| anisotropic | (adjective) not invariant with respect to direction | - |
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| anisotropically | (adverb) in an anisotropic manner | - |
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| anisotropy | (noun) the property of being anisotropic; having a different value when measured in different directions | - |
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| anoestrous | (adjective) of or relating to anestrus | Synonyms: anestric, anestrous |
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| anoestrum | (noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus | Synonyms: anestrum, anestrus, anoestrus |
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| anoestrus | (noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus | Synonyms: anestrum, anestrus, anoestrum |
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| anthropocentric | (adjective) human-centered | - |
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| anthropocentricity | (noun) an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values | Synonyms: anthropocentrism |
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| anthropocentrism | (noun) an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values | Synonyms: anthropocentricity |
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| anthropolatry | (noun) the worship of human beings | Synonyms: worship of man |
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| anthropometric | (adjective) of or relating to anthropometry | Synonyms: anthropometrical |
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| anthropometrical | (adjective) of or relating to anthropometry | Synonyms: anthropometric |
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| anthropometry | (noun) measurement and study of the human body and its parts and capacities | - |
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| antielectron | (noun) an elementary particle with positive charge; interaction of a positron and an electron results in annihilation | Synonyms: positron |
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| antineutrino | (noun) the antiparticle of a neutrino | - |
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| antineutron | (noun) the antiparticle of a neutron | - |
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| antistrophe | (noun) the section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama; the second of two metrically corresponding sections in a poem | - |
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| antistrophic | (adjective) of or relating to an antistrophe | - |
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| antitrade | (noun) winds blowing from west to east and lying above the trade winds in the tropics | Synonyms: antitrade wind |
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| antitrades | (noun) wind in the upper atmosphere blowing above but in the opposite direction from the trade winds | - |
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| antitrust | (adjective) of laws and regulations; designed to protect trade and commerce from unfair business practices | Synonyms: antimonopoly |
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| antrorse | (adjective) bent or curved forward or upward | - |
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| antrum | (noun) a natural cavity or hollow in a bone | - |
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| apostrophe | (noun) address to an absent or imaginary person | - |
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| (noun) the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word | - |
| apostrophic | (adjective) of or characteristic of apostrophe | - |
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| apostrophise | (verb) use an apostrophe | Synonyms: apostrophize |
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| apostrophize | (verb) use an apostrophe | Synonyms: apostrophise |
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| apotropaic | (adjective) having the power to prevent evil or bad luck | - |
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| arbitrable | (adjective) appropriate for or subject to settlement by arbitration | - |
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| arbitrage | (noun) a kind of hedged investment meant to capture slight differences in price; when there is a difference in the price of something on two different markets the arbitrageur simultaneously buys at the lower price and sells at the higher price | - |
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| (verb) practice arbitrage, as in the stock market | - |
| arbitrager | (noun) someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential) | Synonyms: arb, arbitrageur |
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| arbitrageur | (noun) someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential) | Synonyms: arb, arbitrager |
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| arbitral | (adjective) relating to or resulting from arbitration | Synonyms: arbitrational |
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| arbitrament | (noun) the act of deciding as an arbiter; giving authoritative judgment | Synonyms: arbitration, arbitrement |
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| arbitrarily | (adverb) in a random manner | Synonyms: at random, every which way, haphazardly, indiscriminately, randomly, willy-nilly |
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| arbitrariness | (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: capriciousness, flightiness, whimsey, whimsicality, whimsy |
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| arbitrary | (adjective) based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice | - |
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| arbitrate | (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: intercede, intermediate, liaise, mediate |
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| arbitration | (noun) the act of deciding as an arbiter; giving authoritative judgment | Synonyms: arbitrament, arbitrement |
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| (noun) (law) the hearing and determination of a dispute by an impartial referee agreed to by both parties (often used to settle disputes between labor and management) | - |
| arbitrational | (adjective) relating to or resulting from arbitration | Synonyms: arbitral |
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| arbitrative | (adjective) relating to or having the authority to arbitrate | - |
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| arbitrator | (noun) someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue | Synonyms: arbiter, umpire |
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| arbitrement | (noun) the act of deciding as an arbiter; giving authoritative judgment | Synonyms: arbitrament, arbitration |
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| arborolatry | (noun) the worship of trees | Synonyms: tree-worship |
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| architrave | (noun) the lowest part of an entablature; rests immediately on the capitals of the columns | - |
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| (noun) the molding around a door or window | - |
| artistry | (noun) a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation | Synonyms: art, prowess |
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| ashtray | (noun) a receptacle for the ash from smokers' cigars or cigarettes | - |
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| aspidistra | (noun) evergreen perennial with large handsome basal leaves; grown primarily as a foliage houseplant | Synonyms: Aspidistra elatio, bar-room plant, cast-iron plant |
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| astraddle | (adverb) with one leg on each side | Synonyms: astride |
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| astragal | (noun) a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture | Synonyms: bead, beading, beadwork |
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| (noun) the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint | Synonyms: anklebone, astragalus, talus |
| astragalar | (adjective) of or relating to the anklebone | - |
