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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abbatial | like or pertaining to abbots or an abbey |
| abecedarian | like or pertaining to the order |
| abiectic | like or pertaining to fir trees or fir sap |
| absinthial | like or pertaining to wormwood; bitter |
| abyssopelagic | like or pertaining to the depths |
| acarine | like or pertaining to ticks or mites |
| accipitrine | like or pertaining to falcons and hawks |
| acerate | like or resembling a needle |
| acolouthic | like or pertaining to an after-image or other after-sensation |
| acrologic | like or pertaining to initials |
| addititious | pertaining to or resulting from addition |
| adenoid | like or pertaining to or like a gland |
| adipic | like or pertaining to fatty substances |
| aeropleustic | like or pertaining to aerial navigation |
| aeruginous | |
| aestival | like or pertaining to summer |
| agonistic | like or pertaining to or being aggressive or argumentative |
| agravic having no gravity; pertaining to the condition | zero-gravity |
| agrestic | the fields; rural; unpolished |
| alar | like or pertaining to the wing or shoulder |
| alaudine | like or pertaining to skylarks |
| alcine | like or pertaining to elks; |
| aliphatic | like or pertaining to fat or fats in general |
| alliaceous | like or pertaining to garlic; garlicky |
| alopecoid | or resembling a fox |
| alpestrine | like or pertaining to alpine regions |
| alveolate | or like a honeycomb |
| alvine | the belly |
| ampelidious | like or pertaining to vines |
| amphiscian | like or pertaining to torrid regions |
| amygdaloid almond-shaped; | like or pertaining to tonsils |
| anacardic | like or pertaining to cashews |
| anaclastic refractive; | like or pertaining to refraction |
| anatine | like or pertaining to ducks |
| anconoid | like or pertaining to the elbow |
| ancoral | shaped like or resembling an anchor |
| anguine | like or pertaining to snakes |
| anguine | like or pertaining to snakes |
| anopheline | like or pertaining to malarial mosquitoes |
| anserine | like or pertaining to geese |
| apatetic | an animal's coloration or markings |
| apian | like or pertaining to bees |
| apiarian | like or pertaining to bees or beekeeping |
| apical | or at the apex |
| aquiline | like or pertaining to eagles; hooked like an eagle's beak |
| araneidan | like or pertaining to spiders |
| archididascalian | like or pertaining to headmasters |
| architectonics | like or pertaining to the arrangement |
| areopagitic | like or pertaining to tribunals or courts |
| arietine | like or pertaining to rams |
| arval | like or pertaining to ploughed land |
| asinine | like or pertaining to asses; stupid |
| aularian | like or pertaining to a hall in a university |
| aurantiaceous | like or pertaining or pertaining to oranges or orange trees |
| auricular | like or pertaining to the ear; spoken secretly |
| aval | like or pertaining to a grandparent |
| avian | like or pertaining to birds |
| avicular | like or pertaining to birds |
| avuncular like an uncle; | like or pertaining to uncles |
| baculine | like or pertaining to the stick or cane; |
| basial | like or pertaining to kissing |
| bathyorographical | like or pertaining to depth underwater or elevation above sea level |
| bathysmal | like or pertaining to the depths |
| batrachian | like or pertaining to frogs or toads |
| bdelloid | like or pertaining to leeches |
| benthic | like or pertaining to the depths |
| bibitory | like or pertaining or pertaining to drinking |
| binaural | pertaining to or heard by both ears |
| bisontine | like or pertaining to bison |
| biverbal | like or pertaining to two words; having a double sense |
| blattoid | like or pertaining to cockroaches |
| blennoid | or resembling mucus |
| blepharal | like or pertaining to eyelids |
| bolar | like or pertaining to clay |
| bombic | like or pertaining to silkworms |
| bombycine | like or pertaining to silk or cotton |
| bovine | like or pertaining to cows |
| branchial | like or pertaining to gills |
| brumal | like or pertaining to winter |
| bubaline | like or pertaining to buffalo or antelopes |
| buccal | like or pertaining to the mouth or cheek |
| bucolic | like or pertaining to the tending |
| burgensic | like or pertaining to a borough or its citizens |
| bursal | like or pertaining to a state's revenues |
| buteonine | like or pertaining to buzzards |
| butyric | like or pertaining to butter |
| caballine | like or pertaining to or suited to a horse |
| cacuminal retr | lex pertaining to a point |
| calycine | like or pertaining to a cup or calyx |
| cameline | like or pertaining to camels |
| campestral | like or pertaining to the country; pertaining to level ground |
| cancellarial | like or pertaining to a chancellor |
| cancrine | like or pertaining to crabs; palindromic |
| canicular | like or pertaining to the dog star |
| canine | like or pertaining to dogs |
| cantative | like or pertaining to singing |
| capitulary | like or pertaining to a chapter |
| capric having a goatlike smell; | like or pertaining to goats |
| caprifoliaceous | like or pertaining to the honeysuckle plant |
| caprine | like or pertaining to goats |
| carceral | like or pertaining to prisons |
| cardinalitial | like or pertaining to church cardinals |
| caricous | like or pertaining to figs |
| carious | like or pertaining to dental cavities; decayed |
| carnificial | like or pertaining to butchers or executioners |
| carpal | like or pertaining to the wrist |
| castellar | like or pertaining to a castle |
| castral | or belonging to the camp |
| catalactic | like or pertaining to exchange |
| catarrhine | like or pertaining to Old World Monkeys |
| catenarian | like or pertaining to chains |
| catoptric | like or pertaining to reflection or reflected light |
| caudal | like or pertaining to the tail |
| causidical | like or pertaining to those who plead legal cases |
| cenatory | like or pertaining to supper |
| centrobaric | like or pertaining to the centre |
| cercopithecan | like or pertaining to long-tailed monkeys |
| cervine | pertaining to or resembling deer |
| cervisial | like or pertaining or pertaining to beer |
| chelonian | like or pertaining to tortoises or turtles |
| chiral | like or pertaining to the hand or handedness |
| cholic | like or pertaining to bile |
| chorepiscopal | like or pertaining to an early local bishop |
| choreutic | like or pertaining to a chorus |
| chrematistic | like or pertaining to the pursuit |
| chrestomathic | like or pertaining to useful knowledge |
| chthonian | like or pertaining to the earth or the underworld |
| cibarious | like or pertaining to food; useful for food |
| ciconine | like or pertaining to storks |
| cinerary | like or pertaining to ashes |
| clysmian | like or pertaining to or caused by flood |
| cnemial | like |
| cnidarian | like |
| coeliac | like or pertaining to the abdomen |
| colubrine like a snake; cunning; | like or pertaining to snakes |
| columbaceous | like or pertaining to doves or pigeons |
| columbine | or like a dove; dove-coloured |
| compital | like or pertaining to crossroads |
| conative | like or pertaining to purposeful action or desire |
| connubial | like or pertaining to marriage |
| coriaceous having a leathery appearance; consisting | |
| corvine crow-like; | like or pertaining to crows or ravens |
| cosmotellurian | like or pertaining to both heaven and earth |
| costal | like or pertaining to the ribs |
| cothurnal | like or pertaining to tragedy |
| coticular | like or pertaining to whetstones |
| creatic | like or pertaining to flesh |
| credal | like or pertaining to a creed |
| crenitic | like or pertaining to mineral springs |
| crepuscular | like or pertaining to twilight |
| cretaceous | or resembling chalk; |
| crinal | or related to the hair |
| crotaline | like or pertaining to rattlesnakes |
| crural | or belonging to the leg |
| cryptaesthetic | like or pertaining to supranormal perception |
| cryptous | like or pertaining to crypts |
| cuculine | like or pertaining to cuckoos |
| cucurbitaceous | like or pertaining to gourds |
| cupulate | like or pertaining to a cup; cup-shaped |
| cutaneous | or related to the skin |
| cynegetic | or related to hunting |
| cyprinoid | like or pertaining to carp |
| cypseline | like or pertaining to swifts |
| decanal | like or pertaining to a dean or deacon |
| decennoval | like or pertaining to the number nineteen |
| decretal | like or pertaining to a decree |
| delphine pertaining to the Dauphin | France |
| delphinine | like or pertaining to dolphins |
| demegoric | like or pertaining to demagogues or demagogic speech |
| demogenic | like or pertaining to membership by citizenship rather than kinship |
| demotic | like or pertaining to the common people |
| denary one | ten; tenfold; |
| deontic | or relating to duty or obligation |
| deric | like or pertaining to the skin |
| diaconal | like or pertaining to a deacon |
| diacoustic | like or pertaining to the refraction |
| diadermic | like or pertaining to the puncturing |
| dianoetic capable | like or pertaining to thought |
| didelphine | like or pertaining to opossums |
| didine | like or pertaining to dodos |
| diluvial | like or pertaining to floods; especially mythical ones |
| dinic | like or pertaining to vertigo or dizziness |
| discophoran | like or pertaining to jellyfishes |
| distaff | like or pertaining to the female branch |
| dolabrate | like or pertaining to axes or hatchets |
| domal | like or pertaining to a house or dome |
| doxastic | like or pertaining to opinion |
| dromic | like or pertaining to a racecourse |
| drupaceous | like or pertaining to drupes or stone-fruits |
| duodenary | like or pertaining to the number twelve |
| eburnean | or like ivory; ivory-coloured |
| edaphic | like or pertaining to the soil |
| elaphine | like or belonging to a red deer; |
| elapid | like or pertaining to cobras |
| eleemosynary | like or pertaining to charity or giving alms; dependent on charity |
| elenctic | like or pertaining to argument; cross-examination or refuting |
| elephantine | like or pertaining to elephants |
| empaestic | like or pertaining to the art |
| emporeutic | like or pertaining to trade |
| empyreal | like or pertaining to heaven; sublime; skyward |
| enteral | pertaining to or within the intestine |
| entomical | like or pertaining to insects |
| eoan | like or pertaining to dawn |
| epedaphic | like or pertaining to atmospheric conditions |
| epicedial | like or pertaining to dirges or elegies |
| epistolary | like or pertaining to letters |
| epithymetic | like or pertaining to desire |
| epulary | like or pertaining to banquets |
| equine | like or pertaining to horses |
| eristic | like or pertaining to controversy or argument |
| estival | like or pertaining to summer |
| ethmoid | or like a sieve |
| eupeptic | like or pertaining to good digestion; cheerful |
| eusuchian | like or pertaining to alligators and crocodiles |
| excrementitial | like or pertaining to excrement |
| falconine | like or pertaining to falcons or hawks |
| favonian | like or pertaining to the west wind; mild and favourable |
| feline | like or pertaining to cats |
| fenestral | like or pertaining to windows |
| ferial | like or pertaining to holidays |
| fictile capable | being moulded; |
| fidicinal | like or pertaining to stringed musical instruments |
| figuline | like or pertaining to earthenware |
| fimetic | like or pertaining to dung |
| fodient | like or pertaining to digging |
| foraneous | like or pertaining to forums |
| forcipate | like or pertaining to forceps |
| formic | like or pertaining to ants |
| formicine | like or pertaining to ants |
| fringillaceous | like or pertaining to finches |
| fringilline | like or pertaining to finches |
| frumentarious | like or pertaining to corn |
| fulgural | like or pertaining to lightning |
| fuliginous sooty; dusky; soot-coloured; | or pertaining to soot |
| fuliguline | like or pertaining to sea ducks |
| fullonical | like or pertaining or belonging to a fuller |
| fulmineous | like or pertaining to thunder and lightning |
| funebral | like or pertaining to a funeral |
| fungous | or like fungus; s |
| funicular | like or pertaining to a string or cable |
| furuncular | like or pertaining to boils |
| gadoid | resembling or pertaining to the cod |
| galactic | like or pertaining to or obtained from milk |
| gallinaceous | or resembling pheasants and other domestic birds |
| geal | like or pertaining or pertaining to the earth |
| gelastic | like or pertaining to or provoking laughter |
| gemmeous | like or pertaining to gems; like a gem |
| genesic | like or pertaining to procreation or the genitals |
| geocyclic | like or pertaining to the rotation and revolution |
| georgic | like or pertaining to agricultural or rustic affairs; rural; agrarian |
| geoselenic | like or pertaining to both the Earth and the moon |
| geostrophic | like or pertaining to deflection due to effects |
| gerontogenous | like or pertaining to the Old World |
| gestatorial | like or pertaining to carrying |
| gestic | like or pertaining to gestures |
| glirine rodent-like; | like or pertaining to rodents |
| glottogonic | like or pertaining to the origins |
| glyptic | like or pertaining to carving or gem-engraving |
| gnathal | like or pertaining to the jaws |
| goetic | like or pertaining to black magic |
| grallatory | like or pertaining to wading birds |
| gramineous | like or pertaining to grass; grassy |
| gravimetrical | like or pertaining to measuring by weight |
| gregal | like or pertaining to a flock |
| gromatic | like or pertaining to surveys or surveying |
| gruine | like or pertaining to cranes or similar birds |
| habilatory | like or pertaining to clothes or dressing |
| haemal | like or pertaining to blood |
| halcyonine | like or pertaining to kingfishers |
| halibiotic | like or pertaining to the entirety |
| halieutic | like or pertaining to fishing |
| halolimnic | like or pertaining to sea creatures who spend time in fresh water |
| haptic | like or pertaining to the sense |
| hebamic | like or pertaining to the socratic method |
| hebetic | like or pertaining to puberty |
| hederaceous | like or pertaining to ivy |
| hepatic | like or pertaining to or acting upon the liver |
| hephaestic | like or pertaining to iron-working and blacksmiths |
| hermeneutic | like or pertaining to the interpretation |
| hermetic | like or pertaining to sorcery or alchemy |
| herpetoid | like or pertaining to snakes |
| hesternal | like or pertaining to yesterday |
| hibernal | like or pertaining to winter |
| hiemal | like or pertaining to winter |
| hippiatric | like or pertaining to the treatment |
| hippic | like or pertaining to horses |
| hippoid equine; | like or pertaining to horses |
| hircine goat-like; having a goatish smell; | like or pertaining to smelly goats |
| hirudine | like or pertaining to leeches |
| hirudinean | like or pertaining to leeches |
| hirundine | like or pertaining to swallows |
| histrionic | like or pertaining to the stage or actors |
| hodiernal | like or pertaining to the present day |
| homarine | like or pertaining to lobsters |
| homiletical | like or pertaining to homilies |
| horal | like or pertaining to hours; hourly |
| horary | like or pertaining to an hour; continuing for an hour; hourly |
| hordeaceous | like or pertaining to barley |
| hortensial | like or pertaining to gardens |
| hortulan | like or pertaining to gardens |
| humoral | like or pertaining to body fluid |
| hyaloid | like or pertaining to glass |
| hydric | like or pertaining to an abundance |
| hyetal rainy; | like or pertaining to rainfall |
| hygeian | like or pertaining to health; healthy |
| hygric | like or pertaining to water or moisture |
| hylobatine | like or pertaining to gibbons |
| hymeneal | like or pertaining to marriage |
| hypnoetic | like or pertaining to unconscious logical thought |
| hypnopompic | like or pertaining to period between sleep and wakefulness |
| hypothecary | like or pertaining to mortgages |
| hystricine | like or pertaining to porcupines |
| ichneutic | like or pertaining to a tracker or tracking |
| ichthyic | resembling or pertaining to fish |
| icterical | like or pertaining to or suffering from jaundice |
| icterine | like or pertaining to orioles and related birds |
| ictic | pertaining to |
| iliac | like or pertaining to the loins |
| ilicic | like or pertaining to holly |
| inescatory | like or pertaining to baiting; adapted to bait |
| inguinal | like or pertaining to the groin |
| institorial | like or pertaining to an agent or factor |
| interstitial | like or pertaining to the space between things |
| ipecacuanhic | or relating to ipecac |
| iridaceous | like |
| iridal | or pertaining to the rainbow |
| iridic | like or pertaining to the iris |
| ischiatic | or pertaining to the ischium or hip |
| islandic | or pertaining to an island |
| ixiodic | like or pertaining to ticks |
| jecoral | like or pertaining to the liver |
| jentacular | like or pertaining to breakfast |
| juglandaceous | like or pertaining to walnuts |
| juncaceous | like or pertaining to rushes |
| jural | like or pertaining to the law |
| juratory | like or pertaining to an oath |
| kerygmatic | like or pertaining to preaching the Gospel |
| lacertilian | like or pertaining to lizards |
| lacuscular | like or pertaining to pools |
| lacustrine | like or pertaining to lakes |
| laic | like or pertaining to lay people rather than clergy |
| lamiaceous minty; | like or pertaining to the mint plant |
| laminary | like or pertaining to thin plates or layer |
| lampyridine | like or pertaining or pertaining to glow-worms or fireflies |
| laniary | teeth or claws designed for tearing (canine teeth) |
| lapidarian | like or pertaining to stones; inscribed on stones |
| lardaceous | like or pertaining to lard |
| larine | like or pertaining to gulls |
| laroid | like or pertaining to gulls |
| lavic | like or pertaining to lava |
| legatine | like or pertaining to a legate |
| lemurine | like or pertaining to lemurs |
| leonine | like or pertaining to lions |
| leonine | or like a lion; rhyming last two or three syllables in a line |
| leporine | like or pertaining to the hare |
| lienal | like or pertaining to the spleen |
| limacine | like or pertaining to slugs |
| limicoline living on a shore; | like or pertaining to wading birds |
| linaceous | like or pertaining to flax |
| lingual | like or pertaining to language |
| littoral | like or pertaining to the shore |
| lobar | like or pertaining to a lobe |
| loimic | like or pertaining to plagues |
| loranthaceous | like or pertaining to the mistletoe |
| lucernal | like or pertaining to lamps |
| lumbricine | like or pertaining to earthworms |
| lupanarian | like or pertaining to a brothel |
| lupine | like or pertaining to wolves |
| lupulic | like or pertaining to hops |
| lutaceous | like or pertaining to or comprised |
| lutrine | like or pertaining to otters |
| macropodine | like or pertaining to kangaroos |
| magistral | like or pertaining to a master or teacher |
| malar | like or pertaining to the cheek |
| malvaceous | like or pertaining to the mallow family |
| manal | like or pertaining to the hand |
| mandative | like or pertaining to commands or leadership |
| mantic | like or pertaining to divination; prophetic; divinely inspired |
| marmoreal | or like marble |
| materteral | or resembling an aunt |
| matinal | like or pertaining to the morning |
| matrical | like or pertaining to a womb or a matrix |
| matricular | like or pertaining to a register |
| matriherital | like or pertaining to inheritance along the female line |
| matripotestal | like or pertaining to the power |
| matutinal | like or pertaining to the morning; happening early in the day |
| maxillary | like or pertaining to a jaw |
| medianic | like or pertaining to spiritualists |
| megachiropteran | like or pertaining to fruit bats |
| meleagrine | like or pertaining to turkeys |
| mellaginous | like or pertaining to or resembling honey |
| membral | like or pertaining to the limbs rather than the trunk |
| mensal | like or pertaining to the dinner-table; monthly |
| mental | like or pertaining to the chin |
| meretricious | like or pertaining to prostitution; superficially attractive but lacking value |
| metameric | like or pertaining to serial division or segmentation |
| metopic | like or pertaining to the forehead |
| milvine | like or pertaining to kites and similar birds |
| mimetic imitative; | like or pertaining to mimicry |
| miothermic | like or pertaining to temperature conditions |
| mnesic | like or pertaining to memory |
| molendinar | like or pertaining to a mill or miller |
| molinary | like or pertaining to mills or grinding |
| morassic | like or pertaining to a morass |
| morganatic | like or pertaining to a marriage between those |
| morphean | like or pertaining to dreams |
| morphotic | like or pertaining to formation or development |
| morsal | like or pertaining to the cutting edge |
| mucopurulent | mucus and pus |
| mulciberian | like or pertaining to metalworking |
| murine | like or pertaining to mice and rats |
| musal | like or pertaining to poetry or the Muses |
| muscicapine | like or pertaining to flycatchers and related birds |
| muscid | like or pertaining to house-flies |
| muscoid | like or pertaining to mosses; moss-like |
| musteline | like or pertaining to weasels |
| mycteric | like or pertaining to the nostrils |
| myelic | like or pertaining to the spinal cord |
| myoxine | like or pertaining to dormice |
| myrmecophagid | like or pertaining to anteaters |
| myrmicine | like or pertaining to ants |
| mystagogical | like or pertaining to religious ritual initiation |
| nacreous | or resembling mother- |
| narial | like or pertaining to the nostrils |
| natalitial | like or pertaining to a birthday |
| natricine | like or pertaining to water-snakes |
| neanic | like or pertaining to the adolescent period; young |
| nectareal | or like nectar |
| nemaline | or like a thread |
| nemoral | a wood or grove |
| neoblastic | like or pertaining to new growth |
| neophrastic | like or pertaining to neologisms |
| nephric | like or pertaining to the kidneys |
| nepionic | like or pertaining to the embryonic period |
| nepotal | like or pertaining to one's nephew |
| neurergic | like or pertaining to the function or action |
| niccolic made | like or pertaining to nickel |
| nicotian | like or pertaining to tobacco |
| nidatory | like or pertaining to nests |
| nimonic | alloys used in high-temperature work |
| nobiliary | like or pertaining to nobility |
| nosocomial | like or pertaining to a hospital |
| novenary | like or pertaining to the number nine |
| novercal | like or pertaining to a stepmother |
| noxal | like or pertaining to wrongful injury by object or animal |
| nucal | like or pertaining to nuts |
| nuchal | like or pertaining to the nape |
| numinous | like or pertaining to a deity; suffused with religious awe |
| nummary | like or pertaining to coins or money |
| nundinal | like or pertaining to a fair or market |
| nutricial | like or pertaining to nurses |
| nychthemeral | like or pertaining to a nychthemeron or 24-hour period |
| nymphean | like or pertaining to a nymph |
| obitual | like or pertaining to obituaries |
| obsidional | like or pertaining to a siege |
| occipital | like or pertaining to the back |
| octonary | like or pertaining to or consisting |
| oecodomic | like or pertaining to architecture |
| oenopoetic | like or pertaining to wine-making |
| olamic | or belonging to a vast period or eon |
| oleic | like or pertaining to or derived from oil |
| oleraceous | the nature |
| oligodynamic | like or pertaining to the effect |
| olitory | like or pertaining to kitchen vegetables |
| oneiric | like or pertaining to dreams |
| onomastic | like or pertaining to a name or signature |
| ontal | like or pertaining to reality or existence |
| onymatic | like or pertaining to names |
| ophic | like or pertaining to serpents |
| ophidian | or like a snake |
| opisthosomal | like or pertaining to posteriors |
| optimate | the nobility or aristocracy |
| ordalian | like or pertaining to an ordeal |
| orectic | like or pertaining to appetite or desires |
| ornithic | like or pertaining to birds |
| orobathymetric | like or pertaining to map showing submerged heights and sea depths |
| oscheal | like or pertaining to the scrotum |
| oscinine | like or pertaining to song-birds |
| oscular | like or pertaining to the mouth or to kissing |
| osteal | like or pertaining to |
| ostracean | like or pertaining to oysters |
| ostraceous | like or pertaining to oysters |
| otarine | like or pertaining to seals |
| otic | like or pertaining to the ear |
| ovibovine | like or pertaining to musk-oxen |
| ovine | like or pertaining to sheep |
| pabulous | like or pertaining to nourishment |
| paginal | like or pertaining to pages or pagination |
| palladian | like or pertaining to wisdom or learning |
| palmar | like or pertaining to the palm |
| palpebral | like or pertaining to the eyelid |
| paludal | like or pertaining to marshes; marshy; malarial |
| panary | like or pertaining to bread; bread store |
| papaverous | like or pertaining to poppies |
| papilionaceous | like or pertaining to butterflies |
| parastatic | like or pertaining to protective mimicry |
| pardine | like or pertaining to leopards |
| parietal | a wall or walls especially anatomical walls |
| parine | like or pertaining to titmouses |
| parthenian | like or pertaining to virgins |
| pascual growing on land used for grazing; | like or pertaining to pastures |
| passerine | like or pertaining to sparrows |
| patibulary | like or pertaining to the gallows |
| patrial | like or pertaining to one’s native land |
| pavonian | like or pertaining to peacocks |
| pavonine | like or pertaining to peacocks |
| pectinal | a comb; comb-like |
| pectineal | the pubic bone |
| pecuniary | like or pertaining to money; consisting |
| pedalian | like or pertaining to the foot or to metrical feet |
| pedary | like or pertaining to walking or feet |
| pedicular | like or pertaining to lice |
| pedological | like or pertaining to soils |
| pelargic | like or pertaining to storks |
| pendular | like or pertaining to a pendulum |
| penial | like or pertaining to the penis |
| perdicine | like or pertaining to partridges |
| peristeronic | like or pertaining to pigeons |
| petrean | like or pertaining to or made |
| phacochoerine | like or pertaining to warthogs |
| phallic | pertaining to or resembling a penis |
| phemic | like or pertaining to speech |
| phenetic | like or pertaining to classification by phenotype |
| philomelian | like or pertaining to nightingales |
| philoprogenitive | like or pertaining to instinctive love for |
| phocine | like or pertaining to seals |
| phreatic | like or pertaining to underground water supplying or wells |
| phrenic | or near the midriff |
| phthongal | pertaining to |
| phugoid | like or pertaining to the longitudinal stability |
| picaresque | like or pertaining or pertaining to rogues or roguish behaviour |
| picine | like or pertaining to woodpeckers |
| piscatorial | like or pertaining to fishing or fishers |
| piscine | like or pertaining to fish |
| planetesimal | like or pertaining to asteroids or similar tiny celestial bodies |
| plantar | like or pertaining to the sole |
| plaustral | like or pertaining to a wagon |
| plebeian | the common people or vulgar classes |
| plenilunar | like or pertaining to the full moon |
| pliothermic | like or pertaining to periods |
| plumeopicean | tar and feathers |
| poaceous | like or pertaining or pertaining to grass |
| podalic | like or pertaining to feet |
| poliorcectic | like or pertaining to siegecraft or besiegement |
| pomaceous | like or pertaining to or consisting |
| popliteal | like or pertaining to the back |
| poral | like or pertaining to pores |
| porcine | like or pertaining to pigs; swinish |
| potamic | like or pertaining to rivers |
| praedial | like or pertaining to or connected with the land or farming |
| prandial | like or pertaining to dinner |
| prebendal | like or pertaining to stipends issued by a church |
| prenarial | like or pertaining to or in front |
| preputial | like or pertaining to the foreskin |
| presidial | like or pertaining to a garrison |
| Priapean | like or pertaining to male reproductive power; phallic |
| pridian | like or pertaining to yesterday |
| primitial | like or pertaining to first fruits; primeval |
| primogenous | like or pertaining to the earliest or first developmental stage |
| procephalic | like or pertaining to the front |
| proctal | like or pertaining to the anus or rectum |
| procyonine | like or pertaining to raccoons |
| proethnic | like or pertaining to primitive races |
| prosodic | like or pertaining to versification |
| prosopic | like or pertaining to the face |
| psephitic | like or pertaining to pebbles |
| psittacine | like or pertaining to macaws |
| psittacine | or like parrots |
| pteric | like or pertaining to the wing or the shoulder |
| pteropine | like or pertaining to flying foxes |
| puerperal | like or pertaining to childbirth |
| pulicine | like or pertaining to fleas |
| pullastrine | like or pertaining to pigeons |
| pulmonic | like or pertaining to the lungs |
| pyretic | pertaining to or for the cure |
| pyrrhic | like or pertaining to the dance or to the foot |
| pyrrhuline | like or pertaining to bullfinches |
| quadragesimal | like or pertaining to Lent; lasting forty days |
| quercine | like or pertaining to oak trees |
| rabic | like or pertaining to rabies |
| rachidian | or concerning the spine |
| rameal | like or pertaining to branches |
| rangiferine | like or pertaining to or like reindeer |
| ranine | like or pertaining to or like frogs |
| ranunculaceous | like or pertaining to buttercups |
| raptorial predacious; | like or pertaining to a bird |
| ratite | like or pertaining to flightless birds |
| reginal | like or pertaining to a queen |
| regnal | a reign |
| renal | like or pertaining to the kidneys |
| reptilian | like or pertaining to reptiles |
| retiary | nets; using nets as a weapon; catching insects in webs |
| reticular | like or pertaining to nets; intricate |
| rhematic | words or verbs; forming a word or words |
| rhinal | like or pertaining to the nose |
| rhinocerotic | like or pertaining to the rhinoceros |
| rhizic | the root |
| rhonchial | like or pertaining to snoring |
| rictal | the gape; |
| riparian | or inhabiting a riverbank; a riverside inhabitant |
| risorial | like or pertaining to or causing laughter |
| roseaceous | the rose family; roselike |
| rupicaprine | like or pertaining to chamoises |
| sanguineous bloody; | like or pertaining to blood; blood-red |
| saporine | like or pertaining to the sense |
| sarcous | flesh or muscle |
| sartorial | like or pertaining to a tailor or tailored clothes |
| scabious | like or pertaining to scabies or scabs |
| scacchic | like or pertaining to chess |
| scarabaean | like or pertaining to scarabs |
| schiztic | like or pertaining to or marked by splitting |
| schoenabatic | like or pertaining to rope walking |
| sciatheric | like or pertaining to measurement |
| sciatic | like or pertaining to the hip |
| scincoid | or resembling a skink |
| scioptic | like or pertaining to formation |
| sciurine | like or pertaining to squirrels |
| sciuroid | like or pertaining to squirrels or chipmunks |
| scolopacine | like or pertaining to snipes |
| scorbutic | or suffering from scurvy |
| scutal | like or pertaining to shields |
| scytodepsic | like or pertaining to tanning leather |
| sebaceous | or like tallow |
| selachian | like or pertaining to sharks or rays |
| selenic | like or pertaining to the moon |
| semic | like or pertaining to a sign or signs |
| septentrional northern; | like or pertaining to the north |
| septimal | like or pertaining to or based on the number seven |
| seral | like or pertaining to the development |
| serous | like or pertaining to serum; watery |
| serpentine | like or pertaining to serpents or snakes |
| shrieval | like or pertaining to a sheriff |
| sialic | like or pertaining to saliva |
| sidereal | like or pertaining to the stars |
| sigillary | like or pertaining to a seal |
| simian | like or pertaining to apes |
| sinal | like or pertaining to the sinuses |
| siphonic | like or pertaining to a siphon |
| skelic | like or pertaining to the skeleton |
| soliterraneous | like or pertaining to the joint effect |
| somnial | like or pertaining to dreams |
| sophianic | like or pertaining to wisdom |
| soricine | like or pertaining to shrews |
| soricine shrewlike; | like or pertaining to shrews |
| sororal | like or pertaining to sisters |
| soterial | like or pertaining to salvation |
| spatiotemporal | like or pertaining to time and space |
| speluncar | like or pertaining to caves |
| spermatic | like or pertaining to sperm |
| sphingal | like or pertaining to sphinxes |
| sphragistic | like or pertaining to seals and signets |
| sphygmic | like or pertaining to the pulse or heartbeat |
| spintrian | like or pertaining to orgies or male sexual deviance |
| splenic | like or pertaining to the spleen |
| squaloid | like or pertaining to sharks |
| stadial | like or pertaining to a stage |
| statuary | pertaining to or suitable for sculpture |
| stercoraceous | like or pertaining to feces |
| steric | like or pertaining to the organization |
| sterquilinian | like or pertaining to a dunghill |
| stibial | like or pertaining to antimony |
| stochastic | like or pertaining to a sequence |
| stradometrical | like or pertaining to the measurement |
| stratonic | an army or armies |
| strigine owl-like; | like or pertaining to owls |
| struthious | like or pertaining to ostriches |
| stylogalmaic | like or pertaining to figures serving as columns or pillars |
| suberic | or pertaining to cork |
| suberous | like or having the appearance |
| suburbicarian | like or pertaining to suburbs |
| succinic | pertaining to or derived from amber |
| suidian | like or pertaining to pigs |
| suilline | like or pertaining to hogs |
| suilline like a pig; | like or pertaining to pigs |
| sulcal | a sulcus; grooved; furrowed |
| sulphorous | like or pertaining to hellfire; infernal; blasphemous |
| sumptuary | like or pertaining to expense or extravagance |
| superciliary | on or near the eyebrow |
| sural | like or pertaining to the calf |
| surficial like or pertaining to the surface | |
| surnominal | like or pertaining to surnames |
| sutorian | like or pertaining to cobbling or sewing |
| sybotic | like or pertaining to a swineherd |
| sylvestral | like or pertaining to trees |
| synodical | like or pertaining to conjunction |
| syringadenous | like or pertaining to sweat glands |
| syrtic | like or pertaining to quicksand |
| tabernacular | like or pertaining to a tabernacle |
| tactual | like or pertaining to or derived from the sense |
| talaric | like or pertaining to or reaching the ankles |
| taurean | like or pertaining to a bull |
| taurine | like or pertaining to bulls |
| taxaceous | like or pertaining to yew trees |
| technolithic | like or pertaining to stone tools |
| tectonic | like or pertaining to building; structural |
| tegmental | like or pertaining to coverings or outer shells |
| tegular | like or overlapping like tiles or slates |
| telestic | like or pertaining to the mysteries |
| tellural | like or pertaining to the earth |
| telodynamic | like or pertaining to transmission |
| tergal | like or pertaining to the back |
| terpsichorean | like or pertaining to dancing |
| terraneous | like or pertaining to the earth |
| terrene | the earth; earthly; worldly; mundane |
| tesserarian like or pertaining to dice games | |
| testaceous | or having a hard shell; brick-red |
| testudinal | like or pertaining to tortoises or tortoise-shell |
| textorial | like or pertaining to weaving |
| textrine | like or pertaining to weaving |
| thelematic | like or pertaining to will or volition; voluntary |
| theriacal | like or pertaining to antidotes |
| thermic | like or pertaining to heat |
| thermonous | like or pertaining to stimulation by heat |
| theroid | like or pertaining to a beast or wild animal |
| thesaurarial | or pertaining to the |
| thesial | like or pertaining to a thesis |
| thionic | like or pertaining to or containing sulphur |
| threptic | like or pertaining to the rearing |
| thronal | like or pertaining to a throne |
| tigrine | like or pertaining to tigers |
| tinctorial | like or pertaining to dyeing; giving colour |
| tolypeutine | like or pertaining to armadillos |
| tonetic | like or pertaining to tonal pronunciation or languages |
| tonsorial | like or pertaining to a barber or a barber’s work |
| toponomastic | like or pertaining to place names |
| torrentine | like or pertaining to a torrent; having the character |
| toxophilite lover | archery; an archer; |
| tribunitial | like or pertaining to a tribune |
| tributorian | like or pertaining to tribute or payment |
| tringoid | like or pertaining to sandpipers |
| trochilic | like or pertaining to rotatory motion |
| trochilidine | like or pertaining to hummingbirds |
| trochiline | like or pertaining to hummingbirds |
| troglodytine | like or pertaining to wrens |
| truttaceous | like or pertaining to trout |
| turdine | like or pertaining to thrushes |
| turdine | like or pertaining to thrushes |
| turrical | like or pertaining to a tower or turret; like a turret |
| tussicular | like or pertaining to coughs |
| uletic | like or pertaining to the gums |
| ulmaceous | or like elms |
| umbilical | like or pertaining to the navel; related on the mother's side |
| uncial | like or pertaining to an inch or an ounce |
| ungual | a claw ho |
| unguentary | like or pertaining to unguents; one who makes or sells unguents |
| uranic | the palate |
| uretic | like or pertaining to urine |
| ursine | like or pertaining to bears |
| urticaceous | like or pertaining to nettles |
| uxorial | like or pertaining to a wife |
| vaccine | like or pertaining to cows; preparation conferring immunity to disease |
| vadose | like or pertaining to underground water above the water table |
| valetudinarian | like or pertaining to ill-health; anxious about health |
| vapulatory | like or pertaining to flogging |
| varietal | like or pertaining to a variety |
| vascular | like or pertaining to fluid-carrying vessels |
| vectigal | like or pertaining to the paying |
| velamentous | like or pertaining to or like a membrane or sail |
| venatic | like or pertaining to hunting |
| venous | like or pertaining to veins |
| ventral | like or pertaining to the underside or the belly |
| vermicular | like or pertaining to worms |
| vernal | like or pertaining to spring |
| versicular | or in verse |
| vertiginous | like or pertaining to vertigo; dizzy; giddy |
| vesical | like or pertaining to the bladder |
| vespal | like or pertaining to wasps |
| vespertinal | like or pertaining to the evening |
| vespine | like or pertaining to hornets or wasps |
| vestiary robing-room; cloakroom; | like or pertaining to clothes |
| viatical | like or pertaining to roads or travel |
| vibronic | or caused by electronic vibration |
| vicarial | like or pertaining to a vicar or delegate |
| villar | like or pertaining to a manor or village |
| villatic rural; | like or pertaining to a villa |
| vinal | or due to wine |
| vindemial | like or pertaining to the vintage |
| vineatic | like or pertaining to vines |
| viperine | like or pertaining to vipers |
| viperous | like |
| visceral | the organs |
| visile | like or pertaining to sight; learning easily by sight |
| visive | like or pertaining to sight; visual; able to see or be seen |
| vitular | like or pertaining to a calf or to calving |
| vituline | like or pertaining to calves or veal |
| viverrine | like or pertaining to civets and mongoose |
| viverrine | like or pertaining to the civet |
| vocabularian | like or pertaining to vocabulary |
| vocicultural | like or pertaining to voice training |
| volar | like or pertaining to the palm or the sole; |
| volitive | like or pertaining to the will |
| volucrine | like or pertaining to birds; bird-like |
| voluminal | like or pertaining to volume or cubic capacity |
| voraginous | like or pertaining to a whirlpool; voracious |
| vortical | like or pertaining to a vortex; whirling |
| vulpecular | like or pertaining to a young fox |
| vulpine | like or pertaining to foxes; cunning |
| vulturine rapacious; | like or pertaining to a vulture |
| vulvar | like or pertaining to or resembling the vulva |
| xilinous like or pertaining to cotton | |
| xylary | like or pertaining to xylem |
| yogic | or pertaining to yoga |
| zebrine | like or pertaining to zebras |
| zibeline | like or pertaining to the sable |
| zincic | pertaining to or containing zinc |
| zirconic | or pertaining to zirconium |
| zoic | like or pertaining to animals; containing evidence |
| zonal | or like a zone; arranged in zones |
| zonarious | or pertaining to a girdle or purse |
| zonary | or like a zone; arranged in zones |
| zoochorous | seeds or spores spread by animals |
| zoonic | like or pertaining to or derived from animals |
| zygal formed like the letter H; | like or pertaining to a yoke or union |
| zymic | like or pertaining to fermentation |
| zymotic | like or pertaining to fermentation |
| aligerous | winged |
| aluminiferous | bearing aluminum |
| antenniferous | bearing antennae |
| argentiferous | bearing silver |
| armigerous | entitled to bear arms |
| arundiferous | bearing or producing reeds |
| bacciferous | bearing berries |
| balaniferous | acorn-bearing |
| barbigerous | bearded; bearing a beard |
| belliferous | bringing war |
| brachiferous | bearing or having branches or arms |
| branchiferous | having or bearing gills |
| bulbiferous | bearing bulbs |
| byssiferous | having tufts or threads |
| calcariferous | having or bearing spurs |
| calciferous | bearing lime |
| carboniferous | bearing carbon |
| carniferous | bearing flesh; fleshy |
| celliferous | bearing cells |
| celluliferous | bearing little cells |
| ceriferous | producing wax |
| cheliferous | bearing pincers or claws |
| chyliferous | bearing chyle |
| chymiferous | bearing chyme |
| clavigerous | club-bearing |
| clavigerous | keeping keys |
| cobaltiferous | bearing cobalt |
| cocciferous | bearing or yielding berries |
| conchiferous | bearing a shell |
| conchyliferous | bearing a shell |
| coniferous | bearing cones |
| coralliferous | bearing coral |
| cornigerous | horned |
| crinigerous | hairy |
| cruciferous | bearing a cross |
| culmiferous | bearing coal-dust |
| cupriferous | bearing copper |
| cupuliferous | bearing cupules |
| dentigerous | toothed; bearing teeth |
| diamantiferous | bearing diamonds |
| discigerous | bearing a disc or discus |
| doloriferous | bearing grief or pain |
| elytriferous | having or bearing hardened forewings |
| estiferous | producing heat |
| ferriferous | bearing iron |
| filiferous | thread-bearing |
| flagelliferous | bearing a whip or flagellum |
| flammiferous | producing flame |
| floriferous | bearing flowers |
| foetiferous | bearing or carrying a fetus |
| foliaceous | bearing leaves; leaf-like |
| foraminiferous | bearing foramina |
| fossiliferous | bearing fossils |
| frigiferous | bearing or bringing cold |
| frondiferous | bearing or producing fronds |
| fructiferous | bearing fruit |
| frugiferous | bearing fruit |
| furciferous | bearing a fork |
| furciferous | bearing a forked appendage; rascally |
| galactophorous | bearing or carrying milk |
| garnetiferous | bearing garnets |
| gemmiferous | bearing gems |
| glandiferous | bearing acorns or nuts |
| glanduliferous | bearing glands |
| globuliferous | bearing globules |
| glumiferous | bearing glumes |
| granuliferous | bearing granules |
| guaniferous | bearing dung |
| gummiferous | bearing gum |
| guttiferous | exuding drops |
| gypsiferous | bearing gypsum |
| hederiferous | ivy-bearing |
| igniferous | bearing fire |
| jaculiferous | having arrow-like prickles |
| lactiferous | milk-bearing |
| laniferous | wool-bearing |
| lanigerous | bearing wool |
| laticiferous | containing or conveying latex |
| lauriferous | bearing laurels |
| lethiferous | causing death; carrying or bearing death |
| libaniferous | yielding or bearing incense |
| luciferous | light-bringing; light-giving |
| lucriferous | lucrative; yielding profit |
| luminiferous | bearing or bringing light |
| maliferous | harmful; unhealthy |
| mammiferous | having breasts |
| manganiferous | bearing manganese |
| margaritiferous | pearl-bearing |
| mastigophorous | bearing a whip |
| melaniferous | containing or bearing melanin |
| melliferous | producing or forming honey |
| mentatiferous | telepathic |
| metalliferous | bearing metal |
| morbiferous | disease-bringing |
| morigerous | obsequious or deferent |
| mortiferous | death-bringing; fatal |
| moschiferous | producing musk |
| motiferous | conveying motion |
| muciferous | conveying or secreting mucus |
| nectariferous | producing nectar |
| nickeliferous | bearing nickel |
| nubiferous | cloud-bringing |
| nuciferous | nut-bearing |
| odoriferous | emitting a usually pleasant smell |
| oleiferous | producing oil |
| omniferous | bearing everything |
| ossiferous | bearing bones |
| oviferous | egg-carrying |
| ovigerous | bearing eggs |
| ovuliferous | bearing ovules |
| ozoniferous | bearing ozone |
| papilliferous | bearing papillae |
| papuliferous | pimply; bearing or pertaining to pimples |
| pedigerous | having or bearing feet |
| peltiferous | bearing a shield |
| penniferous | bearing feathers |
| pestiferous | bringing plague or pestilence |
| petaliferous | bearing petals |
| petroliferous | bearing petroleum |
| piliferous | bearing or growing hair |
| placentigerous | bearing a placenta |
| platiniferous | bearing platinum |
| plumbiferous | bearing or yielding lead |
| plumigerous | plumaged |
| polliniferous | bearing pollen |
| pollinigerous | pollen-bearing |
| pomiferous | bearing apples |
| poriferous | having pores |
| proligerous | bearing offspring |
| pruniferous | bearing plums |
| pubigerous | hairy; bearing or growing hair |
| pupigerous | bearing a puparium |
| pyritiferous | bearing pyrite |
| quartziferous | bearing quartz |
| quiniferous | yielding quinine |
| racemiferous | bearing clusters or bunches |
| ramiferous | bearing branches |
| ramuliferous | bearing small branches |
| resiniferous | bearing resin |
| roriferous | producing or bearing dew |
| rotiferous | bearing rotifers |
| sacchariferous | bearing sugar |
| sacciferous | bearing a sac or sacs |
| saliferous | salt-bearing |
| salutiferous | conducive to health or well-being |
| sanguiferous | bearing blood |
| scapigerous | having a scape |
| scutigerous | bearing a shield or scales |
| scyphiferous | bearing a cup |
| sebiferous | bearing fatty matter |
| securigerous | bearing an axe |
| seminiferous | seed-bearing |
| sensiferous | conveying sensation |
| septiferous | having barriers |
| serpentiferous | bearing a snake; abounding in snakes |
| setiferous | bearing bristles |
| setigerous | bearing bristles |
| siliciferous | bearing or containing silica |
| soboliferous | bearing shoots or suckers |
| somniferous | bearing sleep |
| soniferous | producing sound |
| soporiferous | bearing sleep |
| spicigerous | bearing spikes |
| spiniferous | bearing spines |
| spinigerous | bearing spines |
| spinuliferous | bearing spinules |
| sporiferous | bearing spores |
| staminiferous | bearing stamens |
| stanniferous | bearing tin |
| stelliferous | having many stars |
| stigmatiferous | bearing stigma |
| stoloniferous | bearing or having runners |
| stomatiferous | having an orifice or mouth |
| strombuliferous | bearing spirally coiled organs |
| styliferous | bearing a bristle |
| succiferous | bearing or producing sap |
| succiniferous | bearing or producing amber |
| sudoriferous | inducing or secreting sweat |
| surculigerous | producing suckers |
| tediferous | bearing a torch |
| thuriferous | incense-bearing |
| titaniferous | bearing titanium |
| toxiferous | producing or bearing poison |
| trochiferous | bearing a wheel or wheel-like organ |
| tuberiferous | bearing tubers |
| turriferous | bearing towers |
| umbelliferous | bearing umbels |
| umbriferous | giving or bearing shade |
| uraniferous | bearing uranium |
| uriniferous | bearing urine |
| vasiferous | bearing a vessel or vas |
| veliferous | bearing a sail or membrane |
| veneniferous | carrying poison |
| vermigerous | bearing containing or infested with worms |
| viruliferous | bearing or containing a virus |
| vitiferous | bearing vines |
| yttriferous | bearing yttrium |
| zinciferous | bearing zinc |
| zinkiferous | bearing zinc |
| aeneous | shining bronze colour |
| albicant | whitish; becoming white |
| albugineous | like the white of an eye or an egg; white-coloured |
| amaranthine | immortal; undying; deep purple-red colour |
| argent | the heraldic colour silver or white |
| atrous | jet black |
| aubergine | eggplant; a dark purple colour |
| aurulent | gold-coloured |
| azuline | blue |
| azure | light or sky blue; the heraldic colour blue |
| badious | chestnut-coloured |
| beige | light creamy white-brown |
| brunneous | dark brown |
| burnet | dark brown; dark woollen cloth |
| caesious | bluish or greyish green |
| cardinal | deep scarlet red colour |
| castaneous | chestnut-coloured |
| castory | brown colour; brown dye derived from beaver pelts |
| celadon | pale green; pale green glazed pottery |
| celeste | sky blue |
| cerulean | sky-blue; dark blue; sea-green |
| cesious | bluish-grey |
| chartreuse | yellow-green colour |
| chlorochrous | green-coloured |
| chrysochlorous | greenish-gold |
| cinerious | ashen; ash-grey |
| cinnabar | red crystalline mercuric sulfide pigment; deep red or scarlet colour |
| citreous | lemon-coloured; lemony |
| citrine | dark greenish-yellow |
| coccineous | bright red |
| columbine | of or like a dove; dove-coloured |
| coquelicot | brilliant red; poppy red |
| corbeau | blackish green |
| cramoisy | crimson |
| cretaceous | of or resembling chalk; of a whitish colour |
| croceate | saffron-coloured |
| cyaneous | sky blue |
| eau-de-nil | pale green colour |
| eburnean | of or like ivory; ivory-coloured |
| erythraean | reddish colour |
| ferruginous | of the colour of rust; impregnated with iron |
| filemot | dead-leaf colour; dull brown |
| flammeous | flame-coloured |
| flavescent | yellowish or turning yellow |
| fuliginous | sooty; dusky; soot-coloured; of or pertaining to soot |
| fulvous | dull yellow; tawny |
