| approximative | (adjective) not quite exact or correct | Synonyms: approximate, rough |
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| arbitrative | (adjective) relating to or having the authority to arbitrate | - |
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| archive | (noun) a depository containing historical records and documents | - |
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| (verb) put into an archive | Synonyms: file away |
| archives | (noun) collection of records especially about an institution | - |
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| argumentative | (adjective) given to or characterized by argument | - |
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| argumentatively | (adverb) in a disputatious manner | Synonyms: disputatiously |
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| arrive | (verb) reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress | Synonyms: come, get |
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| (verb) succeed in a big way; get to the top | Synonyms: get in, go far, make it |
| arrivederci | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, goodbye, sayonara, so long |
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| arriver | (noun) someone who arrives (or has arrived) | Synonyms: arrival, comer |
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| articulative | (adjective) of or relating to articulation | Synonyms: articulatory |
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| ascensive | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendant, ascendent |
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| assaultive | (adjective) disposed to attack | Synonyms: attacking |
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| assertive | (adjective) aggressively self-assured | Synonyms: self-asserting, self-assertive |
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| assertively | (adverb) in an assertive manner | - |
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| assertiveness | (noun) aggressive self-assurance; given to making bold assertions | Synonyms: self-assertiveness |
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| assimilative | (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilating, assimilatory |
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| (adjective) capable of mentally absorbing | - |
| assistive | (adjective) giving assistance | - |
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| associative | (adjective) characterized by or causing or resulting from the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination | Synonyms: associatory |
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| assuasive | (adjective) freeing from fear and anxiety | Synonyms: soothing |
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| assumptive | (adjective) accepted as real or true without proof | - |
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| (adjective) excessively forward | Synonyms: assuming, presumptuous |
| attentive | (adjective) (often followed by `to') giving care or attention | - |
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| (adjective) taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention | Synonyms: heedful, paying attention, thoughtful |
| attentively | (adverb) with attention; in an attentive manner | - |
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| attentiveness | (noun) the trait of being considerate and thoughtful of others | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being observant and paying attention | - |
| (noun) paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people) | Synonyms: heed, paying attention, regard |
| attractive | (adjective) pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm | - |
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| (adjective) having the properties of a magnet; the ability to draw or pull | - |
| (adjective) having power to arouse interest | - |
| attractively | (adverb) in a beautiful manner | Synonyms: beautifully |
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| attractiveness | (noun) sexual allure | - |
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| (noun) the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts | Synonyms: attraction |
| attributive | (adjective) of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify | Synonyms: prenominal |
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| attributively | (adverb) in an attributive manner | - |
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| auditive | (adjective) of or relating to the process of hearing | Synonyms: audile, auditory |
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| augmentative | (adjective) increasing or having the power to increase especially in size or amount or degree | - |
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| (adjective) intensifying by augmentation and enhancement | Synonyms: enhancive |
| authoritative | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authorised, authorized |
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| (adjective) having authority or ascendancy or influence | Synonyms: important |
| (adjective) of recognized authority or excellence | Synonyms: definitive |
| authoritatively | (adverb) in an authoritative and magisterial manner | Synonyms: magisterially |
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| automotive | (adjective) of or relating to motor vehicles | - |
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| (adjective) containing within itself the means of propulsion or movement | Synonyms: self-propelled, self-propelling |
| aversive | (adjective) tending to repel or dissuade | - |
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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 |
| benedictive | (adjective) expressing benediction | Synonyms: benedictory |
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| biodiversity | (noun) the diversity of plant and animal life in a particular habitat (or in the world as a whole) | - |
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| cabdriver | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabby, cabman, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taxidriver, taximan |
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| calculative | (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculating, conniving, scheming, shrewd |
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| calefactive | (adjective) serving to heat | Synonyms: calefactory |
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| capacitive | (adjective) of or relating to capacitance | - |
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| captive | (adjective) giving or marked by complete attention to | Synonyms: absorbed, engrossed, enwrapped, intent, rapt, wrapped |
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| (adjective) being in captivity | Synonyms: confined, imprisoned, jailed |
| (noun) an animal that is confined | - |
| (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 | - |
| caregiver | (noun) a person who is responsible for attending to the needs of a child or dependent adult | - |
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| (noun) a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability | Synonyms: health care provider, health professional, PCP, primary care provider |
| carminative | (adjective) relieving gas in the alimentary tract (colic or flatulence or griping) | Synonyms: flatus-relieving |
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| (noun) medication that prevents the formation of gas in the alimentary tract or eases its passing | - |
| causative | (adjective) producing an effect | - |
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| chemisorptive | (adjective) having the capacity to adsorb by chemical as contrasted with physical forces | Synonyms: chemosorptive |
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| chemoreceptive | (adjective) of or relating to chemoreceptors | - |
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| chemosorptive | (adjective) having the capacity to adsorb by chemical as contrasted with physical forces | Synonyms: chemisorptive |
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| chive | (noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chives, cive, schnittlaugh |
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| chives | (noun) cylindrical leaves used fresh as a mild onion-flavored seasoning | - |
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| (noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chive, cive, schnittlaugh |
| chylifactive | (adjective) producing or converting into chyle | Synonyms: chylifactory, chylific |
