Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth.
acervatim
aconative
aconative
adj
Lacking conation
activable
activable
adj
Capable of being activated
activated
activated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of activate
activates
activates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of activate
activized
activized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of activize
acurative
addictive
addictive
adj
Causing or tending to cause addiction; habit-forming.
Characterized by or susceptible to addiction.
Enjoyable.
noun
A drug that causes an addiction.
Anything that is very habit-forming.
additives
additives
noun
plural of additive
adductive
adductive
adj
Adducing, or bringing towards or to something.
adjective
adjective
adj
(chemistry, of a dye) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
(grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
(law) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
(obsolete, reflected in the chemical sense, but extinct as a general sense) Incapable of independent function.
noun
(grammar) A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent.
(obsolete) A dependent; an accessory.
verb
(transitive) To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.
(transitive, chiefly as a participle) To characterize with an adjective; to describe by using an adjective.
adjustive
adjustive
adj
Tending to adjust.
advecting
advecting
verb
present participle of advect
advection
advection
noun
(earth science, chemistry) The horizontal movement of a body of atmosphere (or other fluid) along with a concurrent transport of its temperature, humidity etc.
The transport of a scalar by bulk fluid motion.
advective
advective
adj
Relating to advection.
advenient
advenient
adj
(now rare) Caused by outside forces; coming from without; external, additional.
advential
adventism
adventist
adventive
adventive
adj
(biology) Of a plant that is not native, but was introduced by humans to a place and has since become naturalized.
Accidental.
Adventitious.
noun
A non-native plant that has become naturalized.
adversity
adversity
noun
(countable) An event that is adverse; calamity.
(uncountable) The state of adverse conditions; state of misfortune or calamity.
adverting
adverting
verb
present participle of advert
advertise
advertise
verb
(card games) In gin rummy, to discard a card of one's preferred suit so as to mislead the opponent into thinking you do not want it.
(intransitive) To provide information about a person or goods and services to influence others.
(transitive) To give (especially public) notice of (something); to announce publicly.
(transitive) To provide public information about (a product, service etc.) in order to attract public awareness and increase sales.
(transitive, now rare) To notify (someone) of something; to call someone's attention to something.
advertize
advertize
verb
(archaic, now nonstandard, proscribed) Alternative spelling of advertise
aestivate
aestivate
verb
Alternative spelling of estivate
affective
affective
adj
Emotional; emotionally charged; affecting.
Relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions.
agentival
agentives
agentives
noun
plural of agentive
agitative
agitative
adj
Tending to agitate.
alleviant
alleviant
noun
That which alleviates
alleviate
alleviate
verb
(transitive) To reduce or lessen the severity of a pain or difficulty .
allgovite
alluviate
alluviate
verb
(transitive) To fill or cover with alluvium.
alveolite
amatively
amatively
adv
In an amative manner.
ambiverts
ambiverts
noun
plural of ambivert
animative
animative
adj
Tending to animate; causing animation.
antinovel
antinovel
noun
(literature) A novel that deliberately avoids the typical conventions of the novel, such as a coherent plot and protagonist.
(literature, by extension) Any style of writing that deviates from the norm of technical conventions used in writing literature.
antivenin
antivenin
noun
(medicine) Synonym of antivenom, (now) particularly for snakebites containing venin.
antivenom
antivenom
noun
(medicine) A medicine that counteracts venom, an antidote to biological poisons from venomous animals such as snakes and spiders.
aperitive
aperitive
adj
(medicine) Tending to open the bowels; aperient
Serving as an apéritif: a pre-meal alcoholic drink.
noun
(medicine) aperient
arrestive
arrestive
adj
(dated) Tending to capture people’s attention.
Tending to stop or slow a process.
arriviste
arriviste
noun
(derogatory) An upstart or newcomer; nouveau riche; parvenu; an ambitious, brash or arrogant person who has yet to integrate with his or her new social group.
assentive
assentive
adj
Giving assent; agreeing.
assertive
assertive
adj
Boldly self-assured; confident without being aggressive.
assistive
assistive
adj
Providing or designed to provide assistance, especially to persons with a disability
assortive
attentive
attentive
adj
Courteous; mindful.
Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
attestive
attestive
adj
Attesting; furnishing evidence.
attritive
attritive
adj
Causing attrition.
auditives
availment
availment
noun
(obsolete) Profit; advantage.
avenolith
aventails
aventails
noun
plural of aventail
aventurin
averroist
averroist
Noun
Any peripatetic philosopher belonging to a certain sect that appeared in Italy before the restoration of learning.
avertible
avertible
adj
Capable of being averted; preventable.
aviatress
aviatress
noun
A female pilot of an aircraft
aviatrice
avidities
avidities
noun
plural of avidity
avilement
avirulent
avirulent
Adjective
Not virulent.
avocative
avocative
adj
(obsolete) Calling off.
noun
(obsolete) That which calls aside; a dissuasive.
avoidment
awunctive
beaverite
beaverite
noun
(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal yellow mineral containing aluminum, copper, hydrogen, iron, lead, oxygen, and sulfur.
biclavate
binervate
binervate
adj
(zoology, botany) Having only two nerves.
biovulate
bivalents
bivalents
noun
plural of bivalent
bivariate
bivariate
adj
(mathematics) Having or involving exactly two variables.
noun
(mathematics) A polynomial or function with exactly two variables.
bivaulted
bivaulted
adj
Having two vaults or arches.
biventral
biventral
adj
Having two bellies
digastric
bivittate
bivittate
adj
Having two longitudinal stripes or vittae
bloviated
bloviated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bloviate
bloviates
bloviates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bloviate
calmative
calmative
adj
Calming.
noun
A drug with calming effects.
calvities
calvities
noun
Baldness, the condition of being bald.
plural of calvity
cantative
captivate
captivate
verb
(obsolete) To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.
