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- VESICLEA membrane-bound compartment found in a cell.
- VIANDAn item of food.
- BRACKISHOf water, salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries.
- CADAVEROUSCorpselike; hinting of death; imitating a cadaver.
- CHANCERYIn England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it becam
- CONSUMPTIVEHaving a tendency to consume; dissipating; destructive; wasteful.
- GUNWALEThe top edge of the hull of a nautical vessel, at or above where the hull meets the deck.
- MISTRALA strong cold north-west wind in southern France and the Mediterranean.
- PURGATIVEpurging
- TUMBRILA kind of medieval torture device, later associated with a ducking stool.
- GADFLYAny dipterous (“two-winged”) insect or fly of the family Oestridae (commonly known as a botfly) or Tabanidae (horsefly), noted for irritating animals by buzzing about them, and bit
- EFFULGENTRadiant, resplendent, shining.
- GLOWTo emit heat and light without a flame.
- HELIOTROPEA plant with flowers which turn to face and follow the sun, such as marigolds and sunflowers.
- KITHFriends and acquaintances.
- PARSIMONYWith a negative connotation: great reluctance to spend money or other resources; miserliness, stinginess; an instance of this.
- PUGILISMFighting with fists.
- DERVISHAn itinerant Sufi mystic practicing voluntary poverty in devotion to God, and often engaging in ecstatic rituals.
- GLAIVEA light lance with a long, sharp-pointed head.
- GRAVLAXSalmon dry-cured in salt, seasoned with dill and sugar, and served usually thinly sliced as an appetizer.
- ABSCONDERA person who absconds.
- ANTIPYRETICThat reduces fever.
- ARCHAISTA person who studies archaic things; an antiquary
- AURIFYTo turn into gold.
- BANEFULPoisonous, deadly.
- BASALTICOf or pertaining to basalt.
- BIFOCALSSpectacles that have corrective lenses of two different powers; used by people who need both distance and reading glasses.
- BLOVIATETo speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner.
- BUMBLERSomeone who bumbles; a stumbler or blunderer.
- CENTRIFUGALLYAway from a centre or axis.
- CHERUBICOf, or relating to a cherub; angelic.
- CHOLATEAny salt or ester of cholic acid
- CORPULENTLYIn a corpulent manner.
- CORVIDPertaining to or resembling the Corvidae.
- CYANICOf cyanogen or its derivatives
- DUCTALOf, relating to, or originating in a duct.
- EFFULGENTLYIn an effulgent manner; brilliantly.
- EUPHONIAAny of the birds of the genus Euphonia.
- EXCORIATIONThe act of excoriating or flaying.
- FETIDLYIn a fetid manner.
- FIGGINGThe insertion of ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra, applied to people as a punishment (typically in BDSM), or to horses to make them deceptively lively (feaguing).
- FRATRICIDALOf or pertaining to fratricide.
- GLOAMClipping of gloaming (“twilight”).
- HYDROSCOPEA device for viewing objects below the surface of the water.
- HYGROSCOPEAn instrument that indicates changes in atmospheric humidity
- ICHOROUSResembling or relating to ichor.
- IMPISHLYIn an impish manner; mischievously.
- MATRICIDALRelating to matricide, the killing of a mother.
- MAWKISHExcessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
- MIASMICFilled with miasma; containing noxious vapors.
- NACREOUSOf, or resembling nacre (mother of pearl).
- NYCTOPHOBESomeone who is afraid of the night or darkness.
- NYCTOPHOBIAA fear of the night, nighttime, or darkness.
- OCCULTERAny object, natural or man-made, that blocks the light of an object from an observer, typically used in reference to astronomical events.
- PATINAEDHaving a patina.
- PATRICIDALOf or pertaining to patricide.
- PONTIFYTo pontificate.
- PRESCIENTLYIn a prescient manner.
- PRITHEEplease; used to make a question or request more polite or more forceful.
- PSIONICSMental powers, especially those under conscious control, that affect physical matter, such as telekinesis.
- RUNICOf, pertaining to, or written using runes.
- SCLEROTICOf or relating to the sclera of the eye.
- SETTEEA long seat with a back, made to accommodate several persons at once; a sofa.
- SHAMBOLICChaotic, disorganised or mismanaged.
- SINEWEDHaving sinews, or sinews of a particular type.
- SLUICEROne who sluices.
- TOTEMICALLYIn a totemic manner; with regard to totems.
- TURGIDLYIn a turgid manner.
- UNDERCROFTA cellar or vaulted storage room.
- VARIEGATEDStreaked, spotted, or otherwise marked with a variety of color.
- WENDIGOA malevolent and violent cannibal spirit found in Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, and Cree mythology, which is said to inhabit the body of a living person and possess him or her to commit mur
- WHIMSYA quaint and fanciful idea; a whim; playfully odd behaviour.
- WISTERIAAny of several woody climbing vines, of the genus Wisteria, native to the East Asian countries of China, Korea, and Japan and the eastern United States.