These are the meanings of the letters AFECTABA when you unscramble them.
- Abaca (n.)
The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila.
- Abaft (adv.)
Toward the stern; aft; as, to go abaft.
- Abaft (prep.)
Behind; toward the stern from; as, abaft the wheelhouse.
- Abate (n.)
Abatement.
- Abate (v. t.)
To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates.
- Abate (v. t.)
To beat down; to overthrow.
- Abate (v. t.)
To blunt.
- Abate (v. t.)
To bring down or reduce from a higher to a lower state, number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; to cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope.
- Abate (v. t.)
To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ.
- Abate (v. t.)
To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates.
- Abate (v. t.)
To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price.
- Abate (v. t.)
To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets.
- Abate (v. t.)
To reduce in estimation; to deprive.
- aceta (unknown)
Sorry. I don't have the meaning of this word.
- Facet (n.)
A little face; a small, plane surface; as, the facets of a diamond.
- Facet (n.)
A smooth circumscribed surface; as, the articular facet of a bone.
- Facet (n.)
One of the numerous small eyes which make up the compound eyes of insects and crustaceans.
- Facet (n.)
The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column.
- Facet (v. t.)
To cut facets or small faces upon; as, to facet a diamond.