(logic) the property of two operations x and y, such that ax(ayb) = a, and ay(axb) = a
additional; neither basic nor primary
forming an adjunct
noun
(grammar) a connector joining two components of the same weight, such as a coordinating conjunction
(manufacturing) a substance added as a supplement; often in the phrase "additives and adjunctives."
admonitive
admonitive
adj
Of or conveying admonition
advantaged
advantaged
adj
(of a person) Financially secure; elite and economically successful.
Having been given an advantage, such as by biased referees in a competition.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of advantage
advantages
advantages
noun
plural of advantage
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advantage
adventists
adventitia
adventitia
noun
(anatomy, histology) The outermost layer of epithelial tissue encasing a visceral organ.
adventured
adventured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of adventure
adventurer
adventurer
noun
(video games) A player of adventure games or text adventures.
A person who seeks a fortune in new and possibly dangerous enterprises.
A person who tries to advance their social position by somewhat devious means.
A soldier of fortune, a speculator.
One who enjoys adventures.
adventures
adventures
noun
plural of adventure
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adventure
advertence
advertence
noun
The quality of being advertent
advertency
advertency
noun
The quality of being advertent.
advisement
advisement
noun
(archaic) Advice, counsel.
(now US) Consideration or deliberation.
aeviternal
aeviternal
adj
(theology) Pertaining to aeviternity, a state between eternity, which is unchanging and outside of time, and temporality, which is subject to change and to death or annihilation. Things aeviternal are creations, like the temporal, but everlasting, like the eternal.
affinitive
affinitive
adj
Closely connected, as by affinity.
affrontive
affrontive
adj
Tending to affront or offend.
alimentive
alimentive
adj
Alternative form of alimentative
ambivalent
ambivalent
adj
Alternately having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite.
Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, or motivations.
animadvert
animadvert
verb
(intransitive) To criticise, to censure.
(intransitive, law, archaic) To turn judicial attention (to); to criticise or punish.
(intransitive, obsolete) To consider.
annotative
annotative
adj
Relating to annotation.
antecavern
anteverted
anteverted
adj
Turned or tipped forward.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of antevert
antidivine
antidivine
adj
Opposing or counteracting that which is divine.
antinovels
antinovels
noun
plural of antinovel
antisavage
antisavage
adj
Opposing savages (people living in traditional, especially tribal, societies).
antivenene
antivenene
noun
(UK and Australia, medicine) Synonym of antivenom.
antivenine
antivenins
antivenins
noun
plural of antivenin
appointive
appointive
adj
Of, pertaining to, or filled by appointment.
aquavalent
augmentive
augmentive
adj
(linguistics) Changing the meaning to one that is a larger, more complete, or more elaborate version of the original sense.
Serving to augment, enhance, or increase; augmentative.
Supplementary; additional.
noun
(linguistics) An augmentive affix; augmentative.
Something that augments.
avantgarde
avantgarde
noun
Alternative form of avant-garde
avanturine
avanturine
noun
Alternative form of aventurine
avengement
avengement
noun
(rare) The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken.
aventurine
aventurine
noun
(mineralogy, by extension) A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica.
A kind of brownish glass containing gold-coloured spangles.
aversation
aversation
noun
(obsolete) A turning from with dislike; aversion.
avertiment
avertiment
noun
(obsolete) advertisement (public notice).
avouchment
avouchment
noun
A positive declaration.
The act of avouching.
avunculate
avunculate
noun
(In certain tribal peoples, for example, the Korowai) a special relationship between a man and a maternal uncle, and the mutual responsibilities between them.
the relationship between a man and his sister's children, generally her sons.
barneveldt
baviaantje
beaverteen
beaverteen
noun
A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing.
beavertown
beethovian
beethovian
Adjective
Of or pertaining to in particular his style of music.
benediktov
beneventan
benevolent
benevolent
adj
Altruistic, charitable, good, just and fair.
Having a disposition to do good.
Possessing or manifesting love for mankind.
benevolist
bevomiting
bevomiting
verb
present participle of bevomit
bovinities
bovinities
noun
plural of bovinity
brevetting
cantalever
cantalever
noun
Dated form of cantilever.
cantaliver
cantilever
cantilever
noun
(architecture) A beam anchored at one end and projecting into space, such as a long bracket projecting from a wall to support a balcony.
