| ablative | (noun) the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb | Synonyms: ablative case |
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| abrasive | (noun) a substance that abrades or wears down | Synonyms: abradant, abrasive material |
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| accusative | (noun) the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb | Synonyms: accusative case, objective case |
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| active | (noun) a person who is a participating member of an organization | - |
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| (noun) the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb | Synonyms: active voice |
| (noun) chemical agent capable of activity | Synonyms: active agent |
| additive | (noun) something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine | - |
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| adhesive | (noun) a substance that unites or bonds surfaces together | Synonyms: adhesive agent, adhesive material |
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| adjective | (noun) a word that expresses an attribute of something | - |
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| (noun) the word class that qualifies nouns | - |
| affirmative | (noun) a reply of affirmation | - |
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| affricative | (noun) a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy') | Synonyms: affricate, affricate consonant |
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| alternative | (noun) one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen | Synonyms: choice, option |
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| antihypertensive | (noun) a drug that reduces high blood pressure | Synonyms: antihypertensive drug |
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| antitussive | (noun) any medicine used to suppress or relieve coughing | - |
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| appellative | (noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellation, denomination, designation |
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| archive | (noun) a depository containing historical records and documents | - |
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| beehive | (noun) a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees | Synonyms: hive |
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| (noun) any workplace where people are very busy | - |
| (noun) a hairdo resembling a beehive | - |
| (noun) a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree | Synonyms: hive |
| captive | (noun) an animal that is confined | - |
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| (noun) a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war | Synonyms: prisoner |
| (noun) a person held in the grip of a strong emotion or passion | - |
| carminative | (noun) medication that prevents the formation of gas in the alimentary tract or eases its passing | - |
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| chive | (noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chives, cive, schnittlaugh |
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| cive | (noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chive, chives, schnittlaugh |
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| collective | (noun) members of a cooperative enterprise | - |
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| commemorative | (noun) an object (such as a coin or postage stamp) made to mark an event or honor a person | - |
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| comparative | (noun) the comparative form of an adjective or adverb | Synonyms: comparative degree |
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| comprehensive | (noun) an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge | Synonyms: comp, comprehensive examination |
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| compulsive | (noun) a person with a compulsive disposition; someone who feels compelled to do certain things | - |
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| conjunctive | (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, connective, continuative |
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| connective | (noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connecter, connection, connector, connexion |
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| (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, conjunctive, continuative |
| conservative | (noun) a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas | Synonyms: conservativist |
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| consumptive | (noun) a person with pulmonary tuberculosis | Synonyms: lunger, tubercular |
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| contemplative | (noun) a person devoted to the contemplative life | - |
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| continuative | (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, conjunctive, connective |
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| contraceptive | (noun) an agent or device intended to prevent conception | Synonyms: birth control device, contraceptive device, preventative, preventive, prophylactic device |
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| cooperative | (noun) a jointly owned commercial enterprise (usually organized by farmers or consumers) that produces and distributes goods and services and is run for the benefit of its owners | Synonyms: co-op |
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| (noun) an association formed and operated for the benefit of those using it | - |
| copulative | (noun) an equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence | Synonyms: copula, linking verb |
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| corrective | (noun) a device for treating injury or disease | Synonyms: restorative |
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| correlative | (noun) either of two or more related or complementary variables | Synonyms: correlate |
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| corrosive | (noun) a substance having the tendency to cause corrosion (such a strong acids or alkali) | - |
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| counteroffensive | (noun) a large scale offensive (more than a counterattack) undertaken by a defending force to seize the initiative from an attacking force | - |
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| curative | (noun) a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain | Synonyms: cure, remedy, therapeutic |
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| cursive | (noun) rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper | Synonyms: cursive script, longhand, running hand |
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| dative | (noun) the category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb | Synonyms: dative case |
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| declarative | (noun) a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact | Synonyms: common mood, declarative mood, fact mood, indicative, indicative mood |
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| defensive | (noun) an attitude of defensiveness | Synonyms: defensive attitude |
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| demonstrative | (noun) a pronoun that points out an intended referent | Synonyms: demonstrative pronoun |
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| depressive | (noun) someone suffering psychological depression | - |
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| derivative | (noun) the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx | Synonyms: derived function, differential, differential coefficient, first derivative |
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| (noun) (linguistics) a word that is derived from another word | - |
| (noun) a financial instrument whose value is based on another security | Synonyms: derivative instrument |
| (noun) a compound obtained from, or regarded as derived from, another compound | - |
| detective | (noun) a police officer who investigates crimes | Synonyms: investigator, police detective, tec |
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| (noun) an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public | - |
| determinative | (noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinant, determiner, determining factor |
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| (noun) one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases | Synonyms: determiner |
| digestive | (noun) any substance that promotes digestion | - |
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| diminutive | (noun) a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness | - |
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| directive | (noun) a pronouncement encouraging or banning some activity | - |
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| disincentive | (noun) a negative motivational influence | Synonyms: deterrence |
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| dive | (noun) a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft | Synonyms: nose dive, nosedive |
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| (noun) a headlong plunge into water | Synonyms: diving |
| (noun) a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall | Synonyms: honkytonk |
| drive | (noun) a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile) | Synonyms: ride |
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| (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, effort, movement |
| (noun) hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver | Synonyms: driving |
| (noun) the act of applying force to propel something | Synonyms: driving force, thrust |
| (noun) (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash) | - |
