Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass
Having a propensity to amass; acquisitive.
accumulatively
accumulatively
adv
In an accumulative manner
accumulativeness
accumulativeness
noun
The state or qualities of being accumulative.
acervatim
achievement
achievement
noun
(grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change in an instant.
(heraldry) An escutcheon or ensign armorial; a full display or depiction of all the heraldic components to which the bearer of a coat of arms is entitled; (now especially) a funeral shield: the hatchment.
(sociology) The successful completion of a socially defined goal or task, highlighting individual or group accomplishment.
(video games) An award for completing a particular task or meeting an objective in a video game.
A great or heroic deed or feat; something accomplished by valor or boldness.
The act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment.
achievements
achievements
noun
plural of achievement
activism
activism
noun
The practice of using action to achieve a result, such as political demonstration or a strike in support of or in opposition to an issue.
activisms
activisms
noun
plural of activism
adhesivemeter
adhesivemeter
noun
An instrument for measuring the adhesive qualities of a substance.
adjectivism
adjectivism
noun
The excessive use of adjectives.
administrative
administrative
adj
Of or relating to administering or administration.
administratively
administratively
adv
In an administrative manner, or for purposes of administration.
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).
admiratively
admiratively
adv
In an admirative manner.
admonitive
admonitive
adj
Of or conveying admonition
admonitively
admonitively
adv
As an admonition.
adumbrative
adumbrative
adj
Of or pertaining to adumbration
adumbratively
adumbratively
adv
In an adumbrative manner
adventism
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
affirmative
affirmative
adj
(algebra) positive; not negative
(logic) Expressing the agreement of the two terms of a proposition.
Confirmative; ratifying.
dogmatic
pertaining to any assertion or active confirmation that favors a particular result
pertaining to truth; asserting that something is; affirming
positive
intj
(military, especially radio communications) Yes; true; correct.
An elaborate synonym for the word yes.
noun
(grammar) An answer that shows agreement or acceptance.
(obsolete) An assertion.
Yes; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance.
affirmatively
affirmatively
adv
In an affirming manner.
affirmativeness
affirmativeness
noun
The property of being affirmative.
affirmatives
affirmatives
noun
plural of affirmative
afformative
afformative
noun
(grammar) An affix.
agglomerative
agglomerative
adj
Having a tendency to agglomerate
aggrievement
aggrievement
noun
The state of being aggrieved.
aktivismus
alcovinometer
alimentative
alimentative
adj
Nutritious, nourishing.
Relating to aliment
alimentatively
alimentativeness
alimentativeness
noun
The state or quality of being alimentative.
alimentive
alimentive
adj
Alternative form of alimentative
alimentiveness
alimentiveness
noun
(phrenology, obsolete) The instinct or faculty of appetite for food.
The state or quality of being alimentive.
amalgamative
amalgamative
adj
That amalgamates
amative
amative
adj
Pertaining to love; amorous.
amatively
amatively
adv
In an amative manner.
amativeness
amativeness
noun
(phrenology) The state or quality of being amative; propensity to love or sexual feelings.
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.
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
ameliorativ
ameliorative
ameliorative
adj
(linguistics) Suggesting or relating to a positive or approving evaluation.
(philosophy) Of or relating to conceptual engineering, the normative study of which conceptual demarcation is most conducive to solve the problems the concept is a priori taken to solve.
Able to repair or ameliorate.
noun
(linguistics, rare) A linguistic unit (such as a word, morpheme) that implies a positive or approving evaluation.
That which betters or improves.
amelioratively
amityville
amovability
amovability
noun
Liability to be removed or dismissed from office.
ampliative
ampliative
adj
That broadens conceptual knowledge by adding new information.
amplicative
amplificative
amplificative
adj
amplificatory
amputative
amputative
adj
(surgery) That involves amputation
amravati
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
animative
animative
adj
Tending to animate; causing animation.
anticivism
anticivism
noun
(obsolete) opposition to the body politic of citizens
anticommutative
anticommutative
adj
(algebra) Of an operator * for which a * b = - (b * a)
anticompetitive
anticompetitive
adj
(economics, business) Acting to hinder or obstruct competition.
anticonservatism
anticonventionalism
anticonventionalism
noun
The quality of being anticonventional; rejection of conventions or norms.
antienvironmentalism
antienvironmentalist
antienvironmentalists
antifermentative
antifermentative
adj
Countering or preventing fermentation.
noun
A substance that counters or prevents fermentation.
antigovernment
antigovernment
adj
Opposed to a government currently in power.
