(biology) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.
(obsolete) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.
noun
(obsolete, Scotland) An abridgment.
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To speak or write in a brief manner.
(obsolete, transitive) To shorten by omitting parts or details.
(transitive) To make shorter; to shorten (in time); to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned.
(transitive) To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form.
(transitive, mathematics) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
abbreviated
abbreviated
adj
Relatively short; shorter than normal, or compared to others.
Scanty, as in clothing.
Shortened; made briefer.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abbreviate
abbreviately
abbreviately
adv
In an abbreviate way.
abbreviates
abbreviates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abbreviate
abbreviating
abbreviating
verb
present participle of abbreviate
abbreviation
abbreviation
noun
(biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
(linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, utilizing omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @.
(mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
(music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
(music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
The process of abbreviating.
The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
abbreviations
abbreviations
noun
plural of abbreviation
abbreviator
abbreviator
noun
(Roman Catholicism, historical) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty was to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.
A person who abbreviates or shortens.
abbreviators
abbreviators
noun
plural of abbreviator
abbreviatory
abbreviatory
adj
Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.
abbreviature
abbreviature
noun
(obsolete) An abbreviated state or form.
(obsolete) The process of abbreviating.
A shortened form of a word or phrase, used in place of the whole; an abbreviation.
An abridgment; a compendium; an abstract.
aberrative
aberrative
adj
Having deviated or been knocked, momentarily and sharply, from the more dominant or expected course or trajectory.
abirritative
abirritative
adj
(pharmacology) Characterized by abirritation or debility.
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.
abortively
abortively
adv
In an abortive or untimely manner; immaturely; fruitlessly.
abortiveness
abortiveness
noun
(countable) The result or product of being abortive.
(uncountable) The quality of being abortive.
abovestairs
abovestairs
noun
Alternative form of above stairs.
abrogative
abrogative
adj
Tending or designed to abrogate.
absolvatory
absolvatory
adj
Conferring absolution; absolutory.
absolvitor
absolvitor
noun
(Scotland, law) A decision or decree made by a court in favour of the defendant in a given action; dismissal.
absolvitory
absolvitory
adj
Of or pertaining to a dismissal or an acquittal.
absorptive
absorptive
adj
Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe; absorbent.
noun
Any substance that absorbs.
absorptively
absorptively
adv
In an absorptive way.
absorptiveness
absorptiveness
noun
The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power.
absorptivity
absorptivity
noun
(analytical chemistry) The constant a in the Beer's law relation A = abc, where A is the absorbance, b the path length, and c the concentration of solution. Also known as absorptive power. Formerly known as absorbency index; absorption constant; extinction coefficient.
(thermodynamics) The fraction of radiation absorbed by a surface to the total radiation incident on the surface.
Having an abstracting nature or tendency; tending to separate; tending to be withdrawn.
abstractively
abstractively
adv
(now rare) In an abstract manner; in the abstract.
abstractiveness
abstractiveness
noun
The property of being abstractive.
adumbrative
adumbrative
adj
Of or pertaining to adumbration
adumbratively
adumbratively
adv
In an adumbrative manner
adverbiality
adverbiality
noun
The condition of having characteristics of an adverb.
adverbiation
advertisable
advertisable
adj
Suitable for being advertised.
advertizable
advertizable
adj
Alternative spelling of advertisable
albertville
albertville
Proper noun
A town in the département of Savoie.
albrightsville
ambivert
ambivert
noun
(psychology) A person who is neither clearly extroverted nor introverted, but has characteristics of each.
ambiverts
ambiverts
noun
plural of ambivert
antisubversion
antisubversion
adj
Opposing or countering political subversion.
antisubversive
antisubversive
adj
(politics) Opposing or countering political subversion.
noun
One who opposes political subversion.
antivibrating
antivibrator
antivibrator
noun
A device attached to a vehicle or machine, etc. to reduce vibrations.
antivibratory
antivibratory
adj
preventing or reducing vibrations
approbative
approbative
adj
Expressing approval.
Sanctioning officially, giving authorization or approval to something.
noun
(linguistics) A word or grammatical form which denotes a positive affect expressing the appreciation or approval of the speaker.
approbativeness
approbativeness
noun
The state or quality of being approbative.
approvability
arbitrative
arbitrative
adj
Of or relating to arbitration.
arborvitae
arborvitae
noun
(anatomy) The white nerve tissue of the cerebellum that has a branching structure.
Any of several North American or Asian conifers, of the genera Thuja and Thujopsis or the species Platycladus orientalis, grown for timber or ornament.
arborvitaes
arborvitaes
noun
plural of arborvitae
artsybashev
artzybashev
attributive
attributive
adj
(grammar, of a word or phrase) Modifying another word, typically a noun, while in the same phrase.
Attributing; characterized by attributing; effecting attribution.
noun
(grammar) An attributive word or phrase (see above), contrasted with predicative or substantive.
attributively
attributively
adv
In an attributive manner.
attributiveness
attributiveness
noun
The state or quality of being attributive.
attributives
attributives
noun
plural of attributive
avertable
avertable
adj
Preventable.
avertible
avertible
adj
Capable of being averted; preventable.
bacteriosolvent
barkevikite
barkevikite
noun
(mineralogy) A particular hornblende mineral.
barkevikitic
barkevikitic
adj
Of or relating to the mineral barkevikite.
barneveldt
bartlesville
bartonsville
bartonville
basiventral
basiventral
adj
At the base of the front
basivertebral
basivertebral
adj
Of or pertaining to the base or centrum of a vertebral structure
beaverette
beaverette
noun
Rabbit fur dyed to resemble beaver fur.
beaverite
beaverite
noun
(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal yellow mineral containing aluminum, copper, hydrogen, iron, lead, oxygen, and sulfur.
beaverlett
beaverpelt
beaverroot
beaverteen
beaverteen
noun
A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing.
beaverton
beaverton
Proper noun
The name of several places
A city in Oregon, USA
A town in Ontario, Canada
A village in Alabama, USA
A hamlet in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
beavertown
beetrave
beetrave
noun
(archaic) The common beet, Beta vulgaris.
behaviorist
behaviorist
noun
One who studies behavior of humans or animals.
behavioristic
behavioristic
adj
Of or pertaining to behaviorism, especially B. F. Skinner’s school of radical behaviorism.
behavioristically
behavioristically
adv
In a behavioristic manner
behaviorists
behaviorists
noun
plural of behaviorist
behaviourist
behaviourist
noun
Britain standard spelling of behaviorist.
bereavement
bereavement
noun
The state of being bereaved; deprivation; especially the loss of a relative by death.
bereavements
bereavements
noun
plural of bereavement
berkovets
berkovets
noun
(historical) An old Russian unit of weight, approximately 164 kilograms or 10 poods.
berkovtsi
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.
bevatrons
bevatrons
noun
plural of bevatron
binervate
binervate
adj
(zoology, botany) Having only two nerves.
biodiversity
biodiversity
noun
(ecology) The diversity (number and variety of species) of plant and animal life within a region.
bioenvironmental
bioenvironmental
adj
Of or pertaining to the interactions between the environment and living organisms
bioenvironmentaly
birefractive
bivariant
bivariant
adj
(mathematics) Having two independent variables.
(programming) Both covariant and contravariant.
bivariate
bivariate
adj
(mathematics) Having or involving exactly two variables.
noun
(mathematics) A polynomial or function with exactly two variables.
bivector
bivector
noun
(mathematics) An antisymmetric tensor of second rank.
biventer
biventer
noun
(anatomy) Any digastric part or organ.
biventral
biventral
adj
Having two bellies
digastric
blepharoconjunctivitis
blepharoconjunctivitis
noun
(medicine) The combination of conjunctivitis and blepharitis.
bolivarite
bolivarite
Noun
An amorphous mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus.
bonaventura
bonaventure
bonaventurism
bondservant
bondservant
noun
An indentured servant.
bouleversement
bouleversement
noun
Complete overthrow; reversal; turmoil
bovarist
bovaristic
boviculture
boviculture
noun
The rearing and care of cattle.
brackettville
bratislava
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.
bravehearted
bravest
bravest
adj
superlative form of brave: most brave
noun
(informal) Firefighters.
bravoite
brevet
brevet
noun
(by extension) An authoritative grant or mark of recognition; a seal of approval.
A military document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily, but without an increase in pay.
A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity, as in France.
An organized, long-distance bicycle ride — not a race, but a test of endurance — which follows a designated but unmarked route passing through check points.
verb
(military) To promote by brevet.
brevetcies
brevetcies
noun
plural of brevetcy
brevetcy
brevetcy
noun
(military) The rank or condition of a brevet officer.
brevete
breveted
breveted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of brevet
breveting
breveting
verb
present participle of brevet
brevets
brevets
noun
plural of brevet
brevetted
brevetting
breviate
breviate
noun
A brief missive or dispatch; a note.
A lawyer's brief.
A short account, brief statement; a summary, abridgement or precis
breviature
breviature
noun
(obsolete) An abbreviation.
brevicaudate
brevicaudate
adj
(zoology) Having a short tail.
brevicipitid
brevicipitid
noun
(zoology) Any frog of the family Brevicipitidae.
brevicipitidae
brevifoliate
breviloquent
breviloquent
adj
Exhibiting breviloquence; concise.
brevipennate
brevipennate
adj
(ornithology) short-winged; having short wings.
breviradiate
brevirostral
brevirostral
adj
(zoology) Having a short beak or bill
brevirostrate
brevirostrate
adj
Short-beaked; having a short bill.
brevirostrines
brevit
brevities
brevities
noun
plural of brevity
brevity
brevity
noun
(rare, countable) A short piece of writing.
(uncountable) Succinctness; conciseness.
(uncountable) The quality of being brief in duration.
bristolville
bryantsville
bryantville
buenaventura
burgraviate
burgraviate
noun
The territory of a burgrave.
burkettsville
burkittsville
burnettsville
burtonsville
butlerville
calciovolborthite
calciovolborthite
noun
(mineralogy) A mineral with chemical formula CaCuVO₄(OH), closely related to volborthite.
celebrative
celebrative
adj
(uncommon) Involving celebration; having the nature of a celebration.
cervicobregmatic
cervicobregmatic
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the anterior fontanelle and the junction of the neck with the floor of the mouth.