| 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. |
| CAPTIVING | • captiving v. Present participle of captive. • CAPTIVE v. to make a prisoner. |
| 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. |
| IMPACTIVE | • impactive adj. Of, pertaining to, possessing, or caused by impact. • IMPACTIVE adj. relating to impact. |
| 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. |
| PASSIVIST | • passivist n. One who adopts a passive approach, or passivism. • PASSIVIST n. one who believes in passivism, the doctrine of being passive. |
| PASSIVITY | • passivity n. The state of being passive. • passivity n. Submissiveness. • passivity n. A lack of initiative. |
| PLAINTIVE | • plaintive adj. Sounding sorrowful, mournful or melancholic. • PLAINTIVE adj. mournful, querulous. |
| PRAVITIES | • pravities n. Plural of pravity. • PRAVITY n. wickedness. |
| 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. |