Name Report For First Name ACCA:

ACCA

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

Rhymes with ACCA - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming ACCA

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES ACCA AS A WHOLE:

albracca accalon maccallum baccaus

NAMES RHYMING WITH ACCA (According to last letters):

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

becca ricca lucca rebecca

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

chubasca fresca francisca kalyca ica teca anca lizuca marica raluca rodica valerica danica milintica costica africa alarica angelica anjelica bianca blanca cedrica chica darerca denica derica derrica domenica dominica eirica elica enrica erica francesca frederica frenchesca gerica monca monica ranica rica ulrica veronica vivica draca freca gianluca petrica maca jenica florica jessica roderica nordica aglaeca andsaca amorica anica ichtaca

NAMES RHYMING WITH ACCA (According to first letters):

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

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

acacia academia acair acaiseid acantha acastus ace acel aceline acennan acestes acey achaius achak achan acharya achates achcauhtli acheflour acheflow achelous acheron achilles achir acim acima acis acker ackerley ackerman ackley acolmixtli aconteus acrisius actaeon actassi acteon acwel acwellen

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ACCA:

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

aala aaleahya aarika aarshiya aashka aasiya abba abda abdalla abdera abdulla abeba abelia abella abellona abena abequa aberfa abhaya abia abida abisha abjaja abra abraha abriana abrianna ada adaira adairia adalbrechta adalgisa adalheida adalia adalicia adalwolfa adama adamina adana adanna adara adda addula adeela adela adelajda adelia adelina adelinda adelisa adelita adella adelpha adena adeola adharma adia adianna adiba adiella adila adima adina adira adisa aditya adiva adjoa admeta admina adolpha adoncia adonia adora adowa adra adreana adreanna adriana adrianna adsaluta adsila adwoa adya aeaea aegina aeldra aenedlea aerwyna aethelha aethelreda aethra aetna afafa afia afina afra afraima afreda afua

English Words Rhyming ACCA

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES ACCA AS A WHOLE:

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

acciaccaturanoun (n.) A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura.

asarabaccanoun (n.) An acrid herbaceous plant (Asarum Europaeum), the leaves and roots of which are emetic and cathartic. It is principally used in cephalic snuffs.

baccalaureatenoun (n.) The degree of bachelor of arts. (B.A. or A.B.), the first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges.
 noun (n.) A baccalaureate sermon.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to a bachelor of arts.

baccaranoun (n.) Alt. of Baccarat

baccaratnoun (n.) A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters.

baccateadjective (a.) Pulpy throughout, like a berry; -- said of fruits.

baccatedadjective (a.) Having many berries.
 adjective (a.) Set or adorned with pearls.

bisaccateadjective (a.) Having two little bags, sacs, or pouches.

braccateadjective (a.) Furnished with feathers which conceal the feet.

maccabeanadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Judas Maccabeus or to the Maccabees; as, the Maccabean princes; Maccabean times.

maccabeesnoun (n. pl.) The name given later times to the Asmonaeans, a family of Jewish patriots, who headed a religious revolt in the reign of Antiochus IV., 168-161 B. C., which led to a period of freedom for Israel.
 noun (n. pl.) The name of two ancient historical books, which give accounts of Jewish affairs in or about the time of the Maccabean princes, and which are received as canonical books in the Roman Catholic Church, but are included in the Apocrypha by Protestants. Also applied to three books, two of which are found in some MSS. of the Septuagint.

maccaboynoun (n.) Alt. of Maccoboy

malaccanoun (n.) A town and district upon the seacoast of the Malay Peninsula.

mattowaccanoun (n.) An American clupeoid fish (Clupea mediocris), similar to the shad in habits and appearance, but smaller and less esteemed for food; -- called also hickory shad, tailor shad, fall herring, and shad herring.

menaccanitenoun (n.) An iron-black or steel-gray mineral, consisting chiefly of the oxides of iron and titanium. It is commonly massive, but occurs also in rhombohedral crystals. Called also titanic iron ore, and ilmenite.

phytolaccanoun (n.) A genus of herbaceous plants, some of them having berries which abound in intensely red juice; poke, or pokeweed.

polaccanoun (n.) A vessel with two or three masts, used in the Mediterranean. The masts are usually of one piece, and without tops, caps, or crosstrees.
 noun (n.) See Polonaise.

saccadenoun (n.) A sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull.

saccateadjective (a.) Having the form of a sack or pouch; furnished with a sack or pouch, as a petal.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Saccata, a suborder of ctenophores having two pouches into which the long tentacles can be retracted.

staccatoadjective (a.) Disconnected; separated; distinct; -- a direction to perform the notes of a passage in a short, distinct, and pointed manner. It is opposed to legato, and often indicated by heavy accents written over or under the notes, or by dots when the performance is to be less distinct and emphatic.
 adjective (a.) Expressed in a brief, pointed manner.

vaccarynoun (n.) A cow house, dairy house, or cow pasture.

yaccanoun (n.) A West Indian name for two large timber trees (Podocarpus coriaceus, and P. Purdicanus) of the Yew family. The wood, which is much used, is pale brownish with darker streaks.

