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# English words: A

**A** · [B](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/b/) · [C](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/c/) · [D](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/d/) · [E](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/e/) · [F](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/f/) · [G](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/g/) · [H](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/h/) · [I](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/i/) · [J](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/j/) · [K](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/k/) · [L](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/l/) · [M](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/m/) · [N](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/n/) · [O](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/o/) · [P](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/p/) · [Q](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/q/) · [R](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/r/) · [S](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/s/) · [T](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/t/) · [U](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/u/) · [V](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/v/) · [W](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/w/) · [X](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/x/) · [Y](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/y/) · [Z](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/z/)

1215 words under A; 901–1000 on this page.

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- [armadillo](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/armadillo/) — An armadillo is a small mammal from the Americas with a body covered in hard, bony plates like armour, which digs for insects with strong…
- [armband](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/armband/) — An armband is a band of cloth worn around the upper arm to show something, like that someone is team captain or that someone has died.
- [armchair](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/armchair/) — An armchair is a comfortable chair with side parts to rest your arms on.
- [armful](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/armful/) — As much as you can carry in one or both arms.
- [armhole](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/armhole/) — The opening in a garment for the arm, or the armpit. — Jewish tradition
- [armistice](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/armistice/) — An agreement between enemies in a war to stop fighting, usually while they talk about peace.
- [armless](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/armless/) — Armless means having no arms.
- [armlet](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/armlet/) — A band or bracelet worn around the upper arm as a piece of jewelry. — Jewish tradition
- [armor](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/armor/) — Armor is a covering of metal worn by soldiers or knights to protect the body in battle.
- [armour](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/armour/) — Armour is a strong covering of metal or leather that soldiers and knights wore in the past to protect their bodies in battle. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [armoury](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/armoury/) — A place where weapons and armour are kept, such as a room in a castle or a building used by an army. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [armpit](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/armpit/) — Your armpit is the hollow place under your arm where it joins your shoulder.
- [armrest](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/armrest/) — An armrest is the part of a chair, sofa, or seat in a car, bus or plane where you rest your arm.
- [arms](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/arms/) — The two body parts from your shoulders to your hands (plural of arm). — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [army](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/army/) — An army is a large group of soldiers trained to fight on land for a country. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [arnica](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/arnica/) — Arnica is a yellow flower that grows in mountains, related to daisies.
- [around](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/around/) — Around means on every side of something, or in a circle. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [arousal](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/arousal/) — Arousal is the state of being awake, alert or excited, when the body and mind are ready for action.
- [arouse](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/arouse/) — To arouse a feeling is to cause it, like interest, curiosity, anger or suspicion. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [arrange](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/arrange/) — To arrange things is to put them in a neat or useful order or position. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [arranged](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/arranged/) — Arranged means put in a certain order or pattern, such as in rows, by size or by colour. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [arrangement](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/arrangement/) — A plan made in advance for something to happen (travel arrangements). — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [array](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/array/) — An array is a set of things put in equal rows and columns. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [arrears](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/arrears/) — Money that is owed and should have been paid already: rent arrears.
- [arrest](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/arrest/) — To arrest someone is for the police to take them away because they may have broken the law.
- [arrival](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/arrival/) — Arrival is the act of reaching a place, coming to where you were going.
- [arrive](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/arrive/) — To arrive is to get to a place at the end of a trip. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [arrogance](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/arrogance/) — Behaving as if you are more important, cleverer or better than other people. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [arrogant](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/arrogant/) — Behaving as if you are better or more important than other people. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [arrogantly](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/arrogantly/) — in a proud way, as if you were better than others. — Jewish tradition
- [arrow](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/arrow/) — A thin straight stick with a sharp point at the front and feathers at the back, shot from a bow. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [arse](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/arse/) — The bottom, the part of the body you sit on.
- [arsenal](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/arsenal/) — An arsenal is a big collection of weapons, or a building where weapons are made or stored.
- [arsenic](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/arsenic/) — Arsenic is a chemical element (symbol As); many of its compounds are very poisonous.
- [art](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/art/) — Art is making pictures, sculptures and other things that are beautiful or show ideas and feelings, like painting and drawing. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [artefact](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/artefact/) — An object made by people long ago, such as a tool, pot or jewel, that tells us about the past.
- [artemisia](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/artemisia/) — Artemisia is a group of plants with strong-smelling, often silvery leaves, including wormwood, mugwort, sagebrush and tarragon.
- [artery](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/artery/) — An artery is a tube in the body that carries blood away from the heart to the rest of the body. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [artful](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/artful/) — Artful means clever at getting what you want, especially by tricking people; crafty.
- [artfully](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/artfully/) — Artfully means in a clever, sly way, often to get what you want without anyone noticing.
- [arthritis](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/arthritis/) — Arthritis is an illness that makes the joints, the places where bones meet like knees, hips and fingers, swollen, stiff and painful.
- [article](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/article/) — An article is a piece of writing in a newspaper, magazine or website.
- [articulate](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/articulate/) — An articulate person can express ideas clearly and well in words. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [articulated](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/articulated/) — An articulated lorry, bus or vehicle has two or more parts joined by a bendy joint so it can turn corners. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [artifice](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/artifice/) — A clever trick used to fool people.
