| ADUMBRATIVE | • adumbrative adj. Of or pertaining to adumbration. • ADUMBRATIVE adj. with the character of a sketch or outline. |
| ADVANCEMENT | • advancement n. The act of advancing; promotion to a higher place or dignity. • advancement n. The state of being advanced. • advancement n. How advanced something is. |
| ADVERGAMING | • advergaming n. The creation or playing of advergames. • ADVERGAMING n. a method of interactive marketing in which free downloadable computer games appear on websites (often as pop-ups) to advertise a company or product. |
| ANIMADVERTS | • animadverts v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of animadvert. • ANIMADVERT v. to comment critically on; to censure. |
| MAIDSERVANT | • maidservant n. A female servant; a maid. • maid-servant n. Alternative form of maidservant. • MAIDSERVANT n. a female servant. |
| MALADAPTIVE | • maladaptive adj. (Psychology, chiefly of behaviour) Showing inadequate or counterproductive mental and behavioral adaptation… • maladaptive adj. (Evolution, of anatomy, physiology, or behavior) Showing inadequate or counterproductive evolutionary… • MALADAPTIVE adj. marked by poor or inadequate adaptation. |
| MARIVAUDAGE | • marivaudage n. (Literary) A writing style characterized by an affectation of refinement, originating from the writing… • MARIVAUDAGE n. preciosity in literary style or expression. |
| MEDIAEVALLY | • mediaevally adv. Alternative form of medievally. • mediævally adv. (Archaic or archaizing) Alternative form of medievally. • MEDIAEVAL adv. belonging to the Middle Ages, also MEDIEVAL. |
| METAVANADIC | • METAVANADIC adj. as in metavanadic acid, an acid of vanadium. |
| OVERMANAGED | • overmanaged v. Simple past tense and past participle of overmanage. • OVERMANAGE v. to manage to excess. |
| VAGABONDISM | • vagabondism n. Vagabondage. • VAGABONDISM n. being a vagabond. |
| VANGUARDISM | • vanguardism n. (Politics) The strategy whereby an organization (usually a vanguard party) attempts to place itself… • VANGUARDISM n. the condition of being or practice of positioning oneself as or within the vanguard of a movement, esp. political. |