(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
almoravides
animadverts
animadverts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of animadvert
bedevilment
bedevilment
noun
The characteristic of being bedeviled.
bovensmilde
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
deliveryman
deliveryman
noun
Someone employed to make deliveries.
deliverymen
deliverymen
noun
plural of deliveryman
demandative
demirilievo
demossville
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.
devilmonger
devolvement
devolvement
noun
The act or process of devolving; devolution.
devotements
devotements
noun
plural of devotement
diluvianism
diminutival
diminutival
adj
Indicating diminution; diminutive.
diminutives
diminutives
noun
plural of diminutive
disavowment
disavowment
noun
disavowal
divebombing
divebombing
verb
present participle of divebomb
divergement
divergement
noun
(archaic) divergence
diversiform
diversiform
adj
Of different or varying forms.
divestments
divestments
noun
plural of divestment
dividualism
divisionism
divisionism
noun
(art) The use of small areas of color to construct an image.
Support for division of a territory, etc.
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).
durhamville
duumvirates
duumvirates
noun
plural of duumvirate
evilmouthed
favellidium
favellidium
noun
A compound favella in seaweeds.
imbreviated
imperceived
imperceived
adj
(obsolete) Not perceived.
improvident
improvident
adj
failing to provide for the future; reckless
incautious; prone to rashness
individuums
invalidisms
invalidisms
noun
plural of invalidism
madeiravine
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
manoeuvered
manoeuvered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of manoeuver
manuductive
masdevallia
masdevallia
noun
Any orchid in the genus Masdevallia, whose species (approximately 500 or 600 depending on circumscription) have flowers of extremely diverse appearance.
mavrodaphne
mavrodaphne
noun
A dark sweet Greek red wine.
A variety of grape native to Achaea, northern Peloponnese, Greece, from which the wine is made.
mcadenville
medaryville
medevacking
medevacking
verb
present participle of medevac
mediaevally
mediaevally
adv
Alternative form of medievally
medievalism
medievalism
noun
(uncountable) The study of the Middle Ages.
A custom or belief from the Middle Ages.
The state of being medieval.
medievalist
medievalist
noun
one who studies the culture and history of the Middle Ages
medievalize
medievalize
verb
(transitive) To make medieval.
medivacking
medivacking
verb
present participle of medivac
mendelevium
mendelevium
noun
(chemistry) A transuranic chemical element (symbol Md, formerly Mv) with atomic number 101.
merdivorous
merdivorous
adj
Dung-eating, coprophagous.
mesodevonic
metavanadic
middleville
misadvising
misadvising
verb
present participle of misadvise
misbelieved
misbelieved
verb
simple past tense and past participle of misbelieve
misdelivery
misdelivery
noun
an incorrect delivery, e.g. to the wrong person
misderiving
misderiving
verb
present participle of misderive
misdevelops
misdevelops
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misdevelop
misdevotion
misdevotion
noun
Mistaken devotion.
misdividing
misdividing
verb
present participle of misdivide
misdivision
misdivision
noun
(cytology) Abnormal (i.e. transverse instead of longitudinal) division of a centromere during meiosis or mitosis, resulting in two telocentric chromosomes from a single metacentric chromosome.
Incorrect division, e.g. of a word.
misendeavor
misgoverned
misgoverned
verb
simple past tense and past participle of misgovern
misimproved
misimproved
verb
simple past tense and past participle of misimprove
misprovoked
misresolved
misresolved
verb
simple past tense and past participle of misresolve
mordicative
mordicative
adj
Biting; corrosive.
moundsville
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
observandum
observandum
noun
A thing to be observed.
omnividence
omnividence
noun
The quality of being all-seeing.
overassumed
overbrimmed
overbrimmed
adj
Having too large a brim.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overbrim
overclaimed
overclaimed
adj
claimed to an excessive degree
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overclaim
overcommand
overcommend
overcommend
verb
(transitive) To commend excessively.
overcrammed
overcrammed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overcram
overdeeming
overempired
overfreedom
overfreedom
noun
The quality of being excessively free.
overgambled
overgambled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overgamble
overheadman
overimbibed
overimposed
overimposed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overimpose
overmanaged
overmanaged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overmanage
overmatched
overmatched
adj
Outclassed; unable to compete
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overmatch
overmeddled
overmeddled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overmeddle
overmettled
overmodesty
overmodesty
noun
excessive modesty
overmuscled
overmuscled
adj
Excessively muscled.
overtimidly
overtrimmed
overtrimmed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overtrim
overtrumped
overtrumped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overtrump
overwhelmed
overwhelmed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overwhelm
ovorhomboid
palminerved
palminerved
adj
(botany, of a leaf) Having the venation arranged like the fingers of an open hand.
palmiveined
preimproved
premedieval
premedieval
adj
Before the Middle Ages.
pseudovelum
pseudovelum
noun
A velarium that resembles a velum
quadrumvirs
radiomovies
radiomovies
noun
plural of radiomovie
recidivisms
recidivisms
noun
plural of recidivism
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
removedness
removedness
noun
The quality of being removed; distance.
semidivided
semidivided
adj
Partly divided.
semidwarves
semiovaloid
semiovoidal
semiovoidal
adj
Somewhat or partly ovoidal.
semistarved
semistarved
adj
Half-starved.
sempervirid
sempervirid
adj
(obsolete) sempervirent; evergreen
unadmissive
unenvenomed
unenvenomed
adj
Not envenomed.
unmediaeval
unmediaeval
adj
Dated spelling of unmedieval.
unmediative
unmotivated
unmotivated
adj
For which there is no motive.
Lacking motivation, without impetus to strive or excel.
vagabondism
vagabondism
noun
Vagabondage.
vandemonian
vandemonian
Noun
A person from Van Diemen's Land.
A person from Tasmania.
Adjective
Relating to Tasmania or Van Diemen's Land.
vanguardism
vanguardism
noun
(politics) The strategy whereby an organization (usually a vanguard party) attempts to place itself at the centre of a revolutionary movement and steer it in a direction consistent with its ideology.
vermilioned
vermilioned
verb
simple past tense and past participle of vermilion
verminicide
verminicide
noun
A substance that kills vermin
victimhoods
victimhoods
noun
plural of victimhood
vitaminized
vitaminized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of vitaminize