technoporn
A pornographic subgenre of science fiction.
Technology that is presented or viewed with fetishistic fascination.
Erotic materials that rely on technology (e.g. pornography available on the internet, artificially constructed body parts, etc.)

tetherball
A two-person sport where players hit a ball on the end of a tether attached to the top of a pole in opposite directions, and the winner is the one who manages to make the tether wrap all the way round the pole.
The ball in the sport of tetherball.

tetherballs
plural of tetherball

transvestigation
An informal investigation into whether a public figure is secretly transgender, generally conducted by analyzing that person's appearance and anatomical structure.

transvestigations
plural of transvestigation

wyrm
A huge limbless and wingless dragon or dragonlike creature.
A huge limbless and wingless dragon or dragonlike creature.

wyrms
plural of wyrm

zombie computer
A computer connected to the Internet that has been compromised by a hacker by means of a computer virus, computer worm, or Trojan horse program and can be used to perform malicious tasks under the remote direction of the hacker.

zombie computers
plural of zombie computer

aak
A genre of Korean court music

abacination
The act of abacinating, of blinding with the light from hot metal

abacinations
plural of abacination

abakweta
Alternative form of abakwetha.

abakwetas
plural of abakweta

abakwetha
A young Xhosa man undergoing the ritual initiation into manhood.
The traditional initiation period into manhood.
plural of umkhwetha

abakwethas
plural of abakwetha

abalienation
The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement; transferring a legal title.
The transfer of property, such as land, goods, or chattels, from one to another.

abalienations
plural of abalienation

abamp
Alternative form of abampere.

abampere
Unit of electrical current in electromagnetic and Gaussian cgs systems of units, equal to 10 amperes in SI units.

abamperes
plural of abampere

abamps
plural of abamp

abandonability
The quality of being abandonable.

abandoned habits
The clothing worn for horseback riding by the prostitutes on Lady's Mile in Hyde Park (the carriageway along the northern bank of the Serpentine).

abandonedness
The state or quality of being abandoned.

abandonee
One to whom something is abandoned.

abandonees
plural of abandonee

abandonment
The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child; desertion.
An abandoned building or structure.
The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by an inventor; relinquishment of copyright by an author.
The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.
The cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier, as granted by a government agency.
A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its value.
The self-surrender to an outside influence.
Abandon; careless freedom or ease; surrender to one's emotions.

abandonments
plural of abandonment

abandonness
The state, quality, or condition of abandon; abandonment

abarticulation
An articulation, especially one that permits free motion in the joint; a hinge joint.
The act of dislocating a joint.
A term sometimes used for diarthrosis, and also for synarthrosis. Also called dearticulation.

abarticulations
plural of abarticulation

abasedness
The quality of being abased.

abasement
The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low.
The state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.

abasements
plural of abasement

abashedness
The state of being abashed; abashment.

abashment
The state of being abashed; embarrassment from shame.

abashments
plural of abashment

abasure
The condition of being abased; humiliation; abasement

abatee
Someone or something being abated.

abatees
plural of abatee

abatement
The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; a moderation; removal or putting an end to; the suppression.
The deduction of minor revenues incidental to an operation in calculating the cost of the operation.
The action of a person that abates, or without proper authority enters a residence after the death of the owner and before the heir takes possession.
The reduction of the proceeds of a will, when the debts have not yet been satisfied; the reduction of taxes due.
An amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed; in particular from a tax.
A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon; any figure added to the coat of arms tending to lower the dignity or station of the bearer.
Waste of stuff in preparing to size.
A beating down, a putting down.
A quashing, a judicial defeat, the rendering abortive by law.
Forcible entry of a stranger into an inheritance when the person seised of it dies, and before the heir or devisee can take possession; ouster.
rebatement, real or imaginary marks of disgrace affixed to an escutcheon.

abatements
plural of abatement

abatjour
Alternative spelling of abat-jour.

abatjours
plural of abatjour

abaxialization
Conversion to abaxial form

abaxializations
plural of abaxialization

abbacies
plural of abbacy

abbacination
Alternative spelling of abacination.

abbacy
The dignity, estate, term, or jurisdiction of an abbot or abbess.

abbatie
Obsolete form of abbacy.

abbaties
plural of abbatie

abbotric
An abbacy.

abbotrics
plural of abbotric

abbotries
plural of abbotry

abbotry
The position of abbot.

abbotship
The state, term, or office of an abbot; abbacy.

abbr
Alternative spelling of abbr..

abbrev
Alternative spelling of abbrev..

abbreve
An abbreviation.

abbreviation
The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase used to represent the whole, using omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @.
The process of abbreviating.
A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.

abbreviationitis
The excessive use of abbreviations.

abbreviations
plural of abbreviation

abbreviature
An abridgment; a compendium; an abstract.
An abbreviated state or form.
A shortened form of a word or phrase, used in place of the whole; an abbreviation.
The process of abbreviating.

abbreviatures
plural of abbreviature

abbrevn
Abbreviation of abbreviation.

abbrevns
plural of abbrevn

abbrevs
plural of abbrev

abbrs
plural of abbr

abdabs
Extreme nervousness or anxiety; terror; heebie-jeebies.

abdals
plural of abdal

abdelavi
A variety of muskmelon from North Africa and Arabia, Cucumis melo.

abdelavis
plural of abdelavi

abdest
The Islamic act of washing parts of the body using water for ritual prayers and for handling and reading the Qur'an.

abdication
The act of disowning or disinheriting a child.
The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder.
The voluntary renunciation of sovereign power.
The renunciation of interest in a property or a legal claim; abandonment.
The action of being deposed from the seat of power.

abdications
plural of abdication

abdomenoplasty
Misspelling of abdominoplasty.

abdominalgia
Abdominal pain.

abdominalia
A group of cirriped crustaceans having abdominal appendages.