(grammar) Of, or relating to the grammatical case used in some languages to indicate absence.
noun
(grammar) The abessive case, or a word in this case.
ablative
ablative
adj
(archaic) Pertaining to taking away or removing.
(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.
abluvion
abluvion
noun
(obsolete, rare) That which is washed off.
aborsive
aborsive
adj
(obsolete) abortive from the first.
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.
abrasive
abrasive
adj
Being rough and coarse in manner or disposition; overly aggressive and causing irritation.
Producing abrasion; rough enough to wear away the outer surface.
noun
(geology) Rock fragments, sand grains, mineral particles, used by water, wind, and ice to abrade a land surface.
A hard inorganic substance or material consisting in powder or granule form such as sandpaper, pumice, or emery, used for cleaning, smoothing, or polishing.
accusive
accusive
adj
accusative; accusing
acervuli
acervuli
noun
plural of acervulus
achieved
achieved
adj
(of a goal or status) Having been reached, attained or accomplished.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of achieve
achiever
achiever
noun
One who achieves something.
One who tends to succeed; a winner.
achieves
achieves
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of achieve
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.
activism
activism
noun
The practice of using action to achieve a result, such as political demonstration or a strike in support of or in opposition to an issue.
activist
activist
adj
Behaving as an activist.
noun
One who is conspicuously active in carrying out any occupational or professional functions.
One who is politically active in the role of a citizen; especially, one who campaigns for change.
activity
activity
noun
(countable) Something done as an action or a movement.
(countable) Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
(grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change over time and have no natural end point.
(physics) The number of radioactive decays per unit time. Unit for it: becquerel or curie
(uncountable) The state or quality of being active; activeness.
The propery of substances to react with other substances
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.
adessive
adessive
adj
(grammar) of or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates adjacent location
noun
(grammar) the adessive case, or a word in that case.
adhesive
adhesive
adj
apt or tending to adhere; clinging
sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances
noun
a substance, such as glue, that provides or promotes adhesion
adoptive
adoptive
adj
Pertaining to adoption.
Related through adoption.
adustive
advisees
advisees
noun
plural of advisee
advisers
advisers
noun
plural of adviser
advising
advising
noun
(obsolete) Advice.
verb
present participle of advise
advisive
advisive
adj
Advisory in tone and content.
advisors
advisors
noun
plural of advisor
advisory
advisory
adj
Able to give advice.
Containing advice; advising.
advitant
aeroview
aestival
aestival
adj
Alternative spelling of estival
affidavy
affidavy
noun
(colloquial, dialect) An affidavit.
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.
aggrieve
aggrieve
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To grieve; to lament.
(transitive) To cause someone to feel pain or sorrow to; to afflict
aguavina
aguavina
noun
The fish Diplectrum radiale.
airville
airwaves
airwaves
noun
Radio or television broadcasts.
Radio-frequency electromagnetic waves, usually used in the context of wireless communication; radio waves.
aktivist
akvavits
akvavits
noun
plural of akvavit
alevitsa
alewives
alewives
noun
plural of alewife
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.
allelvia
allusive
allusive
adj
that contains or makes use of allusions (indirect references or hints)
alluvial
alluvial
adj
Pertaining to the soil deposited by a stream.
noun
(countable) A deposition of sediment over a long period of time by a river; an alluvial layer.
Alluvial soil; specifically, in Australia, gold-bearing alluvial soil.
alluvion
alluvion
noun
(law) The increase in the area of land due to the deposition of sediment (alluvium) by a river.
alluvium
alluvium
noun
soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain
ambivert
ambivert
noun
(psychology) A person who is neither clearly extroverted nor introverted, but has characteristics of each.
amerveil
amravati
angevine
annexive
annville
antivice
antivice
adj
Opposing or countering vice (sinful behaviour).
anviling
anvilled
anvilled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of anvil
anviltop
aquavits
aquavits
noun
plural of aquavit
archival
archival
adj
Of a material: having a quality suited to the conservational needs of archiving.
Of or pertaining to an archive or archiving.
noun
(uncountable) The practice of storing items in an archive; archiving; (countable) an instance of this.
archived
archived
adj
Having been placed into an archive.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of archive
archiver
archiver
noun
One who, or that which, archives.
archives
archives
noun
plural of archive
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of archive
argovian
arivaipa
arkville
arrivage
arrivals
arrivals
noun
plural of arrival
arrivers
arrivers
noun
plural of arriver
arriving
arriving
verb
present participle of arrive
arrivism
arrivism
noun
Alternative form of arrivisme
arrivist
arrosive
arrosive
adj
gnawing; chewing; corroding
arvicola
arvicole
arvicole
noun
(zoology, dated) field mouse (US, Canada), vole
ashville
ashville
Proper noun
a city in Alabama, USA, which is one of the two county seats of
a neighbourhood in Kentucky, USA.
a hamlet in New York, USA.
a village in Ohio, USA.
a small borough in Pennsylvania, USA.
a community in south-western Manitoba, Canada.
atavisms
atavisms
noun
plural of atavism
atavists
atavists
noun
plural of atavist
auditive
auditive
adj
Of or relating to hearing; auditory.
audivise
aurilave
aurilave
noun
An ear-brush.
