acupressure
An alternative medicine technique, derived from acupuncture, in which physical pressure is applied to acupoints.
An act or instance of applying an acupressure technique.
A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface.

acupressures
plural of acupressure

acupunctuation
A pricking with or as if with a needle; the practice of acupuncture.

acupuncturation
Acupuncture

acupuncturations
plural of acupuncturation

acustimulation
Electrical stimulation of an acupuncture point, typically to control nausea following chemotherapy

acustimulations
plural of acustimulation

acuteness
The quality of being acute or pointed.
Of the senses or feelings: the faculty of precise discernment or perception; sensitiveness.
Of sounds: shrillness; high pitch.
Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.
Shrewdness, quickness of mind.

acutenesses
plural of acuteness

acutherapies
plural of acutherapy

acutherapy
Any therapy involving acupoints, such as acupuncture or acupressure.

acutissimin
A particular ellagitannin.

acutobin
Any of a group of serine glycoprotein proteases.

acutobins
plural of acutobin

acyanoblepsia
Inability to see the colour blue.

acyanopia
A form of color blindness: the inability to distinguish blue.

acyanopsia
Alternative form of acyanopia.

acyanosis
The absence of cyanosis.

acyclicality
The quality of being acyclical.

acyclicity
The property of being acyclic.

acyesis
The inability to conceive; sterility.
The state of not being pregnant.

acylation
The process of adding an acyl group to a compound.

acylations
plural of acylation

acylindricity
The quality of being acylindrical.

acyloxylation
Any reaction that adds an acyloxy group

acyloxylations
plural of acyloxylation

acyrologia
inexact, inappropriate or improper use of a word

acyron
The use of words incompatible with or contrary to the speaker's meaning.

adage
An old saying which has obtained credit by long use.
An old saying which has been overused or considered a cliché; a trite maxim.

adages
plural of adage

adagies
plural of adagy

adagy
Obsolete form of adage.

adamance
The quality of being adamant

adamancies
plural of adamancy

adamancy
The property of being adamant.

adamitism
Rare form of Adamitism.

adaptabilities
plural of adaptability

adaptability
The quality of being adaptable; a quality that renders adaptable.
Variability in respect to, or under the influence of, external conditions; susceptibility of an organism to that variation whereby it becomes suited to or fitted for its conditions of environment; the capacity of an organism to be modified by circumstances.

adaptableness
The state or quality of being adaptable; adaptability.

adaptation
The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.
A change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment.
The process of change that an organism undergoes to be better suited to its environment.
An instance of an organism undergoing change, or the structure or behavior that is changed.
The process of adapting an artistic work from a different medium.
An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.
The means by which social groups adapt to different social and physical environments.

adaptationism
The view that many traits of organisms are evolved adaptations.
A set of methods for distinguishing traits resulting from adaptation from those arising through other processes.
The belief that all traits are adaptations brought about by natural selection, when some are only functionless by-products (also called "spandrels").

adaptations
plural of adaptation

adaptativeness
Adaptability.

adaptativity
The condition of being adaptative

adaptedness
The state of being adapted; suitableness; fitness.
The result of being adapted.

adaptednesses
plural of adaptedness

adaptee
A class that is converted to another class using a so-called adapter class.

adaption
Alternative form of adaptation.

adaptionism
Alternative form of adaptationism.

adaptions
plural of adaption

adaptitude
Adaptedness; special aptitude.

adaptitudes
plural of adaptitude

adaptiveness
The state or quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.

adaptivenesses
plural of adaptiveness

adaptivities
plural of adaptivity

adaptivity
The state or quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.

adaptness
The state of being fitted; adaptation; aptness

adaptometry
The measurement of threshold of brightness by means of an adaptometer

adaptomics
The use of genomics in the study of adaptation

adarme
A traditional Spanish unit of mass, equivalent to about 1.8 g.
Synonym of peso, during periods when it was a Spanish coin notionally equivalent to an adarme of gold.

adarticulation
arthrodia

adarticulations
plural of adarticulation

adat
Traditional custom or law, in Islamic parts of Southeast Asia.

adats
plural of adat

adaxialization
The process, or the result of adaxializing

adaxializations
plural of adaxialization

adblocking
The use of an adblocker to remove advertising from the display of a webpage

adcumulate
A cumulate rock in which the groundmass is of the same composition as the accumulated crystals.

addability
Alternative spelling of addibility.

addback
An expense that is added back to normalize earnings.

addibility
Capability of addition; capability of being added to or added together.

addictedness
The quality or state of being addicted; attachment.
The degree of addiction.

addiction
A state that is characterized by compulsive drug use or compulsive engagement in rewarding behavior, despite negative consequences.
The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination.
A habit or practice that damages, jeopardizes or shortens one's life but when ceased causes trauma.
A pathological relationship to mood altering experience that has life damaging consequences.

addictionology
The study and treatment of addiction.

addictions
plural of addiction

addictiveness
The characteristic of being addictive.

addictivities
plural of addictivity

addictivity
The characteristic of being addictive.

addictology
The study of addictions.
The practice of treating addictions.

addictovigilance
The active identification, investigation, and evaluation of addiction in the environment

addiment
Synonym of complement.

addiments
plural of addiment

additament
An addition; something added.

additaments
plural of additament

addition
The act of adding anything.
Anything that is added.
The arithmetic operation of adding.
A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half.
A title annexed to a person's name to identify him or her more precisely.
Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honour.
an organic reaction where two or more molecules combine to form a larger one (the adduct).

additions
plural of addition

additiveness
additivity

additivities
plural of additivity

additivity
The property of being additive.
The extent to which something is additive.

addleheadedness
The quality of being addleheaded.

addleness
The state or quality of being addle.

addlepatedness
The quality of being addlepated.

addn
Abbreviation of addition.

addon
Alternative form of add-on.

addons
plural of addon

addressal
The act of addressing (in various senses).

addressals
plural of addressal

addressation
The identification, by an addresse, of an address of an assertion intended by a speaker

addressedness
The state or quality of being addressed.

addression
The act of addressing or directing one's course.

addressions
plural of addression

addressivities
plural of addressivity

addressivity
The quality of being addressive, of engaging in communication for the sake of one's interlocutor

addresslessness
Absence of an address or addresses.