| ADVENTURISTIC | • adventuristic adj. Relating to or exhibiting adventurism. • ADVENTURISTIC adj. of or like adventurism. |
| ADVERTISEMENT | • advertisement n. (Marketing) A commercial solicitation designed to sell some commodity, service or similar. • advertisement n. A public notice. • advertisement n. A recommendation of a particular product, service or person. |
| ADVERTIZEMENT | • advertizement n. Alternative spelling of advertisement. • ADVERTIZEMENT n. an advertisement. |
| CONTRADICTIVE | • contradictive adj. (Now rare) Contradictory. • CONTRADICTIVE adj. contradicting or tending to contradict. |
| DEMONSTRATIVE | • demonstrative adj. That serves to demonstrate, show or prove. • demonstrative adj. Given to open displays of emotion. • demonstrative adj. (Grammar) that specifies the thing or person referred to. |
| DERIVATIONIST | • derivationist n. A proponent of derivationism. • DERIVATIONIST n. one who derives mathematical formulae. |
| DETERIORATIVE | • deteriorative adj. Causing deterioration. • DETERIORATIVE adj. tending to deteriorate. |
| DETERMINATIVE | • determinative n. (Linguistics) An ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts. • determinative n. (Grammar) A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent… • determinative adj. (Law) Sufficient to decide something (such as a question of fact or of law). |
| DISTRACTIVELY | • DISTRACTIVE adv. serving to distract. |
| DITRANSITIVES | • ditransitives n. Plural of ditransitive. • DITRANSITIVE n. a verb able to take both a direct and an indirect object. |
| DIVERTICULATE | • diverticulate adj. Related to a diverticulum. • DIVERTICULATE adj. having diverticula, intestinal pouches, also DIVERTICULATED. |
| INADVERTENTLY | • inadvertently adv. Unintentionally; because of an oversight. • INADVERTENT adv. not focusing the mind on a matter. |
| OVERESTIMATED | • overestimated v. Simple past tense and past participle of overestimate. • over-estimated v. Simple past tense and past participle of over-estimate. • OVERESTIMATE v. to estimate too high. |
| PREMEDITATIVE | • premeditative adj. Involving premeditation. • PREMEDITATIVE adj. given to or characterized by premeditation. |
| PRIVATDOCENTS | • privatdocents n. Plural of privatdocent. • privat-docents n. Plural of privat-docent. • PRIVATDOCENT n. (German) in German universities, a recognized teacher who is not a member of the salaried staff, also PRIVATDOZENT. |
| PRIVATDOZENTS | • privatdozents n. Plural of privatdozent. • PRIVATDOZENT n. (German) in German universities, a recognized teacher who is not a member of the salaried staff, also PRIVATDOCENT. |
| RADIOACTIVATE | • radioactivate v. To make something radioactive. • RADIOACTIVATE v. to activate by radio. |
| TERGIVERSATED | • tergiversated v. Simple past tense and past participle of tergiversate. • TERGIVERSATE v. to turn one's back on one's party or cause; also, to make evasive statements or equivocate. |
| UNDERACTIVITY | • underactivity n. Insufficient activity. • UNDERACTIVITY n. the state of being underactive. |
| VERTICILLATED | • verticillated adj. Alternative form of verticillate. • VERTICILLATED adj. whorled, also VERTICILLATE. |