English words: autotoxis to avarice

300 English words, part 152 of 158 of the words starting with A, A to Z. 20 have a page of their own.

English words autotoxis to avarice

autotoxis noun: autoimmunity
autotracker noun: Something which automatically tracks something else (such as the volume level of music, or the position of a military target).
autotrain noun: A type of push-pull train incorporating a tank engine and passenger coaches fitted with a driver's cab.
autotransduction noun: transduction between cells of the same organism
autotransformation noun: A self-induced transformation
autotransformer noun: A transformer with a single winding, its output being taken from taps.
autotransfuse verb: To carry out autotransfusion.
autotransfusion noun: A blood transfusion in which a person receives their own blood, extracted previously.
autotransfusionist noun: An autotransfusion technician.
autotranslate verb: To subject (a work) to autotranslation.
autotranslation noun: Translation of a work into another language by its original author.
autotransplant noun, verb: autotransplantation
autotransplantation noun: The surgical transfer of a tissue, organ, or body part from one location to another within the same person.
autotransported adjective: transported by an autotransporter
autotransporter noun: A structural domain found in some bacterial outer membrane proteins.
autotrepanation noun: Trepanation of oneself.
autotriggering noun: Inappropriate automatic triggering of a ventilator (respirator) in the absence of muscle activity.
autotriploid adjective, noun: triploid as a result of multiplication of a haploid set of chromosomes
autotriploidy noun: The condition of being autotriploid
autotroph noun /ˈɔːtə(ʊ)tɹəʊf/: Any organism that can synthesize its food from inorganic substances, using heat or light as a source of energy.
autotrophic adjective: Relating to the production of organic compounds from carbon dioxide as a carbon source, using either light or reactions of inorganic chemical compounds, as...
autotrophical adjective: Alternative form of autotrophic.
autotrophically adverb: In an autotrophic manner.
autotrophism noun: Synonym of autotrophy.
autotrophy noun: The synthesis of food from inorganic substances, using heat or light as a source of energy
autotropic adjective: Growing in a straight line.
autotropically adverb: In an autotropic manner
autotropism noun: The tendency of plant organs to grow in a straight line unless influenced by external stimuli.
autotruck noun /ˈɔːtoʊˌtrʌk/: A truck (type of motor vehicle).
autotune noun, verb: Alternative form of auto-tune.
autotuned adjective, verb: Having been subject to autotuning; processed via auto-tune.
autotuner noun: Alternative form of auto-tuner.
autotwisting adjective: Synonym of self-twisting.
autotype noun, verb: A copy or facsimile.
autotypic adjective: Relating to an autotype
autotypographic adjective: Relating to autotypography.
autotypography noun: A process by which drawings executed on gelatin are impressed into a soft metal plate, from which further prints can be made.
autotypy noun: An early photographic process that produced autotypes using a carbon pigment.
autoubiquitinate verb: To undergo, or subject to, autoubiquitination.
autoubiquitination noun: Self-ubiquitination by a ubiquitinating enzyme, usually an E3 or E4 ubiquitin ligase. This activity can be direct, as in monoubiquitin of a lysine residue...
autoubiquitylate verb: Synonym of autoubiquitinate.
autoubiquitylation noun: autoubiquitination
autoupdate verb: To automatically update
autovac noun: A device that uses vacuum to raise fuel from the main tank to a small auxiliary tank, from which it flows by gravity to the carburetor, eliminating the...
autovaccination noun: vaccination by means of an autovaccine
autovaccine noun: autogenous vaccine
autovacuum verb: To vacuum (physically remove deleted tuples from) a table or database automatically.
autovalidation noun: automatic validation
autovampirism noun: The drinking of one's own blood.
autovasoregulation noun: The autoregulation of vascular tension
autovasoregulatory adjective: Relating to autovasoregulation
autovector noun: An interrupt vector representing a priority level, from which the processor determines the actual target address.
