(obsolete) An adverting or turning towards; attention.
A tendency or wish to avoid someone or something.
adverting
adverting
verb
present participle of advert
anniverse
anniverse
noun
Obsolete form of anniversary.
antiviral
antiviral
adj
(computing) Eliminating or inhibiting the action of a computer virus.
(pharmacology) Inhibiting the growth and reproduction of a virus.
noun
(pharmacology) An antiviral medication.
antivirus
antivirus
noun
(computing) A piece of software that is used to detect, delete and or neutralize computer-based viruses.
approving
approving
adj
Expressing approbation; commending
verb
present participle of approve
archiving
archiving
verb
present participle of archive
ardenvoir
arrivance
arrivance
noun
(obsolete) Arrival
aveniform
aveniform
adj
Having the appearance of oats.
aventurin
averaging
averaging
noun
The process of computing an average.
verb
present participle of average
aversions
aversions
noun
plural of aversion
avicebron
avirulent
avirulent
Adjective
Not virulent.
beavering
beavering
noun
Hunting or trapping beaver.
verb
present participle of beaver
beaverkin
beaverkin
noun
(diminutive) A small or young beaver.
A small hat made of beaver fur.
bereaving
bereaving
verb
present participle of bereave
bernville
binervate
binervate
adj
(zoology, botany) Having only two nerves.
bivariant
bivariant
adj
(mathematics) Having two independent variables.
(programming) Both covariant and contravariant.
biventral
biventral
adj
Having two bellies
digastric
bonaveria
borrovian
brainwave
brainwave
noun
A sudden idea, understanding, or inspiration; a brainstorm
Any of many rhythmic fluctuations of electric potential between parts of the brain, especially those seen on an electroencephalogram
breveting
breveting
verb
present participle of brevet
cadaverin
cadaverin
noun
Alternative form of cadaverine
carnivals
carnivals
noun
plural of carnival
carnivora
carnivore
carnivore
noun
(informal) A person who is not a vegetarian.
(zoology) A mammal belonging to the order Carnivora.
A follower of the carnivore diet (consuming only animal-based products, such as meat, eggs and dairy)
An organism that feeds chiefly on animals; an animal that feeds on meat as the main part of its diet.
caverning
caverning
verb
present participle of cavern
cavorting
cavorting
noun
The action of the verb to cavort
verb
present participle of cavort
centumvir
centumvir
noun
(historical, Ancient Rome) One of a court of about 100 judges chosen to try civil suits. Under the Empire the court was increased to 180, and met usually in four sections.
cervantic
cervicorn
cervicorn
adj
(rare) Having the form of antlers; branched
cervuline
chervonei
chevrotin
chevrotin
noun
Alternative form of chevrotain
chivaring
clavering
clavering
verb
present participle of claver
clavicorn
clavicorn
adj
(zoology) Having antennas shaped like clubs; used especially of the Clavicornes group of beetles
noun
(zoology) One of the Clavicornes.
conceiver
conceiver
noun
One who, or that which, conceives.
connivers
connivers
noun
plural of conniver
connivery
connivery
noun
collusion
plotting, scheming
contrived
contrived
adj
Created in a deliberate, rather than natural or spontaneous, way.
Unnatural, forced; artificial, or unrealistic.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of contrive
contriver
contriver
noun
A person who contrives.
contrives
contrives
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contrive
convictor
convincer
convincer
noun
One who, or that which, convinces; one who wins over by proof.
cornville
covariant
covariant
adj
(category theory) (Of a functor) which preserves composition.
(object-oriented programming) Using or relating to covariance.
noun
(algebra) A bihomogeneous polynomial in x, y, ... and the coefficients of some homogeneous form in x, y, ... that is invariant under some group of linear transformations.
(algebra) The variety defined by a covariant.
coverings
coverings
noun
plural of covering
coversine
coversine
noun
(trigonometry) The coversed sine.
craigavon
cravening
cravening
verb
present participle of craven
cravingly
cravingly
adv
With longing or craving.
culverins
culverins
noun
plural of culverin
curvation
curvation
noun
The act of curving or bending.
curveting
curveting
noun
(of a person) Caper, frisking, often with a nuance of flirtation.
