English words: adsorption calorimetry to adverbify
300 English words, part 28 of 158 of the words starting with A, A to Z. 38 have a page of their own.
English words adsorption calorimetry to adverbify
- adsorption calorimetry noun: The study of the heat exchanged when molecules are adsorbed on a surface
- adsorptional adjective /ædˈzɔɹpʃənəl/: Of or pertaining to adsorption.
- adsorptionally adverb: By means of, or in terms of, adsorption.
- adsorptive adjective, noun: Pertaining to, tending toward, or characterized by adsorption.
- adsorptively adverb: In an adsorptive manner; with a tendency toward or characteristic of adsorption.
- adsorptiveness noun: The property of being adsorptive, of tending toward or being characterized by adsorption.
- adsorptivity noun: The condition of being adsorptive
- adspeak noun /ˈæd.spiːk/: The sort of language used in advertisements, typified by bold claims and optimistic encouragement.
- adspection noun: Close inspection (typically of an animal).
- adstratal adjective: Relating to an adstratum.
- adstrate noun: adstratum
- adstratum noun: Any language having elements that are responsible for change in neighbouring languages
- adstrict verb: Alternative form of astrict.
- adstriction noun: Alternative form of astriction.
- adstringent adjective, noun /ədˈstɹɪnd͡ʒənt/: Alternative form of astringent.
- adstruct verb: To build on to an existing structure.
- ADSU noun: Initialism of automatic distress signal unit.
- adsuki bean noun: Alternative form of azuki bean.
- adsurgent adjective: Alternative form of assurgent.
- adsymphyseal adjective: Alternative form of adsymphysial.
- adsymphysial adjective: Near a symphysis
- ADT noun: Abbreviation of Adult.
- adtech noun: Digital technology for the delivery and measurement of advertising campaigns.
- adtevac noun: A technique for drying blood plasma.
- ADU noun: Initialism of accessory dwelling unit.
- aducanumab noun: A human monoclonal antibody and drug candidate designed for treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
- adufe noun: A traditional square tambourine, found in Portugal and elsewhere, of Moorish origin.
- aduki noun: Ellipsis of aduki bean.
- aduki bean noun: Alternative form of azuki bean.
- adularescence noun /ˌæd͡ʒələˈɹɛsəns/: The optical phenomenon, exhibited by some specimens (moonstones) of the mineral adularia, of exhibiting a white to pale bluish or rarely pale orange sheen...
- adularescent adjective: Exhibiting adularescence.
- adularia noun /ˌæd͡ʒʊˈlɛəɹi.ə/: A variety of orthoclase feldspar found as colorless to white prismatic crystals in cavities in metamorphic rocks. Some specimens reflect a bluish sheen...
- adularization noun: addition of or replacement by adularia
- adularize verb: to gain or be replaced by adularia
- adulate verb /ˈæ.d͡ʒə.leɪt/: To flatter effusively.
- adulation noun /ˌædʒʊˈleɪʃən/: Flattery; fulsome praise.
- adulator noun: One who lavishes excessive praises or flattery; one who adulates.
- adulatorily adverb: In an adulatory manner.
- adulatorious adjective: Adulatory, flattering.
- adulatory adjective /ˈædjʊlət(ə)ɹi/: Exhibiting adulation; overly flattering.
- adulatress noun: A female adulator.
- adulescent noun: Alternative form of adultescent.
- Adullam proper noun: An ancient ruin on a hilltop overlooking the Valley of Elah, straddling the Green Line between Israel and the West Bank.
- Adullamite noun: An inhabitant of Adullam. Near this town there was a cave where David and his allies sought refuge from Saul.
- adult adjective, noun, verb /ˈæd.ʌlt/: An animal that is full-grown.
- adult actress noun: A female porn star.
- adult album alternative noun: A radio format combining various styles of pop and rock with new wave, jazz, etc., but generally excluding hard rock and rap.
