| ADVENTURIST | • adventurist n. Someone who is into adventurism. • adventurist n. A politician involved in adventurism. • ADVENTURIST n. a practitioner of adventurism. |
| ANTITUSSIVE | • antitussive n. (Pharmacology) A cough suppressant or a drug that inhibits coughing. • antitussive adj. (Pharmacology) Having cough suppressant abilities. • ANTITUSSIVE n. an agent which relieves coughing. |
| DESTRUCTIVE | • destructive adj. Causing destruction; damaging. • destructive adj. Causing breakdown or disassembly. • destructive adj. (Computing) Lossy; causing irreversible change. |
| DISPUTATIVE | • disputative adj. Tending to dispute. • DISPUTATIVE adj. inclined to dispute. |
| DIVESTITURE | • divestiture n. The act of selling something off, especially an investment or a business. • divestiture n. The process of stripping away a person’s confidence, values and attitudes in order to indoctrinate them… • DIVESTITURE n. the act of divesting, also DIVESTURE. |
| INSTITUTIVE | • institutive adj. Tending or intended to institute; having the power to establish. • institutive adj. Established; depending on, or characterized by, institution or order. • INSTITUTIVE adj. able or tending to establish. |
| INSTRUCTIVE | • instructive adj. Conveying knowledge, information or instruction. • instructive n. (Linguistics) A case in the Finnish and Estonian languages. It expresses the means or the instrument… • INSTRUCTIVE adj. indicating means whereby. |
| INVESTITURE | • investiture n. The act of investing, as with possession or power; formal bestowal or presentation of a possessory or… • investiture n. (Specifically, chiefly historical) The formal installation or, generally, the appointment of a bishop… • investiture n. That which invests or clothes; covering; vestment. |
| OBSTRUCTIVE | • obstructive adj. Causing obstructions. • obstructive n. One who obstructs something. • OBSTRUCTIVE adj. serving to obstruct. |
| RESTITUTIVE | • restitutive adj. Of or pertaining to restitution; tending to restore to a previous state. • RESTITUTIVE adj. relating to restitution. |
| RESULTATIVE | • resultative adj. (Grammar) Indicating the state of a noun resulting from the completion of the action expressed by a… • resultative n. (Grammar) A grammatical construction that indicates the state of a noun resulting from the completion… • RESULTATIVE n. (in grammar) a phrase which describes the state of a noun by completing the verb phrase. |
| STIMULATIVE | • stimulative adj. Having a stimulating effect. • stimulative n. (Obsolete) Something having a stimulating effect; a stimulant, an incentive. • STIMULATIVE adj. serving to stimulate. |
| SUBSTANTIVE | • substantive adj. Of the essence or essential element of a thing. • substantive adj. Having substance; enduring; solid; firm; substantial. • substantive adj. (Law) applying to essential legal principles and rules of right. |
| SUBSTRATIVE | • SUBSTRATIVE adj. relating to a substratum. |
| SUBTRACTIVE | • subtractive adj. Of or pertaining to subtraction. • subtractive adj. Of a colour: from which some wavelengths have been removed. • SUBTRACTIVE adj. tending to subtract. |
| VEGETATIOUS | • vegetatious adj. Of or pertaining to vegetation. • VEGETATIOUS adj. relating to vegetation. |
| VITUPERATES | • vituperates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vituperate. • VITUPERATE v. to abuse or censure severely or abusively. |