| ADVENTURISM | • adventurism n. The behaviour of an adventurer; risk-taking. • adventurism n. (Politics) The taking of excessive risks by a government in their political, economic or foreign affairs. • ADVENTURISM n. improvisation in the absence or in defiance of accepted plans or principles. |
| ADVISEMENTS | • advisements n. Plural of advisement. • ADVISEMENT n. counsel; advice, also AVISEMENT, VIZAMENT. |
| AMATIVENESS | • amativeness n. (Phrenology) The state or quality of being amative; propensity to love or sexual feelings. • AMATIVENESS n. the state of being amative. |
| ANIMADVERTS | • animadverts v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of animadvert. • ANIMADVERT v. to comment critically on; to censure. |
| AVERTIMENTS | • avertiments n. Plural of avertiment. • AVERTIMENT n. (Milton) advertisement. |
| EVANISHMENT | • evanishment n. (Now rare) Vanishing, disappearance. • EVANISHMENT n. the act of vanishing. |
| LAVISHMENTS | • lavishments n. Plural of lavishment. • LAVISHMENT n. the act of lavishing. |
| MAIDSERVANT | • maidservant n. A female servant; a maid. • maid-servant n. Alternative form of maidservant. • MAIDSERVANT n. a female servant. |
| MENSURATIVE | • mensurative adj. Relating to mensuration or measurement. • MENSURATIVE adj. relating to mensuration, also MENSURATIONAL. |
| NEGATIVISMS | • negativisms n. Plural of negativism. • NEGATIVISM n. a tendency to deny and criticise, without offering positive suggestions. |
| NEOVITALISM | • neovitalism n. Any revival of vitalism, but especially that of Johannes Reinke (1849–1931). • NEOVITALISM n. the theory or belief that complete causal explanation of vital phenomena cannot be reached without invoking some extra-material concept. |
| NOMINATIVES | • nominatives n. Plural of nominative. • NOMINATIVE n. a case indicating the subject of a verb. |
| OVERMASTING | • overmasting v. Present participle of overmast. • OVERMAST v. to provide with too long masts. |
| RAVISHMENTS | • ravishments n. Plural of ravishment. • RAVISHMENT n. the act of ravishing. |
| VANISHMENTS | • vanishments n. Plural of vanishment. • VANISHMENT n. a vanishing. |
| VESTIMENTAL | • vestimental adj. Alternative form of vestimentary. • VESTIMENTAL adj. of or like a vestiment, also VESTIMENTARY. |
| VINDEMIATES | • VINDEMIATE v. (archaic) to gather grapes or other fruit. |
| VITAMINISED | • vitaminised v. Simple past tense and past participle of vitaminise. • VITAMINISE v. to add vitamins to e.g. a food, also VITAMINIZE. |
| VITAMINISES | • vitaminises v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vitaminise. • VITAMINISE v. to add vitamins to e.g. a food, also VITAMINIZE. |
| VITAMINIZES | • vitaminizes v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vitaminize. • VITAMINIZE v. to add vitamins to e.g. a food, also VITAMINISE. |