- adult alternative noun: Synonym of adult album alternative.
- adult baby noun /ˌæd.ʌltˈbeɪ̯.bi/: An adult person who enjoys role-playing a regression to an infant-like state and acting like a baby or toddler, as through wearing diapers, engaging in...
- adult beverage noun: An alcoholic beverage.
- adult bookstore noun: A store selling pornography in the form of books and video, and often selling sex toys as well.
- adult child noun: A grown-up descendant of a person referred to in earlier contexts.
- adult contemporary noun: A category of music including soft rock, ballads, easy listening, soul, and rhythm and blues.
- adult content noun: Content, such as pornography or violence, that is not generally thought to be appropriate for viewing by children, due to its shocking or sexual nature.
- adult education noun: The practice in which adults engage in systematic and sustained self-educating activities, either as a form of remedial education or as a form of continuing...
- adult film noun: A pornographic film.
- adult in the room noun: Someone, especially a senior member of staff, who counteracts impulsive or reckless behavior.
- adult language noun: profanity
- adult learner noun: A student over the age of 25 who is enrolled at an institute of higher learning.
- adult movie noun: A pornographic film.
- adult-onset diabetes noun: Former name of type 2 diabetes.
- adult-oriented rock noun: Synonym of yacht rock.
- adult protection noun: Policies and actions in place for the protection of (sometimes vulnerable) adults; adult safeguarding.
- adult relations noun: Sexual activity.
- adult respiratory distress syndrome noun: Synonym of acute respiratory distress syndrome.
- adult shop noun: A sex shop.
- adult star noun: A porn star.
- adult survivor noun: A survivor of child sexual abuse who is now an adult.
- ADULT syndrome noun: Abbreviation of acro-dermato-ungual-lacrimal-tooth syndrome.
- adult third culture kid noun: A third culture kid who has grown into adulthood.
- adultcentrism noun: The tendency to customarily view the adult perspective as superior to the youngster's perspective.
- adultcentrist adjective: Exhibiting adultcentrism.
- adulted adjective, verb: Completely grown; mature.
- adulter noun, verb: An adulterer, especially a male one.
- adulterable adjective: Susceptible to being adulterated.
- adulterant noun: That which adulterates, or reduces the purity of something.
- adulterate adjective, verb /əˈdʌltəɹət/: Corrupted or made impure by being mixed with something else; adulterated.
- adulterated adjective, verb: Intentionally tainted with impurities (usually as motivated by cheapening the production of a food product or enhancing the psychotropic effects of a street...
- adulterately adverb: In an adulterate manner.
- adulterateness noun: The state or quality of being adulterate.
- adulteration noun: The process of adulterating.
- adulterator noun: One who or that which adulterates, or harms the purity of, something.
- adulterer noun /əˈdʌltəɹə/: A spouse who has sex with a non-spouse.
- adulteress noun: A female adulterer, a married woman or wife who commits adultery.
- adulterine adjective, noun /əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/: Spurious; due to adulteration.
- adulterise verb: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of adulterize.
- adulterize verb: To commit adultery.
- adulterous adjective /əˈdʌltəɹəs/: Of, or characterized by adultery.
- adulterously adverb: In an adulterous manner.
- adulterousness noun /əˈdʌltəɹəsnəs/: A state of being adulterous.
- adultery noun /əˈdʌltəɹi/: Sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse. See more synonyms at Thesaurus:cuckoldry
- adultescence noun: The state or period of being an adultescent.
- adultescent noun: An adult who continues to participate in and enjoy youth culture.
- adulthood noun: The state or condition, for humans and other animals, of physical and psychological maturity: being an adult.
- adulticidal adjective: Of or pertaining to an adulticide.
- adulticide noun, verb: A pesticide designed to kill adult insects rather than their larvae.
- adultification noun: The treatment of a non-adult as an adult.
- adultiform adjective: Resembling the adult form.
- adultify verb: To treat a non-adult like an adult.
