| ADVENTITIOUS | • adventitious adj. From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign. • adventitious adj. Accidental, additional, appearing casually. • adventitious adj. (Genetics, medicine) Not congenital; acquired. |
| ADVENTURISTS | • adventurists n. Plural of adventurist. • ADVENTURIST n. a practitioner of adventurism. |
| ANTITUSSIVES | • antitussives n. Plural of antitussive. • ANTITUSSIVE n. an agent which relieves coughing. |
| CONSTITUTIVE | • constitutive adj. Having the power or authority to constitute, establish or enact something. • constitutive adj. Having the power or authority to appoint someone to office. • constitutive adj. Extremely important, essential. |
| CONSTRUCTIVE | • constructive adj. Relating to or causing construction. • constructive adj. Carefully considered and meant to be helpful. • constructive adj. (Law) Imputed by law; created to give legal effect to something for equitable reasons, as with constructive… |
| CONSULTATIVE | • consultative adj. That gives advice or consultation; advisory. • CONSULTATIVE adj. relating to consultation, also CONSULTIVE. |
| EVENTUATIONS | • eventuations n. Plural of eventuation. • EVENTUATION n. the act of eventuating. |
| EVOLUTIONIST | • evolutionist n. A proponent or supporter of evolutionism. • EVOLUTIONIST n. one who believes in evolution. |
| EXTENUATIVES | • EXTENUATIVE n. a medicine which causes thinness or emaciation. |
| INVESTITURES | • investitures n. Plural of investiture. • INVESTITURE n. the act of establishing in office or ratifying. |
| MULTIVALENTS | • multivalents n. Plural of multivalent. • MULTIVALENT n. a compound with multiple valency. |
| OVERCUTTINGS | • overcuttings n. Plural of overcutting. • OVERCUTTING n. excessive pruning. |
| OVERTRUSTING | • overtrusting adj. Excessively trusting. • OVERTRUST v. to trust excessively. |
| STERNUTATIVE | • sternutative adj. That provokes sneezing. • sternutative n. Anything that triggers sneezing. • STERNUTATIVE n. a substance which causes sneezing, also STERNUTATOR, STERNUTATORY. |
| SUBSTANTIVES | • substantives n. Plural of substantive. • substantives v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of substantive. • SUBSTANTIVE n. in grammar, a noun. |
| SUSTENTATIVE | • sustentative adj. Adapted to sustain, strengthen, or corroborate. • sustentative adj. (Biology) Relating to those functions of the body which affect its material composition and thus determine its mass. • SUSTENTATIVE adj. sustaining, enduring. |
| TRANSUMPTIVE | • transumptive adj. Metaphorical. • transumptive adj. Transferred from one to another. • TRANSUMPTIVE adj. transferred; metaphorical. |
| VOLUNTATIVES | • voluntatives n. Plural of voluntative. • VOLUNTATIVE n. a verb form expressing a desire to perform the action denoted by the verb. |