(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
bedevilment
bedevilment
noun
The characteristic of being bedeviled.
bedevilments
bedevilments
noun
plural of bedevilment
beethoven
beethoven
Proper noun
usually applying to
beethovenian
beethovenian
Adjective
Of or pertaining to in particular his style of music.
beethovenish
beethovian
beethovian
Adjective
Of or pertaining to in particular his style of music.
beneceptive
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.
benediktov
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
benevento
benevolent
benevolent
adj
Altruistic, charitable, good, just and fair.
Having a disposition to do good.
Possessing or manifesting love for mankind.
benevolently
benevolently
adv
In a benevolent manner.
benevolentness
benevolentness
noun
The state or quality of being benevolent.
benevolist
bennettsville
bentleyville
bentonville
benvenuto
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
bevelment
bevelment
noun
(mineralogy) The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes.
bevington
bevomiting
bevomiting
verb
present participle of bevomit
biconcavities
biconcavities
noun
plural of biconcavity
biconcavity
biconcavity
noun
The quality of being biconcave.
biconvexities
biconvexities
noun
plural of biconvexity
biconvexity
biconvexity
noun
The quality of being biconvex.
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.
biventer
biventer
noun
(anatomy) Any digastric part or organ.
biventral
biventral
adj
Having two bellies
digastric
bivoltine
bivoltine
adj
(biology) Having two broods or generations in a year
noun
(biology) A bivoltine organism.
blepharoconjunctivitis
blepharoconjunctivitis
noun
(medicine) The combination of conjunctivitis and blepharitis.
blountsville
blountsville
Proper noun
A town in
A town in
blountville
blountville
Proper noun
A in the U.S. state of that is the of
bloviating
bloviating
verb
present participle of bloviate
bloviations
bloviations
noun
plural of bloviation
bolshevization
bonaventura
bonaventure
bonaventurism
bonavist
bondservant
bondservant
noun
An indentured servant.
botvinnik
bouleversement
bouleversement
noun
Complete overthrow; reversal; turmoil
bovinities
bovinities
noun
plural of bovinity
bovinity
bovinity
noun
The condition of being bovine.
bovovaccination
bovovaccination
noun
(historical) The vaccination of cattle with bovovaccine to prevent tuberculosis.
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
bullivant
burnettsville
burtonsville
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
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
conveyability
conveyability
noun
Ability to be conveyed.
convictable
convictable
adj
Capable of being convicted.
convictible
convincibility
convincibility
noun
Ability to be convinced or persuaded.
convulsibility
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
divinability
governability
governability
noun
The ability to be governed.
gubernative
gubernative
adj
(obsolete) governing
hyperobtrusiveness
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.
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.