The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power.
adsorptiveness
adsorptiveness
noun
The property of being adsorptive, of tending toward or being characterized by adsorption.
anticompetitive
anticompetitive
adj
(economics, business) Acting to hinder or obstruct competition.
anticonscriptive
antieavesdropping
antipoverty
antipoverty
adj
(politics) that serves to alleviate poverty
antiproductive
antiproductively
antiproductiveness
antiproductivity
antiprogressive
antiprogressive
noun
One who opposes progress.
antiprojectivity
anviltop
anviltops
appointive
appointive
adj
Of, pertaining to, or filled by appointment.
appointively
approbativeness
approbativeness
noun
The state or quality of being approbative.
appropriativeness
appropriativeness
noun
The state or quality of being appropriative.
approvableness
approvableness
noun
The state or quality of being approvable.
approvance
approvance
Noun
Approval.
approvedness
approvedness
noun
The state or quality of being approved.
approvement
approvement
noun
(UK, law, obsolete) A confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplices and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon.
(archaic) Approval; approbation.
(obsolete, Old English law) Improvement of common lands by converting them for advantage of the landlord.
approving
approving
adj
Expressing approbation; commending
verb
present participle of approve
approvingly
approvingly
adv
in an approving manner
approximativeness
approximativeness
noun
The state or quality of being approximative.
automanipulative
blepharoconjunctivitis
blepharoconjunctivitis
noun
(medicine) The combination of conjunctivitis and blepharitis.
camptonville
captivation
captivation
noun
The act of captivating or the state of being captivated.
captivations
captivations
noun
plural of captivation
carpetwoven
chronoscopv
codeveloping
codeveloping
verb
present participle of codevelop
comparativeness
comparativeness
noun
The state or quality of being comparative.
compensative
compensative
adj
that compensates for something; compensatory
noun
(obsolete) compensation
compensatively
compensatively
adv
In a compensative manner; compensatorily
compensativeness
compensativeness
noun
The quality of being compensative.
competitiveness
competitiveness
noun
The state of being competitive.
complaintive
complaintive
adj
Tending to complain, characterized by complaining.
complaintiveness
complaintiveness
noun
The quality of being complaintive.
complementative
complimentative
complimentative
adj
(archaic) complimentary
comprehensive
comprehensive
adj
Broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something.
noun
(Britain) A comprehensive school.
comprehensively
comprehensively
adv
In a comprehensive manner; in an all-inclusive or wide-ranging fashion.
comprehensiveness
comprehensiveness
noun
The state of being comprehensive.
comprehensivenesses
comprehensives
comprehensives
noun
plural of comprehensive
comprovincial
comprovincial
adj
Being part of the same province.
noun
One who comes from the same province.
compulsiveness
compulsiveness
noun
the state of being compulsive
compunctive
compunctive
adj
(obsolete) Sensitive with regard to wrongdoing; conscientious.
computativeness
computativeness
noun
The quality of being computative.
concaptive
conceptive
conceptive
adj
relating to conception (in all senses)
conceptiveness
conceptiveness
noun
The quality of being conceptive.
conscriptive
conscriptive
adj
(law) Produced through the compulsory participation of the accused; violating the accused's right to avoid self-incrimination.
Chosen; adopted.
Compulsory; required.
Pertaining to conscription.
Restrictive; constricting.
conservatorship
conservatorship
noun
(law) The legal status of a conservator, similar to guardianship or trusteeship.
(law) The state of being under the control of a conservator.
conspirative
conspirative
adj
(uncommon) Conspiratorial.
consumptive
consumptive
adj
(pathology) Relating to pulmonary tuberculosis.
Having a tendency to consume; dissipating; destructive; wasteful.
Of, or relating to consumption.
noun
A person suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.
consumptively
consumptively
adv
In a consumptive manner.
consumptiveness
consumptiveness
noun
The state of being consumptive.
consumptives
consumptives
noun
plural of consumptive
consumptivity
consumptivity
noun
The quality or degree of being consumptive.
contemplative
contemplative
adj
(medicine, psychiatry) In a phase of mental activity in which one begins to recognize and acknowledge the maladaptiveness of someone's behavior (such as own's own, or that of a family member or friend); usually with reference to substance use.