autoverification noun: automatic verification
autovivification noun: The process of autovivifying.
autovivify verb: In the Perl programming language, to create an array or hash automatically when a previously undefined value is dereferenced.
autovivisection noun: The vivisection of one's own body.
autowalk noun: A travelator or moving walkway.
autowallah noun: driver, chauffeur (especially of an autorickshaw)
autowave noun: A self-supporting non-linear wave in active media (i.e. one of those that provide distributed energy sources).
autowind verb: To wind on (the film in a camera) automatically.
autowinder noun: A device that winds on the film in a camera after each exposure
autowire verb: To resolve and inject a dependency automatically, without explicit configuration.
autoworker noun: Someone who works as an assembly line worker in an automobile assembly plant.
autowrap noun, verb: To wrap (e.g. text) automatically.
autoxenous adjective: Synonym of autoecious.
autoxidation noun: A spontaneous oxidation reaction that results in the slow, flameless combustion of a material.
autoxidative adjective: That employs autoxidation
autoxidator noun: A substance that initiates or undergoes autoxidation
autoxidisability noun: The property of being autoxidisable.
autoxidisable adjective: Subject to autoxidation
autoxidise verb: To subject (or be subjected) to autoxidation.
autoxidised adjective, verb: That has been modified by autoxidation
autoxidizability noun: Alternative form of autoxidisability.
autoxidizable adjective: Alternative form of autoxidisable.
autoxidize verb: Alternative spelling of autoxidise.
autozero noun: autozeroing
autozeroed adjective: Processed by the autozeroing technique.
autozeroing noun: A sampling technique that measures an offset from zero and later compensates by subtracting the difference.
autozooecium noun: The skeleton of an autozooid.
autozooid noun: A zooid that is able to feed.
autozooidal adjective: Relating to or characteristic of an autozooid.
autozoom noun: automatic zoom
autozoophilia noun: Synonym of petplay (“a fetish activity in which one takes on the role of an animal, sometimes as the pet of another”).
autozygome noun: The complete set of genomic regions that are identical by descent in an individual.
autozygosity noun: The condition of being autozygous.
autozygous adjective: Being a genotype of a kind where two alleles at a locus originate from a common ancestor by way of nonrandom mating (inbreeding).
autrefois acquit noun: In relation to a double jeopardy defence in a trial, a previous acquittal based on the same or similar facts.
autrefois convict noun: In relation to a double jeopardy defence in a trial, a previous conviction based on the same or similar facts.
Autrey proper noun: A surname from Old French.
Autry proper noun: A surname from French.
autum adjective, noun: Alternative spelling of autem.
autum cove noun: Alternative spelling of autem cove.
autum mort noun: Alternative spelling of autem mort.
autumn noun, verb /ˈɔːtəm/: Traditionally the third of the four seasons, when deciduous trees lose their leaves, and temperatures and daylight hours decrease; typically regarded as...
autumn Adonis noun: Autumn pheasant's eye (Adonis annua).
autumn break noun: A period during autumn where students are not attending school.
autumn crocus noun: Any of several species of genus Colchicum that bloom in the Fall
autumn equinox noun: autumnal equinox
autumn fern noun: Synonym of Japanese shield fern (Dryopteris erythrosora).
autumn foliage noun: The brightly colored leaves of deciduous trees that appear in the autumn.
