(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.
The quality of being absorptive; absorptiveness.
accompletive
accompletive
adj
(rare) Tending to accomplish.
adsorptively
adsorptively
adv
In an adsorptive manner; with a tendency toward or characteristic of adsorption.
advocateship
advocateship
noun
(now rare) The office or function of an advocate; advocacy.
appointively
appositively
appositively
adv
In an appositive manner.
autopositive
camptonville
captivations
captivations
noun
plural of captivation
comparatival
comparatival
adj
(grammar) Expressing or relating to a comparison.
comparatives
comparatives
noun
plural of comparative
compassivity
compellative
compellative
noun
(grammar) The name by which a person is addressed; an appellative.
compensative
compensative
adj
that compensates for something; compensatory
noun
(obsolete) compensation
complaintive
complaintive
adj
Tending to complain, characterized by complaining.
complicative
complicative
adj
Having a tendency to complicate.
compulsative
compulsative
adj
(obsolete) compulsatory; employing force or constraint
conspirative
conspirative
adj
(uncommon) Conspiratorial.
cooperatives
cooperatives
noun
plural of cooperative
copulatively
copulatively
adv
In a copulative manner.
deoppilative
deoppilative
noun
(medicine, dated) Any medicine that dissolves obstructions.
depopulative
depopulative
adj
That depopulates
depravations
depravations
noun
plural of depravation
deprivations
deprivations
noun
plural of deprivation
devaporation
devaporation
noun
The change of vapour into water, as in the formation of rain.
diapositives
diapositives
noun
plural of diapositive
disprobative
disprobative
adj
(law) Tending to disprove a particular proposition or to persuade someone of the falsity of an allegation.
divaporation
evaporations
evaporations
noun
plural of evaporation
evaporimeter
evaporimeter
noun
An atmometer
evaporometer
evaporometer
noun
An instrument for measuring evaporation; an atmometer.
exploitative
exploitative
adj
(ecology, of competition) Wherein one organism reduces a resource to the point of affecting other organisms.
(more generally) Of or relating to exploitation.
In the nature of exploitation; acting to exploit someone or something
flavoprotein
flavoprotein
noun
(biochemistry) any of a group of enzymes, containing flavin, that act as dehydrogenases
hamptonville
hepatoflavin
hepatoflavin
noun
(biochemistry, rare) A derivative of vitamin B which prevents skin lesions and weight loss.
hypoactivity
hypoactivity
noun
The condition of being hypoactive
hypovanadate
improvisator
improvisator
noun
An improvvisatore.
nondepravity
nondepravity
noun
Lack of depravity.
nonoperative
nonoperative
adj
Not operative, not operational; inoperative.
Not requiring or involving a medical operation or surgery.
noun
(uncommon) One who is not an operative (“employee or worker”).
nonprevalent
nonprevalent
adj
Not prevalent.
nonprobative
nonprobative
adj
Not probative.
nonpulsative
nonpurgative
nonpurgative
adj
Not purgative.
opiniatively
opiniatively
adv
Archaic form of opinionatively.
opinionative
opinionative
adj
(of persons) Opinionated.
Of, pertaining to, being, or expressing opinion.
overcapacity
overcapacity
noun
A capacity for the production of a commodity or product that is in excess of what is needed
overcaptious
overcaptious
adj
Excessively captious.
overemphatic
overemphatic
adj
Excessively emphatic, particularly in musical or theatrical interpretation
overmalapert
overoperated
overoperated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overoperate
overoperates
overoperates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overoperate
overpayments
overpayments
noun
plural of overpayment
overplanting
overplanting
verb
present participle of overplant
overpopulate
overpopulate
verb
To fill with too many individuals; to exceed the capacity of a region to contain the population.
overpractice
overpraticed
overpregnant
overprotract
overpuissant
paleoatavism
parvifoliate
passionative
passivations
passivations
noun
plural of passivation
pavonazzetto
pavonazzetto
noun
A type of variegated marble.
pejoratively
pejoratively
adv
In a pejorative manner. Insultingly, disparagingly; so as to belittle another or harm their reputation.
pelvioplasty
performative
performative
adj
(philosophy, linguistics) Being enacted as it is said.
Being done as a performance in order to create an impression.
noun
A performative utterance.
pervulgation
pervulgation
noun
(obsolete) The act of publishing; publication.
petrozavodsk
petrozavodsk
Proper noun
The capital of the Republic of Karelia, Russia.
photoengrave
photoengrave
verb
To make a photoengraving of an image
photogravure
photogravure
noun
(countable) A print so made.
