| 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. |
| ABSOLUTIVE | • absolutive adj. (Grammar) Of or pertaining to the grammatical case used to indicate the patient or experiencer of a verb’s action. • absolutive adj. (Rare) Of, exhibiting, or pertaining to absolution; absolutory, absolving. • absolutive n. (Grammar) The absolutive case, or a phrase that uses it. |
| ADVERBIALS | • adverbials n. Plural of adverbial. • ADVERBIAL n. an adverbial phrase. |
| BIVALENCES | • bivalences n. Plural of bivalence. • BIVALENCE n. the state of being bivalent, having a valency of two, also BIVALENCY. |
| BRAAIVLEIS | • braaivleis n. (South Africa) A braai or barbecue. • BRAAIVLEIS n. (South African) a barbecue party. |
| IMMOVABLES | • immovables n. Plural of immovable. • IMMOVABLE n. something immovable. |
| INSOLVABLE | • insolvable adj. Impossible to solve; insoluble. • insolvable adj. Incapable of being paid or discharged. • insolvable adj. Not capable of being loosed or disentangled; inextricable. |
| INVESTABLE | • investable adj. (Finance) Able to be invested; ready for investment; liquid. • INVESTABLE adj. capable of being invested, also INVESTIBLE. |
| LAMBITIVES | • lambitives n. Plural of lambitive. • LAMBITIVE n. (obsolete) a medicine taken by licking. |
| SEMBLATIVE | • semblative adj. (Obsolete) Resembling. • semblative n. (Grammar) A grammatical case that denotes the similarity of one entity to another. • SEMBLATIVE adj. (obsolete) resembling. |
| SILVERBACK | • silverback n. (Mammalogy) A mature male gorilla, so named from the silver streaking on its back. • silverback n. (Informal, by extension) A dominant older human male. • silverback n. Any of various ferns of the genus Pityrogramma. |
| SURVIVABLE | • survivable adj. Able to be survived. • survivable adj. (Military) Capable of surviving a nuclear strike. • SURVIVABLE adj. resulting in or permitting survival. |
| VERBALISED | • verbalised v. Simple past tense and past participle of verbalise. • VERBALISE v. to put into words, also VERBALIZE. |
| VERBALISER | • verbaliser n. Alternative form of verbalizer. • VERBALISER n. one who verbalises, also VERBALIZER. |
| VERBALISES | • verbalises v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of verbalise. • VERBALISE v. to put into words, also VERBALIZE. |
| VERBALISMS | • verbalisms n. Plural of verbalism. • VERBALISM n. undue attention to words alone. |
| VERBALISTS | • verbalists n. Plural of verbalist. • VERBALIST n. a person dealing in or concentrating on mere words rather than reality or meaning. |
| VERBALIZES | • verbalizes v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of verbalize. • VERBALIZE v. to put into words, also VERBALISE. |
| VESTIBULAR | • vestibular adj. Of or pertaining to a vestibule in a building. • vestibular adj. (Anatomy) Of, pertaining to, or functioning as a vestibule (body cavity). • vestibular adj. (Anatomy) Of or pertaining to the vestibule of the inner ear and the perception of body position, balance… |