| ABLATIVE | • ablative adj. (Grammar) Applied to one of the cases of the noun in some languages, the fundamental meaning of the… • ablative adj. (Archaic) Pertaining to taking away or removing. • ablative adj. (Engineering, nautical, astronautics) Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect… |
| ABORTIVE | • abortive adj. (Obsolete) Produced by abortion; born prematurely and therefore unnatural. • abortive adj. Coming to nothing; failing in its effect.. • abortive adj. (Biology) Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile. |
| AMBIVERT | • ambivert n. (Psychology) A person who is neither clearly extroverted nor introverted, but has characteristics of each. • AMBIVERT n. someone who is both extroverted and introverted. |
| BEVATRON | • bevatron n. A particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts. • BEVATRON n. a proton accelerator. |
| BIVALENT | • bivalent adj. (Chemistry) Having a valence of 2; having two ligands. • bivalent adj. (Genetics) Of, or relating to a pair of homologous synapsed chromosomes that occur during meiosis. • bivalent adj. (Of a vaccine) Protecting against two different viruses. |
| BLOVIATE | • bloviate v. (Intransitive, US) To speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner. • BLOVIATE v. to speak pompously. |
| BREVIATE | • breviate n. A short account, brief statement; a summary, abridgement or precis. • breviate n. A brief missive or dispatch; a note. • breviate n. A lawyer’s brief. |
| EVITABLE | • evitable adj. (Uncommon) Possible to avoid; avertible. • EVITABLE adj. avoidable. |
| OBVIATED | • obviated v. Simple past tense and past participle of obviate. • OBVIATE v. to forestall. |
| OBVIATES | • obviates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obviate. • OBVIATE v. to forestall. |
| OUTBRAVE | • outbrave v. To stand out bravely against; to face up to courageously. • outbrave v. To surpass or outrival. • outbrave v. To be more brave than. |
| OVERBEAT | • overbeat v. (Transitive) To beat (Eggs, cream, etc.) for too long, impairing the texture. • OVERBEAT v. to beat too much. |
| SUBOVATE | • subovate adj. Nearly ovate in shape. • SUBOVATE adj. nearly ovate. |
| VARTABED | • vartabed n. Alternative form of vardapet. • VARTABED n. a member of an Armenian order of clergy. |
| VERBATIM | • verbatim adv. Word for word; in exactly the same words as were used originally. • verbatim adv. (Obsolete) Orally; verbally. • verbatim adj. (Of a document) Corresponding with the original word for word. |
| VERTEBRA | • vertebra n. (Anatomy) Any of the bony or cartilaginous segments which make up the backbone, consisting in some lower… • VERTEBRA n. (Latin) a component of the vertebral column, or backbone, found in vertebrates. |
| VIBRATED | • vibrated v. Simple past tense and past participle of vibrate. • VIBRATE v. to move back and forward rapidly. |
| VIBRATES | • vibrates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vibrate. • VIBRATE v. to move back and forward rapidly. |
| VITIABLE | • VITIABLE adj. able to be impaired. |
| VOTEABLE | • voteable adj. Alternative form of votable. • VOTEABLE adj. capable of being voted on, also VOTABLE. |