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aporrhaidAny mollusk in the family Aporrhaidae.
aporrheaThe absence of a discharge or secretion.
aporton the left side of the boat
aposafraninebenzinduline
aposaturniumApoapsis around Saturn
aposcopolamineAn alkaloid present in several nightshades
aposeleneApoapsis around the moon.
aposeleniumThe point of a body's elliptical orbit about the moon's centre of mass where the distance between the body and the centre of mass is at its maximum.
aposematicThat serves as a warning to predators, as of toxicity, especially falsely.
aposematicallyIn an aposematic manner.
aposematismAn adaptation, especially a form of coloration, that warns off potential predators.
aposepalousHaving multiple, distinct sepals
aposiderophoreThe apoprotein of a siderophore
aposiopesisAn abrupt breaking-off in speech, often indicated in print using an ellipsis (…) or an em dash (—).
aposiopeticOf or pertaining to aposiopesis.
aposomaticRelating to an aposome
aposomeAny body within a cell
AposongA barangay of Piagapo, Lanao del Sur, Philippines.
aposporicallyBy means of apospory.
aposporousrelating to apospory
aposporouslyBy means of apospory.
aposporyThe ability of a plant's sporophytes to form a plant that looks like a gametophyte but has the ploidy level of the sporophyte.
apostasisThe abnormal disunion of parts that are normally united.
apostasizeSynonym of apostatize.
apostasyThe renunciation of a belief or set of beliefs.
apostateExhibiting apostasy; (from the religious viewpoint) guilty of apostasy.
apostaticApostate.
apostaticalApostate.
apostaticallyIn an apostatic manner.
apostatizeTo give up or renounce one's position or belief.
apostaxisThe abnormal loss of nutritive or secreted fluids by bleeding, gumming etc.
apostemateTo become an aposteme; to pustulate.
apostemationThe formation of an aposteme; the process of suppuration.
apostematousOf or pertaining to an aposteme; having the nature of an aposteme; characterised by apostemes.
apostemeAn abscess; a pustulent swelling.
aposteriorismThe view that all knowledge is derived from sense experience; empiricism as opposed to apriorism.
aposterioristicA posteriori; based on experience and observation.
aposthiaThe congenital absence of a foreskin.
aposthicOf or pertaining to aposthia.
apostilA marginal note; a gloss.
apostilba unit of luminance, being the luminance of a perfectly diffusing surface emitting light at the rate of ¹⁄_π candela per square metre. Also known as a blondel.
apostilleA special certification established in 1961 for certifying foreign documents.
apostleA missionary, or leader of a religious mission, especially one in the early Christian Church (but see Apostle).
apostlebirdA gregarious gray and brown bird native to Australia, Struthidea cinerea
apostlehoodThe state of being an apostle.
apostlesLetters dismissory.
apostleshipThe position, post, or duty of being an apostle.
apostlessA female apostle.
ApostolA surname from Spanish or Romanian.
ApostolacheA village and commune of Prahova County, Romania.
apostoladoA series of portraits of the apostles, sometimes also including those of Jesus Christ or other close disciples of Christ.
apostolateThe office, or responsibilities of an apostle.
ApostolescuA surname from Romanian.
apostolicPertaining to apostles or their practice or teaching; pertaining to the apostles (of early Christianity) or their teachings.
apostolicalApostolic.
apostolicallyIn an apostolic way.
apostolicalnessThe state or quality of being apostolical.
ApostoliciAny of various Christian heretics whose common doctrinal feature was an ascetic rigidity of morals, which made them reject property and marriage.
apostolicismThe quality of being apostolical; apostolicity.
apostolicityThe quality of being apostolic, notably of preserving authenticity within the mission and tradition of the Christian church as founded by Jesus Christ and his twelve original Apostles, through their representatives and successors in the papacy and episcopate.
apostolicnessThe state or quality of being apostolic.
ApostolicshipThe office of a Pope
apostoliseTo proselytize.
apostolizeTo convert; to proselytize.
ApostolosA male given name from Ancient Greek.
ApostoloveA town in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, in eastern Ukraine.
apostomeAny ciliate of the order Apostomatida
apostosisnaturally occurring cell death.
apostrophalOf or relating to an apostrophe.
apostrophationPersonal address via apostrophe (an exclamatory speech).
apostropheThe text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.
apostrophectomyThe removal of incorrect apostrophes, especially those wrongly used to form plurals (greengrocer's apostrophes).
apostrophedWritten with an apostrophe.
apostrophelessWithout an apostrophe.
apostrophicPertaining to the rhetoric use of, or using, apostrophe (sudden, exclamatory dialogue).
apostrophicallyUsing apostrophe; with sudden exclamatory dialogue.
apostrophiseNon-Oxford British spelling of apostrophize.
apostrophizationThe use of apostrophe characters.