- adulting noun, verb: Activities typically associated with adulthood.
- adultisation noun: Non-Oxford British standard spelling of adultization.
- adultise verb: Non-Oxford British standard spelling of adultize.
- adultish adjective /ˈæd.ʌltɪʃ/: Of or suitable for an adult.
- adultism noun: A predisposition towards adults (or a bias against children or other younger people).
- adultist adjective: Biased in favor of adults (and against children); exhibiting adultism.
- adultivity noun: The state or quality of being an adult; majority.
- adultization noun: The act or process of adultizing.
- adultize verb: To raise (a child) in such a way that it adopts adult behaviors earlier than is usual.
- adultlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of an adult
- adultly adverb: In an adult manner; not childishly.
- adultnap verb: to kidnap, to abduct (an adult)
- adultness noun: The state or quality of being an adult.
- adultocentric adjective: centred on adults (to the exclusion of children)
- adultocentrism noun: The quality of being adultocentric.
- adultoid noun: A premature adult form of an insect.
- adultolescent noun: Alternative form of adultescent.
- adultomorphism noun: The tendency to interpret the behaviour of children as if they were adults
- adultophile noun: A teleiophile.
- adultophilia noun: Teleiophilia.
- adultophilic adjective: teleiophilic.
- adultress noun: Alternative form of adulteress.
- adultship noun: The state, condition, character, or conduct of an adult; maturity; adulthood
- adultspeak noun: The style of language used by adults.
- adultswear noun: Alternative form of adultwear.
- adultwear noun: Clothing for adults.
- adulty adjective: Resembling or characteristic of an adult.
- adumber verb: To overshadow or to obscure.
- adumbral adjective: Dark, shady.
- adumbrant adjective: Giving a faint shadow, slight resemblance, or foreboding. By extension, faint or slight.
- adumbrate verb /ˈædʌmˌbɹeɪt/: To foreshadow vaguely.
- adumbrated adjective, verb: Obscured.
- adumbration noun /ˌædʌmˈbɹeɪʃ(ə)n/: The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.
- adumbrationism noun: The attribution of insights, ideas or analogies absent from original works.
- adumbrative adjective: Of or pertaining to adumbration
- adumbratively adverb: In an adumbrative manner
- adunation noun: The act of uniting; union.
- adunc adjective /ˈæ.dʌnk/: Curved inward, hooked.
- aduncate adjective: curved inwards; hooked
- aduncated adjective: Alternative form of aduncate.
- aduncity noun: Crookedness, curvaceousness, hookedness.
- aduncous adjective: curved inwards; hooked
- adunque adjective: Alternative form of adunc (“hooked”).
- Adur proper noun /ˈeɪdə/: A river in West Sussex, England, which flows into the English Channel.
- adure verb /əˈdjʊə/: To burn, completely or slightly.
- adusk adjective, adverb /əˈdʌsk/: At dusk; in the dusk or twilight.
- adust adjective /əˈdʌst/: Abnormally dark or over-concentrated (associated with various states of discomfort or illness, specifically being too hot or dry).
- adusted adjective: Adust, burnt.
- adustible adjective /əˈdʌstɪbəl/: Capable of being burned; combustible.
- adustion noun: The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried.
- adustiosis noun: A reddish discolouration of the skin of a citrus fruit.
- adustness noun: The state or quality of being adust.
- adv noun: Abbreviation of adverb.
- Advait noun: An adherent of Advaitism.
- Advaita proper noun /ədˈvaɪ.tə/: A school of philsoophy teaching that differences and variegation in the human condition are unreal or illusory.
- Advaitic adjective: Of, relating to, or characteristic of Advaita or Advaita Vedanta.
- Advaitin noun: An adherent or follower of Advaita Vedanta.
- advalvar adjective: Towards the valve (of a mollusc)
- advance adjective, noun, verb /ədˈvɑːns/: To help the progress of (something); to further.
