(engineering, nautical, astronautics) Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying material, as in ablative paints used for antifouling, or ablative heat shields used to protect spacecraft during reentry. .
(geology) Relating to the erosion of a land mass; relating to the melting or evaporation of a glacier.
(grammar) Applied to one of the cases of the noun in some languages, the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away, and to a lesser degree, instrument, place, accordance, specifications, price, or measurement.
(medicine) Relating to the removal of a body part, tumor, or organ.
noun
(grammar) The ablative case.
An ablative material.
ablatively
ablatively
adv
In an ablative manner.
ablatives
ablatives
noun
plural of ablative
abortively
abortively
adv
In an abortive or untimely manner; immaturely; fruitlessly.
absolutive
absolutive
adj
(grammar) Of or pertaining to the grammatical case used to indicate the patient or experiencer of a verb’s action.
(rare) Of, exhibiting, or pertaining to absolution; absolutory, absolving.
noun
(grammar) An uninflected verb form used to indicate another action performed by the subject of the principal verb.
(grammar) The absolutive case, or a phrase that uses it.
absolvent
absolvent
adj
(rare) Absolving.
noun
(rare) An absolver.
absorptively
absorptively
adv
In an absorptive way.
abstractively
abstractively
adv
(now rare) In an abstract manner; in the abstract.
achievability
achievability
noun
The state or condition of being achievable.
activable
activable
adj
Capable of being activated
adumbratively
adumbratively
adv
In an adumbrative manner
adverbiality
adverbiality
noun
The condition of having characteristics of an adverb.
advertisable
advertisable
adj
Suitable for being advertised.
advertizable
advertizable
adj
Alternative spelling of advertisable
advisabilities
advisabilities
noun
plural of advisability
albertville
albertville
Proper noun
A town in the département of Savoie.
albificative
albrightsville
ambivalent
ambivalent
adj
Alternately having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite.
Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, or motivations.
ambivalently
ambivalently
adv
In an ambivalent manner.
ambulative
ambulative
adj
(archaic) walking
attributively
attributively
adv
In an attributive manner.
availabilities
availabilities
noun
plural of availability
avertable
avertable
adj
Preventable.
avertible
avertible
adj
Capable of being averted; preventable.
babblative
babblative
adj
(obsolete) babbling
bacteriosolvent
barneveldt
bartlesville
bartonsville
bartonville
basiventral
basiventral
adj
At the base of the front
basivertebral
basivertebral
adj
Of or pertaining to the base or centrum of a vertebral structure
batesville
batesville
Proper noun
a city in Arkansas, USA
a city in and Indiana, USA.
a city in Mississippi, USA
an unincorporated community in Missouri, USA.
a village in Ohio, USA.
a CDP in Texas, USA.
an unincorporated community in Virginia, USA.
bathvillite
beattyville
beaverlett
beaverpelt
bechtelsville
bedevilment
bedevilment
noun
The characteristic of being bedeviled.
bedevilments
bedevilments
noun
plural of bedevilment
behavioristically
behavioristically
adv
In a behavioristic manner
believability
believability
noun
The state or quality of being believable.
believeth
believeth
verb
(archaic) third-person singular simple present form of believe
beltsville
benedictively
benedictively
adv
In a benedictive manner.
benevolent
benevolent
adj
Altruistic, charitable, good, just and fair.
Having a disposition to do good.
Possessing or manifesting love for mankind.
benevolently
benevolently
adv
In a benevolent manner.
benevolentness
benevolentness
noun
The state or quality of being benevolent.
benevolist
bennettsville
bentleyville
bentonville
betravel
betravel
verb
(transitive) To travel over; overrun with travellers.
bettsville
bevelment
bevelment
noun
(mineralogy) The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes.
biclavate
bijectively
bijectively
adv
In a bijective manner.
bioenvironmental
bioenvironmental
adj
Of or pertaining to the interactions between the environment and living organisms
bioenvironmentaly
biovulate
bivalent
bivalent
adj
(chemistry) Having a valence of 2; having two ligands
(genetics) Of, or relating to a pair of homologous synapsed chromosomes that occur during meiosis.
