apexcardiogram
A diagnostic image produced by apexcardiography.

apexcardiograms
plural of apexcardiogram

apexcardiography
A noninvasive procedure for recording movements of the precordium in order to measure the beat in the cardiac apex.

aphaereses
plural of aphaeresis

aphaeresis
Alternative spelling of apheresis.

aphereses
plural of apheresis

apheresis
Elision, suppression, or complete loss of a letter or sound (syllable) from the beginning of a word, such as the development of special from especial.
The removal of blood from a patient, and the removal of certain components (such as platelets) from that blood, followed by the transfusion of the filtered blood back to the donor (patient).
Extirpation or extraction of a superfluity (especially a pathological one) from the body, especially blood.

aphoresis
Misspelling of apheresis.

aphthong
A letter or combination of letters employed in spelling a word but not pronounced; a silent letter or polygraph

aphthongs
plural of aphthong

aplanat
A lens that has been corrected for spherical aberration and coma in order to produce a rectilinear image.

aplanats
plural of aplanat

apostrophe
The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.

apostrophes
plural of apostrophe

apothem
The perpendicular distance from the center of a circle to a chord of the same circle.
The distance from the center of a regular polygon perpendicular to one of its sides (a special case of the above).

apothems
plural of apothem

apoxyomenoi
plural of apoxyomenos

apoxyomenos
A conventional subject of ancient Greek votive sculpture: an athlete caught in the familiar act of scraping sweat and dust from his body with a strigil.

appalti
plural of appalto

appalto
A contract to assume another party's obligation to supply a product or service.

appaltos
plural of appalto

appoggiatura
A type of musical ornament, falling on the beat, which often creates a suspension and subtracts for itself half the time value of the principal note which follows.

appoggiaturas
plural of appoggiatura

appoggiature
plural of appoggiatura

apsar
An unrecognized currency of Abkhazia.

apsars
plural of apsar

aquarelle
A watercolour (painting)
A printed picture coloured by the application of watercolour through stencils, using a different stencil for each colour.

aquarelles
plural of aquarelle

aquathlon
A swimming-and-running race.

araeosystyle
An arrangement of columns that alternates between araeostyle and systyle.

aramaeogram
Alternative spelling of Arameogram.

aramaeograms
plural of aramaeogram

arameogram
Alternative spelling of Arameogram.

arameograms
plural of arameogram

arccosecant
function that is the compositional inverse of the cosecant function. Symbol: arccsc

arccosecants
plural of arccosecant

arccotangent
An inverse of the cotangent function. Symbol: arccot

arccotangents
plural of arccotangent

archaeomancy
Divination using sacred relics.

archigrapheme
a grapheme which represents any of several graphemes (often causing ambiguity), by analogy with the archiphoneme, which represents several phonemes.

archigraphemes
plural of archigrapheme

archiphoneme
A unit representing two or more underlying phonemes, where the distinction between them has been neutralized under certain conditions.

archiphonemes
plural of archiphoneme

architextualities
plural of architextuality

architextuality
The categories and properties of a literary genre that provide the textuality of an individual work.

archwork
The composition or structure of an arch.

arcsecant
function that is the compositional inverse of the secant function. Symbol: arcsec

arcsecants
plural of arcsecant

arcsine
Any of several single-valued or multivalued functions that are inverses of the sine function. Symbol: arcsin, sin⁻¹

arcsines
plural of arcsine

arctangent
Any of several single-valued or multivalued functions that are inverses of the tangent function. Symbol: arctan, tan⁻¹

arctangents
plural of arctangent

arenite
Any sedimentary rock with a grain size in the sand range on the Wentworth scale.

arenites
plural of arenite

areoversal
A linguistic feature that is recurrent in language varieties in a certain geographical area.

areoversals
plural of areoversal

argyrothecology
The collection of money boxes.

ariaries
plural of ariary

ariary
The currency of Madagascar.

arienzo
An old coin of Castille.

arienzos
plural of arienzo

ariosi
plural of arioso

arioso
A musical style, in opera and oratorio, that is more melodic than recitative, but less so than aria

ariosos
plural of arioso

armageddon
The scene of a decisive conflict on a great scale.
Any great and crucial conflict.
A type of game, usually played when a match would otherwise end in a draw, where black wins drawn games and white is given more time as compensation.

armageddons
plural of armageddon

armenism
A word or other feature originating in the Armenian language that has been borrowed by another language.

armenisms
plural of armenism

arpeggiator
A feature of some synthesizers that automatically steps through a sequence of notes based on an input chord, thus creating an arpeggio.

arpeggiators
plural of arpeggiator

arrhythmy
Lack of rhythm.

arrowback
A chair whose back incorporates a series of tapering vertical bars.

arrowbacks
plural of arrowback

arsis
The stronger part of a musical measure: the part containing the beat.
The stronger part of a metrical foot: the part containing the long (heavy) syllable in quantitative meter, or the stressed syllable in a qualitative meter.
The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar, opposed to the thesis.
The elevation of the voice to a higher pitch in speaking.

artboard
An on-screen design surface in a drawing application.

artboards
plural of artboard

artbook
A book about art, particularly concept art for an animated media production.
A book containing art.

artbooks
plural of artbook

artfest
An art festival

artfests
plural of artfest

articloid
markers of linguistic definiteness that have not become grammaticalized, or incorporated into the grammar of the language

artilects
plural of artilect

artware
Artistic objects such as ornaments and sculpture.

artwares
plural of artware

artwork
A painting, drawing, sculpture or other piece of creative, visual art.
Artistic work.
The graphical elements to be included in a reproduced work.

artworks
plural of artwork

ascoliasm
Festive Athenian boys' game of jumping on a slippery goathide or leatherbag.

asharfi
Alternative form of ashrafi.

asharfis
plural of asharfi

ashik
Alternative form of ashugh.

ashiks
plural of ashik

ashiq
Alternative form of ashugh.

ashiqs
plural of ashiq

ashough
Alternative form of ashugh.

ashoughs
plural of ashough

ashrafee
Alternative form of ashrafi.

ashrafees
plural of ashrafee

ashrafi
A coin of usually gold issued by Muslim dynasties in the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia, worth in India two mohurs.

ashrafis
plural of ashrafi

ashugh
A mystic bard, balladeer, or troubadour in the South Caucasus, Iran or Turkey who accompanied their songs with a long-necked lute (saz).

ashughs
plural of ashugh

asklepian
The symbol of a rod entwined with a serpent, ⟨⚕⟩, which represents healing and medicine.

asklepians
plural of asklepian

asperand
The symbol @; at sign.

asperands
plural of asperand

assicon
An emoticon that takes the form of buttocks.

assicons
plural of assicon

assortment
A collection of varying but related items.

assortments
plural of assortment

asterolecaniid
Any of the scale insects in the family Asterolecaniidae.

asterolecaniids
plural of asterolecaniid