(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.
absolvatory
absolvatory
adj
Conferring absolution; absolutory.
absolvent
absolvent
adj
(rare) Absolving.
noun
(rare) An absolver.
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.
absorptively
absorptively
adv
In an absorptive way.
abstractively
abstractively
adv
(now rare) In an abstract manner; in the abstract.
absvolt
abvolt
abvolt
noun
(electricity, electrical engineering, dated) A unit of electrical potential equal to one hundred millionth of a volt (10⁻⁸ volts), used in the centimeter-gram-second system of units.
abvolts
abvolts
noun
plural of abvolt
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
advisability
advisability
noun
(countable) An instance of advisability; a consideration in determining overall advisability.
(uncountable) The quality of being advisable or prudent.
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
amovability
amovability
noun
Liability to be removed or dismissed from office.
approvability
attributively
attributively
adv
In an attributive manner.
availabilities
availabilities
noun
plural of availability
availability
availability
noun
(chiefly uncountable) The quality of being available.
(countable) That which is available.
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
behavioristically
behavioristically
adv
In a behavioristic manner
believability
believability
noun
The state or quality of being believable.
betravel
betravel
verb
(transitive) To travel over; overrun with travellers.
biclavate
bioavailability
bioavailability
noun
(biology, medicine) The extent to which a substance is molecularly available to cells and tissues in a living organism, which depends on factors such as solubility, pH level, and presence of enzymes and cofactors; for example, even if one's ingestion of vitamin B₁₂ is average/typical, one might nonetheless have B₁₂ deficiency if one has poor metabolism of this particular vitamin.
(pharmacology, nutrition) The amount of drug or nutrient which reaches the site of physiological activity after administration.
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
blauvelt
blavatsky
blepharoconjunctivitis
blepharoconjunctivitis
noun
(medicine) The combination of conjunctivitis and blepharitis.
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
bloviating
bloviating
verb
present participle of bloviate
bloviations
bloviations
noun
plural of bloviation
bolivarite
bolivarite
Noun
An amorphous mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus.
bolshevistically
bolshevization
brackettville
bratislava
brevifoliate
brevirostral
brevirostral
adj
(zoology) Having a short beak or bill
bryantsville
bryantville
bullivant
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.
conceivability
conceivability
noun
Something that is conceivable.
The characteristic of being conceivable; the ability to be conceived, believed, or understood.
constableville
contrivable
contrivable
adj
Capable of being contrived, invented, or devised.
conversationable
conversationable
adj
Synonym of conversable (“able and inclined to engage in conversation”)
convertable
convertable
adj
Alternative form of convertible
conveyability
conveyability
noun
Ability to be conveyed.
convictable
convictable
adj
Capable of being convicted.
coracovertebral
coracovertebral
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the coracoid process and the vertebrae.
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.
cultivability
cultivability
noun
The quality or degree of being cultivable.
cultivable
cultivable
adj
Capable of being cultivated or farmed.
cultivably
cultivatability
cultivatability
noun
cultivability
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.
derivability
derivability
noun
The condition of being derivable
developability
developability
noun
The quality of being developable.
deviability
devisability
devitrifiable
discoverability
discoverability
noun
The condition of being discoverable
dissolvability
dissolvability
noun
Capacity of being dissolved; solubility.
dissolveability
distributival
disvulnerability
diversifiability
diversifiability
noun
The quality or capacity of being diversifiable.
divinability
drivability
drivability
noun
The quality of being drivable, of being easy or pleasant to drive
driveability
driveability
noun
Alternative spelling of drivability
dubitatively
elaborative
elaborative
adj
Serving to elaborate.
elaboratively
elaboratively
adv
In an elaborative manner.
elisabethville
elizabethville
equilibrative
equilibrative
adj
That equilibrates
evaporability
evaporability
noun
Capability of evaporating.
evertebral
evitable
evitable
adj
(uncommon) Possible to avoid; avertible.
exuviability
favorability
favorability
noun
Something which is favorable
The quality or degree of being viewed favorably
flavobacteria
flavobacteria
noun
plural of flavobacterium
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.