(figure skating) A technique, similar to the spread eagle, in which the skater travels along a deep edge with knees bent and bends their back backwards, parallel to the ice.
A beam anchored at one end and used as a lever within a microelectromechanical system.
verb
To project (something) in the manner of or by means of a cantilever.
captivance
captivance
noun
(obsolete, rare) Captivity.
catenative
catenative
adj
Having the ability to catenate, or form chains.
noun
(linguistics) A catenative verb.
cavernitis
cavernitis
noun
(pathology) inflammation of the corpus cavernosum
cervantist
cervantite
cervantite
noun
(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing antimony and oxygen.
chavantean
chernovtsy
chervonets
chervonets
noun
Any of several former currencies of Russia: applied to various foreign gold coins prior to the reign of Peter I of Russia, then to a Russian gold coin of 1701-1757, and finally to a 1922 currency of the Soviet Union.
chervonetz
chervontsi
cheventayn
chevetaine
chevrotain
chevrotain
noun
Any of several small hornless ruminants of the family Tragulidae (genera Hyemoschus, Moschiola, and Tragulus), native to tropical rainforests of South and Southeast Asia, and Central and West Africa; a mouse deer.
circumvent
circumvent
verb
(transitive) to avoid or get around something; to bypass
(transitive) to outwit or outsmart
(transitive) to surround or besiege
cognitives
cognitives
noun
plural of cognitive
coinventor
coinventor
noun
One who invents something jointly with another person or persons.
concaptive
concentive
conceptive
conceptive
adj
relating to conception (in all senses)
concoctive
concoctive
adj
(obsolete) Of or pertaining to digestion; digestive.
(obsolete) Ripening or maturing by heat.
Of or pertaining to the concoction of a mixture etc.
concretive
concretive
adj
Promoting concretion.
conductive
conductive
adj
Able to conduct electrical current or heat.
Of, or relating to conductivity of a material.
congestive
congestive
adj
Characterized by congestion
conjective
connective
connective
adj
Serving or tending to connect; connecting.
noun
(anatomy, zoology) A connective tissue.
(botany) The tissue which connects the locules of an anthers together.
(grammar) A word used to connect words, clauses and sentences, most commonly applied to conjunctions.
(logic) A function that operates on truth values to give another truth value.
That which connects.
consentive
conservant
conservant
adj
Having the power or quality of conservation; conserving.
conservate
conservate
verb
(dated, transitive) To conserve.
(nonstandard, intransitive) To practice conservation.
constative
constative
adj
(linguistics) Pertaining to an utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false.
noun
(linguistics) An utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false.
consultive
consultive
adj
Determined by, or relating to, consultation; deliberate.
contextive
contorsive
contortive
contortive
adj
Showing contortion.
contravene
contravene
verb
(transitive) To act contrary to an order; to fail to conform to a regulation or obligation.
(transitive, obsolete) To deny the truth of something.
contrivers
contrivers
noun
plural of contriver
controvert
controvert
verb
(intransitive) To be involved or engaged in controversy; to argue.
(transitive) To argue against (something or someone); to contradict, to deny.
(transitive) To dispute, to argue about (something).
convecting
convecting
adj
That which convects.
verb
present participle of convect
convection
convection
noun
(meteorology) The vertical movement of heat and moisture, especially by updrafts and downdrafts in an unstable air mass. The terms convection and thunderstorm are often used interchangeably, although thunderstorms are only one form of convection. Towering cumulus clouds are visible forms of convection.
(obsolete) The process of conveying something.
(physics) The transmission of heat in a fluid by the circulation of currents.
convective
convective
adj
Of, pertaining to, or employing convection; convectional
convenient
convenient
adj
(obsolete) Fit; suitable; appropriate.
Serving to reduce a difficulty, or accessible with minimum difficulty; expedient.
Suspicious due to suiting someone's purposes very well.
conventing
conventing
verb
present participle of convent
convention
convention
noun
(international law) A treaty or supplement to such.
A formal agreement, contract, rule, or pact.
A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.
A meeting or gathering.
A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.
The convening of a formal meeting.
conventual
conventual
adj
Pertaining to a convent or convent life; cloistered, monastic.
noun
A member of a convent.
convergent
convergent
adj
(mathematical analysis, topology) Of a sequence or series in a topological space, converging to a (finite, proper) limit.
