(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.
adoptive
adoptive
adj
Pertaining to adoption.
Related through adoption.
anviltop
approval
approval
noun
(especially philately) Something mailed by a seller to a collector to match their stated interests; the collector can approve of or return the item.
An expression granting permission; an indication of agreement with a proposal; an acknowledgement that a person, thing, or event meets requirements.
An expression of favorable acceptance and encouragement; a compliment that also condones.
approved
approved
adj
(archaic) Proven or demonstrated by experience.
Having received approval.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of approve
approver
approver
noun
(dated, law) In English common law, a person who accuses a confederate; one who commits approvement.
One who approves or gives approval.
approves
approves
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of approve
arivaipa
breviped
breviped
adj
(zoology) Having short feet or legs.
brevipen
brevipen
noun
(zoology) A brevipennate bird.
buplever
buplever
noun
A bupleurum.
calipeva
captived
captived
adj
(obsolete) Captured; captive.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of captive
captives
captives
noun
plural of captive
champlev
cooptive
cooptive
adj
Relating to cooption
copaivic
coverups
coverups
noun
plural of coverup
depraved
depraved
adj
(archaic) Distorted out of the normal course; abnormal.
Perverted or extremely wrong in a moral sense.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of deprave
depraver
depraver
noun
One who depraves or corrupts.
depraves
depraves
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deprave
deprival
deprival
noun
The condition of being deprived
deprived
deprived
adj
Subject to deprivation; poor.
verb
past participle of deprive
depriver
depriver
noun
One who deprives.
deprives
deprives
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deprive
develope
develope
verb
Archaic spelling of develop.
develops
develops
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of develop
disprove
disprove
verb
To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.
disvelop
disvelop
verb
Obsolete form of develop.
drivecap
eavedrop
eavedrop
noun
A drop falling from the eaves of a building; an eavesdrop.
envapour
envelope
envelope
noun
(astronomy) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; a coma.
(biology) An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane; a space between two membranes
(computing) The information used for routing a message that is transmitted with the message but not part of its contents.
(electronics) A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.
(engineering) The set of limitations within which a technological system can perform safely and effectively.
(geometry) A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a given family of lines, curves, surfaces, or higher-dimensional objects.
(music) The shape of a sound, which may be controlled by a synthesizer or sampler.
A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.
A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.
An earthwork in the form of a single parapet or a small rampart, sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.
Something that envelops; a wrapping.
verb
Archaic form of envelop.
envelops
envelops
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of envelop
epivalve
epivalve
noun
The apical (top) valve of a diatom
eruptive
eruptive
adj
(geology) Produced by eruption.
Accompanied by eruptions.
That erupts or bursts forth.
noun
An eruptive rock, one produced by eruption.
fevercup
fivepins
fivepins
noun
The game of fivepin bowling.
plural of fivepin
flopover
flopover
noun
(television) A form of television signal distortion where the displayed image appears to scroll vertically rather than remaining still.
gapville
impluvia
improved
improved
adj
That has been made better; enhanced.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of improve
improver
improver
noun
(historical) A pad worn by women to make the dress hang properly.
(obsolete) Specifically, a person who improves land or property, a landscaper.
A substance added to cause improvement (especially to a foodstuff).
One who improves his or her performance, one who shows improvement (of individuals or groups).
Something that, or someone who, improves something.
improves
improves
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of improve
kavaphis
levodopa
levodopa
noun
Alternative form of ʟ-dopa
levophed
lipsalve
lipsalve
noun
Alternative form of lip salve
livetrap
livetrap
verb
Alternative spelling of live-trap
lopheavy
napavine
optative
optative
adj
(grammar) Related or pertaining to the optative mood.
Expressing a wish or a choice.
noun
(grammar) A mood of verbs found in some languages (e.g. Sanskrit, Old Prussian, and Ancient Greek, but not English), used to express a wish.
(grammar) A verb or expression in the optative mood.
ovenpeel
overcape
overcrop
overcrop
verb
To cultivate land excessively and thus exhaust its fertility
overdeep
overdeep
adj
Excessively deep.
overdrip
overflap
overheap
overheap
verb
(transitive) To heap too high; heap up excessively; supply too much of.
overhelp
overhelp
verb
To supply with too much help.
overhope
overhope
noun
(UK dialectal) Hopefulness; sanguineness.
