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- BERGHAANVerreaux's eagle (Aquila verreauxii)
- ACAROLOGIESThe study of ticks and mites.
- ACAROLOGYThe study of ticks and mites.
- AGONISTICOf or relating to contests that were originally participated in by the Ancient Greeks; athletic.
- ALEXITHYMIAA deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing emotions.
- ALEXITHYMICA person who has difficulty feeling, processing or understanding emotions
- ALGESIAsensitivity to pain
- ALOGIAA general lack of additional, unprompted content in normal speech, a common symptom of schizophrenia.
- ANATEXISThe metamorphism of plutonic rock into magma in the lower levels of the crust
- APODYTERIUMThe apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, for getting undressed.
- APOPHYGEA curvature found on the top or bottom of certain columns.
- ARCTOPHILEOne who has a fondness for teddy bears, usually a collector of them.
- ARCTOPHILIAthe love of teddy bears
- ATRESIAA condition in which a body orifice or passage in the body is abnormally closed or absent.
- BALNEARYA room for bathing.
- CHABAZITEAny of several zeolite minerals that occur in basaltic rocks.
- CLEPSYDRASynonym of water clock, especially ancient Greek and Roman forms.
- COENOBIUMA conventual or monastic community; also, a convent or monastery.
- CRAPULOUSCharacterized by excessive eating or drinking.
- DIAPENTEThe interval of the fifth or the harmonic ratio 3:2.
- ELOGIUMa eulogy
- EUDAEMONA good or benevolent spirit.
- EUDAEMONICOf or pertaining to a eudaemon.
- EUTAXYGood or established order or arrangement.
- HAPLONTAny haplontic organism; any organism whose zygotes undergo zygotic meiosis (meiosis immediately after the fusion of cell nuclei).
- KYPHOTICRelating to, or exhibiting, kyphosis.
- NARTHEXA western vestibule leading to the nave in some Christian churches.
- NEOLOGISMA word or phrase which has recently been coined; a new word or phrase.
- ORGIASTICRelating to an orgy; uncontrolled, wild.
- PAROECIOUSHaving the male and female reproductive organs growing beside or near each other, as in certain cryptogams.
- PHLOGISTICInflammatory; pertaining to inflammations and fevers.
- PHYLEA local division of the people; a clan or tribe.
- PTYXISThe way in which an individual leaf is folded in the bud.
- SYBARITEA person devoted to luxury and pleasure; a hedonist.
- TRIGLYPHA vertically channeled tablet of the Doric frieze.
- CHARNELA chapel attached to a mortuary.
- JARGOONA variety of zircon.
- JEBELA hill, a mountain .
- MYNHEERSir, as a polite form of address to a Dutchman or Afrikaner.
- ABOIDEAUA tide gate, designed to protect marshland, so constructed as to let out water at low tide, but to prevent an influx of water at high tide.
- AGRAFFEA decorated clasp consisting of a hook which fastens onto a ring, similar to hook and eye, used in armor or in ordinary clothing.
- AILETTEA small square piece of armour, normally made of boiled leather, worn on the shoulders of knights.
- ALIENISTAn expert in mental illness, especially with reference to legal ramifications.
- BANDEAUXplural of bandeau
- BYCOKETA type of medieval cap with a wide brim that comes to a point in the front and is turned up at the rear, originally worn by Western European nobility and royalty.
- CHIFFONIERA tall, elegant chest of drawers, often with a mirror attached.
- CLAFOUTISA French dessert made by baking fresh fruit (traditionally cherries) with a batter.
- COTEAUXplural of coteau
- CRAMOISIEcrimson
- CRUDITESAlternative spelling of crudités.
- DIPLOTENEThe fourth stage of prophase of meiosis, during which homologous chromosome pairs begin to separate and chiasmata become visible
- DOUANIERA French customs officer.
- PATOISA regional dialect (usually one considered substandard) of a language (especially French).
- VALSEArchaic form of waltz.
- MILCHIGDairy, containing anything derived from milk.
- VALONIAAny member of the species Quercus macrolepis, now subspecies Quercus ithaburensis subsp. macrolepis or Quercus aegilops of European evergreen oak trees
- GANEFA thief; a rascal or scoundrel.
- NACHESA feeling of contentment at another person's successes.
- YESHIVAAn academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts.
- BARASINGHARucervus duvaucelii, a deer that lives in South Asia.
- GHARIALA crocodilian of species Gavialis gangeticus, of the family Gavialidae.
- PACHISIAn ancient Indian board game in which players, throwing dice, shells, etc. to determine the distance of each move, attempt to be the first to take all of their counters around the
- QUAICHA traditional shallow, two-handled cup of Scottish origin symbolizing friendship, originally used to toast the arrival or departure of a visitor.
- BOCCAThe round hole in the furnace of a glassworks through which the fused glass is taken out.
- MINACIOUSSynonym of threatening, in its various senses.
- 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.
- 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
- SYNGRAPHA document signed by both or all of the parties to a contract or bond.