ACHERON
First name ACHERON's origin is Greek. ACHERON means "myth name (river of woe)". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with ACHERON below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of acheron.(Brown names are of the same origin (Greek) with ACHERON and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming ACHERON
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES ACHERON AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH ACHERON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 6 Letters (cheron) - Names That Ends with cheron:
Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (heron) - Names That Ends with heron:
sheron theronRhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (eron) - Names That Ends with eron:
deron cameron ciceron eron kameron kieron leron neron veron aleron galeron geronRhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ron) - Names That Ends with ron:
hebron charon chiron myron audron avaron camaron farron kamron karon modron aaron abarron adron aron baron barron biron bron buiron camron camshron daron darron delron devron duron efron ephron faron ferron jarron jayron jerron kevron kyron ron taron terron therron waldron miron mai-ron byron petron sharon yaron doron garon garronRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (on) - Names That Ends with on:
afton carnation aedon solon strephon sidon cihuaton nijlon sokanon odion sion accalon dudon pendragon antton erromon gotzon txanton zorion celyddon eburacon mabon bendision alston alton benton burton carelton fenton hamilton harrison histion kenton pierson preston ralstonNAMES RHYMING WITH ACHERON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 6 Letters (achero) - Names That Begins with achero:
Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (acher) - Names That Begins with acher:
Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (ache) - Names That Begins with ache:
acheflour acheflow achelousRhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ach) - Names That Begins with ach:
achaius achak achan acharya achates achcauhtli achilles achirRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ac) - Names That Begins with ac:
acacia academia acair acaiseid acantha acastus acca ace acel aceline acennan acestes acey acim acima acis acker ackerley ackerman ackley acolmixtli aconteus acrisius actaeon actassi acteon acwel acwellenNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ACHERON:
First Names which starts with 'ach' and ends with 'ron':
First Names which starts with 'ac' and ends with 'on':
First Names which starts with 'a' and ends with 'n':
aahan aaralyn aban abban abbotson abbudin abdalrahman abdiraxman abdul-muhaimin abdul-rahman abedabun abeodan abhainn ablendan abooksigun abran abrecan adalson adalwen adalwin adalyn adamnan adamson adan addilynn addisen addison addyson adeben adeen adelynn aden adetoun adin adiran adken adkyn adnan adon adoracion adorjan adriaan adrian adrien adrion adwin aekerman aesclin aesctun aescwyn aeshan aeson aethelbeorn aethelisdun aethelstan aethelstun aetheston aethretun agamemnon agiefan agoston agravain agrican aguistin agustin agyfen ahearn aheawan ahebban aherin ahern ahreddan ahren ahriman aibhlin aidan aidann aideen aiden aidrian aiekin aiken aikin ailean aileen ailein ailen ailin ailison ain airrin aislin aislinn aislynn aiston aitan akhenaten akin al-asfan aladdinEnglish Words Rhyming ACHERON
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES ACHERON AS A WHOLE:
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. |
acherontic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ACHERON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (cheron) - English Words That Ends with cheron:
percheron | noun (n.) One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (heron) - English Words That Ends with heron:
heron | noun (n.) Any wading bird of the genus Ardea and allied genera, of the family Ardeidae. The herons have a long, sharp bill, and long legs and toes, with the claw of the middle toe toothed. The common European heron (Ardea cinerea) is remarkable for its directly ascending flight, and was formerly hunted with the larger falcons. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (eron) - English Words That Ends with eron:
archenteron | noun (n.) The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination. |
aileron | noun (n.) A half gable, as at the end of a penthouse or of the aisle of a church. |
noun (n.) A small plane or surface capable of being manipulated by the pilot of a flying machine to preserve or destroy lateral balance; a hinged wing tip; a lateral stabilizing or balancing plane. |
chaperon | noun (n.) A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood. |
noun (n.) A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals. | |
noun (n.) A matron who accompanies a young lady in public, for propriety, or as a guide and protector. | |
verb (v. t.) To attend in public places as a guide and protector; to matronize. |
decameron | noun (n.) A celebrated collection of tales, supposed to be related in ten days; -- written in the 14th century, by Boccaccio, an Italian. |