The motion of a horse or other animal that curvets.
verb
present participle of curvet
curviness
curviness
noun
The state or condition of being curvy.
cuvierian
cytovirin
decurving
depraving
depraving
verb
present participle of deprave
depriving
depriving
verb
present participle of deprive
deserving
deserving
adj
meriting, worthy (reward, punishment etc.)
worthy of reward or praise; meritorious
noun
desert, merit
verb
present participle of deserve
devouring
devouring
noun
The act by which something is devoured.
verb
present participle of devour
disproven
disproven
adj
(archaic, Scottish law) Not proven, in a legal case where the jury verdict has inconclusive evidence for conviction, but sufficient to suspect guilt
Shown to be false
verb
Alternative irregular form of the past participle of disprove
divariant
divariant
noun
(mathematics) Synonym of concomitant
divergent
divergent
adj
(mathematics) (said of a sequence or series) Diverging; not approaching a limit.
Causing divergence of rays.
Disagreeing from something given; differing.
Growing further apart; diverging.
diverging
diverging
noun
divergence
verb
present participle of diverge
diversion
diversion
noun
(law) Officially halting or suspending a formal criminal or juvenile justice proceeding and referral of the accused person to a treatment or care program.
(military) A tactic used to draw attention away from the real threat or action.
(transport) A detour, such as during road construction.
(transport) The rerouting of cargo or passengers to a new transshipment point or destination, or to a different mode of transportation before arrival at the ultimate destination.
A hobby; an activity that distracts the mind.
Removal of water via a canal.
The act of diverting.
diverting
diverting
verb
present participle of divert
divinator
divinator
noun
One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner.
divorcing
divorcing
verb
present participle of divorce
downriver
downriver
adj
Closer to the mouth of a river
adv
Travelling in the direction of the river current.
dravidian
dravidian
Proper noun
A family of related ethnicities and languages primarily in Southern India, Northeast Sri Lanka, and parts of Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
Any of the languages of these aboriginal peoples; Dravidic.
Noun
A member of any of several aboriginal peoples of India and Sri Lanka thought to have spread in India before Aryan migration.
Adjective
Of or relating to the Dravidian people or language.
driveline
driveline
noun
(automotive) The drivetrain minus the engine and transmission
The powertrain in general
driveling
driveling
noun
Foolish talk.
verb
present participle of drivel
drivingly
drivingly
adv
(engineering) So as to drive.
So as to drive or motivate.
With forceful, inexorable motion.
dubrovnik
dubrovnik
Proper noun
A city and port in southern Croatia on the Adriatic Sea.
enforcive
enforcive
adj
Serving to enforce or constrain; compulsive.
engraving
engraving
noun
(art) The practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it.
(countable) A print produced from an engraving.
(music) The art of drawing music notation at high quality, particularly on a computer.
(printing) The art of producing an image from an engraved printing form, typically made of copper.
verb
present participle of engrave
enlivener
enlivener
noun
That which enlivens.
envermeil
envermeil
verb
(obsolete, transitive, poetic) To colour with, or as if with, vermilion; to dye red.
environal
environed
environed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of environ
environic
evernioid
eversions
eversions
noun
plural of eversion
eviration
eviration
noun
(now rare, historical) Emasculation; effeminacy.
eviternal
eviternal
adj
(obsolete) eternal; everlasting
farnovian
favouring
favouring
verb
present participle of favour
fervanite
fervanite
noun
(mineralogy) A monoclinic mineral containing hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and vanadium.
flavoring
flavoring
noun
(American spelling) Something that gives flavor, usually a food ingredient.
verb
present participle of flavor
forgiving
forgiving
adj
(computing) User-friendly, such that harmful mistakes are not easily made.
