"Retentive" is a word in ENGLISH

To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a …

To receive with approval or satisfaction; to receive with intent to retain. Also, in the capacity of drawee of a …

A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.

adá-áda - To receive in trust, to acquire with the prospect of ultimate ownership, to have some property provisionally settled …

A term used ln the ecclesiastical law to denote the introns of churches who presented to the liv-ing on an …

The impression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also …

An air sac, sometimes double or variously lobed, in the visceral cavity of many fishes. It originates in the same …

An ancient name of England, still retained in poetry.

A repetition of the last word or any prominent word in a sentence or clause, at the beginning of the …

A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, …

In medical jurisprudence. Loss of the faculty or power of articulate speech; a condition In which the patient, while retaining …

Loss of the power of speaking, while retaining the power of writing; -- a disorder of cerebral origin.

balásan - To bespeak, speak to, warn, forewarn, inform beforehand of a secret plan, a hidden scheme and the like. …

Plates or blades of \"whalebone,\" from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales …

Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the …

To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden …

Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and …

A large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used to retain a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. …

The distinguishing mark worn by an armed knight, usually upon the helmet, and by his retainers and followers: Hence, in …

A small nodule or cystic tumor, common on the nose, etc., which on pressure allows the escape of a yellow …