<B>anaptyxis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Phonetics.) the insertion of an additional vowel in a word, thus forming an extra syllable, as in for <I>athlete</I> and for <I>elm.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="anarch">
<B>anarch, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a promoter of anarchy. <BR> <I>Ex. Imperial anarchs doubling human woes (Lord Byron).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="anarchic">
<B>anarchic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>producing anarchy; favoring anarchy; lawless. <BR> <I>Ex. an anarchic age.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with anarchism as a political theory. adv. <B>anarchically.</B> </DL>
<B>anarchism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>the political theory that all systems of government and law are harmful. Believers in anarchism think that all such systems prevent individuals from reaching their greatest development. <DD><B> b. </B>the practice or support of this belief. <DD><B> 2. </B>disorder and confusion; lawlessness; terrorism. </DL>
<A NAME="anarchist">
<B>anarchist, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a person who wants to overthrow established governments and have a world without rulers and laws; advocate of anarchism. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who promotes disorder and stirs up revolt. <DD><I>adj. </I> anarchistic. </DL>
<A NAME="anarchistic">
<B>anarchistic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of anarchism; like that of anarchists. adv. <B>anarchistically.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="anarcho">
<B>anarcho-,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) anarchist and ______. <BR> <I>Ex. Anarcho-pacifist = anarchist and pacifist.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="anarchopacifism">
<B>anarcho-pacifism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the beliefs and practices of persons believing in or following both anarchism and pacifism. <BR> <I>Ex. Growing numbers of drop-outs and hippies are gravitating towards ... anarcho-pacifism (Manchester Guardian Weekly).</I> adj., n. <B>anarcho-pacifist.</B> </DL>
<B>anarchy, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an absence of a system of government and law. <BR> <I>Ex. After its defeat in war the country was in a state of anarchy. Eternal anarchy amidst the noise of endless wars (John Milton).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>disorder and confusion; lawlessness. <BR> <I>Ex. (Figurative.) ... the wild anarchy of drink (Ben Jonson).</I> (SYN) chaos. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=anarchism </B>(def. 1). </DL>
<A NAME="anarthria">
<B>anarthria, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> inability to articulate distinctly in speaking, especially as a result of damage to the brain. </DL>
<A NAME="anarthrous">
<B>anarthrous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(of animals) without joints. <DD><B> 2. </B>(of Greek nouns) used without the article. </DL>
<A NAME="anasarca">
<B>anasarca, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a dropsy of considerable extent in the subcutaneous connective tissue; generalized edema. </DL>
<A NAME="anasarcous">
<B>anasarcous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or characterized by anasarca. </DL>
<A NAME="anasazi">
<B>Anasazi, </B>noun, pl. <B>-zi</B> or <B>-zis.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a member of a North American Indian group that included the Basket Makers and the Pueblo Indians. <DD><B> 2. </B>the culture typified by this group. </DL>
<A NAME="anaspid">
<B>anaspid, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of fossil fishes of the Silurian and Devonian periods, having a heterocercal tail and lacking paired fins. </DL>
<A NAME="anastatic">
<B>anastatic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (of print) raised in relief. </DL>
<A NAME="anastigmat">
<B>anastigmat, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an anastigmatic lens. </DL>
<A NAME="anastigmatic">
<B>anastigmatic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> free from astigmatism (applied especially to a compound photographic lens in which each part is designed to compensate for the astigmatic defects of the other); stigmatic. adv. <B>anastigmatically.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="anastomose">
<B>anastomose, </B>intransitive verb, transitive verb, <B>-mosed,</B> <B>-mosing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to communicate or connect by anastomosis. </DL>
<A NAME="anastomosis">
<B>anastomosis, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ses.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a cross connection between separate parts of any branching system, such as the veins of leaves, veins in the wings of insects, or rivers and their branches. <DD><B> 2. </B>communication between blood vessels in an animal body. </DL>
<A NAME="anastomotic">
<B>anastomotic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or characterized by anastomosis. </DL>
<A NAME="anastrophe">
<B>anastrophe, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Rhetoric.) inversion of the usual order of words or the arrangement of clauses in a sentence. (Example:) "Sweet are the uses of adversity." </DL>
