English words: apophatism to apparency

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English words apophatism to apparency

apophatism noun: A theory of approaching knowledge of God through negative rather than positive assertions.
apophenia noun /æpəˈfiːni.ə/: The perception of or belief in connectedness among unrelated phenomena.
apophenic adjective: Of or relating to apophenia.
Apophian adjective: Of or relating to Apophis.
Apophis proper noun /ˈæpəfɪs/: An evil snake-god who tries to devour the sun every night.
apophlegmatic adjective, noun: Designed to facilitate discharges of phlegm or mucus from the mouth or nostrils.
apophlegmatism noun: The action of apophlegmatics.
apophonic adjective /ˌæpəˈfɒnɪk/: Of, pertaining to or characterized by apophony.
apophonically adverb: In an apophonic manner.
apophony noun /əˈpɒfəni/: Modification of an internal vowel sound in a word or linguistic root, especially so as to establish a lexical distinction.
apophthegm noun /ˈæ.pə.θɛm/: Alternative spelling of apothegm.
apophthegmatic adjective: Alternative form of apothegmatic.
apophthegmatical adjective: Alternative form of apothegmatical.
apophthegmatically adverb: Alternative form of apothegmatically.
apophthegmatise verb: Alternative form of apothegmatize.
apophthegmatist noun: Alternative form of apothegmatist.
apophthegmatize verb: Alternative form of apothegmatize.
apophyge noun: A curvature found on the top or bottom of certain columns.
apophyllite noun: Any of several forms of a pale pink or green mineral being a mixed fluoride and silicate of potassium and calcium.
apophyllous adjective: Having the perianth or other segments free, not united.
apophysal adjective: Alternative form of apophyseal.
apophysary adjective: Alternative form of apophyseal.
apophysate adjective: Possessing an apophysis
apophyse noun: apophysis
apophyseal adjective: Of or pertaining to an apophysis.
apophysis noun /əˈpɒfɪsɪs/: A natural outgrowth, swelling or enlargement, usually of an organism; a protuberance on a bone.
apophysitis noun /əˌpɒfɪˈsaɪtɪs/: Inflammation of an apophysis, a bony tubercle.
apophyte noun: Any native plant growing in disturbed land, such as in an abandoned field
apophytochrome noun: The apoprotein of a phytochrome
Apopka proper noun: A city in Orange County, Florida, United States.
apoplasm noun: The fluid in an apoplast
apoplasmic adjective: Relating to apoplasm
apoplast noun: The space outside of a plant's plasma membrane through which water and soluble nutrients are transported across a tissue or organ
apoplastic adjective: Of or pertaining to an apoplast
apoplastically adverb: Via an apoplast
apoplectic adjective, noun /ˌæp.əˈplɛk.tɪk/: Of or relating to apoplexy.
apoplectical adjective: Alternative form of apoplectic.
apoplectically adverb: In an apoplectic manner.
apoplectiform adjective: Of or resembling apoplexy.
apoplex verb: To suffer a fit of apoplexy.
apoplexed adjective: Affected with apoplexy.
apoplexic adjective: Of, relating to, or showing the features of apoplexy.
apoplexy noun /ˈæp.əˌplɛk.si/: Unconsciousness or incapacity resulting from a cerebral hemorrhage or stroke.
apoposeidion noun: Apoapsis around Neptune.
apoprotein noun: The polypeptide part of a conjugated protein; for example, an apolipoprotein plus a lipid particle yields a lipoprotein.
apoptin noun: A short, nonstructural viral protein encoded by Chicken anemia virus.
apoptogen noun: Any chemical substance that induces apoptosis.
apoptogenic adjective: That produces apoptosis
apoptogenicity noun: The condition of being apoptogenic
apoptolidin noun: A macrolide that has some antitumour effects
apoptose verb: To cause the cell to undergo apoptosis, a process of programmed cell death.
apoptosis noun /ˌapɒpˈtəʊsɪs/: A process of programmed cell death by which cells undergo an ordered sequence of events which leads to death of the cell, as occurs during growth and...
apoptosomal adjective: Relating to apoptosomes
apoptosome noun: A large ternary protein structure formed in the process of apoptosis.
apoptotic adjective: Of or pertaining to apoptosis.
apoptotically adverb: In an apoptotic manner; by the means of apoptosis.
apoptozole noun: The heat-shock protein inhibitor, 4-[[2-[3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-4,5-bis(4-methoxyphenyl)-1H-imidazol-1-yl]methyl]-benzamide, that triggers...
