
| agora | noun (n.) An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city. |
| agouara | noun (n.) The crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), found in the tropical parts of America. |
| agouta | noun (n.) A small insectivorous mammal (Solenodon paradoxus), allied to the moles, found only in Hayti. |
| agraphia | noun (n.) The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia. |
| aha | noun (n.) A sunk fence. See Ha-ha. |
| (interj.) An exclamation expressing, by different intonations, triumph, mixed with derision or irony, or simple surprise. |
| ailuroidea | noun (n. pl.) A group of the Carnivora, which includes the cats, civets, and hyenas. |
| akinesia | noun (n.) Paralysis of the motor nerves; loss of movement. |
| ala | noun (n.) A winglike organ, or part. |
| alalonga | noun (n.) Alt. of Alilonghi |
| albata | noun (n.) A white metallic alloy; which is made into spoons, forks, teapots, etc. British plate or German silver. See German silver, under German. |
| albuminuria | noun (n.) A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine. |
| alcanna | noun (n.) An oriental shrub (Lawsonia inermis) from which henna is obtained. |
| alcyonacea | noun (n. pl.) A group of soft-bodied Alcyonaria, of which Alcyonium is the type. See Illust. under Alcyonaria. |
| alcyonaria | noun (n. pl.) One of the orders of Anthozoa. It includes the Alcyonacea, Pennatulacea, and Gorgonacea. |
| alfa | noun (n.) Alt. of Alfa grass |
| alfalfa | noun (n.) The lucern (Medicago sativa); -- so called in California, Texas, etc. |
| alfilaria | noun (n.) The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California. |
| alga | noun (n.) A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervae, etc. |
| algaroba | noun (n.) The Carob, a leguminous tree of the Mediterranean region; also, its edible beans or pods, called St. John's bread. |
| noun (n.) The Honey mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), a small tree found from California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuable gum, resembling gum arabic, is collected from the tree in Texas and Mexico. |
| algarovilla | noun (n.) The agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree (Inga Marthae). It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye. |
| algebra | noun (n.) That branch of mathematics which treats of the relations and properties of quantity by means of letters and other symbols. It is applicable to those relations that are true of every kind of magnitude. |
| noun (n.) A treatise on this science. |
| alhambra | noun (n.) The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada. |
| alhenna | noun (n.) See Henna. |
| allantoidea | noun (n. pl.) The division of Vertebrata in which the embryo develops an allantois. It includes reptiles, birds, and mammals. |
| alleluia | noun (n.) Alt. of Alleluiah |
| alma | noun (n.) Alt. of Almah |
| almadia | noun (n.) Alt. of Almadie |
| almagra | noun (n.) A fine, deep red ocher, somewhat purplish, found in Spain. It is the sil atticum of the ancients. Under the name of Indian red it is used for polishing glass and silver. |
| alopecia | noun (n.) Alt. of Alopecy |
| alpaca | noun (n.) An animal of Peru (Lama paco), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama. |
| noun (n.) Wool of the alpaca. | |
| noun (n.) A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton. |
| alpha | noun (n.) The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to A, and hence used to denote the beginning. |
| alpia | noun (n.) The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds. |
| althaea | noun (n.) Alt. of Althea |
| althea | noun (n.) A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks. |
| noun (n.) An ornamental shrub (Hibiscus Syriacus) of the Mallow family. |
| alula | noun (n.) A false or bastard wing. See under Bastard. |
| alumina | noun (n.) One of the earths, consisting of two parts of aluminium and three of oxygen, Al2O3. |
| alumna | noun (n. fem.) A female pupil; especially, a graduate of a school or college. |
| amalgama | noun (n.) Same as Amalgam. |
| amblyopia | noun (n.) Alt. of Amblyopy |
| amblypoda | noun (n. pl.) A group of large, extinct, herbivorous mammals, common in the Tertiary formation of the United States. |
| ambrosia | noun (n.) The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it. |
| noun (n.) An unguent of the gods. | |
| noun (n.) A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell. | |
| noun (n.) Formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The food of certain small bark beetles, family Scolytidae believed to be fungi cultivated by the beetles in their burrows. |
| amenorrhoea | noun (n.) Retention or suppression of the menstrual discharge. |
| amentia | noun (n.) Imbecility; total want of understanding. |
| ametabola | noun (n. pl.) A group of insects which do not undergo any metamorphosis. |
| ametropia | noun (n.) Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye. |
| 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. |
| amma | noun (n.) An abbes or spiritual mother. |
| ammonia | noun (n.) A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste: -- often called volatile alkali, and spirits of hartshorn. |
| ammonitoidea | noun (n. pl.) An extensive group of fossil cephalopods often very abundant in Mesozoic rocks. See Ammonite. |
| amnesia | noun (n.) Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ. |
| amniota | noun (n. pl.) That group of vertebrates which develops in its embryonic life the envelope called the amnion. It comprises the reptiles, the birds, and the mammals. |
| amoeba | noun (n.) A rhizopod. common in fresh water, capable of undergoing many changes of form at will. See Rhizopoda. |
| amoebea | noun (n. pl.) That division of the Rhizopoda which includes the amoeba and similar forms. |
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