| ABSORPTIVITY | • absorptivity n. The quality of being absorptive; absorptiveness. • absorptivity n. (Thermodynamics) The fraction of radiation absorbed by a surface to the total radiation incident on the surface. • absorptivity n. (Analytical chemistry) The constant a in the Beer’s law relation A = abc, where A is the absorbance… |
| CAPTIVATIONS | • captivations n. Plural of captivation. • CAPTIVATION n. the act of captivating. |
| OVEROPTIMIST | • overoptimist n. An excessively optimistic person. • OVEROPTIMIST n. one who is excessively optimistic. |
| OVERPROTECTS | • overprotects v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overprotect. • OVERPROTECT v. to protect to excess. |
| POSITIVISTIC | • positivistic adj. Of or pertaining to positivism. • POSITIVISTIC adj. relating to positivism, the doctrine that that which is not observable is not knowable. |
| POSITIVITIES | • positivities n. Plural of positivity. • POSITIVITY n. positiveness. |
| POSTERUPTIVE | • posteruptive adj. (Geology) After an eruption. • POSTERUPTIVE adj. taking place after an eruption. |
| POSTPOSITIVE | • postpositive adj. (Grammar, of an adjective or other modifier) Placed after the word modified, either immediately after… • postpositive n. (Grammar) A postpositive modifier. • POSTPOSITIVE adj. of an adjective, placed after the word it modifies e.g. attorney general, Scrabble player manque. |
| POSTVAGOTOMY | • postvagotomy adj. (Medicine) After a vagotomy. • POSTVAGOTOMY adj. following a vagotomy. |
| PROTERVITIES | • protervities n. Plural of protervity. • PROTERVITY n. peevishness. |
| TRANSPORTIVE | • transportive adj. Serving to transport to another place. • TRANSPORTIVE adj. tending or having power to transport. |
| VITUPERATORS | • vituperators n. Plural of vituperator. • VITUPERATOR n. one who vituperates. |
| VOLUPTUOSITY | • voluptuosity n. Voluptuousness. • VOLUPTUOSITY n. (obsolete) voluptuousness. |