apopylar adjective: Relating to an apopyle
apopyle noun: A pore through which water passes out of a radial canal or flagellated chamber of a sponge
apoquinamine noun: An alkaloid, C₁₉H₂₂N₂O, that is formed by dissolving quinamine in acid.
aporeceptor noun: A receptor that targets apoproteins or apolipoproteins
aporematic adjective: Synonym of aporetic.
aporematically adverb: In an aporematic manner.
aporeme noun: A form of dialectical argument that affirms two opposing ideas and thus seems to prove a contradiction.
aporepressor noun: A repressor that binds with a corepressor.
aporesis noun: Knowing perplexity, knowing the extent of one's wisdom.
aporetic adjective /ˌæpəˈɹɛtɪk/: Tending to doubt.
aporetical adjective: Tending to doubt.
aporetically adverb: In an aporetic way.
aporhynchous adjective: having a base that is not attached to the surrounding tissue.
aporia noun /əˈpɔːɹɪə/: An expression of deliberation with oneself regarding uncertainty or doubt as to how to proceed.
aporic adjective: Of or pertaining to aporia
aporically adverb: In an aporic manner; by means of aporia
aporophobia noun: The fear of poverty or poor people; antipathy toward them both.
aporose adjective: imperforate; not porous.
aporous adjective: Lacking pores; not porous.
aporphin noun: Alternative form of aporphine.
aporphine noun: One of a class of quinoline alkaloids from which apomorphine can be derived.
aporphinoid adjective, noun: Related to aporphine.
aporrhaid noun: Any mollusk in the family Aporrhaidae.
aporrhea noun: The absence of a discharge or secretion.
aporrhoea noun: Alternative form of aporrhea.
aport adverb: on the left side of the boat
'aporth noun: Alternative spelling of ha'p'orth, halfpennyworth.
aposafranin noun: Alternative form of aposafranine.
aposafranine noun: benzinduline
aposaturnium noun: Apoapsis around Saturn
aposcopolamine noun: An alkaloid present in several nightshades
aposelene noun: Apoapsis around the moon.
aposelenium noun: The point of a body's elliptical orbit about the moon's centre of mass where the distance between the body and the centre of mass is at its maximum.
aposematic adjective /ˌæpə(ʊ)sɪˈmætɪk/: That serves as a warning to predators, as of toxicity, especially falsely.
aposematically adverb: In an aposematic manner.
aposematism noun /ˌæpə(ʊ)sɪˈmætɪz(ə)m/: An adaptation, especially a form of coloration, that warns off potential predators.
aposepalous adjective: Having multiple, distinct sepals
aposiderophore noun: The apoprotein of a siderophore
aposiopesis noun /ˌæpəsaɪəˈpiːsɪs/: An abrupt breaking-off in speech, often indicated in print using an ellipsis (…) or an em dash (–).
aposiopestic adjective: Alternative spelling of aposiopetic.
aposiopetic adjective: Of or pertaining to aposiopesis.
aposomatic adjective: Relating to an aposome
aposome noun: Any body within a cell
aposporic adjective: Alternative form of aposporous.
aposporically adverb: By means of apospory.
aposporous adjective: relating to apospory
aposporously adverb: By means of apospory.
apospory noun: The ability of a plant's sporophytes to form a plant that looks like a gametophyte but has the ploidy level of the sporophyte.
apostacize verb: Alternative form of apostasize.
apostasis noun: The abnormal disunion of parts that are normally united.
apostasize verb: Synonym of apostatize.
apostasy noun /əˈpɒ.stə.si/: The renunciation of a belief or set of beliefs.
apostate adjective, noun /əˈpɒs.teɪt/: Guilty of apostasy.
apostatic adjective: Apostate.
apostatical adjective /ˌæpəsˈtætɪkəl/: Apostate.
apostatically adverb: In an apostatic manner.
apostatise verb: Alternative spelling of apostatize.
apostatize verb: To give up or renounce one's position or belief.
apostaxis noun: The abnormal loss of nutritive or secreted fluids by bleeding, gumming etc.
apostemate verb: To become an aposteme; to pustulate.
apostemation noun: The formation of an aposteme; the process of suppuration.
apostematous adjective: Of or pertaining to an aposteme; having the nature of an aposteme; characterised by apostemes.
aposteme noun: An abscess; a pustulent swelling.
aposteriori adverb: Alternative form of a posteriori.
aposteriorism noun: The view that all knowledge is derived from sense experience; empiricism as opposed to apriorism.
aposterioristic adjective: A posteriori; based on experience and observation.
aposthia noun: The congenital absence of a foreskin.
aposthic adjective: Of or pertaining to aposthia.
apostil noun, verb: A marginal note; a gloss.
