| 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. |
| AVOIRDUPOISES | • avoirdupoises n. Plural of avoirdupois. • AVOIRDUPOIS n. (French) a system of weights in which the pound (lb.) has 16 ounces. |
| COUNTERADAPTIVE | • counteradaptive adj. Relating to counteradaptation. |
| DEPURATIVE | • depurative adj. (Medicine) Purifying the blood or humours; depuratory. • depurative n. Any depurative remedy or agent. • depurative n. Any disease that is depurative. |
| DEPURATIVES | • depuratives n. Plural of depurative. • DEPURATIVE n. a purifying agent, also DEPURANT. |
| DISPURVEYANCE | • dispurveyance n. (Obsolete, rare) Lack of provisions. • DISPURVEYANCE n. (Spenser) depriving of provisions. |
| DISPURVEYANCES | • DISPURVEYANCE n. (Spenser) depriving of provisions. |
| OVERPERSUADING | • overpersuading v. Present participle of overpersuade. • OVERPERSUADE v. to persuade to act contrary to one's conviction or preference. |
| PREDEVALUATION | • predevaluation adj. (Economics) Before devaluation. • PREDEVALUATION adj. preceding a devaluation. |
| PREJUDICATIVE | • prejudicative adj. Forming a judgment without due examination; prejudging. • PREJUDICATIVE adj. prejudging. |
| REDUPLICATIVE | • reduplicative adj. Formed by redoubling; reduplicate, double. • reduplicative n. (Grammar) A word obtained by the process of reduplication. • REDUPLICATIVE adj. relating to reduplication. |
| REDUPLICATIVELY | • reduplicatively adv. In a reduplicative manner. • REDUPLICATIVE adv. relating to reduplication. |
| REPUDIATIVE | • REPUDIATIVE adj. serving to repudiate. |
| SUPERINDIVIDUAL | • superindividual adj. Above or beyond the individual. • SUPERINDIVIDUAL adj. of, relating to, or being an organism, entity, or complex of more than individual complexity or nature. |
| UNPURVAIDE | • UNPURVAIDE adj. (Spenser) not purveyed, not provided with, also UNPURVEYED. |
| VITUPERATED | • vituperated v. Simple past tense and past participle of vituperate. • VITUPERATE v. to abuse or censure severely or abusively. |