(medicine) Any virus of the family Adenoviridae, many of which are responsible for respiratory infections in humans
adenoviruses
adenoviruses
noun
plural of adenovirus
adumbrative
adumbrative
adj
Of or pertaining to adumbration
adumbratively
adumbratively
adv
In an adumbrative manner
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
adversarious
adversarious
adj
(archaic) hostile; adversarial
adversifolious
adversifolious
adj
Synonym of adversifoliate
anarchoindividualist
angulinerved
antiproductive
antiproductively
antiproductiveness
antiproductivity
antireductive
aphidivorous
aphidivorous
adj
(zoology) Feeding on aphids.
arnaudville
audiviser
avanguardisti
aviculariidae
avoirdupois
avoirdupois
noun
(chiefly humorous) Weight; heaviness.
(historical) The official system of weights used in the UK between 1856 and 1963. It had been the customary system in London since 1300.
(historical) The official system of weights used in the USA between 1866 and 1959.
(obsolete) Merchandise.
ayurvedic
ayurvedic
adj
Alternative spelling of Ayurvedic
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.
boulevardiers
boulevardiers
noun
plural of boulevardier
boulevardize
boulevardize
verb
(transitive) To convert into boulevards.
bouvardia
brevicauda
brevicaudate
brevicaudate
adj
(zoology) Having a short tail.
burfordville
cardiovascular
cardiovascular
adj
Relating to the circulatory system, that is the heart and blood vessels.
carludovica
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
circumvolved
circumvolved
verb
simple past tense and past participle of circumvolve
coadventuring
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
curdsville
curvicaudate
curvicaudate
adj
(zoology) Having a curved or crooked tail.
curvidentate
curvilinead
curvilinead
noun
(geometry, obsolete) An instrument for drawing curved lines.
curvinerved
curvinerved
adj
(botany) Having the ribs or veins of the leaves curved.
dativogerundial
davisburg
decaturville
decorrugative
decursive
decursive
adj
Running down; decurrent.
decursively
decursively
adv
(botany) In a decursive manner.
decurvation
decurving
demiculverin
demiculverin
noun
(now historical) A medium cannon, slightly larger than a saker and smaller than a culverin.
demiquaver
demiquaver
noun
(music) A semiquaver, a sixteenth note.
demisemiquaver
demisemiquaver
noun
(music) A thirty-second note, drawn as a crotchet with three tails.
denumerantive
denumerative
deorsumversion
deorsumversion
noun
(medicine) lowering of the eyes; downward gaze
depurative
depurative
adj
(medicine) Purifying the blood or humours; depuratory.
noun
Any depurative remedy or agent.
Any disease that is depurative.
destructive
destructive
adj
(computing) Lossy; causing irreversible change.
Causing breakdown or disassembly.
Causing destruction; damaging.
destructively
destructively
adv
in a destructive manner: in a way that causes destruction
destructiveness
destructiveness
noun
the state or quality of being destructive
destructivism
destructivism
noun
An art movement that involves destroying objects in front of spectators.
destructivity
destructivity
noun
destructiveness
desulfovibrio
detritivorous
detritivorous
adj
(ecology) That feeds on detritus; saprophagous
detrivorous
detrivorous
adj
Alternative form of detritivorous
detrusive
deuterovitellose
devolutionary
devolutionary
adj
Of, pertaining to, advocating or permitting devolution.
devouring
devouring
noun
The act by which something is devoured.
verb
present participle of devour
devouringly
devouringly
adv
In a devouring manner; rapaciously, consumingly.
devouringness
devouringness
noun
The quality of something that devours.
devulgarize
devulgarize
verb
(transitive) To free from what is vulgar or common.
diovular
disadventure
disadventure
noun
(obsolete) Misadventure, misfortune.
disadventurous
disadventurous
adj
(obsolete) Unfortunate; calamitous.
discoursive
discoursive
adj
discursive
of or pertaining to discourse or reasoning
discoursively
discoursively
adv
Discursively.
