Name Report For First Name ATEN:

ATEN

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

Rhymes with ATEN - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming ATEN

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES ATEN AS A WHOLE:

akhenaten

NAMES RHYMING WITH ATEN (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ten) - Names That Ends with ten:

ashten carsten christen cristen keirsten kiersten kiirsten kirsten kristen payten tristen bitten colten karsten kolten marsten morten nechten osten patten shayten trenten walten westen sebasten croften austen brenten

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

cwen guendolen raven coleen helen hien huyen quyen tien tuyen yen aren essien mekonnen shaheen yameen kadeen arden kailoken nascien bingen evnissyen lairgnen nisien yspaddaden hoben christiansen jorgen joren espen adeben amen moswen braden heikkinen mustanen seppanen valkoinen soren vaden camden fagen girven jurgen bastien evzen hymen owen jurrien kelemen sebestyen kalen joben sen eugen chien dien nguyen nien vien addisen adeen aideen aileen alberteen aleen ambreen anwen ardeen arleen arwen ashleen

NAMES RHYMING WITH ATEN (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ate) - Names That Begins with ate:

ate atelic atemu atepa atera ateret

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

at'eed ata ata'halne' atalan atalanta atalaya atalia atalie atanasia atara atarah athaleyah athalia athalie athamas athan athanasia athanasios athangelos athdar athdara athelstan athelston athelward athemar athena athene atherton athi athilda athmarr athmore athracht atia atif atifa atilda atique atira atisa atiya atkinson atkinsone atl atlanta atlantes atlas atman atmore atol atonia ator atrayu atreides atreus atropes atsu atsukpi attewater attewell attewode atteworthe attheaeldre attie attila attis attkins attmore attor attracta attwell atty atu atum atwater atwell atwood atworth atyhtan

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ATEN:

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

aahan aaralyn aaron aban abarron abban abbotson abbudin abdalrahman abdiraxman abdul-muhaimin abdul-rahman abedabun abeodan abhainn ablendan abooksigun abran abrecan accalon acennan achan acheron ackerman actaeon acteon acwellen adalson adalwen adalwin adalyn adamnan adamson adan addilynn addison addyson adelynn aden adetoun adin adiran adken adkyn adnan adon adoracion adorjan adriaan adrian adrien adrion adron adwin aedon aekerman aesclin aesctun aescwyn aeshan aeson aethelbeorn aethelisdun aethelstan aethelstun aetheston aethretun afton agamemnon agiefan agoston agravain agrican aguistin agustin agyfen ahearn aheawan ahebban aherin ahern ahreddan ahren ahriman aibhlin aidan aidann aiden aidrian aiekin aiken aikin ailean ailein ailen ailin ailison ain airrin aislin

English Words Rhyming ATEN

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES ATEN AS A WHOLE:

accommodatenessnoun (n.) Fitness.

accuratenessnoun (n.) The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.

adequatenessnoun (n.) The quality of being adequate; suitableness; sufficiency; adequacy.

affectionatenessnoun (n.) The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection.

alternatenessnoun (n.) The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns.

antiquatenessnoun (n.) Antiquatedness.

apportionatenessnoun (n.) The quality of being apportioned or in proportion.

appropriatenessnoun (n.) The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness.

articulatenessnoun (n.) Quality of being articulate.

beatenadjective (a.) Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use.
 adjective (a.) Vanquished; conquered; baffled.
 adjective (a.) Exhausted; tired out.
 adjective (a.) Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase.
 adjective (a.) Tried; practiced.
  () of Beat

catenanoun (n.) A chain or series of things connected with each other.

catenarynoun (n.) The curve formed by a rope or chain of uniform density and perfect flexibility, hanging freely between two points of suspension, not in the same vertical line.
 adjective (a.) Alt. of Catenarian

catenarianadjective (a.) Relating to a chain; like a chain; as, a catenary curve.

catenatingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Catenate

catenationnoun (n.) Connection of links or union of parts, as in a chain; a regular or connected series. See Concatenation.

catenulateadjective (a.) Consisting of little links or chains.
 adjective (a.) Chainlike; -- said both or color marks and of indentations when arranged like the links of a chain, as on shells, etc.

cognatenessnoun (n.) The state of being cognate.

commensuratenessnoun (n.) The state or quality of being commensurate.