Inclined to forgive.
noun
An act of forgiveness.
verb
present participle of forgive
frivoling
furnivall
gernative
gerundive
gerundive
adj
gerundial
noun
(in Latin grammar) a verbal adjective that describes obligation or necessity, equivalent in form to the future passive participle.
(less commonly, in English grammar) a verbal adjective ending in -ing , also called a "present participle".
glavering
glavering
verb
present participle of glaver
governail
governail
noun
(archaic) That which steers a nautical vessel; a rudder or a person employing it.
governing
governing
verb
present participle of govern
grandview
granivore
granivore
noun
Any animal that eats seeds as the main part of its diet
granville
granville
Proper noun
name, transferred use of the surname.
A village in Northern Ireland, UK.
A commune in the Manche department of France.
A village in Illinois.
A town in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA, now defunct
A city in Iowa.
A Free Village in Jamaica.
A town in Massachusetts.
A town and a village in New York.
A city in North Dakota.
A village in Ohio.
A town in Vermont.
A town in West Virginia.
grapevine
grapevine
noun
(skating) A move in which the feet are alternately placed in front of each other, while both remaining on the ice or ground, incorporating half-turns.
(wrestling) A leglock.
A rumor.
An informal person-to-person means of circulating information or gossip.
The plant, a vine of genus Vitis, on which grapes grow.
verb
(transitive, wrestling) To restrain in a leglock.
gravamina
gravamina
noun
plural of gravamen
graveling
graveling
noun
Alternative form of gravelling
gravitons
gravitons
noun
plural of graviton
greenview
grenville
grievance
grievance
noun
(countable) A complaint or annoyance.
(countable) A formal complaint, especially in the context of a unionized workplace.
(countable) A wrong or hardship suffered, which is the grounds of a complaint.
(countable) Something which causes grief.
(uncountable) Feelings of being wronged; outrage.
(uncountable) Violation of regulations or objectionable behavior.
grievants
grievants
noun
plural of grievant
grivation
grivation
noun
The angle, at any point on the surface of the Earth, between grid north and magnetic north.
groveling
groveling
verb
(US) present participle of grovel
guinevere
guinevere
Proper noun
name of Welsh origin.
In Arthurian legend, the wife of King Arthur.
harrovian
harrovian
Noun
A pupil of England.
haversian
haversian
adj
Alternative letter-case form of Haversian.
haversine
haversine
noun
(trigonometry) The haversed sine.
horvatian
improving
improving
adj
That tends to improve someone or something (especially (dated) to educate or morally better a person).
verb
present participle of improve
incursive
incursive
adj
characterized by incursion; invasive
incurvate
incurvate
adj
Curved; bent; crooked.
bending inwards.
verb
(intransitive) to have a curved or bent shape; to bend or curve inwards.
(transitive) To bend (especially inwards); to give a curved shape to.
incurving
incurving
adj
curving inwards
verb
present participle of incurve
incurvity
incurvity
noun
(obsolete) The quality of being bent inwards.
incurvous
innervate
innervate
verb
(anatomy, zoology) To supply (an organ or part of the body) with nerves.
Synonym of innerve (“to supply with nervous energy”).
innerving
innerving
verb
present participle of innerve
innovator
innovator
noun
(marketing) An early adopter.
Someone who innovates; a creator of new ideas.
insertive
insertive
adj
Of or relating to insertion, especially in regard to sexual acts.
interpave
intervale
intervale
noun
An alluvial terrace or plain.
intervals
intervals
noun
plural of interval
intervary
intervary
verb
(obsolete) To alter or vary between; to change.
intervein
intervein
adj
Between veins.
verb
(transitive) To form veins mutually with.
intervene
intervene
verb
(intransitive) To become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action.
(intransitive) To occur or act as an obstacle or delay.
(intransitive) To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events.
(law) In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.
(transitive, intransitive) To come between, or to be between, persons or things.