(of a vaccine) Protecting against two different viruses.
noun
(genetics) Any bivalent chromosome.
bivalents
bivalents
noun
plural of bivalent
bivaulted
bivaulted
adj
Having two vaults or arches.
biventral
biventral
adj
Having two bellies
digastric
bivoltine
bivoltine
adj
(biology) Having two broods or generations in a year
noun
(biology) A bivoltine organism.
blauvelt
blepharoconjunctivitis
blepharoconjunctivitis
noun
(medicine) The combination of conjunctivitis and blepharitis.
blountsville
blountsville
Proper noun
A town in
A town in
blountville
blountville
Proper noun
A in the U.S. state of that is the of
bloviate
bloviate
verb
(intransitive, US) To speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner.
bloviated
bloviated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bloviate
bloviates
bloviates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bloviate
blytheville
blytheville
Proper noun
a city in Arkansas, USA, which is one of the two county seats of
bolivarite
bolivarite
Noun
An amorphous mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus.
bolshevist
bolshevist
Noun
A Bolshevik (also used attributively).
bolshevistic
bolshevistically
bolshevists
bolshevization
boothville
bouleversement
bouleversement
noun
Complete overthrow; reversal; turmoil
boviculture
boviculture
noun
The rearing and care of cattle.
brackettville
brevifoliate
breviloquent
breviloquent
adj
Exhibiting breviloquence; concise.
brevirostral
brevirostral
adj
(zoology) Having a short beak or bill
bristolville
bryantsville
bryantville
burkettsville
burkittsville
burnettsville
burtonsville
butlerville
buttzville
calciovolborthite
calciovolborthite
noun
(mineralogy) A mineral with chemical formula CaCuVO₄(OH), closely related to volborthite.
celebrative
celebrative
adj
(uncommon) Involving celebration; having the nature of a celebration.
chavibetol
chavibetol
noun
(organic chemistry) A phenylpropanoid that is one of the primary constituents of the essential oil from the leaves of the betel plant.
circumventable
circumventable
adj
Capable of being circumvented.
clavicembalist
cleavability
cleavability
noun
Quality or degree of being cleavable.
collaborative
collaborative
adj
Of, relating to, or done by collaboration.
noun
(management) An organized group of people or entities who collaborate towards a particular goal
collaboratively
collaboratively
adv
characterized or done by collaboration.
collaborativeness
collaborativeness
noun
quality of being collaborative
combatively
combatively
adv
In a combative way.
combustively
conceivability
conceivability
noun
Something that is conceivable.
The characteristic of being conceivable; the ability to be conceived, believed, or understood.
constableville
contributively
contributively
adv
In a contributive fashion.
contrivable
contrivable
adj
Capable of being contrived, invented, or devised.
controvertibility
controvertible
controvertible
adj
Open to questioning; that which can be denied, challenged, or disputed.
controvertibly
controvertibly
adv
In a controvertible manner.
conversationable
conversationable
adj
Synonym of conversable (“able and inclined to engage in conversation”)
conversibility
convertable
convertable
adj
Alternative form of convertible
convertibility
convertibility
noun
The quality of a currency of being exchangeable for gold or other currencies
The quality of being convertible
convertible
convertible
adj
(finance) Able to be exchanged for a different class of security (usually common stock) under certain set terms.
(historical numismatics) Able to be exchanged for specie.
(logic) Able to undergo conversion (i.e., inversion) without falsehood.
(numismatics) Able to be exchanged for foreign currency.
(obsolete) Able to be easily digested.
(obsolete) Able to be turned in a different direction.
(vehicles) Able to change from a closed to an open frame and back again.
Able to be exchanged, one for the other, especially
Able to be turned to a different purpose.
Able to be turned to a different religion or belief.
noun
(computing) A computer able to convert from laptop to tablet and back again.
(dated, in the plural) Interchangeable things or terms.
(finance) A convertible security: a stock, bond, etc. that can be turned into another (usually common stock) under certain set terms.
(vehicles) A convertible car: a car with a removable or foldable roof able to convert from a closed to open vehicle and back again.
convertibleness
convertibleness
noun
The state of being convertible; convertibility.
convertibles
convertibles
noun
plural of convertible
convertibly
convertibly
adv
in a convertible manner
conveyability
conveyability
noun
Ability to be conveyed.
convictable
convictable
adj
Capable of being convicted.
convictible
coracovertebral
coracovertebral
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the coracoid process and the vertebrae.
corbettsville
corroboratively
corroboratively
adv
In a corroborative manner.
costovertebral
costovertebral
adj
(anatomy) Connecting a rib with the body of a vertebra
covetable
covetable
adj
Which may be coveted.
craniovertebral
craniovertebral
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the cranium and vertebrae.
cultivable
cultivable
adj
Capable of being cultivated or farmed.
cultivatable
cultivatable
adj
cultivable
cyclovertebral
debilitative
debilitative
adj
Causing or relating to debilitation.
deceivability
deceivability
Noun
The state or quality of being deceivable.
defibrillative
deliberative
deliberative
adj
That deliberates, considers carefully.
noun
A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined.
A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.
deliberatively
deliberatively
adv
In a deliberative manner.
deliberativeness
deliberativeness
noun
The state or quality of being deliberative.
deliverability
deliverability
noun
The quality of being deliverable; allowing the possibility of being delivered.