ABERRATION | • aberration n. The act of wandering; deviation from truth, moral rectitude; abnormal; divergence from the straight… • aberration n. (Optics) The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one… • aberration n. (Astronomy) A small periodical change of the apparent positions of the stars and other heavenly bodies… |
ABNEGATION | • abnegation n. A denial; a renunciation; denial of desire or self-interest. • ABNEGATION n. an act of abnegating. |
ABOMINATED | • abominated v. Simple past tense and past participle of abominate. • ABOMINATE v. to loathe. |
ABOMINATES | • abominates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abominate. • ABOMINATE v. to loathe. |
ABREACTION | • abreaction n. (Psychoanalysis) The re-living of an experience with a view to purging its emotional dross. • ABREACTION n. the resolution of a neurosis by reviving forgotten or repressed ideas of the event first causing it. |
ABROGATIVE | • abrogative adj. Tending or designed to abrogate. • ABROGATIVE adj. relating to annulment. |
ACTIONABLE | • actionable adj. That can be acted on; that can be used as the basis for taking action. • actionable adj. (Law) Affording grounds for legal action. • ACTIONABLE adj. that can be actioned. |
AEROBATICS | • aerobatics n. Spectacular stunts, performed in an airplane or glider. Examples include various types of rolls and loops. • AEROBATICS n. spectacular flying feats and maneuvers (as rolls and dives). |
AMETABOLIC | • ametabolic adj. (Entomology) Not undergoing metamorphosis. • AMETABOLIC adj. of insects, showing little or no metamorphosis, also AMETABOLOUS. |
ANABOLITES | • anabolites n. Plural of anabolite. • ANABOLITE n. a product of anabolism, the constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from katabolism. |
ARBORVITAE | • arborvitae n. Any of several North American or Asian conifers, of the genera Thuja and Thujopsis or the species Platycladus… • arborvitae n. (Anatomy) The white nerve tissue of the cerebellum that has a branching structure. • arbor␣vitae n. Any of the evergreen trees and shrubs known as arborvitae, of the genera Thuja and Thujopsis, or of… |
BALNEATION | • balneation n. (Formal) The act of bathing. • balneation n. The administration of public baths. • BALNEATION n. the act of bathing. |
CATABOLISE | • catabolise v. Alternative form of catabolize. • CATABOLISE v. to subject to catabolism, destructive chemical processes in living creatures, also CATABOLIZE. |
CATABOLITE | • catabolite n. (Biochemistry) Any substance produced during catabolism. • CATABOLITE n. a product of catabolism, destructive chemical processes in living creatures. |
CATABOLIZE | • catabolize v. (Intransitive) To undergo catabolism. • catabolize v. (Transitive) To cause (a substance) to undergo catabolism. • catabolize v. (Transitive) To produce (a substance) by catabolism. |
DEALBATION | • dealbation n. (Chemistry, archaic) The process or act of becoming or being made white, most commonly by bleaching; whitening. • DEALBATION n. whitening; bleaching. |
ISOLATABLE | • ISOLATABLE adj. that can be isolated. |
OBTAINABLE | • obtainable adj. Able to be obtained. • OBTAINABLE adj. that can be obtained. |
SAILBOATER | • sailboater n. One who sails a sailboat. • SAILBOATER n. one who sails a sailing-boat. |
TRABEATION | • trabeation n. (Architecture) Beams used instead of arches or vaulting. • trabeation n. (Architecture) An entablature. • TRABEATION n. a construct of horizontal beams. |