| ADVENTITIOUS | • adventitious adj. From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign. • adventitious adj. Accidental, additional, appearing casually. • adventitious adj. (Genetics, medicine) Not congenital; acquired. |
| CONDUCTIVELY | • conductively adv. In a conductive manner. • conductively adv. By means of conduction. • CONDUCTIVE adv. having the power of conducting. |
| CONDUCTIVITY | • conductivity n. The ability of a material to conduct electricity, heat, fluid or sound. • conductivity n. (Physics) The reciprocal of resistivity. • CONDUCTIVITY n. the power of conducting or transmitting. |
| DECURVATIONS | • DECURVATION n. downward curvature. |
| DEVALUATIONS | • devaluations n. Plural of devaluation. • DEVALUATION n. an official reduction in the exchange value of a currency by a lowering of its gold equivalency or its value relative to another currency. |
| DISAVENTROUS | • DISAVENTROUS adj. (Spenser) unfortunate. |
| DIVULGATIONS | • divulgations n. Plural of divulgation. • DIVULGATION n. the act of divulgating. |
| INDIVIDUATOR | • individuator n. One who, or that which, individuates. • INDIVIDUATOR n. one who individuates. |
| INTRODUCTIVE | • introductive adj. Of, pertaining to, or serving as an introduction. • INTRODUCTIVE adj. serving to introduce, also INTRODUCTORY. |
| NONDEDUCTIVE | • nondeductive adj. Not deductive. • NONDEDUCTIVE adj. not deductive. |
| NONINDUCTIVE | • noninductive adj. Not inductive. • NONINDUCTIVE adj. not inductive. |
| OUTVILLAINED | • outvillained v. Simple past tense and past participle of outvillain. • OUTVILLAIN v. (Shakespeare) to exceed in villainy. |
| OVERDISCOUNT | • overdiscount v. (Transitive) To discount too much. • OVERDISCOUNT v. to discount excessively. |
| OVERSTUDYING | • overstudying v. Present participle of overstudy. • OVERSTUDY v. to study to excess. |
| POSTDILUVIAN | • postdiluvian adj. Postdiluvial. • postdiluvian n. One who lived after the Biblical Flood. • POSTDILUVIAN adj. pertaining to the period after the Biblical flood or any great flood. |
| TURACOVERDIN | • turacoverdin n. (Organic chemistry) A green pigment found in the feathers of the turacou. • TURACOVERDIN n. an iron-based pigment in turaco feathers, the only pure green pigment found in birds. |
| UNPRODUCTIVE | • unproductive adj. Not productive; useless; fruitless. • unproductive adj. (Linguistics, of affixes, mechanisms of word formation, etc) No longer used to produce new words (see examples). • UNPRODUCTIVE adj. not productive. |