compassionatenessnoun (n.) The quality or state of being compassionate.

complicatenessnoun (n.) Complexity.

concatenatingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Concatenate

concatenationnoun (n.) A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.

contratenornoun (n.) Counter tenor; contralto.

coordinatenessnoun (n.) The state of being coordinate; equality of rank or authority.

degeneratenessnoun (n.) Degeneracy.

deliberatenessnoun (n.) The quality of being deliberate; calm consideration; circumspection.

delicatenessnoun (n.) The quality of being delicate.

desolatenessnoun (n.) The state of being desolate.

desperatenessnoun (n.) Desperation; virulence.

determinatenessnoun (n.) State of being determinate.

discriminatenessnoun (n.) The state of being discriminated; distinctness.

effeminatenessnoun (n.) The state of being effeminate; unmanly softness.

fortunatenessnoun (n.) The condition or quality of being fortunate; good luck; success; happiness.

immediatenessnoun (n.) The quality or relations of being immediate in manner, place, or time; exemption from second or interventing causes.

immoderatenessnoun (n.) The quality of being immoderate; excess; extravagance.

inanimatenessnoun (n.) The quality or state of being inanimate.

inarticulatenessnoun (n.) The state or quality of being inarticulate.

incatenationnoun (n.) The act of linking together; enchaining.

inconsideratenessnoun (n.) The quality or state of being inconsiderate.

innatenessnoun (n.) The quality of being innate.

insatiatenessnoun (n.) The state of being insatiate.

intemeratenessnoun (n.) The state of being unpolluted; purity.

intemperatenessnoun (n.) The state of being intemperate; excessive indulgence of any appetite or passion; as, intemperateness in eating or drinking.
 noun (n.) Severity of weather; inclemency.

intricatenessnoun (n.) The state or quality of being intricate; intricacy.

inveteratenessnoun (n.) Inveteracy.

latencenoun (n.) Latency.

latencynoun (n.) The state or quality of being latent.

latenessnoun (n.) The state, condition, or quality, of being late; as, the lateness of his arrival; the lateness of the hour; the lateness of the season.

latentadjective (a.) Not visible or apparent; hidden; springs of action.

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


Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ten) - English Words That Ends with ten:


bittenadjective (a.) Terminating abruptly, as if bitten off; premorse.
  (p. p.) of Bite
  () p. p. of Bite.

boughtenadjective (a.) Purchased; not obtained or produced at home.

brightenadjective (a.) To make bright or brighter; to make to shine; to increase the luster of; to give a brighter hue to.
 adjective (a.) To make illustrious, or more distinguished; to add luster or splendor to.
 adjective (a.) To improve or relieve by dispelling gloom or removing that which obscures and darkens; to shed light upon; to make cheerful; as, to brighten one's prospects.
 adjective (a.) To make acute or witty; to enliven.
 verb (v. i.) To grow bright, or more bright; to become less dark or gloomy; to clear up; to become bright or cheerful.

fastenadjective (a.) To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.
 adjective (a.) To cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to something , or to cleave together, by any means; as, to fasten boards together with nails or cords; to fasten anything in our thoughts.
 adjective (a.) To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to lay on; as, to fasten a blow.
 verb (v. i.) To fix one's self; to take firm hold; to clinch; to cling.

flattenadjective (a.) To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.
 adjective (a.) To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.
 adjective (a.) To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
 adjective (a.) To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch.
 verb (v. i.) To become or grow flat, even, depressed dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch.

fleetennoun (n.) Fleeted or skimmed milk.

frettenadjective (a.) Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox.

glutennoun (n.) The viscid, tenacious substance which gives adhesiveness to dough.

kindergartennoun (n.) A school for young children, conducted on the theory that education should be begun by gratifying and cultivating the normal aptitude for exercise, play, observation, imitation, and construction; -- a name given by Friedrich Froebel, a German educator, who introduced this method of training, in rooms opening on a garden.

kittennoun (n.) A young cat.
 verb (v. t. & i.) To bring forth young, as a cat; to bring forth, as kittens.

lattennoun (n.) A kind of brass hammered into thin sheets, formerly much used for making church utensils, as candlesticks, crosses, etc.; -- called also latten brass.
 noun (n.) Sheet tin; iron plate, covered with tin; also, any metal in thin sheets; as, gold latten.

