Name Report For First Name AME:

AME

First name AME's origin is German. AME means "eagle". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with AME below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of ame.(Brown names are of the same origin (German) with AME and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with AME - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming AME

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES AME AS A WHOLE:

amethyst pamela alamea kamea ayame kameko camelia kwame gameel lameh yameen zameel damek amen amenhotep amenophis amen-ra agamedes agamemnon ameretat necuametl alameda ameenah amelia amelie americus ametta amette came camella camellia camelot cameo cameron cameryn eskame jamee jameelah jamelia jamey kamelia kameryn kiamesha tamera amell amery ames amet amett amey bamey camelon camero camey dameon damerae eames fitzjames hamelstun jameel jamel james jameson kameron mohamed mohamet palamedes ramey ameena ameera damen hamelatun beamer sameer kameel ameer ameen kameo abame sameera sameeha lamees jameela hameeda ameerah sameh seamere amedee clamedeus

NAMES RHYMING WITH AME (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (me) - Names That Ends with me:

eurynome vromme jerome ioachime esme mayme teme ygeme bartolome calibome graeme grimme guillaume harkahome home hume jaime jakome jayme keme maxime storme tahkeome tahmelapachme carme salome welcome fayme byme

NAMES RHYMING WITH AME (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (am) - Names That Begins with am:

amabella amabelle amachi amad amada amadahy amadeo amadi amado amaethon amaia amal amala amalasand amalasanda amald amalda amalea amalia amalie amall amalthea amalthia amalur amalure aman amanda amani amanishakhete amany amaor amapola amar amara amarande amaranta amarante amarantha amaravati amare amari amariah amarii amaris amarisa amarise amarissa amarri amaru amaryah amaryllis amasa amata amatullah amaud amaury amayah amayeta amazu amba amber amberlee amberley amberly amberlyn amberlynn ambi ambika amblaoibh ambra ambre ambreen ambrocio ambros ambrose ambrosi ambrosia ambrosine ambrosio ambrosius ambrotosa ambrus ambry amd amdt amhlaoibh amhold amhuinn ami amia amichai amid amie amiel amiera amikam amil amin amina aminah

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH AME:

First Names which starts with 'a' and ends with 'e':

aase abarrane abbie abbigale abebe abegayle abeque able ace aceline adalene adalie adalwine adare addaneye addergoole addie ade adelaide adele adelheide adeline adelise adelle adelyte adene adenne adette adibe adilene adine adne adorlee adriane adrianne adrie adriene adrienne aeccestane aedre aefre aegelmaere aelfdane aelfdene aelfwine aelle aerlene aescwine aesoburne aethe aethelhere aethelmaere aethelwine aethelwyne afrodille agate agathe agaue agave age aggie aghamore aglarale agnese agurtzane agustine ahane ahave ahelie aherne ahote aibne aife aiglentine ailbe ailbhe aileene ailise ailse ailsie aimee aine ainmire ainslee ainslie aintzane airdsgainne aithne ajanae akibe akintunde akinwole akule al-fadee al-hadiye alacoque alaine alane alarice alastrine

English Words Rhyming AME

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES AME AS A WHOLE:

additamentnoun (n.) An addition, or a thing added.

afforciamentnoun (n.) See Afforcement.

aforenamedadjective (a.) Named before.

aftergamenoun (n.) A second game; hence, a subsequent scheme or expedient.

amebeanadjective (a.) See Am/bean.

ameernoun (n.) Alt. of Amir

amelcornnoun (n.) A variety of wheat from which starch is produced; -- called also French rice.

ameliorableadjective (a.) Capable of being ameliorated.

amelioratingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ameliorate

ameliorationnoun (n.) The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration.

ameliorativeadjective (a.) Tending to ameliorate; producing amelioration or improvement; as, ameliorative remedies, efforts.

amelioratornoun (n.) One who ameliorates.

amennoun (interj., adv., & n.) An expression used at the end of prayers, and meaning, So be it. At the end of a creed, it is a solemn asseveration of belief. When it introduces a declaration, it is equivalent to truly, verily.
 verb (v. t.) To say Amen to; to sanction fully.

amenabilitynoun (n.) The quality of being amenable; amenableness.

amenableadjective (a.) Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband.
 adjective (a.) Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law.
 adjective (a.) Liable to punishment, a charge, a claim, etc.
 adjective (a.) Willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable.

