| admonish |
to caution or warn. [3 definitions] |
| admonition |
a mild but serious warning, correcting, or urging. [3 definitions] |
| admonitor |
one who admonishes. |
| admonitory |
expressing admonition. |
| ad nauseam |
until one is sick of the thing being done, told, or the like. |
| ado |
excited activity; fuss. |
| adobe |
a building material of sun-dried clay mixed with straw, usu. made into bricks. [3 definitions] |
| adolescence |
the period between puberty and adulthood. [2 definitions] |
| adolescent |
of the period between puberty and adulthood. [3 definitions] |
| Adolf Hitler |
Austrian-born chancellor and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 (b.1889--d.1945). |
| Adonis |
in Greek mythology, a young man loved by Aphrodite because of his great beauty. [2 definitions] |
| adopt |
to take on as one's own (a manner, style, or point of view). [3 definitions] |
| adoptable |
able to be adopted; able to be officially accepted or taken on as one's own, esp. as one's own child or one's pet. |
| adoption |
the act or fact of becoming the legal parent of another person's child, or the act or condition of being thus adopted as another's child. [2 definitions] |
| adoptive |
of or pertaining to adoption. [2 definitions] |
| adorable |
utterly charming; extremely cute. [2 definitions] |
| adoration |
the act or condition of adoring or worshiping. [3 definitions] |
| adore |
to worship as a divinity. [4 definitions] |
| adorn |
to beautify, as with ornaments. [2 definitions] |
| adornment |
the act of adorning or state of being adorned. [2 definitions] |
| ADP |
a biochemical compound involved in the storing and releasing of energy in all living cells; adenosine diphosphate. (Cf. ATP.) |