| COMPELLATIVE | • compellative n. (Grammar) The name by which a person is addressed; an appellative. • COMPELLATIVE n. compellation. |
| COMPLICATIVE | • complicative adj. Having a tendency to complicate. • COMPLICATIVE adj. tending to complicate. |
| COMPULSATIVE | • compulsative adj. (Obsolete) compulsatory; employing force or constraint. • COMPULSATIVE adj. (Shakespeare) compulsory, also COMPULSATORY. |
| COMPULSIVELY | • compulsively adv. In a compulsive manner; obsessively. • COMPULSIVE adv. driven by an ungovernable impulse. |
| COMPULSIVITY | • compulsivity n. Compulsion. • COMPULSIVITY n. the quality of being compulsive. |
| HYPOVOLAEMIC | • hypovolaemic adj. Alternative form of hypovolemic. |
| IMPERVIOUSLY | • imperviously adv. In an impervious manner; impenetrably; impermeably. • IMPERVIOUS adv. not allowing entrance or passage, also IMPERVIABLE. |
| MISDEVELOPED | • misdeveloped v. Simple past tense and past participle of misdevelop. • MISDEVELOP v. to develop wrongly. |
| OVERMULTIPLY | • overmultiply v. (Intransitive) To multiply or increase too much; to repeat too often. • OVERMULTIPLY v. to become too numerous. |
| OVERSIMPLIFY | • oversimplify v. To explain or present something in a way that excludes important information for the sake of brevity… • OVERSIMPLIFY v. to simplify to such an extent as to bring about distortion, misunderstanding, or error. |
| PLUVIOMETERS | • pluviometers n. Plural of pluviometer. • PLUVIOMETER n. a device for recording rainfall. |
| PLUVIOMETRIC | • pluviometric adj. Related to pluviometry. • PLUVIOMETRIC adj. relating to pluviometry, the measurement of rainfall, also PLUVIOMETRICAL. |
| POLYOMAVIRUS | • polyomavirus n. Any of the papovaviruses, in family Polyomaviridae, that induce a wide variety of tumours in newborn animals. • Polyomavirus prop.n. (Archaic) A taxonomic genus within the family Polyomaviridae – now split into genera Alphapolyomavirus… |
| POSTMEDIEVAL | • postmedieval adj. After the Middle Ages. • post-medieval adj. Alternative form of postmedieval. • POSTMEDIEVAL adj. taking place after the mediaeval period. |
| PULVILLIFORM | • pulvilliform adj. Resembling a pulvillus. • PULVILLIFORM adj. shaped like a cushion. |