(obsolete) An adverting or turning towards; attention.
A tendency or wish to avoid someone or something.
akimovsky
alluvions
alluvions
noun
plural of alluvion
alluvious
alluvious
adj
(archaic) alluvial
anchovies
anchovies
noun
plural of anchovy
anviltops
apivorous
apivorous
adj
That feeds on bees
applosive
applosive
noun
(phonology) An unreleased plosive, denoted ◌̚ in the IPA.
arbovirus
arbovirus
noun
(pathology, virology) Any virus that is transmitted by an arthropod.
assortive
averroism
averroism
Noun
The tenets of the Averroists, having to do with the doctrine of monopsychism.
averroist
averroist
Noun
Any peripatetic philosopher belonging to a certain sect that appeared in Italy before the restoration of learning.
aversions
aversions
noun
plural of aversion
aviations
aviations
noun
plural of aviation
avicolous
avicolous
adj
(ecology) That is parasitic on birds
avigators
avigators
noun
plural of avigator
avoidless
avoidless
adj
(rare) Unavoidable; inevitable.
avulsions
avulsions
noun
plural of avulsion
babouvism
babouvism
Noun
Babouvist beliefs generally
babouvist
babouvist
Noun
A supporter or follower of or his ideas, including universal equal income and the abolition of private property.
bavaroise
bavaroise
noun
(sometimes proscribed) A cold dessert made from custard, cream and gelatine.
A drink of sweetened milk, eggs and tea, often with some sort of spirit.
behaviors
behaviors
noun
plural of behavior
beriosova
berkovtsi
bicalvous
biplosive
bivalvous
bivalvous
adj
(archaic) Having two valves; bivalvular.
bivouacks
bivouacks
noun
plural of bivouack
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bivouack
bloviates
bloviates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bloviate
bolivares
bolivares
noun
plural of bolivar
bolivians
bolshevik
bolshevik
noun
Alternative form of Bolshevik
boscovich
cavillous
cavillous
adj
Characterized by caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbling.
coderives
cognovits
cognovits
noun
plural of cognovit
collisive
collisive
adj
(obsolete) Colliding; clashing.
collusive
collusive
adj
secretly acting together for a fraudulent or illegal purpose
colluvies
colluvies
noun
effluvium
medley, hotchpotch
conceives
conceives
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conceive
confusive
confusive
adj
(archaic) Full of confusion; confused or confusing.
connivers
connivers
noun
plural of conniver
contrives
contrives
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contrive
contusive
contusive
adj
Relating to, or causing contusion
convinces
convinces
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of convince
corrasive
corrasive
adj
Obsolete form of corrosive.
corrivals
corrivals
noun
plural of corrival.
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corrival
corrosive
corrosive
adj
Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid.
Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
destroying or undermining something gradually.
noun
Any solid, liquid or gas capable of irreparably harming living tissues or damaging material on contact.
That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.
corvallis
costively
costively
adv
In a costive manner.
coverings
coverings
noun
plural of covering
coverlids
coverlids
noun
plural of coverlid
coverside
coverside
noun
A region of country having covers; hunting country.
coversine
coversine
noun
(trigonometry) The coversed sine.
coverslip
coverslip
noun
A thin glass plate used to cover samples mounted on a microscope slide.
verb
To cover (a sample) with a coverslip.
covisitor
covisitor
noun
A joint visitor; one who visits a place with another or others.
davisboro
declivous
declivous
adj
sloping downward
demivolts
demivolts
noun
plural of demivolt
deviators
deviators
noun
plural of deviator
deviously
deviously
adv
In a devious manner.
devotions
devotions
noun
plural of devotion
diluvions
disavouch
disavouch
verb
(transitive) To disavow.
disavowal
disavowal
noun
A denial of knowledge, relationship, and/or responsibility towards something (or someone).
disavowed
disavowed
adj
Strongly disowned or denied.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of disavow
disavower
disavower
noun
One who disavows.
discovers
discovers
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discover
discovert
discovert
adj
(law, obsolete) Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.
noun
(obsolete) An uncovered place or part.
discovery
discovery
noun
(countable, archaic) An act of uncovering or revealing something; a revelation.
(law, uncountable) A pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
(law, uncountable) Materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
(uncountable) The discovering of new things.
Something discovered.
disfavors
disfavors
noun
plural of disfavor
disfavour
disfavour
noun
A state of being out of favour.
An unkindness; a disobliging act.
Lack of favour; displeasure.
verb
(British spelling) To show lack of favour or antipathy towards.
disproval
disproval
noun
The act of disproving; disproof.
disproved
disproved
verb
simple past tense and past participle of disprove
disproven
disproven
adj
(archaic, Scottish law) Not proven, in a legal case where the jury verdict has inconclusive evidence for conviction, but sufficient to suspect guilt
Shown to be false
verb
Alternative irregular form of the past participle of disprove
disprover
disprover
noun
One who disproves.
disproves
disproves
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disprove
dissolved
dissolved
adj
that has been disintegrated in a solvent
verb
simple past tense and past participle of dissolve
dissolver
dissolver
noun
One who, or that which, dissolves or dissipates.
dissolves
dissolves
noun
plural of dissolve
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dissolve
diversion
diversion
noun
(law) Officially halting or suspending a formal criminal or juvenile justice proceeding and referral of the accused person to a treatment or care program.
(military) A tactic used to draw attention away from the real threat or action.
(transport) A detour, such as during road construction.
(transport) The rerouting of cargo or passengers to a new transshipment point or destination, or to a different mode of transportation before arrival at the ultimate destination.
