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Annuitant
- noun - the recipient of an annuity
Annuities
- noun - income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments; "his retirement fund was set up to be paid as an annuity"
Anoestrum
- noun - applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus
Anoestrus
- noun - applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus
Anointers
- noun - one who anoints as a religious ceremony
Anointing
- verb - administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing
- choose by or as if by divine intervention; "She was anointed the head of the Christian fundamentalist group"
- the act of applying oil or an oily liquid
Anteaters
- noun - a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia
- a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea
- any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites
- nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata
- small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct
- toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites
Anthotaxy
- - The arrangement of flowers in a cluster; the science of the relative position of flowers; inflorescence.
Anxieties
- noun - (psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic
- a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune
- Fear
- state of unease, state of being concerned or worried