| ADVENTURISM | • adventurism n. The behaviour of an adventurer; risk-taking. • adventurism n. (Politics) The taking of excessive risks by a government in their political, economic or foreign affairs. • ADVENTURISM n. improvisation in the absence or in defiance of accepted plans or principles. |
| ADVENTURIST | • adventurist n. Someone who is into adventurism. • adventurist n. A politician involved in adventurism. • ADVENTURIST n. a practitioner of adventurism. |
| AVOIRDUPOIS | • avoirdupois n. (Historical) The official system of weights used in the UK between 1856 and 1963. It had been the customary… • avoirdupois n. (Historical) The official system of weights used in the USA between 1866 and 1959. • avoirdupois n. (Chiefly humorous) Weight; heaviness. |
| DEPURATIVES | • depuratives n. Plural of depurative. • DEPURATIVE n. a purifying agent, also DEPURANT. |
| DISAVENTURE | • disaventure n. (Obsolete) misfortune. • DISAVENTURE n. (Spenser) a mishap, also DISADVENTURE. |
| DISFAVOURED | • disfavoured v. Simple past tense and past participle of disfavour. • disfavoured adj. Not favoured. • DISFAVOUR v. to disesteem, also DISFAVOR. |
| DISFAVOURER | • disfavourer n. One who disfavours. • DISFAVOURER n. one who disfavours. |
| DIVULGATERS | • divulgaters n. Plural of divulgater. • DIVULGATER n. one who divulgates, also DIVULGATOR. |
| DIVULGATORS | • divulgators n. Plural of divulgator. • DIVULGATOR n. one who divulgates, also DIVULGATER. |
| DUUMVIRATES | • duumvirates n. Plural of duumvirate. • DUUMVIRATE n. government or control by two people. |
| OUVIRANDRAS | • OUVIRANDRA n. (Malagasy) a water-plant of Madagascar, aka lattice-leaf. |
| QUADRIVIUMS | • quadriviums n. Plural of quadrivium. • QUADRIVIUM n. (Latin) a higher division of seven liberal arts studied in the Middle Ages, comprising arithmetic, music, astronomy, geometry. |
| QUADRUMVIRS | • quadrumvirs n. Plural of quadrumvir. • QUADRUMVIR n. a member of a quadrumvirate. |
| RHABDOVIRUS | • rhabdovirus n. Any of the rod-shaped viruses belonging to the family Rhabdoviridae. • RHABDOVIRUS n. a class of virus that includes rabies. |
| UNVARNISHED | • unvarnished adj. Not having been coated with varnish (or a similar surface treatment). • unvarnished adj. (Figuratively, by extension) Natural, unmodified, unembellished, not exaggerated. • UNVARNISHED adj. not adorned or glossed. |
| VANGUARDISM | • vanguardism n. (Politics) The strategy whereby an organization (usually a vanguard party) attempts to place itself… • VANGUARDISM n. the condition of being or practice of positioning oneself as or within the vanguard of a movement, esp. political. |
| VANGUARDIST | • vanguardist n. A proponent of vanguardism. • VANGUARDIST n. a practitioner of vanguardism. |
| VIRTUALISED | • virtualised v. Simple past tense and past participle of virtualise. • VIRTUALISE v. to make virtual, also VIRTUALIZE. |