(biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
(linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, utilizing omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @.
(mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
(music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
(music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
The process of abbreviating.
The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
abbreviations
abbreviations
noun
plural of abbreviation
abdominovesical
abdominovesical
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the abdomen and the urinary bladder
abevacuation
abevacuation
noun
(medicine) An abnormal evacuation.
(medicine) Metastases.
abortiveness
abortiveness
noun
(countable) The result or product of being abortive.
(uncountable) The quality of being abortive.
abovementioned
abovementioned
adj
(literary) mentioned above
absorptiveness
absorptiveness
noun
The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power.
adverbiation
ambiversion
ambiversion
noun
(psychology) A personality trait having balanced characteristics of both extroversion and introversion.
ambiversions
antisubversion
antisubversion
adj
Opposing or countering political subversion.
approbativeness
approbativeness
noun
The state or quality of being approbative.
avicebron
bacteriosolvent
bartonsville
bartonville
bedcovering
bedcovering
noun
bedcover
bedcoverings
bedcoverings
noun
plural of bedcovering
beethovenian
beethovenian
Adjective
Of or pertaining to in particular his style of music.
beethovenish
beethovian
beethovian
Adjective
Of or pertaining to in particular his style of music.
behooving
behooving
verb
present participle of behoove
behoovingly
behoovingly
adv
Alternative form of behovingly
behoving
behoving
verb
present participle of behove
benediktov
benevolist
bentonville
benzoflavine
bevington
bevomiting
bevomiting
verb
present participle of bevomit
biconcave
biconcave
adj
(optics, anatomy) Having both sides concave
biconcavities
biconcavities
noun
plural of biconcavity
biconvex
biconvex
adj
Having both sides convex.
biconvexities
biconvexities
noun
plural of biconvexity
biconvexity
biconvexity
noun
The quality of being biconvex.
bidonville
bidonville
noun
A shantytown or slum, in French-speaking regions.
bidonvilles
bidonvilles
noun
plural of bidonville
bioenvironmental
bioenvironmental
adj
Of or pertaining to the interactions between the environment and living organisms
bioenvironmentaly
bivoltine
bivoltine
adj
(biology) Having two broods or generations in a year
noun
(biology) A bivoltine organism.
blepharoconjunctivitis
blepharoconjunctivitis
noun
(medicine) The combination of conjunctivitis and blepharitis.
blountsville
blountsville
Proper noun
A town in
A town in
blountville
blountville
Proper noun
A in the U.S. state of that is the of
boissevain
bolshevikian
bolshevization
bolshevizing
bolshevizing
verb
present participle of bolshevize
bonaventurism
bonaveria
bondsville
bondville
boneville
bonneville
bonnieville
bonnive
booneville
booneville
Proper noun
a city in Arkansas, USA
an unincorporated community in Iowa, USA.
a small city in Kentucky, USA
a city in Mississippi, USA
an unincorporated community in Tennessee, USA.
boonville
bordelonville
bougainvillaea
bougainvillaea
noun
Alternative spelling of bougainvillea
bougainvillaeas
bougainvillaeas
noun
plural of bougainvillaea
bougainville
bougainvillea
bougainvillea
noun
Any of several South American flowering shrubs or lianas, of the genus Bougainvillea, having three showy, colorful bracts attached below each group of three inconspicuous flowers.
bougainvilliidae
bourneville
bouvines
bovensmilde
bovine
bovine
adj
(not comparable) Belonging to the family, subfamily, tribe, or genera including cows, buffalo, and bison.
(not comparable) Of or pertaining to cattle.
Sluggish, dull, slow-witted.
noun
An animal of the family, subfamily, tribe, or genera including cattle, buffaloes and bison.
bovinely
bovinely
adv
In a bovine manner
sluggishly
bovines
bovines
noun
plural of bovine
bovinities
bovinities
noun
plural of bovinity
bovovaccine
bovovaccine
noun
(historical) A vaccine to prevent tuberculosis in cattle.
bowmansville
brandonville
breviconic
breviconic
adj
(malacology) Relating to, or composed of, brevicones.
breviloquence
breviloquence
noun
A pertinent and terse style of speech.
breviloquent
breviloquent
adj
Exhibiting breviloquence; concise.
brevirostrines
bronchovesicular
bronchovesicular
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the bronchus and vesicles.
bronxville
brooklandville
brownsville
brownsville
Proper noun
The name of many places in the United States of America:
a former settlement in California.
an unincorporated community in California.
a CDP in Florida.
an unincorporated community in Florida.
a ghost town in Illinois. It was the former county seat.
an unincorporated community in Illinois.
an unincorporated community in Indiana.
a small home-rule class city in Kentucky
an unincorporated community and CDP in Louisiana.
an unincorporated community and CDP in Maryland.
a small city in Minnesota.
an unincorporated community in Mississippi.
a neighbourhood in New York City.
a CDP in Ohio.
a city in Oregon.
a borough in Pennsylvania.
an unincorporated community in Pennsylvania.
an unincorporated community in South Dakota.
a city in Tennessee
a city in Texas
an unincorporated community in Vermont.
an unincorporated community in Washington.
an unincorporated community in West Virginia.
a village in Wisconsin.
a former community in British Columbia, Canada.
a community in Ontario, Canada.
a suburb of New South Wales, Australia.
brownville
bucorvinae
burtonsville
collaborativeness
collaborativeness
noun
quality of being collaborative
combativeness
combativeness
noun
the state of being combative
combinantive
combinative
combinative
adj
Of, pertaining to, or resulting from combination.
