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Posted 12/29/2009 02:32 am

None of the words are acronyms. All words appear in the dictionary. Definitions follow;

AI
a#8901;i#8194;#8194;[ah-ee]
-noun, plural a#8901;is #8194;[ah-eez] .
a three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, inhabiting forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil, having a diet apparently restricted to the leaves of the trumpet-tree, and sounding a high-pitched cry when disturbed.

AIN
Ain#8194;#8194;[an]
-noun
a department in E France. 376,477; 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.

AIT
ait (#257;t)
n. Chiefly British
A small island.

ANI
a#8901;ni#8194;#8194;[ah-nee, ah-nee]
-noun, plural a#8901;nis.
any of several black, tropical American cuckoos of the genus Crotophaga, having a compressed, bladelike bill.

AUSTIN
Aus#8901;tin#8194;#8194;[aw-stuhn]
-noun
1. Alfred, 1835-1913, English poet: poet laureate 1896-1913.
2. John, 1790-1859, English writer on law.
3. John Lang#8901;shaw #8194;[lang-shaw] Show IPA , 1911-60, British philosopher.
4. Mary (Hunter), 1868-1934, U.S. novelist, playwright, and short-story writer.
5. Stephen Fuller, 1793-1836, American colonizer in Texas.
6. Warren Robinson, 1877-1962, U.S. diplomat.
7. Augustine, Saint (def. 2).
8. a city in and the capital of Texas, in the central part, on the Colorado River. 345,496.
9. a city in SE Minnesota. 23,020.
10. a male given name, form of Augustus.

IMAM
i#8901;mam#8194;#8194;[i-mahm]
-noun Islam.
1. the officiating priest of a mosque.
2. the title for a Muslim religious leader or chief.
3. one of a succession of seven or twelve religious leaders, believed to be divinely inspired, of the Shi#703;ites.

INTUIT
in#8901;tu#8901;it#8194;#8194;[in-too-it, -tyoo-; in-too-it, -tyoo-]
-verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
to know or receive by intuition.

ISM
ism#8194;#8194;[iz-uhm]
-noun, plural isms [iz-uhmz]
a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice

ISMS
Plural of ISM

UT
ut#8194;#8194;[uht, oot]
-noun Music.
the syllable once generally used for the first tone or keynote of a scale and sometimes for the tone C: now commonly superseded by do.

TUI
tu#8901;i#8194;#8194;[too-ee]
-noun
a black New Zealand honey eater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, having a patch of white feathers on each side of the throat, sometimes tamed as a pet.

MINIM
min#8901;im#8194;#8194;[min-uhm]
-noun
1. the smallest unit of liquid measure, 1/60 of a fluid dram, roughly equivalent to one drop. Abbreviation: min, min.; Symbol: ,
2. Music. a note, formerly the shortest in use, but now equivalent in time value to one half of a semibreve; half note.
3. the least quantity of anything.
4. something very small or insignificant.
5. (initial capital letter) a member of a mendicant religious order founded in the 15th century by St. Francis of Paola.

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