| ADMIRATIVE | • admirative adj. Characterized by admiration. • admirative n. (An instance of) a verb form similar to mirative, found primarily in some languages of the Balkan sprachbund… • ADMIRATIVE adj. (archaic) relating to or expressing admiration. |
| 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. |
| AMPLIATIVE | • ampliative adj. That broadens conceptual knowledge by adding new information. • AMPLIATIVE adj. amplifying (now chiefly in ampliative induction). |
| AMRITATTVA | • AMRITATTVA n. (Sanskrit) immortality. |
| ANIMADVERT | • animadvert v. (Intransitive) To criticise, to censure. • animadvert v. (Intransitive, obsolete) To consider. • animadvert v. (Intransitive, law, archaic) To turn judicial attention (to); to criticise or punish. |
| AVALEMENTS | • AVALEMENT n. a skiing technique that involves keeping the knees flexible so as to absorb bumps and remain in contact with the snow. |
| 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. |
| CALMATIVES | • calmatives n. Plural of calmative. • CALMATIVE n. a drug having a calming effect. |
| HARVESTMAN | • harvestman n. A field-worker who works to gather in the harvest. • harvestman n. An order of terrestrial, non-venomous arachnids with often very long legs: Opiliones. • HARVESTMAN n. any member of the Opiliones, a class of Arachnida with very long legs, also HARVESTER. |
| INTRAVITAM | • intravitam adv. (Biology) During the life of an organism. • INTRAVITAM adj. performed upon or found in a living organism, also INTRAVITAL. |
| MACERATIVE | • macerative adj. Causing or relating to maceration. • MACERATIVE adj. tending to macerate. |
| MANSERVANT | • manservant n. A male servant. • MANSERVANT n. a male servant. |
| MARGRAVATE | • margravate n. The status or rank of margrave. • margravate n. A territory governed by a margrave or margravine. • MARGRAVATE n. the jurisdiction or position of a margrave, also MARGRAVIATE. |
| MATURATIVE | • maturative n. (Medicine, obsolete) A remedy promoting maturation; a maturant. • maturative adj. (Obsolete) Conducing to ripeness or maturity; hence, conducing to suppuration. • MATURATIVE adj. conducing to ripeness or maturity. |
| MEATLOAVES | • meatloaves n. Plural of meatloaf. • MEATLOAF n. a baked loaf of ground meat. |
| RAVAGEMENT | • ravagement n. An act of ravaging. • RAVAGEMENT n. laying waste. |