| ADAPTIVENESS | • adaptiveness n. The state or quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt. • ADAPTIVENESS n. the quality of being adaptive. |
| BREVIPENNATE | • brevipennate adj. (Ornithology) short-winged; having short wings. • BREVIPENNATE adj. having short wings. |
| COMPENSATIVE | • compensative adj. That compensates for something; compensatory. • compensative n. (Obsolete) compensation. • COMPENSATIVE adj. relating to compensation, also COMPENSATIONAL. |
| DEPRAVEMENTS | • depravements n. Plural of depravement. • DEPRAVEMENT n. (archaic) vitiation. |
| DISPENSATIVE | • dispensative adj. Granting dispensation. • DISPENSATIVE adj. granting dispensation. |
| EMANCIPATIVE | • emancipative adj. Emancipatory. • EMANCIPATIVE adj. serving to emancipate. |
| NONOPERATIVE | • nonoperative adj. Not requiring or involving a medical operation or surgery. • nonoperative adj. Not operative, not operational; inoperative. • nonoperative n. (Uncommon) One who is not an operative (“employee or worker”). |
| OVERPAYMENTS | • overpayments n. Plural of overpayment. • OVERPAYMENT n. an excessive payment. |
| PENTAVALENCE | • pentavalence n. The condition of being pentavalent. • PENTAVALENCE n. the condition of having a valency of five, also PENTAVALENCY. |
| PENTAVALENCY | • pentavalency n. Alternative form of pentavalence. • PENTAVALENCY n. the condition of having a valency of five, also PENTAVALENCE. |
| PERADVENTURE | • peradventure adv. (Archaic) Perchance or maybe; perhaps; supposing. • peradventure n. Chance, doubt or uncertainty. • PERADVENTURE adj. by chance. |
| PHOTOENGRAVE | • photoengrave v. To make a photoengraving of an image. • PHOTOENGRAVE v. to make a photoengraving of. |
| PRESENTATIVE | • presentative adj. Presenting, or able to represent, an idea in the mind. • presentative adj. (Ecclesiastical law) Of a benefice, or the advowsons, tithes, etc., associated with a benefice: that… • presentative adj. (Grammar) Serving to present something, or draw it to the attention of the interlocutor. |
| PRESERVATION | • preservation n. The act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill. • preservation n. The state of being preserved, how something has survived. • PRESERVATION n. the act of preserving. |
| PREVAILMENTS | • prevailments n. Plural of prevailment. • PREVAILMENT n. (Shakespeare) the power of overcoming. |
| PREVENTATIVE | • preventative adj. Alternative form of preventive. • preventative n. Alternative form of preventive. • PREVENTATIVE adj. acting to prevent, also PREVENTIVE. |
| PRIVATEERING | • privateering v. Present participle of privateer. • privateering n. The operations of a privateer, attacking and looting enemy ships under the auspices of one’s own government. • PRIVATEERING n. operating as a pirate under licence. |
| STEVENGRAPHS | • Stevengraphs n. Plural of Stevengraph. • STEVENGRAPH n. a silk picture woven in colours. |
| VESPERTILIAN | • vespertilian adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bats. • VESPERTILIAN adj. like a bat. |