First Names Rhyming ANTINOUS
English Words Rhyming ANTINOUS
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES ANTƯNOUS AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ANTƯNOUS (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (ntinous) - English Words That Ends with ntinous:
| serpentinous | adjective (a.) Relating to, or like, serpentine; as, a rock serpentinous in character. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (tinous) - English Words That Ends with tinous:
| annotinous | adjective (a.) A year old; in Yearly growths. |
| chitinous | adjective (a.) Having the nature of chitin; consisting of, or containing, chitin. |
| cretinous | adjective (a.) Having the characteristics of a cretin. |
| gelatinous | adjective (a.) Of the nature and consistence of gelatin or the jelly; resembling jelly; viscous. |
| glutinous | adjective (a.) Of the nature of glue; resembling glue; viscous; viscid; adhesive; gluey. |
| | adjective (a.) Havig a moist and adhesive or sticky surface, as a leaf or gland. |
| lomatinous | adjective (a.) Furnished with lobes or flaps. |
| mutinous | adjective (a.) Disposed to mutiny; in a state of mutiny; characterized by mutiny; seditious; insubordinate. |
| platinous | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, platinum; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which the element has a lower valence, as contrasted with the platinic compounds; as, platinous chloride (PtCl2). |
| scrutinous | adjective (a.) Closely examining, or inquiring; careful; sctrict. |
| serotinous | adjective (a.) Appearing or blossoming later in the season than is customary with allied species. |
| subgelatinous | adjective (a.) Imperfectly or partially gelatinous. |
| velutinous | adjective (a.) Having the surface covered with a fine and dense silky pubescence; velvety; as, a velutinous leaf. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (inous) - English Words That Ends with inous:
| abdominous | adjective (a.) Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. |
| acalysinous | adjective (a.) Without a calyx, or outer floral envelope. |
| acinous | adjective (a.) Consisting of acini, or minute granular concretions; as, acinose or acinous glands. |
| acuminous | adjective (a.) Characterized by acumen; keen. |
| aeruginous | adjective (a.) Of the nature or color of verdigris, or the rust of copper. |
| albuminous | adjective (a.) Alt. of Albuminose |
| aluminous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to or containing alum, or alumina; as, aluminous minerals, aluminous solution. |
| ambaginous | adjective (a.) Ambagious. |
| anginous | adjective (a.) Alt. of Anginose |
| asparaginous | adjective (a.) Pertaining or allied to, or resembling, asparagus; having shoots which are eaten like asparagus; as, asparaginous vegetables. |
| assassinous | adjective (a.) Murderous. |
| binominous | adjective (a.) Binominal. |
| binous | adjective (a.) Same as Binate. |
| bituminous | adjective (a.) Having the qualities of bitumen; compounded with bitumen; containing bitumen. |
| bombycinous | adjective (a.) Silken; made of silk. |
| | adjective (a.) Being of the color of the silkworm; transparent with a yellow tint. |
| caliginous | adjective (a.) Affected with darkness or dimness; dark; obscure. |
| cartilaginous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to cartilage; gristly; firm and tough like cartilage. |
| | adjective (a.) Having the skeleton in the state of cartilage, the bones containing little or no calcareous matter; said of certain fishes, as the sturgeon and the sharks. |
| cerasinous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, cerasin. |
| | adjective (a.) Of a cherry color. |
| ceruminous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or secreting, cerumen; as, the ceruminous glands. |
| conterminous | adjective (a.) Having the same bounds, or limits; bordering upon; contiguous. |
| coterminous | adjective (a.) Bordering; conterminous; -- followed by with. |
| covinous | adjective (a.) Deceitful; collusive; fraudulent; dishonest. |
| criminous | adjective (a.) Criminal; involving great crime or grave charges; very wicked; heinous. |
| declinous | adjective (a.) Declinate. |
| diclinous | adjective (a.) Having the stamens and pistils in separate flowers. |
| discriminous | adjective (a.) Hazardous; dangerous. |
| disdainous | adjective (a.) Disdainful. |
| enginous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to an engine. |
| | adjective (a.) Contrived with care; ingenious. |