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


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


boccanoun (n.) The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out.

feluccanoun (n.) A small, swift-sailing vessel, propelled by oars and lateen sails, -- once common in the Mediterranean.

siccanoun (n.) A seal; a coining die; -- used adjectively to designate the silver currency of the Mogul emperors, or the Indian rupee of 192 grains.

yuccanoun (n.) See Flicker, n., 2.
 noun (n.) A genus of American liliaceous, sometimes arborescent, plants having long, pointed, and often rigid, leaves at the top of a more or less woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms.

zimoccanoun (n.) A sponge (Euspongia zimocca) of flat form and fine quality, from the Adriatic, about the Greek islands, and the coast of Barbary.
 noun (n.) A sponge (Euspongia zimocca) of flat form and fine quality, from the Adriatic, about the Greek islands, and the coast of Barbary.

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


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


accedingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accede

accedencenoun (n.) The act of acceding.

accedernoun (n.) One who accedes.

accelerandoadjective (a.) Gradually accelerating the movement.

acceleratingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accelerate

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.

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

acceleratornoun (n.) One who, or that which, accelerates. Also as an adj.; as, accelerator nerves.

acceleratoryadjective (a.) Accelerative.

accelerographnoun (n.) An apparatus for studying the combustion of powder in guns, etc.

accelerometernoun (n.) An apparatus for measuring the velocity imparted by gunpowder.

accendibilitynoun (n.) Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability.

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

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

accensornoun (n.) One of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers.

accentnoun (n.) A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.
 noun (n.) A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of the spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the French accents.
 noun (n.) Modulation of the voice in speaking; manner of speaking or pronouncing; peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent.
 noun (n.) A word; a significant tone
 noun (n.) expressions in general; speech.
 noun (n.) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
 noun (n.) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.
 noun (n.) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
 noun (n.) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
 noun (n.) The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.
 noun (n.) A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y', y".
 noun (n.) A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc.; as, 12'27", i. e., twelve minutes twenty seven seconds.
 noun (n.) A mark used to denote feet and inches; as, 6' 10" is six feet ten inches.
 verb (v. t.) To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent.
 verb (v. t.) To mark emphatically; to emphasize.

accentingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accent

accentlessadjective (a.) Without accent.

accentornoun (n.) One who sings the leading part; the director or leader.
 noun (n.) A genus of European birds (so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to the water thrushes.

accentuableadjective (a.) Capable of being accented.

accentualadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.

accentualitynoun (n.) The quality of being accentual.

accentuatingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accentuate

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

acceptingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accept

acceptadjective (a.) Accepted.
 verb (v. t.) To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.
 verb (v. t.) To receive with favor; to approve.
 verb (v. t.) To receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; as, I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.
 verb (v. t.) To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted?
 verb (v. t.) To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange.
 verb (v. t.) In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.]

acceptabilitynoun (n.) The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness.

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.

acceptablenessnoun (n.) The quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability.

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.

acceptancynoun (n.) Acceptance.

acceptantnoun (n.) An accepter.
 adjective (a.) Accepting; receiving.

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.

accepternoun (n.) A person who accepts; a taker.
 noun (n.) A respecter; a viewer with partiality.
 noun (n.) An acceptor.

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

acceptionnoun (n.) Acceptation; the received meaning.

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

acceptornoun (n.) One who accepts
 noun (n.) one who accepts an order or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.

accessnoun (n.) A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince.
 noun (n.) The means, place, or way by which a thing may be approached; passage way; as, the access is by a neck of land.
 noun (n.) Admission to sexual intercourse.
 noun (n.) Increase by something added; addition; as, an access of territory. [In this sense accession is more generally used.]
 noun (n.) An onset, attack, or fit of disease.
 noun (n.) A paroxysm; a fit of passion; an outburst; as, an access of fury.

accessarinessnoun (n.) The state of being accessary.

accessarynoun (n.) One who, not being present, contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense.
 adjective (a.) Accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Accessory.

accessibilitynoun (n.) The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptibility.

