Causing or tending to cause addiction; habit-forming.
Characterized by or susceptible to addiction.
Enjoyable.
noun
A drug that causes an addiction.
Anything that is very habit-forming.
adductive
adductive
adj
Adducing, or bringing towards or to something.
adjective
adjective
adj
(chemistry, of a dye) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
(grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
(law) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
(obsolete, reflected in the chemical sense, but extinct as a general sense) Incapable of independent function.
noun
(grammar) A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent.
(obsolete) A dependent; an accessory.
verb
(transitive) To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.
(transitive, chiefly as a participle) To characterize with an adjective; to describe by using an adjective.
advecting
advecting
verb
present participle of advect
advection
advection
noun
(earth science, chemistry) The horizontal movement of a body of atmosphere (or other fluid) along with a concurrent transport of its temperature, humidity etc.
The transport of a scalar by bulk fluid motion.
advective
advective
adj
Relating to advection.
advocated
advocated
adj
Having been argued in favor of.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of advocate
advocates
advocates
noun
plural of advocate
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advocate
cavitated
cavitated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cavitate
contrived
contrived
adj
Created in a deliberate, rather than natural or spontaneous, way.
Unnatural, forced; artificial, or unrealistic.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of contrive
convected
convected
verb
simple past tense and past participle of convect
convented
convented
adj
(obsolete) Brought together, convened.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of convent
converted
converted
adj
changed in form or function etc.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of convert
convicted
convicted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of convict
cravatted
cravatted
adj
Wearing a cravat.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cravat.
creditive
curvetted
decalvant
deceptive
deceptive
adj
Likely or attempting to deceive.
declivate
declivent
declivity
declivity
noun
(entomology) An inward curve of the exoskeleton of an insect, such as between body segments; a segment of an insect's body where the exoskeleton curves inward.
(geomorphology) The downward slope of a hill; the downward slope of a curve.
A downward bend in a path.
decoctive
decoctive
adj
Serving to decoct.
decretive
decretive
adj
Having the authority of a decree.
deductive
deductive
adj
(logic) Based on inferences from general principles.
Of, pertaining to, or based on deduction (process of reasoning).
deervetch
deervetch
noun
Acmispon
Aeschynomene, especially Aeschynomene virginica.
Hosackia
Lotus gen. et spp.
defective
defective
adj
(Arabic grammar, of a verb) Having a root whose final consonant is weak (ي, و, or ء).
(chiefly of abjad script) Spelled without matres lectionis, for example אמץ (ómets, “courage”) as opposed to the plene spelling אומץ where the letter vav ⟨ו⟩ indicates the vowel o.
(grammar, of a lexeme, especially a verb) Lacking some forms; e.g., having only one tense or being usable only in the third person.
(orthography, of a script) Not capable of representing all the phonemic distinctions of a language it is used to write.
Having one or more defects.
adv
(chiefly of abjad script) Without matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels) written out.
noun
(chiefly of abjad script) A word written without matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels).
A person or thing considered to be defective.
depictive
depictive
adj
Of or pertaining to depiction.
noun
(grammar) A grammatical construction that indicates the state of a noun in relation to the action of a verb.
detective
detective
adj
Employed in detecting.
noun
(law enforcement) A police officer who looks for evidence as part of solving a crime; an investigator.
A person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public.
dictative
dictative
adj
dictatorial
didactive
directive
directive
adj
(grammar) Relating to the directive case.
That which directs; serving to direct, indicate, or guide.
noun
(European Union law) A form of legislative act addressed to the member states. The directive binds the member state to reach certain objectives in their national legislation.
(grammar) The directive case.
(programming) A construct in source code that indicates how it should be processed but is not necessarily part of the program to be run.
An authoritative decision from an official body, which may or may not have binding force.
An instruction or guideline that indicates how to perform an action or reach a goal.
discovert
discovert
adj
(law, obsolete) Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.
noun
(obsolete) An uncovered place or part.
dovecotes
dovecotes
noun
plural of dovecote
dustcover
dustcover
noun
Synonym of dust jacket
educative
educative
adj
Serving to educate; educational.
evacuated
evacuated
adj
Containing a vacuum.
Having had population removed, by evacuation.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of evacuate
excavated
excavated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of excavate
incavated
incavated
adj
Made hollow; bent round or in.
indictive
indictive
adj
proclaimed; declared; public
inductive
inductive
adj
(logic) Of, or relating to logical induction.
(physics) Of, relating to, or arising from inductance.
Influencing; tending to induce or cause.
introductory or preparatory.
invocated
invocated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of invocate
nerviduct
outcurved
outcurved
adj
That curves outwards
outvoiced
outvoiced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of outvoice
overacted
overacted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overact
reductive
reductive
adj
(Scotland law, now rare) Pertaining to the reduction of a decree etc.; rescissory.
(chemistry, metallurgy, biology, economics) That reduces a substance etc. to a more simple or basic form.
(now frequently derogatory) That reduces an argument, issue etc. to its most basic terms; simplistic, reductionist.
(now rare, historical) That can be derived from, or referred back to, something else.
Causing the physical reduction or diminution of something.
revacated
revacated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of revacate
seductive
seductive
adj
Attractive, alluring, tempting.
uncoveted
uncoveted
adj
Not coveted.
unevicted
unevicted
adj
Not evicted.
unvacated
unvacated
adj
Not vacated.
varicated
varicated
adj
Marked by varicose formations.
vaticides
vaticides
noun
plural of vaticide
veldcraft
veldcraft
noun
bushcraft associated with the African veld
vendicate
ventiduct
ventiduct
noun
A ventilation duct
veredicto
vesicated
vesicated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of vesicate
victualed
victualed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of victual
videlicet
videlicet
adv
Namely, to wit, that is to say (used when clarifying or naming the preceding item or topic)
videocast
videocast
noun
A vodcast.
verb
To vodcast.
vindicate
vindicate
verb
(transitive) To clear of an accusation, suspicion or criticism.
(transitive) To justify by providing evidence.
(transitive) To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.
(transitive) To maintain or defend (a cause) against opposition.
(transitive) To provide justification for.
(transitive, obsolete) To avenge; to punish
(transitive, obsolete) To liberate; to set free; to deliver.