Autumn Glory noun: An apple of an American cultivated variety that is a hybrid of the Fuji and Golden Delicious.
autumn lady's tresses noun: Synonym of blue orchid.
autumn leaf noun: An Asian nymphalid butterfly, Doleschallia bisaltide.
autumn olive noun: A deciduous oleaster of species Elaeagnus umbellata, natively found in Asia and invasive to parts of Europe and the United States.
autumn romance noun: A romantic relationship which occurs in a later stage of life.
autumn sage noun: Salvia greggii, a herbaceous perennial plant native to parts of North America.
autumn snowflake noun: The flowering plant Acis autumnalis.
autumn willow noun: Salix serissima, a flowering plant in the willow family, native to North America.
autumn years noun: The later years of one's life, especially after one has finished one's career.
autumnal adjective /ɔːˈtʌm.nəl/: Of or relating to autumn.
autumnal equinox noun: The moment at which the Sun appears to cross the celestial equator while moving away from the observer’s hemisphere, occurring in September in the Northern...
autumnaline noun: A phenethylisoquinoline alkaloid with IUPAC name (1S)-1-[2-(3-hydroxy-4,5-dimethoxyphenyl)ethyl]-6-methoxy-2-methyl-3,4-dihydro-1H-isoquinolin-7-ol
autumnally adverb: In an autumnal manner.
autumnful noun: An amount that lasts through or is produced during one autumn season.
autumnian adjective: autumnal
autumnise verb: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of autumnize.
autumnish adjective: Characteristic of autumn
autumnity noun: autumn
autumnize verb: To prepare (something) for autumn weather.
autumnless adjective: Without an autumn.
autumnly adjective, adverb: Resembling or relating to autumn; fall-like.
autumnscape noun: An autumn landscape.
autumntide noun: Autumntime.
autumntime noun: The period or season of autumn.
autumnwear noun: Clothing to be worn in autumn.
autumny adjective: Characteristic of autumn.
Autun proper noun: A cathedral city, subprefecture, and commune in Saône-et-Loire department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
autunite noun: A yellow mineral with tetragonal crystals, Ca(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·10-12H₂O.
autunitic adjective: Relating to the mineral autunite.
AUV noun: Initialism of autonomous underwater vehicle.
Auvergne proper noun /əʊˈvɜː(ɹ)n/: A former administrative region and historical province of France, since 2016 part of the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Auvergne bear noun: An extinct bear, Ursus minimus, which lived in Europe during the Pleistocene and Pliocene.
Auvergnese adjective, noun: Of, from, or pertaining to the region of Auvergne in France
Auvergnian adjective, noun: Of or relating to Auvergne.
auwai noun: An irrigation ditch.
Auwers synthesis noun: A series of organic reactions forming a flavonol from a coumarone.
aux adjective, noun /ˈɔks/: Abbreviation of auxiliary.
aux cord noun: Synonym of aux (“the auxiliary audio connector of a sound system”)
auxanogram noun: A culture of microorganisms used in auxanography.
auxanographic adjective: Relating to an auxanogram or to auxanography
auxanography noun: The study of the effects of changes in environment on the growth of microorganisms.
auxanology noun: auxology
auxanometer noun: An instrument to measure the growth of plants.
Auxerre proper noun: A commune, the capital of Yonne department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
auxesis noun: Overstatement, hyperbole.
auxetic adjective, noun /ɔːkˈsɛtɪk/: Having the property of counterintuitively expanding when being stretched.
auxetically adverb: By auxesis.
auxeticity noun: The quality of being auxetic (expanding when stretched).
auxetometer noun: An instrument for measuring the magnifying power of a lens or system of lenses.
auxetophone noun /ˈɔːksətəfəʊn/: A pneumatic type of sound-playback device used in the early part of the twentieth century.
auxic adjective: Relating to an auxin
Auxie noun: A member of the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary.
Auxier proper noun: A surname from French.
auxilian noun: A member of a group, typically composed of volunteers, that helps support a hospital.
auxiliar adjective, noun: auxiliary
auxiliarily adverb: Alternative form of auxiliarly.
auxiliarist noun: A volunteer for the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary.
auxiliarly adverb: By way of help.
auxiliary adjective, noun /ɔːɡˈzɪl.(j)ə.ɹi/: Helping; giving assistance or support.
auxiliary bishop noun: A bishop who functions as another bishop's deputy, where the weight of sacramental duties is too much for a single bishop.