lentennoun (n.) Lent.
 noun (n.) Of or pertaining to the fast called Lent; used in, or suitable to, Lent; as, the Lenten season.
 noun (n.) Spare; meager; plain; somber; unostentatious; not abundant or showy.

martennoun (n.) A bird. See Martin.
 noun (n.) Any one of several fur-bearing carnivores of the genus Mustela, closely allied to the sable. Among the more important species are the European beech, or stone, marten (Mustela foina); the pine marten (M. martes); and the American marten, or sable (M. Americana), which some zoologists consider only a variety of the Russian sable.
 noun (n.) The fur of the marten, used for hats, muffs, etc.

misbegottenadjective (p. a.) Unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin; pernicious.

misgottenadjective (a.) Unjustly gotten.

mittennoun (n.) A covering for the hand, worn to defend it from cold or injury. It differs from a glove in not having a separate sheath for each finger.
 noun (n.) A cover for the wrist and forearm.

moltenadjective (a.) Melted; being in a state of fusion, esp. when the liquid state is produced by a high degree of heat; as, molten iron.
 adjective (a.) Made by melting and casting the substance or metal of which the thing is formed; as, a molten image.
  (p. p.) of Melt

moultenadjective (a.) Having molted.

oatenadjective (a.) Consisting of an oat straw or stem; as, an oaten pipe.
 adjective (a.) Made of oatmeal; as, oaten cakes.

oftenadjective (a.) Frequent; common; repeated.
 adverb (adv.) Frequently; many times; not seldom.

patennoun (n.) A plate.
 noun (n.) The place on which the consecrated bread is placed in the Eucharist, or on which the host is placed during the Mass. It is usually small, and formed as to fit the chalice, or cup, as a cover.

pattennoun (n.) A clog or sole of wood, usually supported by an iron ring, worn to raise the feet from the wet or the mud.
 noun (n.) A stilt.

pectennoun (n.) A vascular pigmented membrane projecting into the vitreous humor within the globe of the eye in birds, and in many reptiles and fishes; -- also called marsupium.
 noun (n.) The pubic bone.
 noun (n.) Any species of bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten, and numerous allied genera (family Pectinidae); a scallop. See Scallop.
 noun (n.) The comb of a scorpion. See Comb, 4 (b).

platennoun (n.) The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.
 noun (n.) Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression.
 noun (n.) The movable table of a machine tool, as a planer, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool; -- also called table.

plattenadjective (a.) To flatten and make into sheets or plates; as, to platten cylinder glass.

rottenadjective (a.) Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat.
 adjective (a.) Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting.
 adjective (a.) Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone.

sebestennoun (n.) The mucilaginous drupaceous fruit of two East Indian trees (Cordia Myxa, and C. latifolia), sometimes used medicinally in pectoral diseases.

shortenadjective (a.) To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.
 adjective (a.) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract; as, to shorten work, an allowance of food, etc.
 adjective (a.) To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
 adjective (a.) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like.
 verb (v. i.) To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold.

shottennoun (n.) Having ejected the spawn; as, a shotten herring.
 noun (n.) Shot out of its socket; dislocated, as a bone.
  () of Shoot

sweetenadjective (a.) To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.
 adjective (a.) To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship.
 adjective (a.) To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper.
 adjective (a.) To make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life.
 adjective (a.) To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
 adjective (a.) To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air.
 adjective (a.) To make warm and fertile; -- opposed to sour; as, to dry and sweeten soils.
 adjective (a.) To restore to purity; to free from taint; as, to sweeten water, butter, or meat.
 verb (v. i.) To become sweet.

tennoun (n.) The number greater by one than nine; the sum of five and five; ten units of objects.
 noun (n.) A symbol representing ten units, as 10, x, or X.
 adjective (a.) One more than nine; twice five.

tungstennoun (n.) A rare element of the chromium group found in certain minerals, as wolfram and scheelite, and isolated as a heavy steel-gray metal which is very hard and infusible. It has both acid and basic properties. When alloyed in small quantities with steel, it greatly increases its hardness. Symbol W (Wolframium). Atomic weight, 183.6. Specific gravity, 18.
 noun (n.) Scheelite, or calcium tungstate.

unbegottenadjective (a.) Not begot; not yet generated; also, having never been generated; self-existent; eternal.

ungottenadjective (a.) Not gotten; not acquired.
 adjective (a.) Not begotten.

unwrittenadjective (a.) Not written; not reduced to writing; oral; as, unwritten agreements.
 adjective (a.) Containing no writing; blank; as, unwritten paper.

wheatenadjective (a.) Made of wheat; as, wheaten bread.

