(biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
(linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, utilizing omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @.
(mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
(music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
(music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
The process of abbreviating.
The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
abbreviations
abbreviations
noun
plural of abbreviation
abortiveness
abortiveness
noun
(countable) The result or product of being abortive.
(uncountable) The quality of being abortive.
absorptiveness
absorptiveness
noun
The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power.
abstersiveness
abstersiveness
noun
The quality of being abstersive.
abstractiveness
abstractiveness
noun
The property of being abstractive.
adverbiation
antisubversion
antisubversion
adj
Opposing or countering political subversion.
antisubversive
antisubversive
adj
(politics) Opposing or countering political subversion.
noun
One who opposes political subversion.
antivibrating
antivibrator
antivibrator
noun
A device attached to a vehicle or machine, etc. to reduce vibrations.
antivibratory
antivibratory
adj
preventing or reducing vibrations
approbativeness
approbativeness
noun
The state or quality of being approbative.
attributiveness
attributiveness
noun
The state or quality of being attributive.
bacteriosolvent
barneveldt
bartonsville
bartonville
basiventral
basiventral
adj
At the base of the front
beaverteen
beaverteen
noun
A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing.
beaverton
beaverton
Proper noun
The name of several places
A city in Oregon, USA
A town in Ontario, Canada
A village in Alabama, USA
A hamlet in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
beavertown
bereavement
bereavement
noun
The state of being bereaved; deprivation; especially the loss of a relative by death.
bereavements
bereavements
noun
plural of bereavement
bevatron
bevatron
noun
A particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts.
bevatrons
bevatrons
noun
plural of bevatron
binervate
binervate
adj
(zoology, botany) Having only two nerves.
bioenvironmental
bioenvironmental
adj
Of or pertaining to the interactions between the environment and living organisms
bioenvironmentaly
bivariant
bivariant
adj
(mathematics) Having two independent variables.
(programming) Both covariant and contravariant.
biventer
biventer
noun
(anatomy) Any digastric part or organ.
biventral
biventral
adj
Having two bellies
digastric
blepharoconjunctivitis
blepharoconjunctivitis
noun
(medicine) The combination of conjunctivitis and blepharitis.
bonaventura
bonaventure
bonaventurism
bondservant
bondservant
noun
An indentured servant.
bouleversement
bouleversement
noun
Complete overthrow; reversal; turmoil
breveting
breveting
verb
present participle of brevet
brevetting
breviloquent
breviloquent
adj
Exhibiting breviloquence; concise.
brevipennate
brevipennate
adj
(ornithology) short-winged; having short wings.
brevirostrines
bryantsville
bryantville
buenaventura
burnettsville
burtonsville
circumventable
circumventable
adj
Capable of being circumvented.
collaborativeness
collaborativeness
noun
quality of being collaborative
contributive
contributive
adj
Tending to contribute; making a contribution
contributively
contributively
adv
In a contributive fashion.
contributiveness
contributiveness
noun
The quality of being contributive.
contrivable
contrivable
adj
Capable of being contrived, invented, or devised.
controvertibility
controvertible
controvertible
adj
Open to questioning; that which can be denied, challenged, or disputed.
controvertibly
controvertibly
adv
In a controvertible manner.
conversationable
conversationable
adj
Synonym of conversable (“able and inclined to engage in conversation”)
conversibility
convertable
convertable
adj
Alternative form of convertible
convertibility
convertibility
noun
The quality of a currency of being exchangeable for gold or other currencies
The quality of being convertible
convertible
convertible
adj
(finance) Able to be exchanged for a different class of security (usually common stock) under certain set terms.
(historical numismatics) Able to be exchanged for specie.
(logic) Able to undergo conversion (i.e., inversion) without falsehood.
(numismatics) Able to be exchanged for foreign currency.
(obsolete) Able to be easily digested.
(obsolete) Able to be turned in a different direction.
(vehicles) Able to change from a closed to an open frame and back again.
Able to be exchanged, one for the other, especially
Able to be turned to a different purpose.
Able to be turned to a different religion or belief.
noun
(computing) A computer able to convert from laptop to tablet and back again.
(dated, in the plural) Interchangeable things or terms.
(finance) A convertible security: a stock, bond, etc. that can be turned into another (usually common stock) under certain set terms.