Excessive hope or anticipation; presumption.
verb
(transitive, UK dialectal) To hope constantly.
To hope excessively; presume.
overhype
overhype
verb
(transitive) To promote or publicize excessively.
overjump
overjump
verb
(intransitive) To jump too far or too high.
(transitive) To jump over.
(transitive, obsolete) To omit or ignore.
overkeep
overkeep
verb
(transitive) To keep or observe too strictly.
(transitive) To keep too long.
overlaps
overlaps
noun
plural of overlap
overleap
overleap
verb
(dated, reflexive) To make too much effort in leaping; to leap too far.
(transitive) To leap over, to jump over, to cross by jumping.
(transitive) To pass over; to omit, leave out.
overloup
overpack
overpack
noun
A container intended to hold smaller containers.
verb
(intransitive) To pack too much.
overpaid
overpaid
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overpay
overpark
overpark
verb
(intransitive) To park (a vehicle) for longer than is permitted.
overpart
overpart
noun
An upper part.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To give too important or difficult a part to.
overpass
overpass
noun
A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc.
verb
(transitive) To disregard, skip, or miss something.
(transitive) To exceed, overstep, or transcend a limit, threshold, or goal.
To pass above something, as when flying or moving on a higher road.
overpast
overpast
adj
(archaic) ended; having passed over or passed by
overpays
overpays
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overpay
overpeck
overpeer
overpeer
verb
(figuratively) To rise above.
To peer over; to overlook.
overpert
overpert
adj
Excessively pert.
overpick
overplan
overplan
verb
(transitive) To plan in too much detail.
overplay
overplay
verb
(transitive) To overestimate one's strength in a game or event, which ultimately may end in a defeat.
(transitive) To play (a song or record) too frequently.
(transitive, golf) To accidentally hit (one's golf ball) beyond "the green".
(transitive, intransitive) To overdo or overact one's effect or role.
overplot
overplot
verb
(transitive) To plot (data) on top of a previous plot.
overplow
overplow
verb
Alternative spelling of overplough
overplus
overplus
noun
That which remains beyond what is necessary or required; a surplus.
overpole
overpost
overpost
noun
(accounting) An entry that has been posted more than once to a journal.
(cartography) An overlap of two graphic elements.
verb
(cartography) To print a text label or other graphic feature on top of another symbol.
(computing) To breach security by overwriting data that is not intended for user input.
To pass over swiftly, as if by post.
To place a poster so that it covers all or part of another poster.
To post too much or too often.
overpour
overpour
verb
To pour an excessive amount.
To pour on top of something else.
overpray
overpuff
overpump
overpump
verb
To pump excessively.
overripe
overripe
adj
Excessively ripe; spoiled; gone bad.
overskip
overskip
verb
To skip or leap over; to treat with indifference.
overslip
overslip
verb
(transitive) To omit or neglect.
(transitive) To slip or slide over; to pass easily or carelessly beyond.
to overslip time or opportunity
overslop
overslop
noun
(obsolete) An outer garment or slop.
oversoap
overspan
overspan
verb
(transitive) To reach or extend over.
overspin
overspin
noun
A rotational motion, especially that given to a ball, in which the upper surface spins in the direction of motion; topspin;top.
An excessive amount of spin applied to a projectile such that its nose does not turn down at the summit of the trajectory.
verb
To spin too much or too far.
overspun
overspun
adj
(textiles) Too tightly spun.
overstep
overstep
noun
A gait in which the hind foot touches ground in front of where the front foot touches the ground.
A movement in which one oversteps.
verb
(transitive) To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.
To move with a gait such that the hind foot touches the ground forward of the point where the front foot touches the ground.
To take a step in which the foot touches ground too far forward.
oversups
oversups
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of oversup
overtips
overtips
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overtip
overtops
overtops
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overtop
overtype
overtype
noun
(computing, uncountable) A feature in wordprocessing whereby each typed character replaces the character after the cursor rather than being inserted before it.
(historical, countable) A kind of steam wagon having the engine above the cab.
verb
To type on top of something already typed.
overweep
overwhip
overwhip
verb
(transitive) To whip (cream, etc.) too much, so as to spoil the texture.
overwrap
overwrap
noun
A secondary wrapper covering an item.
verb
(transitive) To wrap in a secondary wrapper.
