| 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. |
| 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. |
| IMPETRATIVE | • impetrative adj. (Obsolete) Of the nature of impetration; getting, or tending to get, by entreaty. • IMPETRATIVE adj. relating to impetration, also IMPETRATORY. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |