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  • English Word Acerate Definition Acerose; needle-shaped.
  • English Word Acerb Definition Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp and harsh.
  • English Word Acerbate Definition To sour; to imbitter; to irritate.
  • English Word Acerbic Definition Sour or severe.
  • English Word Acerbitude Definition Sourness and harshness.
  • English Word Acerbity Definition Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.
  • English Word Acerbity Definition Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain.
  • English Word Aceric Definition Pertaining to, or obtained from, the maple; as, aceric acid.
  • English Word Acerose Definition Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.
  • English Word Acerose Definition Needle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine.
  • English Word Acerous Definition Same as Acerose.
  • English Word Acerous Definition Destitute of tentacles, as certain mollusks.
  • English Word Acerous Definition Without antennae, as some insects.
  • English Word Acerval Definition Pertaining to a heap.
  • English Word Acervate Definition To heap up.
  • English Word Acervate Definition Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters.
  • English Word Acervation Definition A heaping up; accumulation.
  • English Word Acervative Definition Heaped up; tending to heap up.
  • English Word Acervose Definition Full of heaps.
  • English Word Acervuline Definition Resembling little heaps.
  • English Word Aces Definition of Ace
  • English Word Acescence Definition Alt. of Acescency
  • English Word Acescency Definition The quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness.
  • English Word Acescent Definition Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour.
  • English Word Acescent Definition A substance liable to become sour.
  • English Word Acetable Definition An acetabulum; or about one eighth of a pint.
  • English Word Acetabular Definition Cup-shaped; saucer-shaped; acetabuliform.
  • English Word Acetabulifera Definition The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda.
  • English Word Acetabuliferous Definition Furnished with fleshy cups for adhering to bodies, as cuttlefish, etc.
  • English Word Acetabuliform Definition Shaped like a shallow cup; saucer-shaped; as, an acetabuliform calyx.