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.

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.

accessionaladjective (a.) Pertaining to accession; additional.

accessiveadjective (a.) Additional.

accessorialadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt.

accessorinessnoun (n.) The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately.

accessorynoun (n.) That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate.
 noun (n.) Same as Accessary, n.
 noun (n.) Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts.
 adjective (a.) Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.

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

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ACCA:

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

abacanoun (n.) The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila.

abadanoun (n.) The rhinoceros.

abanganoun (n.) A West Indian palm; also the fruit of this palm, the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest.

abbanoun (n.) Father; religious superior; -- in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch.

abdominalianoun (n. pl.) A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages.

abomanoun (n.) A large South American serpent (Boa aboma).

abracadabranoun (n.) A mystical word or collocation of letters written as in the figure. Worn on an amulet it was supposed to ward off fever. At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning; jargon.

abranchiatanoun (n. pl.) A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration.

abscissanoun (n.) One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal coordinate axes.

abunanoun (n.) The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church.

acacianoun (n.) A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals.
 noun (n.) A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.
 noun (n.) The inspissated juice of several species of acacia; -- called also gum acacia, and gum arabic.

acanthanoun (n.) A prickle.
 noun (n.) A spine or prickly fin.
 noun (n.) The vertebral column; the spinous process of a vertebra.

acanthocephalanoun (n. pl.) A group of intestinal worms, having the proboscis armed with recurved spines.

acarinanoun (n. pl.) The group of Arachnida which includes the mites and ticks. Many species are parasitic, and cause diseases like the itch and mange.

aceldamanoun (n.) The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed.

acephalanoun (n. pl.) That division of the Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; -- so called because they have no evident head. Formerly the group included the Tunicata, Brachiopoda, and sometimes the Bryozoa. See Mollusca.

acetabuliferanoun (n. pl.) The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda.

achatinanoun (n.) A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa.

acholianoun (n.) Deficiency or want of bile.

aciculanoun (n.) One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal.

acinesianoun (n.) Same as Akinesia.

aconitianoun (n.) Same as Aconitine.

acontianoun (n. pl.) Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidae), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniae when irritated.

acranianoun (n.) Partial or total absence of the skull.
 noun (n.) The lowest group of Vertebrata, including the amphioxus, in which no skull exists.

acrasianoun (n.) Alt. of Acrasy

acraspedanoun (n. pl.) A group of acalephs, including most of the larger jellyfishes; the Discophora.

acrisianoun (n.) Alt. of Acrisy

acritanoun (n. pl.) The lowest groups of animals, in which no nervous system has been observed.

actinarianoun (n. pl.) A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not.

actinianoun (n.) An animal of the class Anthozoa, and family Actinidae. From a resemblance to flowers in form and color, they are often called animal flowers and sea anemones. [See Polyp.].
 noun (n.) A genus in the family Actinidae.

actinotrochanoun (n. pl.) A peculiar larval form of Phoronis, a genus of marine worms, having a circle of ciliated tentacles.

actinozoanoun (n. pl.) A group of Coelenterata, comprising the Anthozoa and Ctenophora. The sea anemone, or actinia, is a familiar example.

actinulanoun (n. pl.) A kind of embryo of certain hydroids (Tubularia), having a stellate form.

adansonianoun (n.) A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth.

adelphianoun (n.) A "brotherhood," or collection of stamens in a bundle; -- used in composition, as in the class names, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, etc.

adenalgianoun (n.) Alt. of Adenalgy

adularianoun (n.) A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.

adversarianoun (n. pl.) A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes.

adynamianoun (n.) Considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever.

aegicranianoun (n. pl.) Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls.

aerophobianoun (n.) Alt. of Aerophoby

aesthesianoun (n.) Perception by the senses; feeling; -- the opposite of anaesthesia.

aganoun (n.) Alt. of Agha

aghanoun (n.) In Turkey, a commander or chief officer. It is used also as a title of respect.

agalactianoun (n.) Alt. of Agalaxy

agamanoun (n.) A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances; also, one of these lizards.

agoranoun (n.) An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city.

agouaranoun (n.) The crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), found in the tropical parts of America.

agoutanoun (n.) A small insectivorous mammal (Solenodon paradoxus), allied to the moles, found only in Hayti.

