(UK, law, obsolete) A confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplices and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon.
(archaic) Approval; approbation.
(obsolete, Old English law) Improvement of common lands by converting them for advantage of the landlord.
approximativeness
approximativeness
noun
The state or quality of being approximative.
comparativeness
comparativeness
noun
The state or quality of being comparative.
comprehensive
comprehensive
adj
Broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something.
noun
(Britain) A comprehensive school.
comprehensively
comprehensively
adv
In a comprehensive manner; in an all-inclusive or wide-ranging fashion.
comprehensiveness
comprehensiveness
noun
The state of being comprehensive.
comprehensivenesses
comprehensives
comprehensives
noun
plural of comprehensive
comprovincial
comprovincial
adj
Being part of the same province.
noun
One who comes from the same province.
counterdevelopment
counterdevelopment
noun
A development that counteracts another development.
cryptovolcanism
depravement
depravement
noun
(archaic) Depravity; corruption.
depravements
depravements
noun
plural of depravement
deprivement
deprivement
noun
deprivation
developmentarian
developmentary
developmentary
adj
Pertaining to development; developmental.
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.
disprovement
experimentative
experimentative
adj
experimental; of the nature of experiment
galvanotropism
galvanotropism
noun
(biology) Any movement or alignment of an organism with respect to an electric field
hyperconservatism
hyperconservatism
noun
The quality of being hyperconservative.
hyperemotiveness
hyperovarianism
hypervitaminosis
hypervitaminosis
noun
Any medical condition resulting from excessive intake of vitamins.
hypervoluminous
immunosuppressive
immunosuppressive
adj
(pharmacology, immunology) Having the capability to suppress the immune system, capable of immunosuppression.
noun
(pharmacology, immunology) An agent which is capable of immunosuppression.
impenetrative
imperativeness
imperativeness
noun
The state or condition of being imperative.
imperceivableness
imperceivableness
noun
The quality of being imperceivable.
imperceiverant
imperceptiveness
imperceptiveness
noun
The quality of being imperceptive.
imperseverant
imperseverant
adj
(obsolete) Not persevering; fickle; thoughtless.
impersonative
imperviableness
imperviousness
imperviousness
noun
the state of being impervious
impoverishing
impoverishing
verb
present participle of impoverish
impoverishment
impoverishment
noun
The action of impoverishing someone.
The state of being impoverished.
impoverishments
impoverishments
noun
plural of impoverishment
impregnative
impressiveness
impressiveness
noun
The quality of being impressive.
impressivenesses
imprevalency
impreventability
impreventable
impreventable
adj
Not preventable; inevitable.
imprevision
improgressiveness
improgressiveness
noun
The quality of being improgressive.
improvableness
improvableness
noun
Quality of being improvable; capability of improvement.
improvement
improvement
noun
(Patent Laws): A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.
(in the plural) Valuable additions or betterments, for example buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.
Increase; growth; progress; advance.
Something which is improved
The act of improving; advancement or growth; a bettering
The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; practical application, for example of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse.
The state of being improved; betterment; advance
improvements
improvements
noun
plural of improvement
improvidence
improvidence
noun
The quality of being improvident; want of foresight or thrift.
improvidences
improvidences
noun
plural of improvidence
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.
improving
improving
adj
That tends to improve someone or something (especially (dated) to educate or morally better a person).
verb
present participle of improve
improvingly
improvingly
adv
In a manner that tends to improve (especially, (dated), to educate or morally better a person).
improvisation
improvisation
noun
Musical technique, characteristic of blues music.
That which is improvised; an impromptu.
The act of improvising, acting or going about something without planning ahead
The act or art of composing and making music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously
improvisational
improvisational
adj
Having the nature of an improvisation.
improvisations
improvisations
noun
plural of improvisation
improvising
improvising
noun
improvisation
verb
present participle of improvise
improvision
improvision
noun
(obsolete) the lack of provision, a failure to provide something
the act of improvising, or something improvised; improvisation
incomprehensive
incomprehensive
adj
Not comprehensive; shallow, incomplete.
uncomprehending
incomprehensively
incomprehensively
adv
In an incomprehensive manner.
incomprehensiveness
incomprehensiveness
noun
The condition of being incomprehensive.
inmprovidence
introspectivism
mavrodaphne
mavrodaphne
noun
A dark sweet Greek red wine.
A variety of grape native to Achaea, northern Peloponnese, Greece, from which the wine is made.
mechanoreceptive
mechanoreceptive
adj
Responsive to mechanical stimuli such as sound and touch
misapprehensive
misapprehensive
adj
Of or pertaining to misapprehension.
misapprehensively
misapprehensively
adv
By, or with, misapprehension.
misapprehensiveness
misapprehensiveness
noun
The quality of being misapprehensive.
misimprovement
misimprovement
noun
Ill use or employment; use for a bad purpose.
misimproving
misimproving
verb
present participle of misimprove
misperceiving
misperceiving
verb
present participle of misperceive
misprovidence
misprovoking
misrepresentative
misrepresentative
adj
Purporting to be representative without actually being so.
noncircumscriptive
noncomprehensive
noncomprehensive
adj
Not comprehensive.
noncomprehensively
noncomprehensiveness
noncompressive
noncompressive
adj
Not compressive
noncompressively
nonimperative
nonimperative
adj
Not imperative.
nonimperatively
nonimperativeness
nonimprovement
nonimprovement
noun
(countable) A change that is not an improvement.
(uncountable) Lack of improvement; failure to improve.
nonpermeative
nonpermissive
nonpermissive
adj
Not permissive.
nonpermissively
nonpermissiveness
nonpermissiveness
noun
The state or condition of being nonpermissive.
nonpresumptive
nonpresumptively
nonprimitive
nonprimitive
adj
Not primitive.
noun
(computing, geometry) An object that is not a primitive.
nonprimitively
nonprimitiveness
nonpromotive
nonredemptive
nonredemptive
adj
Not redemptive
novemperfoliate
omniprevalence
omniprevalent
omniprevalent
adj
Prevalent everywhere or in all things.
omnirepresentative
omnirepresentativeness
omniscriptive
ovariosalpingectomy
ovariosalpingectomy
noun
Surgical removal of the ovaries and Fallopian tubes.
overamplifying
overamplifying
verb
present participle of overamplify
overassumption
overbumptiousness
overcircumspection
overcompensate
overcompensate
verb
(intransitive) To do an excessive amount in one area in an effort to overcome a perceived lack in another area.
(transitive) To provide with excessive pay or reward for work performed.
overcompensated
overcompensated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overcompensate
overcompensates
overcompensates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcompensate
overcompensating
overcompensating
verb
present participle of overcompensate
overcompensation
overcompensation
noun
An excess amount provided in one area in an effort to overcome a perceived lack in another area.
Excessive pay or reward provided for work performed.
overcompensations
overcompensations
noun
plural of overcompensation
overcompensators
overcompensators
noun
plural of overcompensator
overcompensatory
overcompensatory
adj
Tending to overcompensate; providing excessive compensation.
overcompetition
overcompetitiveness
overcompetitiveness
noun
The quality of being overcompetitive.
overcomplacence
overcomplacency
overcomplacency
noun
Excessive complacency.
overcomplacent
overcomplacent
adj
Excessively complacent.
overcomplacently
overcomplacently
adv
Too complacently.
overcompliant
overcompliant
adj
Excessively compliant.
overcomplicating
overcomplicating
verb
present participle of overcomplicate
overcompound
overconsumption
overconsumption
noun
Excessive consumption.
overconsumptions
overdevelopment
overdevelopment
noun
Excessive development; the state or quality of being overdeveloped