Opposed to government in general.
antigovernmental
antigovernmental
adj
Opposing a government.
antigovernmentally
antimediaeval
antimediaeval
adj
Alternative form of antimedieval
antimediaevalism
antimediaevalist
antimediaevally
antimedicative
antimedieval
antimedieval
adj
Opposed to the Middle Ages.
antimedievalism
antimedievalist
antimedievally
antislaveryism
antislaveryism
noun
Opposition to slavery.
antivandalism
antivandalism
adj
(law enforcement) Opposing or proscribing vandalism.
antivenom
antivenom
noun
(medicine) A medicine that counteracts venom, an antidote to biological poisons from venomous animals such as snakes and spiders.
antivenomous
antivenomous
adj
(pharmacology, immunology) acting against venom
antivermicular
antivitamin
antivitamin
noun
(biochemistry) Any compound that inhibits the metabolic action of a vitamin.
antivitamins
antivitamins
noun
plural of antivitamin
anvilsmith
anvilsmith
noun
A person who makes blacksmiths' anvils.
approximative
approximative
adj
Of, relating to, or being an estimate or approximation.
noun
(grammar) A grammatical construct that expresses approximation.
approximatively
approximatively
adv
In an approximative manner.
approximativeness
approximativeness
noun
The state or quality of being approximative.
argumentative
argumentative
adj
Of or relating to argumentation; specifically, presenting a logical argument or line of reasoning; argumentive, discursive.
Prone to argue or dispute.
argumentatively
argumentatively
adv
In an argumentative manner.
argumentativeness
argumentativeness
noun
the state of being argumentative
argumentive
argumentive
adj
Being or presenting an argument or line of reasoning.
assimilative
assimilative
adj
Tending to, or characterized by, assimilation.
assimilativeness
assimilativeness
noun
The quality of being assimilative.
assumptive
assumptive
adj
(heraldry, of arms, not comparable) Originally, being arms which a person had a right to assume, in consequence of an exploit; now, those assumed without sanction of the Heralds' College.
Forward or presumptuous.
Held as true or valid without evidence.
assumptively
assumptively
adv
In an assumptive manner.
assumptiveness
atavism
atavism
noun
(sociology) Reversion to past primitive behavior, especially violence.
The reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence; a throwback.
The recurrence or reversion to a past behaviour, method, characteristic or style after a long period of absence.
atavisms
atavisms
noun
plural of atavism
attemptive
attemptive
adj
(obsolete) Disposed to attempt; adventurous.
augmentative
augmentative
adj
Growing, enlarging, increasing.
noun
(grammar) A form of word that expresses large size, intensity, or seniority
augmentatively
augmentatively
adv
In an augmentative fashion.
augmentive
augmentive
adj
(linguistics) Changing the meaning to one that is a larger, more complete, or more elaborate version of the original sense.
Serving to augment, enhance, or increase; augmentative.
Supplementary; additional.
noun
(linguistics) An augmentive affix; augmentative.
Something that augments.
automanipulative
automative
automative
adj
Relating to automation.
automotive
automotive
adj
Having the ability to move by itself; self-propelled or self-propelling.
Of, or relating to motor vehicles.
noun
A shop or company that sells motor vehicle parts
availment
availment
noun
(obsolete) Profit; advantage.
avertiment
avertiment
noun
(obsolete) advertisement (public notice).
avilement
avitaminoses
avitaminoses
noun
plural of avitaminosis
avitaminosis
avitaminosis
noun
Any disease which is caused by vitamin deficiency.
avitaminotic
avitaminotic
adj
Having or relating to avitaminosis.
avoidment
bioenvironmental
bioenvironmental
adj
Of or pertaining to the interactions between the environment and living organisms
bioenvironmentaly
bonaventurism
calmative
calmative
adj
Calming.
noun
A drug with calming effects.
calumniative
camptonville
carminative
carminative
adj
Relieving discomfort of gas in the digestive tract.
noun
(medicine) A drug or substance that induces the releasing of gas from the digestive tract.
carminatives
carminatives
noun
plural of carminative
centumviral
centumviral
adj
Of or pertaining to the centumviri
centumvirate
centumvirate
noun
A group of one hundred people, especially (politics) a council of about 100 men who share power or rule, particularly (historical) such a group in ancient Rome.
cervicobregmatic
cervicobregmatic
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the anterior fontanelle and the junction of the neck with the floor of the mouth.
cevitamic
cevitamic
adj
Synonym of ascorbic
chemicovital
chemicovital
adj
(dated) Both chemical and vital; biochemical.
circumaviate
circumaviation
circumaviator
circumnavigate
circumnavigate
verb
(intransitive, sailing) To sail around the world.
(transitive) To circumvent or bypass.
(transitive) To travel completely around somewhere or something, especially by sail.
circumnavigated
circumnavigated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of circumnavigate
circumnavigates
circumnavigates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumnavigate
circumnavigating
circumnavigating
verb
present participle of circumnavigate
circumnavigation
circumnavigation
noun
The act of circumnavigating, or sailing round.
circumnavigations
circumnavigations
noun
plural of circumnavigation
circumnavigator
circumnavigator
noun
A person who circumnavigates, that is, sails around the world.
circumnavigatory
circumnavigatory
adj
pertaining to circumnavigation
circumvallate
circumvallate
adj
(anatomy) Surrounded by a ridge or elevation.
Surrounded with a wall; enclosed with a rampart.
verb
(transitive) To surround with, or as if with, a rampart.
circumvallated
circumvallated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of circumvallate
circumvallating
circumvallating
verb
present participle of circumvallate
circumvallation
circumvallation
noun
A rampart or other defensive entrenchment that entirely encircles the position being defended.