| DEPRIVATION | • deprivation n. (Countable) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity. • deprivation n. (Uncountable) The state of being deprived. • deprivation n. (Countable) The taking away from a clergyman of his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. |
| IMPROVIDENT | • improvident adj. Failing to provide for the future; reckless. • improvident adj. Incautious; prone to rashness. • IMPROVIDENT adj. lacking foresight, thoughtless, also UNPROVIDENT. |
| IMPROVISATE | • improvisate v. To improvise; to extemporize. • improvisate adj. Unpremeditated; impromptu. • IMPROVISATE v. (obsolete) to improvise. |
| INOPERATIVE | • inoperative adj. Not working or functioning; either idle or broken. • inoperative adj. (Law) No longer legally binding. • INOPERATIVE adj. not operative. |
| OPERATIVITY | • operativity n. Operativeness. • OPERATIVITY n. the state of being operative. |
| OVERTIPPING | • overtipping v. Present participle of overtip. • OVERTIP v. to tip more than is normal. |
| OVIPARITIES | • OVIPARITY n. the production of offspring via eggs. |
| OVIPOSITORS | • ovipositors n. Plural of ovipositor - a tubular egg-laying organ. • OVIPOSITOR n. the organ with which many insects and some other animals deposit their eggs. |
| PREMONITIVE | • premonitive adj. Premonitory. • PREMONITIVE adj. conveying a warning, also PREMONITORY. |
| PREPOSITIVE | • prepositive adj. Put before; prefixed. • prepositive n. A prepositive word. • PREPOSITIVE adj. placed before. |
| PROGENITIVE | • progenitive adj. Being able to produce offspring, reproductive. • PROGENITIVE adj. capable of bearing offspring. |
| PROHIBITIVE | • prohibitive adj. Tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow. • prohibitive adj. Costly to the extreme; beyond budget. • prohibitive adj. (Of a contender in a competition): presumptive winner, likely winner. |
| PROVABILITY | • provability n. The condition of being provable. • PROVABILITY n. the state of being provable, also PROVEABILITY. |
| PROVITAMINS | • provitamins n. Plural of provitamin. • PROVITAMIN n. a pre-vitamin. |
| SILVERPOINT | • silverpoint n. (Uncountable) A traditional technique for drawing by dragging a silvern rod or wire across a surface… • silverpoint n. (Countable) An artwork produced by this technique. • SILVERPOINT n. the process or product of drawing with a silver-tipped pencil. |
| VOICEPRINTS | • voiceprints n. Plural of voiceprint. • VOICEPRINT n. an electronically recorded visual representation of speech. |