(economics, business) Acting to hinder or obstruct competition.
approvement
approvement
noun
(UK, law, obsolete) A confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplices and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon.
(archaic) Approval; approbation.
(obsolete, Old English law) Improvement of common lands by converting them for advantage of the landlord.
approximativeness
approximativeness
noun
The state or quality of being approximative.
assumptiveness
automanipulative
camptonville
chapmanville
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.
complaintive
complaintive
adj
Tending to complain, characterized by complaining.
complaintiveness
complaintiveness
noun
The quality of being complaintive.
complementative
complimentative
complimentative
adj
(archaic) complimentary
comprovincial
comprovincial
adj
Being part of the same province.
noun
One who comes from the same province.
computativeness
computativeness
noun
The quality of being computative.
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.
cryptovolcanism
depravement
depravement
noun
(archaic) Depravity; corruption.
depravements
depravements
noun
plural of depravement
developmental
developmental
adj
Related to development.
noun
A trainee flight controller.
developmentalist
developmentalist
adj
Of, or related to developmentalism.
noun
A follower or proponent of developmentalism.
developmentally
developmentally
adv
In terms of development.
developmentarian
developmentary
developmentary
adj
Pertaining to development; developmental.
emancipative
emancipative
adj
emancipatory
experimentative
experimentative
adj
experimental; of the nature of experiment
galvanotropism
galvanotropism
noun
(biology) Any movement or alignment of an organism with respect to an electric field
hamptonville
hyperconservatism
hyperconservatism
noun
The quality of being hyperconservative.
hyperovarianism
hypervitaminosis
hypervitaminosis
noun
Any medical condition resulting from excessive intake of vitamins.
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.
impassiveness
impassiveness
noun
The state of being impassive.
impenetrative
imperativeness
imperativeness
noun
The state or condition of being imperative.
imperceivableness
imperceivableness
noun
The quality of being imperceivable.
imperceiverant
imperseverant
imperseverant
adj
(obsolete) Not persevering; fickle; thoughtless.
impersonative
imperviableness
implicativeness
implicativeness
noun
The quality of being implicative.
impregnative
imprevalency
impreventability
impreventable
impreventable
adj
Not preventable; inevitable.
improvableness
improvableness
noun
Quality of being improvable; capability of improvement.
improvidentially
improvidentially
adv
improvidently
improvisation
improvisation
noun
Musical technique, characteristic of blues music.
That which is improvised; an impromptu.
The act of improvising, acting or going about something without planning ahead
The act or art of composing and making music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously
improvisational
improvisational
adj
Having the nature of an improvisation.
improvisations
improvisations
noun
plural of improvisation
imputativeness
imputativeness
noun
The quality of being imputative.
maldevelopment
maldevelopment
noun
The state of an organism or an organisation that did not develop in the "normal" way (used in medicine, e.g. "brain maldevelopment of a fetus").
Under the philosophy of sustainable development, poor economic, human or social development.
mancipative
mancipative
adj
Of or relating to mancipation.
manipulative
manipulative
adj
(derogatory) Reaching one's goals at the expense of other people by using them.
Tending to manipulate.
Using manipulation purposefully.
noun
(mathematics) A manipulable object designed to demonstrate a mathematical concept.
manipulatively
manipulatively
adv
In a manipulative manner.
mavrodaphne
mavrodaphne
noun
A dark sweet Greek red wine.
A variety of grape native to Achaea, northern Peloponnese, Greece, from which the wine is made.
mechanoreceptive
mechanoreceptive
adj
Responsive to mechanical stimuli such as sound and touch
misapprehensive
misapprehensive
adj
Of or pertaining to misapprehension.
misapprehensively
misapprehensively
adv
By, or with, misapprehension.
misapprehensiveness
misapprehensiveness
noun
The quality of being misapprehensive.
misrepresentative
misrepresentative
adj
Purporting to be representative without actually being so.
