(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.
abbreviators
abbreviators
noun
plural of abbreviator
abbreviatory
abbreviatory
adj
Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.
abbreviature
abbreviature
noun
(obsolete) An abbreviated state or form.
(obsolete) The process of abbreviating.
A shortened form of a word or phrase, used in place of the whole; an abbreviation.
An abridgment; a compendium; an abstract.
abirritative
abirritative
adj
(pharmacology) Characterized by abirritation or debility.
abortiveness
abortiveness
noun
(countable) The result or product of being abortive.
(uncountable) The quality of being abortive.
abrasiveness
abrasiveness
noun
The property, quality or instance of being abrasive.
absorptively
absorptively
adv
In an absorptive way.
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.
adverbiality
adverbiality
noun
The condition of having characteristics of an adverb.
adverbialize
adverbialize
verb
(American spelling) To use as or change into an adverb.
adverbiation
advertisable
advertisable
adj
Suitable for being advertised.
advertizable
advertizable
adj
Alternative spelling of advertisable
ambiversions
antivibrator
antivibrator
noun
A device attached to a vehicle or machine, etc. to reduce vibrations.
archvagabond
attributives
attributives
noun
plural of attributive
bananivorous
bananivorous
adj
(rare) Feeding on bananas; banana-eating.
barbourville
barbourville
Proper noun
a home-rule class city in Kentucky, USA
bargersville
barhamsville
barkevikitic
barkevikitic
adj
Of or relating to the mineral barkevikite.
barrackville
bartlesville
bartonsville
basialveolar
basialveolar
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the basion and the alveolus (or to their separation)
bassirilievi
beaverboards
beaverboards
noun
plural of beaverboard
behaviorally
behaviorally
adv
With respect to behavior.
behaviorisms
behaviorisms
noun
plural of behaviorism
behaviorists
behaviorists
noun
plural of behaviorist
behaviourism
behaviourism
noun
(British spelling) Standard spelling of behaviorism.
behaviourist
behaviourist
noun
Britain standard spelling of behaviorist.
belavendered
bereavements
bereavements
noun
plural of bereavement
birefractive
boulevardier
boulevardier
noun
A man who frequents the boulevards; thus, a man about town or bon vivant.
verb
(intransitive) To strut or show off like a boulevardier.
boulevardize
boulevardize
verb
(transitive) To convert into boulevards.
bradleyville
brandonville
bravehearted
brevicaudate
brevicaudate
adj
(zoology) Having a short tail.
brevifoliate
brevilingual
brevilingual
adj
(rare) Having a short tongue.
brevipennate
brevipennate
adj
(ornithology) short-winged; having short wings.
breviradiate
brevirostral
brevirostral
adj
(zoology) Having a short beak or bill
bryantsville
buenaventura
curveballing
curveballing
verb
present participle of curveball
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.
deliverables
deliverables
noun
plural of deliverable
demivambrace
derivability
derivability
noun
The condition of being derivable
deverbatives
deverbatives
noun
plural of deverbative
discoverable
discoverable
adj
(law) Subject to legal discovery; able to be requested by an opposing party through a legal process such as a subpoena.
Able to be discovered.
discoverably
discoverably
adv
In a discoverable way.
disprobative
disprobative
adj
(law) Tending to disprove a particular proposition or to persuade someone of the falsity of an allegation.
disturbative
disturbative
adj
(chiefly archaic) Of, pertaining to, or causing the act of disturbing.
driveability
driveability
noun
Alternative spelling of drivability
favorability
favorability
noun
Something which is favorable
The quality or degree of being viewed favorably
graverobbing
graverobbing
noun
The practice of illegally removing corpses (or other items) from graves, originally to supply cadavers for medical study.
gravicembali
gravicembalo
gravicembalo
noun
(music) An early form of piano derived from the harpsichord
imbreviating
indeprivable
indeprivable
adj
(now rare) That one cannot be deprived of; inalienable.
inevaporable
inobservable
inobservable
adj
unobservable
inobservance
inobservance
noun
Lack of observance.
inobservancy
inobservancy
noun
Alternative form of inobservance
invertebracy
invertebracy
noun
Quality of being invertebrate.
invertebrata
invertebrate
invertebrate
adj
Cowardly, uncourageous; lacking character.
