5 Letter Words That Start With AD

adept

Adjective : Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient

Noun : One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient

adage

Noun : An old saying which has obtained credit by long use.

Noun : An old saying which has been overused or considered a cliché; a trite maxim.

ad hoc

Adjective : For a particular purpose.

Adjective : Created on the spur of the moment; impromptu.

Adjective : (sciences, of a hypothesis) Postulated solely to save a theory from being falsified, without making any new predictions.

admit

Verb : (transitive) To allow to enter; to grant entrance (to), whether into a place, into the mind, or into consideration

Verb : (transitive) To allow (someone) to enter a profession or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise.

Verb : (transitive or intransitive) To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny (+ to).

adorn

Verb : To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.

Noun : (obsolete) adornment

Adjective : (obsolete) adorned; ornate

addle

Verb : (provincial, Northern England) To earn, earn by labor; earn money or one's living.

Verb : (provincial, Northern England) To thrive or grow; to ripen.

Adjective : Having lost the power of development, and become rotten; putrid.

adapt

Verb : (transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit

Verb : (transitive) To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust

Verb : (transitive) To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character

adopt

Verb : To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.

Verb : To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.

Verb : To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.

adore

Verb : To worship.

Verb : To love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection.

Verb : To be very fond of.

adder

Noun : (obsolete) Any snake.

Noun : A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling a viper.

Noun : (chiefly British) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera

ad lib

Verb : At pleasure.

Verb : At will.

Verb : As much as desired, to one's fill, without restriction.

adieu

Noun : A farewell, a goodbye; especially a fond farewell, or a lasting or permanent farewell.

ad rem

Adjective : Pertinent; relevant.

Verb : Pertinently; to the purpose.

adobo

Noun : A Philippine dish in which pork or chicken is slowly cooked in a sauce including soy sauce, vinegar, and crushed garlic.

Noun : A marinade.

adust

Adjective : (medicine, historical, usually postpositive, of a bodily humour) Abnormally dark or over-concentrated (associated with various states of discomfort or illness, specifically being too hot or dry).

Adjective : (by extension) Hot and dry; thirsty or parched.

Adjective : (archaic) Burnt or having a scorched colour.

adrip

Adjective : (of a liquid) Dripping.

Adjective : (of a surface) Covered (with a liquid) to the point that it drips; having a liquid dripping off it.

Adjective : (figurative) Covered or filled (with something) as if to the point of dripping.

adult

Noun : A fully grown human or other animal.

Noun : A person who has reached the legal age of majority.

Adjective : Fully grown.

admix

Verb : (transitive) To mingle with something else; to mix.

Noun : The act of admixing.

Noun : The mixture that results from admixing, especially an alloy.

added

Adjective : combined or joined to increase in size or quantity or scop

add up

Verb : (transitive, of a numerical amount) To take the sum of; to total.

Verb : (intransitive) To accumulate; to amount to.

Verb : (idiomatic, intransitive) To make sense; to be reasonable or consistent.

adown

Verb : (archaic) Down, downward; to or in a lower place.

adobe

Noun : An unburnt brick dried in the sun.

Noun : The earth from which such bricks are made.

Noun : A house made of adobe brick.

adays

Verb : (obsolete) In the daytime.

Verb : (obsolete) Nowadays; in the present time period.

adret

Noun : (geography) The sun-facing side of a mountain; in the northern hemisphere, especially south-facing slope.

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addax

Noun : A large African antelope (Addax nasomaculatus) with long, corkscrewing horns which lives in the desert.

adeno

Noun : (medicine, informal) Clipping of adenovirus. [(medicine) Any virus of the family Adenoviridae, many of which are responsible for respiratory infections in humans]

Noun : (pathology, informal) Clipping of adenomyosis. [(pathology) A medical condition characterized by the presence of ectopic glandular tissue in the surrounding muscles, often and especially of the endometrial tissue of the uterus in the myometrium (endometriosis).]

adlib

Noun : Alternative spelling of ad-lib

Verb : Alternative spelling of ad lib [To perform without script.]

adlay

Noun : Synonym of Job's tears

Noun : (Australia, slang, often self-applied) an eshay

adman

Noun : A person in the business of devising, writing, illustrating or selling advertisements.

adeem

Verb : (law, transitive) To revoke (a legacy, grant, etc.) or to satisfy it by some other gift.

adele

Noun : A female given name from the Germanic languages.

Noun : A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and neighboring Togo.

Noun : (mathematics) A member of a self-dual topological ring built on the field of rational numbers (or, more generally, any algebraic number field), and involving in a symmetric way all the completions of the field.

adhan

Noun : (Islam) The call to prayer, which consisted originally of simply four takbirs followed by the statement (أَشْهَدُ أَنْ) لَا إِلٰهَ إِلَّا ٱلله ((ʔašhadu ʔan) lā ʔilāha ʔillā llāh).

adunc

Adjective : (usually of a nose) Curved inward, hooked.

ad loc

Verb : Alternative form of ad loc. [There, at the specified location]

adema

Noun : A surname.

adire

Noun : (Nigeria) A type of traditional Yoruba tie-dyed cloth.

adive

Noun : The golden jackal; a smaller sort of jackal, sometimes domesticated.

adjag

Noun : Synonym of dhole (“Asian wild dog”)

add on

Verb : (transitive) To incorporate (something extra, often an amount of money) into something else (often a bill).

