affectionlessness
The quality, state, or condition of being affectionless.

afterbirth
The placenta and other material expelled via the birth canal following childbirth or parturition in mammals.

afterbirths
plural of afterbirth

agapetae
plural of agapet

aggiornamento
A bringing up to date, especially of the Roman Catholic Church by the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65; modernization.

aggiornamentos
plural of aggiornamento

agiaries
plural of agiary

agiary
A fire temple.

agitpunkts
plural of agitpunkt

agora
A place for gathering.
A marketplace, especially in Classical Greece.

agorae
plural of agora

agorah
Alternative spelling of agora.

agorai
plural of agora

agoranome
Alternative form of agoranomos.

agoranomes
plural of agoranome

agoranomoi
plural of agoranomos

agoranomos
An elected overseer of the marketplace in the cities of Ancient Greece and the Byzantine Empire.

agoras
plural of agora

agorism
A revolutionary political philosophy that advocates the creation of a voluntaryist society by means of counter-economics (i.e. black market).

agorisms
plural of agorism

agorot
plural of agora

agoroth
plural of agora

agriculturalism
A school of Chinese philosophy, prevalent during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (770 to 221 BC), that advocated for peasant utopian communalism and egalitarianism.
Any ideology that promotes agriculture.
The practice of agriculture; agriculturism.

agriforest
A forest of commercial timber

agriforests
plural of agriforest

agrimensor
A land surveyor in Ancient Rome.

agrimensors
plural of agrimensor

agripower
The agricultural capacity of a nation etc. in terms of producing useful crops.

agritourism
A form of tourism in which tourists stay in farms or agricultural villages, either to experience farm life, or as a base for exploring the countryside

agriturismo
A place of agritourism accommodation; a farm that offers tourists lodging as one of its lines of business.
A place of agritourism accommodation; a farm that offers tourists lodging as one of its lines of business.

agriturismos
plural of agriturismo

agrobiome
An agricultural biome

agrobiomes
plural of agrobiome

agrocenoses
plural of agrocenosis

agrocenosis
Synonym of agroecosystem.

agrocoenosis
Alternative form of agrocenosis.

agroeconomies
plural of agroeconomy

agroeconomy
The agricultural economy of a region or country

agroecosystem
A conceptual model of an agricultural system (crop, farm or whole economy), relating its functions to its inputs and outputs.

agroecosystems
plural of agroecosystem

agrogorod
An administrative unit in the USSR, composed of an amalgamation of collective farms.

agrogorods
plural of agrogorod

agrotourism
Alternative form of agritourism.

agrypnocoma
a wakeful yet apathetic, lethargic or partly comatose state

aimag
A kind of administrative subdivision in Mongolia, Russia, and the Inner Mongolia region of China.

aimags
plural of aimag

airblast
A sudden rush of air; often, such a blast in a confined space (such as a mine) right after a disturbance or explosion.

airblasts
plural of airblast

airchain
The route that an audio or video signal travels on its way through a radio station or television station.

airchains
plural of airchain

airfall
The deposition of material (such as ash) ejected from a volcano.

airfalls
plural of airfall

airhouse
An inflatable mobile shelter.

airhouses
plural of airhouse

airigh
A shieling (area of summer pasture).

airighs
plural of airigh

airlink
Radio channel based data connection.
A way of traveling between two places in planes or helicopters.

airlinks
plural of airlink

airpark
A small airport sometimes found near an industrial or business area.

airparks
plural of airpark

airstop
A designated landing site for helicopters.

airsuit
A space suit.

airsuits
plural of airsuit

aisleways
plural of aisleway

akabeko
A red papier-mâché bobblehead cow toy, a kind of regional omiyage regarded as symbolic of the Aizu region of Japan.

alberghi
plural of albergo

albergo
An Italian inn.

albergos
plural of albergo

albero
Densely packed crushed rock covering the ground where a bullfight will take place.

alcatras
Any of various large ocean birds, such as the pelican, gannet, frigatebird, or albatross.

aldeia
In colonial Brazil, a settlement created to assimilate and convert the indigenous population, similar to the Spanish reducción

aldeias
plural of aldeia

aldermanate
The office of an alderman; the municipal legislative body of a city or town.
The members of the aldermanate, collectively.

aldermanates
plural of aldermanate

alebench
A bench at the front of an alehouse or inn where drinkers can sit.

alebenches
plural of alebench

alestake
A stake or pole serving as a sign at an alehouse or inn, often with a garland or "bush" attached.

alestakes
plural of alestake

aljama
A self-governing community of Jews and Moors living under Christian rule in the Iberian Peninsula.

aljamas
plural of aljama

alkalinophile
Alternative form of alkaliphile.

alkalinophiles
plural of alkalinophile

alkaliphile
Any organism that lives and thrives in an alkaline environment, such as a soda lake; a form of extremophile.

alkaliphiles
plural of alkaliphile

alkalophile
Alternative form of alkaliphile.

alkalophiles
plural of alkalophile

allegiance
A loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler.

allegiances
plural of allegiance

allegiancies
plural of allegiancy

allegiancy
Alternative form of allegiance.

allegiaunce
Obsolete form of allegiance.

allegiaunces
plural of allegiaunce

allegience
Misspelling of allegiance.

allochthon
A geological formation not formed in the region where found and moved to its present location by tectonic forces. Compare autochthon.

allochthons
plural of allochthon

allodgement
A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge; billet.
The state or condition of being lodged.

allodgements
plural of allodgement

allophony
Variation in the phonetic realizations of a phoneme; the state of a phoneme having multiple allophones.

alluvia
plural of alluvium

alluviation
The deposition of alluvium (sediment) by a river.

alluviations
plural of alluviation

alluvion
The increase in the area of land due to the deposition of sediment (alluvium) by a river.

alluvions
plural of alluvion

alluvium
soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain

alluviums
plural of alluvium

almamate
The territory ruled by an almami.

almamates
plural of almamate

almshouse
A building of residence for the poor, sick or elderly of a parish. Originally founded by the Church, and usually funded by charitable donations.

almshouses
plural of almshouse.

alp
A very high mountain. Specifically, one of the Alps, the highest chain of mountains in Europe.
An alpine meadow.

alpenstocker
A mountain-climber, especially one that uses an alpenstock.

alpenstockers
plural of alpenstocker

alpinism
Mountain climbing.

alpinisms
plural of alpinism

alpland
Terrain characterized by alps.

alplands
plural of alpland

alps
plural of alp

altarage
The offerings made upon the altar or to a church.
The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes.

altarages
plural of altarage

altarist
Someone responsible for or at a church's altar
Someone responsible for or at a church's altar

altarists
plural of altarist

altarpiece
a work of art suspended above and behind an altar in a church

altarpieces
plural of altarpiece

altepemeh
plural of altepetl

altepetls
plural of altepetl

altermagnetism
A type of persistent magnetic state in ideal crystals.

altigram
A plot of altitudes produced by an altigraph.

altigrams
plural of altigram

altiplano
a high plateau

altiplanos
plural of altiplano

aluminyl
Aluminium in the +1 oxidation state.

alveary
A beehive, or anything resembling a beehive.
The hollow of the external ear.
A repository, especially of knowledge or information.