These are the meanings of the letters PERFORATIVE when you unscramble them.
- evaporite (unknown)
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- Operative (a.)
Based upon, or consisting of, an operation or operations; as, operative surgery.
- Operative (a.)
Having the power of acting; hence, exerting force, physical or moral; active in the production of effects; as, an operative motive.
- Operative (a.)
Producing the appropriate or designed effect; efficacious; as, an operative dose, rule, or penalty.
- Operative (n.)
A skilled worker; an artisan; esp., one who operates a machine in a mill or manufactory.
- Perforate (a.)
Alt. of Perforated
- Perforate (v.)
To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surface of.
- Privateer (n.)
An armed private vessel which bears the commission of the sovereign power to cruise against the enemy. See Letters of marque, under Marque.
- Privateer (n.)
The commander of a privateer.
- Privateer (v. i.)
To cruise in a privateer.
- profiteer (unknown)
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