| ABBREVIATE | • abbreviate v. (Obsolete, transitive) To shorten by omitting parts or details. • abbreviate v. (Obsolete, intransitive) To speak or write in a brief manner. • abbreviate v. (Transitive) To make shorter; to shorten (in time); to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned. |
| ABDICATIVE | • abdicative adj. (Rare) Causing, or implying, abdication. • abdicative n. (Logic) A reasoning from the negative. • ABDICATIVE adj. relating to abdication. |
| ABLATIVELY | • ablatively adv. In an ablative manner. • ABLATIVE adv. indicating direction from or time when. |
| ABREACTIVE | • abreactive adj. Capable of producing abreaction. • ABREACTIVE adj. relating to abreaction, the resolution of a neurosis by reviving forgotten or repressed ideas of the event first causing it. |
| ABROGATIVE | • abrogative adj. Tending or designed to abrogate. • ABROGATIVE adj. relating to annulment. |
| AMBIVALENT | • ambivalent adj. Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, or motivations. • ambivalent adj. Alternately having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite. • AMBIVALENT adj. having conflicting emotional attitudes towards the same object. |
| ARBORVITAE | • arborvitae n. Any of several North American or Asian conifers, of the genera Thuja and Thujopsis or the species Platycladus… • arborvitae n. (Anatomy) The white nerve tissue of the cerebellum that has a branching structure. • arbor␣vitae n. Any of the evergreen trees and shrubs known as arborvitae, of the genera Thuja and Thujopsis, or of… |
| BABBLATIVE | • babblative adj. (Obsolete) babbling. • BABBLATIVE adj. given to babbling, loquacious. |
| BARMITSVAH | • BARMITSVAH n. (Hebrew) in the Jewish religion, a boy attaining the age (usually 13) of religious responsibility, also BARMITZVAH. |
| BARMITZVAH | • bar␣mitzvah n. (Judaism) A Jewish coming of age ceremony for boys. • bar␣mitzvah n. (Judaism) A boy who has come of age. • bar␣mitzvah v. (Transitive, usually passive) To initiate someone in a bar mitzvah ceremony. |
| BASMITZVAH | • bas␣mitzvah n. Alternative form of bat mitzvah. • BASMITZVAH n. (Hebrew) in the Jewish religion, a girl attaining the age of religious responsibility, also BATHMITSVAH, BATHMITZVAH, BATHMIZVAH, BATMITZVAH. |
| BATHMIZVAH | • BATHMIZVAH n. (Hebrew) in the Jewish religion, a girl attaining the age of religious responsibility, also BASMITZVAH, BATHMITSVAH, BATHMITZVAH, BATMITZVAH. |
| BATMITZVAH | • batmitzvah n. Misspelling of bat mitzvah. • bat␣mitzvah n. (Judaism) A Jewish coming of age ceremony for a girl. • bat␣mitzvah n. (Judaism) A girl who has come of age. |
| BEAVERTAIL | • beavertail n. (North American) Any object like a beaver’s tail, oval or tear-drop in plan, usually broad and flat;… • beavertail n. (North American) A fried-dough pastry of such shape; usually beaver tail or Beaver Tail. • beavertail n. A species of prickly pear cactus, Opuntia basilaris. |
| BIVARIANTS | • BIVARIANT n. an expression involving two variables. |
| BIVARIATES | • bivariates n. Plural of bivariate. • BIVARIATE n. a formula involving two variables. |
| VANTBRACES | • vantbraces n. Plural of vantbrace. • VANTBRACE n. (historical) a piece of armour designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist, also VAMBRACE, VANTBRASS. |
| WAVETABLES | • wavetables n. Plural of wavetable. • WAVETABLE n. a collection of digitized samples of recorded sound stored as sound waves. |