| ascariasis | (noun) infestation of the human intestine with Ascaris roundworms | - |
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| ascend | (verb) slope upwards | - |
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| (verb) travel up | Synonyms: go up |
| (verb) come up, of celestial bodies | Synonyms: come up, rise, uprise |
| (verb) go along towards (a river's) source | - |
| (verb) move to a better position in life or to a better job | Synonyms: move up, rise |
| (verb) appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils | Synonyms: climb up |
| (verb) become king or queen | - |
| (verb) go back in order of genealogical succession | - |
| ascendable | (adjective) capable of being ascended | Synonyms: ascendible, climbable |
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| ascendance | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance |
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| ascendancy | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance |
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| ascendant | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendent, ascensive |
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| (adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendent, dominating |
| (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendent, root |
| (noun) position or state of being dominant or in control | Synonyms: ascendent |
| ascendence | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendency, control, dominance |
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| ascendency | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, control, dominance |
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| ascendent | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendant, ascensive |
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| (adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendant, dominating |
| (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, root |
| (noun) position or state of being dominant or in control | Synonyms: ascendant |
| ascender | (noun) (printing) the part of tall lowercase letters that extends above the other lowercase letters | - |
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| (noun) a lowercase letter that has a part extending above other lowercase letters | - |
| (noun) someone who ascends | - |
| ascendible | (adjective) capable of being ascended | Synonyms: ascendable, climbable |
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| ascending | (adjective) moving or going or growing upward | - |
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| (noun) the act of changing location in an upward direction | Synonyms: ascension, ascent, rise |
| ascension | (noun) the act of changing location in an upward direction | Synonyms: ascending, ascent, rise |
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| (noun) a movement upward; rise above the ground | Synonyms: ascent, rise, rising |
| (noun) (astronomy) the rising of a star above the horizon | - |
| ascensional | (adjective) tending to rise | - |
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| ascensive | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendant, ascendent |
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| ascent | (noun) the act of changing location in an upward direction | Synonyms: ascending, ascension, rise |
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| (noun) a movement upward; rise above the ground | Synonyms: ascension, rise, rising |
| (noun) an upward slope or grade (as in a road) | Synonyms: acclivity, climb, raise, rise, upgrade |
| ascertain | (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: assure, check, control, ensure, insure, see, see to it |
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| (verb) learn or discover with certainty | - |
| (verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: check, determine, find out, learn, see, watch |
| (verb) establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study | Synonyms: determine, find, find out |
| ascertainable | (adjective) capable of being ascertained or found out | Synonyms: discoverable |
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| ascertained | (adjective) discovered or determined by scientific observation | Synonyms: discovered, observed |
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| ascesis | (noun) rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint | Synonyms: asceticism |
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| ascetic | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline | Synonyms: ascetical |
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| (adjective) practicing great self-denial | Synonyms: ascetical, austere, spartan |
| (noun) someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline | Synonyms: abstainer |
| ascetical | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline | Synonyms: ascetic |
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| (adjective) practicing great self-denial | Synonyms: ascetic, austere, spartan |
| ascetically | (adverb) in an ascetic manner | - |
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| asceticism | (noun) rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint | Synonyms: ascesis |
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| (noun) the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) | Synonyms: austerity, nonindulgence |
| (noun) the doctrine that through renunciation of worldly pleasures it is possible to achieve a high spiritual or intellectual state | - |
| ascidian | (noun) minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves | - |
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| ascites | (noun) accumulation of serous fluid in peritoneal cavity | - |
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| ascitic | (adjective) of or relating to or resulting from an abnormal accumulation of protein and electrolyte rich fluid in the peritoneal cavity | - |
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| asclepiad | (noun) any plant of the family Asclepiadaceae | - |
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| asclepiadaceous | (adjective) of or relating to plants of the milkweed family | - |
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| ascocarp | (noun) mature fruiting body of an ascomycetous fungus | - |
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| ascocarpous | (adjective) of or relating to ascocarps | - |
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| ascolichen | (noun) a lichen in which the fungus component is an ascomycete | - |
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| ascoma | (noun) an ascocarp having the spore-bearing layer of cells (the hymenium) on a broad disklike receptacle | - |
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| ascomycete | (noun) any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus | Synonyms: ascomycetous fungus |
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| ascomycetous | (adjective) related to or characteristic of fungi of the class Ascomycetes | - |
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| ascospore | (noun) sexually produced fungal spore formed within an ascus | - |
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| ascosporic | (adjective) of or relating to ascospores | Synonyms: ascosporous |
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| ascosporous | (adjective) of or relating to ascospores | Synonyms: ascosporic |
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| ascot | (noun) a cravat with wide square ends; secured with an ornamental pin | - |
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| ascribable | (adjective) capable of being assigned or credited to | Synonyms: due, imputable, referable |
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| ascribe | (verb) attribute or credit to | Synonyms: assign, attribute, impute |
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| ascription | (noun) assigning to a cause or source | Synonyms: attribution |
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| (noun) assigning some quality or character to a person or thing | Synonyms: attribution |
| ascus | (noun) saclike structure in which ascospores are formed through sexual reproduction of ascomycetes | - |
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