afterdischarge
Any discharge that occurs after the cause or stimulus has ceased

afterdischarges
plural of afterdischarge

afterglows
plural of afterglow

afterlooks
plural of afterlook

afterpiece
An additional work following the main work; especially, a minor entertainment performed after a play.
The heel of a rudder.

afterpieces
plural of afterpiece

afterpulse
A pulse (of energy) that follows some other event

afterpulses
plural of afterpulse

aftertales
plural of aftertale.

aggravate
To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness.
To make (any bad thing) worse.
To give extra weight or intensity to; to exaggerate, to magnify.
To pile or heap (something heavy or onerous) on or upon someone.
To exasperate; to provoke or irritate.

aggravated
simple past and past participle of aggravate.

aggravates
third-person singular simple present indicative of aggravate

aggravating
present participle and gerund of aggravate

agricolists
plural of agricolist

ail
To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.)
To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled.

ailed
simple past and past participle of ail

ailing
An ailment.

ailings
plural of ailing

ails
plural of ail

airdash
To travel hastily by aircraft; to fly.

airdashed
simple past and past participle of airdash

airdashes
third-person singular simple present indicative of airdash

airdashing
present participle and gerund of airdash

airdrop
The act of delivering goods, equipment, or personnel by dropping them from an aircraft in flight.
The distribution of free tokens to help bootstrap a new cryptocurrency.

airdropped
simple past and past participle of airdrop

airdropping
present participle and gerund of airdrop

airdrops
plural of airdrop

airflare
In breakdancing, an acrobatic maneuver in which the performer, standing on his or her hands, rotates the torso around the vertical axis of the body (extending from the head down vertically) while travelling in a circular path along a plane parallel to the floor.

airflares
plural of airflare

airmark
A recognizable natural or man-made feature used for aerial navigation.

airmarked
simple past and past participle of airmark

airmarking
present participle and gerund of airmark

airmarks
plural of airmark

airpeople
plural of airperson

airplane
A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings.
A game to encourage small children to eat, in which the parent or carer pretends a spoonful of food is an aircraft flying into the child's mouth.

airplaned
simple past and past participle of airplane

airplanes
plural of airplane

airplaning
present participle and gerund of airplane

alight
To make less heavy; to lighten; to alleviate, to relieve.
Often followed by from or off: to get off an animal which one has been riding; to dismount; to descend or exit from a vehicle; hence, to complete one's journey; to stop.
Often followed by at, on, or upon: of something aloft: to descend and settle; to land, to lodge, to rest.
To come down or go down; to descend.
Often followed by on or upon: of a blow, something thrown, etc.: to land heavily.
Often followed by on or upon: to find by accident; to chance upon, to come upon.
To arrive.

alighted
simple past and past participle of alight

alighting
present participle and gerund of alight

alightings
plural of alighting

alights
third-person singular simple present indicative of alight

alit
simple past and past participle of alight

allegoried
simple past and past participle of allegory

allegories
plural of allegory

allegorise
Non-Oxford British spelling of allegorize.

allegorize
To interpret (a picture, story, or other form of communication) to reveal a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.
To create an allegory from (a character, an event or situation, etc.); also, to use one or more symbols to depict (a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences).
Followed by away: to treat (something) as allegorical or symbolic rather than as truth.
To interpret an allegory.
To create or use allegory.

allegorized
simple past and past participle of allegorize

allegorizes
third-person singular simple present indicative of allegorize

allegorizing
present participle and gerund of allegorize

allegorizings
plural of allegorizing

allegory
The use of symbols which may be interpreted to reveal a hidden, broader message, usually a moral or political one, about real-world issues and occurrences; also, the interpretation of such symbols.
A picture, story, or other form of communication in which one or more characters, events, or places are used to reveal a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.
A character or thing which symbolically represents someone or something else; an emblem, a symbol.
A category that retains some of the structure of the category of binary relations between sets, representing a high-level generalization of that category.

allegorying
present participle and gerund of allegory

allegorys
plural of allegory

allied
simple past and past participle of ally

allies
third-person singular simple present indicative of ally

allocute
To make an allocution.

allocuted
simple past and past participle of allocute

allocutes
third-person singular simple present indicative of allocute

allocuting
present participle and gerund of allocute

ally
To unite or form a connection between (people or things), as between families by marriage, or between states by confederacy, league, or treaty.
Chiefly followed by to or with: to connect or form a relation to (someone or something) by similarity in features or nature.
To join or unite (oneself or itself) against, with, etc., someone or something else.
Chiefly followed by with: to enter into an alliance or unite for a common aim.

allyest
second-person singular simple present indicative of ally

allyeth
third-person singular simple present indicative of ally

allying
present participle and gerund of ally

alpenglows
plural of alpenglow

amber
Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.
Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.
A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent or transparent fossil resin from extinct coniferous trees of the pine genus, used for jewellery, decoration and later dissolved as a binder in varnishes. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.
A yellow-orange colour.
The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop when safe to do so. See also yellow light.
The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence.
Hesitance to proceed, or limited approval to proceed; an amber light.

ambered
simple past and past participle of amber

ambering
present participle and gerund of amber

ambers
plural of amber

ambulancepeople
plural of ambulanceperson

amidakuji
Alternative form of Amidakuji.

anal
Of, related to, intended for or involving the anus.
Of the stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is alleged to be concentrated on the anal region.
Of a person, compulsive and stubborn, obsessed with neatness and accuracy (usually in an egosyntonic way), supposedly from not having progressed beyond the anal stage.
Of tasks, questions, subject matter, etc., obsessively fussy or precise.
Of a vein, proximate to the thorax.

analed
simple past and past participle of anal

analing
present participle and gerund of anal

analled
simple past and past participle of anal

analling
present participle and gerund of anal

anals
plural of anal

anchorholds
plural of anchorhold

anelectrodes
plural of anelectrode

angletwitch
An angleworm; earthworm.

angletwitches
plural of angletwitch