(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.
accelerative
accelerative
adj
Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening.
accompletive
accompletive
adj
(rare) Tending to accomplish.
accumulative
accumulative
adj
Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass
Having a propensity to amass; acquisitive.
accusatively
accusatively
adv
(not comparable) In relation to the accusative case in grammar.
In an accusative manner.
achievements
achievements
noun
plural of achievement
activenesses
activenesses
noun
plural of activeness
adaptiveness
adaptiveness
noun
The state or quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.
adaptivities
adaptivities
noun
plural of adaptivity
additivities
additivities
noun
plural of additivity
adjectivally
adjectivally
adv
As, or in the manner of, an adjective.
adjectivitis
adjectivitis
noun
(humorous) The overuse of adjectives in writing.
adjudicative
adjudicative
adj
Of or pertaining to an adjudication or to an adjudicator.
adjunctively
adjunctively
adv
In an adjunctive way.
admiratively
admiratively
adv
In an admirative manner.
admonitively
admonitively
adv
As an admonition.
adsorptively
adsorptively
adv
In an adsorptive manner; with a tendency toward or characteristic of adsorption.
advectitious
advectitious
adj
Relating to, or transported by, advection.
adventitious
adventitious
adj
(biology) Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source.
(genetics, medicine) Not congenital; acquired.
Accidental, additional, appearing casually.
From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
adventurisms
adventurisms
noun
plural of adventurism
adventurists
adventurists
noun
plural of adventurist
adverbiality
adverbiality
noun
The condition of having characteristics of an adverb.
adverbiation
adversatives
adversatives
noun
plural of adversative
advertencies
advertencies
noun
plural of advertency
advertisable
advertisable
adj
Suitable for being advertised.
advertisings
advertisings
noun
plural of advertising
advertizable
advertizable
adj
Alternative spelling of advertisable
advertorials
advertorials
noun
plural of advertorial
advocateship
advocateship
noun
(now rare) The office or function of an advocate; advocacy.
aestivations
aestivations
noun
plural of aestivation
affinitative
affinitative
adj
Of the nature of affinity.
affirmatives
affirmatives
noun
plural of affirmative
afflictively
afflictively
adv
In an afflictive manner
affricatives
affricatives
noun
plural of affricative
aggressivity
aggressivity
noun
(geology) The acidic ability of water (when it contains dissolved carbon dioxide) to dissolve calcium carbonate from rocks.
The quality of being aggressive.
aggrievement
aggrievement
noun
The state of being aggrieved.
albificative
alimentative
alimentative
adj
Nutritious, nourishing.
Relating to aliment
alleviations
alleviations
noun
plural of alleviation
alliterative
alliterative
adj
In the form or style of alliteration.
alteratively
alternatives
alternatives
noun
plural of alternative
amalgamative
amalgamative
adj
That amalgamates
ambivalently
ambivalently
adv
In an ambivalent manner.
ameliorative
ameliorative
adj
(linguistics) Suggesting or relating to a positive or approving evaluation.
(philosophy) Of or relating to conceptual engineering, the normative study of which conceptual demarcation is most conducive to solve the problems the concept is a priori taken to solve.
Able to repair or ameliorate.
noun
(linguistics, rare) A linguistic unit (such as a word, morpheme) that implies a positive or approving evaluation.
That which betters or improves.
angusticlave
angusticlave
noun
(historical) In Ancient Rome, a narrow stripe of purple worn by the equites on each side of the tunic as a sign of rank
animadverted
animadverted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of animadvert
animadverter
animadverter
noun
(obsolete) One who animadverts; a censurer or chastiser.
annihilative
annihilative
adj
Serving to annihilate; radically destructive.
annotatively
annotatively
adv
In an annotative manner.
annunciative
annunciative
adj
Pertaining to annunciation; announcing.
antediluvial
antediluvial
adj
(biblical) Of or pertaining to a time before Noah's flood.
(rare) Antiquated.
antediluvian
antediluvian
adj
(biblical) Pertaining or belonging to the time prior to Noah's Flood.
Ancient or antiquated.
