In an adaptive manner; with adaptation; in a fitting manner
adaptivity
adaptivity
Noun
The state or quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.
addictives
addictives
noun
plural of addictive
additively
additively
adv
In an additive manner.
additivity
additivity
noun
(countable) The extent to which something is additive
(uncountable) The property of being additive
adequative
adequative
adj
(rare) equivalent or sufficient; adequate.
adjectival
adjectival
adj
(grammar) Of or relating to or functioning as an adjective.
(law) Of or relating to procedure, especially to technicalities thereof.
noun
An adjectival phrase or clause.
adjectives
adjectives
noun
plural of adjective
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adjective
adjunctive
adjunctive
adj
(logic) the property of two operations x and y, such that ax(ayb) = a, and ay(axb) = a
additional; neither basic nor primary
forming an adjunct
noun
(grammar) a connector joining two components of the same weight, such as a coordinating conjunction
(manufacturing) a substance added as a supplement; often in the phrase "additives and adjunctives."
admirative
admirative
adj
Characterized by admiration.
noun
(An instance of) a verb form similar to mirative, found primarily in some languages of the Balkan sprachbund (i.e. namely Albanian, Bulgarian and Macedonian), which expresses surprise, irony, doubt, or reportedness on the part of the speaker (compare mirative).
admonitive
admonitive
adj
Of or conveying admonition
adoptative
adoptative
adj
(rare) adoptive
adoptively
adoptively
adv
In a adoptive manner; by adoption.
adsorptive
adsorptive
adj
Pertaining to, tending toward, or characterized by adsorption.
noun
Any substance that adsorbs.
advantaged
advantaged
adj
(of a person) Financially secure; elite and economically successful.
Having been given an advantage, such as by biased referees in a competition.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of advantage
advantages
advantages
noun
plural of advantage
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advantage
adventists
adventitia
adventitia
noun
(anatomy, histology) The outermost layer of epithelial tissue encasing a visceral organ.
adventured
adventured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of adventure
adventurer
adventurer
noun
(video games) A player of adventure games or text adventures.
A person who seeks a fortune in new and possibly dangerous enterprises.
A person who tries to advance their social position by somewhat devious means.
A soldier of fortune, a speculator.
One who enjoys adventures.
adventures
adventures
noun
plural of adventure
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adventure
advertence
advertence
noun
The quality of being advertent
advertency
advertency
noun
The quality of being advertent.
advertised
advertised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of advertise
advertisee
advertisee
noun
One who views or reads an advertisement; the target of advertising.
advertiser
advertiser
noun
A periodical in which advertisements can be published by individuals.
One who advertises.
advertises
advertises
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advertise
advertized
advertized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of advertize
advertizer
advertizer
noun
One who advertizes.
advertizes
advertizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advertize
advisatory
advisatory
adj
(law) Advisory.
advisement
advisement
noun
(archaic) Advice, counsel.
(now US) Consideration or deliberation.
advocatess
advocatess
noun
(rare, obsolete) A female advocate.
advocating
advocating
verb
present participle of advocate
advocation
advocation
noun
(Britain, law) The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church.
(Scotland, law) The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court.
(archaic) Advocacy; the act of advocating or pleading.
advocative
advocative
adj
(law) Related to advocation
advocatory
advocatory
adj
Characteristic of an advocate.
advocatrix
advolution
advolution
noun
A rolling toward something; goal orientation.
aestivated
aestivated
verb
Alternative spelling of estivated
simple past tense and past participle of aestivate
affidavits
affidavits
noun
plural of affidavit
aggravated
aggravated
adj
(criminology) Of or characterized by factors that increase the heinousness or offensiveness of the criminal offense.
Having become more severe, dangerous or worse than usual before.
Having been the subject of aggravation; frustrated and angry.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of aggravate
alleviated
alleviated
adj
Made more bearable.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of alleviate
alveolated
alveolated
adj
Alternative form of alveolate
animadvert
animadvert
verb
(intransitive) To criticise, to censure.
(intransitive, law, archaic) To turn judicial attention (to); to criticise or punish.
