(anatomy, histology) The outermost layer of epithelial tissue encasing a visceral organ.
adventitial
adventitial
adj
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the adventitia
(obsolete) Alternative form of adventitious
adventitias
adventitias
noun
plural of adventitia
adventitious
adventitious
adj
(biology) Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source.
(genetics, medicine) Not congenital; acquired.
Accidental, additional, appearing casually.
From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
adventitiously
adventitiously
adv
in an adventitious manner; sporadically.
adventitiousness
adventitiousness
noun
the degree to which a thing is adventitious
adventitiousnesses
adventive
adventive
adj
(biology) Of a plant that is not native, but was introduced by humans to a place and has since become naturalized.
Accidental.
Adventitious.
noun
A non-native plant that has become naturalized.
adventively
adventureship
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.
adventurisms
adventurisms
noun
plural of adventurism
adventurist
adventurist
noun
A politician involved in adventurism.
Someone who is into adventurism.
adventuristic
adventuristic
adj
Relating to or exhibiting adventurism.
adventurists
adventurists
noun
plural of adventurist
adverbiality
adverbiality
noun
The condition of having characteristics of an adverb.
adverbiation
adversative
adversative
adj
(linguistics) Expressing adverse effect.
(linguistics) Expressing opposition or difference.
noun
(rare, dated) Something, particularly a clause or conjunction, which is adversative.
adversatively
adversatively
adv
In an adversative manner
adversatives
adversatives
noun
plural of adversative
adversifoliate
adversifoliate
adj
(botany) Having leaves placed opposite each other on a stem.
adversities
adversities
noun
plural of adversity
adversity
adversity
noun
(countable) An event that is adverse; calamity.
(uncountable) The state of adverse conditions; state of misfortune or calamity.
advertencies
advertencies
noun
plural of advertency
adverting
adverting
verb
present participle of advert
advertisable
advertisable
adj
Suitable for being advertised.
advertise
advertise
verb
(card games) In gin rummy, to discard a card of one's preferred suit so as to mislead the opponent into thinking you do not want it.
(intransitive) To provide information about a person or goods and services to influence others.
(transitive) To give (especially public) notice of (something); to announce publicly.
(transitive) To provide public information about (a product, service etc.) in order to attract public awareness and increase sales.
(transitive, now rare) To notify (someone) of something; to call someone's attention to something.
advertised
advertised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of advertise
advertisee
advertisee
noun
One who views or reads an advertisement; the target of advertising.
advertisement
advertisement
noun
(card games) In gin rummy, the discarding of a card of one's preferred suit so as to mislead the opponent into thinking you do not want it.
(marketing) A commercial solicitation designed to sell some commodity, service or similar.
(obsolete) Notoriety.
A public notice.
A recommendation of a particular product, service or person.
advertisements
advertisements
noun
plural of advertisement
advertiser
advertiser
noun
A periodical in which advertisements can be published by individuals.
One who advertises.
advertisers
advertisers
noun
plural of advertiser
advertises
advertises
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advertise
advertising
advertising
noun
Communication whose purpose is to influence potential customers about products and services.
The industry or profession made up of such communications.
verb
present participle of advertise
advertisings
advertisings
noun
plural of advertising
advertizable
advertizable
adj
Alternative spelling of advertisable
advertize
advertize
verb
(archaic, now nonstandard, proscribed) Alternative spelling of advertise
advertized
advertized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of advertize
advertizement
advertizement
noun
Alternative spelling of advertisement
advertizer
advertizer
noun
One who advertizes.
advertizes
advertizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advertize
advertizing
advertizing
verb
present participle of advertize
advertorial
advertorial
noun
An advertisement written in the form of an objective editorial, presented in a printed publication, and usually designed to look like a legitimate and independent news article.
advertorials
advertorials
noun
plural of advertorial
advisabilities
advisabilities
noun
plural of advisability
advisability
advisability
noun
(countable) An instance of advisability; a consideration in determining overall advisability.
(uncountable) The quality of being advisable or prudent.
advisatory
advisatory
adj
(law) Advisory.
advisement
advisement
noun
(archaic) Advice, counsel.
(now US) Consideration or deliberation.
advisements
advisements
noun
plural of advisement
advitant
advocateship
advocateship
noun
(now rare) The office or function of an advocate; advocacy.
advocating
advocating
verb
present participle of advocate
advocation
advocation
noun
(Britain, law) The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church.
(Scotland, law) The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court.
(archaic) Advocacy; the act of advocating or pleading.
advocations
advocations
noun
plural of advocation
advocative
advocative
adj
(law) Related to advocation
advocatrice
advocatrice
noun
(archaic) A female advocate.
advocatrix
advolution
advolution
noun
A rolling toward something; goal orientation.
aestival
aestival
adj
Alternative spelling of estival
aestivate
aestivate
verb
Alternative spelling of estivate
aestivated
aestivated
verb
Alternative spelling of estivated
simple past tense and past participle of aestivate
aestivates
aestivates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aestivate
aestivating
aestivating
verb
Alternative spelling of estivating
present participle of aestivate
aestivation
aestivation
noun
(biology) A state of inactivity and metabolic depression during summer: the summer version of hibernation.
(botany) The arrangement (vernation) of the parts of a flower inside a bud; prefloration.
(obsolete) The spending or passing of a summer.
aestivations
aestivations
noun
plural of aestivation
aestivator
aestivator
noun
An animal that becomes dormant during the summer or dry season.
aestive
aestive
adj
(rare) Of or relating to summer.
aeviternal
aeviternal
adj
(theology) Pertaining to aeviternity, a state between eternity, which is unchanging and outside of time, and temporality, which is subject to change and to death or annihilation. Things aeviternal are creations, like the temporal, but everlasting, like the eternal.
affective
affective
adj
Emotional; emotionally charged; affecting.
Relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions.
affectively
affectively
adv
In an affective way; emotionally.
affectivity
affectivity
noun
Ability to experience affects: feelings, emotions, judgement, motivations, etc.
affidavit
affidavit
noun
(law) A signed document wherein an affiant makes a sworn statement.
affidavits
affidavits
noun
plural of affidavit
affinitative
affinitative
adj
Of the nature of affinity.
affinitatively
affinitatively
adv
(perhaps dated) In a manner than pertains to an affinity; familiarly; understandingly; similarly.
affinitive
affinitive
adj
Closely connected, as by affinity.
affirmative
affirmative
adj
(algebra) positive; not negative
(logic) Expressing the agreement of the two terms of a proposition.
Confirmative; ratifying.
dogmatic
pertaining to any assertion or active confirmation that favors a particular result
pertaining to truth; asserting that something is; affirming
positive
intj
(military, especially radio communications) Yes; true; correct.
An elaborate synonym for the word yes.
noun
(grammar) An answer that shows agreement or acceptance.
(obsolete) An assertion.
Yes; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance.
affirmatively
affirmatively
adv
In an affirming manner.
affirmativeness
affirmativeness
noun
The property of being affirmative.
affirmatives
affirmatives
noun
plural of affirmative
afflictive
afflictive
adj
That causes physical or mental pain.
afflictively
afflictively
adv
In an afflictive manner
afformative
afformative
noun
(grammar) An affix.
affricative
affricative
adj
Of or relating to an affricate.
noun
An affricate.
affricatives
affricatives
noun
plural of affricative
affrontive
affrontive
adj
Tending to affront or offend.
affrontiveness
affrontiveness
noun
The state or quality of being affrontive.
afterlives
afterlives
noun
plural of afterlife
aftervision
agentival
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.
agentives
agentives
noun
plural of agentive
agglomerative
agglomerative
adj
Having a tendency to agglomerate
agglutinative
agglutinative
adj
(grammar) having words derived by combining parts, each with a separate meaning
sticky, tacky, adhesive
noun
(grammar) A word formed from the combination of parts, each with a separate meaning.
