(countable) The result or product of being abortive.
(uncountable) The quality of being abortive.
abovestairs
abovestairs
noun
Alternative form of above stairs.
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.
absolvitor
absolvitor
noun
(Scotland, law) A decision or decree made by a court in favour of the defendant in a given action; dismissal.
absolvitory
absolvitory
adj
Of or pertaining to a dismissal or an acquittal.
absorptive
absorptive
adj
Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe; absorbent.
noun
Any substance that absorbs.
absorptively
absorptively
adv
In an absorptive way.
absorptiveness
absorptiveness
noun
The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power.
absorptivity
absorptivity
noun
(analytical chemistry) The constant a in the Beer's law relation A = abc, where A is the absorbance, b the path length, and c the concentration of solution. Also known as absorptive power. Formerly known as absorbency index; absorption constant; extinction coefficient.
(thermodynamics) The fraction of radiation absorbed by a surface to the total radiation incident on the surface.
The quality of being absorptive; absorptiveness.
acclivitous
acclivitous
adj
Acclivous
accommodativeness
accommodativeness
noun
The state or quality of being accommodative.
activations
activations
noun
plural of activation
activators
activators
noun
plural of activator
adsorptive
adsorptive
adj
Pertaining to, tending toward, or characterized by adsorption.
noun
Any substance that adsorbs.
adsorptively
adsorptively
adv
In an adsorptive manner; with a tendency toward or characteristic of adsorption.
adsorptiveness
adsorptiveness
noun
The property of being adsorptive, of tending toward or being characterized by adsorption.
advectitious
advectitious
adj
Relating to, or transported by, advection.
adventitious
adventitious
adj
(biology) Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source.
(genetics, medicine) Not congenital; acquired.
Accidental, additional, appearing casually.
From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
adventitiously
adventitiously
adv
in an adventitious manner; sporadically.
adventitiousness
adventitiousness
noun
the degree to which a thing is adventitious
adventitiousnesses
adversifoliate
adversifoliate
adj
(botany) Having leaves placed opposite each other on a stem.
advertorials
advertorials
noun
plural of advertorial
advisatory
advisatory
adj
(law) Advisory.
advocateship
advocateship
noun
(now rare) The office or function of an advocate; advocacy.
advocations
advocations
noun
plural of advocation
aestivation
aestivation
noun
(biology) A state of inactivity and metabolic depression during summer: the summer version of hibernation.
(botany) The arrangement (vernation) of the parts of a flower inside a bud; prefloration.
(obsolete) The spending or passing of a summer.
aestivations
aestivations
noun
plural of aestivation
aestivator
aestivator
noun
An animal that becomes dormant during the summer or dry season.
affrontiveness
affrontiveness
noun
The state or quality of being affrontive.
aftervision
aggravations
aggravations
noun
plural of aggravation
alleviations
alleviations
noun
plural of alleviation
alleviators
alleviators
noun
plural of alleviator
alveolites
alveolitis
alveolitis
noun
(medicine) An inflammation of a dental alveolus (tooth socket).
(medicine) An inflammation of the alveoli in the lungs.
anarchoindividualist
annotativeness
annotativeness
noun
The property of being annotative.
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
anticonventionalism
anticonventionalism
noun
The quality of being anticonventional; rejection of conventions or norms.
anticonventionalist
anticonvulsant
anticonvulsant
adj
(pharmacology) Acting as an anticonvulsant.
noun
(pharmacology) An agent that prevents, stops, or lessens convulsions.
anticonvulsive
anticonvulsive
adj
(pharmacology) Acting against or serving to prevent convulsions.
noun
(pharmacology) Any anticonvulsant drug.
anticorrosive
anticorrosive
adj
Preventing or counteracting corrosion.
noun
An agent that prevents or stops corrosion.
anticorrosively
anticorrosiveness
anticorrosives
anticorrosives
noun
plural of anticorrosive
antieavesdropping
antienvironmentalism
antienvironmentalist
antienvironmentalists
antierosive
antievolutionist
antievolutionist
noun
A person who believes, or argues, that evolution does not take place.
antievolutionistic
antinovelist
antinovelist
noun
(literature) A writer of antinovels.
antinovels
antinovels
noun
plural of antinovel
antiproductiveness
antiprogressive
antiprogressive
noun
One who opposes progress.
antireservationist
antireservationist
noun
A person of antireservation beliefs (in either sense).
antirevisionist
antirevisionist
noun
(historiography) One who opposes revisionism.
antirevolutionaries
antirevolutionaries
noun
plural of antirevolutionary
antirevolutionist
antirevolutionist
noun
Synonym of antirevolutionary
antisubversion
antisubversion
adj
Opposing or countering political subversion.