navipendulum
nonassumptive
noncompensative
noncontemplative
noncontemplatively
noncontemplativeness
nondevelopmental
nondevelopmental
adj
Not developmental
nondevelopmentally
nonemancipative
nonimperative
nonimperative
adj
Not imperative.
nonimperatively
nonimperativeness
nonimplicative
nonimplicatively
nonimputative
nonimputatively
nonimputativeness
nonmanipulative
nonmanipulative
adj
Not manipulative.
nonmultiplicative
nonmultiplicative
adj
Not multiplicative.
nonmultiplicatively
nonpermeative
novemperfoliate
omniprevalence
omniprevalent
omniprevalent
adj
Prevalent everywhere or in all things.
omnirepresentative
omnirepresentativeness
ovariosalpingectomy
ovariosalpingectomy
noun
Surgical removal of the ovaries and Fallopian tubes.
overamplifying
overamplifying
verb
present participle of overamplify
overassumption
overcompensate
overcompensate
verb
(intransitive) To do an excessive amount in one area in an effort to overcome a perceived lack in another area.
(transitive) To provide with excessive pay or reward for work performed.
overcompensated
overcompensated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overcompensate
overcompensates
overcompensates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcompensate
overcompensating
overcompensating
verb
present participle of overcompensate
overcompensation
overcompensation
noun
An excess amount provided in one area in an effort to overcome a perceived lack in another area.
Excessive pay or reward provided for work performed.
overcompensations
overcompensations
noun
plural of overcompensation
overcompensators
overcompensators
noun
plural of overcompensator
overcompensatory
overcompensatory
adj
Tending to overcompensate; providing excessive compensation.
Assignment to a placement requiring greater talent than the person has.
Extreme overconfidence.
Placement over or above others.
overpolemicalness
overreprimand
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
palaverment
palaverment
noun
Talk or chatter; palaver.
palminervate
palminerved
palminerved
adj
(botany, of a leaf) Having the venation arranged like the fingers of an open hand.
palmiveined
parvanimity
parvanimity
noun
(now rare) The state or quality of having a little or ignoble mind; pettiness; meanness.
parvenudom
parvenudom
noun
The realm or sphere of parvenus.
parvenuism
parvenuism
noun
The practices or characteristics of a social climber.
pavement
pavement
noun
(architecture) The interior flooring of a church sanctuary, between the communion rail and the altar.
(chiefly British) A paved path, for the use of pedestrians, located at the side of a road.
(now chiefly Canada, US) A paving (paved part) of a road or other thoroughfare; the roadway or road surface.
(now chiefly Canada, US) The paved part of an area other than a road or sidewalk, such as a cobblestone plaza, asphalt schoolyard or playground, or parking lot.
(now chiefly in technical contexts) A paved surface; a hard covering on the ground.
pavemental
pavements
pavements
noun
plural of pavement
permansive
permansive
adj
(linguistics, of an aspect) permanent, stative, maintaining the same state
perminvar
phomvihane
pivotman
pivotman
noun
(figurative) A central or key person; someone around whom a particular project etc. rotates.
(military) A pivot; the soldier around whom a body of troops wheels.
(sports) A player in a central position.
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
noun
(nonce word) A disease of the lungs, allegedly caused by inhaling microscopic silicate particles originating from the eruption of a volcano.
pneumoventriculography
pneumoventriculography
noun
ventriculography of the ventricles of the larynx
postdevelopmental
postdevelopmental
adj
That follows development
preadministrative
preadvancement
preadvertisement
preadvertisement
noun
advertisement in advance
predemonstrative
predeterminative
predeterminative
adj
Of or relating to predetermination.
preenvironmental
prepavement
prevailment
prevailment
noun
(obsolete) prevalence; superior influence; efficacy
primulaverin
privateersman
privateersman
noun
(nautical) The captain or member of the crew of a privateer.
protevangelium
protovanadium
providentialism
provincialism
provincialism
noun
(linguistics) A word or locution characteristic of a region or district.
(politics) Synonym of regionalism: belief in the superiority of one's regional government; the belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to provincial governments.
The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners.