stav's Latin words

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• ABRASIONnounLatin53 findersThe act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.
• AGUEnounLatin271 findersAn acute fever.
• BAILEYnounLatin38 findersThe outer wall of a feudal castle.
• DORSALadjectiveLatin229 findersWith respect to, or concerning the side in which the backbone is located, or the analogous side of an invertebrate. Relating to the top surface of the foot or hand. Produced using
• EXARCHnounLatin83 findersIn the Byzantine Empire, a governor of a distant province.
• EXIGENTadjectiveLatin335 findersUrgent; pressing; needing immediate action.
• EXTOLverbLatin205 findersTo praise; to make high.
• FERVIDadjectiveLatin136 findersIntensely hot; radiating with energy.
• FLUXnounLatin436 findersThe act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
• FOMENTverbLatin461 findersTo incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate.
• GELIDadjectiveLatin446 findersVery cold; icy or frosty; frigid.
• HAMOSEadjectiveLatin4 findersHaving the end hooked or curved.
• IRIDESCENTadjectiveLatin148 findersProducing a display of lustrous, rainbow-like colors; prismatic.
• JUXTAPOSEverbLatin511 findersTo place side by side, especially for contrast or comparison.
• MAUDLINnounLatin687 findersThe Magdalene; Mary Magdalene.
• PIMENTOnounLatin139 findersA red sweet pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum, used to make relish, stuffed into olives, or used as spice.
• PLOVERnounLatin448 findersAny of various wading birds of the subfamily Charadriinae.
• PORCINEadjectiveLatin564 findersOf, pertaining to, or being a pig.
• PROLIXadjectiveLatin334 findersTediously lengthy; dwelling on trivial details.
• RESIDUEnounLatin25 findersThat which persists or remains following the removal or elimination of other elements.
• SCUTEnounLatin153 findersA horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle, the skin of crocodiles, or the feet and legs of birds.
• SHRIVEverbLatin176 findersTo hear or receive a confession (of sins etc.).
• SUPINEadjectiveLatin441 findersLying on its back.
• TURGIDadjectiveLatin657 findersDistended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.
• UMBERnounLatin189 findersA brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides.
• UVULARadjectiveLatin430 findersOf or relating to the uvula.
• VEHICULARadjectiveLatin540 findersOf or pertaining to a vehicle or vehicles, usually specifically cars and trucks; involving a vehicle.
• VIABLEadjectiveLatin123 findersAble to live on its own (as for a newborn).
• VOLUTEnounLatin236 findersThe characteristic spiral curve on an Ionic capital, widely copied in other styles and in neoclassical architecture.

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