| 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. |
| AMBIVERSION | • ambiversion n. (Psychology) A personality trait having balanced characteristics of both extroversion and introversion. • AMBIVERSION n. the state of being an ambivert. |
| ANIMADVERTS | • animadverts v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of animadvert. • ANIMADVERT v. to comment critically on; to censure. |
| AVERTIMENTS | • avertiments n. Plural of avertiment. • AVERTIMENT n. (Milton) advertisement. |
| MAIDSERVANT | • maidservant n. A female servant; a maid. • maid-servant n. Alternative form of maidservant. • MAIDSERVANT n. a female servant. |
| MARGRAVINES | • margravines n. Plural of margravine. • MARGRAVINE n. a margrave's wife or woman having power of margrave. |
| MENSURATIVE | • mensurative adj. Relating to mensuration or measurement. • MENSURATIVE adj. relating to mensuration, also MENSURATIONAL. |
| MISAVERRING | • MISAVER v. to speak erroneously. |
| OVERMASTING | • overmasting v. Present participle of overmast. • OVERMAST v. to provide with too long masts. |
| PROVITAMINS | • provitamins n. Plural of provitamin. • PROVITAMIN n. a pre-vitamin. |
| RAVISHMENTS | • ravishments n. Plural of ravishment. • RAVISHMENT n. the act of ravishing. |
| REVANCHISMS | • revanchisms n. Plural of revanchism. • REVANCHISM n. policy of aggressively seeking recovery of lost territory. |
| TRANSMOVING | • transmoving v. Present participle of transmove. • TRANSMOVE v. (Spenser) to transmute, also TRANSMEW. |
| VAMPIRISING | • vampirising v. Present participle of vampirise. • VAMPIRISE v. to play the vampire, also VAMPIRIZE. |
| 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. |
| VOLUNTARISM | • voluntarism n. (US) A reliance on volunteers to support an institution or achieve an end; volunteerism. • voluntarism n. (Philosophy) A doctrine that assigns the most dominant position to the will rather than the intellect. • voluntarism n. (Politics) The political theory that a community is best organized by the voluntary cooperation of individuals… |