(grammar) Of, or relating to the grammatical case used in some languages to indicate absence.
noun
(grammar) The abessive case, or a word in this case.
ablative
ablative
adj
(archaic) Pertaining to taking away or removing.
(engineering, nautical, astronautics) Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying material, as in ablative paints used for antifouling, or ablative heat shields used to protect spacecraft during reentry. .
(geology) Relating to the erosion of a land mass; relating to the melting or evaporation of a glacier.
(grammar) Applied to one of the cases of the noun in some languages, the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away, and to a lesser degree, instrument, place, accordance, specifications, price, or measurement.
(medicine) Relating to the removal of a body part, tumor, or organ.
noun
(grammar) The ablative case.
An ablative material.
abnerval
abnerval
adj
(anatomy, of an electric current in a muscle, rare) Away from the nerve.
aborsive
aborsive
adj
(obsolete) abortive from the first.
abortive
abortive
adj
(biology) Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile.
(medicine) Cutting short; acting to halt or slow the progress (of a disease).
(obsolete) Produced by abortion; born prematurely and therefore unnatural.
(obsolete) A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion, abortifacient.
(obsolete) Someone or something born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To cause an abortion; to render without fruit.
abrasive
abrasive
adj
Being rough and coarse in manner or disposition; overly aggressive and causing irritation.
Producing abrasion; rough enough to wear away the outer surface.
noun
(geology) Rock fragments, sand grains, mineral particles, used by water, wind, and ice to abrade a land surface.
A hard inorganic substance or material consisting in powder or granule form such as sandpaper, pumice, or emery, used for cleaning, smoothing, or polishing.
absolved
absolved
verb
simple past tense and past participle of absolve
absolver
absolver
noun
Agent noun of absolve; one who absolves.
absolves
absolves
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of absolve
accusive
accusive
adj
accusative; accusing
acervate
acervate
adj
(chiefly botany, rare) Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters.
verb
(obsolete) To heap up.
acervose
acervuli
acervuli
noun
plural of acervulus
achieved
achieved
adj
(of a goal or status) Having been reached, attained or accomplished.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of achieve
achiever
achiever
noun
One who achieves something.
One who tends to succeed; a winner.
achieves
achieves
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of achieve
activate
activate
verb
(transitive) To aerate in order to aid decomposition of organic matter.
(transitive) To encourage development or induce increased activity; to stimulate.
(transitive) To put a device, mechanism (alarm etc.) or system into action or motion; to trigger, to actuate, to set off, to enable.
(transitive, biology) To render a molecule reactive, active, or effective in performing its function.
(transitive, chemistry) To hasten a chemical reaction, especially by heating.
(transitive, chemistry, physics) To render more reactive; excite.
(transitive, computing, software) To remove the limitations of demoware by providing a license; to unlock.
(transitive, military) To organize or create a military unit or station.
(transitive, physics) To render a substance radioactive.
(transitive, sports) To bring a player back after an injury.
actively
actively
adv
(grammar) In the active form; not passive.
In an active manner.
activize
activize
verb
(transitive) To convert to activism.
adaptive
adaptive
adj
(psychology) Of a trait: that helps an individual to function well in society.
Capable of being adapted or of adapting; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change.
Of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable.
additive
additive
adj
(chemistry) Pertaining to chemical addition.
(genetics) Of or pertaining to genes (or the interaction etc. of such genes) which govern the same trait and whose effects work together on the phenotype.
(group theory, of a group, semigroup, etc.) Whose operator is identified as addition.
(mathematics) Pertaining to addition; that can be, or has been, added.
(mathematics, of a function, etc.) That is distributive over addition.
noun
(grammar) A word or phrase that adds something, such as also, even, or nor.
A substance added to another substance or product to produce specific properties in the combined substance.
adessive
adessive
adj
(grammar) of or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates adjacent location
noun
(grammar) the adessive case, or a word in that case.
adhesive
adhesive
adj
apt or tending to adhere; clinging
sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances
noun
a substance, such as glue, that provides or promotes adhesion
adjuvate
adjuvate
verb
To help; to further
adnerval
adoptive
adoptive
adj
Pertaining to adoption.
Related through adoption.
adustive
advanced
advanced
adj
(Philippines, of a clock or watch) Indicating a time ahead of the correct time.
(phonetics) Pronounced farther to the front of the vocal tract.
At or close to the state of the art.