amenablenessnoun (n.) The quality or state of being amenable; liability to answer charges; answerableness.

amenancenoun (n.) Behavior; bearing.

amendingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Amend

amendableadjective (a.) Capable of being amended; as, an amendable writ or error.

amendatoryadjective (a.) Supplying amendment; corrective; emendatory.

amendenoun (n.) A pecuniary punishment or fine; a reparation or recantation.

amendernoun (n.) One who amends.

amendfuladjective (a.) Much improving.

amendmentnoun (n.) An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
 noun (n.) In public bodies; Any alternation made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion by adding, changing, substituting, or omitting.
 noun (n.) Correction of an error in a writ or process.

amendsnoun (n. sing. & pl.) Compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation.

amenitynoun (n.) The quality of being pleasant or agreeable, whether in respect to situation, climate, manners, or disposition; pleasantness; civility; suavity; gentleness.

amenorrhoeanoun (n.) Retention or suppression of the menstrual discharge.

amenorrhoealadjective (a.) Pertaining to amenorrhoea.

amentnoun (n.) A species of inflorescence; a catkin.

amentaceousadjective (a.) Resembling, or consisting of, an ament or aments; as, the chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence.
 adjective (a.) Bearing aments; having flowers arranged in aments; as, amentaceous plants.

amentianoun (n.) Imbecility; total want of understanding.

amentiferousadjective (a.) Bearing catkins.

amentiformadjective (a.) Shaped like a catkin.

amentumnoun (n.) Same as Ament.

amercingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Amerce

amerceableadjective (a.) Liable to be amerced.

amercementnoun (n.) The infliction of a penalty at the discretion of the court; also, a mulct or penalty thus imposed. It differs from a fine,in that the latter is, or was originally, a fixed and certain sum prescribed by statue for an offense; but an amercement is arbitrary. Hence, the act or practice of affeering. [See Affeer.]

amercernoun (n.) One who amerces.

amerciamentnoun (n.) Same as Amercement.

americannoun (n.) A native of America; -- originally applied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America, and especially to the citizens of the United States.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the United States.

americanismnoun (n.) Attachment to the United States.
 noun (n.) A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea.
 noun (n.) A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.

americanizationnoun (n.) The process of Americanizing.

americanizingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Americanize

amessnoun (n.) Amice, a hood or cape. See 2d Amice.

ametabolanoun (n. pl.) A group of insects which do not undergo any metamorphosis.

ametabolianadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to insects that do undergo any metamorphosis.

ametabolicadjective (a.) Alt. of Ametabolous

ametabolousadjective (a.) Not undergoing any metamorphosis; as, ametabolic insects.

amethodistnoun (n.) One without method; a quack.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH AME (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (me) - English Words That Ends with me:


abimenoun (n.) Alt. of Abyme

abymenoun (n.) A abyss.

academenoun (n.) An academy.

acmenoun (n.) The top or highest point; the culmination.
 noun (n.) The crisis or height of a disease.
 noun (n.) Mature age; full bloom of life.

actinosomenoun (n.) The entire body of a coelenterate.

actinostomenoun (n.) The mouth or anterior opening of a coelenterate animal.

adventuresomeadjective (a.) Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome.

almenoun (n.) Alt. of Almeh

amphicomenoun (n.) A kind of figured stone, rugged and beset with eminences, anciently used in divination.

analcimenoun (n.) A white or flesh-red mineral, of the zeolite family, occurring in isometric crystals. By friction, it acquires a weak electricity; hence its name.

ancomenoun (n.) A small ulcerous swelling, coming suddenly; also, a whitlow.

animenoun (n.) A resin exuding from a tropical American tree (Hymenaea courbaril), and much used by varnish makers.
 adjective (a.) Of a different tincture from the animal itself; -- said of the eyes of a rapacious animal.

apaumenoun (n.) See Appaume.

apodemenoun (n.) One of the processes of the shell which project inwards and unite with one another, in the thorax of many Crustacea.

apostemenoun (n.) An abscess; a swelling filled with purulent matter.

apostumenoun (n.) See Aposteme.

apotomenoun (n.) The difference between two quantities commensurable only in power, as between Ã2 and 1, or between the diagonal and side of a square.
 noun (n.) The remaining part of a whole tone after a smaller semitone has been deducted from it; a major semitone.

appaumenoun (n.) A hand open and extended so as to show the palm.

auriflammenoun (n.) See Oriflamme.