dzeron | noun (n.) The Chinese yellow antelope (Procapra gutturosa), a remarkably swift-footed animal, inhabiting the deserts of Central Asia, Thibet, and China. |
ecderon | noun (n.) See Ecteron. |
ecteron | noun (n.) The external layer of the skin and mucous membranes; epithelium; ecderon. |
enderon | noun (n.) The deep sensitive and vascular layer of the skin and mucous membranes. |
enteron | noun (n.) The whole alimentary, or enteric, canal. |
ephemeron | noun (n.) One of the ephemeral flies. |
epimeron | noun (n.) In crustaceans: The part of the side of a somite external to the basal joint of each appendage. |
noun (n.) In insects: The lateral piece behind the episternum. |
hexahemeron | noun (n.) A term of six days. |
noun (n.) The history of the six day's work of creation, as contained in the first chapter of Genesis. |
hieron | noun (n.) A consecrated place; esp., a temple. |
mesenteron | noun (n.) All that part of the alimentary canal which is developed from the primitive enteron and is lined with hypoblast. It is distinguished from the stomod/um, a part at the anterior end of the canal, including the cavity of the mouth, and the proctod/um, a part at the posterior end, which are formed by invagination and are lined with epiblast. |
moneron | noun (n.) One of the Monera. |
monopteron | noun (n.) A circular temple consisting of a roof supported on columns, without a cella. |
nycthemeron | noun (n.) The natural day and night, or space of twenty-four hours. |
oberon | noun (n.) The king of the fairies, and husband of Titania or Queen Mab. |
octaemeron | noun (n.) A fast of eight days before a great festival. |
quarteron | noun (n.) A quarter; esp., a quarter of a pound, or a quarter of a hundred. |
noun (n.) Alt. of Quarteroon | |
noun (n.) A quarter; esp., a quarter of a pound, or a quarter of a hundred. | |
noun (n.) Alt. of Quarteroon |
quateron | noun (n.) See 2d Quarteron. |
noun (n.) See 2d Quarteron. |
perienteron | noun (n.) The primitive perivisceral cavity. |
phytomeron | noun (n.) An organic element of a flowering plant; a phyton. |
pteron | noun (n.) The region of the skull, in the temporal fossa back of the orbit, where the great wing of the sphenoid, the temporal, the parietal, and the frontal hones approach each other. |
puceron | noun (n.) Any plant louse, or aphis. |
seron | noun (n.) Alt. of Seroon |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ron) - English Words That Ends with ron:
almendron | noun (n.) The lofty Brazil-nut tree. |
anatron | noun (n.) Native carbonate of soda; natron. |
noun (n.) Glass gall or sandiver. | |
noun (n.) Saltpeter. |
andiron | noun (n.) A utensil for supporting wood when burning in a fireplace, one being placed on each side; a firedog; as, a pair of andirons. |
andron | noun (n.) The apartment appropriated for the males. This was in the lower part of the house. |
apastron | noun (n.) That point in the orbit of a double star where the smaller star is farthest from its primary. |
apron | noun (n.) An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings. |
noun (n.) Something which by its shape or use suggests an apron; | |
noun (n.) The fat skin covering the belly of a goose or duck. | |
noun (n.) A piece of leather, or other material, to be spread before a person riding on an outside seat of a vehicle, to defend him from the rain, snow, or dust; a boot. | |
noun (n.) A leaden plate that covers the vent of a cannon. | |
noun (n.) A piece of carved timber, just above the foremost end of the keel. | |
noun (n.) A platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut. | |
noun (n.) A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent. | |
noun (n.) The piece that holds the cutting tool of a planer. | |
noun (n.) A strip of lead which leads the drip of a wall into a gutter; a flashing. | |
noun (n.) The infolded abdomen of a crab. |
baron | noun (n.) A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount. |
noun (n.) A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife. |
beakiron | noun (n.) A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil. |
boron | noun (n.) A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive color, in a semimetallic form, and in colorless quadratic crystals similar to the diamond in hardness and other properties. It occurs in nature also in boracite, datolite, tourmaline, and some other minerals. Atomic weight 10.9. Symbol B. |
caldron | noun (n.) A large kettle or boiler of copper, brass, or iron. [Written also cauldron.] |
catoptron | noun (n.) A reflecting optical glass or instrument; a mirror. |
catopron | noun (n.) See Catopter. |
chaldron | noun (n.) An English dry measure, being, at London, 36 bushels heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle. Now used exclusively for coal and coke. |
chamfron | noun (n.) The frontlet, or head armor, of a horse. |
charon | noun (n.) The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions. |
chaudron | noun (n.) See Chawdron. |
chauldron | noun (n.) See Chawdron. |
chawdron | noun (n.) Entrails. |
chevron | noun (n.) One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center. |
