| ADVENTITIAL | • adventitial adj. (Anatomy) Of or pertaining to the adventitia. • adventitial adj. (Obsolete) Alternative form of adventitious. • ADVENTITIAL adj. relating to the adventitia, the outermost covering of an organ or part, esp. of a blood vessel. |
| ADVENTITIAS | • adventitias n. Plural of adventitia. • ADVENTITIA n. the outermost covering of an organ or part, esp. of a blood vessel. |
| DEGLUTITIVE | • deglutitive adj. (Medicine) Relating to the action or process of swallowing. • DEGLUTITIVE adj. relating to deglutition, also DEGLUTITORY. |
| DETECTIVIST | • DETECTIVIST n. a writer of detective fiction. |
| DETRITIVORE | • detritivore n. (Ecology) An organism that feeds on detritus; a detrivore, a saprophage. |
| DEVOTIONIST | • devotionist n. Alternative form of devotionalist. • DEVOTIONIST n. one who practises devotion. |
| DIRECTIVITY | • directivity n. (Physics, electrical engineering) A measure of the performance of an antenna compared to an isotropic… • directivity n. (Geology) Anisotropy in the propagation of earthquake waves in the direction of rupture. • directivity n. (Rare) Directionality. |
| DISPUTATIVE | • disputative adj. Tending to dispute. • DISPUTATIVE adj. inclined to dispute. |
| DISTINCTIVE | • distinctive adj. Distinguishing, used to or enabling the distinguishing of some thing. • distinctive adj. (Rare) Discriminating, discerning, having the ability to distinguish between things. • distinctive adj. Characteristic, typical. |
| DISTRACTIVE | • distractive adj. Causing distraction. • DISTRACTIVE adj. serving to distract. |
| DIVESTITURE | • divestiture n. The act of selling something off, especially an investment or a business. • divestiture n. The process of stripping away a person’s confidence, values and attitudes in order to indoctrinate them… • DIVESTITURE n. the act of divesting, also DIVESTURE. |
| INACTIVATED | • inactivated v. Simple past tense and past participle of inactivate. • INACTIVATE v. to make inactive. |
| INDUCTIVITY | • inductivity n. (Physics) A measure of the capacity for magnetic inductance. • inductivity n. (Rare) The susceptibility to a process of induction (in various senses). • INDUCTIVITY n. the state of being inductive. |
| TIDIVATIONS | • TIDIVATION n. (slang) smartening up, also TITIVATION, TITTIVATION. |
| VASTIDITIES | • VASTIDITY n. immensity. |
| VATICINATED | • vaticinated v. Simple past tense and past participle of vaticinate. • VATICINATE v. to prophesy, predict. |
| VENDITATION | • venditation n. (Obsolete) The act of setting forth ostentatiously; a boastful display. • VENDITATION n. offering for sale. |
| VITRIOLATED | • vitriolated adj. (Obsolete, chemistry) sulfated. • VITRIOLATE v. to convert into, or change to, a vitriol. |