acidimeterAn instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids.
acidimetryThe measurement of the strength of acids, especially by a chemical process based on the law of chemical combinations, or the fact that, to produce a complete reaction, a certain definite weight of reagent is required.
-adA unit or set (especially of a specified number).
adarceA salty concretion found on reeds and grasses in marshy grounds. Soft and porous, it was formerly used for cleansing the skin and to treat leprosy. Nowadays it is unclear as to the exact nature of the substance.
ad coelumThe principle by which property rights extend vertically upwards and, sometimes, downwards from a property; it is used to describe air rights or no-fly zones, as well as rights to resources under the soil, such as mineral rights, among others.
AdessenarianA believer in the real presence of Christ's body in the Eucharist, but not by transubstantiation; Chiefly applied to certain followers of Martin Luther.
adfectedHaving different powers of the unknown quantity in its various terms.
adiopocereA wax-like organic substance formed by the decay, in a wet and low-oxygen environment (anaerobic bacterial hydrolysis), of a dead body's fat.
adlegationA right formerly claimed by the states of the German Empire of joining their own ministers with those of the emperor in public treaties and negotiations to the common interest of the empire.
adnateLinked or fused to a structure of a type different from itself; for example, attachment of a stamen to a petal is adnate, while attachment of a stamen to another stamen is connate.
adosculationimpregnation by external contact, without intromission
adpositionAn element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context; a preposition or postposition.
AdrumentiansA sect of monks in Adrumetum who misinterpreted Augustine of Hippo's 195th epistle and thus developed antinomian and proto-predestinarian belifes.
adscititiousDerived or acquired from something extrinsic; not part of the real, inherent, or essential nature of a thing.
adscriptA feudal serf or labourer who is attached to an estate and sold or transferred with it.
advectitiousBrought to a place from somewhere else; imported, foreign.
advenientCaused by outside forces; coming from without; external, additional.
ad verecundiamAppeal to authority, argument from authority.
advergenceThe evolution of a mimic to resemble its model more closely.
adversaria(treated as plural) A collection of miscellaneous notes, remarks, or fragments of writing, typically preserved in a notebook. Originally, a book of accounts, so named from the placing of debt and credit in opposition to each other.
advolutionA rolling toward something; goal orientation.
aegerAbsent and excused from one’s classes due to illness
aegrotatA certificate indicating that a student is ill, excusing attendance at lectures and examinations and allowing courses to be passed without finishing the work.
AequianOf or relating to that ancient people who resided in Italy.
aetonormativityAny assumption of an age-based norm and particularly the assumption that adults and adult experiences are normative while children and childish experiences are consequently deviant or other.
affabrousExecuted in a workmanlike manner; ingeniously made.