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| circulative | (adjective) of or relating to circulation | Synonyms: circulatory |
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| cive | (noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chive, chives, schnittlaugh |
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| civet | (noun) cat-like mammal typically secreting musk used in perfumes | Synonyms: civet cat |
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| clivers | (noun) annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia | Synonyms: catchweed, cleavers, Galium aparine, goose grass, spring cleavers |
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| coercive | (adjective) serving or intended to coerce | - |
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| coextensive | (adjective) being of equal extent or scope or duration | Synonyms: conterminous, coterminous |
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| cogitative | (adjective) of or relating to having capacities for cogitation | - |
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| (adjective) given to cogitation | - |
| cognitive | (adjective) of or being or relating to or involving cognition | - |
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| cognitively | (adverb) with regard to cognition | - |
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| cohesive | (adjective) causing cohesion | - |
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| (adjective) cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated | - |
| cohesiveness | (noun) the property of being cohesive and sticky | Synonyms: glueyness, gluiness, gumminess, ropiness, tackiness, viscidity, viscidness |
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| (noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherence, coherency, cohesion |
| collaborative | (adjective) accomplished by collaboration | - |
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| collective | (adjective) forming a whole or aggregate | - |
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| (adjective) done by or characteristic of individuals acting together | Synonyms: corporate |
| (adjective) set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government | - |
| (noun) members of a cooperative enterprise | - |
| collectively | (adverb) in conjunction with; combined | Synonyms: conjointly, jointly, together with |
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| collusive | (adjective) acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end | Synonyms: conniving |
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| combative | (adjective) having or showing a ready disposition to fight | Synonyms: battleful, bellicose |
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| (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: contentious, disputatious, disputative, litigious |
| (adjective) striving to overcome in argument | Synonyms: agonistic, agonistical |
| combatively | (adverb) in a bellicose contentious manner | Synonyms: scrappily |
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| combativeness | (noun) a militant aggressiveness | Synonyms: militance, militancy |
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| combinative | (adjective) marked by or relating to or resulting from combination | Synonyms: combinatory |
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| (adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinatorial, combinatory |
| combustive | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburant, comburent |
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| commemorative | (adjective) intended as a commemoration | Synonyms: commemorating |
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| (noun) an object (such as a coin or postage stamp) made to mark an event or honor a person | - |
| commiserative | (adjective) feeling or expressing sympathy | - |
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| communicative | (adjective) able or tending to communicate | Synonyms: communicatory |
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| (adjective) of or relating to communication | - |
| communicativeness | (noun) the trait of being communicative | - |
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| commutative | (adjective) (of a binary operation) independent of order; as in e.g. "a x b = b x a" | - |
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| comparative | (adjective) estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete | Synonyms: relative |
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| (adjective) relating to or based on or involving comparison | - |
| (noun) the comparative form of an adjective or adverb | Synonyms: comparative degree |
| comparatively | (adverb) in a relative manner; by comparison to something else | Synonyms: relatively |
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| competitive | (adjective) involving competition or competitiveness | Synonyms: competitory |
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| (adjective) showing a fighting disposition | Synonyms: militant |
| (adjective) subscribing to capitalistic competition | Synonyms: free-enterprise, private-enterprise |
| competitively | (adverb) in competition | - |
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| competitiveness | (noun) an aggressive willingness to compete | Synonyms: fight |
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| complaintive | (adjective) expressing pain or dissatisfaction of resentment | Synonyms: complaining |
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| comprehensive | (adjective) including all or everything | - |
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| (adjective) broad in scope | - |
| (noun) an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge | Synonyms: comp, comprehensive examination |
| comprehensively | (adverb) in an all-inclusive manner | - |
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| comprehensiveness | (noun) the capacity to understand a broad range of topics | Synonyms: breadth, largeness |
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| (noun) completeness over a broad scope | Synonyms: fullness |
| compulsive | (adjective) strongly motivated to succeed | Synonyms: determined, driven |
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| (adjective) caused by or suggestive of psychological compulsion | - |
| (noun) a person with a compulsive disposition; someone who feels compelled to do certain things | - |
| compulsively | (adverb) in a compulsive manner | Synonyms: obsessionally, obsessively |
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| compulsiveness | (noun) the trait of acting compulsively | Synonyms: compulsivity |
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| conceive | (verb) become pregnant; undergo conception | - |
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| (verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: believe, consider, think |
| (verb) have the idea for | Synonyms: conceptualise, conceptualize, gestate |
| conceiver | (noun) someone who creates new things | Synonyms: mastermind, originator |
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| conceptive | (adjective) capable of conceiving | Synonyms: impregnable |
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| concessive | (adjective) of or pertaining to concession | - |
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| conciliative | (adjective) intended to placate | Synonyms: conciliatory |
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| conclusive | (adjective) forming an end or termination; especially putting an end to doubt or question | - |
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| conclusively | (adverb) in a conclusive way | Synonyms: once and for all |
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| conclusiveness | (noun) the quality of being final or definitely settled | Synonyms: decisiveness, finality |
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| conducive | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: contributing, contributive, contributory, tributary |
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| conductive | (adjective) having the quality or power of conducting heat or electricity or sound; exhibiting conductivity | - |
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| confederative | (adjective) united in a confederacy or league | Synonyms: allied, confederate |
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| confirmative | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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