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- amortized — Finance. to liquidate or extinguish (a mortgage, debt, or other obligation), especially by periodic payments to the creditor or to a sinking fund. to write off a cost of (an asset) gradually.
- amphipods — Plural form of amphipod.
- amyloidal — resembling an amyloid; starch-like
- anacondas — Plural form of anaconda.
- anandrous — (of flowers) having no stamens
- and found — with room and board in addition to wages
- and so on — You use and so on or and so forth at the end of a list to indicate that there are other items that you could also mention.
- andamento — an extended fugue subject.
- andantino — (to be performed) slightly faster, or slightly more slowly, than andante
- andorra-i — (language) A parallel logic programming language with the OR-parallelism of Aurora and the AND-parallelism of Parlog.
- andouille — a spicy smoked pork sausage with a blackish skin
- andragogy — the methods or techniques used to teach adults: Many educators believe that the principles of andragogy, as advanced by Malcolm Knowles, have great relevance to adult education; others are not so certain.
- androcles — (in Roman legend) a slave whose life was spared in the arena by a lion from whose paw he had once extracted a thorn
- androgens — Plural form of androgen.
- androgeus — a son of Minos and Pasiphaë who fell victim to Athenian King Aegeus: in revenge, Minos waged war on the Athenians and forced them to send a tribute of seven maidens and seven youths to the Minotaur every nine years.
- androgyne — an androgynous plant or animal
- androgyny — Androgyny is the state of being neither distinctly masculine nor distinctly feminine.
- androides — Dated form of android.
- andrology — the branch of medicine concerned with diseases in men, esp of the reproductive organs
- andromeda — the daughter of Cassiopeia and wife of Perseus, who saved her from a sea monster
- androsace — any plant of the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having basal leaves and white or reddish flowers.
- anecdotal — Anecdotal evidence is based on individual accounts, rather than on reliable research or statistics, and so may not be valid.
- anecdotes — a short account of a particular incident or event, especially of an interesting or amusing nature.
- anecdotic — anecdotal
- anecdoton — (Grecian) alternative spelling of anecdote.
- anecdotum — (rare, Latinate) alternative spelling of anecdote.
- aneuploid — (of polyploid cells or organisms) having a chromosome number that is not an exact multiple of the haploid number, caused by one chromosome set being incomplete
- angelhood — the state of being an angel
- anhedonia — the inability to feel or experience pleasure
- anhedonic — unable to feel or experience pleasure
- anhydrous — containing no water, esp no water of crystallization
- ankylosed — Simple past tense and past participle of ankylose.
- annointed — Simple past tense and past participle of annoint.
- annotated — supplied with critical or explanatory notes
- announced — Simple past tense and past participle of announce.
- annoyedly — With annoyance.
- anode ray — a stream of positive ions traveling from a metallic anode to the cathode in a gas-discharge tube.
- anodizing — Present participle of anodize.
- anodontia — the congenital absence of teeth
- anthodium — the flower head or bracts of a composite plant, as in daisies or asters
- anthropod — Misspelling of arthropod.
- anticodon — a three-base unit of genetic code contained in transfer RNA that corresponds to a codon region on messenger RNA, involved in genetic translation
- antidoron — consecrated bread
- antidotal — a medicine or other remedy for counteracting the effects of poison, disease, etc.
- antidotes — Plural form of antidote.
- antinodal — the region of maximum amplitude between two adjacent nodes in a standing wave.
- antinodes — Plural form of antinode.
- antipodal — of or relating to diametrically opposite points on the earth's surface
- antipodes — People sometimes refer to Australia and New Zealand as the Antipodes.
- antiworld — a hypothetical or supposed world or universe composed of antimatter