Arch- () A prefix signifying chief, as in archbuilder, archfiend.
Arch (a.) Chief; eminent; greatest; principal.
Arch (a.) Cunning or sly; sportively mischievous; roguish; as, an arch look, word, lad.
Arch (n.) A chief.
-arch (a.) A suffix meaning a ruler, as in monarch (a sole ruler).
Archaean (a.) Ancient; pertaining to the earliest period in geological history.
Archaean (n.) The earliest period in geological period, extending up to the Lower Silurian. It includes an Azoic age, previous to the appearance of life, and an Eozoic age, including the earliest forms of life.
Archaeography (n.) A description of, or a treatise on, antiquity or antiquities.
Archaeolithic (a.) Of or pertaining to the earliest Stone age; -- applied to a prehistoric period preceding the Paleolithic age.
Archaeologian (n.) An archaeologist.
Archaeologic () Alt. of Archaeological
Archaeological () Relating to archaeology, or antiquities; as, archaeological researches.
Archaeologist (n.) One versed in archaeology; an antiquary.
Archaeology (n.) The science or study of antiquities, esp. prehistoric antiquities, such as the remains of buildings or monuments of an early epoch, inscriptions, implements, and other relics, written manuscripts, etc.
Archaeopteryx (n.) A fossil bird, of the Jurassic period, remarkable for having a long tapering tail of many vertebrae with feathers along each side, and jaws armed with teeth, with other reptilian characteristics.
Archaeostomatous (a.) Applied to a gastrula when the blastopore does not entirely close up.
Archaeozoic (a.) Like or belonging to the earliest forms of animal life.
Archaic (a.) Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent.
Archaical (a.) Archaic.
Archaism (a.) An ancient, antiquated, or old-fashioned, word, expression, or idiom; a word or form of speech no longer in common use.
Archaism (a.) Antiquity of style or use; obsoleteness.
Archaist (n.) Am antiquary.
Archaist (n.) One who uses archaisms.
Archaistic (a.) Like, or imitative of, anything archaic; pertaining to an archaism.
Archaized (imp. & p. p.) of Archaize
Archaizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Archaize
Archaize (v. t.) To make appear archaic or antique.
Archangel (n.) A chief angel; one high in the celestial hierarchy.
Archangel (n.) A term applied to several different species of plants (Angelica archangelica, Lamium album, etc.).
Archangelic (a.) Of or pertaining to archangels; of the nature of, or resembling, an archangel.
Archbishop (n.) A chief bishop; a church dignitary of the first class (often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese.
Archbishopric (n.) The jurisdiction or office of an archbishop; the see or province over which archbishop exercises archiepiscopal authority.
Arch brick () A wedge-shaped brick used in the building of an arch.
Archbutler (n.) A chief butler; -- an officer of the German empire.
Archchamberlain (n.) A chief chamberlain; -- an officer of the old German empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England.
Archchancellor (n.) A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.
Archchemic (a.) Of supreme chemical powers.
Archdeacon (n.) In England, an ecclesiastical dignitary, next in rank below a bishop, whom he assists, and by whom he is appointed, though with independent authority.
Archdeaconry (n.) The district, office, or residence of an archdeacon. See Benefice.
Archdeaconship (n.) The office of an archdeacon.
Archdiocese (n.) The diocese of an archbishop.
Archducal (a.) Of or pertaining to an archduke or archduchy.
Archduchess (n.) The consort of an archduke; also, a princess of the imperial family of Austria. See Archduke.
Archduchy (n.) The territory of an archduke or archduchess.
Archduke (n.) A prince of the imperial family of Austria.
Archdukedom (n.) An archduchy.
Archebiosis (n.) The origination of living matter from non-living. See Abiogenesis.
Arched (a.) Made with an arch or curve; covered with an arch; as, an arched door.
Archegonial (a.) Relating to the archegonium.
Archegonium (n.) The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.