noun (n.) A distinguishing mark, above the elbow, on the sleeve of a non-commissioned officer's coat. | |
noun (n.) A zigzag molding, or group of moldings, common in Norman architecture. |
chiliahedron | noun (n.) A figure bounded by a thousand plane surfaces |
citron | noun (n.) A fruit resembling a lemon, but larger, and pleasantly aromatic. The thick rind, when candied, is the citron of commerce. |
noun (n.) A citron tree. | |
noun (n.) A citron melon. |
cobiron | noun (n.) An andiron with a knob at the top. |
cascaron | noun (n.) Lit., an eggshell; hence, an eggshell filled with confetti to be thrown during balls, carnivals, etc. |
coelectron | noun (n.) See Electron. |
decahedron | noun (n.) A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces. |
deltohedron | noun (n.) A solid bounded by twelve quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the isometric system, allied to the tetrahedron. |
diatessaron | noun (n.) The interval of a fourth. |
noun (n.) A continuous narrative arranged from the first four books of the New Testament. | |
noun (n.) An electuary compounded of four medicines. |
dihedron | noun (n.) A figure with two sides or surfaces. |
dodecahedron | noun (n.) A solid having twelve faces. |
duodecahedron | noun (n.) See Dodecahedral, and Dodecahedron. |
ekaboron | noun (n.) The name given by Mendelejeff in accordance with the periodic law, and by prediction, to a hypothetical element then unknown, but since discovered and named scandium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the boron group. See Scandium. |
electron | noun (n.) Amber; also, the alloy of gold and silver, called electrum. |
() One of those particles, having about one thousandth the mass of a hydrogen atom, which are projected from the cathode of a vacuum tube as the cathode rays and from radioactive substances as the beta rays; -- called also corpuscle. The electron carries (or is) a natural unit of negative electricity, equal to 3.4 x 10-10 electrostatic units. It has been detected only when in rapid motion; its mass, which is electromagnetic, is practically constant at the lesser speeds, but increases as the velocity approaches that of light. Electrons are all of one kind, so far as known, and probably are the ultimate constituents of all atoms. An atom from which an electron has been detached has a positive charge and is called a coelectron. |
elytron | noun (n.) Alt. of Elytrum |
enheahedron | noun (n.) A figure having nine sides; a nonagon. |
entoplastron | noun (n.) The median plate of the plastron of turtles; -- called also entosternum. |
epiplastron | noun (n.) One of the first pair of lateral plates in the plastron of turtles. |
epoophoron | noun (n.) See Parovarium. |
exametron | noun (n.) An hexameter. |
fanfaron | noun (n.) A bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster. |
flatiron | noun (n.) An iron with a flat, smooth surface for ironing clothes. |
fleuron | noun (n.) A flower-shaped ornament, esp. one terminating an object or forming one of a series, as a knob of a cover to a dish, or a flower-shaped part in a necklace. |
garron | noun (n.) Same as Garran. |
goudron | noun (n.) a small fascine or fagot, steeped in wax, pitch, and glue, used in various ways, as for igniting buildings or works, or to light ditches and ramparts. |
gridiron | noun (n.) A grated iron utensil for broiling flesh and fish over coals. |
noun (n.) An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs. | |
noun (n.) A football field. |
gyron | noun (n.) A subordinary of triangular form having one of its angles at the fess point and the opposite aide at the edge of the escutcheon. When there is only one gyron on the shield it is bounded by two lines drawn from the fess point, one horizontally to the dexter side, and one to the dexter chief corner. |
handiron | noun (n.) See Andrion. |
hemelytron | noun (n.) Alt. of Hemelytrum |
hemihedron | noun (n.) A solid hemihedrally derived. The tetrahedron is a hemihedron. |
heptahedron | noun (n.) A solid figure with seven sides. |
hexahedron | noun (n.) A solid body of six sides or faces. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ACHERON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (achero) - Words That Begins with achero:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (acher) - Words That Begins with acher:
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (ache) - Words That Begins with ache:
ache | noun (n.) A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley. |
verb (v. i.) Continued pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain. "Such an ache in my bones." | |
verb (v. i.) To suffer pain; to have, or be in, pain, or in continued pain; to be distressed. |
achean | noun (a & n.) See Achaean, Achaian. |
achene | noun (n.) Alt. of Achenium |
achenium | noun (n.) A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists. |
achenial | adjective (a.) Pertaining to an achene. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ach) - Words That Begins with ach:
ach | noun (n.) Alt. of Ache |
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. |
acharnement | noun (n.) Savage fierceness; ferocity. |
achate | noun (n.) An agate. |
noun (n.) Purchase; bargaining. | |
