(UK, law, obsolete) A confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplices and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon.
(archaic) Approval; approbation.
(obsolete, Old English law) Improvement of common lands by converting them for advantage of the landlord.
beneceptive
carpetwoven
compunctive
compunctive
adj
(obsolete) Sensitive with regard to wrongdoing; conscientious.
consumptive
consumptive
adj
(pathology) Relating to pulmonary tuberculosis.
Having a tendency to consume; dissipating; destructive; wasteful.
Of, or relating to consumption.
noun
A person suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.
depravation
depravation
noun
Change for the worse; deterioration; morbid perversion.
Detraction; depreciation.
The act of depraving, or making anything bad; the act of corrupting.
The state of being depraved or degenerated; degeneracy; depravity.
depravement
depravement
noun
(archaic) Depravity; corruption.
depravingly
depravingly
adv
In a depraving manner.
deprevation
deprivation
deprivation
noun
(countable) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
(countable) The taking away from a clergyman of his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
(followed by “of”) lack
(uncountable) The state of being deprived
deprivement
deprivement
noun
deprivation
development
development
noun
(chess, uncountable) The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
(countable) Something which has developed.
(mathematics) The expression of a function in the form of a series.
(music) The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.
(music) The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.
(real estate, countable) A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.
(real estate, uncountable) The building of such a project.
(uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
(uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.
(uncountable, biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.
dispunitive
encaptivate
encaptivate
verb
(transitive) To captivate.
envelopment
envelopment
noun
(fencing) An action to seize the opponent's blade in one line and lead it (without losing contact) through a full circle to end in the same line.
(military) An offensive action in which an attacking force moves over or around the enemy and attacks from the rear; see also pincer movement.
That which envelops; a covering.
The act of enveloping.
evaporating
evaporating
verb
present participle of evaporate
evaporation
evaporation
noun
(archaic) That which is evaporated; vapor.
The process in which all or a portion of liquid (in a container) is turned into vapour, in order to increase the concentration of solid matter in the mixture.
The process of a liquid converting to the gaseous state.
expansively
expansively
adv
In an expansive manner
expansivity
expansivity
noun
(mathematics) The formal notion of points moving away from one another under the action of an iterated function.
expansiveness
expensively
expensively
adv
In an expensive manner.
explanative
explanative
adj
That serves to explain; explanatory
havenership
havenership
noun
The role or status of havener.
heptavalent
heptavalent
adj
(chemistry) Having an atomic valence of 7.
(medicine) Having a vaccine valence of 7.
hypotensive
hypotensive
adj
Having hypotension.
Producing hypotension.
noun
A drug that lowers the blood pressure as its principal intended effect; a drug taken to treat hypertension.
A person with hypotension.
Any drug that lowers the blood pressure.
imprevision
improvement
improvement
noun
(Patent Laws): A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.
(in the plural) Valuable additions or betterments, for example buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.
Increase; growth; progress; advance.
Something which is improved
The act of improving; advancement or growth; a bettering
The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; practical application, for example of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse.
The state of being improved; betterment; advance
improvident
improvident
adj
failing to provide for the future; reckless
incautious; prone to rashness
incaptivate
inceptively
inceptively
adv
In an inceptive manner.
inculpative
indepravate
inexpansive
inexpensive
inexpensive
adj
low in price
inexplosive
inexplosive
adj
Not explosive.
inoperative
inoperative
adj
(law) No longer legally binding.
Not working or functioning; either idle or broken.
inscriptive
inscriptive
adj
Bearing an inscription.
Of the character or nature of an inscription.
inspirative
inspirative
adj
Tending to inspire.
interpaving
intrapelvic
intrapelvic
adj
(anatomy) Within the (cavity of the) pelvis
lipovaccine
mancipative
mancipative
adj
Of or relating to mancipation.
mavrodaphne
mavrodaphne
noun
A dark sweet Greek red wine.
A variety of grape native to Achaea, northern Peloponnese, Greece, from which the wine is made.
nociceptive
nociceptive
adj
(physiology) Relating to the perception or sensation of pain.
nonadaptive
nonadaptive
adj
Not adaptive; unable to adapt.
nondepraved
noneruptive
noneruptive
adj
Not eruptive.
nonperverse
nonpositive
nonpositive
adj
(mathematics, of a quantity) Not positive; either zero or negative.
Not positive.
noun
Any value that is not positive.
nonprovable
nonprovable
adj
Not provable.
nonprovided
nonprovided
adj
(UK, education, historical) Of a school: not operated and funded by the school board.
nonprovider
nonpunitive
nonpunitive
adj
Not punitive.
nuncupative
nuncupative
adj
(obsolete) Nominal; existing only in name.
(obsolete) Publicly or solemnly declaratory.