| eruginous | adjective (a.) Partaking of the substance or nature of copper, or of the rust copper; resembling the trust of copper or verdigris; aeruginous. |
| exalbuminous | adjective (a.) Having no albumen about the embryo; -- said of certain seeds. |
| exsanguinous | adjective (a.) See Exsanguious. |
| farraginous | adjective (a.) Formed of various materials; mixed; as, a farraginous mountain. |
| fascinous | adjective (a.) Caused or acting by witchcraft. |
| favaginous | adjective (a.) Formed like, or resembling, a honeycomb. |
| ferruginous | adjective (a.) Partaking of iron; containing particles of iron. |
| | adjective (a.) Resembling iron rust in appearance or color; brownish red, or yellowish red. |
| fibrinous | adjective (a.) Having, or partaking of the properties of, fibrin; as, fibrious exudation. |
| fluminous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to rivers; abounding in streama. |
| foraminous | adjective (a.) Having foramina; full of holes; porous. |
| fortitudinous | adjective (a.) Having fortitude; courageous. |
| fuliginous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky. |
| | adjective (a.) Pertaining to smoke; resembling smoke. |
| geminous | adjective (a.) Double; in pairs. |
| grandinous | adjective (a.) Consisting of hail; abounding in hail. |
| heinous | adjective (a.) Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character. |
| hircinous | adjective (a.) Goatlike; of or pertaining to a goat or the goats. |
| | adjective (a.) Of a strong goatish smell. |
| illuminous | adjective (a.) Bright; clear. |
| imaginous | adjective (a.) Imaginative. |
| impetiginous | adjective (a.) Of the nature of, or pertaining to, impetigo. |
| infraspinous | adjective (a.) Below the spine; infraspinal; esp., below the spine of the scapula; as, the infraspinous fossa; the infraspinate muscle. |
| intercartilaginous | adjective (a.) Within cartilage; endochondral; as, intercartilaginous ossification. |
| interspinous | adjective (a.) Between spines; esp., between the spinous processes of the vertebral column. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (nous) - English Words That Ends with nous:
| abiogenous | adjective (a.) Produced by spontaneous generation. |
| absonous | adjective (a.) Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous. |
| acotyledonous | adjective (a.) Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc. |
| acrogenous | adjective (a.) Increasing by growth from the extremity; as, an acrogenous plant. |
| adenous | adjective (a.) Same as Adenose. |
| agynous | adjective (a.) Without female organs; male. |
| alburnous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to alburnum; of the alburnum; as, alburnous substances. |
| altisonous | adjective (a.) Altisonant. |
| ambigenous | adjective (a.) Of two kinds. |
| | adjective (a.) Partaking of two natures, as the perianth of some endogenous plants, where the outer surface is calycine, and the inner petaloid. |
| amnigenous | adjective (a.) Born or bred in, of, or near a river. |
| amphigenous | adjective (a.) Increasing in size by growth on all sides, as the lichens. |
| amphigonous | adjective (a.) Relating to both parents. |
| anachronous | adjective (a.) Containing an anachronism; anachronistic. |
| androgynous | adjective (a.) Alt. of Androgynal |
| anisostemonous | adjective (a.) Having unequal stamens; having stamens different in number from the petals. |
| anodynous | adjective (a.) Anodyne. |
| antherogenous | adjective (a.) Transformed from anthers, as the petals of a double flower. |
| aphonous | adjective (a.) Without voice; voiceless; nonvocal. |
| armisonous | adjective (a.) Rustling in arms; resounding with arms. |
| athermanous | adjective (a.) Not transmitting heat; -- opposed to diathermanous. |
| autochthonous | adjective (a.) Aboriginal; indigenous; native. |
| autogenous | adjective (a.) Self-generated; produced independently. |
| | adjective (a.) Developed from an independent center of ossification. |
| | adjective (a.) Autogenetic. |
| adipogenous | adjective (a.) Producing fat. |
| asynchronous | adjective (a.) Not simultaneous; not concurrent in time; -- opposed to synchronous. |
| bicornous | adjective (a.) Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike. |
| bimanous | adjective (a.) Having two hands; two-handed. |
| binotonous | adjective (a.) Consisting of two notes; as, a binotonous cry. |
| blennogenous | adjective (a.) Generating mucus. |
| bournous | noun (n.) See Burnoose. |
| burdenous | adjective (a.) Burdensome. |
