English words containing riva:

Meanings of Privatistic:

adjective

Concerned with ideas or issues only in so far as they affect one as an individual; self-interested, individualistic.

Meanings of Privative:

adjective

(of an action or state) marked by the absence or loss of some quality or attribute that is normally present.

Usage examples:

Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat.

Meanings of Privatively:

adverb

By the removal of something; negatively; by way of negation or absence.

Meanings of Privatization:

noun

The transfer of a business, industry, or service from public to private ownership and control.

Usage examples:

The workers are opposing the privatization of the national rail company

Meanings of Privatize:

verb

Transfer (a business, industry, or service) from public to private ownership and control.

Usage examples:

They were opposed to plans to privatize electricity and water

Meanings of Privatized:

verb

Transfer (a business, industry, or service) from public to private ownership and control.

Usage examples:

They were opposed to plans to privatize electricity and water

Meanings of Privatizing:

verb

Transfer (a business, industry, or service) from public to private ownership and control.

Usage examples:

They were opposed to plans to privatize electricity and water

Meanings of Quadrivalence:

noun

Tetravalence.

Meanings of Quadrivalency:

noun

Tetravalence.

Meanings of Quadrivalent:

adjective

Another term for tetravalent.

Meanings of Quadrivalve:

adjective

Of a vaginal speculum: having four valves.

Meanings of Quadrivalvular:

adjective

Having four valves; (medicine) involving or affecting all four valves of the heart.

Meanings of Rearrival:

noun

The action of arriving again; a second or further arrival.

Meanings of Rederivation:

noun

A second or new derivation.

Meanings of Reprivatization:

noun

The action or process of returning a previously nationalized business, industry, or service to private ownership and control; an instance of this.

Meanings of Reprivatize:

verb

To return (a previously nationalized business, industry, or service) to private ownership and control. compare "privatize".

Meanings of Riva:

noun

A pavement running alongside a venetian canal. also more generally: any waterfront or promenade.

Meanings of Rivage:

noun

A coast, a shore; a riverbank. now rare (chiefly poetic in later use).

Meanings of Rivages:

noun

A coast, a shore; a riverbank. now rare (chiefly poetic in later use).

Meanings of Rival:

noun

A person or thing competing with another for the same objective or for superiority in the same field of activity.

Usage examples:

He has no serious rival for the job

verb

Be or seem to be equal or comparable to.

Usage examples:

He was a photographer whose fame rivalled that of his subjects

Meanings of Rivaled:

verb

Be or seem to be equal or comparable to.

Usage examples:

He was a photographer whose fame rivalled that of his subjects

noun

A person or thing competing with another for the same objective or for superiority in the same field of activity.

Usage examples:

He has no serious rival for the job

Meanings of Rivaling:

verb

Be or seem to be equal or comparable to.

Usage examples:

He was a photographer whose fame rivalled that of his subjects

noun

A person or thing competing with another for the same objective or for superiority in the same field of activity.

Usage examples:

He has no serious rival for the job

Meanings of Rivalism:

noun

Rivalry; competitiveness.

Meanings of Rivality:

noun

Rivalry, competition; an instance of this.

Meanings of Rivalize:

verb

With in, with. to enter into rivalry; to compete.