(earth science, chemistry) The horizontal movement of a body of atmosphere (or other fluid) along with a concurrent transport of its temperature, humidity etc.
The transport of a scalar by bulk fluid motion.
advectitious
advectitious
adj
Relating to, or transported by, advection.
advocaat
advocaat
noun
A Dutch liqueur made of egg yolks, sugar and strong liquor, typically brandy.
advocate
advocate
noun
A person who speaks in support of something, or someone.
A person who supports others to make their voices heard, or ideally for them to speak up for themselves.
Anyone who argues the case of another; an intercessor.
Someone whose job is to speak for someone's case in a court of law; a counsel.
verb
(Scotland, law) To appeal from an inferior court to the Court of Session.
(Scotland, law, in higher courts) To call a case before itself for decision.
(intransitive, with for) To engage in advocacy.
(transitive) To encourage support for something.
(transitive) To plead in favour of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.
advocated
advocated
adj
Having been argued in favor of.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of advocate
advocates
advocates
noun
plural of advocate
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advocate
advocateship
advocateship
noun
(now rare) The office or function of an advocate; advocacy.
advocatess
advocatess
noun
(rare, obsolete) A female advocate.
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.
advocations
advocations
noun
plural of advocation
advocative
advocative
adj
(law) Related to advocation
advocator
advocator
noun
One who advocates; an advocate
advocatory
advocatory
adj
Characteristic of an advocate.
advocatress
advocatress
noun
(rare) A female advocate.
advocatrice
advocatrice
noun
(archaic) A female advocate.
advocatrix
anarchoindividualist
anticonfederative
antidivorce
antidivorce
adj
Opposing divorce.
antiproductive
antiproductively
antiproductiveness
antiproductivity
apodictive
apodictive
adj
apodictic
autoclaved
autoclaved
verb
simple past tense and past participle of autoclave
autoeducative
autoeducative
adj
Of or relating to autoeducation.
autoinductive
autoinductive
adj
That exhibits autoinduction
cavorted
cavorted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cavort
clavichordist
clavichordist
noun
Someone who plays the clavichord.
clavichordists
clavichordists
noun
plural of clavichordist
clavodeltoid
clavodeltoideus
coacervated
coacervated
adj
That has undergone coacervation
coadjutive
coadjutive
adj
Rendering mutual aid; coadjutant.
coadjuvant
coadjuvant
adj
cooperating
noun
(medicine) An adjuvant.
coadjuvate
coadunative
coadunative
adj
Serving to coadunate or unite.
coadunatively
coadunatively
adv
In a coadunative manner
coadventure
coadventure
noun
(archaic) A joint venture or partnership.
coadventured
coadventurer
coadventurer
noun
A fellow adventurer.
coadventuress
coadventuring
cocultivated
cocultivated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cocultivate
condensative
condensative
adj
That tends to condense
condititivia
conditivia
condonative
condonative
adj
(obsolete) Condoning; betokening, or relating to, condonement or condonation.
confederative
confederative
adj
Of or pertaining to confederates of a confederation.
considerative
considerative
adj
(archaic) considerate; careful; thoughtful
consideratively
considerativeness
considerativeness
noun
The quality of being considerative.
consolidative
consolidative
adj
Tending or having power to consolidate.
contradictive
contradictive
adj
(now rare) Contradictory.
contradictively
contradictively
adv
In a contradictive manner.
contradictiveness
contradictiveness
noun
The quality of being contradictive.
contradistinctive
contradistinctive
adj
Distinguishing by contrast
Having the quality of contradistinction
contradistinctively
contradistinctively
adv
in contradistinction
contradivide
contraindicative
contraindicative
adj
Serving as a contraindication.
contravened
contravened
verb
simple past tense and past participle of contravene
contravindicate
contravindication
conventionalised
conventionalised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of conventionalise
conventionalized
conventionalized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of conventionalize
convocated
convocated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of convocate
coordinative
coordinative
adj
Of or pertaining to coordination
counteradvance
counteradvance
noun
An advance that counters or goes against another advance.
counteradvantage
counteradvantage
noun
A disadvantage that cancels out an advantage.
An advantage held by an opponent.
counteradvice
counteradvice
noun
Advice that goes against other advice; opposite advice.
counteradvise
counteradvise
verb
To give the opposite advice.
countervailed
countervailed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of countervail
countervindication
covenanted
covenanted
adj
Bound by a covenant.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of covenant
deactivation
deactivation
noun
The act of deactivating something, such as a bomb or alarm.
deactivations
deactivations
noun
plural of deactivation
deactivator
deactivator
noun
A chamber filled with iron filings or other material used to remove excess oxygen or other substances from water.
Any device used to deactivate something.
deactivators
deactivators
noun
plural of deactivator
decalvation
decivilization
decivilization
noun
The process of decivilization.
decontaminative
deconventionalize
decorative
decorative
adj
That serves to decorate
noun
A plant, tile, etc. intended for use as decoration.
decoratively
decoratively
adv
In a decorative manner.
decorativeness
decorativeness
noun
The condition of being decorative
decorrugative
decurvation
devisceration
devitrification
devitrification
noun
The formation of small crystals in a glass as a result of slow cooling from the molten state
devocalisation
devocalization
devocalization
noun
Act or process of devocalizing.
devocate
devocation
devocation
noun
A calling off or away.
devulcanization
devulcanization
noun
To process of treating vulcanized rubber so as to restore the materials that were present prior to vulcanization.
discovenant
discovenant
verb
(transitive) To dissolve a covenant with.
discoverability
discoverability
noun
The condition of being discoverable
dissociative
dissociative
adj
(psychology) related to or caused by dissociation or dissociative disorders
causing dissociation
removing or separating from some association
noun
a dissociative drug
divarication
divarication
noun
(botany) The growth habit of some low-growing shrubs; with wide angles where they diverge, the branches may interlace.
A divergence of opinion.
The point at which branching occurs.
divaricator
divaricator
noun
(zoology) One of the muscles that open the shell of a brachiopod; a cardinal muscle.
diversification
diversification
noun
(finance) An investment strategy involving investing in a range of assets with differing features in order to reduce specific risk.
A corporate strategy in which a company acquires or establishes a business other than that of its current product.
The act, or the result, of diversifying.
diversifications
diversifications
noun
plural of diversification
domesticative
edulcorative
edulcorative
adj
Tending to sweeten or purify by affusions of water.
endovaccination
endovasculitis
endovasculitis
noun
(pathology) Synonym of endangiitis
equivocated
equivocated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of equivocate
evocated
evocated
adj
(rare) evoked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of evocate
invocated
invocated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of invocate
involucelated
involucellated
laevoduction
modificative
modificative
adj
modificatory; tending to modify
noun
(grammar) That which modifies or qualifies, as a word or clause.