Extremely dated.
Pertaining or belonging to the time period prior to a great or destructive flood or deluge.
noun
One who lived prior to Noah's Flood.
anticipative
anticipative
adj
Of or pertaining to anticipation; inclined to anticipate; expectant.
anticreative
anticreative
adj
Opposing creativity.
antileveling
antileveling
adj
(politics) Opposing the elimination of disparities between the haves and the have-nots in society.
antimedieval
antimedieval
adj
Opposed to the Middle Ages.
antinovelist
antinovelist
noun
(literature) A writer of antinovels.
antireactive
antitakeover
antitakeover
adj
(business) Countering a corporate takeover.
antitussives
antitussives
noun
plural of antitussive
antivenereal
antivenereal
adj
(medicine) That is used to treat or cure venereal disease
antivenomous
antivenomous
adj
(pharmacology, immunology) acting against venom
antiviolence
antiviolence
adj
(law enforcement, sociology) Acting against or opposing violence.
antroversion
antroversion
noun
Alternative form of anteroversion.
appellatived
appellatives
appellatives
noun
plural of appellative
apperceptive
apperceptive
adj
perceptive
appointively
appositively
appositively
adv
In an appositive manner.
appreciative
appreciative
adj
Capable of showing appreciation.
aquativeness
aquativeness
noun
(phrenology, obsolete, obscure) love of liquids, including drinking, bathing, and sailing.
architective
architective
adj
Used in building; suitable for building.
arendtsville
arfvedsonite
arfvedsonite
noun
(mineralogy) A rare sodium amphibole mineral.
articulative
articulative
adj
Serving to articulate or express something.
asphyxiative
assaultively
assaultively
adv
In an assaultive manner.
asseverating
asseverating
verb
present participle of asseverate
asseveration
asseveration
noun
An earnest affirmation; a declaration of support.
asseverative
asseverative
adj
Characterized by asseveration; asserting positively.
assimilative
assimilative
adj
Tending to, or characterized by, assimilation.
assumptively
assumptively
adv
In an assumptive manner.
astrictively
attractively
attractively
adv
In an attractive manner; with the power of attracting or drawing to.
attributives
attributives
noun
plural of attributive
attriutively
augmentative
augmentative
adj
Growing, enlarging, increasing.
noun
(grammar) A form of word that expresses large size, intensity, or seniority
auscultative
auscultative
adj
Relating to auscultation
autaugaville
autopositive
averrhoistic
avitaminoses
avitaminoses
noun
plural of avitaminosis
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.
bentleyville
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
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
burtonsville
calumniative
camptonville
cantilevered
cantilevered
adj
Fitted with, or constituting, a cantilever; projecting out laterally from a wall or similar support and thus hanging without other supports.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cantilever
capacitative
capacitative
adj
Alternative form of capacitive
capacitively
capacitively
adv
(physics, electronics) In relation to or in terms of capacitance
carminatives
carminatives
noun
plural of carminative
cartersville
cartersville
Proper noun
definition
centumvirate
centumvirate
noun
A group of one hundred people, especially (politics) a council of about 100 men who share power or rule, particularly (historical) such a group in ancient Rome.
cervicectomy
cervicectomy
noun
(medicine) Surgical removal of the cervix.
cervicitises
chemicovital
chemicovital
adj
(dated) Both chemical and vital; biochemical.
chesterville
chylifactive
chylifactive
adj
(physiology) Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle
cinenegative
circumaviate
circumvented
circumvented
verb
simple past tense and past participle of circumvent
circumventer
circumventer
noun
Alternative form of circumventor
circumventor
circumventor
noun
A person who circumvents
circumvolute
circumvolute
verb
To roll, curl or twist around
clavicithern
clavicittern
clavicornate
clavieristic
clavieristic
adj
Characteristic of clavier music.
clavodeltoid
claytonville
cleavability
cleavability
noun
Quality or degree of being cleavable.
clintonville
coacervating
coacervation
coacervation
noun
The separation of a colloidal system into two liquid phases, one of which (the coacervate) is more concentrated in the colloid component.