Having moved forward in time or space (e.g. advanced ignition timing).
In a late stage of development; greatly developed beyond an initial stage.
with greater complexity, more difficult
verb
simple past tense and past participle of advance
advancer
advancer
noun
(bridge) The overcaller's partner, especially one who bids following the overcall.
A second branch of a buck's antler.
One who advances or puts forward.
advances
advances
noun
plural of advance
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advance
advected
advected
verb
simple past tense and past participle of advect
advehent
advehent
adj
(anatomy) Carrying towards an organ or structure.
adventry
adversed
adversus
adverted
adverted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of advert
advisees
advisees
noun
plural of advisee
advisers
advisers
noun
plural of adviser
advisive
advisive
adj
Advisory in tone and content.
advocate
advocate
noun
A person who speaks in support of something, or someone.
A person who supports others to make their voices heard, or ideally for them to speak up for themselves.
Anyone who argues the case of another; an intercessor.
Someone whose job is to speak for someone's case in a court of law; a counsel.
verb
(Scotland, law) To appeal from an inferior court to the Court of Session.
(Scotland, law, in higher courts) To call a case before itself for decision.
(intransitive, with for) To engage in advocacy.
(transitive) To encourage support for something.
(transitive) To plead in favour of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.
aeroview
aestival
aestival
adj
Alternative spelling of estival
agentive
agentive
adj
(linguistics) Indicating an agent or agency (as -er in lexicographer).
(linguistics) Pertaining to a grammatical agent that performs the action of the verb.
noun
(linguistics) A word having an agentive construction.
aggrieve
aggrieve
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To grieve; to lament.
(transitive) To cause someone to feel pain or sorrow to; to afflict
airville
airwaves
airwaves
noun
Radio or television broadcasts.
Radio-frequency electromagnetic waves, usually used in the context of wireless communication; radio waves.
alevitsa
alewives
alewives
noun
plural of alewife
algovite
alkedavy
allative
allative
adj
(grammar) Of or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates motion towards a place.
noun
(grammar) The allative case, or a word in that case.
allelvia
allovers
allusive
allusive
adj
that contains or makes use of allusions (indirect references or hints)
alvadore
alveated
alveated
adj
Formed or vaulted like a beehive.
alveolae
alveolae
noun
Misspelling of alveoli.
alveolar
alveolar
adj
(anatomy, relational) Relating to the alveoli (small air sacs) of the lungs.
(anatomy, relational) Relating to the glands with secretory cells about a central space.
(anatomy, relational) Relating to the jaw ridge containing the tooth sockets.
(phonetics) Formed with the tongue touching or approaching the inner ridge of the gums of the upper front teeth.
noun
(phonetics) An alveolar consonant.
alveolus
alveolus
noun
(anatomy) An acinus (saclike cavity) in a gland.
(anatomy) Any of the many tiny air sacs in the lungs in which the bronchioles terminate and where oxygen and carbon dioxide are rapidly exchanged with the pulmonary capillaries.
(anatomy, dentistry) The bony socket in which the root of a tooth resides.
(entomology) The socket of a macrotrichium (seta).
alverson
alverton
ambivert
ambivert
noun
(psychology) A person who is neither clearly extroverted nor introverted, but has characteristics of each.
amerveil
amovable
amovable
adj
removable
andreyev
angevine
annexive
annville
antenave
antevert
antevert
verb
(medicine, obsolete) To displace by anteversion.
(obsolete) To prevent, to avert.
antivice
antivice
adj
Opposing or countering vice (sinful behaviour).
anvasser
anvilled
anvilled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of anvil
approved
approved
adj
(archaic) Proven or demonstrated by experience.
Having received approval.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of approve
approver
approver
noun
(dated, law) In English common law, a person who accuses a confederate; one who commits approvement.
One who approves or gives approval.
approves
approves
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of approve
arbovale
archived
archived
adj
Having been placed into an archive.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of archive
archiver
archiver
noun
One who, or that which, archives.
archives
archives
noun
plural of archive
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of archive
arkville
arrivage
arrivers
arrivers
noun
plural of arriver
arrosive
arrosive
adj
gnawing; chewing; corroding
arteveld
arvicole
arvicole
noun
(zoology, dated) field mouse (US, Canada), vole
ashville
ashville
Proper noun
a city in Alabama, USA, which is one of the two county seats of
a neighbourhood in Kentucky, USA.
a hamlet in New York, USA.
a village in Ohio, USA.
a small borough in Pennsylvania, USA.
a community in south-western Manitoba, Canada.
auditive
auditive
adj
Of or relating to hearing; auditory.
audivise
aurilave
aurilave
noun
An ear-brush.
