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Est. 1828
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'fricative'
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3 syllables

  • disjunctive
  • fixative
  • primitive
  • privative
  • inchoative
  • leitmotiv
  • liberative
  • dilative
  • kishinev
  • ligative
  • scribblative

4 syllables

  • acquisitive
  • derivative
  • diminutive
  • inhibitive
  • initiative
  • irritative
  • prohibitive
  • retributive
  • cogitative
  • colligative
  • contributive
  • combinative
  • conciliative
  • designative
  • entitative
  • estimative
  • excitative
  • exhibitive
  • incipiative
  • opiniative
  • propitiative
  • unprimitive

5 syllables

  • deliberative
  • the initiative
  • continuative
  • annihilative
  • commiserative
  • complete primitive
  • first derivative
  • nonacquisitive
  • nonderivative
  • subderivative
  • underivative

6 syllables

  • antiderivative
  • aeroderivative
  • direct initiative
  • lost the initiative
  • partial derivative
  • second derivative
  • seize the initiative
  • take the initiative

7 syllables

  • indirect initiative
  • on her own initiative
  • on his own initiative
  • on its own initiative
  • on my own initiative
  • on one's own initiative
  • on their own initiative
  • on your own initiative
  • primary derivative

8 syllables

  • on our own initiative
  • secondary derivative

9 syllables

  • purified protein derivative

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  • weakening
  • stop
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  • approach
  • energy
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  • moderato
  • initialism
  • retroflex
  • wahs
  • participle
  • assonance
  • nisi
  • adown
  • bilabial
  • vocalisation
  • intensifier
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