(law) Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution.
An advance of money or value; payment in advance.
How advanced something is
The act of advancing; promotion to a higher place or dignity
The state of being advanced
adventurism
adventurism
noun
(politics) The taking of excessive risks by a government in their political, economic or foreign affairs.
The behaviour of an adventurer; risk-taking.
advisements
advisements
noun
plural of advisement
animadverts
animadverts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of animadvert
bedevilment
bedevilment
noun
The characteristic of being bedeviled.
conditivium
decemvirate
decemvirate
noun
A group of ten people, especially (politics) a council of ten men sharing office or power and particularly (historical) the groups of ten men who reformed and codified Roman law circa 450 BCE.
deformative
demandative
depravement
depravement
noun
(archaic) Depravity; corruption.
deprivement
deprivement
noun
deprivation
detectivism
development
development
noun
(chess, uncountable) The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
(countable) Something which has developed.
(mathematics) The expression of a function in the form of a series.
(music) The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.
(music) The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.
(real estate, countable) A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.
(real estate, uncountable) The building of such a project.
(uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
(uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.
(uncountable, biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.
devolvement
devolvement
noun
The act or process of devolving; devolution.
devotements
devotements
noun
plural of devotement
diminutival
diminutival
adj
Indicating diminution; diminutive.
diminutives
diminutives
noun
plural of diminutive
disavowment
disavowment
noun
disavowal
divergement
divergement
noun
(archaic) divergence
divestments
divestments
noun
plural of divestment
divorcement
divorcement
noun
(figuratively, psychology) Complete detachment or disunion.
(obsolete) Divorce; dissolution of a marriage.
divulgement
divulgement
noun
The act of divulging (communicating or revealing information).
duumvirates
duumvirates
noun
plural of duumvirate
evilmouthed
imbreviated
improvident
improvident
adj
failing to provide for the future; reckless
incautious; prone to rashness
maidservant
maidservant
noun
A female servant; a maid.
maladaptive
maladaptive
adj
(evolution, of anatomy, physiology, or behavior) Showing inadequate or counterproductive evolutionary adaptation to an environment or its changes.
(psychology, chiefly of behaviour) Showing inadequate or counterproductive mental and behavioral adaptation to a new situation.
maledictive
manuductive
medievalist
medievalist
noun
one who studies the culture and history of the Middle Ages
metavanadic
misdevotion
misdevotion
noun
Mistaken devotion.
mordicative
mordicative
adj
Biting; corrosive.
multivalued
multivalued
adj
(mathematics) Of a function, associating one or more values of its range with each value of its domain.
multivalved
multivalved
adj
Having more than one valve.
multivoiced
multivoiced
adj
Having more than one voice.
mundivagant
mundivagant
adj
(formal) Wandering across the world.
muscovadite
overmatched
overmatched
adj
Outclassed; unable to compete
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overmatch
overmettled
overmodesty
overmodesty
noun
excessive modesty
overtimidly
overtrimmed
overtrimmed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overtrim
overtrumped
overtrumped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overtrump
reductivism
reductivism
noun
(art) A minimalist movement in abstract painting and sculpture from the 1950s onwards.
(music) A minimalist school of music with similar aims.
(philosophy of mind) The view that mental states can be reduced to physical phenomena.
Extreme simplification; reduction to a minimum; use of the fewest essentials
remotivated
remotivated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of remotivate
semistarved
semistarved
adj
Half-starved.
unmediative
unmotivated
unmotivated
adj
For which there is no motive.
Lacking motivation, without impetus to strive or excel.
victimhoods
victimhoods
noun
plural of victimhood
vitaminized
vitaminized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of vitaminize