noun (n.) Provisions. Same as Cates. |
achatina | noun (n.) A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa. |
achatour | noun (n.) Purveyor; acater. |
aching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ache |
adjective (a.) That aches; continuously painful. See Ache. |
achievable | adjective (a.) Capable of being achieved. |
achievance | noun (n.) Achievement. |
achieving | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Achieve |
achievement | noun (n.) The act of achieving or performing; an obtaining by exertion; successful performance; accomplishment; as, the achievement of his object. |
noun (n.) A great or heroic deed; something accomplished by valor, boldness, or praiseworthy exertion; a feat. | |
noun (n.) An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment. |
achiever | noun (n.) One who achieves; a winner. |
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. |
achilous | adjective (a.) Without a lip. |
achiote | noun (n.) Seeds of the annotto tree; also, the coloring matter, annotto. |
achlamydate | adjective (a.) Not possessing a mantle; -- said of certain gastropods. |
achlamydeous | adjective (a.) Naked; having no floral envelope, neither calyx nor corolla. |
acholia | noun (n.) Deficiency or want of bile. |
acholous | adjective (a.) Lacking bile. |
achromatic | adjective (a.) Free from color; transmitting light without decomposing it into its primary colors. |
adjective (a.) Uncolored; not absorbing color from a fluid; -- said of tissue. |
achromaticity | noun (n.) Achromatism. |
achromatin | noun (n.) Tissue which is not stained by fluid dyes. |
achromatism | noun (n.) The state or quality of being achromatic; as, the achromatism of a lens; achromaticity. |
achromatization | noun (n.) The act or process of achromatizing. |
achromatizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Achromatize |
achromatopsy | noun (n.) Color blindness; inability to distinguish colors; Daltonism. |
achronic | adjective (a.) See Acronyc. |
achroodextrin | noun (n.) Dextrin not colorable by iodine. See Dextrin. |
achroous | adjective (a.) Colorless; achromatic. |
achylous | adjective (a.) Without chyle. |
achymous | adjective (a.) Without chyme. |
achromatous | adjective (a.) Lacking, or deficient in, color; as, achromatous blood. |
achromic | adjective (a.) Free from color; colorless; as, in Physiol. Chem., the achromic point of a starch solution acted upon by an amylolytic enzyme is the point at which it fails to give any color with iodine. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ACHERON:
English Words which starts with 'ach' and ends with 'ron':
English Words which starts with 'ac' and ends with 'on':
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. |
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. |
acidification | noun (n.) The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid. |
acotyledon | noun (n.) A plant which has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants. |
acquisition | noun (n.) The act or process of acquiring. |
noun (n.) The thing acquired or gained; an acquirement; a gain; as, learning is an acquisition. |
acromion | noun (n.) The outer extremity of the shoulder blade. |
actinozoon | noun (n.) One of the Actinozoa. |
action | noun (n.) A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action. |
noun (n.) An act; a thing done; a deed; an enterprise. (pl.): Habitual deeds; hence, conduct; behavior; demeanor. | |
noun (n.) The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events. | |
noun (n.) Movement; as, the horse has a spirited action. | |
noun (n.) Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. | |
noun (n.) Any one of the active processes going on in an organism; the performance of a function; as, the action of the heart, the muscles, or the gastric juice. | |
noun (n.) Gesticulation; the external deportment of the speaker, or the suiting of his attitude, voice, gestures, and countenance, to the subject, or to the feelings. | |
noun (n.) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted. | |
noun (n.) A suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right in a court of justice; in a broad sense, a judicial proceeding for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offense. | |
noun (n.) A right of action; as, the law gives an action for every claim. | |
noun (n.) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent to stocks. | |
noun (n.) An engagement between troops in war, whether on land or water; a battle; a fight; as, a general action, a partial action. | |
noun (n.) The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe. |
acton | noun (n.) A stuffed jacket worn under the mail, or (later) a jacket plated with mail. |
actualization | noun (n.) A making actual or really existent. |
actuation | noun (n.) A bringing into action; movement. |
acuation | noun (n.) Act of sharpening. |
acuition | noun (n.) The act of sharpening. |
acumination | noun (n.) A sharpening; termination in a sharp point; a tapering point. |
acupuncturation | noun (n.) See Acupuncture. |
acutorsion | noun (n.) The twisting of an artery with a needle to arrest hemorrhage. |