antivaccinationist
antivaccinationist
adj
Characterized by opposition to vaccination.
noun
One who opposes vaccination.
antivariolous
antivariolous
adj
(pharmacology) Preventing the spread of smallpox.
antivenomous
antivenomous
adj
(pharmacology, immunology) acting against venom
antivivisection
antivivisection
adj
opposed to vivisection
antivivisectionist
antivivisectionist
adj
characterized by opposition to vivisection
of or relating to such a person
noun
an individual opposed to the practice of vivisection
antivivisectionists
antivivisectionists
noun
plural of antivivisectionist
antonovics
antroversion
antroversion
noun
Alternative form of anteroversion.
anviltops
appositive
appositive
adj
of or being in apposition
noun
(grammar) a word or phrase that is in apposition
appositively
appositively
adv
In an appositive manner.
appositives
appositives
noun
plural of appositive
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.
arborvitaes
arborvitaes
noun
plural of arborvitae
archvisitor
arfvedsonite
arfvedsonite
noun
(mineralogy) A rare sodium amphibole mineral.
ariovistus
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
associative
associative
adj
(algebra, of a binary operator *) Such that, for any operands a,b and c, (a*b)*c=a*(b*c); (of a ring, etc.) whose multiplication operation is associative.
(computing) Addressable by a key more complex than an integer index.
Pertaining to, resulting from, or characterised by association; capable of associating; tending to associate or unite.
associatively
associatively
adv
In an associative way.
associativeness
associativeness
noun
(mathematics) The condition of being associative
associativity
associativity
noun
(algebra) The condition of being associative.
(programming) The property of an operator which determines how it is grouped with operators of the same precedence in the absence of parentheses.
assortative
assortative
adj
Characterized by assorting.
assortatively
assortatively
adv
In an assortative way.
assortive
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.
authoritativeness
authoritativeness
noun
The quality of possessing authority.
The quality of trustworthiness and reliability.
autodigestive
autodigestive
adj
Relating to, or carrying out, autodigestion.
autonavigators
autopositive
autoprogressive
autoregressive
autoregressive
adj
(statistics) Employing autoregression, using a weighted sample of past data to predict future results
autosuggestive
autosuggestive
adj
Employing autosuggestion.
autovivisection
autovivisection
noun
The vivisection of one's own body.
avalokitesvara
averrhoist
averrhoistic
averroist
averroist
Noun
Any peripatetic philosopher belonging to a certain sect that appeared in Italy before the restoration of learning.
averroistic
averroistic
Adjective
Of or relating to Averroism.
aversation
aversation
noun
(obsolete) A turning from with dislike; aversion.
aviations
aviations
noun
plural of aviation
aviators
aviators
noun
aviator sunglasses
plural of aviator
avigators
avigators
noun
plural of avigator
aviston
avitaminoses
avitaminoses
noun
plural of avitaminosis
avitaminosis
avitaminosis
noun
Any disease which is caused by vitamin deficiency.
avocations
avocations
noun
plural of avocation
babouvist
babouvist
Noun
A supporter or follower of or his ideas, including universal equal income and the abolition of private property.
bacteriosolvent
bartonsville
behaviorist
behaviorist
noun
One who studies behavior of humans or animals.
behavioristic
behavioristic
adj
Of or pertaining to behaviorism, especially B. F. Skinner’s school of radical behaviorism.
behavioristically
behavioristically
adv
In a behavioristic manner
behaviorists
behaviorists
noun
plural of behaviorist
behaviourist
behaviourist
noun
Britain standard spelling of behaviorist.
biconcavities
biconcavities
noun
plural of biconcavity
bioactivities
bioactivities
noun
plural of bioactivity
blepharoconjunctivitis
blepharoconjunctivitis
noun
(medicine) The combination of conjunctivitis and blepharitis.
bloviates
bloviates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bloviate
bloviations
bloviations
noun
plural of bloviation
boastive
boastive
adj
(archaic) presumptuous
boddhisattva
boddhisattva
noun
Alternative form of bodhisattva
bodhisattva
bodhisattva
noun
(Buddhism) A person who has taken specific lay or monastic vows and who is on the road to perfect knowledge; specifically, one who foregoes personal nirvana in order to help others achieve enlightenment.
(Buddhism) An enlightened being existing in a form of existence beyond the ordinary forms of physical reality understood and acknowledged by scientific thought, resembling the Western notion of angels, but with a wealth of its own nuances and expectations. These include the compassionate working for enlightenment of all sentient beings.