(chiefly botany, rare) Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters.
verb
(obsolete) To heap up.
activate
activate
verb
(transitive) To aerate in order to aid decomposition of organic matter.
(transitive) To encourage development or induce increased activity; to stimulate.
(transitive) To put a device, mechanism (alarm etc.) or system into action or motion; to trigger, to actuate, to set off, to enable.
(transitive, biology) To render a molecule reactive, active, or effective in performing its function.
(transitive, chemistry) To hasten a chemical reaction, especially by heating.
(transitive, chemistry, physics) To render more reactive; excite.
(transitive, computing, software) To remove the limitations of demoware by providing a license; to unlock.
(transitive, military) To organize or create a military unit or station.
(transitive, physics) To render a substance radioactive.
(transitive, sports) To bring a player back after an injury.
actively
actively
adv
(grammar) In the active form; not passive.
In an active manner.
activism
activism
noun
The practice of using action to achieve a result, such as political demonstration or a strike in support of or in opposition to an issue.
activist
activist
adj
Behaving as an activist.
noun
One who is conspicuously active in carrying out any occupational or professional functions.
One who is politically active in the role of a citizen; especially, one who campaigns for change.
activity
activity
noun
(countable) Something done as an action or a movement.
(countable) Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
(grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change over time and have no natural end point.
(physics) The number of radioactive decays per unit time. Unit for it: becquerel or curie
(uncountable) The state or quality of being active; activeness.
The propery of substances to react with other substances
activize
activize
verb
(transitive) To convert to activism.
advected
advected
verb
simple past tense and past participle of advect
advocaat
advocaat
noun
A Dutch liqueur made of egg yolks, sugar and strong liquor, typically brandy.
advocate
advocate
noun
A person who speaks in support of something, or someone.
A person who supports others to make their voices heard, or ideally for them to speak up for themselves.
Anyone who argues the case of another; an intercessor.
Someone whose job is to speak for someone's case in a court of law; a counsel.
verb
(Scotland, law) To appeal from an inferior court to the Court of Session.
(Scotland, law, in higher courts) To call a case before itself for decision.
(intransitive, with for) To engage in advocacy.
(transitive) To encourage support for something.
(transitive) To plead in favour of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.
antivice
antivice
adj
Opposing or countering vice (sinful behaviour).
calvatia
captived
captived
adj
(obsolete) Captured; captive.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of captive
captives
captives
noun
plural of captive
caritive
caritive
adj
(grammar) Of or relating to the caritive case.
(grammar) Of words or endings that express a lack of something, for example English homeless/-less or unsalted/un-, Finnish koditon, suolaton, -ton.
casavant
cavatina
cavatina
noun
(music) A rather slow, song-like instrumental movement; the title, for example, of a movement in Beethoven's string quartet in B flat, op. 130 (1826) and of a once-famous piece (originally for violin and piano) by Raff, and of the slow movement of Rubra's string quartet No. 2.
(music) An operatic song in slow tempo, either complete in itself or (e.g., in Bellini and Verdi) followed by a faster, more resolute section: hence
cavatine
cavatine
noun
Alternative form of cavatina
caveated
caveated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of caveat.
caveatee
caveator
caveator
noun
One who enters a caveat.
cavetown
cavettos
cavitary
cavitary
adj
Of or pertaining to a (body) cavity.
cavitate
cavitate
verb
(sciences) To form vapour bubbles in a flowing liquid in a region where the pressure of the liquid falls below its vapour pressure.
caviteno
cavitied
cavitied
adj
Having cavities.
cavities
cavities
noun
plural of cavity
cavorted
cavorted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cavort
cavorter
cavorter
noun
One who cavorts.
celative
centavos
centavos
noun
plural of centavo
cervalet
cervelat
cervelat
noun
A Swiss smoked sausage made with pork or beef.
cessavit
cessavit
noun
(UK, law, obsolete) A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
chavante
chevalet
chevalet
noun
A rack or rest used in woodwork or glassworking.
cistvaen
cistvaen
noun
Alternative form of kistvaen
clavated
clavated
Adjective
clavate; club-shaped
clavatin
clavatin
noun
patulin
clavolet
coactive
coactive
adj
(obsolete) Serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive.
Acting in concurrence; united in action.
comitiva
comitiva
noun
(historical) A band of brigands in Italy or Sicily.
conative
conative
adj
Of or pertaining to a striving action.
covalent
covalent
adj
(chemistry) Containing or characterized by a covalent bond.
covenant
covenant
noun
(law) A promise, incidental to a deed or contract, either express or implied.
(law) An agreement to do or not do a particular thing.
A pact or binding agreement between two or more parties.
An incidental clause in an agreement.
verb
(law) To bind oneself in contract.