(intransitive, obsolete) To consider.
anteverted
anteverted
adj
Turned or tipped forward.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of antevert
antidivine
antidivine
adj
Opposing or counteracting that which is divine.
apodictive
apodictive
adj
apodictic
autoclaved
autoclaved
verb
simple past tense and past participle of autoclave
avantgarde
avantgarde
noun
Alternative form of avant-garde
avogadrite
avogadrite
noun
(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing boron, cesium, fluorine, and potassium.
barneveldt
benediktov
captivated
captivated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of captivate
coadjutive
coadjutive
adj
Rendering mutual aid; coadjutant.
coadjuvant
coadjuvant
adj
cooperating
noun
(medicine) An adjuvant.
coadjuvate
conditivia
conductive
conductive
adj
Able to conduct electrical current or heat.
Of, or relating to conductivity of a material.
convertend
convertend
noun
(logic) Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the converse.
convocated
convocated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of convocate
convoluted
convoluted
adj
(chiefly anatomy, zoology) Having numerous overlapping coils or folds; convolute.
(figuratively) Complex, complicated, or intricate.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of convolute
covenanted
covenanted
adj
Bound by a covenant.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of covenant
cultivated
cultivated
adj
(of a person) cultured, refined, educated
(of a plant) grown by cultivation (not wild)
(of land) farmed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cultivate
davenports
davenports
noun
plural of davenport
deactivate
deactivate
verb
(ergative) to make something inactive or no longer effective
to prevent the action of a biochemical agent (such as an enzyme)
to remove a person or piece of hardware from active military service
deatsville
decorative
decorative
adj
That serves to decorate
noun
A plant, tile, etc. intended for use as decoration.
decreative
dedicative
dedicative
adj
Relating to dedication.
defectives
defectives
noun
plural of defective
definitive
definitive
adj
(philately) general, not issued for commemorative purposes
conclusive or decisive
definite, authoritative and complete
explicitly defined
limiting; determining
noun
(grammar) a word, such as a definite article or demonstrative pronoun, that defines or limits something
(philately) an ordinary postage stamp that is part of a series of all denominations or is reprinted as needed to meet demand
deflective
deflective
adj
capable of causing deflection.
defunctive
defunctive
adj
(archaic) funereal
delegative
delineavit
deltaville
demivotary
denotative
denotative
adj
Specific to the primary meaning of a term.
That denotes or names; designative.
denudative
denudative
adj
That causes denudation.
depositive
depositive
adj
(medicine) Describing a condition in which lymph is exuded into the derma, forming papules.
Involving or relating to the process of depositing.
depurative
depurative
adj
(medicine) Purifying the blood or humours; depuratory.
noun
Any depurative remedy or agent.
Any disease that is depurative.
deputative
derivately
derivation
derivation
noun
(genealogy, linguistics) The act of tracing origin or descent.
(grammar) Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it.
(mathematics) The operation of deducing one function from another according to a fixed definition, referred to as derivation or differentiation; this is the inverse operation to integration.
(medicine) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
That from which a thing is derived.
That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction.
The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
derivatist
derivative
derivative
adj
(finance) Having a value that depends on an underlying asset of variable value.
(law, copyright law) Referring to a work, such as a translation or adaptation, based on another work that may be subject to copyright restrictions.
Imitative of the work of someone else.
Lacking originality.
Obtained by derivation; not radical, original, or fundamental.
noun
(Of a function of a single variable f(x)) The derived function of f(x): the function giving the instantaneous rate of change of f; equivalently, the function giving the slope of the line tangent to the graph of f. Written f'(x) or (df)/(dx) in Leibniz's notation, ̇f(x) in Newton's notation (the latter used particularly when the independent variable is time).
(Of more general classes of functions) Any of several related generalizations of the derivative: the directional derivative, partial derivative, Fréchet derivative, functional derivative, etc.
(chemistry) A chemical derived from another.
(finance) A financial instrument whose value depends on the valuation of an underlying asset; such as a warrant, an option etc.
(generally) The linear operator that maps functions to their derived functions, usually written D; the simplest differential operator.
(linguistics) A word that derives from another one.
Something derived.
The value of such a derived function for a given value of its independent variable: the rate of change of a function at a point in its domain.
derogative
derogative
adj
Disparaging; tending or intending to be belittling.
Of or pertaining to derogation; that derogates
noun
(rare) A derogatory word or word-form.
desolative
detectives
detectives
noun
plural of detective
detonative
detonative
adj
(of an explosive, or ordnance) That is liable to detonate spontaneously
detractive
detractive
adj
Tending to detract or draw.
Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.
devaluated
devaluated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of devaluate
devaluates
devaluates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devaluate
devaporate
devastated
devastated
adj
Extremely upset and shocked.
Ruined, ravaged.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of devastate
devastates
devastates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devastate
devastator
devastator
noun
one who devastates.
devastavit
devastavit
noun
(property law) In full, writ of devastavit: a writ issued against an executor or administrator claiming compensation for such misapplication of assets.
(property law) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or administrator; devastation.
developist
deviations
deviations
noun
plural of deviation
devilments
devilments
noun
plural of devilment
deviltries
deviltries
noun
plural of deviltry
devitalise
devitalise
verb
Alternative form of devitalize
devitalize
devitalize
verb
To deprive of vitality; to make lifeless; to weaken.
devitation
devitation
noun
(obsolete) A warning.
(obsolete) An avoiding or escaping.
devocation
devocation
noun
A calling off or away.
devolution
devolution
noun
(derogatory) Degeneration (as opposed to evolution).
(government) The transfer of some powers and the delegation of some functions from a central government to local government (e.g. from the U.K. parliament to Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly).
A descent, especially one that passes through a series of revolutions, or by succession
A rolling down.
The transference of a right to a successor, or of a power from one body to another.
devolutive
devoration
devoration
noun
(obsolete) The act of devouring.
devorative
devoteeism
devoteeism
noun
The role or state of a devotee.
devotement
devotement
noun
The state of being devoted, or set apart by a vow.
devotional
devotional
adj
(usually religious) Of or pertaining to devotion or worship.
noun
A brief religious service.
A text or piece of music or writing to be used for devotion.
devourment
devourment
noun
The act of devouring something.
devoutless
devoutless
adj
Destitute of devotion.
devoutness
devoutness
noun
The state or quality of being devout.
dilatative
dilatative
adj
Of, pertaining to, or causing dilatation
diminutive
diminutive
adj
(grammar) Of or pertaining to, or creating a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
(obsolete) Serving to diminish.
noun
(grammar) A word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
directives
directives
noun
plural of directive
discretive
discretive
adj
Marking distinction or separation; disjunctive.
disportive
disruptive
disruptive
adj
(business) Causing major change, as in a market.
Causing disruption or unrest.
dissective
dissective
adj
(grammar) Referring to a number of individual or separate things rather than a mass (e.g. snowflakes rather than snow).
Tending to dissect.
dissentive
dissentive
adj
(obsolete) disagreeing; inconsistent
dissolvent
dissolvent
adj
Capable of dissolution into a fluid.
Having power to dissolve a solid body.
noun
A substance which can dissolve or be dissolved into a liquid.
distensive
distensive
adj
distending, or capable of being distended
distortive
distortive
adj
Causing distortion.
disvantage
disventure
disventure
noun
(obsolete) A disadventure.
diumvirate
divagating
divagating
verb
present participle of divagate
divagation
divagation
noun
(medicine) Incoherent or wandering speech and thought.
Straying off from a course or way.
divagatory
divaricate
divaricate
adj
(botany) Having wide angles between the branches.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To spread apart; to (cause to) diverge or branch off.
divertedly
divertible
divertible
adj
Alternative form of divertable
diverticle
diverticle
noun
(anatomy, obsolete) A diverticulum.
(obsolete) A turning; a byway.
divestible
divestible
adj
Capable of being divested.
divestment
divestment
noun
(finance) The sale or other disposal of some kind of asset.
divination
divination
noun
(countable) An indication of what is to come in the future or what is secret; a prediction.
(uncountable) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.
The apparent art of discovering secrets or the future by preternatural means.
divinatory
divinatory
adj
Pertaining to divination.
divinister
divinistre
divinistre
Noun
A diviner.
divinities
divinities
noun
plural of divinity
divulgated
divulgated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of divulgate
divulgater
divulgater
noun
(obsolete) One who divulges.
divulgator
divulgator
noun
Teacher.
dominative
dominative
adj
Exhibiting or pertaining to domination.
donatively
donatively
adv
As a donation.
By means of donations.
dostoevski
dostoevsky
dovetailed
dovetailed
adj
(carpentry) Having a dovetail joint.
(heraldry) Involving a wavy line in the form of triangles, resembling a dovetail.