Lacking a backbone; without vertebrae.
noun
(informal) A spineless person; a coward.
An animal without vertebrae, i.e. backbone.
invertibrate
invertibrate
noun
Misspelling of invertebrate.
invulnerable
invulnerable
adj
Incapable of being injured; not vulnerable.
Unanswerable; irrefutable.
invulnerably
invulnerably
adv
In an invulnerable manner.
irrelievable
irrelievable
adj
Not admitting relief; incurable; hopeless.
irreprovable
irreprovable
adj
Not reprovable; irreproachable.
irreprovably
irreprovably
adv
In a irreprovable manner; irreproachably.
irresolvable
irresolvable
adj
Impossible to resolve; insoluble.
Impossible to separate into its component parts.
irrevealable
irrevealable
adj
Incapable of being revealed.
irrevealably
irreviewable
irreviewable
adj
Not eligible for review.
labioversion
laboursaving
lambertville
leavittsburg
maneuverable
maneuverable
adj
(often in combination) Able to be maneuvered
manueverable
metavariable
metavariable
noun
(logic) A symbol or string of symbols belonging to a metalanguage and standing for elements of some object language.
microwavable
microwavable
adj
suitable for heating in a microwave oven; said of food and non-food items, especially containers.
misbehaviors
misbehaviors
noun
plural of misbehavior
misbehaviour
misbehaviour
noun
(British spelling) Alternative spelling of misbehavior
nonadverbial
nonadverbial
adj
Not adverbial.
nonderivable
nonderivable
adj
Alternative spelling of non-derivable
nonfavorable
nonfavorable
adj
Not favorable
nonfavorably
nonobservant
nonobservant
adj
Not observant; not religious; not participating in the observance of religion.
nonprobative
nonprobative
adj
Not probative.
nonremovable
nonremovable
adj
Not removable.
nonrevocable
nonrevocable
adj
Not revocable.
nonrevocably
nonrevokable
nonrevokable
adj
Not revokable.
nonseverable
nonveritable
nonveritably
nonvertebral
nonvertebral
adj
Not vertebral.
nonvibratile
nonvibratile
adj
Not vibratile.
nonvibrating
nonvibrating
adj
Not vibrating; that does not vibrate.
nonvibration
nonvibratory
nonvibratory
adj
Not vibratory.
obliterative
obliterative
adj
Tending or serving to obliterate.
observantine
observantine
Adjective
Of or pertaining to the Observant branch of Franciscan friars
Noun
A member of the Observant branch of Franciscan friars.
observantist
observations
observations
noun
plural of observation
ovariolumbar
overabounded
overabounded
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overabound
overabstract
overabstract
adj
Excessively abstract.
verb
To abstract excessively.
overabundant
overabundant
adj
excessively abundant.
overbalanced
overbalanced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overbalance
overbalances
overbalances
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbalance
overbaseness
overbearance
overbearance
noun
(rare or obsolete) Overbearing behaviour; arrogance; imperiousness.
overbleached
overbleached
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overbleach
overbleaches
overbleaches
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbleach
overboastful
overboastful
adj
Excessively boastful.
overbragging
overbreakage
overbrutally
overcerebral
overcerebral
adj
Excessively cerebral.
overdebating
overflowable
overflowable
adj
Capable of being overflowed.
overgambling
overgambling
verb
present participle of overgamble
overlaboring
overlaboring
verb
present participle of overlabor
overlaboured
overlaboured
adj
Laboured, over-elaborate.
Overworked, exhausted.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overlabour
overturnable
overturnable
adj
Capable of being, or liable to be, overturned or subverted.
overurbanize
overvaluable
overvaluable
adj
Excessively valuable.
overvaluably
perturbative
perturbative
adj
Of, pertaining to, or causing perturbation
perviability
perviability
noun
The property of being perviable.
preadvisable
predivinable
prefavorable
prefavorably
preobviating
prevertebral
prevertebral
adj
(anatomy) Situated immediately in front of, or on the ventral side, of the vertebral column; prespinal.