"Abactinal" is a word in ENGLISH

Pertaining to or affecting the surface.

Having the nature of crust; pertaining to a hard covering; as, a crusty coat; a crusty surface or substance.

Pertaining to, or possessing the properties of, a species of caustic curves formed by refraction. See Caustic surface, under Caustic.

Pertaining to the surface naturally superior, as of a creeping hepatic moss.

Pertaining to the surface naturally inferior, as of a leaf.

Pertaining to, or situated near, the surface; outer; -- opposed to ental.

Pertaining to, or including, similar forms or kinds of life; as, homoeozoic belts on the earth's surface.

Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart.

Of or pertaining to lines connecting places on the earth's surface which have a mean annual rainfall.

Of or pertaining to spots upon a surface; spotted; maculate.

Of or pertaining to a region of the earth's surface including all of temperate and arctic North America and Greenland. …

Of or pertaining to the outer surface or to what is external; manifest; public.

Of or pertaining to the ocean; -- applied especially to animals that live at the surface of the ocean, away …

Pertaining to, or designating, any photographic process in which a printing surface is obtained without the intervention of hand engraving.

Pertaining to, or designating, a tetrabasic acid of benzene obtained as a white crystalline substance; -- probably so called from …

Serving or having power to refract, or turn from a direct course; pertaining to refraction; as, refractive surfaces; refractive powers.

Of or pertaining to the sagittal suture; in the region of the sagittal suture; rabdoidal; as, the sagittal furrow, or …

Of or pertaining to the superficies, or surface; lying on the surface; shallow; not deep; as, a superficial color; a …

Of or pertaining to the superficies, or surface; superficial.

In relief; pertaining to sculpture in relief, especially of metal; also, pertaining to chasing such as surface ornamentation in metal.