(biochemistry) The process by which molecules are made able to react.
(marketing) The promotion of a brand through an event or campaign.
(physics) The process of making a radioisotope by bombarding a stable element with neutrons or protons.
Making active and effective; bringing into a state of activity.
activeness
activeness
noun
The state or quality of being active.
activizing
activizing
verb
present participle of activize
adjunctive
adjunctive
adj
(logic) the property of two operations x and y, such that ax(ayb) = a, and ay(axb) = a
additional; neither basic nor primary
forming an adjunct
noun
(grammar) a connector joining two components of the same weight, such as a coordinating conjunction
(manufacturing) a substance added as a supplement; often in the phrase "additives and adjunctives."
admonitive
admonitive
adj
Of or conveying admonition
advantaged
advantaged
adj
(of a person) Financially secure; elite and economically successful.
Having been given an advantage, such as by biased referees in a competition.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of advantage
advantages
advantages
noun
plural of advantage
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advantage
adventists
adventitia
adventitia
noun
(anatomy, histology) The outermost layer of epithelial tissue encasing a visceral organ.
adventured
adventured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of adventure
adventurer
adventurer
noun
(video games) A player of adventure games or text adventures.
A person who seeks a fortune in new and possibly dangerous enterprises.
A person who tries to advance their social position by somewhat devious means.
A soldier of fortune, a speculator.
One who enjoys adventures.
adventures
adventures
noun
plural of adventure
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adventure
advertence
advertence
noun
The quality of being advertent
advertency
advertency
noun
The quality of being advertent.
advisement
advisement
noun
(archaic) Advice, counsel.
(now US) Consideration or deliberation.
advocating
advocating
verb
present participle of advocate
advocation
advocation
noun
(Britain, law) The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church.
(Scotland, law) The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court.
(archaic) Advocacy; the act of advocating or pleading.
advolution
advolution
noun
A rolling toward something; goal orientation.
aeviternal
aeviternal
adj
(theology) Pertaining to aeviternity, a state between eternity, which is unchanging and outside of time, and temporality, which is subject to change and to death or annihilation. Things aeviternal are creations, like the temporal, but everlasting, like the eternal.
affinitive
affinitive
adj
Closely connected, as by affinity.
affrontive
affrontive
adj
Tending to affront or offend.
alimentive
alimentive
adj
Alternative form of alimentative
ambivalent
ambivalent
adj
Alternately having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite.
Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, or motivations.
animadvert
animadvert
verb
(intransitive) To criticise, to censure.
(intransitive, law, archaic) To turn judicial attention (to); to criticise or punish.
(intransitive, obsolete) To consider.
annotative
annotative
adj
Relating to annotation.
antecavern
anteverted
anteverted
adj
Turned or tipped forward.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of antevert
anticivism
anticivism
noun
(obsolete) opposition to the body politic of citizens
antidivine
antidivine
adj
Opposing or counteracting that which is divine.
antinovels
antinovels
noun
plural of antinovel
antisavage
antisavage
adj
Opposing savages (people living in traditional, especially tribal, societies).
antivenene
antivenene
noun
(UK and Australia, medicine) Synonym of antivenom.
antivenine
antivenins
antivenins
noun
plural of antivenin
antonovich
antonovics
anvilsmith
anvilsmith
noun
A person who makes blacksmiths' anvils.
appointive
appointive
adj
Of, pertaining to, or filled by appointment.
aquavalent
augmentive
augmentive
adj
(linguistics) Changing the meaning to one that is a larger, more complete, or more elaborate version of the original sense.
Serving to augment, enhance, or increase; augmentative.
Supplementary; additional.
noun
(linguistics) An augmentive affix; augmentative.
Something that augments.
avantgarde
avantgarde
noun
Alternative form of avant-garde
avanturine
avanturine
noun
Alternative form of aventurine
avengement
avengement
noun
(rare) The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken.
aventurine
aventurine
noun
(mineralogy, by extension) A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica.
A kind of brownish glass containing gold-coloured spangles.
aversation
aversation
noun
(obsolete) A turning from with dislike; aversion.
avertiment
avertiment
noun
(obsolete) advertisement (public notice).
aviational
avocations
avocations
noun
plural of avocation
avouchment
avouchment
noun
A positive declaration.