- [artificer](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/artificer/) — An artificer is a skilled craftsman who makes or builds things, especially with metal. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [artificial](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/artificial/) — Artificial means made by people, not natural.
- [artificially](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/artificially/) — Artificially means made or done by people, not by nature.
- [artillery](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/artillery/) — Artillery means big guns and cannons used in war, and also the soldiers who fire them. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [artisan](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/artisan/) — An artisan is a skilled worker who makes things by hand, such as a carpenter, potter or weaver. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [artist](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/artist/) — An artist is a person who paints, draws, makes sculptures or other works of art.
- [artistic](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/artistic/) — Artistic means good at art or creative things like drawing, painting, music or design.
- [arts](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/arts/) — The arts are activities like painting, drawing, music, dance, drama, film and writing, where people make things to express ideas and… — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [artwork](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/artwork/) — An artwork is a piece of art, such as a painting, drawing, sculpture or collage.
- [arum](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/arum/) — An arum is a plant with arrow-shaped leaves and a hood-like flower around a spike, such as the arum lily or the wild arum (cuckoo pint…
- [aryan](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/aryan/) — Aryan was an old name for the ancient people who spoke early Indo-Iranian languages in Iran and northern India; «arya» meant «noble» in…
- [as](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/as/) — As means in the role of: she works as a nurse. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [asap](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/asap/) — ASAP stands for «as soon as possible»: very soon, without delay.
- [ascend](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ascend/) — To ascend means to go up, to climb or rise: "the balloon ascended into the sky". — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [ascender](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ascender/) — An ascender is the part of a lowercase letter that goes up above the middle of the line, as in b, d, f, h, k, l and t.
- [ascension](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ascension/) — The Ascension is the event when, Christians believe, Jesus rose up into heaven forty days after he rose from the dead.
- [ascent](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ascent/) — An ascent is a climb up a mountain, hill or stairs. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [ascertain](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ascertain/) — To find out for certain whether something is true, usually by checking carefully. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [ascribe](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ascribe/) — To say that something was caused by something, as in «ascribe her success to hard work». — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [ash](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ash/) — The grey powder left after something has burned. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [ashamed](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ashamed/) — Ashamed means feeling bad and guilty because you did something wrong or something you think is embarrassing. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [ashore](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ashore/) — On or onto the land from the sea or a river.
- [ashy](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ashy/) — Ashy means covered with ash, or grey like ash.
- [asia](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/asia/) — Asia is the biggest of the seven continents, with the most people.
- [asian](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/asian/) — Asian means from Asia, the biggest continent, or connected with its people, countries, languages or food.
- [asiatic](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/asiatic/) — From Asia, used mostly in the names of animals and plants, such as the Asiatic lion or the Asiatic black bear.
- [aside](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/aside/) — To one side; out of the way: "Step aside.". — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [ask](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ask/) — To ask is to say a question so that you get an answer. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [askance](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/askance/) — To look askance at something or someone is to look at them with doubt, suspicion or disapproval. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [askest](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/askest/) — «askest» means «you ask», a form of «ask»: To ask is to say a question so that you get an answer.
- [asketh](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/asketh/) — «asketh» means «asks», a form of «ask»: To ask is to say a question so that you get an answer.
- [asl](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/asl/) — ASL stands for American Sign Language, the language of hand signs, faces and body movements used by many Deaf people in the USA and parts…
- [asleep](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/asleep/) — Sleeping. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [asp](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/asp/) — An asp is a small, poisonous snake, found in hot countries and in old stories. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [asparagus](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/asparagus/) — A vegetable with long green, white or purple stalks with pointed tips, eaten cooked.
- [aspect](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/aspect/) — One part or side of a situation, problem or idea that you can think about. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [aspen](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/aspen/) — An aspen is a tall, thin tree of the poplar family, with round leaves on long, flat stalks that make them shake and flutter in the…
- [asphalt](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/asphalt/) — Asphalt is a black sticky material mixed with stones and used to make road surfaces and playgrounds.
- [aspirate](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/aspirate/) — To aspirate a sound is to say it with a puff of breath, like the «h» in «hat» or the «p» in «pin». — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [aspire](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/aspire/) — To aspire is to want very much to reach something great, such as a high place, a grand job or a better life.
- [aspirin](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/aspirin/) — Aspirin is a medicine that reduces pain, fever and swelling.
- [ass](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ass/) — An ass is a donkey, an animal like a small horse with long ears. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [assail](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/assail/) — To assail someone is to attack them violently. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [assailant](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/assailant/) — An assailant is a person who attacks someone physically. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [assassin](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/assassin/) — A killer who murders a ruler or an important person, often in secret and for pay.
- [assassinate](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/assassinate/) — To assassinate is to murder an important or famous person, such as a leader, usually for political reasons.
- [assassination](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/assassination/) — An assassination is the murder of an important or famous person, such as a leader, usually for political reasons.
- [assault](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/assault/) — An assault is a violent attack on a person, or a threat to hurt them; it is a crime. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [assay](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/assay/) — A test of a metal or ore to find out how pure it is, or to try something out. — Jewish tradition
- [assemblage](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/assemblage/) — A large gathering of people, or a collection of many things brought together, such as a crowd at a feast or a court.
- [assemble](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/assemble/) — To assemble is to come together in one place as a group. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [assembly](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/assembly/) — Assembly is a meeting of the whole school or several classes together, often in the hall, for news, songs, stories and awards. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [assent](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/assent/) — Agreement or permission, especially official agreement.
- [assert](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/assert/) — To assert something is to say firmly that it is true. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [asserted](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/asserted/) — Asserted means said firmly that something is true.