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- abirritative — to make less irritable; soothe.
- abjudication — (rare) Rejection by judicial sentence.
- abligurition — Prodigal expense for food.
- ablutophobia — Pathological fear of washing or bathing.
- abolitionary — Relating to or favoring abolition.
- abolitionism — the principle or policy of abolition, especially of slavery of blacks in the U.S.
- abolitionist — An abolitionist is someone who campaigns for the abolition of a particular system or practice.
- abolitionize — (esp. prior to the Civil War) to convert (persons, a region, a state, etc.) to abolitionism.
- abominations — Plural form of abomination.
- aboriginalia — objects from Aboriginal culture used as decorations, esp when they produce a distorted, sentimental view of Aborigines and Aboriginal history
- aboriginally — of, relating to, or typical of aborigines: aboriginal customs.
- abortionists — Plural form of abortionist.
- abortiveness — imperfect development; rudimentary nature
- above ground — not underground
- abracadabras — Plural form of abracadabra.
- abrasiveness — any material or substance used for grinding, polishing, etc., as emery, pumice, or sandpaper.
- abridgements — Plural form of abridgement.
- absentminded — so lost in thought that one does not realize what one is doing, what is happening, etc.; preoccupied to the extent of being unaware of one's immediate surroundings.
- absinthiated — containing wormwood
- absoluteness — the quality of being absolute
- absolutistic — relating to absolutism or absolutists
- absorptional — Relating to absorption.
- absorptivity — a measure of the ability of a material to absorb radiation, equal to the internal absorptance of a homogeneous layer of the material under conditions in which the path of the radiation has unit length and the boundaries of the layer have no influence
- absquatulate — to leave; decamp
- abstemiously — sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet.
- abstract art — non-representational art
- abstractable — able to be abstracted
- abstractedly — lost in thought; deeply engrossed or preoccupied.
- abstractions — Plural form of abstraction.
- abstractness — the quality of being abstract as opposed to concrete
- abstruseness — hard to understand; recondite; esoteric: abstruse theories.
- abu al-qāsim — (L. name Albucasis) 936?-1013?; Arab surgeon & medical encyclopedist, in Spain
- abyssal zone — the ecological zone along the deep ocean floor between the bathyal and hadal zones
- academically — in relation to an academy
- academicians — Plural form of academician.
- acanthaceous — of or relating to the Acanthaceae, a mainly tropical and subtropical family of flowering plants that includes the acanthus
- acatalectics — Plural form of acatalectic.
- accelerating — Present participle of accelerate.
- acceleration — The acceleration of a process or change is the fact that it is getting faster and faster.
- accelerative — of, causing, or increasing acceleration
- accelerators — Plural form of accelerator.
- acceleratory — Accelerative.
- accelerogram — a graphic record in chart form, produced by an accelerograph in response to seismic ground motions.
- accentuality — the quality of being characterized by accent or stress
- accentuating — to give emphasis or prominence to.
- accentuation — an act or instance of accentuating.
- acceptations — Plural form of acceptation.
- access point — the hub that links wireless devices to a network or to the internet
- access radio — radio programmes made by the general public as distinguished from those made by professional broadcasters
- access visit — a visit that a divorced parent makes to see a child who does not live with him or her