- advance angle noun: In helicopters, the mechanically fixed angle between the main rotor blades' pitch control horns and the swashplate when the blades are not leading or lagging.
- advance copy noun: A copy of a forthcoming book, magazine, film etc. that is distributed by the publisher to a limited audience before mass distribution.
- advance directive noun: A legal document outlining a person's end-of-life medical and healthcare wishes.
- advance fee fraud noun: Any type of fraud involving an advance fee scam.
- advance fee scam noun: A consumer fraud that involves obtaining a relatively small amount of money from the victim in advance of some large deferred benefit, such as a job, a high...
- advance guard noun: A unit or units leading the way of advancing or marching troops, guarding them from ambushes, reconnoitering and pursuing the enemy, etc.
- advance man noun: A male advance person.
- advance payment noun: The part of a contractually due sum that is paid or received in advance for a good, service or social security.
- advance person noun: Someone who travels to a destination in order to arrange accommodation, meetings, security, etc. for one or more celebrities, politicians, business leaders,...
- advance the ball verb: To move the ball closer to the goal.
- advance woman noun: A female advance person.
- advanceable adjective: That can be advanced, as of a tax credit that may be brought forward for immediate use rather than being reclaimed at the end of the year.
- advanced adjective, verb /ədˈvɑːnst/: At or close to the state of the art.
- advanced age noun: Synonym of old age (“latter part of life”).
- advanced cryptic noun: A cryptic crossword which includes an additional puzzle which must be solved using the completed grid or which transforms entries in the grid.
- advanced degree noun: A university degree, such as an MSc or PhD, awarded after a baccalaureate on completion of a further program of academic studies.
- advanced green noun: In some jurisdictions, a type of traffic light signal, in which the green light initially flashes while the matching light for oncoming traffic remains red,...
- advanced higher noun: A national school qualification a level above higher, which allows for further study while still in secondary school.
- Advanced level noun: Synonym of A level (“type of examination”).
- advanced meat recovery noun: A technical application by which a slaughterhouse removes residual tissue (resulting in mechanically separated meat) from the bones of slaughter animals...
- advanced pawn noun: A pawn that is on the opponent's side of the board (the fifth rank or higher).
- advanced refreshment noun: Drunkenness, intoxication.
- advanced stop line noun: A stop line in front of the advanced stop box, behind which cyclists wait to get a head start on vehicles that are stopped behind the main stop line at an...
- advanced time noun: The time when the field will advance from the present time t.
- advanced tongue root noun: An articulation that involves the expansion of the pharyngeal cavity by moving the base of the tongue forward and often lowering the larynx during the...
- advanced traffic management noun: Technologies that monitor and manage traffic flow to improve transportation efficiency.
- advanced train control system noun: A system of railroad equipment designed to ensure safety by monitoring locations of trains and locomotives, providing analysis and reporting, and automation...
- advancedly adverb: In an advanced manner; to an advanced degree.
- advancedness noun: The quality of being advanced.
- advancement noun /ædˈvɑːns.mənt/: The act of advancing; promotion to a higher place or dignity
- advancement campout noun: A campout that is intended to help younger Scouts to advance to higher ranks.
- advancer noun /ədˈvænsɚ/: One who advances or puts forward.
- advancing noun, verb /ədˈvɑːnsɪŋ/: The act of proceeding forward; an advance.
- advancingly adverb: In an advancing manner.
- advancive adjective: Tending to advance.
- Advani proper noun: A surname from Sindhi, of Hindu usage.
- advantage noun, verb /ədˈvɑːn.tɪd͡ʒ/: Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable or chance to success, or to any desired end.
- advantage gambling noun: Advantage play.
- advantage play noun: A player's use of discouraged or bannable but not illegal techniques, such as card counting, to gain an advantage, usually over the house, at games of chance.
- advantage player noun: One who engages in advantage play.
- advantageable adjective: Providing an advantage; helpful to the advancement of a cause.
