| APERITIVE | • aperitive adj. (Medicine) Tending to open the bowels; aperient. • aperitive adj. Serving as an apéritif: a pre-meal alcoholic drink. • aperitive n. (Medicine) aperient. |
| ASPERSIVE | • aspersive adj. Tending to asperse; defamatory; slanderous. • ASPERSIVE adj. tending to asperse, defamatory. |
| EAVESDRIP | • eavesdrip n. Synonym of eavesdrop (“dripping of rain from the eaves of a house”). • eavesdrip n. Synonym of eavesdrop (“the space around a house on which such water drips”). • EAVESDRIP n. the water that falls from the eaves of a house, also EAVESDROP. |
| EVAPORITE | • evaporite n. The salty, crusty sediment that remains after sea water evaporates. • EVAPORITE n. a sedimentary rock formed by the evaporation of salt water e.g. halite. |
| GRAPEVINE | • grapevine n. The plant, a vine of genus Vitis, on which grapes grow. • grapevine n. A rumor. • grapevine n. An informal person-to-person means of circulating information or gossip. |
| OPERATIVE | • operative adj. Effectual or important. • operative adj. Functional, in working order. • operative adj. Having the power of acting; hence, exerting force, physical or moral; active in the production of effects. |
| PERVASIVE | • pervasive adj. Manifested throughout; pervading, permeating, penetrating or affecting everything. • PERVASIVE adj. tending to pervade. |
| PERVIATED | • PERVIATE v. to make a way through. |
| PERVIATES | • PERVIATE v. to make a way through. |
| PRECATIVE | • precative adj. Resembling or pertaining to an entreaty. • precative n. (Grammar) Mode expressing a wish, a prayer. • PRECATIVE adj. supplicating; expressing entreaty. |
| PREDATIVE | • predative adj. Of, or resembling a predator. • PREDATIVE adj. relating to predation. |
| PREVAILED | • prevailed v. Simple past tense and past participle of prevail. • PREVAIL v. to triumph. |
| PREVAILER | • prevailer n. Agent noun of prevail; one who prevails. • PREVAILER n. one who prevails. |
| PREVIABLE | • previable adj. Not yet viable. • PREVIABLE adj. before the stage when a foetus has developed sufficiently to survive outside the womb. |
| PRIVATEER | • privateer n. (Historical) A privately owned warship that acted under a letter of marque to attack enemy ships and… • privateer n. (Historical) An officer or any other member of the crew of such a ship; a government-sanctioned pirate. • privateer n. An advocate or beneficiary of privatization of a government service or activity. |
| REPRIEVAL | • reprieval n. The act, process or result of being reprieved. • REPRIEVAL n. a reprieve. |