The act of avouching.
avunculate
avunculate
noun
(In certain tribal peoples, for example, the Korowai) a special relationship between a man and a maternal uncle, and the mutual responsibilities between them.
the relationship between a man and his sister's children, generally her sons.
barneveldt
baviaantje
beaverteen
beaverteen
noun
A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing.
beavertown
beethovian
beethovian
Adjective
Of or pertaining to in particular his style of music.
benediktov
beneventan
benevolent
benevolent
adj
Altruistic, charitable, good, just and fair.
Having a disposition to do good.
Possessing or manifesting love for mankind.
benevolist
bevomiting
bevomiting
verb
present participle of bevomit
bloviating
bloviating
verb
present participle of bloviate
bovinities
bovinities
noun
plural of bovinity
brevetting
calvinists
cantalever
cantalever
noun
Dated form of cantilever.
cantaliver
cantilever
cantilever
noun
(architecture) A beam anchored at one end and projecting into space, such as a long bracket projecting from a wall to support a balcony.
(figure skating) A technique, similar to the spread eagle, in which the skater travels along a deep edge with knees bent and bends their back backwards, parallel to the ice.
A beam anchored at one end and used as a lever within a microelectromechanical system.
verb
To project (something) in the manner of or by means of a cantilever.
captivance
captivance
noun
(obsolete, rare) Captivity.
caravanist
caravanist
noun
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) One who travels in a caravan (towed furnished vehicle).
A member of a caravan (convoy or procession of travellers with animals, cargo, etc.)
catenative
catenative
adj
Having the ability to catenate, or form chains.
noun
(linguistics) A catenative verb.
cavernitis
cavernitis
noun
(pathology) inflammation of the corpus cavernosum
cavitating
cavitating
verb
present participle of cavitate
cavitation
cavitation
noun
(biology) The formation of cavities in an organ, especially in lung tissue as a result of tuberculosis.
(fluid dynamics) The formation, in a fluid, of vapor bubbles that rapidly collapse, especially in a rotating marine propeller or pump impeller.
The formation of pits on a surface.
cervantist
cervantite
cervantite
noun
(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing antimony and oxygen.
chauvinist
chauvinist
adj
(derogatory) Chauvinistic; excessively patriotic or heavily biased.
Pertaining to chauvinism.
noun
(derogatory) A chauvinistic person.
chavantean
chernovtsy
chervonets
chervonets
noun
Any of several former currencies of Russia: applied to various foreign gold coins prior to the reign of Peter I of Russia, then to a Russian gold coin of 1701-1757, and finally to a 1922 currency of the Soviet Union.
chervonetz
chervontsi
cheventayn
chevetaine
chevrotain
chevrotain
noun
Any of several small hornless ruminants of the family Tragulidae (genera Hyemoschus, Moschiola, and Tragulus), native to tropical rainforests of South and Southeast Asia, and Central and West Africa; a mouse deer.
chivington
circumvent
circumvent
verb
(transitive) to avoid or get around something; to bypass
(transitive) to outwit or outsmart
(transitive) to surround or besiege
coadjuvant
coadjuvant
adj
cooperating
noun
(medicine) An adjuvant.
cognitives
cognitives
noun
plural of cognitive
coinventor
coinventor
noun
One who invents something jointly with another person or persons.
concaptive
concentive
conceptive
conceptive
adj
relating to conception (in all senses)
conclavist
conclavist
noun
The personal aide of a cardinal at a papal conclave.
concoctive
concoctive
adj
(obsolete) Of or pertaining to digestion; digestive.
(obsolete) Ripening or maturing by heat.
Of or pertaining to the concoction of a mixture etc.
concretive
concretive
adj
Promoting concretion.
conditivia
conductive
conductive
adj
Able to conduct electrical current or heat.
Of, or relating to conductivity of a material.
congestive
congestive
adj
Characterized by congestion
conjective
conjuctiva
connective
connective
adj
Serving or tending to connect; connecting.
noun
(anatomy, zoology) A connective tissue.
(botany) The tissue which connects the locules of an anthers together.
(grammar) A word used to connect words, clauses and sentences, most commonly applied to conjunctions.
(logic) A function that operates on truth values to give another truth value.
