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- BEZOARA mass, usually of hair or undigested vegetable matter, found in a human or animal's intestines, similar to a hairball.
- KHEDIVEThe title of the hereditary monarch of Egypt from 1805–1914, nominally ruling as a viceroy of the Sultan of Turkey.
- BEADLEA parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order.
- BEDIZENTo dress or ornament (someone or something), especially in a gaudy, showy, or tasteless manner.
- DRAYAny of various forms of low horse-drawn cart or wagon, often without sides or with removable sides, and used especially for heavy loads.
- MORGANATICDesignating a marriage (or the wife involved) between a man of higher rank and a woman of lower rank, often having various legal repercussions (typically that such a wife has no cl
- STOUPA bucket.
- SWARDEarth which grass has grown into the upper layer of; greensward, sod, turf; a portion of such earth.
- SWARFThe waste chips or shavings from an abrasive activity, such as metalworking, a saw cutting wood, or the use of a grindstone or whetstone.
- SWIVETo have sex with (someone).
- WAULKto make cloth (especially tweed in Scotland) denser and more felt-like by soaking and beating.
- WEFTThe horizontal threads that are interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric.
- WICKETA small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one.
- ANIMAThe soul or animating principle of a living thing, especially as contrasted with the animus.
- ASPERITYThe quality of having a rough or uneven surface; roughness, unevenness; a protruding or rough area or point on a surface; a protrusion.
- BIGHTA corner, bend, or angle; a hollow
- BOURNEA boundary; a limit.
- CLEWA roughly spherical mass or body.
- COVEYA brood or family of partridges (family Phasianidae), which includes game birds such as grouse (tribe Tetraonini) and ptarmigans (tribe Tetraonini, genus Lagopus).
- HANDFASTA hold, grasp; custody, power of confining or keeping.
- HEDDLEA component in a loom, being one of a number of similar components, through the eye of each of which a distinct strand of the warp is threaded.
- LEXICONThe vocabulary of a language.
- OASTA kiln for drying tobacco, malt and especially hops.
- ONAGERThe Asiatic wild ass or hemione (Equus hemionus), an animal of the horse family native to Asia; specifically, the Persian onager, Persian wild ass, or Persian zebra (Equus hemionus
- PAEANA chant or song, especially a hymn of thanksgiving for deliverance or victory, to Apollo or sometimes another god or goddess; hence any song sung to solicit victory in battle.
- POMACEThe pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil.
- PRATETalk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity.
- PYTHONICOf or pertaining to, or resembling, a python (“large constricting snake of the family Pythonidae”); pythonlike.
- SEELGood; fortunate; opportune; happy.
- SNOODA band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place, including the hair-band formerly worn in Scotland and northern England by young unmarried women.
- SOUGHTo make a soft rustling or murmuring sound.
- SPILEA splinter.
- SUBORNTo induce (someone) to commit an unlawful or malicious act, especially in a corrupt manner.
- SWAINA young man or boy in service; a servant.
- SWARTOf a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
- VULPINEPertaining to a fox.
- WAINA wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.
- WEALDA forest or wood.
- WHINGETo whine; to complain, especially in an annoying or persistent manner.
- WIGHTA living creature, especially a human being.
- WROTHFull of anger; wrathful.
- VOIVODEA local ruler or official in various parts of central and eastern Europe, especially early semi-independent rulers of Transylvania.
- PLENUMA space that is completely filled with matter.
- PHAGEA virus that is parasitic on bacteria.
- WEIRAn adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream.
- BASTINADOA blow with a cudgel or stick.
- CENOTEA deep natural well or sinkhole, especially in Mexico and Central America, formed by the collapse of surface limestone that exposes groundwater underneath, and sometimes used by th
- HACKAMOREA kind of bridle with no bit.
- PICAROONA pirate or picaro.
- VAQUEROA cowboy; a herdsman.
