"Unoperative" is a word in ENGLISH

The producing of an unintended effect by the glancing of an instrument, as when a shot intended for A glances …

Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness …

To exert power; to produce an effect; as, the stomach acts upon food.

In Scotch law. These are either (1) actions of proper improbatiou for declaring a writing false or forged; (2) actions …

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal …

That system of medical practice which aims to combat disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from …

A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of …

Whatever tends to prevent mischievous effects, or to counteract evil which something else might produce.

A substance (sometimes the product of a specific micro-organism and sometimes naturally present in the blood or tissues of an …

A figure by which a speaker formally declines to take notice of a favorable point, but in such a manner …

A kind of etching in which spaces are bitten by the use of aqua fortis, by which an effect is …

To attack with moral means, or with a view of producing moral effects; to attack by words, arguments, or unfriendly …

To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; …

To produce as an effect; to cause to exist.

To subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as to produce some specific effect, as cooking, …

A colorless liquid, CHBr3, having an agreeable odor and sweetish taste. It is produced by the simultaneous action of bromine …

To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a …

To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic …

To produce as an effect of bursting; as, to burst a hole through the wall.