| CHEMORECEPTIVE | • chemoreceptive adj. (Of a sense organ) able to respond to a chemical stimulus. • CHEMORECEPTIVE adj. relating to chemoreception. |
| CIRCUMSPECTIVE | • circumspective adj. Looking in all directions; cautious or watchful of danger. • CIRCUMSPECTIVE adj. looking around; wary. |
| COMPREHENSIVES | • comprehensives n. Plural of comprehensive. • COMPREHENSIVE n. a comprehensive school. |
| DESCRIPTIVISMS | • descriptivisms n. Plural of descriptivism. • DESCRIPTIVISM n. a theory of ethics by which only empirical statements are acceptable. |
| IMPERCEPTIVELY | • imperceptively adv. (Proscribed) imperceptibly. • IMPERCEPTIVE adv. not perceptive. |
| IMPERCEPTIVITY | • imperceptivity n. Inability to perceive. • IMPERCEPTIVITY n. the state of being imperceptive. |
| IMPERFECTIVELY | • imperfectively adv. (Grammar) In an imperfective manner or context. • IMPERFECTIVE adv. expressing action as incomplete or without reference to completion or as reiterated. |
| IMPROVISATRICE | • improvisatrice n. A female improvisatore. • IMPROVISATRICE n. (archaic) a female improvisator, also IMPROVISATRIX. |
| OVERCOMPLIANCE | • overcompliance n. Compliance beyond what is necessary. • OVERCOMPLIANCE n. excessive compliance. |
| OVERCOMPLICATE | • overcomplicate v. (Transitive) To make something excessively complicated. • OVERCOMPLICATE v. to complicate excessively. |
| OVEROPTIMISTIC | • overoptimistic adj. Excessively optimistic. • over-optimistic adj. Alternative form of overoptimistic. • OVEROPTIMISTIC adj. excessively optimistic. |
| OVERSIMPLISTIC | • oversimplistic adj. Too simplistic. • OVERSIMPLISTIC adj. excessively simplistic. |
| PERSPECTIVISMS | • perspectivisms n. Plural of perspectivism. • PERSPECTIVISM n. the theory that things can only be known from an individual point of view at a particular time. |
| PLUVIOMETRICAL | • pluviometrical adj. Of or pertaining to a pluviometer. • PLUVIOMETRICAL adj. relating to pluviometry, the measurement of rainfall, also PLUVIOMETRIC. |
| PRECOMPETITIVE | • precompetitive adj. Describing the early stages of the development of a commercial product, during which competitors collaborate. • PRECOMPETITIVE adj. denoting a period of industrial or commercial development during which competitors work together. |
| PRESCRIPTIVISM | • prescriptivism n. (Linguistics) The practice of prescribing idealistic norms, as opposed to describing realistic forms… • PRESCRIPTIVISM n. the belief that moral edicts are merely orders with no truth value. |