To attract and hold (someone's) interest and attention; to charm.
causative
causative
adj
(linguistics) Expressing a cause or causation.
Acting as a cause.
Involving, or affected by, causality.
noun
(linguistics) An expression of an agent causing or forcing a patient to perform an action (or to be in a certain condition).
caveating
caveating
noun
(fencing) Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.
verb
present participle of caveat.
cavitated
cavitated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cavitate
cavitates
cavitates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cavitate
cervantic
cessative
cessative
adj
(grammar) Indicating cessation.
cevitamic
cevitamic
adj
Synonym of ascorbic
chiavetta
clamative
coevality
coevality
noun
The condition of being coeval.
collative
collative
adj
(ecclesiastical, of a benefice) In which the ordinary (or bishop) is the same person as the patron.
Having the power of conferring.
combative
combative
adj
Given to fighting; disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.
corrivate
corrivate
verb
(obsolete) To cause to flow together, as water drawn from several streams.
covariate
covariate
noun
(statistics) A variable that is possibly predictive of the outcome under study.
covibrate
cultivate
cultivate
verb
(figurative) To nurture; to foster; to tend.
To grow plants, notably crops.
To turn or stir soil in preparation for planting.
curatives
curatives
noun
plural of curative
curvative
curvative
adj
Having slightly curved margins or sides.
noun
(anatomy) One of the curved walls of the stomach.
(differential geometry) The first partial derivative of a function that describes a surface.
A convexity or concavity in a surface.
A curved deformation.
daviesite
declivate
depravity
depravity
noun
(countable) A particular depraved act or trait.
(uncountable) The state or condition of being depraved; moral debasement.
(uncountable, Christian theology) Inborn corruption, entailing the belief that every facet of human nature has been polluted, defiled, and contaminated by sin.
deprivate
derivates
derivates
noun
plural of derivate
deviately
deviating
deviating
verb
present participle of deviate
deviation
deviation
noun
(Absolute Deviation) The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts.
(aviation) A detour to one side of the originally-planned flightpath (for instance, to avoid weather); the act of making such a detour.
(contract law) The voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured, thus releasing the underwriters from their responsibility.
(metrology) The signed difference between a value and its reference value.
(statistics) For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean.
A departure from the correct way of acting.
A detour in a road or railway.
The act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road.
The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
deviative
deviators
deviators
noun
plural of deviator
deviatory
deviatory
adj
Tending to deviate.
dictative
dictative
adj
dictatorial
didactive
diluviate
diluviate
verb
(obsolete) To run as a flood.
divagated
divagated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of divagate
divagates
divagates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of divagate
divertila
divulgate
divulgate
adj
(obsolete) Published.
verb
(obsolete) To divulge.
donatives
donatives
noun
plural of donative
dovetails
dovetails
noun
plural of dovetail
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dovetail
driveboat
duratives
duratives
noun
plural of durative
educative
educative
adj
Serving to educate; educational.
effuviate
elevating
elevating
verb
present participle of elevate
elevation
elevation
noun
(Christianity, chiefly Roman Catholicism) The raising of the host—representing Christ’s body—in a mass or Holy Communion service.
(architecture) A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; called by the ancients the orthography.
(astronomy) The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude.
A hill is an elevation of the ground.
That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station.
The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.
The angle which the gnomon makes with the substylar line.
The condition of being or feeling elevated; heightened; exaltation.
The measured vertical distance from the peak of a mountain or hill to its bordering lowlands.
The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line of sight; distinguished from direction.
eluviated
eluviated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of eluviate
eluviates
eluviates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of eluviate
elvanitic
elvanitic
adj
Of or relating to the mineral elvanite.
emanative
emanative
adj
That emanates, or causes emanation
emulative
emulative
adj
Having a tendency to emulate others; imitative.
encaptive
estivated
estivated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of estivate
estivates
estivates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of estivate
estivator
estivator
noun
(biology) Any animal that estivates
evagation
evagation
noun
A wandering about; excursion; a roving.
evaginate
evaginate
adj
Protruded, or grown out, as an evagination; turned inside out; unsheathed; evaginated.
verb
(intransitive) To evert a bodily organ inside surface to outside.
(transitive) To cause (a bodily organ or part) to turn inside out.
evanition
evanition
noun
disappearance; vanishment
evaporite
evaporite
noun
The salty, crusty sediment that remains after sea water evaporates.
evaristus
eviration
eviration
noun
(now rare, historical) Emasculation; effeminacy.
evirtuate
evitation
evitation
noun
(obsolete) A shunning; avoidance.
eviternal
eviternal
adj
(obsolete) eternal; everlasting
evocating
evocating
verb
present participle of evocate
evocation
evocation
noun
The act of calling out or forth, or evoking.
evocative
evocative
adj
That which evokes (brings to mind) a memory, mood, idea, feeling, or image; redolent or reminiscent.
evocatrix
evocatrix
noun
(dated) A female evocator.
expiative
expiative
adj
That serves to expiate.
exudative
exudative
adj
(pathology) Of, pertaining to, or accompanied by exudation
exuviated
exuviated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of exuviate
exuviates
exuviates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of exuviate
factitive
factitive
adj
(linguistics, of a verb) Taking a complement that expresses a result along with a direct object, or inherently implying a complement; or synonymous with causative.