| fuscous | brown; tawny; dingy |
| gamboge | reddish-yellow colour |
| glaucous | sea-green; greyish-blue |
| goldenrod | dark golden yellow |
| greige | of a grey-beige colour |
| gridelin | violet-grey |
| griseous | pearl-grey or blue-grey; grizzled |
| haematic | blood-coloured |
| heliotrope | purplish hue; purplish-flowered plant; ancient sundial; signalling mirror |
| hoary | pale silver-grey colour; grey with age |
| hyacinthine | of a blue or purple colour |
| ianthine | violet-coloured |
| ibis | large stork-like bird; a pale apricot colour |
| icterine | yellowish or marked with yellow |
| icteritious | jaundiced; yellow |
| incarnadine | carnation-coloured; blood-red |
| indigo | deep blue-violet colour; a blue-violet dye |
| infuscate | clouded or tinged with brown; obscured; cloudy brown colour |
| isabelline | greyish yellow |
| jacinthe | orange colour |
| jessamy | yellow like a jasmine |
| kermes | brilliant red colour; a red dye derived from insects |
| khaki | light brown or tan |
| lateritious | brick-red |
| leucochroic | white or pale-coloured |
| liard | grey; dapple-grey |
| lovat | grey-green; blue-green |
| lurid | red-yellow; yellow-brown |
| luteolous | yellowish |
| luteous | golden-yellow |
| lutescent | yellowish |
| madder | red dye made from brazil wood; a reddish or red-orange colour |
| magenta | reddish purple |
| maroon | brownish crimson |
| mauve | light bluish purple |
| mazarine | rich blue or reddish-blue colour |
| melanic | black; very dark |
| melichrous | having a honey-like colour |
| meline | canary-yellow |
| miniaceous | colour of reddish lead |
| minium | vermilion; red lead |
| modena | crimson |
| morel | dark-coloured horse; blackish colour |
| nacarat | bright orange-red |
| nankeen | buff-coloured; durable buff-coloured cotton |
| nigricant | of a blackish colour |
| nigrine | black |
| niveous | snowy; white |
| ochre | yellowish or yellow-brown colour |
| ochroleucous | yellowish white |
| olivaceous | olive-coloured |
| pavonated | peacock-blue |
| periwinkle | a bluish or azure colour; a plant with bluish flowers |
| perse | dark blue or bluish-grey; cloth of such a colour |
| phoeniceous | bright scarlet-red colour |
| piceous | like pitch; inflammable; reddish black |
| ponceau | poppy red |
| porphyrous | purple |
| porraceous | leek-green |
| prasinous | leek-green colour |
| primrose | pale yellow |
| puccoon | blood-root; dark red colour |
| puce | brownish-purple; purplish-pink |
| puniceous | bright or purplish red |
| purpure | heraldic colour purple |
| purpureal | purple |
| pyrrhous | reddish; ruddy |
| rhodopsin | visual purple |
| rubiginous | rusty-coloured |
| rubious | ruby red; rusty |
| rufous | reddish or brownish-red |
| russet | reddish brown |
| sable | black; dark; of a black colour in heraldry |
| saffron | orange-yellow |
| sage | grey-green colour |
| sanguineous | bloody; of like or pertaining to blood; blood-red |
| sapphire | deep pure blue |
| sarcoline | flesh-coloured |
| sepia | fine brown |
| sinopia | preparatory drawing for a fresco; reddish-brown colour |
| slate | dull dark blue-grey |
| smalt | deep blue |
| smaragdine | emerald green |
| solferino | purplish red |
| sorrel | reddish-brown; light chestnut |
| spadiceous | chestnut-coloured |
| stammel | coarse woollen fabric usually dyed red; bright red colour |
| stramineous | strawy; light; worthless; straw-coloured |
| suede | light beige |
| sulphureous | bright yellow |
| tan | tawny brown |
| taupe | brownish-grey |
| tawny | brownish-yellow |
| teal | greenish-blue |
| terracotta | reddish-brown |
| testaceous | of or having a hard shell; brick-red |
| tilleul | pale yellowish-green |
| titian | red-gold or reddish-brown |
| topaz | dark yellow |
| turquoise | blue-green |
| ultramarine | deep blue |
| umber | brownish red |
| vermeil | bright red or vermilion colour; gilded silver |
| vermilion | bright red |
| vinaceous | wine-coloured |
| vinous | deep red; burgundy |
| violaceous | violet-coloured |
| violet | bluish purple |
| virescent | becoming green or greenish; of a greenish colour |
| virid | green |
| viridian | chrome green |
| vitellary | bright yellow |
| wallflower | yellowish-red |
| watchet | pale blue |
| wheaten | the golden colour of ripe wheat |
| whey | off-white |
| willowish | of the colour of willow leaves |
| xanthic | yellow; yellowish |
| zinnober | chrome green |
| aba | garment of camel or goat hair; camel or goat-hair fabric |
| aerophane | thin crinkled semi-transparent fabric |
| alepine | mixed wool and silk or mohair and cotton fabric |
| alpaca | fine wool made from alpaca hair |
| angora | silk-like fabric made from wool of angora goats |
| ardass | fine silk |
| armure | twilled woollen or silk fabric |
| arrasene | embroidery fabric of wool and silk |
| atlas | rich satin fabric |
| bagging | coarse fabric for making bags or sacks |
| baize | coarse napped cotton or wool fabric |
| balbriggan | knitted cotton fabric |
| baldachin | rich embroidered silk and gold fabric |
| balzarine | light cotton dress material |
| barathea | pebbly silk or worsted fabric with broken rib weave |
| barege | gauzy fabric of silk cotton |
| barracan | fine silk cloth |
| barras | coarse linen fabric |
| barrateen | some kind of fabric |
| batiste | fine soft sheer fabric of plain weave |
| bayadere | fabric with horizontal stripes in strongly contrasting colours |
| beaupers | linen fabric used for flags |
| bengaline | crosswise ribbed fabric |
| bombazine | twilled silk and worsted fabric |
| borato | thin fabric |
| bouclé | fabric of uneven looped yarn |
| brilliantine | light lustrous cotton and worsted fabric |
| broadcloth | dense twilled wool or worsted fabric |
| brocade | rich silk fabric with raised patterns |
| buckram | stiff-finished cotton or linen used for linings of garments |
| bump | coarse cotton fabric |
| bunting | light loosely woven fabric used for flags |
| burdet | cotton fabric |
| burlap | coarse plain-woven jute or hemp fabric |
| burnet | dark brown; dark woollen cloth |
| burrel | coarse russet cloth |
| calamanco | satin twilled woollen fabric |
| calico | plain white cotton |
| cambresine | fine linen fabric |
| cambric | fine thin white cotton or linen fabric |
| camlet | strong waterproof silk or wool fabric |
| caneva | fancy woollen fabric made to resemble canvas |
| canque | Chinese cotton fabric |
| cashmere | soft twilled fabric made of fine goat's wool |
| cashmerette | soft imitation of cashmere |
| cassimere | closely woven twilled cloth of fine wool |
| cendal | silk fabric resembling taffeta |
| challis | soft lightweight silk wool or cotton fabric |
| chambray | lightweight fabric with coloured warp and white filling |
| chamois | cotton fabric made in imitation of chamois leather |
| charmante | silk fabric with a crepe back |
| charmeuse | soft and satiny silk fabric |
| chenille | velvety silk wool or cotton fabric with protruding pile |
| cheviot | coarse heavy plain or twilled wool or worsted |
| chiffon | sheer silk fabric |
| chino | strong twilled cotton cloth |
| chintz | glazed printed cotton fabric |
| cire | fabric with a glazed finish |
| cloque | fabric with an embossed design |
| coburg | thin single-twilled worsted fabric with cotton or silk |
| cordovan | soft goatskin leather |
| corduroy | durable cotton piled fabric with vertical ribs |
| crash | coarse drapery and towelling fabric |
| crepe | light crinkled fabric |
| crepon | heavy crepe fabric with lengthwise crinkles |
| cretonne | heavy cotton or linen cloth |
| crin | horsehair fabric |
| crinoline | stiff flax or cotton fabric |
| cubica | fine unglazed fabric resembling shalloon |
| cypress | silk or cotton gauze fabric usually black |
| damask | fine lustrous fabric with flat patterns and a satin weave |
| delaine | light fabric of wool or mixed wool and cotton |
| denim | firm and durable twilled cotton |
| dimity | sheer and stout white cotton |
| domett | plain cotton-wool blend |
| dornick | stout linen |
| dowlas | coarse linen |
| drabbet | coarse linen |
| drap-de-Berry | old woollen cloth |
| dreadnought | heavy woollen cloth |
| drill | durable twilled cotton |
| droguet | ribbed woollen dress fabric |
| drugget | coarse durable wool fabric |
| ducape | plain-woven stout silk fabric |
| duck | durable closely woven cotton fabric |
| duffel | fabric of thick low-quality woolen cloth |
| dungaree | heavy coarse durable twilled cotton usually coloured |
| dupion | coarse silk |
| duroy | coarse woollen |
| duvetyn | smooth lustrous velvety fabric |
| ecarlate | fine woollen cloth usually dyed scarlet |
| éolienne | fine silk and wool |
| etamine | light open-mesh cotton or worsted |
| eyelet | small hole in fabric to allow passage of a cord; cotton fabric with small holes |
| faille | shiny closely woven silk cotton or rayon fabric |
| farandine | silk and wool cloth |
| filoselle | coarse floss silk |
| flannel | light woollen fabric |
| foulard | soft lightweight plain-woven or twilled silk fabric |
| foulé | light woollen fulled cloth |
| frieze | rough heavy woollen cloth |
| fuji | plain spun silk fabric |
| fustian | coarse twilled cotton |
| gabardine | closely woven cotton or wool twill |
| galatea | striped cotton |
| gambroon | twilled worsted and cloth |
| gazar | silk organza fabric |
| genappe | smooth worsted yarn |
| georgette | thin silk |
| gingham | striped cotton cloth |
| grenadine | thin silk |
| grogram | coarse loosely woven silk fabric |
| grosgrain | heavy close-woven corded silk |
| gulix | kind of fine linen |
| harn | coarse linen |
| herringbone | twilled fabric woven in rows of parallel sloping lines |
| hodden | coarse undyed woollen cloth |
| holland | coarse plain-woven cotton or linen |
| hopsack | rough-surfaced loose fabric |
| houndstooth | fabric with an irregular checked pattern |
| huckaback | absorbent cotton or linen used for towels |
| jaconet | stout cotton cloth |
| jacquard | intricately-woven variegated fabric; loom for making jacquard |
| jaspe | cotton or rayon cloth with shaded effect |
| jean | durable twilled cotton material |
| jersey | plain weft-knitted fabric of wool cotton |
| kalamkari | fabric coloured by repeated dyeing |
| kelt | coarse fabric made of black and white wool |
| kente | hand-woven African silk fabric |
| kersey | coarse woollen cloth |
| kerseymere | twilled fine wool |
| khaddar | homespun cotton cloth |
| kincob | embroidered silk with gold and silver threads |
| lamé | fabric in which metallic threads are interwoven |
| lasting | sturdy cotton or worsted cloth |
| lawn | fine sheer plain-woven cotton or linen |
| leno | open-woven fabric |
| linsey | coarse linen and wool blend |
| linsey-woolsey | thin coarse fabric of wool and linen |
| lockram | coarse linen |
| loden | heavy waterproof woollen fabric |
| lustring | glossy silk |
| lutestring | plain glossy silk |
| mackinaw | heavy napped and felted wool cloth |
| mackintosh | lightweight rubberized waterproof cotton |
| madapollam | fine cotton cloth |
| madras | fine plain-woven cotton or silk |
| marabout | thin downy silk |
| marcella | cotton or linen in twill weave |
| marocain | ribbed crepe fabric |
| marquisette | sheer meshed cloth |
| matelassé | having a quilted ornamentation; fabric with raised pattern as if quilted |
| melton | strong and smooth heavy woollen cloth |
| merino | soft wool of the merino sheep; any soft merino-like wool or wool and cotton cloth |
| messaline | soft lightweight silk with a satin weave |
| mockado | inferior quality woollen fabric |
| mogadore | ribbed silk used in making neckties |
| mohair | fabric made from silky hair of angora goats |
| moire | watered silk |
| moleskin | heavy durable cotton |
| moreen | stout corded wool or cotton |
| mousseline | fine sheer fabric |
| mull | soft fine sheer cotton or silk fabric |
| muslin | plain-woven fine cotton |
| musterdevillers | archaic mixed grey woollen cloth |
| nainsook | fine cotton fabric |
| nankeen | buff-coloured; durable buff-coloured cotton |
| needlecord | thinly ribbed cotton |
| ninon | silk voile or other thin fabric |
| organdie | fine translucent cotton |
| organza | transparent thin silk or nylon |
| orleans | interwoven cotton and worsted |
| osnaburg | coarse linen or cotton |
| ottoman | heavy clothing fabric with crosswise ribs |
| oxford | soft durable plain-woven cotton |
| paduasoy | corded silk |
| paisley | soft wool fabric with ornamental pattern |
| panne | heavy lustrous silk or rayon with waxy feel |
| paramatta | worsted and cotton blend |
| pashmina | fine goat's wool fabric used for making shawls |
| pekin | fine soft silk |
| pellicule | thin diaphanous fabric |
| percale | closely woven lightweight cloth |
| percaline | glossy lightweight cotton |
| perse | dark blue or bluish-grey; cloth of such a colour |
| piqué | stiff durable corded fabric of cotton rayon or silk |
| platilla | fine white linen |
| plissé | fabric with puckered finish |
| pongee | thin soft fabric woven from raw silk |
| poodle | coarsely looped or nubby fabric |
| poplin | corded woven silk and worsted |
| prunella | strong and heavy silk or wool |
| rabanna | raffia fabric of Madagascar |
| ramie | strong lustrous fabric resembling linen or silk |
| raploch | coarse undyed woollen cloth |
| raschel | light loosely kitted cloth |
| ratiné | rough bulky plain-woven fabric |
| rep | plain-woven fabric with crosswise ribs |
| reticella | old Venetian lace-like fabric |
| romal | handkerchief or headcloth; silk or cotton fabric |
| rumchunder | fine silk |
| russel | ribbed cotton and wool |
| russet | coarse homespun cloth |
| sagathy | light blend of silk and cotton or wool |
| samite | rich and heavy silk sometimes interwoven with gold or silver |
| sarsenet | fine and soft silk; soft or gentle |
| satara | ribbed lustred wool |
| sateen | glossy cotton or wool |
| satin | closely woven silk with lustrous face |
| satinet | thin silk satin or imitation thereof |
| saxony | fine soft woollen fabric |
| say | delicate woollen fabric |
| scarlet | fine cloth |
| scrim | durable plain-woven cotton fabric |
| seersucker | light puckered cotton or linen fabric |
| sempiternum | durable wool |
| sendal | thin silk or linen |
| serge | strong twilled worsted |
| shalloon | light twilled wool or worsted |
| shantung | plain rough silk or cotton |
| sharkskin | smooth durable wool or worsted fabric |
| shetland | lightweight loosely twisted wool fabric |
| shoddy | woollen fabric made from rags |
| sicilienne | ribbed silk |
| silesia | thin twilled cotton or linen |
| silkaline | soft light cotton fabric resembling silk |
| sindon | fine linen |
| stammel | coarse woollen fabric usually dyed red; bright red colour |
| stockinette | soft elastic cotton fabric |
| surah | soft twilled silk or rayon |
| swansdown | heavy napped cotton flannel |
| swanskin | soft napped fabric resembling flannel |
| tabaret | striped watered silk and satin fabric |
| tabby | plain-woven silk taffeta fabric |
| tabinet | silk and wool watered fabric |
| taffeta | thin glossy silk |
| tamin | thin glazed worsted |
| tamis | thin wool |
| tarlatan | thin sheer stiff cotton |
| terry | piled fabric consisting of uncut loops |
| ticking | strong linen or cotton fabric used for mattress and pillow cases |
| tiffany | transparent silk-like gauzy fabric |
| tiretaine | wool cloth mixed with cotton or linen |
| toile | plain or simple twilled fabric |
| tricolette | silk or rayon knitted fabric |
| tricot | plain knitted silk or woollen fabric |
| tricotine | double-twilled worsted fabric |
| tulle | sheer and delicate thin silk |
| tussah | brownish silk fabric |
| tweed | rough twilled wool |
| twill | any diagonally woven fabric |
| velour | piled velvety cotton |
| veloutine | velvety corded wool |
| velvet | soft piled fabric of silk cotton or synthetic material |
| velvetine | cotton with silk pile |
| vicuna | fabric made from wool of the vicuna a small ruminant |
| voile | soft fine sheer fabric |
| wadmal | thick coarse wool |
| whipcord | fabric with bold twill used for making dresses |
| wigan | stiff plain-woven cotton |
| wincey | plain or twilled cotton |
| woolsey | cotton and wool blend |
| worcester | fine wool |
| worsted | fine closely-woven wool |
| zanella | mixed twilled umbrella fabric |
| zephyr | lightweight wool or worsted fabric; the west wind |
| zibeline | soft piled wool |
| Aegrotat ee'gro-tat | n A medical certificate of illness excusing student's sickness |
| Almacantar al-me-kan'ter | n A circle of altitude |
| Barathrum ba-rath'rum | n An abyss; an insatiable person |
| Cancrizans kang'kri-zanz | adj Moving backwards; especially |
| Carfax kar'faks | n A place where four roads meet; an intersection of main roads at the center of a town |
| Colophon kol'e-fon | n A publisher's emblem or inscription |
| Delenda de-len'da | n pl Things to be deleted or destroyed |
| Diaglyph die'a-glif | n A figure etched or engraved into a flat surface of a gem |
| Enchiridion en-kie-rid'ee-on | n (Greek |
| Episemon ep-i-say'mon | n A badge or characteristic device - in this sense |
| Famulus fam'yoo-lus | n A private secretary or attendant |
| Farrago fe-rah'go | n A confused mass of objects or people; any disordered mixture |
| Nonsense; a confused mixture of unrelated things | |
| Growlery growl'er-ee | n A retreat for times of ill humour |
| Haecceity hek-see'i-tee | n The aspect of existence on which individuality depends; the hereness and nowness of reality |
| Hecatomb hek'a-toam | n A large sacrifice or slaughter; the killing of one hundred animals or people |
| Incunabulum in-ku-nab'u-lum | An early printed book; an early version or stage; the cradle or birthplace of something |
| Kenspeckle ken'spek-l | adj Easily recognizable or distinguishable; conspicuous |
| Liripipe lir'i-pipe | n The long tail of a graduate’s hood; a part or lesson committed to memory |
| Mascaron mas'ke-ron | n A grotesque face on a door-knocker |
| Orphrey or'free | n Gold or other rich embroidery |
| pan-op'ti-kon | n A prison where all inmates can be watched from one point; an exhibition room |
| Xenium zee'ni-um | n A gift made to a guest or ambassador; any compulsory gift |
| Yare | Marked by quickness and agility; nimble; prepared; easily handled |
| Zetetic ze-tet'ik | n or adj Proceeding by inquiry; a search or investigation; a skeptical seeker of knowledge |
| Twee | affectedly or excessively dainty delicate |
| sesquipedalian | A long word |
| fantod | a state of extreme nervousness or restlessness |
| shamble | to walk inan awkward or lazy manner |
| aeipathy | continued passion; an unyielding disease |
| affictitious | feigned; counterfeit |
| affuage | right to cut wood in a forest for family fire |
| "agonarch " | judge of a contest or activity |
| anthroposophy | knowledge of the nature of humanity; human wisdom |
| chirosophy | knowledge of palm-reading |
| cosmosophy | knowledge of the cosmos |
| deipnosophy | learned dinner-conversation |
| demonosopher | one who is inspired by a demon or devil |
| gastrosopher | a person skilled in matters of eating |
| gymnosophy | deep contemplation performed while naked |
| helicosophy | geometry that deals with spirals |
| hypnosophy | knowledge of phenomena relating to sleep |
| misosophy | hatred of knowledge or wisdom |
| morosophy | foolish pretence of wisdom |
| mysteriosophy | system of knowledge concerning secrets and mysteries |
| neutrosophy | study of the origin and nature of philosophical neutralities |
| ontosophy | knowledge of being or existence |
| palaeosophy | ancient learning or thought |
| pansophy | universal knowledge |
| pantosophy | universal knowledge; pansophy |
| philosophy | science of knowledge or wisdom |
| physiophilosophy | system of knowledge concerning principles of natural history |
| physiosophy | assumption of knowledge of nature |
| phytosophy | knowledge of plants |
| pneumatophilosophy | philosophy of spirits or the spirit world |
| pseudosophy | pretension to wisdom |
| psilosophy | shallow philosophy; limited knowledge |
| psychosophy | doctrine or theory of the soul |
| pyrosophy | knowledge of the properties of fire |
| rhabdology | knowledge or learning concerning divining rods |
| sciosophy | system of knowledge without basis in science |
| theanthroposophy | system of belief concerning Christ as god and man |
| theosophy | immediate divine illumination or wisdom |
| zoosophy | knowledge or learning concerning animals |
| archigrapher | principal or head secretary or clerk |
| archiloquy | first part of a speech |
| aretaloger | braggart; one who boasts about his own accomplishments |
| ascoliasm | boys' game of beating each other with gloves or leather while hopping |
| assectation | act of following after something else |
| austerulous | somewhat or slightly harsh |
| autexousious | exercising or possessing free will |
| bajulate | to bear a heavy burden |
| bimarian | pertaining to two seas |
| bonifate | lucky; fortunate |
| boscaresque | picturesque; scenically wooded |
| brabeum | reward or prize |
| brochity | projecting or crooked quality of teeth |
| bromography | a treatise on food |
| bubulcitate | to act as a cowherd; to cry like a cowherd |
| buccellation | act of dividing into small morsels |
| bumposopher | one learned in bumps; a phrenologist |
| cacozealous | imitating badly; poorly affected |
| cameranious | of or relating to a chamber |
| canitude | greyness; hoariness; whiteness |
| caprizant | of the pulse uneven or irregular |
| castaldy | stewardship |
| cecograph | writing device for the blind |
| celeripedean | swift-footed |
| cestuan | No cestuan improvements can negate the damage of such blows to the head |
| chermadic | of a heavy weight used as a projectile |
| chronanagram | an anagram |
| citharize | to play the harp |
| cloakatively | superficially |
| colaphize | to beat or buffet |
| commendaces | funeral orations; prayers for the dead |
| cosmogyral | whirling round the universe |
| crassulent | very fat; grossly obese |
| crebrity | frequency; period between two occurrences |
| crocitation | croaking; cawing |
| cynicocratical | pertaining to rule by cynics |
| deartuate | to dismember |
| decutient | shaking down; beating down |
| defedate | to defile; to pollute |
| desarcinate | to unload; to unburden |
| devalgate | bow-legged |
| dicaearchy | just government |
| While we dream of living in a dicaearchy | in truth we're governed by dicks |
| diffibulate | to unbutton; to unbuckle |
| dignorate | to mark or brand an animal |
| diloricate | to rip open a sewn piece of clothing |
| dipsopathy | medical treatment involving abstinence from liquids |
| diribitory | place where pay is distributed to soldiers |
| divinipotent | having strong divinatory powers |
| dodrantal | of nine inches in length |
| Drollic | of or pertaining to puppet shows |
| dromograph | instrument for measuring velocity of blood flow |
| ducenarious | pertaining to two hundred |
| ebaptization | declaring that someone has not been properly baptized |
| ecstasiate | to go into an ecstasy; to cause to become ecstatic |
| egrote | to feign an illness |
| eicastic | imitative |
| ejurate | to renounce; to abjure |
| embaphium | small vessel for measuring or serving medicine |
| embolimaeal | intercalary; inserted into the calendar |
| epalpebrate | lacking eyebrows |
| ephydriad | water-nymph |
| essomenic | showing things as they will be in the future |
| eternitarian | one who believes in the eternity of the soul |
| eveniency | coming to pass |
| excutient | shaking off |
| exipotic | purgative; cleansing the body of illness |
| exlineal | out of the direct line of descent |
| fabrefaction | act of fashioning or making a work of art |
| fallaciloquence | deceitful speech |
| famelicose | often or very hungry |
| famigerate | to carry news from abroad |
| ficulnean | of fig-tree wood; worthless |
| filicology | study of ferns |
| findible | able to be cleft or split |
| flosculation | an embellishment or ornament in speech |
| foppotee | simpleton |
| frenigerent | bearing a bridle |
| fumificate | to make or cause smoke or incense |
| gardeviance | chest for valuables; a travelling trunk |
| gardevisure | visor of a helmet as shown on heraldic devices |
| "abbatial of" | like or pertaining to abbots or an abbey |
| "abecedarian of" | like or pertaining to the order of the alphabet; rudimentary |
| "abiectic of" | like or pertaining to fir trees or fir sap |
| "absinthial of" | like or pertaining to wormwood; bitter |
| "abyssopelagic of" | like or pertaining to the depths of the ocean |
| "acarine of" | like or pertaining to ticks or mites |
| "accipitrine of" | like or pertaining to falcons and hawks |
| "acerate of" | like or resembling a needle |
| "acolouthic of" | like or pertaining to an after-image or other after-sensation |
| "acrologic of" | like or pertaining to initials |
| "addititious of" | pertaining to or resulting from addition |
| "adenoid of" | like or pertaining to or like a gland |
| "adipic of" | like or pertaining to fatty substances |
| "aeropleustic of" | like or pertaining to aerial navigation |
| "aeruginous of" | like or pertaining to copper-rust or verdigris |
| "aestival of" | like or pertaining to summer |
| "agonistic of" | like or pertaining to or being aggressive or argumentative |
| "alar of" | like or pertaining to the wing or shoulder |
| "alaudine of" | like or pertaining to skylarks |
| "alcine of" | like or pertaining to elks; of |
| "aliphatic of" | like or pertaining to fat or fats in general |
| "alliaceous of" | like or pertaining to garlic; garlicky |
| "alpestrine of" | like or pertaining to alpine regions |
| "ampelidious of" | like or pertaining to vines |
| "amphiscian of" | like or pertaining to torrid regions |
| "amygdaloid almond-shaped; of" | like or pertaining to tonsils |
| "anacardic of" | like or pertaining to cashews |
| "anaclastic refractive; of" | like or pertaining to refraction |
| "anatine of" | like or pertaining to ducks |
| "anconoid of" | like or pertaining to the elbow |
| "ancoral of" | shaped like or resembling an anchor |
| "anguine of" | like or pertaining to snakes |
| "anguine of" | like or pertaining to snakes |
| "anopheline of" | like or pertaining to malarial mosquitoes |
| "anserine of" | like or pertaining to geese |
| "apian of" | like or pertaining to bees |
| "apiarian of" | like or pertaining to bees or beekeeping |
| "aquiline of" | like or pertaining to eagles; hooked like an eagle's beak |
| "araneidan of" | like or pertaining to spiders |
| "archididascalian of" | like or pertaining to headmasters |
| "architectonics of" | like or pertaining to the arrangement of knowledge |
| "areopagitic of" | like or pertaining to tribunals or courts |
| "arietine of" | like or pertaining to rams |
| "arval of" | like or pertaining to ploughed land |
| "asinine of" | like or pertaining to asses; stupid |
| "aularian of" | like or pertaining to a hall in a university |
| "aurantiaceous of" | like or pertaining or pertaining to oranges or orange trees |
| "auricular of" | like or pertaining to the ear; spoken secretly |
| "aval of" | like or pertaining to a grandparent |
| "avian of" | like or pertaining to birds |
| "avicular of" | like or pertaining to birds |
| "avuncular like an uncle; of" | like or pertaining to uncles |
| "baculine of" | like or pertaining to the stick or cane; of |
| "basial of" | like or pertaining to kissing |
| "bathyorographical of" | like or pertaining to depth underwater or elevation above sea level |
| "bathysmal of" | like or pertaining to the depths of the ocean |
| "batrachian of" | like or pertaining to frogs or toads |
| "bdelloid of" | like or pertaining to leeches |
| "benthic of" | like or pertaining to the depths of the ocean |
| "bibitory of" | like or pertaining or pertaining to drinking |
| "binaural of" | pertaining to or heard by both ears |
| "bisontine of" | like or pertaining to bison |
| "biverbal of" | like or pertaining to two words; having a double sense |
| "blattoid of" | like or pertaining to cockroaches |
| "blepharal of" | like or pertaining to eyelids |
| "bolar of" | like or pertaining to clay |
| "bombic of" | like or pertaining to silkworms |
| "bombycine of" | like or pertaining to silk or cotton |
| "bovine of" | like or pertaining to cows |
| "branchial of" | like or pertaining to gills |
| "brumal of" | like or pertaining to winter |
| "bubaline of" | like or pertaining to buffalo or antelopes |
| "buccal of" | like or pertaining to the mouth or cheek |
| "bucolic of" | like or pertaining to the tending of cattle; rustic; rural |
| "burgensic of" | like or pertaining to a borough or its citizens |
| "bursal of" | like or pertaining to a state's revenues |
| "buteonine of" | like or pertaining to buzzards |
| "butyric of" | like or pertaining to butter |
| "caballine of" | like or pertaining to or suited to a horse |
| "cacuminal retroflex" | pertaining to a point |
| "calycine of" | like or pertaining to a cup or calyx |
| "cameline of" | like or pertaining to camels |
| "campestral of" | like or pertaining to the country; pertaining to level ground |
| "cancellarial of" | like or pertaining to a chancellor |
| "cancrine of" | like or pertaining to crabs; palindromic |
| "canicular of" | like or pertaining to the dog star |
| "canine of" | like or pertaining to dogs |
| "cantative of" | like or pertaining to singing |
| "capitulary of" | like or pertaining to a chapter of an organization |
| "capric " | like or pertaining to goats having a goatlike smell; of |
| "caprifoliaceous of" | like or pertaining to the honeysuckle plant |
| "caprine of" | like or pertaining to goats |
| "carceral of" | like or pertaining to prisons |
| "cardinalitial of" | like or pertaining to church cardinals |
| "caricous of" | like or pertaining to figs |
| "carious of" | like or pertaining to dental cavities; decayed |
| "carnificial of" | like or pertaining to butchers or executioners |
| "carpal of" | like or pertaining to the wrist |
| "castellar of" | like or pertaining to a castle |
| "catalactic of" | like or pertaining to exchange |
| "catarrhine of" | like or pertaining to Old World Monkeys |
| "catenarian of" | like or pertaining to chains |
| "catoptric of" | like or pertaining to reflection or reflected light |
| "caudal of" | like or pertaining to the tail |
| "causidical of" | like or pertaining to those who plead legal cases |
| "cenatory of" | like or pertaining to supper |
| "centrobaric of" | like or pertaining to the centre of gravity |
| "cercopithecan of" | like or pertaining to long-tailed monkeys |
| "cervine of" | pertaining to or resembling deer |
| "cervisial of" | like or pertaining or pertaining to beer |
| "chelonian of" | like or pertaining to tortoises or turtles |
| "chiral of" | like or pertaining to the hand or handedness |
| "cholic of" | like or pertaining to bile |
| "chorepiscopal of" | like or pertaining to an early local bishop |
| "choreutic of" | like or pertaining to a chorus |
| "chrematistic of" | like or pertaining to the pursuit of wealth or to business |
| "chrestomathic of" | like or pertaining to useful knowledge |
| "chthonian of" | like or pertaining to the earth or the underworld |
| "cibarious of" | like or pertaining to food; useful for food |
| "ciconine of" | like or pertaining to storks |
| "cinerary of" | like or pertaining to ashes |
| "clysmian of" | like or pertaining to or caused by flood |
| "cnemial of" | like |
| "cnidarian of" | like |
| "coeliac of" | like or pertaining to the abdomen |
| "colubrine " | like or pertaining to snakes like a snake; cunning; of |
| "columbaceous of" | like or pertaining to doves or pigeons |
| "compital of" | like or pertaining to crossroads |
| "conative of" | like or pertaining to purposeful action or desire |
| "connubial of" | like or pertaining to marriage |
| "coriaceous " | ofhaving a leathery appearance; consisting |
| "corvine " | like or pertaining to crows or ravens crow-like; of |
| "cosmotellurian of" | like or pertaining to both heaven and earth |
| "costal of" | like or pertaining to the ribs |
| "cothurnal of" | like or pertaining to tragedy |
| "coticular of" | like or pertaining to whetstones |
| "creatic of" | like or pertaining to flesh |
| "credal of" | like or pertaining to a creed |
| "crenitic of" | like or pertaining to mineral springs |
| "crepuscular of" | like or pertaining to twilight |
| "crotaline of" | like or pertaining to rattlesnakes |
| "cryptaesthetic of" | like or pertaining to supranormal perception |
| "cryptous of" | like or pertaining to crypts |
| "cuculine of" | like or pertaining to cuckoos |
| "cucurbitaceous of" | like or pertaining to gourds |
| "cupulate of" | like or pertaining to a cup; cup-shaped |
| "cyprinoid of" | like or pertaining to carp |
| "cypseline of" | like or pertaining to swifts |
| "decanal of" | like or pertaining to a dean or deacon |
| "decennoval of" | like or pertaining to the number nineteen |
| "decretal of" | like or pertaining to a decree |
| "delphinine of" | like or pertaining to dolphins |
| "demegoric of" | like or pertaining to demagogues or demagogic speech |
| "demogenic of" | like or pertaining to membership by citizenship rather than kinship |
| "demotic of" | like or pertaining to the common people |
| "denary one of ten; tenfold; of" | like or pertaining to group of ten |
| "deric of" | like or pertaining to the skin |
| "diaconal of" | like or pertaining to a deacon |
| "diacoustic of" | like or pertaining to the refraction of sound |
| "diadermic of" | like or pertaining to the puncturing of the skin |
| "dianoetic capable of" | like or pertaining to thought |
| "didascalic Didactic" | pertaining to education or teaching |
| "didelphine of" | like or pertaining to opossums |
| "didine of" | like or pertaining to dodos |
| "diluvial of" | like or pertaining to floods; especially mythical ones |
| "dinic of" | like or pertaining to vertigo or dizziness |
| "discophoran of" | like or pertaining to jellyfishes |
| "distaff of" | like or pertaining to the female branch of a family or women's work |
| "dolabrate of" | like or pertaining to axes or hatchets |
| "domal of" | like or pertaining to a house or dome |
| "doxastic of" | like or pertaining to opinion |
| "dromic of" | like or pertaining to a racecourse |
| "drupaceous of" | like or pertaining to drupes or stone-fruits |
| "duodenary of" | like or pertaining to the number twelve |
| "eburnean of " | or like ivory; ivory-coloured |
| "edaphic of" | like or pertaining to the soil |
| "edentate " | without teeth; pertaining to aardvarks and sloths |
| "elaphine of" | like or belonging to a red deer; of |
| "elapid of" | like or pertaining to cobras |
| "eleemosynary of" | like or pertaining to charity or giving alms; dependent on charity |
| "elenctic of" | like or pertaining to argument; cross-examination or refuting |
| "elephantine of" | like or pertaining to elephants |
| "empaestic of" | like or pertaining to the art of embossing |
| "emporeutic of" | like or pertaining to trade |
| "empyreal of" | like or pertaining to heaven; sublime skyward |
| "emunctory conveying waste" | pertaining to nose-blowing |
| "enteral of" | pertaining to or within the intestine |
| "entomical of" | like or pertaining to insects |
| "eoan of" | like or pertaining to dawn |
| "epedaphic of" | like or pertaining to atmospheric conditions |
| "epicedial of" | like or pertaining to dirges or elegies |
| "epichoric " | belonging or pertaining to a rural area |
| "epistolary of" | like or pertaining to letters |
| "epithymetic of" | like or pertaining to desire |
| "epulary of" | like or pertaining to banquets |
| "equine of" | like or pertaining to horses |
| "eristic of" | like or pertaining to controversy or argument |
| "estival of" | like or pertaining to summer |
| "ethmoid Of" | or like a sieve |
| "eupeptic of" | like or pertaining to good digestion; cheerful |
| "eusuchian of" | like or pertaining to alligators and crocodiles |
| "excrementitial of" | like or pertaining to excrement |
| "falconine of" | like or pertaining to falcons or hawks |
| "familic " | pertaining to a family; domestic |
| "favonian of" | like or pertaining to the west wind; mild and favourable |
| "feline of" | like or pertaining to cats |
| "fenestral of" | like or pertaining to windows |
| "ferial of" | like or pertaining to holidays |
| "fictile " | capable of being moulded; of |
| "fidicinal of" | like or pertaining to stringed musical instruments |
| "figuline of" | like or pertaining to earthenware |
| "fimetic of" | like or pertaining to dung |
| "fodient of" | like or pertaining to digging |
| "foraneous of" | like or pertaining to forums |
| "forcipate of" | like or pertaining to forceps |
| "formic of" | like or pertaining to ants |
| "formicine of" | like or pertaining to ants |
| "fringillaceous of" | like or pertaining to finches |
| "fringilline of" | like or pertaining to finches |
| "frumentarious of" | like or pertaining to corn |
| "fulgural of" | like or pertaining to lightning |
| "fuliginous Sooty" | dusky; soot-coloured; of or pertaining to soot |
| "fuliguline of" | like or pertaining to sea ducks |
| "fullonical of" | like or pertaining or belonging to a fuller |
| "fulmineous of" | like or pertaining to thunder and lightning |
| "funebral of" | like or pertaining to a funeral |
| "funicular of" | like or pertaining to a string or cable |
| "furuncular of" | like or pertaining to boils |
| "gadoid of" | resembling or pertaining to the cod |
| "galactic of" | like or pertaining to or obtained from milk |
| "geal of" | like or pertaining or pertaining to the earth |
| "gelastic of" | like or pertaining to or provoking laughter |
| "gemmeous of" | like or pertaining to gems; like a gem |
| "genesic of" | like or pertaining to procreation or the genitals |
| "geocyclic of" | like or pertaining to the rotation and revolution of the Earth |
| "georgic of" | like or pertaining to agricultural or rustic affairs; rural; agrarian |
| "geoselenic of" | like or pertaining to both |
| "geostrophic of" | like or pertaining to deflection due to effects of Earth's rotation |
| "gerontogenous of" | like or pertaining to the Old World |
| "gestatorial of" | like or pertaining to carrying |
| "gestic of" | like or pertaining to gestures |
| "glirine rodent-like" | like or pertaining to rodents |
| "glottogonic of" | like or pertaining to the origins of language |
| "glyptic of" | like or pertaining to carving or gem-engraving |
| "gnathal of" | like or pertaining to the jaws |
| "gnomic " | signifying general truth; pertaining to aphorisms or proverbs |
| "goetic of" | like or pertaining to black magic |
| "grallatory of" | like or pertaining to wading birds |
| "gramineous of" | like or pertaining to grass; grassy |
| "gravimetrical of" | like or pertaining to measuring by weight |
| "gregal of" | like or pertaining to a flock |
| "gromatic of" | like or pertaining to surveys or surveying |
| "gruine of" | like or pertaining to cranes or similar birds |
| "habilatory of" | like or pertaining to clothes or dressing |
| "haemal of" | like or pertaining to blood |
| "halcyonine of" | like or pertaining to kingfishers |
| "halibiotic of" | like or pertaining to the entirety of life under the sea |
| "halieutic of" | like or pertaining to fishing |
| "halolimnic of" | like or pertaining to sea creatures who spend time in fresh water |
| "haptic of" | like or pertaining to the sense of touch |
| "hebamic of" | like or pertaining to the socratic method |
| "hebetic of" | like or pertaining to puberty |
| "hederaceous of" | like or pertaining to ivy |
| "hepatic of" | like or pertaining to or acting upon the liver |
| "hephaestic of" | like or pertaining to iron-working and blacksmiths |
| "hermeneutic of" | like or pertaining to the interpretation of passages |
| "hermetic of" | like or pertaining to sorcery or alchemy |
| "herpetoid of" | like or pertaining to snakes |
| "hesternal of" | like or pertaining to yesterday |
| "hibernal of" | like or pertaining to winter |
| "hiemal of" | like or pertaining to winter |
| "hippiatric of" | like or pertaining to the treatment of horses' diseases |
| "hippic of" | like or pertaining to horses |
| "hippoid Equine" | like or pertaining to |
| "hircine goat-like" | having a goatish smell like or pertaining to smelly goats |
| "hirudine of" | like or pertaining to leeches |
| "hirudinean of" | like or pertaining to leeches |
| "hirundine of" | like or pertaining to swallows |
| "histrionic of" | like or pertaining to the stage or actors |
| "hodiernal of" | like or pertaining to the present day |
| "homarine of" | like or pertaining to lobsters |
| "homiletical of" | like or pertaining to homilies |
| "horal of" | like or pertaining to hours; hourly |
| "horary of" | like or pertaining to an hour; continuing for an hour; hourly |
| "hordeaceous of" | like or pertaining to barley |
| "hortensial of" | like or pertaining to gardens |
| "hortulan of" | like or pertaining to gardens |
| "humoral of" | like or pertaining to body fluid |
| "hyaloid of" | like or pertaining to glass |
| "hydric of" | like or pertaining to an abundance of moisture |
| "hyetal Rainy" | of |
| "hygeian of" | like or pertaining to health; healthy |
| "hygric of" | like or pertaining to water or moisture |
| "hylobatine of" | like or pertaining to gibbons |
| "hymeneal of" | like or pertaining to marriage |
| "hypnagogic sleep-inducing" | pertaining to drowsiness or sleep |
| "hypnoetic of" | like or pertaining to unconscious logical thought |
| "hypnopompic of" | like or pertaining to period between sleep and wakefulness |
| "hypothecary of" | like or pertaining to mortgages |
| "hystricine of" | like or pertaining to porcupines |
| "ichneutic of" | like or pertaining to a tracker or tracking |
| "ichthyic of" | resembling or pertaining to fish |
| "icterical of" | like or pertaining to or suffering from jaundice |
| "icterine of" | like or pertaining to orioles and related birds |
| "ictic of" | pertaining to |
| "iliac of" | like or pertaining to the loins |
| "ilicic of" | like or pertaining to holly |
| "inescatory of" | like or pertaining to baiting; adapted to bait |
| "inguinal of" | like or pertaining to the groin |
| "institorial of" | like or pertaining to an agent or factor |
| "intercrural " | within or pertaining to the area between the legs |
| "interstitial of" | like or pertaining to the space between things |
| "ipecacuanhic Of" | or relating to ipecac |
| "iridaceous of" | like or pertaining to iris plants |
| "iridal Of" | or pertaining to the rainbow |
| "iridic of" | like or pertaining to the iris of the eye |
| "ischiatic Of" | or pertaining to the ischium or hip |
| "islandic of " | or pertaining to an island |
| "ixiodic of" | like or pertaining to ticks |
| "jecoral of" | like or pertaining to the liver |
| "jentacular of" | like or pertaining to breakfast |
| "juglandaceous of" | like or pertaining to walnuts |
| "juncaceous of" | like or pertaining to rushes |
| "jural of" | like or pertaining to the law |
| "juratory of" | like or pertaining to an oath |
| "kerygmatic of" | like or pertaining to preaching the Gospel |
| "lacertilian of" | like or pertaining to lizards |
| "lacuscular of" | like or pertaining to pools |
| "lacustrine of" | like or pertaining to lakes |
| "laic of" | like or pertaining to lay people rather than clergy |
| "lamiaceous " | ofMinty |
| "laminary of" | like or pertaining to thin plates or layer |
| "lampyridine of" | like or pertaining or pertaining to glow-worms or fireflies |
| "lapidarian of" | like or pertaining to stones; inscribed on stones |
| "lardaceous of" | like or pertaining to lard |
| "larine of" | like or pertaining to gulls |
| "laroid of" | like or pertaining to gulls |
| "lavic of" | like or pertaining to lava |
| "legatine of" | like or pertaining to a legate |
| "lemurine of" | like or pertaining to lemurs |
| "leonine of" | like or pertaining to lions |
| "leporine of" | like or pertaining to the hare |
| "lienal of" | like or pertaining to the spleen |
| "limacine of" | like or pertaining to slugs |
| "limicoline " | ofliving on a shore |
| "limnetic " | pertaining to fresh water living in fresh water |
| "linaceous of" | like or pertaining to flax |
| "lingual of" | like or pertaining to language |
| "littoral of" | like or pertaining to the shore of a body of water |
| "lobar of" | like or pertaining to a lobe |
| "loimic of" | like or pertaining to plagues |
| "loranthaceous of" | like or pertaining to the mistletoe |
| "lucernal of" | like or pertaining to lamps |
| "lumbricine of" | like or pertaining to earthworms |
| "lupanarian of" | like or pertaining to a brothel |
| "lupine of" | like or pertaining to wolves |
| "lupulic of" | like or pertaining to hops |
| "lutaceous of" | like or pertaining to or comprised of mud |
| "lutrine of" | like or pertaining to otters |
| "macropodine of" | like or pertaining to kangaroos |
| "magistral of" | like or pertaining to a master or teacher |
| "malar of" | like or pertaining to the cheek |
| "malvaceous of" | like or pertaining to the mallow family of plants |
| "manal of" | like or pertaining to the hand |
| "mandative of" | like or pertaining to commands or leadership |
| "mantic of" | like or pertaining to divination; prophetic; divinely inspired |
| "matinal of" | like or pertaining to the morning |
| "matrical of" | like or pertaining to a womb or a matrix |
| "matricular of" | like or pertaining to a register |
| "matriherital of" | like or pertaining to inheritance along the female line |
| "matripotestal of" | like or pertaining to the power of mothers |
| "matutinal of" | like or pertaining to the morning; happening early in the day |
| "maxillary of" | like or pertaining to a jaw |
| "medianic of" | like or pertaining to spiritualists |
| "megachiropteran of" | like or pertaining to fruit bats |
| "meleagrine of" | like or pertaining to turkeys |
| "mellaginous of" | like or pertaining to or resembling honey |
| "membral of" | like or pertaining to the limbs rather than the trunk |
| "mensal of" | like or pertaining to the dinner-table; monthly |
| "mental of" | like or pertaining to the chin |
| "meretricious of" | like or pertaining to prostitution; superficially attractive but lacking value |
| "metameric of" | like or pertaining to serial division or segmentation of body |
| "metopic of" | like or pertaining to the forehead |
| "milvine of" | like or pertaining to kites and similar birds |
| "mimetic " | like or pertaining to mimicry |
| "miothermic of" | like or pertaining to temperature conditions of the present day |
| "mnesic of" | like or pertaining to memory |
| "molendinar of" | like or pertaining to a mill or miller |
| "molinary of" | like or pertaining to mills or grinding |
| "morassic of" | like or pertaining to a morass |
| "morganatic of" | like or pertaining to a marriage between those of unequal rank |
| "morphean of" | like or pertaining to dreams |
| "morphotic of" | like or pertaining to formation or development |
| "morsal of" | like or pertaining to the cutting edge of a knife |
| "mucopurulent Of" | mucus and pus |
| "mulciberian of" | like or pertaining to metalworking |
| "murine of" | like or pertaining to mice and rats |
| "musal of" | like or pertaining to poetry or the Muses |
| "muscicapine of" | like or pertaining to flycatchers and related birds |
| "muscid of" | like or pertaining to house-flies |
| "muscoid of" | like or pertaining to mosses; moss-like |
| "musteline of" | like or pertaining to weasels |
| "mycteric of" | like or pertaining to the nostrils |
| "myelic of" | like or pertaining to the spinal cord |
| "myoxine of" | like or pertaining to dormice |
| "myrmecophagid of" | like or pertaining to anteaters |
| "myrmicine of" | like or pertaining to ants |
| "mystagogical of" | like or pertaining to religious ritual initiation |
| "narial of" | like or pertaining to the nostrils |
| "natalitial of" | like or pertaining to a birthday |
| "natricine of" | like or pertaining to water-snakes |
| "neanic of" | like or pertaining to the adolescent period; young |
| "nectareal Of" | or like nectar |
| "nemaline Of" | or like a thread |
| "nemoral Of" | a wood or grove |
| "neoblastic of" | like or pertaining to new growth |
| "neophrastic of" | like or pertaining to neologisms |
| "nephric of" | like or pertaining to the kidneys |
| "nepionic of" | like or pertaining to the embryonic period of development |
| "nepotal of" | like or pertaining to one's nephew |
| "neurergic of" | like or pertaining to the function or action of the nerves |
| "niccolic made of" | like or pertaining to nickel |
| "nicotian of" | like or pertaining to tobacco |
| "nidatory of" | like or pertaining to nests |
| "nimonic Of" | alloys used in high-temperature work |
| "nobiliary of" | like or pertaining to nobility |
| "nosocomial of" | like or pertaining to a hospital |
| "novenary of" | like or pertaining to the number nine |
| "novercal of" | like or pertaining to a stepmother |
| "noxal of" | like or pertaining to wrongful injury by object or animal of another |
| "nucal of" | like or pertaining to nuts |
| "nuchal of" | like or pertaining to the nape of the neck |
| "numinous of" | like or pertaining to a deity; suffused with religious awe |
| "nummary of" | like or pertaining to coins or money |
| "nundinal of" | like or pertaining to a fair or market |
| "nutricial of" | like or pertaining to nurses |
| "nychthemeral of" | like or pertaining to a nychthemeron or 24-hour period |
| "nymphean of" | like or pertaining to a nymph |
| "obitual of" | like or pertaining to obituaries |
| "obsidional of" | like or pertaining to a siege |
| "occipital of" | like or pertaining to the back of the head |
| "octonary of" | like or pertaining to or consisting of eight things; grouped in eights |
| "oecodomic of" | like or pertaining to architecture |
| "oenopoetic of" | like or pertaining to wine-making |
| "oleic of" | like or pertaining to or derived from oil |
| "oligodynamic of" | like or pertaining to the effect of small quantities |
| "olitory of" | like or pertaining to kitchen vegetables |
| "oneiric of" | like or pertaining to dreams |
| "onomastic of" | like or pertaining to a name or signature |
| "ontal of" | like or pertaining to reality or existence |
| "onymatic of" | like or pertaining to names |
| "ophic of" | like or pertaining to serpents |
| "opisthosomal of" | like or pertaining to posteriors |
| "ordalian of" | like or pertaining to an ordeal |
| "orectic of" | like or pertaining to appetite or desires |
| "ornithic of" | like or pertaining to birds |
| "orobathymetric of" | like or pertaining to map showing submerged heights and sea depths |