awesomeadjective (a.) Causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight.
 adjective (a.) Expressive of awe or terror.

awsomeadjective (a.) Same as Awesome.

aymenoun (n.) The utterance of the ejaculation "Ay me !" [Obs.] See Ay, interj.

azymenoun (n.) Unleavened bread.

aerodromenoun (n.) A shed for housing an airship or aeroplane.
 noun (n.) A ground or field, esp. one equipped with housing and other facilities, used for flying purposes.

arthrotomenoun (n.) A strong scalpel used in the dissection of joints.

baenosomenoun (n.) The thorax of Arthropods.

bedtimenoun (n.) The time to go to bed.

beldamenoun (n.) Grandmother; -- corresponding to belsire.
 noun (n.) An old woman in general; especially, an ugly old woman; a hag.

bermenoun (n.) A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch.
 noun (n.) A ledge at the bottom of a bank or cutting, to catch earth that may roll down the slope, or to strengthen the bank.

birdlimenoun (n.) An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it. When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares.
 verb (v. t.) To smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to insnare.

biremenoun (n.) An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars.

bitumenoun (n.) Bitumen.

bleymenoun (n.) An inflammation in the foot of a horse, between the sole and the bone.

blithesomeadjective (a.) Cheery; gay; merry.

bothersomeadjective (a.) Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.

brachydomenoun (n.) A dome parallel to the shorter lateral axis. See Dome.

bramenoun (n.) Sharp passion; vexation.

bremeadjective (a.) Fierce; sharp; severe; cruel.
 adjective (a.) Famous; renowned; well known.

brightsomeadjective (a.) Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant.

bromenoun (n.) See Bromine.

bronchotomenoun (n.) An instrument for cutting into the bronchial tubes.

brooklimenoun (n.) A plant (Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is V. Americana.

brumenoun (n.) Mist; fog; vapors.

burdensomeadjective (a.) Grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive.

baumeadjective (a.) Designating or conforming to either of the scales used by the French chemist Antoine Baume in the graduation of his hydrometers; of or relating to Baume's scales or hydrometers. There are two Baume hydrometers. One, which is used with liquids heavier than water, sinks to 0¡ in pure water, and to 15¡ in a 15 per cent salt solution; the other, for liquids lighter than water, sinks to 0¡ in a 10 per cent salt solution and to 10¡ in pure water. In both cases the graduation, based on the distance between these fundamental points, is continued along the stem as far as desired.

camenoun (n.) A slender rod of cast lead, with or without grooves, used, in casements and stained-glass windows, to hold together the panes or pieces of glass.
  () imp. of Come.
  (imp.) of Come

catadromenoun (n.) A race course.
 noun (n.) A machine for raising or lowering heavy weights.

centigrammenoun (n.) The hundredth part of a gram; a weight equal to .15432 of a grain. See Gram.

centimenoun (n.) The hundredth part of a franc; a small French copper coin and money of account.

centrosomenoun (n.) A peculiar rounded body lying near the nucleus of a cell. It is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the machinery of cell division is organized.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH AME (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (am) - Words That Begins with am:


amabilitynoun (n.) Lovableness.

amacraticadjective (a.) Amasthenic.

amadavatnoun (n.) The strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill.

amadounoun (n.) A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter.

amainnoun (n.) With might; with full force; vigorously; violently; exceedingly.
 noun (n.) At full speed; in great haste; also, at once.
 verb (v. t.) To lower, as a sail, a yard, etc.
 verb (v. i.) To lower the topsail, in token of surrender; to yield.

amalgamnoun (n.) An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; as, an amalgam of tin, bismuth, etc.
 noun (n.) A mixture or compound of different things.
 noun (n.) A native compound of mercury and silver.
 verb (v. t. / i.) To amalgamate.

amalgamanoun (n.) Same as Amalgam.

amalgamatingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Amalgamate

amalgamateadjective (a.) Alt. of Amalgamated
 verb (v. t.) To compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to unite, combine, or alloy with mercury.
 verb (v. t.) To mix, so as to make a uniform compound; to unite or combine; as, to amalgamate two races; to amalgamate one race with another.
 verb (v. i.) To unite in an amalgam; to blend with another metal, as quicksilver.
 verb (v. i.) To coalesce, as a result of growth; to combine into a uniform whole; to blend; as, two organs or parts amalgamate.