apostilb noun: a unit of luminance, being the luminance of a perfectly diffusing surface emitting light at the rate of ¹⁄_π candela per square metre. Also known as a blondel.
apostille noun, verb: A special certification established in 1961 for certifying foreign documents.
apostle noun /əˈpɑsl̩/: A missionary, or leader of a religious mission, especially one in the early Christian Church (but see Apostle).
apostle spoon noun: A spoon (usually silver) with an image of an apostle or other Christian religious figure as the termination of the handle.
apostlebird noun: A gregarious gray and brown bird native to Australia, Struthidea cinerea
apostlehood noun: The state of being an apostle.
apostles noun: plural of apostle
apostleship noun: The position, post, or duty of being an apostle.
apostless noun: A female apostle.
Apostol proper noun: A surname from Spanish or Romanian.
apostolado noun /əˌpɒstəˈlɑːdəʊ/: A series of portraits of the apostles, sometimes also including those of Jesus Christ or other close disciples of Christ.
apostolate noun: The office, or responsibilities of an apostle.
apostoless noun: Alternative form of apostless (“a female apostle”).
apostolic adjective, noun /ˌæp.əˈstɒl.ɪk/: Pertaining to apostles or their practice or teaching; pertaining to the apostles (of early Christianity) or their teachings.
apostolic constitution noun: The most solemn form of legislation issued by the pope.
apostolic exhortation noun: A magisterial document written by the pope.
apostolic letter noun: One of the books of the New Testament which was originally a letter issued by an apostle to an individual or a community.
apostolic succession noun: The unbroken chain of consecrations by laying on of hands from the Apostles of Jesus Christ to the bishops, and from to bishop to bishop through the ages.
apostolic visitor noun: In the Catholic Church, a papal representative with a transient mission to perform a canonical visitation of relatively short duration and to submit a...
apostolical adjective: Apostolic.
apostolically adverb: In an apostolic way.
apostolicalness noun: The state or quality of being apostolical.
Apostolici noun: Any of various Christian heretics whose common doctrinal feature was an ascetic rigidity of morals, which made them reject property and marriage.
apostolicism noun: The quality of being apostolical; apostolicity.
apostolicity noun /əˌpɒstəˈlɪsɪti/: The quality of being apostolic, notably of preserving authenticity within the mission and tradition of the Christian church as founded by Jesus Christ and...
apostolicness noun: The state or quality of being apostolic.
Apostolicship noun: The office of a Pope
apostolise verb: To proselytize.
apostolize verb: To convert; to proselytize.
Apostolos proper noun /əˈpɒstəlɪs/: A male given name from Ancient Greek.
apostome noun: Any ciliate of the order Apostomatida
apostosis noun: naturally occurring cell death.
apostrophal adjective: Of or relating to an apostrophe.
apostrophation noun: Personal address via apostrophe (an exclamatory speech).
apostrophe noun /əˈpɒs.tɹə.fi/: The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.
apostrophectomy noun: The removal of incorrect apostrophes, especially those wrongly used to form plurals (greengrocer's apostrophes).
apostrophed adjective /əˈpɒstɹəfiːd/: Written with an apostrophe.
apostropheless adjective: Without an apostrophe.
apostrophic adjective: Pertaining to the rhetoric use of, or using, apostrophe (sudden, exclamatory dialogue).
apostrophically adverb: Using apostrophe; with sudden exclamatory dialogue.
apostrophied adjective: Alternative form of apostrophed.
apostrophisation noun: Alternative spelling of apostrophization.
apostrophise verb: Alternative spelling of apostrophize.
apostrophization noun: The use of apostrophe characters.
apostrophize verb: To deliver an apostrophe (a speech, typically exclamatory) to someone, especially someone not present in person as a participant in the conversation, even...
apostrophizer noun: One who apostrophizes.
apostrophus noun: The omission of a vowel or syllable from a word, usually indicated by the apostrophe symbol ( ' ). examples: 'til, can't
apostructure noun: The structure of the apoprotein form of a protein after its metal atom has been removed
aposymbiont noun: An aposymbiotic symbiont
aposymbiosis noun: A form of symbiosis in which two species live independently of each other, but their life cycles affect one another.
aposymbiotic adjective: Of or pertaining to aposymbiosis
aposymbiotically adverb: In an aposymbiotic manner
aposyndetic adjective: Having the property that for all points x distinct from a specified point p, there is a compact connected neighborhood of p that does not include x.
Apotactic noun: Synonym of Apotactite.
Apotactici noun: The Apotactites.
Apotactite noun: One of an ancient sect of Christians in Asia Minor, originating in the third century AD, who renounced all their possessions.
apotarget noun: An apoprotein that is the target of a biochemical reaction.
apotele noun: A scalloped ridge around the edge of an otolith.
apotelesm noun: The calculation and explanation of a horoscope.
apotelesma noun: The end result or fulfilment, especially concerning the hypostatic union of Christ's divine and human natures.
apotelesmatic adjective: Relating to the casting of horoscopes.
apotelesmatical adjective: apotelesmatic
apotemnophilia noun: A psychological disorder characterized by the intense and long-standing desire for amputation of a specific limb.
apotemnophilic adjective: Of or pertaining to apotemnophilia.
apotemnophobia noun: A fear of amputation (afraid that one will lose appendages), fear of amputations (fear of amputations on others), fear of amputees (persons with amputations).
apothecal adjective: Relating to drugs or pharmacy.
apothecarial adjective /əˌpɒθəˈkɛəɹi.əl/: Characteristic of an apothecary.
apothecaries adjective, noun: In or relating to the apothecaries' system of measures.
apothecaries' system noun: A particular system of measuring mass and volume.
apothecarist noun: Synonym of apothecary.
apothecary noun /əˈpɒθəkəɹi/: Synonym of pharmacist: a person who sells medicine, especially (historical) one who made and sold their own medicines in the medieval or early modern eras.
apothecary rose noun: A plant of an ancient cultivated variety of gallica rose, Rosa gallica var. officinalis.
apothecary's noun: Synonym of pharmacy.
apothecary's Latin noun: barbarous Latin; badly-spoken Latin.
apothecary's shop noun: Synonym of pharmacy.
apothecaryship noun: The state or period of working as an apothecary.
apothecial adjective: Relating to the apothecium.
apotheciate adjective: Consisting of an apothecium.
apothecioid adjective: Resembling an apothecium.
apothecium noun: A type of fructification of some ascomycete fungi, forming cyst structures of various shapes. Often the fungal components of lichens have this sort of...
apothegm noun /ˈæ.pə.θɛm/: A short, witty, instructive saying; an aphorism or maxim.
apothegmatic adjective: Relating to, or in the manner of, an apothegm; sententious; pithy.
apothegmatical adjective: Relating to, or in the manner of, an apothegm; sententious; pithy.
apothegmatically adverb: In an apothegmatic way.
apothegmatise verb: Alternative form of apothegmatize.
apothegmatist noun /æpəʊˈθɛɡmətɪst/: A collector or maker of apothegms.
apothegmatize verb: To utter apothegms (short witty sayings).
apothegmic adjective: apothegmatic
apotheke noun: A Greek storeroom or warehouse.
apothem noun /ˈæp.ə.θɛm/: The perpendicular distance from the center of a circle to a chord of the same circle.
apotheose verb: Synonym of apotheosize.
apotheosis noun /əˌpɒθ.iːˈəʊ.sɪs/: The fact or action of becoming or making into a god; deification.
apotheosise verb: Alternative spelling of apotheosize.
apotheosize verb /əˈpɑ.θi.oʊˌsaɪz/: To deify; to convert into a god.
apotheotic adjective: Relating to apotheosis.
apotheotical adjective: Alternative form of apotheotic.
apotheotically adverb: In an apotheotic manner.
apothesine noun: A particular anesthetic drug.
apothesis noun /əˈpɒθəsɪs/: A place on the south side of the chancel in primitive churches, furnished with shelves, for books, vestments, etc.
apothisexual adjective: Being on the asexual spectrum and being repulsed by sexual acts.
apothisexuality noun /əˌpɔ.θɪ.sɛk.ʃuːˈæ.lɪ.tiː/: The state of being apothisexual; a sexuality on the asexual spectrum in which an individual feels repulsion towards sex or sexual acts.
apotome noun /əˈpɒtəmi/: The difference between two quantities or lengths commensurable only in power, as between 1 and the square root of 2, or between the diagonal and side of a...
apotomized adjective: divided by, or cut at an apotome
apotope noun: an immunogenic epitope expressed on apoptotic cells
apotracheal adjective: Not associated with vascular tracheids
apotransaminase noun: The apoenzyme of a transaminase
apotransferrin noun: The apoprotein of transferrin
apotreptic adjective, noun: Designed to dissuade.
apotropaic adjective, noun /ˌæpətɹəˈpeɪ.ɪk/: Intended to ward off evil.
apotropaic eye noun: An image of an eye intended to ward off evil.
apotropaically adverb: In an apotropaic manner.
apotropaion noun: Something that wards off evil; an amulet or magic charm.