- advantaged adjective, verb: Having been given an advantage, such as by biased referees in a competition.
- advantagedness noun: The state or condition of being advantaged.
- advantageous adjective /ˌædvənˈteɪd͡ʒ(i)əs/: Being of advantage, beneficial.
- advantageously adverb: In a manner which provides an advantage; in an advantageous manner.
- advantageousness noun: The state or quality of being advantageous.
- advantame noun: A non-caloric sweetener synthesized from isovanillin and aspartame.
- advb. noun: Abbreviation of adverb.
- advect verb: To transport (something) by advection.
- advection noun /ædˈvɛkʃən/: The horizontal movement of a body of atmosphere (or other fluid) along with a concurrent transport of its temperature, humidity etc.
- advection fog noun: A type of fog caused by the passage of moist air horizontally over a relatively colder surface and the consequent cooling of that air to below its dew point.
- advectional adjective: Relating to advection.
- advectionally adverb: Synonym of advectively.
- advectitious adjective: Brought to a place from somewhere else; imported, foreign.
- advective adjective: Relating to advection.
- advectively adverb: In an advective manner.
- advehent adjective: Carrying towards an organ or structure.
- advene verb: To accede or to come to; to be superadded to, to be added to something or become a part of it, though inessential.
- advenement noun: An event.
- advenience noun: The property of being advenient.
- advenient adjective: Caused by outside forces; coming from without; external, additional.
- advent noun, verb /ˈæd.vɛnt/: Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears; the time when it is approaching.
- Advent calendar noun: A calendar used to count down the days of Advent, having windows revealing a hidden picture or gift on each day.
- Advent candle noun: A candle marked with the days of December up to Christmas Eve.
- Advent crown noun: Synonym of Advent wreath.
- Advent wreath noun: A usually evergreen wreath adorned with four (or sometimes five) candles, the first of which is lit on Advent Sunday, followed by the lighting of an...
- advential adjective: Synonym of adventitious.
- adventicectomy noun: Removal of the adventitia
- advention noun /ədˈvɛn.ʃən/: An external addition.
- adventious adjective /ədˈvɛn.ʃəs/: adventitious.
- adventiously adverb: In an adventitious manner; adventitiously.
- Adventism noun: The Adventist Christian movement founded by William Miller in 19th-century United States.
- Adventist adjective, noun: One who believes in the Second Advent (usually known as the Second Coming) of Jesus; an advocate of Adventism.
- adventitia noun: The outermost layer of epithelial tissue encasing a visceral organ.
- adventitial adjective: Of or pertaining to the adventitia
- adventition noun: The action or fact of occurring adventitiously; extrinsic addition or influence; accidental or incidental occurrence.
- adventitious adjective /ˌæd.vənˈtɪʃ.əs/: From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
- adventitiously adverb: in an adventitious manner; sporadically.
- adventitiousness noun: The degree to which a thing is adventitious.
- adventive adjective, noun /ədˈvɛntɪv/: Accidental.
- adventive species noun: Synonym of introduced species
- adventively adverb: In an adventive manner.
- adventral adjective: Extending along a venter (protuberance).
- adventual adjective: Relating to the Advent.
- adventure noun, verb /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/: A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
- adventure education noun: The use of cooperative games, trust activities, problem-solving initiatives, high adventure activities, and wilderness expeditions as a means of helping...
- adventure game noun: A computer or video game of the genre characterized by investigation, exploration, puzzle-solving, interaction with game characters, and a focus on...
- adventure playground noun: A set of outdoor play equipment such as slides, monkey bars, etc., for children.
- adventure sport noun: Synonym of extreme sport.
- adventure therapy noun: The use of adventure-based activities to provide people with emotional and/or behavioral problems with experiences that lead to positive change in their lives.
- adventure tourism noun: Synonym of adventure travel.
- adventure travel noun: A type of tourism, involving exploration or travel with a certain degree of risk (real or perceived), and which may require special skills and physical...
