| DECURSIVE | • decursive adj. Running down; decurrent. • DECURSIVE adj. running down; decurrent. |
| DEDUCTIVE | • deductive adj. Of, pertaining to, or based on deduction (process of reasoning). • deductive adj. (Logic) Based on inferences from general principles. • DEDUCTIVE adj. of thought or reasoning, concerned with deduction from premises or accepted principles. |
| DEVICEFUL | • deviceful adj. (Now rare) Full of devices; inventive. • DEVICEFUL adj. (Spenser) full of devices, inventive. |
| EDUCATIVE | • educative adj. Serving to educate; educational. • EDUCATIVE adj. relating to education. |
| EXCLUSIVE | • exclusive adj. (Literally) Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions. • exclusive adj. (Figuratively) Referring to a membership organisation, service or product: of high quality and/or renown… • exclusive adj. Exclusionary. |
| EXCURSIVE | • excursive adj. Tending to digress. • excursive adj. Tending to go out. • EXCURSIVE adj. constituting a digression. |
| EXECUTIVE | • executive adj. Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect. • executive adj. Of, pertaining to, or having responsibility for the day-to-day running of an organisation, business, country, etc. • executive adj. Exclusive. |
| HUMECTIVE | • humective adj. (Obsolete) Tending to moisten. • humective n. (Obsolete) A humectant. • HUMECTIVE n. something tending to moisten. |
| RECLUSIVE | • reclusive adj. Of, characterized by, or preferring privacy and isolation; secluded. • RECLUSIVE adj. solitary by nature. |
| RECURSIVE | • recursive adj. Drawing upon itself, referring back. • recursive adj. (Mathematics, not comparable) of an expression, each term of which is determined by applying a formula… • recursive adj. (Computing, not comparable) of a program or function that calls itself. |
| REDUCTIVE | • reductive adj. (Scotland law, now rare) Pertaining to the reduction of a decree etc.; rescissory. • reductive adj. Causing the physical reduction or diminution of something. • reductive adj. (Chemistry, metallurgy, biology, economics) That reduces a substance etc. to a more simple or basic form. |
| SECLUSIVE | • seclusive adj. Serving or tending to seclude (oneself); affecting seclusion. • seclusive n. A person who stays in seclusion; a recluse. • SECLUSIVE adj. tending to seclude. |
| SEDUCTIVE | • seductive adj. Attractive, alluring, tempting. • SEDUCTIVE adj. tending to seduce, also SEDUCIVE. |
| SUBSECIVE | • subsecive adj. (Formal, rare) Remaining; extra; spare. • SUBSECIVE adj. remaining over; spare. |
| UNDECEIVE | • undeceive v. (Transitive) to free from misconception, deception or error. • UNDECEIVE v. to free from deception. |
| VERJUICED | • verjuiced adj. Of a person: sour; bitter. • VERJUICE v. to make sour with verjuice. |
| VERJUICES | • verjuices n. Plural of verjuice. • VERJUICE v. to make sour with verjuice. |
| VERMICULE | • vermicule n. A small worm or insect larva. • vermicule n. A worm-like body. • VERMICULE n. a small worm or insect larva; also, a wormlike body. |
| VESICULAE | • vesiculae n. Plural of vesicula. • VESICULA n. (Latin) a small blister or bladder, also VESICLE. |
| VIRULENCE | • virulence n. The state of being virulent. • virulence n. A measure of how virulent a thing is. • VIRULENCE n. the state of being virulent, also VIRULENCY. |