This page gathers the 4,340 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “Dated” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 2 of 44: from “American lion” to “automobile”.
- American lion noun A puma or cougar.
- Americanoid noun A Native American.
- amidogen noun The amino radical, •NH₂, the neutral form of the amide ion −NH₂⁻, regardable as the ammonia molecule with one of its hydrogen atoms removed.
- amnesic noun A person with amnesia.
- amorous adj Affected with love; in love; enamored.
- amplection noun A form of pseudocopulation, found chiefly in amphibians and horseshoe crabs, in which a male grasps a female with his front legs; amplexus.
- amplexation noun The act of (forming the grip of) amplexus.
- amyl noun Synonym of pentyl.
- anacathartic adj That produces vomiting.
- anaconda mortgage noun A loan arrangement in which all of the money borrowed from a lender, for whatever purpose, is secured by one's home, land, and other…
- anaplerotic adj Filling up; promoting granulation of wounds or ulcers.
- andromimetic adj A transmasculine individual or trans man who has not had sex reassignment surgery.
- anesthetizer noun A person that administers anesthesia
- angel noun An unidentified flying object detected by air traffic control radar.
- angina noun An inflammatory infection of the throat, especially quinsy; any sore throat, with or without tooth and gum involvement.
- Anglic adj Dated form of Anglian.
- Anglicanism noun Attachment to England or English institutions.
- angor noun Great anxiety accompanied by painful constriction at the upper part of the belly, often with palpitation and oppression.
- animism noun A doctrine that animal life is produced by an immaterial spirit.
- anodium noun Anodized aluminum.
- anointed adj Utter; thorough; eminent.
- anomaly noun An irregularity or disproportion.
- anthropomorphic noun An anthropomorphized animal.
- anthroposociology noun The anthropological and sociological study of race as a means of establishing the superiority of certain peoples.
- anti-marketeer noun someone who was opposed to Britain or Ireland joining, or (during the UK's 1975 referendum campaign) remaining in, the "Common Market"…
- antiautistic adj Countering autism or autistic behaviour.
- antibeauty adj Being or pertaining to an anti-bottom quark (formerly called anti-beauty quark).
- antifat adj Counteracting fat; having a slimming effect.
- antigonorrhoeic noun A drug or agent that prevents or counters gonorrhoea.
- antimonial adj Of or pertaining to antimony.
- anywhat adv Anyway.
- AOLbonics noun The practice of speaking using numbers, or using short phonetic spellings as a shorthand to save on keystrokes.
- apologetic adj Defending by words or arguments; said or written in defense.
- apologize verb To make an apologia or defense; to act as apologist.
- apoplexy noun Unconsciousness or incapacity resulting from a cerebral hemorrhage or stroke.
- apothecary noun Synonym of pharmacist: a person who sells medicine, especially (historical) one who made and sold their own medicines in the medieval or…
- appellation noun A name or title by which someone is addressed or identified; a designation.
- apple grease intj Used to reject an assertion, to suggest that an utterance is nonsense, or express displeasure with another's speech.
- apple sauce noun Alternative spelling of applesauce (“nonsense”).
- applesauce intj Nonsense!
- appliance computer noun A computer sold to consumers as a unit ready to be switched on and used, rather than a kit for self-assembly.
- apprentice noun One not well versed in a subject; a tyro or newbie.
- approver noun In English common law, a person who accuses a confederate; one who commits approvement.
- apricot noun A testicle.
- aqua fortis noun Any strong and potentially dangerous alcoholic drink.
- aquadrome noun Synonym of water park.
- aquarian noun Hippie, New Ager.
- aquiferous system noun The hydrostatic skeleton of certain marine gastropods.
- arabin noun A carbohydrate, isomeric with cane sugar, found in gum arabic
- Araucanian adj Synonym of Mapuche.
- arcade adventure noun A game combining the action elements of an arcade game with the narrative elements of an adventure game.
- archoplasm noun The substance from which attraction spheres develop in mitotic cell division, and of which they consist.
- archwizard noun A proprietor, director, or chief programmer of a multi-user dungeon.
- argentate adj silvery white
- Arian noun Synonym of heretic, any Christian differing from any of the beliefs of the speaker.
- arithmetic noun Number theory.
- arrant adj Complete; downright; utter.
- arrestation noun The act of catching someone's attention.
- arrestive adj Tending to capture people’s attention.
- arsenation noun Conversion of a substance to, or reaction of a substance with, an arsenate (“a salt or ester of arsenic acid”).
- art noun Contrivance, scheming, manipulation.
- art house noun A building or gallery in which works of art are collected, displayed, and offered for sale.
- arteriography noun description of the arteries
- arthrography noun The scientific description of joints
- article noun A person; an individual.
- Aryan noun An Indo-European, a Proto-Indo-European.
- as adv For example; for instance. (Compare such as.)
- as I live and breathe phrase Used to declare the truth of a statement with emphasis.
- ascertain verb To look for something lost.
- Asiatic adj Asian, specifically, relating to the parts of Asia east of Egypt, i.e the Middle East or West Asia.
- Asiaticism noun Something peculiar to Asia or Asians.
- askant verb Dated form of askance.
- asparaginate noun The conjugate base of asparaginic acid (aspartic acid).
- Asperger's syndrome noun An autism-related developmental disorder characterised by sustained impairment in social interaction and nonverbal communication and by…
- aspheterism noun The view that all property should be in common ownership and that no individual should benefit from private possession.
- aspidium noun Synonym of dryopteris: a member of a certain genus of ferns, including the male fern.
- ass bandit noun Synonym of corrupter, particularly a man who eagerly seduces young women.
- associate adj Connected by habit or sympathy.
- asterisk noun A small star; also (by extension), something resembling or shaped like a star.
- asylum verb to place in an asylum
- at home prep_phrase Available or willing to receive visitors.
- at length prep_phrase At last, finally, eventually.
- at the moment prep_phrase At that time; then.
- atmo noun The standard atmospheric pressure used in certain physical measurements and calculations; conventionally, that pressure under which the…
- atonic noun A sound with lack of tone or vocality.
- atop prep On the top (with of).
- attachiamenta de spinis et boscis noun An ancient privilege granted to forest officers to take for their own any thorns, brushwood, and windfalls within their own precincts.
- attenuant noun Any medicine that thins or dilutes the fluids; a diluent.
- Atticism noun The stylistic principles of Greek Atticism in application to other languages, especially to Latin.
- attorney noun One such who practised in the courts of the common law.
- attribute noun A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display.
- a᷍u symbol An orthographic ⟨au⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as being the THOUGHT vowel, as in the word "maul".
- audience hall noun An auditorium or large hall with a stage designed to seat an audience (i.e. a group of people watching a performance).
- audiphone noun an instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or less distinctly.
- autism noun Classic autism, a pervasive neurological condition that is observable in early childhood and persists throughout the lifespan…
- auto verb To travel by automobile.
- autobus noun A motorbus, as opposed to earlier horse-drawn buses.
- autocoded adj Written in an autocode
- automaton noun The self-acting power of the muscular and nervous systems, by which movement is effected without intelligent determination.
- automobile verb To travel by automobile.