(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.
abbreviators
abbreviators
noun
plural of abbreviator
abbreviatory
abbreviatory
adj
Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.
abbreviature
abbreviature
noun
(obsolete) An abbreviated state or form.
(obsolete) The process of abbreviating.
A shortened form of a word or phrase, used in place of the whole; an abbreviation.
An abridgment; a compendium; an abstract.
abevacuation
abevacuation
noun
(medicine) An abnormal evacuation.
(medicine) Metastases.
abirritative
abirritative
adj
(pharmacology) Characterized by abirritation or debility.
abortiveness
abortiveness
noun
(countable) The result or product of being abortive.
(uncountable) The quality of being abortive.
absorptively
absorptively
adv
In an absorptive way.
adverbiality
adverbiality
noun
The condition of having characteristics of an adverb.
adverbiation
advertisable
advertisable
adj
Suitable for being advertised.
advertizable
advertizable
adj
Alternative spelling of advertisable
albificative
ambivalently
ambivalently
adv
In an ambivalent manner.
attributives
attributives
noun
plural of attributive
barkevikitic
barkevikitic
adj
Of or relating to the mineral barkevikite.
bartlesville
bartonsville
bedevilments
bedevilments
noun
plural of bedevilment
beethovenian
beethovenian
Adjective
Of or pertaining to in particular his style of music.
beethovenish
behaviorists
behaviorists
noun
plural of behaviorist
behaviourist
behaviourist
noun
Britain standard spelling of behaviorist.
benevolently
benevolently
adv
In a benevolent manner.
bentleyville
bereavements
bereavements
noun
plural of bereavement
biodiversity
biodiversity
noun
(ecology) The diversity (number and variety of species) of plant and animal life within a region.
birefractive
blountsville
blountsville
Proper noun
A town in
A town in
bolshevistic
bravehearted
brevicaudate
brevicaudate
adj
(zoology) Having a short tail.
brevicipitid
brevicipitid
noun
(zoology) Any frog of the family Brevicipitidae.
brevifoliate
breviloquent
breviloquent
adj
Exhibiting breviloquence; concise.
brevipennate
brevipennate
adj
(ornithology) short-winged; having short wings.
breviradiate
brevirostral
brevirostral
adj
(zoology) Having a short beak or bill
bristolville
bryantsville
buenaventura
burtonsville
cleavability
cleavability
noun
Quality or degree of being cleavable.
combinantive
combustively
contributive
contributive
adj
Tending to contribute; making a contribution
convertibles
convertibles
noun
plural of convertible
cultivatable
cultivatable
adj
cultivable
debilitative
debilitative
adj
Causing or relating to debilitation.
deliberative
deliberative
adj
That deliberates, considers carefully.
noun
A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined.
A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.
derivability
derivability
noun
The condition of being derivable
deverbatives
deverbatives
noun
plural of deverbative
devisability
disprobative
disprobative
adj
(law) Tending to disprove a particular proposition or to persuade someone of the falsity of an allegation.
distributive
distributive
adj
(grammar) Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively.
(logic) Assigning the species of a general term.
(mathematics) A property of functions that have a rule describing how the function can be performed to the individual components of another operation.
Relating to distribution.
Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing a proper share to each.
noun
(grammar) A distributive adjective or pronoun.
(grammar) distributive case
(mathematics) A distributive numeral.
disturbative
disturbative
adj
(chiefly archaic) Of, pertaining to, or causing the act of disturbing.
driveability
driveability
noun
Alternative spelling of drivability
dubitatively
exhibitively
exhibitively
adv
In an exhibitive manner.
exuviability
gilbertville
imbreviating
indivertible
indivertible
adj
Not to be diverted or turned aside.
indivertibly
inhabitative
inhabitative
adj
(grammar) demonymic
noun
(grammar) demonym (name for inhabitant of a place)
intervisible
intervisible
adj
(surveying) Mutually visible; each in sight of the other.
invertebracy
invertebracy
noun
Quality of being 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.
invertibrate
invertibrate
noun
Misspelling of invertebrate.
investigable
investigable
adj
(chiefly philosophy and sciences) Capable of being investigated or studied.
