| AVOIRDUPOIS | • avoirdupois n. (Historical) The official system of weights used in the UK between 1856 and 1963. It had been the customary… • avoirdupois n. (Historical) The official system of weights used in the USA between 1866 and 1959. • avoirdupois n. (Chiefly humorous) Weight; heaviness. |
| COMPUTATIVE | • computative adj. Of or relating to computation, computational. • computative adj. Calculating, shrewdly or selfishly reckoning. • COMPUTATIVE adj. of or relating to computation. |
| COPULATIVES | • copulatives n. Plural of copulative. • COPULATIVE n. a conjunction that indicates combination e.g. 'and'. |
| ISOPLUVIALS | • ISOPLUVIAL n. a line on a map connecting places registering the same amount of precipitation or rainfall. |
| LARVIPAROUS | • larviparous adj. (Zoology) Depositing living larvae, instead of eggs; said of certain insects. • LARVIPAROUS adj. giving birth to larvae. |
| OVIPAROUSLY | • oviparously adv. In an oviparous manner. • OVIPAROUS adv. producing offspring through laying eggs which are incubated outside the body. |
| PAPOVAVIRUS | • papovavirus n. (Archaic, virology) Any of the former family Papovaviridae, now split into the Papillomaviridae and… • PAPOVAVIRUS n. any of a group of DNA-containing oncogenic viruses. |
| PULVERATION | • PULVERATION n. pulverization. |
| SPORULATIVE | • sporulative adj. Relating to sporulation. • SPORULATIVE adj. relating to sporulation. |
| UNAPPROVING | • unapproving adj. Not approving. • UNAPPROVING adj. not approving. |
| UNOPERATIVE | • unoperative adj. Obsolete form of inoperative. • UNOPERATIVE adj. not operative. |
| UPVALUATION | • UPVALUATION n. the act of upvaluing. |
| VAPOURINGLY | • vapouringly adv. With bragging or bluster. • VAPOURING adv. vaporous. |
| VAPULATIONS | • vapulations n. Plural of vapulation. • VAPULATION n. the act of beating or whipping. |
| VITUPERATOR | • vituperator n. One who vituperates, or censures abusively. • VITUPERATOR n. one who vituperates. |