English Words: A
35,202 words · Page 41 of 705
Expressing incomprehension or doubt; often requesting repetition or clarification, especially as an as an interrogative.
A political and philosophical belief that all forms of government are undesirable, unnecessary, or unethical, and as such that society would function without a state.
One who believes in or advocates the absence of hierarchy and authority in most forms (compare anarchism), especially one who works toward the realization of such.
A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; something denounced as accursed.
A peninsula in West Asia, comprising most of the modern Republic of Turkey. Bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Armenian Highland to the east, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and the Aegean Sea to the west.
One who studies, teaches, writes on, or does research on anatomy and anatomical structures.
The art of studying the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy.
Initialism of absolute neutrophil count, a blood test measuring the number of neutrophil granulocytes.
One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather; a forebear.
A harbor, river, or offshore area that can accommodate a ship at anchor, either for quarantine, queuing, or discharge.
Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor. (Compare sarcelly, moline.)
The main host of a television or radio program, particularly one relating to the broadcast of news.
Any small saltwater fish of the Engraulidae family, consisting of 160 species in sixteen genera, those of the genus Engraulis being widely sold as food.
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The English alphabetical index for the letter A contains 35,202 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 705 pages, and you are currently viewing page 41. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
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