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- ALEMBICAn early chemical apparatus, consisting of two retorts connected by a tube, used to purify substances by distillation.
- DULCIMERA stringed instrument, with strings stretched across a sounding board, usually trapezoidal, played by plucking on the strings (traditionally with a quill) or by tapping on them (in
- HORIZONThe visible horizontal line (in all directions) where the sky appears to meet the earth in the distance.
- MONARCHYA government in which sovereignty is embodied within a single, today usually hereditary head of state (whether as a figurehead or as a powerful ruler).
- PHOSGENEcarbonyl chloride
- TOPIARYOf, or relating to art of topiaries.
- TRAPEZIUSA large vertebrate skeletal muscle divided into an ascending, descending, and transverse portion, attaching the neck and central spine to the outer extremity of the scapula; it fun