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Phrases 34
- ab initioFrom the time when a law, legal right or decree, contract, ownership interest, partnership (etc.) comes into force.
- ab wheelA piece of exercise equipment designed to be gripped in one or both hands and torqued in the course of sagittally abducting the pronated shoulders with the core resisting flexion and extension.
- ab extraFrom outside.
- Ab FabAbsolutely Fabulous, a British television sitcom of the 1990s.
- fast yellow ABa yellow azo dye formerly used as a food colouring
- AB languageA variety of Middle English found in the Corpus manuscript and characterized by French and Norse loanwords, colloquial expressions, conservative spelling, and similarities to Old English syntax.
- ab ovoFrom the beginning.
- ab offTo abseil down a mountain.
- Ab KettlebyA village and civil parish in Melton district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK7223).
- ab crackThe vertical ridge visible between a person's abdominal muscles, when highly toned.
- ab intrafrom inside; from within
- Ab-ExSyllabic abbreviation of Abstract Expressionism.
- ab aeternoFrom time immemorial; from an infinitely remote point in the past.
- ab urbe conditaAlternative form of AUC, the era of the Roman historians now usually reckoned from 753 bc.
- ab wheelsplural of ab wheel: A piece of exercise equipment designed to be gripped in one or both hands and torqued in the course of sagittally abducting the pronated shoulders with the core resisting flexion and extension.
- erythema ab igneA skin condition caused by long-term exposure to heat (infrared radiation).
- ab rollerSynonym of ab wheel: A piece of exercise equipment designed to be gripped in one or both hands and torqued in the course of sagittally abducting the pronated shoulders with the core resisting flexion and extension.
- ab cracksplural of ab crack: The vertical ridge visible between a person's abdominal muscles, when highly toned.
- ab initAlternative form of ab initio: From the time when a law, legal right or decree, contract, ownership interest, partnership (etc.) comes into force.
- abatement ab initioA common law legal doctrine stating that the death of a defendant who is appealing a criminal conviction vacates the conviction.
- ab roller wheelSynonym of ab wheel: A piece of exercise equipment designed to be gripped in one or both hands and torqued in the course of sagittally abducting the pronated shoulders with the core resisting flexion and extension.
- ab roller wheelsplural of ab roller wheel: A piece of exercise equipment designed to be gripped in one or both hands and torqued in the course of sagittally abducting the pronated shoulders with the core resisting flexion and extension.
- AB-yogurtYogurt that contains Lactobacillus acidophilus and bifidobacterium.
- ab rollersplural of ab roller: A piece of exercise equipment designed to be gripped in one or both hands and torqued in the course of sagittally abducting the pronated shoulders with the core resisting flexion and extension.
- Ab Beth DinAlternative form of av beit din: The vice-president of a Jewish Sanhedrin or rabbinical court (beit din).
Compound words 542
- abuseImproper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom.
- abhorTo regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward.
- ablutionThe act of washing something.
- ablactationThe weaning of a child from the breast, or of young animals from their dam.
- abalienateTo make another's that which was once yours; to transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.
- abmigrationA northward summer migration of birds without a corresponding southward migration the previous autumn.
- abneuralAway from the neural (cerebrospinal) axis
- abhumanHaving some human characteristics, but others which are alien or monstrous; partially human.
- abligateTo tie up, especially a body part.
- abluminalAway from the lumen