insertive

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
12
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14
Letters
9

Definition of insertive

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Of or relating to insertion, especially in regard to sexual acts.
    “The insertive partner or the receptive one?”
    “It is possible that a larger proportion of infections may be attributable to insertive anal intercourse at this time compared to earlier in the epidemic.”
    “Insertive interdisciplinary applications are an important element in the development and longevity of a school of thought, a fact that PKE seems to have missed.”
    “The Ln-N s-bond insertive mechanism prevails for the examined intramolecular hydroamination of (4E,6)-heptadienylamine 1t by [Cp*(2)La-CH(TMS)(2)] starting material 2.”

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Etymology

From insert + -ive.

Anagrams of insertive

2 plays · some not in Scrabble

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