agraphianoun (n.) The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia.

ahanoun (n.) A sunk fence. See Ha-ha.
  (interj.) An exclamation expressing, by different intonations, triumph, mixed with derision or irony, or simple surprise.

ailuroideanoun (n. pl.) A group of the Carnivora, which includes the cats, civets, and hyenas.

akinesianoun (n.) Paralysis of the motor nerves; loss of movement.

alanoun (n.) A winglike organ, or part.

alalonganoun (n.) Alt. of Alilonghi

albatanoun (n.) A white metallic alloy; which is made into spoons, forks, teapots, etc. British plate or German silver. See German silver, under German.

albuminurianoun (n.) A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine.

alcannanoun (n.) An oriental shrub (Lawsonia inermis) from which henna is obtained.

alcarrazanoun (n.) A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids by evaporation from the exterior surface.

alcyonaceanoun (n. pl.) A group of soft-bodied Alcyonaria, of which Alcyonium is the type. See Illust. under Alcyonaria.

alcyonarianoun (n. pl.) One of the orders of Anthozoa. It includes the Alcyonacea, Pennatulacea, and Gorgonacea.

alfanoun (n.) Alt. of Alfa grass

alfalfanoun (n.) The lucern (Medicago sativa); -- so called in California, Texas, etc.

alfilarianoun (n.) The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California.

alganoun (n.) A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervae, etc.

algarobanoun (n.) The Carob, a leguminous tree of the Mediterranean region; also, its edible beans or pods, called St. John's bread.
 noun (n.) The Honey mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), a small tree found from California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuable gum, resembling gum arabic, is collected from the tree in Texas and Mexico.

algarovillanoun (n.) The agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree (Inga Marthae). It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye.

algebranoun (n.) That branch of mathematics which treats of the relations and properties of quantity by means of letters and other symbols. It is applicable to those relations that are true of every kind of magnitude.
 noun (n.) A treatise on this science.

alhambranoun (n.) The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada.

alhennanoun (n.) See Henna.

allantoideanoun (n. pl.) The division of Vertebrata in which the embryo develops an allantois. It includes reptiles, birds, and mammals.

alleluianoun (n.) Alt. of Alleluiah

almanoun (n.) Alt. of Almah

almadianoun (n.) Alt. of Almadie

almagranoun (n.) A fine, deep red ocher, somewhat purplish, found in Spain. It is the sil atticum of the ancients. Under the name of Indian red it is used for polishing glass and silver.

alopecianoun (n.) Alt. of Alopecy

alpacanoun (n.) An animal of Peru (Lama paco), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama.
 noun (n.) Wool of the alpaca.
 noun (n.) A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton.

alphanoun (n.) The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to A, and hence used to denote the beginning.

alpianoun (n.) The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds.

althaeanoun (n.) Alt. of Althea

altheanoun (n.) A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks.
 noun (n.) An ornamental shrub (Hibiscus Syriacus) of the Mallow family.

alulanoun (n.) A false or bastard wing. See under Bastard.

aluminanoun (n.) One of the earths, consisting of two parts of aluminium and three of oxygen, Al2O3.

alumnanoun (n. fem.) A female pupil; especially, a graduate of a school or college.

amalgamanoun (n.) Same as Amalgam.

amblyopianoun (n.) Alt. of Amblyopy

amblypodanoun (n. pl.) A group of large, extinct, herbivorous mammals, common in the Tertiary formation of the United States.

ambrosianoun (n.) The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it.
 noun (n.) An unguent of the gods.
 noun (n.) A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell.
 noun (n.) Formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc.
 noun (n.) The food of certain small bark beetles, family Scolytidae believed to be fungi cultivated by the beetles in their burrows.

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

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

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

ametropianoun (n.) Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye.

amianoun (n.) A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.

ammanoun (n.) An abbes or spiritual mother.

ammonianoun (n.) A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste: -- often called volatile alkali, and spirits of hartshorn.

ammonitoideanoun (n. pl.) An extensive group of fossil cephalopods often very abundant in Mesozoic rocks. See Ammonite.

amnesianoun (n.) Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ.

amniotanoun (n. pl.) That group of vertebrates which develops in its embryonic life the envelope called the amnion. It comprises the reptiles, the birds, and the mammals.

amoebanoun (n.) A rhizopod. common in fresh water, capable of undergoing many changes of form at will. See Rhizopoda.

amoebeanoun (n. pl.) That division of the Rhizopoda which includes the amoeba and similar forms.