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atomy

n. - very small creature; skeleton.



atrabilarian

n. - a gloomy hypochondriac



atrabilious

adj. - very melancholic; hypochondriac.



atrament

n. - very dark liquid; ink. atramentous, adj.



atresia

n. - lack or closing of a passage of the body. atretic, adj.



atrichia

n. - baldness.



atrous

adj. - jet black.



attainder

n. - loss of civil rights, formerly result of outlawry or death sentence.



attaint

v. - pass sentence of attainder on; sully; attach disgrace to; infect; n. dishonour; misfortune. attainture, n.



attemper

v. - alter quality by addition or mixture; moderate. attemperate, v. archaic, moderate temperature. attemporator, n. apparatus for moderating temperature.



attingent

adj. - touching, in contact.



attrahent

adj. - attracting; drawing towards or forward; n. such thing or muscle.



au fait

phr. - 'to the fact'; having complete and up-to-date knowledge; conversant.



aubade

n. - musical piece performed at or describing dawn.



auctorial

adj. - pertaining to an author.



audile

n. - person whose mental processes are stimulated more strongly by hearing than by other senses; a. pertaining to such persons; auditory.



audiogenic

adj. - caused by sound waves, especially of high frequency.



aularian

adj. - pertaining to hall



aulete

n. - flautist.



aulic

adj. - courtly; ceremonious.



aurated

adj. - gilded.



aureate, aureous

adj. - golden-colored; ornate.



aureity

n. - properties of gold.



aureomycin

n. - trademark, an antibiotic drug extracted from a soil mould, used in treatment of infections, especially of eyes, skin, etc.



auric

adj. - pertaining to, like or composed of gold.



auricle

n. - external ear; ear-shaped appendage; upper cavity of heart.



auricomous

adj. - having golden hair; making hair golden.



auricular

adj. - pertaining to hearing, or to the ear; spoken secretly. auricular finger, the little finger.



auriculate

adj. - having ears or ear-shaped outgrowths; lobed; ear-like.



auriferous

adj. - containing gold.



auriform

adj. - ear-shaped.



aurify

v. - change into gold. aurific, adj. producing gold. aurification, n. working with gold.



auriphrygia

n. - gold embroidery. auriphrygiate, adj.



aurist

n. - specialist on the ear and its diseases.



aurous

adj. - pertaining to, containing, or made of gold.



aurulent

adj. - gold-colored.



auscultate

v. - Medicine, listen to sounds in human body; examine in this manner. auscultation, n. auscultative, adj. auscultator, n. person practising auscultation; stethoscope. auscultatory, adj.



auscultation

n. - the process of listening



auslaut

n. - final sound of syllable or word.



autacoid

n. - hormone. autacoidal, adj.



autarchia

n. - perpetual happiness



autarchy

n. - absolute sovereignty; autocracy. autarchic, autarchical, adj.



autecology

n. - the ecology of the individual organism.



autoangelist

n. - one who does his own communicating



autocephalous

adj. - Ecclesiastical, self-governing. autocephaly, n.



autochthon

n. - native; aboriginal species. autochthonous, adj. autochthony, n.



autochthonous

adj. - native, aboriginal, indigenous



autoclesis

n. - introducing an idea or subject by seeming to refuse discussion of it, thereby arousing interest



autoecious

adj. - (of fungus, etc.) passing through all life stages on same species of host.



autogamy

n. - self-fertilization. autogamic, autogamous, adj.



autogenesis

n. - spontaneous generation. autogenetic, adj.



autogenous

adj. - self-generated.



autognosis

n. - knowledge of self, especially the appreciation of one's own emotional conflicts



autointoxication

n. - poisoning due to toxins produced in body.



autokinesis

n. - voluntary or automatic movement. autokinetic, adj.



autolatry

n. - self-worship.



autological

adj. - self-descriptive, or being a word that exemplifies what it means, e.g. "english" is english, "polysyllabic" is polysyllabic



automorphic

adj. - formed after its or one's own pattern. automorphism, n.



autonym

n. - writer's own name; work published under own name.



autophagy

n. - devouring of cell constituents by enzymes of same cell. autophagous, adj.



autophobe

n. - the socializer who does not like to be alone



autophobia

n. - fear of solitude.



autophony

n. - apparent distortion of one's own voice due to infection or stoppage of ears; sound of auscultator's voice as reverberating in patient's chest.



autophyte

n. - plant able to organize its foodstuffs; nonsaprophytic plant. autophytic, adj.



autoplasty

n. - grafting tissue from patient's own body. autoplastic, a.; Biology, pertaining to self-adaptation to environment; pertaining to autoplasty.



autoschediasm

n. - improvization. autoschediastic, adj.



autoschediastic

adj. - impromptu; on the spur of the moment



autoskeleton

n. - internal skeleton.



autostrada

n. - motorway.



autotelic

adj. - having itself as its only purpose.



autothaumaturgist

n. - the coy or cagey person whose mission is to appear mysterious or quite remarkable



autotheism

n. - belief in self-subsistence of God the Son; deification of oneself.



autotheist

n. - the individual who is not only self-centered but self-deifying, or at least self-worshipping



autotomy

n. - reflex loss of part of the body to save the whole (in lizards, etc.)



autotrophic

adj. - Botany, nourishing itself; autophytic.



autotropic

adj. - Botany, tending to grow in straight line.



autotype

n. - facsimile; true copy. autotypy, n. process of producing such copies.



auxanometer

n. - instrument measuring rate of growth of plants.



auxesis

n. - an ordering of thoughts expressed in a sequence of ascending importance



auxin

n. - Chemistry, substance increasing growth of plants; plant hormone.



auxograph

n. - instrument recording variations in volume.



auxology

n. - science of growth.



auxotonic

adj. - according or due to growth.



avellaneous

adj. - hazel.



avenaceous

adj. - pertaining to or like oats. aveniform, adj. like oats in shape.



avenous

adj. - lacking veins.



aventurine

n. - glass containing golden or green flecks; quartz containing mica flakes.



averruncate

v. - avert; weed out.



avicide

n. - killing of birds.



avicular

adj. - pertaining to small birds.



aviculture

n. - rearing of birds.



avifauna

n. - birdlife of a region.



avigation

n. - aerial navigation.



avirulent

adj. - (of bacteria) not virulent.



avolitional

adj. - involuntary.



avulsion

n. - act of pulling away part of body, either by injury or surgery. avulsive, adj.



axenic

adj. - free of parasites and similar forms of life; surgically sterile.



axifugal

adj. - centrifugal.



axil

n. - upper angle between leaf and stem, or branch and trunk. axile, adj.



axilla

n. - (pl. -las, -lae ,) armpit; shoulder. axillary a. of arm-pit; of or growing in an axil.



axiniform

adj. - having shape of axe-head.



axiology

n. - study of ultimate values. axiological, adj. axiologist, n.



axonometry

n. - measurement of or by axes. axonometric projectio, n. method of representing three-dimensional object in two-dimensional drawing.



axunge

n. - medicinal lard or grease.



azofication

n. - nitrogenization of soil by bacteria. azofier, n. bacterium causing azofication.



azoic

adj. - lacking life, especially of geological period.



azoology

n. - study of inanimate nature.



azote

n. - nitrogen. azotaemia, azotemia, n. excess of nitrogen in blood. azotic, adj. azotize, v. combine with nitrogen.



azoth

n. - alchemists' name for mercury; Paracelsus' postulated panacea.



azulejo

n. - brightly colored tile of Near East, Spain and Holland.



azygous

adj. - unpaired; odd.