An instrument for cleansing the ear, consisting of a small piece of sponge on an ivory or bone handle.
availers
availing
availing
adj
Efficacious.
noun
(dated) Effect in achieving a goal or aim; purpose, use
verb
present participle of avail
avanious
avarices
avarices
noun
plural of avarice
avaritia
avellino
avellino
Proper noun
Province of Campania, Italy.
Town and capital of Avellino.
avenalin
avenalin
noun
A globulin or legume-like protein found in oats.
avenging
avenging
noun
The act by which somebody is avenged.
verb
present participle of avenge
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.
averring
averring
verb
present participle of aver
aversion
aversion
noun
(obsolete) The act of turning away from an object.
An object of dislike or repugnance.
Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike often without any conscious reasoning.
aversive
aversive
adj
Tending to repel, causing avoidance (of a situation, a behaviour, an item, etc.)
noun
(grammar, uncountable) A grammatical case indicating that something is avoided or feared; the evitative case.
(psychology, countable) An unpleasant stimulus intended to induce a change in behaviour.
averting
averting
verb
present participle of avert
avertive
avianize
avianize
verb
(medicine) To attenuate (something such as a virus, for example for use in a vaccine) by repeatedly culturing it in bird embryos.
(rare) To make avian; to make bird-like or into a bird.
aviaries
aviaries
noun
plural of aviary
aviarist
aviarist
noun
A person who keeps an aviary
aviating
aviating
verb
present participle of aviate
aviation
aviation
noun
(collectively, military) aircraft
A cocktail made with gin, maraschino liqueur, crème de violette and lemon juice
Flying, operating, or operation of aircraft.
Industry that produces aircraft.
The art or science of making and flying aircraft.
aviators
aviators
noun
aviator sunglasses
plural of aviator
aviatory
aviatory
adj
Of or relating to aviation.
aviatrix
aviatrix
noun
(dated) A female aviator.
avicenna
avicenna
Proper noun
Latinized name of Ibn Sina, a Persian polymath
avicular
avicular
adj
Of or pertaining to a bird or to birds.
avidious
avidious
adj
(obsolete) avid; eager; greedy.
avidness
avidness
noun
The characteristic of being avid.
aviemore
avifauna
avifauna
noun
The birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting a region.
avigator
avigator
noun
An aerial navigator.
avilaria
aviolite
avionics
avionics
noun
(aviation) The devices used in avionics.
(aviation) The science and technology of the development and use of electrical and electronic devices in aviation.
avodires
avoidant
avoidant
adj
Exhibiting avoidance; avoiding something.
noun
A person who exhibits avoidance.
avoiders
avoiders
noun
plural of avoider
avoiding
avoiding
noun
Avoidance.
verb
present participle and gerund of avoid
avowries
avowries
noun
plural of avowry
avulsing
avulsing
verb
present participle of avulse
avulsion
avulsion
noun
(hydrology) Movement of soil during a flood, or during a change in the course of a river, especially when a resulting change of land ownership is involved
An abrupt change in the course of a river, typically from one channel to another
The loss or separation of a body part, either by surgery or due to trauma
banovina
banovina
noun
(historical) Any of the provinces or banates into which the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was subdivided during the period 1929–1941.
banville
batavian
batavian
Adjective
From Batavia; Jakartan.
From the ancient Germanic tribe of the Batavi, living in the region of Batavia around Nijmegen.
Noun
Someone from Batavia; Jakartan.
Someone from the tribe of the Batavi.
bavarian
bavarian
noun
A type of custard-like food, made with fruit.
bavarois
bavarois
noun
A pudding similar to pastry cream but thickened with gelatin or isinglass instead of flour or cornstarch, and flavoured with liqueur.
bavenite
bavenite
noun
(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, beryllium, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.
bayville
beauvais
beauvoir
bedevils
bedevils
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedevil
bedivere
bedrivel
bedrivel
verb
(transitive) to drivel on, to put or spill saliva on
beehives
beehives
noun
plural of beehive
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beehive
beeville
behaving
behaving
noun
Behaviour.
verb
present participle of behave
behavior
behavior
noun
(countable) An instance of the way a living creature behaves.
(countable, uncountable, biology, psychology) Observable response produced by an organism.
(uncountable) Human conduct relative to social norms.
(uncountable) The way a device or system operates.
(uncountable) The way a living creature behaves or acts generally.
(uncountable, informal) A state of probation about one's conduct.
behoving
behoving
verb
present participle of behove
beknived
believed
believed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of believe
believer
believer
noun
A person who believes; especially regarding religion.
believes
believes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of believe
beshiver
besilver
besilver
verb
(transitive) To cover with or as with silver.
besnivel
bevaring
beveling
beveling
noun
Alternative spelling of bevelling
beverlie
bevilled
bevilled
adj
(heraldry) Notched with an angle like that enclosed by a carpenter's bevel; said of a partition line of a shield.
bevoiled
bevomits
bevomits
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bevomit