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13,140 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

ahechar: to winnow (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
ahembrado: effeminate
aherrojar: to fetter (to shackle or bind up with fetters); to oppress, keep down
aherrumbrar: to rust
ahidalgar: make someone look like a member of the nobility.
ahijada: goddaughter
ahijado: godchild; godson
ahijamiento: adoption, adopting, fostering (especially the adoption or fostering of a child who is related by blood); tillering
ahijar: to adopt someone's child; to misattribute credit or blame; to procreate; to sprout
ahilar: to line up
ahina: superseded spelling of ahína, deprecated in 1952 by the Royal Spanish Academy
ahincadamente: earnestly
ahincado: earnest
ahincamiento: synonym of ahínco
ahincanza: synonym of ahínco
ahincar: to urge; to hurry up
ahinco: superseded spelling of ahínco, deprecated in 1952 by the Royal Spanish Academy
ahinojar: to kneel
ahistórico: ahistorical
ahitar: to surfeit, to satiate
ahitar: to physically mark a boundary
ahitera: big indigestion
ahmadí: Ahmadiyya
ahogadilla: dunk (act of playfully submerging someone underwater while swimming)
ahogado: drowned man
ahogado: stalemate
ahogamiento: drowning (an instance of someone drowning)
ahogar: to drown (kill by immersion in water); to stifle; to suffocate (suffer or die from severely reduced oxygen); to drown (be suffocated in water)
ahogar las penas: to drown one's sorrows
ahogarse en poca agua: to make a mountain out of a molehill
ahogarse en un vaso de agua: to make a mountain out of a molehill
ahogo: suffocation; respiratory distress; anguish
ahondamiento: deepening
ahondar: to deepen, to dig; to delve deeply
ahora: now (at the present time); just now, just a moment ago (in the past); very soon, in a moment (in the future); of nowadays, of today, latter-day; today
ahora: now...now, whether...or...
ahora bien: now then; however, nonetheless, nevertheless; having said that, that said
ahora es cuando: the time is now
ahora es cuando, chile verde, le has de dar sabor al caldo: the floor is now yours; it's your turn to act/speak/shine
ahora mismo: right now, just now, immediately
ahora que: now that; albeit; though
ahora que hay modo: make hay while the sun shines, strike while the iron is hot (act while an opportunity exists)
ahorcado: hanged person; hangman (word game)
ahorcador: hangman (executioner)
ahorcadura: hanging
ahorcaja: only used in se ahorcaja, third-person singular present indicative of ahorcajarse
ahorcajar: only used in se ... ahorcajar, syntactic variant of ahorcajarse
ahorcajarse: to straddle (to sit or stand with a leg on each side of something)
ahorcaje: only used in me ahorcaje, first-person singular present subjunctive of ahorcajarse
ahorcajemos: only used in nos ahorcajemos, first-person plural present subjunctive of ahorcajarse
ahorcajen: only used in se ahorcajen, third-person plural present subjunctive of ahorcajarse
ahorcamiento: hanging (as capital punishment)
ahorcar: to lynch, to hang; to strangle
ahorcar el ganso: synonym of jalar el ganso
ahorita: diminutive of ahora: now, right now; later; earlier
ahoritica: right now
ahoritita: diminutive of ahora
ahorititita: right away; immediately
ahormar: to fit, to shape, to mold; to adjust; to break in
ahorquillado: forked, branched, furcate