That converges or focuses; converging
noun
(mathematics) The rational number obtained when a continued fraction has been terminated after a finite number of terms.
conversant
conversant
adj
(obsolete) Concerned; occupied.
Closely familiar; current; having frequent interaction.
Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed.
noun
One who converses with another.
convertend
convertend
noun
(logic) Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the converse.
converters
converters
noun
plural of converter
converting
converting
verb
present participle of convert
convertise
convertism
convertite
convertite
noun
(obsolete) A convert.
(obsolete) A reformed prostitute.
convertive
convertors
convertors
noun
plural of convertor
conviciate
convictive
convictive
adj
convincing
convocated
convocated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of convocate
convoluted
convoluted
adj
(chiefly anatomy, zoology) Having numerous overlapping coils or folds; convolute.
(figuratively) Complex, complicated, or intricate.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of convolute
covalently
covalently
adv
Using covalent bonds.
covenantal
covenantal
adj
Of or pertaining to a covenant.
covenanted
covenanted
adj
Bound by a covenant.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of covenant
covenantee
covenantee
noun
The person in whose favor a covenant is made.
covenanter
covenanter
noun
One who makes a covenant.
covenantor
covenantor
noun
The party who makes a covenant.
coventrate
coventrate
verb
(transitive) To devastate by heavy bombing.
coventries
coventrize
covertness
covertness
noun
The characteristic of being covert.
covetingly
covetingly
adv
in a coveting way
cravenette
cravenette
noun
(countable) A waterproof coat made from this material.
(uncountable) A certain waterproof material.
verb
(transitive) To waterproof by a particular process.
cunctative
cunctative
adj
(rare) Inclined to delay
curvetting
curvetting
noun
Alternative form of curveting
davenports
davenports
noun
plural of davenport
definitive
definitive
adj
(philately) general, not issued for commemorative purposes
conclusive or decisive
definite, authoritative and complete
explicitly defined
limiting; determining
noun
(grammar) a word, such as a definite article or demonstrative pronoun, that defines or limits something
(philately) an ordinary postage stamp that is part of a series of all denominations or is reprinted as needed to meet demand
defunctive
defunctive
adj
(archaic) funereal
delineavit
denotative
denotative
adj
Specific to the primary meaning of a term.
That denotes or names; designative.
denudative
denudative
adj
That causes denudation.
derivation
derivation
noun
(genealogy, linguistics) The act of tracing origin or descent.
(grammar) Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it.
(mathematics) The operation of deducing one function from another according to a fixed definition, referred to as derivation or differentiation; this is the inverse operation to integration.
(medicine) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
That from which a thing is derived.
That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction.
The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
detonative
detonative
adj
(of an explosive, or ordnance) That is liable to detonate spontaneously
deviations
deviations
noun
plural of deviation
devilments
devilments
noun
plural of devilment
devitation
devitation
noun
(obsolete) A warning.
(obsolete) An avoiding or escaping.
devocation
devocation
noun
A calling off or away.
devolution
devolution
noun
(derogatory) Degeneration (as opposed to evolution).
(government) The transfer of some powers and the delegation of some functions from a central government to local government (e.g. from the U.K. parliament to Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly).
A descent, especially one that passes through a series of revolutions, or by succession
A rolling down.
The transference of a right to a successor, or of a power from one body to another.
devoration
devoration
noun
(obsolete) The act of devouring.
devotement
devotement
noun
The state of being devoted, or set apart by a vow.
devotional
devotional
adj
(usually religious) Of or pertaining to devotion or worship.
noun
A brief religious service.
A text or piece of music or writing to be used for devotion.
devourment
devourment
noun
The act of devouring something.
devoutness
devoutness
noun
The state or quality of being devout.
diminutive
diminutive
adj
(grammar) Of or pertaining to, or creating a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
(obsolete) Serving to diminish.
noun
(grammar) A word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
dissentive
dissentive
adj
(obsolete) disagreeing; inconsistent
dissolvent
dissolvent
adj
Capable of dissolution into a fluid.
Having power to dissolve a solid body.
noun
A substance which can dissolve or be dissolved into a liquid.
distensive
distensive
adj
distending, or capable of being distended
disvantage
disventure
disventure
noun
(obsolete) A disadventure.
divestment
divestment
noun
(finance) The sale or other disposal of some kind of asset.