| burnous | noun (n.) A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs. |
| | noun (n.) A combination cloak and hood worn by women. |
| cacophonous | adjective (a.) Alt. of Cacophonious |
| calcigenous | adjective (a.) Tending to form, or to become, a calx or earthlike substance on being oxidized or burnt; as magnesium, calcium. etc. |
| caprigenous | adjective (a.) Of the goat kind. |
| carnous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to flesh; fleshy. |
| | adjective (a.) Of a fleshy consistence; -- applied to succulent leaves, stems, etc. |
| cavernous | adjective (a.) Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow. |
| | adjective (a.) Filled with small cavities or cells. |
| | adjective (a.) Having a sound caused by a cavity. |
| chondrigenous | adjective (a.) Affording chondrin. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ANTƯNOUS (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 7 Letters (antinou) - Words That Begins with antinou:
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (antino) - Words That Begins with antino:
| antinomian | noun (n.) One who maintains that, under the gospel dispensation, the moral law is of no use or obligation, but that faith alone is necessary to salvation. The sect of Antinomians originated with John Agricola, in Germany, about the year 1535. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Antinomians; opposed to the doctrine that the moral law is obligatory. |
| antinomianism | noun (n.) The tenets or practice of Antinomians. |
| antinomist | noun (n.) An Antinomian. |
| antinomy | noun (n.) Opposition of one law or rule to another law or rule. |
| | noun (n.) An opposing law or rule of any kind. |
| | noun (n.) A contradiction or incompatibility of thought or language; -- in the Kantian philosophy, such a contradiction as arises from the attempt to apply to the ideas of the reason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience. |
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (antin) - Words That Begins with antin:
| antinational | adjective (a.) Antagonistic to one's country or nation, or to a national government. |
| antinephritic | noun (n.) An antinephritic remedy. |
| | adjective (a.) Counteracting, or deemed of use in, diseases of the kidneys. |
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (anti) - Words That Begins with anti:
| antiae | noun (n. pl.) The two projecting feathered angles of the forehead of some birds; the frontal points. |
| antialbumid | noun (n.) A body formed from albumin by pancreatic and gastric digestion. It is convertible into antipeptone. |
| antialbumose | noun (n.) See Albumose. |
| antiaphrodisiac | noun (a. & n.) Same as Antaphrodisiac. |
| antiapoplectic | noun (a. & n.) Same as Antapoplectic. |
| antiar | noun (n.) A Virulent poison prepared in Java from the gum resin of one species of the upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria). |
| antiarin | noun (n.) A poisonous principle obtained from antiar. |
| antiasthmatic | noun (a. & n.) Same as Antasthmatic. |
| antiattrition | noun (n.) Anything to prevent the effects of friction, esp. a compound lubricant for machinery, etc., often consisting of plumbago, with some greasy material; antifriction grease. |
| antibacchius | noun (n.) A foot of three syllables, the first two long, and the last short (#). |
| antibillous | adjective (a.) Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness. |
| antibrachial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the antibrachium, or forearm. |
| antibrachium | noun (n.) That part of the fore limb between the brachium and the carpus; the forearm. |
| antibromic | noun (n.) An agent that destroys offensive smells; a deodorizer. |
| antiburgher | noun (n.) One who seceded from the Burghers (1747), deeming it improper to take the Burgess oath. |
| antic | noun (n.) A buffoon or merry-andrew; one that practices odd gesticulations; the Fool of the old play. |
| | noun (n.) An odd imagery, device, or tracery; a fantastic figure. |
| | noun (n.) A grotesque trick; a piece of buffoonery; a caper. |
| | noun (n.) A grotesque representation. |
| | noun (n.) An antimask. |
| | adjective (a.) Old; antique. |
| | adjective (a.) |
| | adjective (a.) Odd; fantastic; fanciful; grotesque; ludicrous. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make appear like a buffoon. |
| | verb (v. i.) To perform antics. |
| anticatarrhal | noun (n.) An anticatarrhal remedy. |
| | adjective (a.) Efficacious against catarrh. |
| anticathode | noun (n.) The part of a vacuum tube opposite the cathode. Upon it the cathode rays impinge. |
