| ADVENTURISM | • adventurism n. The behaviour of an adventurer; risk-taking. • adventurism n. (Politics) The taking of excessive risks by a government in their political, economic or foreign affairs. • ADVENTURISM n. improvisation in the absence or in defiance of accepted plans or principles. |
| CIRCUMVENTS | • circumvents v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumvent. • CIRCUMVENT v. to go round, to get round. |
| DUUMVIRATES | • duumvirates n. Plural of duumvirate. • DUUMVIRATE n. government or control by two people. |
| MELLIVOROUS | • mellivorous adj. Honey-eating. • MELLIVOROUS adj. honey-eating. |
| MENSURATIVE | • mensurative adj. Relating to mensuration or measurement. • MENSURATIVE adj. relating to mensuration, also MENSURATIONAL. |
| MERDIVOROUS | • merdivorous adj. Dung-eating, coprophagous. • MERDIVOROUS adj. dung-eating. |
| MIMIVIRUSES | • mimiviruses n. Plural of mimivirus. • MIMIVIRUS n. a genus of virus, one of the largest and most complex known. |
| MISVENTURES | • misventures n. Plural of misventure. • MISVENTURE n. a misadventure, also MISADVENTURE. |
| MULTIVERSES | • multiverses n. Plural of multiverse. • Multiverses n. Plural of Multiverse. • MULTIVERSE n. the sum of all universes. |
| MYCOVIRUSES | • mycoviruses n. Plural of mycovirus. • MYCOVIRUS n. a virus attacking fungi. |
| MYXOVIRUSES | • myxoviruses n. Plural of myxovirus. • MYXOVIRUS n. any of a group of related viruses causing influenza, mumps etc. |
| PRESUMPTIVE | • presumptive adj. Based on presumption, probability, conjecture, hypothesis or belief. • presumptive adj. Making presumptions; behaving as one who presumes, who assumes that which they perhaps should not. • PRESUMPTIVE adj. based on probability or presumption. |
| SEMIQUAVERS | • semiquavers n. Plural of semiquaver. • SEMIQUAVER n. a 1/16 note in music. |
| SEMPERVIVUM | • sempervivum n. Any of the genus Sempervivum of succulent plants, the houseleeks or liveforevers. • Sempervivum prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Crassulaceae – the houseleeks etc. • SEMPERVIVUM n. a plant, the houseleek. |
| TRIUMVIRIES | • TRIUMVIRY n. (obsolete) a triumvirate. |
| VERMICULOUS | • vermiculous adj. Containing, or full of, worms; resembling worms; wormy. • VERMICULOUS adj. wormy. |
| VERMINOUSLY | • verminously adv. In a verminous way. • VERMINOUS adv. full of vermin. |
| VERMIVOROUS | • vermivorous adj. Feeding on worms. • VERMIVOROUS adj. eating worms. |
| VOLUMETRIES | • VOLUMETRY n. the act of measuring by volume. |