A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character who pursues personal advancement, especially by sexual means; a demirep.
adventuring
adventuring
noun
adventure
verb
present participle of adventure
adventurish
adventurish
adj
Somewhat connected with or indicative of adventure or adventurism.
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.
adventurist
adventurist
noun
A politician involved in adventurism.
Someone who is into adventurism.
adventurous
adventurous
adj
(of a person) Inclined to adventure; willing to take risks; prone to embark on hazardous enterprises; daring.
(of an act or product) Full of risks; risky; liable to be in danger; requiring courage; rash.
anovulatory
anovulatory
adj
Not ovulatory; characterized by anovulation (a lack of ovulation).
antiviruses
antiviruses
noun
plural of antivirus
arguitively
argumentive
argumentive
adj
Being or presenting an argument or line of reasoning.
arviculture
arviculture
noun
(agriculture) arable farming
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.
autogravure
autogravure
noun
(historical) A process of photo-engraving akin to autotype.
aventurines
aventurines
noun
plural of aventurine
averruncate
averruncate
verb
(transitive, rare) To avert; to ward off.
(transitive, rare) To root up.
avicultures
avicultures
noun
plural of aviculture
bonaventura
bonaventure
burgraviate
burgraviate
noun
The territory of a burgrave.
centumviral
centumviral
adj
Of or pertaining to the centumviri
circulative
circulative
adj
Promoting circulation; circulating.
circumviate
coadventure
coadventure
noun
(archaic) A joint venture or partnership.
colourative
colourative
adj
Rare spelling of colorative.
coruscative
countervail
countervail
verb
(obsolete) To have the same value or number as.
To compensate for.
To counteract, counterbalance or neutralize.
countervair
countervair
noun
(heraldry) A heraldic fur resembling vair, except in the arrangement of the patches or figures: succeeding rows are reversed instead of staggered, so the bases of the panes of each tincture are opposite those of the same tincture in adjoining rows.
counterwave
counterwave
noun
A wave (as of public opinion) going against an earlier wave.
cultivators
cultivators
noun
plural of cultivator
decurvation
decurvature
diverticula
divulgatory
divulgatory
adj
Divulging; of or pertaining to divulging.
duumvirates
duumvirates
noun
plural of duumvirate
enumerative
enumerative
adj
Of, pertaining to or based on enumeration
equivocator
equivocator
noun
agent noun of equivocate; one who equivocates.
excurvation
excurvature
expurgative
extraovular
extraovular
adj
Outside the egg
favouritism
favouritism
noun
(British spelling) The unfair favouring of one person or group at the expense of another.
frustrative
frustrative
adj
That frustrates; causing frustration.
gouvernante
gouvernante
noun
(archaic) governess
granulative
gubernative
gubernative
adj
(obsolete) governing
incurvating
incurvating
verb
present participle of incurvate
incurvation
incurvation
noun
(obsolete) Bowing in reverence or worship.
A curving inwards; the condition of being curved inwards.
The act of acquiring or being given a curved form; an instance of curving or bending.
The state of being curved or bent; any curved shape or formation; curvature; a curve; a bend.
incurvature
incurvature
noun
curvature; curving
intervallum
intervallum
noun
An interval.
intravenous
intravenous
adj
Inside the veins.
noun
(medicine) A dose of medicine administered from a drip, down through a hollow needle inserted into a patient's vein.
involucrate
involucrate
adj
(botany) Having an involucre; involucred.
involuntary
involuntary
adj
Not voluntary or willing; contrary or opposed to explicit will or desire; unwilling.
Without intention; unintentional.
invulnerate
invulnerate
adj
(obsolete) invulnerable
juvenolatry
katharevusa
lactivorous
lactivorous
adj
Feeding or subsisting upon milk.
lubricative
lubricative
adj
Assisting, or relating to, lubrication.
lucratively
lucratively
adv
In a lucrative manner, profitably.
mensurative
mensurative
adj
Relating to mensuration or measurement.
misaventeur
multiovular
nervuration
neuroactive
neuroactive
adj
That acts on the central nervous system.
noncurative
noncurative
adj
Not curative.
objurgative
objurgative
adj
That objurgates; sharply disapproving.
obscurative
obscurative
adj
Tending to obscure; making something unclear or abstruse.
outmaneuver
outmaneuver
verb
US standard spelling of outmanoeuvre.
outrivaling
outrivalled
outrivalled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of outrival
outsavoring
outtraveled
ovariotubal
overacutely
overcaustic
overcaution
overcaution
noun
excessive caution
verb
(transitive) To caution excessively.
overcurtain
overdraught
overdraught
noun
(chiefly Britain) An overdraft.
overeducate
overeducate
verb
To educate too much.
overemulate
overexhaust
overfatigue
overfatigue
noun
Excessive fatigue.
verb
(transitive) To fatigue to excess; to tire out.
overfraught
overfraught
adj
Full of distress; overloaded with cares or worries.
verb
past participle of overfreight
overhaughty
overhaughty
adj
Excessively haughty.
overquarter
overrapture
paravauxite
paravauxite
noun
(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and phosphorus.
parturitive
parturitive
adj
Pertaining to parturition; obstetric.
plurivalent
plurivalent
adj
Synonym of multivalent
premutative
premutative
adj
Prior to mutation.
procurative
procurative
adj
Of or relating to procurement; procuring.
provocateur
provocateur
noun
An undercover agent who incites suspected persons to partake in or commit criminal acts.
