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- MYCOPHILEA person who likes hunting for, cooking or eating mushrooms and other edible fungi.
- NACREOUSOf, or resembling nacre (mother of pearl).
- NEOLITHA stone implement from the Neolithic era.
- OGIVALHaving the curved, pointed shape of an ogive.
- PENTAGONALOf, relating to, or shaped like a pentagon.
- PENTALOGYA set of five works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as five individual works.
- PHOTICOf, related to, or irradiated by light. Describing that part of the near-surface ocean in which photosynthesis is possible.
- PHRENOLOGYThe pseudoscience which studies the relationships between a person's character and the morphology (structure) of the skull.
- POLYSEMICHaving a number of senses (meanings) or understandings.
- PRIONA self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible for a number of diseases that affect the brain and other neural tissue.
- PROSELYTICPertaining to proselytism.
- PROTEANExceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms.
- RHOTICThat allows the phoneme /ɹ/ to be followed by a vowel, as in bar (/bɑːɹ/) and bard or barred (/bɑːɹd/); who speaks with such an accent.
- ROBINIAAny member of the genus Robinia.
- SORBATEAny salt or ester of sorbic acid.
- SORBICOf, or relating to the rowan tree (the sorb).
- STEROIDALOf, being, or derived from a steroid.
- SULPHURICAlternative spelling of sulfuric.
- TAXONA group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms treated as a unit by taxonomists.
- TETRALOGYA set of four works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as four individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games
- THALAMICOf or pertaining to the thalamus.
- TRIADICOf or relating to a triad. Having an arity of three; taking three arguments or operands.
- TRIAXIALHaving three axes.
- TRIMARANA type of boat with three parallel hulls.
- TRIPLOIDHaving three sets of chromosomes.
- WHIMSYA quaint and fanciful idea; a whim; playfully odd behaviour.
- WRYNECKEither of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis, of the Old World, that turn their heads almost 180 degrees when foraging.
- XENOLITHAny piece of rock having a different origin to that of the igneous rock in which it is found.
- XYLOGRAPHAn engraving in wood or woodcut, especially one used in printing predating the Western tradition (14th c.).
- ZOOPHILEA person sexually attracted to non-human animals.