| ADVENTURISM | • adventurism n. The behaviour of an adventurer; risk-taking. • adventurism n. (Politics) The taking of excessive risks by a government in their political, economic or foreign affairs. • ADVENTURISM n. improvisation in the absence or in defiance of accepted plans or principles. |
| ANIMADVERTS | • animadverts v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of animadvert. • ANIMADVERT v. to comment critically on; to censure. |
| AVERTIMENTS | • avertiments n. Plural of avertiment. • AVERTIMENT n. (Milton) advertisement. |
| CIRCUMVENTS | • circumvents v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumvent. • CIRCUMVENT v. to go round, to get round. |
| IVERMECTINS | • ivermectins n. Plural of ivermectin. • IVERMECTIN n. a drug used in veterinary medicine. |
| MAIDSERVANT | • maidservant n. A female servant; a maid. • maid-servant n. Alternative form of maidservant. • MAIDSERVANT n. a female servant. |
| MENSURATIVE | • mensurative adj. Relating to mensuration or measurement. • MENSURATIVE adj. relating to mensuration, also MENSURATIONAL. |
| MISVENTURES | • misventures n. Plural of misventure. • MISVENTURE n. a misadventure, also MISADVENTURE. |
| OVERMASTING | • overmasting v. Present participle of overmast. • OVERMAST v. to provide with too long masts. |
| PROVITAMINS | • provitamins n. Plural of provitamin. • PROVITAMIN n. a pre-vitamin. |
| RAVISHMENTS | • ravishments n. Plural of ravishment. • RAVISHMENT n. the act of ravishing. |
| REVILEMENTS | • revilements n. Plural of revilement. • REVILEMENT n. the act of reviling. |
| REVIVEMENTS | • revivements n. Plural of revivement. • REVIVEMENT n. the act of reviving. |
| TIMESERVING | • timeserving n. Alternative form of time-serving. • timeserving adj. Alternative form of time-serving. • time-serving n. Opportunism. |
| TRANSMOVING | • transmoving v. Present participle of transmove. • TRANSMOVE v. (Spenser) to transmute, also TRANSMEW. |
| VOLUNTARISM | • voluntarism n. (US) A reliance on volunteers to support an institution or achieve an end; volunteerism. • voluntarism n. (Philosophy) A doctrine that assigns the most dominant position to the will rather than the intellect. • voluntarism n. (Politics) The political theory that a community is best organized by the voluntary cooperation of individuals… |