(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.
(countable) The result or product of being abortive.
(uncountable) The quality of being abortive.
abovementioned
abovementioned
adj
(literary) mentioned above
absolvent
absolvent
adj
(rare) Absolving.
noun
(rare) An absolver.
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
ambivalent
ambivalent
adj
Alternately having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite.
Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, or motivations.
ambivalently
ambivalently
adv
In an ambivalent manner.
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
basketweaving
basketweaving
noun
(figurative) Any useless, unproductive, or lightweight activity.
The act of weaving baskets, as for example from grasses, wicker, or rope.
batavian
batavian
Adjective
From Batavia; Jakartan.
From the ancient Germanic tribe of the Batavi, living in the region of Batavia around Nijmegen.
Noun
Someone from Batavia; Jakartan.
Someone from the tribe of the Batavi.
bavenite
bavenite
noun
(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, beryllium, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.
baviaantje
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
beethovenian
beethovenian
Adjective
Of or pertaining to in particular his style of music.
beethovian
beethovian
Adjective
Of or pertaining to in particular his style of music.
benefactive
benefactive
adj
(linguistics) Of or pertaining to the linguistic form or case or the semantic role of the beneficiary of an action. Expressed in English as "on behalf of" or "on one's behalf."
noun
A term or sentence element that serves a benefactive role or that is inflected for the benefactive case or a similar case (such as the dative case).
beneventan
beneventana
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
biconcavities
biconcavities
noun
plural of biconcavity
biconcavity
biconcavity
noun
The quality of being biconcave.
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
bivalent
bivalent
adj
(chemistry) Having a valence of 2; having two ligands
(genetics) Of, or relating to a pair of homologous synapsed chromosomes that occur during meiosis.
(of a vaccine) Protecting against two different viruses.
noun
(genetics) Any bivalent chromosome.
bivalents
bivalents
noun
plural of bivalent
bivariant
bivariant
adj
(mathematics) Having two independent variables.
(programming) Both covariant and contravariant.
biventral
biventral
adj
Having two bellies
digastric
blepharoconjunctivitis
blepharoconjunctivitis
noun
(medicine) The combination of conjunctivitis and blepharitis.
bloviating
bloviating
verb
present participle of bloviate
bloviations
bloviations
noun
plural of bloviation
bolshevization
bonaventura
bonaventure
bonaventurism
bonavist
bondservant
bondservant
noun
An indentured servant.
bovovaccination
bovovaccination
noun
(historical) The vaccination of cattle with bovovaccine to prevent tuberculosis.
brevipennate
brevipennate
adj
(ornithology) short-winged; having short wings.
bryantsville
bryantville
buenaventura
bullivant
circumventable
circumventable
adj
Capable of being circumvented.
collaborativeness
collaborativeness
noun
quality of being collaborative
combativeness
combativeness
noun
the state of being combative
combinantive
combinative
combinative
adj
Of, pertaining to, or resulting from combination.
Serving, tending, or able to combine.
conceivability
conceivability
noun
Something that is conceivable.
The characteristic of being conceivable; the ability to be conceived, believed, or understood.
constableville
consubstantive
contrivable
contrivable
adj
Capable of being contrived, invented, or devised.
conversationable
conversationable
adj
Synonym of conversable (“able and inclined to engage in conversation”)
convertable
convertable
adj
Alternative form of convertible
conveyability
conveyability
noun
Ability to be conveyed.
convictable
convictable
adj
Capable of being convicted.
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.
disvulnerability
divinability
governability
governability
noun
The ability to be governed.
gubernative
gubernative
adj
(obsolete) governing
imbreviating
impreventability
impreventable
impreventable
adj
Not preventable; inevitable.
inadvisabilities
inadvisability
inadvisability
noun
The quality or state of being inadvisable.
inamovability
inconceivabilities
inconceivabilities
noun
plural of inconceivability
inconceivability
inconceivability
noun
(countable) Something inconceivable.
(uncountable) The quality of being inconceivable.
incubative
incubative
adj
Of or pertaining to incubation.
indeprivability
indissolvability
indubitatively
inebriative
inebriative
adj
Causing or relating to inebriation.
inevitabilities
inevitabilities
noun
plural of inevitability
inevitability
inevitability
noun
(countable) An inevitable condition or outcome.
(uncountable) The condition of being inevitable.
inevitable
inevitable
adj
Impossible to avoid or prevent.
Predictable or always happening.
noun
Something that is predictable, necessary, or cannot be avoided.
inevitableness
inevitableness
noun
The characteristic of being inevitable; inevitability.
inevitably
inevitably
adv
As usual; predictably; as expected.
In a manner that is impossible to avoid or prevent.
inhabitative
inhabitative
adj
(grammar) demonymic
noun
(grammar) demonym (name for inhabitant of a place)
inhabitativeness
inhabitativeness
noun
(phrenology) A propensity towards permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
inhabitiveness
inhabitiveness
noun
Alternative form of inhabitativeness
inobservant
inobservant
adj
Not observant; heedless.
inobservantly
inobservantly
adv
In an inobservant manner.
inobservantness
inobservation
inobservation
noun
Neglect or want of observation.
insalvability
insolvability
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.
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.
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
invariability
invariability
noun
The quality of being invariable
inventable
inventable
Adjective
Capable of being invented.
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
invertibrate
invertibrate
noun
Misspelling of invertebrate.
invertibrates
investable
investable
adj
(finance) Able to be invested; ready for investment; liquid.
investigable
investigable
adj
(chiefly philosophy and sciences) Capable of being investigated or studied.
investigatable
investigatable
adj
Alternative form of investigable
inviabilities
inviabilities
noun
plural of inviability
inviability
inviability
noun
(biology) The state or quality of not being viable
inviolabilities
inviolabilities
noun
plural of inviolability
inviolability
inviolability
noun
The quality or state of being inviolable; inviolableness.