Word origins

• ablactateTo wean.
• ablaqueateTo lay bare, as the roots of a tree, by loosening or removing soil.
• ablaqueationThe act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water.
• ablatioSynonym of ablation.
• ablatio placentaeSynonym of placental abruption.
• ablatio retinaeDetachment of the retina.
• ablative absoluteA construction in Latin and other sister languages in which an independent phrase with a noun in the ablative case has a participle, adjective, or noun, expressed or implied, which agrees with it in gender, number and case – both words forming a clause grammatically unconnected with the rest of the sentence.
• ablegationExpulsion; banishment.
• abludeTo be unlike; to differ.
• abluentWashing away; carrying off impurities; detergent.
• ablutophobeA person who fears bathing.
• ablutophobiaA pathological fear of washing or bathing.
• ablutophobicOf or pertaining to or suffering from ablutophobia.
• abnegateTo deny (oneself something); to renounce or give up (a right, a power, a claim, a privilege, a convenience).
• abnegativeDenying; renouncing; negative
• abnormousAbnormal; irregular; misshapen.
• abollaA cloak made of a piece of cloth folded double, worn by Ancient Greeks and Romans draped over one shoulder and fastened with a brooch.
• abominatioBdelygmia.
• abominatorOne who abominates.
• abominousAbominable, detestable, execrable.
• aboradAway from the oral opening or mouth (compare with ventral)
• ab ovoFrom the beginning.
• abrasableabradable
• abraseRubbed smooth or blank.
• abreptionA snatching away.
• abrogablecapable of being abrogated.
• abrotanumA bushy wormwood from Europe, sometimes used in the brewing of beer, southernwood, Artemisia abrotanum.
• abscessionA separating; a removal; a going away.
• abscindTo cut off.
• absciseTo cut off.
• abscisionA cutting away.
• abscissTo cut off by abscission.
• abscissio infinitiA logical process of elimination by eliminating successively all of the inapplicable cases.
• absconsioCavity; fossa.
• abscopalDenoting the effect that irradiation of a tissue has on remote nonirradiated tissue.
• absentia epilepticaA momentary lapse of consciousness; a minor epileptic seizure.
• absentialOf or pertaining to absence or to that which is absent.
• absinthiateTo impregnate with wormwood.
• absinthinThe principal compound found in wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), having a bitter taste: C₁₅H₂₀O₄
• absistTo stand apart from; to leave off; to desist.
• absitFormal permission to be away from a college for the greater part of the day or more.
• absit omenMay what is said not come true.
• absolute stateTo sum the indeterminate state and the determinate state in one term.
• absolutoryServing to absolve; absolving; giving absolution.
• absolventAbsolving.
• absolvitorA decision or decree made by a court in favour of the defendant in a given action; dismissal.
• absonantDiscordant; harsh; contrary; unreasonable.
• absonousDiscordant; inharmonious; incongruous.
• absorptabsorbed
• absque dubioWithout doubt; used in pleadings where a statement needs no proof.
• absque hocThe technical words of denial used in denying what has been alleged.
• abstergentCleansing, detergent.
• abstortTo wrest by force or persuasion.
• abstractumSomething which is abstract or exists abstractly.
• abstrictTo cut off, as in abstriction; abjoint
• abstrictionA method of spore formation in fungi in which successive portions of the sporophore are cut off through the growth of septa; abjunction.
• abstringeTo unbind; to loosen.
• abstrudeTo thrust away.
• abstrusionThe act of thrusting away.
• abstrusiveOf abstruse quality.
• absumeTo consume gradually; to waste away.
• absumptionDestruction or disintegration, especially a gradual one; wasting away.
• abundance of cautionCaution used to justify preemptive measures that are likely not strictly necessary.
• AbundiusA male given name from Latin, of historical usage.
• ab utiliFrom utility.
• acalephA member of the former Acalephae group, now a part of the Cnidaria phylum.
• acanthineOf, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus, or its leaves.
• acanthopodiousHaving spinous petioles.
• acatalepticIncapable of being comprehended; incomprehensible; inconceivable.
• AccaophoriA member of a group of 4th century penitants who wore coarse clothing and used water for the Eucharist instead of wine. They have been considered offshoots of the Manichaeans and Marcionists, and were outlawed by Theodosius I along with the Encratites and Hydroparastatæ, with whom they are often confused.
• acceleransA nerve that speeds up the heartbeat by emitting noradrenaline.
• accelero-acceleration
• accensedkindled, incited
• accensionThe act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition.
• acceptilationGratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission.
• accessitAn honorable mention in an academic contest.
• accessusIn electing a pope, a method by which cardinals could change their most recent vote to accede to another candidate in an attempt to reach the necessary two-thirds majority and end the conclave.
• accidensSynonym of accident (“a property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive”).
• accingeTo prepare oneself for action.
• accipientSomeone who, or something which, accepts (willingly receives).
• accismusThe feigning of disinterest in something while actually desiring it.
• accliveSynonym of acclivous (“sloping upwards”).
• acclivoussloping upward; rising like a hillside.
• accrementalRelated to growth or increase by successive additions, particularly in size or volume, often through the gradual deposition of material. This term is used to describe processes or structures that grow by accretion, such as the formation of shells, tree rings, or the buildup of biological tissues.
• accresceTo accrue.
• accrescentGrowing; increasing.
• accubationThe act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals.
• accumbTo recline, as at table.
• accumbentLeaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
• accumulatioA forceful summarisation of previously made points.
• accusableLiable to be accused or censured; chargeable with a crime or breach; blamable
• accusantAn accuser.
• accusativalOf or pertaining to the accusative case.
• accusative absolutein Ancient Greek, less frequent than the genitive absolute but more than the nominative absolute
• accusativus cum infinitivoA syntactic construction, very common in Classical Latin, in which the subject of a subordinate clause is declined for the accusative case and the verb is conjugated for the infinitive mood, used chiefly to express indirect statements.
• accusatrixA female accusator.
• acediaSpiritual or mental sloth and the feeling it provokes; apathy or indifference; a lack of care or interest and the resultant avoidance of duties; a bored melancholy leading to desperation, restlessness and anxiety.
• -aceousOf, relating to, resembling or containing the thing suffixed
• acephaliA people reported by Herodotus and Josephus to have no heads or removable heads.
• acephalusA fetus affected by acephaly.