<B>anatase, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a variety of native titanium dioxide; octahedrite. </DL>
<A NAME="anatexis">
<B>anatexis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Geology.) the process by which plutonic rock is melted and regenerated as a magma. </DL>
<A NAME="anathema">
<B>anathema, </B>noun, pl. <B>-mas.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person or thing that is utterly detested or condemned. <BR> <I>Ex. Because of its uncertainties, steeplechasing long has been anathema to the betting fraternity (Wall Street Journal).</I> (SYN) taboo. <DD><B> 2. </B>any person or thing that has been cursed or consigned to damnation. <DD><B> 3. </B>a solemn curse by church authorities excommunicating some person from the church. <DD><B> 4. </B>the act of denouncing and condemning some person or thing as evil. <DD><B> 5. </B>a curse or imprecation. (SYN) malediction. </DL>
<A NAME="anathemamaranatha">
<B>anathema maranatha,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the term <I>anathema</I> supplemented by a phrase meaning "the Lord hath come," apparently added for solemnity, and hence used as an intensified form of <I>anathema</I> (in the Bible, I Corinthians 16:22). </DL>
<A NAME="anathematic">
<B>anathematic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having the nature of an anathema. adv. <B>anathematically.</B> </DL>
<B>anathematization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an anathematizing or being anathematized. </DL>
<A NAME="anathematize">
<B>anathematize, </B>verb, <B>-tized,</B> <B>-tizing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> to pronounce an anathema against; denounce; curse. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to utter anathemas; curse. noun <B>anathematizer.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="anatine">
<B>anatine, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or having to do with the duck family. <DD><B> 2. </B>resembling or characteristic of a duck. <DD><I>noun </I> a bird of the duck family. </DL>
<A NAME="anatolian">
<B>Anatolian, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with Anatolia (a region between the Black and Mediterranean seas), its people, or their language. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a native or inhabitant of Anatolia. <DD><B> 2. </B>the language of Anatolia, a dialect of Turkish. <DD><B> 3. </B>a group of extinct languages spoken in ancient Anatolia. </DL>
<B>anatomical, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>connected with the study or practice of anatomy or dissection. <BR> <I>Ex. an anatomical treatise.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with anatomy; structural. <BR> <I>Ex. an anatomical weakness.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="anatomically">
<B>anatomically, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in an anatomical manner; as regards structure; by means of anatomy or dissection. </DL>
<A NAME="anatomist">
<B>anatomist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who studies anatomy. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who dissects or analyzes. <BR> <I>Ex. (Figurative.) the economic anatomists examining the causes of inflation.</I> </DL>
<B>anatomize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-mized,</B> <B>-mizing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to divide (an animal or plant) into parts to study the structure and relation of the parts; dissect. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to examine the parts of; analyze. <BR> <I>Ex. Miss Jenkins has the shrewdness to realize that by anatomizing Elizabeth's neuroses she is expounding her greatness (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="anatomy">
<B>anatomy, </B>noun, pl. <B>-mies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the science of the structure of animals and plants, based upon dissection, microscopic observation, and other analyses. Anatomy is a part of biology. <BR> <I>Ex. Doctors study human anatomy.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a book about this. <DD><B> 3. </B>the dissecting of animals or plants to study the position and structure of their parts. <DD><B> 4. </B>the structure of an animal or plant. <BR> <I>Ex. The anatomy of an earthworm is much simpler than that of a man.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(Figurative.) the detailed examining of the parts or elements of a thing; analysis. <BR> <I>Ex. The Anatomy of Melancholy (Robert Burton).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>(Archaic.) a skeleton. </DL>
<A NAME="anatosaurus">
<B>anatosaurus, </B>noun, pl. <B>-sauri.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an ornithopod dinosaur with as many as 2,000 teeth. (SYN) trachodont. </DL>
<A NAME="anatropous">
<B>anatropous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) inverted at an early stage of growth of an ovule, so that the micropyle is close to the hilum, and the chalaza is at the opposite end. </DL>
<A NAME="anatto">
<B>anatto, </B>noun. <B>=annatto.</B></DL>
<A NAME="anbury">
<B>anbury, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a soft wart on horses and other animals. <DD><B> 2. </B>a disease attacking the roots of turnips, cabbages, and other plants. </DL>
