Select a letter for some words
11-plus
an examination taken by 11 and 12 year old students to select suitable candidates for grammar school.
Aaron's rod
A rod with one serpent twined around it, thus differing from the caduceus of Mercury, which has two.
Abalienate
To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.
Abeyant
Being in a state of abeyance.
Acceptor
One who accepts
Accipitrine
Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike.
Accomplicity
The act or state of being an accomplice.
Acescent
Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour.
Aciculite
Needle ore.
acid-loving
thriving in a relatively acid environment; -- especially of plants requiring a pH well below 7
Acroclinium
a genus of herbs and shrubs of Australia and Southern Africa, with an everlasting flower; most species are usually placed in genus .
Actinal
Pertaining to the part of a radiate animal which contains the mouth.
Acting
Operating in any way.
Acute
Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; -- opposed to or ;
adamancy
obstinacy.
Adhere
To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united;
Adopter
One who adopts.
Adscititious
Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious.
Atites
See .
Affodill
Asphodel.
Affrap
To strike, or strike down.
Aggest
To heap up.
Aiguille
A needle-shaped peak.
Air plant
A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone; an arophyte.
Akin
Of the same kin; related by blood; -- used of persons; .
Alb
A vestment of white linen, reaching to the feet, an enveloping the person; -- in the Roman Catholic church, worn by those in holy orders when officiating at mass. It was formerly worn, at least by clerics, in daily life.
Albolith
A kind of plastic cement, or artificial stone, consisting chiefly of magnesia and silica; -- called also .
Albuminimeter
An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of albumen in a liquid.
Alcalimeter
See .
Alkalize
To render alkaline; to communicate the properties of an alkali to.
Allopathy
That system of medical practice which aims to combat disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the special disease treated; -- a term invented by Hahnemann to designate the ordinary practice, as opposed to .
Alternate
To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
Alveolus
A cell in a honeycomb.
Amateur
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.
Amblypoda
A group of large, extinct, herbivorous mammals, common in the Tertiary formation of the United States.
Ambrosial
Consisting of, or partaking of the nature of, ambrosia; delighting the taste or smell; delicious.
Americanization
The process of Americanizing.
amphibolite
a metamorphic rock composed chiefly of amphibole and plagioclase.
Anadromous
Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc.
Anas
A genus of water fowls, of the order Anseres, including certain species of fresh-water ducks.
Ancestorial
Ancestral.
Anglomaniac
One affected with Anglomania.
Anglo-Norman
One of the English Normans, or the Normans who conquered England.
Animal
An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.
Anisospore
A sexual spore in which the sexes differ in size; -- opposed to .
antefact
Something done before another act.
Anthemis
Chamomile; a genus of composite, herbaceous plants.
Antipyrotic
Good against burns or pyrosis.
Anti-Semitism
Opposition to, or hatred of, Semites, esp. Jews. The word is sometimes also applied to acts motivated by or evincing antisemitism.
Apian
Belonging to bees.
apivorous
feeding on bees; bee-eating.
Aplastic
Not plastic or easily molded.
apneic
of or pertaining to apnea.
Apophlegmatizant
An apophlegmatic.
Apostatic
Apostatical.
Appetible
Desirable; capable or worthy of being the object of desire.
Apply
To suit; to agree; to have some connection, agreement, or analogy; .
Apprenticehood
Apprenticeship.
Apteryges
An order of birds, including the genus Apteryx.
Araba
A wagon or cart, usually heavy and without springs, and often covered.
Araneina
The order of Arachnida that includes the spiders.
Archostomatous
Applied to a gastrula when the blastopore does not entirely close up.
Archangel
A chief angel; one high in the celestial hierarchy.
Ardor
Heat, in a literal sense; .
Argentinian
a native or inhabitant of Argentina.
Aristocratism
The principles of aristocrats.
Arolla
The stone pine ().
articulatio
the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton especially if the articulatio allows motion.
Arundineous
Abounding with reeds; reedy.
Asemia
Loss of power to express, or to understand, symbols or signs of thought.
Asilus
A genus of large and voracious two-winged flies, including the bee killer and robber fly.
Aslant
In a slanting direction over; athwart.
Asomatous
Without a material body; incorporeal.
Assembly
A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for social entertainment.
Astipulate
To assent.
Astraddle
In a straddling position; astride; bestriding; .
Astrolabe
An instrument for observing or showing the positions of the stars. It is now disused.
Astronomy
Astrology.
astrophysicist
an astronomer who studies the physical properties of celestial bodies.
Atropism
A condition of the system produced by long use of belladonna.
Attitude
The posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue.
authoritarian
behaves like a tyrant.
Autocracy
Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.
Avail
To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; .
Avenue
A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may by reached; a way of approach or of exit.
Avis
Advice; opinion; deliberation.
Awakener
One who, or that which, awakens.
Awn
The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista.