The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power.
adsorptiveness
adsorptiveness
noun
The property of being adsorptive, of tending toward or being characterized by adsorption.
anticompetitive
anticompetitive
adj
(economics, business) Acting to hinder or obstruct competition.
anticonscriptive
antieavesdropping
antipoverty
antipoverty
adj
(politics) that serves to alleviate poverty
antiproductive
antiproductively
antiproductiveness
antiproductivity
antiprogressive
antiprogressive
noun
One who opposes progress.
antiprojectivity
anviltop
anviltops
appointive
appointive
adj
Of, pertaining to, or filled by appointment.
appointively
approbativeness
approbativeness
noun
The state or quality of being approbative.
appropriativeness
appropriativeness
noun
The state or quality of being appropriative.
approving
approving
adj
Expressing approbation; commending
verb
present participle of approve
approvingly
approvingly
adv
in an approving manner
approximativeness
approximativeness
noun
The state or quality of being approximative.
automanipulative
blepharoconjunctivitis
blepharoconjunctivitis
noun
(medicine) The combination of conjunctivitis and blepharitis.
camptonville
captivation
captivation
noun
The act of captivating or the state of being captivated.
captivations
captivations
noun
plural of captivation
codeveloping
codeveloping
verb
present participle of codevelop
comparativeness
comparativeness
noun
The state or quality of being comparative.
compensative
compensative
adj
that compensates for something; compensatory
noun
(obsolete) compensation
compensatively
compensatively
adv
In a compensative manner; compensatorily
compensativeness
compensativeness
noun
The quality of being compensative.
competitiveness
competitiveness
noun
The state of being competitive.
complaintive
complaintive
adj
Tending to complain, characterized by complaining.
complaintiveness
complaintiveness
noun
The quality of being complaintive.
complementative
complimentative
complimentative
adj
(archaic) complimentary
comprehensive
comprehensive
adj
Broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something.
noun
(Britain) A comprehensive school.
comprehensively
comprehensively
adv
In a comprehensive manner; in an all-inclusive or wide-ranging fashion.
comprehensiveness
comprehensiveness
noun
The state of being comprehensive.
comprehensivenesses
comprehensives
comprehensives
noun
plural of comprehensive
comprovincial
comprovincial
adj
Being part of the same province.
noun
One who comes from the same province.
compulsiveness
compulsiveness
noun
the state of being compulsive
compunctive
compunctive
adj
(obsolete) Sensitive with regard to wrongdoing; conscientious.
computativeness
computativeness
noun
The quality of being computative.
concaptive
conceptive
conceptive
adj
relating to conception (in all senses)
conceptiveness
conceptiveness
noun
The quality of being conceptive.
conscriptive
conscriptive
adj
(law) Produced through the compulsory participation of the accused; violating the accused's right to avoid self-incrimination.
Chosen; adopted.
Compulsory; required.
Pertaining to conscription.
Restrictive; constricting.
conservatorship
conservatorship
noun
(law) The legal status of a conservator, similar to guardianship or trusteeship.
(law) The state of being under the control of a conservator.
conspirative
conspirative
adj
(uncommon) Conspiratorial.
consumptive
consumptive
adj
(pathology) Relating to pulmonary tuberculosis.
Having a tendency to consume; dissipating; destructive; wasteful.
Of, or relating to consumption.
noun
A person suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.
consumptively
consumptively
adv
In a consumptive manner.
consumptiveness
consumptiveness
noun
The state of being consumptive.
consumptives
consumptives
noun
plural of consumptive
consumptivity
consumptivity
noun
The quality or degree of being consumptive.
contemplative
contemplative
adj
(medicine, psychiatry) In a phase of mental activity in which one begins to recognize and acknowledge the maladaptiveness of someone's behavior (such as own's own, or that of a family member or friend); usually with reference to substance use.
Inclined to contemplate; introspective and thoughtful; meditative.
Pertaining to a religious contemplative, or a contemplative religious orders, especially the Roman Catholic varieties.
noun
Someone who has dedicated themselves to religious or philosophical contemplation.
contemplatively
contemplatively
adv
In a contemplative manner.
contemplativeness
contemplativeness
noun
The state or quality of being contemplative.
contraceptive
contraceptive
adj
That acts to prevent conception as a result of sexual intercourse.
noun
A mechanism or means by which conception as a result of sexual intercourse can be prevented or made less likely.
contraceptives
contraceptives
noun
plural of contraceptive
contrapositive
contrapositive
noun
(logic) The inverse of the converse of a given proposition.
contrapositives
contrapositives
noun
plural of contrapositive
convenership
convertiplane
convertiplane
noun
Any of several forms of aircraft capable of both vertical takeoff and landing, and of normal forward flight; usually has variable geometry wings that can rotate
cooperativeness
cooperativeness
noun
The state of being cooperative
corresponsive
corresponsive
adj
equivalent or similar in character: corresponding
jointly or mutually responsive: exchanging
responsive to stimulus: responding, answering
corresponsively
corresponsively
adv
In a corresponsive manner.
counterproductive
counterproductive
adj
More of a hindrance than a help.
counterproductively
counterproductively
adv
In a counterproductive way.
counterproductiveness
counterproductiveness
noun
The state or condition of being counterproductive.
counterproductivity
counterproductivity
noun
The quality of being counterproductive.
cryptovolcanic
cryptovolcanism
depravation
depravation
noun
Change for the worse; deterioration; morbid perversion.
Detraction; depreciation.
The act of depraving, or making anything bad; the act of corrupting.