Serving, tending, or able to combine.
conceivability
conceivability
noun
Something that is conceivable.
The characteristic of being conceivable; the ability to be conceived, believed, or understood.
conceivable
conceivable
adj
Capable of being conceived or imagined
conceivableness
conceivableness
noun
The state or quality of being conceivable.
conceivably
conceivably
adv
In a conceivable manner; possibly.
constableville
consubstantive
contributive
contributive
adj
Tending to contribute; making a contribution
contributively
contributively
adv
In a contributive fashion.
contributiveness
contributiveness
noun
The quality of being contributive.
contrivable
contrivable
adj
Capable of being contrived, invented, or devised.
controvertibility
controvertible
controvertible
adj
Open to questioning; that which can be denied, challenged, or disputed.
controvertibly
controvertibly
adv
In a controvertible manner.
conversationable
conversationable
adj
Synonym of conversable (“able and inclined to engage in conversation”)
conversibility
conversible
conversible
adj
(archaic) Capable of being converted.
(obsolete) Capable of being substituted or swapped (with another thing).
Alternative form of conversable
convertibility
convertibility
noun
The quality of a currency of being exchangeable for gold or other currencies
The quality of being convertible
convertible
convertible
adj
(finance) Able to be exchanged for a different class of security (usually common stock) under certain set terms.
(historical numismatics) Able to be exchanged for specie.
(logic) Able to undergo conversion (i.e., inversion) without falsehood.
(numismatics) Able to be exchanged for foreign currency.
(obsolete) Able to be easily digested.
(obsolete) Able to be turned in a different direction.
(vehicles) Able to change from a closed to an open frame and back again.
Able to be exchanged, one for the other, especially
Able to be turned to a different purpose.
Able to be turned to a different religion or belief.
noun
(computing) A computer able to convert from laptop to tablet and back again.
(dated, in the plural) Interchangeable things or terms.
(finance) A convertible security: a stock, bond, etc. that can be turned into another (usually common stock) under certain set terms.
(vehicles) A convertible car: a car with a removable or foldable roof able to convert from a closed to open vehicle and back again.
convertibleness
convertibleness
noun
The state of being convertible; convertibility.
convertibles
convertibles
noun
plural of convertible
convertibly
convertibly
adv
in a convertible manner
conveyability
conveyability
noun
Ability to be conveyed.
convictable
convictable
adj
Capable of being convicted.
convictible
convincible
convincible
adj
(obsolete) Capable of being disproved by argument; refutable.
Capable of being convinced or won over.
convulsible
convulsible
adj
Subject to convulsions.
countervibration
craniovertebral
craniovertebral
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the cranium and vertebrae.
dissolvableness
dissolvableness
noun
The quality of being dissolvable.
divebombing
divebombing
verb
present participle of divebomb
everblooming
everblooming
adj
Describes a plant that blooms throughout the growing season.
forgivableness
gibbonsville
gibsonville
governability
governability
noun
The ability to be governed.
graverobbing
graverobbing
noun
The practice of illegally removing corpses (or other items) from graves, originally to supply cadavers for medical study.
hebbronville
herbivorousness
herbivorousness
noun
The state or quality of being herbivorous.
hereinabove
hereinabove
adv
Above this, in this document.
Earth and heaven (here and above).
hyperobtrusiveness
immovableness
immovableness
noun
The quality of being immovable.
immoveableness
improvableness
improvableness
noun
Quality of being improvable; capability of improvement.
inamovable
inamovable
adj
Not amovable.
inconceivabilities
inconceivabilities
noun
plural of inconceivability
inconceivability
inconceivability
noun
(countable) Something inconceivable.
(uncountable) The quality of being inconceivable.
inconceivable
inconceivable
adj
Unable to be conceived or imagined; unbelievable.
inconceivableness
inconceivableness
noun
The quality of being inconceivable.
inconceivably
inconceivably
adv
In an inconceivable manner, not believable or understandable.
inconcievable
incontrovertibility
incontrovertibility
noun
The state or characteristic of being incontrovertible, of not being debatable; incontestability.
incontrovertible
incontrovertible
adj
Not capable of being denied, challenged, or disputed; closed to questioning.
incontrovertibleness
incontrovertibleness
noun
The quality of being incontrovertible.
incontrovertibly
incontrovertibly
adv
In an incontrovertible manner; in a manner not capable of being denied, challenged, or disputed.
inconversable
inconversable
adj
(obsolete) uncommunicative; reserved
inconversibility
inconvertibilities
inconvertibilities
noun
plural of inconvertibility
inconvertibility
inconvertibility
noun
The condition of being inconvertible
inconvertible
inconvertible
adj
Not convertible
inconvertibleness
inconvertibleness
noun
The quality of being inconvertible.
inconvertibly
inconvertibly
adv
In an inconvertible manner.
inconvincible
inconvincible
adj
Incapable of being convinced.
indiscoverable
indiscoverable
adj
Unable to be discovered, undiscoverable, not discoverable.
indiscoverably
indiscoverably
adv
So that it cannot be discovered.
indissolvable
indissolvable
adj
Not dissolvable; incapable of being dissolved or separated.