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


Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ate) - Words That Begins with ate:


atenoun (n.) The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance.
  () the preterit of Eat.
  (imp.) of Eat

atechnicadjective (a.) Without technical or artistic knowledge.

atelesnoun (n.) A genus of American monkeys with prehensile tails, and having the thumb wanting or rudimentary. See Spider monkey, and Coaita.

ateliernoun (n.) A workshop; a studio.

atellannoun (n.) A farcical drama performed at Atella.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Atella, in ancient Italy; as, Atellan plays; farcical; ribald.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ATEN:

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

abacinationnoun (n.) The act of abacinating.

abactionnoun (n.) Stealing cattle on a large scale.

abaddonnoun (n.) The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus.
 noun (n.) Hell; the bottomless pit.

abalienationnoun (n.) The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement.

abandonnoun (n.) A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.
 verb (v. t.) To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
 verb (v. t.) To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender.
 verb (v. t.) Reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense.
 verb (v. t.) To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.
 verb (v.) Abandonment; relinquishment.

abannationnoun (n.) Alt. of Abannition

abannitionnoun (n.) Banishment.

abarticulationnoun (n.) Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis.

abbreviationnoun (n.) The act of shortening, or reducing.
 noun (n.) The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.
 noun (n.) The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.
 noun (n.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers.

abderianadjective (a.) Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment.

abdicationnoun (n.) The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority.

abdomennoun (n.) The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity.
 noun (n.) The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda.

abductionnoun (n.) The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away.
 noun (n.) The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.
 noun (n.) The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being; as, the abduction of a child, the abduction of an heiress.
 noun (n.) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is evident, but the minor is only probable.

abecedariannoun (n.) One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro.
 noun (n.) One engaged in teaching the alphabet.
 adjective (a.) Alt. of Abecedary

abeliannoun (n.) Alt. of Abelonian

abeloniannoun (n.) One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel.

aberrationnoun (n.) The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type.
 noun (n.) A partial alienation of reason.
 noun (n.) A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and daily or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4", and in the latter, to 0.3". Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of the planet relative to the earth.
 noun (n.) The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; called spherical aberration, when due to the spherical form of the lens or mirror, such form giving different foci for central and marginal rays; and chromatic aberration, when due to different refrangibilities of the colored rays of the spectrum, those of each color having a distinct focus.
 noun (n.) The passage of blood or other fluid into parts not appropriate for it.
 noun (n.) The producing of an unintended effect by the glancing of an instrument, as when a shot intended for A glances and strikes B.

abevacuationnoun (n.) A partial evacuation.

abietinnoun (n.) Alt. of Abietine

abirritationnoun (n.) A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia.

abjectionnoun (n.) The act of bringing down or humbling.
 noun (n.) The state of being rejected or cast out.
 noun (n.) A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation.

abjudicationnoun (n.) Rejection by judicial sentence.

abjurationnoun (n.) The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.
 noun (n.) A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of heresy.

ablactationnoun (n.) The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam.
 noun (n.) The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach.

ablaqueationnoun (n.) The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water.

ablationnoun (n.) A carrying or taking away; removal.
 noun (n.) Extirpation.
 noun (n.) Wearing away; superficial waste.

ablegationnoun (n.) The act of sending abroad.

abliguritionnoun (n.) Prodigal expense for food.

ablutionnoun (n.) The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite.
 noun (n.) The water used in cleansing.
 noun (n.) A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest.

abluvionnoun (n.) That which is washed off.

abnegationnoun (n.) a denial; a renunciation.

abnodationnoun (n.) The act of cutting away the knots of trees.

abolitionnoun (n.) The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc.

abominationnoun (n.) The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination.
 noun (n.) That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution.
 noun (n.) A cause of pollution or wickedness.

abortionnoun (n.) The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage.
 noun (n.) The immature product of an untimely birth.
 noun (n.) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.
 noun (n.) Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his attempt proved an abortion.

