| CONVERTITE | • convertite n. (Obsolete) A reformed prostitute. • convertite n. (Obsolete) A convert. • CONVERTITE n. (archaic) a convert; a reformed prostitute. |
| DEACTIVATE | • deactivate v. (Ergative) to make something inactive or no longer effective. • deactivate v. To prevent the action of a biochemical agent (such as an enzyme). • deactivate v. To remove a person or piece of hardware from active military service. |
| DETECTIVES | • detectives n. Plural of detective. • DETECTIVE n. a policeman, usually not in uniform, or other person (private detective) who investigates cases of crime. |
| DETRACTIVE | • detractive adj. Tending to detract or draw. • detractive adj. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative. • DETRACTIVE adj. tending to detract, also DETRACTORY. |
| ELECTIVITY | • electivity n. The condition of being elective. • ELECTIVITY n. the state of being elective. |
| ERUCTATIVE | • ERUCTATIVE adj. tending to produce eructation. |
| EXCITATIVE | • excitative adj. That causes excitation. • EXCITATIVE adj. having power to excite. |
| EXTINCTIVE | • extinctive adj. Tending or serving to extinguish, or make extinct. • EXTINCTIVE adj. tending to extinguish. |
| EXTRACTIVE | • extractive adj. That serves to extract something. • extractive adj. That withdraws natural resources by extraction. • extractive adj. Able to be extracted. |
| KVETCHIEST | • kvetchiest adj. Superlative form of kvetchy: most kvetchy. • KVETCHY adj. (Yiddish) habitually complaining. |
| PROTECTIVE | • protective adj. Serving or intended to protect. • protective adj. Wishing to protect; defensive of somebody or something. • protective n. (Britain) Something that protects. |
| REACTIVATE | • reactivate v. To activate again. • re-activate v. Alternative form of reactivate. • REACTIVATE v. to activate again. |
| RECITATIVE | • recitative n. (Music) dialogue, in an opera etc, that, rather than being sung as an aria, is reproduced with the rhythms… • recitative adj. Of a recital. • RECITATIVE n. a style of musical declamation, between singing and ordinary speech, used esp. in the dialogue and narrative parts of an opera or oratorio, also RECITATIVO. |
| RETRACTIVE | • retractive n. That which retracts or withdraws. • retractive adj. Serving to retract; of the nature of a retraction. • RETRACTIVE adj. serving to retract. |
| VITRESCENT | • vitrescent adj. Becoming glass; glassy, vitreous. • VITRESCENT adj. tending to become glass. |