| "oscheal of" | like or pertaining to the scrotum |
| "oscinine of" | like or pertaining to song-birds |
| "oscular of" | like or pertaining to the mouth or to kissing |
| "osteal of" | like or pertaining to |
| "ostracean of" | like or pertaining to oysters |
| "ostraceous of" | like or pertaining to oysters |
| "otarine of" | like or pertaining to seals |
| "otic of" | like or pertaining to the ear |
| "ovibovine of" | like or pertaining to musk-oxen |
| "ovine of" | like or pertaining to sheep |
| "pabulous of" | like or pertaining to nourishment |
| "paginal of" | like or pertaining to pages or pagination |
| "palladian of" | like or pertaining to wisdom or learning |
| "palmar of" | like or pertaining to the palm |
| "palpebral of" | like or pertaining to the eyelid |
| "paludal of" | like or pertaining to marshes; marshy; malarial |
| "panary of" | like or pertaining to bread; bread store |
| "papaverous of" | like or pertaining to poppies |
| "papilionaceous of" | like or pertaining to butterflies |
| "papuliferous Pimply" | bearing or pertaining to pimples |
| "parastatic of" | like or pertaining to protective mimicry of animals |
| "pardine of" | like or pertaining to leopards |
| "parietal " | especially anatomical walls of a wall or walls |
| "parine of" | like or pertaining to titmouses |
| "parthenian of" | like or pertaining to virgins |
| "pascual " | growing on land used for grazing; of |
| "passerine of" | like or pertaining to sparrows |
| "patibulary of" | like or pertaining to the gallows |
| "patrial of" | like or pertaining to one’s native land |
| "pavonian of" | like or pertaining to peacocks |
| "pavonine of" | like or pertaining to peacocks |
| "pectinal " | of a comb comb-like |
| "pectineal " | of the pubic bone |
| "pecuniary of" | like or pertaining to money; consisting of money |
| "pedalian of" | like or pertaining to the foot or to metrical feet |
| "pedary of" | like or pertaining to walking or feet |
| "pedicular of" | like or pertaining to lice |
| "pedological of" | like or pertaining to soils |
| "pelargic of" | like or pertaining to storks |
| "pendular of" | like or pertaining to a pendulum |
| "penial of" | like or pertaining to the penis |
| "perdicine of" | like or pertaining to partridges |
| "peristeronic of" | like or pertaining to pigeons |
| "petrean of" | like or pertaining to or made of rock |
| "phacochoerine of" | like or pertaining to warthogs |
| "phallic of" | pertaining to or resembling a penis |
| "phemic of" | like or pertaining to speech |
| "phenetic of" | like or pertaining to classification by phenotype |
| "philomelian of" | like or pertaining to nightingales |
| "philoprogenitive of" | like or pertaining to instinctive love for offspring |
| "phocine of" | like or pertaining to seals |
| "phreatic of" | like or pertaining to underground water supplying or wells |
| "phthongal of" | pertaining to |
| "phugoid of" | like or pertaining to the longitudinal stability of aircraft |
| "picaresque of" | like or pertaining or pertaining to rogues or roguish behaviour |
| "picine of" | like or pertaining to woodpeckers |
| "piscatorial of" | like or pertaining to fishing or fishers |
| "piscine of" | like or pertaining to fish |
| "planetesimal of" | like or pertaining to asteroids or similar tiny celestial bodies |
| "plantar of" | like or pertaining to the sole of the foot |
| "plaustral of" | like or pertaining to a wagon |
| "plenilunar of" | like or pertaining to the full moon |
| "pliothermic of" | like or pertaining to periods of above-average temperatures |
| "plumeopicean " | of tar and feathers |
| "poaceous of" | like or pertaining or pertaining to grass |
| "podalic of" | like or pertaining to feet |
| "poliorcectic of" | like or pertaining to siegecraft or besiegement |
| "pomaceous of" | like or pertaining to or consisting of apples |
| "popliteal of" | like or pertaining to the back of the knee |
| "poral of" | like or pertaining to pores |
| "porcine of" | like or pertaining to pigs; swinish |
| "potamic of" | like or pertaining to rivers |
| "praedial of" | like or pertaining to or connected with the land or farming |
| "prandial of" | like or pertaining to dinner |
| "prebendal of" | like or pertaining to stipends issued by a church |
| "prenarial of" | like or pertaining to or in front of the nostrils |
| "preputial of" | like or pertaining to the foreskin |
| "presidial of" | like or pertaining to a garrison |
| "Priapean of" | like or pertaining to male reproductive power; phallic |
| "pridian of" | like or pertaining to yesterday |
| "primitial of" | like or pertaining to first fruits; primeval |
| "primogenous of" | like or pertaining to the earliest or first developmental stage |
| "procephalic of" | like or pertaining to the front of the head |
| "proctal of" | like or pertaining to the anus or rectum |
| "procyonine of" | like or pertaining to raccoons |
| "proethnic of" | like or pertaining to primitive races |
| "prosodic of" | like or pertaining to versification |
| "prosopic of" | like or pertaining to the face |
| "psephitic of" | like or pertaining to pebbles |
| "psittacine of" | like or pertaining to macaws |
| "psittacine Of" | or like parrots |
| "pteropine of" | like or pertaining to flying foxes |
| "puerperal of" | like or pertaining to childbirth |
| "pulicine of" | like or pertaining to fleas |
| "pullastrine of" | like or pertaining to pigeons |
| "pulmonic of" | like or pertaining to the lungs |
| "pygal " | belonging to the rump end; pertaining to the rump |
| "pyretic of" | pertaining to or for the cure of fevers |
| "pyrrhic of" | like or pertaining to the dance or to the foot |
| "pyrrhuline of" | like or pertaining to bullfinches |
| "quadragesimal of" | like or pertaining to Lent; lasting forty days |
| "quercine of" | like or pertaining to oak trees |
| "rabic of" | like or pertaining to rabies |
| "rameal of" | like or pertaining to branches |
| "rangiferine of" | like or pertaining to or like reindeer |
| "ranine of" | like or pertaining to or like frogs |
| "ranunculaceous of" | like or pertaining to buttercups |
| "raptorial " | of like or pertaining to a bird of prey |
| "ratite of" | like or pertaining to flightless birds |
| "reginal of" | like or pertaining to a queen |
| "regnal " | of a reign |
| "renal of" | like or pertaining to the kidneys |
| "reptilian of" | like or pertaining to reptiles |
| "retiary " | using nets as a weapon; catching insects in webs |
| "reticular of" | like or pertaining to nets; intricate |
| "rhinal of" | like or pertaining to the nose |
| "rhinocerotic of" | like or pertaining to the rhinoceros |
| "rhizic Of" | the root of an equation |
| "rhonchial of" | like or pertaining to snoring |
| "risible " | laughable |
| "risorial of" | like or pertaining to or causing laughter |
| "rupicaprine of" | like or pertaining to chamoises |
| "sanguineous " | ofBloody |
| "saporine of" | like or pertaining to the sense of taste |
| "sarcous " | of flesh or muscle |
| "sartorial of" | like or pertaining to a tailor or tailored clothes |
| "scabious of" | like or pertaining to scabies or scabs |
| "scacchic of" | like or pertaining to chess |
| "scarabaean of" | like or pertaining to scarabs |
| "schiztic of" | like or pertaining to or marked by splitting |
| "schoenabatic of" | like or pertaining to rope walking |
| "sciatheric of" | like or pertaining to measurement of time by shadows |
| "sciatic of" | like or pertaining to the hip |
| "scioptic of" | like or pertaining to formation of images in darkrooms |
| "sciurine of" | like or pertaining to squirrels |
| "sciuroid of" | like or pertaining to squirrels or chipmunks |
| "scolopacine of" | like or pertaining to snipes |
| "scorbutic " | of or suffering from scurvy |
| "scriptory by" | in or pertaining to writing |
| "scutal of" | like or pertaining to shields |
| "scytodepsic of" | like or pertaining to tanning leather |
| "selachian of" | like or pertaining to sharks or rays |
| "selenic of" | like or pertaining to the moon |
| "semic of" | like or pertaining to a sign or signs |
| "septentrional " | like or pertaining to the north Northern |
| "septimal of" | like or pertaining to or based on the number seven |
| "seral of" | like or pertaining to the development of ecological communities |
| "serous of" | like or pertaining to serum; watery |
| "serpentine of" | like or pertaining to serpents or snakes |
| "shrieval of" | like or pertaining to a sheriff |
| "sialic of" | like or pertaining to saliva |
| "sidereal of" | like or pertaining to the stars |
| "sigillary of" | like or pertaining to a seal |
| "simian of" | like or pertaining to apes |
| "sinal of" | like or pertaining to the sinuses |
| "siphonic of" | like or pertaining to a siphon |
| "skelic of" | like or pertaining to the skeleton |
| "soliterraneous of" | like or pertaining to the joint effect of the sun and earth |
| "somnial of" | like or pertaining to dreams |
| "sophianic of" | like or pertaining to wisdom |
| "soricine of" | like or pertaining to shrews |
| "soricine of" | like or pertaining to shrews |
| "sororal of" | like or pertaining to sisters |
| "soterial of" | like or pertaining to salvation |
| "spatiotemporal of" | like or pertaining to time and space |
| "speluncar of" | like or pertaining to caves |
| "spermatic of" | like or pertaining to sperm |
| "sphingal of" | like or pertaining to sphinxes |
| "sphragistic of" | like or pertaining to seals and signets |
| "sphygmic of" | like or pertaining to the pulse or heartbeat |
| "spintrian of" | like or pertaining to orgies or male sexual deviance |
| "splenic of" | like or pertaining to the spleen |
| "squaloid of" | like or pertaining to sharks |
| "stadial of" | like or pertaining to a stage |
| "statuary of" | pertaining to or suitable for sculpture |
| "stercoraceous of" | like or pertaining to feces |
| "steric of" | like or pertaining to the organization of atoms in a molecule |
| "sterquilinian of" | like or pertaining to a dunghill |
| "stibial of" | like or pertaining to antimony |
| "stochastic of" | like or pertaining to a sequence of random events |
| "stradometrical of" | like or pertaining to the measurement of streets and roads |
| "stratonic " | of an army or armies |
| "strigine owl-like" | like or pertaining to owls |
| "struthious of" | like or pertaining to ostriches |
| "stylogalmaic of" | like or pertaining to figures serving as columns or pillars |
| "suberous of" | like or having the appearance of cork; pertaining to cork |
| "suburbicarian of" | like or pertaining to suburbs |
| "succinic of" | pertaining to or derived from amber |
| "suidian of" | like or pertaining to pigs |
| "suilline of" | like or pertaining to hogs |
| "suilline " | oflike a pig |
| "sulcal " | grooved; furrowed of a sulcus |
| "sulphorous of" | like or pertaining to hellfire; infernal blasphemous |
| "sumptuary of" | like or pertaining to expense or extravagance |
| "superciliary of" | on or near the eyebrow |
| "sural of" | like or pertaining to the calf of the leg |
| "surficial of" | like or pertaining to the surface of the earth |
| "surnominal of" | like or pertaining to surnames |
| "sutorian of" | like or pertaining to cobbling or sewing |
| "sybotic of" | like or pertaining to a swineherd |
| "sylvestral of" | like or pertaining to trees |
| "synodical of" | like or pertaining to conjunction |
| "syringadenous of" | like or pertaining to sweat glands |
| "syrtic of" | like or pertaining to quicksand |
| "tabernacular of" | like or pertaining to a tabernacle |
| "tactual of" | like or pertaining to or derived from the sense of touch |
| "talaric of" | like or pertaining to or reaching the ankles |
| "taurean of" | like or pertaining to a bull |
| "taurine of" | like or pertaining to bulls |
| "taxaceous of" | like or pertaining to yew trees |
| "technolithic of" | like or pertaining to stone tools |
| "tectonic of" | like or pertaining to building; structural |
| "tegmental of" | like or pertaining to coverings or outer shells |
| "tegular of" | like or overlapping like tiles or slates |
| "telestic of" | like or pertaining to the mysteries |
| "tellural of" | like or pertaining to the earth |
| "telodynamic of" | like or pertaining to transmission of power to a distance |
| "tergal of" | like or pertaining to the back |
| "terpsichorean of" | like or pertaining to dancing |
| "terraneous of" | like or pertaining to the earth |
| "terrene " | earthly; worldly; mundane of the earth |
| "tesserarian of" | like or pertaining to dice games |
| "testaceous " | of or having a hard shell; brick-red |
| "testudinal of" | like or pertaining to tortoises or tortoise-shell |
| "textorial of" | like or pertaining to weaving |
| "textrine of" | like or pertaining to weaving |
| "thelematic of" | like or pertaining to will or volition; voluntary |
| "theriacal of" | like or pertaining to antidotes |
| "thermic of" | like or pertaining to heat |
| "thermonous of" | like or pertaining to stimulation by heat |
| "theroid of" | like or pertaining to a beast or wild animal |
| "thesial of" | like or pertaining to a thesis |
| "thionic of" | like or pertaining to or containing sulphur |
| "threptic of" | like or pertaining to the rearing of young |
| "thronal of" | like or pertaining to a throne |
| "tigrine of" | like or pertaining to tigers |
| "tinctorial of" | like or pertaining to dyeing; giving colour |
| "tolypeutine of" | like or pertaining to armadillos |
| "tonetic of" | like or pertaining to tonal pronunciation or languages |
| "tonsorial of" | like or pertaining to a barber or a barber’s work |
| "toponomastic of" | like or pertaining to place names |
| "torrentine of" | like or pertaining to a torrent; having the character of a torrent |
| "toxophilite " | like or pertaining to archery lover of archery; an archer; of |
| "tribunitial of" | like or pertaining to a tribune |
| "tributorian of" | like or pertaining to tribute or payment |
| "tringoid of" | like or pertaining to sandpipers |
| "trochilic of" | like or pertaining to rotatory motion |
| "trochilidine of" | like or pertaining to hummingbirds |
| "trochiline of" | like or pertaining to hummingbirds |
| "troglodytine of" | like or pertaining to wrens |
| "truttaceous of" | like or pertaining to trout |
| "turdine of" | like or pertaining to thrushes |
| "turdine of" | like or pertaining to thrushes |
| "turrical of" | like or pertaining to a tower or turret; like a turret |
| "tussicular of" | like or pertaining to coughs |
| "tyroid " | resembling cheese; cheesy |
| "uletic of" | like or pertaining to the gums |
| "ulmaceous " | of or like elms |
| "umbilical of" | like or pertaining to the navel; related on the mother's side |
| "uncial of" | like or pertaining to an inch or an ounce |
| "ungual of a claw" | hoof |
| "unguentary of" | like or pertaining to unguents; one who makes or sells unguents |
| "uranic " | of the palate |
| "uretic of" | like or pertaining to urine |
| "ursine of" | like or pertaining to bears |
| "urticaceous of" | like or pertaining to nettles |
| "uxorial of" | like or pertaining to a wife |
| "vaccine of" | like or pertaining to cows; preparation conferring immunity to disease |
| "vadose of" | like or pertaining to underground water above the water table |
| "valetudinarian of" | like or pertaining to ill-health; anxious about health |
| "vapulatory of" | like or pertaining to flogging |
| "varietal of" | like or pertaining to a variety |
| "vascular of" | like or pertaining to fluid-carrying vessels |
| "vectigal of" | like or pertaining to the paying of tribute or rent |
| "velamentous of" | like or pertaining to or like a membrane or sail |
| "venatic of" | like or pertaining to hunting |
| "venous of" | like or pertaining to veins |
| "ventral of" | like or pertaining to the underside or the belly |
| "vermicular of" | like or pertaining to worms |
| "vernal of" | like or pertaining to spring |
| "versicular " | of or in verse |
| "vertiginous of" | like or pertaining to vertigo; dizzy; giddy |
| "vesical of" | like or pertaining to the bladder |
| "vespal of" | like or pertaining to wasps |
| "vespertinal of" | like or pertaining to the evening |
| "vespine of" | like or pertaining to hornets or wasps |
| "vestiary robing-room" | cloakroom; of |
| "vexillary " | standard-bearer; pertaining to regimental colours or flags |
| "viatical of" | like or pertaining to roads or travel |
| "vicarial of" | like or pertaining to a vicar or delegate |
| "villar of" | like or pertaining to a manor or village |
| "villatic Rural" | of like or pertaining to a villa |
| "vinal " | of or due to wine |
| "vindemial of" | like or pertaining to the vintage |
| "vineatic of" | like or pertaining to vines |
| "vinous " | like wine; pertaining to wine; wine-coloured |
| "viperine of" | like or pertaining to vipers |
| "viperous of" | like |
| "visile of" | like or pertaining to sight; learning easily by sight |
| "visive of" | like or pertaining to sight; visual; able to see or be seen |
| "vitular of" | like or pertaining to a calf or to calving |
| "vituline of" | like or pertaining to calves or veal |
| "viverrine of" | like or pertaining to civets and mongoose |
| "viverrine of" | like or pertaining to the civet |
| "vocabularian of" | like or pertaining to vocabulary |
| "vocicultural of" | like or pertaining to voice training |
| "volar of" | like or pertaining to the palm or the sole; of |
| "volitive of" | like or pertaining to the will |
| "volucrine of" | like or pertaining to birds; bird-like |
| "voluminal of" | like or pertaining to volume or cubic capacity |
| "voraginous of" | like or pertaining to a whirlpool; voracious |
| "vortical of" | like or pertaining to a vortex; whirling |
| "vulpecular of" | like or pertaining to a young fox |
| "vulpine of" | like or pertaining to foxes; cunning |
| "vulturine " | like or pertaining to a vulture rapacious; of |
| "vulvar of" | like or pertaining to or resembling the vulva |
| "xilinous of" | like or pertaining to cotton |
| "xylary of" | like or pertaining to xylem |
| "zebrine of" | like or pertaining to zebras |
| "zibeline of" | like or pertaining to the sable |
| "zincic of" | pertaining to or containing zinc |
| "zoic of" | like or pertaining to animals; containing evidence of life |
| "zoonic of" | like or pertaining to or derived from animals |
| "zygal " | like or pertaining to a yoke or union formed like the letter H; of |
| "zymic of" | like or pertaining to fermentation |
| "zymotic of" | like or pertaining to fermentation |
| araba | " wheeled Middle Eastern carriage " |
| Barouche | " four-wheeled hooded carriage " |
| berlin | " four-wheeled covered carriage " |
| britska | " open four-wheeled carriage " |
| Brouette | " small two-wheeled carriage " |
| brougham | " one-horse closed carriage " |
| cabriolet | " two-wheeled carriage " |
| calash | " light low-wheeled carriage with folding top " |
| cariole | " light open carriage " |
| caroche | " stately carriage used on ceremonial occasions " |
| chaise | " light open carriage for one or two people " |
| Charabanc | " open tourist coach with benches " |
| clarence | " four-wheeled carriage " |
| coupe | " four-wheeled closed horse-drawn carriage " |
| dennet | " light two-wheeled carriage " |
| Désobligeante | " carriage for one passenger " |
| diligence | " horse-drawn stage-coach " |
| dogcart | " light two-wheeled carriage with seats back-to-back " |
| dos-a-dos | " carriage where passengers seated back to back " |
| droskhy | " low four-wheeled open carriage " |
| ekka | " small one-horse carriage " |
| fiacre | " hackney coach; cab " |
| fourgon | " baggage-wagon " |
| gharry | " box-like Middle Eastern horse-drawn cab " |
| gig | " light two-wheeled one-horse carriage " |
| hackney | " four-wheeled two-horse carriage " |
| hansom | " light two-wheeled cab " |
| herdic | " low-hung carriage with back entrance " |
| jinker | " light horse-drawn passenger carriage " |
| karrozzin | " Maltese horse-drawn carriage " |
| Landau | " horse-drawn carriage with folding top " |
| noddy | " plain two-wheeled horse-drawn cart " |
| phaeton | " open four-wheeled carriage " |
| quadriga | " two-wheeled carriage drawn by four horses " |
| roadster | " light carriage " |
| rockaway | " light four-wheeled carriage with fixed top and open sides " |
| rulley | " flat four-wheeled wagon for carrying goods " |
| shandry | " light cart on springs " |
| shay | " open carriage or chaise " |
| sociable | " four-wheeled open carriage with side-seats " |
| spider | " light high-wheeled carriage " |
| stanhope | " light open one-seated carriage " |
| sulky | " light two-wheeled" one-person horse-drawn carriage |
| surrey | " light four-wheeled carriage with two seats " |
| tandem | " two-seated carriage with horses harnessed in series " |
| tarantas | " four-wheeled carriage mounted on poles " |
| telega | " four-wheeled springless wagon " |
| tilbury | " light open two-wheeled carriage " |
| Timwhisky | " light carriage for one or two people" pulled by one or two horses |
| tonga | " light two-wheeled carriage " |
| trap | " light one-horse carriage with springs " |
| troika | " carriage drawn by three horses " |
| tum-tum | " dog-cart " |
| vettura | " carriage" cab or car |
| victoria | " light open two-seated four-wheeled carriage " |
| vis-a-vis | " light carriage with seats facing one another " |
| wagonette | " carriage with one crosswise seat in front" two seats in back |
| Astrologaster | " a foolish or petty astrologer " |
| criticaster | " inferior or petty critic " |
| Grammaticaster | " a piddling grammarian " |
| hereticaster | " a petty or contemptible heretic " |
| latinitaster | " a petty scholar of Latin " |
| logicaster | " a petty logician " |
| Mathematicaster | " minor or inferior mathematician " |
| medicaster | " quack; charlatan " |
| militaster | " soldier without skill or ability " |
| musicaster | " a mediocre musician " |
| opiniaster | " one who obstinately holds to an opinion " |
| parasitaster | " a mean or sorry parasite " |
| Philologaster | " petty or contemptible philologist " |
| philosophaster | " amateur or superficial philosopher " |
| poetaster | " petty poet; writer of contemptible verses " |
| politicaster | " petty politician " |
| rhetoricaster | " petty rhetorician " |
| scientaster | " petty scientist " |
| theologaster | " petty or shallow theologian " |
| usageaster | " self-appointed and conservative language usage expert " |
| witticaster | " a petty or inferior wit " |
| alieniloquy | " speech on subjects other than the matter at hand; off-topic speech " |
| alloquy | " speaking to another or many others; an address " |
| altiloquence | " pompous or high speech " |
| ambiloquous | " using dubious or ambiguous expressions " |
| amphoriloquy | " cavernous voice of a patient heard over a patient's lung cavity " |
| anteloquy | " a preface " |
| antiloquy | " speaking against some idea; contradicting or gainsaying " |
| biloquist | " one capable of speaking with two distinct voices " |
| blandiloquence | " complimentary speech; flattery " |
| blesiloquent | " speaking with a stammer or lisp " |
| breviloquence | " short-windedness; tendency towards brevity in speech " |
| caverniloquy | " cavernous voice of a patient heard over a patient's lung cavity " |
| centiloquy | " work consisting of one hundred aphorisms" attributed to Ptolemy |
| colloquy | " speaking together; mutual discourse " |
| dentiloquent | " speaking with clenched teeth " |
| diversiloquent | " speaking in different ways; speaking on different subjects " |
| doctiloquent | " speaking learnedly " |
| dulciloquent | " speaking sweetly " |
| eloquence | " forceful and appealing speech " |
| falsiloquence | " deceitful speech " |
| fatiloquent | " speaking prophetically; declaring fate " |
| flexiloquent | " speaking ambiguously or using words of doubtful meaning " |
| gastriloquist | " ventriloquist " |
| grandiloquent | " bombastic " |
| inaniloquent | " prone to foolish or empty babbling " |
| ineloquence | " unappealing speech " |
| largiloquent | " talkative; full of words " |
| longiloquence | " long-winded language " |
| loquence | " speech " |
| magniloquent | " speaking in a grand or pompous style " |
| melliloquent | " speaking harmoniously or sweetly " |
| Mendaciloquence | " lying speech " |
| multiloquence | " talkativeness; use of many words " |
| obloquy | " censure; calumny; slander; disgrace " |
| omniloquent | " speaking on all subjects " |
| parciloquy | " laconic speech " |
| pauciloquent | " of few words; speaking little " |
| pectoriloquy | " sound of patient’s voice as heard through stethoscope " |
| planiloquent | " speaking plainly " |
| pleniloquence | " excessive talking; fullness of speech " |
| polyloquent | " speaking much; loquacious " |
| sanctiloquent | " speaking on heavenly or holy matters " |
| sialoquent | " spitting greatly while speaking " |
| soliloquent | " speaking in soliloquies; prone to giving soliloquies " |
| soliloquy | " talking or conversing with oneself; dramatic production of this nature " |
| somniloquence | " talking in one’s sleep " |
| stultiloquence | " foolish or senseless talk " |
| suaviloquence | " pleasing or agreeable speech " |
| tardiloquent | " speaking slowly " |
| tristiloquy | " mournful manner of speech " |
| vaniloquence | " vain or foolish talk " |
| ventriloquism | " speaking so that the voice appears to come from elsewhere " |
| veriloquent | " speaking truthfully; truthful " |
| abba | " Syriac or Coptic bishop " |
| ablegate | " papal envoy or legate " |
| absconce | " lantern used in monasteries and night offices " |
| abthane | " monastic region of the old Irish church " |
| accensor | " acolyte " |
| adiaphoron | " tenet or belief on which a theological system is indifferent " |
| adoptionism | " belief that Christ was the adopted and not natural son of God " |
| advowson | " right of presentation to church living " |
| adytum | " sacred part of a temple or church; church chancel " |
| affusion | " pouring on; as of baptismal water " |
| agape | " selfless Christian love; a feast in celebration of such love " |
| agapeistic | " characterized by Christian love " |
| agapetae | " churchwomen who live platonically with celibate men " |
| aggiornamento | " modernization of ideas of the Catholic church " |
| agrapha | " sayings of Jesus not found in the canonical gospels " |
| alb | " long white robe worn by priests " |
| almoner | " giver of alms; social worker in a hospital " |
| altarage | " payment to priest for mass; offerings at altar " |
| ambo | " early Christian raised reading desk or pulpit " |
| ambry | " recess for church vessels; cupboard or niche " |
| ambulatory | " aisle down the east end of a church " |
| amice | " strip of fine linen worn as cloak or wrap by priest at mass " |
| ampulla | " vessel for holy oil or wine for coronations or rituals " |
| anamnesis | " reminiscence; prayer recalling death and resurrection of Jesus " |
| anchorite | " one withdrawn from the world for religious reasons " |
| ancress | " female religious recluse " |
| anele | " to administer extreme unction to " |
| angelus | " prayer said in morning" at noon and at sunset |
| antechapel | " anteroom to a chapel or church " |
| antependium | " covering or cloth over pulpit or altar " |
| antilegomena | " books of the New Testament not part of early Christian Bible " |
| antipedobaptism | " denial of validity of infant baptism " |
| antiphon | " anthem sung as a response during church service " |
| apocatastasis | " final restitution of all things at the appearance of the Messiah " |
| apocrisiary | " papal secretary " |
| apologetics | " defense and proof of Christianity or other doctrine " |
| apse | " rounded extension of church or other building " |
| archimandrite | " head of a monastery or convent " |
| aspergillum | " vessel for sprinkling holy water " |
| aspersory | " vessel for holding holy water " |
| aureole | " radiant light around head or body of holy personage " |
| autocephality | " ecclesiastical self-government " |
| auto-da-fe | " burning of a heretic " |
| autotheism | " belief that one is God incarnate or that one is Christ " |
| baldaquin | " covering or canopy over a throne or altar " |
| baptistery | " part of church reserved for performing baptisms " |
| bardocucullus | " hooded cloak worn by monks " |
| basilica | " Roman Catholic church given special privileges " |
| beadle | " church caretaker or usher " |
| beadsman | " monk or almoner who prays for benefactor " |
| bema | " raised part of an Eastern church containing the altar " |
| benefice | " ecclesiastical office to which revenue is attached " |
| bethel | " a place of worship for seamen; nonconformist chapel " |
| biretta | " square three-ridged cap worn by Catholic clergy " |
| breviary | " book containing daily church service " |
| bulla | " round seal attached to a papal bull " |
| bullantic | " capitalized and ornamented" as letters used on papal bulls |
| bullary | " collection of papal bulls " |
| bursary | " treasury of a monastery or college " |
| burse | " square cloth case to carry the corporal during Communion service " |
| caesaropapism | " control of the church by a secular ruler " |
| calefactory | " a monastery sitting room " |
| calotte | " Roman Catholic skullcap " |
| camerlengo | " papal treasurer " |
| campanile | " freestanding bell tower on church property " |
| canoness | " woman living in a community under a religious rule " |
| canticle | " short holy song or sung prayer " |
| cantorial | " located on the north side of the choir in a church " |
| capuchin | " pointed hooded cloak worn by friars " |
| cardinalitial | " of" like or pertaining to church cardinals |
| cartulary | " keeper of monastic records " |
| cassock | " close-fitting ankle-length clergyman's garment " |
| catabaptism | " belief in the wrongness of infant baptism " |
| catechumen | " one undergoing instruction prior to conversion to Christianity " |
| cathedra | " chair or throne of office for a bishop or other high official " |
| cathisma | " short hymn used as response " |
| catholicos | " primate of Armenian or Nestorian church " |
| cellarer | " monastery official in charge of provisions " |
| cenacle | " room where the Last Supper was eaten " |
| cenobite | " monk; member of religious group " |
| cenoby | " monastery or convent " |
| censer | " vessel for burning incense in religious rituals " |
| cephalophore | " decapitated saint depicted with head tucked under arm " |
| chancel | " part of church containing altar and seats for choir " |
| chancery | " church office dealing with legal matters and archives " |
| chantry | " chapel or altar built for prayers for its benefactor's soul " |
| chaplet | " circlet or wreath for the head; short string of prayer beads " |
| charterhouse | " Carthusian monastic building " |
| chasuble | " sleeveless ecclesiastical garment " |
| chevet | " east end of a church " |
| chiliasm | " belief that Jesus will reign on Earth for a thousand years " |
| chimere | " loose sleeveless robes worn by Anglican bishops " |
| chrism | " consecrated or holy oil " |
| chrismation | " sacrament of baptism in Eastern churches " |
| chrismatory | " vessel for holding holy oil " |
| chrisom | " white robe put on newly baptised child " |
| christophany | " appearance of Christ to men " |
| churching | " church ceremony given to women after childbirth " |
| churchism | " devotion to church rules over religious precepts " |
| ciborium | " freestanding canopy to cover altar; vessel for holding eucharistic bread " |
| cilice | " haircloth shirt worn as penance " |
| cimeliarch | " church vestry or treasury " |
| cincture | " to gird or surround; belt worn around ecclesiastical vestment " |
| cingulum | " girdle or girdle-like structure; priest's belt " |
| circumincession | " the reciprocal existence of three parts of the Trinity in each other " |
| classis | " a group; governing body of Reformed churches " |
| clerestory | " upper storey of a church; windows near the roof of a building " |
| coadjutor | " bishop assisting a diocesan bishop and having the right of succession " |
| collegialism | " theory that church is independent from the state " |
| colporteur | " peddler of religious tracts and books " |
| compaternity | " spiritual relationship between child's parents and godparents " |
| compline | " prayer service held just before bedtime " |
| comprecation | " prayer meeting " |
| concelebrate | " to jointly recite the canon of the Eucharist in unison with others " |
| concordat | " agreement between the pope and a secular government " |
| confirmand | " candidate for religious confirmation " |
| confiteor | " prayer of confession of sins " |
| consistory | " a solemn assembly or council; a church tribunal " |
| consultor | " advisor to a Catholic bishop " |
| conventicle | " secret or illegal church assembly " |
| corporal | " white cloth on which Communion bread and wine are placed " |
| credence | " small table for holding sacred vessels " |
| credo | " concise statement of doctrine; section of Mass followed by offertory " |
| crosier | " pastoral staff or crook held by bishop or abbot " |
| cruet | " vessel used in religious ceremonies" especially to hold the Eucharist |
| curate | " assistant to a parish priest " |
| curia | " papal court and its officials " |
| custos | " guardian" custodian or keeper |
| dalmatic | " ecclesiastical robe or other outer vestment " |
| datary | " papal officer who registers and dates bulls and edicts " |
| decanal | " located on south side of the choir in a church " |
| decretal | " papal decree deciding a point of church law " |
| deiparous | " bearing a god " |
| deodate | " a gift to or from God " |
| diaconicon | " sacristy for sacred vessels in Orthodox churches " |
| diphysitism | " belief in the dual nature of Christ " |
| diptych | " pair of pictures on hinged panels; register of bishops and saints " |
| discalced | " without shoes; barefoot; a religious order wearing no shoes " |
| ditheletism | " doctrine that Christ had two wills " |
| donative | " benefice presented to church without reference to bishop " |
| dossal | " ornamental cloth hung behind and above an altar " |
| doxology | " hymn or verse of praise to God " |
| dulia | " inferior veneration of saints and angels in comparison with God " |
| ecclesiastry | " affairs of the church " |
| eirenics | " theological doctrine of religious unification " |
| encolpion | " reliquary; cross worn on the breast " |
| encyclical | " letter sent by the pope to multiple bishops " |
| eparchy | " diocese of an Eastern church " |
| epiclesis | " calling on the Holy Spirit to consecrate the Eucharist " |
| epistoler | " reader of the epistle in Anglican service " |
| epitrachelion | " stole of an Orthodox priest or bishop " |
| eremite | " hermit; religious recluse " |
| eschatology | " doctrine of life and afterlife " |
| eschaton | " end of the world; end time " |
| euchology | " prayer book " |
| exarch | " viceroy; rank below patriarch in Eastern church " |
| exeat | " permission from bishop for clergyman to work elsewhere " |
| exedra | " semicircular bench beside episcopal throne; outdoor bench or recess " |
| exegetic | " explanatory" especially of Scripture |
| exequy | " funeral rites; funeral procession " |
| faldstool | " desk from which the Litany is read at church service " |
| fanion | " cloth worn on priest's arm and used for handling holy vessels " |
| fenestella | " recess in church wall for storing communion vessels " |
| feretory | " shrine for relics during a procession or for a funeral bier " |
| feria | " weekday of a church calendar on which no holiday falls " |
| festilogy | " treatise on ecclesiastical festivals " |
| flèche | " narrow wooden spire on church roof " |
| florilegium | " anthology of writings" especially of church fathers |
| fossarian | " clergyman moonlighting as a gravedigger " |
| frankalmoign | " land tenure requiring religious obligations on part of tenant " |
| friary | " a fraternity or group of friars " |
| frontal | " cloth hanging over front of altar " |
| galilee | " porch in front of church " |
| glebe | " church land granted to clergyman " |
| gradual | " part of mass between epistle and gospel " |
| guimpe | " wide cloth covering neck and shoulders worn by nuns " |
| hagioscope | " opening in wall to enable viewing of altar " |
| hanap | " chalice used in communion whose cover is a second chalice " |
| hassock | " kneeling cushion in a church " |
| hearsecloth | " cloth lain over coffin during funeral " |
| hegumene | " head of a nunnery " |
| hieratical | " priestly; bound by religious convention " |
| hieromonach | " monk who also serves as a priest " |
| holobaptism | " belief in baptism with total immersion in water " |
| homolegomena | " books of the Bible used in early Christianity " |
| housel | " the eucharist; the act of taking the eucharist " |
| hymnal | " collection of church hymns " |
| hymnody | " hymns collectively; hymn-singing " |
| hyperdulia | " veneration of the Virgin Mary above saints and angels " |
| iconostasis | " screen or partition in Eastern churches with tiers of icons " |
| incardination | " acceptance by a diocese of clergyman from another diocese " |
| indulgence | " former Catholic pardon granted for remission of punishment for sins " |
| indult | " special temporary dispensation granted by the Catholic church " |
| internuncio | " messenger between two parties; low-ranking papal legate " |
| intinction | " administering communion by dipping bread into wine " |
| introit | " psalm or hymn sung at beginning of church service " |
| invination | " presence of Christ's blood in sanctified wine " |
| invitatory | " psalm or anthem sung before prayer during church service " |
| jube | " ornamental choir-screen " |
| jubilarian | " one who celebrates a jubilee" especially a priest |
| jubilate | " the third Sunday after Easter " |
| kamelaukion | " tall cylindrical hat worn by Orthodox priests " |
| kerygma | " preaching of the Christian gospel " |
| kerygmatic | " of" like or pertaining to preaching the Gospel |
| kirking | " first attendance of a couple at church after marriage " |
| kyrie | " religious petition for mercy " |
| laic | " of" like or pertaining to lay people rather than clergy |
| laicisation | " process of returning a clergyman to lay status " |
| laicism | " doctrine of opposition to clergy and priests " |
| lappet | " fold or flap on a garment or headdress worn by priest " |
| latria | " highest degree of veneration" assigned to God over saints |
| lauds | " prayer service held at dawn following matins " |
| lavabo | " ceremony in which priest washes his hands; basin for the ceremony " |
| lavatory | " wash-basin for washing bodies of newly dead; room where lavabo kept " |
| lavra | " group of recluses’ cells " |
| lectern | " desk or stand from which church lessons are read " |
| lectrice | " female reader in church " |
| litany | " prayer of supplication in responsive style " |
| liturgician | " one who studies or recites church rituals " |
| lustration | " ritual washing; ablution " |
| lychgate | " roofed gate of a churchyard " |
| magisterium | " teaching function of the Catholic church " |
| magnificat | " canticle in praise of the Virgin Mary " |
| manciple | " steward of a college or monastery; purveyor " |
| mandorla | " oval panel containing a work of art; elliptical halo around holy person " |
| mandriarch | " founder or leader of a monastic order " |
| maniple | " clerical vestment worn on the left arm " |
| mantelletta | " knee-length sleeveless garment worn by Catholic cardinals and bishops " |
| Mariolatry | " worship of the virgin mother " |
| Mariology | " study of the Virgin Mary " |
| marrano | " Jew converted to Christianity to avoid persecution " |
| martyrium | " shrine erected in memory of a martyr " |
| martyrolatry | " excessive devotion to martyrs " |
| martyrology | " study of martyrs " |
| matins | " prayer service held in early morning hours " |
| mendicant | " member of impoverished religious order " |
| menology | " register or calendar of saints’ days " |
| mersion | " dipping; as in baptism " |
| metropolitan | " archbishop holding authority over other bishops " |
| midlenting | " custom of giving gifts to parents on mid-Lent Sunday " |
| minster | " church associated with a monastery " |
| missal | " book containing complete service for mass " |
| miter | " high headdress worn by bishop or archbishop " |
| modalism | " belief in unity of Father" Son and Holy Spirit |
| monergism | " theory that the Holy Spirit alone can act " |
| monial | " a nun " |
| monkery | " monks in general; monasticism; behaviour of monks " |
| monophysitism | " belief that Christ was primarily divine but in human form " |
| Monotheletism | " belief that Christ had only one will " |
| monstrance | " vessel used to expose the Eucharist " |
| mozzetta | " short cape with ornamental hood worn by Catholic prelates " |
| mystagogical | " of" like or pertaining to religious ritual initiation |
| naos | " temple; inner cell of a temple " |
| narthex | " small entrance or porch to a church " |
| nave | " largest part of church where congregation sits " |
| nipter | " ecclesiastical ceremony of washing the feet " |
| nones | " prayer service held at 3 p" |
| novena | " series of Catholic church services held on nine successive days " |
| nuncio | " one who brings tidings; high-ranking papal legate " |
| obit | " religious office for a dead person " |
| oblate | " layman living in a religious community under modified rule " |
| oblation | " act of offering; a sacrifice; anything offered in worship " |
| oculus | " round window" especially over main door in church |
| orant | " representation of praying figure in early art " |
| orarion | " deacon's stole in Orthodox church " |
| orarium | " book of private devotions " |
| oratory | " small chapel for private prayer; lectern for prayer " |
| ordinal | " book containing religious rites" especially for ordination |
| ordo | " calendar with list of services for each day of the year " |
| orison | " prayer " |
| orphrey | " gold or other rich embroidery on clerical robes " |
| osculatory | " carved tablet kissed by priest during celebration of mass " |
| ostensory | " container for holding consecrated Communion wafers " |
| paedobaptism | " doctrine of infant baptism " |
| pall | " covering cloth laid upon Communion chalice " |
| pallium | " white woollen band symbolising archbishop's authority " |
| panegyricon | " collection of sermons for Orthodox church festivals " |
| pannicle | " thin sheet-like vestment " |
| pannychis | " all-night vigil in preparation for Orthodox church feast " |
| paraclete | " advocate or intercessor; the Holy Spirit acting in such a role " |
| parclose | " railing in church enclosing altar" chapel or tomb |
| pardoner | " one who raises money for religious works by selling indulgences " |
| parousia | " second coming of Christ " |
| parvis | " enclosed space at the front of a church " |
| passalorynchite | " one who takes a religious vow of silence " |
| paten | " plate; metal disk used to hold Communion bread " |
| pax | " tablet decorated with sacred figure and kissed by participants in mass " |
| peculiar | " parish or church exempt from jurisdiction of the bishop of its diocese " |
| pentateuch | " the first five books of the Old Testament " |
| pericope | " an excerpt or passage read during religious services " |
| pernoctate | " to pass the night in vigil or prayer " |
| phonascus | " person who maintains rhythm in church choir " |
| pieta | " representation of Virgin Mary with dead Christ across her knees " |
| pietism | " unquestioning or dogmatic religious devotion " |
| piscina | " basin set in wall of church to drain away ceremonial water " |
| plebania | " mother-church having authority over several local churches " |
| pluvial | " floor-length open-fronted ecclesiastical garment " |
| pneumatophany | " appearance of a spirit; especially the Holy Ghost " |
| poppyhead | " raised ornament on top of upright end of seats in churches " |
| postlude | " closing piece of music at end of church service " |
| postulant | " candidate for a religious order " |
| postulator | " official who presents case for canonization or beatification " |
| prebend | " stipend or salary paid to clergyman " |
| prebendal | " of" like or pertaining to stipends issued by a church |
| precentor | " leader of the singing of a church choir " |
| predella | " platform for altar; portable altar or decoration upon it " |
| prelacy | " episcopal church government " |
| prelate | " bishop or abbot of superior rank " |
| presbytery | " part of church reserved for officiating clergy " |
| prime | " prayer service held at 6 a" |
| procathedral | " parish church serving as a cathedral " |
| pronaos | " vestibule in front of a temple " |
| proper | " elements of Christian mass that are variable " |
| proseuche | " place of prayer; oratory " |
| Prothonotary | " chief registrar of a court; keeper of canonisation records " |
| psalmodist | " singer of psalms " |
| psalmody | " act of singing psalms in church services " |
| pseudepigrapha | " apocrypha; non-canonical books of the Bible " |
| pseudepiscopy | " existence or rule of a spurious bishop " |
| psilanthropism | " denial of Christ's divinity " |
| pulpitum | " gigantic stone screen separating cathedral choir from the nave " |
| purificator | " cloth used to wipe Eucharist chalice " |
| pyx | " box or vessel in which coins or consecrated Eucharist are kept " |
| quaestionary | " religious pardoner " |
| qualificator | " one who prepares ecclesiastical cases for trial " |
| quaresimal | " Lenten; having the meagreness of Lenten meals " |
| quartodeciman | " early Christian who celebrated Easter on Passover even if not a Sunday " |
| rantize | " to sprinkle with water during baptism " |
| rasophore | " lowest rank of Greek Orthodox monk " |
| recusant | " one who refuses to attend Catholic church services; nonconformist " |
| refectory | " dining-hall of a monastery or other institution " |
| regula | " rule of a religious order " |
| reliquary | " a small box or shrine used to hold relics " |
| requiescat | " prayer for the dead " |
| reredos | " screen behind altar " |
| rescript | " answer of pope or emperor to any legal question; edict or decree " |
| responsory | " set of responses sung or said after liturgical reading " |
| retable | " shelf or ornamental setting for panels behind an altar " |
| retrochoir | " space in choir behind high altar " |
| rochet | " surplice-like vestment of a bishop or abbot " |
| rogation | " asking or supplication" especially in an ecclesiastical sense |
| rood | " cross or crucifix at entrance to church chancel " |
| sacerdotalism | " belief that priests are necessary mediators between God and mankind " |
| Sacramentarianism | " belief that sacraments have unusual properties " |
| sacrarium | " place where sacred objects are kept " |
| sacristan | " church official in charge of vessels and the sacristy " |
| sacristy | " room in church where sacred objects are kept " |
| saltire | " X-shaped cross " |
| samarra | " flame-decorated cassock worn by those condemned by the Inquisition " |
| scapular | " badge of monastic order worn on the shoulders " |
| schola | " church choir led by a cantor " |
| scholasticate | " preparatory college for those intending to enter Catholic order " |
| scriptorium | " writing room; room used by monastic scribes " |
| sedilia | " stone seats for clergy in wall of chancel " |
| sempect | " extremely elderly Benedictine monk " |
| sepulchre | " receptacle in an altar for holding religious relics " |
| sext | " prayer service held at noon " |
| sexton | " church caretaker or bellringer " |
| shrive | " to hear a confession from and give absolution " |
| sigillum | " seal of the confession " |
| simony | " buying or selling of ecclesiastical offices " |
| sinecure | " ecclesiastical office or other job requiring little work " |
| situla | " a holy bucket " |
| slype | " covered passage between walls" or between transept and chapterhouse |
| solifidianism | " doctrine that faith alone will ensure salvation " |
| soutane | " priest's cassock " |
| squarson | " clergyman who is also a land-holding squire " |
| starets | " Eastern Orthodox spiritual advisor " |
| staurolatry | " worship of the cross or crucifix " |
| sticharion | " vestment like an alb worn by Orthodox priests " |
| stole | " narrow ecclesiastical vestment or scarf " |
| stoup | " vessel for holding holy water " |
| stylite | " monk who spends much time on tops of pillars " |
| succinctorium | " band or scarf worn from the Pope's girdle " |
| suffragan | " assistant bishop " |
| superhumeral | " ecclesiastical garment worn over the shoulders " |
| surplice | " loose-fitting ankle length overgarment worn by clerics " |
| synaxarion | " account of a saint's life " |
| synod | " ecclesiastical assembly or council " |
| synthronus | " joint throne for an Orthodox bishop and his presbyters " |
| tabernacle | " ornamental container for storing Communion bread and wine " |
| taperer | " one who bears a taper during a religious procession " |
| terce | " prayer service held at 9 a" |
| tester | " canopy over a bed" pulpit or altar |
| tetragrammaton | " sacred word or acronym of four letters " |
| tetramorph | " artistic representation of the four evangelists in one figure " |
| theanthroposophy | " system of belief concerning Christ as god and man " |
| theodidact | " student of God; one who is taught by God " |
| theody | " hymn in praise of God " |
| theolepsy | " seizure or possession by a god " |
| theologaster | " petty or shallow theologian " |
| theometry | " measurement or estimation of God " |
| theophany | " manifestation or appearance of a god to people " |
| theotokos | " title given to the Virgin Mary as bearer of God " |
| thurible | " censer " |
| thurifer | " altar boy who bears censer " |
| tiara | " three-tiered crown worn by or carried in front of the pope " |
| tippet | " long black scarf worn by Anglican clergy " |
| tonsure | " shaving of small area on the crown of head of a priest or monk " |
| transept | " part of a church off to one side of main structure " |
| Transubstantiation | " miraculous changing of bread and wine into body and blood of Christ " |
| tremendum | " feeling of overwhelming awe associated with religious experience " |
| trental | " commemoratory service held thirty days after burial " |
| triduum | " period of three days of prayer preceding Roman Catholic feasts " |
| triforium | " gallery or arcade over an aisle; gallery over nave and choir " |
| tritheism | " belief that the members of the Trinity are separate gods " |
