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- ACRONYCALRising at sunset and setting at sunrise.
- APOTROPAICIntended to ward off evil.
- CALOTYPEA talbotype.
- DIPHYODONTHaving two successive sets of teeth (deciduous and permanent), one succeeding the other.
- EMPLASTERA plaster.
- ETYMONThe original or earlier form of an inherited or borrowed word, affix, or morpheme either from an earlier period in a language's development, from an ancestral language, or from a f
- EUPHRASYThe eyebright, Euphrasia officinalis.
- EUTHERIANBelonging or pertaining to the group Eutheria, comprising the mammals more closely related to animals like humans and rodents than to marsupials.
- HAPTICOf or relating to the sense of touch.
- HEURISTICThat employs a practical method not guaranteed to be optimal or perfect; either not following or derived from any theory, or based on an advisedly oversimplified one.
- HEXAMEROUSIn six parts; occurring in sixes.
- HEXAPLAA text presented in six parallel versions, especially the version of the Old Testament presented in such a fashion by Origen.
- HEXAPODYA verse or measure of six metrical feet.
- HYDROPICDropsical; pertaining to or suffering from dropsy (edema).
- LOGODAEDALYCleverness or skill in the coining of new words.
- MYRISTICPertaining to nutmeg.
- NEOPHYTEA beginner; a person who is new to a subject, skill, or belief.
- OMPHALOIDShaped like a navel.
- OPSIMATHA person who learns late in life.
- PAREIDOLIAThe tendency to interpret a vague stimulus as something known to the observer, such as interpreting marks on Mars as canals, seeing shapes in clouds, or hearing hidden messages in
- PHACOIDResembling a lentil or lens; lenticular.
- PHLOGISTONThe hypothetical fiery principle formerly assumed to be a necessary constituent of combustible bodies and to be given up by them in burning.
- PHYSIOLOGYA branch of biology that deals with the functions and activities of life or of living matter (as organs, tissues, or cells) and of the physical and chemical phenomena involved.
- PYXIDIUMA seed capsule in the form of a box, the seeds being released when the top splits off.
- RHOEADINEAny of a group of benzazepine alkaloids found in the poppy.
- RHOPALICHaving each successive word longer by a letter or syllable.
- SPHYGMICOf or pertaining to the circulatory pulse.
- STYGIANAlternative form of Stygian (“of or relating to the river Styx”).
- SYNAPHEAThe metrical continuity between one colon and another.
- SYNECHIAAn eye condition in which the iris adheres either to the cornea (anterior synechia) or to the lens (posterior synechia).
- TETRAPTOTEA noun that has four cases.
- TRITAGONISTIn Greek drama, the actor who played the third role (after the protagonist and deuteragonist)
- TYCHISMA theory suggesting that absolute chance, or indeterminism, is a real factor operative in the universe.
- URANISMHomosexuality.
- XENOTIMEA yellow-brown mineral, yttrium phosphate (YPO4)
- XERASIADryness and brittleness of the hair.
- VAMBRACEThe piece of armor designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.
- ALEMBROTHSThe "salt of wisdom" of the alchemists, a double salt composed of the chlorides of ammonium and mercury, formerly used as a stimulant.
- AZIMUTHAn arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object.
- DHOWA traditional sailing vessel used along the coasts of Arabia, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean, generally having a single mast and a lateen sail.
- QASIDAAn Arabic or Persian elegiac monorhyme poem, usually having a tripartite structure.
- KLIPDASA small mammal (Hyrax capensis), found in South Africa, that closely resembles the daman.
- CLAVIFORMLarger at the tip than at the base; club-shaped.
- DECOLORANTA substance that removes colour, or bleaches.
- DENATURETo take away a natural characteristic or inherent property of (a thing or a person).
- DERACINEHaving been uprooted.
- DESPUMATIONThe act of giving off froth or scum.
