| AVENTURIN | • aventurin n. Alternative form of aventurine. • AVENTURIN n. a glass containing golden or green flecks; quartz containing mica flakes, also AVANTURINE, AVENTURINE. |
| AVIRULENT | • avirulent adj. Not virulent. • AVIRULENT adj. of bacteria, not virulent. |
| CENTUMVIR | • centumvir n. (Historical, Ancient Rome) One of a court of about 100 judges chosen to try civil suits. Under the Empire… • CENTUMVIR n. (Latin) in Rome, one of a court of about one hundred judges chosen to try civil suits. |
| CURVETING | • curveting v. Present participle of curvet. • curveting n. The motion of a horse or other animal that curvets. • curveting n. (Of a person) Caper, frisking, often with a nuance of flirtation. |
| INCURVATE | • incurvate adj. Bending inwards. • incurvate adj. Curved; bent; crooked. • incurvate v. (Transitive) To bend (especially inwards); to give a curved shape to. |
| INTRUSIVE | • intrusive adj. Tending to intrude; doing that which is not welcome; interrupting or disturbing; entering without permission… • intrusive adj. (Geology) Of rocks: forced, while in a plastic or molten state, into the cavities or between the cracks… • intrusive adj. (Linguistics) epenthetic. |
| NUTRITIVE | • nutritive adj. Of or pertaining to nutrition. • nutritive adj. Nourishing, providing nutrition. • nutritive n. (Archaic) A nutrient. |
| OUTDRIVEN | • outdriven v. Past participle of outdrive. • OUTDRIVE v. to drive a golf ball farther than. |
| UNRIVETED | • unriveted v. Simple past tense and past participle of unrivet. • unriveted adj. Not fastened with rivets. • UNRIVET v. to take out, or loose, the rivets of; as, to unrivet boiler plates. |
| UNVIRTUES | • unvirtues n. Plural of unvirtue. • UNVIRTUE n. lack of virtue. |
| URINATIVE | • urinative adj. Provoking the flow of urine; diuretic. • URINATIVE adj. provoking the flow of urine. |
| VENTURING | • venturing v. Present participle of venture. • venturing n. The act of one who ventures. • VENTURING adj. adventuresome. |
| VESTURING | • vesturing v. Present participle of vesture. • VESTURE v. (archaic) to clothe. |
| VETTURINI | • vetturini n. Plural of vetturino. • VETTURINO n. (Italian) one who lets or drives a vettura. |
| VETTURINO | • vetturino n. One who lets or drives a vettura. • vetturino n. A vettura. • VETTURINO n. (Italian) one who lets or drives a vettura. |
| VULTURINE | • vulturine adj. Pertaining to or having characteristics of vultures. • vulturine adj. Predaceous. • VULTURINE adj. like a vulture; rapacious, also VULTURISH, VULTUROUS. |