(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.
abortive
abortive
adj
(biology) Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile.
(medicine) Cutting short; acting to halt or slow the progress (of a disease).
(obsolete) Produced by abortion; born prematurely and therefore unnatural.
(obsolete) A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion, abortifacient.
(obsolete) Someone or something born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To cause an abortion; to render without fruit.
ambivert
ambivert
noun
(psychology) A person who is neither clearly extroverted nor introverted, but has characteristics of each.
batsheva
bavenite
bavenite
noun
(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, beryllium, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.
beetrave
beetrave
noun
(archaic) The common beet, Beta vulgaris.
bestarve
betravel
betravel
verb
(transitive) To travel over; overrun with travellers.
bevatron
bevatron
noun
A particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts.
bevomits
bevomits
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bevomit
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.
bivector
bivector
noun
(mathematics) An antisymmetric tensor of second rank.
biventer
biventer
noun
(anatomy) Any digastric part or organ.
blauvelt
bloviate
bloviate
verb
(intransitive, US) To speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner.
boastive
boastive
adj
(archaic) presumptuous
bowstave
bowstave
noun
The stave of a bow, to which the string is attached.
bravoite
brevetcy
brevetcy
noun
(military) The rank or condition of a brevet officer.
breveted
breveted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of brevet
breviate
breviate
noun
A brief missive or dispatch; a note.
A lawyer's brief.
A short account, brief statement; a summary, abridgement or precis
evibrate
evibrate
verb
(obsolete) To vibrate.
evitable
evitable
adj
(uncommon) Possible to avoid; avertible.
obverted
obverted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of obvert
obviated
obviated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of obviate
obviates
obviates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obviate
obvolute
obvolute
adj
(botany) Having a circle of several leaves or petals which overlap in that manner.
(botany) Having two opposite leaves, each with one edge overlapping the nearest edge of the other.
overlapping; contorted; convoluted
outbrave
outbrave
verb
To be more brave than.
To stand out bravely against; to face up to courageously.
To surpass or outrival.
overbait
overbeat
overbeat
verb
(transitive) To beat (eggs, cream, etc.) for too long, impairing the texture.
overbets
overbets
noun
plural of overbet
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbet
overbite
overbite
noun
(dentistry) A malocclusion in which the upper teeth extend over the lower ones.
verb
To use excessive acid in an etching process, so that the result is too deep.
overboot
overboot
noun
A heavy-duty overshoe; a boot that is an overshoe.
servotab
stavable
subovate
subovate
adj
Nearly ovate in shape.
subverts
subverts
noun
plural of subvert
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of subvert
valebant
vartabed
vartabed
noun
Alternative form of vardapet
verbatim
verbatim
adj
(of a document) Corresponding with the original word for word.
(of a person) Able to take down a speech word for word, especially in shorthand.
adv
(obsolete) Orally; verbally.
Word for word; in exactly the same words as were used originally.
noun
A word-for-word report of a speech.
verboten
verboten
adj
Forbidden, prohibited.
veribest
vertebra
vertebra
noun
(anatomy) Any of the bony or cartilaginous segments which make up the backbone, consisting in some lower vertebrates of several distinct elements which never become united, and in higher vertebrates having a short more or less cylindrical body whose ends articulate by pads of elastic or cartilaginous tissue with those of adjacent vertebrae and a bony arch that encloses the spinal cord.
vertebre
vertebre
noun
(archaic) A joint of the back.
vertible
vertible
adj
(obsolete) Able to turn or to be turned; changeable.
vestible
vibrated
vibrated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of vibrate
vibrates
vibrates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vibrate