(grammar) Of, or relating to the grammatical case used in some languages to indicate absence.
noun
(grammar) The abessive case, or a word in this case.
ablative
ablative
adj
(archaic) Pertaining to taking away or removing.
(engineering, nautical, astronautics) Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying material, as in ablative paints used for antifouling, or ablative heat shields used to protect spacecraft during reentry. .
(geology) Relating to the erosion of a land mass; relating to the melting or evaporation of a glacier.
(grammar) Applied to one of the cases of the noun in some languages, the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away, and to a lesser degree, instrument, place, accordance, specifications, price, or measurement.
(medicine) Relating to the removal of a body part, tumor, or organ.
noun
(grammar) The ablative case.
An ablative material.
aborsive
aborsive
adj
(obsolete) abortive from the first.
abortive
abortive
adj
(biology) Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile.
(medicine) Cutting short; acting to halt or slow the progress (of a disease).
(obsolete) Produced by abortion; born prematurely and therefore unnatural.
(obsolete) A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion, abortifacient.
(obsolete) Someone or something born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To cause an abortion; to render without fruit.
abrasive
abrasive
adj
Being rough and coarse in manner or disposition; overly aggressive and causing irritation.
Producing abrasion; rough enough to wear away the outer surface.
noun
(geology) Rock fragments, sand grains, mineral particles, used by water, wind, and ice to abrade a land surface.
A hard inorganic substance or material consisting in powder or granule form such as sandpaper, pumice, or emery, used for cleaning, smoothing, or polishing.
ambivert
ambivert
noun
(psychology) A person who is neither clearly extroverted nor introverted, but has characteristics of each.
banville
bavenite
bavenite
noun
(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, beryllium, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.
bayville
beauvais
beauvoir
bedevils
bedevils
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedevil
bedivere
bedrivel
bedrivel
verb
(transitive) to drivel on, to put or spill saliva on
beehives
beehives
noun
plural of beehive
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beehive
beeville
behaving
behaving
noun
Behaviour.
verb
present participle of behave
behavior
behavior
noun
(countable) An instance of the way a living creature behaves.
(countable, uncountable, biology, psychology) Observable response produced by an organism.
(uncountable) Human conduct relative to social norms.
(uncountable) The way a device or system operates.
(uncountable) The way a living creature behaves or acts generally.
(uncountable, informal) A state of probation about one's conduct.
behoving
behoving
verb
present participle of behove
beknived
believed
believed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of believe
believer
believer
noun
A person who believes; especially regarding religion.
believes
believes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of believe
beshiver
besilver
besilver
verb
(transitive) To cover with or as with silver.
besnivel
bevaring
beveling
beveling
noun
Alternative spelling of bevelling
beverlie
bevilled
bevilled
adj
(heraldry) Notched with an angle like that enclosed by a carpenter's bevel; said of a partition line of a shield.
bevoiled
bevomits
bevomits
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bevomit
biconvex
biconvex
adj
Having both sides convex.
bienvenu
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.
bivalved
bivalved
adj
Having two valves.
bivalves
bivalves
noun
plural of bivalve
bivector
bivector
noun
(mathematics) An antisymmetric tensor of second rank.
biventer
biventer
noun
(anatomy) Any digastric part or organ.
biverbal
biverbal
adj
Of or pertaining to two verbs
Of or pertaining to two words
punning
bloviate
bloviate
verb
(intransitive, US) To speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner.
boastive
boastive
adj
(archaic) presumptuous
boilover
boilover
noun
A hazardous situation where an attempt is made to extinguish semi-enclosed oil- or petrochemical-fuelled fire with water, generating steam which propels the burning fuel outwards.
bouviers
bouvines
bovicide
bovicide
noun
One who kills cows.
The killing of a cow.
bovinely
bovinely
adv
In a bovine manner
sluggishly
bravoite
breviary
breviary
noun
(obsolete) A brief statement or summary.
A book containing prayers, hymns, and so on for everyday use at the canonical hours.
breviate
breviate
noun
A brief missive or dispatch; a note.
A lawyer's brief.
A short account, brief statement; a summary, abridgement or precis
breviers
breviger
breviped
breviped
adj
(zoology) Having short feet or legs.
brevipen
brevipen
noun
(zoology) A brevipennate bird.
deviable
divebomb
divebomb
verb
(auto racing) To attempt an overtake by braking very late on corner entry.
(of a bird) To attack (especially the head of) a person or animal that strays into their territory.
(of a motorist) To overtake slower traffic by way of a more circuitous route, such as a pair of freeway exit and entrance ramps.
