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6,573 words match “TAN”

INTREATANCE n.
Entreaty. [Obs.] Holland.
INUNDERSTANDING a.
Void of understanding. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.
IRREPENTANCE n.
Want of repentance; impenitence. Bp. Montagu.
IRRESISTANCE n.
Nonresistance; passive submission.
IRRITANCY n. 2 definitions
The state o quality of being irritant or irritating.
IRRITANT a. 5 definitions
validating. The states elected Harry, Duke of Anjou, for their king, with this clause irritant; that, if he did violate any part of his oath, the people should owe him no allegiance. Hayward.
JACTANCY n.
A boasting; a bragging. [Obs.]
KAFTAN v.
See Caftan.
LACTANT a.
Suckling; giving suck.
LANTANIUM; LANTANUM n.
See Lanthanum.
LANTANURIC a.
Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous organic acid of the uric acid group, obtained by the decomposition of allantoin, and usually called allanturic acid.
LAPUTAN a.
erical philosophers. Hence, fanciful; preposterous; absurd in science or philosophy. "Laputan ideas." G. Eliot.
LATITANCY n.
Act or state of lying hid, or lurking. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
LATITANT a.
Lying hid; concealed; latent. [R.]
LENTANDO a.
Slackening; retarding. Same as Rallentando.
LIMITANEOUS a.
Of or pertaining to a limit. [Obs.]
LITANY n.
r. Supplications . . . for the appeasing of God's wrath were of the Greek church termed litanies, and rogations of the Latin. Hooker.
LUSITANIAN a. 2 definitions
Pertaining to Lusitania, the ancient name of the region almost coinciding with Portugal. -- n.
LUTANIST n.
A person that plays on the lute. Johnson.
MAHOMEDAN; MAHOMETAN n.
See Mohammedan.
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