apostrophizeTo deliver an apostrophe (a speech, typically exclamatory) to someone, especially someone not present in person as a participant in the conversation, even someone imaginary.
apostrophizerOne who apostrophizes.
apostrophusThe omission of a vowel or syllable from a word, usually indicated by the apostrophe symbol ( ' ). examples: 'til, can't
apostructureThe structure of the apoprotein form of a protein after its metal atom has been removed
aposymbiontAn aposymbiotic symbiont
aposymbiosisA form of symbiosis in which two species live independently of each other, but their life cycles affect one another.
aposymbioticOf or pertaining to aposymbiosis
aposymbioticallyIn an aposymbiotic manner
aposyndeticHaving the property that for all points x distinct from a specified point p, there is a compact connected neighborhood of p that does not include x.
ApotacticSynonym of Apotactite.
ApotacticiThe Apotactites.
ApotactiteOne of an ancient sect of Christians in Asia Minor, originating in the third century AD, who renounced all their possessions.
apotargetAn apoprotein that is the target of a biochemical reaction.
apoteleA scalloped ridge around the edge of an otolith.
apotelesmThe calculation and explanation of a horoscope.
apotelesmaThe end result or fulfilment, especially concerning the hypostatic union of Christ's divine and human natures.
apotelesmaticRelating to the casting of horoscopes.
apotelesmaticalapotelesmatic
apotemnophiliaA psychological disorder characterized by the intense and long-standing desire for amputation of a specific limb.
apotemnophilicOf or pertaining to apotemnophilia.
apotemnophobiaA fear of amputation (afraid that one will lose appendages), fear of amputations (fear of amputations on others), fear of amputees (persons with amputations).
apothecalRelating to drugs or pharmacy.
apothecarialCharacteristic of an apothecary.
apothecaristSynonym of apothecary.
apothecarySynonym of pharmacist: a person who sells medicine, especially (historical) one who made and sold their own medicines in the medieval or early modern eras.
apothecaryshipThe state or period of working as an apothecary.
apothecialRelating to the apothecium.
apotheciateConsisting of an apothecium.
apothecioidResembling an apothecium.
apotheciumA type of fructification of some ascomycete fungi, forming cyst structures of various shapes. Often the fungal components of lichens have this sort of fertile structure.
apothegmA short, witty, instructive saying; an aphorism or maxim.
apothegmaticRelating to, or in the manner of, an apothegm; sententious; pithy.
apothegmaticalRelating to, or in the manner of, an apothegm; sententious; pithy.
apothegmaticallyIn an apothegmatic way.
apothegmatistA collector or maker of apothegms.
apothegmatizeTo utter apothegms (short witty sayings).
apothegmicapothegmatic
apothekeA Greek storeroom or warehouse.
apothemThe perpendicular distance from the center of a circle to a chord of the same circle.
apotheoseSynonym of apotheosize.
apotheosisThe fact or action of becoming or making into a god; deification.
apotheosizeTo deify; to convert into a god.
apotheoticRelating to apotheosis.
apotheoticallyIn an apotheotic manner.
apothesineA particular anesthetic drug.
apothesisA place on the south side of the chancel in primitive churches, furnished with shelves, for books, vestments, etc.
apothisexualBeing on the asexual spectrum and being repulsed by sexual acts.
apothisexualityThe state of being apothisexual; a sexuality on the asexual spectrum in which an individual feels repulsion towards sex or sexual acts.
apotomeThe difference between two quantities or lengths commensurable only in power, as between 1 and the square root of 2, or between the diagonal and side of a square.
apotomizeddivided by, or cut at an apotome
apotopean immunogenic epitope expressed on apoptotic cells
apotrachealNot associated with vascular tracheids
apotransaminaseThe apoenzyme of a transaminase
apotransferrinThe apoprotein of transferrin
apotrepticDesigned to dissuade.
apotropaicIntended to ward off evil.
apotropaicallyIn an apotropaic manner.
apotropaionSomething that wards off evil; an amulet or magic charm.
apotropaismThe use of ritual or other magical means (including charms and/or incantations) to avert evil or bad luck.
apotropousAnatropous, with the raphe ventral.
apotypeA hypotype that has supplementary descriptions
apotypicRelating to an apotype
apotyrosinaseThe apoprotein of a tyrosinase
apouranionApoapsis around Uranus.
apoutProtruding to form a pout.
apovincamineA vasodilator.
apovitelleninAny of a group of avian lipoproteins
apoxiaaltitude sickness
ApoxseeA ghost town in Florida, United States.
apoxyomenosA conventional subject of ancient Greek votive sculpture: an athlete caught in the familiar act of scraping sweat and dust from his body with a strigil.
apozemA decoction or infusion.
apozemicalOf or relating to a decoction or infusion.

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