| ABBREVIATE | • abbreviate v. (Obsolete, transitive) To shorten by omitting parts or details. • abbreviate v. (Obsolete, intransitive) To speak or write in a brief manner. • abbreviate v. (Transitive) To make shorter; to shorten (in time); to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned. |
| ABRASIVELY | • abrasively adv. In an abrasive manner; in a rude and unkind manner; acting in a way that may hurt other people’s feelings. • abrasively adv. Hardly; roughly; in a rough manner. • ABRASIVE adv. capable of grinding away another material. |
| ABREACTIVE | • abreactive adj. Capable of producing abreaction. • ABREACTIVE adj. relating to abreaction, the resolution of a neurosis by reviving forgotten or repressed ideas of the event first causing it. |
| ABROGATIVE | • abrogative adj. Tending or designed to abrogate. • ABROGATIVE adj. relating to annulment. |
| ADVERBIALS | • adverbials n. Plural of adverbial. • ADVERBIAL n. an adverbial phrase. |
| ARBORVITAE | • arborvitae n. Any of several North American or Asian conifers, of the genera Thuja and Thujopsis or the species Platycladus… • arborvitae n. (Anatomy) The white nerve tissue of the cerebellum that has a branching structure. • arbor␣vitae n. Any of the evergreen trees and shrubs known as arborvitae, of the genera Thuja and Thujopsis, or of… |
| BAVAROISES | • bavaroises n. Plural of bavaroise. • BAVAROIS n. a cold dessert consisting of a rich custard set with gelatine and flavoured in various ways. |
| BEAVERTAIL | • beavertail n. (North American) Any object like a beaver’s tail, oval or tear-drop in plan, usually broad and flat;… • beavertail n. (North American) A fried-dough pastry of such shape; usually beaver tail or Beaver Tail. • beavertail n. A species of prickly pear cactus, Opuntia basilaris. |
| BEHAVIORAL | • behavioral adj. (American spelling) Of or relating to behavior. • BEHAVIORAL adj. (US) relating to behaviour, also BEHAVIOURAL. |
| BIVARIATES | • bivariates n. Plural of bivariate. • BIVARIATE n. a formula involving two variables. |
| BRAAIVLEIS | • braaivleis n. (South Africa) A braai or barbecue. • BRAAIVLEIS n. (South African) a barbecue party. |
| BRAINWAVES | • brainwaves n. Plural of brainwave. • brain␣waves n. Plural of brain wave. • BRAINWAVE n. a sudden good idea. |
| INVARIABLE | • invariable adj. Not variable; unalterable; uniform; always having the same value. • invariable adj. (Mathematics) Constant. • invariable adj. (By extension, grammar, of a word, or a grammatical class) That cannot undergo inflection, conjugation or declension. |
| LABIOVELAR | • labiovelar adj. (Phonetics) co-articulated at the velum and the lips. • labiovelar n. (Phonetics) A labiovelar sound. • labio-velar n. Alternative spelling of labiovelar. |
| UNVARIABLE | • unvariable adj. (Obsolete) Invariable. • UNVARIABLE adj. that cannot be varied, also INVARIABLE. |
| VERBARIANS | • verbarians n. Plural of verbarian. • VERBARIAN n. a coiner of words. |