| ACQUITTAL | • acquittal n. (Now rare) The act of fulfilling the duties (Of a given role, obligation etc.). • acquittal n. (Law) A legal decision that someone is not guilty with which they have been charged, or the formal dismissal… • acquittal n. Payment of a debt or other obligation; reparations, amends. |
| ACTUALIST | • actualist n. A proponent of actualism. • ACTUALIST n. a person who deals with or considers actual facts. |
| ACTUALITE | • ACTUALITE n. (French) the real state of affairs. |
| ACTUALITY | • actuality n. The state of existing; existence. • actuality n. An instance or quality of being actual or factual; fact. • actuality n. (Television) Live reporting on current affairs. |
| ACTUATING | • actuating v. Present participle of actuate. • ACTUATE v. to put into action. |
| ACTUATION | • actuation n. The act of putting into motion. • ACTUATION n. a bringing into action; an effecting. |
| ACTUATORS | • actuators n. Plural of actuator. • ACTUATOR n. one who actuates. |
| AUTOCRATS | • autocrats n. Plural of autocrat. • AUTOCRAT n. an absolute ruler. |
| AUTOMATIC | • automatic adj. Capable of operating without external control or intervention. • automatic adj. Done out of habit or without conscious thought. • automatic adj. Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc. |
| CATAMOUNT | • catamount n. (US) A wild animal of the family Felidae, especially the cougar or puma (Puma concolor). • catamount n. (Obsolete) Synonym of catamountain (“a leopard, a panther (Panthera pardus)”). • CATAMOUNT n. any of various large wild cats, applied esp. to the leopard, panther or ocelot, also CATAMOUNTAIN. |
| CATAPULTS | • catapults n. Plural of catapult. • CATAPULT v. to hurl through the air. |
| CAUTERANT | • cauterant n. Any cauterizing substance. • CAUTERANT n. a cauterizing substance. |
| REACTUATE | • reactuate v. To actuate again. • REACTUATE v. to actuate again. |
| TACAHOUTS | • TACAHOUT n. a gall on the tamarisk, a source of gallic acid. |
| TACTUALLY | • tactually adv. In a tactual manner; by, or relating to, the sense of touch. • TACTUAL adv. pertaining to the sense of touch, also TACTILE. |
| TENTACULA | • tentacula n. Plural of tentaculum. • TENTACULUM n. a tentacle. |
| TRAUMATIC | • traumatic adj. Of, caused by, or causing trauma. • traumatic adj. (Medicine, dated) Of or relating to wounds; applied to wounds. • traumatic adj. (Dated) Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary. |