| 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. |
| CIRCUMVENTS | • circumvents v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumvent. • CIRCUMVENT v. to go round, to get round. |
| COVERMOUNTS | • covermounts n. Plural of covermount. • COVERMOUNT v. to attach an item to the front of a magazine as a gift. |
| DEVOURMENTS | • devourments n. Plural of devourment. • DEVOURMENT n. the act of devouring. |
| DUUMVIRATES | • duumvirates n. Plural of duumvirate. • DUUMVIRATE n. government or control by two people. |
| FAVOURITISM | • favouritism n. (British spelling) The unfair favouring of one person or group at the expense of another. • FAVOURITISM n. the state of having favourites. |
| 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. |
| MULTIVERSES | • multiverses n. Plural of multiverse. • Multiverses n. Plural of Multiverse. • MULTIVERSE n. the sum of all universes. |
| PRESUMPTIVE | • presumptive adj. Based on presumption, probability, conjecture, hypothesis or belief. • presumptive adj. Making presumptions; behaving as one who presumes, who assumes that which they perhaps should not. • PRESUMPTIVE adj. based on probability or presumption. |
| TRIUMVIRIES | • TRIUMVIRY n. (obsolete) a triumvirate. |
| VENTURESOME | • venturesome adj. Bold; willing to take risks; adventurous. • venturesome adj. Potentially hazardous; risky. • VENTURESOME adj. involving risk. |
| VIRTUALISMS | • virtualisms n. Plural of virtualism. • VIRTUALISM n. the doctrine of Christ's virtual presence in the Eucharist. |
| VOLUMETRIES | • VOLUMETRY n. the act of measuring by volume. |
| 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… |