(biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
(linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, utilizing omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @.
(mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
(music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
(music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
The process of abbreviating.
The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
abbreviations
abbreviations
noun
plural of abbreviation
abortiveness
abortiveness
noun
(countable) The result or product of being abortive.
(uncountable) The quality of being abortive.
absorptiveness
absorptiveness
noun
The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power.
acervation
acervation
noun
(obsolete, rare) A heaping up; accumulation
adsorptiveness
adsorptiveness
noun
The property of being adsorptive, of tending toward or being characterized by adsorption.
adverbiation
affrontive
affrontive
adj
Tending to affront or offend.
affrontiveness
affrontiveness
noun
The state or quality of being affrontive.
aftervision
aggravation
aggravation
noun
(informal) Provocation, irritation, annoyance.
An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
Exaggerated representation.
The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.
aggravations
aggravations
noun
plural of aggravation
alcovinometer
alternativo
anarchoindividualist
antananarivo
antananarivo
Proper noun
The capital city of Madagascar.
anterevolutional
anterevolutionary
anteversion
anteversion
noun
(medicine) The state or condition of being anteverted.
One who opposes conservative attitudes or politics.
anticonservatively
anticonservativeness
anticonservativeness
noun
The condition of being anticonservative
anticorrosive
anticorrosive
adj
Preventing or counteracting corrosion.
noun
An agent that prevents or stops corrosion.
anticorrosively
anticorrosiveness
anticorrosives
anticorrosives
noun
plural of anticorrosive
anticovenanter
antidivorce
antidivorce
adj
Opposing divorce.
antieavesdropping
antienvironmentalism
antienvironmentalist
antienvironmentalists
antierosive
antievolutionary
antievolutionary
adj
antievolution
antigovernment
antigovernment
adj
Opposed to a government currently in power.
Opposed to government in general.
antigovernmental
antigovernmental
adj
Opposing a government.
antigovernmentally
antigravitation
antigravitation
noun
antigravity
antigravitational
antigravitational
adj
(of a posture) That counters the effect of gravitational forces
(physics) Acting against gravity
antigravitationally
antipoverty
antipoverty
adj
(politics) that serves to alleviate poverty
antiproductive
antiproductively
antiproductiveness
antiproductivity
antiprogressive
antiprogressive
noun
One who opposes progress.
antiprojectivity
antireservationist
antireservationist
noun
A person of antireservation beliefs (in either sense).
antirevisionist
antirevisionist
noun
(historiography) One who opposes revisionism.
antirevolution
antirevolution
adj
Opposing a revolution.
antirevolutionaries
antirevolutionaries
noun
plural of antirevolutionary
antirevolutionary
antirevolutionary
adj
Opposing a sociopolitical revolution.
noun
One who opposes a sociopolitical revolution.
antirevolutionist
antirevolutionist
noun
Synonym of antirevolutionary
antisubversion
antisubversion
adj
Opposing or countering political subversion.
antitakeover
antitakeover
adj
(business) Countering a corporate takeover.
antivaccinator
antivaccinator
noun
Alternative form of anti-vaccinator.
antivariolous
antivariolous
adj
(pharmacology) Preventing the spread of smallpox.
antivibrator
antivibrator
noun
A device attached to a vehicle or machine, etc. to reduce vibrations.
antivibratory
antivibratory
adj
preventing or reducing vibrations
antivirotic
antivirotic
noun
An antibiotic that is effective against viruses
antroversion
antroversion
noun
Alternative form of anteroversion.
approbativeness
approbativeness
noun
The state or quality of being approbative.
appropriativeness
appropriativeness
noun
The state or quality of being appropriative.
approximativeness
approximativeness
noun
The state or quality of being approximative.
arfvedsonite
arfvedsonite
noun
(mineralogy) A rare sodium amphibole mineral.
arsonvalization
arteriovenous
arteriovenous
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the arteries and the veins
arterioversion
arthrosynovitis
arthrosynovitis
noun
(pathology) inflammation of the synovial membrane of a joint
asseveration
asseveration
noun
An earnest affirmation; a declaration of support.
asseverations
asseverations
noun
plural of asseveration
astragalonavicular
astronavigation
astronavigation
noun
(nautical) Navigation by using the positions of the stars and other heavenly bodies
(science fiction) Navigation through space
astronavigator
astronavigator
noun
One who performs astronavigation; an astronaut or space pilot.
atrioventricular
atrioventricular
adj
(anatomy, medicine) Of the spatial relationship between the ventricles and the atria of the heart.
auriculoventricular
auriculoventricular
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the auricles and the ventricles (of the heart).
authoritativeness
authoritativeness
noun
The quality of possessing authority.
The quality of trustworthiness and reliability.
autonavigator
autonavigators
averruncation
averruncation
noun
(archaic, rare) (The act of) warding off, averting (something evil).
