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.
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.
beaverpelt
davenports
davenports
noun
plural of davenport
depurative
depurative
adj
(medicine) Purifying the blood or humours; depuratory.
noun
Any depurative remedy or agent.
Any disease that is depurative.
devaporate
evaporated
evaporated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of evaporate
evaporates
evaporates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of evaporate
evaporator
evaporator
noun
A piece of equipment used to evaporate the solvent from a solution.
The part of a refrigerator that absorbs heat by evaporating a refrigerant.
evaporitic
evaporitic
adj
Of or pertaining to an evaporite
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.
interpaved
operatives
operatives
noun
plural of operative
overparted
overparted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overpart
overtapped
palaverist
palaverist
noun
(rare) Synonym of palaverer (“one who palavers”)
pejorative
pejorative
adj
Disparaging, belittling or derogatory.
noun
A disparaging, belittling, or derogatory word or expression.
permeative
permeative
adj
Tending to permeate.
perorative
perorative
adj
Of or relating to peroration.
pervulgate
pervulgate
verb
(obsolete) To publish.
pontevedra
pontevedra
Proper noun
The capital city of the province of the same name, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.
A province in the southwest of Galicia
portglaive
postverbal
postverbal
adj
(linguistics) Occurring after a verb.
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.
preestival
preharvest
preharvest
adj
Before a harvest.
preobviate
prevacated
preventral
preventral
noun
In snakes, any of a set of scales positioned anterior to the ventral scales and are wider than they are long, but not coming into contact with the paraventral row of dorsal scales on either side of the body.
previolate
privateers
privateers
noun
plural of privateer
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of privateer
privatized
privatized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of privatize
pulverated
pulverated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of pulverate
purgatives
purgatives
noun
plural of purgative
readaptive
reparative
reparative
adj
Of, pertaining to, or being a reparation.
Tending to or intended to repair.
noun
(rare) That which repairs.
repavement
repudative
reputative
reputative
adj
reputed; putative
revampment
revampment
noun
An act of revamping.
separative
separative
adj
(rare) Tending to keep oneself separate from others.
Serving to separate.
noun
Something that serves to separate.
spermatova
spermatova
noun
plural of spermatovum
supervital
tapedrives
tapedrives
noun
plural of tapedrive
usurpative
usurpative
adj
That usurps.
vaporettos
vectograph
vectograph
noun
A kind of stereoscopic print or transparency to be viewed with polarized 3D glasses.
verkrampte
verkrampte
noun
(South Africa) A person with a verkramp political attitude.
vituperate
vituperate
adj
(rare) Which has been abusively or harshly criticized; also, deserving harsh criticism.
Of, characterized by, or relating to abusive or harsh criticism.
verb
(intransitive) To use abusive or harsh words.
To attack (someone or something) with abusive language; to revile, to vilify.
To criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner.