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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. action, n. View full entry a1393
...Something done or performed, a deed, an act; (in pl.) habitual or ordinary deeds, conduct....
3. B, n. View full entry c1000
...The second letter of the Roman alphabet, ancient and modern, corresponding, in position and power, to the Greek Beta, and Phœnician and Hebrew Beth, whence also its form...
4. crypto-, comb. form View full entry 1798
...Forming chiefly scientific nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘concealed, not visible, not apparent’. See also cryptobiosis, cryptobranchiate, cryptocrystalline, cryptophyte, etc....
5. historical, adj. and n. View full entry ?a1475
...Belonging to, constituting, or of the nature of history; in accordance with history....
6. hybrid, n. and adj. View full entry 1601
...The offspring of two animals or plants of different species, or (less strictly) varieties; a half-breed, cross-breed, or mongrel....
7. idio-, comb. form View full entry a1626
...Forming adjectives and nouns with the senses ‘own, personal, private, peculiar, separate, distinct’....
8. metaphone, n. View full entry 1930
...Either of two or more phonemes which are in free variation in particular words or in particular circumstances. Also: (in H. E. Palmer's terminology) a phoneme comprising more than one sound (cf....
9. metaplastic, adj. View full entry 1640
...That changes something into a new form. Obs.rare....
10. mode, n. View full entry c1400
...Music....
11. mother, n.1 (and int.) View full entry eOE
...The female parent of a human being; a woman in relation to a child or children to whom she has given birth; (also, in extended use) a woman who undertakes the responsibilities...
12. N, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
13. non-significant, n. View full entry 1605
...A meaningless sign or symbol. Cf. null1a....
14. nucleus, n. View full entry 1668
...Astron....
15. oligo-, comb. form View full entry 1842
...Forming nouns and adjectives adopted from ancient and Hellenistic Greek, and English formations modelled on these, with the sense ‘having few, having little’. Freq. contrasted with words beginning poly- (see...
16. organic, adj. and n. View full entry a1400
...Anat. Designating the jugular vein. Obs.rare....
17. patrial, adj. and n. View full entry 1629
...Of, belonging to, or designating a person's native country or region. Now rare....
18. power, n.1 View full entry c1300
...Ability to act or affect something strongly; physical or mental strength; might; vigour, energy; effectiveness....
19. primitive, n. and adj. View full entry c1400
...A firstborn child or animal. Obs....
20. pro-, prefix2 View full entry 1833
...Prefixed to nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘earlier, prior, before (in time)’; spec.chiefly Biol., forming nouns and derived adjectives denoting something that is an earlier or (supposedly)forming...
