(biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
(linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, utilizing omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @.
(mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
(music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
(music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
The process of abbreviating.
The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
abbreviators
abbreviators
noun
plural of abbreviator
abbreviatory
abbreviatory
adj
Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.
abbreviature
abbreviature
noun
(obsolete) An abbreviated state or form.
(obsolete) The process of abbreviating.
A shortened form of a word or phrase, used in place of the whole; an abbreviation.
An abridgment; a compendium; an abstract.
abevacuation
abevacuation
noun
(medicine) An abnormal evacuation.
(medicine) Metastases.
abirritative
abirritative
adj
(pharmacology) Characterized by abirritation or debility.
abortiveness
abortiveness
noun
(countable) The result or product of being abortive.
(uncountable) The quality of being abortive.
abrasiveness
abrasiveness
noun
The property, quality or instance of being abrasive.
absorptively
absorptively
adv
In an absorptive way.
absorptivity
absorptivity
noun
(analytical chemistry) The constant a in the Beer's law relation A = abc, where A is the absorbance, b the path length, and c the concentration of solution. Also known as absorptive power. Formerly known as absorbency index; absorption constant; extinction coefficient.
(thermodynamics) The fraction of radiation absorbed by a surface to the total radiation incident on the surface.
The quality of being absorptive; absorptiveness.
adverbiality
adverbiality
noun
The condition of having characteristics of an adverb.
adverbialize
adverbialize
verb
(American spelling) To use as or change into an adverb.
adverbiation
advertisable
advertisable
adj
Suitable for being advertised.
advertizable
advertizable
adj
Alternative spelling of advertisable
advisability
advisability
noun
(countable) An instance of advisability; a consideration in determining overall advisability.
(uncountable) The quality of being advisable or prudent.
albificative
ambivalences
ambivalences
noun
plural of ambivalence
ambivalently
ambivalently
adv
In an ambivalent manner.
ambiversions
antivibrator
antivibrator
noun
A device attached to a vehicle or machine, etc. to reduce vibrations.
archvagabond
attributives
attributives
noun
plural of attributive
availability
availability
noun
(chiefly uncountable) The quality of being available.
(countable) That which is available.
avowableness
avowableness
noun
The state or quality of being avowable.
baldwinville
bananivorous
bananivorous
adj
(rare) Feeding on bananas; banana-eating.
barbourville
barbourville
Proper noun
a home-rule class city in Kentucky, USA
bargersville
barhamsville
barkevikitic
barkevikitic
adj
Of or relating to the mineral barkevikite.
barrackville
bartlesville
bartonsville
basialveolar
basialveolar
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the basion and the alveolus (or to their separation)
bassirilievi
bdellovibrio
beaverboards
beaverboards
noun
plural of beaverboard
bedcoverings
bedcoverings
noun
plural of bedcovering
bedevilments
bedevilments
noun
plural of bedevilment
bedrivelling
beethovenian
beethovenian
Adjective
Of or pertaining to in particular his style of music.
beethovenish
behaviorally
behaviorally
adv
With respect to behavior.
behaviorisms
behaviorisms
noun
plural of behaviorism
behaviorists
behaviorists
noun
plural of behaviorist
behaviourism
behaviourism
noun
(British spelling) Standard spelling of behaviorism.
behaviourist
behaviourist
noun
Britain standard spelling of behaviorist.
behoovefully
belavendered
bendersville
benevolences
benevolences
noun
plural of benevolence
benevolently
benevolently
adv
In a benevolent manner.
bentleyville
benzoflavine
benzofulvene
benzofulvene
noun
(organic chemistry) Any benzo derivative of a fulvene
bereavements
bereavements
noun
plural of bereavement
bioavailable
bioavailable
adj
Able to be absorbed by a living organism.
biodiversity
biodiversity
noun
(ecology) The diversity (number and variety of species) of plant and animal life within a region.
bioflavinoid
bioflavonoid
bioflavonoid
noun
flavonoid
birefractive
bivoluminous
blountsville
blountsville
Proper noun
A town in
A town in
boddhisattva
boddhisattva
noun
Alternative form of bodhisattva
bodhisattvas
bodhisattvas
noun
plural of bodhisattva
bolshevikian
bolshevikism
bolshevistic
bolshevizing
bolshevizing
verb
present participle of bolshevize
bougainville
boulevardier
boulevardier
noun
A man who frequents the boulevards; thus, a man about town or bon vivant.
verb
(intransitive) To strut or show off like a boulevardier.
boulevardize
boulevardize
verb
(transitive) To convert into boulevards.
