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

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anguine means: of or related to or resembling a snake

bicorned means: having two horns or horn-shaped parts

canonization means: (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church) the act of admitting a deceased person into the canon of saints

cingulum means: (anatomy) an encircling structure (as the ridge around the base of a tooth)

claude e. shannon means: United States electrical engineer who pioneered mathematical communication theory (1916-2001)

craniometric means: of or relating to craniometry

crescent wrench means: an adjustable wrench designed to fit hexagonal nuts with the adjusting screw built into the head of the wrench

guile means: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

guile means: the quality of being crafty

guile means: shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

halloo means: a shout to attract attention

halloo means: shout `halloo', as when greeting someone or attracting attention

halloo means: urge on with shouts

invalidator means: an official who can invalidate or nullify

perimysium means: the sheath of connective tissue that covers a bundle of muscle fibers

poroporo means: Australian annual sometimes cultivated for its racemes of purple flowers and edible yellow egg-shaped fruit

regrow means: grow anew or continue growth after an injury or interruption

relativism means: (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that all criteria of judgment are relative to the individuals and situations involved

shevat means: the fifth month of the civil year: the eleventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in January and February)

stingaree-bush means: spiny evergreen xerophytic shrub having showy rose and purple flowers and forming dense thickets; of dry rocky mountain slopes of California