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- English Word Acetosity Definition The quality of being acetous; sourness.
- English Word Acetous Definition Having a sour taste; sour; acid.
- English Word Acetous Definition Causing, or connected with, acetification; as, acetous fermentation.
- English Word Acetyl Definition A complex, hypothetical radical, composed of two parts of carbon to three of hydrogen and one of oxygen. Its hydroxide is acetic acid.
- English Word Acetylene Definition A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant.
- English Word Ach Definition Alt. of Ache
- English Word Achaean Definition Alt. of Achaian
- English Word Achaian Definition Of or pertaining to Achaia in Greece; also, Grecian.
- English Word Achaian Definition A native of Achaia; a Greek.
- English Word Acharnement Definition Savage fierceness; ferocity.
- English Word Achate Definition An agate.
- English Word Achate Definition Purchase; bargaining.
- English Word Achate Definition Provisions. Same as Cates.
- English Word Achatina Definition A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa.
- English Word Achatour Definition Purveyor; acater.
- English Word Ache Definition A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.
- English Word Ache Definition Continued pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain. "Such an ache in my bones."
- English Word Ache Definition To suffer pain; to have, or be in, pain, or in continued pain; to be distressed.
- English Word Achean Definition See Achaean, Achaian.
- English Word Ached Definition of Ache
- English Word Achene Definition Alt. of Achenium
- English Word Achenial Definition Pertaining to an achene.
- English Word Achenium Definition A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists.
- English Word Acheron Definition A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf.
- English Word Acherontic Definition Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund.
- English Word Achievable Definition Capable of being achieved.
- English Word Achievance Definition Achievement.
- English Word Achieve Definition To carry on to a final close; to bring out into a perfected state; to accomplish; to perform; -- as, to achieve a feat, an exploit, an enterprise.
- English Word Achieve Definition To obtain, or gain, as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.
- English Word Achieve Definition To finish; to kill.