irrevertible
lambertville
leavittsburg
libertyville
livabilities
livabilities
noun
plural of livability
lovabilities
lovabilities
noun
plural of lovability
metavariable
metavariable
noun
(logic) A symbol or string of symbols belonging to a metalanguage and standing for elements of some object language.
movabilities
movabilities
noun
plural of movability
noncombative
noncombative
adj
Not combative.
nonobjective
nonobjective
adj
Not objective; biased.
noun
With respect to an assignment or mission, something that is not an objective or goal.
nonobservant
nonobservant
adj
Not observant; not religious; not participating in the observance of religion.
nonprobative
nonprobative
adj
Not probative.
nonvegetable
nonvegetable
adj
Not of or pertaining to vegetables.
nonverbosity
nonveritable
nonveritably
nonvertebral
nonvertebral
adj
Not vertebral.
nonvibratile
nonvibratile
adj
Not vibratile.
objectivated
objectivated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of objectivate
objectivisms
objectivisms
noun
plural of objectivism
objectivists
objectivists
noun
plural of objectivist
objectivized
objectivized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of objectivize
obliterative
obliterative
adj
Tending or serving to obliterate.
observantine
observantine
Adjective
Of or pertaining to the Observant branch of Franciscan friars
Noun
A member of the Observant branch of Franciscan friars.
observantist
observations
observations
noun
plural of observation
obstructives
obstructives
noun
plural of obstructive
ovatoglobose
overabstract
overabstract
adj
Excessively abstract.
verb
To abstract excessively.
overabundant
overabundant
adj
excessively abundant.
overbeetling
overbitterly
overbitterly
adv
in an overbitter manner
overboastful
overboastful
adj
Excessively boastful.
overbrightly
overbrightly
adv
Too brightly.
overbrutally
overdebating
overindebted
overindebted
adj
Too deeply in debt.
overobedient
overobedient
adj
Excessively obedient.
oversubtlety
oversubtlety
noun
Excessive subtlety.
overterrible
overtimbered
overtroubled
overtroubled
adj
Excessively troubled.
overturnable
overturnable
adj
Capable of being, or liable to be, overturned or subverted.
perturbative
perturbative
adj
Of, pertaining to, or causing perturbation
perviability
perviability
noun
The property of being perviable.
preobjective
preobtrusive
preobviating
prevertebral
prevertebral
adj
(anatomy) Situated immediately in front of, or on the ventral side, of the vertebral column; prespinal.
reabbreviate
redivertible
removability
removability
noun
The state of being removable.
revelability
reverberated
reverberated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of reverberate
reverberates
reverberates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of reverberate
reverberator
reverberator
noun
Agent noun of reverberate; one who reverberates.
revivability
revivability
noun
The state of being revivable.
revocability
revocability
noun
The quality of being revocable.
revolubility
robertsville
rubificative
scribblative
scribblative
adj
(obsolete) Scribbling, or producing inferior writing.
severability
severability
noun
The quality of being severable.
silverbeater
silverbeater
noun
A craftsman who hammers out silver into flat sheets.
solvsbergite
steubenville
subconnivent
subconvolute
subconvolute
adj
Almost or imperfectly convolute.
subeffective
subeffective
adj
Below the threshold where an effect would be produced.
subfestively
subformative
subintervals
subintervals
noun
plural of subinterval
subinvoluted
subjectively
subjectively
adv
In a subjective manner.
subjectivise
subjectivise
verb
Alternative form of subjectivize
subjectivism
subjectivism
noun
(epistemology) The doctrine that knowledge is based in feelings or intuition.
(ethics) The doctrine that values and moral principles come from attitudes, convention, whim, or preference.
(metaphysics) The doctrine that reality is created or shaped by the mind.
subjectivist
subjectivist
adj
(philosophy) Regarding subjective experience as fundamental.
noun
One who subscribes to subjectivism
subjectivity
subjectivity
noun
(singular only) The state of being subjective.
A subjective thought or idea.
subjectivize
subjectivize
verb
(transitive) To make subjective.
subjunctives
subjunctives
noun
plural of subjunctive
subradiative
subscriptive
subscriptive
adj
Of or pertaining to a subscription, or signature.
substantives
substantives
noun
plural of substantive
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of substantive