| CONTEMPLATIVES | • contemplatives n. Plural of contemplative. • CONTEMPLATIVE n. a person who practices contemplation. |
| GALVANOTROPISM | • galvanotropism n. (Biology) Any movement or alignment of an organism with respect to an electric field. • GALVANOTROPISM n. the directional growth of an organism, esp. a plant, in response to an electrical stimulus. |
| IMPERVIABILITY | • imperviability n. The quality of being imperviable. • IMPERVIABILITY n. the quality of being imperviable. |
| IMPROVABLENESS | • improvableness n. Quality of being improvable; capability of improvement. • IMPROVABLE n. capable of being improved. |
| MANIPULATIVELY | • manipulatively adv. In a manipulative manner. • MANIPULATIVE adv. relating to manipulation. |
| MULTIPLICATIVE | • multiplicative adj. Of or pertaining to multiplication. • multiplicative adj. (Mathematics, of a function, etc.) Distributive over multiplication. • multiplicative adj. (Algebra) Having multiplication as an operator. |
| OVERCOMPLIANCE | • overcompliance n. Compliance beyond what is necessary. • OVERCOMPLIANCE n. excessive compliance. |
| OVERCOMPLICATE | • overcomplicate v. (Transitive) To make something excessively complicated. • OVERCOMPLICATE v. to complicate excessively. |
| PAPILLOMAVIRUS | • papillomavirus n. (Virology) Any variety of virus which causes warts. • PAPILLOMAVIRUS n. any of a genus of double-stranded DNA viruses that cause papillomas and are sometimes associated with human cancers of the genital tract and esp. of the cervix. |
| PERFORMATIVELY | • performatively adv. In a performative manner. • PERFORMATIVE adv. of a statement or verb that itself constitutes the action described, e.g. I confess my ignorance, also PERFORMATORY. |
| PLUVIOMETRICAL | • pluviometrical adj. Of or pertaining to a pluviometer. • PLUVIOMETRICAL adj. relating to pluviometry, the measurement of rainfall, also PLUVIOMETRIC. |
| POLYOMAVIRUSES | • polyomaviruses n. Plural of polyomavirus. |
| PROVERBIALISMS | • proverbialisms n. Plural of proverbialism. • PROVERBIALISM n. a saying in the form of, or like, a proverb. |
| PROVINCIALISMS | • provincialisms n. Plural of provincialism. • PROVINCIALISM n. a dialectal or local word, phrase, or idiom. |
| SIMPLIFICATIVE | • simplificative adj. That leads to simplification. • SIMPLIFICATIVE adj. serving to simplify. |