auxiliary cell noun: A spore-like structure in certain fungi, formed from hyphae.
auxiliary cruiser noun: An armed merchantman, typically used as a commerce raider or as a convoy escort.
auxiliary ego noun: A therapist or copatient who acts out a role in a patient's psychodrama.
auxiliary language noun: Any language (whether constructed or natural), such as Volapük, Esperanto, Swahili, French, Russian or English, used or intended to be used (locally,...
auxiliary oiler noun: A naval oil tanker with the ability to perform underway replenishment of fuel oil or ship oil to ships of the fleet.
auxiliary power unit noun: A generator in aircraft or other vehicles for providing electric power to various systems, such as lighting, especially when the main engines are not running.
auxiliary storage noun: Synonym of secondary storage.
auxiliary verb noun /ɔːɡˈzɪljəɹi ˈvɜː(ɹ)b/: A verb that accompanies the main verb in a clause in order to make distinctions in tense, mood, voice or aspect.
auxiliatory adjective: auxiliary; helping.
auximetric adjective: log-log
auxin noun: A class of plant growth substance (often called phytohormones or plant hormones) which play an essential role in coordination of many growth and behavioral...
auxinic adjective: Relating to, or composed of, auxins.
auxinically adverb: In an auxinic manner.
auxinole noun: The auxin antagonist 4-(2,4-dimethylphenyl)-2-(1H-indol-3-yl)-4-oxobutanoic acid
auxinome noun: All the auxins present in a particular plant
auxlang noun /ˈɔks.læŋ/: A constructed auxiliary language.
auxlanger noun /ˈɔksˌlæŋɚ/: Someone who creates auxiliary languages (auxlangs).
auxo- prefix: Growth or increase.
auxocaulous adjective: Exhibiting further enlargement of segments formed by secondary growth after their initial formation, so that filaments have a conspicuously greater diameter...
auxochrome noun: any atom or group which, when added to a chromophore, causes a bathochromic shift in its spectrum
auxochromic adjective: Relating to an auxochrome
auxochromous adjective: Synonym of auxochromic.
auxodrome noun: A curve indicating the expected levels of development of a child at various ages.
auxogluc noun: The part of a molecule that imparts sweetness to the substance
auxoheterotrophic adjective: That requires exogenous stimulation in order to grow
auxologic adjective: Of or pertaining to auxology
auxological adjective: Relating to auxology.
auxologist noun: A student or practitioner of auxology
auxology noun: The study of growth
auxometer noun /ɔːkˈsɒmɪtə/: An instrument measuring the magnifying power of lenses.
auxopathy noun: Any disease that affects growth
auxospore noun: A reproductive spore in diatoms that is formed by the union of two cells
auxosporulate verb: To undergo auxosporulation
auxosporulating adjective: Undergoing auxosporulation
auxosporulation noun: The formation of an auxospore by gametic fusion or autogamy
auxostat noun: A continuous-culture device using feedback from a measurement taken on the growth chamber to control the media flow rate, maintaining the measurement at a...
auxotelic adjective: Having the characteristic that growth continues beyond the flowering region into a leafy shoot.
auxotonic adjective: Relating to plant movement classified by growth as opposed to mature reactions to exogenous stimuli in surrounding environment.
auxotonically adverb: In an auxotonic manner
auxotroph noun: Any microorganism that has lost the ability to synthesize an organic compound required for its growth, usually as a result of mutation
auxotrophic adjective: Describing a strain of organism that requires a specific metabolic substance that the parent organism was able to synthesize by itself
auxotrophical adjective: Alternative form of auxotrophic.
auxotrophically adverb: By means of auxotrophy
auxotrophism noun /ˌɔːksəˈtɹəʊfɪzəm/: Synonym of auxotrophy.
auxotrophy noun: The inability of a microorganism to synthesize an organic compound required for its growth, often as a result of mutation.
auxotype noun, verb: A subtype of Neisseria bacteria defined by its distinctive growth responses on a medium.
auxtether noun: An auxiliary tether, especially on an electric sail.
av adjective, adverb, noun, verb: Abbreviation of average.
av beit din noun: The vice-president of a Jewish Sanhedrin or rabbinical court (beit din).
av beth din noun: Alternative form of av beit din.
