| 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. |
| ADVISEMENTS | • advisements n. Plural of advisement. • ADVISEMENT n. counsel; advice, also AVISEMENT, VIZAMENT. |
| ANIMADVERTS | • animadverts v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of animadvert. • ANIMADVERT v. to comment critically on; to censure. |
| DIMINUTIVES | • diminutives n. Plural of diminutive. • DIMINUTIVE n. a diminutive word, affix, or name. |
| DIVESTMENTS | • divestments n. Plural of divestment. • DIVESTMENT n. the act of divesting. |
| DIVISIONISM | • divisionism n. (Art) The use of small areas of color to construct an image. • divisionism n. Support for division of a territory, etc. • DIVISIONISM n. pointillism. |
| INVALIDISMS | • invalidisms n. Plural of invalidism. • INVALIDISM n. the condition of an invalid. |
| MAIDSERVANT | • maidservant n. A female servant; a maid. • maid-servant n. Alternative form of maidservant. • MAIDSERVANT n. a female servant. |
| MISADVISING | • misadvising v. Present participle of misadvise. • MISADVISE v. to advise wrongly. |
| MISDEVOTION | • misdevotion n. Mistaken devotion. • MISDEVOTION n. a wrong devotion. |
| MISDIVIDING | • misdividing v. Present participle of misdivide. • MISDIVIDE v. to divide wrongly. |
| MISDIVISION | • misdivision n. Incorrect division, e.g. of a word. • misdivision n. (Cytology) Abnormal (i.e. transverse instead of longitudinal) division of a centromere during meiosis… • MISDIVISION n. a wrong division. |
| MISGOVERNED | • misgoverned v. Simple past tense and past participle of misgovern. • MISGOVERN v. to govern wrongly. |
| VAGABONDISM | • vagabondism n. Vagabondage. • VAGABONDISM n. being a vagabond. |
| 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. |
| VINDEMIATES | • VINDEMIATE v. (archaic) to gather grapes or other fruit. |
| VITAMINISED | • vitaminised v. Simple past tense and past participle of vitaminise. • VITAMINISE v. to add vitamins to e.g. a food, also VITAMINIZE. |