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.
addictively
addictively
adv
In an addictive manner.
addictiveness
addictiveness
noun
The characteristic of being addictive.
addictives
addictives
noun
plural of addictive
adductive
adductive
adj
Adducing, or bringing towards or to something.
adjectival
adjectival
adj
(grammar) Of or relating to or functioning as an adjective.
(law) Of or relating to procedure, especially to technicalities thereof.
noun
An adjectival phrase or clause.
adjectivally
adjectivally
adv
As, or in the manner of, an adjective.
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.
adjectively
adjectively
adv
As an adjective; adjectivally.
adjectives
adjectives
noun
plural of adjective
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adjective
adjectivism
adjectivism
noun
The excessive use of adjectives.
adjectivitis
adjectivitis
noun
(humorous) The overuse of adjectives in writing.
adjudicative
adjudicative
adj
Of or pertaining to an adjudication or to an adjudicator.
adjunctive
adjunctive
adj
(logic) the property of two operations x and y, such that ax(ayb) = a, and ay(axb) = a
additional; neither basic nor primary
forming an adjunct
noun
(grammar) a connector joining two components of the same weight, such as a coordinating conjunction
(manufacturing) a substance added as a supplement; often in the phrase "additives and adjunctives."
adjunctively
adjunctively
adv
In an adjunctive way.
adscriptive
adscriptive
adj
Attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it.
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.
advectitious
advectitious
adj
Relating to, or transported by, advection.
advective
advective
adj
Relating to advection.
adventuristic
adventuristic
adj
Relating to or exhibiting adventurism.
advertencies
advertencies
noun
plural of advertency
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
anarchoindividualist
anticonfederative
antidivorce
antidivorce
adj
Opposing divorce.
antimedicative
antiproductive
antiproductively
antiproductiveness
antiproductivity
antireductive
apodictive
apodictive
adj
apodictic
archdetective
architraved
architraved
adj
(architecture) Furnished with an architrave.
autoeducative
autoeducative
adj
Of or relating to autoeducation.
autoinductive
autoinductive
adj
That exhibits autoinduction
benedictive
benedictive
adj
Of, relating to, or being a benediction or blessing.
noun
(linguistics) A particular verbal mood in Sanskrit language.
benedictively
benedictively
adv
In a benedictive manner.
brevicaudate
brevicaudate
adj
(zoology) Having a short tail.
brevicipitid
brevicipitid
noun
(zoology) Any frog of the family Brevicipitidae.
brevicipitidae
cantilevered
cantilevered
adj
Fitted with, or constituting, a cantilever; projecting out laterally from a wall or similar support and thus hanging without other supports.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cantilever
captivated
captivated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of captivate
captived
captived
adj
(obsolete) Captured; captive.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of captive
cavitated
cavitated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cavitate
cavitied
cavitied
adj
Having cavities.
circumnavigated
circumnavigated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of circumnavigate
circumvallated
circumvallated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of circumvallate
circumvented
circumvented
verb
simple past tense and past participle of circumvent
clavichordist
clavichordist
noun
Someone who plays the clavichord.
clavichordists
clavichordists
noun
plural of clavichordist
clavodeltoid
clavodeltoideus
cleavelandite
cleavelandite
noun
(mineralogy) A white lamellar variety of albite.
coadjutive
coadjutive
adj
Rendering mutual aid; coadjutant.
coadunative
coadunative
adj
Serving to coadunate or unite.
coadunatively
coadunatively
adv
In a coadunative manner
coadventuring
cocultivated
cocultivated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cocultivate
collectivized
collectivized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of collectivize
condensative
condensative
adj
That tends to condense
condititivia
conditivia
conditivium
condonative
condonative
adj
(obsolete) Condoning; betokening, or relating to, condonement or condonation.
conductive
conductive
adj
Able to conduct electrical current or heat.
