A rampart or other defensive entrenchment that entirely encircles the position being defended.
circumvolant
circumvolant
adj
flying around
circumvolution
circumvolution
noun
Anything winding or sinuous.
The act of revolution, rotation or gyration around an axis.
communicatively
communicatively
adv
In a communicative manner.
consummatively
consumptively
consumptively
adv
In a consumptive manner.
counterdevelopment
counterdevelopment
noun
A development that counteracts another development.
incommunicatively
incommunicatively
adv
In an incommunicative way.
macroevolution
macroevolution
noun
Large-scale patterns or processes in the history of life, including the origins of novel organism designs, evolutionary trends, adaptive radiations and extinctions.
macroevolutionary
macroevolutionary
adj
Pertaining to, or as a result of macroevolution
malcultivation
microevolution
microevolution
noun
Small-scale changes in the history of life, such as changes in allele frequencies in a population (over a few generations); also known as change at or below the species level.
microevolutionary
microevolutionary
adj
Of or pertaining to microevolution
multivocalness
nonaccumulative
nonaccumulatively
nonaccumulativeness
noncircumvallated
noncommunicatively
nonconsumptively
noncumulative
noncumulative
adj
(finance) Not having an accumulating right to receive dividends unpaid in previous periods.
Not cumulative.
noncumulatively
noncumulatively
adv
In a manner that is not cumulative.
nonmultiplicative
nonmultiplicative
adj
Not multiplicative.
nonmultiplicatively
novemarticulate
overaccumulating
overaccumulating
verb
present participle of overaccumulate
overaccumulation
overaccumulation
noun
accumulation of too much
action and effect of accumulating capital without productive purposes.
(nonce word) A disease of the lungs, allegedly caused by inhaling microscopic silicate particles originating from the eruption of a volcano.
pneumoventriculography
pneumoventriculography
noun
ventriculography of the ventricles of the larynx
semicircumvolution
ultraconservatism
ultraconservatism
noun
ultraconservative beliefs
uncommemoratively
uncommiseratively
uncommunicatively
uncommunicatively
adv
In an uncommunicative manner.
uncommutatively
uncompetitively
uncompetitively
adv
In a way that is not competitive.
unconsumptively
uncontemplative
uncontemplative
adj
Not contemplative.
uncontemplatively
uncontemplativeness
unconventionalism
unconventionalism
noun
Unconventional style or behaviour.
unlocomotive
unlocomotive
adj
Not inclined to move around.
ventricolumna
ventricolumnar
ventriculogram
ventriculogram
noun
A diagnostic image produced by ventriculography.
vermiculation
vermiculation
noun
(obsolete, rare) The process of being turned into a worm.
(physiology, dated) Peristalsis (“wave-like contraction of the digestive tract, resembling the movement of a worm”).
A pattern of irregular wavy lines resembling worms or their casts or tracks, found on the plumage of birds, used to decorate artworks and buildings, etc.