| anticausodic | noun (a. & n.) Same as Anticausotic. |
| anticausotic | noun (n.) A remedy for such a fever. |
| | adjective (a.) Good against an inflammatory fever. |
| antichamber | noun (n.) See Antechamber. |
| antichlor | noun (n.) Any substance (but especially sodium hyposulphite) used in removing the excess of chlorine left in paper pulp or stuffs after bleaching. |
| antichrist | noun (n.) A denier or opponent of Christ. Specif.: A great antagonist, person or power, expected to precede Christ's second coming. |
| antichristian | adjective (a.) Opposed to the Christian religion. |
| antichristianism | noun (n.) Alt. of Antichristianity |
| antichristianity | noun (n.) Opposition or contrariety to the Christian religion. |
| antichronical | adjective (a.) Deviating from the proper order of time. |
| antichronism | noun (n.) Deviation from the true order of time; anachronism. |
| antichthon | noun (n.) A hypothetical earth counter to ours, or on the opposite side of the sun. |
| | noun (n.) Inhabitants of opposite hemispheres. |
| anticipant | adjective (a.) Anticipating; expectant; -- with of. |
| anticipating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Anticipate |
| anticipation | noun (n.) The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order. |
| | noun (n.) Previous view or impression of what is to happen; instinctive prevision; foretaste; antepast; as, the anticipation of the joys of heaven. |
| | noun (n.) Hasty notion; intuitive preconception. |
| | noun (n.) The commencing of one or more tones of a chord with or during the chord preceding, forming a momentary discord. |
| anticipative | adjective (a.) Anticipating, or containing anticipation. |
| anticipator | noun (n.) One who anticipates. |
| anticipatory | adjective (a.) Forecasting; of the nature of anticipation. |
| anticivic | noun (n.) Opposed to citizenship. |
| anticivism | noun (n.) Opposition to the body politic of citizens. |
| anticlastic | adjective (a.) Having to opposite curvatures, that is, curved longitudinally in one direction and transversely in the opposite direction, as the surface of a saddle. |
| anticlimax | noun (n.) A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It produces a ridiculous effect. |
| anticlinal | noun (n.) The crest or line in which strata slope or dip in opposite directions. |
| | adjective (a.) Inclining or dipping in opposite directions. See Synclinal. |
| anticlinorium | noun (n.) The upward elevation of the crust of the earth, resulting from a geanticlinal. |
| anticness | noun (n.) The quality of being antic. |
| anticonstitutional | adjective (a.) Opposed to the constitution; unconstitutional. |
| anticontagious | adjective (a.) Opposing or destroying contagion. |
| anticonvulsive | adjective (a.) Good against convulsions. |
| anticor | noun (n.) A dangerous inflammatory swelling of a horse's breast, just opposite the heart. |
| anticous | adjective (a.) Facing toward the axis of the flower, as in the introrse anthers of the water lily. |
| anticyclone | noun (n.) A movement of the atmosphere opposite in character, as regards direction of the wind and distribution of barometric pressure, to that of a cyclone. |
| antidotal | adjective (a.) Having the quality an antidote; fitted to counteract the effects of poison. |
| antidotary | adjective (a.) Antidotal. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ant) - Words That Begins with ant:
| ant | noun (n.) A hymenopterous insect of the Linnaean genus Formica, which is now made a family of several genera; an emmet; a pismire. |
| anta | noun (n.) A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base. |
| antacid | noun (n.) A remedy for acidity of the stomach, as an alkali or absorbent. |
| | adjective (a.) Counteractive of acidity. |
| antacrid | adjective (a.) Corrective of acrimony of the humors. |
| antaean | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Antaeus, a giant athlete slain by Hercules. |
| antagonism | noun (n.) Opposition of action; counteraction or contrariety of things or principles. |
| antagonist | noun (n.) One who contends with another, especially in combat; an adversary; an opponent. |
| | noun (n.) A muscle which acts in opposition to another; as a flexor, which bends a part, is the antagonist of an extensor, which extends it. |
| | noun (n.) A medicine which opposes the action of another medicine or of a poison when absorbed into the blood or tissues. |
| | adjective (a.) Antagonistic; opposing; counteracting; as, antagonist schools of philosophy. |