Of, or relating to conductivity of a material.
conductively
conductively
adv
By means of conduction
In a conductive manner
conductivities
conductivities
noun
plural of conductivity
conductivity
conductivity
noun
(physics) The reciprocal of resistivity
The ability of a material to conduct electricity, heat, fluid or sound
confederative
confederative
adj
Of or pertaining to confederates of a confederation.
considerative
considerative
adj
(archaic) considerate; careful; thoughtful
consideratively
considerativeness
considerativeness
noun
The quality of being considerative.
consolidative
consolidative
adj
Tending or having power to consolidate.
contradictive
contradictive
adj
(now rare) Contradictory.
contradictively
contradictively
adv
In a contradictive manner.
contradictiveness
contradictiveness
noun
The quality of being contradictive.
contradistinctive
contradistinctive
adj
Distinguishing by contrast
Having the quality of contradistinction
contradistinctively
contradistinctively
adv
in contradistinction
contradivide
contraindicative
contraindicative
adj
Serving as a contraindication.
contravindicate
contravindication
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
contrivedly
contrivedly
adv
In a contrived manner.
conventionalised
conventionalised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of conventionalise
conventionalized
conventionalized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of conventionalize
convicted
convicted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of convict
coordinative
coordinative
adj
Of or pertaining to coordination
counteradvice
counteradvice
noun
Advice that goes against other advice; opposite advice.
counteradvise
counteradvise
verb
To give the opposite advice.
counterdrive
counterdrive
noun
A drive that counteracts another drive.
counterevidence
counterevidence
noun
(philosophy, law, sciences) Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis.
counterevidences
counterevidences
noun
plural of counterevidence
counterproductive
counterproductive
adj
More of a hindrance than a help.
counterproductively
counterproductively
adv
In a counterproductive way.
counterproductiveness
counterproductiveness
noun
The state or condition of being counterproductive.
counterproductivity
counterproductivity
noun
The quality of being counterproductive.
countervailed
countervailed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of countervail
countervindication
creditive
cultivated
cultivated
adj
(of a person) cultured, refined, educated
(of a plant) grown by cultivation (not wild)
(of land) farmed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cultivate
curvicaudate
curvicaudate
adj
(zoology) Having a curved or crooked tail.
curvidentate
deactivate
deactivate
verb
(ergative) to make something inactive or no longer effective
to prevent the action of a biochemical agent (such as an enzyme)
to remove a person or piece of hardware from active military service
deactivated
deactivated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of deactivate
deactivates
deactivates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deactivate
deactivating
deactivating
verb
present participle of deactivate
deactivation
deactivation
noun
The act of deactivating something, such as a bomb or alarm.
deactivations
deactivations
noun
plural of deactivation
deactivator
deactivator
noun
A chamber filled with iron filings or other material used to remove excess oxygen or other substances from water.
Any device used to deactivate something.
deactivators
deactivators
noun
plural of deactivator
decalvation
decaturville
deceivability
deceivability
Noun
The state or quality of being deceivable.
decemvirate
decemvirate
noun
A group of ten people, especially (politics) a council of ten men sharing office or power and particularly (historical) the groups of ten men who reformed and codified Roman law circa 450 BCE.
decemvirates
decemvirates
noun
plural of decemvirate
deceptive
deceptive
adj
Likely or attempting to deceive.
deceptively
deceptively
adv
Actually but not apparently.
Apparently but not actually.
In a deceptive manner; misleadingly.
deceptiveness
deceptiveness
noun
the state or quality of being deceptive
deceptivity
deceptivity
noun
(rare) Something that deceives.
The quality of being deceptive.
decivilization
decivilization
noun
The process of decivilization.
declarative
declarative
adj
(grammar, of a verb, sentence, or mood) Expressing truth.
(programming) A way of programming that is most akin to just stating what is wanted, rather than having to describe how to do it. w:Declarative programming
(programming) That declares a construct.
Serving to declare; having the quality of a declaration.
(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.
decongestive
decongestive
adj
Serving to decongest.
noun
A decongestant.
decontaminative
deconventionalize
deconvolution
deconvolution
noun
(mathematics) The inversion of a convolution equation; does not normally have unique solution
decorative
decorative
adj
That serves to decorate
noun
A plant, tile, etc. intended for use as decoration.