Inclined to contemplate; introspective and thoughtful; meditative.
Pertaining to a religious contemplative, or a contemplative religious orders, especially the Roman Catholic varieties.
noun
Someone who has dedicated themselves to religious or philosophical contemplation.
contemplatively
contemplatively
adv
In a contemplative manner.
contemplativeness
contemplativeness
noun
The state or quality of being contemplative.
contraceptive
contraceptive
adj
That acts to prevent conception as a result of sexual intercourse.
noun
A mechanism or means by which conception as a result of sexual intercourse can be prevented or made less likely.
contraceptives
contraceptives
noun
plural of contraceptive
contrapositive
contrapositive
noun
(logic) The inverse of the converse of a given proposition.
contrapositives
contrapositives
noun
plural of contrapositive
contraprovectant
convenership
convertaplane
convertaplane
noun
Alternative form of convertiplane
convertiplane
convertiplane
noun
Any of several forms of aircraft capable of both vertical takeoff and landing, and of normal forward flight; usually has variable geometry wings that can rotate
convertoplane
cooperativeness
cooperativeness
noun
The state of being cooperative
corresponsive
corresponsive
adj
equivalent or similar in character: corresponding
jointly or mutually responsive: exchanging
responsive to stimulus: responding, answering
corresponsively
corresponsively
adv
In a corresponsive manner.
counterdevelopment
counterdevelopment
noun
A development that counteracts another development.
counterproductive
counterproductive
adj
More of a hindrance than a help.
counterproductively
counterproductively
adv
In a counterproductive way.
counterproductiveness
counterproductiveness
noun
The state or condition of being counterproductive.
counterproductivity
counterproductivity
noun
The quality of being counterproductive.
counterprove
counterprove
verb
(printing, transitive) To take a counterproof of.
cryptovalence
cryptovalency
cryptovolcanic
cryptovolcanism
davenport
davenport
noun
A large sofa, especially a formal one.
A writing desk.
davenports
davenports
noun
plural of davenport
depravation
depravation
noun
Change for the worse; deterioration; morbid perversion.
Detraction; depreciation.
The act of depraving, or making anything bad; the act of corrupting.
The state of being depraved or degenerated; degeneracy; depravity.
depravations
depravations
noun
plural of depravation
deprevation
deprivation
deprivation
noun
(countable) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
(countable) The taking away from a clergyman of his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
(followed by “of”) lack
(uncountable) The state of being deprived
deprivations
deprivations
noun
plural of deprivation
deprovincialize
deprovincialize
verb
(transitive) To divest of provincial quality or characteristics.
devaporation
devaporation
noun
The change of vapour into water, as in the formation of rain.
developedness
developedness
noun
The quality of being developed.
developement
developement
noun
Obsolete spelling of development
developing
developing
adj
In the process of development.
Of a country: becoming economically more mature or advanced; becoming industrialized.
noun
A process of development.
verb
present participle and gerund of develop
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.
developmental
developmental
adj
Related to development.
noun
A trainee flight controller.
developmentalist
developmentalist
adj
Of, or related to developmentalism.
noun
A follower or proponent of developmentalism.
developmentally
developmentally
adv
In terms of development.
developmentarian
developmentary
developmentary
adj
Pertaining to development; developmental.
developmentist
developments
developments
noun
A group of building complexes or apartments. Often used for low income housing.
plural of development
devonport
devonport
Proper noun
a district and naval dockyard in Plymouth, Devon, England, named Plymouth Dock until 1823.
a harbourside suburb in Auckland, New Zealand, which also contains a naval base.
a city in northern Tasmania, Australia.
disapproving
disapproving
verb
present participle of disapprove
disapprovingly
disapprovingly
adv
In a disapproving manner
disenvelop
disenvelop
verb
To unwrap or disentangle.
disimprovement
disimprovement
noun
(informal, rare, influenced by the German noun Verschlimmbesserung) attempt to make something better while ending up worse than before.
Reduction from a better to a worse state.
disprovement
disproven
disproven
adj
(archaic, Scottish law) Not proven, in a legal case where the jury verdict has inconclusive evidence for conviction, but sufficient to suspect guilt
Shown to be false
verb
Alternative irregular form of the past participle of disprove
disproving
disproving
verb
present participle of disprove
divaporation
dnepropetrovsk
eavedropping
eavesdropping
eavesdropping
noun
(telecommunications) The interception of electronic communication.
(zoology) The act of one organism listening for another's calls, so as to exploit them.
Listening secretly to the private conversations of others.
verb
present participle of eavesdrop
endopelvic
endopelvic
adj
(anatomy) Within the pelvis
envapor
envapour
envelop
envelop
verb
(transitive) To surround or enclose.
envelope
envelope
noun
(astronomy) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; a coma.
(biology) An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane; a space between two membranes
(computing) The information used for routing a message that is transmitted with the message but not part of its contents.
(electronics) A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.
(engineering) The set of limitations within which a technological system can perform safely and effectively.
(geometry) A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a given family of lines, curves, surfaces, or higher-dimensional objects.
(music) The shape of a sound, which may be controlled by a synthesizer or sampler.
A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.
A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.
An earthwork in the form of a single parapet or a small rampart, sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.
Something that envelops; a wrapping.
verb
Archaic form of envelop.
enveloped
enveloped
adj
(heraldry) Entwined, as with snakes, laurels, etc.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of envelop
enveloper
enveloper
noun
Something which envelops
envelopers
envelopers
noun
plural of enveloper
envelopes
envelopes
noun
plural of envelope
enveloping
enveloping
verb
present participle of envelop
envelopment
envelopment
noun
(fencing) An action to seize the opponent's blade in one line and lead it (without losing contact) through a full circle to end in the same line.
(military) An offensive action in which an attacking force moves over or around the enemy and attacks from the rear; see also pincer movement.
That which envelops; a covering.
The act of enveloping.
envelopments
envelopments
noun
plural of envelopment
envelops
envelops
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of envelop
envolupen
envoyship
envoyship
noun
The office or position of an envoy.
evansport
evaporating
evaporating
verb
present participle of evaporate
evaporation
evaporation
noun
(archaic) That which is evaporated; vapor.
The process in which all or a portion of liquid (in a container) is turned into vapour, in order to increase the concentration of solid matter in the mixture.
The process of a liquid converting to the gaseous state.
evaporations
evaporations
noun
plural of evaporation
evapotranspiration
evapotranspiration
noun
The transfer of water from the surface of the earth to the atmosphere by evaporation, sublimation and transpiration.
eversporting
explorativeness
explorativeness
noun
The condition of being explorative
explosiveness
explosiveness
noun
The state of being explosive.
extraprovincial
extraprovincial
adj
Outside a province.
flavoprotein
flavoprotein
noun
(biochemistry) any of a group of enzymes, containing flavin, that act as dehydrogenases
flavopurpurin
flavopurpurin
noun
(organic chemistry) 1,2,6-trihydroxyanthraquinone
foreprovision
galvanoglyph
galvanoglyphy
galvanoglyphy
noun
glyphography
galvanograph
galvanograph
noun
A copperplate produced by galvanography.
A picture printed from a plate of this kind.
galvanographic
galvanographic
adj
Of or pertaining to galvanography.
galvanography
galvanography
noun
A method of producing by means of electrotyping process (without etching) copperplates which can be printed from in the same manner as engraved plates.
The art or process of depositing metals by electricity; electrotypy.
galvanoplastic
galvanoplastic
adj
Of or pertaining to galvanoplasty.
galvanoplastical
galvanoplastical
adj
galvanoplastic
galvanoplastically
galvanoplastically
adv
By means of, or in terms of, galvanoplasty.
galvanoplastics
galvanoplastics
noun
Synonym of galvanoplasty
galvanoplasty
galvanoplasty
noun
The process of galvanizing, of coating with a thin layer of metal by electrochemical means.