Index of English words, starting with "ac"

(1) - Acquirer (n.) A person who acquires.

(1) - Acquisition (n.) The thing acquired or gained; an acquirement; a gain; as, learning is an acquisition.
(2) - Acquisition (n.) The act or process of acquiring.

(1) - Acquisitive (a.) Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring; as, an acquisitive person or disposition.
(2) - Acquisitive (a.) Acquired.

(1) - Acquisitiveness (n.) The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing.
(2) - Acquisitiveness (n.) The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.

(1) - Acquit (v. t.) To bear or conduct one's self; to perform one's part; as, the soldier acquitted himself well in battle; the orator acquitted himself very poorly.
(2) - Acquit (v. t.) To clear one's self.
(3) - Acquit (v. t.) To set free, release or discharge from an obligation, duty, liability, burden, or from an accusation or charge; -- now followed by of before the charge, formerly by from; as, the jury acquitted the prisoner; we acquit a man of evil intentions.
(4) - Acquit (v. t.) To pay for; to atone for.
(5) - Acquit (v. t.) To discharge, as a claim or debt; to clear off; to pay off; to requite.
(6) - Acquit (p. p.) Acquitted; set free; rid of.