| AFFIRMATIVE | • affirmative adj. Pertaining to truth; asserting that something is; affirming. • affirmative adj. Pertaining to any assertion or active confirmation that favors a particular result. • affirmative adj. Positive. |
| CARMINATIVE | • carminative adj. Relieving discomfort of gas in the digestive tract. • carminative n. (Medicine) A drug or substance that induces the releasing of gas from the digestive tract. • CARMINATIVE adj. able to relieve flatulence. |
| CRIMINATIVE | • criminative adj. (Archaic) Charging with crime; accusing; criminatory. • CRIMINATIVE adj. involving crimination, also CRIMINATORY. |
| GERMINATIVE | • germinative adj. Of or pertaining to germination. • germinative adj. Having the ability to germinate. • GERMINATIVE adj. serving to germinate. |
| GRAVIMETRIC | • gravimetric adj. (Chemistry) Of or pertaining to measurement by weight. • gravimetric adj. (Geology) Of or pertaining to measurement of the local gravitational field. • GRAVIMETRIC adj. of or relating to measurement by weight, also GRAVIMETRICAL. |
| IMPERATIVAL | • imperatival adj. (Grammar) Of or pertaining to the imperative mood. • IMPERATIVAL adj. relating to the imperative. |
| IMPERATIVES | • imperatives n. Plural of imperative. • IMPERATIVE n. a verb in the imperative mood. |
| IMPETRATIVE | • impetrative adj. (Obsolete) Of the nature of impetration; getting, or tending to get, by entreaty. • IMPETRATIVE adj. relating to impetration, also IMPETRATORY. |
| IMPROVISATE | • improvisate v. To improvise; to extemporize. • improvisate adj. Unpremeditated; impromptu. • IMPROVISATE v. (obsolete) to improvise. |
| INFORMATIVE | • informative adj. Providing information; especially, providing useful or interesting information. • informative adj. (In standards and specifications) Not specifying requirements, but merely providing information. • informative adj. (Obsolete) Formative; having power to form. |
| MELIORATIVE | • meliorative adj. That meliorates; curative, salutary. • MELIORATIVE adj. tending to effect improvement. • MELIORATIVE n. something tending to effect improvement. |
| MISCREATIVE | • miscreative adj. Tending to create badly or wrongly. • MISCREATIVE adj. that creates imperfectly or improperly. |
| RELATIVISMS | • relativisms n. Plural of relativism. • RELATIVISM n. a theory that knowledge is relative to the limited nature of the mind and the conditions of knowing. |
| SEMIPRIVATE | • semiprivate adj. More private than usual accommodations, but not fully private; used especially of a hospital room that… • SEMIPRIVATE adj. partly private. |
| TERMINATIVE | • terminative adj. Of, or relating to the termination of something. • terminative adj. (Linguistics) of, or relating to the terminative case. • terminative n. The terminative case. |
| TRIUMVIRATE | • triumvirate n. An official group of three people, especially a ruling council of three men and particularly (historical)… • TRIUMVIRATE n. a body of triumvirs. |
| VERMINATING | • verminating v. Present participle of verminate. • VERMINATE v. to breed vermin. |
| VERMINATION | • vermination n. (Archaic) The generation or breeding of vermin. • vermination n. (Archaic) A griping of the bowels. • VERMINATION n. worm infestation; worm breeding. |