Archegony (n.) Spontaneous generation; abiogenesis.
Archelogy (n.) The science of, or a treatise on, first principles.
Archencephala (n. pl.) The division that includes man alone.
Archenemy (n.) A principal enemy. Specifically, Satan, the grand adversary of mankind.
Archenteric (a.) Relating to the archenteron; as, archenteric invagination.
Archenteron (n.) The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination.
Archeology (a.) Alt. of Archeological
Archeological (a.) Same as Archaeology, etc.
Archer (n.) A bowman, one skilled in the use of the bow and arrow.
Archeress (n.) A female archer.
Archer fish () A small fish (Toxotes jaculator), of the East Indies; -- so called from its ejecting drops of water from its mouth at its prey. The name is also applied to Chaetodon rostratus.
Archership (n.) The art or skill of an archer.
Archery (n.) The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.; the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows.
Archery (n.) Archers, or bowmen, collectively.
Arches () pl. of Arch, n.
Archetypal (a.) Of or pertaining to an archetype; consisting a model (real or ideal) or pattern; original.
Archetypally (adv.) With reference to the archetype; originally. "Parts archetypally distinct."
Archetype (n.) The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed.
Archetype (n.) The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted.
Archetype (n.) The plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype.
Archetypical (a.) Relating to an archetype; archetypal.
Archeus (n.) The vital principle or force which (according to the Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers.
Archi- () A prefix signifying chief, arch; as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as, archipterygium, the primitive fin or wing.
Archiannelida (n. pl.) A group of Annelida remarkable for having no external segments or distinct ventral nerve ganglions.
Archiater (n.) Chief physician; -- a term applied, on the continent of Europe, to the first or body physician of princes and to the first physician of some cities.
Archiblastula (n.) A hollow blastula, supposed to be the primitive form; a c/loblastula.
Archical (pref.) Chief; primary; primordial.
Archidiaconal (a.) Of or pertaining to an archdeacon.
Archiepiscopacy (n.) That form of episcopacy in which the chief power is in the hands of archbishops.
Archiepiscopacy (n.) The state or dignity of an archbishop.
Archiepiscopal (a.) Of or pertaining to an archbishop; as, Canterbury is an archiepiscopal see.
Archiepiscopality (n.) The station or dignity of an archbishop; archiepiscopacy.
Archiepiscopate (n.) The office of an archbishop; an archbishopric.
Archierey (n.) The higher order of clergy in Russia, including metropolitans, archbishops, and bishops.
Archil (n.) A violet dye obtained from several species of lichen (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), which grow on maritime rocks in the Canary and Cape Verd Islands, etc.
Archil (n.) The plant from which the dye is obtained.
Archilochian (a.) Of or pertaining to the satiric Greek poet Archilochus; as, Archilochian meter.
Archimage (n.) Alt. of Archimagus
Archimagus (n.) The high priest of the Persian Magi, or worshipers of fire.
Archimagus (n.) A great magician, wizard, or enchanter.
Archimandrite (n.) A chief of a monastery, corresponding to abbot in the Roman Catholic church.
Archimandrite (n.) A superintendent of several monasteries, corresponding to superior abbot, or father provincial, in the Roman Catholic church.
Archimedean (a.) Of or pertaining to Archimedes, a celebrated Greek philosopher; constructed on the principle of Archimedes' screw; as, Archimedean drill, propeller, etc.
Archimedes (n.) An extinct genus of Bryzoa characteristic of the subcarboniferous rocks. Its form is that of a screw.
Arching (n.) The arched part of a structure.
Arching (n.) Hogging; -- opposed to sagging.
Archipelagic (a.) Of or pertaining to an archipelago.
-goes (pl. ) of Archipelago
-gos (pl. ) of Archipelago
Archipelago (n.) The Grecian Archipelago, or Aegean Sea, separating Greece from Asia Minor. It is studded with a vast number of small islands.