A sticky material; an adhesive.
agglutinatively
agglutinatively
adv
In an agglutinative fashion; via agglutination.
aggravating
aggravating
verb
present participle of aggravate
aggravatingly
aggravatingly
adv
In an aggravating manner.
aggravation
aggravation
noun
(informal) Provocation, irritation, annoyance.
An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
Exaggerated representation.
The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.
aggravations
aggravations
noun
plural of aggravation
aggravative
aggravative
adj
Tending to aggravate.
noun
That which aggravates.
aggregative
aggregative
adj
By, toward, or of aggregation (the act of collecting or gathering together).
aggregatively
aggregatively
adv
In an aggregative manner.
aggressivity
aggressivity
noun
(geology) The acidic ability of water (when it contains dissolved carbon dioxide) to dissolve calcium carbonate from rocks.
The quality of being aggressive.
aggrievement
aggrievement
noun
The state of being aggrieved.
agitative
agitative
adj
Tending to agitate.
aktivismus
aktivist
akvavit
akvavit
noun
Alternative spelling of aquavit
akvavits
akvavits
noun
plural of akvavit
albertville
albertville
Proper noun
A town in the département of Savoie.
albificative
albrightsville
alcovinometer
alevitsa
algovite
alimentative
alimentative
adj
Nutritious, nourishing.
Relating to aliment
alimentatively
alimentativeness
alimentativeness
noun
The state or quality of being alimentative.
alimentive
alimentive
adj
Alternative form of alimentative
alimentiveness
alimentiveness
noun
(phrenology, obsolete) The instinct or faculty of appetite for food.
The state or quality of being alimentive.
alkatively
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.
alleviant
alleviant
noun
That which alleviates
alleviate
alleviate
verb
(transitive) To reduce or lessen the severity of a pain or difficulty .
alleviated
alleviated
adj
Made more bearable.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of alleviate
alleviater
alleviaters
alleviates
alleviates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alleviate
alleviating
alleviating
verb
present participle of alleviate
alleviatingly
alleviatingly
adv
So as to alleviate.
alleviation
alleviation
noun
the act of alleviating; relief or mitigation.
the act of reducing pain or anything else unpleasant; easement
alleviations
alleviations
noun
plural of alleviation
alleviative
alleviative
adj
That alleviates pain; palliative
noun
That which alleviates; a drug or remedy.
alleviator
alleviator
noun
That who or which alleviates.
alleviators
alleviators
noun
plural of alleviator
alleviatory
alleviatory
adj
alleviative
allgovite
alliterative
alliterative
adj
In the form or style of alliteration.
alliteratively
alliteratively
adv
In an alliterative manner.
alliterativeness
alliterativeness
noun
The state or quality of being alliterative.
allivalite
allocutive
alluviate
alluviate
verb
(transitive) To fill or cover with alluvium.
alluviation
alluviation
noun
The deposition of alluvium (sediment) by a river.
altavista
alterative
alterative
adj
(medicine) Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state into a healthy one.
Causing alteration.
noun
(medicine, now historical) A medicine or treatment which works by changing processes within the body, rather than by evacuating something etc.
alteratively
altercative
altercative
adj
(rare) Characterized by wrangling; scolding.
alternative
alternative
adj
(linguistics) Presenting two or more alternatives.
(obsolete) Alternate, reciprocal.
Not traditional, outside the mainstream, underground.
Other; different from something else.
Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities.
noun
(uncountable, music) alternative rock
A non-offensive word or phrase that serves as a replacement for a word deemed offensive or unacceptable, though not as a euphemism.
A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between two or more possibilities.
One of several mutually exclusive things which can be chosen.
The remaining option; something available after other possibilities have been exhausted.
alternatively
alternatively
adv
(conjunctive) Used to link a pair of possibilities
in an alternative way
alternativeness
alternativeness
noun
The state of being alternative or representing alternatives.