| ADUMBRATIVE | • adumbrative adj. Of or pertaining to adumbration. • ADUMBRATIVE adj. with the character of a sketch or outline. |
| ADVENTURISM | • adventurism n. The behaviour of an adventurer; risk-taking. • adventurism n. (Politics) The taking of excessive risks by a government in their political, economic or foreign affairs. • ADVENTURISM n. improvisation in the absence or in defiance of accepted plans or principles. |
| 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. |
| DECEMVIRATE | • decemvirate n. A group of ten people, especially (politics) a council of ten men sharing office or power and particularly… • DECEMVIRATE n. the office of decemvir. |
| DEFORMATIVE | • DEFORMATIVE adj. tending to deform. |
| DELIVERYMAN | • deliveryman n. Someone employed to make deliveries. • delivery␣man n. Alternative form of deliveryman. • DELIVERYMAN n. a person who delivers wholesale or retail goods to customers usually over a regular local route. |
| DIVEMASTERS | • divemasters n. Plural of divemaster. |
| DUUMVIRATES | • duumvirates n. Plural of duumvirate. • DUUMVIRATE n. government or control by two people. |
| MAIDSERVANT | • maidservant n. A female servant; a maid. • maid-servant n. Alternative form of maidservant. • MAIDSERVANT n. a female servant. |
| 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. |
| OVERCLAIMED | • overclaimed v. Simple past tense and past participle of overclaim. • overclaimed adj. Claimed to an excessive degree. • OVERCLAIM v. to claim excessively. |
| PREMEDIEVAL | • premedieval adj. Before the Middle Ages. • PREMEDIEVAL adj. taking place before the mediaeval period. |
| QUADRIVIUMS | • quadriviums n. Plural of quadrivium. • QUADRIVIUM n. (Latin) a higher division of seven liberal arts studied in the Middle Ages, comprising arithmetic, music, astronomy, geometry. |
| QUADRUMVIRS | • quadrumvirs n. Plural of quadrumvir. • QUADRUMVIR n. a member of a quadrumvirate. |
| REMOTIVATED | • remotivated v. Simple past tense and past participle of remotivate. • REMOTIVATE v. to motivate again. |
| SEMIDWARVES | • SEMIDWARF n. a plant that is half dwarf. |
| 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. |