AV bundle noun: Synonym of bundle of His.
av-gas noun: Alternative spelling of avgas.
AV node noun: A small structure in the heart, located in the Koch's triangle, near the coronary sinus on the interatrial septum.
ava noun /ɑː.və/: Alternative form of kava.
AVAC noun: Abbreviation of automated vacuum collection.
avacincaptad pegol noun: A drug used to treat geographic atrophy secondary to age-related macular degeneration.
avacopan noun: A medication used to treat anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody-associated vasculitis.
avacuolar adjective: Not vacuolar.
Avada Kedavra verb: To use the Killing Curse from the Harry Potter series on (someone), causing immediate death.
avadana noun: A form of Buddhist literature correlating the virtuous deeds of past lives with events taking place in subsequent lives.
avadavat noun: Any of various estrildid finches of the genus Amandava, especially the red avadavat, Amandava amandava, of India and Southeast Asia, commonly kept and bred...
avadhuta noun: In some Indian religions, a kind of mystic or guru who has gone beyond common worldly concerns and acts without consideration for social etiquette.
avagraha noun: A symbol (ऽ) used in the Devanagari script and other Indian scripts, to mark vocalic gemination or the elision of the inherent vowel a in the process of...
avahi noun /əˈvɑː.hiː/: woolly lemur
avail adjective, noun, verb /əˈveɪl/: To turn to the advantage of.
availability noun /əˌveɪ.ləˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/: The quality of being available.
availability bias noun: A tendency of decision-makers to give preference, usually unconsciously, to thoughts with higher availability to (that is, those readily retrievable by) the...
availability cascade noun: A self-reinforcing cycle that explains the development of certain collective beliefs, as where a novel idea gains rapid popularity through by its simplicity...
availability heuristic noun: Synonym of availability bias.
availability zone noun: A subset of computing infrastructure that shares no service-critical components (including power, cooling and access) with any other availability zone.
available adjective /əˈveɪ.lə.bəl/: Such as one may avail oneself of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose.
available energy noun: All energy that could somehow be converted to mechanical work.
available light noun: Light from sources that are not explicitly supplied by the photographer, such as natural light or pre-existing street lighting.
available seat-mile noun: A measure of an airline flight's passenger carrying capacity, equal to the number of seats onboard an aircraft multiplied by the distance flown in miles....
available ton mile noun: tons of carrying capacity multiplied by miles travelled.
availableness noun: Competent power; validity; efficacy
availably adverb /əˈveɪl.əb.li/: In an available manner
availful adjective: Profitable, useful; of much avail.
availing adjective, noun, verb: Efficacious.
availingly adverb: In an availing manner.
availment noun: Profit; advantage.
avakaya noun: Alternative form of aavakaaya.
Avakian proper noun: A surname from Armenian.
aval adjective, noun: A financial guarantee by a third party to assume the burden of a debt, especially a bill of exchange in the event of default.
Aval Milk noun: A Kerala cuisine drink, blending aval, ripe bananas, milk, and nuts.
avalanche noun, verb /ˈævəlɑːnʃ/: A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.
avalanche effect noun: A property of some cipher systems in which a small change in the input results in a very large change in the output.
avalanche lily noun: The flowering plant Erythronium grandiflorum.
avalancheless adjective: Without avalanches.
avalanchelike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of an avalanche.
avaldar noun: Alternative form of havildar.
avale verb: To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall
avalement noun: A technique of flexing the knees while skiing.
avalent adjective /eɪˈveɪlənt/: Non-valent, having valency zero: taking no arguments.
avalglucosidase alfa noun: An enzyme replacement therapy medication used for the treatment of glycogen storage disease type II (Pompe disease).
Avallone proper noun: A surname from Italian.
Avalogoli noun: A Bantu people of Kenya.
Avalokiteshvara proper noun: A bodhisattva who embodies compassion.
Avalon proper noun /ˈav.əˌlɒn/: An island, represented as an earthly paradise in the western seas, to which King Arthur and other heroes were carried at death.
avalone noun: Obsolete spelling of abalone.
Avalonia proper noun /ˌævəˈləʊ.ni.ə/: A microcontinent in the Paleozoic era, crustal fragments of which underlie south-west Great Britain and the eastern coast of North America.
Avalonian adjective /ˌævəˈləʊ.ni.ən/: Of or relating to the microcontinent Avalonia.
Avalos proper noun: A surname from Spanish.
avalvular adjective: Having no valves
avanafil noun: A drug used to treat erectile dysfunction.
Avanguardista noun: A member of the Avanguardia Giovanile Fascista, an Italian fascist student youth organization established in the 1920s.
Avani proper noun: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
avania noun /ˌavəˈniːə/: A tax or fee imposed on foreigners under the Ottoman Empire, especially one considered to be irregular or extortionate.
avant noun: The front of an army; the vanguard.
avant basic adjective, noun: A form of maximalism characterized by retro-psychedelic patterns, squiggly shapes, and pastel colors.
avant-corps noun: A part of a building, such as a porch or pavilion, that juts out from the corps de logis, often taller than other parts of the building.
avant-courier noun: A person dispatched before another person or company, to give notice of his or their approach; a scout or herald.
avant-dance noun: avant-garde dance music
avant-disco noun: An avant-garde style of disco music.
avant-folk noun: avant-garde folk music
avant-funk noun: An avant-garde style of funk music.
avant-garage noun: A genre of experimental, avant-garde music influenced by garage rock.
avant-garde adjective, noun /æˈvɑ̃t.ɡɑːd/: The vanguard of an army or other force.
avant-gardism noun: the novel, experimental approach of the avant-garde
avant-gardist adjective, noun: A person who is avant-garde or espouses avant-garde points of view; a member of the avant-garde.
avant-guard noun: The vanguard or advanced body of an army.
avant la lettre prepositional phrase: Before the term was coined (the term being a word or phrase used just previously in an anachronistic way)
avant-metal noun: A genre of heavy metal music characterized by experimental and unconventional elements.
avant-pop noun: Pop music with experimental or avant-garde elements.
avant-prog noun: A musical genre that combines elements of progressive rock and avant-garde music.
avant-texte noun: The study of a written work by analyzing the process of composition, including prior manuscripts, rough drafts, etc.
avantgarde adjective, noun: Alternative form of avant-garde.
avantgardism noun: Alternative spelling of avant-gardism.
avantgardist noun: Alternative form of avant-gardist.
avantgardistic adjective: Innovative, pioneering.
Avanti noun: One of the ancient inhabitants of this realm.
avantpop noun: An American artistic movement which derived from postmodernism in the 1990s, characterized by the reuse of existing mass media materials (cinema, pop music,...
avanturine noun: Alternative form of aventurine.
avanzada noun: A genre originated from the fusion of Paraguayan polka and guarania with elements of bossa nova and MPB.
avapritinib noun /ˌeɪvəˈpɹɪtɪnɪb/: A drug for the treatment of certain forms of gastrointestinal stromal tumor.
avar adjective, noun /ˈævɑɹ/: an animation variable
avaram noun: A leguminous shrub with smooth cinnamon brown bark (Senna auriculata) from Southern Asia.
Avard proper noun: An unincorporated community in Woods County, Oklahoma, United States.
Avarian adjective, noun: Of or relating to Avaria.
avarice noun /ˈævəɹɪs/: Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greed for wealth

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.