- DISCALCEDPertaining to a religious order that historically forswore the wearing of shoes.
- ENJAMBTo carry a sentence over to the next line without a pause.
- EUCHLORINEA rare emerald-green sulfate mineral found as a natural sublimate in fumaroles around volcanic eruptions, and having the chemical formula KNaCu3(SO4)3O).
- EUKARYOTEAny of the single-celled or multicellular organisms of the taxonomic domain Eukaryota, whose cells contain at least one distinct nucleus.
- GARDYLOOA cry used to warn passersby that a vessel of wastewater is about to be emptied into the street.
- JACOBINSAlternative letter-case form of Jacobin.
- REVANCHISTA revanchist person; occasionally, anyone seeking vengeance.
- SPELEOLOGYThe scientific study of caves.
- SYLPHIDA young or little sylph.
- VELOURA knit fabric similar to velvet, but usually somewhat coarser.
- VERGLASsilver frost
- FESTSCHRIFTA collection of articles, essays, etc., published together as a memorial or tribute to an academic or some other respected person (often on their birthday).
- JEREMIADA long speech or prose work that bitterly laments the state of society and its morals, and often contains a prophecy of its coming downfall.
- YLEMIn the Big Bang theory, the hot and dense plasma that made up the matter in the cosmos following the initial baryogenesis at an early stage of its expansion and cooling, from which
- JINGALA type of gun, usually a light piece mounted on a swivel, sometimes taking the form of a heavy musket fired from a rest.
- QIVIUTThe underwool of the Arctic muskox, used as a fibre.
- BOKEHA subjective aesthetic quality of out-of-focus areas of an image projected by a camera lens.
- ABDUCENTDrawing away from the median axis of the body, as a muscle; see etymology abducting.
- ABNORMOUSAbnormal; irregular; misshapen.
- ACAROIDShaped like or resembling a mite.
- ACIFORMShaped like a needle.
- AJUTAGEA tube through which is water is discharged; an efflux tube.
- ALBUMINOUSRelating to, containing, or having the properties of albumen or albumin.
- AMBROSIALPertaining to or worthy of the gods.
- APOSTILLEA special certification established in 1961 for certifying foreign documents.
- ARGUMENTAplural of argumentum
- AURICOf or pertaining to trivalent gold.
- AVULSETo tear off forcibly.
- BADIOUSChestnut-coloured.
- CAMERATIONSA vaulting or arching over.
- CASEATIONA necrotic degeneration of tissue to a cheese-like condition.
- COAGULANTThat causes coagulation or that coagulates.
- CONSUETUDECustom, familiarity.
- CONVERTIBLEAble to be converted, particularly: Able to be exchanged, one for the other, especially Able to be exchanged for specie. Able to be exchanged for foreign currency. Able to be excha
- CUPIDINOUSCharacterized by or related to cupidity (greed, desire for wealth).
- DESCANTA lengthy discourse on a subject.
- DEVOLUTIONA rolling down.
- DILUVIANPertaining to a deluge, or flood.
- DISCOMFITTo embarrass (someone) greatly; to confuse; to perplex; to disconcert.
- EQUINOCTIALOf or relating to the spring or autumnal equinox.
- EQUISETUMA horsetail (plant of genus Equisetum)
- ERINACEOUSOf, pertaining to, or resembling a hedgehog.
- EXUVIAEplural of exuvia
- FULMINATETo make a verbal attack.
- IMPIGNORATETo pledge or pawn.
- JOCULATORA jester; a joker.
- LUDICPlayful.
- MINATORYThreatening, menacing.
- NAPIFORMShaped like a turnip; spherical at the top, but with a tapering bottom.
- NIVEOUSSnowy; resembling snow.
- OLEAGINOUSOily, greasy.
- OMNIFEROUSThat bears everything; producing all types.
- ORPIMENTArsenic trisulphide, occurring naturally in crystals or massive deposits, formerly used as a dye or pigment.