(vehicles) A convertible car: a car with a removable or foldable roof able to convert from a closed to open vehicle and back again.
convertibleness
convertibleness
noun
The state of being convertible; convertibility.
convertibles
convertibles
noun
plural of convertible
convertibly
convertibly
adv
in a convertible manner
countervibration
covibration
craniovertebral
craniovertebral
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the cranium and vertebrae.
cubicontravariant
cubicovariant
cubicovariant
noun
(mathematics) a covariant of a cubic form
deliberativeness
deliberativeness
noun
The state or quality of being deliberative.
distributiveness
distributiveness
noun
The state or quality of being distributive or allotting.
disvulnerability
governability
governability
noun
The ability to be governed.
gubernative
gubernative
adj
(obsolete) governing
hyperobtrusiveness
imbreviating
impreventability
impreventable
impreventable
adj
Not preventable; inevitable.
incontrovertibility
incontrovertibility
noun
The state or characteristic of being incontrovertible, of not being debatable; incontestability.
incontrovertible
incontrovertible
adj
Not capable of being denied, challenged, or disputed; closed to questioning.
incontrovertibleness
incontrovertibleness
noun
The quality of being incontrovertible.
incontrovertibly
incontrovertibly
adv
In an incontrovertible manner; in a manner not capable of being denied, challenged, or disputed.
inconversibility
inconvertibilities
inconvertibilities
noun
plural of inconvertibility
inconvertibility
inconvertibility
noun
The condition of being inconvertible
inconvertible
inconvertible
adj
Not convertible
inconvertibleness
inconvertibleness
noun
The quality of being inconvertible.
inconvertibly
inconvertibly
adv
In an inconvertible manner.
indeprivability
indivertible
indivertible
adj
Not to be diverted or turned aside.
indivertibly
inebriative
inebriative
adj
Causing or relating to inebriation.
ineffervescibility
inobservant
inobservant
adj
Not observant; heedless.
inobservantly
inobservantly
adv
In an inobservant manner.
inobservantness
inobservation
inobservation
noun
Neglect or want of observation.
inobtrusive
inobtrusive
adj
inconspicuous; unobtrusive
inobtrusively
inobtrusively
adv
In an inobtrusive manner.
inobtrusiveness
inobtrusiveness
noun
The quality of being inobtrusive.
insubvertible
interavailability
interavailability
noun
The property of being interavailable.
interavailable
interavailable
adj
(public transport) Such that tickets purchased for one route or service can be used on another.
interconvertibility
interconvertibility
noun
(countable) The extent to which something is interconvertible
(uncountable) The condition of being interconvertible
interconvertible
interconvertible
adj
That can be interconverted
interconvertibly
interconvertibly
adv
In an interconvertible manner.
interinhibitive
interobjective
interobjective
adj
Between objects.
intersubjective
intersubjective
adj
Accessible to or capable of being established for two or more subjects.
Involving or occurring between separate conscious minds.
intersubjectively
intersubjectively
adv
(philosophy) In an intersubjective way; between or among multiple subjects
intersubjectivity
intersubjectivity
noun
The state or condition of being intersubjective.
interverbal
interverbal
adj
Between words.
intervertebra
intervertebral
intervertebral
adj
Between the vertebrae
intervertebrally
intervertebrally
adv
(anatomy) Between the vertebrae.
interviewable
interviewable
adj
Capable of being interviewed.
intervisibility
intervisibility
noun
The quality of being intervisible.
intervisible
intervisible
adj
(surveying) Mutually visible; each in sight of the other.
intraverbal
intraverbal
adj
Within a word.
noun
A verbal response to a verbal stimulus that does not involve echoic or textual behavior or transcription or dictation-taking.
intraversable
intraversable
adj
Not traversable
intravertebral
intravertebral
adj
Within the vertebra.
intravertebrally
intravertebrally
adv
(anatomy) within the vertebra
introconvertibility
introconvertible
introversibility
introversible
invariability
invariability
noun
The quality of being invariable
inventoriable
inventoriable
adj
(accounting) Of costs: being those directly associated with the manufacture of products to be sold.
Able to be held in an inventory.
inverebrate
invertebracy
invertebracy
noun
Quality of being invertebrate.
invertebral
invertebral
adj
Archaic form of invertebrate.
invertebrata
invertebrate
invertebrate
adj
Cowardly, uncourageous; lacking character.
Lacking a backbone; without vertebrae.
noun
(informal) A spineless person; a coward.
An animal without vertebrae, i.e. backbone.
invertebrated
invertebrated
adj
(archaic) invertebrate; without a backbone
invertebrateness
invertebrates
invertebrates
noun
plural of invertebrate
invertibility
invertibility
noun
(mathematics, esp. of a function or matrix) The condition of being invertible.
invertible
invertible
adj
(chemistry) Capable of being changed or converted.
(mathematics, especially of a function or matrix) Able to be inverted, having an inverse.