| DISTRACTIVE | • distractive adj. Causing distraction. • DISTRACTIVE adj. serving to distract. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| RECITATIVES | • recitatives n. Plural of recitative. • RECITATIVE n. a style of musical declamation, between singing and ordinary speech, used esp. in the dialogue and narrative parts of an opera or oratorio, also RECITATIVO. |
| RECITATIVOS | • recitativos n. Plural of recitativo. • RECITATIVO n. (Italian) a style of musical declamation, between singing and ordinary speech, used esp. in the dialogue and narrative parts of an opera or oratorio, also RECITATIVE. |
| RELATIVISTS | • relativists n. Plural of relativist. • RELATIVIST n. a believer in relativism. |
| RESISTIVITY | • resistivity n. (Electricity) The resistance offered at a particular temperature by an electrical conductor of any given… • resistivity n. (Thermodynamics) The reciprocal of thermal conductivity, having SI unit: m K W-1. • RESISTIVITY n. the longitudinal electrical resistance of a uniform rod of unit length and unit cross-sectional area. |
| RESTITUTIVE | • restitutive adj. Of or pertaining to restitution; tending to restore to a previous state. • RESTITUTIVE adj. relating to restitution. |
| RESTRICTIVE | • restrictive adj. Confining, limiting, containing within defined bounds. • restrictive adj. (Of clothing) limiting free and easy bodily movement. • restrictive n. (Grammar) A clause that narrows the meaning of a noun or noun phrase. |
| REVISITANTS | • REVISITANT n. one who visits again. |
| TRANSITIVES | • transitives n. Plural of transitive. • TRANSITIVE n. a verb taking a direct object. |
| VERSATILITY | • versatility n. The property of being versatile or having many different abilities; flexibility. • VERSATILITY n. the state of being versatile. |
| VERTICITIES | • verticities n. Plural of verticity. • VERTICITY n. the power of turning. |
| VITRIOLATES | • vitriolates n. Plural of vitriolate. • VITRIOLATE v. to convert into, or change to, a vitriol. |
| VORTICITIES | • vorticities n. Plural of vorticity. • VORTICITY n. the amount of vortical motion in a fluid. |