Of or relating to any of various early Paleolithic sites, particularly in Europe, that are characterized by the presence of bifacial stone axes.
Proper noun
The earliest epoch of the early Paleolithic stage or tradition characterized by the presence of bifacial stone axes, especially in Europe. name = oxf/>
abbreviatable
abbreviatable
adj
Capable of being abbreviated.
abbreviate
abbreviate
adj
(biology) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.
(obsolete) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.
noun
(obsolete, Scotland) An abridgment.
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To speak or write in a brief manner.
(obsolete, transitive) To shorten by omitting parts or details.
(transitive) To make shorter; to shorten (in time); to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned.
(transitive) To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form.
(transitive, mathematics) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
abbreviated
abbreviated
adj
Relatively short; shorter than normal, or compared to others.
Scanty, as in clothing.
Shortened; made briefer.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abbreviate
abbreviately
abbreviately
adv
In an abbreviate way.
abbreviates
abbreviates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abbreviate
abbreviating
abbreviating
verb
present participle of abbreviate
abbreviation
abbreviation
noun
(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
abbreviator
abbreviator
noun
(Roman Catholicism, historical) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty was to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.
A person who abbreviates or shortens.
abbreviators
abbreviators
noun
plural of abbreviator
abbreviatory
abbreviatory
adj
Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.
abbreviature
abbreviature
noun
(obsolete) An abbreviated state or form.
(obsolete) The process of abbreviating.
A shortened form of a word or phrase, used in place of the whole; an abbreviation.
An abridgment; a compendium; an abstract.
abbyville
abdicative
abdicative
adj
(rare) Causing, or implying, abdication.
noun
(logic) A reasoning from the negative
abditive
abditive
adj
(rare) Having the quality of hiding
abdominovesical
abdominovesical
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the abdomen and the urinary bladder
aberdavine
aberdevine
aberdevine
noun
(obsolete outside dialects) The Eurasian siskin or spruce siskin, Spinus spinus, a small green and yellow finch related to the goldfinch.
aberduvine
aberduvine
noun
Alternative form of aberdevine.
aberrative
aberrative
adj
Having deviated or been knocked, momentarily and sharply, from the more dominant or expected course or trajectory.
abessive
abessive
adj
(grammar) Of, or relating to the grammatical case used in some languages to indicate absence.
noun
(grammar) The abessive case, or a word in this case.
abevacuation
abevacuation
noun
(medicine) An abnormal evacuation.
(medicine) Metastases.
abirritative
abirritative
adj
(pharmacology) Characterized by abirritation or debility.
(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.
ablatively
ablatively
adv
In an ablative manner.
ablatives
ablatives
noun
plural of ablative
abnegative
abnegative
adj
(obsolete, rare): Denying; renouncing; negative
aborsive
aborsive
adj
(obsolete) abortive from the first.
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.
abortively
abortively
adv
In an abortive or untimely manner; immaturely; fruitlessly.
abortiveness
abortiveness
noun
(countable) The result or product of being abortive.
(uncountable) The quality of being abortive.
abovementioned
abovementioned
adj
(literary) mentioned above
abovesaid
abovesaid
adj
Mentioned or recited before.
abovestairs
abovestairs
noun
Alternative form of above stairs.
abrasive
abrasive
adj
Being rough and coarse in manner or disposition; overly aggressive and causing irritation.
Producing abrasion; rough enough to wear away the outer surface.
noun
(geology) Rock fragments, sand grains, mineral particles, used by water, wind, and ice to abrade a land surface.
A hard inorganic substance or material consisting in powder or granule form such as sandpaper, pumice, or emery, used for cleaning, smoothing, or polishing.
abrasively
abrasively
adv
Hardly; roughly; in a rough manner.
In an abrasive manner; in a rude and unkind manner; acting in a way that may hurt other people's feelings.
abrasiveness
abrasiveness
noun
The property, quality or instance of being abrasive.
abrasivenesses
abrasivenesses
noun
plural of abrasiveness
abrasives
abrasives
noun
plural of abrasive
abreuvoir
abreuvoir
noun
(obsolete, masonry) The joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar.
A cold water drinking fountain (for people) typically found in a public location; more generally, any fountain or water source (including for animals like birds, horses etc).
abrogative
abrogative
adj
Tending or designed to abrogate.
absolutive
absolutive
adj
(grammar) Of or pertaining to the grammatical case used to indicate the patient or experiencer of a verb’s action.
(rare) Of, exhibiting, or pertaining to absolution; absolutory, absolving.
noun
(grammar) An uninflected verb form used to indicate another action performed by the subject of the principal verb.
(grammar) The absolutive case, or a phrase that uses it.
absorptive
absorptive
adj
Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe; absorbent.
noun
Any substance that absorbs.
absorptively
absorptively
adv
In an absorptive way.
absorptiveness
absorptiveness
noun
The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power.
In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language.
abusiveness
abusiveness
noun
The quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person.
abusivenesses
achievability
achievability
noun
The state or condition of being achievable.
achievable
achievable
adj
Capable of being achieved, which either means possible or probable.
Not linked to fate or outside influences.
activable
activable
adj
Capable of being activated
adumbrative
adumbrative
adj
Of or pertaining to adumbration
adumbratively
adumbratively
adv
In an adumbrative manner
adverbial
adverbial
adj
(grammar) Of or relating to an adverb.
noun
(grammar) An adverbial word or phrase.
adverbiality
adverbiality
noun
The condition of having characteristics of an adverb.
adverbialize
adverbialize
verb
(American spelling) To use as or change into an adverb.
adverbially
adverbially
adv
As, or in the manner of, an adverb.
adverbiation
advertisable
advertisable
adj
Suitable for being advertised.
advertizable
advertizable
adj
Alternative spelling of advertisable
advisabilities
advisabilities
noun
plural of advisability
advisable
advisable
adj
(of a course of action) Worthy of being recommended; desirable.