amalgamatedadjective (a.) Coalesced; united; combined.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Amalgamate

amalgamationnoun (n.) The act or operation of compounding mercury with another metal; -- applied particularly to the process of separating gold and silver from their ores by mixing them with mercury.
 noun (n.) The mixing or blending of different elements, races, societies, etc.; also, the result of such combination or blending; a homogeneous union.

amalgamativeadjective (a.) Characterized by amalgamation.

amalgamatornoun (n.) One who, or that which, amalgamates. Specifically: A machine for separating precious metals from earthy particles by bringing them in contact with a body of mercury with which they form an amalgam.

amandinenoun (n.) The vegetable casein of almonds.
 noun (n.) A kind of cold cream prepared from almonds, for chapped hands, etc.

amanitinenoun (n.) The poisonous principle of some fungi.

amanuensisnoun (n.) A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.

amaracusnoun (n.) A fragrant flower.

amarantnoun (n.) Amaranth, 1.

amarantaceousadjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the amaranth is the type.

amaranthnoun (n.) An imaginary flower supposed never to fade.
 noun (n.) A genus of ornamental annual plants (Amaranthus) of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers.
 noun (n.) A color inclining to purple.

amaranthineadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to amaranth.
 adjective (a.) Unfading, as the poetic amaranth; undying.
 adjective (a.) Of a purplish color.

amaranthusnoun (n.) Alt. of Amarantus

amarantusnoun (n.) Same as Amaranth.

amarinenoun (n.) A characteristic crystalline substance, obtained from oil of bitter almonds.

amaritudenoun (n.) Bitterness.

amaryllidaceousadjective (a.) Alt. of Amaryllideous

amaryllideousadjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants differing from the lily family chiefly in having the ovary below the /etals. The narcissus and daffodil are members of this family.

amaryllisnoun (n.) A pastoral sweetheart.
 noun (n.) A family of plants much esteemed for their beauty, including the narcissus, jonquil, daffodil, agave, and others.
 noun (n.) A genus of the same family, including the Belladonna lily.

amassingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Amass

amassnoun (n.) A mass; a heap.
 verb (v. t.) To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases.

amassableadjective (a.) Capable of being amassed.

amassernoun (n.) One who amasses.

amassettenoun (n.) An instrument of horn used for collecting painters' colors on the stone in the process of grinding.

amassmentnoun (n.) An amassing; a heap collected; a large quantity or number brought together; an accumulation.

amasthenicadjective (a.) Uniting the chemical rays of light into one focus, as a certain kind of lens; amacratic.

amateurnoun (n.) A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally.

amateurishadjective (a.) In the style of an amateur; superficial or defective like the work of an amateur.

amateurismnoun (n.) The practice, habit, or work of an amateur.

amateurshipnoun (n.) The quality or character of an amateur.

amativeadjective (a.) Full of love; amatory.

amativenessnoun (n.) The faculty supposed to influence sexual desire; propensity to love.

amatorialadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a lover or to love making; amatory; as, amatorial verses.

amatorianadjective (a.) Amatory.

amatoriousadjective (a.) Amatory.

amatoryadjective (a.) Pertaining to, producing, or expressing, sexual love; as, amatory potions.

amaurosisnoun (n.) A loss or decay of sight, from loss of power in the optic nerve, without any perceptible external change in the eye; -- called also gutta serena, the "drop serene" of Milton.

amauroticadjective (a.) Affected with amaurosis; having the characteristics of amaurosis.

amazingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Amaze
 adjective (a.) Causing amazement; very wonderful; as, amazing grace.

amazednessnoun (n.) The state of being amazed, or confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder.

amazefuladjective (a.) Full of amazement.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH AME:

English Words which starts with 'a' and ends with 'e':

abaisancenoun (n.) Obeisance.

abalonenoun (n.) A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.

abandoneenoun (n.) One to whom anything is legally abandoned.

abaseadjective (a.) To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.
 adjective (a.) To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade.

abatableadjective (a.) Capable of being abated; as, an abatable writ or nuisance.

abatenoun (n.) Abatement.
 verb (v. t.) To beat down; to overthrow.
 verb (v. t.) To bring down or reduce from a higher to a lower state, number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; to cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope.
 verb (v. t.) To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price.
 verb (v. t.) To blunt.
 verb (v. t.) To reduce in estimation; to deprive.
 verb (v. t.) To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ.
 verb (v. t.) To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets.
 verb (v. t.) To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates.
 verb (v. t.) To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates.