In a reasoning manner; by way of conversation or discourse.
discoursiveness
discoursiveness
Noun
The state or quality of being discursive.
discoverture
discoverture
noun
(obsolete, law) A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband.
discursative
discursativeness
discursive
discursive
adj
(of speech or writing) Tending to digress from the main point; rambling.
(philosophy) Using reason and argument rather than intuition.
discursively
discursively
adv
In a discursive manner.
discursiveness
discursiveness
noun
The state or quality of being discursive.
discursivenesses
disfavour
disfavour
noun
A state of being out of favour.
An unkindness; a disobliging act.
Lack of favour; displeasure.
verb
(British spelling) To show lack of favour or antipathy towards.
disfavourable
disfavourable
adj
Not favourable; unfavourable.
disfavoured
disfavoured
adj
Not favoured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of disfavour
disfavourer
disfavourer
noun
One who disfavours.
disfavouring
disfavouring
verb
present participle of disfavour
disfigurative
disfigurative
adj
disfiguring
disinvestiture
disinvestiture
noun
The act of depriving of investiture.
dispurvey
dispurvey
noun
(obsolete) dispurveyance
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To strip of provisions; to disfurnish.
disruptive
disruptive
adj
(business) Causing major change, as in a market.
Causing disruption or unrest.
disruptively
disruptively
adv
In a disruptive manner
disruptiveness
disruptiveness
noun
Quality or state of being disruptive.
distributival
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.
distributively
distributively
adv
In a distributive manner
distributiveness
distributiveness
noun
The state or quality of being distributive or allotting.
distributivity
distributivity
noun
(mathematics) the fact of being distributive
disturbative
disturbative
adj
(chiefly archaic) Of, pertaining to, or causing the act of disturbing.
disventure
disventure
noun
(obsolete) A disadventure.
disvulnerability
diumvirate
diversiflorous
diversifolious
diversisporous
diverticula
diverticular
diverticular
adj
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the diverticulum.
diverticulate
diverticulate
adj
Related to a diverticulum
diverticulitis
diverticulitis
noun
(medicine, pathology) An infection of the diverticulum.
diverticulosis
diverticulosis
noun
(pathology) The condition of having diverticula, or small pouches, formed along the mucosa of the colon.
diverticulum
diverticulum
noun
(anatomy) A small out-pouching of an organ wall such as the large intestine or urinary bladder.
divestiture
divestiture
noun
The act of selling something off, especially an investment or a business.
The process of stripping away a person's confidence, values and attitudes in order to indoctrinate them into an organization.
divestitures
divestitures
noun
plural of divestiture
divesture
divesture
noun
Obsolete form of divestiture.
divisural
divisural
adj
Being or relating to a division.
divorceuse
divulgater
divulgater
noun
(obsolete) One who divulges.
divulgator
divulgator
noun
Teacher.
divulgatory
divulgatory
adj
Divulging; of or pertaining to divulging.
divulger
divulger
noun
One who divulges something.
divulgers
divulgers
noun
plural of divulger
divulsor
divulsor
noun
(surgery) An instrument used for dilating the urethra or other canal
dubrovnik
dubrovnik
Proper noun
A city and port in southern Croatia on the Adriatic Sea.
duoviri
durative
durative
adj
(linguistics) Of or pertaining to the aspect of a verb that expresses continuing action; continuative. Part of the imperfective aspect, as opposed to the perfective aspect, of verbs.
Long-lasting.
noun
(linguistics) This aspect, or a verb in this aspect; a continuative.
duratives
duratives
noun
plural of durative
durhamville
durovic
duumvir
duumvir
noun
One of two persons jointly exercising the same office in Republican Rome.
duumviral
duumviral
adj
Of or belonging to the duumviri or the duumvirate.
duumvirate
duumvirate
noun
(historical) Any of several offices of the Roman Republic held by two joint magistrates known as duumvirs.
Synonym of diarchy: rule by two people, especially two men.
duumvirates
duumvirates
noun
plural of duumvirate
duumviri
duumviri
noun
plural of duumvir
duumvirs
duvalier
edulcorative
edulcorative
adj
Tending to sweeten or purify by affusions of water.