| tropology | " figurative language; moral interpretation of the Bible " |
| tunicle | " short ecclesiastical vestment worn by bishop or subdeacon " |
| tympanum | " space within an arch; arched recess at entrance of cathedral " |
| ubiquitarianism | " belief that Christ is everywhere " |
| ultramontane | " south of the Alps; supporting the Pope " |
| unalist | " priest holding one benefice " |
| unaneled | " without extreme unction " |
| unction | " anointing as right of consecration or healing; warmth of address " |
| undercroft | " crypt or vault under a church " |
| unhouseled | " not having received the Eucharist shortly before death " |
| verger | " church usher and attendant " |
| vernicle | " cloth with image of Christ's face impressed upon it " |
| versicle | " short verse in church service normally followed by response " |
| vespers | " prayer service held in early evening " |
| vestry | " priest's dressing room " |
| vesturer | " keeper of vestments " |
| viaticum | " money or provisions for journey; Eucharist for a dying person " |
| vicegod | " hostile appellation applied to the Pope " |
| wicket | " small door forming part of larger door of a church or castle " |
| wimple | " cloth covering for head and neck worn by nuns " |
| xerophagy | " eating of dry food; fast of dry food in the week preceding Easter " |
| zeta | " small room or closet in a church " |
| zucchetto | " round skullcap worn by Catholic clergy to indicate rank " |
| zymite | " priest using leavened bread during communion " |
| a' bouche ouverte | with open mouth: eagerly or uncritically gullibly (W) |
| a' coups de dictionnaire | with blows of a dictionary: with continual or incessant reference to the dictionary (W) |
| a fortiori | from the stronger: with greater reason or being |
| a' l'envoi | in emulation: in a spirit of emulation or rivalry (W) |
| a' outrance | to excess: to the utmost; supremely; to the bitter |
| a' propos de bottes | on the subject of boots: an expression usedto change the subject (W) |
| a verbis ad verbera | from words to blows (W) |
| ab initio | from the beginning; from the very start or outset (W) |
| ab irato | from an angry man: hence not to be taken too |
| ab ovo | from the egg: from the very beginning hence completely |
| abattoir (n.) | a slaughterhouse (B) |
| abderian (adj.) | pertaining to foolish or excessive laughter (B) |
| abderite (n.) | a simpleton or dimwitted yokel and one with |
| abdominous (adj.) | having or pertaining to a distended stomach (G) |
| abecedarian (adj.) | simple; elementary; rudimentary; introductory; or |
| abliguration (n.) | extravagance in cooking and serving (B) |
| ablutomania (n.) | a mania for washing oneself (B) |
| abscotchalater (n.) | one in hiding from the police (B) |
| absit invidia verbo | let it be said without illoffense intended (W) |
| absquatulate (v.) | to leave hurriedly suddenly |
| abstersive (adv.) | serving to cleanse or purge (G) |
| abstemious (adj.) | practicing temperance |
| acalculia (n.) | the inability to work with numbers (B) |
| acataleptic (adj.) | incomprehensible (B) |
| acceptilation (n.) | the settlement of a debt without payment (B) |
| accismus (n.) | a phony refusal hypocritical modesty (rhetoric term) (B |
| acediast (n.) | a person who is slothful or wickedly lax when |
| acephalist (n.) | the balky maverick who acknowledges no head or |
| acersecomic (n.) | one who has never had a haircut (E) |
| acervuline (adj.) | resembling small heaps (B) |
| acherontic (adj.) | darky gloomy |
| achluphobia (n.) | abnormal fear of darkness |
| acouasm (n.) | a ringing sound in the head (B) |
| acroatic (adj.) | pertaining to profound learning (B) |
| acroamatic (adj.) | esoteric abstruse |
| acrocephalic (n. | adj |
| ad baculum | a baculo to the rod: appealing to or suggesting the |
| ad captandum benevolentiam | with intent to win good will or favor (W) |
| ad captandum vulgus | with intent to take in the public: designed to |
| ad crumenam | to the purse: appealing to greed or to the hearer's |
| ad ignorantium | to ignorance: depending for its effect on the |
| ad judicium | to judgment: appealing to the common sense of mankind |
| ad misericordiam | to compassion: appealing to a sense of pity or |
| ad populum | to the people: appealing to popular sentimental weaknesses |
| ad rem | to the matter: to the point; pertinent to the matter (W) |
| ad unguem | to the fingernail: with great precision; finely (W) |
| ad verbum | to the word: word for word; literally; verbatim (W) |
| ad verecundiam | to modesty: appealing to traditional values |
| adephagous (adj.) | gluttonous (B) |
| adevism (n.) | the denial of legendary gods (B) |
| adiaphoristic (adj.) | theologically indifferent (B E) |
| adiaphorous (adj.) | neutral; neither right nor wrong; neither deleterious |
| adjectitious (adj.) | added thrown in (B) |
| adminicle (n.) | something that helps or supports; corroboratory evidence; |
| adnomination (n.) | punning (B) |
| adoxography (n.) | good writing on a trivial subject (B) |
| adscititious (adj.) | not essential; supplemental; superfluous (B G) |
| adventitious (adj.) | accidental added by chance; not inherent |
| adversaria (n.) | miscellaneous notes comments |
| adynaton (n.) | magnifying or exaggerating an actual event by reference |
| aenos (n.) | use of erudite words or allusions to appeal to the |
| aeolistic (adj.) | long |
| aerophagist (n.) | the neurotic or somewhat hysterical gaper who |
| Aesopian language | political doubletalk or euphemism that has a |
| aesculapian (adj.) | relating to that which is medical or to the art |
| afflatus (n.) | an artistic inspiration (B) |
| afterwit (n.) | the locking of the barn door after the cows have gone (B) |
| agastopia (n.) | admiration of a particular part of someone's body (B) |
| agathism (n.) | the concept that all is for the better (B E) |
| agathokakological (adj.) | composed of both good and evil (B) |
| agelast (n.) | somebody who never but never laughs (E) |
| agenhina (n.) | a guest at an inn who after having stayed for threenights |
| agenocratia (n.) | opposition to birth control (B) |
| agglutination (n.) | compound |
| agitprop (n.) | the vociferous propagandistic agitator or |
| agnogenic (n.) | of unknown cause (B) |
| agnoiology (n.) | the study of ignorance (B) |
| agnosy (n.) | ignorance; especially ignorance shared by the whole |
| agonist (n.) | a struggler; a person who is contending whether in |
| agonistic (n.) | combative; strained for the sake of effect (B) |
| agroof (n.) | flat on one's face (Scottish) (B) |
| ailurophobe (n.) | the person who can't stand cats (E) |
| airmonger (n.) | the man or woman who is attracted to visionary |
| aischrolatreia (n.) | worship of filth dirt |
| aldiborontiphoscophornio (n.) | a pompous person (from an old English |
| aleatory (adj.) | dependent upon chance luck |
| alectoromachy (n.) | cockfighting |
| algedonic (adj.) | pertaining to pain especially when associated with |
| algedonica (n.) | the science of pleasure and pain (B) |
| algidity (n.) | coldness |
| algolagnic (adj.) | relating to the perception of pleasure from |
| allagrugous (adj.) | grim and ghastly (G) |
| allision (n.) | the ramming of one object by another (B) |
| allochthonous (adj.) | foreign (B) |
| allonym (n.) | another person's name used as a pen name; a ghostwritten |
| allotheism (n.) | worship of strange gods (B) |
| allotriophagy (n.) | the craving for weird food (B) |
| alogism (n.) | unreasonableness; absurdity; illogical statement(B) |
| alopecia (n.) | baldness (B) |
| alopecoid (adj.) | foxy (B) |
| alter kocker (n.) | a canny stubborn old man who has been around but |
| altiloquence (n.) | pompous speech (B W) |
| amaranthine (adj.) | eternally beautiful; unfading; everlasting (E G) |
| amatorculist (n.) | an insignificant or hypocritical lover (B) |
| ambagious (adj.) | talking or doing things in an indirect manner; |
| ambiloquence (n.) | competence in double |
| ambivert (n.) | someone whose personality strikes a nice balance between |
| amblysia | phrasing in such a way as to forewarn or to cushion a dire |
| amende honorable | an honorable fine: a full and frank apology however |
| ami de cour (n.) | the fairweather or foul |
| amicus humani generis (n.) | a philathropist (E) |
| amniomancy (n.) | fortune telling by examining the embryonic sac |
| amphibolous (adj.) | susceptible of two meanings; ambiguous; equivocal |
| amphigean (adj.) | found or occuring throughout the world (B) |
| amphigory (n.) | nonsensical writing (B W) |
| amphilogy (n.) | a statement open to more than one interpretation |
| ampollosity (n.) | bombast; pompous style (B W) |
| amurcous (adj.) | stinking; filled with dregs (B) |
| amyctic (adj.) | irritating; abrasive (B) |
| anacampserote (n.) | something which can bring back a lost love (B) |
| anachorism (n.) | foreign to a certain locality; geographically |
| anaclitic (adj.) | overly dependent on another (B) |
| anacoluthon (n.) | an abrupt shift in midsentence in syntax to |
| anacreontic (adj.) | jovial festive and amatory (B |
| anadiplosis (n.) | repeating the final words or words of a phrase |
| anadipsic (adj.) | pertaining to excessive thirst (B) |
| anagapesis (n.) | lack of interest in former loved ones (B) |
| anagnorisis (n.) | recognition or discovery as of a disguised |
| anagogig (adj.) | relating to things spiritual and mystical; occult; |
| analects (n.) | selected parts of a literary work or works (W) |
| analeptic (adj.) | serving to renew strength and vigor; invigorating (B G) |
| anamnestic (adj.) | reminiscent; aiding the memory (B) |
| ananias (n.) | a teller of untruths; liar (from a follower of the |
| ananym (n.) | a pseudonym devised by spelling one's name backward (B W) |
| anaphora (n.) | repitition of a word or phrase in successive clauses |
| anapodictic (adj.) | undemonstrable (B) |
| anastrophe (n.) | inversion of the usual order of words or withholding |
| anatreptic (adj.) | defeating refuting (B) |
| anautarchia (n.) | perpetual unhappiness (B) |
| anax andron (n.) | a leader or men a take |
| anaxiphilia (n.) | act of falling in love with a schtoonk by someone |
| ancilla (n.) | a sidekick who helps another to accomplish or master |
| andabate (n.) | one who is hoodwinked in the dark or virtually blind |
| androlepsia (n.) | international governmental kidnapping for |
| anfractuous (adj.) | winding tortuous (B |
| angary (n.) | the right of a warring nation to use or destroy a |
| angst (n.) | anxiety fear; not fear of anything specific but a dread |
| anhedonia (n.) | the inability to be happy (B) |
| aniconic (adj.) | not using or permitting images effigies |
| anicular (adj.) | old |
| anililagnia (n.) | sexual desire for older women (B) |
| anile (adj.) | old womanish; lacking in force strength or effectiveness; |
| animadversion (n.) | generally adverse criticism (B E |
| ankylophobia (n.) | abnormal fear of stiff or immobile joints |
| anodyne (adj.) | painless soothing (G) |
| anomy (n.) | the collapse of the social structures governing a |
| anonym (n.) | a person remaining nameless; psuedonym; anonymous |
| anonymuncule (n.) | an insignificant anonymous writer (B) |
| anorchous (adj.) | without testicles; or gutless (B E) |
| anosognosia (n.) | the lack of interest or belief in the existence |
| Anschauung (n.) | intuition; sense awareness of perception (B) |
| antanaclasis (n.) | a phrasing in which the topic or key word is |
| antelucan (adj.) | pertaining to or occurring before dawn (G) |
| antephialtic (adj.) | preventive of nightmares (G) |
| anthimeria (n.) | the using of one part of speech for another for |
| anthorism (n.) | a counterdefinition or a delineation or description |
| anthropophaginia (n.) | a cannibal (E) |
| anthropophobia (n.) | fear of meeting people; fear of society (B) |
| antilogous (adj.) | contrary; inconsistent (B) |
| antinomian (n.) | a Christian who believes that faith alone will see |
| antinomy (n.) | an inconsistency or built |
| antipedobaptism (n.) | denial on scriptural grounds of the validityof infant baptism |
| antiphrasis (n.) | a word used to mean its opposite; calling something |
| antiscians (n.) | people living on the same meridian but on different |
| antistasis (n.) | the defense of an action that prevented somethingworse from happening |
| antithalian (adj.) | against enjoyment (B) |
| antonomasia (n.) | substitution of an epithet or nickname for a |
| anuptaphobia (n.) | fear of staying single (B E) |
| aolist (n.) | a person who claims to be inspiredsudden wind of genius or artistic urgency; the wind is sometimes |
| apaetesis (n.) | the angry putting aside of a matter to be taken |
| apagogic (adj.) | pertaining to a proof by reductio ad absurdum; an |
| apanthropy (n.) | dislike of being with people; love of solitude (B) |
| apercu (n.) | a quick penetrating insight; immediate impression |
| aphephobe (n.) | the person who doesn't like being touched (E) |
| aphilophrenia (n.) | a feeling that one is unloved or unwanted (B) |
| apocarteresis (n.) | suicide by starvation (B) |
| apocrisis (n.) | replying to one's own arguments (rhetoric term) (W) |
| apocrypha (n.) | writings reports |
| apodiabolosis (n.) | diabolical treatment (B) |
| apodictic (adj.) | absolutely certain or necessarily true; |
| apodysophilia (n.) | feverish desire to undress (B) |
| apolaustic (adj.) | given to enjoyment; self indulgent (B G) |
| apomnemonysis (n.) | quoting an approved authority (rhetoric term) (W) |
| apophasis (n.) | mentioning something by saying it won't be mentioned: "We |
| aporia (n.) | professing to be at a loss as to what to say where to |
| aposiopesis (n.) | a conscious breaking off in the middle of a sentence |
| apothegm (n.) | a concise formulation of a truth; an aphorism (G) |
| apotheosis (n.) | an exalted position highest development |
| appellation (n.) | a name designation |
| apposite (adj.) | appropriate fitting |
| appropinquate (v.) | to approach (B) |
| aptronym (n.) | a name befitting the occupation role or nature |
| arcadian (adj.) | ideally simple and contented (G) |
| argyrothecology (n.) | collecting of money boxes as found in |
| aristarchian (adj.) | extremely critical (B E) |
| aristophrenia (n.) | condition of having a superior intellect (B) |
| arithmocracy (n.) | rule of the numerical majority (B) |
| arriviste (n.) | on overly ambitious person; an opportunist (B) |
| arrogate (v.) | to appropriate or claim unjustly; to attribute |
| artuate (v.) | to tear limb from limb (B) |
| ascian (n.) | one without a shadow: applied to the inhabitants of the |
| asphalia (n.) | emphatic guaranteeing of what one is saying as by |
| aspheterism (n.) | denial of private property (B) |
| asportation (n.) | theft (B) |
| asseverate (v.) | to state positively emphatically (B) |
| assuetude (n.) | custom or habit (B) |
| asteism (n.) | an ingeniously polite insult (B W) |
| asthenophobe (n.) | the circumspect stoic the stiff |
| astucious (adj.) | having keen perception; of astute and penetrating |
| asyndetic (adj.) | not connected by conjunctions: I came I saw |
| ataraxia (n.) | imperturbability; utter calmness (B) |
| ataraxic (adj.) | of or pertaining to freedom from anxiety or emotional |
| atelophobe (n.) | the driven perfectionist one with a morbid fear of |
| athanasia (n.) | immortality (B) |
| athetise (v.) | to spurn reject (B) |
| atrabilarian (n.) | a gloomy hypochondriac (E) |
| au grand serieux | with great earnestness or often |
| augean (adj.) | filthy and difficult to clean; requiring hard work (from |
| auscultation (n.) | the process of listening (G) |
| autarchia (n.) | perpetual happiness (B) |
| autoangelist (n.) | one who does his own communicating (E) |
| autocephalous (adj.) | ecclesiastically self |
| autochthonous (adj.) | native aboriginal |
| autoclesis (n.) | introducing an idea or subject by seeming to |
| autodidact (n.) | one self |
| autognosis (n.) | knowledge of self especially the appreciation of |
| autological (adj.) | self |
| autologophagist (n.) | one who eats his words (B E) |
| automysophobia (n.) | abnormal fear of being dirty |
| autophobe (n.) | the socializer who does not like to be alone or |
| autoschediastic (adj.) | impromptu; on the spur of the moment (B) |
| autotelic (adj.) | having in itself an end or excuse for being |
| autothaumaturgist (n.) | the coy or cagey person whose mission is toappear mysterious or quite remarkable (E) |
| autotheist (n.) | the individual who is not only self |
| auxesis (n.) | an ordering of thoughts expressed in a sequence of |
| avering (n.) | a boy's begging in the nude to arouse sympathy (B) |
| azygophrenia (n.) | the psychoneurosis of everyday unmarried life (B) |
| a' bouche ouverte | with open mouth: eagerly or uncritically gullibly (W) |
| a' coups de dictionnaire | with blows of a dictionary: with continual or incessant reference to the dictionary (W) |
| a fortiori | from the stronger: with greater reason or being |
| a' l'envoi | in emulation: in a spirit of emulation or rivalry (W) |
| a' outrance | to excess: to the utmost; supremely; to the bitter |
| a' propos de bottes | on the subject of boots: an expression usedto change the subject (W) |
| a verbis ad verbera | from words to blows (W) |
| ab initio | from the beginning; from the very start or outset (W) |
| ab irato | from an angry man: hence not to be taken too |
| ab ovo | from the egg: from the very beginning hence completely |
| abattoir (n.) | a slaughterhouse (B) |
| abderian (adj.) | pertaining to foolish or excessive laughter (B) |
| abderite (n.) | a simpleton or dimwitted yokel and one with |
| abdominous (adj.) | having or pertaining to a distended stomach (G) |
| abecedarian (adj.) | simple; elementary; rudimentary; introductory; or |
| abliguration (n.) | extravagance in cooking and serving (B) |
| ablutomania (n.) | a mania for washing oneself (B) |
| abscotchalater (n.) | one in hiding from the police (B) |
| absit invidia verbo | let it be said without illoffense intended (W) |
| absquatulate (v.) | to leave hurriedly suddenly |
| abstersive (adv.) | serving to cleanse or purge (G) |
| abstemious (adj.) | practicing temperance |
| acalculia (n.) | the inability to work with numbers (B) |
| acataleptic (adj.) | incomprehensible (B) |
| acceptilation (n.) | the settlement of a debt without payment (B) |
| accismus (n.) | a phony refusal hypocritical modesty (rhetoric term) (B |
| acediast (n.) | a person who is slothful or wickedly lax when |
| acephalist (n.) | the balky maverick who acknowledges no head or |
| acersecomic (n.) | one who has never had a haircut (E) |
| acervuline (adj.) | resembling small heaps (B) |
| acherontic (adj.) | darky gloomy |
| achluphobia (n.) | abnormal fear of darkness |
| acouasm (n.) | a ringing sound in the head (B) |
| acroatic (adj.) | pertaining to profound learning (B) |
| acroamatic (adj.) | esoteric abstruse |
| acrocephalic (n. | adj |
| ad baculum | a baculo to the rod: appealing to or suggesting the |
| ad captandum benevolentiam | with intent to win good will or favor (W) |
| ad captandum vulgus | with intent to take in the public: designed to |
| ad crumenam | to the purse: appealing to greed or to the hearer's |
| ad ignorantium | to ignorance: depending for its effect on the |
| ad judicium | to judgment: appealing to the common sense of mankind |
| ad misericordiam | to compassion: appealing to a sense of pity or |
| ad populum | to the people: appealing to popular sentimental weaknesses |
| ad rem | to the matter: to the point; pertinent to the matter (W) |
| ad unguem | to the fingernail: with great precision; finely (W) |
| ad verbum | to the word: word for word; literally; verbatim (W) |
| ad verecundiam | to modesty: appealing to traditional values |
| adephagous (adj.) | gluttonous (B) |
| adevism (n.) | the denial of legendary gods (B) |
| adiaphoristic (adj.) | theologically indifferent (B E) |
| adiaphorous (adj.) | neutral; neither right nor wrong; neither deleterious |
| adjectitious (adj.) | added thrown in (B) |
| adminicle (n.) | something that helps or supports; corroboratory evidence; |
| adnomination (n.) | punning (B) |
| adoxography (n.) | good writing on a trivial subject (B) |
| adscititious (adj.) | not essential; supplemental; superfluous (B G) |
| adventitious (adj.) | accidental added by chance; not inherent |
| adversaria (n.) | miscellaneous notes comments |
| adynaton (n.) | magnifying or exaggerating an actual event by reference |
| aenos (n.) | use of erudite words or allusions to appeal to the |
| aeolistic (adj.) | long |
| aerophagist (n.) | the neurotic or somewhat hysterical gaper who |
| Aesopian language | political doubletalk or euphemism that has a |
| aesculapian (adj.) | relating to that which is medical or to the art |
| afflatus (n.) | an artistic inspiration (B) |
| afterwit (n.) | the locking of the barn door after the cows have gone (B) |
| agastopia (n.) | admiration of a particular part of someone's body (B) |
| agathism (n.) | the concept that all is for the better (B E) |
| agathokakological (adj.) | composed of both good and evil (B) |
| agelast (n.) | somebody who never but never laughs (E) |
| agenhina (n.) | a guest at an inn who after having stayed for threenights |
| agenocratia (n.) | opposition to birth control (B) |
| agglutination (n.) | compound |
| agitprop (n.) | the vociferous propagandistic agitator or |
| agnogenic (n.) | of unknown cause (B) |
| agnoiology (n.) | the study of ignorance (B) |
| agnoiology (n~) | the study of ignorance (B) |
| agnosy (n~) | ignorance; especially ignorance shared by the whole |
| agonist (n~) | a struggler; a person who is contending whether in |
| agonistic (n~) | combative; strained for the sake of effect (B) |
| agroof (n~) | flat on one's face (Scottish) (B) |
| ailurophobe (n~) | the person who can't stand cats (E) |
| airmonger (n~) | the man or woman who is attracted to visionary |
| aischrolatreia (n~) | worship of filth dirt |
| aldiborontiphoscophornio (n~) | a pompous person (from an old English |
| aleatory (adj~) | dependent upon chance luck |
| alectoromachy (n~) | cockfighting |
| algedonic (adj~) | pertaining to pain especially when associated with |
| algedonica (n~) | the science of pleasure and pain (B) |
| algidity (n~) | coldness |
| algolagnic (adj~) | relating to the perception of pleasure from |
| allagrugous (adj~) | grim and ghastly (G) |
| allision (n~) | the ramming of one object by another (B) |
| allochthonous (adj~) | foreign (B) |
| allonym (n~) | another person's name used as a pen name; a ghostwritten |
| allotheism (n~) | worship of strange gods (B) |
| allotriophagy (n~) | the craving for weird food (B) |
| alogism (n~) | unreasonableness; absurdity; illogical statement(B) |
| alopecia (n~) | baldness (B) |
| alopecoid (adj~) | foxy (B) |
| alter kocker (n~) | a canny stubborn old man who has been around but |
| altiloquence (n~) | pompous speech (B W) |
| amaranthine (adj~) | eternally beautiful; unfading; everlasting (E G) |
| amatorculist (n~) | an insignificant or hypocritical lover (B) |
| ambagious (adj~) | talking or doing things in an indirect manner; |
| ambiloquence (n~) | competence in double |
| ambivert (n~) | someone whose personality strikes a nice balance between |
| amblysia | phrasing in such a way as to forewarn or to cushion a dire |
| amende honorable | an honorable fine: a full and frank apology however |
| ami de cour (n~) | the fairweather or foul |
| amicus humani generis (n~) | a philathropist (E) |
| amniomancy (n~) | fortune telling by examining the embryonic sac |
| amphibolous (adj~) | susceptible of two meanings; ambiguous; equivocal |
| amphigean (adj~) | found or occuring throughout the world (B) |
| amphigory (n~) | nonsensical writing (B W) |
| amphilogy (n~) | a statement open to more than one interpretation |
| ampollosity (n~) | bombast; pompous style (B W) |
| amurcous (adj~) | stinking; filled with dregs (B) |
| amyctic (adj~) | irritating; abrasive (B) |
| anacampserote (n~) | something which can bring back a lost love (B) |
| anachorism (n~) | foreign to a certain locality; geographically |
| anaclitic (adj~) | overly dependent on another (B) |
| anacoluthon (n~) | an abrupt shift in midsentence in syntax to |
| anacreontic (adj~) | jovial festive and amatory (B |
| anadiplosis (n~) | repeating the final words or words of a phrase |
| anadipsic (adj~) | pertaining to excessive thirst (B) |
| anagapesis (n~) | lack of interest in former loved ones (B) |
| anagnorisis (n~) | recognition or discovery as of a disguised |
| anagogig (adj~) | relating to things spiritual and mystical; occult; |
| analects (n~) | selected parts of a literary work or works (W) |
| analeptic (adj~) | serving to renew strength and vigor; invigorating (B G) |
| anamnestic (adj~) | reminiscent; aiding the memory (B) |
| ananias (n~) | a teller of untruths; liar (from a follower of the |
| ananym (n~) | a pseudonym devised by spelling one's name backward (B W) |
| anaphora (n~) | repitition of a word or phrase in successive clauses |
| anapodictic (adj~) | undemonstrable (B) |
| anastrophe (n~) | inversion of the usual order of words or withholding |
| anatreptic (adj~) | defeating refuting (B) |
| anautarchia (n~) | perpetual unhappiness (B) |
| anax andron (n~) | a leader or men a take |
| anaxiphilia (n~) | act of falling in love with a schtoonk by someone |
| ancilla (n~) | a sidekick who helps another to accomplish or master |
| andabate (n~) | one who is hoodwinked in the dark or virtually blind |
| androlepsia (n~) | international governmental kidnapping for |
| anfractuous (adj~) | winding tortuous (B |
| angary (n~) | the right of a warring nation to use or destroy a |
| angst (n~) | anxiety fear; not fear of anything specific but a dread |
| anhedonia (n~) | the inability to be happy (B) |
| aniconic (adj~) | not using or permitting images effigies |
| anicular (adj~) | old |
| anililagnia (n~) | sexual desire for older women (B) |
| anile (adj~) | old womanish; lacking in force strength or effectiveness; |
| animadversion (n~) | generally adverse criticism (B E |
| ankylophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of stiff or immobile joints |
| anodyne (adj~) | painless soothing (G) |
| anomy (n~) | the collapse of the social structures governing a |
| anonym (n~) | a person remaining nameless; psuedonym; anonymous |
| anonymuncule (n~) | an insignificant anonymous writer (B) |
| anorchous (adj~) | without testicles; or gutless (B E) |
| anosognosia (n~) | the lack of interest or belief in the existence |
| Anschauung (n~) | intuition; sense awareness of perception (B) |
| antanaclasis (n~) | a phrasing in which the topic or key word is |
| antelucan (adj~) | pertaining to or occurring before dawn (G) |
| antephialtic (adj~) | preventive of nightmares (G) |
| anthimeria (n~) | the using of one part of speech for another for |
| anthorism (n~) | a counterdefinition or a delineation or description |
| anthropophaginia (n~) | a cannibal (E) |
| anthropophobia (n~) | fear of meeting people; fear of society (B) |
| antilogous (adj~) | contrary; inconsistent (B) |
| antinomian (n~) | a Christian who believes that faith alone will see |
| antinomy (n~) | an inconsistency or built |
| antipedobaptism (n~) | denial on scriptural grounds of the validityof infant baptism |
| antiphrasis (n~) | a word used to mean its opposite; calling something |
| antiscians (n~) | people living on the same meridian but on different |
| antistasis (n~) | the defense of an action that prevented somethingworse from happening |
| antithalian (adj~) | against enjoyment (B) |
| antonomasia (n~) | substitution of an epithet or nickname for a |
| anuptaphobia (n~) | fear of staying single (B E) |
| aolist (n~) | a person who claims to be inspiredsudden wind of genius or artistic urgency; the wind is sometimes |
| apaetesis (n~) | the angry putting aside of a matter to be taken |
| apagogic (adj~) | pertaining to a proof by reductio ad absurdum; an |
| apanthropy (n~) | dislike of being with people; love of solitude (B) |
| apercu (n~) | a quick penetrating insight; immediate impression |
| aphephobe (n~) | the person who doesn't like being touched (E) |
| aphilophrenia (n~) | a feeling that one is unloved or unwanted (B) |
| apocarteresis (n~) | suicide by starvation (B) |
| apocrisis (n~) | replying to one's own arguments (rhetoric term) (W) |
| apocrypha (n~) | writings reports |
| apodiabolosis (n~) | diabolical treatment (B) |
| apodictic (adj~) | absolutely certain or necessarily true; |
| apodysophilia (n~) | feverish desire to undress (B) |
| apolaustic (adj~) | given to enjoyment; self indulgent (B G) |
| apomnemonysis (n~) | quoting an approved authority (rhetoric term) (W) |
| apophasis (n~) | mentioning something by saying it won't be mentioned: "We |
| aporia (n~) | professing to be at a loss as to what to say where to |
| aposiopesis (n~) | a conscious breaking off in the middle of a sentence |
| apothegm (n~) | a concise formulation of a truth; an aphorism (G) |
| apotheosis (n~) | an exalted position highest development |
| appellation (n~) | a name designation |
| apposite (adj~) | appropriate fitting |
| appropinquate (v~) | to approach (B) |
| aptronym (n~) | a name befitting the occupation role or nature |
| arcadian (adj~) | ideally simple and contented (G) |
| argyrothecology (n~) | collecting of money boxes as found in |
| aristarchian (adj~) | extremely critical (B E) |
| aristophrenia (n~) | condition of having a superior intellect (B) |
| arithmocracy (n~) | rule of the numerical majority (B) |
| arriviste (n~) | on overly ambitious person; an opportunist (B) |
| arrogate (v~) | to appropriate or claim unjustly; to attribute |
| artuate (v~) | to tear limb from limb (B) |
| ascian (n~) | one without a shadow: applied to the inhabitants of the |
| asphalia (n~) | emphatic guaranteeing of what one is saying as by |
| aspheterism (n~) | denial of private property (B) |
| asportation (n~) | theft (B) |
| asseverate (v~) | to state positively emphatically (B) |
| assuetude (n~) | custom or habit (B) |
| asteism (n~) | an ingeniously polite insult (B W) |
| asthenophobe (n~) | the circumspect stoic the stiff |
| astucious (adj~) | having keen perception; of astute and penetrating |
| asyndetic (adj~) | not connected by conjunctions: I came I saw |
| ataraxia (n~) | imperturbability; utter calmness (B) |
| ataraxic (adj~) | of or pertaining to freedom from anxiety or emotional |
| atelophobe (n~) | the driven perfectionist one with a morbid fear of |
| athanasia (n~) | immortality (B) |
| athetise (v~) | to spurn reject (B) |
| atrabilarian (n~) | a gloomy hypochondriac (E) |
| au grand serieux | with great earnestness or often |
| augean (adj~) | filthy and difficult to clean; requiring hard work (from |
| auscultation (n~) | the process of listening (G) |
| autarchia (n~) | perpetual happiness (B) |
| autoangelist (n~) | one who does his own communicating (E) |
| autocephalous (adj~) | ecclesiastically self |
| autochthonous (adj~) | native aboriginal |
| autoclesis (n~) | introducing an idea or subject by seeming to |
| autodidact (n~) | one self |
| autognosis (n~) | knowledge of self especially the appreciation of |
| autological (adj~) | self |
| autologophagist (n~) | one who eats his words (B E) |
| automysophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of being dirty |
| autophobe (n~) | the socializer who does not like to be alone or |
| autoschediastic (adj~) | impromptu; on the spur of the moment (B) |
| autotelic (adj~) | having in itself an end or excuse for being |
| autothaumaturgist (n~) | the coy or cagey person whose mission is toappear mysterious or quite remarkable (E) |
| autotheist (n~) | the individual who is not only self |
| auxesis (n~) | an ordering of thoughts expressed in a sequence of |
| avering (n~) | a boy's begging in the nude to arouse sympathy (B) |
| azygophrenia (n~) | the psychoneurosis of everyday unmarried life (B) |
| bacchante (n | ) - a frenzied woman |
| backberend (adj | ) - a thief caught with the goods (B) |
| badaud (n | ) - an idle markedly stupid individual |
| baffona (n | ) - a woman with a slight moustache (D) |
| baksheesh (n | ) - a tip; gratuity (Egypt and points east) (B) |
| balatron (n | ) - a joker; a clown (B) |
| balneography (n | ) - treatise on baths and bathing |
| balsamical (adj | ) - unctuous mitigating |
| banausic (adj | ) - common ordinary |
| bandersnatch (n | ) - an uncouth or unconventional person |
| baptisiphily (n | ) - interest in collecting Christian baptismal |
| baragouin (n | ) - gibberish (B W) |
| bardolatry (n | ) - Shakespeare worship (B) |
| barrator (n | ) - those constant inciters of lawsuits |
| barratrous (adj | ) - pertaining to the habitual causing of fights (B) |
| bashawism (n | ) - tyranny and imperiousness |
| bashi-bazouk (n | ) - a dangerously out-of-control undisciplined |
| bastinado (n | ) - striking the soles of the fet with a stick |
| bathetic (adj | ) - emotionally jumping off the deep end insincere |
| bathycolpian (adj | ) - deep-bosomed (B) |
| bathysiderodromophobe (n | ) - somebody extremely fearful of subways (D) |
| batten (v | ) - to thrive and grow fat by feeding (G) |
| battological (adj | ) - pertaining to unnecessarily repetitive |
| bavardage (n | ) - small talk or chitchat; idle chatter (W) |
| beadledom (n | ) - the world of petty and incompetent officials |
| bedlamite (n | ) - a madman (B) |
| bedswerver (n | ) - an unfaithful spouse (B) |
| beldam (n | ) - a repulsive older woman (D) |
| belletristic (adj | ) - of or concerned (fine literature) (G) |
| bellwether (n | ) - a leader of a sheeplike and foolish crowd (B) |
| belomancy (n | ) - fortune-telling by marking arrows |
| bibacious (adj | ) - addicted to alcohol (B) |
| bibble (v | ) - to drink often or much; or to drink or eat noisily (B) |
| bibliobibuli (n | ) - those who read too much |
| bibliokleptomania (n | ) - abnormal compulsion to steal books |
| bibliopegy (n | ) - the art of binding books |
| bibliopolism (n | ) - the selling |
| bibliotaphy (n | ) - the hoarding or hiding of books |
| bibulous (adj | ) - intoxicating; addicted to or fond of alcoholic drinks |
| bildungsroman (n | ) - a novel that deals with the development or education |
| billingsgate (n | ) - coarse abusive |
| biophilism (n | ) - belief that animals have rights |
| biunial (adj | ) - combining two in one |
| blandiloquence (n | ) - mildly flattering talk (B) |
| blateroon (n | ) - a constant talker one afflicted with logorrhea (D) |
| blennophobia (n | ) - abnormal fear or dislike of slime |
| bletonism (n | ) - the alleged ability to perceive an underground |
| blinkard (n | ) - one with bad eyes; a stupid or obtuse person; |
| blissom (adj | ) - in heat; or (v |
| bloviate (v | ) - to orate verbosely and windily; hold forth |
| blowtop (n | ) - a person who becomes angry very easily or quickly (D) |
| boanthropy (n | ) - a type of insanity in which a man thinks |
| bodewash (n | ) - cow dung (B) |
| boobocracy (n | ) - government by boobs; plebianism |
| booboisie (n | ) - the mass rabble (B) |
| boodler (n | ) - the opportunist who gladly takes bribes (D) |
| bloviate (v | ) - to deliver an oration that is verbose or windy |
| borborology (n | ) - the stomach-like rumbling of unclean talk (G) |
| borborygm (n | ) - the noise made by gas in the bowels; a fart (B) |
| borborygmite (n | ) - a dirty mouth |
| bovrilise (v | ) - to condense an ad to essentials; to epitomize (B) |
| brachylogy (n | ) - brevity; condensation omitting all non-essentials (B) |
| brandophily (n | ) - collecting cigar bands |
| breedbate (n | ) - someone looking for an argument (B) |
| brimborion (n | ) - something useless or nonsensical (B) |
| brobdingnagian (adj | ) - gigantic enormous (B) |
| bromidrosis (n | ) - the secretion of foul-smelling sweat; body odor (G) |
| brotus (n | ) - any extra measure without charge such as a |
| brummagem (n | ) - making an imposing display but inferior |
| bruxomania (n | ) - the habit of unconsciously grinding the teeth |
| bumbledom (n | ) - the world of petty and incompetent officials |
| bumbledom (n | ) - the world of petty and incompetent officials) |
| buncombe (n | ) - empty insincere speechmaking (G) |
| burke (v | ) - to smother people to sell their bodies for dissection (B) |
| bushwah (n | ) - something poor mean |
| bustluscious (adj | ) - having or characterized by shapely mammalia |
| cacation (n | ) - excretion (B) |
| cacemphaton (n | ) - a harsh-sounding word or phrase (B W) |
| cacestogenous (adj | ) - caused by unfavorable home environment (B) |
| cachinnation (n | ) - loud or immoderate laughter (B G) |
| cacique (n | ) - a slightly pompous person (B) |
| cacodoxical (adj | ) - heretical (B) |
| cacoethes (n | ) - a mania or bad habit (B) |
| cacogen (n | ) - a anti-social person (B) |
| cacology (n | ) - bad pronunciation; impropriety of wording |
| cacophenism (n | ) - an unfairly harsh or derogatory |
| cacophrenic (adj | ) - pertaining to an inferior intellect (B) |
| cacotechny (n | ) - a corrupt state of art (B) |
| cacozelia (n | ) - studied affectation in diction or style |
| cadge (v | ) - to hawk or peddle as fish; or to beg |
| cagamosis (n | ) - unhappy marriage (B) |
| cainophobia (n | ) - abnormal dislike of novelty or innovation |
| caitiff (adj | ) - base; despicable; cowardly; wicked (B G) |
| calcographer (n | ) - one who draws with crayons (B) |
| calepin (n | ) - a dictionary esp |
| caliginous (adj | ) - obscure; dim; misty; dark (B G) |
| callipygous (or callipygian) (adj | ) - having shapely buttocks (B ) |
| callithumpian (n | ) - a noisy demonstration (B) |
| callomania (n | ) - the delusion that one is beautiful (B) |
| canoodle (v | ) - to caress (B) |
| cantabank (n | ) - second-rate ballad singer (B) |
| capernoited (adj | ) - tipsy lightly pifflecated nimptopsical (B) |
| captation (n | ) - trying to cadge acceptance by flattery (B W) |
| captious (adj | ) - intended to confuse or artfully |
| carminative (adj | ) - pertaining to farting (B) |
| carriwitchet (n | ) - an absurd riddling question |
| castrophrenia (n | ) - one's thoughts are beingstolen by enemies (B) |
| casuistry (n | ) - deceptive reasoning about law or morals (W) |
| catachresis (n | ) - incorrect use of a word or phrase |
| catacosmesis (n | ); anticlimactic sequence in phrasing |
| catarolysis (n | ) - cursing to let off steam (W) |
| catawamptious (adj | ) - fierce destructive; or diagonal or crooked (B) |
| catchpenny (adj | ) - popular but superficial (W) |
| causerie (n | ) - a light and informal conversation; |
| cervesial (adj | ) - pertaining to beer (B) |
| charette (n | ) - the eleventh-hour efforts |
| charientism (n | ) - a gracefully veiled insult (B W) |
| chasmophilous (adj | ) - fond of nooks crannies |
| cheimaphobia (n | ) - abnormal fear or dislike of cold |
| cherophobia (n | ) - fear of gaiety (B) |
| cherubimical (adj | ) - drunk (B) |
| cheville (n | ) - an unnecessary word added to round off a sentence |
| chiasmus (n | ) - the inverting of the second or latter of two phrases |
| choplogic (n | ) - absurdly convoluted sophistical |
| chrestomathy (n | ) - a collection of choice literary pieces (B) |
| circumbendibus (n | ) - a roundabout process or story; |
| circumforaneous (adj | ) - place to place (B) |
| cisvestitism (n | ) - wearing weird or inappropriate clothes (B) |
| cittosis (n | ) - an abnormal desire for strange foods (B) |
| clamjamfry (n | ) - the mob or rabble (Scottish) (B) |
| cledonism (n | ) - the eschewing of unlucky words |
| cleocentric (adj | ) - pertaining to the belief that fame iseverything (B) |
| clerihew (n | ) - an amusing quatrain about contemporary notables (B) |
| clinchpoop (n | ) - a lout jerk fathead |
| clinomania (n | ) - excessive desire to stay in bed (B) |
| clinquant (n | ) - showy but valueless writing or literary effects; |
| clishmaclaver (n | ) chatter; gossip (Scottish) (W) |
| clodpolish (adj | ) - awkward (B) |
| clyster (n | ) - an injection into the anus; an enema (B) |
| codswallop (n | ) - baloney or hot air; gammon or humbug (British) (W) |
| coevalneity (adj | ) - the state of being alike in age or duration |
| cogger (n | ) - a phoney flatterer (B) |
| cogitabund (adj | ) - meditative (B) |
| colloquy (n | ) - a conversation or dialogue; serious or formal |
| colluctation (n | ) - conflict (B) |
| colluvial (adj | ) - pertaining to a mass of filth (B) |
| collybist (n | ) - a usurer or miser (B) |
| collywobbles (n | ) - pain or looseness in the bowels (B) |
| colporteur (n | ) - a peddler of religious tracts |
| colubrine (adj | ) - snaky sneaky |
| commentitious (adj | ) - imaginary (B) |
| commination (n | ) - denunciation; threatening or cursing (B) |
| commoratio (n | ) - dwelling on a point |
| commorient (adj | ) - dying together (B) |
| complect (v | ) - to connect together; intertwine (B) |
| compotation (n | ) - drinking together usually to excess (B) |
| comprachico (n | ) - one who buys or sells children |
| comprobatio (n | ) - complimenting one's judges or audience |
| compurgation (n | ) - vindication; that which vindicates (B) |
| comstockery (n | ) - zealous censorship of books or art |
| conation (n | ) - mental effort (B) |
| concatervate (adj | ) - heaped up (B) |
| conciliabule (n | ) - a secret meeting of plot-hatchers (B) |
| concinnity (n | ) - skill and harmony in a literary work; elegant arrangement (W) |
| concupiscence (n | ) - strong appetite; excessive sexual desire (B) |
| conflation (n | ) - a combining or blending of two or more versions |
| consectaneous (adj | ) - logical consequence; corollary (B) |
| consilience (n | ) - a change happening or coincidence |
| conspectus (n | ) - a general survey or synopsis or summary (W) |
| conspissation (n | ) - thickness; the act of thickening (B) |
| conspurcate (v | ) - to pollute; defile (B) |
| constuprate (v | ) - to violate to debauch (B) |
| consuetude (n | ) - custom tradition (B) |
| contortuplicate (adj | ) - twisted back upon itself (B) |
| contraremonstrant (n | ) - a remonstrator against remonstrance (B) |
| contrectation (n | ) - act of caressing someone especially furtively |
| contumacy (n | ) - a refusal to obey or defiance |
| contumely (n | ) - rude abrasive insult in speech or writing; |
| copoclephily (n | ) - collecting key rings containing advertising |
| coprolalia (n | ) - the use of words relating to dirt or excrement (B) |
| coprophemia (n | ) - obscene language (B) |
| coprophobia (n | ) - abnormal fear of feces |
| coryphaeus (n | ) - a leader of a school of thought |
| costermongering (n | ) - tampering with a composer's orchestral works |
| countercaster (n | ) - a contemptuous word for a bookkeeper or accountant; |
| covinous (adj | ) - deceitful conspiring (B) |
| crapulous (adj | ) - given to gross excess in drinking or eating |
| crassilingual (adj | ) - thick-tongued (B) |
| crepehangar (n | ) - a gloomy person; a pessimist (B) |
| cri de coeur | an ardent impassioned declaration |
| cri de guerre | war cry: |
| criticaster (n~) | an incompetent inferior critic (B |
| crurophilous (adj~) | liking legs (B) |
| crux criticorum | a riddle or puzzle for the critics (W) |
| cui bono | "who stands to gain from this") (W) |
| cumyxaphily (n~) | collecting match boxes |
| cunctative (adj~) | tardy dilatory (B) |
| curiosa felicitas | apt and elegant expressism; |
| curlicism (n~) | literary indecency (W) |
| currente calamo | with a running pen: fluidly or offhand (W) |
| cyprian (adj~) | lecherous licentious |
| cypripareunia (n~) | sexual intercourse with a prostitute (B) |
| dacrygelosis (n~) | condition of alternating laughing and crying (B) |
| daedal (adj~) | skillfully and artistically crafted (W) |
| dasypygal (adj~) | having hairy buttocks (B) |
| de profundis | agonized plaint or lament (W) |
| deblaterate (v~) | to babble (B) |
| decoct | extract the essence of flavor of as by boiling (G) |
| decollate (v~) | to behead (B) |
| decussate (v~) | to make an X; intersect (B) |
| defalcate (v~) | to embezzle (B) |
| defeneration (n~) | usury (B) |
| dehortatory (adj~) | dissuading (B) |
| deictic (adj~) | pointing to specifically eg pronouns 'that' and 'those' (W) |
| deipnophobia (n~) | fear of dining and dinner conversation |
| deipnosophist (n~) | a skillful dinner conversationalist (B) |
| deja lu | a sense of familiarity or recognition in something read (W) |
| dejecture (n~) | excrement (B) |
| delator (n~) | an informer or accuser (B) |
| delectus (n~) | a book of passages from Greek and Latin authors |
| agnoiology (n~) | the study of ignorance (B) |
| agnosy (n~) | ignorance; especially ignorance shared by the whole |
| agonist (n~) | a struggler; a person who is contending whether in |
| agonistic (n~) | combative; strained for the sake of effect (B) |
| agroof (n~) | flat on one's face (Scottish) (B) |
| ailurophobe (n~) | the person who can't stand cats (E) |
| airmonger (n~) | the man or woman who is attracted to visionary |
| aischrolatreia (n~) | worship of filth dirt |
| aldiborontiphoscophornio (n~) | a pompous person (from an old English |
| aleatory (adj~) | dependent upon chance luck |
| alectoromachy (n~) | cockfighting |
| algedonic (adj~) | pertaining to pain especially when associated with |
| algedonica (n~) | the science of pleasure and pain (B) |
| algidity (n~) | coldness |
| algolagnic (adj~) | relating to the perception of pleasure from |
| allagrugous (adj~) | grim and ghastly (G) |
| allision (n~) | the ramming of one object by another (B) |
| allochthonous (adj~) | foreign (B) |
| allonym (n~) | another person's name used as a pen name; a ghostwritten |
| allotheism (n~) | worship of strange gods (B) |
| allotriophagy (n~) | the craving for weird food (B) |
| alogism (n~) | unreasonableness; absurdity; illogical statement(B) |
| alopecia (n~) | baldness (B) |
| alopecoid (adj~) | foxy (B) |
| alter kocker (n~) | a canny stubborn old man who has been around but |
| altiloquence (n~) | pompous speech (B W) |
| amaranthine (adj~) | eternally beautiful; unfading; everlasting (E G) |
| amatorculist (n~) | an insignificant or hypocritical lover (B) |
| ambagious (adj~) | talking or doing things in an indirect manner; |
| ambiloquence (n~) | competence in double |
| ambivert (n~) | someone whose personality strikes a nice balance between |
| amblysia | phrasing in such a way as to forewarn or to cushion a dire |
| amende honorable | an honorable fine: a full and frank apology however |
| ami de cour (n~) | the fairweather or foul |
| amicus humani generis (n~) | a philathropist (E) |
| amniomancy (n~) | fortune telling by examining the embryonic sac |
| amphibolous (adj~) | susceptible of two meanings; ambiguous; equivocal |
| amphigean (adj~) | found or occuring throughout the world (B) |
| amphigory (n~) | nonsensical writing (B W) |
| amphilogy (n~) | a statement open to more than one interpretation |
| ampollosity (n~) | bombast; pompous style (B W) |
| amurcous (adj~) | stinking; filled with dregs (B) |
| amyctic (adj~) | irritating; abrasive (B) |
| anacampserote (n~) | something which can bring back a lost love (B) |
| anachorism (n~) | foreign to a certain locality; geographically |
| anaclitic (adj~) | overly dependent on another (B) |
| anacoluthon (n~) | an abrupt shift in midsentence in syntax to |
| anacreontic (adj~) | jovial festive and amatory (B |
| anadiplosis (n~) | repeating the final words or words of a phrase |
| anadipsic (adj~) | pertaining to excessive thirst (B) |
| anagapesis (n~) | lack of interest in former loved ones (B) |
| anagnorisis (n~) | recognition or discovery as of a disguised |
| anagogig (adj~) | relating to things spiritual and mystical; occult; |
| analects (n~) | selected parts of a literary work or works (W) |
| analeptic (adj~) | serving to renew strength and vigor; invigorating (B G) |
| anamnestic (adj~) | reminiscent; aiding the memory (B) |
| ananias (n~) | a teller of untruths; liar (from a follower of the |
| ananym (n~) | a pseudonym devised by spelling one's name backward (B W) |
| anaphora (n~) | repitition of a word or phrase in successive clauses |
| anapodictic (adj~) | undemonstrable (B) |
| anastrophe (n~) | inversion of the usual order of words or withholding |
| anatreptic (adj~) | defeating refuting (B) |
| anautarchia (n~) | perpetual unhappiness (B) |
| anax andron (n~) | a leader or men a take |
| anaxiphilia (n~) | act of falling in love with a schtoonk by someone |
| ancilla (n~) | a sidekick who helps another to accomplish or master |
| andabate (n~) | one who is hoodwinked in the dark or virtually blind |
| androlepsia (n~) | international governmental kidnapping for |
| anfractuous (adj~) | winding tortuous (B |
| angary (n~) | the right of a warring nation to use or destroy a |
| angst (n~) | anxiety fear; not fear of anything specific but a dread |
| anhedonia (n~) | the inability to be happy (B) |
| aniconic (adj~) | not using or permitting images effigies |
| anicular (adj~) | old |
| anililagnia (n~) | sexual desire for older women (B) |
| anile (adj~) | old womanish; lacking in force strength or effectiveness; |
| animadversion (n~) | generally adverse criticism (B E |
| ankylophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of stiff or immobile joints |
| anodyne (adj~) | painless soothing (G) |
| anomy (n~) | the collapse of the social structures governing a |
| anonym (n~) | a person remaining nameless; psuedonym; anonymous |
| anonymuncule (n~) | an insignificant anonymous writer (B) |
| anorchous (adj~) | without testicles; or gutless (B E) |
| anosognosia (n~) | the lack of interest or belief in the existence |
| Anschauung (n~) | intuition; sense awareness of perception (B) |
| antanaclasis (n~) | a phrasing in which the topic or key word is |
| antelucan (adj~) | pertaining to or occurring before dawn (G) |
| antephialtic (adj~) | preventive of nightmares (G) |
| anthimeria (n~) | the using of one part of speech for another for |
| anthorism (n~) | a counterdefinition or a delineation or description |
| anthropophaginia (n~) | a cannibal (E) |
| anthropophobia (n~) | fear of meeting people; fear of society (B) |
| antilogous (adj~) | contrary; inconsistent (B) |
| antinomian (n~) | a Christian who believes that faith alone will see |
| antinomy (n~) | an inconsistency or built |
| antipedobaptism (n~) | denial on scriptural grounds of the validityof infant baptism |
| antiphrasis (n~) | a word used to mean its opposite; calling something |
| antiscians (n~) | people living on the same meridian but on different |
| antistasis (n~) | the defense of an action that prevented somethingworse from happening |
| antithalian (adj~) | against enjoyment (B) |
| antonomasia (n~) | substitution of an epithet or nickname for a |
| anuptaphobia (n~) | fear of staying single (B E) |
| aolist (n~) | a person who claims to be inspiredsudden wind of genius or artistic urgency; the wind is sometimes |
| apaetesis (n~) | the angry putting aside of a matter to be taken |
| apagogic (adj~) | pertaining to a proof by reductio ad absurdum; an |
| apanthropy (n~) | dislike of being with people; love of solitude (B) |
| apercu (n~) | a quick penetrating insight; immediate impression |
| aphephobe (n~) | the person who doesn't like being touched (E) |
| aphilophrenia (n~) | a feeling that one is unloved or unwanted (B) |
| apocarteresis (n~) | suicide by starvation (B) |
| apocrisis (n~) | replying to one's own arguments (rhetoric term) (W) |
| apocrypha (n~) | writings reports |
| apodiabolosis (n~) | diabolical treatment (B) |
| apodictic (adj~) | absolutely certain or necessarily true; |
| apodysophilia (n~) | feverish desire to undress (B) |
| apolaustic (adj~) | given to enjoyment; self indulgent (B G) |
| apomnemonysis (n~) | quoting an approved authority (rhetoric term) (W) |
| apophasis (n~) | mentioning something by saying it won't be mentioned: "We |
| aporia (n~) | professing to be at a loss as to what to say where to |
| aposiopesis (n~) | a conscious breaking off in the middle of a sentence |
| apothegm (n~) | a concise formulation of a truth; an aphorism (G) |
| apotheosis (n~) | an exalted position highest development |
| appellation (n~) | a name designation |
| apposite (adj~) | appropriate fitting |
| appropinquate (v~) | to approach (B) |
| aptronym (n~) | a name befitting the occupation role or nature |
| arcadian (adj~) | ideally simple and contented (G) |
| argyrothecology (n~) | collecting of money boxes as found in |
| aristarchian (adj~) | extremely critical (B E) |
| aristophrenia (n~) | condition of having a superior intellect (B) |
| arithmocracy (n~) | rule of the numerical majority (B) |
| arriviste (n~) | on overly ambitious person; an opportunist (B) |
| arrogate (v~) | to appropriate or claim unjustly; to attribute |
| artuate (v~) | to tear limb from limb (B) |
| ascian (n~) | one without a shadow: applied to the inhabitants of the |
| asphalia (n~) | emphatic guaranteeing of what one is saying as by |
| aspheterism (n~) | denial of private property (B) |
| asportation (n~) | theft (B) |
| asseverate (v~) | to state positively emphatically (B) |
| assuetude (n~) | custom or habit (B) |
| asteism (n~) | an ingeniously polite insult (B W) |
| asthenophobe (n~) | the circumspect stoic the stiff |
| astucious (adj~) | having keen perception; of astute and penetrating |
| asyndetic (adj~) | not connected by conjunctions: I came I saw |
| ataraxia (n~) | imperturbability; utter calmness (B) |
| ataraxic (adj~) | of or pertaining to freedom from anxiety or emotional |
| atelophobe (n~) | the driven perfectionist one with a morbid fear of |
| athanasia (n~) | immortality (B) |
| athetise (v~) | to spurn reject (B) |
| atrabilarian (n~) | a gloomy hypochondriac (E) |
| au grand serieux | with great earnestness or often |
| augean (adj~) | filthy and difficult to clean; requiring hard work (from |
| auscultation (n~) | the process of listening (G) |
| autarchia (n~) | perpetual happiness (B) |
| autoangelist (n~) | one who does his own communicating (E) |
| autocephalous (adj~) | ecclesiastically self |
| autochthonous (adj~) | native aboriginal |
| autoclesis (n~) | introducing an idea or subject by seeming to |
| autodidact (n~) | one self |
| autognosis (n~) | knowledge of self especially the appreciation of |
| autological (adj~) | self |
| autologophagist (n~) | one who eats his words (B E) |
| automysophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of being dirty |
| autophobe (n~) | the socializer who does not like to be alone or |
| autoschediastic (adj~) | impromptu; on the spur of the moment (B) |
| autotelic (adj~) | having in itself an end or excuse for being |
| autothaumaturgist (n~) | the coy or cagey person whose mission is toappear mysterious or quite remarkable (E) |
| autotheist (n~) | the individual who is not only self |
| auxesis (n~) | an ordering of thoughts expressed in a sequence of |
| avering (n~) | a boy's begging in the nude to arouse sympathy (B) |
| azygophrenia (n~) | the psychoneurosis of everyday unmarried life (B) |
| bacchante (n | ) - a frenzied woman |
| backberend (adj | ) - a thief caught with the goods (B) |
| badaud (n | ) - an idle markedly stupid individual |
| baffona (n | ) - a woman with a slight moustache (D) |
| baksheesh (n | ) - a tip; gratuity (Egypt and points east) (B) |
| balatron (n | ) - a joker; a clown (B) |
| balneography (n | ) - treatise on baths and bathing |
| balsamical (adj | ) - unctuous mitigating |
| banausic (adj | ) - common ordinary |
| bandersnatch (n | ) - an uncouth or unconventional person |
| baptisiphily (n | ) - interest in collecting Christian baptismal |
| baragouin (n | ) - gibberish (B W) |
| bardolatry (n | ) - Shakespeare worship (B) |
| barrator (n | ) - those constant inciters of lawsuits |
| barratrous (adj | ) - pertaining to the habitual causing of fights (B) |
| bashawism (n | ) - tyranny and imperiousness |
| bashi-bazouk (n | ) - a dangerously out-of-control undisciplined |
| bastinado (n | ) - striking the soles of the fet with a stick |
| bathetic (adj | ) - emotionally jumping off the deep end insincere |
| bathycolpian (adj | ) - deep-bosomed (B) |
| bathysiderodromophobe (n | ) - somebody extremely fearful of subways (D) |
| batten (v | ) - to thrive and grow fat by feeding (G) |
| battological (adj | ) - pertaining to unnecessarily repetitive |
| bavardage (n | ) - small talk or chitchat; idle chatter (W) |
| beadledom (n | ) - the world of petty and incompetent officials |
| bedlamite (n | ) - a madman (B) |
| bedswerver (n | ) - an unfaithful spouse (B) |
| beldam (n | ) - a repulsive older woman (D) |
| belletristic (adj | ) - of or concerned (fine literature) (G) |
| bellwether (n | ) - a leader of a sheeplike and foolish crowd (B) |
| belomancy (n | ) - fortune-telling by marking arrows |
| bibacious (adj | ) - addicted to alcohol (B) |
| bibble (v | ) - to drink often or much; or to drink or eat noisily (B) |
| bibliobibuli (n | ) - those who read too much |
| bibliokleptomania (n | ) - abnormal compulsion to steal books |
| bibliopegy (n | ) - the art of binding books |
| bibliopolism (n | ) - the selling |
| bibliotaphy (n | ) - the hoarding or hiding of books |
| bibulous (adj | ) - intoxicating; addicted to or fond of alcoholic drinks |
| bildungsroman (n | ) - a novel that deals with the development or education |
| billingsgate (n | ) - coarse abusive |
| biophilism (n | ) - belief that animals have rights |
| biunial (adj | ) - combining two in one |
| blandiloquence (n | ) - mildly flattering talk (B) |
| blateroon (n | ) - a constant talker one afflicted with logorrhea (D) |
| blennophobia (n | ) - abnormal fear or dislike of slime |
| bletonism (n | ) - the alleged ability to perceive an underground |
| blinkard (n | ) - one with bad eyes; a stupid or obtuse person; |
| blissom (adj | ) - in heat; or (v |
| bloviate (v | ) - to orate verbosely and windily; hold forth |
| blowtop (n | ) - a person who becomes angry very easily or quickly (D) |
| boanthropy (n | ) - a type of insanity in which a man thinks |
| bodewash (n | ) - cow dung (B) |
| boobocracy (n | ) - government by boobs; plebianism |
| booboisie (n | ) - the mass rabble (B) |
| boodler (n | ) - the opportunist who gladly takes bribes (D) |
| bloviate (v | ) - to deliver an oration that is verbose or windy |
| borborology (n | ) - the stomach-like rumbling of unclean talk (G) |
| borborygm (n | ) - the noise made by gas in the bowels; a fart (B) |
| borborygmite (n | ) - a dirty mouth |
| bovrilise (v | ) - to condense an ad to essentials; to epitomize (B) |
| brachylogy (n | ) - brevity; condensation omitting all non-essentials (B) |
| brandophily (n | ) - collecting cigar bands |
| breedbate (n | ) - someone looking for an argument (B) |
| brimborion (n | ) - something useless or nonsensical (B) |
| brobdingnagian (adj | ) - gigantic enormous (B) |
| bromidrosis (n | ) - the secretion of foul-smelling sweat; body odor (G) |
| brotus (n | ) - any extra measure without charge such as a |
| brummagem (n | ) - making an imposing display but inferior |
| bruxomania (n | ) - the habit of unconsciously grinding the teeth |
| bumbledom (n | ) - the world of petty and incompetent officials |
| bumbledom (n | ) - the world of petty and incompetent officials) |
| buncombe (n | ) - empty insincere speechmaking (G) |
| burke (v | ) - to smother people to sell their bodies for dissection (B) |
| bushwah (n | ) - something poor mean |
| bustluscious (adj | ) - having or characterized by shapely mammalia |
| cacation (n | ) - excretion (B) |
| cacemphaton (n | ) - a harsh-sounding word or phrase (B W) |
| cacestogenous (adj | ) - caused by unfavorable home environment (B) |
| cachinnation (n | ) - loud or immoderate laughter (B G) |
| cacique (n | ) - a slightly pompous person (B) |
| cacodoxical (adj | ) - heretical (B) |
| cacoethes (n | ) - a mania or bad habit (B) |
| cacogen (n | ) - a anti-social person (B) |
| cacology (n | ) - bad pronunciation; impropriety of wording |
| cacophenism (n | ) - an unfairly harsh or derogatory |
| cacophrenic (adj | ) - pertaining to an inferior intellect (B) |
| cacotechny (n | ) - a corrupt state of art (B) |
| cacozelia (n | ) - studied affectation in diction or style |
| cadge (v | ) - to hawk or peddle as fish; or to beg |
| cagamosis (n | ) - unhappy marriage (B) |
| cainophobia (n | ) - abnormal dislike of novelty or innovation |
| caitiff (adj | ) - base; despicable; cowardly; wicked (B G) |
| calcographer (n | ) - one who draws with crayons (B) |
| calepin (n | ) - a dictionary esp |
| caliginous (adj | ) - obscure; dim; misty; dark (B G) |
| callipygous (or callipygian) (adj | ) - having shapely buttocks (B ) |
| callithumpian (n | ) - a noisy demonstration (B) |
| callomania (n | ) - the delusion that one is beautiful (B) |
| canoodle (v | ) - to caress (B) |
| cantabank (n | ) - second-rate ballad singer (B) |
| capernoited (adj | ) - tipsy lightly pifflecated nimptopsical (B) |
| captation (n | ) - trying to cadge acceptance by flattery (B W) |
| captious (adj | ) - intended to confuse or artfully |
| carminative (adj | ) - pertaining to farting (B) |
| carriwitchet (n | ) - an absurd riddling question |
| castrophrenia (n | ) - one's thoughts are beingstolen by enemies (B) |
| casuistry (n | ) - deceptive reasoning about law or morals (W) |
| catachresis (n | ) - incorrect use of a word or phrase |
| catacosmesis (n | ); anticlimactic sequence in phrasing |
| catarolysis (n | ) - cursing to let off steam (W) |
| catawamptious (adj | ) - fierce destructive; or diagonal or crooked (B) |
| catchpenny (adj | ) - popular but superficial (W) |
| causerie (n | ) - a light and informal conversation; |
| cervesial (adj | ) - pertaining to beer (B) |
| charette (n | ) - the eleventh-hour efforts |
| charientism (n | ) - a gracefully veiled insult (B W) |
| chasmophilous (adj | ) - fond of nooks crannies |
| cheimaphobia (n | ) - abnormal fear or dislike of cold |
| cherophobia (n | ) - fear of gaiety (B) |
| cherubimical (adj | ) - drunk (B) |
| cheville (n | ) - an unnecessary word added to round off a sentence |
| chiasmus (n | ) - the inverting of the second or latter of two phrases |
| choplogic (n | ) - absurdly convoluted sophistical |
| chrestomathy (n | ) - a collection of choice literary pieces (B) |
| circumbendibus (n | ) - a roundabout process or story; |
| circumforaneous (adj | ) - place to place (B) |
| cisvestitism (n | ) - wearing weird or inappropriate clothes (B) |
| cittosis (n | ) - an abnormal desire for strange foods (B) |
| clamjamfry (n | ) - the mob or rabble (Scottish) (B) |
| cledonism (n | ) - the eschewing of unlucky words |
| cleocentric (adj | ) - pertaining to the belief that fame iseverything (B) |
| clerihew (n | ) - an amusing quatrain about contemporary notables (B) |
| clinchpoop (n | ) - a lout jerk fathead |
| clinomania (n | ) - excessive desire to stay in bed (B) |
| clinquant (n | ) - showy but valueless writing or literary effects; |
| clishmaclaver (n | ) chatter; gossip (Scottish) (W) |
| clodpolish (adj | ) - awkward (B) |
| clyster (n | ) - an injection into the anus; an enema (B) |
| codswallop (n | ) - baloney or hot air; gammon or humbug (British) (W) |
| coevalneity (adj | ) - the state of being alike in age or duration |
| cogger (n | ) - a phoney flatterer (B) |
| cogitabund (adj | ) - meditative (B) |
| colloquy (n | ) - a conversation or dialogue; serious or formal |
| colluctation (n | ) - conflict (B) |
| colluvial (adj | ) - pertaining to a mass of filth (B) |
| collybist (n | ) - a usurer or miser (B) |
| collywobbles (n | ) - pain or looseness in the bowels (B) |
| colporteur (n | ) - a peddler of religious tracts |
| colubrine (adj | ) - snaky sneaky |
| commentitious (adj | ) - imaginary (B) |
| commination (n | ) - denunciation; threatening or cursing (B) |
| commoratio (n | ) - dwelling on a point |
| commorient (adj | ) - dying together (B) |
| complect (v | ) - to connect together; intertwine (B) |
| compotation (n | ) - drinking together usually to excess (B) |
| comprachico (n | ) - one who buys or sells children |
| comprobatio (n | ) - complimenting one's judges or audience |
| compurgation (n | ) - vindication; that which vindicates (B) |
| comstockery (n | ) - zealous censorship of books or art |
| conation (n | ) - mental effort (B) |
| concatervate (adj | ) - heaped up (B) |
| conciliabule (n | ) - a secret meeting of plot-hatchers (B) |
| concinnity (n | ) - skill and harmony in a literary work; elegant arrangement (W) |
| concupiscence (n | ) - strong appetite; excessive sexual desire (B) |
| conflation (n | ) - a combining or blending of two or more versions |
| consectaneous (adj | ) - logical consequence; corollary (B) |
| consilience (n | ) - a change happening or coincidence |
| conspectus (n | ) - a general survey or synopsis or summary (W) |
| conspissation (n | ) - thickness; the act of thickening (B) |
| conspurcate (v | ) - to pollute; defile (B) |
| constuprate (v | ) - to violate to debauch (B) |
| consuetude (n | ) - custom tradition (B) |
| contortuplicate (adj | ) - twisted back upon itself (B) |
| contraremonstrant (n | ) - a remonstrator against remonstrance (B) |
| contrectation (n | ) - act of caressing someone especially furtively |
| contumacy (n | ) - a refusal to obey or defiance |
| contumely (n | ) - rude abrasive insult in speech or writing; |
| copoclephily (n | ) - collecting key rings containing advertising |
| coprolalia (n | ) - the use of words relating to dirt or excrement (B) |
| coprophemia (n | ) - obscene language (B) |
| coprophobia (n | ) - abnormal fear of feces |
| coryphaeus (n | ) - a leader of a school of thought |
| costermongering (n | ) - tampering with a composer's orchestral works |
| countercaster (n | ) - a contemptuous word for a bookkeeper or accountant; |
| covinous (adj | ) - deceitful conspiring (B) |
| crapulous (adj | ) - given to gross excess in drinking or eating |
| crassilingual (adj | ) - thick-tongued (B) |
| crepehangar (n | ) - a gloomy person; a pessimist (B) |
| cri de coeur | an ardent impassioned declaration |
| cri de guerre | war cry: |
| criticaster (n~) | an incompetent inferior critic (B |
| crurophilous (adj~) | liking legs (B) |
| crux criticorum | a riddle or puzzle for the critics (W) |
| cui bono | "who stands to gain from this") (W) |
| cumyxaphily (n~) | collecting match boxes |
| cunctative (adj~) | tardy dilatory (B) |
| curiosa felicitas | apt and elegant expressism; |
| curlicism (n~) | literary indecency (W) |
| currente calamo | with a running pen: fluidly or offhand (W) |
| cyprian (adj~) | lecherous licentious |
| cypripareunia (n~) | sexual intercourse with a prostitute (B) |
| dacrygelosis (n~) | condition of alternating laughing and crying (B) |
| daedal (adj~) | skillfully and artistically crafted (W) |
| dasypygal (adj~) | having hairy buttocks (B) |
| de profundis | agonized plaint or lament (W) |
| deblaterate (v~) | to babble (B) |
| decoct | extract the essence of flavor of as by boiling (G) |
| decollate (v~) | to behead (B) |
| decussate (v~) | to make an X; intersect (B) |
| defalcate (v~) | to embezzle (B) |
| defeneration (n~) | usury (B) |
| dehortatory (adj~) | dissuading (B) |
| deictic (adj~) | pointing to specifically eg pronouns 'that' and 'those' (W) |
| deipnophobia (n~) | fear of dining and dinner conversation |
| deipnosophist (n~) | a skillful dinner conversationalist (B) |
| deja lu | a sense of familiarity or recognition in something read (W) |
| dejecture (n~) | excrement (B) |
| delator (n~) | an informer or accuser (B) |
| delectus (n~) | a book of passages from Greek and Latin authors |
| deliquesce | melt away; gradually dissolve (G) |
| delirament (n~) | raving; a foolish story (B) |
| delitescent (adj~) | hidden; inactive (B) |
| deltiology (n~) | collecting picture postcards |
| demiurge (n~) | a secondary god who (a) created evil; |
| demophobe (n~) | a people |
| dentiloquist (n~) | one who speaks with clenched teeth (W) |
| deorsumversion (n~) | a turning downward (B) |
| deosculate (v~) | to kiss affectionately (B) |
| depeculation (n~) | an embezzling of public funds (B) |
| dephlogisticate (v~) | to make fireproof (B) |
| deracinate | extirpate; eradicate; abolish completely (G) |
| derism (n~) | an expression of scorn or contempt (W) |
| descant (n~) | a commenting or discussing at length |
| desiderata (n~) | list of books sought by a collector or library |
| desidious (adj~) | slothful (B) |
| desipient (adj~) | foolish silly (B) |
| despumate (v~) | to skim; to take the scum off (B) |
| desquamate (v~) | to peel off (B) |
| desuetude (n~) | disuse (B) |
| devenustate (v~) | to deprive of beauty (B) |
| devil's mass | indiscriminate cursing (W) |
| diacope (n~) | the separation of a word by the interpolation |
| diallage | concentration of several separate arguments |
| dialogue des sourds | dialogue of the deaf: |
| dialysis | rational disposing of reasons for or against something; |
| diaskeuasis (n~) | editorial revision (B) |
| diasyrm | arch disparagement as by mocking praise |
| diatyposis | vivid presentation by means of exciting language |
| dicacity (n~) | oral playfulness; talkativeness (B) |
| dichaeologia | a defense of failure or disgrace |
| dictum de dicto | a secondhand report hearsay (W) |
| didactic | overburdened with moral emphasis therefore dull |
| autodidact | is a self |
| diffugient (adj~) | scattering (B) |
| dilogical (adj~) | ambiguous; having a double meaning (B) |
| dilogy (n~) | equivocal expression |
| dimbox (n~) | an expert at getting others to make up (E) |
| dingbat (n~) | an ornamental piece of type used on a page |
| dioristically (adv~) | in a distinguishing manner (B) |
| diplasiasmus (n~) | the incorrect doubling of a singgle [sic] letter (B) |
| dippoldism (n~) | beating or whipping school children (B) |
| diremption (n~) | a violent or final separation (B) |
| discalced | without shoes; barefoot; unshod (G) |
| disceptation (n~) | controversy or argument |
| discommode | disturb; annoy; put to inconvenience (G) |
| disjecta membra | verbal bits and pieces (W) |
| disquisition | formal discussion discourse |
| dissemble | to pretend to feign |
| dissentaneous (adj~) | disagreeable; negative (B) |
| dithyrambic | any wild frenzied |
| divagate | to wonder or stray; or digress; deviate (G) |
| divarication (n~) | a difference of opinion |
| diversivolent (adj~) | looking for trouble or an argument (B) |
| dixit (n~) | an unconfirmed sometimes dogmatic statement (B) |
| docta ignorantia | learned ignornace (W) |
| dolorifuge (n~) | something that relieves sadness (B) |
| dolus bonus | good deceit: in Roman and civil law |
| diacope (n~) | the separation of a word by the interpolation |
| diallage | concentration of several separate arguments |
| dialogue des sourds | dialogue of the deaf: |
| dialysis | rational disposing of reasons for or against something; |
| diaskeuasis (n~) | editorial revision (B) |
| diasyrm | arch disparagement as by mocking praise |
| diatyposis | vivid presentation by means of exciting language |
| dicacity (n~) | oral playfulness; talkativeness (B) |
| dichaeologia | a defense of failure or disgrace |
| dictum de dicto | a secondhand report hearsay (W) |
| didactic | overburdened with moral emphasis therefore dull |
| autodidact | is a self |
| diffugient (adj~) | scattering (B) |
| dilogical (adj~) | ambiguous; having a double meaning (B) |
| dilogy (n~) | equivocal expression |
| dimbox (n~) | an expert at getting others to make up (E) |
| dingbat (n~) | an ornamental piece of type used on a page |
| dioristically (adv~) | in a distinguishing manner (B) |
| diplasiasmus (n~) | the incorrect doubling of a singgle [sic] letter (B) |
| dippoldism (n~) | beating or whipping school children (B) |
| diremption (n~) | a violent or final separation (B) |
| discalced | without shoes; barefoot; unshod (G) |
| disceptation (n~) | controversy or argument |
| discommode | disturb; annoy; put to inconvenience (G) |
| disjecta membra | verbal bits and pieces (W) |
| disquisition | formal discussion discourse |
| dissemble | to pretend to feign |
| dissentaneous (adj~) | disagreeable; negative (B) |
| dithyrambic | any wild frenzied |
| divagate | to wonder or stray; or digress; deviate (G) |
| divarication (n~) | a difference of opinion |
| diversivolent (adj~) | looking for trouble or an argument (B) |
| dixit (n~) | an unconfirmed sometimes dogmatic statement (B) |
| docta ignorantia | learned ignornace (W) |
| dolorifuge (n~) | something that relieves sadness (B) |
| dolus bonus | good deceit: in Roman and civil law |
| diacope (n~) | the separation of a word by the interpolation |
| diallage | concentration of several separate arguments |
| dialogue des sourds | dialogue of the deaf: |
| dialysis | rational disposing of reasons for or against something; |
| diaskeuasis (n~) | editorial revision (B) |
| diasyrm | arch disparagement as by mocking praise |
| diatyposis | vivid presentation by means of exciting language |
| dicacity (n~) | oral playfulness; talkativeness (B) |
| dichaeologia | a defense of failure or disgrace |
| dictum de dicto | a secondhand report hearsay (W) |
| didactic | overburdened with moral emphasis therefore dull |
| autodidact | is a self |
| diffugient (adj~) | scattering (B) |
| dilogical (adj~) | ambiguous; having a double meaning (B) |
| dilogy (n~) | equivocal expression |
| dimbox (n~) | an expert at getting others to make up (E) |
| dingbat (n~) | an ornamental piece of type used on a page |
| dioristically (adv~) | in a distinguishing manner (B) |
| diplasiasmus (n~) | the incorrect doubling of a singgle [sic] letter (B) |
| dippoldism (n~) | beating or whipping school children (B) |
| diremption (n~) | a violent or final separation (B) |
| discalced | without shoes; barefoot; unshod (G) |
| disceptation (n~) | controversy or argument |
| discommode | disturb; annoy; put to inconvenience (G) |
| disjecta membra | verbal bits and pieces (W) |
| disquisition | formal discussion discourse |
| dissemble | to pretend to feign |
| dissentaneous (adj~) | disagreeable; negative (B) |
| dithyrambic | any wild frenzied |
| divagate | to wonder or stray; or digress; deviate (G) |
| divarication (n~) | a difference of opinion |
| diversivolent (adj~) | looking for trouble or an argument (B) |
| dixit (n~) | an unconfirmed sometimes dogmatic statement (B) |
| docta ignorantia | learned ignornace (W) |
| dolorifuge (n~) | something that relieves sadness (B) |
| dolus bonus | good deceit: in Roman and civil law |
| dolus malus | evil deceit: in Roman and civil law |
| doppelganger | a person's ghostly counterpart and companion |
| dontopedalogy | the aptitude for putting one's foot in one's mouth |
| doxastic (adj~) | pertaining to opinion (B) |
| dryasdust (n~) | a dull pedantic speaker or writer |
| dvandva (n~) | a compound word as bitter |
| dysphemism (n~) | |
| epiphoric (adj~) | pertaining to a torrent of tears (B) |
| epiplexis | asking a question as a form of reproach |
| episcopicide (n~) | the killing of a bishop (B) |
| epistemophilia (n~) | abnormal preoccupation with knowledge (B) |
| epithymetic (adj~) | pertaining to appetite sexual and otherwise (B) |
| epitrope | conceding a point in such a qualified ironic way |
| epizeuxis (n~) | emphatic verbal repitition (B) |
| equivoque (n~) | an ambiguous statement or passage |
| eremitism (n~) | the state of being a hermit or an attitude |
| ereption (n~) | the act of snatching away (B) |
| erethism (n~) | excessive irritability or excitability (B) |
| ergoism (n~) | fussy adherence to logical protocols or forms (W) |
| ergotism (n~) | quibbling and wrangling; sophistical reasoning |
| erigible (adj~) | capable of being erected (B) |
| erinaceous (adj~) | pertaining to the hedgehog (B) |
| eristic (adj~) | provoking strife or controversy or discord; |
| erotographomania (n~) | mania for writing love letters (B) |
| erotology (n~) | the description of methods of lovemaking; |
| errabund (n~) | wandering; erratic (B) |
| errinophily (n~) | collecting of stamps other than postage stamps |
| erythromania (n~) | mania for blushing |
| eschrolalia (n~) | dirty (fecal) language (B) |
| esemplastic (adj~) | forming disparate parts into a whole; aesthetically unifying (W) |
| esprit de l'escalier | wishful thinking of a witty comment |
| estivate | to spend the summer (G) |
| estrapade (n~) | a horse's attempt to dump its rider (B) |
| esurient | hungry (E) greedy; avaricious; covetous (G) |
| etat present | an exhaustive summary of up |
| ethnophaulism (n~) | an ethnic slur (B W) |
| etiolation (n~) | paleness of color due to illness exclusion from light |
| eucharistia | profuse praise as an expression of gratitude and emotion |
| eudaemonia (n~) | true happiness (B) |
| euhemerism (n) | the theory that all myths are based on reality (B) |
| eumoirous (adj~) | someone who is lucky or happy as a result of being good |
| eumorphous (adj~) | well |
| earwig (v~) | attempt to influence or insinuate oneself through flattery (W) |
| ebberman (n~) | one who fishes below bridges (B) |
| ebriection (n~) | mental breakdown from too much boozing (B) |
| ebrious (adj~) | tending to overimbibe; slightly drunk (B) |
| ecclesiolatry (n~) | an all |
| ecdemic (adj~) | of foreign origin (B) |
| ecdemomania (n~) | compulsive wandering (B) |
| ecdysiast (n~) | a stripper (H |
| echolalia (n~) | pathological repitition of others' words or remarks (B W) |
| echopraxia (n~) | a habit of mimicking people (B) |
| echt (adj~) | genuine authentic |
| eclaircissement (n~) | clarification (B) |
| eclipsis (n~) | omission of a grammatical element necessary |
| ecmnesia (n~) | loss of recent memory w retention of earlier memories (B) |
| ecphonesis (n~) | exclamation (W) |
| edacious (adj~) | eats a lot; voracious (B) |
| edea (n~) | the external genitals (B) |
| edipol (n~) | a mild oath (B) |
| edulcorate (v~) | to sweeten or purify (B) |
| eesome (adj~) | pleasing to the eye (B) |
| effictio | as a head |
| efflation (n~) | an emanation; a puff (B) |
| effleurage (n~) | a gentle rubbing with the palm of the hand (B) |
| eidetic (adj~) | ability of visualizing something previously seen (B) |
| eisegesis (n~) | sneaking in one's own ideas as the author's (B) |
| eisteddfod (n~) | an annual assembly of Welsh poets and musicians (B) |
| eldritch (adj~) | weird eerie |
| eleemosynary (adj~) | pertaining to charity; living on charity (B) |
| elenchus (n~) | a refutation of an opponent's conclusion |
| eleutheromania (n~) | a mania for freedom (B) |
| elucubrate (v~) | to work studiously (B) |
| elumbated (adj~) | weak in the loins (B) |
| elutriation (n~) | the process of purification by washing andstraining |
| embolalia (n~) | the use of virtually meaningless filler words |
| embrocation (n~) | lubricating or rubbing the body |
| embulalia (n~) | inserting of nonsense into speech |
| embusque (n~) | a shirker a slacker (French = in ambush or hiding) (B) |
| emenctae naris | of matured judgment; of nice discernment (W |
| ) emmenology (n~) | the study of menstruation (B) |
| empleomania (n~) | a mania for holding public office (B) |
| empressement (n~) | extreme politeness (B) |
| enchiridion (n~) | a manual or handbook (B) |
| enchorial (adj~) | native endemic (B) |
| en clair | in plain uncoded language |
| endiablee (v~) | to put the devil into (B) |
| energumen (n~) | a person possessed by an spirit; a fanatic (B) |
| engastration (n~) | the stuffing of one bird inside another (B) |
| enissophobia (n~) | fear of being reproached (B) |
| enneatic (adj~) | occurring once every nine times days |
| enosiophobia (n~) | fear of having committed an unpardonablesin (B) |
| ensynopticity (n~) | the ability of taking a general view of something (B) |
| entheomania (n~) | an abnormal state in which one thinks one is inspired (B) |
| enthymeme (n~) | a premise is understood but not stated |
| entwicklungsroman (n~) | a novel dealing with the protagonist's development |
| eo ipso | by it itself: by that fact alone (W) |
| eonism (n~) | acting and dressing like a woman (B) |
| eosophobia (n~) | depression caused by fear of dawn (B) |
| eunym (n~) | a name that is suitable or appropriate (W) |
| euphelicia (n~) | healthiness having all one's wishes granted (B) |
| euphuistic (adj~) | displaying excessive elegance of language; |
| eusystolism (n~) | the use of initials instead of full words |
| euthymia (n~) | mental tranquility (B) |
| evagation (n~) | mental wandering; digression (B) |
| evancalous (adj~) | pleasant to embrace (Greek) (B) |
| eventerate (v~) | to rip open; to open by ripping the belly (B) |
| evulgate (v~) | to publish; divulge (B) |
| ex animo | from the soul: form the heart sincerely (W) |
| ex cathedra | pronounced from the seat of authority |
| ex concesso | reasoning on the basis of an opponent's premise |
| ex nihilo | out of nothing: out of nowhere (W) |
| ex parte | in part: view; partisan (W) |
| ex professo | expressly or avowedly (W) |
| ex silentio | basing an argument on the lack or absence of evidence |
| exaugurate (v~) | to secularize; to desecrate (B) |
| excerebrose (adj~) | having no brains (B) |
| excrescent (adj~) | constituting an excess; superfluous; supernumerary (G) |
| execration (n~) | contemptuous denunciation; express loathing; |
| exegesis (n~) | explanatory comment esp |
| exemplum (n~) | a brief tale or anecdote |
| exenterate (v~) | to literally or figuratively disembowel (B) |
| exergasia | repeating a point by using different figures of speech |
| exoculate (v~) | to put out the eye of (B) |
| exoptable (adj~) | extremely desirable (B) |
| exosculate (v~) | the kiss esp |
| expatiate (v~) | to discourse at length or in detail; hold forth (W) |
| expeditio | quickly rejecting or passing over minor points |
| expergefaction (n~) | an awakening (B) |
| expiscate (v~) | to examine or discover skillfully (B) |
| explaterate (v~) | to talk a lot (B) |
| expostulate (v~) | to reason earnestly in order to demur |
| exsibilate (v~) | to reject with a hissing sound (B) |
| extradictionary (adj~) | consisting not in words but in deeds (B) |
| eyeservice (n~) | work done only when the boss is watching (B) |
| facinorous (adj~) | extremely wicked; depraved; infamous (B G) |
| facon de parler | way of speaking: manner of expression (W) |
| facundity (n~) | eloquence (B) |
| fadaise (n~) | an obvious or silly remark (W) |
| faineant (adj~) | lazy indolent (B) |
| famicide (n~) | a slanderer; a destroyer of one's reputation (B) |
| famulus (n~) | the servant of a medieval scholar or magician (B) |
| fanfaronade (n~) | bravado; braggadocio (B W) |
| farctate (adj~) | full; crammed; plethoric (G) |
| farrago (n~) | a mixture of diverse objects hodgepodge |
| fastuous (adj~) | arrogant stuck |
| fatidic | foretelling the future; prophetic; divinatory (G) |
| fatiferous (adj~) | destructive; deadly (B) |
| faux naif | falsely simple or naive; feigning artlessness (W) |
| favonian (adj~) | like the west wind; mild (B) |
| feazings (n~) | an unraveled rope end (B) |
| februation (n~) | exorcism; religious purification (B) |
| fedifragous (adj~) | treacherous deceitful (B) |
| fefnicute (n~) | hypocrite; sneak (B) |
| felicific (adj~) | producing happiness (B) |
| fellness (n~) | destructive cruelty (B) |
| feneration (n~) | usury (B) |
| fenks (n~) | leftover whale blubber used as manure (B) |
| feracious | productive of good results; fruitful (G) |
| feriation (n | ) - taking a holiday; not working (B) |
| fescennine (adj | ) - obscene; lewd; licentious; scurrilous (B G) |
| festination (n | ) - walking faster and faster involuntarily (B) |
| feuilletonistic (adj | ) - or newspaper section devoted to literary trivia (B) |
| fewterer (n | ) - a dog-keeper (B) |
| fico (n | ) - giving the finger (B) |
| fideism (n | ) - depending on faith rather than reason (B) |
| fidimplicitary (adj | ) - fully trusting someone (B) |
| filiopietistic (adj | ) - pertaining to ancestor worship (B) |
| fimblefamble (n | ) - excuse particulary a phony one (B) |
| fimetarious (n | ) - growing or living in excrement (B) |
| finicalism (n | ) - an conscious affected undue concern with trifles |
| fissilingual (adj | ) - having a forked tongue (B) |
| flabellation (n | ) - fanning or otherwise cooling someone (B) |
| flagitate (v | ) - to plead (B) |
| flaneur (n | ) - an intellectual trifler (W) |
| flatulopetic (adj | ) - pretentious pompous |
| fleer (v | ) - to laugh lecherously or derisively (B) |
| flexanimous (adj | ) - mentally flexible (B) |
| floccify (v | ) - to consider worthless |
| floccilation (n | ) - searching for imaginary objects (G) |
| floccipaucinihilipilification (n | ) - the action of estimating as worthless trivia (B) |
| focillate (v | ) - to comfort (B) |
| footle (v | ) - to waste time talk nonsense (B) |
| forisfamiliate (v | ) - to disinherit; to shed parental authority (B) |
| formication (n | ) - the feeling that bugs are crawling on you (B) |
| ankylophobia (n | ) - abnormal fear of stiff or immobile joints |
| forslug (v | ) - to lose or destroy by sluggishness (B) |
| fossarian (n | ) - a clergyman moonlighting as a gravedigger (B) |
| foudroyant (adj | ) - striking as lightning; sudden |
| framis (n | ) - comic doubletalk blending actual words with made-up words (W) |
| frampold (adj | ) - peevish touchy |
| franion (n~) | the perennial hedonist reveler (B) |
| fremd (adj~) | alien strange |
| fremescent (adj~) | an incipient murmur; becoming noisy (B) |
| fribble (adj~) | of little value or importance; trifling; paltry (G) |
| fricatrice (n~) | a whore (B) |
| frotteur (n~) | kicks by rubbing against people in crowds (B) |
| froward (adj~) | perverse; willfully contrary; obstinately disobedient; |
| fructuous (adj~) | productive; fruitful; profitable (G) |
| frustraneous (adj~) | vain useless (B) |
| fubsy (adj~) | short and stout (B) |
| fucatory (adj~) | counterfeit; deceitful (B) |
| fugacious (adj~) | fleeting; ephemeral; transitory; evanescent (G) |
| fulgurant (adj~) | shining dazzling |
| fuliginous (adj~) | sooty (B) |
| fulsome (adj~) | excessive or overdone bad taste or even at times nauseating |
| fumacious (adj~) | fond of smoking (B G) |
| fumet (n~) | a flavoring agent for sauces; or deer shit (B) |
| funambulist (n~) | a tightrope walker (B) |
| funest (adj~) | harbinger of evil or death (B) |
| funkify (v~) | to retreat fearfully (B) |
| furacious (adj~) | thievish (B) |
| furibund (adj~) | furious enraged (B) |
| furor loquendi | a passion to speak (W) |
| furor scribendi | a passion to write (W) |
| fussock (n~) | a big fat woman (B) |
| fustian (n~) | pompousness pretentiousness |
| fustigate (v~) | to beat; to criticize severely (B) |
| fustilugs (n~) | a fat unwieldy person (B) |
| gaberlunzie (n~) | a wandering or licensed |
| galactophagist (n~) | a milk drinker (B) |
| deliquesce | melt away; gradually dissolve (G) |
| delirament (n~) | raving; a foolish story (B) |
| delitescent (adj~) | hidden; inactive (B) |
| deltiology (n~) | collecting picture postcards |
| demiurge (n~) | a secondary god who (a) created evil; |
| demophobe (n~) | a people |
| dentiloquist (n~) | one who speaks with clenched teeth (W) |
| deorsumversion (n~) | a turning downward (B) |
| deosculate (v~) | to kiss affectionately (B) |
| depeculation (n~) | an embezzling of public funds (B) |
| dephlogisticate (v~) | to make fireproof (B) |
| deracinate | extirpate; eradicate; abolish completely (G) |
| derism (n~) | an expression of scorn or contempt (W) |
| descant (n~) | a commenting or discussing at length |
| desiderata (n~) | list of books sought by a collector or library |
| desidious (adj~) | slothful (B) |
| desipient (adj~) | foolish silly (B) |
| despumate (v~) | to skim; to take the scum off (B) |
| desquamate (v~) | to peel off (B) |
| desuetude (n~) | disuse (B) |
| devenustate (v~) | to deprive of beauty (B) |
| devil's mass | indiscriminate cursing (W) |
| diacope (n~) | the separation of a word by the interpolation |
| diallage | concentration of several separate arguments |
| dialogue des sourds | dialogue of the deaf: |
| dialysis | rational disposing of reasons for or against something; |
| diaskeuasis (n~) | editorial revision (B) |
| diasyrm | arch disparagement as by mocking praise |
| diatyposis | vivid presentation by means of exciting language |
| dicacity (n~) | oral playfulness; talkativeness (B) |
| dichaeologia | a defense of failure or disgrace |
| dictum de dicto | a secondhand report hearsay (W) |
| didactic | overburdened with moral emphasis therefore dull |
| autodidact | is a self |
| diffugient (adj~) | scattering (B) |
| dilogical (adj~) | ambiguous; having a double meaning (B) |
| dilogy (n~) | equivocal expression |
| dimbox (n~) | an expert at getting others to make up (E) |
| dingbat (n~) | an ornamental piece of type used on a page |
| dioristically (adv~) | in a distinguishing manner (B) |
| diplasiasmus (n~) | the incorrect doubling of a singgle [sic] letter (B) |
| dippoldism (n~) | beating or whipping school children (B) |
| diremption (n~) | a violent or final separation (B) |
| discalced | without shoes; barefoot; unshod (G) |
| disceptation (n~) | controversy or argument |
| discommode | disturb; annoy; put to inconvenience (G) |
| disjecta membra | verbal bits and pieces (W) |
| disquisition | formal discussion discourse |
| dissemble | to pretend to feign |
| dissentaneous (adj~) | disagreeable; negative (B) |
| dithyrambic | any wild frenzied |
| divagate | to wonder or stray; or digress; deviate (G) |
| divarication (n~) | a difference of opinion |
| diversivolent (adj~) | looking for trouble or an argument (B) |
| dixit (n~) | an unconfirmed sometimes dogmatic statement (B) |
| docta ignorantia | learned ignornace (W) |
| dolorifuge (n~) | something that relieves sadness (B) |
| dolus bonus | good deceit: in Roman and civil law |
| diacope (n~) | the separation of a word by the interpolation |
| diallage | concentration of several separate arguments |
| dialogue des sourds | dialogue of the deaf: |
| dialysis | rational disposing of reasons for or against something; |
| diaskeuasis (n~) | editorial revision (B) |
| diasyrm | arch disparagement as by mocking praise |
| diatyposis | vivid presentation by means of exciting language |
| dicacity (n~) | oral playfulness; talkativeness (B) |
| dichaeologia | a defense of failure or disgrace |
| dictum de dicto | a secondhand report hearsay (W) |
| didactic | overburdened with moral emphasis therefore dull |
| autodidact | is a self |
| diffugient (adj~) | scattering (B) |
| dilogical (adj~) | ambiguous; having a double meaning (B) |
| dilogy (n~) | equivocal expression |
| dimbox (n~) | an expert at getting others to make up (E) |
| dingbat (n~) | an ornamental piece of type used on a page |
| dioristically (adv~) | in a distinguishing manner (B) |
| diplasiasmus (n~) | the incorrect doubling of a singgle [sic] letter (B) |
| dippoldism (n~) | beating or whipping school children (B) |
| diremption (n~) | a violent or final separation (B) |
| discalced | without shoes; barefoot; unshod (G) |
| disceptation (n~) | controversy or argument |
| discommode | disturb; annoy; put to inconvenience (G) |
| disjecta membra | verbal bits and pieces (W) |
| disquisition | formal discussion discourse |
| dissemble | to pretend to feign |
| dissentaneous (adj~) | disagreeable; negative (B) |
| dithyrambic | any wild frenzied |
| divagate | to wonder or stray; or digress; deviate (G) |
| divarication (n~) | a difference of opinion |
| diversivolent (adj~) | looking for trouble or an argument (B) |
| dixit (n~) | an unconfirmed sometimes dogmatic statement (B) |
| docta ignorantia | learned ignornace (W) |
| dolorifuge (n~) | something that relieves sadness (B) |
| dolus bonus | good deceit: in Roman and civil law |
| diacope (n~) | the separation of a word by the interpolation |
| diallage | concentration of several separate arguments |
| dialogue des sourds | dialogue of the deaf: |
| dialysis | rational disposing of reasons for or against something; |
| diaskeuasis (n~) | editorial revision (B) |
| diasyrm | arch disparagement as by mocking praise |
| diatyposis | vivid presentation by means of exciting language |
| dicacity (n~) | oral playfulness; talkativeness (B) |
| dichaeologia | a defense of failure or disgrace |
| dictum de dicto | a secondhand report hearsay (W) |
| didactic | overburdened with moral emphasis therefore dull |
| autodidact | is a self |
| diffugient (adj~) | scattering (B) |
| dilogical (adj~) | ambiguous; having a double meaning (B) |
| dilogy (n~) | equivocal expression |
| dimbox (n~) | an expert at getting others to make up (E) |
| dingbat (n~) | an ornamental piece of type used on a page |
| dioristically (adv~) | in a distinguishing manner (B) |
| diplasiasmus (n~) | the incorrect doubling of a singgle [sic] letter (B) |
| dippoldism (n~) | beating or whipping school children (B) |
| diremption (n~) | a violent or final separation (B) |
| discalced | without shoes; barefoot; unshod (G) |
| disceptation (n~) | controversy or argument |
| discommode | disturb; annoy; put to inconvenience (G) |
| disjecta membra | verbal bits and pieces (W) |
| disquisition | formal discussion discourse |
| dissemble | to pretend to feign |
| dissentaneous (adj~) | disagreeable; negative (B) |
| dithyrambic | any wild frenzied |
| divagate | to wonder or stray; or digress; deviate (G) |
| divarication (n~) | a difference of opinion |
| diversivolent (adj~) | looking for trouble or an argument (B) |
| dixit (n~) | an unconfirmed sometimes dogmatic statement (B) |
| docta ignorantia | learned ignornace (W) |
| dolorifuge (n~) | something that relieves sadness (B) |
| dolus bonus | good deceit: in Roman and civil law |
| dolus malus | evil deceit: in Roman and civil law |
| doppelganger | a person's ghostly counterpart and companion |
| dontopedalogy | the aptitude for putting one's foot in one's mouth |
| doxastic (adj~) | pertaining to opinion (B) |
| dryasdust (n~) | a dull pedantic speaker or writer |
| dvandva (n~) | a compound word as bitter |
| dysphemism (n~) | |
| epiphoric (adj~) | pertaining to a torrent of tears (B) |
| epiplexis | asking a question as a form of reproach |
| episcopicide (n~) | the killing of a bishop (B) |
| epistemophilia (n~) | abnormal preoccupation with knowledge (B) |
| epithymetic (adj~) | pertaining to appetite sexual and otherwise (B) |
| epitrope | conceding a point in such a qualified ironic way |
| epizeuxis (n~) | emphatic verbal repitition (B) |
| equivoque (n~) | an ambiguous statement or passage |
| eremitism (n~) | the state of being a hermit or an attitude |
| ereption (n~) | the act of snatching away (B) |
| erethism (n~) | excessive irritability or excitability (B) |
| ergoism (n~) | fussy adherence to logical protocols or forms (W) |
| ergotism (n~) | quibbling and wrangling; sophistical reasoning |
| erigible (adj~) | capable of being erected (B) |
| erinaceous (adj~) | pertaining to the hedgehog (B) |
| eristic (adj~) | provoking strife or controversy or discord; |
| erotographomania (n~) | mania for writing love letters (B) |
| erotology (n~) | the description of methods of lovemaking; |
| errabund (n~) | wandering; erratic (B) |
| errinophily (n~) | collecting of stamps other than postage stamps |
| erythromania (n~) | mania for blushing |
| eschrolalia (n~) | dirty (fecal) language (B) |
| esemplastic (adj~) | forming disparate parts into a whole; aesthetically unifying (W) |
| esprit de l'escalier | wishful thinking of a witty comment |
| estivate | to spend the summer (G) |
| estrapade (n~) | a horse's attempt to dump its rider (B) |
| esurient | hungry (E) greedy; avaricious; covetous (G) |
| etat present | an exhaustive summary of up |
| ethnophaulism (n~) | an ethnic slur (B W) |
| etiolation (n~) | paleness of color due to illness exclusion from light |
| eucharistia | profuse praise as an expression of gratitude and emotion |
| eudaemonia (n~) | true happiness (B) |
| euhemerism (n) | the theory that all myths are based on reality (B) |
| eumoirous (adj~) | someone who is lucky or happy as a result of being good |
| eumorphous (adj~) | well |
| earwig (v~) | attempt to influence or insinuate oneself through flattery (W) |
| ebberman (n~) | one who fishes below bridges (B) |
| ebriection (n~) | mental breakdown from too much boozing (B) |
| ebrious (adj~) | tending to overimbibe; slightly drunk (B) |
| ecclesiolatry (n~) | an all |
| ecdemic (adj~) | of foreign origin (B) |
| ecdemomania (n~) | compulsive wandering (B) |
| ecdysiast (n~) | a stripper (H |
| echolalia (n~) | pathological repitition of others' words or remarks (B W) |
| echopraxia (n~) | a habit of mimicking people (B) |
| echt (adj~) | genuine authentic |
| eclaircissement (n~) | clarification (B) |
| eclipsis (n~) | omission of a grammatical element necessary |
| ecmnesia (n~) | loss of recent memory w retention of earlier memories (B) |
| ecphonesis (n~) | exclamation (W) |
| edacious (adj~) | eats a lot; voracious (B) |
| edea (n~) | the external genitals (B) |
| edipol (n~) | a mild oath (B) |
| edulcorate (v~) | to sweeten or purify (B) |
| eesome (adj~) | pleasing to the eye (B) |
| effictio | as a head |
| efflation (n~) | an emanation; a puff (B) |
| effleurage (n~) | a gentle rubbing with the palm of the hand (B) |
| eidetic (adj~) | ability of visualizing something previously seen (B) |
| eisegesis (n~) | sneaking in one's own ideas as the author's (B) |
| eisteddfod (n~) | an annual assembly of Welsh poets and musicians (B) |
| eldritch (adj~) | weird eerie |
| eleemosynary (adj~) | pertaining to charity; living on charity (B) |
| elenchus (n~) | a refutation of an opponent's conclusion |
| eleutheromania (n~) | a mania for freedom (B) |
| elucubrate (v~) | to work studiously (B) |
| elumbated (adj~) | weak in the loins (B) |
| elutriation (n~) | the process of purification by washing andstraining |
| embolalia (n~) | the use of virtually meaningless filler words |
| embrocation (n~) | lubricating or rubbing the body |
| embulalia (n~) | inserting of nonsense into speech |
| embusque (n~) | a shirker a slacker (French = in ambush or hiding) (B) |
| emenctae naris | of matured judgment; of nice discernment (W |
| ) emmenology (n~) | the study of menstruation (B) |
| empleomania (n~) | a mania for holding public office (B) |
| empressement (n~) | extreme politeness (B) |
| enchiridion (n~) | a manual or handbook (B) |
| enchorial (adj~) | native endemic (B) |
| en clair | in plain uncoded language |
| endiablee (v~) | to put the devil into (B) |
| energumen (n~) | a person possessed by an spirit; a fanatic (B) |
| engastration (n~) | the stuffing of one bird inside another (B) |
| enissophobia (n~) | fear of being reproached (B) |
| enneatic (adj~) | occurring once every nine times days |
| enosiophobia (n~) | fear of having committed an unpardonablesin (B) |
| ensynopticity (n~) | the ability of taking a general view of something (B) |
| entheomania (n~) | an abnormal state in which one thinks one is inspired (B) |
| enthymeme (n~) | a premise is understood but not stated |
| entwicklungsroman (n~) | a novel dealing with the protagonist's development |
| eo ipso | by it itself: by that fact alone (W) |
| eonism (n~) | acting and dressing like a woman (B) |
| eosophobia (n~) | depression caused by fear of dawn (B) |
| eunym (n~) | a name that is suitable or appropriate (W) |
| euphelicia (n~) | healthiness having all one's wishes granted (B) |
| euphuistic (adj~) | displaying excessive elegance of language; |
| eusystolism (n~) | the use of initials instead of full words |
| euthymia (n~) | mental tranquility (B) |
| evagation (n~) | mental wandering; digression (B) |
| evancalous (adj~) | pleasant to embrace (Greek) (B) |
| eventerate (v~) | to rip open; to open by ripping the belly (B) |
| evulgate (v~) | to publish; divulge (B) |
| ex animo | from the soul: form the heart sincerely (W) |
| ex cathedra | pronounced from the seat of authority |
| ex concesso | reasoning on the basis of an opponent's premise |
| ex nihilo | out of nothing: out of nowhere (W) |
| ex parte | in part: view; partisan (W) |
| ex professo | expressly or avowedly (W) |
| ex silentio | basing an argument on the lack or absence of evidence |
| exaugurate (v~) | to secularize; to desecrate (B) |
| excerebrose (adj~) | having no brains (B) |
| excrescent (adj~) | constituting an excess; superfluous; supernumerary (G) |
| execration (n~) | contemptuous denunciation; express loathing; |
| exegesis (n~) | explanatory comment esp |
| exemplum (n~) | a brief tale or anecdote |
| exenterate (v~) | to literally or figuratively disembowel (B) |
| exergasia | repeating a point by using different figures of speech |
| exoculate (v~) | to put out the eye of (B) |
| exoptable (adj~) | extremely desirable (B) |
| exosculate (v~) | the kiss esp |
| expatiate (v~) | to discourse at length or in detail; hold forth (W) |
| expeditio | quickly rejecting or passing over minor points |
| expergefaction (n~) | an awakening (B) |
| expiscate (v~) | to examine or discover skillfully (B) |
| explaterate (v~) | to talk a lot (B) |
| expostulate (v~) | to reason earnestly in order to demur |
| exsibilate (v~) | to reject with a hissing sound (B) |
| extradictionary (adj~) | consisting not in words but in deeds (B) |
| eyeservice (n~) | work done only when the boss is watching (B) |
| facinorous (adj~) | extremely wicked; depraved; infamous (B G) |
| facon de parler | way of speaking: manner of expression (W) |
| facundity (n~) | eloquence (B) |
| fadaise (n~) | an obvious or silly remark (W) |