That which connects.
consentive
conservant
conservant
adj
Having the power or quality of conservation; conserving.
conservate
conservate
verb
(dated, transitive) To conserve.
(nonstandard, intransitive) To practice conservation.
constative
constative
adj
(linguistics) Pertaining to an utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false.
noun
(linguistics) An utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false.
consultive
consultive
adj
Determined by, or relating to, consultation; deliberate.
contextive
contorsive
contortive
contortive
adj
Showing contortion.
contravene
contravene
verb
(transitive) To act contrary to an order; to fail to conform to a regulation or obligation.
(transitive, obsolete) To deny the truth of something.
contrivers
contrivers
noun
plural of contriver
contriving
contriving
noun
The act of one who contrives.
verb
present participle of contrive
controvert
controvert
verb
(intransitive) To be involved or engaged in controversy; to argue.
(transitive) To argue against (something or someone); to contradict, to deny.
(transitive) To dispute, to argue about (something).
convecting
convecting
adj
That which convects.
verb
present participle of convect
convection
convection
noun
(meteorology) The vertical movement of heat and moisture, especially by updrafts and downdrafts in an unstable air mass. The terms convection and thunderstorm are often used interchangeably, although thunderstorms are only one form of convection. Towering cumulus clouds are visible forms of convection.
(obsolete) The process of conveying something.
(physics) The transmission of heat in a fluid by the circulation of currents.
convective
convective
adj
Of, pertaining to, or employing convection; convectional
convenient
convenient
adj
(obsolete) Fit; suitable; appropriate.
Serving to reduce a difficulty, or accessible with minimum difficulty; expedient.
Suspicious due to suiting someone's purposes very well.
conventing
conventing
verb
present participle of convent
convention
convention
noun
(international law) A treaty or supplement to such.
A formal agreement, contract, rule, or pact.
A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.
A meeting or gathering.
A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.
The convening of a formal meeting.
conventual
conventual
adj
Pertaining to a convent or convent life; cloistered, monastic.
noun
A member of a convent.
convergent
convergent
adj
(mathematical analysis, topology) Of a sequence or series in a topological space, converging to a (finite, proper) limit.
That converges or focuses; converging
noun
(mathematics) The rational number obtained when a continued fraction has been terminated after a finite number of terms.
conversant
conversant
adj
(obsolete) Concerned; occupied.
Closely familiar; current; having frequent interaction.
Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed.
noun
One who converses with another.
convertend
convertend
noun
(logic) Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the converse.
converters
converters
noun
plural of converter
converting
converting
verb
present participle of convert
convertise
convertism
convertite
convertite
noun
(obsolete) A convert.
(obsolete) A reformed prostitute.
convertive
convertors
convertors
noun
plural of convertor
conviciate
convicting
convicting
verb
present participle of convict
conviction
conviction
noun
(countable) A firmly held belief.
(countable) A judgement of guilt in a court of law.
(uncountable) The state of being found or proved guilty.
(uncountable) The state of being wholly convinced.
convictism
convictism
noun
The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements.
convictive
convictive
adj
convincing
convocated
convocated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of convocate
convocator
convoluted
convoluted
adj
(chiefly anatomy, zoology) Having numerous overlapping coils or folds; convolute.
(figuratively) Complex, complicated, or intricate.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of convolute
convulsant
convulsant
adj
Causing or producing convulsions; convulsive.
noun
Anything, such as a drug, that causes convulsions
covalently
covalently
adv
Using covalent bonds.
covenantal
covenantal
adj
Of or pertaining to a covenant.
covenanted
covenanted
adj
Bound by a covenant.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of covenant
covenantee
covenantee
noun
The person in whose favor a covenant is made.
covenanter
covenanter
noun
One who makes a covenant.
covenantor
covenantor
noun
The party who makes a covenant.
coventrate
coventrate
verb
(transitive) To devastate by heavy bombing.
coventries
coventrize
covertness
covertness
noun
The characteristic of being covert.
covetingly
covetingly
adv
in a coveting way
cravatting
cravatting
verb
present participle of cravat.
cravenette
cravenette
noun
(countable) A waterproof coat made from this material.
(uncountable) A certain waterproof material.
verb
(transitive) To waterproof by a particular process.