AVOIRDUPOIS | • avoirdupois n. (Historical) The official system of weights used in the UK between 1856 and 1963. It had been the customary… • avoirdupois n. (Historical) The official system of weights used in the USA between 1866 and 1959. • avoirdupois n. (Chiefly humorous) Weight; heaviness. |
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. |
DERIVATIONS | • derivations n. Plural of derivation. • DERIVATION n. the act of deriving. |
DISFAVORING | • disfavoring v. Present participle of disfavor. • DISFAVOR v. to regard with disapproval, also DISFAVOUR. |
DIVARICATOR | • divaricator n. (Zoology) One of the muscles that open the shell of a brachiopod; a cardinal muscle. • DIVARICATOR n. one who divaricates. |
DIVERSIONAL | • diversional adj. Relating to diversion. • DIVERSIONAL adj. relating to a diversion. |
DIVISIONARY | • divisionary adj. Divisional. • DIVISIONARY adj. marking a division. |
INVALIDATOR | • invalidator n. One who, or that which, makes invalid. • INVALIDATOR n. one who invalidates. |
INVIGORATED | • invigorated v. Simple past tense and past participle of invigorate. • INVIGORATE v. to give life and energy to. |
RADIOACTIVE | • radioactive adj. Exhibiting radioactivity. • radioactive adj. (Figurative, rare) Dangerous and disgusting, particularly of people or ideas. • radioactive n. Any radioactive substance. |
VAINGLORIED | • vaingloried v. Simple past tense and past participle of vainglory. • VAINGLORY v. to boast vainly. |
VARICELLOID | • varicelloid adj. Resembling varicella. • VARICELLOID adj. resembling varicella, chicken pox. |
VIBRACULOID | • vibraculoid adj. Characteristic of a vibraculum. • VIBRACULOID adj. of or like a vibraculum, one of the movable, slender, spinelike organs or parts with which certain bryozoans are furnished, also VIBRACULAR. |
VINDICATORS | • vindicators n. Plural of vindicator. • VINDICATOR n. one who vindicates. |
VINDICATORY | • vindicatory adj. Promoting or producing vindication. • vindicatory adj. Promoting or producing retribution or punishment. • VINDICATORY adj. serving or tending to vindicate. |
VITRIOLATED | • vitriolated adj. (Obsolete, chemistry) sulfated. • VITRIOLATE v. to convert into, or change to, a vitriol. |