English words starting with an

Meanings of An:

determiner

The form of the indefinite article used before words beginning with a vowel sound.

suffix

Forming adjectives and nouns from names of places.

Usage examples:

Cuban

prefix

Variant spelling of a-1 before a vowel (as in anaemia ).

abbreviation

Andaman and nicobar islands.

Meanings of An apple a day keeps the doctor away:

idiom

This means that eating an apple each day can help to keep you healthy.

Meanings of An axe:

idiom

To have a strong personal opinion about something that you want people to accept and that is the reason why you do something

Usage examples:

Environmentalists have no political axe to grind - they just want to save the planet.

Meanings of An eye for an eye:

idiom

Said to show that you believe if someone does something wrong, that person should be punished by having the same thing done to them

Meanings of An-abundance:

collocation

In order to be extremely careful to avoid a particular risk, even if the risk is small

Usage examples:

The airline said that out of an abundance of caution they would temporarily ground their entire fle…

Meanings of An-arm-and-a-leg:

idiom

A lot of money

Usage examples:

Cost an arm and a leg these shoes cost me an arm and a leg.

Meanings of An-easy-target-for:

noun

An object aimed and fired at during shooting practice, often a circle with a pattern of rings, or any object or place at which arrows, bullets, bombs, and other missiles are aimed

Usage examples:

I missed the target., the plane passed over the target., the president was the main target of the s…

Meanings of An-eternity:

noun

Time that never ends

Usage examples:

At her age, even a few months can seem like an eternity.

Meanings of An-injury:

idiom

To hurt yourself

Usage examples:

Don't even think about lifting me up, ted, you might do yourself an injury.

Meanings of Ana:

noun

Anecdotes or literary gossip about a person.

Usage examples:

A collection of gossip was at one time known as an ana.

prefix

Up.

Usage examples:

Anabatic

suffix

(forming plural nouns) denoting things associated with a person, place, or field of interest.

Usage examples:

Americana

Meanings of Anabaptism:

noun

The doctrine that baptism should only be administered to believing adults, held by a radical protestant sect of the 16th century.

Usage examples:

Lutheranism had already taken root as had anabaptism so calvinism was seen as another protest relig…

Meanings of Anabases:

noun

A military advance into the interior of a country (with reference to that of cyrus the younger into asia in 401 bc, as narrated by xenophon in his work anabasis ).

Meanings of Anabasis:

noun

A military advance into the interior of a country (with reference to that of cyrus the younger into asia in 401 bc, as narrated by xenophon in his work anabasis ).

Meanings of Anabatic:

adjective

(of a wind) caused by local upward motion of warm air.

Usage examples:

A katabatic wind is a wind that is blowing down a slope, and an anabatic wind blows up a slope.

Meanings of Anabiosis:

noun

A temporary state of suspended animation or greatly reduced metabolism.

Usage examples:

Cam also occurs in some resurrection plants that are desiccation-tolerant and can shift between bio…

Meanings of Anabolic:

adjective

Relating to or promoting anabolism.

Usage examples:

Insulin is an anabolic hormone that kick-starts muscle-building processes that will use those amino…

noun

A hormone (= a chemical made by living cells) that causes muscle and bone growth. anabolic steroids are sometimes used illegally by athletes competing in sports competitions

Usage examples:

He was disqualified after testing positive for anabolic steroids.

Meanings of Anabolism:

noun

The synthesis of complex molecules in living organisms from simpler ones together with the storage of energy; constructive metabolism.

Usage examples:

The synthetic metabolic process of anabolism or the eliminative process of catabolism results in so…

Meanings of Anabranch:

noun

A stream that leaves a river and re-enters it further along its course.

Usage examples:

After lunch he decided to go for a swim in an area of an anabranch of the murray river known as bul…

Meanings of Anachronic:

adjective

Relating to or involving anachronism.

Usage examples:

An anachronic atmosphere in which time seems to have stood still

Meanings of Anachronism:

noun

A thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned.

Usage examples:

The town is a throwback to medieval times, an anachronism that has survived the passing years

Meanings of Anachronisms:

noun

A thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned.

Usage examples:

The town is a throwback to medieval times, an anachronism that has survived the passing years

Meanings of Anachronistic:

adjective

Belonging to a period other than that being portrayed.

Usage examples:

'titus' benefits from the effective use of anachronistic elements like cars and loudspeakers

Meanings of Anachronistically:

adverb

In a way that is out of its time in history

Usage examples:

We still, anachronistically, expect humans to be running our phone system., he spoke with an anachr…

Meanings of Anacidity:

noun

Achlorhydria.

Meanings of Anaclasis:

noun

A figure of speech involving repetition of a word in a different sense.