These are the meanings of the letters FORMICATIVE when you unscramble them.
- Formative (a.)
Capable of growth and development; germinal; as, living or formative matter.
- Formative (a.)
Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts.
- Formative (a.)
Serving to form; derivative; not radical; as, a termination merely formative.
- Formative (n.)
A word formed in accordance with some rule or usage, as from a root.
- Formative (n.)
That which serves merely to give form, and is no part of the radical, as the prefix or the termination of a word.
- Fricative (a.)
Produced by the friction or rustling of the breath, intonated or unintonated, through a narrow opening between two of the mouth organs; uttered through a close approach, but not with a complete closure, of the organs of articulation, and hence capable of being continued or prolonged; -- said of certain consonantal sounds, as f, v, s, z, etc.
- Fricative (n.)
A fricative consonant letter or sound. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 197-206, etc.