(of a person) Capable of being advised or willing to be advised.
advisableness
advisableness
noun
Synonym of advisability
airbrasive
airbrasive
noun
(dentistry) A device that delivers a jet of sodium bicarbonate slurry at teeth in order to remove stains.
albertville
albertville
Proper noun
A town in the département of Savoie.
albificative
albrightsville
alveololabial
alveololabial
adj
Synonym of labioalveolar
ambilaevous
ambilaevous
adj
Alternative spelling of ambilevous
ambilevous
ambilevous
adj
(rare) Having equally bad ability in both hands; clumsy; butterfingered.
ambivalence
ambivalence
noun
A state of uncertainty or indecisiveness.
The coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings (such as love and hate) towards a person, object or idea.
ambivalences
ambivalences
noun
plural of ambivalence
ambivalency
ambivalent
ambivalent
adj
Alternately having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite.
Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, or motivations.
ambivalently
ambivalently
adv
In an ambivalent manner.
ambiversion
ambiversion
noun
(psychology) A personality trait having balanced characteristics of both extroversion and introversion.
ambiversions
ambiversive
ambivert
ambivert
noun
(psychology) A person who is neither clearly extroverted nor introverted, but has characteristics of each.
ambiverts
ambiverts
noun
plural of ambivert
ambulative
ambulative
adj
(archaic) walking
antisubversion
antisubversion
adj
Opposing or countering political subversion.
antisubversive
antisubversive
adj
(politics) Opposing or countering political subversion.
noun
One who opposes political subversion.
approbative
approbative
adj
Expressing approval.
Sanctioning officially, giving authorization or approval to something.
noun
(linguistics) A word or grammatical form which denotes a positive affect expressing the appreciation or approval of the speaker.
approbativeness
approbativeness
noun
The state or quality of being approbative.
arbitrative
arbitrative
adj
Of or relating to arbitration.
arborvitae
arborvitae
noun
(anatomy) The white nerve tissue of the cerebellum that has a branching structure.
Any of several North American or Asian conifers, of the genera Thuja and Thujopsis or the species Platycladus orientalis, grown for timber or ornament.
arborvitaes
arborvitaes
noun
plural of arborvitae
arboviruses
arboviruses
noun
plural of arbovirus
attributive
attributive
adj
(grammar, of a word or phrase) Modifying another word, typically a noun, while in the same phrase.
Attributing; characterized by attributing; effecting attribution.
noun
(grammar) An attributive word or phrase (see above), contrasted with predicative or substantive.
attributively
attributively
adv
In an attributive manner.
attributiveness
attributiveness
noun
The state or quality of being attributive.
attributives
attributives
noun
plural of attributive
aubervilliers
availabile
availabilities
availabilities
noun
plural of availability
available
available
adj
(archaic) Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy to achieve the purpose; availing, effective.
(law) Valid.
Free to meet someone, speak on the telephone, enter a romantic relationship, or the like.
Readily obtainable.
Such as one may avail oneself of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose.
availableness
availableness
noun
Competent power; validity; efficacy
The quality of being available.
avertible
avertible
adj
Capable of being averted; preventable.
avicebron
avoidable
avoidable
adj
Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped.
Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable.
noun
Something that can or should be avoided.
babblative
babblative
adj
(obsolete) babbling
bacteriosolvent
baileyville
bainville
bakersville
bakersville
Proper noun
an unincorporated community in Mercer County, New Jersey, USA.
a town in North Carolina, USA, and the county seat of Mitchell County.
an unincorporated community in Coshocton County, Ohio, USA.
balakirev
baldwinsville
baldwinville
ballouville
banville
barberville
barboursville
barbourville
barbourville
Proper noun
a home-rule class city in Kentucky, USA
bargersville
barhamsville
barkevikite
barkevikite
noun
(mineralogy) A particular hornblende mineral.
barkevikitic
barkevikitic
adj
Of or relating to the mineral barkevikite.
barnardsville
barnesville
barnesville
Proper noun
a ghost town in Alabama, USA.
a city in Georgia, USA
an unincorporated community in Kansas, USA.
a small town in Maryland, USA.
a city in Minnesota, USA.
unincorporated communities in and Missouri, USA.
an unincorporated community in North Carolina, USA.
a village in Ohio, USA.
an unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, USA.
barrackville
barryville
bartlesville
bartonsville
bartonville
basialveolar
basialveolar
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the basion and the alveolus (or to their separation)
basinerved
basiventral
basiventral
adj
At the base of the front
basivertebral
basivertebral
adj
Of or pertaining to the base or centrum of a vertebral structure
baskerville
baskerville
Proper noun
A serif typeface from the 18th century.
basketweaving
basketweaving
noun
(figurative) Any useless, unproductive, or lightweight activity.
The act of weaving baskets, as for example from grasses, wicker, or rope.
bassirilievi
batesville
batesville
Proper noun
a city in Arkansas, USA
a city in and Indiana, USA.
a city in Mississippi, USA
an unincorporated community in Missouri, USA.
a village in Ohio, USA.
a CDP in Texas, USA.
an unincorporated community in Virginia, USA.
bathvillite
bavaroise
bavaroise
noun
(sometimes proscribed) A cold dessert made from custard, cream and gelatine.
A drink of sweetened milk, eggs and tea, often with some sort of spirit.
bavenite
bavenite
noun
(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, beryllium, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.