| antagonistic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Antagonistical |
| antagonistical | adjective (a.) Opposing in combat, combating; contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces. |
| antagonozing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Antagonize |
| antagony | noun (n.) Contest; opposition; antagonism. |
| antalgic | noun (n.) A medicine to alleviate pain; an anodyne. |
| | adjective (a.) Alleviating pain. |
| antalkali | noun (n.) Alt. of Antalkaline |
| antalkaline | noun (n.) Anything that neutralizes, or that counteracts an alkaline tendency in the system. |
| | adjective (a.) Of power to counteract alkalies. |
| antambulacral | adjective (a.) Away from the ambulacral region. |
| antanaclasis | noun (n.) A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft. |
| | noun (n.) A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc. |
| antanagoge | noun (n.) A figure which consists in answering the charge of an adversary, by a counter charge. |
| antaphrodisiac | noun (n.) Anything that quells the venereal appetite. |
| | adjective (a.) Capable of blunting the venereal appetite. |
| antaphroditic | noun (n.) An antaphroditic medicine. |
| | adjective (a.) Antaphrodisiac. |
| | adjective (a.) Antisyphilitic. |
| antapoplectic | noun (n.) A medicine used against apoplexy. |
| | adjective (a.) Good against apoplexy. |
| antarchism | noun (n.) Opposition to government in general. |
| antarchist | noun (n.) One who opposes all government. |
| antarchistic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Antarchistical |
| antarchistical | adjective (a.) Opposed to all human government. |
| antarctic | adjective (a.) Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23¡ 28/. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc. |
| antares | noun (n.) The principal star in Scorpio: -- called also the Scorpion's Heart. |
| antarthritic | noun (n.) A remedy against gout. |
| | adjective (a.) Counteracting or alleviating gout. |
| antasthmatic | noun (n.) A remedy for asthma. |
| | adjective (a.) Opposing, or fitted to relieve, asthma. |
| ante | noun (n.) Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins. |
| | verb (v. t. & i.) To put up (an ante). |
| anteact | noun (n.) A preceding act. |
| anteal | adjective (a.) Being before, or in front. |
| antecedaneous | adjective (a.) Antecedent; preceding in time. |
| antecedence | noun (n.) The act or state of going before in time; precedence. |
| | noun (n.) An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation. |
| antecedency | noun (n.) The state or condition of being antecedent; priority. |
| antecedent | noun (n.) That which goes before in time; that which precedes. |
| | noun (n.) One who precedes or goes in front. |
| | noun (n.) The earlier events of one's life; previous principles, conduct, course, history. |
| | noun (n.) The noun to which a relative refers; as, in the sentence "Solomon was the prince who built the temple," prince is the antecedent of who. |
| | noun (n.) The first or conditional part of a hypothetical proposition; as, If the earth is fixed, the sun must move. |
| | noun (n.) The first of the two propositions which constitute an enthymeme or contracted syllogism; as, Every man is mortal; therefore the king must die. |
| | noun (n.) The first of the two terms of a ratio; the first or third of the four terms of a proportion. In the ratio a:b, a is the antecedent, and b the consequent. |
| | adjective (a.) Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause. |
| | adjective (a.) Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability. |
| antecessor | noun (n.) One who goes before; a predecessor. |
| | noun (n.) An ancestor; a progenitor. |
| antechamber | noun (n.) A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby. |
| | noun (n.) A space viewed as the outer chamber or the entrance to an interior part. |
| antechapel | noun (n.) The outer part of the west end of a collegiate or other chapel. |
| antecians | noun (n. pl.) See Ant/cians. |
| antecommunion | noun (n.) A name given to that part of the Anglican liturgy for the communion, which precedes the consecration of the elements. |
| antecursor | noun (n.) A forerunner; a precursor. |
| antedate | noun (n.) Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date. |
| | noun (n.) Anticipation. |
| | verb (v. t.) To date before the true time; to assign to an earlier date; thus, to antedate a deed or a bond is to give it a date anterior to the true time of its execution. |
