Words containing act

Abactinal means: Pertaining to the surface or end opposite to the mouth in a radiate animal; -- opposed to actinal.

Abaction means: Stealing cattle on a large scale.

Abactor means: One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves.

Ablactate means: To wean.

Ablactation means: The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam.

Ablactation means: The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach.

Abstract means: Withdraw; separate.

Abstract means: Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult.

Abstract means: Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word.

Abstract means: Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name.

Zythum means: A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.

Zythepsary means: A brewery.

Zythem means: See Zythum.

Zymotic means: Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.

Zymotic means: Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.

Zymosis means: A zymotic disease.

Zymosis means: A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.

Zymose means: Invertin.

Zymophyte means: A bacteroid ferment.

Zymosimeter means: An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.