(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.
acervate
acervate
adj
(chiefly botany, rare) Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters.
verb
(obsolete) To heap up.
activate
activate
verb
(transitive) To aerate in order to aid decomposition of organic matter.
(transitive) To encourage development or induce increased activity; to stimulate.
(transitive) To put a device, mechanism (alarm etc.) or system into action or motion; to trigger, to actuate, to set off, to enable.
(transitive, biology) To render a molecule reactive, active, or effective in performing its function.
(transitive, chemistry) To hasten a chemical reaction, especially by heating.
(transitive, chemistry, physics) To render more reactive; excite.
(transitive, computing, software) To remove the limitations of demoware by providing a license; to unlock.
(transitive, military) To organize or create a military unit or station.
(transitive, physics) To render a substance radioactive.
(transitive, sports) To bring a player back after an injury.
actively
actively
adv
(grammar) In the active form; not passive.
In an active manner.
activize
activize
verb
(transitive) To convert to activism.
adaptive
adaptive
adj
(psychology) Of a trait: that helps an individual to function well in society.
Capable of being adapted or of adapting; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change.
Of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable.
additive
additive
adj
(chemistry) Pertaining to chemical addition.
(genetics) Of or pertaining to genes (or the interaction etc. of such genes) which govern the same trait and whose effects work together on the phenotype.
(group theory, of a group, semigroup, etc.) Whose operator is identified as addition.
(mathematics) Pertaining to addition; that can be, or has been, added.
(mathematics, of a function, etc.) That is distributive over addition.
noun
(grammar) A word or phrase that adds something, such as also, even, or nor.
A substance added to another substance or product to produce specific properties in the combined substance.
adjuvate
adjuvate
verb
To help; to further
adoptive
adoptive
adj
Pertaining to adoption.
Related through adoption.
adustive
advected
advected
verb
simple past tense and past participle of advect
advehent
advehent
adj
(anatomy) Carrying towards an organ or structure.
adventry
adverted
adverted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of advert
advocate
advocate
noun
A person who speaks in support of something, or someone.
A person who supports others to make their voices heard, or ideally for them to speak up for themselves.
Anyone who argues the case of another; an intercessor.
Someone whose job is to speak for someone's case in a court of law; a counsel.
verb
(Scotland, law) To appeal from an inferior court to the Court of Session.
(Scotland, law, in higher courts) To call a case before itself for decision.
(intransitive, with for) To engage in advocacy.
(transitive) To encourage support for something.
(transitive) To plead in favour of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.
aestival
aestival
adj
Alternative spelling of estival
agentive
agentive
adj
(linguistics) Indicating an agent or agency (as -er in lexicographer).
(linguistics) Pertaining to a grammatical agent that performs the action of the verb.
noun
(linguistics) A word having an agentive construction.
alevitsa
algovite
allative
allative
adj
(grammar) Of or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates motion towards a place.
noun
(grammar) The allative case, or a word in that case.
alveated
alveated
adj
Formed or vaulted like a beehive.
alverton
ambivert
ambivert
noun
(psychology) A person who is neither clearly extroverted nor introverted, but has characteristics of each.
antenave
antevert
antevert
verb
(medicine, obsolete) To displace by anteversion.
(obsolete) To prevent, to avert.
antivice
antivice
adj
Opposing or countering vice (sinful behaviour).
arteveld
auditive
auditive
adj
Of or relating to hearing; auditory.
avantage
avanters
aventail
aventail
noun
A curtain or flap of chainmail, fastened to a helmet, or to a coif (hood) of mail, covering the lower face, neck, and shoulders.
Synonym of ventail (“movable (solid plate) front to a helmet”).
aventine
aventine
Adjective
Pertaining to Aventine Hill, one of the seven hills on which Rome stood.
Noun
A post of security or defense.
aventure
aventure
noun
(obsolete) a mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire
(obsolete) accident; chance; adventure
verb
Obsolete form of adventure.
averment
averment
noun
A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.
The act of averring, or that which is averred; positive assertion.
verification; establishment by evidence.
aversant
aversant
adj
(heraldry) Turned to show the back: said of a right hand.
averting
averting
verb
present participle of avert
avertive
avestruz
aviolite
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
captived
captived
adj
(obsolete) Captured; captive.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of captive
captives
captives
noun
plural of captive
caritive
caritive
adj
(grammar) Of or relating to the caritive case.
(grammar) Of words or endings that express a lack of something, for example English homeless/-less or unsalted/un-, Finnish koditon, suolaton, -ton.
cavatine
cavatine
noun
Alternative form of cavatina
caveated
caveated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of caveat.
caveatee
caveator
caveator
noun
One who enters a caveat.
cavetown
cavettos
cavitate
cavitate
verb
(sciences) To form vapour bubbles in a flowing liquid in a region where the pressure of the liquid falls below its vapour pressure.
caviteno
cavitied
cavitied
adj
Having cavities.
cavities
cavities
noun
plural of cavity
cavorted
cavorted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cavort
cavorter
cavorter
noun
One who cavorts.
celative
centavos
centavos
noun
plural of centavo
cervalet
cervelat
cervelat
noun
A Swiss smoked sausage made with pork or beef.
cessavit
cessavit
noun
(UK, law, obsolete) A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
chavante
chetvert
chetvert
noun
Alternative form of tchetvert
chevalet
chevalet
noun
A rack or rest used in woodwork or glassworking.
cheveret
cheviots
cheviots
noun
plural of cheviot
chiveret
cistvaen
cistvaen
noun
Alternative form of kistvaen
civetone
civetone
noun
(organic chemistry) The unsaturated macrocyclic ketone 1-cycloheptadec-9-enone that is a pheromone produced by the civet cat, and is used to add a musky tone to perfumes
civilest
civilest
adj
superlative form of civil: most civil
civilite
clavated
clavated
Adjective
clavate; club-shaped
clavolet
cleveite
cleveite
noun
(mineralogy) A crystalline variety of uraninite.
coactive
coactive
adj
(obsolete) Serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive.