Oral; not written.
opinatively
opinatively
adv
In an opinative manner.
overaptness
overdepends
overexpands
overexpands
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overexpand
overexplain
overexplain
verb
(transitive) To explain at unnecessary length or in too much detail.
overheaping
overheaping
verb
present participle of overheap
overlapping
overlapping
adj
That overlaps something else
noun
The situation in which things overlap.
verb
present participle of overlap
overleaping
overleaping
verb
present participle of overleap
overlipping
overnipping
overpacking
overpacking
verb
present participle of overpack
overpainful
overpainful
adj
Excessively painful.
overpassing
overpassing
verb
present participle of overpass
overpatient
overpatient
adj
Excessively patient.
overpayment
overpayment
noun
Payment exceeding the amount actually due.
overpending
overpensive
overpensive
adj
Excessively pensive.
overplainly
overplanned
overplanned
adj
Excessively planned.
overplanted
overplanted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overplant
overplaying
overplaying
verb
present participle of overplay
overpointed
overpointed
adj
Excessively pointed.
overpotency
overprasing
overpricing
overpricing
verb
present participle of overprice
overprinted
overprinted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overprint
overprizing
overprizing
verb
present participle of overprize
overproness
overproving
overpruning
overpruning
verb
present participle of overprune
overpumping
overpumping
verb
present participle of overpump
overrespond
overrespond
verb
(intransitive) To respond excessively.
overspanned
overspanned
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overspan
oversparing
oversparing
adj
Excessively sparing.
overspended
overspender
overspender
noun
One who overspends.
overspicing
overspicing
verb
present participle of overspice
overstoping
oversupping
oversupping
verb
present participle of oversup
overtipping
overtipping
verb
present participle of overtip
overtopping
overtopping
adj
Surmounting, surpassing.
noun
An instance of water going over the top of a barrier such as a sea wall or levee.
verb
present participle of overtop
painesville
paintsville
palaverment
palaverment
noun
Talk or chatter; palaver.
palminerved
palminerved
adj
(botany, of a leaf) Having the venation arranged like the fingers of an open hand.
palmiveined
palsgravine
palsgravine
noun
The consort or widow of a palsgrave.
papaverines
papaverines
noun
plural of papaverine
paperknives
paperknives
noun
plural of paperknife
parvipotent
parvipotent
adj
Of limited power.
parviscient
parviscient
adj
Of limited knowledge; ignorant.
passiveness
passiveness
noun
The state or condition of being passive; passivity.
pattonville
paxtonville
paynesville
peevishness
peevishness
noun
The state of being peevish.
peltinerved
peltinerved
adj
(botany, of a leaf) Having the veins radiating from the centre
pendentives
pendentives
noun
plural of pendentive
penetrative
penetrative
adj
(sports) That can penetrate opposition defences.
Displaying insight or discrimination; acute; penetrating.
Pertaining to sexual activity involving penetration by the penis.
That can or does physically penetrate something; piercing, penetrating.
penninerved
penninerved
adj
(botany, of a leaf) Having the nerves arranged on each side of the midriff like the barbs of a feather
penniveined
pensiveness
pensiveness
noun
A thoughtful or reflective state, especially if sad or melancholic.
pentavalent
pentavalent
adj
(chemistry) Having an atomic valence of 5.
(medicine) Having a vaccine valence of 5.
perceivance
perceivance
noun
(obsolete) Power of perception.
perceivancy
perceivancy
noun
Alternative form of perceivance (“power of perception”)
perivaginal
perivaginal
adj
(anatomy) Around the vagina.
pernavigate
perronville
perseverant
perseverant
adj
Enduring; persistent, resistant.
persevering
persevering
adj
Tending to persevere.
noun
perseverance
verb
present participle of persevere
personative
personative
adj
Portraying a person or persons.
peruvianize
pervadingly
pervadingly
adv
In a manner that pervades.
pervagation
perversions
perversions
noun
plural of perversion
phonevision
pickedevant
pignorative
pignorative
adj
pledging; pawning
pinninerved
plaintively
plaintively
adv
In a plaintive manner.
planoconvex
planoconvex
adj
(optics, of a lens) Having one side plane and the other convex.
plantsville
plurivalent
plurivalent
adj
Synonym of multivalent
polyvalence
polyvalence
noun
(countable) Congruence with polyvalency.
(countable) The state of being polyvalent.
(uncountable, music) A quality of music that is played in more than one harmonic function in the same key.
polyvalency
polyvalency
noun
polyvalence
polyvoltine
polyvoltine
adj
Synonym of multivoltine
ponderative
ponderative
adj
(rare) Of or pertaining to pondering or deliberation
postventral
postventral
adj
Alternative form of posteroventral
preadvising
preaverring
precarnival
precarnival
adj
Before a carnival.
precinctive
preconceive
preconceive
verb
To conceive, or form an opinion of, beforehand; to form a previous notion or idea of.