| | verb (v. t.) To precede in time. |
| | verb (v. t.) To anticipate; to make before the true time. |
| antedating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Antedate |
| antediluvial | adjective (a.) Before the flood, or Deluge, in Noah's time. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ANTƯNOUS:
English Words which starts with 'ant' and ends with 'ous':
| antenniferous | adjective (a.) Bearing or having antennae. |
| antheriferous | adjective (a.) Producing anthers, as plants. |
| | adjective (a.) Supporting anthers, as a part of a flower. |
| anthocarpous | adjective (a.) Having some portion of the floral envelopes attached to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the pineapple. |
| anthophagous | adjective (a.) Eating flowers; -- said of certain insects. |
| anthophorous | adjective (a.) Flower bearing; supporting the flower. |
| anthraciferous | adjective (a.) Yielding anthracite; as, anthraciferous strata. |
| anthropomorphous | adjective (a.) Having the figure of, or resemblance to, a man; as, an anthropomorphous plant. |
| anthropophagous | adjective (a.) Feeding on human flesh; cannibal. |
| antidromous | adjective (a.) Changing the direction in the spiral sequence of leaves on a stem. |
| antilogous | adjective (a.) Of the contrary name or character; -- opposed to analogous. |
| antimonious | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, antimony; -- said of those compounds of antimony in which this element has an equivalence next lower than the highest; as, antimonious acid. |
| antipathous | adjective (a.) Having a natural contrariety; adverse; antipathetic. |
| antipetalous | adjective (a.) Standing before a petal, as a stamen. |
| antisepalous | adjective (a.) Standing before a sepal, or calyx leaf. |
| antistrumous | adjective (a.) Good against scrofulous disorders. |
| antitropous | adjective (a.) At the extremity most remote from the hilum, as the embryo, or inverted with respect to the seed, as the radicle. |
| antitypous | adjective (a.) Resisting blows; hard. |
| antivariolous | adjective (a.) Preventing the contagion of smallpox. |
| anthophilous | adjective (a.) Lit., fond of flowers; hence, feeding upon, or living among, flowers. |
English Words which starts with 'an' and ends with 'us':
| anacanthous | adjective (a.) Spineless, as certain fishes. |
| anacardiaceous | adjective (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, a family, or order, of plants of which the cashew tree is the type, and the species of sumac are well known examples. |
| anadromous | adjective (a.) Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc. |
| | adjective (a.) Tending upwards; -- said of terns in which the lowest secondary segments are on the upper side of the branch of the central stem. |
| analogous | adjective (a.) Having analogy; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or proportion; -- often followed by to. |
| anandrous | adjective (a.) Destitute of stamens, as certain female flowers. |
| anantherous | adjective (a.) Destitute of anthers. |
| ananthous | adjective (a.) Destitute of flowers; flowerless. |
| anaptychus | noun (n.) One of a pair of shelly plates found in some cephalopods, as the ammonites. |
| anarthropodous | adjective (a.) Having no jointed legs; pertaining to Anarthropoda. |
| anarthrous | adjective (a.) Used without the article; as, an anarthrous substantive. |
| | adjective (a.) Without joints, or having the joints indistinct, as some insects. |
| anasarcous | adjective (a.) Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical. |
| anatiferous | adjective (a.) Producing ducks; -- applied to Anatifae, under the absurd notion of their turning into ducks or geese. See Barnacle. |
| anatropous | adjective (a.) Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to orthotropous. |
| ancipitous | adjective (a.) Two-edged instead of round; -- said of certain flattened stems, as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves. |
| anconeus | noun (n.) A muscle of the elbow and forearm. |
| andropetalous | adjective (a.) Produced by the conversion of the stamens into petals, as double flowers, like the garden ranunculus. |
| androphagous | adjective (a.) Anthropophagous. |
| androtomous | adjective (a.) Having the filaments of the stamens divided into two parts. |
| anelectrotonus | noun (n.) The condition of decreased irritability of a nerve in the region of the positive electrode or anode on the passage of a current of electricity through it. |
