(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.
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.
ambivert
ambivert
noun
(psychology) A person who is neither clearly extroverted nor introverted, but has characteristics of each.
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.
batsheva
bavenite
bavenite
noun
(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, beryllium, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.
beetrave
beetrave
noun
(archaic) The common beet, Beta vulgaris.
bestarve
betravel
betravel
verb
(transitive) To travel over; overrun with travellers.
bevatron
bevatron
noun
A particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts.
bhagavat
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.
blauvelt
bloviate
bloviate
verb
(intransitive, US) To speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner.
boastive
boastive
adj
(archaic) presumptuous
bonavist
bovarist
bowstave
bowstave
noun
The stave of a bow, to which the string is attached.
bratstva
bratstva
noun
plural of bratstvo
bratstvo
bratstvo
noun
(historical) A union of Eastern Orthodox citizens or lay brothers affiliated with individual churches in cities throughout the Ruthenian part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
bravoite
breviate
breviate
noun
A brief missive or dispatch; a note.
A lawyer's brief.
A short account, brief statement; a summary, abridgement or precis
evibrate
evibrate
verb
(obsolete) To vibrate.
evitable
evitable
adj
(uncommon) Possible to avoid; avertible.
obviated
obviated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of obviate
obviates
obviates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obviate
obviator
obviator
noun
One who obviates.
outbrave
outbrave
verb
To be more brave than.
To stand out bravely against; to face up to courageously.
To surpass or outrival.
overbait
overbeat
overbeat
verb
(transitive) To beat (eggs, cream, etc.) for too long, impairing the texture.
servotab
stavable
subovate
subovate
adj
Nearly ovate in shape.
tadbhava
tadbhava
noun
(lexicography) A word inherited from Old Indo-Aryan through a Prakrit used in a modern Indo-Aryan language.
valebant
vartabed
vartabed
noun
Alternative form of vardapet
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.
vertebra
vertebra
noun
(anatomy) Any of the bony or cartilaginous segments which make up the backbone, consisting in some lower vertebrates of several distinct elements which never become united, and in higher vertebrates having a short more or less cylindrical body whose ends articulate by pads of elastic or cartilaginous tissue with those of adjacent vertebrae and a bony arch that encloses the spinal cord.
vibrants
vibrants
noun
plural of vibrant
vibrated
vibrated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of vibrate
vibrates
vibrates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vibrate
vibrator
vibrator
noun
(historical) A device designed to electromechanically interrupt current flowing to the step-up transformer which was used to generate the high tension positive supply in old battery-operated (automotive) valve radios.
(weaving) Any of various vibrating devices, such as one for slackening the warp as a shed opens.
A device for vibrating the pen of a siphon recorder to diminish frictional resistance on the paper.
A trembler, as of an electric bell.
A vibrating device used for massage or sexual stimulation.
A vibrating reed for transmitting or receiving pulsating currents in a harmonic telegraph system.
A vibrating reed in a musical instrument, especially a reed organ.
An attachment, usually pneumatic, in a moulding machine to shake the pattern loose.
An ink-distributing roller in a printing machine, having an additional vibratory motion.