| ADAGIO | • adagio n. (Music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played rather slowly, leisurely and gracefully. • adagio n. (Music) A passage having this mark. • adagio n. (Dance) A male-female duet or mixed trio ballet displaying demanding balance, spins and/or lifts. |
| AIKONA | • aikona interj. (South Africa) no; no way. • AIKONA interj. (Bantu) it is not. |
| ALODIA | • alodia n. Plural of alodium. • ALODIUM n. (Latin) land held absolutely, also ALLODIUM, ALOD. |
| ALOGIA | • alogia n. A general lack of additional, unprompted content in normal speech, a common symptom of schizophrenia. • ALOGIA n. the inability to speak. |
| ANOPIA | • anopia n. (Medicine) State or condition of sightlessness, often due to medical reasons. • ANOPIA n. a visual defect, an upward squint, also ANOOPSIA, ANOPSIA. |
| ANOXIA | • anoxia n. A condition in which a tissue or environment is severely or totally deprived of oxygen; severe hypoxia. • ANOXIA n. deficient supply of oxygen to the tissues. |
| APORIA | • aporia n. (Rhetoric) An expression of deliberation with oneself regarding uncertainty or doubt as to how to proceed. • aporia n. (Philosophy, post-structuralism) An insoluble contradiction in a text’s meaning; a logical impasse suggested… • APORIA n. a professed doubt of what to say or to choose, as in 'to be or not to be'. |
| ASIAGO | • asiago n. A hard Italian cheese similar to parmesan. • Asiago prop.n. A township near Vicenza in the Veneto, Italy. • ASIAGO n. (Italian) a type of Italian cheese. |
| ATOCIA | • atocia n. (Rare) Of a woman, infertility (inability to conceive and give birth to children). • ATOCIA n. sterility in a female. |
| ATONIA | • atonia n. Lack of muscle tone. • ATONIA n. muscular debility, also ATONY. |
| COAITA | • coaita n. (Dated) Any of certain South American monkeys of the genus Ateles, especially Ateles paniscus. • COAITA n. (Tupi) a type of spider monkey. |
| LAOGAI | • laogai n. The use of prison labor and prison farms in the People’s Republic of China. • LAOGAI n. (Chinese) the system of forced labor camps in China. |
| ORARIA | • oraria n. Plural of orarion. • oraria n. Plural of orarium. • ORARION n. in the Orthodox Church, a deacon's stole, also ORARIUM. |
| TAIHOA | • taihoa adj. (New Zealand politics) Slow and cautious; gradual. • TAIHOA v. (Maori) to hold on, wait. |
| ZOARIA | • zoaria n. Plural of zoarium. • ZOARIUM n. (Greek) a colony of zooids. |