| AFFECTIVE | • affective adj. Relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions. • affective adj. Emotional; emotionally charged; affecting. • AFFECTIVE adj. of, arising from or influencing emotion. |
| FACTITIVE | • factitive adj. (Linguistics, of a verb) Taking a complement that expresses a result along with a direct object, or… • factitive adj. (Linguistics, rare, of a verb) Factive. • FACTITIVE adj. causative; (of a verb) able to take both a direct object and a complement. |
| FAUVETTES | • fauvettes n. Plural of fauvette. • FAUVETTE n. (French) a small singing bird, as the nightingale and warblers. |
| FAVEOLATE | • faveolate adj. Having cavities or cells like those of a honeycomb. • FAVEOLATE adj. honeycombed. |
| FAVORITES | • favorites n. Plural of favorite. • Favorites prop.n. Plural of Favorite. • FAVORITE n. (US) favourite, a person or thing preferred. |
| FAVOURITE | • favourite adj. Preferred or liked above all others (unless qualified). • favourite adj. Belonging to a category whose members are all preferred or liked over nonmembers. • favourite n. A person or thing who enjoys special regard or favour. |
| FESTIVALS | • festivals n. Plural of festival. • FESTIVAL n. a time of celebration. |
| FIXATIVES | • fixatives n. Plural of fixative. • FIXATIVE n. a substance for preserving paintings or drawings, also FIXATIF. |
| FORMATIVE | • formative adj. Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something. • formative adj. Capable of forming something. • formative adj. (Biology) Capable of producing new tissue. |
| FOVEOLATE | • foveolate adj. Having small pits or depressions, like the receptacle in some composite flowers. • FOVEOLATE adj. like a foveola, a small depression, also FOVEOLATED. |
| FRICATIVE | • fricative n. (Phonetics) Any of several sounds produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity… • fricative adj. (Phonetics) produced by air flowing through a restriction in the oral cavity. • FRICATIVE n. a sound produced by the forcing of air through a restricted passage, as with 'f'. |
| INFLATIVE | • inflative adj. (Obsolete) Of an inflating quality or tendency. • INFLATIVE adj. causing inflation, tending to inflate. |
| OLFACTIVE | • olfactive adj. Of or pertaining to the sense of smell; olfactory. • OLFACTIVE adj. related to the sense of smell. |
| OVERDRAFT | • overdraft n. (Uncountable) The act of overdrawing a bank account. • overdraft n. (Countable) The amount overdrawn. • overdraft n. (Countable) The maximum amount that may be overdrawn. |
| OVERSTAFF | • overstaff v. (Transitive) To furnish with too many staff. • OVERSTAFF v. to employ too many staff. |
| VENTIFACT | • ventifact n. A pebble or little stone shaped and polished by wind-blown sand. • VENTIFACT n. a stone polished by windblown sand. |
| VOUTSAFED | • voutsafed v. Simple past tense and past participle of voutsafe. • VOUTSAFE v. (Milton) to vouchsafe. |
| VOUTSAFES | • voutsafes v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of voutsafe. • VOUTSAFE v. (Milton) to vouchsafe. |
| WAVEFRONT | • wavefront n. (Physics) An imaginary surface passing through points of a medium oscillating in phase. • WAVEFRONT n. in a propagating vibratory disturbance, the continuous locus of points which are in the same phase of vibration. |