Word Meanings - RISORIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or producing, laughter; as, the risorial muscles.

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• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• LAUGHTER
  A movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• 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.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• RISORIAL
  Pertaining to, or producing, laughter; as, the risorial muscles.
• 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.
• LAUGHTERLESS
  Not laughing; without laughter.
• PRODUCTRESS
  A female producer.
• PRODUCER'S SURPLUS; PRODUCER'S RENT
  Any profit above the normal rate of interest and wages accruing to a producer on account of some monopoly of the means or materials of production; -- called also Producer's rent.
• PRODUCT
  The number or sum obtained by adding one number or quantity to itself as many times as there are units in another number; the number resulting from the multiplication of two or more numbers; as, the product of the multiplication of 7 by 5 is 35.
• PRODUCTION
  1. The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness. 2. That which is produced, yielded, or made, whether naturally, or by the application of intelligence and labor; as, the
• PRODUCTIBILITY
  The state of being productible; producibility. Ruskin.
• PRODUCTIBLE
  Capable of being produced; producible.
• PRODUCIBLE
  Capable of being produced, brought forward, brought forth, generated, made, or extended. -- Pro*du"ci*ble*ness, n.
• PRODUCER'S GOODS
  Goods that satisfy wants only indirectly as factors in the production of other goods, such as tools and raw material; -- called also instrumental goods, auxiliary goods, intermediate goods, or goods of the second and higher orders, and disting.
• PRODUCE RACE
  A race to be run by the produce of horses named or described at the time of entry.
• SLAUGHTERHOUSE
  A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
• OVERPRODUCTION
  Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.
• REPRODUCTORY
  Reproductive.
• MANSLAUGHTER
  The unlawful killing of a man, either in negligenc (more info) 1. The slaying of a human being; destruction of men. Milton.
• REPRODUCER
  One who, or that which, reproduces. Burke.
• REPRODUCE
  To produce again. Especially: To bring forward again; as, to reproduce a witness; to reproduce charges; to reproduce a play. To cause to exist again. Those colors are unchangeable, and whenever all those rays with those their colors are mixed again
• SELF-SLAUGHTER
  Suicide. Shak.
• SLAUGHTEROUS
  Destructive; murderous. Shak. M. Arnold. -- Slaugh"ter*ous*ly, adv.