| APERITIVES | • aperitives n. Plural of aperitive. • APERITIVE n. a laxative (medicine). |
| DEPURATIVE | • depurative adj. (Medicine) Purifying the blood or humours; depuratory. • depurative n. Any depurative remedy or agent. • depurative n. Any disease that is depurative. |
| EVAPORATED | • evaporated v. Simple past tense and past participle of evaporate. • EVAPORATE v. to change into vapour. |
| EVAPORATES | • evaporates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of evaporate. • EVAPORATE v. to change into vapour. |
| EVAPORITES | • evaporites n. Plural of evaporite. • EVAPORITE n. a sedimentary rock formed by the evaporation of salt water e.g. halite. |
| IMPERATIVE | • imperative adj. Essential; crucial; extremely important. • imperative adj. (Grammar) Of, or relating to the imperative mood. • imperative adj. (Computing theory) Having semantics that incorporates mutable variables. |
| OPERATIVES | • operatives n. Plural of operative. • OPERATIVE n. a worker, esp. one with special skills. |
| OVERPARTED | • overparted v. Simple past tense and past participle of overpart. • OVERPART v. to give an actor too difficult a part. |
| PATERCOVES | • PATERCOVE n. (slang) a hedge-priest, also PATRICO. |
| PEJORATIVE | • pejorative adj. Disparaging, belittling or derogatory. • pejorative n. A disparaging, belittling, or derogatory word or expression. • PEJORATIVE adj. implying or imputing evil. |
| PERMEATIVE | • permeative adj. Tending to permeate. • PERMEATIVE adj. that permeates. |
| PREHARVEST | • preharvest adj. Before a harvest. • PREHARVEST n. the period before harvest. |
| PREVALENTS | • prevalents n. Plural of prevalent. • PREVALENT n. something prevalent. |
| PRIVATEERS | • privateers n. Plural of privateer. • privateers v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of privateer. • PRIVATEER v. to operate as a pirate. |
| REPARATIVE | • reparative adj. Tending to or intended to repair. • reparative adj. Of, pertaining to, or being a reparation. • reparative n. (Rare) That which repairs. |
| REPUTATIVE | • reputative adj. Reputed; putative. • REPUTATIVE adj. reputed, putative. |
| SEPARATIVE | • separative adj. Serving to separate. • separative adj. (Rare) Tending to keep oneself separate from others. • separative n. Something that serves to separate. |
| VERKRAMPTE | • verkrampte n. (South Africa) A person with a verkramp political attitude. • VERKRAMPTE n. (South African) one who is narrow-minded and illiberal esp. towards black and coloured people. |
| VITUPERATE | • vituperate v. (Transitive). • vituperate v. (Intransitive) To use abusive or harsh words. • vituperate adj. Of, characterized by, or relating to abusive or harsh criticism. |