(uncountable) An intaglio process for printing photographic reproductions in newspapers and books.
verb
To print by this process.
photovoltaic
photovoltaic
adj
Producing a voltage when exposed to light.
plantivorous
plantivorous
adj
plant-eating
portageville
postalveolar
postalveolar
adj
(phonetics) Articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.
noun
(phonetics) Any sound articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge, such as English sh in the word shoe.
postclavicle
postclavicle
noun
(anatomy) A bone in the pectoral girdle of many fishes projecting backward from the clavicle.
postdiluvial
postdiluvial
adj
After the Biblical Flood.
postdiluvian
postdiluvian
adj
postdiluvial
noun
One who lived after the Biblical Flood.
postmedieval
postmedieval
adj
After the Middle Ages.
postmutative
postvaccinal
postvaccinal
adj
After vaccination.
postvagotomy
postvagotomy
adj
(medicine) After a vagotomy.
postvenereal
postvenereal
adj
Following venereal disease.
preadvocated
preevaporate
preformative
preformative
adj
(grammar) Chiefly in Semitic languages: of a letter, syllable, etc.: attached to the beginning of a word as a formative element.
Of a thing: forming or affecting something that comes later.
Of or pertaining to preformation.
noun
Chiefly in Semitic languages: a formative letter, syllable, etc., at the beginning of a word.
preobviating
preoperative
preoperative
adj
Prior to surgery.
noun
A transgender person who has not yet undergone gender reassignment surgery.
preovulatory
preovulatory
adj
Prior to ovulation.
prerogatival
prerogatival
adj
Of or relating to a prerogative.
prerogatived
prerogatived
adj
Endowed with a prerogative, or exclusive privilege.
prerogatives
prerogatives
noun
plural of prerogative
presalvation
preservation
preservation
noun
The act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill.
The state of being preserved, how something has survived.
preservatory
preservatory
adj
preservative
noun
(obsolete) A preservative.
(obsolete) A room or apparatus in which perishable things can be preserved without decay.
prevaluation
prevariation
prevaricator
prevaricator
noun
(historical) An orator at the University of Cambridge fulfilling a similar function to the terrae filius at Oxford.
One who prevaricates.
preventtoria
previolating
previolation
privatdocent
privatdocent
noun
Alternative form of privatdozent
privatdozent
privatdozent
noun
In some European countries, an academic who holds all formal qualifications (doctorate and habilitation) to become a tenured university professor.
procurvation
propitiative
propitiative
adj
Serving to, or intended to, propitiate; propitiatory, reconciliatory
protovillain
provaccinist
provicariate
providential
providential
adj
Fortunate, as if occurring through the intervention of Providence.
Pertaining to divine providence.
provocateurs
provocateurs
noun
plural of provocateur
provocations
provocations
noun
plural of provocation
provocatives
provocatives
noun
plural of provocative
provostorial
provostorial
Adjective
Pertaining to a provost.
psychoactive
psychoactive
adj
(pharmacology) Affecting the mind or mental processes.
noun
(pharmacology) Any drug that affects the mind or mental processes.
pulverizator
pyrovanadate
slavophobist
spotsylvania
sulphovinate
superovulate
superovulate
verb
(biology) To produce large quantities of mature ova.
transportive
transportive
adj
Serving to transport to another place.
unabsorptive
unadoptively
unevaporated
unevaporated
adj
Not evaporated
unpejorative
unvaporosity
vaginoplasty
vaginoplasty
noun
(surgery) A surgical procedure used to construct or reconstruct a vaginal canal and mucous membrane.
vaporability
vaporability
noun
The quality or state of being vaporable.
vaporization
vaporization
noun
A conversion of a solid or a liquid into a gas.
A destruction of something by turning it into vapor.
vapourescent
vapourescent
adj
Alternative form of vaporescent
vapourimeter
vasopuncture
vectographic
vectographic
adj
Relating to vectography.
velociraptor
velociraptor
noun
(film) Also Deinonychus
A small agile dinosaur, of the genus Velociraptor, having sickle-shaped claws. It is also thought to have had a feathered coat. Fossils have been found in Late Cretaceous deposits Mongolia and China (around 75-71 mya)
ventroptosia
vibraphonist
vibraphonist
noun
Someone who plays the vibraphone.
vituperation
vituperation
noun
Criticism or invective that is sustained and overly harsh; abuse, severe blame or censure.
The act of vituperating; severely blaming or censuring.