| ACTIVATED | • activated v. Simple past tense and past participle of activate. • ACTIVATE v. to set in motion. |
| ACTIVATES | • activates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of activate. • ACTIVATE v. to set in motion. |
| ACTIVATOR | • activator n. One who, or that which, activates. • activator n. (Chemistry) Something that activates a catalyst. • activator n. (Biology) Any chemical or agent which regulates one or more genes by increasing the rate of transcription. |
| ACTIVISTS | • activists n. Plural of activist. • ACTIVIST n. an advocate of activism. |
| ATAVISTIC | • atavistic adj. (Biology) Of the recurrence of a trait reappearing after an absence of one or more generations due to… • atavistic adj. Of a throwback or exhibiting primitivism. • atavistic adj. Relating to earlier, more primitive behavior that returns after an absence. |
| CAPTIVATE | • captivate v. To attract and hold (someone’s) interest and attention; to charm. • captivate v. (Obsolete) To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue. • CAPTIVATE v. to charm, fascinate. |
| CAPTIVITY | • captivity n. The state of being captive. • captivity n. (Obsolete) A group of people/beings captive. • captivity n. The state or period of being imprisoned, confined, or enslaved. |
| CAVALETTI | • cavaletti n. Plural of cavaletto. • CAVALETTI n. (Italian) a series of timber jumps, adjustable in height, for schooling horses, also CAVALLETTI. |
| CAVITATED | • cavitated v. Simple past tense and past participle of cavitate. • CAVITATE v. to form cavities. |
| CAVITATES | • cavitates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cavitate. • CAVITATE v. to form cavities. |
| CULTIVATE | • cultivate v. To grow plants, notably crops. • cultivate v. (Figurative) To nurture; to foster; to tend. • cultivate v. To turn or stir soil in preparation for planting. |
| 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. |
| LACTIVIST | • lactivist n. A supporter of breastfeeding, and especially of the right to nurse children in public; one who engages in lactivism. • LACTIVIST n. a person, esp. a woman, who advocates strongly the breastfeeding of children and is opposed to bottle-feeding. |
| VENTIFACT | • ventifact n. A pebble or little stone shaped and polished by wind-blown sand. • VENTIFACT n. a stone polished by windblown sand. |