(transitive, intransitive) To say (something) in the middle of a conversation or discussion between other people, or to respond to a situation involving other people.
intervent
intervent
verb
(obsolete) To thwart; to obstruct.
intervert
intervert
verb
(formal, intransitive) To undergo interversion; to exchange places.
(formal, transitive) To turn to another course or use.
interview
interview
noun
(obsolete) An official face-to-face meeting of monarchs or other important figures.
A conversation in person (or, by extension, over the telephone, Internet etc.) between a journalist and someone whose opinion or statements he or she wishes to record for publication, broadcast etc.
A formal meeting, in person, for the assessment of a candidate or applicant.
A police interrogation of a suspect or party in an investigation.
An audition.
Any face-to-face meeting, especially of an official or adversarial nature.
verb
(intransitive) To be interviewed; to attend an interview.
(transitive) To ask questions of (somebody); to have an interview.
interwove
interwove
verb
simple past tense of interweave
introvert
introvert
adj
Alternative form of introverted.
noun
(figuratively, proscribed) A reserved person.
(psychology) An introverted person: one who is considered more thoughtful than social, with a personality more inwardly than outwardly directed; one who often prefers to have time in non-social situations.
(zoology) An organ or other body part that is or can be turned inside out, especially an anterior portion of some annelid worms capable of retraction.
verb
(zoology) To withdraw an organ or body part within itself or its base.
To think about internal or spiritual matters.
intrusive
intrusive
adj
(geology) Of rocks: forced, while in a plastic or molten state, into the cavities or between the cracks or layers of other rocks.
(linguistics) epenthetic
Tending to intrude; doing that which is not welcome; interrupting or disturbing; entering without permission or welcome.
noun
(geology) An igneous rock that is forced, while molten, into cracks or between other layers of rock
invariant
invariant
adj
(computing, programming) Neither covariant nor contravariant.
(mathematics) Unaffected by a specified operation (especially by a transformation)
not varying; constant
noun
An invariant quantity, function etc.
inveigher
inveigher
noun
One who inveighs.
inveigler
inveigler
noun
One who inveigles.
inventary
inventers
inventers
noun
plural of inventer
inventors
inventors
noun
plural of inventor
inventory
inventory
noun
(linguistics, especially phonology) The total set of a (specified) linguistic feature (within a language etc.)
(operations) A detailed list of all of the items on hand.
(operations) The process of producing or updating such a list.
(operations) The stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business.
A space containing the items available to a character, especially that in a video game, for immediate use.
verb
(transitive, operations) To take stock of the resources or items on hand; to produce an inventory.
inverness
inverness
Proper noun
A city in Scotland
Any of several cities in the United States and Canada (and one county in Nova Scotia, Canada), named after the Scottish city:
a city in Florida, USA
Noun
A type of overcoat constructed without sleeves and having a shoulder cape extending to the wrists. The best examples are quite heavy, made from Harris tweed; often associated with Sherlock Holmes.
A variation of this coat, the "coachman's cape": the shoulder cape does not extend around the back but is made of two segments, the length of each being sewn into the seam of the coat on either side.
inversely
inversely
adv
In an inverse order or manner; by inversion.
inversing
inversing
verb
present participle of inverse
inversion
inversion
noun
(algebra) An operation on a group, analogous to negation.
(genetics) A segment of DNA in the context of a chromosome that is reversed in orientation relative to a reference karyotype or genome.
(grammar) Deviation from standard word order by putting the predicate before the subject. It takes place in questions with auxiliary verbs and in normal, affirmative clauses beginning with a negative particle, for the purpose of emphasis.
(meteorology) A situation where air temperature increases with altitude (the ground being colder than the surrounding air).
(music) The flipping of a melody or contrapuntal line so that high notes become low and vice versa; the reversal of a pitch contour.
(music) The position of a chord which has a note other than the root as its bass note.
(music) The reversal of an interval; the move of one pitch in an interval up or down an octave.
(psychology, obsolete) Homosexuality, particularly in early psychoanalysis.
Being in an inverted state; being upside down or in a reverse sequence.