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Abducents
- noun - a small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye
Abductors
- noun - a muscle that draws a body part away from the median line
- someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)
Abelmosks
- noun - bushy herb of tropical Asia grown for its yellow or pink to scarlet blooms that resemble the hibiscus
Aberrants
- noun - one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group
Aberrates
- verb - diverge from the expected; "The President aberrated from being a perfect gentleman"
- diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration; "The surfaces of the concave lens may be proportioned so as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens"
Abetments
- noun - the verbal act of urging on
Abeyances
- noun - temporary cessation or suspension
Abhenries
- noun - a unit of inductance equal to one billionth of a henry
Abhorrers
- noun - a signer of a 1679 address to Charles II in which those who petitioned for the reconvening of parliament were condemned and abhorred
Abidances
- noun - acting according to certain accepted standards; "their financial statements are in conformity with generally accepted accounting practices"
- the act of abiding (enduring without yielding)
- the act of dwelling in a place