| (noun) the act of driving a herd of animals overland | - |
| (noun) a wide scenic road planted with trees | Synonyms: parkway |
| (noun) a road leading up to a private house | Synonyms: driveway, private road |
| (noun) a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine | - |
| (noun) (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium | - |
| (noun) the trait of being highly motivated | - |
| (noun) a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire | - |
| durative | (noun) the aspect of a verb that expresses its duration | Synonyms: durative aspect |
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| ejective | (noun) a type of consonant in some languages, e.g., Hausa, produced by sudden release of pressure from the glottis. | Synonyms: ejective consonant |
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| elective | (noun) a course that the student can select from among alternatives | Synonyms: elective course |
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| endive | (noun) variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges | Synonyms: chicory escarole, escarole |
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| (noun) widely cultivated herb with leaves valued as salad green; either curly serrated leaves or broad flat ones that are usually blanched | Synonyms: Cichorium endivia, witloof |
| exclusive | (noun) a news report that is reported first by one news organization | Synonyms: scoop |
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| executive | (noun) persons who administer the law | - |
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| (noun) a person responsible for the administration of a business | Synonyms: executive director |
| (noun) someone who manages a government agency or department | Synonyms: administrator |
| expletive | (noun) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger | Synonyms: curse, curse word, cuss, oath, swearing, swearword |
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| (noun) a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line | - |
| explosive | (noun) a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck | - |
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| five | (noun) a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips | Synonyms: five-spot |
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| (noun) a team that plays basketball | Synonyms: basketball team |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, fivesome, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintet, quintuplet, V |
| fixative | (noun) a varnish dissolved in alcohol and sprayed over pictures to prevent smudging | - |
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| (noun) a compound (such as ethanol or formaldehyde) that fixes tissues and cells for microscopic study | - |
| formative | (noun) minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function | - |
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| frequentative | (noun) a verb form that serves to express frequent repetition of an action | - |
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| fricative | (noun) a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract | Synonyms: fricative consonant, spirant |
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| fugitive | (noun) someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice | Synonyms: fugitive from justice |
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| (noun) someone who flees from an uncongenial situation | Synonyms: fleer, runaway |
| genitive | (noun) the case expressing ownership | Synonyms: genitive case, possessive, possessive case |
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| give | (noun) the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length | Synonyms: spring, springiness |
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| hive | (noun) a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees | Synonyms: beehive |
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| (noun) a teeming multitude | - |
| (noun) a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree | Synonyms: beehive |
| hypertensive | (noun) a person who has abnormally high blood pressure | - |
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| hypotensive | (noun) a person who has abnormally low blood pressure | - |
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| immunosuppressive | (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressant, immunosuppressive drug, immunosuppressor |
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| imperative | (noun) some duty that is essential and urgent | - |
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| (noun) a verb in the imperative mood. | Synonyms: imperative verb |
| (noun) a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior | Synonyms: imperative form, imperative mood, jussive mood |
| imperfective | (noun) aspect without regard to the beginning or completion of the action of the verb | Synonyms: imperfective aspect |
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| incentive | (noun) a positive motivational influence | Synonyms: inducement, motivator |
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| (noun) an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output | Synonyms: bonus |
| inchoative | (noun) aspect with regard to the beginning of the action of the verb | Synonyms: inchoative aspect |
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| indicative | (noun) a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact | Synonyms: common mood, declarative, declarative mood, fact mood, indicative mood |
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| infinitive | (noun) the uninflected form of the verb | - |
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| ingressive | (noun) a speech sound by which the airstream flows inward through the mouth or nose. | - |
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| initiative | (noun) the first of a series of actions | Synonyms: first step, opening, opening move |
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| (noun) readiness to embark on bold new ventures | Synonyms: enterprise, enterprisingness, go-ahead |
| intensive | (noun) a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies | Synonyms: intensifier |
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| interrogative | (noun) a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply | Synonyms: interrogation, interrogative sentence, question |
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| (noun) some linguists consider interrogative sentences to constitute a mood | Synonyms: interrogative mood |
| intransitive | (noun) a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object | Synonyms: intransitive verb, intransitive verb form |
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| invective | (noun) abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will | Synonyms: vitriol, vituperation |
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| iterative | (noun) the aspect of the verb that expresses the repetition of an action | Synonyms: iterative aspect |
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| jive | (noun) a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz | Synonyms: swing, swing music |
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| laxative | (noun) a mild cathartic | - |
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| lenitive | (noun) remedy that eases pain and discomfort | - |
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| locative | (noun) the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the place of the state or action denoted by the verb | Synonyms: locative role |
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| (noun) A case used to indicate place, or the place where, or wherein. | Synonyms: locative case |
| locomotive | (noun) a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks | Synonyms: engine, locomotive engine, railway locomotive |
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| missive | (noun) a written message addressed to a person or organization | Synonyms: letter |
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| motive | (noun) the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior | Synonyms: motivation, need |
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| (noun) a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration | Synonyms: motif |
| (noun) a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music | Synonyms: motif |
| narrative | (noun) a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program | Synonyms: narration, story, tale |
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| native | (noun) indigenous plants and animals | - |
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| (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aboriginal, aborigine, indigen, indigene |
| (noun) a person born in a particular place or country | - |
| negative | (noun) a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed | - |
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| (noun) a reply of denial | - |
| neoconservative | (noun) a conservative who subscribes to neoconservatism | Synonyms: neocon |
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| nominative | (noun) the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb | Synonyms: nominative case, subject case |
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| nosedive | (noun) a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft | Synonyms: dive, nose dive |
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| (noun) a sudden sharp drop or rapid decline | - |
| objective | (noun) the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed | Synonyms: object glass, object lens, objective lens |
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| (noun) the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable) | Synonyms: aim, object, target |