(archaic) A medicine or other item causing comfort.
confirmative
confirmative
adj
That serves to confirm
confirmatively
confirmatively
adv
With confirmation from other sources
deformative
efformative
favoritism
favoritism
noun
(American spelling) Alternative form of favouritism
favoritisms
favoritisms
noun
plural of favoritism
favouritism
favouritism
noun
(British spelling) The unfair favouring of one person or group at the expense of another.
flavobacterium
flavobacterium
noun
Any of many Gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria, of the class Flavobacteriia ^([sic]), that occur in soil and water, and are mostly pigmented and photosynthetic.
fluviometer
fluviometer
noun
A device used to measure the depth of water in a river, and sometimes used to record its rise and fall
formative
formative
adj
(biology) Capable of producing new tissue.
(education) Denoting forms of assessment used to guide learning rather than to quantify educational outcomes.
(grammar) Pertaining to the inflection of words.
Capable of forming something.
Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something.
noun
(grammar) A language unit that has morphological function.
formatively
formatively
adv
In a formative manner.
formativeness
formicative
heterofermentative
heterofermentative
adj
(biology, of a microorganism) That undergoes fermentation to produce more than one product, e.g. both alcohol and lactic acid.
homofermentative
homofermentative
adj
That produce (almost entirely) a single fermentation product (typically lactic acid)
informative
informative
adj
(in standards and specifications) Not specifying requirements, but merely providing information.
(obsolete) Formative; having power to form.
Providing information; especially, providing useful or interesting information.
informatively
informatively
adv
In an informative manner.
informativeness
informativeness
noun
The condition of being informative; clarity
misinformative
misinformative
adj
Providing incorrect information; misleading.
modificative
modificative
adj
modificatory; tending to modify
noun
(grammar) That which modifies or qualifies, as a word or clause.
myeloproliferative
myeloproliferative
adj
(medicine) of or pertaining to the presence of an abnormal proliferation of myelopoietic cells (from bone marrow)
neoformative
neoformative
adj
Capable of forming new tissue
nonconfirmative
nonconfirmative
adj
Not confirmative.
nonfermentative
nonfermentative
adj
Not fermentative
nonformative
nonformatively
noninformative
noninformative
adj
Not informative.
noninformatively
noninformativeness
noninformativeness
noun
The condition of being noninformative
nonmodificative
novemperfoliate
ovatopyriform
overaffirmation
overaffirmative
overaffirmatively
overaffirmativeness
overfamiliarity
overfamiliarity
noun
The state of being overfamiliar.
overfemininity
overmagnification
overmagnification
noun
excessive magnification
overmodification
overmodification
noun
Excessive modification.
overmystification
overmystified
overmystify
overmystifying
overrefinement
overrefinement
noun
Excessive refinement.
oversimplification
oversimplification
noun
An explanation that excludes important information for the sake of brevity, or of making the explanation or presentation easy to understand.
The process of making such an explanation.
oversimplifications
oversimplifications
noun
plural of oversimplification
performative
performative
adj
(philosophy, linguistics) Being enacted as it is said.
Being done as a performance in order to create an impression.
noun
A performative utterance.
preformative
preformative
adj
(grammar) Chiefly in Semitic languages: of a letter, syllable, etc.: attached to the beginning of a word as a formative element.
Of a thing: forming or affecting something that comes later.
Of or pertaining to preformation.
noun
Chiefly in Semitic languages: a formative letter, syllable, etc., at the beginning of a word.
reformative
reformative
adj
That serves to reform or correct
reformatively
reformatively
adv
In a reformative manner.
reformativeness
semivitrification
semivitrification
noun
The quality or state of being semivitrified.
subformative
subformatively
subformativeness
transformative
transformative
adj
(linguistics) Chiefly in transformative-generative: of or relating to a theory of generative grammar in which defined operations called transformations produce new sentences from existing ones; transformational.
That causes a transformation; causing a notable and lasting change
unconfirmative
unformative
unformative
adj
Not formative.
uninformative
uninformative
adj
lacking useful or interesting information
uninformatively
uninformatively
adv
In a way that is not informative.
unmodificative
unreformative
untransformative
variformity
variformity
noun
The quality of being variform.
vasoformative
vasoformative
adj
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the formation and development of blood vessels and blood cells