(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.
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.
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.
adoptive
adoptive
adj
Pertaining to adoption.
Related through adoption.
adustive
advitant
aestival
aestival
adj
Alternative spelling of estival
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.
aktivist
akvavits
akvavits
noun
plural of akvavit
alevitsa
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.
ambivert
ambivert
noun
(psychology) A person who is neither clearly extroverted nor introverted, but has characteristics of each.
amravati
antivice
antivice
adj
Opposing or countering vice (sinful behaviour).
anviltop
aquavits
aquavits
noun
plural of aquavit
arrivist
atavisms
atavisms
noun
plural of atavism
atavists
atavists
noun
plural of atavist
auditive
auditive
adj
Of or relating to hearing; auditory.
avaritia
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.
averting
averting
verb
present participle of avert
avertive
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.
avigator
avigator
noun
An aerial navigator.
aviolite
avoidant
avoidant
adj
Exhibiting avoidance; avoiding something.
noun
A person who exhibits avoidance.
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.
bavenite
bavenite
noun
(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, beryllium, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.
bevomits
bevomits
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bevomit
bivalent
bivalent
adj
(chemistry) Having a valence of 2; having two ligands
(genetics) Of, or relating to a pair of homologous synapsed chromosomes that occur during meiosis.
(of a vaccine) Protecting against two different viruses.
noun
(genetics) Any bivalent chromosome.
bivector
bivector
noun
(mathematics) An antisymmetric tensor of second rank.
biventer
biventer
noun
(anatomy) Any digastric part or organ.
bloviate
bloviate
verb
(intransitive, US) To speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner.
boastive
boastive
adj
(archaic) presumptuous
bonavist
bovarist
bovinity
bovinity
noun
The condition of being bovine.
bravoite
breviate
breviate
noun
A brief missive or dispatch; a note.
A lawyer's brief.
A short account, brief statement; a summary, abridgement or precis
calvatia
captived
captived
adj
(obsolete) Captured; captive.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of captive
captives
captives
noun
plural of captive
caritive
caritive
adj
(grammar) Of or relating to the caritive case.
(grammar) Of words or endings that express a lack of something, for example English homeless/-less or unsalted/un-, Finnish koditon, suolaton, -ton.
cavatina
cavatina
noun
(music) A rather slow, song-like instrumental movement; the title, for example, of a movement in Beethoven's string quartet in B flat, op. 130 (1826) and of a once-famous piece (originally for violin and piano) by Raff, and of the slow movement of Rubra's string quartet No. 2.
(music) An operatic song in slow tempo, either complete in itself or (e.g., in Bellini and Verdi) followed by a faster, more resolute section: hence
cavatine
cavatine
noun
Alternative form of cavatina
cavitary
cavitary
adj
Of or pertaining to a (body) cavity.
cavitate
cavitate
verb
(sciences) To form vapour bubbles in a flowing liquid in a region where the pressure of the liquid falls below its vapour pressure.
caviteno
cavitied
cavitied
adj
Having cavities.
cavities
cavities
noun
plural of cavity
celative
cessavit
cessavit
noun
(UK, law, obsolete) A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
cheviots
cheviots
noun
plural of cheviot
chiveret
cistvaen
cistvaen
noun
Alternative form of kistvaen
civetone
civetone
noun
(organic chemistry) The unsaturated macrocyclic ketone 1-cycloheptadec-9-enone that is a pheromone produced by the civet cat, and is used to add a musky tone to perfumes
civilest
civilest
adj
superlative form of civil: most civil
civilist
civilist
noun
(obsolete) A statesman, politician, or student of the political sciences.
(obsolete) One who studies or works with the civil law.
(obsolete, theology) One who rejects the moral authority of Christ but who nevertheless adheres to a moral code in line with “civil righteousness” and “good citizenship”.
civilite
civility
civility
noun
(chiefly in the plural) An individual act or expression of polite behaviour; a courtesy.
(now archaic) The state or fact of being civilized; civilization.
(obsolete) A civil office; a civil capacity.
Speech or behaviour that is fit for civil interactions; politeness, courtesy.
clavatin
clavatin
noun
patulin
cleveite
cleveite
noun
(mineralogy) A crystalline variety of uraninite.
coactive
coactive
adj
(obsolete) Serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive.
Acting in concurrence; united in action.
cognovit
cognovit
noun
(law) An instrument in writing whereby a defendant in an action acknowledges a plaintiff's demand to be just.
coinvent
coinvent
verb
To invent jointly.
comitiva
comitiva
noun
(historical) A band of brigands in Italy or Sicily.
conative
conative
adj
Of or pertaining to a striving action.
contrive
contrive
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To spend (time, or a period).
To invent by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise
To invent, to make devices; to form designs especially by improvisation.
To project, cast, or set forth, as in a projection of light.
convicts
convicts
noun
plural of convict
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of convict
cooptive
cooptive
adj
Relating to cooption
coveting
coveting
noun
The act of one who covets.
verb
present participle of covet
covetise
covetise
noun
(obsolete) Covetousness; excessive desire for something, especially for acquiring wealth.
creative
creative
adj
(of a created thing) Original, expressive and imaginative.
(set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic.
Designed or executed to deceive or mislead.
Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.
noun
(countable) A person directly involved in a creative marketing process.
(uncountable) Artistic material used in advertising, e.g. photographs, drawings, or video.
cultivar
cultivar
noun
A cultivated (not necessarily botanical) variety of a plant species or hybrid of two species.
curative
curative
adj
(figurative, by extension) Remediative.
(grammar) of a verb, conveying the meaning "the agent makes a patient do something"
Possessing the ability to cure, to heal or treat illness.
noun
A substance that acts as a cure.
curviest
curviest
adj
superlative form of curvy: most curvy
curvital
curvital
adj
Of or relating to curvature.
datively
datively
adv
(rare) As a gift.
davidist
daviston
delative
delative
noun
(grammar) A grammatical case of nouns used, chiefly in Hungarian, to express movement from the surface of something (like "moved off the table").
deletive
deletive
adj
Tending to delete or obliterate.
demivolt
demivolt
noun
A half vault; one of the seven artificial motions of a horse, in which he raises his forelegs in a particular manner.
denotive
denotive
adj
Serving to denote something.
derivant
derivant
adj
Derivative; derived from something.
noun
A drug that is derived from another.
derivate
derivate
adj
Derived; derivative.
noun
Something derived; a derivative.
verb
(obsolete) To derive.
desitive
desitive
adj
(obsolete) Final or conclusive.
noun
(obsolete, logic) An argument that leads to a conclusion.
devexity
devexity
noun
A bending downward; declivity.
deviants
deviants
noun
plural of deviant
deviated
deviated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of deviate
deviates
deviates
noun
plural of deviate
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deviate
deviator
deviator
noun
That which deviates, or causes deviation
devility
devility
noun
The quality of being a devil or like a devil; devilishness.
deviltry
deviltry
noun
Devilry.
devonite
devoting
devoting
verb
present participle of devote
devotion
devotion
noun
(countable, ecclesiastical) A prayer (often found in the plural)
(in the plural, obsolete) Religious offerings; alms.
(uncountable) Feeling of strong or fervent affection; dedication
(uncountable) Religious veneration, zeal, or piety.
(uncountable) The act or state of devoting or being devoted.
dilative
dilative
adj
That dilates, or causes dilation
dilutive
dilutive
adj
Causing dilution.
dimitrov
distaves
distaves
noun
(obsolete) plural of distaff
divagate
divagate
verb
(intransitive) To stray from a subject or theme.
(intransitive) To wander about.
divalent
divalent
adj
(chemistry) Having an atomic valence of 2.
(medicine) Having a vaccine valence of 2.
noun
(chemistry) Any divalent substance.
diverted
diverted
adj
that has been subject to diversion
verb
simple past tense and past participle of divert
diverter
diverter
noun
(game theory) One who uses diversionary tactics.
(telecommunications) A device for forwarding calls to another telephone line.
A person or thing that diverts.
