| PERFORATIVE | • perforative adj. Having power to perforate or pierce. • PERFORATIVE adj. causing perforation, also PERFORATORY. |
| REFORMATIVE | • reformative adj. That serves to reform or correct. • REFORMATIVE adj. intended or tending to reform. |
| VOCIFERATOR | • vociferator n. One who vociferates, or is clamorous. • VOCIFERATOR n. one who vociferates. |
| 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. |
| VERIFICATORY | • verificatory adj. Serving to verify something. • VERIFICATORY adj. serving to verify, also VERIFICATIVE. |
| VERSIFICATOR | • versificator n. Someone who writes verse; a poet. • VERSIFICATOR n. a maker of verses, also VERSIFIER. |
| VOCIFERATORS | • vociferators n. Plural of vociferator. • VOCIFERATOR n. one who vociferates. |
| 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. |
| PROLIFERATIVE | • proliferative adj. (Not comparable, cytology) of or pertaining to proliferation, especially of cells. • proliferative adj. Proliferating; tending to proliferate. • proliferative n. Such a cell. |
| VERSIFICATORS | • versificators n. Plural of versificator. • VERSIFICATOR n. a maker of verses, also VERSIFIER. |
| 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. |
| TRANSFORMATIVE | • transformative adj. That causes a transformation; causing a notable and lasting change. • transformative adj. (Linguistics) Chiefly in transformative-generative: of or relating to a theory of generative grammar… • TRANSFORMATIVE adj. having the power to transform. |
| OVERFAMILIARITY | • overfamiliarity n. The state of being overfamiliar. • OVERFAMILIARITY n. the state of being overfamiliar. |
| PHOTOREFRACTIVE | • photorefractive adj. (Physics) of or relating to a change in refractive index in the presence of light. • PHOTOREFRACTIVE adj. designating or relating to surgical procedures in which a laser is used to reshape the cornea and correct refractive errors such as myopia or astigmatism; esp. in photorefractive keratectomy. |