astigmatism
A defect of a lens such that light rays coming from a point do not meet at a focal point so that the image is blurred.
A disorder of the vision, usually due to a misshapen cornea, such that light does not focus correctly on the retina causing a blurred image.

astigmatisms
plural of astigmatism

astigmia
astigmatism

astigmias
plural of astigmia

astigmism
Archaic form of astigmatism.

astragalomancy
Any form of divination by dice.
Divination by dice made from huckle-bones. They have four flat sides and two round sides which were marked.
Divination by throwing astragaloi (see etymology above) onto the pages of a picture book.

astragyromancy
Divination by dice.

astrite
Synonym of astroite.

astrites
plural of astrite

astro
Clipping of astrology.
Clipping of astroturf.

astrochronology
The dating of sedimentary units by calibration with astronomically tuned time scales.

astroit
Alternative spelling of astroite.

astroite
A radiated fossil or stone; a starstone.
A star-shaped echinoderm or marine organism.

astroites
plural of astroite

astroits
plural of astroit

astrolinguistics
Synonym of xenolinguistics.

astrologies
plural of astrology

astrology
Divination about human affairs or natural phenomena from the relative positions of celestial bodies.

astromancy
Divination by the stars; astrology in its modern prophetic aspect.

astrophoto
An image of one or more celestial objects made using techniques of astrophotography.

astrophotograph
Alternative form of astrophoto.

astrophotographs
plural of astrophotograph

astrophotos
plural of astrophoto

atari
A move that threatens the immediate capture of one or more stones.

ataries
plural of atari

ataris
plural of atari

ataurique
The use in art or architecture of a repeating decorative motif consisting of a vegetal or floral pattern, especially as formerly practised in Islamic Spain and North Africa.

atbash
A simple substitution cipher in which each occurrence of the first letter of the alphabet is substituted with the last, second with next to last, and so on.

athbash
Alternative form of atbash.

athede
Alternative spelling of atheed.

athedes
plural of athede

atheed
Language.

atheeds
plural of atheed

atompunk
A subgenre of speculative fiction, based on the society and technology of the Atomic Age (c. 1945–1969).

atonalism
The school of atonal musical composition

atonalisms
plural of atonalism

atropodiastereomer
A diastereomeric atropoisomer

atropodiastereomers
plural of atropodiastereomer

attacchi
plural of attacco

attacco
A short musical phrase treated as a point of imitation, for example as the subject of a fugue.

attentisme
A policy of waiting; a waiting game.

aubade
A poem or song evoking or greeting the dawn or early morning.
A poem or song evoking or greeting the dawn or early morning.
A concert held at dawn or in the morning, especially outdoors.

aubades
plural of aubade

audiobook
A recording, usually made available for sale, of a reading of the full text or of an abridgement of a book.

audiobooks
plural of audiobook

audiocast
An audio recording or broadcast available on the Internet, especially a podcast.

audiocasts
plural of audiocast

audiolingualism
The audiolingual method of language learning.

audiospectrogram
A spectrogram of sound frequencies

audiospectrograms
plural of audiospectrogram

audiotext
text converted into a spoken or audible form

audiotexts
plural of audiotext

auguration
augury; divination

auksinas
Either of two currencies of Lithuania: a silver coin minted in 1564, or a German ostmark banknote that circulated in the aftermath of World War I.

aurar
plural of eyrir

aureola
Radiance of luminous cloud that surrounds the figure in a painting of a sacred personage.
An increment to the ordinary blessedness of heaven gained by virgins, martyrs, and doctors for their triumph respectively over the flesh, the world, and the devil.

aureolae
plural of aureola

aureolas
plural of aureola

auspication
Divination by birds; auspice.

auspications
plural of auspication

austromancy
Soothsaying or divination from observing the winds or clouds.

autobattler
A game in which players place characters on a grid before the start of the battle. After the battle starts, the characters fight automatically and no further input is required from the players.

autobattlers
plural of autobattler

autobid
A bid for a sports team to participate in a tournament, based on objective performance in prior competition.

autobids
plural of autobid

autobio
autobiography

autobiog
An autobiography.

autobiographies
plural of autobiography

autobiography
A self-written biography; the story of one's own life.
Biographies of this kind regarded as a literary genre.

autobiogs
plural of autobiog

autobios
plural of autobio

autocorrellogram
Misspelling of autocorrelogram.

autocorrelogram
A correlogram, especially one that shows autocorrelations

autocorrelograms
plural of autocorrelogram

autocropping
automatic cropping of an image

autoethnographies
plural of autoethnography

autoethnography
An ethnographic study drawing on one's own anecdotal or personal experience, or an approach to conducting research in which anecdotal or personal experience is foregrounded.

autoglossonym
The name of a language in that specific language.

autoglossonyms
plural of autoglossonym

autoglottonym
Synonym of autoglossonym.

autoglottonyms
plural of autoglottonym

autoluminogram
An image produced by autoluminography

autoluminograms
plural of autoluminogram

automathography
An autobiography of one's own experiences with mathematics.

automatogram
The graphical output of an automatograph

automatograms
plural of automatogram

autonoesis
The neurocognitive ability to experience time as a series of subjective episodes.

autopisty
The authentication of a text based on internal evidence.

autopsychoanalysis
psychoanalysis of oneself

autoradioluminogram
An image produced by autoradioluminography

autoradioluminograms
plural of autoradioluminogram

autorewind
automatic rewinding (of an audio or video cassette, the film in a camera, etc.)

auxanogram
A culture of microorganisms used in auxanography.

auxanograms
plural of auxanogram

auxlang
A constructed auxiliary language.

auxlangs
plural of auxlang

avagraha
A symbol (ऽ) used in the Devanagari script and other Indian scripts, used to mark vocalic gemination or the elision of the inherent vowel a in the process of sandhi in Sanskrit.

avagrahas
plural of avagraha

avaz
An unmetered vocal section of a mode in Persian music.

avazes
plural of avaz

aversio
Apostrophe.

awari
An African game of strategy, played by moving seeds on a board.

awdl
A long poem written in Welsh using cynghanedd and one of twenty-four strict meters.

awdlau
plural of awdl

awdls
plural of awdl

ayde
Obsolete spelling of aid.

ayin
The sixteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

ayins
plural of ayin

azbuka
The Cyrillic alphabet.

azonto
A Ghanaian style of music and dance with accompanying hand movements.

backbeat
The sharp accent on the second and fourth beats of rock music in 4/4 time.

backfile
A file of documents in paper or fiche format that have no digital equivalent.
A file containing non-current items.

backfiles
plural of backfile

backglass
An upright graphic panel mounted on the front of the backbox and decorated with game artwork.

backglasses
plural of backglass

backlinker
A program or process that maintains backlinks (references to objects on another server).

backlinkers
plural of backlinker

backmasking
A recording technique in which a sound or message is deliberately recorded backwards in a track that is meant to be played forwards.

backsolver
A program or algorithm that backsolves.

backsolvers
plural of backsolver

backtick
The symbol `, resembling a reversed quotation mark.

backticks
plural of backtick