- adventurecation noun: A vacation that focuses on experiencing new places and activities, often involving outdoor adventures and unique experiences, rather than just relaxation.
- adventuredom noun: Collectively, all adventure stories.
- adventureful adjective: adventurous
- adventureless adjective: Without adventure; uneventful.
- adventurelessness noun: Lack of adventure.
- adventurement noun: adventure.
- adventurer noun /ædˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ.ɚ/: One who enjoys adventures.
- adventurership noun: The state or condition of an adventurer.
- adventuresome adjective /ədˈvɛntʃəɹsəm/: Characterised or marked by adventure.
- adventuresomely adverb: In an adventuresome manner.
- adventuresomeness noun: The state or quality of being adventuresome.
- adventuress noun /ədˈvɛntʃəɹɪs/: A female adventurer; a woman who seeks adventure.
- adventurine noun: Alternative form of aventurine.
- adventuring noun, verb: adventure
- adventurish adjective: Somewhat connected with or indicative of adventure or adventurism.
- adventurism noun /ədˈvɛn(t)ʃəɹɪz(ə)m/: The behavior of an adventurer; risk-taking.
- adventurist noun: Someone who is into adventurism.
- adventuristic adjective: Relating to or exhibiting adventurism.
- adventurize verb: To make into an adventure; to give adventurous characteristics to.
- adventurous adjective /ædˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ.əs/: Inclined to adventure; willing to take risks; prone to embark on hazardous enterprises; daring.
- adventurous sport noun: Synonym of extreme sport.
- adventurously adverb /ˌædˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ.əsˌli/: In an adventurous manner.
- adventurousness noun: The quality of being adventurous.
- adventury adjective: Adventure-like.
- Adver. noun: Abbreviation of advertising.
- adverb noun, verb /ˈæd.vɜːb/: A word that modifies a verb, adjective, other adverbs, or various other types of words, phrases, or clauses.
- adverb phrase noun: An adverbial phrase.
- adverbative adjective /ædˈvɝbətɪv/: Functioning as an adverb; adverbial.
- adverbhood noun: The property of being an adverb.
- adverbial adjective, noun /ædˈvɝbi.əl/: Of or relating to an adverb.
- adverbial accusative noun: In some languages such as Ancient Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, German, Arabic, the use of a noun or adjective in the accusative case as an adverb.
- adverbial case noun: a noun case in the Abkhaz, Georgian, and Udmurt languages
- adverbial clause noun: A subordinate clause that functions like an adverb within a main clause.
- adverbial genitive noun: A noun declined in the genitive case that functions as an adverb.
- adverbial number noun: A word that expresses a countable number of times; an adverbial numeral.
- adverbial of time noun: Synonym of time adverbial.
- adverbial participle noun: A participle that modifies a verb in the same sentence and is equivalent to an adverbial clause in English. Adverbial participles may denote time,...
- adverbial particle noun: The adverbial component of a phrasal verb; a word, typically a short one, which functions as an adverb accompanying and qualifying the verb component of a...
- adverbial phrase noun: A phrase that collectively modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, or a prepositional phrase.
- adverbialisation noun: Alternative form of adverbialization.
- adverbialise verb: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of adverbialize.
- adverbialism noun: The view that perceptions do not have objects, so for example one "senses redly" rather than being aware of a red sense datum.
- adverbialist noun: An advocate of adverbialism
- adverbiality noun: The condition of having characteristics of an adverb.
- adverbialization noun: A process of rendering adverbial, of adverbializing.
- adverbialize verb: To use as or change into an adverb.
- adverbializer noun: A morpheme, particle, etc. that converts a word into an adverb.
- adverbially adverb: As, or in the manner of, an adverb.
- adverbialness noun: Adverbiality.
- adverbify verb: To convert (a word that is not an adverb) into an adverb.
Part 27 · Part 29 · English words: A
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.