Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe; absorbent.
noun
Any substance that absorbs.
adsorptive
adsorptive
adj
Pertaining to, tending toward, or characterized by adsorption.
noun
Any substance that adsorbs.
aparavidya
apperceive
apperceive
verb
(obsolete) To perceive.
(psychology) To be aware of perceiving; to understand a perception by linking it mentally with a mass of existing ideas of the same object.
appraisive
appraisive
adj
Of or relating to appraisal.
ascriptive
ascriptive
adj
ascribing; relating to ascription
noun
The act, or an instance, of ascribing a quality, characteristic, quotation, artistic work or other object to someone or something.
avoyership
captivator
captivator
noun
A person who captivates, or holds one captive.
carvership
cervicapra
corruptive
corruptive
adj
Tending to corrupt.
depressive
depressive
adj
Affected by depression, depressed; dispirited; melancholic.
Causing depression; dispiriting.
Relating to or characteristic of depression.
noun
A person suffering from depression.
deprivable
deprivable
adj
(obsolete) Liable to be deposed.
Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived.
depurative
depurative
adj
(medicine) Purifying the blood or humours; depuratory.
noun
Any depurative remedy or agent.
Any disease that is depurative.
disapprove
disapprove
verb
(intransitive) To condemn; to consider wrong or inappropriate; used with of.
(transitive) To refuse to approve; reject.
She disapproves of rap music because of its sometimes aggressive lyrics.
To have or express an unfavorable opinion.
disimprove
disimprove
verb
(informal, rare, influenced by the German verb verschlimmbessern) To try to make something better but end up making it worse.
(intransitive, rare) to deteriorate.
(transitive, rare) to make worse.
dispersive
dispersive
adj
That becomes dispersed
That causes dispersion
disportive
disprovide
disprovide
verb
(obsolete, transitive) Not to provide; to fail to provide.
disproving
disproving
verb
present participle of disprove
disruptive
disruptive
adj
(business) Causing major change, as in a market.
Causing disruption or unrest.
divekeeper
divekeeper
noun
The proprietor of a seedy bar or tavern.
drivership
empoverish
empoverish
verb
Obsolete spelling of impoverish
eruptively
eruptively
adv
In an eruptive manner.
eruptivity
eruptivity
noun
The state or quality of being eruptive.
espressivo
espressivo
adv
(music) To be played in an expressive manner.
evaporitic
evaporitic
adj
Of or pertaining to an evaporite
excerptive
excerptive
adj
That excerpts or selects.
expressive
expressive
adj
Effectively conveying thought or feeling.
noun
(linguistics) Any word or phrase that expresses (that the speaker, writer, or signer has) a certain attitude toward or information about the referent.
(linguistics, more narrowly) A word or phrase, belonging to a distinct word class or having distinct morphosyntactic properties, with semantic symbolism (for example, an onomatopoeia), variously considered either a synonym, a hypernym or a hyponym of ideophone.
grapeville
grapevines
grapevines
noun
plural of grapevine
gravipause
grieveship
imperative
imperative
adj
(computing theory) Having semantics that incorporates mutable variables.
(grammar) Of, or relating to the imperative mood.
Essential; crucial; extremely important.
Expressing a command; authoritatively or absolutely directive.
noun
(countable) An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.
(countable, grammar) A verb in imperative mood.
(uncountable, grammar) The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare infinitive.
imperverse
impervious
impervious
adj
Immune to damage or effect.
Preventive of any penetration; impenetrable, impermeable, particularly of water.
Unaffected or unable to be affected by something.
impoverish
impoverish
verb
(intransitive) To become poor.
(transitive) To make poor.
(transitive) To weaken in quality; to deprive of some strength or richness.
impressive
impressive
adj
Appealing.
Capable of being impressed.
Making, or tending to make, a positive impression; having power to impress
improvable
improvable
adj
Capable of being improved.
Capable of being used to advantage; profitable.
Impossible to prove.
improvably
improvably
adv
So as to permit improvement.
improvided
improvided
adj
Unforeseen.
improvised
improvised
adj
created by improvisation; impromptu; unrehearsed.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of improvise
improviser
improviser
noun
One who improvises.
improvises
improvises
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of improvise
improvisor
improvisor
noun
Alternative form of improviser
interpaved
larviposit
larviposit
verb
(biology) To deposit living larvae rather than eggs
misimprove
misimprove
verb
(transitive, archaic) To use for a bad purpose; to misuse.
misprovide
misprovide
verb
(intransitive) To provide badly or wrongly.
misprovoke
naperville
nonprivity
operatives
operatives
noun
plural of operative
oppressive
oppressive
adj
Burdensome or difficult to bear.
Hot and humid of the weather.
Tyrannical or exercising unjust power.
Weighing heavily on the spirit; intense, or overwhelming
overhoping
overhoping
verb
present participle of overhope
overimport
overimport
verb
(transitive) To import too much of.
overimpose
overimpose
verb
(transitive) To impose too much or too often.
overpained
overpaying
overpaying
verb
present participle of overpay
overphysic
overplying
overplying
verb
present participle of overply
overpolice
overpolice
verb
To police too much, as by patrolling a neighborhood excessively or meting out a punishment incommensurate to the severity of a crime.
overpolish
overpolish
verb
(transitive) To polish too much.
overpraise
overpraise
verb
To praise to an excessive degree.
overpriced
overpriced
adj
Priced higher than its real worth.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overprice
overprices
overprices
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overprice
overprints
overprints
noun
plural of overprint
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overprint
overprized
overprized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overprize
overprizer
overprolix
overprolix
adj
Excessively prolix.
overpublic
overpunish
overpunish
verb
To punish excessively.
