Of or relating to administering or administration.
administratively
administratively
adv
In an administrative manner, or for purposes of administration.
admonitive
admonitive
adj
Of or conveying admonition
admonitively
admonitively
adv
As an admonition.
advancement
advancement
noun
(law) Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution.
An advance of money or value; payment in advance.
How advanced something is
The act of advancing; promotion to a higher place or dignity
The state of being advanced
advancements
advancements
noun
plural of advancement
adventism
adventurement
adventurement
noun
(obsolete) adventure.
adventuresome
adventuresome
adj
Prone to, or willing to undertake, adventures; daring or bold.
adventuresomely
adventuresomely
adv
In an adventuresome manner.
adventuresomeness
adventuresomeness
noun
The state or quality of being adventuresome.
adventuresomes
adventurism
adventurism
noun
(politics) The taking of excessive risks by a government in their political, economic or foreign affairs.
The behaviour of an adventurer; risk-taking.
adventurisms
adventurisms
noun
plural of adventurism
advertisement
advertisement
noun
(card games) In gin rummy, the discarding of a card of one's preferred suit so as to mislead the opponent into thinking you do not want it.
(marketing) A commercial solicitation designed to sell some commodity, service or similar.
(obsolete) Notoriety.
A public notice.
A recommendation of a particular product, service or person.
advertisements
advertisements
noun
plural of advertisement
advertizement
advertizement
noun
Alternative spelling of advertisement
advisement
advisement
noun
(archaic) Advice, counsel.
(now US) Consideration or deliberation.
advisements
advisements
noun
plural of advisement
animadvert
animadvert
verb
(intransitive) To criticise, to censure.
(intransitive, law, archaic) To turn judicial attention (to); to criticise or punish.
(intransitive, obsolete) To consider.
animadverted
animadverted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of animadvert
animadverter
animadverter
noun
(obsolete) One who animadverts; a censurer or chastiser.
animadverting
animadverting
verb
present participle of animadvert
animadverts
animadverts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of animadvert
antimediaeval
antimediaeval
adj
Alternative form of antimedieval
antimediaevalism
antimediaevalist
antimediaevally
antimedicative
antimedieval
antimedieval
adj
Opposed to the Middle Ages.
antimedievalism
antimedievalist
antimedievally
antivandalism
antivandalism
adj
(law enforcement) Opposing or proscribing vandalism.
avoidment
bedevilment
bedevilment
noun
The characteristic of being bedeviled.
bedevilments
bedevilments
noun
plural of bedevilment
circumnavigated
circumnavigated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of circumnavigate
circumvented
circumvented
verb
simple past tense and past participle of circumvent
conditivium
counterdevelopment
counterdevelopment
noun
A development that counteracts another development.
countermoved
countermoved
verb
simple past tense and past participle of countermove
decontaminative
demandative
demirevetment
demonstrative
demonstrative
adj
(grammar) that specifies the thing or person referred to
given to open displays of emotion
that serves to demonstrate, show or prove
noun
A demonstrative adjective.
A demonstrative pronoun.
demonstratively
demonstratively
adv
In a demonstrative manner.
demonstrativeness
demonstrativeness
noun
The state or quality of being demonstrative.
denominative
denominative
adj
(grammar) Deriving from a noun, or from an adjective, such as the verb destruct from the noun destruction.
Being a name.
Possessing, or capable of possessing, a distinct denomination or designation; denominable.
noun
A word, often a verb, that is derived from a noun or adjective.
denominatively
denominatively
adv
By denomination.
denumerantive
denumerative
depravement
depravement
noun
(archaic) Depravity; corruption.
depravements
depravements
noun
plural of depravement
deprivement
deprivement
noun
deprivation
dermosynovitis
determinative
determinative
adj
(law) Sufficient to decide something (such as a question of fact or of law).
noun
(linguistics) An ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts.
determinatively
determinatively
adv
In a determinative manner.
determinativeness
determinativeness
noun
The state or quality of being determinative.
developement
developement
noun
Obsolete spelling of development
development
development
noun
(chess, uncountable) The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
(countable) Something which has developed.
(mathematics) The expression of a function in the form of a series.
(music) The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.
(music) The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.
(real estate, countable) A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.
(real estate, uncountable) The building of such a project.
(uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
(uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.
(uncountable, biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.
developmental
developmental
adj
Related to development.
noun
A trainee flight controller.
developmentalist
developmentalist
adj
Of, or related to developmentalism.
noun
A follower or proponent of developmentalism.
developmentally
developmentally
adv
In terms of development.
developmentarian
developmentary
developmentary
adj
Pertaining to development; developmental.
developmentist
developments
developments
noun
A group of building complexes or apartments. Often used for low income housing.
plural of development
deviationism
deviationism
noun
Deviation from accepted beliefs or policies, especially from a prescribed form of communism.
devilment
devilment
noun
(often humorous) A dish which is devilled (“made piquant or spicy”); a devil; also, the elements of the dish which make it spicy, or the piquancy or spiciness of the dish.
(uncountable) Devilish action or conduct; wickedness; (more generally) troublemaking behaviour; mischief; (countable) an instance of this.