One who engages in provocative behavior.
pulverating
pulverating
verb
present participle of pulverate
pulveration
pulverizate
purgatively
purgatively
adv
In a purgative manner; so as to purge.
pursuivants
pursuivants
noun
plural of pursuivant
readventure
recultivate
recultivate
verb
To cultivate again; to make productive once again
recurvation
recurvation
noun
A bending or flexure backward.
recurvature
recurvature
noun
(meteorology) Part of the motion of a tropical cyclone, where its track becomes strongly poleward with an easterly component.
recurvation
redargutive
redargutive
adj
That reproves false doctrine.
reeducative
reeducative
adj
Relating to reeducation.
reevacuated
reevaluated
reevaluated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of reevaluate
reevaluates
reevaluates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of reevaluate
rejuvenated
rejuvenated
adj
(of a stream) Stimulated by uplift to renewed erosive activity.
(of topography, valleys, hills, etc.) Developed with steep slopes inside a district previously worn down nearly to base level.
Made young again.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of rejuvenate
rejuvenates
rejuvenates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rejuvenate
rejuvenator
rejuvenator
noun
A substance sprayed onto a bituminous surface to renew it.
That which rejuvenates.
repudiative
requitative
resultative
resultative
adj
(grammar) Indicating the state of a noun resulting from the completion of the action expressed by a verb, as with "blue" in "Mary painted the fence blue".
noun
(grammar) A grammatical construction that indicates the state of a noun resulting from the completion of the action expressed by a verb.
revaluating
revaluating
verb
present participle of revaluate
revaluation
revaluation
noun
(UK, pensions) The application of compound growth to the value of a pension benefit, specifically from the date of the member leaving the scheme (for example, moving to a different employer) to the date that the member starts receiving the benefit (typically retirement).
A reassessment of the value or worth of something; a reappraisal or reevaluation.
The process of altering the relative value of a currency or other standard of exchange.
revictualed
rotaviruses
rotaviruses
noun
plural of rotavirus
rotogravure
rotogravure
noun
A portion of a printed work produced by this method.
A print made by such a method.
A printing process by which the paper is rolled through intaglio cylinders.
routivarite
ruddervator
ruddervator
noun
(aviation) A hinged control surface combining the functions of rudder and elevator.
sivatherium
spermatovum
spermatovum
noun
(biology) A fecundated ovum.
sporulative
sporulative
adj
Relating to sporulation
subcreative
subcreative
adj
Relating to subcreation.
subcurative
subcurative
adj
(medicine) Insufficient to effect a cure.
subinterval
subinterval
noun
Any of several smaller intervals into which a larger one is divided
subornative
subornative
adj
Of or pertaining to subornation
subserviate
subserviate
verb
To make subservient
To subordinate
substrative
subtractive
subtractive
adj
Of a colour: from which some wavelengths have been removed.
Of or pertaining to subtraction.
subvarietal
subvarietal
adj
Relating to a subvariety.
subvertical
subvertical
adj
Partly or not quite vertical.
superactive
superactive
adj
Highly active.
superlative
superlative
adj
(grammar) Of or relating to a superlative.
Exceptionally good; of the highest quality; superb.
noun
(grammar) The form of an adjective that expresses which of several items has the highest degree of the quality expressed by the adjective; in English, formed by appending "-est" to the end of the adjective (for some short adjectives only) or putting "most" before it.
(informal) An adjective used to praise something exceptional.
The extreme (e.g. highest, lowest, deepest, farthest, etc) extent or degree of something.
superoctave
superoctave
noun
(music) A coupler in the organ by means of which is sounded an octave higher than the one struck.
(music) An organ stop two octaves above the principal.
(music) The octave above another.
supervastly
suppurative
suppurative
adj
(medicine, of a disease or medical condition) causing suppuration: producing, or causing the production of, pus.
noun
A medicine that causes suppuration.
surveillant
surveillant
adj
overseeing; watchful
noun
One who watches over another; an overseer; a spy; a supervisor.
survivalist
survivalist
noun
A person who believes in being prepared to survive and is actively preparing for possible future emergencies and disruptions in local, regional, national, or international social or political order.
suspirative
thoreauvian
thoreauvian
Adjective
Of or pertaining to Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), American writer and philosopher, or his writings.
togaviruses
togaviruses
noun
plural of togavirus
transfusive
transfusive
adj
able to transfuse
transmutive
transmutive
adj
That transmutes something.
transvalued
transvalued
verb
simple past tense and past participle of transvalue
transvalues
transvalues
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of transvalue
transversum
transversus
traveloguer
traveloguer
noun
The author of a travelogue.
travelogues
travelogues
noun
plural of travelogue
triumvirate
triumvirate
noun
An official group of three people, especially a ruling council of three men and particularly (historical) two such councils in Roman history.