antediluvial
- a of or relating to the period before the biblical flood
antediluvian
- n any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge
- n a very old person
- a of or relating to the period before the biblical flood
antediluvian man - s so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
a ramshackle antediluvian tenement
antediluvian ideas
antepenultimate
- n the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end
- s third from last
anterior
- n a tooth situated at the front of the mouth
his malocclusion was caused by malposed anteriors - a of or near the head end or toward the front plane of a body
- s earlier in time
anterograde
- a of amnesia; affecting time immediately following trauma
anthelminthic
- n a medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms
- s capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms