| COMPELLATIVES | • compellatives n. Plural of compellative. • COMPELLATIVE n. compellation. |
| COMPULSATIVE | • compulsative adj. (Obsolete) compulsatory; employing force or constraint. • COMPULSATIVE adj. (Shakespeare) compulsory, also COMPULSATORY. |
| CONTEMPLATIVES | • contemplatives n. Plural of contemplative. • CONTEMPLATIVE n. a person who practices contemplation. |
| GALVANOTROPISM | • galvanotropism n. (Biology) Any movement or alignment of an organism with respect to an electric field. • GALVANOTROPISM n. the directional growth of an organism, esp. a plant, in response to an electrical stimulus. |
| GALVANOTROPISMS | • GALVANOTROPISM n. the directional growth of an organism, esp. a plant, in response to an electrical stimulus. |
| IMPROVABILITIES | • improvabilities n. Plural of improvability. • IMPROVABILITY n. the state of being improvable. |
| IMPROVABLENESS | • improvableness n. Quality of being improvable; capability of improvement. • IMPROVABLE n. capable of being improved. |
| IMPROVISATIONAL | • improvisational adj. Having the nature of an improvisation. • IMPROVISATIONAL adj. relating to improvisation. |
| IMPROVISATORIAL | • improvisatorial adj. Improvisatory. • IMPROVISATORIAL adj. of or like an improvisator. |
| OVERCOMPLIANCES | • OVERCOMPLIANCE n. excessive compliance. |
| OVERCOMPLICATES | • overcomplicates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcomplicate. • OVERCOMPLICATE v. to complicate excessively. |
| PAPILLOMAVIRUS | • papillomavirus n. (Virology) Any variety of virus which causes warts. • PAPILLOMAVIRUS n. any of a genus of double-stranded DNA viruses that cause papillomas and are sometimes associated with human cancers of the genital tract and esp. of the cervix. |
| POLYOMAVIRUS | • polyomavirus n. Any of the papovaviruses, in family Polyomaviridae, that induce a wide variety of tumours in newborn animals. • Polyomavirus prop.n. (Archaic) A taxonomic genus within the family Polyomaviridae – now split into genera Alphapolyomavirus… |
| POLYOMAVIRUSES | • polyomaviruses n. Plural of polyomavirus. |
| POSTMEDIEVAL | • postmedieval adj. After the Middle Ages. • post-medieval adj. Alternative form of postmedieval. • POSTMEDIEVAL adj. taking place after the mediaeval period. |
| PROVERBIALISM | • proverbialism n. A proverbial phrase. • PROVERBIALISM n. a saying in the form of, or like, a proverb. |
| PROVERBIALISMS | • proverbialisms n. Plural of proverbialism. • PROVERBIALISM n. a saying in the form of, or like, a proverb. |
| PROVINCIALISM | • provincialism n. The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners. • provincialism n. (Linguistics) A word or locution characteristic of a region or district. • provincialism n. (Politics) Synonym of regionalism: belief in the superiority of one’s regional government; the belief… |
| PROVINCIALISMS | • provincialisms n. Plural of provincialism. • PROVINCIALISM n. a dialectal or local word, phrase, or idiom. |