| ADVENTURIST | • adventurist n. Someone who is into adventurism. • adventurist n. A politician involved in adventurism. • ADVENTURIST n. a practitioner of adventurism. |
| DEACTIVATOR | • deactivator n. Any device used to deactivate something. • deactivator n. A chamber filled with iron filings or other material used to remove excess oxygen or other substances from water. • DEACTIVATOR n. something that deactivates. |
| DEHORTATIVE | • dehortative adj. Dissuasive. • DEHORTATIVE adj. dissuasive, also DEHORTATORY. |
| DESTRUCTIVE | • destructive adj. Causing destruction; damaging. • destructive adj. Causing breakdown or disassembly. • destructive adj. (Computing) Lossy; causing irreversible change. |
| DETRITIVORE | • detritivore n. (Ecology) An organism that feeds on detritus; a detrivore, a saprophage. |
| DETRITOVORE | • detritovore n. Misspelling of detritivore. • DETRITOVORE n. an organism that feeds on detritus. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| INADVERTENT | • inadvertent adj. Not intentional; not on purpose; not conscious. • inadvertent adj. (Obsolete) Inattentive. • INADVERTENT adj. not focusing the mind on a matter. |
| INTROVERTED | • introverted v. Simple past tense and past participle of introvert. • introverted adj. Turned or thrust inward, particularly… • INTROVERT v. to turn inwards. |
| REACTIVATED | • reactivated v. Simple past tense and past participle of reactivate. • REACTIVATE v. to activate again. |
| REMOTIVATED | • remotivated v. Simple past tense and past participle of remotivate. • REMOTIVATE v. to motivate again. |
| RETARDATIVE | • retardative adj. That retards; delaying, impeditive. • RETARDATIVE adj. serving to retard. |
| VITRIOLATED | • vitriolated adj. (Obsolete, chemistry) sulfated. • VITRIOLATE v. to convert into, or change to, a vitriol. |
| VITUPERATED | • vituperated v. Simple past tense and past participle of vituperate. • VITUPERATE v. to abuse or censure severely or abusively. |