(of an aircraft) To bomb whilst in a steep dive.
drivable
drivable
adj
Capable of being driven (as a vehicle).
Capable of being driven on safely or successfully (as a road or other surface).
enviable
enviable
adj
Arousing or likely to arouse envy.
enviably
enviably
adv
In an enviable manner or to an enviable degree
evadible
evadible
adj
That can be evaded.
evasible
evasible
Adjective
That can be evaded.
evibrate
evibrate
verb
(obsolete) To vibrate.
evitable
evitable
adj
(uncommon) Possible to avoid; avertible.
giveable
giveable
adj
Alternative form of givable
giveback
giveback
noun
A rebate.
A reduction in pay or conditions as a result of unfavourable economic conditions.
inviable
inviable
adj
Alternative form of nonviable
ivybells
ivyberry
jovilabe
jovilabe
noun
(astronomy, historical) A scientific instrument used to determine the orbital periods of Jupiter's moons and to compute the times of their eclipses.
leviable
leviable
adj
Able to be levied
liveable
liveable
adj
Alternative spelling of livable
liveborn
liveborn
adj
born alive
lovebird
lovebird
noun
(figurative, usually in the plural) One of the members of an openly affectionate couple.
Any small parrot from one of the nine species within the genus Agapornis. Sometimes they are kept as cage birds and are noted for their affection towards each other.
verb
(intransitive) To express romantic affection openly.
obviable
obviable
adj
Capable of being obviated.
obviated
obviated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of obviate
obviates
obviates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obviate
ovenbird
ovenbird
noun
An American warbler, Seiurus aurocapilla, that builds such a nest of vegetation.
Any bird of the Central and South America family Furnariidae.
Originally, any of several small European birds that build dome-shaped nests; such as the long-tailed tit, willow warbler and chiffchaff.
overbait
overbias
overbias
noun
The use of more bias current in an analog magnetic recorder than is required for maximum sensitivity.
verb
To use more bias current in an analog magnetic recorder than is required for maximum sensitivity.
overbide
overbide
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To outlive; survive.
overbids
overbids
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbid
overbill
overbill
verb
(transitive) To bill an excessive amount, particularly an amount greater than one is legally entitled to.
overbite
overbite
noun
(dentistry) A malocclusion in which the upper teeth extend over the lower ones.
verb
To use excessive acid in an etching process, so that the result is too deep.
overboil
overboil
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To boil excessively.
overbrim
overbrim
verb
(intransitive) To be so full as to overflow.
(transitive) To flow over the brim of; to overflow.
riverbed
riverbed
noun
(hydrology) The path where a river runs, or where a river once ran; the bottom earthen part of a river, not including the riverbanks.
subdevil
subdevil
noun
A lesser devil.
subolive
unviable
unviable
adj
Not viable: not capable of independent life; not practicable.
vailable
variable
variable
adj
(biology) Tending to deviate from a normal or recognized type.
(mathematics) Having no fixed quantitative value.
Able to vary or be varied.
Likely to vary.
Marked by diversity or difference.
noun
(astronomy) A variable star.
(mathematics) A quantity that may assume any one of a set of values.
(mathematics) A symbol representing a variable.
(nautical) A shifting wind, or one that varies in force.
(nautical, in the plural) Those parts of the sea where a steady wind is not expected, especially the parts between the trade-wind belts.
(programming) A named memory location in which a program can store intermediate results and from which it can read them.
Something that is variable.
Something whose value may be dictated or discovered.
vendible
vendible
adj
Salable; able to be bought, sold, or traded.
noun
Anything that can be bought and sold.
vendibly
veniable
veniable
adj
(obsolete) venial; pardonable
verbatim
verbatim
adj
(of a document) Corresponding with the original word for word.
(of a person) Able to take down a speech word for word, especially in shorthand.
adv
(obsolete) Orally; verbally.
Word for word; in exactly the same words as were used originally.
noun
A word-for-word report of a speech.
verbenia
verbiage
verbiage
noun
Overabundance of words.
The manner in which something is expressed in words.
verbiles
verbiles
noun
plural of verbile
veribest
vertible
vertible
adj
(obsolete) Able to turn or to be turned; changeable.
vestible
vibrance
vibrance
noun
Synonym of vibrancy
vibrated
vibrated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of vibrate
vibrates
vibrates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vibrate
viewable
viewable
adj
(Internet, of a webpage or component) Able to be rendered correctly by a particular browser.
Able to be seen; visible.
Able to be viewed.
viewably
viewably
adv
In a viewable way.
vincible
vincible
adj
Capable of being defeated or overcome; assailable or vulnerable.