Word Meanings - CAUSALITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The faculty of tracing effects to their causes. G. Combe. (more info) 1. The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect. The causality of the divine mind. Whewell.

Related words: (words related to CAUSALITY)

• COMBER
  1. One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc. 2. A long, curling wave.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• TRACHEA
  The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.
• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• TRACHELORRHAPHY
  The operation of sewing up a laceration of the neck of the uterus.
• TRACHYSPERMOUS
  Rough-seeded. Gray.
• TRACHENCHYMA
  A vegetable tissue consisting of tracheæ.
• TRACHELIPOD
  One of the Trachelipoda.
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• TRACHELIDAN
  Any one of a tribe of beetles which have the head supported on a pedicel. The oil beetles and the Cantharides are examples.
• TRACTORATION
  See PERKINISM
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• POWERABLE
  1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
  Effective. B. Jonson.
• TRACTITE
  A Tractarian.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• ACTION
  Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
• TRACKWALKER
  A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.
• DIVINER
  1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Zech. x. 2. 2. A conjecture; a guesser; one
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• ENCOMBERMENT
  Hindrance; molestation. Spenser.
• MALACOSTRACOLOGY
  That branch of zoölogical science which relates to the crustaceans; -- called also carcinology.
• TETRACOLON
  A stanza or division in lyric poetry, consisting of four verses or lines. Crabb.
• LADY'S TRACES; LADIES' TRESSES; LADIES TRESSES
  A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.
• REACTIONIST
  A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
• CANDLE POWER
  Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.