Acting in concurrence; united in action.
coinvent
coinvent
verb
To invent jointly.
conative
conative
adj
Of or pertaining to a striving action.
contrive
contrive
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To spend (time, or a period).
To invent by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise
To invent, to make devices; to form designs especially by improvisation.
To project, cast, or set forth, as in a projection of light.
convects
convects
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of convect
convento
convents
convents
noun
plural of convent
converts
converts
noun
plural of convert
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of convert
cooptive
cooptive
adj
Relating to cooption
corvette
corvette
noun
(nautical) In a modern navy, a lightly armed and armoured blue water warship, smaller than a frigate, capable of transoceanic duty.
(nautical, historical) A flush-decked warship of the 17th-18th centuries having a single tier of guns; it ranked next below a frigate; – called in the United States navy a sloop of war.
corvetto
corvetto
noun
A curvet; a leap.
corvktte
couverte
covalent
covalent
adj
(chemistry) Containing or characterized by a covalent bond.
covenant
covenant
noun
(law) A promise, incidental to a deed or contract, either express or implied.
(law) An agreement to do or not do a particular thing.
A pact or binding agreement between two or more parties.
An incidental clause in an agreement.
verb
(law) To bind oneself in contract.
(law) To enter a formal agreement.
(law) To make a stipulation.
To enter into, or promise something by, a covenant.
coventry
coventry
Proper noun
An industrial city in central England.
coverlet
coverlet
noun
A blanket used as a bed covering, usually quilted.
covertly
covertly
adv
In a covert manner, secretly.
coveters
coveters
noun
plural of coveter
coveting
coveting
noun
The act of one who covets.
verb
present participle of covet
covetise
covetise
noun
(obsolete) Covetousness; excessive desire for something, especially for acquiring wealth.
covetous
covetous
adj
Extremely keen or desirous, especially to obtain and possess something belonging to someone else; avaricious.
crataeva
creative
creative
adj
(of a created thing) Original, expressive and imaginative.
(set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic.
Designed or executed to deceive or mislead.
Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.
noun
(countable) A person directly involved in a creative marketing process.
(uncountable) Artistic material used in advertising, e.g. photographs, drawings, or video.
crevette
crevette
noun
A shrimp.
culverts
culverts
noun
plural of culvert
curative
curative
adj
(figurative, by extension) Remediative.
(grammar) of a verb, conveying the meaning "the agent makes a patient do something"
Possessing the ability to cure, to heal or treat illness.
noun
A substance that acts as a cure.
curvated
curvated
adj
Alternative form of curvate
curveted
curveted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of curvet
curvette
curvette
noun
Misspelling of cuvette.
verb
Alternative form of curvet
curviest
curviest
adj
superlative form of curvy: most curvy
cutovers
cutovers
noun
plural of cutover
cuvettes
cuvettes
noun
plural of cuvette
datively
datively
adv
(rare) As a gift.
davenant
delative
delative
noun
(grammar) A grammatical case of nouns used, chiefly in Hungarian, to express movement from the surface of something (like "moved off the table").
deletive
deletive
adj
Tending to delete or obliterate.
demivolt
demivolt
noun
A half vault; one of the seven artificial motions of a horse, in which he raises his forelegs in a particular manner.
denotive
denotive
adj
Serving to denote something.
derivant
derivant
adj
Derivative; derived from something.
noun
A drug that is derived from another.
derivate
derivate
adj
Derived; derivative.
noun
Something derived; a derivative.
verb
(obsolete) To derive.
desitive
desitive
adj
(obsolete) Final or conclusive.
noun
(obsolete, logic) An argument that leads to a conclusion.
deutovum
deutovum
noun
The incompletely developed larva of a mite after shedding of the chorion
devaster
deventer
devested
devested
verb
simple past tense and past participle of devest
devexity
devexity
noun
A bending downward; declivity.
deviants
deviants
noun
plural of deviant
deviated
deviated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of deviate
deviates
deviates
noun
plural of deviate
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deviate
deviator
deviator
noun
That which deviates, or causes deviation
devility
devility
noun
The quality of being a devil or like a devil; devilishness.
deviltry
deviltry
noun
Devilry.
devocate
devolute
devolute
verb
(obsolete) To devolve.
devonite
devotary
devotary
noun
(obsolete) A votary.
devotees
devotees
noun
plural of devotee
devoting
devoting
verb
present participle of devote
devotion
devotion
noun
(countable, ecclesiastical) A prayer (often found in the plural)
(in the plural, obsolete) Religious offerings; alms.
(uncountable) Feeling of strong or fervent affection; dedication
(uncountable) Religious veneration, zeal, or piety.
(uncountable) The act or state of devoting or being devoted.