| DEFORMATIVE | • DEFORMATIVE adj. tending to deform. |
| REFORMATIVE | • reformative adj. That serves to reform or correct. • REFORMATIVE adj. intended or tending to reform. |
| FERMENTATIVE | • fermentative adj. Of, pertaining to, causing or undergoing fermentation. • FERMENTATIVE adj. causing or consisting of fermentation. |
| PERFORMATIVE | • performative adj. (Philosophy, linguistics) Being enacted as it is said. • performative adj. Being done as a performance in order to create an impression. • performative n. A performative utterance. |
| PREFORMATIVE | • preformative n. Chiefly in Semitic languages: a formative letter, syllable, etc., at the beginning of a word. • preformative adj. Of or pertaining to preformation. • preformative adj. Of a thing: forming or affecting something that comes later. |
| FORMATIVENESS | • FORMATIVE n. tending to form. |
| MANIFESTATIVE | • manifestative adj. Relating to manifestation. • MANIFESTATIVE adj. serving to manifest. |
| PERFORMATIVES | • performatives n. Plural of performative. • PERFORMATIVE n. such a statement, as opposed to constative. |
| PREFORMATIVES | • preformatives n. Plural of preformative. • PREFORMATIVE n. a prefixture in Semitic languages. |
| VOUCHSAFEMENT | • vouchsafement n. The act of vouchsafing. • vouchsafement n. That which is vouchsafed; a gift or grant in condescension. • VOUCHSAFEMENT n. the act of vouchsafing. |
| FERMENTATIVELY | • fermentatively adv. In a fermentative manner. • fermentatively adv. With regard to fermentation. • FERMENTATIVE adv. causing or consisting of fermentation. |
| PERFORMATIVELY | • performatively adv. In a performative manner. • PERFORMATIVE adv. of a statement or verb that itself constitutes the action described, e.g. I confess my ignorance, also PERFORMATORY. |
| VOUCHSAFEMENTS | • vouchsafements n. Plural of vouchsafement. • VOUCHSAFEMENT n. the act of vouchsafing. |
| EXEMPLIFICATIVE | • exemplificative adj. Serving as an example; illustrative. • EXEMPLIFICATIVE adj. serving to exemplify. |
| FORMATIVENESSES | • FORMATIVENESS n. FORMATIVE, tending to form. |
| INFORMATIVENESS | • informativeness n. The condition of being informative; clarity. • INFORMATIVE n. imparting knowledge. |
| VESTIMENTIFERAN | • vestimentiferan n. (Biology, archaic) Any benthic marine tube worm of the phylum Vestimentifera, now usually considered… |