ACCEPTIVE | • acceptive adj. Fit for acceptance. • acceptive adj. (Obsolete) Ready to accept. • acceptive adj. Receptive. |
APERITIVE | • aperitive adj. (Medicine) Tending to open the bowels; aperient. • aperitive adj. Serving as an apéritif: a pre-meal alcoholic drink. • aperitive n. (Medicine) aperient. |
EVAPORATE | • evaporate v. (Transitive, intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state. • evaporate v. (Transitive) to expel moisture from (usually by means of artificial heat), leaving the solid portion. • evaporate v. (Transitive, figuratively) to give vent to; to dissipate. |
EVAPORITE | • evaporite n. The salty, crusty sediment that remains after sea water evaporates. • EVAPORITE n. a sedimentary rock formed by the evaporation of salt water e.g. halite. |
OPERATIVE | • operative adj. Effectual or important. • operative adj. Functional, in working order. • operative adj. Having the power of acting; hence, exerting force, physical or moral; active in the production of effects. |
OVERLEAPT | • overleapt v. Simple past tense and past participle of overleap. • OVERLEAP v. to leap over, also OWERLOUP. |
PATERCOVE | • PATERCOVE n. (slang) a hedge-priest, also PATRICO. |
PAVEMENTS | • pavements n. Plural of pavement. • PAVEMENT v. to provide with a pavement. |
PERVIATED | • PERVIATE v. to make a way through. |
PERVIATES | • PERVIATE v. to make a way through. |
PRECATIVE | • precative adj. Resembling or pertaining to an entreaty. • precative n. (Grammar) Mode expressing a wish, a prayer. • PRECATIVE adj. supplicating; expressing entreaty. |
PREDATIVE | • predative adj. Of, or resembling a predator. • PREDATIVE adj. relating to predation. |
PRETRAVEL | • pretravel adj. Before travelling. • pretravel n. The actuation distance of a switch on a keyboard. • PRETRAVEL adj. before travel. |
PREVALENT | • prevalent adj. Widespread or preferred. • prevalent adj. Superior in frequency or dominant. • prevalent n. (Biology) A species that is prevalent in a certain area. |
PRIVATEER | • privateer n. (Historical) A privately owned warship that acted under a letter of marque to attack enemy ships and… • privateer n. (Historical) An officer or any other member of the crew of such a ship; a government-sanctioned pirate. • privateer n. An advocate or beneficiary of privatization of a government service or activity. |
SEPTLEVAS | • septlevas n. Plural of septleva. • SEPTLEVA n. (French) in the game of basset, seven times as much added to the first stake. |
VIDEOTAPE | • videotape n. A relatively wide magnetic tape used for recording visual images and sounds (as of a television production)… • videotape v. To make a recording of something on videotape. • videotape v. (Transitive, intransitive) To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound. |