| AGENTIVE | • agentive adj. (Linguistics) Indicating an agent or agency (as -er in lexicographer). • agentive adj. (Linguistics) Pertaining to a grammatical agent that performs the action of the verb. • agentive n. (Linguistics) A word having an agentive construction. |
| DEVIANCE | • deviance n. (Sociology) Actions or behaviors that violate formal and informal cultural norms such as laws and customs. • deviance n. A person or thing that differs from the expected. (Can we add an example for this sense?) • DEVIANCE n. the behaviour of a deviant, also DEVIANCY. |
| ELVANITE | • elvanite n. Elvan. • ELVANITE n. a granular rock, also ELVAN. |
| ENACTIVE | • enactive adj. Having power to enact or establish as a law. • ENACTIVE adj. having the power to enact. |
| ENVIABLE | • enviable adj. Arousing or likely to arouse envy. • ENVIABLE adj. causing envy. |
| ENVISAGE | • envisage v. To conceive or see something within one’s mind; to imagine or envision. • ENVISAGE v. to visualize, also ENVISION. |
| INVEAGLE | • inveagle v. Obsolete form of inveigle. • INVEAGLE v. to cajole, also INVEIGLE, ENVEIGLE. |
| INWEAVED | • inweaved v. Simple past tense and past participle of inweave. • INWEAVE v. to weave in. |
| INWEAVES | • inweaves v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inweave. • INWEAVE v. to weave in. |
| MAUVEINE | • mauveine n. A purple dye, the first synthetic organic dye created. • MAUVEINE n. a mauve dye, also MAUVEIN, MAUVIN, MAUVINE. |
| NAIVETES | • naivetes n. Plural of naivete. • naivetés n. Plural of naiveté. • naïvetés n. Plural of naïveté. |
| NEGATIVE | • negative adj. Not positive nor neutral. • negative adj. (Physics) Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles. • negative adj. (Mathematics) Of a number: less than zero. |
| REINVADE | • reinvade v. To invade again. • REINVADE v. to invade again. |
| VACCINEE | • vaccinee n. The person who receives a vaccine. • VACCINEE n. one that is vaccinated. |
| VAINESSE | • vainesse n. Obsolete form of vainness. • VAINESSE n. (Spenser) vanity, futility, also VAINNESS. |
| VASELINE | • vaseline n. Petroleum jelly. • vaseline n. Any particular kind of petroleum jelly or of any similar lubricant. • vaseline n. (Informal) Short for Vaseline glass. or the colouring used in making it. |
| VENETIAN | • Venetian adj. Of, from, or relating to Venice, Italian city. • Venetian adj. Of, from, or relating to Veneto, Italian region. • Venetian n. An inhabitant or a resident of Venice, the city. |
| VENTAILE | • ventaile n. Obsolete form of ventail. • VENTAILE n. (Spenser) the movable front to a helmet, also AVENTAIL, AVENTAILE, VENTAIL, VENTAYLE. |