The state of being depraved or degenerated; degeneracy; depravity.
depravations
depravations
noun
plural of depravation
deprevation
deprivation
deprivation
noun
(countable) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
(countable) The taking away from a clergyman of his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
(followed by “of”) lack
(uncountable) The state of being deprived
deprivations
deprivations
noun
plural of deprivation
deprovincialize
deprovincialize
verb
(transitive) To divest of provincial quality or characteristics.
devaporation
devaporation
noun
The change of vapour into water, as in the formation of rain.
developing
developing
adj
In the process of development.
Of a country: becoming economically more mature or advanced; becoming industrialized.
noun
A process of development.
verb
present participle and gerund of develop
developmentalist
developmentalist
adj
Of, or related to developmentalism.
noun
A follower or proponent of developmentalism.
developmentarian
developmentist
disapproving
disapproving
verb
present participle of disapprove
disapprovingly
disapprovingly
adv
In a disapproving manner
disenvelop
disenvelop
verb
To unwrap or disentangle.
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.
disprovement
disproven
disproven
adj
(archaic, Scottish law) Not proven, in a legal case where the jury verdict has inconclusive evidence for conviction, but sufficient to suspect guilt
Shown to be false
verb
Alternative irregular form of the past participle of disprove
disproving
disproving
verb
present participle of disprove
divaporation
eavedropping
eavesdropping
eavesdropping
noun
(telecommunications) The interception of electronic communication.
(zoology) The act of one organism listening for another's calls, so as to exploit them.
Listening secretly to the private conversations of others.
verb
present participle of eavesdrop
endopelvic
endopelvic
adj
(anatomy) Within the pelvis
enveloping
enveloping
verb
present participle of envelop
envoyship
envoyship
noun
The office or position of an envoy.
evaporating
evaporating
verb
present participle of evaporate
evaporation
evaporation
noun
(archaic) That which is evaporated; vapor.
The process in which all or a portion of liquid (in a container) is turned into vapour, in order to increase the concentration of solid matter in the mixture.
The process of a liquid converting to the gaseous state.
evaporations
evaporations
noun
plural of evaporation
evapotranspiration
evapotranspiration
noun
The transfer of water from the surface of the earth to the atmosphere by evaporation, sublimation and transpiration.
eversporting
explorativeness
explorativeness
noun
The condition of being explorative
explosiveness
explosiveness
noun
The state of being explosive.
extraprovincial
extraprovincial
adj
Outside a province.
flavoprotein
flavoprotein
noun
(biochemistry) any of a group of enzymes, containing flavin, that act as dehydrogenases
flavopurpurin
flavopurpurin
noun
(organic chemistry) 1,2,6-trihydroxyanthraquinone
foreprovision
galvanographic
galvanographic
adj
Of or pertaining to galvanography.
galvanoplastic
galvanoplastic
adj
Of or pertaining to galvanoplasty.
galvanoplastical
galvanoplastical
adj
galvanoplastic
galvanoplastically
galvanoplastically
adv
By means of, or in terms of, galvanoplasty.
galvanoplastics
galvanoplastics
noun
Synonym of galvanoplasty
galvanopsychic
galvanopsychic
adj
(historical) Of or relating to a psychoanalysis technique using a galvanometer to measure the patient's responses to certain words.
galvanoscopic
galvanoscopic
adj
Of or pertaining to a galvanoscope.
galvanotropic
galvanotropism
galvanotropism
noun
(biology) Any movement or alignment of an organism with respect to an electric field
governorship
governorship
noun
The office, or the term of a governor.
governorships
governorships
noun
plural of governorship
hamptonville
hepatoflavin
hepatoflavin
noun
(biochemistry, rare) A derivative of vitamin B which prevents skin lesions and weight loss.
hopkinsville
hopkinsville
Proper noun
a home rule-class city in Kentucky, USA
an unincorporated community in Ohio, USA.
hopvine
hopvine
noun
The stock or stem of the hop.
hygroexpansivity
hypercivilization
hypercivilization
noun
The state of being hypercivilized.
hyperconservatism
hyperconservatism
noun
The quality of being hyperconservative.
hyperconservative
hyperconservative
adj
Extremely conservative.
hyperconservatively
hyperconservativeness
hyperdivision
hyperdivision
noun
Extreme or excessive division.
hyperemotiveness
hyperinvolution
hyperobtrusiveness
hyperovarianism
hypersalivation
hypersalivation
noun
(medicine) An excessive flow of saliva
hypervenosity
hyperventilation
hyperventilation
noun
(medicine) the state of breathing faster or deeper than necessary
hypervitalization
hypervitaminosis
hypervitaminosis
noun
Any medical condition resulting from excessive intake of vitamins.
hypervoluminous
hyposensitive
hyposensitive
adj
Having abnormally low sensitivity.
hyposensitivity
hyposensitivity
noun
A lower than normal sensitivity (to a stimulus or an allergen).
hypotensive
hypotensive
adj
Having hypotension.
Producing hypotension.
noun
A drug that lowers the blood pressure as its principal intended effect; a drug taken to treat hypertension.
A person with hypotension.
Any drug that lowers the blood pressure.
hypotensives
hypotensives
noun
plural of hypotensive
hypovanadic
hypovanadious
hypovitaminosis
hypovitaminosis
noun
(biology, medicine) vitamin deficiency: insufficiency of one or more essential vitamins in the body. Specific forms are labeled with the vitamin identifier: hypovitaminosis A, hypovitaminosis D, and so on, although those forms are more often called vitamin A deficiency, vitamin D deficiency, and so on.
immunosuppressive
immunosuppressive
adj
(pharmacology, immunology) Having the capability to suppress the immune system, capable of immunosuppression.
noun
(pharmacology, immunology) An agent which is capable of immunosuppression.