English Words: A
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Any of various insects in the family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera, typically living in large colonies composed almost entirely of flightless females.
A kind of pier that terminates the walls of the naos, a kind of post or pillar on either side of a doorway or entrance of a Greek temple.
A province and metropolitan municipality in southwest Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast.
Alpha Scorpii (α Sco), the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius. It is a M type red giant, and is a binary with a B type companion visible in greenish.
Any of several animals of South and Central America, in the suborder Vermilingua, which are noted for eating ants and termites which they catch with their long sticky tongues, including giant anteater and lesser anteater (also known as collared anteater).
Belonging or pertaining to, or existing in, the time prior to the great flood described in Genesis, or (by extension) to a great or destructive flood or deluge described in other mythologies.
Any of several African mammals of the family Bovidae distinguished by hollow horns, which, unlike deer, they do not shed.
Nearer the forward end, especially in the front of the body; nearer the head or forepart of an animal.
A cone-shaped structure built from sediment and other available materials by ants or white ants (termites), and beneath which the colony nests.
A collection of literary works, such as poems or short stories, especially a collection from various authors.
A form of carbonized ancient plants; the hardest and cleanest-burning of all the coals.
An acute infectious disease of herbivores, especially sheep and cattle, caused by Bacillus anthracis.
A proposed but rejected geological epoch, in which the effect of human activities on the global environment has disrupted the natural variability of the Holocene, ending the Holocene. (It was rejected as formal scientific nomenclature in 2024 owing to not meeting a bar for how a geological epoch is formally defined.)
The scientific study of humans, systematically describing the ethnographic, linguistic, archaeological, and evolutionary dimensions of humanity using a holistic methodological framework.
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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 47. 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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