| ADVENTURISTIC | • adventuristic adj. Relating to or exhibiting adventurism. • ADVENTURISTIC adj. of or like adventurism. |
| ADVERTISEMENT | • advertisement n. (Marketing) A commercial solicitation designed to sell some commodity, service or similar. • advertisement n. A public notice. • advertisement n. A recommendation of a particular product, service or person. |
| DEMONSTRATIVE | • demonstrative adj. That serves to demonstrate, show or prove. • demonstrative adj. Given to open displays of emotion. • demonstrative adj. (Grammar) that specifies the thing or person referred to. |
| DERIVATIONIST | • derivationist n. A proponent of derivationism. • DERIVATIONIST n. one who derives mathematical formulae. |
| DESCRIPTIVIST | • descriptivist adj. Subscribing to, or related to, descriptivism. • descriptivist n. (Linguistics) Someone who records and describes actual rules regarding language usage, or who believes… • DESCRIPTIVIST adj. relating to descriptivism, a theory of ethics by which only empirical statements are acceptable. |
| DESTRUCTIVELY | • destructively adv. In a destructive manner: in a way that causes destruction. • DESTRUCTIVE adv. causing destruction. |
| DESTRUCTIVISM | • destructivism n. An art movement that involves destroying objects in front of spectators. • DESTRUCTIVISM n. the theory that a part of a whole may be considered a principle part if the destruction of that part would lead to the destruction of the whole. |
| DESTRUCTIVIST | • destructivist n. A representative of destructive principles, as in biblical criticism. • destructivist n. An artist involved in destructivism. • DESTRUCTIVIST n. a representative of destructive principles. |
| DESTRUCTIVITY | • destructivity n. Destructiveness. • DESTRUCTIVITY n. capacity for destruction. |
| DIRECTIVITIES | • directivities n. Plural of directivity. • DIRECTIVITY n. the property of being directional. |
| DISTRACTIVELY | • DISTRACTIVE adv. serving to distract. |
| DISTRIBUTIVES | • distributives n. Plural of distributive. • DISTRIBUTIVE n. a distributive word, like each or every, that indicates the several individuals of a number taken separately. |
| DITRANSITIVES | • ditransitives n. Plural of ditransitive. • DITRANSITIVE n. a verb able to take both a direct and an indirect object. |
| DIVERTIMENTOS | • divertimentos n. Plural of divertimento. • DIVERTIMENTO n. (Italian) a genre of 18th century chamber music having several short movements. |
| DIVERTISEMENT | • divertisement n. (Archaic) diversion; amusement; recreation. • DIVERTISEMENT n. a diversion; a divertimento. |
| OVERESTIMATED | • overestimated v. Simple past tense and past participle of overestimate. • over-estimated v. Simple past tense and past participle of over-estimate. • OVERESTIMATE v. to estimate too high. |
| PRIVATDOCENTS | • privatdocents n. Plural of privatdocent. • privat-docents n. Plural of privat-docent. • PRIVATDOCENT n. (German) in German universities, a recognized teacher who is not a member of the salaried staff, also PRIVATDOZENT. |
| PRIVATDOZENTS | • privatdozents n. Plural of privatdozent. • PRIVATDOZENT n. (German) in German universities, a recognized teacher who is not a member of the salaried staff, also PRIVATDOCENT. |
| TERGIVERSATED | • tergiversated v. Simple past tense and past participle of tergiversate. • TERGIVERSATE v. to turn one's back on one's party or cause; also, to make evasive statements or equivocate. |