Verb : (intransitive) To put an expansion (addition) onto a building, usually a home.

Noun : Alternative form of add-on [(sometimes attributive) Something which can be appended to something else.]

adios

Noun : A goodbye.

Verb : To leave; to literally or figuratively say “adios” to.

Verb : To get rid of.

admin

Noun : (uncountable, informal) Administration, or administrative work.

Noun : (countable, informal) An administration (a body that administers; the executive part of government).

Noun : (uncountable, informal) The administrative or managerial body of a company or other organization.

adana

Noun : A province and metropolitan municipality in central Cilicia, in southern Turkey.

Noun : A city, the capital of Adana Province, Turkey.

adler

Noun : A surname from German.

adena

Noun : A female given name.

adeps

Noun : (physiology) Soft or liquid animal fat.

addie

Noun : A diminutive of the female given names Adele, Adeline, Adelaide, or Addison.

Noun : (slang) Adderall, especially when used as a cognitive enhancer or recreational drug.

Noun : A surname.

adlai

Noun : The father of one of King David's officials (mentioned in 1 Chronicles 27:29).

Noun : A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.

adoor

Noun : a municipality in the Pathanamthitta district of Kerala, India.

Noun : Adoor is a village in the southern state of Karnataka, India. , Census Village code=

Noun : a municipality in Pathanamthitta, Kerala, India.

addon

Noun : Alternative form of add-on. [(sometimes attributive) Something which can be appended to something else.]

adric

Noun : (historical, Ireland) Initialism of Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary.

adcox

Noun : A surname.

adexa

ad hom

Adjective : Abbreviation of ad hominem. [Of or relating to this kind of fallacious objection.]

Noun : Abbreviation of ad hominem. [(informal) A personal attack.]

adbot

Noun : (computing) A bot (automated software agent) that displays advertisements.

addra

Noun : The mhorr, or dama gazelle.

adoro

adaeo

add'l

Adjective : Abbreviation of additional. [Supplemental or added to something.]

ademe

adroe

adraw

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To draw out; to draw (a sword).

Verb : (intransitive, obsolete) To withdraw oneself.

adams

Noun : A surname originating as a patronymic derived from Adam.

Noun : A number of places in the United States:

Noun : An unincorporated community in Lake County, California.

adige

Noun : A river in South Tyrol, Italy.

aditi

Noun : (Hinduism) The daughter of Daksha, wife of Kashyapa, and mother of the gods.

Noun : A female given name from Sanskrit mainly used in India.

advil

Noun : (pharmacology) A brand name for ibuprofen, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug.

ad val

Verb : in proportion to the estimated value of the goods taxe

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add to

Verb : have an increased effec

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adria

Noun : A town and comune of Rovigo, Veneto, Italy, situated on the site of an Etruscan city of the same name.

Noun : A female given name.

adolf

Noun : A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Adolph.

adapa

Noun : a Mesopotamian mythical figure who unknowingly refused the gift of immortality.

addis

Noun : A surname originating as a patronymic.

Noun : Clipping of Addis Ababa. [The capital city of Ethiopia.]

adela

Noun : A female given name from the Germanic languages.

adina

Noun : A female given name from Hebrew.

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adair

Noun : A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, of Scottish usage, equivalent to English Edgar.

Noun : A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic.

adits

Noun : A horizontal or nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine, as contrasted with a shaft or vertical entry passage. An adit may be used for ventilation, haulage, drainage, or other purposes.

Noun : A diminutive of the male given name Aditya, from Sanskrit.

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adrad

Adjective : Obsolete spelling of adread. [(archaic) Affected by or full of dread; fearful.]

adour

Noun : A river in southwestern France.

adamo

Noun : both a masculine given name and a surname.

Noun : an Italian personal name.

adsum

adure

Verb : (obsolete) To burn, completely or slightly.

adyta

Noun : (Ancient Greece, religion) The innermost sanctuary or shrine in a temple, from where oracles were given.

Noun : (by extension) A private chamber; a sanctum.

adzes

Noun : A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood.

Verb : To shape a material using an adze.

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admen

Noun : A person in the business of devising, writing, illustrating or selling advertisements.

adnet

Noun : a town in the district of Hallein, in the Austrian state of Salzburg.

adhoc

Noun : Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (Cambodia’s oldest human rights organization, founded in 1991)

adara

Noun : a language spoken in Nigeria

adell

Noun : A male given name from the Germanic languages, of rare usage, variant of Adel.

Noun : A female given name.

Noun : A surname.

adact

admah

Noun : According to the Bible, (Heb. אַדְמָה) one of the five cities of the Vale of Siddim.

adnah

aduwa

adnoc

Noun : Acronym of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company.

adley

Noun : A habitational surname from Old English.

Noun : A female given name transferred from the surname.

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