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- BEMUDTo cover, bespatter, or befoul with mud.
- HYMNODICOf or pertaining to hymnody.
- SCHOLAOriginally, a musical school attached to a monastery or church. Also known as a schola cantorum.
- BECURSETo cover with curses; curse all over.
- KABBALISMAlternative form of cabalism.
- MITISA process for producing malleable iron castings by melting wrought iron, to which from 0.05 to 0.1 per cent of aluminum is added to lower the melting point, usually in a petroleum
- VOLUNTARISTSomeone who endorses voluntarism.
- BEMISTTo cover or envelop with mist, or as with mist.
- DORMITIVECausing sleep.
- ISOLEXAn isogloss indicating where a certain word is used.
- OOGAMETEThe female gamete; the egg cell or oosphere.
- BEPLASTERTo plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub (with something).
- BETAKETo take over to; take across (to); deliver.
- BURSATEHaving a bursa.
- LAZARETSynonym of lazaretto. A place reserved for people with infectious diseases (especially leprosy or plague) to live on a long-term basis. A building such as a hospital, or occasional
- NITWITA scatterbrained or stupid person.
- NUNCLEUncle.
- RETOOLTo adjust; to optimize; to rebuild.
- UNSMOOTHNot smooth; rough.
- URBANIZETo make something more urban in character.
- AMORISTSomeone who is in love.
- DELECTTo delight.
- FERLY
- ISOGONAn equiangular polygon.
- KYLOESplural of kyloe
- LUSTRAplural of lustrum
- NOESISCognition, the functioning of intellect.
- TUMULARof, pertaining to, or shaped like a tumulus (heap or hillock).
- ASEITYThe attribute of being entirely self-derived, in contrast to being derived from or dependent on another; the quality of having within oneself the entire reason for one's being; utt
- PILIATEDHaving pili
- SODOMIZEAmerican and Oxford British English standard spelling of sodomise.
- VULTURISMThe quality of being like a vulture; rapaciousness.
- MEREOLOGYThe discipline which deals with the relationship of parts with their respective wholes.
- SODOMITICEngaging in sodomy; characterised by or involving sodomy.
- BEHOWLTo howl at.
- CONATIVEOf or pertaining to a striving action.
- DEMARCHEAlternative spelling of démarche.
- FJELDA rocky, barren plateau, especially in Scandinavia.
- LAZULIEllipsis of lapis lazuli.
- MELIORISTA proponent of meliorism
- NUMENA divinity, especially a local or presiding god.
- ANAGRAMA word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
- ISOGONICDescribing imaginary lines connecting points on the Earth's surface of identical magnetic declination.
- LAYOVERA break between stages of a journey.
- LAZURITEA mineral of metamorphosed limestones. Lazurite forms the gemstone lapis lazuli, and crushed lazurite provided the ultramarine color in artists' paint of the Old Masters. Sodalite
- OOGAMYA form of anisogamy (heterogamy) in which the female gamete (e.g. ovum) is significantly larger than the male gamete (sperm) and is non-motile.
- UNBARETo lay bare; to expose.
- EPAXIALLocated above and behind an axis (typically a midline)
- GONADECTOMYA procedure to remove one or more ovaries or testes.
- HETERONOMYThe political subjection of a community to the rule of another power or to an external law.
- PULVERATION
- RITUALISEDsimple past and past participle of ritualise
- SEXAGONALSynonym of hexagonal.
- DODDERTo shake or tremble as one moves, especially as of old age or childhood; to totter.
- DOTISHfoolish
- HORMONEAny substance produced by one tissue and conveyed by the bloodstream to another to effect physiological activity.
- JAILORAlternative spelling of jailer.
- SOMNOLENTDrowsy or sleepy.
- SUPERATETo rise above; to overtop; to cover.
- TECTONISMThe deformation of the Earth's crust due to tectonic activity.
- BESMEARTo smear over, to smear all over, to daub.
- LUSTRUMA lustration: a ceremonial purification of the people of Rome performed every five years after the census.
- CABERNETCabernet Sauvignon, a wine.
- DONATISM
- EPHOROne of the five annually-elected senior magistrates in various Dorian states, especially in ancient Sparta, where they oversaw the actions of Spartan kings.
- FIDEISMThe doctrine that faith is the basis of all knowledge.
- HETEROGAMOUSin which the stamens and pistils are not present in every flower; i.e. there are male and female flowers in the daisy family Asteraceae, having two types of flowers in a flower hea
- PARACLETEAn advocate or helper.
- RUMINANTChewing cud.
- FABULISEAlternative form of fabulize.
- FIGURATEForming a figure.
- HYLOIDAny frog of the superfamily Hyloidea
- LEVITE
- MOONSCAPEA view of an area of the Moon.
- ROGATIONA deeply serious and somber prayer or entreaty.
- SIGNOREA courtesy title for Italian men.
- NECROSEDsimple past and past participle of necrose
- SUBLUNARSituated beneath the Moon.
- WEIRDESTsuperlative form of weird: most weird (weird + -est)
- ZYGONIn the cerebrum, a short crossbar fissure that connects the two pairs of branches of a larger zygal (H-shaped) fissure.
- DRACONISMAlternative form of dragonism.
- LICKSPITSynonym of lickspittle.
- MARGINThe edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc.
- ARCANASpecialized knowledge that is mysterious to the uninitiated.
- DOSIMETRICOf or pertaining to dosimetry.
- LUCUBRATIONIntense and prolonged study or meditation; especially, late at night.
- ULCERATEHaving an ulcus, a rounded pore-like aperture, at one or both poles.
- BOYARA member of a rank of aristocracy (second only to princes) in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Serbia and Romania.
- DEPLANETo disembark from an airplane.
- DORMITIONThe process of falling asleep.
- LUCUBRATETo work diligently by artificial light; to study at night.
- OOGENETICOf or pertaining to oogenesis.
- VULTURISHLike a vulture; rapacious.
- ANNUITYA right to receive amounts of money regularly over a certain fixed period, in perpetuity, or, especially, over the remaining life or lives of one or more beneficiaries.
- LOCAVORE
- LUBRICATETo make slippery or smooth (normally to minimize friction) by applying a lubricant.
- MELIORATETo make better; to improve; to solve a problem.
- PICINEOf or relating to the woodpeckers (Pici), or to the Piciformes.
- WINNOWTo subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff.