| DEPRESSIVE | • depressive adj. Causing depression; dispiriting. • depressive adj. Affected by depression, depressed; dispirited; melancholic. • depressive adj. Relating to or characteristic of depression. |
| EXPLETIVES | • expletives n. Plural of expletive. • EXPLETIVE n. a swearword. |
| EXPRESSIVE | • expressive adj. Effectively conveying thought or feeling. • expressive n. (Linguistics) Any word or phrase that expresses (that the speaker, writer, or signer has) a certain… • expressive n. (Linguistics, more narrowly) A word or phrase, belonging to a distinct word class or having distinct… |
| FIVEPENCES | • fivepences n. Plural of fivepence. • FIVEPENCE n. a coin worth five pence, also FIPPENCE. |
| PERCEIVERS | • perceivers n. Plural of perceiver. • PERCEIVER n. one who perceives. |
| PERVERSIVE | • perversive adj. Tending to pervert. • PERVERSIVE adj. tending to pervert. |
| PREHENSIVE | • prehensive adj. (Philosophy) Of or relating to Alfred North Whitehead’s concept of prehension. • PREHENSIVE adj. prehensile, related to grasping, also PREHENSILE, PREHENSORIAL, PREHENSORY. |
| PREPENSIVE | • prepensive adj. Prepense; planned beforehand. • PREPENSIVE adj. premeditated. |
| PREREVIEWS | • prereviews n. Plural of prereview. • prereviews v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of prereview. • PREREVIEW v. to review in advance. |
| PRESENTIVE | • presentive adj. Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination. • PRESENTIVE n. a word that presents an object to the mind. |
| PRESERVICE | • preservice adj. Occurring prior to the provision of a service. • preservice adj. (Education) Occurring before a trainee teacher begins service. • pre-service adj. Alternative spelling of preservice. |
| PRETENSIVE | • pretensive adj. (Now rare) Pretended; feigned. • pretensive adj. (Chiefly US) Pretentious. • PRETENSIVE adj. pretentious. |
| PREVIEWERS | • previewers n. Plural of previewer. • PREVIEWER n. one who previews. |
| REEVESHIPS | • reeveships n. Plural of reeveship. • REEVESHIP n. the office of reeve. |
| REPRESSIVE | • repressive adj. Serving to repress or suppress; oppressive. • REPRESSIVE adj. serving to repress. |
| REPRIEVERS | • REPRIEVER n. one who reprieves. |
| RESPECTIVE | • respective adj. Relating to particular persons or things, each to each; particular; own. • respective adj. (Obsolete) Noticing with attention; careful; wary. • respective adj. (Obsolete) Looking toward; having reference to; relative, not absolute. |
| SUPERVISEE | • supervisee n. One who is supervised, who works under a supervisor. • SUPERVISEE n. one who is supervised. |
| TEMPESTIVE | • tempestive adj. (Obsolete) seasonable; timely. • TEMPESTIVE adj. timely; seasonable. |
| VESPERTINE | • vespertine adj. (Poetic) Of or related to the evening; that occurs in the evening. • vespertine adj. (Astrology, of a planet or star) That sets after the sun. • vespertine adj. (Zoology, of an animal) That is principally active at dusk. |