Eradication, uprooting.
aversation
aversation
noun
(obsolete) A turning from with dislike; aversion.
bacteriosolvent
bartonsville
bartonville
bioenvironmental
bioenvironmental
adj
Of or pertaining to the interactions between the environment and living organisms
bioenvironmentaly
blepharoconjunctivitis
blepharoconjunctivitis
noun
(medicine) The combination of conjunctivitis and blepharitis.
bonaventurism
breviloquent
breviloquent
adj
Exhibiting breviloquence; concise.
brevirostrines
burtonsville
carnivoracity
carnivoracity
noun
(obsolete, humorous) greedy appetite for flesh
carnivority
carnivority
noun
The condition of being carnivorous
cauthornville
cavorting
cavorting
noun
The action of the verb to cavort
verb
present participle of cavort
chervontsi
chevrotain
chevrotain
noun
Any of several small hornless ruminants of the family Tragulidae (genera Hyemoschus, Moschiola, and Tragulus), native to tropical rainforests of South and Southeast Asia, and Central and West Africa; a mouse deer.
chevrotin
chevrotin
noun
Alternative form of chevrotain
circumaviation
circumnavigation
circumnavigation
noun
The act of circumnavigating, or sailing round.
circumnavigations
circumnavigations
noun
plural of circumnavigation
circumnavigator
circumnavigator
noun
A person who circumnavigates, that is, sails around the world.
circumnavigatory
circumnavigatory
adj
pertaining to circumnavigation
circumvallation
circumvallation
noun
A rampart or other defensive entrenchment that entirely encircles the position being defended.
circumvention
circumvention
noun
The act of evading or going around (bypassing).
The act of prevailing over another by fraud or deception
circumventions
circumventions
noun
plural of circumvention
circumventor
circumventor
noun
A person who circumvents
circumvolant
circumvolant
adj
flying around
circumvolution
circumvolution
noun
Anything winding or sinuous.
The act of revolution, rotation or gyration around an axis.
clairvoyant
clairvoyant
adj
(computing) Relating to a form of parallel processing algorithm given advance information about the problem.
Able to foresee the future.
Able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses.
Of or relating to clairvoyance.
noun
A person able to foresee the future
A person able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses
clairvoyantly
clairvoyantly
adv
In a clairvoyant way; by means of clairvoyance.
clairvoyants
clairvoyants
noun
plural of clairvoyant
clavicornate
coacervating
coacervation
coacervation
noun
The separation of a colloidal system into two liquid phases, one of which (the coacervate) is more concentrated in the colloid component.
coadventuring
coalternative
coalternative
adj
Alternative form of coalternate
coazervation
coevolutionary
coevolutionary
adj
Of, pertaining to, or produced by coevolution.
coinventor
coinventor
noun
One who invents something jointly with another person or persons.
coinventors
coinventors
noun
plural of coinventor
coinvestigator
coinvestigator
noun
One who takes part in a joint investigation.
coinvestigators
coinvestigators
noun
plural of coinvestigator
coinvestors
coinvestors
noun
plural of coinvestor
collaborativeness
collaborativeness
noun
quality of being collaborative
commemorativeness
commemorativeness
noun
The quality of being commemorative.
comparativeness
comparativeness
noun
The state or quality of being comparative.
concentrative
concentrative
adj
Characterised by concentration.
concentrativeness
concentrativeness
noun
The state or quality of being concentrative.
concretive
concretive
adj
Promoting concretion.
concretively
concretively
adv
In a concretive manner.
confederative
confederative
adj
Of or pertaining to confederates of a confederation.
configurative
configurative
adj
Of or pertaining to configuration
confirmative
confirmative
adj
That serves to confirm
confirmatively
confirmatively
adv
With confirmation from other sources
conflagrative
conflagrative
adj
That produces conflagration
conglomerative
conglomerative
adj
Causing, or relating to, conglomeration.
congregative
congregative
adj
That congregates
congregativeness
congregativeness
noun
The quality of being congregative.
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.
consecrative
consecrative
adj
Relating to consecration.
conservation
conservation
noun
(biology) Genes and associated characteristics of biological organisms that are unchanged by evolution, for example similar or identical nucleic acid sequences or proteins in different species descended from a common ancestor
(biology) The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
(culture) The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts
(physics) lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries)
The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
Wise use of natural resources.
conservational
conservational
adj
Of or pertaining to conservation.
conservationism
conservationism
noun
A movement that supports conservation, especially that of natural resources
conservationist
conservationist
noun
A person who maintains natural areas or protects threatened species.
Someone who advocates for these actions.
conservationists
conservationists
noun
plural of conservationist
conservations
conservations
noun
plural of conservation
conservatism
conservatism
noun
A political philosophy that advocates traditional values.