| anemorphilous | adjective (a.) Fertilized by the agency of the wind; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by the wind; wind-Fertilized. |
| anencephalous | adjective (a.) Without a brain; brainless. |
| anenterous | adjective (a.) Destitute of a stomach or an intestine. |
| anfractuous | adjective (a.) Winding; full of windings and turnings; sinuous; tortuous; as, the anfractuous spires of a born. |
| angelus | noun (n.) A form of devotion in which three Ave Marias are repeated. It is said at morning, noon, and evening, at the sound of a bell. |
| | noun (n.) The Angelus bell. |
| angiocarpous | adjective (a.) Having fruit inclosed within a covering that does not form a part of itself; as, the filbert covered by its husk, or the acorn seated in its cupule. |
| | adjective (a.) Having the seeds or spores covered, as in certain lichens. |
| angiomonospermous | adjective (a.) Producing one seed only in a seed pod. |
| angiospermatous | adjective (a.) Same as Angiospermous. |
| angiospermous | adjective (a.) Having seeds inclosed in a pod or other pericarp. |
| angiosporous | adjective (a.) Having spores contained in cells or thecae, as in the case of some fungi. |
| angiostomous | adjective (a.) With a narrow mouth, as the shell of certain gastropods. |
| anguineous | adjective (a.) Snakelike. |
| angulous | adjective (a.) Angular; having corners; hooked. |
| angustifolious | adjective (a.) Having narrow leaves. |
| anhelous | adjective (a.) Short of breath; panting. |
| anhistous | adjective (a.) Without definite structure; as, an anhistous membrane. |
| anhydrous | adjective (a.) Destitute of water; as, anhydrous salts or acids. |
| animous | adjective (a.) Full of spirit; hot; vehement; resolute. |
| animus | noun (n.) Animating spirit; intention; temper. |
| anisodactylous | adjective (a.) Characterized by unequal toes, three turned forward and one backward, as in most passerine birds. |
| anisomerous | adjective (a.) Having the number of floral organs unequal, as four petals and six stamens. |
| anisopetalous | adjective (a.) Having unequal petals. |
| anisophyllous | adjective (a.) Having unequal leaves. |
| anisotropous | adjective (a.) Anisotropic. |
| annelidous | adjective (a.) Of the nature of an annelid. |
| annoyous | adjective (a.) Troublesome; annoying. |
| annulus | noun (n.) A ring; a ringlike part or space. |
| | noun (n.) A space contained between the circumferences of two circles, one within the other. |
| | noun (n.) The solid formed by a circle revolving around a line which is the plane of the circle but does not cut it. |
| | noun (n.) Ring-shaped structures or markings, found in, or upon, various animals. |
| anomaloflorous | adjective (a.) Having anomalous flowers. |
| anomalous | adjective (a.) Deviating from a general rule, method, or analogy; abnormal; irregular; as, an anomalous proceeding. |
| anomophyllous | adjective (a.) Having leaves irregularly placed. |
| anonaceous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the order of plants including the soursop, custard apple, etc. |
| anonymous | adjective (a.) Nameless; of unknown name; also, of unknown or unavowed authorship; as, an anonymous benefactor; an anonymous pamphlet or letter. |
| anourous | adjective (a.) See Anurous. |
| anserous | adjective (a.) Resembling a goose; silly; simple. |
| anthrenus | noun (n.) A genus of small beetles, several of which, in the larval state, are very destructive to woolen goods, fur, etc. The common "museum pest" is A. varius; the carpet beetle is A. scrophulariae. The larvae are commonly confounded with moths. |
| antitragus | noun (n.) A prominence on the lower posterior portion of the concha of the external ear, opposite the tragus. See Ear. |
| anurous | adjective (a.) Destitute of a tail, as the frogs and toads. |
| anus | noun (n.) The posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through which the excrements are expelled. |
| anxious | adjective (a.) Full of anxiety or disquietude; greatly concerned or solicitous, esp. respecting something future or unknown; being in painful suspense; -- applied to persons; as, anxious for the issue of a battle. |
| | adjective (a.) Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying; -- applied to things; as, anxious labor. |
| | adjective (a.) Earnestly desirous; as, anxious to please. |
| androcephalous | adjective (a.) Having a human head (upon an animal's body), as the Egyptian sphinx. |
| androdioecious | adjective (a.) Alt. of -diecious |
| ankus | noun (n.) An elephant goad with a sharp spike and hook, resembling a short-handled boat hook. |