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| astragalus | (noun) the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint | Synonyms: anklebone, astragal, talus |
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| astrakhan | (noun) the fur of young lambs | - |
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| astral | (adjective) being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars | Synonyms: stellar |
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| astrantia | (noun) any plant of the genus Astrantia | Synonyms: masterwort |
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| astraphobia | (noun) a morbid fear of thunder and lightning | - |
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| astray | (adverb) away from the right path or direction | - |
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| (adverb) far from the intended target | Synonyms: wide |
| astride | (adverb) with one leg on each side | Synonyms: astraddle |
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| (adverb) with the legs stretched far apart | - |
| astringe | (verb) become constricted or compressed | - |
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| (verb) constrict or bind or draw together | - |
| astringence | (noun) a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker | Synonyms: astringency |
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| astringency | (noun) the ability to contract or draw together soft body tissues to check blood flow or restrict secretion of fluids | Synonyms: stypsis |
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| (noun) a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker | Synonyms: astringence |
| astringent | (adjective) tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue | - |
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| (adjective) sour or bitter in taste | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic |
| (noun) a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals | Synonyms: astringent drug, styptic |
| astrobiology | (noun) the branch of biology concerned with the effects of outer space on living organisms and the search for extraterrestrial life | Synonyms: exobiology, space biology |
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| astrocyte | (noun) comparatively large neuroglial cell | - |
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| astrocytic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing large star-shaped cells in the neuroglia | - |
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| astrodome | (noun) a transparent dome on top of an airplane where the navigator can make celestial observations | - |
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| astrodynamics | (noun) the branch of astronomy that studies the motion of natural and artificial bodies in space | - |
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| astrogate | (verb) navigate in space | - |
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| (verb) guide in interplanetary travel | - |
| astrogator | (noun) the navigator of a spacecraft | - |
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| astroglia | (noun) tissue consisting of large stellate neuroglial cells | Synonyms: macroglia |
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| astrolabe | (noun) an early form of sextant | - |
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| astrolatry | (noun) the worship of planets or stars | Synonyms: worship of heavenly bodies |
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| astrologer | (noun) someone who predicts the future by the positions of the planets and sun and Moon | Synonyms: astrologist |
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| astrological | (adjective) relating to or concerned with astrology | - |
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| astrologist | (noun) someone who predicts the future by the positions of the planets and sun and Moon | Synonyms: astrologer |
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| astrology | (noun) a pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon | Synonyms: star divination |
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| astrometry | (noun) the branch of astronomy that deals with the measurement of the position and motion of celestial bodies | - |
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| astronaut | (noun) a person trained to travel in a spacecraft | Synonyms: cosmonaut, spaceman |
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| astronautic | (adjective) of or belonging to astronauts or the science of astronautics | Synonyms: astronautical |
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| astronautical | (adjective) of or belonging to astronauts or the science of astronautics | Synonyms: astronautic |
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| astronautics | (noun) the theory and practice of navigation through air or space | Synonyms: aeronautics |
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| astronavigation | (noun) navigating according to the positions of the stars | Synonyms: celestial navigation |
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| astronomer | (noun) a physicist who studies astronomy | Synonyms: stargazer, uranologist |
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| astronomic | (adjective) relating or belonging to the science of astronomy | Synonyms: astronomical |
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| (adjective) inconceivably large | Synonyms: astronomical, galactic |
| astronomical | (adjective) relating or belonging to the science of astronomy | Synonyms: astronomic |
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| (adjective) inconceivably large | Synonyms: astronomic, galactic |
| astronomically | (adverb) enormously | - |
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| astronomy | (noun) the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole | Synonyms: uranology |
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| astrophysical | (adjective) of or concerned with astrophysics | - |
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| astrophysicist | (noun) an astronomer who studies the physical properties of celestial bodies | - |
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| astrophysics | (noun) the branch of astronomy concerned with the physical and chemical properties of celestial bodies | - |
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| asymmetric | (adjective) characterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangement or placement of parts or components | Synonyms: asymmetrical |
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| asymmetrical | (adjective) characterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangement or placement of parts or components | Synonyms: asymmetric |
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| (adjective) irregular in shape or outline | Synonyms: crooked |
| asymmetrically | (adverb) in an asymmetrical manner | Synonyms: unsymmetrically |
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| asymmetry | (noun) (mathematics) a lack of symmetry | - |
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| atrabilious | (adjective) irritable as if suffering from indigestion | Synonyms: bilious, dyspeptic, liverish |
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| atrazine | (noun) a synthetic compound derived from triazine that is widely used as an agricultural herbicide | - |
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| atresia | (noun) an abnormal condition in which a normal opening or tube in the body (as the urethra) is closed or absent | - |
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| atrial | (adjective) of or relating to a cavity or chamber in the body (especially one of the upper chambers of the heart) | - |
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| atrioventricular | (adjective) relating to or affecting the atria and ventricles of the heart | Synonyms: auriculoventricular |
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| atrip | (adjective) (of an anchor) just clear of the bottom | Synonyms: aweigh |
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