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- RESOLUTIONA firm decision or an official decision.
- SIPHUNCLEA strand of tissue passing longitudinally through the shell of a cephalopod, used primarily in emptying water from new chambers as the shell grows.
- TABESCENTWasting away, or becoming emaciated.
- TANDEMA carriage pulled by two or more draught animals (generally draught horses) harnessed one behind the other, both providing pulling power but only the animal in front being able to
- TEMULENCEDrunkenness; intoxication.
- TENEBRIFICProducing darkness, obscuring; gloomy.
- TENTIGOPenile erection or tumescence; especially, pathological erection (priapism).
- THEURGICOf, or pertaining to, theurgy.
- VACUITYEmptiness.
- VESTIGEA mark left on the earth by a foot.
- BEWRAYINGThe act or process of divulging or revealing information
- IMPORTUNELYIn an importune manner.
- UNWIELDYLacking strength; weak.
- UNWORTHYNot worthy; lacking value or merit; worthless.
- VARMINTA pestilent or predatory ground-borne animal, especially one that kills or harasses a farmer's animals or crops.
- WITCHINGOf or pertaining to witchcraft or sorcery, or to witches or sorcerers.
- FRUGALITYThe quality of being frugal; prudent economy.
- OXTAILThe tail of an ox or cow.
- ABRIa shelter; a cavity in a hillside; a shelter on the side of hill with an overhung rock as its roof
- DEFORCIANTOne who keeps out of possession the rightful owner of an estate.
- DESCRIVETo describe.
- DISCOVERTAn uncovered place or part.
- DISCUMBERTo disencumber.
- DISPARAGEInequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.
- DISPURVEYTo strip of provisions; to disfurnish.
- GOURMANDA person given to excess in the consumption of food and drink; a greedy or ravenous eater.
- INDORSEArchaic spelling of endorse.
- JARGONA technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
- SCHLUBA person who is clumsy, oafish, socially awkward, unattractive or unkempt.
- CORYPHAEUSThe conductor or leader of the chorus of a drama.
- DECLIVITYThe downward slope of a curve.
- ESURIENTVery greedy or hungry; ravenous; avid, eager.
- FRANGIBLEAble to be broken; breakable, fragile.
- HARMONYAgreement or accord.
- LANGUIDOf a person or animal, or their body functions: flagging from weakness, or inactive or weak, especially due to illness or tiredness; faint, listless.
- ODIUMHatred; dislike.
- POTABLEGood for drinking without fear of waterborne disease or poisoning.
- PYTHONICOf or pertaining to, or resembling, a python (“large constricting snake of the family Pythonidae”); pythonlike.
- SCONEA small, rich, pastry or quick bread, sometimes baked on a griddle.
- CAMISADOA nocturnal ambush or surprising act of aggression.
- DISEMBOGUETo come out into the open sea from a river etc.
- KNEIDLACHmatzo balls
- KREPLACHSmall dumplings of Eastern European origin, filled with meat or cheese and served usually in soup.
- SCHNOOKA person who is easily taken advantage of.
- ABASHEDLYIn an abashed manner.
- ABFARADA unit of capacitance equal to one billion (10) farads, used in the centimeter-gram-second system of units
- ABRIMBrimming, full to the brim.
- ACHONDRITEAny stony meteorite that contains no chondrules.
- ADJUNCTLYIn an adjunct manner.
- AERILYIn an aerial manner
- AGUISHCharacteristic of ague.
- AGUISHLYIn an aguish manner; as though suffering from ague.
- ALBUMENISENon-Oxford British English spelling of albumenize.
- AMYLOGENThe water-soluble part of granulose.
- AMYLOGENSThe water-soluble part of granulose.
- ANTHOLOGIZETo gather a collection of written works for publication.
- APHOTICHaving no light, especially no sunlight.
- APISHLYIn an apish manner; in the manner of an ape.
- ASTELICLacking steles.
- ATYPICALNot conforming to the normal type.
- BAPTISMALLYIn a baptismal way; through baptism.
- BAROPHILEAn organism that lives and thrives under high barometric pressure; a form of extremophile.
- BASIPETALLYIn a basipetal manner.
- BASOPHILIAThe condition of being basophilic (“easily stained with basic [high-pH] dyes”).
- BEDWARFTo make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of; to dwarf.
- BENTHICPertaining to the benthos; living on the seafloor, as opposed to floating in the ocean.
- BLASTODERMICOf or pertaining to the blastoderm.
- BLASTOGENICOf or pertaining to blastogenesis.
- BLASTOPORALPertaining to a blastopore; blastoporic.
- BLASTOPOREThe opening into the archenteron
- BLOCKHEADA stupid person.
- BUCKSHOTLead shot used in shotgun cartridges, made of larger pellets than birdshot and suitable for hunting larger game.
- BUTANOICOf or pertaining to butanoic acid or its derivatives
- CHAUVINISTPertaining to chauvinism.
- CHELIFORMHaving the form of a chela
- CHOKEDAMPA damp consisting chiefly of carbon dioxide, so called for its ability to asphyxiate.
- CLAVIGEROUSBearing a club.
- COLIPHAGEAny of several bacteriophages that can infect strains of the bacterium Escherichia coli
- CURDLETo form curds so that it no longer flows smoothly; to cause to form such curds. (usually said of milk)
- DACOITAGEdacoity
- DACTYLOGRAMA fingerprint.
- DACTYLOGRAPHA typewriter.
- DAUBINGLYSo as to daub or paint carelessly.
- DEBOUCHMENTThe point of debouch of a watercourse
- DEPLUMATIONThe stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.
- DESACRALIZETo remove the sacredness of.
- DEUTERICOf or pertaining to reactions of liquids derived from magma with the solidified rock from the same magma.
- DIACTINALHaving two rays.
- DIAPHANOUSLYIn a diaphanous manner.
- DIPLONEMAThe diplotene stage of meiosis.
- DISAVOUCHTo disavow.
- DISAVOWALA denial of knowledge, relationship, or responsibility towards something or someone.
- DISCERPIBLECapable of being discerped.
- DISEMVOWELTo remove the vowels from, for example, for the purpose of expurgating offensive words.
- DISENABLETo disable (render unable)
- DISENTAILTo free from entailment.
- DISENTRAILTo pull (something) out of the entrails.
- DISINTHRALAlternative spelling of disenthrall.
- DISTRAINEEOne who is distrained.
- DITROCHEANConsisting of two trochees.