Phrase Hound found 14 phrases and 23 compound words that contain destructive. The most common are listed below. Open destructive in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 14
- self-destructiveCausing injury to oneself or harm to one's interests.
- destructive criticismAny type of criticism that is intended to harm someone, to derogate and destroy someone’s creation, prestige, reputation and self-esteem.
- non-destructiveAlternative form of nondestructive: That does not result in destruction or damage.
- destructive interferenceWhen two waves meet and their crests and troughs cancel each other out, resulting in a smaller wave or no wave at all, occurring when they are out of phase (180 degrees apart), like noise-canceling headphones using opposite sound waves to …
- destructive distillationThe heating of a material, such as coal or wood, in an inert atmosphere, at a high temperature such as to cause decomposition; the principal products include oils and tars from which many useful organic compounds may be obtained; town gas …
- destructive readA read operation that inherently erases the data that was read, requiring it to be immediately written back to the storage medium to prevent loss of data.
- destructive soritesA form of reductio ad absurdum which involves the denial of the first of a series of dependent propositions as a consequence of the denial of the last.
- destructive readsplural of destructive read: A read operation that inherently erases the data that was read, requiring it to be immediately written back to the storage medium to prevent loss of data.
- destructive criticismsplural of destructive criticism: Any type of criticism that is intended to harm someone, to derogate and destroy someone’s creation, prestige, reputation and self-esteem.
- destructive backspaceA backspace that erases the character at the previous position, in addition to moving the cursor.
- destructive backspacesplural of destructive backspace: A backspace that erases the character at the previous position, in addition to moving the cursor.
- destructive distillationsplural of destructive distillation: The heating of a material, such as coal or wood, in an inert atmosphere, at a high temperature such as to cause decomposition; the principal products include oils and tars from which many useful organic …
- non-destructive readA read operation that does not erase the data being read in the process of reading it.
- non-destructive readsplural of non-destructive read: A read operation that does not erase the data being read in the process of reading it.
Compound words 23
- autodestructiveSelf-destroying; self-destructive.
- antidestructiveOpposing or preventing destruction.
- undestructiveNot destructive; helpful.
- angiodestructiveRelating to, or causing angiodestruction
- cyclodestructiveThat causes damage to the ciliary body in order to reduce watering as a result of glaucoma
- cytodestructiveRelating to, or causing cytodestruction
- destructivismAn art movement that involves destroying objects in front of spectators.
- destructivistA representative of destructive principles, as in biblical criticism.
- destructivitydestructiveness
- hyperdestructiveExceptionally destructive