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- ANTIPOPEA person who claims or claimed to be the pope, usually as the result of a disputed election or deposition, but is not considered by the Roman Catholic Church to be the real pope.
- ATTEMPERTo temper by adjusting relative quantities, or blending qualities.
- BIJUGOUSbijugate
- BIVIUMOne side of an echinoderm, including a pair of ambulacra, in distinction from the opposite side (trivium), which includes three ambulacra.
- CAPITOLAny building or complex of buildings in which a legislature meets.
- CARNIFEXAn executioner.
- CAVERNOUSResembling a cavern in size, shape, or atmosphere.
- CHOLENTA meat and/or bean stew traditionally served on the Sabbath by Jews.
- COADJUTRIXA female coadjutor
- DILUVIUMAn inundation or flood; a deluge.
- EDACIOUSHaving an insatiable appetite; voracious; ravenous; piggish.
- FACTIONARYBelonging to a faction; partisan; taking sides.
- FEMICIDEThe killing of a woman or girl, originally with reference to loss of virtue but now usually specifically because of their sex or gender and especially such a killing by a man motiv
- FERACIOUSProducing in abundance; fertile, fruitful
- FISTULOUSOf or pertaining to a fistula.
- FRUTESCENTImperfectly resembling a shrub.
- FULGENTShining brilliantly; radiant.
- FURIOSITYfuriousness; fury
- GRISEOFULVINAn antifungal drug C17H17ClO6 obtained from the mold Penicillium griseofulvum, used in humans and animals against fungal infections of the hair and skin.
- GUTTATIONThe exudation of drops of water from the leaves of some vascular plants as a result of root pressure.
- HYALINEGlassy, transparent; amorphous.
- IMPATIENSAny of various ornamental plants of the genus Impatiens.
- JANITRIXA female janitor.
- LECTIONARYA book or listing that contains a collection of scripture readings appointed for Christian or Jewish worship on a given day or occasion.
- OCCIPUTThe back part of the head or skull.
- OENOMELA beverage made of wine and honey.
- OENOMELSA beverage made of wine and honey.
- PERFUSIONThe act of perfusing, the passage of fluid through the circulatory system.
- PERTINACIOUSLYIn a stubbornly resolute manner; tenaciously holding one's course of action or opinion.
- PHARYNGEALOf or pertaining to the pharynx.
- PHYCOBILINAny of a group of bilins (pigments derived from porphyrins) found in some photosynthetic algae; they are open-chain tetrapyrroles related to mammalian bile pigments.
- PICAA disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances, such as chalk, clay, dirt, ice, or sand.
- PISCATORYOf or pertaining to fishermen or fishing.
- PONTIFICALOf or pertaining to a pontiff. Of or pertaining to a bishop; episcopal. Of or pertaining to a pope; papal.
- SCAPOLITEAny of several mixed sodium and calcium aluminosilicates which also contain chloride, carbonate and sulfate and are found in metamorphic rocks
- STATANTStanding on all four feet or paws.
- SYNGRAPHA document signed by both or all of the parties to a contract or bond.
- TUMESCENTSwollen or distended with fluid, as of erectile tissue.
- UNGUISThe nail, claw, talon, or hoof of a finger, toe, or other appendage.
- VALETUDINARYSickly, infirm, valetudinarian.
- VESTIBULEA small entrance hall, antechamber, passage, or room between the outer door and the main hall, lobby, or interior of a building.