| APERITIVE | • aperitive adj. (Medicine) Tending to open the bowels; aperient. • aperitive adj. Serving as an apéritif: a pre-meal alcoholic drink. • aperitive n. (Medicine) aperient. |
| OVIPARITY | • oviparity n. The condition of being oviparous. • OVIPARITY n. the production of offspring via eggs. |
| PARTITIVE | • partitive adj. That divides something into parts. • partitive adj. (Grammar) Indicating a part rather than the whole of something. • partitive n. (Grammar) A partitive word, phrase or case. |
| PRAVITIES | • pravities n. Plural of pravity. • PRAVITY n. wickedness. |
| PRIVACIES | • privacies n. Plural of privacy. • PRIVACY n. the state of being private. |
| PRIVATION | • privation n. (Philosophy) The state of being deprived of or lacking an attribute formerly or properly possessed;… • privation n. The state of being very poor, and lacking the basic necessities of life. • privation n. The act of depriving someone of such basic necessities; deprivation. |
| PRIVATISE | • privatise v. Non-Oxford British spelling standard spelling of privatize. • PRIVATISE v. to transfer from ownership by the state into private ownership; to denationalize, also PRIVATIZE. |
| PRIVATISM | • privatism n. Concern only with issues inasmuch as they affect one as an individual; self-interest. • PRIVATISM n. a tendency to be concerned with ideas, matters, etc. only as affecting one as an individual. |
| PRIVATIST | • PRIVATIST n. one who believes in privatism. |
| PRIVATIVE | • privative adj. Causing privation; depriving. • privative adj. Consisting in the absence of something; negative. • privative adj. (Grammar) indicating the absence of something. |
| PRIVATIZE | • privatize v. (Economics) To release government control (of a business or industry) to private industry. • privatize v. (Computing, transitive) To make (A variable, etc.) private in scope. • PRIVATIZE v. to transfer from ownership by the state into private ownership; to denationalize, also PRIVATISE. |
| RIVALSHIP | • rivalship n. (Now rare). Rivalry. • rivalship n. (Fandom slang) A ship involving characters with an adversarial relationship. • RIVALSHIP n. rivalry. |
| VAMPIRING | • vampiring v. Present participle of vampire. • VAMPIRE v. to prey upon. |
| VAMPIRISE | • vampirise v. Alternative form of vampirize. • VAMPIRISE v. to play the vampire, also VAMPIRIZE. |
| VAMPIRISH | • vampirish adj. Pertaining to a vampire, characteristic of a vampire; photophobic, parasitic etc. • VAMPIRISH adj. like a vampire. |
| VAMPIRISM | • vampirism n. (Pathology) Systemic lupus erythematosus (autoimmune disease). • vampirism n. (Mythology) the state of being a vampire. • vampirism n. Practices associated with vampires, in particular blood-drinking and the draining of a victim’s life-force. |
| VAMPIRIZE | • vampirize v. (Transitive) To make into a vampire. • vampirize v. (Transitive) To drain the resources or life force of. • VAMPIRIZE v. to play the vampire, also VAMPIRISE. |
| VAPORIFIC | • vaporific adj. (Chemistry) Producing vapour; tending to pass, or to cause to pass, into vapor. • VAPORIFIC adj. vaporizing. |
| VICARSHIP | • vicarship n. The office or dignity of a vicar. • VICARSHIP n. the office or dignity of a vicar. |