(law) To enter a formal agreement.
(law) To make a stipulation.
To enter into, or promise something by, a covenant.
covotary
crataeva
creative
creative
adj
(of a created thing) Original, expressive and imaginative.
(set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic.
Designed or executed to deceive or mislead.
Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.
noun
(countable) A person directly involved in a creative marketing process.
(uncountable) Artistic material used in advertising, e.g. photographs, drawings, or video.
cultivar
cultivar
noun
A cultivated (not necessarily botanical) variety of a plant species or hybrid of two species.
curative
curative
adj
(figurative, by extension) Remediative.
(grammar) of a verb, conveying the meaning "the agent makes a patient do something"
Possessing the ability to cure, to heal or treat illness.
noun
A substance that acts as a cure.
curvated
curvated
adj
Alternative form of curvate
curvital
curvital
adj
Of or relating to curvature.
devocate
enactive
enactive
adj
Having power to enact or establish as a law.
evacuant
evacuant
adj
laxative
noun
a laxative
something used to clean out an organ system, especially the bowels
evacuate
evacuate
verb
(figurative) To make empty; to deprive.
(transitive) To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from
To cause (or help) to leave or withdraw from.
To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum.
To make void; to nullify; to vacate.
To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.
evectant
evectant
noun
(geometry) A contravariant constructed from an invariant by acting on it with a differential operator called an evector.
evocated
evocated
adj
(rare) evoked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of evocate
evocator
evocator
noun
(medicine) A particular factor that controls the morphogenesis of the early embryo; the inductor.
Someone who evokes.
exactive
exactive
adj
exacting
excavate
excavate
noun
(zoology) Any member of a major grouping of unicellular eukaryotes, of the clade Excavata.
verb
(transitive) To make a hole in (something); to hollow.
(transitive) To remove part of (something) by scooping or digging it out.
(transitive) To uncover (something) by digging.
gravitic
gravitic
adj
Of or pertaining to gravity.
inactive
inactive
adj
(chemistry) Relatively inert.
(physics) Showing no optical activity in polarized light.
Not active, temporarily or permanently.
Not engaging in physical activity.
Not functioning or operating; broken down
Retired from duty or service.
noun
A person who does not take action.
incavate
invocant
invocate
invocate
verb
To invoke or implore
To summon or conjure up
jactivus
locative
locative
adj
(grammar) Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein.
noun
(grammar) The locative case.
navicert
navicert
noun
A form of passport permitting a neutral ship to traverse a blockade in wartime.
octavian
octavian
Proper noun
name, notably borne by Augustus (Caesar) between 44 and 27
octavina
octavina
noun
(music) A Filipino musical instrument resembling the guitar.
octavius
octavius
noun
(historical) The pint (eighth of a gallon) in the apothecaries' system.
outcavil
overacts
overacts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overact
overcast
overcast
adj
(figuratively) In a state of depression; gloomy; melancholy.
Covered with clouds; overshadowed; darkened; (meteorology) more than 90% covered by clouds.
noun
(obsolete) An outcast.
A cloud covering all of the sky from horizon to horizon; cloudy.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To be or become cloudy.
(transitive) To cover with cloud; to overshadow; to darken.
(transitive) To make gloomy; to depress.
(transitive, bookbinding) To fasten (sheets) by overcast stitching or by folding one edge over another.
(transitive, obsolete) To overthrow.
(transitive, obsolete) To transform.
overcoat
overcoat
noun
A heavy garment worn over other clothes, for protection from cold or weather.
verb
(transitive) To apply an exterior coating to.
oviscapt
pacative
pacative
adj
(formal) Relating to pacation.
postcava
postcava
noun
(anatomy) The inferior vena cava.
practive
practive
adj
(obsolete) Doing; active.
reactive
reactive
adj
(chemistry) that readily takes part in reactions
(electronics) Characterized by induction or capacitance rather than resistance.
Reacting to the past rather than anticipating the future, not predictive.
that reacts or responds to a stimulus
revacate
revacate
verb
(transitive) To vacate again.
revocate
revocate
verb
To recall (troops, objects, etc)
To revoke (a person's probation / extended supervision / parole status in the criminal justice context) ex. "My P.O. wants to revocate me" meaning "My probation officer wants to revoke my probation/extended supervision/parole"
stokavci
sylvatic
sylvatic
adj
Of or pertaining to wild rather than domestic animals
Of or pertaining to woods or woodland organisms; sylvan
tovarich
tovarich
noun
Alternative form of tovarish
tractive
tractive
adj
Pertaining to traction.
unactive
unactive
adj
Not active; inactive.
unvacant
unvacant
adj
Not vacant.
vacantia
vacantly
vacantly
adv
In a vacant manner; inanely or foolishly.
vacantry
vacating
vacating
verb
present participle of vacate
vacation
vacation
noun
(Canada, US) A holiday; a stretch of leisure time away from work or duty and devoted to rest or pleasure.