overripely
overripely
adv
In an overripe manner.
oversimple
oversimple
adj
Excessively simple; lacking the necessary complexity.
oversimply
oversimply
adv
In a way that is too simple; without the necessary detail or complexity.
overspiced
overspiced
adj
Too strongly spiced.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overspice
overspring
overspring
verb
(transitive) To overtop; overclimb; rise above; spring or leap over.
overtipple
ovipositor
ovipositor
noun
(zoology) A tubular protruding organ for laying eggs.
palavering
palavering
noun
gerund of palaver: the act of one who palavers.
verb
present participle of palaver
palaverist
palaverist
noun
(rare) Synonym of palaverer (“one who palavers”)
panivorous
panivorous
adj
(formal) Eating bread.
papaverine
papaverine
noun
(organic chemistry, pharmacology) A nonaddictive derivative of opium used in medicine to relieve muscle spasms, as a vasodilator and in some forms of erectile dysfunction.
parksville
parovarian
parovarian
adj
Alternative form of paraovarian
parovarium
parovarium
noun
(anatomy) The epoophoron.
parryville
parvenuism
parvenuism
noun
The practices or characteristics of a social climber.
pejorative
pejorative
adj
Disparaging, belittling or derogatory.
noun
A disparaging, belittling, or derogatory word or expression.
pelvigraph
pelvigraph
noun
An instrument for producing scale drawings of the pelvis.
pelvimeter
pelvimeter
noun
An instrument for measuring the pelvis.
pelvimetry
pelvimetry
noun
The assessment of the female pelvis in relation to the birth of a baby.
perceivers
perceivers
noun
plural of perceiver
perceiving
perceiving
noun
The act by which something is perceived.
verb
present participle of perceive
perceptive
perceptive
adj
Having or showing keenness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition.
perculsive
percussive
percussive
adj
(phonetics) Produced by striking organs together, for example, smacking the lips or gnashing the teeth.
Characterized by percussion; caused by or related to the action of striking or pounding something.
noun
(phonetics) A percussive phone.
perfective
perfective
adj
(grammar) Of, or relative to, the perfect tense or perfective aspect.
(obsolete) Tending to make perfect, or to bring to perfection.
noun
(grammar) a perfective verb form
periovular
periovular
adj
(anatomy) Surrounding an ovary
(pathology) About the time of ovulation
periuvular
periuvular
adj
(anatomy) Around the uvula.
perivenous
perivenous
adj
(medicine) Surrounding a vein.
permansive
permansive
adj
(linguistics, of an aspect) permanent, stative, maintaining the same state
permeative
permeative
adj
Tending to permeate.
permissive
permissive
adj
(biology) That allows the replication of viruses.
(of a footpath, bridleway or similar) Open to the public by permission of the landowner.
Giving permission, or predisposed to give it; lenient.
permixtive
perorative
perorative
adj
Of or relating to peroration.
perovskite
perovskite
noun
(mineralogy) A minor accessory mineral, CaTiO₃, occurring in basic rocks, as orthorhombic crystals.
perryville
perryville
Proper noun
A in Alaska
A city in Arkansas
A city in Kentucky
A town in Maryland
A city in Missouri
persistive
persistive
adj
(obsolete) persistent
persuasive
persuasive
adj
Able to persuade; convincing.
noun
That which persuades; incitement.
perversion
perversion
noun
(geometry) Tendril perversion.
A sexual practice considered abnormal; sexual deviance.
Distortion or corruption of the original course, meaning, or state of something.
The action of perverting someone or something; humiliation; debasement.
The state of being perverted; depravity; vice.
perversite
perversity
perversity
noun
A perverse act.
The quality of being perverse.
perversive
perversive
adj
Tending to pervert.
perverting
perverting
verb
present participle of pervert
pervertive
perviously
perviously
adv
In a pervious manner.
picorivera
pinaverdol
pinivorous
ploverlike
ploverlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a plover.
plurivalve
poliovirus
poliovirus
noun
A human enterovirus of the Picornaviridae family that causes poliomyelitis.
pomivorous
portentive
portentive
adj
portentous; presaging or foreshadowing
portglaive
poxviruses
poxviruses
noun
plural of poxvirus
praefervid
prattville
prattville
Proper noun
A city in the U.S. state of that is the of
A in
A in
A former in that was founded in 1873 and largely abandoned in 1878.
preadvised
preadvised
adj
advised in advance
preadviser
prebelieve
preceptive
preceptive
adj
(law) Of, pertaining to, or based on precepts
instructive; didactic
preclusive
preclusive
adj
Serving to preclude.
preconvict
precursive
precursive
adj
Being a style of handwriting that can later be developed into cursive.
Preceding; introductory; precursory.
predeceive
predeliver
predeliver
verb
(transitive) To deliver in advance.
predeprive
prederived
predevised
predictive
predictive
adj
(computing) Describing a predictor.
(medicine) Expressing the expected accuracy of a statistical measure or of a diagnostic test.
Useful in predicting.
noun
(grammar) A conditional statement that includes a prediction in the dependent clause (e.g. "if it rains, the game will be cancelled", "give her an inch and she'll take a mile.").
(statistics) Simulated data generated from a statistical model, based on the estimates for the real data.
predivided
predivider
predivider
noun
(electronics) Synonym of prescaler
predivorce
predivorce
adj
Before a divorce.
predriving
preemptive
preemptive
adj
(bridge, of a high-level bid) Intended to interfere with an opponent's bidding.
Made so as to deter an anticipated unpleasant situation.
Of or relating to preemption.
preestival
preevading
preevasion
preevident
preforgive
prehensive
prehensive
adj
(philosophy) Of or relating to Alfred North Whitehead's concept of prehension.