Dispositioned toward acquiring and retaining information.
adumbrative
adumbrative
adj
Of or pertaining to adumbration
adventurers
adventurers
noun
plural of adventurer
adventuress
adventuress
noun
A female adventurer; a woman who seeks adventure.
A female varietist.
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.
antitussive
antitussive
adj
(pharmacology) Having cough suppressant abilities.
noun
(pharmacology) A cough suppressant or a drug that inhibits coughing.
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
attenuative
attenuative
adj
(brewing) Of a yeast, capable of high attenuation, able to convert a high proportion of sugar to alcohol.
Tending to attenuate or lessen the force of something.
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.
austinville
autoceptive
autogravure
autogravure
noun
(historical) A process of photo-engraving akin to autotype.
autovaccine
autovaccine
noun
autogenous vaccine
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
avouchments
avouchments
noun
plural of avouchment
bonaventura
bonaventure
burgraviate
burgraviate
noun
The territory of a burgrave.
calculative
calculative
adj
Of, pertaining to, or involving calculation.
causatively
causatively
adv
In a causative manner
Regarding causation
centumviral
centumviral
adj
Of or pertaining to the centumviri
circulative
circulative
adj
Promoting circulation; circulating.
circumviate
claviculate
claviculate
adj
Of, or relating to the clavicle.
coadunative
coadunative
adj
Serving to coadunate or unite.
coadventure
coadventure
noun
(archaic) A joint venture or partnership.
coagulative
coagulative
adj
Having the power to cause coagulation
cocultivate
cocultivate
verb
To cultivate along with another organism
colourative
colourative
adj
Rare spelling of colorative.
commulative
commutative
commutative
adj
(algebra, of an algebraic structure) Having a commutative operation.
(mathematics, of a binary operation) Such that the order in which the operands are taken does not affect their image under the operation.
(mathematics, of a diagram of morphisms) Such that any two sequences of morphisms with the same initial and final positions compose to the same morphism.
Relating to exchange; interchangeable.
computative
computative
adj
calculating, shrewdly or selfishly reckoning
of or relating to computation, computational
confutative
confutative
adj
That confutes
conjugative
conjugative
adj
Of, relating to, or producing combination or conjunction; combinative or connective.
conventuals
conventuals
noun
plural of conventual
copulatives
copulatives
noun
plural of copulative
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.
culminative
cultivative
decultivate
decurvation
decurvature
devaluating
devaluating
verb
present participle of devaluate
devaluation
devaluation
noun
(economics) The intentional or deliberate lowering of a currency's value compared to another country's currency or a standard value (e.g. the price of gold).
Depreciation.
The removal or lessening of something's value.
devenustate
devenustate
verb
(obsolete, rare) To deprive of beauty or grace.
displuviate
disputative
disputative
adj
Tending to dispute.
diverticula
duplicative
duplicative
adj
Of, related to, or being a duplicate.
duumvirates
duumvirates
noun
plural of duumvirate
ejaculative
ejaculative
adj
Ejaculatory.
elucidative
elucidative
adj
Explanatory, clarifying; that serves to elucidate.
eluviations
eluviations
noun
plural of eluviation
emulatively
emulatively
adv
So as to emulate.
enumerative
enumerative
adj
Of, pertaining to or based on enumeration
enunciative
enunciative
adj
Relating to, or containing, enunciation; declarative.
equivalents
equivalents
noun
plural of equivalent
equivaliant
equivocated
equivocated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of equivocate
equivocates
equivocates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of equivocate
equivocator
equivocator
noun
agent noun of equivocate; one who equivocates.
evacuations
evacuations
noun
plural of evacuation
evaluations
evaluations
noun
plural of evaluation
eventuality
eventuality
noun
(obsolete, phrenology) An individual's propensity to take notice of events, changes, or facts. [from 19th c.]
A possible event; something that may happen. [from 19th c.]
eventualize
eventualize
verb
To take place or occur.
eventuating
eventuating
verb
present participle of eventuate
eventuation
eventuation
noun
The act of eventuating or happening as a result; the outcome.
evolutional
evolutional
adj
Of or pertaining to evolution, or coming about as a result of the principles of evolution.
exculpative
exculpative
adj
Alternative form of exculpatory
excurvation
excurvature
expurgative
extenuative
extenuative
adj
Tending to extenuate.
extraovular
extraovular
adj
Outside the egg
exuviations
exuviations
noun
plural of exuviation
facultative
facultative
adj
(biology) Able to perform a particular life function, or to live generally, in more than one way.
(geometry, of a point) At which a given function is positive.
Not obligate; optional, discretionary or elective.
Of or relating to faculty, especially to mental faculty.
That grants permission or power to do something.
fecundative
fecundative
adj
That fecundates.
frustrative
frustrative
adj
That frustrates; causing frustration.
glutinative
glutinative
adj
Having the quality of cementing.
gouvernante
gouvernante
noun
(archaic) governess
granulative
gubernative
gubernative
adj
(obsolete) governing
humiliative
humiliative
adj
(grammar) Serving to lower one's own or another's status.
noun
(grammar) A construct that serves to lower one's own or another's status.
inculcative
inculcative
adj
Serving to inculcate.
inculpative
incurvature
incurvature
noun
curvature; curving
individuate
individuate
adj
undivided
verb
(transitive) To make, or cause to appear, individual.
inoculative
inoculative
adj
Relating to inoculation.
insinuative
insinuative
adj
Tending to insinuate; insinuating
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.
invulnerate
invulnerate
adj
(obsolete) invulnerable
juvenolatry
katharevusa
lubricative
lubricative
adj
Assisting, or relating to, lubrication.
lucratively
lucratively
adv
In a lucrative manner, profitably.
manuductive
mensurative
mensurative
adj
Relating to mensuration or measurement.
metavauxite
metavauxite
noun
(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and phosphorus.
misaventeur
misevaluate
misevaluate
verb
To evaluate inaccurately or incorrectly.
multivalent
multivalent
adj
(art) Having many kinds of value.
(chemistry) Having more than one valency or having a valency greater than 3; polyvalent.
(genetics) Having three or more homologous chromosomes during the first division of meiosis.
(grammar) Able to bind to different parts of speech.
(immunology) Having more than one attachment site for an antibody or antigen.
Having many meanings.
noun
(genetics) Any multivalent chromosome.
multivalued
multivalued
adj
(mathematics) Of a function, associating one or more values of its range with each value of its domain.
multivalved
multivalved
adj
Having more than one valve.
muscovadite
nervuration
neuroactive
neuroactive
adj
That acts on the central nervous system.
noncurative
noncurative
adj
Not curative.
nonmutative
nonmutative
adj
Not mutative.
novaculites
novaculites
noun
plural of novaculite
nuncupative
nuncupative
adj
(obsolete) Nominal; existing only in name.
(obsolete) Publicly or solemnly declaratory.
Oral; not written.
objurgative
objurgative
adj
That objurgates; sharply disapproving.
obscurative
obscurative
adj
Tending to obscure; making something unclear or abstruse.
outachieved
outachieved
verb
simple past tense and past participle of outachieve
outachieves
outachieves
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outachieve
outcavilled
outmaneuver
outmaneuver
verb
US standard spelling of outmanoeuvre.
outrivalled
outrivalled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of outrival
outtraveled
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.