Pertaining to, tending toward, or characterized by adsorption.
noun
Any substance that adsorbs.
adsorptively
adsorptively
adv
In an adsorptive manner; with a tendency toward or characteristic of adsorption.
adsorptiveness
adsorptiveness
noun
The property of being adsorptive, of tending toward or being characterized by adsorption.
adventuresome
adventuresome
adj
Prone to, or willing to undertake, adventures; daring or bold.
adventuresomely
adventuresomely
adv
In an adventuresome manner.
adventuresomeness
adventuresomeness
noun
The state or quality of being adventuresome.
adventuresomes
adventurous
adventurous
adj
(of a person) Inclined to adventure; willing to take risks; prone to embark on hazardous enterprises; daring.
(of an act or product) Full of risks; risky; liable to be in danger; requiring courage; rash.
adventurously
adventurously
adv
In an adventurous manner.
adventurousness
adventurousness
noun
The quality of being adventurous.
adverbiation
adversifoliate
adversifoliate
adj
(botany) Having leaves placed opposite each other on a stem.
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
advisatory
advisatory
adj
(law) Advisory.
advocator
advocator
noun
One who advocates; an advocate
advocatory
advocatory
adj
Characteristic of an advocate.
advocatress
advocatress
noun
(rare) A female advocate.
advocatrice
advocatrice
noun
(archaic) A female advocate.
advocatrix
advoteresse
alvordton
anarchoindividualist
anticonfederative
antidivorce
antidivorce
adj
Opposing divorce.
antieavesdropping
antiproductive
antiproductively
antiproductiveness
antiproductivity
arfvedsonite
arfvedsonite
noun
(mineralogy) A rare sodium amphibole mineral.
avogadrite
avogadrite
noun
(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing boron, cesium, fluorine, and potassium.
biodiversity
biodiversity
noun
(ecology) The diversity (number and variety of species) of plant and animal life within a region.
bondservant
bondservant
noun
An indentured servant.
cavorted
cavorted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cavort
clavichordist
clavichordist
noun
Someone who plays the clavichord.
clavichordists
clavichordists
noun
plural of clavichordist
coacervated
coacervated
adj
That has undergone coacervation
coadventure
coadventure
noun
(archaic) A joint venture or partnership.
coadventured
coadventurer
coadventurer
noun
A fellow adventurer.
coadventuress
coadventuring
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.
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.
contravened
contravened
verb
simple past tense and past participle of contravene
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.
controversed
controverted
controverted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of controvert
converted
converted
adj
changed in form or function etc.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of convert
convertend
convertend
noun
(logic) Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the converse.
coordinative
coordinative
adj
Of or pertaining to coordination
counteradvance
counteradvance
noun
An advance that counters or goes against another advance.
counteradvantage
counteradvantage
noun
A disadvantage that cancels out an advantage.
An advantage held by an opponent.
counteradvice
counteradvice
noun
Advice that goes against other advice; opposite advice.
counteradvise
counteradvise
verb
To give the opposite advice.
counterdevelopment
counterdevelopment
noun
A development that counteracts another development.
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
countermoved
countermoved
verb
simple past tense and past participle of countermove
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
dativogerundial
davenport
davenport
noun
A large sofa, especially a formal one.
A writing desk.
davenports
davenports
noun
plural of davenport
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
decorative
decorative
adj
That serves to decorate
noun
A plant, tile, etc. intended for use as decoration.
decoratively
decoratively
adv
In a decorative manner.
decorativeness
decorativeness
noun
The condition of being decorative
decorrugative
decurvation
deformative
dehortative
dehortative
adj
dissuasive
demivotary
demonstrative
demonstrative
adj
(grammar) that specifies the thing or person referred to
given to open displays of emotion
that serves to demonstrate, show or prove
noun
A demonstrative adjective.
A demonstrative pronoun.
demonstratively
demonstratively
adv
In a demonstrative manner.
demonstrativeness
demonstrativeness
noun
The state or quality of being demonstrative.
denervation
denervation
noun
(medicine) The removal or blocking of a nerve connection to tissue, such as by surgical or chemical means
denervations
denervations
noun
plural of denervation
depravation
depravation
noun
Change for the worse; deterioration; morbid perversion.
Detraction; depreciation.
The act of depraving, or making anything bad; the act of corrupting.
The state of being depraved or degenerated; degeneracy; depravity.
depravations
depravations
noun
plural of depravation
deprevation
deprivation
deprivation
noun
(countable) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
(countable) The taking away from a clergyman of his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
(followed by “of”) lack
(uncountable) The state of being deprived
deprivations
deprivations
noun
plural of deprivation
derivation
derivation
noun
(genealogy, linguistics) The act of tracing origin or descent.
(grammar) Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it.
(mathematics) The operation of deducing one function from another according to a fixed definition, referred to as derivation or differentiation; this is the inverse operation to integration.
(medicine) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
That from which a thing is derived.
That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction.
The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
derivational
derivational
adj
(grammar) Of or pertaining to derivation; relating to that which is derived.
derivationally
derivationally
adv
In a derivational manner.
With respect to derivation.
derivationist
derivationist
noun
A proponent of derivationism.
derivations
derivations
noun
plural of derivation
dermosynovitis
derogative
derogative
adj
Disparaging; tending or intending to be belittling.
Of or pertaining to derogation; that derogates
noun
(rare) A derogatory word or word-form.
derogatively
derogatively
adv
In a derogative way or manner: derogatorily.
desilverization
desilverization
noun
The process of desilverizing.
deteriorative
deteriorative
adj
Causing deterioration.
detritivorous
detritivorous
adj
(ecology) That feeds on detritus; saprophagous
detrivorous
detrivorous
adj
Alternative form of detritivorous
deuterovitellose
devaporate
devaporation
devaporation
noun
The change of vapour into water, as in the formation of rain.
devastator
devastator
noun
one who devastates.
devastators
devastators
noun
plural of devastator
developmentarian
developmentary
developmentary
adj
Pertaining to development; developmental.
deviator
deviator
noun
That which deviates, or causes deviation
deviators
deviators
noun
plural of deviator
deviatory
deviatory
adj
Tending to deviate.
devirgination
devirgination
Noun
The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
devirginator
devirginator
noun
One who devirginates; a deflowerer.
devisceration
devitrification
devitrification
noun
The formation of small crystals in a glass as a result of slow cooling from the molten state
devolutionary
devolutionary
adj
Of, pertaining to, advocating or permitting devolution.
devonport
devonport
Proper noun
a district and naval dockyard in Plymouth, Devon, England, named Plymouth Dock until 1823.
a harbourside suburb in Auckland, New Zealand, which also contains a naval base.
a city in northern Tasmania, Australia.
devoration
devoration
noun
(obsolete) The act of devouring.
devorative
devotary
devotary
noun
(obsolete) A votary.
devoter
devoter
noun
A worshipper.
One who devotes or commits something to a cause, etc.
devotionary
devourment
devourment
noun
The act of devouring something.
devouter
devouter
adj
comparative form of devout: more devout
dextroversion
dextroversion
noun
(medicine) A turning to the right.
dimitrov
dimitrovo
disadventurous
disadventurous
adj
(obsolete) Unfortunate; calamitous.
disapprobative
disapprobative
adj
disapproving
discoverability
discoverability
noun
The condition of being discoverable
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.
discoverture
discoverture
noun
(obsolete, law) A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband.
disimprovement
disimprovement
noun
(informal, rare, influenced by the German noun Verschlimmbesserung) attempt to make something better while ending up worse than before.
Reduction from a better to a worse state.
disinvigorate
disinvigorate
verb
(transitive) To enervate; to weaken.
disportive
disprobative
disprobative
adj
(law) Tending to disprove a particular proposition or to persuade someone of the falsity of an allegation.
disprovement
disseveration
disseveration
noun
The act of dissevering; disseverance.
distortive
distortive
adj
Causing distortion.
divagatory
divaporation
divarication
divarication
noun
(botany) The growth habit of some low-growing shrubs; with wide angles where they diverge, the branches may interlace.
A divergence of opinion.
The point at which branching occurs.
divaricator
divaricator
noun
(zoology) One of the muscles that open the shell of a brachiopod; a cardinal muscle.