A valve used to change the flow of fluid through a system of pipes.
divertor
divertor
noun
Alternative form of diverter
divested
divested
verb
simple past tense and past participle of divest
dividant
dividant
adj
(obsolete) different; distinct
divident
divident
noun
(obsolete) dividend; share
divinest
divinest
adj
superlative form of divine: most divine
divinity
divinity
noun
(countable) Synonym of deity.
(uncountable) The state, position, or fact of being a god or God. [from 14th c.]
(uncountable) The study of religion or religions.
A celestial being inferior to a supreme God but superior to man.
A type of confectionery made with egg whites, corn syrup, and white sugar.
dmitriev
donative
donative
adj
Being or relating to a donation.
noun
(ecclesiastical law) A benefice conferred on a person by the founder or patron, without either presentation or institution by the ordinary, or induction by his orders.
A gift; a largess; a gratuity.
dovetail
dovetail
noun
(heraldry) A line resembling a dovetail joint (sense 2.1).
A tenon cut into a wedge shape resembling a dove's tail so that it interlocks with a mortise having a corresponding shape in a dovetail joint.
In full dovetail joint: a type of joint where adjoining components are fastened by multiple tenons cut into wedge shapes resembling a dove's tail, which interlock with mortises having corresponding shapes.
The tail of a dove (family Columbidae); also, something having the shape of a dove's tail.
verb
(chiefly woodworking) To unite (components) with a dovetail (noun sense 2.1) or similar joint.
(computing) To interweave (a number of algorithms or subprograms) so that they can be run more or less simultaneously.
(intransitive, figuratively) Of several things: to combine or fit together well.
To combine or fit (things) together well.
durative
durative
adj
(linguistics) Of or pertaining to the aspect of a verb that expresses continuing action; continuative. Part of the imperfective aspect, as opposed to the perfective aspect, of verbs.
Long-lasting.
noun
(linguistics) This aspect, or a verb in this aspect; a continuative.
duvetine
duvetine
noun
Alternative form of duvetyne
eductive
eductive
adj
Tending to draw out; extractive.
egestive
egestive
adj
Of or pertaining to egestion.
eightvos
ejective
ejective
adj
Serving to eject, or characterised by ejection.
noun
(phonetics) A nonpulmonic consonant formed by squeezing air trapped between the glottis and an articulator further forward, and releasing it suddenly.
elatives
elatives
noun
plural of elative
elective
elective
adj
Of, or pertaining to voting or elections; involving a choice between options.
Open to choice; freely chosen.
noun
Something that is an option or may be freely chosen, especially a course of study.
eluviate
eluviate
verb
To cause eluviation.
elvanite
elvanite
noun
elvan
emanativ
enactive
enactive
adj
Having power to enact or establish as a law.
equative
equative
adj
(grammar) Of, pertaining to, or being an equative.
noun
(grammar) A construction showing an equal quality. In English, this is normally formed using as. For example, the equative of happy is as happy as.
(grammar) A grammatical case in certain languages, including Ossetic and Sumerian, that indicates something is like something else. English equivalents include he was the same age as her and he looks like him.
(grammar) A word in the equative form.
equivote
equivote
noun
(obsolete, rare) A hung vote, one having an equal number of votes cast on each side of the question.
erective
erective
adj
Making erect or upright; raising.
ergative
ergative
adj
(grammar) With the subject of a transitive construction having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from that of an intransitive construction.
noun
An ergative verb or other expression.
Ellipsis of ergative case (“a grammatical case used to indicate the agent of a transitive verb in ergative-absolutive languages”).
eruptive
eruptive
adj
(geology) Produced by eruption.
Accompanied by eruptions.
That erupts or bursts forth.
noun
An eruptive rock, one produced by eruption.
estivage
estivate
estivate
verb
(intransitive) To go into stasis or torpor in the summer months.
evansite
evansite
noun
(mineralogy) An amorphous mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus.
evanthia
evanthia
Proper noun
A transliteration of the Greek female given name
evection
evection
noun
(astronomy) Modification of the lunar orbit due to the gravitational effects of the Sun.