ADVENTURISTS | • adventurists n. Plural of adventurist. • ADVENTURIST n. a practitioner of adventurism. |
ATTRIBUTIVES | • attributives n. Plural of attributive. • ATTRIBUTIVE n. a word added to another to denote an attribute. |
AVICULTURIST | • aviculturist n. A person who keeps and rears (breeds) birds. • AVICULTURIST n. one who practises aviculture. |
CURVICOSTATE | • curvicostate adj. (Botany, rare) Having bent ribs. • CURVICOSTATE adj. having curved ribs. |
DISTURBATIVE | • disturbative adj. (Chiefly archaic) Of, pertaining to, or causing the act of disturbing. • DISTURBATIVE adj. serving to disturb. |
ILLUSTRATIVE | • illustrative adj. Demonstrative, exemplative, showing an example or demonstrating. • ILLUSTRATIVE adj. serving to illustrate. |
OVERSATURATE | • oversaturate v. To saturate to excess. • OVERSATURATE v. to saturate to excess. |
RECULTIVATES | • recultivates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of recultivate. • RECULTIVATE v. to cultivate again. |
RESULTATIVES | • resultatives n. Plural of resultative. • RESULTATIVE n. (in grammar) a phrase which describes the state of a noun by completing the verb phrase. |
STERNUTATIVE | • sternutative adj. That provokes sneezing. • sternutative n. Anything that triggers sneezing. • STERNUTATIVE n. a substance which causes sneezing, also STERNUTATOR, STERNUTATORY. |
TRANSUMPTIVE | • transumptive adj. Metaphorical. • transumptive adj. Transferred from one to another. • TRANSUMPTIVE adj. transferred; metaphorical. |
TRANSVALUATE | • TRANSVALUATE v. to reestimate the value of, esp. on a basis differing from the accepted standard, also TRANSVALUE. |
TRIUMVIRATES | • triumvirates n. Plural of triumvirate. • TRIUMVIRATE n. a body of triumvirs. |
ULTRAVIOLETS | • ultraviolets n. Plural of ultraviolet. • ULTRAVIOLET n. the part of the spectrum beyond the visible spectrum at its violet end. |
VIRTUALITIES | • virtualities n. Plural of virtuality. • VIRTUALITY n. the state of being virtual. |
VITUPERATORS | • vituperators n. Plural of vituperator. • VITUPERATOR n. one who vituperates. |
VOLUNTARISTS | • voluntarists n. Plural of voluntarist. • VOLUNTARIST n. an adherent of voluntarism. |
VOLUNTARYIST | • voluntaryist n. Alternative form of voluntarist. • VOLUNTARYIST n. a believer in voluntaryism. |