| acacia | (noun) any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia | - |
|---|
| academe | (noun) the academic world | Synonyms: academia |
|---|
| academia | (noun) the academic world | Synonyms: academe |
|---|
| academic | (adjective) associated with academia or an academy | - |
|---|
| (adjective) marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects | Synonyms: donnish, pedantic |
| (adjective) hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result | - |
| (noun) an educator who works at a college or university | Synonyms: academician, faculty member |
| academically | (adverb) in regard to academic matters | - |
|---|
| academician | (noun) an educator who works at a college or university | Synonyms: academic, faculty member |
|---|
| (noun) a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation | Synonyms: schoolman |
| (noun) someone elected to honorary membership in an academy | - |
| academicianship | (noun) the position of member of an honorary academy | - |
|---|
| academicism | (noun) orthodoxy of a scholastic variety | Synonyms: academism, scholasticism |
|---|
| (noun) Purely speculative thoughts and attitudes. | - |
| (noun) a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. | Synonyms: academic art, academism |
| academism | (noun) orthodoxy of a scholastic variety | Synonyms: academicism, scholasticism |
|---|
| (noun) a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. | Synonyms: academic art, academicism |
| academy | (noun) a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge | - |
|---|
| (noun) a secondary school (usually private) | - |
| (noun) a school for special training | - |
| (noun) an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature | Synonyms: honorary society |
| acantha | (noun) any sharply pointed projection | Synonyms: spine, spur |
|---|
| acanthion | (noun) the craniometric point at the anterior extremity of the intermaxillary suture | - |
|---|
| acanthocephalan | (noun) any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines | Synonyms: spiny-headed worm |
|---|
| acanthocyte | (noun) an abnormal red blood cell that has thorny projections of protoplasm | - |
|---|
| acanthocytosis | (noun) the presence of acanthocytes in the blood stream (as in abetalipoproteinemia) | - |
|---|
| acanthoid | (adjective) shaped like a spine or thorn | Synonyms: acanthous, spinous |
|---|
| acantholysis | (noun) a breakdown of a cell layer in the epidermis (as in pemphigus) | - |
|---|
| acanthoma | (noun) a neoplasm originating in the epidermis | Synonyms: skin tumor |
|---|
| acanthopterygian | (noun) a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays | Synonyms: spiny-finned fish |
|---|
| acanthosis | (noun) an abnormal but benign thickening of the prickle-cell layer of the skin (as in psoriasis) | - |
|---|
| acanthotic | (adjective) of or relating to or having acanthosis | - |
|---|
| acanthous | (adjective) shaped like a spine or thorn | Synonyms: acanthoid, spinous |
|---|
| acanthus | (noun) any plant of the genus Acanthus having large spiny leaves and spikes or white or purplish flowers; native to Mediterranean region but widely cultivated | - |
|---|
| acapnia | (noun) a state in which the level of carbon dioxide in the blood is lower than normal; can result from deep or rapid breathing | Synonyms: hypocapnia |
|---|
| acapnial | (adjective) relating to or demonstrating acapnia | Synonyms: acapnic, acapnotic |
|---|
| acapnic | (adjective) relating to or demonstrating acapnia | Synonyms: acapnial, acapnotic |
|---|
| acapnotic | (adjective) relating to or demonstrating acapnia | Synonyms: acapnial, acapnic |
|---|
| acaracide | (noun) a chemical agent used to kill mites | Synonyms: acaricide |
|---|
| acardia | (noun) congenital absence of the heart (as in the development of some monsters) | - |
|---|
| acariasis | (noun) infestation with itch mites | Synonyms: acaridiasis, acariosis |
|---|
| acaricide | (noun) a chemical agent used to kill mites | Synonyms: acaracide |
|---|
| acarid | (noun) very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants; related to ticks | - |
|---|
| acaridiasis | (noun) infestation with itch mites | Synonyms: acariasis, acariosis |
|---|
| acarine | (noun) mite or tick | - |
|---|
| acariosis | (noun) infestation with itch mites | Synonyms: acariasis, acaridiasis |
|---|
| acarophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of small insects and mites and worms | - |
|---|
| acarpellous | (adjective) having no carpels | Synonyms: acarpelous |
|---|
| acarpelous | (adjective) having no carpels | Synonyms: acarpellous |
|---|
| acarpous | (adjective) producing no fruit | - |
|---|
| acarus | (noun) any of several mites of the order Acarina | Synonyms: genus Acarus |
|---|
| acaryote | (noun) a cell without a nucleus (as an erythrocyte) | Synonyms: akaryocyte, akaryote |
|---|
| acatalectic | (adjective) (verse) metrically complete; especially having the full number of syllables in the final metrical foot | - |
|---|
| (noun) (prosody) a line of verse that has the full number of syllables | - |
| acataphasia | (noun) a disorder in which a lesion to the central nervous system leaves you unable to formulate a statement or to express yourself in an organized manner | - |
|---|
| acathexia | (noun) an inability to retain bodily secretions | - |
|---|
| acathexis | (noun) (psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual | - |
|---|
| acaudal | (adjective) lacking a tail or taillike appendage | Synonyms: acaudate |
|---|
| acaudate | (adjective) lacking a tail or taillike appendage | Synonyms: acaudal |
|---|
| acaulescent | (adjective) (of plants) having no apparent stem above ground | Synonyms: stemless |
|---|