(US, law) The act of making legally void.
(obsolete) Free time given over to a specific purpose; occupation, activity.
A period during which official activity or business is formally suspended; an official holiday from university, law courts etc.
An extended period of time away from work or school.
Freedom from some business or activity.
The act of vacating something; moving out.
verb
(intransitive) To spend or take a vacation.
vachette
vachette
noun
(veterinary surgery) A piece of strong steel wire with the ends curved and pointed, used on toe or quarter cracks to bind the edges together and prevent motion. It is clasped into two notches, one on each side of the crack, burned into the wall with a cautery iron.
vadelect
vadelect
noun
(obsolete) A personal servant; a man who is a member of the household staff.
vancourt
varactor
varactor
noun
(electronics) A solid-state diode whose capacitance varies with the applied voltage.
vaticide
vaticide
noun
(rare) A murderer of a prophet.
The murder of a prophet.
vaticine
vaticine
noun
(obsolete) A prediction; a vaticination.
vectigal
vectigal
noun
(obsolete) A tax.
vedantic
vedantic
Adjective
Of or pertaining to Vedanta.
velicate
veracity
veracity
noun
(countable) Something that is true; a truthful statement; a truth.
(uncountable) Agreement with the facts; accordance with the truth; accuracy or precision.
(uncountable, of a person) The quality of speaking or stating the truth; truthfulness.
Act of being exact and accurate.
Correctness and carefulness in one's plan of action.
veratric
veratric
adj
(organic chemistry) Pertaining to, or derived from, plants of the genus Veratrum.
versatec
vertical
vertical
adj
(marketing) Of or pertaining to vertical markets.
(music) Of an interval: having the two notes sound simultaneously.
(wine tasting) Involving different vintages of the same wine type from the same winery.
In a three-dimensional co-ordinate system, describing the axis z oriented normal (perpendicular, orthogonal) to the basic plane xy.
In a two-dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis y oriented normal (perpendicular, at right angles) to the horizontal axis x.
Standing, pointing, or moving straight up or down; parallel to the local direction of gravity; along the direction of a plumb line; perpendicular to something horizontal.
noun
(marketing) A vertical market.
A vertex or zenith.
A vertical component of a structure.
A vertical geometrical figure; a perpendicular.
An individual slat in a set of vertical blinds.
vesicant
vesicant
adj
Causing blistering to the skin.
noun
Any material that causes blisters upon contact with the skin.
vesicate
vesicate
verb
To blister; to raise blisters on.
viaducts
viaducts
noun
plural of viaduct
viatical
viatical
adj
Of or pertaining to a journey; viatic.
Of or pertaining to a life insurance policy held by someone who is dying, or to the sale of such a policy.
viaticum
viaticum
noun
(especially Catholicism) The Eucharist, when given to a person who is dying or one in danger of death.
(often figurative) Provisions, money, or other supplies given to someone setting off on a long journey.
A portable altar.
vicarate
vicarate
noun
The territory for which a vicar is responsible.
victoria
victoria
noun
A kind of low four-wheeled pleasure carriage, with a calash top, designed for two persons and the driver who occupies a high seat in front.
victrola
victrola
noun
Any upright or console model phonograph from the early 1900s, usually with a wooden cabinet body and an interior horn for the projection of sound, that plays 78 rpm records using a steel needle.
victuals
victuals
noun
plural of victual
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of victual
vilicate
villatic
villatic
adj
(obsolete) Of or pertaining to a farm or village; rural.
vincenta
vindicta
vineatic
vitaceae
viticeta
viticeta
noun
plural of viticetum
vivacity
vivacity
noun
The quality or state of being vivacious.
vocalist
vocalist
noun
A singer; a person who likes to sing.
vocality
vocality
noun
The quality of being a vowel; vocalic character.
The quality or degree of being vocal.
vocation
vocation
noun
An inclination to undertake a certain kind of work, especially a religious career; often in response to a perceived summons; a calling.
An occupation for which a person is suited, trained or qualified.
vocative
vocative
adj
(grammar) Used in address; appellative (said of that case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective, in which a person or thing is addressed). For example "Domine, O Lord"
Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling or vocation.
noun
(grammar) A word in the vocative case
(grammar) The vocative case
(rare) Something said to (or as though to) a particular person or thing; an entreaty, an invocation.
voracity
voracity
noun
the state of being voracious; rapacity or extreme gluttony
vortical
vortical
adj
Of or pertaining to a vortex; containing vortices; moving in a vortex.