Words starting with a

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abasement means: a low or downcast state

abash means: cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious

abashed means: feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed

abashment means: feeling embarrassed due to modesty

abasia means: inability to walk

abasia trepidans means: abasia due to trembling of the legs

abasic means: of or relating to abasia (inability to walk)

abatable means: capable of being abated

abatable nuisance means: a nuisance that can remedied (suppressed or extinguished or rendered harmless)

abate means: become less in amount or intensity

Words, definitions, meanings and synonyms

aix galericulata means: showy crested Asiatic duck; often domesticated

anglo-saxon means: English prior to about 1100

anglo-saxon means: a native or inhabitant of England prior to the Norman Conquest

anglo-saxon means: a person of Anglo-Saxon (especially British) descent whose native tongue is English and whose culture is strongly influenced by English culture as in WASP for `White Anglo-Saxon Protestant'

anglo-saxon means: of or relating to the Anglo-Saxons or their language

anomalopteryx oweni means: the smallest moa; slender moa about the size of a large turkey

bog rosemary means: wiry evergreen shrub having pendent clusters of white or pink flowers; of wet acidic areas in Arctic and Canada to northeastern United States

drilling platform means: drilling rig consisting of an offshore platform (floating or fixed to the sea bed) from which many oil wells can be bored radially

genus littorina means: type genus of the family Littorinidae: periwinkles

giblets means: edible viscera of a fowl

greenback means: a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)

homogenize means: cause to become equal or homogeneous as by mixing

homogenize means: become homogeneous or similar, as by mixing

homogenize means: break up the fat globules of

javan means: a native or inhabitant of Java

javan means: of or relating to or characteristic of Java or its inhabitants or its language

knap means: break a small piece off from

knap means: strike sharply

labor movement means: an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement

laundrywoman means: a working woman who takes in washing