An instrument for cleansing the ear, consisting of a small piece of sponge on an ivory or bone handle.
auvergne
auxvasse
availers
avantage
avanters
avarices
avarices
noun
plural of avarice
avellane
avellane
adj
(heraldry) In the form of four unhusked filberts.
noun
(heraldry) An unhusked hazel filbert.
avellano
avellino
avellino
Proper noun
Province of Campania, Italy.
Town and capital of Avellino.
avelonge
avenalin
avenalin
noun
A globulin or legume-like protein found in oats.
avengers
avengers
noun
plural of avenger
avenging
avenging
noun
The act by which somebody is avenged.
verb
present participle of avenge
aventail
aventail
noun
A curtain or flap of chainmail, fastened to a helmet, or to a coif (hood) of mail, covering the lower face, neck, and shoulders.
Synonym of ventail (“movable (solid plate) front to a helmet”).
aventine
aventine
Adjective
Pertaining to Aventine Hill, one of the seven hills on which Rome stood.
Noun
A post of security or defense.
aventure
aventure
noun
(obsolete) a mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire
(obsolete) accident; chance; adventure
verb
Obsolete form of adventure.
averaged
averaged
adj
(of a set of numbers) replaced by an average value
verb
simple past tense and past participle of average
averager
averager
noun
A system or process for computing averages.
averages
averages
noun
plural of average
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of average
averment
averment
noun
A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.
The act of averring, or that which is averred; positive assertion.
verification; establishment by evidence.
averrhoa
averring
averring
verb
present participle of aver
averroes
aversant
aversant
adj
(heraldry) Turned to show the back: said of a right hand.
aversely
aversely
adv
Backward; in a backward direction
With repugnance or aversion; unwillingly.
aversion
aversion
noun
(obsolete) The act of turning away from an object.
An object of dislike or repugnance.
Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike often without any conscious reasoning.
aversive
aversive
adj
Tending to repel, causing avoidance (of a situation, a behaviour, an item, etc.)
noun
(grammar, uncountable) A grammatical case indicating that something is avoided or feared; the evitative case.
(psychology, countable) An unpleasant stimulus intended to induce a change in behaviour.
averting
averting
verb
present participle of avert
avertive
avestruz
avgasses
avianize
avianize
verb
(medicine) To attenuate (something such as a virus, for example for use in a vaccine) by repeatedly culturing it in bird embryos.
(rare) To make avian; to make bird-like or into a bird.
aviaries
aviaries
noun
plural of aviary
avicenna
avicenna
Proper noun
Latinized name of Ibn Sina, a Persian polymath
avidness
avidness
noun
The characteristic of being avid.
aviemore
aviolite
avodires
avoiders
avoiders
noun
plural of avoider
avondale
avondale
Proper noun
A city in Arizona.
A in Colorado.
A in Louisiana.
A city in Missouri.
A town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
A village in New South Wales, Australia.
One of two communities in Nova Scotia, Canada.
A borough in Pennsylvania.
avonmore
avouched
avouched
verb
simple past tense and past participle of avouch
avoucher
avoucher
noun
One who avouches.
avouches
avouches
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of avouch
avowable
avowable
adj
Capable of being avowed or openly acknowledged with confidence.
avowance
avowance
noun
(obsolete) An upholding; defence; vindication.
(obsolete) The act of avowing; avowal.
avowedly
avowedly
adv
With open acknowledgment, declaration or verification.
avowries
avowries
noun
plural of avowry
ayurveda
backveld
backveld
noun
(southern Africa) Backward and unsophisticated rural areas.
bakeoven
banville
batsheva
bavenite
bavenite
noun
(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, beryllium, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.
bayville
beauvais
beauvoir
beavered
beavered
adj
(historical) Having or wearing a beaver (part of a helmet covering the lower face).
Covered with, or wearing, a beaver or hat.
Synonym of bearded.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of beaver
bedcover
bedcover
noun
A decorative cover for a bed; a bedspread or counterpane
bedevils
bedevils
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedevil
bedivere
bedravel
bedrivel
bedrivel
verb
(transitive) to drivel on, to put or spill saliva on
beehives
beehives
noun
plural of beehive
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beehive