| ADUMBRATIVE | • adumbrative adj. Of or pertaining to adumbration. • ADUMBRATIVE adj. with the character of a sketch or outline. |
| 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. |
| DILUVIALISM | • diluvialism n. The explaining of geological phenomena by the Noachian deluge. • DILUVIALISM n. a belief in Noah's flood. |
| DIMINUTIVAL | • diminutival adj. Indicating diminution; diminutive. • DIMINUTIVAL adj. relating to or like a diminutive. |
| DIMINUTIVES | • diminutives n. Plural of diminutive. • DIMINUTIVE n. a diminutive word, affix, or name. |
| DIVULGEMENT | • divulgement n. The act of divulging (communicating or revealing information). • DIVULGEMENT n. the act of divulging. |
| DUUMVIRATES | • duumvirates n. Plural of duumvirate. • DUUMVIRATE n. government or control by two people. |
| MARIVAUDAGE | • marivaudage n. (Literary) A writing style characterized by an affectation of refinement, originating from the writing… • MARIVAUDAGE n. preciosity in literary style or expression. |
| MENDELEVIUM | • mendelevium n. (Chemistry) A transuranic chemical element (symbol Md, formerly Mv) with atomic number 101. • MENDELEVIUM n. an unstable radioactive element discovered in 1955. |
| MERDIVOROUS | • merdivorous adj. Dung-eating, coprophagous. • MERDIVOROUS adj. dung-eating. |
| MULTIVOICED | • multivoiced adj. Having more than one voice. |
| QUADRIVIUMS | • quadriviums n. Plural of quadrivium. • QUADRIVIUM n. (Latin) a higher division of seven liberal arts studied in the Middle Ages, comprising arithmetic, music, astronomy, geometry. |
| QUADRUMVIRS | • quadrumvirs n. Plural of quadrumvir. • QUADRUMVIR n. a member of a quadrumvirate. |
| UNMOTIVATED | • unmotivated adj. Lacking motivation, without impetus to strive or excel. • unmotivated adj. For which there is no motive. • UNMOTIVATED adj. not motivated. |
| VANGUARDISM | • vanguardism n. (Politics) The strategy whereby an organization (usually a vanguard party) attempts to place itself… • VANGUARDISM n. the condition of being or practice of positioning oneself as or within the vanguard of a movement, esp. political. |