| COMPETITIVE | • competitive adj. Of or pertaining to competition. • competitive adj. (Of someone’s character) Inclined to compete. • competitive adj. (Economics) Capable of competing successfully. |
| CREPITATIVE | • crepitative adj. Crepitating. • CREPITATIVE adj. crackling. |
| EPROUVETTES | • eprouvettes n. Plural of eprouvette. • EPROUVETTE n. (French) an apparatus for testing or proving the strength of gunpowder. |
| EXPATIATIVE | • expatiative adj. Expatiatory; expansive; diffusive. • EXPATIATIVE adj. expansive, also EXPATIATORY. |
| EXPECTATIVE | • expectative adj. Of or pertaining to an expectation. • expectative adj. (Canon law) Of or pertaining to the reversion of a benefice. • expectative n. (Canon law) The anticipatory grant of an ecclesiastical benefice, not vacant at the moment but which… |
| EXTIRPATIVE | • extirpative adj. Of, relating to, or pertaining to an extirpation. • EXTIRPATIVE adj. serving to extirpate, also EXTIRPATORY. |
| HEPTAVALENT | • heptavalent adj. (Chemistry) Having an atomic valence of 7. • heptavalent adj. (Medicine) Having a vaccine valence of 7. • HEPTAVALENT adj. having a valency of seven, also SEPTAVALENT, SEPTIVALENT. |
| IMPETRATIVE | • impetrative adj. (Obsolete) Of the nature of impetration; getting, or tending to get, by entreaty. • IMPETRATIVE adj. relating to impetration, also IMPETRATORY. |
| OVERPLOTTED | • overplotted adj. (Drama) Having an excessively elaborate plot. • OVERPLOT v. to devise an overly complex plot for. |
| OVERPROTECT | • overprotect v. To protect to an excessive degree; to coddle. • OVERPROTECT v. to protect to excess. |
| PENETRATIVE | • penetrative adj. That can or does physically penetrate something; piercing, penetrating. • penetrative adj. Displaying insight or discrimination; acute; penetrating. • penetrative adj. (Sports) That can penetrate opposition defences. |
| PENTAVALENT | • pentavalent adj. (Chemistry) Having an atomic valence of 5. • pentavalent adj. (Medicine) Having a vaccine valence of 5. • PENTAVALENT adj. having a valence of five. |
| PRETERITIVE | • preteritive adj. (Grammar) Used only or chiefly in the preterite or past tenses. • PRETERITIVE adj. used only in the preterite. |
| PROTECTIVES | • protectives n. Plural of protective. • PROTECTIVE n. something that offers protection. |
| RECEPTIVITY | • receptivity n. (Uncountable) The state of being receptive. • receptivity n. (Countable) The extent to which something is receptive. • RECEPTIVITY n. the state of being receptive. |
| SEPTAVALENT | • septavalent adj. (Chemistry, medicine) Heptavalent. • SEPTAVALENT adj. having a valency of seven, also HEPTAVALENT, SEPTIVALENT. |
| SEPTIVALENT | • septivalent adj. (Chemistry) heptavalent. • SEPTIVALENT adj. having a valency of seven, also HEPTAVALENT, SEPTAVALENT. |
| TEMPERATIVE | • temperative adj. Having the power to temper something. • TEMPERATIVE adj. having a moderating influence. |
| VITUPERATED | • vituperated v. Simple past tense and past participle of vituperate. • VITUPERATE v. to abuse or censure severely or abusively. |
| VITUPERATES | • vituperates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vituperate. • VITUPERATE v. to abuse or censure severely or abusively. |