Words Starting AC & Ending N

• a tapering point

• shrewdness shown by keen insight

• any flowerless plant such as a fern (pteridophyte) or moss (bryophyte) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem

• any of a series of radioactive elements with atomic numbers 89 through 103

• something done (usually as opposed to something said)

• the state of being active

• a military engagement

• a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)

• the series of events that form a plot

• the trait of being active and energetic and forceful

• the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism

• a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong

• an act by a government body or supranational organization

• the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field

• In firearms terminology, the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, and extracts the cartridges).

• institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against

• put in effect

• any of three liquid acetates that are formed when acetic acid and glycerin are heated together

• fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base

• one of the proteins into which actomyosin can be split; can exist in either a globular or a fibrous form