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.
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
carvership
depressive
depressive
adj
Affected by depression, depressed; dispirited; melancholic.
Causing depression; dispiriting.
Relating to or characteristic of depression.
noun
A person suffering from depression.
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.
disruptive
disruptive
adj
(business) Causing major change, as in a market.
Causing disruption or unrest.
drivership
empoverish
empoverish
verb
Obsolete spelling of impoverish
espressivo
espressivo
adv
(music) To be played in an expressive manner.
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.
grapevines
grapevines
noun
plural of grapevine
gravipause
grieveship
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
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
misimprove
misimprove
verb
(transitive, archaic) To use for a bad purpose; to misuse.
misprovide
misprovide
verb
(intransitive) To provide badly or wrongly.
misprovoke
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
overimpose
overimpose
verb
(transitive) To impose too much or too often.
overphysic
overpolish
overpolish
verb
(transitive) To polish too much.
overpraise
overpraise
verb
To praise to an excessive degree.
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
overpunish
overpunish
verb
To punish excessively.
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.
palaverist
palaverist
noun
(rare) Synonym of palaverer (“one who palavers”)
parksville
parvenuism
parvenuism
noun
The practices or characteristics of a social climber.
perceivers
perceivers
noun
plural of perceiver
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.
perivenous
perivenous
adj
(medicine) Surrounding a vein.
permansive
permansive
adj
(linguistics, of an aspect) permanent, stative, maintaining the same state
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.
perovskite
perovskite
noun
(mineralogy) A minor accessory mineral, CaTiO₃, occurring in basic rocks, as orthorhombic crystals.
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.
perviously
perviously
adv
In a pervious manner.
poxviruses
poxviruses
noun
plural of poxvirus
preadvised
preadvised
adj
advised in advance
preadviser
preclusive
preclusive
adj
Serving to preclude.
precursive
precursive
adj
Being a style of handwriting that can later be developed into cursive.
Preceding; introductory; precursory.
predevised
preestival
preevasion
prehensive
prehensive
adj
(philosophy) Of or relating to Alfred North Whitehead's concept of prehension.
preobvious
prerevised
presentive
presentive
adj
Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination.
preserving
preserving
noun
preservation
verb
present participle of preserve
presolving
presolving
noun
To transform a mathematical problem into an equivalent problem that is hopefully easier to solve.
presylvian
presylvian
adj
(anatomy) Anterior to the Sylvian fissure of the brain
pretensive
pretensive
adj
(chiefly US) Pretentious.
(now rare) Pretended; feigned.
prevailers
prevailers
noun
plural of prevailer
preversing
preversion
prevesical
prevesical
adj
(anatomy) In front of a bladder, especially the urinary bladder.
previously
previously
adv
(now archaic, with present-tense constructions) First; beforehand, in advance.
(television) Recapitulating the preceding episodes of a series.
(with past-tense constructions) At an earlier time.
previsible
previsible
adj
(uncommon) foreseeable
previsibly
previsitor
primaveras
primaveras
noun
plural of primavera
primitives
primitives
noun
plural of primitive
privateers
privateers
noun
plural of privateer
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of privateer
privileges
privileges
noun
plural of privilege
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of privilege
processive
processive
adj
Going forward, advancing, progressive
procursive
procursive
adj
(medicine) Running forward, as the patient does in certain forms of epilepsy.
professive
promissive
promissive
adj
Making or implying a promise.
propulsive
propulsive
adj
Of or pertaining to propulsion
Serving to propel
protensive
protensive
adj
Drawn out; extended.
protestive
protestive
adj
Expressing protest.
protrusive
protrusive
adj
rather conspicuous; obtrusive
that protrudes; protruding
proviruses
proviruses
noun
plural of provirus
pulverised
pulverised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of pulverise
pulveriser
pulveriser
noun
Alternative spelling of pulverizer
pulverizes
pulverizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pulverize
purgatives
purgatives
noun
plural of purgative
replevisor
replevisor
noun
(law) A plaintiff in replevin.
repressive
repressive
adj
Serving to repress or suppress; oppressive
reprievers
resorptive
resorptive
adj
Of, pertaining to, or caused by resorption.
respective
respective
adj
(obsolete) Fitted to awaken respect.
(obsolete) Looking toward; having reference to; relative, not absolute.
(obsolete) Noticing with attention; careful; wary.