airgasm
A relief or pleasure accompanying an increased quantity of air.
A relief or pleasure accompanying an increased quantity of air.

airgasms
plural of airgasm

airphoto
A photograph taken from the air, for example to study terrain.

airphotos
plural of airphoto

airplay
The playing of a particular song, band or genre on the radio, or the frequency with which it is played.

airplays
plural of airplay

airstaff
The staff of a radio station whose voices are broadcast.

airstaffs
plural of airstaff

aitia
plural of aition

aition
An origin story or myth in Ancient Greece.

akanbe
A taunting Japanese gesture of pulling down one's eyelid and sticking out one's tongue.

akhyana
A traditional Indian musical theater performance, telling stories from religious texts.

akhyanas
plural of akhyana

alaap
Alternative form of alap.

alaaps
plural of alaap

alabado
A Mexican Catholic devotional hymn.

alabados
plural of alabado

alalagmos
A war cry of Ancient Greece.

alap
The opening, improvised section of a Classical raga performance, before the formal recitation.

alapa
Alternative form of alap.

alapas
plural of alapa

alaps
plural of alap

albertstaler
Alternative form of albertustaler.

albertstalers
plural of albertstaler

albertsthaler
Alternative form of albertustaler.

albertsthalers
plural of albertsthaler

albertustaler
A coin containing silver, first minted in the Spanish Netherlands at the turn of the 17th century.

albertustalers
plural of albertustaler

albertusthaler
Alternative form of albertustaler.

albertusthalers
plural of albertusthaler

aleuromancy
divination using flour or related products such as dough or cakes and fortune cookies

alhaji
Alternative form of hajji.

alhajis
plural of alhaji

alignment
An arrangement of items in a line.
The process of adjusting a mechanism such that its parts are aligned; the condition of having its parts so adjusted.
An alliance of factions.
The goals and values of an artificial intelligence, considered relative to human ethical standards.
One of a set number of moral positions or philosophies a character can take.
The conjunction of two celestial objects.
The precise route or course taken by a linear way (road, railway, footpath, etc.) between two points.
A way of arranging DNA, RNA or protein sequences in order to identify regions of similarity.
ground plan of a canal or road

alignments
plural of alignment

alinement
Alternative spelling of alignment.

alinements
plural of alinement

aljamiado
Text of non-Semitic languages, especially European languages, written in Arabic letters.

alkayida
A Ghanaian dance with an emphasis on side-to-side moves, sometimes performed as a group.

allegeance
Alleviation, relief.

allegeances
plural of allegeance

allegeaunce
Obsolete form of allegeance.

allegeaunces
plural of allegeaunce

allignment
Archaic form of alignment.

allignments
plural of allignment

allocher
In a sign language, any of two or more alternative hand signs for a chereme.

allochers
plural of allocher

alloglottographies
plural of alloglottography

alloglottography
A direct translation of an utterance from one language to another such that the original utterance can be unambiguously and correctly recovered.

allotopies
plural of allotopy

allotopy
A contradiction between two basic meaning traits (semes) within a story.

alloverness
The non-differential treatment of the surface of a two-dimensional artwork such as a painting, giving it a sense of uniformity and a lack of focus.

almanac
A book or table listing nautical, astronomical, astrological or other events for the year; sometimes, but not essentially, containing historical and statistical information.
A handbook, typically published annually, containing information on a particular subject.
A GPS signal consisting of coarse orbit and status information for each satellite in a satellite constellation.

almanack
Archaic spelling of almanac.

almanacks
plural of almanack

almanacs
plural of almanac

alphageometrics
A display made up of text characters combined with vector graphics (once an advanced form of videotex, introduced by the Telidon system).

alphametic
A puzzle that presents an arithmetic problem with letters in place of the digits, the reader challenged to deduce which digit corresponds to each letter.

alphametics
plural of alphametic

alphasyllabaries
plural of alphasyllabary

alphasyllabary
A segmental writing system in which consonant–vowel sequences are written as a unit, and where each unit is based on a consonant letter, and vowel notation is secondary; an abugida.

alquerque
An ancient strategy board game, an ancestor of checkers, thought to have originated in the Middle East.

altcoin
A cryptocurrency other than bitcoin.

altcoins
plural of altcoin

altigraph
An altimeter that makes a recording on a chart.

altigraphs
plural of altigraph

altilik
A Turkish coin worth six piastres.

altiliks
plural of altilik

altiloquence
Pompous language; lofty speech.

altin
Alternative form of altyn (“obsolete Russian coin”).

altins
plural of altin

altlang
A constructed language created as an alternate history of a real language.

altlangs
plural of altlang

altyn
An obsolete Russian coin worth three kopeks.
A proposed common currency for the Eurasian Economic Union.

altyns
plural of altyn

amasumo
amateur sumo

ambage
Evasive or ambiguous language; circumlocution.
An indirect or obscure path.

ambigram
A calligraphic design that may be read as the same word or phrase (or sometimes different words or phrases) when oriented in two different ways, usually when reflected along a vertical or horizontal axis or when rotated through 180 degrees.

ambilogy
Words or language of doubtful meaning.

ambiloquies
plural of ambiloquy

ambiloquy
Ambiguous language.

ambrosin
An early coin struck by the dukes of Milan, and bearing the effigy of St. Ambrose on its horseback.
The sesquiterpene lactone (3aS,6S,6aR,9aR,9bR)-6,9a-dimethyl-3-methylidene-3a,4,5,6,6a,9b-hexahydroazuleno[8,7-b]furan-2,9-dione present in Ambrosia maritima

ambrosins
plural of ambrosin

ambulomancy
Any of various forms of divination that involve walking, often in circles.

amende
A monetary punishment; a fine.

amendes
plural of amende

amercement
A non-statutory monetary penalty or forfeiture, usually applied at the discretion of a court.

amercements
plural of amercement

amerciament
Alternative form of amercement.

amerciaments
plural of amerciament

amniomancy
Divination based on the characteristics of the amniotic sac at childbirth.

amogi
plural of amogus

amogus
A crewmate or impostor character from the video game Among Us.

amoguses
plural of amogus

amphigaster
Synonym of amphigastrium.

amphigasters
plural of amphigaster

amphigastria
plural of amphigastrium

amphigastrium
A small scale-like leaf on the underside of stems of certain liverworts.

amphigories
plural of amphigory

amphigory
A nonsense verse; a rigmarole, which is meaningless despite possibly appearing to have meaning.

amphiscii
amphiscians

ampullosity
turgidity of language; bombast

amylogram
The graphical record of an amylograph

amylograms
plural of amylogram

anacatharsis
Vomiting (emesis) or expectoration.

anaglyptography
The art of copying works in relief, or of engraving as to give the subject an embossed or raised appearance; used in representing coins, bas reliefs, maps etc.

analecta
analects

analects
A collection of excerpts or quotes.

anamorphoses
plural of anamorphosis

anamorphosis
A distorted image of an object that may be viewed correctly from a specific angle or with a specific mirror.
The use of this kind of image distortion.
A form of limited metamorphosis in some arthropods.
An abnormal form of some lichens or fungi that gives the appearance of a different species.

anasheed
plural of nasheed

androconia
plural of androconium

androconium
A specialised, glandular scale, on the forewings of some butterflies, that emits pheromones