apotropaism noun: The use of ritual or other magical means (including charms and/or incantations) to avert evil or bad luck.
apotropous adjective: Anatropous, with the raphe ventral.
apotype noun: A hypotype that has supplementary descriptions
apotypic adjective: Relating to an apotype
apotyrosinase noun: The apoprotein of a tyrosinase
apouranion noun: Apoapsis around Uranus.
apout adjective: Protruding to form a pout.
apovincamine noun: A vasodilator.
apovitellenin noun: Any of a group of avian lipoproteins
apoxia noun: altitude sickness
apoxyomenos noun /əˌpɑksiˈɑmənɑs/: A conventional subject of ancient Greek votive sculpture: an athlete caught in the familiar act of scraping sweat and dust from his body with a strigil.
apozem noun /ˈæpəzɛm/: A decoction or infusion.
apozema noun: Alternative form of apozem.
apozemical adjective: Of or relating to a decoction or infusion.
apozene noun: A medicinal herbal infusion.
app noun /æp/: Abbreviation of appeals.
app store noun: A digital marketplace where computer software can be purchased and downloaded.
app wrapper noun: An application for mobile devices made wholly from an existing website or platform, with few or no changes made to the original version.
Appaduraian adjective: Of or relating to Arjun Appadurai (born 1949), social-cultural anthropologist known for his work on globalization.
appair verb: To make worse; to injure or damage.
appal verb: UK spelling of appall.
Appalachia proper noun /ˌæ.pəˈlæ.tʃə/: A region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains, that stretches from southwestern Pennsylvania to northern Alabama,...
Appalachian adjective, noun /ˌæ.pəˈlæ.t͡ʃən/: Referring to the region of Appalachia or its characteristics.
Appalachian Barbara's buttons noun: Marshallia grandiflora, an extinct species of flowering plant in the genus Marshallia within the sunflower family.
Appalachian dulcimer noun: A diatonically fretted and neckless string instrument, most commonly with three or four strings; a chordophone of the zither family.
Appalachian Jacob's ladder noun: Polemonium vanbruntiae, a species of flowering plant.
Appalachian tea noun: The evergreen holly Ilex glabra.
Appalachianness noun: The quality or state of being Appalachian.
appalam noun: poppadom
appall verb /əˈpɔːl/: To fill with horror or indignation; to dismay.
appalled adjective, verb: Shocked, horrified by something unpleasant.
appaller noun: One who appalls.
appalling adjective, verb /əˈpɔːlɪŋ/: Horrifying and astonishing.
appallingly adverb /ʌˈpɑlɪŋli/: In an appalling manner.
appallingness noun: The quality of being appalling.
appallment noun: Shock or depression occasioned by terror or disgust; dismay; the state of being appalled.
appalmed adjective: Synonym of appaumé.
appalment noun: The state of being appalled or alarmed.
appaloosa noun /ˌæ.pəˈluː.sə/: A horse of a breed best known for its colorful spotted coat pattern.
Appalousa noun: A group of Native Americans who occupied the area around Opelousas, Louisiana, west of the lower Mississippi River.
appalto noun: A contract to assume another party's obligation to supply a product or service.
appam noun /əˈpɑm/: A thin South Asian pancake made from rice flour and coconut
Appamatuck noun: Alternative form of Appomattoc.
appanage noun, verb: Alternative form of apanage.
appanagist noun: A prince to whom an apanage has been granted.
appar adverb: Abbreviation of apparently.
apparachik noun: Alternative spelling of apparatchik.
apparat noun: The Soviet machinery of state bureaucratic administration, or a similar communistic structure.
apparatchik noun /ɑːpəˈɹɑːt͡ʃɪk/: A member of the Soviet apparat; a Communist bureaucrat or agent.
apparate noun, verb: apparatus
Apparatgeist noun: The inherent properties of a device which affect the way it is used by individuals across cultures.
apparation noun: A preparation.
apparator noun: Alternative form of apparitor.
apparatus noun /ˌæp.əˈɹeɪ.təs/: The entirety of means whereby a specific production is made existent or task accomplished.
apparatus criticus noun: Synonym of critical apparatus.
apparatus program noun: A set of routines meant to be played during the championships for a given time period. For senior individual gymnasts, one for each apparatus. For junior...
apparel noun, verb /əˈpæɹəl/: Clothing.
appareling noun, verb: clothing
apparelling noun, verb: clothing
apparelment noun: Clothing, including accessories.
apparence noun: Alternative form of apparency.
apparency noun: The quality of being apparent; apparentness.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under A: 47,274 words, in 158 parts.