| ADAPTIVENESS | • adaptiveness n. The state or quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt. • ADAPTIVENESS n. the quality of being adaptive. |
| ADVERSATIVES | • adversatives n. Plural of adversative. • ADVERSATIVE n. a word or phrase expressing opposition. |
| DEFENSATIVES | • defensatives n. Plural of defensative. • DEFENSATIVE n. a protection. |
| DESICCATIVES | • desiccatives n. Plural of desiccative. • DESICCATIVE n. a drying agent. |
| DESTRUCTIVES | • DESTRUCTIVE n. something destructive. |
| DETECTIVISTS | • DETECTIVIST n. a writer of detective fiction. |
| DISAVENTURES | • disaventures n. Plural of disaventure. • DISAVENTURE n. (Spenser) a mishap, also DISADVENTURE. |
| DISPENSATIVE | • dispensative adj. Granting dispensation. • DISPENSATIVE adj. granting dispensation. |
| DISSERTATIVE | • dissertative adj. Of or relating to a dissertation. • DISSERTATIVE adj. relating to dissertation. |
| DISSEVERMENT | • disseverment n. Disseverance. • DISSEVERMENT n. the act of dissevering, also DISSEVERANCE, DISSEVERATION. |
| DIVESTITURES | • divestitures n. Plural of divestiture. • DIVESTITURE n. the act of divesting, also DIVESTURE. |
| MEDIEVALISTS | • medievalists n. Plural of medievalist. • MEDIEVALIST n. a specialist in medieval history and culture, also MEDIAEVALIST. |
| READVERTISES | • readvertises v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of readvertise. • READVERTISE v. to advertise again, also READVERTIZE. |
| SHIRTSLEEVED | • shirtsleeved adj. Dressed in one’s shirt sleeves. • SHIRTSLEEVED adj. in shirtsleeves, i.e. not wearing a jacket. |
| STEVEDORINGS | • STEVEDORING n. the work of a stevedore. |
| UNDERINVESTS | • underinvests v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of underinvest. • UNDERINVEST v. to invest insufficient funds. |
| VASECTOMISED | • vasectomised v. Simple past tense and past participle of vasectomise. • vasectomised adj. Alternative form of vasectomized. • VASECTOMISE v. to perform a vasectomy on, also VASECTOMIZE. |