- CRWTHAn archaic stringed instrument associated particularly with Wales, though once played widely in Europe, and characterized by a vaulted back and enough space for the player to stop
- PALFREYA small horse with a smooth, ambling gait, popular in the Middle Ages with nobles and women for riding (contrasted with a warhorse).
- ANKYLOSEDsimple past and past participle of ankylose
- AQUIFERAn underground layer of water-bearing porous stone, earth, or gravel.
- AQUIFEROUSOf or pertaining to an aquifer
- AZIDEthe univalent N3 radical or functional group or any ester containing this group
- BAUXITEThe principal ore of aluminium; a clay-like mineral, being a mixture of hydrated oxides and hydroxides.
- BIPHASICHaving two phases.
- BLOWSYHaving a reddish, coarse complexion, especially with a pudgy face.
- BOULTEROne who boults or sifts.
- BRANGLEA squabble.
- CAPTIOUSLYIn a captious manner.
- CHORDATEA member of the phylum Chordata; numerous animals having a notochord at some stage of their development; in vertebrates this develops into the spine.
- CHORINEA female chorus line dancer; a chorus girl.
- CHUNTERTo speak in a soft, indistinct manner, mutter.
- CTENOPHOREAny of various marine animals of the phylum Ctenophora, having lucent, mucilaginous bodies bearing eight rows of comblike cilia used for swimming.
- DICOTA plant whose seedlings have two cotyledons, a dicotyledon.
- DIGRAPHA directed graph.
- DIGRAPHICOf or pertaining to a digraph.
- DIPHASICHaving, or occurring in, two phases.
- DIPOLEAny object (such as a magnet, polar molecule or antenna) that is oppositely charged at two points (or poles).
- DORYA small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.
- DROGUEA floating object attached to the end of a harpoon line to slow a whale down and prevent it from diving.
- DUCTILITYAbility of a material to be drawn out longitudinally to a reduced section without fracture under the action of a tensile force.
- DYSTROPHICAffected with dystrophy
- ENCYSTTo enclose within a cyst.
- ENDUESenses relating to covering or putting on. Of a person or thing: to take on (a different form); to adopt, to assume. To put on (a piece of clothing, etc.); to wear; also (followed
- EPHEBICPertaining to a young man or to early manhood, especially in Ancient Greek contexts.
- EPOCHALOf or pertaining to an epoch.
- EUKARYOTICHaving complex cells in which the genetic material is organized into membrane-bound nuclei.
- FERVIDITYThe quality of being fervid.
- GASKINTrousers, hose.
- GAZEHOUNDSynonym of sighthound (“a hound that primarily hunts by sight and speed, instead of by scent and endurance”).
- HEPTAGONALHaving seven angles and sides.
- ICHOROUSResembling or relating to ichor.
- JALOPYAn old, dilapidated or unpretentious automobile.
- KAVAAny member of the species Piper methysticum, a plant from the South Pacific.
- KHANATEThe polity ruled by a khan, comprising one or more tribes or clans; a state or dominion ruled by this polity; its territory.
- KIVAA ceremonial underground chamber in a Pueblo village.
- LAPPETA small decorative fold or flap, especially of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress.
- LAPSTRAKEA style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.
- LEUKOCYTEAny of a class of blood cells that play various roles in cell-mediated immunity.
- MAWKISHExcessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
- MINGYMean, miserly, stingy.
- NYCTOPHOBIAA fear of the night, nighttime, or darkness.
- NYCTOPHOBICAfflicted with nyctophobia; fearful of the dark or of night.
- OOCYTEA cell that develops into an egg or ovum; a female gametocyte.
- PEAVYA tool used to manipulate logs, having a thick wooden handle, a steel point, and a curved hooked arm. Similar to a cant-hook, but shorter and stouter, and with a pointed end.
- PEEWITAny of several birds: northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) laughing gull (Xema ridibundus) pewee or peewee A magpie-lark (Grallina cyanoleuca).
- PHOTICOf, related to, or irradiated by light. Describing that part of the near-surface ocean in which photosynthesis is possible.