A hobby; an activity that distracts the mind.
Removal of water via a canal.
The act of diverting.
diversory
diversory
adj
Tending to divert; causing diversion.
noun
(obsolete, rare) A wayside inn.
dividuous
dividuous
adj
divided; dividual
divisions
divisions
noun
(UK, naval) A formal parade of a ship's or shore establishment's company.
plural of division
divorcees
divorcees
noun
plural of divorcee
divorcers
divorcers
noun
plural of divorcer
divulsion
divulsion
noun
The act of separating by force, especially by dilation or pulling apart.
donatives
donatives
noun
plural of donative
dovetails
dovetails
noun
plural of dovetail
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dovetail
echovirus
echovirus
noun
A type of RNA virus of the species Enterovirus B of the Picornaviridae family, found in the human gastrointestinal tract.
emotivism
emotivism
noun
(ethics) The meta-ethical stance that ethical judgments, such as those containing the words "should" and "ought to", are primarily expressions of one's own attitude and imperatives meant to change the attitudes and actions of another.
enviously
enviously
adv
in an envious manner or to an envious degree
envisions
envisions
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of envision
envoyship
envoyship
noun
The office or position of an envoy.
equivokes
equivokes
noun
plural of equivoke
erosivity
erosivity
noun
A measure of the potential ability of soil, regolith, or other weathered material to be eroded by rain, wind, or surface runoff.
estivator
estivator
noun
(biology) Any animal that estivates
evasional
evections
evections
noun
plural of evection
eversions
eversions
noun
plural of eversion
evictions
evictions
noun
plural of eviction
evildoers
evildoers
noun
plural of evildoer
evulsions
evulsions
noun
plural of evulsion
explosive
explosive
adj
(figurative) Shocking; startling.
(slang) Easily driven to anger, usually with reference to a person.
Having the character of an explosion.
With the capability to, or likely to, explode.
noun
(linguistics, dated) A plosive.
Any explosive substance.
exsolving
exsolving
verb
present participle of exsolve
extorsive
extorsive
adj
Serving or tending to extort.
favillous
favillous
adj
(obsolete) Of or pertaining to ashes.
favorites
favorites
noun
plural of favorite
favosites
festivous
festivous
adj
Pertaining to a feast; festive.
fivescore
fivescore
num
(archaic) hundred
forgivers
forgivers
noun
plural of forgiver
frivolers
frivolers
noun
plural of frivoler
frivolism
frivolism
noun
(archaic) frivolity
frivolist
frivolist
noun
A frivolous person.
frivolous
frivolous
adj
(law, said of a lawsuit) Having no reasonable prospect of success because its claim is without merit, lacking a supporting legal or factual basis, while the filing party is, or should be, aware of this.
Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight; trivial.
Silly, especially at an inappropriate time or in an inappropriate manner.
genevoise
gnesdilov
goodwives
goodwives
noun
plural of goodwife
gravitons
gravitons
noun
plural of graviton
grooviest
grooviest
adj
superlative form of groovy: most groovy
heavisome
heavisome
adj
(dialect) heavy; of heavy mood; doleful; sad; dull; gloomy.
hooverism
housewive
housewive
verb
(transitive, especially of women) To manage with skill and economy.
implosive
implosive
adj
Formed by implosion.
noun
(phonetics) An implosive sound; an implodent.
improvers
improvers
noun
plural of improver
improvise
improvise
verb
To make something up or invent it as one goes on; to proceed guided only by imagination, intuition, and guesswork rather than by a careful plan.
improviso
improviso
adj
(obsolete) Not prepared beforehand; unpremeditated; extemporaneous.
incurvous
innovates
innovates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of innovate
inobvious
insolvent
insolvent
adj
Not sufficient to pay all the debts of the owner.
Owing more than one has in assets.
Unable to pay one's bills as they fall due.
noun
(law) One who is insolvent; an insolvent debtor.
invasions
invasions
noun
plural of invasion
inventors
inventors
noun
plural of inventor
inversion
inversion
noun
(algebra) An operation on a group, analogous to negation.
(genetics) A segment of DNA in the context of a chromosome that is reversed in orientation relative to a reference karyotype or genome.
(grammar) Deviation from standard word order by putting the predicate before the subject. It takes place in questions with auxiliary verbs and in normal, affirmative clauses beginning with a negative particle, for the purpose of emphasis.
(meteorology) A situation where air temperature increases with altitude (the ground being colder than the surrounding air).
(music) The flipping of a melody or contrapuntal line so that high notes become low and vice versa; the reversal of a pitch contour.
(music) The position of a chord which has a note other than the root as its bass note.
(music) The reversal of an interval; the move of one pitch in an interval up or down an octave.
(psychology, obsolete) Homosexuality, particularly in early psychoanalysis.
Being in an inverted state; being upside down or in a reverse sequence.
The action of inverting.
invertors
invertors
noun
plural of invertor
investion
investion
noun
(obsolete) investiture
investors
investors
noun
plural of investor
invidious
invidious
adj
(obsolete) Detestable, hateful, odious.
(obsolete) Envious, jealous.
(of a distinction) Offensively or unfairly discriminating.
Causing ill will, envy, or offense.
invocates
invocates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of invocate
involutes
involutes
noun
plural of involute
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of involute
involvers
involvers
noun
plural of involver
isolative
isolative
adj
Relating to, characterized by, or causing isolation.
isonville
isovaline
isovaline
noun
(biochemistry) The rare amino acid 2-amino-2-methylbutanoic acid that was found in the Murchison meteorite