An instrument for measuring the adhesive qualities of a substance.
adjectivism
adjectivism
noun
The excessive use of adjectives.
administrative
administrative
adj
Of or relating to administering or administration.
administratively
administratively
adv
In an administrative manner, or for purposes of administration.
admirative
admirative
adj
Characterized by admiration.
noun
(An instance of) a verb form similar to mirative, found primarily in some languages of the Balkan sprachbund (i.e. namely Albanian, Bulgarian and Macedonian), which expresses surprise, irony, doubt, or reportedness on the part of the speaker (compare mirative).
admiratively
admiratively
adv
In an admirative manner.
admonitive
admonitive
adj
Of or conveying admonition
admonitively
admonitively
adv
As an admonition.
adumbrative
adumbrative
adj
Of or pertaining to adumbration
adumbratively
adumbratively
adv
In an adumbrative manner
advancement
advancement
noun
(law) Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution.
An advance of money or value; payment in advance.
How advanced something is
The act of advancing; promotion to a higher place or dignity
The state of being advanced
advancements
advancements
noun
plural of advancement
adventism
adventurement
adventurement
noun
(obsolete) adventure.
adventuresome
adventuresome
adj
Prone to, or willing to undertake, adventures; daring or bold.
adventuresomely
adventuresomely
adv
In an adventuresome manner.
adventuresomeness
adventuresomeness
noun
The state or quality of being adventuresome.
adventuresomes
adventurism
adventurism
noun
(politics) The taking of excessive risks by a government in their political, economic or foreign affairs.
The behaviour of an adventurer; risk-taking.
adventurisms
adventurisms
noun
plural of adventurism
advertisement
advertisement
noun
(card games) In gin rummy, the discarding of a card of one's preferred suit so as to mislead the opponent into thinking you do not want it.
(marketing) A commercial solicitation designed to sell some commodity, service or similar.
(obsolete) Notoriety.
A public notice.
A recommendation of a particular product, service or person.
advertisements
advertisements
noun
plural of advertisement
advertizement
advertizement
noun
Alternative spelling of advertisement
advisement
advisement
noun
(archaic) Advice, counsel.
(now US) Consideration or deliberation.
advisements
advisements
noun
plural of advisement
animadvert
animadvert
verb
(intransitive) To criticise, to censure.
(intransitive, law, archaic) To turn judicial attention (to); to criticise or punish.
(intransitive, obsolete) To consider.
animadverted
animadverted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of animadvert
animadverter
animadverter
noun
(obsolete) One who animadverts; a censurer or chastiser.
animadverting
animadverting
verb
present participle of animadvert
animadverts
animadverts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of animadvert
antimediaeval
antimediaeval
adj
Alternative form of antimedieval
antimediaevalism
antimediaevalist
antimediaevally
antimedicative
antimedieval
antimedieval
adj
Opposed to the Middle Ages.
antimedievalism
antimedievalist
antimedievally
avoidment
bedevilment
bedevilment
noun
The characteristic of being bedeviled.
bedevilments
bedevilments
noun
plural of bedevilment
bevomited
bevomited
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bevomit
circumnavigated
circumnavigated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of circumnavigate
circumvallated
circumvallated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of circumvallate
circumvented
circumvented
verb
simple past tense and past participle of circumvent
counterdevelopment
counterdevelopment
noun
A development that counteracts another development.
countermoved
countermoved
verb
simple past tense and past participle of countermove
decemvirate
decemvirate
noun
A group of ten people, especially (politics) a council of ten men sharing office or power and particularly (historical) the groups of ten men who reformed and codified Roman law circa 450 BCE.
decemvirates
decemvirates
noun
plural of decemvirate
decontaminative
deformative
delimitative
delimitative
adj
Serving to delimit
demandative
demirevetment
demivolt
demivolt
noun
A half vault; one of the seven artificial motions of a horse, in which he raises his forelegs in a particular manner.
demivolte
demivolts
demivolts
noun
plural of demivolt
demivotary
demonstrative
demonstrative
adj
(grammar) that specifies the thing or person referred to
given to open displays of emotion
that serves to demonstrate, show or prove
noun
A demonstrative adjective.
A demonstrative pronoun.
demonstratively
demonstratively
adv
In a demonstrative manner.
demonstrativeness
demonstrativeness
noun
The state or quality of being demonstrative.
denominative
denominative
adj
(grammar) Deriving from a noun, or from an adjective, such as the verb destruct from the noun destruction.
Being a name.
Possessing, or capable of possessing, a distinct denomination or designation; denominable.
noun
A word, often a verb, that is derived from a noun or adjective.
denominatively
denominatively
adv
By denomination.
denumerantive
denumerative
depravement
depravement
noun
(archaic) Depravity; corruption.
depravements
depravements
noun
plural of depravement
deprivement
deprivement
noun
deprivation
dermosynovitis
descriptivism
descriptivism
noun
(linguistics) The practice of describing realistic forms, as opposed to prescribing idealistic norms, of linguistic usage.
desquamative
desquamative
adj
Of, relating to, or attended with, desquamation.
destructivism
destructivism
noun
An art movement that involves destroying objects in front of spectators.
detectivism
determinative
determinative
adj
(law) Sufficient to decide something (such as a question of fact or of law).
noun
(linguistics) An ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts.
determinatively
determinatively
adv
In a determinative manner.
determinativeness
determinativeness
noun
The state or quality of being determinative.
deutovum
deutovum
noun
The incompletely developed larva of a mite after shedding of the chorion
developement
developement
noun
Obsolete spelling of development
development
development
noun
(chess, uncountable) The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
(countable) Something which has developed.
