All English words - page 58

Meanings of Achievements:

noun

A thing done successfully with effort, skill, or courage.

Usage examples:

To reach this stage is a great achievement

Meanings of Achiever:

noun

A person who achieves a high or specified level of success.

Usage examples:

His children are achievers destined to follow an exacting academic route

Meanings of Achievers:

noun

A person who achieves a high or specified level of success.

Usage examples:

His children are achievers destined to follow an exacting academic route

Meanings of Achieves:

verb

Successfully bring about or reach (a desired objective or result) by effort, skill, or courage.

Usage examples:

He achieved his ambition to become a press photographer

Meanings of Achieving:

verb

Successfully bring about or reach (a desired objective or result) by effort, skill, or courage.

Usage examples:

He achieved his ambition to become a press photographer

Meanings of Achill:

adjective

In predicative use: chill; chilly.

Meanings of Achillea:

noun

A eurasian and north african plant of a genus that includes the yarrow, typically having heads of small white or yellow flowers and fernlike leaves.

Usage examples:

Backed by a yew hedge are dozens of neatly planted rows of achilleas, euphorbias, iris and violas a…

Meanings of Achillean:

adjective

Characteristic of or resembling achilles; specifically invulnerable, invincible.

Meanings of Achilleas:

noun

A eurasian and north african plant of a genus that includes the yarrow, typically having heads of small white or yellow flowers and fernlike leaves.

Usage examples:

Backed by a yew hedge are dozens of neatly planted rows of achilleas, euphorbias, iris and violas a…

Meanings of Achilles:

proper noun

A hero of the trojan war, son of peleus and thetis. during his infancy his mother plunged him in the styx, thus making his body invulnerable except for the heel by which she held him. during the trojan war achilles killed hector but was later wounded in the heel by an arrow shot by paris and died.

Meanings of Achilles' heel:

noun

A weakness or vulnerable point.

Usage examples:

The achilles heel of the case for nuclear power remains the issue of the disposal of waste

Meanings of Achilles' heel:

idiom

A seemingly small but actual mortal weakness

noun

A weakness or vulnerable point.

Usage examples:

The achilles heel of the case for nuclear power remains the issue of the disposal of waste

Meanings of Achime:

adjective

In predicative use: that is chiming or ringing.

Meanings of Achimenes:

noun

A central american plant with tubular or trumpet-shaped flowers.

Usage examples:

We have trialed a number of achimenes for winter hardiness and are always thrilled when we find ano…

Meanings of Achinese:

noun

A member of a people living in northern sumatra.

Usage examples:

The achinese installed his son as sultan muzaffah shah and he rebuilt kota batu, ringing its walls …

adjective

Relating to the achinese or their language.

Usage examples:

Discussions regarding the future shape of achinese politics must resume.

Meanings of Aching:

adjective

Having an ache in a part of one's body.

Usage examples:

The cool air was a relief to my aching head

verb

Suffer from a continuous dull pain.

Usage examples:

My legs ached from the previous day's exercise

Meanings of Achingly:

adverb

In a way that arouses or expresses intense sorrow or longing.

Usage examples:

The letters are achingly tender

Meanings of Achiote:

noun

Another term for annatto.

Meanings of Achiotes:

noun

Another term for annatto.

Meanings of Achkan:

noun

A knee-length coat buttoned in front, worn by men from south asia.

Usage examples:

On formal occasions, the kurta is replaced by an achkan or sherwani, a long coat that buttons up to…

Meanings of Achlamydate:

adjective

Of a mollusc: lacking a mantle. opposed to "chlamydate".

Meanings of Achlamydeous:

adjective

Originally: †(in the system of a. p. de candolle): belonging to the former group achlamydeae, comprising plants having flowers without a calyx or corolla, including willow, euphorbia, etc. (obsolete). later: (more generally) lacking a perianth.

Meanings of Achlorhydria:

noun

Absence of hydrochloric acid in the gastric secretions.

Usage examples:

Malabsorption may be caused by delayed gastric emptying, prior or concurrent injury, achlorhydria, …

Meanings of Achlorhydric:

adjective

Lacking hydrochloric acid; affected by or associated with achlorhydria.

Meanings of Achlorophyllous:

adjective

Lacking chlorophyll.