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Adumbrative
- adjective - indistinctly prophetic
Adventitial
- adjective - of or pertaining to the adventitia
Adversative
- adjective - expressing antithesis or opposition; "the adversative conjunction `but' in `poor but happy'"
Adversities
- noun - a state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship"
- a stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event; "a period marked by adversities"
Aegospotami
- noun - a creek emptying into the Hellespont in present-day Turkey; at its mouth in 405 BC the Spartan fleet under Lysander defeated the Athenians and ended the Peloponnesian War
- a river in ancient Thrace (now Turkey); in the mouth of this river the Spartan fleet under Lysander destroyed the Athenian fleet in the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (404 BC)
Aeronautics
- noun - the theory and practice of navigation through air or space
Aerostatics
- - The science that treats of the equilibrium of elastic fluids, or that of bodies sustained in them. Hence it includes a
Aestivating
- verb - sleep during summer; "certain animals estivate"
Aestivation
- noun - (botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens
- (zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals during a hot or dry period