| CONSERVATION | • conservation n. The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation. • conservation n. Wise use of natural resources. • conservation n. (Biology) The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources. |
| CONVENORSHIP | • convenorship n. The role or status of convenor. • CONVENORSHIP n. the office of convenor. |
| CONVENTIONER | • conventioner n. One who belongs to a convention or assembly. • CONVENTIONER n. a person who attends a convention, also CONVENTIONEER. |
| CONVERSATION | • conversation n. Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance… • conversation n. (Fencing) The back-and-forth play of the blades in a bout. • conversation n. (Computing, networking) The protocol-based interaction between systems processing a transaction. |
| CONVERSIONAL | • conversional adj. Relating to conversion. • CONVERSIONAL adj. relating to conversion, also CONVERSIONARY. |
| INTROVERSION | • introversion n. A turning inward, particularly… • INTROVERSION n. the act of introverting. |
| NONCORROSIVE | • noncorrosive adj. That does not cause corrosion. • NONCORROSIVE adj. not corrosive. |
| NONNORMATIVE | • nonnormative adj. Not normative. • NONNORMATIVE adj. not normative. |
| NONOPERATIVE | • nonoperative adj. Not requiring or involving a medical operation or surgery. • nonoperative adj. Not operative, not operational; inoperative. • nonoperative n. (Uncommon) One who is not an operative (“employee or worker”). |
| NONPURPOSIVE | • nonpurposive adj. Not purposive. • NONPURPOSIVE adj. not purposive. |
| NORMOTENSIVE | • normotensive adj. Having normal tension. • normotensive adj. (Medicine) Having normal blood pressure. • normotensive n. A person who has normal blood pressure. |
| OVERBOUNDING | • overbounding v. Present participle of overbound. • OVERBOUND v. to bound excessively. |
| OVERCOUNTING | • overcounting v. Present participle of overcount. • OVERCOUNT v. to rate too high; to outnumber. |
| OVERDOMINANT | • overdominant adj. Excessively dominant. • overdominant adj. (Genetics) Exhibiting overdominance. • OVERDOMINANT adj. excessively dominant. |
| OVERHONORING | • OVERHONOR v. to honor too highly, also OVERHONOUR. |
| OVERMOUNTING | • overmounting v. Present participle of overmount. • OVERMOUNT v. to rise above. |
| RECONVERSION | • reconversion n. The action of converting something again. • reconversion n. The action or renovating or converting a property. • RECONVERSION n. the act of reconverting. |
| RECONVICTION | • reconviction n. (Law) Conviction again or anew. • RECONVICTION n. a fresh conviction. |
| VINEGARROONS | • vinegarroons n. Plural of vinegarroon. • VINEGARROON n. a large whip scorpion, named from the odor that it emits when alarmed. |