| faineant (adj~) | lazy indolent (B) |
| famicide (n~) | a slanderer; a destroyer of one's reputation (B) |
| famulus (n~) | the servant of a medieval scholar or magician (B) |
| fanfaronade (n~) | bravado; braggadocio (B W) |
| farctate (adj~) | full; crammed; plethoric (G) |
| farrago (n~) | a mixture of diverse objects hodgepodge |
| fastuous (adj~) | arrogant stuck |
| fatidic | foretelling the future; prophetic; divinatory (G) |
| fatiferous (adj~) | destructive; deadly (B) |
| faux naif | falsely simple or naive; feigning artlessness (W) |
| favonian (adj~) | like the west wind; mild (B) |
| feazings (n~) | an unraveled rope end (B) |
| februation (n~) | exorcism; religious purification (B) |
| fedifragous (adj~) | treacherous deceitful (B) |
| fefnicute (n~) | hypocrite; sneak (B) |
| felicific (adj~) | producing happiness (B) |
| fellness (n~) | destructive cruelty (B) |
| feneration (n~) | usury (B) |
| fenks (n~) | leftover whale blubber used as manure (B) |
| feracious | productive of good results; fruitful (G) |
| feriation (n | ) - taking a holiday; not working (B) |
| fescennine (adj | ) - obscene; lewd; licentious; scurrilous (B G) |
| festination (n | ) - walking faster and faster involuntarily (B) |
| feuilletonistic (adj | ) - or newspaper section devoted to literary trivia (B) |
| fewterer (n | ) - a dog-keeper (B) |
| fico (n | ) - giving the finger (B) |
| fideism (n | ) - depending on faith rather than reason (B) |
| fidimplicitary (adj | ) - fully trusting someone (B) |
| filiopietistic (adj | ) - pertaining to ancestor worship (B) |
| fimblefamble (n | ) - excuse particulary a phony one (B) |
| fimetarious (n | ) - growing or living in excrement (B) |
| finicalism (n | ) - an conscious affected undue concern with trifles |
| fissilingual (adj | ) - having a forked tongue (B) |
| flabellation (n | ) - fanning or otherwise cooling someone (B) |
| flagitate (v | ) - to plead (B) |
| flaneur (n | ) - an intellectual trifler (W) |
| flatulopetic (adj | ) - pretentious pompous |
| fleer (v | ) - to laugh lecherously or derisively (B) |
| flexanimous (adj | ) - mentally flexible (B) |
| floccify (v | ) - to consider worthless |
| floccilation (n | ) - searching for imaginary objects (G) |
| floccipaucinihilipilification (n | ) - the action of estimating as worthless trivia (B) |
| focillate (v | ) - to comfort (B) |
| footle (v | ) - to waste time talk nonsense (B) |
| forisfamiliate (v | ) - to disinherit; to shed parental authority (B) |
| formication (n | ) - the feeling that bugs are crawling on you (B) |
| ankylophobia (n | ) - abnormal fear of stiff or immobile joints |
| forslug (v | ) - to lose or destroy by sluggishness (B) |
| fossarian (n | ) - a clergyman moonlighting as a gravedigger (B) |
| foudroyant (adj | ) - striking as lightning; sudden |
| framis (n | ) - comic doubletalk blending actual words with made-up words (W) |
| frampold (adj | ) - peevish touchy |
| franion (n~) | the perennial hedonist reveler (B) |
| fremd (adj~) | alien strange |
| fremescent (adj~) | an incipient murmur; becoming noisy (B) |
| fribble (adj~) | of little value or importance; trifling; paltry (G) |
| fricatrice (n~) | a whore (B) |
| frotteur (n~) | kicks by rubbing against people in crowds (B) |
| froward (adj~) | perverse; willfully contrary; obstinately disobedient; |
| fructuous (adj~) | productive; fruitful; profitable (G) |
| frustraneous (adj~) | vain useless (B) |
| fubsy (adj~) | short and stout (B) |
| fucatory (adj~) | counterfeit; deceitful (B) |
| fugacious (adj~) | fleeting; ephemeral; transitory; evanescent (G) |
| fulgurant (adj~) | shining dazzling |
| fuliginous (adj~) | sooty (B) |
| fulsome (adj~) | excessive or overdone bad taste or even at times nauseating |
| fumacious (adj~) | fond of smoking (B G) |
| fumet (n~) | a flavoring agent for sauces; or deer shit (B) |
| funambulist (n~) | a tightrope walker (B) |
| funest (adj~) | harbinger of evil or death (B) |
| funkify (v~) | to retreat fearfully (B) |
| furacious (adj~) | thievish (B) |
| furibund (adj~) | furious enraged (B) |
| furor loquendi | a passion to speak (W) |
| furor scribendi | a passion to write (W) |
| fussock (n~) | a big fat woman (B) |
| fustian (n~) | pompousness pretentiousness |
| fustigate (v~) | to beat; to criticize severely (B) |
| fustilugs (n~) | a fat unwieldy person (B) |
| gaberlunzie (n~) | a wandering or licensed |
| galactophagist (n~) | a milk drinker (B) |
| galeanthropy (n~) | the delusion that one has become a cat (B) |
| galericulate (adj~) | covered with a hat (B) |
| galimatias (n~) | gibberish; confused meaningless jargon (B) |
| galliardise (n~) | great merriment (B) |
| gallinaceous (adj~) | like a chicken or pheasant (B) |
| gallionic (adj~) | indifferent; careless; irresponsible (B) |
| galumph (v~) | to move or march along heavily or clumsily |
| galumptious (adj~) | tiptop; first-rate; superlatively good (G) |
| gambrinous (adj~) | full of beer (B) |
| gamophobia (n~) | fear of marriage (B) |
| ganch (v~) | to execute by impaling on stakes or hooks (B) |
| gapeseed (n~) | anything that causes stares; or someone who sares (B) |
| garboil (n~) | confusion (B) |
| gardyloo (n~) | a warning cry given before tossing slopes |
| gasconade (n~) | boasting; bravado (B) |
| gawkocracy (n~) | persons who watch television (G) |
| gawsie (adj~) | large and jolly; lusty (B) |
| gazophylacium (n~) | a treasury (B) |
| geck (n~) | an object of scorn; a dupe (B) |
| geflugelte Worte | winged words: eloquent language; expressions |
| gelastic (adj~) | pertaining to or used in laughing (B) |
| gelogenic (adj~) | laughter-provoking (B) |
| geloscopy (n~) | determining someone's character or future by the way they laugh (B) |
| gemebund (adj~) | a constant moaning (B) |
| gemutlichkeit (n~) | agreeable agreeableness; congeniality |
| genethliacon (n~) | a birthday poem (B) |
| genicon (n~) | a sexual partner imagined |
| gephyrophobia (n~) | fear of crossing bridges (B) |
| gerascophobia (n~) | fear of growing old (B) |
| geromorphism (n~) | condition of appearing older than one is (B) |
| ghoom (v~) | to hunt in the dark (Anglo-Indian) (B) |
| giddhom (n~) | a frantic galloping movement made by cows |
| gigmanism (n~) | the habit of narrowmindedness or philistinism |
| gilravage (v~) | to celebrate noisily; to go on a rampage (B) |
| girning (v~) | act or process of contorting one's face; snarling (G) |
| girouettism (n~) | frequently altering one's opinions or principles |
| glabrous (adj~) | free from hair or down; hairless; bald (G) |
| glossolalia (n~) | nonsensical talk; gibberish (B) |
| gnathonic (adj~) | falsely flattering; fawning; sycophantic; parasitic (G) |
| gnomic (adj~) | full of aphorisms or maxims; or wise and pithy (G) |
| gobemouche (n~) | a gullible person (B) |
| godemiche (n~) | a dildo (B) |
| gongoozler (n~) | an inquisitive idler who stares and gawks |
| grammaticaster (n~) | a petty grammarian; |
| grammatolatry (n~) | worship of letters or words (B) |
| grandgousier (n~) | a glutton; someone with an enormous gullet |
| grandiloquence (n~) | lofty extravagantly styled language (B) |
| grandisonant (adj~) | stately sounding (B) |
| grangerism (n~) | augmenting the illustrative material in a book |
| grapholagnia (n~) | a more than passing interest in obscene pictures (B) |
| graphospasm (n~) | a writer's cramp (B) |
| grassation (n~) | act of attacking violently; a lying in wait to attack (B) |
| gratis dictum | an unsolicited or voluntary remark; mere assertion (B) |
| gratulant (adj~) | expressing joy or satisfaction; congratulatory (G) |
| graveolent (adj~) | having a rank smell; fetid; stinking (G) |
| gravific (adj~) | that which makes heavy or produces weight (G) |
| gregarian (adj~) | belonging to the herd or common sort (G) |
| grinagog (n~) | a perpetual grinner (B) |
| grivoiserie (n~) | lewd and lascivious behavior; a lewd act (B) |
| groak (v~) | to watch people silently while they're eating hoping to join |
| grobianism (n~) | rudeness; boorishness (B) |
| growtnoul (n~) | a blockhead (A) |
| grundyism (n~) | censorship of personal conduct based upon conventionalism |
| gugusse (n~) | a young effeminate man who trysts with priests (B) |
| gulosity (n~) | enormous appetite; greediness (B) |
| gyascutus (n~) | a huge imaginary |
| hesternopothia (n~) | a pathologic yearning for the good old days (B) |
| hesychastic (adj~) | soothing calming |
| hetaerism (n~) | extra |
| heterochthonous (adj~) | foreign (B) |
| heterophemy (n~) | Freudian slipsism (B) |
| heterotelic (adj~) | existing for an outside or extraneous purpose (B) |
| hierofastidia (n~) | dislike of holy things (B) |
| hieromachy (n~) | a fight between men or owmen of the cloth (B) |
| hindermate (n~) | a mate who is a hindrance (B) |
| hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian (adj~) | pertaining to a long word (B) |
| hircismus (n~) | stinky armpits (B) |
| hirsutorufous (adj~) | red |
| hobberdehoy (n~) | a youth entering manhood (B) |
| holmgang (n~) | a duel fought on an island (B) |
| holophrasis (n~) | a whole phrase or idea expressed in one word (B) |
| honorificabilitudinitatibus (n~) | with honorablenesses |
| horapthia (n~) | a neurotic preoccupation with one's youth (B) |
| horripilation (n~) | bristling of the hair on the skin; gooseflesh (G) |
| horrisonous (adj~) | sounding very bad; horribly discordant (G) |
| hotspur (n~) | a hotheaded impetuous man (B) |
| hoydenism (n~) | ill |
| hubristic (adj~) | insolent; contemptuous; wantonly arrogant (G) |
| humicubation (n~) | lying on the ground in penitence (B) |
| hunkerousness (n~) | opposition to progress; old |
| hygeioloatry (n~) | health fanaticism (B) |
| hypengyophobia (n~) | fear of responsibility (B) |
| hyperhedonia (n~) | abnormal pleasure from doing ho |
| hypnagogic | inducing sleep (G) |
| hypnopompic | dispelling sleep; waking (G) |
| hypobulia (n~) | difficulty in making decisions (B) |
| hypophobia (n~) | lack of fear (B) |
| iatromisia (n~) | dislike of doctors (B) |
| ichnogram (n~) | a footprint (B) |
| ichthyomancy (n~) | fortunetelling with fish offal |
| iconolagny (n~) | sexual stimulation from pictures or statues (B) |
| idee fixe | a fixed |
| hesternopothia (n~) | a pathologic yearning for the good old days (B) |
| hesychastic (adj~) | soothing calming |
| hetaerism (n~) | extra |
| heterochthonous (adj~) | foreign (B) |
| heterophemy (n~) | Freudian slipsism (B) |
| heterotelic (adj~) | existing for an outside or extraneous purpose (B) |
| hierofastidia (n~) | dislike of holy things (B) |
| hieromachy (n~) | a fight between men or owmen of the cloth (B) |
| hindermate (n~) | a mate who is a hindrance (B) |
| hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian (adj~) | pertaining to a long word (B) |
| hircismus (n~) | stinky armpits (B) |
| hirsutorufous (adj~) | red |
| hobberdehoy (n~) | a youth entering manhood (B) |
| holmgang (n~) | a duel fought on an island (B) |
| holophrasis (n~) | a whole phrase or idea expressed in one word (B) |
| honorificabilitudinitatibus (n~) | with honorablenesses |
| horapthia (n~) | a neurotic preoccupation with one's youth (B) |
| horripilation (n~) | bristling of the hair on the skin; gooseflesh (G) |
| horrisonous (adj~) | sounding very bad; horribly discordant (G) |
| hotspur (n~) | a hotheaded impetuous man (B) |
| hoydenism (n~) | ill |
| hubristic (adj~) | insolent; contemptuous; wantonly arrogant (G) |
| humicubation (n~) | lying on the ground in penitence (B) |
| hunkerousness (n~) | opposition to progress; old |
| hygeioloatry (n~) | health fanaticism (B) |
| hypengyophobia (n~) | fear of responsibility (B) |
| hyperhedonia (n~) | abnormal pleasure from doing ho |
| hypnagogic | inducing sleep (G) |
| hypnopompic | dispelling sleep; waking (G) |
| hypobulia (n~) | difficulty in making decisions (B) |
| hypophobia (n~) | lack of fear (B) |
| iatromisia (n~) | dislike of doctors (B) |
| ichnogram (n~) | a footprint (B) |
| ichthyomancy (n~) | fortunetelling with fish offal |
| iconolagny (n~) | sexual stimulation from pictures or statues (B) |
| idee fixe | a fixed |
| illaqueate (v | ) - to catch or trap (B) |
| illeism (n | ) - affected or excessive use of the third-person pronoun |
| illicitator (n | ) - an auctioneer's shill (B) |
| illocutionary (adj | ) - such as a question implying dissatisfaction (W) |
| illutation (n | ) - a mud bath (B) |
| imbonity (n | ) - lack of good qualities (B) |
| immarcescible (adj | ) - indestructible (B) |
| immerd (v | ) - to cover with excrement (B) |
| immorigerous (adj | ) - rude boorish (B) |
| immund (adj | ) - unclean; foul; filthy (G) |
| impanation (n | ) - cannibalistic doctrine of baking christ |
| idiolalia (n | ) - mental state characterized by use of invented language (B) |
| ideopraxist (n | ) - one who puts ideas into practice (B) |
| idioticon (n | ) - a dialect dictionary (B) |
| idoneous (adj | ) - apt; suitable (B) |
| ignavia (n | ) - idleness; laziness (B) |
| ignoscency (n | ) - forgiveness; a forgiving nature (B) |
| illachrymable (adj | ) - unable to cry ( |
| illaqueate (v | ) - to catch or trap (B) |
| illeism (n | ) - affected or excessive use of the third-person pronoun |
| illicitator (n | ) - an auctioneer's shill (B) |
| illocutionary (adj | ) - such as a question implying dissatisfaction (W) |
| illutation (n | ) - a mud bath (B) |
| imbonity (n | ) - lack of good qualities (B) |
| immarcescible (adj | ) - indestructible (B) |
| immerd (v | ) - to cover with excrement (B) |
| immorigerous (adj | ) - rude boorish (B) |
| immund (adj | ) - unclean; foul; filthy (G) |
| impanation (n | ) - cannibalistic doctrine of baking christ |
| idiolalia (n | ) - mental state characterized by use of invented language (B) |
| ideopraxist (n | ) - one who puts ideas into practice (B) |
| idioticon (n | ) - a dialect dictionary (B) |
| idoneous (adj | ) - apt; suitable (B) |
| ignavia (n | ) - idleness; laziness (B) |
| ignoscency (n | ) - forgiveness; a forgiving nature (B) |
| illachrymable (adj | ) - unable to cry ( |
| impavid (adj~) | not afraid; fearless; undaunted (G) |
| impeccant (adj~) | sinless (B) |
| imperdible (adj~) | incapable of being lost (B) |
| imperscriptible (adj~) | not supported or backed by written authority (British) (W) |
| impinguate (v~) | to fatten (B) |
| improcreant (adj~) | impotent (B) |
| improlificate (v~) | to impregnate (B) |
| impudicity (n~) | lack of shame or modesty |
| in extenso | at full length (W) |
| in invidiam | in ill |
| in malam partem | in bad part: in a bad sense (W) |
| in media res | in the middle of the thing |
| inaniloquent (adj~) | loquacious windy |
| inconcinnity (n~) | unsuitableness; ineptitude (B) |
| incondite (adj~) | crude unfinished (B) |
| incrassate (v~) | to make or become thick or thicker; to thicken; inspissate (G) |
| increpation (n~) | criticism censure (B) |
| incruental (adj~) | bloodless (B) |
| inculpate (v~) | to blame accuse |
| incunabula (n~) | extant books printed before 1500 A |
| indictum sit | let it be unsaid (W) |
| indurated (adj~) | obstinate hardened |
| ineffable (adj~) | unable to be spoken |
| ineluctable (adj~) | inevitable; irresistable (B) |
| inenerrable (adj~) | indescribable (B) |
| inexpugnable (adj~) | that cannot be taken by assault or storm; |
| inexsuperable (adj~) | insurmountable impassable (B) |
| infandous (adj~) | too horrible to mention unspeakably awful (B) |
| infibulation (n~) | sewing up the vulva |
| inficete (adj~) | dull unfunny |
| infracaninophile (n~) | champion of the underdog (B) |
| infralapsarianism (n~) | the doctrine that God foresaw and |
| infucation (n~) | putting on make |
| ingannation (n~) | deception; fraud (B) |
| ingeminate (v~) | repeat; reiterate; to emphasize by repetition (G) |
| ingluvious (adj~) | gluttonous (B) |
| ingravidate (v~) | to impregnate (B) |
| ingustable (adj~) | tasteless (B) |
| innascible (adj~) | without a beginning (B) |
| inquinate (v~) | to corrupt (B) |
| insalubrious (adj~) | unhealthy deleterious (B) |
| insapory (adj~) | tasteless (B) |
| inspissated (adj~) | thickened heavy |
| insuetude (n~) | state of disuse (B) |
| insulse (adj~) | tasteless flat |
| insusurration (n~) | whispering in the ear; insinuation (B) |
| intempestive (adj~) | |
| inter alia | among other things (W) |
| intercalation (n~) | an insertion or interposing |
| interdigitate (v~) | to interlace the fingers (B) |
| intergern (v~) | to snarl back (B) |
| internecion (n~) | mutual destruction (B) |
| interpellation (n~) | a formal questioning or challenging |
| intersilient (adj~) | suddenly emerging in the midst of something (B) |
| intussusception (n~) | a taking within (B) |
| inusitate (adj~) | obsolete (B) |
| invidious (adj~) | likely to cause ill will envy |
| invita Minerva | without any natural talent or inspiration (W) |
| invultuation (n~) | wishing death or injury on by melting a wax image |
| ipse dixit | an unsupported assertion or a presumption bearing no evidence |
| ipsedixitism (n~) | dogmatism (B) |
| ipsism (n~) | masturbation (B) |
| ipsissima verba | the very words (W) |
| iracund (adj~) | easily provoked quick |
| irrefragable (adj~) | undeniable; indisputable; that cannot be refuted (G) |
| irrefrangible (adj~) | that cannot or should not be broken; inviolable (G) |
| irreptitious (adj~) | creeping stealthily (B) |
| irrumation (n~) | fellatio (B) |
| isagogic (adj~) | introductory (G) |
| jacquerie (n~) | a revolt of peasants against the social classes |
| jactancy (n~) | boasting bragging (B) |
| jactitation (n~) | loud or public bragging; or excessive twitching |
| jaculative (adj~) | darting sporadic (B) |
| janissaries (n~) | any loyal submissive follower or supporter |
| jape (v~) | to jest; jibe; play tricks (G) |
| jejunator (n~) | one who fasts (B) |
| jentacular (adj~) | pertaining to breakfast (B) |
| jiggery | pokert (n |
| jobation (n~) | tedious criticism (B) |
| jobbernowl (n~) | a blockhead (B) |
| jocoserious (adj~) | a combination of funny and serious (B) |
| jugulate (v~) | to check or suppress by extreme measures; |
| jumentous (adj~) | having a strong animal smell (B) |
| junkettaceous (adj~) | frivolous worthless (B) |
| jus et norma loquendi | the law and rule of speaking: common usage (W) |
| kakistocracy (n~) | government by the worst citizens (B) |
| kakorrhaphiophobia (n~) | fear of failure (B) |
| kalokagathia (n~) | a combination of the good and the beautiful in a person (B) |
| kalon (n~) | the kind of beauty that is more than skin deep (B) |
| kalopsia (n~) | condition where things appear more beautiful than they really are (B) |
| kaput (adj~) | broken wrecked |
| karimption (n~) | a crowd; a mass (B) |
| kashruth (n~) | the state of being kosher (B) |
| katabasis (n~) | a going down; descent; or a retreat especially a military retreat (G) |
| kathenotheism (n~) | polytheism with a head god (B) |
| katowse (n~) | a ruckus tumult |
| kauderwelsch (n~) | jargon; gibberish (German) (W) |
| kedogenous (adj~) | produced by worry (B) |
| kef (n~) | drug |
| kenophobia (n~) | fear of empty or open spaces (B) |
| keraunophobia (n~) | fear of thunder and lightning (B) |
| keraunoscopia (n~) | fortunetelling by thunder (B) |
| kerdomeletia (n~) | excessive attention to material wealth (B) |
| kerlerap (v~) | to cavort; to play (B) |
| kerygma (n~) | Christian preaching (B) |
| kippage (n~) | commotion confusion |
| kitthoge (adj~ & n~) | left |
| kneippism (n~) | treatment of disease by walking barefoot on wet grass |
| knipperdolling (n~) | fanatic and polygamist; or any fanatic (B) |
| knissomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by incense |
| kombinationsfahigkeit (n~) | the way a medium picks up clues: |
| kompology (n~) | braggadocio (B) |
| kopophobia (n~) | fear of physical or mental exhaustion (B) |
| kosmokrator (n~) | the ruler of the world (B) |
| kreatophagia (n~) | the eating of raw meat (B) |
| kwistgoed (n~) | a spendthrift (B) |
| kymatology (n~) | the science of waves (B) |
| labefy (v~) | to weaken (B) |
| labeorphily (n~) | collecting beer bottle labels |
| labile (adj~) | prone to change; unstable (G) |
| laciniate (adj~) | fringed (B) |
| laclabphily (n~) | the collecting of cheese labels |
| lactivorous (adj~) | living on milk (B) |
| lagnosis (n~) | satyriasis (B) |
| lagotic (adj~) | having rabbitlike ears (B) |
| lallation (n~) | pronunciation of "R" so that it sound like "L"; or baby talk or infantile utterance) |
| lallophobia (n~) | fear of speaking (B) |
| lalochezia (n~) | filthy talk to relieve tension (W) |
| lampadomancy (n~) | fortunetelling with the flame of a torch (B) |
| lamprophony (n~) | shining ringing oratory (W) |
| languescent (adj~) | becoming tired (B) |
| laodiceanism (n~) | being indifferent in politics or religion |
| lapsus calami | a slip of the pen; lapsus pennae (W) |
| lapsus comicus | term for an amusingly truistic or tautological statement |
| lapsus linguae | a slip of the tongue; lapsus loquendi (W) |
| larrikinism (n~) | state of being noisy rowdy or disorderly |
| lassipedes (n~) | tired feet (B) |
| lasslorn (adj~) | stood up by one's lady (B) |
| latitidinarian (n~) | characterized by liberality in opinion or in action; tolerant in one's views (G) |
| latrant (adj~) | snarling complaining (B) |
| lecanomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by looking at water in a basin (B) |
| lecheur (n~) | a devotee of oral intercourse; a licker (B) |
| leggiadrous (adj~) | graceful (B) |
| leitmotif (n~) | a specific recurring theme or expression in a literaryor musical work |
| lenity (n~) | being gentle or merciful |
| lenocinant (adj~) | lewd (B) |
| lentiginous (adj~) | full of freckles (G) |
| leodicean (adj~) | lacking religious fervor; or lacking strong feelings generally; indifferent (G) |
| leptologia (n~) | subtle speech or quibbling (W) |
| leptodactylous (adj~) | having slender toes (G) |
| lethiforous (adj~) | deadly; destructive (B) |
| lethologica (n~) | inability to remember the right word (W) |
| lethonomia (n~) | a propensity for forgetting names (W) |
| levisomnous (adj~) | watchful (B) |
| limophoitos (n~) | insanity due to lack of food (B) |
| limosis (n~) | a mania for eating chalk (B) |
| lipsanography (n~) | the research and composition of treatises about relics |
| litotes (n~) | understatement irony or innuendo |
| lobcock (n~) | a dull sluggish lout; or a large |
| locus classicus | a place of the highest class: |
| locus communis | a public place: cliche expression (W) |
| loganamnosis (n~) | a mania to recall forgotten words (W) |
| logicaster (n~) | a person whose logic is less valid than he thinks |
| logodaedaly (n~) | verbal legerdemain |
| logolept (n~) | a word maniac (B) |
| logomachy (n~) | a dispute over words; dual wit opprobrious words (W) |
| logomisia (n~) | disgust for particular words (W) |
| logorrhea (n~) | protracted or uncontrollable talk; compulsive garrulousness (W) |
| logrolling (n~) | the exchanging of favors repiprocally flattering reviews |
| longanimity (n~) | silent suffering while planning revenge (B) |
| longinquity (n~) | remoteness (B) |
| longueur (n~) | a long and tedious section of a book play |
| loquaciousness (n~) | extreme talkativenss; garrulousness (W) |
| lovertine (adj~) | addicted to love |
| loxotic (adj~) | slanting distorted (B) |
| lubricity (n~) | the condition of being uncertain or unstable or the capacity for reducing friction |
| luciferous (adj~) | illuminating literally and figuratively (B) |
| lucriferous (adj~) | profitable lucrative (B) |
| lucripetous (adj~) | money hungry (B) |
| luctation (n~) | a struggle for success (B) |
| luctiferous (adj~) | sad and sorry (B) |
| lucubration (n~) | to burn the midnight oil; suggesting pretentious laborious study |
| luculent (adj~) | readily understood; clear; lucid (G) |
| lucus a non lucendo | an absurd word derivation; illogical explanation or non sequitur (W) |
| ludibrious (adj~) | ludicrous; making fun of (B) |
| ludibundness (n~) | playfulness (B) |
| ludicropathetic (adj~) | ludicrous and pathetic (B) |
| ludification (n~) | deriding (B) |
| luftmensch (n~) | someone with his head in the clouds |
| lupanariam (n~) | lubricious lascivious |
| lurgulary (n~) | the act of poisoning water (B) |
| lutarious (adj~) | pertaining to living in |
| lycanthropy (n~) | insanity in which the patient thinks he's a wolf (B) |
| lygophilia (n~) | love of darkness (B) |
| lymacatexis (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with dirt (B) |
| lypophrenia (n~) | a vague feeling of sadness seemingly without cause (B) |
| lyssophobia (n~) | fear of becoming mad (B) |
| macarize (v~) | to make happy; to praise (B) |
| macerate (v~) | to oppress; torment (B) |
| macilent (adj~) | lean; thin (B) |
| macrobian (adj~) | long |
| macrology (n~) | excessive or repititious words or phrases (W) |
| macromastic (adj~) | pertaining to large breasts (B) |
| macrophobia (n~) | fear of long waits (B) |
| macrosmatic (adj~) | having a supersensitive nose (B) |
| macrosomatous (adj~) | having an abnormally large body (B) |
| macrotous (adj~) | having large ears (G) |
| mactation (n~) | sacrificial murder (B) |
| maculate (adj~) | defiled; impure (G) |
| madefy (v~) | to wet (B) |
| magniloquence (n~) | grandly high |
| maieusiophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of childbirth |
| maieutic (adj~) | of the Socratic method of bringing into full consciousness latent ideas |
| macarize (v~) | to make happy; to praise (B) |
| macerate (v~) | to oppress; torment (B) |
| macilent (adj~) | lean; thin (B) |
| macrobian (adj~) | long |
| macrology (n~) | excessive or repititious words or phrases (W) |
| macromastic (adj~) | pertaining to large breasts (B) |
| macrophobia (n~) | fear of long waits (B) |
| macrosmatic (adj~) | having a supersensitive nose (B) |
| macrosomatous (adj~) | having an abnormally large body (B) |
| macrotous (adj~) | having large ears (G) |
| mactation (n~) | sacrificial murder (B) |
| maculate (adj~) | defiled; impure (G) |
| madefy (v~) | to wet (B) |
| magniloquence (n~) | grandly high |
| maieusiophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of childbirth |
| maieutic (adj~) | of the Socratic method of bringing into full consciousness latent ideas |
| mala fide | in bad faith: falsely deceitfully |
| malacissation (n~) | the process of making something soft and pliable (B) |
| malacodermous (adj~) | soft |
| malapert (n~) | impudent outspoken |
| maliferous (adj~) | producing evil; unhealthy as a climate (B) |
| malism (n~) | the theory that the world is mostly bad (B) |
| malneirophrenia (n~) | depress following a nightmare (B) |
| malnoia (n~) | a vague feeling of mental discomfort (B) |
| mammothrept (n~) | a spoiled child (B) |
| mancinism (n~) | left |
| mangonize (v~) | to traffic in slaves (B) |
| mania | a |
| maniaphobia (n~) | fear of insanity (B) |
| manipulandum (n~) | something that is to be manipulated (B) |
| mansuetude (n~) | tameness gentleness |
| mantology (n~) | fortunetelling; a fortuneteller (B) |
| manubiary (ad~) | relating to the spoils of war (B) |
| manumission (n~) | formal liberation of a slave (B) |
| manustupration (n~) | masturbation (B) |
| maquillage (n~) | make |
| marasmic (adj~) | of the gradual loss of flesh and strength; of a wasting of the body (G) |
| marcescent (adj~) | withered decayed |
| margaritaceous (adj~) | pearly (B) |
| maritodespotism (n~) | ruthless domination by a husband (B) |
| marlish (adj~) | easygoing (B) |
| marlock (v~) | to cavort frolic (B) |
| maschalephidrosis (n~) | massive sweating of the armpits (B) |
| mastigophobia (n~) | fear of punishment (B) |
| mastigophoric (adj~) | whip |
| mataeology (n~) | useless of pointless discourse; worthless conversation (W) |
| mataeotechny (n~) | an unprofitable science or art (B) |
| matripotestal (adj~) | pertaining to maternal control (B) |
| mattoid (n~) | a congenitally insane person (B) |
| matutolagnia (n~) | antemerdian sexual desire (B) |
| matutolypea (n~) | getting up on the wrong side of the bed (B) |
| maumetry (n~) | idolatry (B) |
| mauvaise plaisanterie | an inappropriate or badly timed joke (W) |
| mawkish (adj~) | characterized by sickly weak sentimentality (G) |
| mazomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by a nursing baby (B) |
| mazophilous (adj~) | pertaining to mammary mania (B) |
| meable (adj~) | capable of being easily penetrated (B) |
| meacock (n~) | an effeminate or cowardly man (B) |
| meadophily (n~) | study of beer bottle labels |
| mechanomorphism (n~) | the doctrine that the universe is fully explicable in mechanistic terms |
| meconology (n~) | the study of opium and its effects (B) |
| meconophagism (n~) | opium addiction (B) |
| medicaster (n~) | a medical quack (B) |
| megacephalous (adj~) | having a large head (B) |
| megalonisus (n~) | a tendency to exaggerate (B) |
| megalophobia (n~) | fear of large things (B) |
| megalopsychy (n~) | generosity of spirit or magnanamity |
| meiosis (n~) | rhetorical understatement |
| melioration (n~) | an elevation or bettering |
| melliloquence (n~) | euphonious speech; sweet talk (W) |
| melissophobia (n~) | fear of bees (B) |
| melomaniac (n~) | a music lover (B) |
| mempsis | an impassioned but somewhat caustic supplication |
| menacme (n~) | the menstruating part of a woman's life (B) |
| mendaciloquence (n~) | lying as a fine art; adroit prevarication (W) |
| menticide (n~) | brainwashing (B) |
| mentimutation (n~) | change of mind (B) |
| mentulate (adj~) | well hung (B) |
| mephitic | bad |
| meracious (adj~) | unadulterated full |
| meraculous (adj~) | demi |
| merdivorous (adj~) | eating dung (B) |
| merism (n~) | a pairing of contrasted terms to express a totality synecdoche |
| merkin (n~) | female genitalia; or false pubic hair (B) |
| merulator (n~) | a wine |
| metagnostic (adj~) | unknowable (B) |
| metagrobolize (v~) | the mystify (B) |
| metallege (n~) | spoonerism (B) |
| metempsychosis (n~) | alleged transmigration of souls (B) |
| metheglin (n~) | mead (B) |
| metonymy (n~) | the figurative or symbolic use of the name of one thing for that of another |
| metoposcopy (n~) | judging character by studying the face (B) |
| metromania (n~) | a mania for writing verse (B) |
| miasmatic (adj~) | noxious contagious |
| microcephalous (adj~) | small |
| microlipet (n~) | someone bothered by trifles (B) |
| micrology (n~) | excessive attention to or discussion of details or minor differences; nitpicking |
| micturition (n~) | need for frequent urination (B) |
| midden (n~) | a dunghill (B) |
| migniard (adj~) | dainty delicate; mincing (B) |
| militaster (n~) | an insignificant military man (B) |
| minatory (adj~) | portending punishment; threatening; menacing (G) |
| minauderie (n~) | coquetry (B) |
| minimifidianism (n~) | having almost no faith or belief (B) |
| minimus (n~) | a tiny creature (B) |
| mirabile dictu | wonderful to relate (W) |
| misandry (n~) | dislike of men (B) |
| misanthropy (n~) | hatred of mankind |
| misapodysis (n~) | hatred of undressing in front of someone (B) |
| misarchist (n~) | a person who hates authority (B) |
| miserabile dictu | miserable to relate (W) |
| miserotia (n~) | aversion to sex (B) |
| misocainia (n~) | hatred of anything new or strange such as new ideas (B) |
| misocanpnist (n~) | a hater of tobacco smoke (B) |
| misodoctakleidist (n~) | one who hates to practice the piano (B) |
| misology (n~) | hatred of logical discussion or reason (W) |
| misoneism (n~) | hatred of new things (B) |
| misopedia (n~) | hatred of children esp |
| misopolemiac (n~) | a war |
| misoscopist (n~) | a hater of beauty; a recluse (B) |
| misosophy (n~) | hatred of wisdom (B) |
| misotramontanism (n~) | a hatred of the unknown (B) |
| misoxeny (n~) | hatred of strangers (B) |
| mithridatism (n~) | immunity to poison achieved by takinggradually increased doses (B) |
| moanworthy (adj~) | lamentable pitiful (B) |
| mogigraphia (n~) | writers' cramp (B) |
| moliminous (adj~) | massive; momentous (B) |
| moloch (n~) | a system or method that requires frightful sacrifice (G) |
| molysmophobia (n~) | fear of dirt or contamination (B) |
| mome (n~) | a crashing bore; a buffoon (B) |
| monorchid (adj~) | having one testicle (B) |
| mordacious (adj~) | biting acrid |
| mordant (adj~) | biting; caustic; cutting; sarcastic (G) |
| morigerous (adj~) | obedient; obsequious (B) |
| morology (n~) | deliberate nonsense of foolishness for effect (W) |
| mot juste | the perfect fitting word or phrase; precisely apt expression (W) |
| mot propre | the correct or necessary word (W) |
| motatorious (adj~) | constantly active (B) |
| motitation (n~) | a quivering moment (B) |
| mulct (v~) | to punish by means of a fine (G) |
| mulierose (adj~) | extremely fond of women (B) |
| multum in parvo | much in little: holophrastic (W) |
| mumpsimus (n~) | an erroneous word or spelling that |
| mundivagant (n~) | wandering over the world (B) |
| musard (n~) | an absentminded dreamer or fool (B) |
| mutatis mutandis | the relevant differences having been considered (W) |
| mycterism (n~) | derision or sarcasm that is somewhat veiled; subtle or partly concealed gibe |
| myrmidon (n~) | a blindly loyal though unscrupulous |
| mythomania (n~) | compulsively telling lies and believing them (B) |
| nanism (n~) | dwarfishness (B) |
| naology (n~) | the study of holy buildings (B) |
| naprapathy (n~) | the manipulation of strained ligaments i the belief that they cause disease (B) |
| nates (n~) | the buttocks (B) |
| nattering (adj~) | grumbling fault |
| naufragous (adj~) | causing shipwrecks (B) |
| neanilagnia (n~) | a yen for nymphets (B) |
| neanimorphism (n~) | looking younger than one's years (B) |
| nebulaphobia (n~) | fear of fog (B) |
| nebulochaotic (adj~) | chaotic confused (B) |
| necromimesis (n~) | feigning death; the delusion of being dead (B) |
| necyomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by summoning lucifer (B) |
| nefandous (adj~) | unmentionable unspeakable (B) |
| nefast (adj~) | wicked (B) |
| nelipot (n~) | someone going barefoot (B) |
| nemophilous (adj~) | loving the forest (B) |
| neocracy (n~) | government by tyros (B) |
| neologism (n~) | a newly coined word or phrase or a novel expression |
| neomnesia (n~) | good memory for recent events (B) |
| nephalism (n~) | teetotalism (B) |
| nepheligenous (adj~) | producing clouds of tobacco smoke (B) |
| neoteny (n~) | retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult |
| nepotation (n~) | riotous living (B) |
| nervus probandi | the strong point of the proving: crux of the argument (W) |
| nescient (adj~) | uneducated unaware |
| nettling (v~) | to irritate; vex; annoy (G) |
| nictitate (v~) | to wink (G) |
| nidorous (adj~) | smelling like burning or decaying animal matter (B) |
| nihil ad rem | nothing to the matter: irrelevant (W) |
| nihil obstat | nothing stands in the way: |
| nikhedonia (n~) | pleasure derived from anticipating success (B) |
| nimgimmer (n~) | a doctor who cures the clap (British slang) (B) |
| nimiety (n~) | excess redundancy |
| nimious (adj~) | extravagant (B) |
| nimptopsical (adj~) | drunk (B) |
| nimshy (n~) | a silly ass (B) |
| nipperkin (n~) | amount of liquor roughly equivalent to a half pint (B) |
| nippitatum (n~) | exceptionally good and strong ale (B) |
| noctivagation (n~) | wandering around at night (B) |
| non est disputandum | it is not to be disputed (W) |
| non possumus | a statement of inability to do something (W) |
| nosism (n~) | use of 'we' in speaking of oneself; conceit or self |
| nostrificate (v~) | to accept as one's own (B) |
| nothosonomia (n~) | calling someone a bastard (W) |
| noumenon (n~) | an object implied by intuition rather than evidence opposite of phenomenon |
| nubilate (v~) | to obscure (B) |
| nuchal (adj~) | of the nape of the neck (G) |
| nudis verbis | in naked words (W) |
| nudiustertian (adj~) | pertaining to the day before yesterday (B) |
| nugatory (adj~) | worthless trifling |
| nullifidian (adj~) | skeptical (B) |
| nulliparous (adj~) | pertaining to a woman who has never foaled (B) |
| numbles (n~) | edible deer innards (B) |
| nummamorous (adj~) | money |
| nanism (n~) | dwarfishness (B) |
| naology (n~) | the study of holy buildings (B) |
| naprapathy (n~) | the manipulation of strained ligaments i the belief that they cause disease (B) |
| nates (n~) | the buttocks (B) |
| nattering (adj~) | grumbling fault |
| naufragous (adj~) | causing shipwrecks (B) |
| neanilagnia (n~) | a yen for nymphets (B) |
| neanimorphism (n~) | looking younger than one's years (B) |
| nebulaphobia (n~) | fear of fog (B) |
| nebulochaotic (adj~) | chaotic confused (B) |
| necromimesis (n~) | feigning death; the delusion of being dead (B) |
| necyomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by summoning lucifer (B) |
| nefandous (adj~) | unmentionable unspeakable (B) |
| nefast (adj~) | wicked (B) |
| nelipot (n~) | someone going barefoot (B) |
| nemophilous (adj~) | loving the forest (B) |
| neocracy (n~) | government by tyros (B) |
| neologism (n~) | a newly coined word or phrase or a novel expression |
| neomnesia (n~) | good memory for recent events (B) |
| nephalism (n~) | teetotalism (B) |
| nepheligenous (adj~) | producing clouds of tobacco smoke (B) |
| neoteny (n~) | retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult |
| nepotation (n~) | riotous living (B) |
| nervus probandi | the strong point of the proving: crux of the argument (W) |
| nescient (adj~) | uneducated unaware |
| nettling (v~) | to irritate; vex; annoy (G) |
| nictitate (v~) | to wink (G) |
| nidorous (adj~) | smelling like burning or decaying animal matter (B) |
| nihil ad rem | nothing to the matter: irrelevant (W) |
| nihil obstat | nothing stands in the way: |
| nikhedonia (n~) | pleasure derived from anticipating success (B) |
| nimgimmer (n~) | a doctor who cures the clap (British slang) (B) |
| nimiety (n~) | excess redundancy |
| nimious (adj~) | extravagant (B) |
| nimptopsical (adj~) | drunk (B) |
| nimshy (n~) | a silly ass (B) |
| nipperkin (n~) | amount of liquor roughly equivalent to a half pint (B) |
| nippitatum (n~) | exceptionally good and strong ale (B) |
| noctivagation (n~) | wandering around at night (B) |
| non est disputandum | it is not to be disputed (W) |
| non possumus | a statement of inability to do something (W) |
| nosism (n~) | use of 'we' in speaking of oneself; conceit or self |
| nostrificate (v~) | to accept as one's own (B) |
| nothosonomia (n~) | calling someone a bastard (W) |
| noumenon (n~) | an object implied by intuition rather than evidence opposite of phenomenon |
| nubilate (v~) | to obscure (B) |
| nuchal (adj~) | of the nape of the neck (G) |
| nudis verbis | in naked words (W) |
| nudiustertian (adj~) | pertaining to the day before yesterday (B) |
| nugatory (adj~) | worthless trifling |
| nullifidian (adj~) | skeptical (B) |
| nulliparous (adj~) | pertaining to a woman who has never foaled (B) |
| numbles (n~) | edible deer innards (B) |
| nummamorous (adj~) | money |
| nanism (n~) | dwarfishness (B) |
| naology (n~) | the study of holy buildings (B) |
| naprapathy (n~) | the manipulation of strained ligaments i the belief that they cause disease (B) |
| nates (n~) | the buttocks (B) |
| nattering (adj~) | grumbling fault |
| naufragous (adj~) | causing shipwrecks (B) |
| neanilagnia (n~) | a yen for nymphets (B) |
| neanimorphism (n~) | looking younger than one's years (B) |
| nebulaphobia (n~) | fear of fog (B) |
| nebulochaotic (adj~) | chaotic confused (B) |
| necromimesis (n~) | feigning death; the delusion of being dead (B) |
| necyomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by summoning lucifer (B) |
| nefandous (adj~) | unmentionable unspeakable (B) |
| nefast (adj~) | wicked (B) |
| nelipot (n~) | someone going barefoot (B) |
| nemophilous (adj~) | loving the forest (B) |
| neocracy (n~) | government by tyros (B) |
| neologism (n~) | a newly coined word or phrase or a novel expression |
| neomnesia (n~) | good memory for recent events (B) |
| nephalism (n~) | teetotalism (B) |
| nepheligenous (adj~) | producing clouds of tobacco smoke (B) |
| neoteny (n~) | retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult |
| nepotation (n~) | riotous living (B) |
| nervus probandi | the strong point of the proving: crux of the argument (W) |
| nescient (adj~) | uneducated unaware |
| nettling (v~) | to irritate; vex; annoy (G) |
| nictitate (v~) | to wink (G) |
| nidorous (adj~) | smelling like burning or decaying animal matter (B) |
| nihil ad rem | nothing to the matter: irrelevant (W) |
| nihil obstat | nothing stands in the way: |
| nikhedonia (n~) | pleasure derived from anticipating success (B) |
| nimgimmer (n~) | a doctor who cures the clap (British slang) (B) |
| nimiety (n~) | excess redundancy |
| nimious (adj~) | extravagant (B) |
| nimptopsical (adj~) | drunk (B) |
| nimshy (n~) | a silly ass (B) |
| nipperkin (n~) | amount of liquor roughly equivalent to a half pint (B) |
| nippitatum (n~) | exceptionally good and strong ale (B) |
| noctivagation (n~) | wandering around at night (B) |
| non est disputandum | it is not to be disputed (W) |
| non possumus | a statement of inability to do something (W) |
| nosism (n~) | use of 'we' in speaking of oneself; conceit or self |
| nostrificate (v~) | to accept as one's own (B) |
| nothosonomia (n~) | calling someone a bastard (W) |
| noumenon (n~) | an object implied by intuition rather than evidence opposite of phenomenon |
| nubilate (v~) | to obscure (B) |
| nuchal (adj~) | of the nape of the neck (G) |
| nudis verbis | in naked words (W) |
| nudiustertian (adj~) | pertaining to the day before yesterday (B) |
| nugatory (adj~) | worthless trifling |
| nullifidian (adj~) | skeptical (B) |
| nulliparous (adj~) | pertaining to a woman who has never foaled (B) |
| numbles (n~) | edible deer innards (B) |
| nummamorous (adj~) | money |
| nuncupate (v~) | to declare orally (B) |
| nychthemeron (n~) | a twenty |
| nympholepsy (n~) | trance incurred by erotic daydreams (B) |
| obumbration (n~) | the act or process of darkening or obscuring |
| obambulate (v~) | to walk about wander (B) |
| obdormition (n~) | numbness caused by pressure on a nerve (B) |
| obduracy (n~) | being obstinate or hardhearted |
| obganiate (v~) | to irritate with reiteration (B) |
| objurgation (n~) | an earnest denunciation rebuke |
| oblatrate (n~) | to snarl at inveigh against (B) |
| oblectation (n~) | delight pleasure (B) |
| oblocution | interruption (A) |
| obloquy (n~) | the state of bad repute borne by one being harshly criticized; |
| obnubilation (n~) | beclouding or obscuring; obfuscation (W) |
| obreption (n~) | creeping up on (B) |
| obsecrations (n~) | entreaties (A) |
| obscurum per obscurius | explaining the obscure by means of the more obscure (W) |
| obsolagnium (n~) | waning sexual desire due to age (B) |
| obstrobogulous (adj~) | a vehement oath of expansive meaning (G) |
| obtund (adj~) | serving to blunt dull or deaden (G) |
| ochlocracy (n~) | mob rule (B) |
| odium aestheticum | the bitterness of aesthetical controversy (W) |
| odium scholasticum | acrimony between scholars or pedants; academic quibbling (W) |
| odium theologicum | bitter hatred between rival theologians (W) |
| oeillade (n~) | an ogle a flirtatious glance (B) |
| oikofugic (n~) | obsessive wandering (B) |
| oikonisus (n~) | urge to start a family (B) |
| olamic (adj~) | infinite eternal (B) |
| olet lucernam | itdescribing something written that is belabored or overwrought (W) |
| oligophrenia (n~) | feeble |
| olisbos (n~) | a dildo (B) |
| omadhaun (n~) | an idiot fool (B) |
| ombibulous (adj~) | drinking everything (B) |
| omnilegent (adj~) | having encyclopedia curiosity and knowledge (W) |
| omphalomancy (n~) | predicting the number of children a mother will |
| omphalopsychites (n~) | term for literary Anglophiles who wish |
| omphaloskepsis (n~) | contemplation of the navel for the purpose of obtaining philosophic calm |
| oneirataxia (n~) | inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality (B) |
| oneiric (adj~) | having to do with dreams (E G) |
| oniochalasia (n~) | buying as a means of mental relaxation (B) |
| onolatry (n~) | ass |
| onomastic (adj~) | pertaining to a proper name or names (W) |
| onomatomania (n~) | preoccupation with words and names (B) |
| onomatophobia (n~) | fear of hearing a certain word (B) |
| onomatopoeia (n~) | the forming of or use of a word that imitates in sound what it denotes onus probandi |
| operose (adj~) | involving much labor; laborious (G) |
| ophelimity (n~) | the ability to please sexually (B) |
| oppugnant (adj~) | opposing; antagonistic; contrary (G) |
| ophthalmophobia (n~) | fear of being stared at (B) |
| opiparous (adj~) | sumptuous (B) |
| oppilations (n~) | obstructions (A) |
| opsablepsia (n~) | not looking into another's eyes (B) |
| opuscule (n~) | a minor composition or work (W) |
| oratio obliqua | indirect speech: reported speech or relating by another that is modified |
| oratio recta | straight speech: actual or direct speech (W) |
| orchidectomy (n~) | castration (B) |
| ore rotundo | with a round mouth: eloquently with considered emphasis (W) |
| orgulous (adj~) | proud and haughty; swelling (G) |
| orismology (n~) | the science of defining or explaining technical terms (W) |
| otiose | futile functionless |
| oubliette (n~) | a secret place of imprisonment |
| outrecuidance (n~) | egomania; gross conceit (B) |
| overweening | excessively proud; arrogant; conceited; or exaggerated; excessive (G) |
| oxythymous (adj~) | quick |
| pachycephalic (adj~) | thick |
| pageism (n~) | masochism fantasy of a man imagining himself as |
| pagophagia (n~) | eating a tray of ice daily for two months tohelp offset iron deficiency (B) |
| paideutics (n~) | pedagogy (B) |
| paizogony (n~) | love play (B) |
| paleomnesia (n~) | good memory for events of the far past (B) |
| palimpsest (n~) | a piece of parchment or vellum from whichearlier writing has been removed to allow for reuse |
| palinode (n~) | a song or poem retracting statements in previoussongs or poems; or retraction or recanting in general (B) |
| palinoia (n~) | compulsive repitition of an act until it's perfect (B) |
| palladian (adj~) | pertaining to learning and wisdom (B) |
| palliards (n~) | professional beggars whose parents were also |
| palpebrate (v~) to wink (B) | |
| paltripolitan (n~) | an insular city dweller (B) |
| pandiculation (n~) | stretching and yawning (B) |
| panjandrum | a self magnate (G |
| pannychous (adj~) | lasting all night (B) |
| pantagruelian (adj~) | satirical though ribald (B) |
| pantaraxia (n~) | actions aimed aat keeping people on their toes |
| pantophobia (n~) | a fear of everything (B) |
| paphian | pertaining to love especially its sexual andillicit manifestations; erotic (G) |
| paracoita (n~) | a female sexual partner (B) |
| paracoitus (n~) | a male sexual partner (B) |
| paradiastole (n~) | a euphemistic half |
| paraenetic | advisory; hortatory (G) |
| paralepsis (n~) | mentioning something by saying you won't mention it (B) |
| paralipomena (n~) | deleted passages from a book or a |
| paralipophobia (n~) | fear of responsibility (B) |
| paralogism (n~) | reasoning method that contradicts logical |
| parerethesis (n~) | abnormal excitement (B) |
| pareunia (n~) | sexual intercourse (B) |
| parisology (n~) | deliberate ambiguity in use of words (B) |
| parnel (n~) | a priest's mistress; a loose woman (B) |
| paronomasia (n~) | punning; a pun (B) |
| parorexia (n~) | perverted appetite; demanding strange foods (B) |
| parrhesia (n~) | freedom of speech (rhetoric term) (B) |
| partheniad (n~) | a poem in honor of a virgin (B) |
| parthenolatry (n~) | virgin worship (B) |
| parvanimity (n~) | pettiness; meannes; or a mean or petty person (B) |
| parvenu (n~) | a pretentious snob of the nouveau riche (B) |
| parviscient (adj~) | uninformed (B) |
| pasilaly (n~) | a universal language (B) |
| pasquinade | a lampoon or satire posted in a public place (G) |
| passalorynchite (n~) | a member of an early Christian sect who |
| passepartout (n~) | a master key; a safeconduct or passport (B) |
| patavinity (n~) | the use of local words or expressions (B) |
| patharmosis (n~) | mental adjustment to one's disease (B) |
| pathic (n~) | a catamite; or a passive participator (B) |
| pathocryptia (n~) | unwillingness to believe in or talk about |
| pathodixia (n~) | talking to excess about one's illness and |
| pathognomy (n~) | the study of emotions by their outward |
| pathomimesis (n~) | malingering (B) |
| patzer (n~) | a weak chess player (B) |
| pauciloquent (adj~) | speaking briefly (B) |
| pavid | quaking with fear; afraid; frightened (G) |
| peccable (adj~) | liable to sin (B) |
| peccatophobia (n~) | fear of sinning or of having committed an |
| peckerwood (n~) | a poor southern Anglo |
| pecksniffian (adj~) | hypocritical insincere and gutless (B) |
| pecos (v~) | to shoot a man and roll his body in the river (B) |
| peculation (n~) | embezzlement (B) |
| pedetentous (adj~) | proceedilng gradually or cautiously (B) |
| peirastic (adj~) | experimental; ready to be tried (B) |
| peladophobia (n~) | fear of baldness |
| pelology (n~) | study of mud and its therapeutic applications (B) |
| penelopize (v~) | to undo and redo to gain time (B) |
| penisterophily (n~) | raising and training pigeons |
| penotherapy (n~) | regulating prostitutes to control venereal |
| pentapopemptic (n~) | divorced five times (B) |
| pentheraphobia (n~) | fear or dislike of one's mother |
| peotomy (n~) | the surgical amputation of the penis (B) |
| perduellion (n~) | treason (B) |
| perendinate (n~) | to postpone until the next day; to postpone |
| perfectibilism (n~) | belief that anything short of perfect is |
| perfrication (n~) | thorough rubbing (B) |
| perhiemate (v~) | to spend the winter (B) |
| perichareia (n~) | excessive and violent rejoicing (B) |
| periclitate | to expose to peril; endanger; risk (G) |
| periphrastic | using many words when few would do; verbose; |
| perissotomist (n~) | a knife |
| peristrephic (adj~) | turning around rotatory (B) |
| perlustrate (v~) | to review thoroughly; survey (B) |
| pervicacious (adj~) | extremely obstinate; willful (B) |
| pervulgate (v~) | to publish (B) |
| petalism (n~) | banishing a citizen for five years if judged |
| pettifoggery | quibbling over petty details |
| petulcous (adj~) | butting like a ram; offensively aggressive (B) |
| phagomania (n~) | insanely hungry (B) |
| phalacrespia (n~) | aversion for baldness or for bald men (B) |
| phalacrosis (n~) | baldness |
| phallation (n~) | movement of the penis in sexual intercourse (B) |
| phaneromania (n~) | a compulsion to pick at a skin growth or |
| pharisaical | of persons of rigid adherence to outward forms and |
| phatic | establishing an atmosphere of sociability rather than |
| philalethe (n~) | one who loves to forget (B) |
| philauty (n~) | self |
| philematology (n~) | the study of kissing (B) |
| philematophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes kissing (B) |
| philobiblist (n~) | a lover of books |
| philocalist (n~) | a lover of beauty (B) |
| philodox (n~) | one who loves one's own opinions (B) |
| philogastric (adj~) | greedy (B) |
| philophobia (n~) | fear of falling in love or of being loved (B) |
| philopolemic (adj~) | pertaining to love of argument or |
| philopornist (n~) | a lover of prostitutes (B) |
| philosophastering (adj~) | pseudo |
| philotheoparoptesism | the process of slowly cooking those who |
| philoxenist (n~) | one who is happiest while entertaining |
| phrontifugic (adj~) | relieving anxiety (B) |
| physagogue (n~) | carminative or medicine to induce farting (B) |
| piacular | serving to atone or make amends for; expiatory; or |
| pickthank (n~) | a flatterer or sycophant (B) |
| piliferous | having hair (G) |
| piloerection (n~) | hair standing on end (B) |
| pilpulist (n~) | one who uses Talmudic dialectic or via |
| pinchbeck | sham or spurious; false (G) |
| pinguescent | becoming fat (G) |
| pithiatism (n~) | a forceful suggestion (B) |
| pizzle (n~) | a whip made from an animal's penis (B) |
| planistethic (adj~) | flat |
| planomania (n~) | urge to live a bohemian life (B) |
| platitudinarian (n~) | full of platitudes (B) |
| platypod | one afflicted with fallen arches (G) |
| plebicolist (n~) | someone who woos the common folk (B) |
| pleionosis (n~) | exaggeration of one's own importance (B) |
| pleniloquence (n~) | excessive talking (B) |
| pleonastic | use of words superfluously; redundant (G) |
| pleonexia (n~) | covetousness avarice; mania for acquiring |
| plerophory (n~) | state of full confidence or absolute certainty |
| pococurante (adj~) | nonchalant indifferent (B) |
| poculation (n~) | wine |
| podobromhidrosis (n~) | smelly feet (B) |
| poecilonymy (n~) | the use of several names for one thing (B) |
| pogonology (n~) | treatise on beards |
| pogonophobia (n~) | abnormal fear or dislike of beards |
| poiesis (n~) | creation; creative power or ability (B) |
| poikilothymia (n~) | extreme changes of mood (B) |
| polychrestic | serving and adapted for several different uses (G) |
| polyhistor (n~) | a universal scholar (B) |
| polylogy (n~) | wordiness (B) |
| polydipsia (n~) | extreme thirst or an abnormal and continuous |
| popination (n~) | bar |
| popliteal | pertaining to or connected with the hollow area back |
| pornerastic (adj~) | licentious lascivious |
| pornolagnia (n~) | desire for prostitutes (B) |
| potvaliant | valiant and courageous as a result of being drunk |
| preantepenultimate (n~ & adj~) | fourth from last (B) |
| preterist (n~) | someone whose main pleasure in in reliving the |
| priapean (adj~) | phallic (B) |
| priapism (n~) | persistent and painful erection (B) |
| procrustean | aiming or tending to produce uniformity by violent |
| proctalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B) |
| proditorious (adj~) | traitorous; prone to give away secrets (B) |
| prolepsis (n~) | anticipating an argument and answering it before |
| prolix | verbose repititious |
| long | winded |
| pronovalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse in a prone |
| propaedeutic | of or pertaining to preliminary instruction; |
| prosonomasia (n~) | use of a humorous modification of a person's |
| prosophobia (n~) | fear of or adversion to progress (B) |
| prosopolepsy (n~) | judging people favorably from their looks (B) |
| prosopopy (n~) | the personification of inanimate objects (B) |
| protervity (n~) | petulance; peevishness (B) |
| psaphonic (adj~) | planning one's rise to fame (B) |
| pseudandry (n~) | female use of a male pseudonym (B) |
| pseudautochiria (n~) | murder disguised as a suicide (B) |
| pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism (n~) | phony opposition to |
| pseudogyny (n~) | male use of a female pseudonym (B) |
| pseudologist (n~) | liar (B) |
| pseudomnesia (n~) | memory for things that never happened (B) |
| pseudophonia (n~) | suicide disguised as murder (B) |
| psilology (n~) | empty talk (B) |
| psilosopher (n~) | a superficial philosopher (B) |
| psittacistic | speaking in a mechanical repetitive way (G) |
| psychasthenia (n~) | neurotic lassitude indecision |
| pteronophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of feathers |
| pudency (n~) | modesty or shyness; embarassment |
| puerile | childish immature |
| pullulate | teem swarm |
| purulent | of containing |
| pygophilous (adj~) | buttock |
| pyrolagnia (n~) | sexual stimulation from watching fires (B) |
| quaintise (n~) | ingenuity cunning; a trick or stratagem (B) |
| quakebuttock (n~) | a coward (B) |
| qued (adj~) | evil bad (B) |
| querimony (n~) | a complaint (B) |
| quidam (n~) | an unknown person (B) |
| quiddity (n~) | the essence or nature of a thing (B) |
| quidnunc (n~) | one who is curious to know everything that |
| quisquillian (adj~) | trashy (B) |
| quisguous (adj~) | perplexing (B) |
| quodlibet (n~) | a nice or fine point in an argument; a subtlety |
| quodlibetarian (n~) | one who discusses or uses quodlibets |
| rabiator (n~) | a violent man (B) |
| rabulism (n~) | tendency for railing and quibbling |
| rackrent (n~) | exorbitant rent (B) |
| rakehelly (adj~) | dissolute debauched (B) |
| ramfeezled (adj~) | worn out exhausted (B) |
| rammish (adj~) | lustful and horny (B) |
| ranarium (n~) | frog farm (B) |
| randle (n~) | a nonsensical poem recited by Irish schoolboys as |
| rantallion (n~) | one whose scrotum is longer than his penis (B) |
| rantipole (n~) | a wild rambunctious young man (B) |
| realpolitik | practical politics; euphemism for power politics |
| rebarbative (adj~) | grim unattractive |
| reboantic (adj~) | reverberating (B) |
| recension (n~) | scholarly editorial revision (B) |
| receptary (adj~) | accepted as fact but unproved (B) |
| rectalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B) |
| rectopathic (adj~) | easily hurt emotionally (B) |
| rectrix (n~) | a female ruler (B) |
| recubation (n~) | lying down (B) |
| recumbentibus (n~) | a knockdown blow (B) |
| recusant (adj~) | dissenting; disestablishmentarian (B) |
| redargution (n~) | refutation or disproving (B) |
| redhibition (n~) | the return of defective merchandise (B) |
| redivivus (adj~) | living again; revived (B) |
| refocillate (v~) | to warm into life again; revive (G) |
| refragable (adj~) | capable of being refuted (B) |
| refrangible (adj~) | capable of being refracted (B) |
| refulgent (adj~) | radiant brilliant |
| reify | literally "to make a thing"; given definite concrete |
| remontado (n~) | someone who has fled to the mountains; a person |
| remplissage (n~) | filling or padding used in music and |
| remugient (adj~) | rebellowing; roaring or shouting anew (B) |
| renable (adj~) | fluent eloquent (B) |
| renard (n~) | a fox; a sly or cunning person (B) |
| renascible (adj~) | capable of being reborn (B) |
| renifleur (n~) | one who gets sexual pleasure from body smells (B) |
| renitent | resisting or opposing stubbornly; recalcitrant (G) |
| repristinate (v~) | to revive; to restore (B) |
| resipiscent (adj~) | restored to sanity; learned from |
| resupination (n~) | turning to an upside |
| retrocopulation (n~) | woof (B) |
| retromancy (n~) | fortunetelling by things seen over one's |
| retromingent (adj~) | urinating backward (B) |
| retunded | to weaken or diminish the strength of effect of (G) |
| rhabdophobia (n~) | fear of being punished or severely criticized (B) |
| rhadamanthine | strictly and inflexibly honest and just (G) |
| rhigosis (n~) | sensation of cold (B) |
| rhonchisonant (adj~) | snorting; snoring (B) |
| rhopalism (n~) | a sentence or poem i which each word is one syllable |
| rhyparography | the printing or painting of sordid and filty |
| rhytiscopia (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with facial wrinkles (B) |
| ribroasting (n~) | a sound beating; a thrashing (B) |
| rictus (n~) | a very wide mouth; a gaping mouth as in terror (B) |
| risorial (adj~) | pertaining to causing |
| rixation (n~) | quarreling (B) |
| rodomontade ~ | arrogant boasting; pretentious blustering ranting |
| roil~ | vex; disturb; irritate; rile (G) |
| roinous (adj~) | mean nasty and contemptible (B) |
| roitelet (n~) | a petty king (B) |
| roman a clef (n~) | a novel whose characters are actual people |
| rubricism (n~) | tenacious adherence to rules of behavior or |
| ructation (n~) | belching (B) |
| rudesby (n~) | a loud |
| rugose | having wrinkles (G) |
| rumgumption (n~) | shrewdness (B) |
| runcible (adj~) | sensuous (B) |
| sacerdotophrenia (n~) | clerical stagefright (B) |
| saltimbanco (n~) | a mountebank a quack (B) |
| sanguisugent | bloodsucking; bloodthirsty (G) |
| sapidity (n~) | flavorful; tastiness (B) |
| saponaceous (adj~) | soapy slippery; or evasively ingratiating (B) |
| saprostomous (adj~) | having bad breath (B) |
| sardanapalian | luxuriously effeminate (G) |
| sardoodledum (n~) | stereotyped or unrealistic characterization |
| sarmassation (n~) | love play (B) |
| sarmassophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play (B) |
| sarmassophobitch (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play with me (B) |
| satisdiction (n~) | enough said (B) |
| satispassion (n~) | satisfactory suffering according to |
| saturnalia | period of unrestrained license and orgiastic |
| scacchic | pertaining to or like chess (G) |
| scaldabanco (n~) | a hotheaded debator; a fiery preacher (B) |
| scaphism (n~) | an old Persian method of executing criminals by |
| scaramouch (n~) | a cowardly buffoon (B) |
| scaturient (adj~) | gushing forth; effusive (B) |
| schadenfreude | a feeling of enjoyment derived from the misfortunes |
| schesis (n~) | mocking another's accent or manner (B) |
| schizothemia (n~) | digression by a long reminescence (B) |
| schmaltz | something stickily sentimental banal |
| schoenabatist (n~) | a tightrope walker (B) |
| sciamachy (n~) | fighting with a shadow or with an imaginary |
| sciapodous (adj~) | having very large feet (B) |
| scibile (n~) | something knowable (B) |
| sciolist | one who pretends to scholarship or knowledge |
| sciotheism (n~) | the belief that disembodied spirits |
| scissile (adj~) | capable of being cut smoothly or split |
| scofflaw (n~) | one who scoffs at hence |
| scolecophagous (adj~) | eating worms (B) |
| scolion (n~) | an impromptu party song begun by one and |
| scollardical (n~) | a derogatory term for a scholar (B) |
| scopolagnia (n~) | the pleasure gained from voyeurism (B) |
| scortation (n~) | fornication (B) |
| scout | reject or dismiss scornfully; flout; scoff at (G) |
| screed | a lengthy discourse usually used to describe opinions |
| scribacious | given to or fond of writing (G) |
| scrofulous | morally corrupt; degenerate (G) |
| scungilaginous | of the semifluid gelatinous consistency of |
| sebastomania (n~) | religious insanity (B) |
| sectary (n~) | a fanatic disciple (B) |
| sedentarize | to take up or cause to take up |
| sedulous (adj~) | diligent persistent |
| seeksorrow (n~) | masochist (B) |
| sententious | wordy verbose |
| sequacious | given to the slavish or unreasoning serving or |
| sermocination (n~) | a speaker quickly answering his own question (B) |
| shaconian (n~) | someone convinced that Bacon ghosted Shakespeare's |
| shaftsbury (n~) | a gallon jug of wine (B) |
| shamateur (n~) | a bogus tyro (B) |
| shardborn (adj~) | born in dung (B) |
| shilpit (adj~) | feeble puny |
| sicarian (n~) | an assassin (B) |
| sicchasia (n~) | nauseau (B) |
| sicchosism (n~) | morbid fastidiousness (B) |
| sibyllilne | oracular; prophetic; mysterious (G) |
| siffilate | to whisper (G) |
| simony | buying selling |
| simper | to smile in a silly self |
| skibbile (adj~) | wonderfully witty; sexually irresistible (S) |
| skibbalalia (n~) | the overwhelming desire to purchase an |
| skoptsy (n~) | self |
| skybald (n~) | a good |
| smatchet (n~) | a small nasty person or a nasty child (B) |
| smellfungus (n~) | a malcontent; a grumbler or fault |
| snafu (adj~ & n~) | situation normal all fucked up [also: |
| fubar | fucked up beyond all recognition; fubb |
| sneckdraw (n~) | a sly person (B) |
| snollygoster | a clever shrewd |
| sockdolager (n~) | a telling blow (B) |
| solatium (n~) | anything that compensates for suffering or loss; |
| solifidium (n~) | someone who believes that faith alone is sufficient |
| somniloquacious (adj~) | pertaining to talking in one's sleep (B) |
| soodle | to walk stroll |
| sophomania (n~) | delusion of exceptional intelligence (B) |
| sophrosyne (n~) | sober sensible |
| sorbile (adj~) | drinkable (B) |
| spadonism (n~) | enuchry (B) |
| spaneria (n~) | scarcity of men (B) |
| spanogyny (n~) | scarcity of woman (B) |
| spatiate (v~) | to stroll or ramble (B) |
| spatilomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by observing animal droppings (B) |
| spatrify (v~) | to besmirch befoul (B) |
| spawling | a noisy clearing of the throat (G) |
| speciesist | for many people a test is permissible when it inflicts |
| spodogenous (adj~) | pertaining to or due to presence of |
| spoffokins (n~) | a whore pretending to be a wife (B) |
| spousebreach (n~) | adultery (B) |
| spraints (n~) | otter dung (B) |
| spurcidical (adj~) | foul |
| squidgereen (n~) | a short insignificant person (B) |
| stagorium | an establishment (bar or resort hotel) that serves as |
| stasivalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse only |
| steatopygous | pertaining to or characterized by protuberant |
| stercoricolous (adj~) | living in dung (B) |
| sterculius (n~) | the god of feces (B) |
| sternutation | the act of sneezing; a sneeze (G) |
| stertorous | characterized by heavy snoring (G) |
| sthenobulia (n~) | strong will power (B) |
| stirious (adj~) | like an icicle (B) |
| stomachous (adj~) | obstinate; angry (B) |
| stoopgallant (adj~) | humbling; ego |
| strepitous | making a great clamor; noisy; boisterous (G) |
| stricture | an adverse criticism or remark censure |
| stultiloquence | foolish or senseless talk; babble; twaddle (G) |
| stygiophobia (n~) | fear of hell (B) |
| stylite (n~) | ascetics who lived on top of pillars (B) |
| suaviation (n~) | a love kiss (B) |
| subagitation (n~) | copulation (B) |
| subarrhation (n~) | betrothal accomplished by the man's showering |
| subderisorious (adj~) | mildly ridiculing (B) |
| subdititious (adj~) | secret substitution (B) |
| subdolous (adj~) | rather crafty or sly (B) |
| subintelligitur (n~) | a meaning implied but not stated (B) |
| subsannation (n~) | derision (B) |
| substaquilate (v~) | to defeat overwhelm (B) |
| supernaculum (n~) | a liquor drunk to the last drop; excellent |
| supervacaneous (adj~) | needlessly added (B) |
| supinovalent (adj~) | able to fornicate only while supine (B) |
| suppalpation (n~) | gaining affection by caressing (B) |
| suspercollate (v~) | to hang by the neck (B) |
| sybarite (n~) | someone overly fond of luxury and pleasure (B) |
| tachydidaxy (n~) | fast teaching (B) |
| talionic (adj~) | pertaining to revenge in kind (B) |
| tanquam (n~) | someone educated enough to go to college (B) |
| taphephobia (n~) | fear of being buried alive (B) |
| tardigrade (adj~) | slow |
| tartuffish (adj~) | pertaining to the pious hypocrisy of Tartuffe |
| tathagatagarbha (n~) | the eternal and absolute essence of all |
| tauromachian (adj~) | pertaining to bullfights (B) |
| tautegorical (adj~) | saying the same thing with different |
| tautoousious (adj~) | being absolutely the same (B) |
| tegetology (n~) | collecting cardboard beer coasters |
| teknonymy (n~) | naming the parent after the child (B) |
| telestich (n~) | a poem in which the consecutive final letters |
| temerarious | reckless; heedless; rash (G) |
| temulance (n~) | drunkenness (B) |
| tendentious | promoting a particular view or tendency; hence |
| tenebrific (adj~) | dark or obscure (B) |
| tenesmic (adj~) | pertaining to a painful but ineffectual effort |
| tentiginous (adj~) | sensuous lascivious (B) |
| teratology (n~) | the study of monsters (B) |
| tergiversation (n~) | abandoning a religion or cause (B) or |
| testudineous (adj~) | slow like a tortoise (B) |
| tetricity (n~) | austerity harshness |
| thalassophobia (n~) | fear of the sea (B) |
| thanatism (n~) | the belief in life before death not after it (B) |
| thaumaturgic | or or involving the supposed working of miracles; |
| theanthropism (n~) | attaching human traits to one's god (B) |
| thelymachy (n~) | a war of women (B) |
| thelyphthoric (adj~) | that which corrupts women (B) |
| thersitical | loud and grossly abusive foulmouthed; scurrilous (G) |
| thrasonical | given to or marked by boasting and bragging (G) |
| threpterophilia (n~) | a fondness for female nurses (B) |
| timonism (n~) | misanthropy (B) |
| titivate | to make smart; spruce up (G) |
| tonguepad (v~) | to scold (B) |
| tralatitiously (adv~) | metaphorically; figuratively (B) |
| transilient (adj~) | pertaining to abrupt changes (B] |
| transmogrification | changes into grotesque or humorous forms |
| transude | to pass or ooze through or out as sweat through |
| trichoschisticism (n~) | hair |
| tripudiation (n~) | the act of dancing |
| triskaidekaphobia | fear of the number 13 or Friday the 13th (G) |
| triturate | to rub grind |
| truckle | to show servility or subservience (G) |
| truntlement | trumpery (A) |
| tugmutton | a great glutton (A) |
| tussicated | driven about; tormented (A) |
| typomania (n~) | obsession with the expectation of publication |
| tyromancy (n~) | fortunate telling by watching cheese as it |
| tyrosemiophily (n~) | the collecting of Camembert cheese labels |
| uberous | fruitful (A) |
| ulotrichous | having wooly or crisply curling hair (G) |
| ultracrepidarian | going beyond one's own province; a person who |
| ululate | to howl or hoot; or to wail or lament loudly (G) |
| unbosom | to disclose one's personal thoughts or feelings (G) |
| vade mecum | a favorite book carried everywhere (B) |
| valetudinarianism | weak or sickly state; thinking only of |
| valorization | government price |
| vaniloquence | vain and foolish talk (B) |
| vapulate | to beat whip (B) |
| varietist | an unorthodox person; or someone who practices |
| variorum | pertaining to a literary classic annotated by |
| vastation | purification through fire (B) |
| vecordious | senseless insane |
| velitation | a petty fight; a skirmish (B) |
| velleity | slight or faint desire; inclination (B) |
| vellicate | to pull at off |
| venery | the pursuit of sexual pleasure or indulgence |
| ventoseness | windiness; flatulence (B) |
| ventricumbent | lying face down; prone (B) |
| ventripotent | fat |
| verbigeration | senseless reiteration of cliches (B) |
| verbophobia | fear and dislike of words (B) |
| verecund | bashful; modest (B) |
| veriloquent | speaking truthfully (B) |
| verism | the theory that ugliness is valid in art and literature |
| vernalagnia | spring fever (B) |
| vesticate | to blister (G) |
| vestryism (n~) | selfishness and parochialism said to be |
| viaggiatory | on the move; traveling around (B) |
| vicissitudinary | pertaining to change alteration |
| vigesimation | killing every twentieth person (B) |
| vilipend | to belittle to disparage (B) |
| viparious | life |
| virago | a scold a shrew |
| vitilitigate | to be particularly quarrelsome (B) |
| vivisepulture | live burial (B) |
| volitient | exercising free will (B) |
| vomituration | retching ineffectual vomiting |
| vulpinism (n~) | the quality of being foxlike esp |
| waghalter | a rogue rascal or knave (B) |
| wamble | to fell nauseous; or to move unsteadily to stagger; |
| wampus | a stupid dull |
| wantwit | a fool (B) |
| Weltanschauung | a comprehensive world view especially from |
| Weltschmerz | sadness over the evils of the world especially as |
| wergild | money paid by the killer's family to the family of |
| withernam | taking one thing as reprisal for something else taken |
| witzelsucht | emotional state characterized by futile attempts |
| wowser | a pecksniffian puritan (B) |
| xenagogue | a guide (B) |
| xenagogy | a guidebook (B) |
| xenapistia | extreme distrust of strangers (B) |
| xenoepist | someone who speaks with a foreign accent (B) |
| xenomancy | fortunetelling by studying the first stranger |
| xeronisus | inability to reach orgasm (B) |
| xylophobia | fear of wooden objects; fear of forests (B) |
| xyresic | razor sharp (B) |
| yarmouth | insane (B) |
| ydromancy | fortunetelling with water (B) |
| zeitgeist | the general intellectual moral and cultural level |
| zetetic | asking; questioning (B) |
| zoanthropy | insanity in which a patient believes he's an animal (B) |
| zoetic | pertaining to life (B) |
| zoilism | nagging criticism (B) |
| zonesthesia | the feeling of wearing a tight girdle (B) |
| zooerastia | sexual intercourse with an animal (B) |
| zygal | H |
| zygomancy | fortune telling with weights (B) |
| longanimity (n~) | silent suffering while planning revenge (B) |
| longinquity (n~) | remoteness (B) |
| longueur (n~) | a long and tedious section of a book play |
| loquaciousness (n~) | extreme talkativenss; garrulousness (W) |
| lost positives | whimsically coined or archaic words of which only |
| lovertine (adj~) | addicted to love |
| loxotic (adj~) | slanting distorted (B) |
| lubricity (n~) | the condition of being uncertain or unstable or |
| luciferous (adj~) | illuminating literally and figuratively (B) |
| lucriferous (adj~) | profitable lucrative (B) |
| lucripetous (adj~) | money hungry (B) |
| luctation (n~) | a struggle for success (B) |
| luctiferous (adj~) | sad and sorry (B) |
| lucubration (n~) | to burn the midnight oil; suggesting pretentious |
| luculent (adj~) | readily understood; clear; lucid (G) |
| lucus a non lucendo | an absurd word derivation; illogical explanation |
| ludibrious (adj~) | ludicrous; making fun of (B) |
| ludibundness (n~) | playfulness (B) |
| ludicropathetic (adj~) | ludicrous and pathetic (B) |
| ludification (n~) | deriding (B) |
| luftmensch (n~) | someone with his head in the clouds |
| lupanariam (n~) | lubricious lascivious |
| lurgulary (n~) | the act of poisoning water (B) |
| lutarious (adj~) | pertaining to living in |
| lycanthropy (n~) | insanity in which the patient thinks he's |
| lygophilia (n~) | love of darkness (B) |
| lymacatexis (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with dirt (B) |
| lypophrenia (n~) | a vague feeling of sadness seemingly |
| lyssophobia (n~) | fear of becoming mad (B) |
| macarize (v~) | to make happy; to praise (B) |
| macerate (v~) | to oppress; torment (B) |
| macilent (adj~) | lean; thin (B) |
| macrobian (adj~) | long |
| macrology (n~) | excessive or repititious words or phrases (W) |
| macromastic (adj~) | pertaining to large breasts (B) |
| macrophobia (n~) | fear of long waits (B) |
| macrosmatic (adj~) | having a supersensitive nose (B) |
| macrosomatous (adj~) | having an abnormally large body (B) |
| macrotous (adj~) | having large ears (G) |
| mactation (n~) | sacrificial murder (B) |
| maculate (adj~) | defiled; impure (G) |
| madefy (v~) | to wet (B) |
| magniloquence (n~) | grandly high |
| maieusiophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of childbirth |
| maieutic (adj~) | of the Socratic method of bringing into full |
| mala fide | in bad faith: falsely deceitfully |
| malacissation (n~) | the process of making something soft and |
| malacodermous (adj~) | soft |
| malapert (n~) | impudent outspoken |
| maliferous (adj~) | producing evil; unhealthy as a climate (B) |
| malism (n~) | the theory that the world is mostly bad (B) |
| malneirophrenia (n~) | depress following a nightmare (B) |
| malnoia (n~) | a vague feeling of mental discomfort (B) |
| mammothrept (n~) | a spoiled child (B) |
| mancinism (n~) | left |
| mangonize (v~) | to traffic in slaves (B) |
| mania | a |
| maniaphobia (n~) | fear of insanity (B) |
| manipulandum (n~) | something that is to be manipulated (B) |
| mansuetude (n~) | tameness gentleness |
| mantology (n~) | fortunetelling; a fortuneteller (B) |
| manubiary (ad~) | relating to the spoils of war (B) |
| manumission (n~) | formal liberation of a slave (B) |
| manustupration (n~) | masturbation (B) |
| maquillage (n~) | make |
| marasmic (adj~) | of the gradual loss of flesh and strength; of a wasting |
| marcescent (adj~) | withered decayed |
| margaritaceous (adj~) | pearly (B) |
| maritodespotism (n~) | ruthless domination by a husband (B) |
| marlish (adj~) | easygoing (B) |
| marlock (v~) | to cavort frolic (B) |
| maschalephidrosis (n~) | massive sweating of the armpits (B) |
| mastigophobia (n~) | fear of punishment (B) |
| mastigophoric (adj~) | whip |
| mataeology (n~) | useless of pointless discourse; worthless |
| mataeotechny (n~) | an unprofitable science or art (B) |
| matripotestal (adj~) | pertaining to maternal control (B) |
| mattoid (n~) | a congenitally insane person (B) |
| matutolagnia (n~) | antemerdian sexual desire (B) |
| matutolypea (n~) | getting up on the wrong side of the bed (B) |
| maumetry (n~) | idolatry (B) |
| mauvaise plaisanterie | an inappropriate or badly timed joke (W) |
| mawkish (adj~) | characterized by sickly weak sentimentality (G) |
| mazomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by a nursing baby (B) |
| mazophilous (adj~) | pertaining to mammary mania (B) |
| meable (adj~) | capable of being easily penetrated (B) |
| meacock (n~) | an effeminate or cowardly man (B) |
| meadophily (n~) | study of beer bottle labels |
| mechanomorphism (n~) | the doctrine that the universe is fully |
| meconology (n~) | the study of opium and its effects (B) |
| meconophagism (n~) | opium addiction (B) |
| medicaster (n~) | a medical quack (B) |
| megacephalous (adj~) | having a large head (B) |
| megalonisus (n~) | a tendency to exaggerate (B) |
| megalophobia (n~) | fear of large things (B) |
| megalopsychy (n~) | generosity of spirit or magnanamity |
| meiosis (n~) | rhetorical understatement or representing something |
| melioration (n~) | an elevation or bettering: in language a hitherto |
| melliloquence (n~) | euphonious speech; sweet talk (W) |
| melissophobia (n~) | fear of bees (B) |
| melomaniac (n~) | a music lover (B) |
| mempsis | an impassioned but somewhat caustic supplication in which |
| menacme (n~) | the menstruating part of a woman's life (B) |
| mendaciloquence (n~) | lying as a fine art; adroit prevarication (W) |
| menticide (n~) | brainwashing (B) |
| mentimutation (n~) | change of mind (B) |
| mentulate (adj~) | well hung (B) |
| mephitic | bad |
| meracious (adj~) | unadulterated full |
| meraculous (adj~) | demi |
| merdivorous (adj~) | eating dung (B) |
| merism (n~) | a pairing of contrasted terms to express a totality |
| merkin (n~) | female genitalia; or false pubic hair (B) |
| merulator (n~) | a wine |
| metagnostic (adj~) | unknowable (B) |
| metagrobolize (v~) | the mystify (B) |
| metallege (n~) | spoonerism (B) |
| metastasis | casual mention of a subject as if it were unimportant; |
| metempsychosis (n~) | alleged transmigration of souls (B) |
| metheglin (n~) | mead (B) |
| methionyl ~~ inylserine (n~) | the chemical name for |
| tryptophan synthetase A protein | a 1 913 |
| metonymy (n~) | the figurative or symbolic use of the name of one |
| metoposcopy (n~) | judging character by studying the face (B) |
| metromania (n~) | a mania for writing verse (B) |
| miasmatic (adj~) | noxious contagious |
| microcephalous (adj~) | small |
| microlipet (n~) | someone bothered by trifles (B) |
| micrology (n~) | excessive attention to or discussion of details or |
| micturition (n~) | need for frequent urination (B) |
| midden (n~) | a dunghill (B) |
| migniard (adj~) | dainty delicate; mincing (B) |
| militaster (n~) | an insignificant military man (B) |
| minatory (adj~) | portending punishment; threatening; menacing (G) |
| minauderie (n~) | coquetry (B) |
| minimifidianism (n~) | having almost no faith or belief (B) |
| minimus (n~) | a tiny creature (B) |
| mirabile dictu | wonderful to relate (W) |
| misandry (n~) | dislike of men (B) |
| misanthropy (n~) | hatred of mankind |
| misapodysis (n~) | hatred of undressing in front of someone (B) |
| misarchist (n~) | a person who hates authority (B) |
| miserabile dictu | miserable to relate (W) |
| miserotia (n~) | aversion to sex (B) |
| misocainia (n~) | hatred of anything new or strange such as |
| misocanpnist (n~) | a hater of tobacco smoke (B) |
| misodoctakleidist (n~) | one who hates to practice the piano (B) |
| misology (n~) | hatred of logical discussion or reason (W) |
| misoneism (n~) | hatred of new things (B) |
| misopedia (n~) | hatred of children esp |
| misopolemiac (n~) | a war |
| misoscopist (n~) | a hater of beauty; a recluse (B) |
| misosophy (n~) | hatred of wisdom (B) |
| misotramontanism (n~) | a hatred of the unknown (B) |
| misoxeny (n~) | hatred of strangers (B) |
| mithridatism (n~) | immunity to poison achieved by taking |
| moanworthy (adj~) | lamentable pitiful (B) |
| mogigraphia (n~) | writers' cramp (B) |
| moliminous (adj~) | massive; momentous (B) |
| moloch (n~) | a system or method that requires frightful sacrifice (G) |
| molysmophobia (n~) | fear of dirt or contamination (B) |
| mome (n~) | a crashing bore; a buffoon (B) |
| monorchid (adj~) | having one testicle (B) |
| mordacious (adj~) | biting acrid |
| mordant (adj~) | biting; caustic; cutting; sarcastic (G) |
| morigerous (adj~) | obedient; obsequious (B) |
| morology (n~) | deliberate nonsense of foolishness for effect (W) |
| mot juste | the perfect fitting word or phrase; precisely apt |
| mot propre | the correct or necessary word (W) |
| motatorious (adj~) | constantly active (B) |
| motitation (n~) | a quivering moment (B) |
| mulct (v~) | to punish by means of a fine (G) |
| mulierose (adj~) | extremely fond of women (B) |
| multum in parvo | much in little: containing or suggesting much in |
| mumpsimus (n~) | an erroneous word or spelling that through long |
| mundivagant (n~) | wandering over the world (B) |
| musard (n~) | an absentminded dreamer or fool (B) |
| mutatis mutandis | the (necessary) changes having been made or the |
| mycterism (n~) | derision or sarcasm that is somewhat veiled; subtle |
| myrmidon (n~) | a blindly loyal though unscrupulous |
| mythomania (n~) | compulsively telling lies and believing them (B) |
| nanism (n~) | dwarfishness (B) |
| naology (n~) | the study of holy buildings (B) |
| naprapathy (n~) | the manipulation of strained ligaments i the |
| nates (n~) | the buttocks (B) |
| nattering (adj~) | grumbling fault |
| naufragous (adj~) | causing shipwrecks (B) |
| neanilagnia (n~) | a yen for nymphets (B) |
| neanimorphism (n~) | looking younger than one's years (B) |
| nebulaphobia (n~) | fear of fog (B) |
| nebulochaotic (adj~) | chaotic confused (B) |
| necromimesis (n~) | feigning death; the delusion of being dead (B) |
| necyomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by summoning lucifer (B) |
| nefandous (adj~) | unmentionable unspeakable (B) |
| nefast (adj~) | wicked (B) |
| nelipot (n~) | someone going barefoot (B) |
| nemophilous (adj~) | loving the forest (B) |
| neocracy (n~) | government by tyros (B) |
| neologism (n~) | a newly coined word or phrase or a novel expression |
| neomnesia (n~) | good memory for recent events (B) |
| nephalism (n~) | teetotalism (B) |
| nepheligenous (adj~) | producing clouds of tobacco smoke (B) |
| neoteny (n~) | retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult |
| nepotation (n~) | riotous living (B) |
| nervus probandi | the strong point of the proving: crux of the |
| nescient (adj~) | uneducated unaware |
| nettling (v~) | to irritate; vex; annoy (G) |
| nictitate (v~) | to wink (G) |
| nidorous (adj~) | smelling like burning or decaying animal matter (B) |
| nihil ad rem | nothing to the matter: irrelevant (W) |
| nihil obstat | nothing stands in the way: in Roman Catholocism |
| nikhedonia (n~) | pleasure derived from anticipating success (B) |
| nimgimmer (n~) | a doctor who cures the clap (British slang) (B) |
| nimiety (n~) | excess redundancy |
| nimious (adj~) | extravagant (B) |
| nimptopsical (adj~) | drunk (B) |
| nimshy (n~) | a silly ass (B) |
| nipperkin (n~) | amount of liquor roughly equivalent to a half pint (B) |
| nippitatum (n~) | exceptionally good and strong ale (B) |
| noctivagation (n~) | wandering around at night (B) |
| non est disputandum | it is not to be disputed (W) |
| non possumus | a statement of inability to do something (W) |
| nosism (n~) | use of 'we' in speaking of oneself; conceit or |
| self | exultation by a group (W) |
| nostrificate (v~) | to accept as one's own (B) |
| nothosonomia (n~) | calling someone a bastard (W) |
| noumenon (n~) | an object implied by intuition rather than evidence |
| nubilate (v~) | to obscure (B) |
| nuchal (adj~) | of the nape of the neck (G) |
| nudis verbis | in naked words (W) |
| nudiustertian (adj~) | pertaining to the day before yesterday (B) |
| nugatory (adj~) | worthless trifling |
| nullifidian (adj~) | skeptical (B) |
| nulliparous (adj~) | pertaining to a woman who has never foaled (B) |
| numbles (n~) | edible deer innards (B) |
| nummamorous (adj~) | money |
| nuncupate (v~) | to declare orally (B) |
| nychthemeron (n~) | a twenty |
| nympholepsy (n~) | trance incurred by erotic daydreams (B) |
| obumbration (n~) | the act or process of darkening or obscuring |
| obambulate (v~) | to walk about wander (B) |
| obdormition (n~) | numbness caused by pressure on a nerve (B) |
| obduracy (n~) | being obstinate or hardhearted |
| obganiate (v~) | to irritate with reiteration (B) |
| objurgation (n~) | an earnest denunciation rebuke |
| oblatrate (n~) | to snarl at inveigh against (B) |
| oblectation (n~) | delight pleasure (B) |
| oblocution | interruption (A) |
| obloquy (n~) | the state of bad repute borne by one being harshly |
| obnubilation (n~) | beclouding or obscuring; obfuscation (W) |
| obreption (n~) | creeping up on (B) |
| obsecrations (n~) | entreaties (A) |
| obscurum per obscurius | explaining the obscure by means of the |
| obsolagnium (n~) | waning sexual desire due to age (B) |
| obstrobogulous (adj~) | a vehement oath of expansive meaning (G) |
| obtund (adj~) | serving to blunt dull or deaden (G) |
| ochlocracy (n~) | mob rule (B) |
| odium aestheticum | the bitterness of aesthetical controversy (W) |
| odium scholasticum | acrimony between scholars or pedants; academic |
| odium theologicum | bitter hatred between rival theologians (W) |
| oeillade (n~) | an ogle a flirtatious glance (B) |
| oikofugic (n~) | obsessive wandering (B) |
| oikonisus (n~) | urge to start a family (B) |
| olamic (adj~) | infinite eternal (B) |
| olet lucernam | it smells of the lamp: describing something written |
| oligophrenia (n~) | feeble |
| olisbos (n~) | a dildo (B) |
| omadhaun (n~) | an idiot fool (B) |
| ombibulous (adj~) | drinking everything (B) |
| omnilegent (adj~) | reading or having read everything; having |
| omphalomancy (n~) | predicting the number of children a mother will |
| bear by counting the knots in her first | born's umbilical cord (B) |
| omphalopsychites (n~) | term for literary Anglophiles who wish American |
| omphaloskepsis (n~) | contemplation of the navel for the purpose of |
| oneirataxia (n~) | inability to distinguish between fantasy and |
| oneiric (adj~) | having to do with dreams (E G) |
| oniochalasia (n~) | buying as a means of mental relaxation (B) |
| onolatry (n~) | ass |
| onomastic (adj~) | pertaining to a proper name or names (W) |
| onomatomania (n~) | preoccupation with words and names (B) |
| onomatophobia (n~) | fear of hearing a certain word (B) |
| onomatopoeia (n~) | the forming of or use of a word that imitates in |
| onus probandi | the burden of proof (W) |
| operose (adj~) | involving much labor; laborious (G) |
| ophelimity (n~) | the ability to please sexually (B) |
| oppugnant (adj~) | opposing; antagonistic; contrary (G) |
| ophthalmophobia (n~) | fear of being stared at (B) |
| opiparous (adj~) | sumptuous (B) |
| oppilations (n~) | obstructions (A) |
| opsablepsia (n~) | not looking into another's eyes (B) |
| opuscule (n~) | a minor composition or work (W) |
| oratio obliqua | indirect speech: reported speech or relating |
| oratio recta | straight speech: actual or direct speech (W) |
| orchidectomy (n~) | castration (B) |
| ore rotundo | with a round mouth: eloquently with considered |
| orgulous (adj~) | proud and haughty; swelling (G) |
| orismology (n~) | the science of defining or explaining technical |
| osseocarnisanguineoviscericartilaginonervomedullary | the structure |
| otiose | futile functionless |
| oubliette (n~) | a secret place of imprisonment usually with |
| outrecuidance (n~) | egomania; gross conceit (B) |
| overweening | excessively proud; arrogant; conceited; or |
| oxythymous (adj~) | quick |
| pachycephalic (adj~) | thick |
| pageism (n~) | masochism fantasy of a man imagining himself as |
| pagophagia (n~) | eating a tray of ice daily for two months to |
| paideutics (n~) | pedagogy (B) |
| paizogony (n~) | love play (B) |
| paleomnesia (n~) | good memory for events of the far past (B) |
| palimpsest (n~) | a piece of parchment or vellum from which |
| palinode (n~) | a song or poem retracting statements in previous |
| palinoia (n~) | compulsive repitition of an act until it's |
| palladian (adj~) | pertaining to learning and wisdom (B) |
| palliards (n~) | professional beggars whose parents were also |
| palpebrate (v~) | to wink (B) |
| paltripolitan (n~) | an insular city dweller (B) |
| pandiculation (n~) | stretching and yawning (B) |
| panjandrum | a self |
| pannychous (adj~) | lasting all night (B) |
| pantagruelian (adj~) | satirical though ribald (B) |
| pantaraxia (n~) | actions aimed aat keeping people on their toes |
| pantophobia (n~) | a fear of everything (B) |
| paphian | pertaining to love especially its sexual and |
| paracoita (n~) | a female sexual partner (B) |
| paracoitus (n~) | a male sexual partner (B) |
| paradiastole (n~) | a euphemistic half |
| paraenetic | advisory; hortatory (G) |
| paralepsis (n~) | mentioning something by saying you won't mention it (B) |
| paralipomena (n~) | deleted passages from a book or a |
| paralipophobia (n~) | fear of responsibility (B) |
| paralogism (n~) | reasoning method that contradicts logical |
| parerethesis (n~) | abnormal excitement (B) |
| pareunia (n~) | sexual intercourse (B) |
| parisology (n~) | deliberate ambiguity in use of words (B) |
| parnel (n~) | a priest's mistress; a loose woman (B) |
| paronomasia (n~) | punning; a pun (B) |
| parorexia (n~) | perverted appetite; demanding strange foods (B) |
| parrhesia (n~) | freedom of speech (rhetoric term) (B) |
| partheniad (n~) | a poem in honor of a virgin (B) |
| parthenolatry (n~) | virgin worship (B) |
| parvanimity (n~) | pettiness; meannes; or a mean or petty person (B) |
| parvenu (n~) | a pretentious snob of the nouveau riche (B) |
| parviscient (adj~) | uninformed (B) |
| pasilaly (n~) | a universal language (B) |
| pasquinade | a lampoon or satire posted in a public place (G) |
| passalorynchite (n~) | a member of an early Christian sect who |
| passepartout (n~) | a master key; a safeconduct or passport (B) |
| patavinity (n~) | the use of local words or expressions (B) |
| patharmosis (n~) | mental adjustment to one's disease (B) |
| pathic (n~) | a catamite; or a passive participator (B) |
| pathocryptia (n~) | unwillingness to believe in or talk about |
| pathodixia (n~) | talking to excess about one's illness and |
| pathognomy (n~) | the study of emotions by their outward |
| pathomimesis (n~) | malingering (B) |
| patzer (n~) | a weak chess player (B) |
| pauciloquent (adj~) | speaking briefly (B) |
| pavid | quaking with fear; afraid; frightened (G) |
| peccable (adj~) | liable to sin (B) |
| peccatophobia (n~) | fear of sinning or of having committed an |
| peckerwood (n~) | a poor southern Anglo |
| pecksniffian (adj~) | hypocritical insincere and gutless (B) |
| pecos (v~) | to shoot a man and roll his body in the river (B) |
| peculation (n~) | embezzlement (B) |
| pedetentous (adj~) | proceedilng gradually or cautiously (B) |
| peirastic (adj~) | experimental; ready to be tried (B) |
| peladophobia (n~) | fear of baldness |
| pelology (n~) | study of mud and its therapeutic applications (B) |
| penelopize (v~) | to undo and redo to gain time (B) |
| penisterophily (n~) | raising and training pigeons |
| penotherapy (n~) | regulating prostitutes to control venereal |
| pentapopemptic (n~) | divorced five times (B) |
| pentheraphobia (n~) | fear or dislike of one's mother |
| peotomy (n~) | the surgical amputation of the penis (B) |
| perduellion (n~) | treason (B) |
| perendinate (n~) | to postpone until the next day; to postpone |
| perfectibilism (n~) | belief that anything short of perfect is |
| perfrication (n~) | thorough rubbing (B) |
| perhiemate (v~) | to spend the winter (B) |
| perichareia (n~) | excessive and violent rejoicing (B) |
| periclitate | to expose to peril; endanger; risk (G) |
| periphrastic | using many words when few would do; verbose; |
| perissotomist (n~) | a knife |
| peristrephic (adj~) | turning around rotatory (B) |
| perlustrate (v~) | to review thoroughly; survey (B) |
| pervicacious (adj~) | extremely obstinate; willful (B) |
| pervulgate (v~) | to publish (B) |
| petalism (n~) | banishing a citizen for five years if judged |
| pettifoggery | quibbling over petty details |
| petulcous (adj~) | butting like a ram; offensively aggressive (B) |
| phagomania (n~) | insanely hungry (B) |
| phalacrespia (n~) | aversion for baldness or for bald men (B) |
| phalacrosis (n~) | baldness |
| phallation (n~) | movement of the penis in sexual intercourse (B) |
| phaneromania (n~) | a compulsion to pick at a skin growth or |
| pharisaical | of persons of rigid adherence to outward forms and |
| phatic | establishing an atmosphere of sociability rather than |
| philalethe (n~) | one who loves to forget (B) |
| philauty (n~) | self |
| philematology (n~) | the study of kissing (B) |
| philematophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes kissing (B) |
| philobiblist (n~) | a lover of books |
| philocalist (n~) | a lover of beauty (B) |
| philodox (n~) | one who loves one's own opinions (B) |
| philogastric (adj~) | greedy (B) |
| philophobia (n~) | fear of falling in love or of being loved (B) |
| philopolemic (adj~) | pertaining to love of argument or |
| philopornist (n~) | a lover of prostitutes (B) |
| philosophastering (adj~) | pseudo |
| philotheoparoptesism | the process of slowly cooking those who |
| philoxenist (n~) | one who is happiest while entertaining |
| phrontifugic (adj~) | relieving anxiety (B) |
| physagogue (n~) | carminative or medicine to induce farting (B) |
| piacular | serving to atone or make amends for; expiatory; or |
| pickthank (n~) | a flatterer or sycophant (B) |
| piliferous | having hair (G) |
| piloerection (n~) | hair standing on end (B) |
| pilpulist (n~) | one who uses Talmudic dialectic or via |
| pinchbeck | sham or spurious; false (G) |
| pinguescent | becoming fat (G) |
| pithiatism (n~) | a forceful suggestion (B) |
| pizzle (n~) | a whip made from an animal's penis (B) |
| planistethic (adj~) | flat |
| planomania (n~) | urge to live a bohemian life (B) |
| platitudinarian (n~) | full of platitudes (B) |
| platypod | one afflicted with fallen arches (G) |
| plebicolist (n~) | someone who woos the common folk (B) |
| pleionosis (n~) | exaggeration of one's own importance (B) |
| pleniloquence (n~) | excessive talking (B) |
| pleonastic | use of words superfluously; redundant (G) |
| pleonexia (n~) | covetousness avarice; mania for acquiring |
| plerophory (n~) | state of full confidence or absolute certainty |
| pococurante (adj~) | nonchalant indifferent (B) |
| poculation (n~) | wine |
| podobromhidrosis (n~) | smelly feet (B) |
| poecilonymy (n~) | the use of several names for one thing (B) |
| pogonology (n~) | treatise on beards |
| pogonophobia (n~) | abnormal fear or dislike of beards |
| poiesis (n~) | creation; creative power or ability (B) |
| poikilothymia (n~) | extreme changes of mood (B) |
| polychrestic | serving and adapted for several different uses (G) |
| polyhistor (n~) | a universal scholar (B) |
| polylogy (n~) | wordiness (B) |
| polydipsia (n~) | extreme thirst or an abnormal and continuous |
| popination (n~) | bar |
| popliteal | pertaining to or connected with the hollow area back |
| pornerastic (adj~) | licentious lascivious |
| pornolagnia (n~) | desire for prostitutes (B) |
| potvaliant | valiant and courageous as a result of being drunk |
| preantepenultimate (n~ & adj~) | fourth from last (B) |
| preterist (n~) | someone whose main pleasure in in reliving the |
| priapean (adj~) | phallic (B) |
| priapism (n~) | persistent and painful erection (B) |
| procrustean | aiming or tending to produce uniformity by violent |
| proctalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B) |
| proditorious (adj~) | traitorous; prone to give away secrets (B) |
| prolepsis (n~) | anticipating an argument and answering it before |
| prolix | verbose repititious |
| long | winded |
| pronovalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse in a prone |
| propaedeutic | of or pertaining to preliminary instruction; |
| prosonomasia (n~) | use of a humorous modification of a person's |
| prosophobia (n~) | fear of or adversion to progress (B) |
| prosopolepsy (n~) | judging people favorably from their looks (B) |
| prosopopy (n~) | the personification of inanimate objects (B) |
| protervity (n~) | petulance; peevishness (B) |
| psaphonic (adj~) | planning one's rise to fame (B) |
| pseudandry (n~) | female use of a male pseudonym (B) |
| pseudautochiria (n~) | murder disguised as a suicide (B) |
| pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism (n~) | phony opposition to |
| pseudogyny (n~) | male use of a female pseudonym (B) |
| pseudologist (n~) | liar (B) |
| pseudomnesia (n~) | memory for things that never happened (B) |
| pseudophonia (n~) | suicide disguised as murder (B) |
| psilology (n~) | empty talk (B) |
| psilosopher (n~) | a superficial philosopher (B) |
| psittacistic | speaking in a mechanical repetitive way (G) |
| psychasthenia (n~) | neurotic lassitude indecision |
| pteronophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of feathers |
| pudency (n~) | modesty or shyness; embarassment |
| puerile | childish immature |
| pullulate | teem swarm |
| purulent | of containing |
| pygophilous (adj~) | buttock |
| pyrolagnia (n~) | sexual stimulation from watching fires (B) |
| quaintise (n~) | ingenuity cunning; a trick or stratagem (B) |
| quakebuttock (n~) | a coward (B) |
| qued (adj~) | evil bad (B) |
| querimony (n~) | a complaint (B) |
| quidam (n~) | an unknown person (B) |
| quiddity (n~) | the essence or nature of a thing (B) |
| quidnunc (n~) | one who is curious to know everything that |
| quisquillian (adj~) | trashy (B) |
| quisguous (adj~) | perplexing (B) |
| quodlibet (n~) | a nice or fine point in an argument; a subtlety |
| quodlibetarian (n~) | one who discusses or uses quodlibets |
| rabiator (n~) | a violent man (B) |
| rabulism (n~) | tendency for railing and quibbling |
| rackrent (n~) | exorbitant rent (B) |
| rakehelly (adj~) | dissolute debauched (B) |
| ramfeezled (adj~) | worn out exhausted (B) |
| rammish (adj~) | lustful and horny (B) |
| ranarium (n~) | frog farm (B) |
| randle (n~) | a nonsensical poem recited by Irish schoolboys as |
| rantallion (n~) | one whose scrotum is longer than his penis (B) |
| rantipole (n~) | a wild rambunctious young man (B) |
| realpolitik | practical politics; euphemism for power politics |
| rebarbative (adj~) | grim unattractive |
| reboantic (adj~) | reverberating (B) |
| recension (n~) | scholarly editorial revision (B) |
| receptary (adj~) | accepted as fact but unproved (B) |
| rectalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B) |
| rectopathic (adj~) | easily hurt emotionally (B) |
| rectrix (n~) | a female ruler (B) |
| recubation (n~) | lying down (B) |
| recumbentibus (n~) | a knockdown blow (B) |
| recusant (adj~) | dissenting; disestablishmentarian (B) |
| redargution (n~) | refutation or disproving (B) |
| redhibition (n~) | the return of defective merchandise (B) |
| redivivus (adj~) | living again; revived (B) |
| refocillate (v~) | to warm into life again; revive (G) |
| refragable (adj~) | capable of being refuted (B) |
| refrangible (adj~) | capable of being refracted (B) |
| refulgent (adj~) | radiant brilliant |
| reify | literally "to make a thing"; given definite concrete |
| remontado (n~) | someone who has fled to the mountains; a person |
| remplissage (n~) | filling or padding used in music and |
| remugient (adj~) | rebellowing; roaring or shouting anew (B) |
| renable (adj~) | fluent eloquent (B) |
| renard (n~) | a fox; a sly or cunning person (B) |
| renascible (adj~) | capable of being reborn (B) |
| renifleur (n~) | one who gets sexual pleasure from body smells (B) |
| renitent | resisting or opposing stubbornly; recalcitrant (G) |
| repristinate (v~) | to revive; to restore (B) |
| resipiscent (adj~) | restored to sanity; learned from |
| resupination (n~) | turning to an upside |
| retrocopulation (n~) | woof (B) |
| retromancy (n~) | fortunetelling by things seen over one's |
| retromingent (adj~) | urinating backward (B) |
| retunded | to weaken or diminish the strength of effect of (G) |
| rhabdophobia (n~) | fear of being punished or severely criticized (B) |
| rhadamanthine | strictly and inflexibly honest and just (G) |
| rhigosis (n~) | sensation of cold (B) |
| rhonchisonant (adj~) | snorting; snoring (B) |
| rhopalism (n~) | a sentence or poem i which each word is one syllable |
| rhyparography | the printing or painting of sordid and filty |
| rhytiscopia (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with facial wrinkles (B) |
| ribroasting (n~) | a sound beating; a thrashing (B) |
| rictus (n~) | a very wide mouth; a gaping mouth as in terror (B) |
| risorial (adj~) | pertaining to causing |
| rixation (n~) | quarreling (B) |
| rodomontade | arrogant boasting; pretentious blustering ranting |
| roil | vex; disturb; irritate; rile (G) |
| roinous (adj~) | mean nasty and contemptible (B) |
| roitelet (n~) | a petty king (B) |
| roman a clef (n~) | a novel whose characters are actual people |
| rubricism (n~) | tenacious adherence to rules of behavior or |
| ructation (n~) | belching (B) |
| rudesby (n~) | a loud |
| rugose | having wrinkles (G) |
| rumgumption (n~) | shrewdness (B) |