(mathematics) The expression of a function in the form of a series.
(music) The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.
(music) The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.
(real estate, countable) A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.
(real estate, uncountable) The building of such a project.
(uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
(uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.
(uncountable, biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.
developmental
developmental
adj
Related to development.
noun
A trainee flight controller.
developmentalist
developmentalist
adj
Of, or related to developmentalism.
noun
A follower or proponent of developmentalism.
developmentally
developmentally
adv
In terms of development.
developmentarian
developmentary
developmentary
adj
Pertaining to development; developmental.
developmentist
developments
developments
noun
A group of building complexes or apartments. Often used for low income housing.
plural of development
deviationism
deviationism
noun
Deviation from accepted beliefs or policies, especially from a prescribed form of communism.
devilment
devilment
noun
(often humorous) A dish which is devilled (“made piquant or spicy”); a devil; also, the elements of the dish which make it spicy, or the piquancy or spiciness of the dish.
(uncountable) Devilish action or conduct; wickedness; (more generally) troublemaking behaviour; mischief; (countable) an instance of this.
A devilish, mischievous, or reckless nature; mischievousness.
Something cleverly constructed.
Something cruel or evil; also, something which causes distress or suffering.
devilments
devilments
noun
plural of devilment
devitaminize
devolvement
devolvement
noun
The act or process of devolving; devolution.
devolvements
devolvements
noun
plural of devolvement
devoteeism
devoteeism
noun
The role or state of a devotee.
devotement
devotement
noun
The state of being devoted, or set apart by a vow.
devotements
devotements
noun
plural of devotement
devotionalism
devotionalism
noun
(religion) Devotional behaviour.
devourment
devourment
noun
The act of devouring something.
diminutive
diminutive
adj
(grammar) Of or pertaining to, or creating a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
(obsolete) Serving to diminish.
noun
(grammar) A word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
diminutively
diminutively
adv
In a diminutive manner.
diminutiveness
diminutiveness
noun
The state or quality of being diminutive.
diminutives
diminutives
noun
plural of diminutive
diminutivize
diminutivize
verb
(linguistics, transitive) to turn into a diminutive
disaffirmative
disaffirmative
adj
That disaffirms.
disassimilative
disassimilative
adj
(physiology) Having power to disassimilate; of the nature of disassimilation.
disavowment
disavowment
noun
disavowal
discriminative
discriminative
adj
(of an element, feature, attribute, etc.) Which serves to distinguish its bearer.
Having or relating to the ability to discriminate between things.
discriminatively
discriminatively
adv
With discrimination or distinction.
discriminativeness
discriminativeness
noun
The condition of being discriminative
dishevelment
dishevelment
noun
The state or quality of being disheveled.
dishevelments
disimprovement
disimprovement
noun
(informal, rare, influenced by the German noun Verschlimmbesserung) attempt to make something better while ending up worse than before.
Reduction from a better to a worse state.
disinvestment
disinvestment
noun
The process of disinvesting; negative investment.
disinvolvement
disinvolvement
noun
The condition of being disinvolved
dislevelment
disprovement
dissemilative
disseminative
disseminative
adj
Tending to disseminate, or to become disseminated.
disseverment
disseverment
noun
disseverance
dissimilative
dissimilative
adj
Pertaining to, modifying by, showing dissimilation.
dissimulative
dissimulative
adj
Of or pertaining to dissimulation.
diumvirate
divergement
divergement
noun
(archaic) divergence
diverticulum
diverticulum
noun
(anatomy) A small out-pouching of an organ wall such as the large intestine or urinary bladder.
divertimenti
divertimenti
noun
plural of divertimento
divertimento
divertimento
noun
(music) composition that has several short movements, a style that composers started to use in the 18th century.
divertimentos
divertisement
divertisement
noun
(archaic) diversion; amusement; recreation
divertissement
divertissement
noun
(ballet) A short ballet within a larger work, usually providing a break from the main plot.
An entertaining diversion.
divertissements
divertissements
noun
plural of divertissement
divestment
divestment
noun
(finance) The sale or other disposal of some kind of asset.
divestments
divestments
noun
plural of divestment
divorcement
divorcement
noun
(figuratively, psychology) Complete detachment or disunion.
(obsolete) Divorce; dissolution of a marriage.
divorcements
divorcements
noun
plural of divorcement
divulgement
divulgement
noun
The act of divulging (communicating or revealing information).
dmitrevsk
dmitriev
domesticative
dominative
dominative
adj
Exhibiting or pertaining to domination.
dormitive
dormitive
adj
Causing sleep.
noun
A medicine to promote sleep; a soporific or opiate.
duumvirate
duumvirate
noun
(historical) Any of several offices of the Roman Republic held by two joint magistrates known as duumvirs.
Synonym of diarchy: rule by two people, especially two men.
duumvirates
duumvirates
noun
plural of duumvirate
epididymovasostomy
epididymovasostomy
noun
(surgery) Anastomosis of the vas deferens to the epididymis.