abrasionnoun (n.) The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins.
 noun (n.) The substance rubbed off.
 noun (n.) A superficial excoriation, with loss of substance under the form of small shreds.

abrenunciationnoun (n.) Absolute renunciation or repudiation.

abreptionnoun (n.) A snatching away.

abrogationnoun (n.) The act of abrogating; repeal by authority.

abruptionnoun (n.) A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies.

abscessionnoun (n.) A separating; removal; also, an abscess.

abscisionnoun (n.) See Abscission.

abscissionnoun (n.) The act or process of cutting off.
 noun (n.) The state of being cut off.
 noun (n.) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, "He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more."

absentationnoun (n.) The act of absenting one's self.

absinthiannoun (n.) Of the nature of wormwood.

absinthinnoun (n.) The bitter principle of wormwood (Artemisia absinthium).

absolutionnoun (n.) An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense.
 noun (n.) An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent.
 noun (n.) The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven.
 noun (n.) An absolving from ecclesiastical penalties, -- for example, excommunication.
 noun (n.) The form of words by which a penitent is absolved.
 noun (n.) Delivery, in speech.

absorbitionnoun (n.) Absorption.

absorptionnoun (n.) The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger.
 noun (n.) An imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action; as, the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc.
 noun (n.) In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs.
 noun (n.) Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment.

abstentionadjective (a.) The act of abstaining; a holding aloof.

abstersionnoun (n.) Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging.

abstractionadjective (a.) The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.
 adjective (a.) The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects.
 adjective (a.) An idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical nature; as, to fight for mere abstractions.
 adjective (a.) A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction.
 adjective (a.) Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects.
 adjective (a.) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
 adjective (a.) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.

abstrusionnoun (n.) The act of thrusting away.

absumptionnoun (n.) Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction.

abutilonnoun (n.) A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow.

abyssiniannoun (n.) A native of Abyssinia.
 noun (n.) A member of the Abyssinian Church.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Abyssinia.

acacinnoun (n.) Alt. of Acacine

academiannoun (n.) A member of an academy, university, or college.

academiciannoun (n.) A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts.
 noun (n.) A collegian.

acadiannoun (n.) A native of Acadie.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia.

acalephannoun (n.) One of the Acalephae.

acanthopterygiannoun (n.) A spiny-finned fish.
 adjective (a.) Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch.

acaridannoun (n.) One of a group of arachnids, including the mites and ticks.

accadianadjective (a.) Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest.

accelerationnoun (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.

accensionnoun (n.) The act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition.

accentuationnoun (n.) Act of accentuating; applications of accent.
 noun (n.) pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy.

acceptationnoun (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.

acceptilationnoun (n.) Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission.

acceptionnoun (n.) Acceptation; the received meaning.

accessionnoun (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.

acclamationnoun (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.

acclimatationnoun (n.) Acclimatization.

acclimationnoun (n.) The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization.

acclimatizationnoun (n.) The act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured.

accombinationnoun (n.) A combining together.

accommodationnoun (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.

accordionnoun (n.) A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.

accreditationnoun (n.) The act of accrediting; as, letters of accreditation.

accrementitionnoun (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.

accretionnoun (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.

accubationnoun (n.) The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals.

accumulationnoun (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.

accusationnoun (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.

acephalannoun (n.) Same as Acephal.
 adjective (a.) Belonging to the Acephala.

acervationnoun (n.) A heaping up; accumulation.

acetificationnoun (n.) The act of making acetous or sour; the process of converting, or of becoming converted, into vinegar.

acetinnoun (n.) A combination of acetic acid with glycerin.

achaeanadjective (a.) Alt. of Achaian

achaiannoun (n.) A native of Achaia; a Greek.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Achaia in Greece; also, Grecian.

acheannoun (a & n.) See Achaean, Achaian.

acheronnoun (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.

achilleanadjective (a.) Resembling Achilles, the hero of the Iliad; invincible.

achilles' tendonnoun (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.

achromatinnoun (n.) Tissue which is not stained by fluid dyes.

achromatizationnoun (n.) The act or process of achromatizing.

achroodextrinnoun (n.) Dextrin not colorable by iodine. See Dextrin.

acidificationnoun (n.) The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid.

acornnoun (n.) The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
 noun (n.) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.
 noun (n.) See Acorn-shell.

acotyledonnoun (n.) A plant which has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants.