| ANVILTOPS | • ANVILTOP n. a cloud mass shaped like an anvil. |
| CAPTIVING | • captiving v. Present participle of captive. • CAPTIVE v. to make a prisoner. |
| INCEPTIVE | • inceptive adj. Beginning; of or relating to inception. • inceptive adj. (Grammar) Aspectually inflected to show that the action is beginning. • inceptive n. (Grammar) An inceptive construction. |
| OVERPAINT | • overpaint v. To color or describe too strongly. • overpaint v. To apply the final layers of paint over underpainting. • OVERPAINT v. to color or describe too strongly. |
| OVERPRINT | • overprint n. (Philately) The addition of new text on a previously printed stamp, usually to add a surcharge or change… • overprint v. To print over what has already been printed. • overprint v. (Transitive, philately) To add an overprint to (a stamp). |
| PIVOTINGS | • pivotings n. Plural of pivoting. • PIVOTING n. the section of a machine which pivots. |
| PLAINTIVE | • plaintive adj. Sounding sorrowful, mournful or melancholic. • PLAINTIVE adj. mournful, querulous. |
| PONTLEVIS | • pontlevis n. (Obsolete) A drawbridge. • pontlevis n. (Obsolete) The act of a horse that rears up on its hind legs, risking tumbling backward and falling upon the rider. • PONTLEVIS n. (French) a drawbridge. |
| PREINVITE | • PREINVITE v. to invite beforehand. |
| PRIVATION | • privation n. (Philosophy) The state of being deprived of or lacking an attribute formerly or properly possessed;… • privation n. The state of being very poor, and lacking the basic necessities of life. • privation n. The act of depriving someone of such basic necessities; deprivation. |
| PROVIANTS | • PROVIANT n. an allowance of food, also PROVAND, PROVEND, PROVENDER. |
| PROVIDENT | • provident adj. Possessing, exercising, or demonstrating great care and consideration for the future. • provident adj. Showing care in the use of something (especially money or provisions), so as to avoid wasting it. • provident adj. Providing (for someone’s needs). |
| PULVINATE | • pulvinate adj. (Architecture) Curved convexly or swelled. • pulvinate adj. (Zoology) Having the form of a cushion. • PULVINATE adj. cushion-like; bulging; pillowy, also PULVINATED. |
| VANASPATI | • vanaspati n. (Botany) Any plant that bears fruits but no evident flowers. • Vanaspati prop.n. (Music) Name of a rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the fourth melakarta rāgam of the 72 melakarta rāgams… • VANASPATI n. (Sanskrit) a hydrogenated vegetable fat used as a butter substitute. |
| VIEWPOINT | • viewpoint n. The position from which something is observed or considered. • viewpoint n. An angle, outlook or point of view. • view-point n. Alternative spelling of viewpoint. |
| VULPINITE | • vulpinite n. (Mineralogy) A scaly granular variety of anhydrite of a grayish-white colour, used for ornamental purposes. • VULPINITE n. a granular scaly form of the mineral anhydrite. |