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9,359 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

adsorbeur: adsorber
adsorboluminescence: adsorboluminescence
adsorbé: adsorbed
adsorption: adsorption
adstrat: adstratum (any language having elements that are responsible for change in neighbouring languages)
adualiste: without duality
adulaire: adularia
adulateur: adulator
adulation: adulation
adulatoire: adulatory
aduler: to adulate
adulescent: a kidult
adulte: adult
adulte: adult
adultisme: adultism
adultère: adulterous
adultère: adulterer, adulteress (an adulterous woman)
adultère: adultery (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than his or her spouse)
adultération: adulteration
adultérer: to falsify, to fake
adultérin: adulterine, born out of adultery
adustion: cauterization
advection: advection (the horizontal movement of a body of atmosphere (or other fluid) along with a concurrent transport of its temperature, humidity etc)
advenable: happenable
advenir: to happen, to occur
adventice: adventitious; self-propagating
adventice: weed (unwanted plant)
adventif: adventitious
adventiste: Adventist
adverbal: adverbial
adverbe: adverb (lexical category)
adverbe interrogatif: interrogative adverb
adverbial: adverbial
adverbialement: adverbially
advers: adverse
adversaire: adversary, opponent, opposition, antagonist
adversatif: adversative
adversativement: adversatively
adverse: adverse
adversité: adversity
advertir: obsolete spelling of avertir
advertissement: obsolete spelling of avertissement
advienne que pourra: come what may; whatever happens, happens
adynamie: adynamia (lack or loss of strength, usually due to a disease)
adynamique: adynamic
adyte: adytum
adèle: fairy longhorn moth (of the genus Adela)
adélopode: adelopode
adénine: adenine (a base, C₅H₅N₅, found in certain glands and tissues, which pairs with thymine in DNA and uracil in RNA)
adénite: adenitis
adénoassocié: adenoassociated
adénocarcinome: adenocarcinoma
adénogramme: adenogram
adénographie: adenography
adénographique: adenographic
adénomateux: adenomatous
adénomatose: adenomatosis
adénome: (oncology) adenoma
adénopathie: adenopathy
adénosine: adenosine (a nucleoside derived from adenine and ribose, found in striated muscle tissue)