| CHEMORECEPTIVE | • chemoreceptive adj. (Of a sense organ) able to respond to a chemical stimulus. • CHEMORECEPTIVE adj. relating to chemoreception. |
| CONTEMPLATIVES | • contemplatives n. Plural of contemplative. • CONTEMPLATIVE n. a person who practices contemplation. |
| EMPOVERISHMENT | • EMPOVERISHMENT n. the state of becoming empoverished. |
| IMPOVERISHMENT | • impoverishment n. The action of impoverishing someone. • impoverishment n. The state of being impoverished. • IMPOVERISHMENT n. the state of being impoverished. |
| MISDEVELOPMENT | • misdevelopment n. Bad or wrong development. |
| MISIMPROVEMENT | • misimprovement n. Ill use or employment; use for a bad purpose. • MISIMPROVEMENT n. a false improvement. |
| NONCOMPETITIVE | • noncompetitive adj. That does not involve competition or rivalry. • non-competitive adj. Alternative spelling of noncompetitive. • NONCOMPETITIVE adj. not competitive. |
| NONDEVELOPMENT | • nondevelopment n. Lack of development, or failure to develop. • NONDEVELOPMENT n. something that is not development. |
| OVERCOMPENSATE | • overcompensate v. (Intransitive) To do an excessive amount in one area in an effort to overcome a perceived lack in another area. • overcompensate v. (Transitive) To provide with excessive pay or reward for work performed. • OVERCOMPENSATE v. to compensate excessively. |
| OVERCOMPLICATE | • overcomplicate v. (Transitive) To make something excessively complicated. • OVERCOMPLICATE v. to complicate excessively. |
| OVEREMPLOYMENT | • overemployment n. The condition of being overemployed. • OVEREMPLOYMENT n. the situation where workers cannot reduce the time or the number of hours they spend earning an income. |
| OVERMULTIPLIED | • overmultiplied v. Simple past tense and past participle of overmultiply. • OVERMULTIPLY v. to become too numerous. |
| OVERMULTIPLIES | • overmultiplies v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overmultiply. • OVERMULTIPLY v. to become too numerous. |
| PERFORMATIVELY | • performatively adv. In a performative manner. • PERFORMATIVE adv. of a statement or verb that itself constitutes the action described, e.g. I confess my ignorance, also PERFORMATORY. |
| PRECOMPETITIVE | • precompetitive adj. Describing the early stages of the development of a commercial product, during which competitors collaborate. • PRECOMPETITIVE adj. denoting a period of industrial or commercial development during which competitors work together. |
| PREDEVELOPMENT | • predevelopment n. A phase of preparation prior to development. • PREDEVELOPMENT n. a preliminary development. |
| PRIMOGENITIVES | • PRIMOGENITIVE n. (Shakespeare) primogeniture, also PRIMOGENITURE. |
| REDEVELOPMENTS | • redevelopments n. Plural of redevelopment. • REDEVELOPMENT n. the act of redeveloping. |
| SUBDEVELOPMENT | • subdevelopment n. A development making up part of a larger development. • SUBDEVELOPMENT n. a subdivision of a development. |