abaturenoun (n.) Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them.

abaxileadjective (a.) Away from the axis or central line; eccentric.

abbenoun (n.) The French word answering to the English abbot, the head of an abbey; but commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress.

abbreviatenoun (n.) An abridgment.
 adjective (a.) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.
 adjective (a.) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.
 verb (v. t.) To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken.
 verb (v. t.) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.

abbreviaturenoun (n.) An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form.
 noun (n.) An abridgment; a compendium or abstract.

abderitenoun (n.) An inhabitant of Abdera, in Thrace.

abdicableadjective (a.) Capable of being abdicated.

abdicativeadjective (a.) Causing, or implying, abdication.

abditiveadjective (a.) Having the quality of hiding.

abearancenoun (n.) Behavior.

abelenoun (n.) The white poplar (Populus alba).

abelitenoun (n.) Alt. of Abelonian

aberrancenoun (n.) Alt. of Aberrancy

abeyancenoun (n.) Expectancy; condition of being undetermined.
 noun (n.) Suspension; temporary suppression.

abhominableadjective (a.) Abominable.

abhorrencenoun (n.) Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike.

abhorribleadjective (a.) Detestable.

abidancenoun (n.) The state of abiding; abode; continuance; compliance (with).

abietenenoun (n.) A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California.

abietinenoun (n.) A resinous obtained from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether.

abietitenoun (n.) A substance resembling mannite, found in the needles of the common silver fir of Europe (Abies pectinata).

abirritativeadjective (a.) Characterized by abirritation or debility.

abjunctiveadjective (a.) Exceptional.

ablativeadjective (a.) Taking away or removing.
 adjective (a.) Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away.
  () The ablative case.

ableadjective (a.) To make able; to enable; to strengthen.
 adjective (a.) To vouch for.
 superlative (superl.) Fit; adapted; suitable.
 superlative (superl.) Having sufficient power, strength, force, skill, means, or resources of any kind to accomplish the object; possessed of qualifications rendering competent for some end; competent; qualified; capable; as, an able workman, soldier, seaman, a man able to work; a mind able to reason; a person able to be generous; able to endure pain; able to play on a piano.
 superlative (superl.) Specially: Having intellectual qualifications, or strong mental powers; showing ability or skill; talented; clever; powerful; as, the ablest man in the senate; an able speech.
 superlative (superl.) Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property.

ablegatenoun (n.) A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office.
 verb (v. t.) To send abroad.

abnegativeadjective (a.) Denying; renouncing; negative.

abodancenoun (n.) An omen; a portending.

abodenoun (n.) Act of waiting; delay.
 noun (n.) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.
 noun (n.) Place of continuance, or where one dwells; abiding place; residence; a dwelling; a habitation.
 verb (v. t.) An omen.
 verb (v. t.) To bode; to foreshow.
 verb (v. i.) To be ominous.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Abide
  () pret. of Abide.

abolishableadjective (a.) Capable of being abolished.

abominableadjective (a.) Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.
 adjective (a.) Excessive; large; -- used as an intensive.

aborsiveadjective (a.) Abortive.

aborticidenoun (n.) The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide.

abortivenoun (n.) That which is born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.
 noun (n.) A fruitless effort or issue.
 noun (n.) A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion.
 verb (v.) Produced by abortion; born prematurely; as, an abortive child.
 verb (v.) Made from the skin of a still-born animal; as, abortive vellum.
 verb (v.) Rendering fruitless or ineffectual.
 verb (v.) Coming to naught; failing in its effect; miscarrying; fruitless; unsuccessful; as, an abortive attempt.
 verb (v.) Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc.
 verb (v.) Causing abortion; as, abortive medicines.
 verb (v.) Cutting short; as, abortive treatment of typhoid fever.

abranchiateadjective (a.) Without gills.

abraseadjective (a.) Rubbed smooth.

abrasiveadjective (a.) Producing abrasion.

abrogableadjective (a.) Capable of being abrogated.

abrogateadjective (a.) Abrogated; abolished.
 verb (v. t.) To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or his successor; to repeal; -- applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc.
 verb (v. t.) To put an end to; to do away with.

abrogativeadjective (a.) Tending or designed to abrogate; as, an abrogative law.

abscondencenoun (n.) Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding.

absencenoun (n.) A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence.
 noun (n.) Want; destitution; withdrawal.
 noun (n.) Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind); as, absence of mind.

absenteenoun (n.) One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee.

absinthatenoun (n.) A combination of absinthic acid with a base or positive radical.

absinthenoun (n.) The plant absinthium or common wormwood.
 noun (n.) A strong spirituous liqueur made from wormwood and brandy or alcohol.

absistencenoun (n.) A standing aloof.

absolutenoun (n.) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
 adjective (a.) Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.
 adjective (a.) Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty.
 adjective (a.) Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.
 adjective (a.) Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
 adjective (a.) Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.
 adjective (a.) Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.
 adjective (a.) Authoritative; peremptory.
 adjective (a.) Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.
 adjective (a.) Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.

absolvableadjective (a.) That may be absolved.

absorbableadjective (a.) Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up.

absorptiveadjective (a.) Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe.

abstersivenoun (n.) Something cleansing.
 adjective (a.) Cleansing; purging.

abstinencenoun (n.) The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence.
 noun (n.) The practice of self-denial by depriving one's self of certain kinds of food or drink, especially of meat.

abstractiveadjective (a.) Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature.

abstruseadjective (a.) Concealed or hidden out of the way.
 adjective (a.) Remote from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning.

abundancenoun (n.) An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number.

abusableadjective (a.) That may be abused.

abusagenoun (n.) Abuse.

abusiveadjective (a.) Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.
 adjective (a.) Given to misusing; also, full of abuses.
 adjective (a.) Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow.
 adjective (a.) Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
 adjective (a.) Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating.

acacinenoun (n.) Gum arabic.

acalephaenoun (n. pl.) A group of Coelenterata, including the Medusae or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. Sometimes called sea nettles.

acalycineadjective (a.) Alt. of Acalysinous

acanthineadjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus.

acarineadjective (a.) Of or caused by acari or mites; as, acarine diseases.

acaudateadjective (a.) Tailless.

acaulineadjective (a.) Same as Acaulescent.

acauloseadjective (a.) Alt. of Acaulous

accedencenoun (n.) The act of acceding.

accelerativeadjective (a.) Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening.

accendibleadjective (a.) Capable of being inflamed or kindled; combustible; inflammable.

accentuableadjective (a.) Capable of being accented.

acceptableadjective (a.) Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.

acceptancenoun (n.) The act of accepting; a receiving what is offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; esp., favorable reception; approval; as, the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc.
 noun (n.) State of being accepted; acceptableness.
 noun (n.) An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance.
 noun (n.) The bill itself when accepted.
 noun (n.) An agreeing to terms or proposals by which a bargain is concluded and the parties are bound; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner.
 noun (n.) An agreeing to the action of another, by some act which binds the person in law.
 noun (n.) Meaning; acceptation.

acceptiveadjective (a.) Fit for acceptance.
 adjective (a.) Ready to accept.

accessibleadjective (a.) Easy of access or approach; approachable; as, an accessible town or mountain, an accessible person.
 adjective (a.) Open to the influence of; -- with to.
 adjective (a.) Obtainable; to be got at.

accessiveadjective (a.) Additional.

accidencenoun (n.) The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar.
 noun (n.) The rudiments of any subject.

accidienoun (n.) Sloth; torpor.

accipitrineadjective (a.) Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike.

acclimatableadjective (a.) Capable of being acclimated.

acclimatizableadjective (a.) Capable of being acclimatized.

acclimaturenoun (n.) The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated.

accliveadjective (a.) Acclivous.

accoladenoun (n.) A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.
 noun (n.) A brace used to join two or more staves.

accommodableadjective (a.) That may be accommodated, fitted, or made to agree.

accommodateadjective (a.) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
 verb (v. t.) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
 verb (v. t.) To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.
 verb (v. t.) To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
 verb (v. t.) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.
 verb (v. i.) To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted.

accompanableadjective (a.) Sociable.

accompletiveadjective (a.) Tending to accomplish.

accomplicenoun (n.) A cooperator.
 noun (n.) An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory.

accomplishableadjective (a.) Capable of being accomplished; practicable.

accomptableadjective (a.) See Accountable.

accordableadjective (a.) Agreeing.
 adjective (a.) Reconcilable; in accordance.

accordancenoun (n.) Agreement; harmony; conformity.

accostableadjective (a.) Approachable; affable.

accoucheusenoun (n.) A midwife.