bowmansville
bradleyville
brandonville
bravehearted
brevicaudate
brevicaudate
adj
(zoology) Having a short tail.
brevicipitid
brevicipitid
noun
(zoology) Any frog of the family Brevicipitidae.
brevifoliate
brevilingual
brevilingual
adj
(rare) Having a short tongue.
breviloquent
breviloquent
adj
Exhibiting breviloquence; concise.
brevipennate
brevipennate
adj
(ornithology) short-winged; having short wings.
breviradiate
brevirostral
brevirostral
adj
(zoology) Having a short beak or bill
bristolville
bryantsville
buenaventura
buginvillaea
burfordville
burtonsville
clavicembali
clavicembalo
clavicembalo
noun
(music, now chiefly historical) A harpsichord.
cleavability
cleavability
noun
Quality or degree of being cleavable.
combinantive
combustively
contributive
contributive
adj
Tending to contribute; making a contribution
convertibles
convertibles
noun
plural of convertible
cultivatable
cultivatable
adj
cultivable
curveballing
curveballing
verb
present participle of curveball
debilitative
debilitative
adj
Causing or relating to debilitation.
deliberative
deliberative
adj
That deliberates, considers carefully.
noun
A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined.
A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.
deliverables
deliverables
noun
plural of deliverable
demivambrace
derivability
derivability
noun
The condition of being derivable
deverbatives
deverbatives
noun
plural of deverbative
devisability
disbelievers
disbelievers
noun
plural of disbeliever
disbelieving
disbelieving
adj
refusing to believe; skeptical or incredulous
verb
present participle of disbelieve
discoverable
discoverable
adj
(law) Subject to legal discovery; able to be requested by an opposing party through a legal process such as a subpoena.
Able to be discovered.
discoverably
discoverably
adv
In a discoverable way.
disprobative
disprobative
adj
(law) Tending to disprove a particular proposition or to persuade someone of the falsity of an allegation.
distributive
distributive
adj
(grammar) Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively.
(logic) Assigning the species of a general term.
(mathematics) A property of functions that have a rule describing how the function can be performed to the individual components of another operation.
Relating to distribution.
Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing a proper share to each.
noun
(grammar) A distributive adjective or pronoun.
(grammar) distributive case
(mathematics) A distributive numeral.
disturbative
disturbative
adj
(chiefly archaic) Of, pertaining to, or causing the act of disturbing.
divinability
divisibility
divisibility
noun
(arithmetic) The property of being divisible by a particular integer.
(uncountable) The state of being divisible. The state capable of being divided.
driveability
driveability
noun
Alternative spelling of drivability
dubitatively
enviableness
enviableness
noun
enviability
everblooming
everblooming
adj
Describes a plant that blooms throughout the growing season.
exhibitively
exhibitively
adv
In an exhibitive manner.
exuviability
favorability
favorability
noun
Something which is favorable
The quality or degree of being viewed favorably
feverberries
gibbonsville
gilbertville
graverobbing
graverobbing
noun
The practice of illegally removing corpses (or other items) from graves, originally to supply cadavers for medical study.
gravicembali
gravicembalo
gravicembalo
noun
(music) An early form of piano derived from the harpsichord
hebbronville
imbreviating
immovability
immovability
noun
The state of being immovable.
imprevisible
imprevisible
adj
(rare) unforeseeable
indeprivable
indeprivable
adj
(now rare) That one cannot be deprived of; inalienable.
indivertible
indivertible
adj
Not to be diverted or turned aside.
indivertibly
indivisibles
indivisibles
noun
plural of indivisible
inevaporable
inhabitative
inhabitative
adj
(grammar) demonymic
noun
(grammar) demonym (name for inhabitant of a place)
inobservable
inobservable
adj
unobservable
inobservance
inobservance
noun
Lack of observance.
inobservancy
inobservancy
noun
Alternative form of inobservance
insubmissive
insubmissive
Adjective
Unwilling to submit; not submissive, disobedient
intervisible
intervisible
adj
(surveying) Mutually visible; each in sight of the other.
invertebracy
invertebracy
noun
Quality of being invertebrate.
invertebrata
invertebrate
invertebrate
adj
Cowardly, uncourageous; lacking character.
Lacking a backbone; without vertebrae.
noun
(informal) A spineless person; a coward.
An animal without vertebrae, i.e. backbone.
invertibrate
invertibrate
noun
Misspelling of invertebrate.
investigable
investigable
adj
(chiefly philosophy and sciences) Capable of being investigated or studied.