To provide with too many wrappings.
To wrap such that the wrapping goes beyond the edge.
oviparal
oviposit
oviposit
verb
(intransitive, formal) To lay eggs
oviscapt
ovoplasm
pacative
pacative
adj
(formal) Relating to pacation.
pahlavis
pahlavis
noun
plural of pahlavi
palative
palative
adj
(obsolete) Pleasing to the taste; palatable.
palavers
palavers
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of palaver
palgrave
palgrave
noun
Alternative form of palsgrave
palstave
palstave
noun
A prehistoric bronze axe.
pandavas
pandavas
Noun
A mytho-historical group of archetypes of perfection, the the five acknowledged sons of Pandu, according to the Indian epic Mahabharata.
paravail
paravail
adj
At the bottom; lowest (said of feudal tenants).
paravane
paravane
noun
(nautical) A device, stabilized with vanes, towed alongside a vessel such that the cable attaching it cuts the moorings of submerged mines.
(nautical) A towed underwater object with hydrofoils, of diverse uses.
paravant
paravant
adv
(obsolete, rare) Pre-eminently; first.
paravent
paravent
noun
A windscreen.
parseval
parvenue
parvenue
noun
female equivalent of parvenu
parvenus
parvenus
noun
plural of parvenu
parvises
parvises
noun
plural of parvis
plural of parvise
parvolin
parvolin
noun
Alternative form of parvoline
parvulus
parzival
passival
passival
noun
(grammar) An archaic progressive construction in middle voice (syntactically active but semantically passive), replaced by the passive progressive in modern English. For example, "the house is building", "the meal was eating", "the trunks were carrying down" (today "the house is being built", "the meal is being eaten").
passives
passives
noun
plural of passive
passover
passover
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Passover
patavian
pavement
pavement
noun
(architecture) The interior flooring of a church sanctuary, between the communion rail and the altar.
(chiefly British) A paved path, for the use of pedestrians, located at the side of a road.
(now chiefly Canada, US) A paving (paved part) of a road or other thoroughfare; the roadway or road surface.
(now chiefly Canada, US) The paved part of an area other than a road or sidewalk, such as a cobblestone plaza, asphalt schoolyard or playground, or parking lot.
(now chiefly in technical contexts) A paved surface; a hard covering on the ground.
pavidity
pavidity
noun
(rare) timidity
pavilion
pavilion
noun
(anatomy) The cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle.
(anatomy) The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
(cricket) The building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals.
(heraldry) A tent used as a bearing.
(military) A flag, ensign, or banner.
A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
A detached or semi-detached building at a hospital or other building complex.
A flag or ensign carried at the gaff of the mizzenmast.
A light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place.
A structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc.
An ornate tent.
The lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone, lying between the girdle and collet.
verb
(transitive) To furnish with a pavilion.
(transitive) To put inside a pavilion.
(transitive, figuratively) To enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour").
pavillon
pavillon
noun
Archaic form of pavilion.
paviotso
paviours
paviours
noun
plural of paviour
pavisade
pavisade
noun
A row of shields hung on the side of a ship to protect it at war and discourage boarding by enemies.
pavisado
pavisers
pavkovic
pavlodar
pavlodar
Proper noun
A city on the Irtysh River in the northeast of Kazakhstan.
pavonian
pavonian
adj
Of or pertaining to the peacock
pavonine
pavonine
adj
Of or pertaining to the genus Pavo or its family Pavonidae, including the peafowl.
Possessing the coloring or iridescence of a peacock feather.
Showy, like a peacock's tail; exhibiting vanity.
noun
Any bird from the family Pavonidae.
Tarnish found on some ores and metals which resembles the tail feathers of a peacock.
pavonize
peccavis
peccavis
noun
plural of peccavi
peevedly
peevedly
adv
In a peeved manner.
pelvetia
pelvises
pelvises
noun
plural of pelvis
pensived
pensived
adj
(obsolete, nonce word) Made pensive.
perceive
perceive
verb
(transitive) To become aware of, through the physical senses, to see; to understand.
To interpret something in a particular way
perceval
percival
perijove
perijove
noun
Periapsis around Jupiter.
persolve
peruvian
peruvian
Noun
A person from Peru or of Peruvian descent.
Adjective
Of, from, or pertaining to Peru or the Peruvian people.