Index of English words, starting with "ac"

(1) - Acclivous (a.) Sloping upward; rising as a hillside; -- opposed to declivous.

(1) - Accolade (n.) A brace used to join two or more staves.
(2) - Accolade (n.) A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.

(1) - Accommodate (a.) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
(2) - Accommodate (v. i.) To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted.
(3) - Accommodate (v. t.) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.
(4) - Accommodate (v. t.) To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
(5) - Accommodate (v. t.) To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.
(6) - Accommodate (v. t.) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.

(1) - Accommodating (a.) Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.
(2) - Accommodating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accommodate