A devilish, mischievous, or reckless nature; mischievousness.
Something cleverly constructed.
Something cruel or evil; also, something which causes distress or suffering.
devilments
devilments
noun
plural of devilment
devitaminize
devolvement
devolvement
noun
The act or process of devolving; devolution.
devolvements
devolvements
noun
plural of devolvement
devotement
devotement
noun
The state of being devoted, or set apart by a vow.
devotements
devotements
noun
plural of devotement
devotionalism
devotionalism
noun
(religion) Devotional behaviour.
devourment
devourment
noun
The act of devouring something.
diminutival
diminutival
adj
Indicating diminution; diminutive.
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.
diminutively
diminutively
adv
In a diminutive manner.
diminutiveness
diminutiveness
noun
The state or quality of being diminutive.
diminutives
diminutives
noun
plural of diminutive
diminutivize
diminutivize
verb
(linguistics, transitive) to turn into a diminutive
disavowment
disavowment
noun
disavowal
discriminative
discriminative
adj
(of an element, feature, attribute, etc.) Which serves to distinguish its bearer.
Having or relating to the ability to discriminate between things.
discriminatively
discriminatively
adv
With discrimination or distinction.
discriminativeness
discriminativeness
noun
The condition of being discriminative
dishevelment
dishevelment
noun
The state or quality of being disheveled.
dishevelments
disimprovement
disimprovement
noun
(informal, rare, influenced by the German noun Verschlimmbesserung) attempt to make something better while ending up worse than before.
Reduction from a better to a worse state.
disinvestment
disinvestment
noun
The process of disinvesting; negative investment.
disinvolvement
disinvolvement
noun
The condition of being disinvolved
dislevelment
disprovement
disseminative
disseminative
adj
Tending to disseminate, or to become disseminated.
disseverment
disseverment
noun
disseverance
divergement
divergement
noun
(archaic) divergence
divertimenti
divertimenti
noun
plural of divertimento
divertimento
divertimento
noun
(music) composition that has several short movements, a style that composers started to use in the 18th century.
divertimentos
divertisement
divertisement
noun
(archaic) diversion; amusement; recreation
divertissement
divertissement
noun
(ballet) A short ballet within a larger work, usually providing a break from the main plot.
An entertaining diversion.
divertissements
divertissements
noun
plural of divertissement
divestment
divestment
noun
(finance) The sale or other disposal of some kind of asset.
divestments
divestments
noun
plural of divestment
divorcement
divorcement
noun
(figuratively, psychology) Complete detachment or disunion.
(obsolete) Divorce; dissolution of a marriage.
divorcements
divorcements
noun
plural of divorcement
divulgement
divulgement
noun
The act of divulging (communicating or revealing information).
dominative
dominative
adj
Exhibiting or pertaining to domination.
improvident
improvident
adj
failing to provide for the future; reckless
incautious; prone to rashness
improvidentially
improvidentially
adv
improvidently
improvidently
improvidently
adv
In an improvident manner.
inadvertisement
inanimadvertence
indeterminative
indiscriminative
indiscriminative
adj
Making no distinction; not discriminating; indiscriminate.
indiscriminatively
indiscriminatively
adv
In an indiscriminative manner
inverisimilitude
inverisimilitude
noun
Lack of verisimilitude or likelihood; improbability.
maidservant
maidservant
noun
A female servant; a maid.
maidservants
maidservants
noun
plural of maidservant
maladministrative
maladventure
maldevelopment
maldevelopment
noun
The state of an organism or an organisation that did not develop in the "normal" way (used in medicine, e.g. "brain maldevelopment of a fetus").
Under the philosophy of sustainable development, poor economic, human or social development.
mandative
mandative
adj
(grammar, not comparable) Noting the imperative use of the subjunctive, as in "I insist that he leave immediately".
Indicates the quality of being a command, or being related to the command.
manuductive
medioventral
medioventral
adj
(anatomy) Both medial and ventral
meditativeness
meditativeness
noun
The quality of being meditative.
mendelyeevite
metavanadate
metavanadate
noun
(inorganic chemistry) The polymeric oxyanion of vanadium [VO₃⁻]ₙ; any salt containing this anion
metavanadic
midventral
midventral
adj
In the middle of a ventral region
misadvantage
misadventure
misadventure
noun
An accidental mishap or misfortune.
misadventurer
misadventurer
noun
One who experiences misadventures.
misadventures
misadventures
noun
plural of misadventure
misadventurous
misadventurous
Adjective
unfortunate
misadventurously
misadventurously
adv
In a misadventurous manner.
misadvertence
misadvertence
noun
inadvertence
misderivation
misderivation
noun
An incorrect derivation, especially of the etymology of a word.
misdevotion
misdevotion
noun
Mistaken devotion.
misnavigated
misnavigated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of misnavigate
monteverdi
montevideo
montevideo
Proper noun
The capital of Uruguay.
A city in Minnesota, USA
multidivisional
multidivisional
adj
Of or pertaining to more than one division.
mundivagant
mundivagant
adj
(formal) Wandering across the world.
nonadministrative
nonadministrative
adj
Not administrative; not relating to administration.