Word Meanings - IRRITATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Exciting; producing irritation; irritating. Hales.
Related words: (words related to IRRITATORY)
- PRODUCIBILITY
The quality or state of being producible. Barrow. - EXCITO-MOTION
Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory. - EXCITABLE
Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated. - EXCITING
Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story. -- Ex*cit"ing*ly, adv. Exciting causes , those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisposing causes. - PRODUCEMENT
Production. - EXCITATION
The act of producing excitement ; also, the excitement produced. (more info) 1. The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening. Bacon. - EXCITABILITY
The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability. (more info) 1. The quality of being readily excited; - EXCITATOR
A kind of discarder. - EXCITATE
To excite. Bacon. - EXCITEFUL
Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman. - PRODUCTIVITY
The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge. - PRODUCTUS
An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks. - IRRITATION
The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; esp., the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial - IRRITATE
To render null and void. Abp. Bramhall. - EXCITO-NUTRIENT
Exciting nutrition; said of the reflex influence by which the nutritional processes are either excited or modified. - EXCITO-SECRETORY
Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action. - PRODUCTILE
Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile. - PRODUCER
A furnace for producing combustible gas which is used for fuel. (more info) 1. One who produces, brings forth, or generates. 2. One who grows agricultural products, or manufactures crude materials into articles of use. - PRODUCENT
One who produces, or offers to notice. Ayliffe. - PRODUCTRESS
A female producer. - COUNTERIRRITANT; COUNTERIRRITATION
See A - NYMPHALES
An extensive family of butterflies including the nymphs, the satyrs, the monarchs, the heliconias, and others; -- called also brush-footed butterflies. - OVERPRODUCTION
Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill. - REPRODUCTORY
Reproductive. - INIRRITATIVE
Not accompanied with excitement; as, an inirritative fever. E. Darwin. - SINGHALESE
See CINGALESE - REPRODUCER
One who, or that which, reproduces. Burke.