| runcible (adj~) | sensuous (B) |
| sacerdotophrenia (n~) | clerical stagefright (B) |
| saltimbanco (n~) | a mountebank a quack (B) |
| sanguisugent | bloodsucking; bloodthirsty (G) |
| sapidity (n~) | flavorful; tastiness (B) |
| saponaceous (adj~) | soapy slippery; or evasively ingratiating (B) |
| saprostomous (adj~) | having bad breath (B) |
| sardanapalian | luxuriously effeminate (G) |
| sardoodledum (n~) | stereotyped or unrealistic characterization |
| sarmassation (n~) | love play (B) |
| sarmassophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play (B) |
| sarmassophobitch (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play with me (B) |
| satisdiction (n~) | enough said (B) |
| satispassion (n~) | satisfactory suffering according to |
| saturnalia | period of unrestrained license and orgiastic |
| scacchic | pertaining to or like chess (G) |
| scaldabanco (n~) | a hotheaded debator; a fiery preacher (B) |
| scaphism (n~) | an old Persian method of executing criminals by |
| scaramouch (n~) | a cowardly buffoon (B) |
| scaturient (adj~) | gushing forth; effusive (B) |
| schadenfreude | a feeling of enjoyment derived from the misfortunes |
| schesis (n~) | mocking another's accent or manner (B) |
| schizothemia (n~) | digression by a long reminescence (B) |
| schmaltz | something stickily sentimental banal |
| schoenabatist (n~) | a tightrope walker (B) |
| sciamachy (n~) | fighting with a shadow or with an imaginary |
| sciapodous (adj~) | having very large feet (B) |
| scibile (n~) | something knowable (B) |
| sciolist | one who pretends to scholarship or knowledge |
| sciotheism (n~) | the belief that disembodied spirits |
| scissile (adj~) | capable of being cut smoothly or split |
| scofflaw (n~) | one who scoffs at hence |
| scolecophagous (adj~) | eating worms (B) |
| scolion (n~) | an impromptu party song begun by one and |
| scollardical (n~) | a derogatory term for a scholar (B) |
| scopolagnia (n~) | the pleasure gained from voyeurism (B) |
| scortation (n~) | fornication (B) |
| scout | reject or dismiss scornfully; flout; scoff at (G) |
| screed | a lengthy discourse usually used to describe opinions |
| scribacious | given to or fond of writing (G) |
| scrofulous | morally corrupt; degenerate (G) |
| scungilaginous | of the semifluid gelatinous consistency of |
| sebastomania (n~) | religious insanity (B) |
| sectary (n~) | a fanatic disciple (B) |
| sedentarize | to take up or cause to take up |
| sedulous (adj~) | diligent persistent |
| seeksorrow (n~) | masochist (B) |
| sententious | wordy verbose |
| sequacious | given to the slavish or unreasoning serving or |
| sermocination (n~) | a speaker quickly answering his own question (B) |
| shaconian (n~) | someone convinced that Bacon ghosted Shakespeare's |
| shaftsbury (n~) | a gallon jug of wine (B) |
| shamateur (n~) | a bogus tyro (B) |
| shardborn (adj~) | born in dung (B) |
| shilpit (adj~) | feeble puny |
| sicarian (n~) | an assassin (B) |
| sicchasia (n~) | nauseau (B) |
| sicchosism (n~) | morbid fastidiousness (B) |
| sibyllilne | oracular; prophetic; mysterious (G) |
| siffilate | to whisper (G) |
| simony | buying selling |
| simper | to smile in a silly self |
| skibbile (adj~) | wonderfully witty; sexually irresistible (S) |
| skibbalalia (n~) | the overwhelming desire to purchase an |
| skoptsy (n~) | self |
| skybald (n~) | a good |
| smatchet (n~) | a small nasty person or a nasty child (B) |
| smellfungus (n~) | a malcontent; a grumbler or fault |
| snafu (adj~ & n~) | situation normal all fucked up [also: |
| fubar | fucked up beyond all recognition; fubb |
| sneckdraw (n~) | a sly person (B) |
| snollygoster | a clever shrewd |
| sockdolager (n~) | a telling blow (B) |
| solatium (n~) | anything that compensates for suffering or loss; |
| solifidium (n~) | someone who believes that faith alone is sufficient |
| somniloquacious (adj~) | pertaining to talking in one's sleep (B) |
| soodle | to walk stroll |
| sophomania (n~) | delusion of exceptional intelligence (B) |
| sophrosyne (n~) | sober sensible |
| sorbile (adj~) | drinkable (B) |
| spadonism (n~) | enuchry (B) |
| spaneria (n~) | scarcity of men (B) |
| spanogyny (n~) | scarcity of woman (B) |
| spatiate (v~) | to stroll or ramble (B) |
| spatilomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by observing animal droppings (B) |
| spatrify (v~) | to besmirch befoul (B) |
| spawling | a noisy clearing of the throat (G) |
| speciesist | for many people a test is permissible when it inflicts |
| spodogenous (adj~) | pertaining to or due to presence of |
| spoffokins (n~) | a whore pretending to be a wife (B) |
| spousebreach (n~) | adultery (B) |
| spraints (n~) | otter dung (B) |
| spurcidical (adj~) | foul |
| squidgereen (n~) | a short insignificant person (B) |
| stagorium | an establishment (bar or resort hotel) that serves as |
| stasivalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse only |
| steatopygous | pertaining to or characterized by protuberant |
| stercoricolous (adj~) | living in dung (B) |
| sterculius (n~) | the god of feces (B) |
| sternutation | the act of sneezing; a sneeze (G) |
| stertorous | characterized by heavy snoring (G) |
| sthenobulia (n~) | strong will power (B) |
| stirious (adj~) | like an icicle (B) |
| stomachous (adj~) | obstinate; angry (B) |
| stoopgallant (adj~) | humbling; ego |
| strepitous | making a great clamor; noisy; boisterous (G) |
| stricture | an adverse criticism or remark censure |
| stultiloquence | foolish or senseless talk; babble; twaddle (G) |
| stygiophobia (n~) | fear of hell (B) |
| stylite (n~) | ascetics who lived on top of pillars (B) |
| suaviation (n~) | a love kiss (B) |
| subagitation (n~) | copulation (B) |
| subarrhation (n~) | betrothal accomplished by the man's showering |
| subderisorious (adj~) | mildly ridiculing (B) |
| subdititious (adj~) | secret substitution (B) |
| subdolous (adj~) | rather crafty or sly (B) |
| subintelligitur (n~) | a meaning implied but not stated (B) |
| subsannation (n~) | derision (B) |
| substaquilate (v~) | to defeat overwhelm (B) |
| supernaculum (n~) | a liquor drunk to the last drop; excellent |
| supervacaneous (adj~) | needlessly added (B) |
| supinovalent (adj~) | able to fornicate only while supine (B) |
| suppalpation (n~) | gaining affection by caressing (B) |
| suspercollate (v~) | to hang by the neck (B) |
| sybarite (n~) | someone overly fond of luxury and pleasure (B) |
| tachydidaxy (n~) | fast teaching (B) |
| talionic (adj~) | pertaining to revenge in kind (B) |
| tanquam (n~) | someone educated enough to go to college (B) |
| taphephobia (n~) | fear of being buried alive (B) |
| tardigrade (adj~) | slow |
| tartuffish (adj~) | pertaining to the pious hypocrisy of Tartuffe |
| tathagatagarbha (n~) | the eternal and absolute essence of all |
| tauromachian (adj~) | pertaining to bullfights (B) |
| tautegorical (adj~) | saying the same thing with different |
| tautoousious (adj~) | being absolutely the same (B) |
| tegetology (n~) | collecting cardboard beer coasters |
| teknonymy (n~) | naming the parent after the child (B) |
| telestich (n~) | a poem in which the consecutive final letters |
| temerarious | reckless; heedless; rash (G) |
| temulance (n~) | drunkenness (B) |
| tendentious | promoting a particular view or tendency; hence |
| tenebrific (adj~) | dark or obscure (B) |
| tenesmic (adj~) | pertaining to a painful but ineffectual effort |
| tentiginous (adj~) | sensuous lascivious (B) |
| teratology (n~) | the study of monsters (B) |
| tergiversation (n~) | abandoning a religion or cause (B) or |
| testudineous (adj~) | slow like a tortoise (B) |
| tetricity (n~) | austerity harshness |
| thalassophobia (n~) | fear of the sea (B) |
| thanatism (n~) | the belief in life before death not after it (B) |
| thaumaturgic | or or involving the supposed working of miracles; |
| theanthropism (n~) | attaching human traits to one's god (B) |
| thelymachy (n~) | a war of women (B) |
| thelyphthoric (adj~) | that which corrupts women (B) |
| thersitical | loud and grossly abusive foulmouthed; scurrilous (G) |
| thrasonical | given to or marked by boasting and bragging (G) |
| threpterophilia (n~) | a fondness for female nurses (B) |
| timonism (n~) | misanthropy (B) |
| titivate | to make smart; spruce up (G) |
| tonguepad (v~) | to scold (B) |
| tralatitiously (adv~) | metaphorically; figuratively (B) |
| transilient (adj~) | pertaining to abrupt changes (B] |
| transmogrification | changes into grotesque or humorous forms |
| transude | to pass or ooze through or out as sweat through |
| trichoschisticism (n~) | hair |
| tripudiation (n~) | the act of dancing |
| triskaidekaphobia | fear of the number 13 or Friday the 13th (G) |
| triturate | to rub grind |
| truckle | to show servility or subservience (G) |
| truntlement | trumpery (A) |
| tugmutton | a great glutton (A) |
| tussicated | driven about; tormented (A) |
| typomania (n~) | obsession with the expectation of publication |
| tyromancy (n~) | fortunate telling by watching cheese as it |
| tyrosemiophily (n~) | the collecting of Camembert cheese labels |
| uberous | fruitful (A) |
| parorexia (n~) | perverted appetite; demanding strange foods (B) |
| parrhesia (n~) | freedom of speech (rhetoric term) (B) |
| partheniad (n~) | a poem in honor of a virgin (B) |
| parthenolatry (n~) | virgin worship (B) |
| parvanimity (n~) | pettiness; meannes; or a mean or petty person (B) |
| parvenu (n~) | a pretentious snob of the nouveau riche (B) |
| parviscient (adj~) | uninformed (B) |
| pasilaly (n~) | a universal language (B) |
| pasquinade | a lampoon or satire posted in a public place (G) |
| passalorynchite (n~) | a member of an early Christian sect who |
| passepartout (n~) | a master key; a safeconduct or passport (B) |
| patavinity (n~) | the use of local words or expressions (B) |
| patharmosis (n~) | mental adjustment to one's disease (B) |
| pathic (n~) | a catamite; or a passive participator (B) |
| pathocryptia (n~) | unwillingness to believe in or talk about |
| pathodixia (n~) | talking to excess about one's illness and |
| pathognomy (n~) | the study of emotions by their outward |
| pathomimesis (n~) | malingering (B) |
| patzer (n~) | a weak chess player (B) |
| pauciloquent (adj~) | speaking briefly (B) |
| pavid | quaking with fear; afraid; frightened (G) |
| peccable (adj~) | liable to sin (B) |
| peccatophobia (n~) | fear of sinning or of having committed an |
| peckerwood (n~) | a poor southern Anglo |
| pecksniffian (adj~) | hypocritical insincere and gutless (B) |
| pecos (v~) | to shoot a man and roll his body in the river (B) |
| peculation (n~) | embezzlement (B) |
| pedetentous (adj~) | proceedilng gradually or cautiously (B) |
| peirastic (adj~) | experimental; ready to be tried (B) |
| peladophobia (n~) | fear of baldness |
| pelology (n~) | study of mud and its therapeutic applications (B) |
| penelopize (v~) | to undo and redo to gain time (B) |
| penisterophily (n~) | raising and training pigeons |
| penotherapy (n~) | regulating prostitutes to control venereal |
| pentapopemptic (n~) | divorced five times (B) |
| pentheraphobia (n~) | fear or dislike of one's mother |
| peotomy (n~) | the surgical amputation of the penis (B) |
| perduellion (n~) | treason (B) |
| perendinate (n~) | to postpone until the next day; to postpone |
| perfectibilism (n~) | belief that anything short of perfect is |
| perfrication (n~) | thorough rubbing (B) |
| perhiemate (v~) | to spend the winter (B) |
| perichareia (n~) | excessive and violent rejoicing (B) |
| periclitate | to expose to peril; endanger; risk (G) |
| periphrastic | using many words when few would do; verbose; |
| perissotomist (n~) | a knife |
| peristrephic (adj~) | turning around rotatory (B) |
| perlustrate (v~) | to review thoroughly; survey (B) |
| pervicacious (adj~) | extremely obstinate; willful (B) |
| pervulgate (v~) | to publish (B) |
| petalism (n~) | banishing a citizen for five years if judged |
| pettifoggery | quibbling over petty details |
| petulcous (adj~) | butting like a ram; offensively aggressive (B) |
| phagomania (n~) | insanely hungry (B) |
| phalacrespia (n~) | aversion for baldness or for bald men (B) |
| phalacrosis (n~) | baldness |
| phallation (n~) | movement of the penis in sexual intercourse (B) |
| phaneromania (n~) | a compulsion to pick at a skin growth or |
| pharisaical | of persons of rigid adherence to outward forms and |
| phatic | establishing an atmosphere of sociability rather than |
| philalethe (n~) | one who loves to forget (B) |
| philauty (n~) | self |
| philematology (n~) | the study of kissing (B) |
| philematophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes kissing (B) |
| philobiblist (n~) | a lover of books |
| philocalist (n~) | a lover of beauty (B) |
| philodox (n~) | one who loves one's own opinions (B) |
| philogastric (adj~) | greedy (B) |
| philophobia (n~) | fear of falling in love or of being loved (B) |
| philopolemic (adj~) | pertaining to love of argument or |
| philopornist (n~) | a lover of prostitutes (B) |
| philosophastering (adj~) | pseudo |
| philotheoparoptesism | the process of slowly cooking those who |
| philoxenist (n~) | one who is happiest while entertaining |
| phrontifugic (adj~) | relieving anxiety (B) |
| physagogue (n~) | carminative or medicine to induce farting (B) |
| piacular | serving to atone or make amends for; expiatory; or |
| pickthank (n~) | a flatterer or sycophant (B) |
| piliferous | having hair (G) |
| piloerection (n~) | hair standing on end (B) |
| pilpulist (n~) | one who uses Talmudic dialectic or via |
| pinchbeck | sham or spurious; false (G) |
| pinguescent | becoming fat (G) |
| pithiatism (n~) | a forceful suggestion (B) |
| pizzle (n~) | a whip made from an animal's penis (B) |
| planistethic (adj~) | flat |
| planomania (n~) | urge to live a bohemian life (B) |
| platitudinarian (n~) | full of platitudes (B) |
| platypod | one afflicted with fallen arches (G) |
| plebicolist (n~) | someone who woos the common folk (B) |
| pleionosis (n~) | exaggeration of one's own importance (B) |
| pleniloquence (n~) | excessive talking (B) |
| pleonastic | use of words superfluously; redundant (G) |
| pleonexia (n~) | covetousness avarice; mania for acquiring |
| plerophory (n~) | state of full confidence or absolute certainty |
| pococurante (adj~) | nonchalant indifferent (B) |
| poculation (n~) | wine |
| podobromhidrosis (n~) | smelly feet (B) |
| poecilonymy (n~) | the use of several names for one thing (B) |
| pogonology (n~) | treatise on beards |
| pogonophobia (n~) | abnormal fear or dislike of beards |
| poiesis (n~) | creation; creative power or ability (B) |
| poikilothymia (n~) | extreme changes of mood (B) |
| polychrestic | serving and adapted for several different uses (G) |
| polyhistor (n~) | a universal scholar (B) |
| polylogy (n~) | wordiness (B) |
| polydipsia (n~) | extreme thirst or an abnormal and continuous |
| popination (n~) | bar |
| popliteal | pertaining to or connected with the hollow area back |
| pornerastic (adj~) | licentious lascivious |
| pornolagnia (n~) | desire for prostitutes (B) |
| potvaliant | valiant and courageous as a result of being drunk |
| preantepenultimate (n~ & adj~) | fourth from last (B) |
| preterist (n~) | someone whose main pleasure in in reliving the |
| priapean (adj~) | phallic (B) |
| priapism (n~) | persistent and painful erection (B) |
| procrustean | aiming or tending to produce uniformity by violent |
| proctalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B) |
| proditorious (adj~) | traitorous; prone to give away secrets (B) |
| prolepsis (n~) | anticipating an argument and answering it before |
| prolix | verbose repititious |
| long | winded |
| pronovalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse in a prone |
| propaedeutic | of or pertaining to preliminary instruction; |
| prosonomasia (n~) | use of a humorous modification of a person's |
| prosophobia (n~) | fear of or adversion to progress (B) |
| prosopolepsy (n~) | judging people favorably from their looks (B) |
| prosopopy (n~) | the personification of inanimate objects (B) |
| protervity (n~) | petulance; peevishness (B) |
| psaphonic (adj~) | planning one's rise to fame (B) |
| pseudandry (n~) | female use of a male pseudonym (B) |
| pseudautochiria (n~) | murder disguised as a suicide (B) |
| pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism (n~) | phony opposition to |
| pseudogyny (n~) | male use of a female pseudonym (B) |
| pseudologist (n~) | liar (B) |
| pseudomnesia (n~) | memory for things that never happened (B) |
| pseudophonia (n~) | suicide disguised as murder (B) |
| psilology (n~) | empty talk (B) |
| psilosopher (n~) | a superficial philosopher (B) |
| psittacistic | speaking in a mechanical repetitive way (G) |
| psychasthenia (n~) | neurotic lassitude indecision |
| pteronophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of feathers |
| pudency (n~) | modesty or shyness; embarassment |
| puerile | childish immature |
| pullulate | teem swarm |
| purulent | of containing |
| pygophilous (adj~) | buttock |
| pyrolagnia (n~) | sexual stimulation from watching fires (B) |
| quaintise (n~) | ingenuity cunning; a trick or stratagem (B) |
| quakebuttock (n~) | a coward (B) |
| qued (adj~) | evil bad (B) |
| querimony (n~) | a complaint (B) |
| quidam (n~) | an unknown person (B) |
| quiddity (n~) | the essence or nature of a thing (B) |
| quidnunc (n~) | one who is curious to know everything that |
| quisquillian (adj~) | trashy (B) |
| quisguous (adj~) | perplexing (B) |
| quodlibet (n~) | a nice or fine point in an argument; a subtlety |
| quodlibetarian (n~) | one who discusses or uses quodlibets |
| rabiator (n~) | a violent man (B) |
| rabulism (n~) | tendency for railing and quibbling |
| rackrent (n~) | exorbitant rent (B) |
| rakehelly (adj~) | dissolute debauched (B) |
| ramfeezled (adj~) | worn out exhausted (B) |
| rammish (adj~) | lustful and horny (B) |
| ranarium (n~) | frog farm (B) |
| randle (n~) | a nonsensical poem recited by Irish schoolboys as |
| rantallion (n~) | one whose scrotum is longer than his penis (B) |
| rantipole (n~) | a wild rambunctious young man (B) |
| realpolitik | practical politics; euphemism for power politics |
| rebarbative (adj~) | grim unattractive |
| reboantic (adj~) | reverberating (B) |
| recension (n~) | scholarly editorial revision (B) |
| receptary (adj~) | accepted as fact but unproved (B) |
| rectalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B) |
| rectopathic (adj~) | easily hurt emotionally (B) |
| rectrix (n~) | a female ruler (B) |
| recubation (n~) | lying down (B) |
| recumbentibus (n~) | a knockdown blow (B) |
| recusant (adj~) | dissenting; disestablishmentarian (B) |
| redargution (n~) | refutation or disproving (B) |
| redhibition (n~) | the return of defective merchandise (B) |
| redivivus (adj~) | living again; revived (B) |
| refocillate (v~) | to warm into life again; revive (G) |
| refragable (adj~) | capable of being refuted (B) |
| refrangible (adj~) | capable of being refracted (B) |
| refulgent (adj~) | radiant brilliant |
| reify | literally "to make a thing"; given definite concrete |
| remontado (n~) | someone who has fled to the mountains; a person |
| remplissage (n~) | filling or padding used in music and |
| remugient (adj~) | rebellowing; roaring or shouting anew (B) |
| renable (adj~) | fluent eloquent (B) |
| renard (n~) | a fox; a sly or cunning person (B) |
| renascible (adj~) | capable of being reborn (B) |
| renifleur (n~) | one who gets sexual pleasure from body smells (B) |
| renitent | resisting or opposing stubbornly; recalcitrant (G) |
| repristinate (v~) | to revive; to restore (B) |
| resipiscent (adj~) | restored to sanity; learned from |
| resupination (n~) | turning to an upside |
| retrocopulation (n~) | woof (B) |
| retromancy (n~) | fortunetelling by things seen over one's |
| retromingent (adj~) | urinating backward (B) |
| retunded | to weaken or diminish the strength of effect of (G) |
| rhabdophobia (n~) | fear of being punished or severely criticized (B) |
| rhadamanthine | strictly and inflexibly honest and just (G) |
| rhigosis (n~) | sensation of cold (B) |
| rhonchisonant (adj~) | snorting; snoring (B) |
| rhopalism (n~) | a sentence or poem i which each word is one syllable |
| rhyparography | the printing or painting of sordid and filty |
| rhytiscopia (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with facial wrinkles (B) |
| ribroasting (n~) | a sound beating; a thrashing (B) |
| rictus (n~) | a very wide mouth; a gaping mouth as in terror (B) |
| risorial (adj~) | pertaining to causing |
| rixation (n~) | quarreling (B) |
| rodomontade | arrogant boasting; pretentious blustering ranting |
| roil | vex; disturb; irritate; rile (G) |
| roinous (adj~) | mean nasty and contemptible (B) |
| roitelet (n~) | a petty king (B) |
| roman a clef (n~) | a novel whose characters are actual people |
| rubricism (n~) | tenacious adherence to rules of behavior or |
| ructation (n~) | belching (B) |
| rudesby (n~) | a loud |
| rugose | having wrinkles (G) |
| rumgumption (n~) | shrewdness (B) |
| runcible (adj~) | sensuous (B) |
| sacerdotophrenia (n~) | clerical stagefright (B) |
| saltimbanco (n~) | a mountebank a quack (B) |
| sanguisugent | bloodsucking; bloodthirsty (G) |
| sapidity (n~) | flavorful; tastiness (B) |
| saponaceous (adj~) | soapy slippery; or evasively ingratiating (B) |
| saprostomous (adj~) | having bad breath (B) |
| sardanapalian | luxuriously effeminate (G) |
| sardoodledum (n~) | stereotyped or unrealistic characterization |
| sarmassation (n~) | love play (B) |
| sarmassophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play (B) |
| sarmassophobitch (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play with me (B) |
| satisdiction (n~) | enough said (B) |
| satispassion (n~) | satisfactory suffering according to |
| saturnalia | period of unrestrained license and orgiastic |
| scacchic | pertaining to or like chess (G) |
| scaldabanco (n~) | a hotheaded debator; a fiery preacher (B) |
| scaphism (n~) | an old Persian method of executing criminals by |
| scaramouch (n~) | a cowardly buffoon (B) |
| scaturient (adj~) | gushing forth; effusive (B) |
| schadenfreude | a feeling of enjoyment derived from the misfortunes |
| schesis (n~) | mocking another's accent or manner (B) |
| schizothemia (n~) | digression by a long reminescence (B) |
| schmaltz | something stickily sentimental banal |
| schoenabatist (n~) | a tightrope walker (B) |
| sciamachy (n~) | fighting with a shadow or with an imaginary |
| sciapodous (adj~) | having very large feet (B) |
| scibile (n~) | something knowable (B) |
| sciolist | one who pretends to scholarship or knowledge |
| sciotheism (n~) | the belief that disembodied spirits |
| scissile (adj~) | capable of being cut smoothly or split |
| scofflaw (n~) | one who scoffs at hence |
| scolecophagous (adj~) | eating worms (B) |
| scolion (n~) | an impromptu party song begun by one and |
| scollardical (n~) | a derogatory term for a scholar (B) |
| scopolagnia (n~) | the pleasure gained from voyeurism (B) |
| scortation (n~) | fornication (B) |
| scout | reject or dismiss scornfully; flout; scoff at (G) |
| screed | a lengthy discourse usually used to describe opinions |
| scribacious | given to or fond of writing (G) |
| scrofulous | morally corrupt; degenerate (G) |
| scungilaginous | of the semifluid gelatinous consistency of |
| sebastomania (n~) | religious insanity (B) |
| sectary (n~) | a fanatic disciple (B) |
| sedentarize | to take up or cause to take up |
| sedulous (adj~) | diligent persistent |
| seeksorrow (n~) | masochist (B) |
| sententious | wordy verbose |
| sequacious | given to the slavish or unreasoning serving or |
| sermocination (n~) | a speaker quickly answering his own question (B) |
| shaconian (n~) | someone convinced that Bacon ghosted Shakespeare's |
| shaftsbury (n~) | a gallon jug of wine (B) |
| shamateur (n~) | a bogus tyro (B) |
| shardborn (adj~) | born in dung (B) |
| shilpit (adj~) | feeble puny |
| sicarian (n~) | an assassin (B) |
| sicchasia (n~) | nauseau (B) |
| sicchosism (n~) | morbid fastidiousness (B) |
| sibyllilne | oracular; prophetic; mysterious (G) |
| siffilate | to whisper (G) |
| simony | buying selling |
| simper | to smile in a silly self |
| skibbile (adj~) | wonderfully witty; sexually irresistible (S) |
| skibbalalia (n~) | the overwhelming desire to purchase an |
| skoptsy (n~) | self |
| skybald (n~) | a good |
| smatchet (n~) | a small nasty person or a nasty child (B) |
| smellfungus (n~) | a malcontent; a grumbler or fault |
| snafu (adj~ & n~) | situation normal all fucked up [also: |
| fubar | fucked up beyond all recognition; fubb |
| sneckdraw (n~) | a sly person (B) |
| snollygoster | a clever shrewd |
| sockdolager (n~) | a telling blow (B) |
| solatium (n~) | anything that compensates for suffering or loss; |
| solifidium (n~) | someone who believes that faith alone is sufficient |
| somniloquacious (adj~) | pertaining to talking in one's sleep (B) |
| soodle | to walk stroll |
| sophomania (n~) | delusion of exceptional intelligence (B) |
| sophrosyne (n~) | sober sensible |
| sorbile (adj~) | drinkable (B) |
| spadonism (n~) | enuchry (B) |
| spaneria (n~) | scarcity of men (B) |
| spanogyny (n~) | scarcity of woman (B) |
| spatiate (v~) | to stroll or ramble (B) |
| spatilomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by observing animal droppings (B) |
| spatrify (v~) | to besmirch befoul (B) |
| spawling | a noisy clearing of the throat (G) |
| speciesist | for many people a test is permissible when it inflicts |
| spodogenous (adj~) | pertaining to or due to presence of |
| spoffokins (n~) | a whore pretending to be a wife (B) |
| spousebreach (n~) | adultery (B) |
| spraints (n~) | otter dung (B) |
| spurcidical (adj~) | foul |
| squidgereen (n~) | a short insignificant person (B) |
| stagorium | an establishment (bar or resort hotel) that serves as |
| stasivalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse only |
| steatopygous | pertaining to or characterized by protuberant |
| stercoricolous (adj~) | living in dung (B) |
| sterculius (n~) | the god of feces (B) |
| sternutation | the act of sneezing; a sneeze (G) |
| stertorous | characterized by heavy snoring (G) |
| sthenobulia (n~) | strong will power (B) |
| stirious (adj~) | like an icicle (B) |
| stomachous (adj~) | obstinate; angry (B) |
| stoopgallant (adj~) | humbling; ego |
| strepitous | making a great clamor; noisy; boisterous (G) |
| stricture | an adverse criticism or remark censure |
| stultiloquence | foolish or senseless talk; babble; twaddle (G) |
| stygiophobia (n~) | fear of hell (B) |
| stylite (n~) | ascetics who lived on top of pillars (B) |
| suaviation (n~) | a love kiss (B) |
| subagitation (n~) | copulation (B) |
| subarrhation (n~) | betrothal accomplished by the man's showering |
| subderisorious (adj~) | mildly ridiculing (B) |
| subdititious (adj~) | secret substitution (B) |
| subdolous (adj~) | rather crafty or sly (B) |
| subintelligitur (n~) | a meaning implied but not stated (B) |
| subsannation (n~) | derision (B) |
| substaquilate (v~) | to defeat overwhelm (B) |
| supernaculum (n~) | a liquor drunk to the last drop; excellent |
| supervacaneous (adj~) | needlessly added (B) |
| supinovalent (adj~) | able to fornicate only while supine (B) |
| suppalpation (n~) | gaining affection by caressing (B) |
| suspercollate (v~) | to hang by the neck (B) |
| sybarite (n~) | someone overly fond of luxury and pleasure (B) |
| tachydidaxy (n~) | fast teaching (B) |
| talionic (adj~) | pertaining to revenge in kind (B) |
| tanquam (n~) | someone educated enough to go to college (B) |
| taphephobia (n~) | fear of being buried alive (B) |
| tardigrade (adj~) | slow |
| tartuffish (adj~) | pertaining to the pious hypocrisy of Tartuffe |
| tathagatagarbha (n~) | the eternal and absolute essence of all |
| tauromachian (adj~) | pertaining to bullfights (B) |
| tautegorical (adj~) | saying the same thing with different |
| tautoousious (adj~) | being absolutely the same (B) |
| tegetology (n~) | collecting cardboard beer coasters |
| teknonymy (n~) | naming the parent after the child (B) |
| telestich (n~) | a poem in which the consecutive final letters |
| temerarious | reckless; heedless; rash (G) |
| temulance (n~) | drunkenness (B) |
| tendentious | promoting a particular view or tendency; hence |
| tenebrific (adj~) | dark or obscure (B) |
| tenesmic (adj~) | pertaining to a painful but ineffectual effort |
| tentiginous (adj~) | sensuous lascivious (B) |
| teratology (n~) | the study of monsters (B) |
| tergiversation (n~) | abandoning a religion or cause (B) or |
| testudineous (adj~) | slow like a tortoise (B) |
| tetricity (n~) | austerity harshness |
| thalassophobia (n~) | fear of the sea (B) |
| thanatism (n~) | the belief in life before death not after it (B) |
| thaumaturgic | or or involving the supposed working of miracles; |
| theanthropism (n~) | attaching human traits to one's god (B) |
| thelymachy (n~) | a war of women (B) |
| thelyphthoric (adj~) | that which corrupts women (B) |
| thersitical | loud and grossly abusive foulmouthed; scurrilous (G) |
| thrasonical | given to or marked by boasting and bragging (G) |
| threpterophilia (n~) | a fondness for female nurses (B) |
| timonism (n~) | misanthropy (B) |
| titivate | to make smart; spruce up (G) |
| tonguepad (v~) | to scold (B) |
| tralatitiously (adv~) | metaphorically; figuratively (B) |
| transilient (adj~) | pertaining to abrupt changes (B] |
| transmogrification | changes into grotesque or humorous forms |
| transude | to pass or ooze through or out as sweat through |
| trichoschisticism (n~) | hair |
| tripudiation (n~) | the act of dancing |
| triskaidekaphobia | fear of the number 13 or Friday the 13th (G) |
| triturate | to rub grind |
| truckle | to show servility or subservience (G) |
| truntlement | trumpery (A) |
| tugmutton | a great glutton (A) |
| tussicated | driven about; tormented (A) |
| typomania (n~) | obsession with the expectation of publication |
| tyromancy (n~) | fortunate telling by watching cheese as it |
| tyrosemiophily (n~) | the collecting of Camembert cheese labels |
| uberous | fruitful (A) |
| ulotrichous | having wooly or crisply curling hair (G) |
| ultracrepidarian | going beyond one's own province; a person who |
| ululate | to howl or hoot; or to wail or lament loudly (G) |
| unbosom | to disclose one's personal thoughts or feelings (G) |
| vade mecum | a favorite book carried everywhere (B) |
| valetudinarianism | weak or sickly state; thinking only of |
| valorization | government price |
| vaniloquence | vain and foolish talk (B) |
| vapulate | to beat whip (B) |
| varietist | an unorthodox person; or someone who practices |
| variorum | pertaining to a literary classic annotated by |
| vastation | purification through fire (B) |
| vecordious | senseless insane |
| velitation | a petty fight; a skirmish (B) |
| velleity | slight or faint desire; inclination (B) |
| vellicate | to pull at off |
| venery | the pursuit of sexual pleasure or indulgence |
| ventoseness | windiness; flatulence (B) |
| ventricumbent | lying face down; prone (B) |
| ventripotent | fat |
| verbigeration | senseless reiteration of cliches (B) |
| verbophobia | fear and dislike of words (B) |
| verecund | bashful; modest (B) |
| veriloquent | speaking truthfully (B) |
| verism | the theory that ugliness is valid in art and literature |
| vernalagnia | spring fever (B) |
| vesticate | to blister (G) |
| vestryism (n~) | selfishness and parochialism said to be |
| viaggiatory | on the move; traveling around (B) |
| vicissitudinary | pertaining to change alteration |
| vigesimation | killing every twentieth person (B) |
| vilipend | to belittle to disparage (B) |
| viparious | life |
| virago | a scold a shrew |
| vitilitigate | to be particularly quarrelsome (B) |
| vivisepulture | live burial (B) |
| volitient | exercising free will (B) |
| vomituration | retching ineffectual vomiting |
| vulpinism (n~) | the quality of being foxlike esp |
| waghalter | a rogue rascal or knave (B) |
| wamble | to fell nauseous; or to move unsteadily to stagger; |
| wampus | a stupid dull |
| wantwit | a fool (B) |
| Weltanschauung | a comprehensive world view especially from |
| Weltschmerz | sadness over the evils of the world especially as |
| wergild | money paid by the killer's family to the family of |
| withernam | taking one thing as reprisal for something else taken |
| witzelsucht | emotional state characterized by futile attempts |
| wowser | a pecksniffian puritan (B) |
| xenagogue | a guide (B) |
| xenagogy | a guidebook (B) |
| xenapistia | extreme distrust of strangers (B) |
| xenoepist | someone who speaks with a foreign accent (B) |
| xenomancy | fortunetelling by studying the first stranger |
| xeronisus | inability to reach orgasm (B) |
| xylophobia | fear of wooden objects; fear of forests (B) |
| xyresic | razor sharp (B) |
| yarmouth | insane (B) |
| ydromancy | fortunetelling with water (B) |
| zeitgeist | the general intellectual moral and cultural level |
| zetetic | asking; questioning (B) |
| zoanthropy | insanity in which a patient believes he's an animal (B) |
| zoetic | pertaining to life (B) |
| zoilism | nagging criticism (B) |
| zonesthesia | the feeling of wearing a tight girdle (B) |
| zooerastia | sexual intercourse with an animal (B) |
| zygal | H |
| zygomancy | fortune telling with weights (B) |
| pageism (n~) | masochism fantasy of a man imagining himself as |
| pagophagia (n~) | eating a tray of ice daily for two months tohelp offset iron deficiency (B) |
| paideutics (n~) | pedagogy (B) |
| paizogony (n~) | love play (B) |
| paleomnesia (n~) | good memory for events of the far past (B) |
| palimpsest (n~) | a piece of parchment or vellum from whichearlier writing has been removed to allow for reuse |
| palinode (n~) | a song or poem retracting statements in previoussongs or poems; or retraction or recanting in general (B) |
| palinoia (n~) | compulsive repitition of an act until it's perfect (B) |
| palladian (adj~) | pertaining to learning and wisdom (B) |
| palliards (n~) | professional beggars whose parents were also |
| palpebrate (v~) | to wink (B) |
| paltripolitan (n~) | an insular city dweller (B) |
| pandiculation (n~) | stretching and yawning (B) |
| panjandrum | a self magnate (G |
| pannychous (adj~) | lasting all night (B) |
| pantagruelian (adj~) | satirical though ribald (B) |
| pantaraxia (n~) | actions aimed aat keeping people on their toes |
| pantophobia (n~) | a fear of everything (B) |
| paphian | pertaining to love especially its sexual andillicit manifestations; erotic (G) |
| paracoita (n~) | a female sexual partner (B) |
| paracoitus (n~) | a male sexual partner (B) |
| paradiastole (n~) | a euphemistic half |
| paraenetic | advisory; hortatory (G) |
| paralepsis (n~) | mentioning something by saying you won't mention it (B) |
| paralipomena (n~) | deleted passages from a book or a |
| paralipophobia (n~) | fear of responsibility (B) |
| paralogism (n~) | reasoning method that contradicts logical |
| parerethesis (n~) | abnormal excitement (B) |
| pareunia (n~) | sexual intercourse (B) |
| parisology (n~) | deliberate ambiguity in use of words (B) |
| parnel (n~) | a priest's mistress; a loose woman (B) |
| paronomasia (n~) | punning; a pun (B) |
| parorexia (n~) | perverted appetite; demanding strange foods (B) |
| parrhesia (n~) | freedom of speech (rhetoric term) (B) |
| partheniad (n~) | a poem in honor of a virgin (B) |
| parthenolatry (n~) | virgin worship (B) |
| parvanimity (n~) | pettiness; meannes; or a mean or petty person (B) |
| parvenu (n~) | a pretentious snob of the nouveau riche (B) |
| parviscient (adj~) | uninformed (B) |
| pasilaly (n~) | a universal language (B) |
| pasquinade | a lampoon or satire posted in a public place (G) |
| passalorynchite (n~) | a member of an early Christian sect who |
| passepartout (n~) | a master key; a safeconduct or passport (B) |
| patavinity (n~) | the use of local words or expressions (B) |
| patharmosis (n~) | mental adjustment to one's disease (B) |
| pathic (n~) | a catamite; or a passive participator (B) |
| pathocryptia (n~) | unwillingness to believe in or talk about |
| pathodixia (n~) | talking to excess about one's illness and |
| pathognomy (n~) | the study of emotions by their outward |
| pathomimesis (n~) | malingering (B) |
| patzer (n~) | a weak chess player (B) |
| pauciloquent (adj~) | speaking briefly (B) |
| pavid | quaking with fear; afraid; frightened (G) |
| peccable (adj~) | liable to sin (B) |
| peccatophobia (n~) | fear of sinning or of having committed an |
| peckerwood (n~) | a poor southern Anglo |
| pecksniffian (adj~) | hypocritical insincere and gutless (B) |
| pecos (v~) | to shoot a man and roll his body in the river (B) |
| peculation (n~) | embezzlement (B) |
| pedetentous (adj~) | proceedilng gradually or cautiously (B) |
| peirastic (adj~) | experimental; ready to be tried (B) |
| peladophobia (n~) | fear of baldness |
| pelology (n~) | study of mud and its therapeutic applications (B) |
| penelopize (v~) | to undo and redo to gain time (B) |
| penisterophily (n~) | raising and training pigeons |
| penotherapy (n~) | regulating prostitutes to control venereal |
| pentapopemptic (n~) | divorced five times (B) |
| pentheraphobia (n~) | fear or dislike of one's mother |
| peotomy (n~) | the surgical amputation of the penis (B) |
| perduellion (n~) | treason (B) |
| perendinate (n~) | to postpone until the next day; to postpone |
| perfectibilism (n~) | belief that anything short of perfect is |
| perfrication (n~) | thorough rubbing (B) |
| perhiemate (v~) | to spend the winter (B) |
| perichareia (n~) | excessive and violent rejoicing (B) |
| periclitate | to expose to peril; endanger; risk (G) |
| periphrastic | using many words when few would do; verbose; |
| perissotomist (n~) | a knife |
| peristrephic (adj~) | turning around rotatory (B) |
| perlustrate (v~) | to review thoroughly; survey (B) |
| pervicacious (adj~) | extremely obstinate; willful (B) |
| pervulgate (v~) | to publish (B) |
| petalism (n~) | banishing a citizen for five years if judged |
| pettifoggery | quibbling over petty details |
| petulcous (adj~) | butting like a ram; offensively aggressive (B) |
| phagomania (n~) | insanely hungry (B) |
| phalacrespia (n~) | aversion for baldness or for bald men (B) |
| phalacrosis (n~) | baldness |
| phallation (n~) | movement of the penis in sexual intercourse (B) |
| phaneromania (n~) | a compulsion to pick at a skin growth or |
| pharisaical | of persons of rigid adherence to outward forms and |
| phatic | establishing an atmosphere of sociability rather than |
| philalethe (n~) | one who loves to forget (B) |
| philauty (n~) | self |
| philematology (n~) | the study of kissing (B) |
| philematophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes kissing (B) |
| philobiblist (n~) | a lover of books |
| philocalist (n~) | a lover of beauty (B) |
| philodox (n~) | one who loves one's own opinions (B) |
| philogastric (adj~) | greedy (B) |
| philophobia (n~) | fear of falling in love or of being loved (B) |
| philopolemic (adj~) | pertaining to love of argument or |
| philopornist (n~) | a lover of prostitutes (B) |
| philosophastering (adj~) | pseudo |
| philotheoparoptesism | the process of slowly cooking those who |
| philoxenist (n~) | one who is happiest while entertaining |
| phrontifugic (adj~) | relieving anxiety (B) |
| physagogue (n~) | carminative or medicine to induce farting (B) |
| piacular | serving to atone or make amends for; expiatory; or |
| pickthank (n~) | a flatterer or sycophant (B) |
| piliferous | having hair (G) |
| piloerection (n~) | hair standing on end (B) |
| pilpulist (n~) | one who uses Talmudic dialectic or via |
| pinchbeck | sham or spurious; false (G) |
| pinguescent | becoming fat (G) |
| pithiatism (n~) | a forceful suggestion (B) |
| pizzle (n~) | a whip made from an animal's penis (B) |
| planistethic (adj~) | flat |
| planomania (n~) | urge to live a bohemian life (B) |
| platitudinarian (n~) | full of platitudes (B) |
| platypod | one afflicted with fallen arches (G) |
| plebicolist (n~) | someone who woos the common folk (B) |
| pleionosis (n~) | exaggeration of one's own importance (B) |
| pleniloquence (n~) | excessive talking (B) |
| pleonastic | use of words superfluously; redundant (G) |
| pleonexia (n~) | covetousness avarice; mania for acquiring |
| plerophory (n~) | state of full confidence or absolute certainty |
| pococurante (adj~) | nonchalant indifferent (B) |
| poculation (n~) | wine |
| podobromhidrosis (n~) | smelly feet (B) |
| poecilonymy (n~) | the use of several names for one thing (B) |
| pogonology (n~) | treatise on beards |
| pogonophobia (n~) | abnormal fear or dislike of beards |
| poiesis (n~) | creation; creative power or ability (B) |
| poikilothymia (n~) | extreme changes of mood (B) |
| polychrestic | serving and adapted for several different uses (G) |
| polyhistor (n~) | a universal scholar (B) |
| polylogy (n~) | wordiness (B) |
| polydipsia (n~) | extreme thirst or an abnormal and continuous |
| popination (n~) | bar |
| popliteal | pertaining to or connected with the hollow area back |
| pornerastic (adj~) | licentious lascivious |
| pornolagnia (n~) | desire for prostitutes (B) |
| potvaliant | valiant and courageous as a result of being drunk |
| preantepenultimate (n~ & adj~) | fourth from last (B) |
| preterist (n~) | someone whose main pleasure in in reliving the |
| priapean (adj~) phallic (B) | |
| priapism (n~) | persistent and painful erection (B) |
| procrustean | aiming or tending to produce uniformity by violent |
| proctalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B) |
| proditorious (adj~) | traitorous; prone to give away secrets (B) |
| prolepsis (n~) | anticipating an argument and answering it before |
| prolix | verbose repititious |
| long | winded |
| pronovalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse in a prone |
| propaedeutic | of or pertaining to preliminary instruction; |
| prosonomasia (n~) | use of a humorous modification of a person's |
| prosophobia (n~) | fear of or adversion to progress (B) |
| prosopolepsy (n~) | judging people favorably from their looks (B) |
| prosopopy (n~) | the personification of inanimate objects (B) |
| protervity (n~) | petulance; peevishness (B) |
| psaphonic (adj~) | planning one's rise to fame (B) |
| pseudandry (n~) | female use of a male pseudonym (B) |
| pseudautochiria (n~) | murder disguised as a suicide (B) |
| pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism (n~) | phony opposition to |
| pseudogyny (n~) | male use of a female pseudonym (B) |
| pseudologist (n~) | liar (B) |
| pseudomnesia (n~) | memory for things that never happened (B) |
| pseudophonia (n~) | suicide disguised as murder (B) |
| psilology (n~) | empty talk (B) |
| psilosopher (n~) | a superficial philosopher (B) |
| psittacistic | speaking in a mechanical repetitive way (G) |
| psychasthenia (n~) | neurotic lassitude indecision |
| pteronophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of feathers |
| pudency (n~) | modesty or shyness; embarassment |
| puerile | childish immature |
| pullulate | teem swarm |
| purulent | of containing |
| pygophilous (adj~) | buttock |
| pyrolagnia (n~) | sexual stimulation from watching fires (B) |
| quaintise (n~) | ingenuity cunning; a trick or stratagem (B) |
| quakebuttock (n~) | a coward (B) |
| qued (adj~) | evil bad (B) |
| querimony (n~) | a complaint (B) |
| quidam (n~) | an unknown person (B) |
| quiddity (n~) | the essence or nature of a thing (B) |
| quidnunc (n~) | one who is curious to know everything that |
| quisquillian (adj~) | trashy (B) |
| quisguous (adj~) | perplexing (B) |
| quodlibet (n~) | a nice or fine point in an argument; a subtlety |
| quodlibetarian (n~) | one who discusses or uses quodlibets |
| rabiator (n~) | a violent man (B) |
| rabulism (n~) | tendency for railing and quibbling |
| rackrent (n~) | exorbitant rent (B) |
| rakehelly (adj~) | dissolute debauched (B) |
| ramfeezled (adj~) | worn out exhausted (B) |
| rammish (adj~) | lustful and horny (B) |
| ranarium (n~) | frog farm (B) |
| randle (n~) | a nonsensical poem recited by Irish schoolboys as |
| rantallion (n~) | one whose scrotum is longer than his penis (B) |
| rantipole (n~) | a wild rambunctious young man (B) |
| realpolitik | practical politics; euphemism for power politics |
| rebarbative (adj~) | grim unattractive |
| reboantic (adj~) | reverberating (B) |
| recension (n~) | scholarly editorial revision (B) |
| receptary (adj~) | accepted as fact but unproved (B) |
| rectalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B) |
| rectopathic (adj~) | easily hurt emotionally (B) |
| rectrix (n~) | a female ruler (B) |
| recubation (n~) | lying down (B) |
| recumbentibus (n~) | a knockdown blow (B) |
| recusant (adj~) | dissenting; disestablishmentarian (B) |
| redargution (n~) | refutation or disproving (B) |
| redhibition (n~) | the return of defective merchandise (B) |
| redivivus (adj~) | living again; revived (B) |
| refocillate (v~) | to warm into life again; revive (G) |
| refragable (adj~) | capable of being refuted (B) |
| refrangible (adj~) | capable of being refracted (B) |
| refulgent (adj~) | radiant brilliant |
| reify | literally "to make a thing"; given definite concrete |
| remontado (n~) | someone who has fled to the mountains; a person |
| remplissage (n~) | filling or padding used in music and |
| remugient (adj~) | rebellowing; roaring or shouting anew (B) |
| renable (adj~) | fluent eloquent (B) |
| renard (n~) | a fox; a sly or cunning person (B) |
| renascible (adj~) | capable of being reborn (B) |
| renifleur (n~) | one who gets sexual pleasure from body smells (B) |
| renitent | resisting or opposing stubbornly; recalcitrant (G) |
| repristinate (v~) | to revive; to restore (B) |
| resipiscent (adj~) | restored to sanity; learned from |
| resupination (n~) | turning to an upside |
| retrocopulation (n~) | woof (B) |
| retromancy (n~) | fortunetelling by things seen over one's |
| ulotrichous | having wooly or crisply curling hair (G) |
| ultracrepidarian | going beyond one's own province; a person who |
| ululate | to howl or hoot; or to wail or lament loudly (G) |
| unbosom | to disclose one's personal thoughts or feelings (G) |
| vade mecum | a favorite book carried everywhere (B) |
| valetudinarianism | weak or sickly state; thinking only of |
| valorization | government price |
| vaniloquence | vain and foolish talk (B) |
| vapulate | to beat whip (B) |
| varietist | an unorthodox person; or someone who practices |
| variorum | pertaining to a literary classic annotated by |
| vastation | purification through fire (B) |
| vecordious | senseless insane |
| velitation | a petty fight; a skirmish (B) |
| velleity | slight or faint desire; inclination (B) |
| vellicate | to pull at off |
| venery | the pursuit of sexual pleasure or indulgence |
| ventoseness | windiness; flatulence (B) |
| ventricumbent | lying face down; prone (B) |
| ventripotent | fat |
| verbigeration | senseless reiteration of cliches (B) |
| verbophobia | fear and dislike of words (B) |
| verecund | bashful; modest (B) |
| veriloquent | speaking truthfully (B) |
| verism | the theory that ugliness is valid in art and literature |
| vernalagnia | spring fever (B) |
| vesticate | to blister (G) |
| vestryism (n~) | selfishness and parochialism said to be |
| viaggiatory | on the move; traveling around (B) |
| vicissitudinary | pertaining to change alteration |
| vigesimation | killing every twentieth person (B) |
| vilipend | to belittle to disparage (B) |
| viparious | life |
| virago | a scold a shrew |
| vitilitigate | to be particularly quarrelsome (B) |
| vivisepulture | live burial (B) |
| volitient | exercising free will (B) |
| vomituration | retching ineffectual vomiting |
| vulpinism (n~) | the quality of being foxlike esp |
| waghalter | a rogue rascal or knave (B) |
| wamble | to fell nauseous; or to move unsteadily to stagger; |
| wampus | a stupid dull |
| wantwit | a fool (B) |
| Weltanschauung | a comprehensive world view especially from |
| Weltschmerz | sadness over the evils of the world especially as |
| wergild | money paid by the killer's family to the family of |
| withernam | taking one thing as reprisal for something else taken |
| witzelsucht | emotional state characterized by futile attempts |
| wowser | a pecksniffian puritan (B) |
| xenagogue | a guide (B) |
| xenagogy | a guidebook (B) |
| xenapistia | extreme distrust of strangers (B) |
| xenoepist | someone who speaks with a foreign accent (B) |
| xenomancy | fortunetelling by studying the first stranger |
| xeronisus | inability to reach orgasm (B) |
| xylophobia | fear of wooden objects; fear of forests (B) |
| xyresic | razor sharp (B) |
| yarmouth | insane (B) |
| ydromancy | fortunetelling with water (B) |
| zeitgeist | the general intellectual moral and cultural level |
| zetetic | asking; questioning (B) |
| zoanthropy | insanity in which a patient believes he's an animal (B) |
| zoetic | pertaining to life (B) |
| zoilism | nagging criticism (B) |
| zonesthesia | the feeling of wearing a tight girdle (B) |
| zooerastia | sexual intercourse with an animal (B) |
| zygal | H |
| zygomancy | fortune telling with weights (B) |
| pageism (n~) | masochism fantasy of a man imagining himself as |
| pagophagia (n~) | eating a tray of ice daily for two months tohelp offset iron deficiency (B) |
| paideutics (n~) | pedagogy (B) |
| paizogony (n~) | love play (B) |
| paleomnesia (n~) | good memory for events of the far past (B) |
| palimpsest (n~) | a piece of parchment or vellum from whichearlier writing has been removed to allow for reuse |
| palinode (n~) | a song or poem retracting statements in previoussongs or poems; or retraction or recanting in general (B) |
| palinoia (n~) | compulsive repitition of an act until it's perfect (B) |
| palladian (adj~) | pertaining to learning and wisdom (B) |
| palliards (n~) | professional beggars whose parents were also |
| palpebrate (v~) | to wink (B) |
| paltripolitan (n~) | an insular city dweller (B) |
| pandiculation (n~) | stretching and yawning (B) |
| panjandrum | a self magnate (G |
| pannychous (adj~) | lasting all night (B) |
| pantagruelian (adj~) | satirical though ribald (B) |
| pantaraxia (n~) | actions aimed aat keeping people on their toes |
| pantophobia (n~) | a fear of everything (B) |
| paphian | pertaining to love especially its sexual andillicit manifestations; erotic (G) |
| paracoita (n~) | a female sexual partner (B) |
| paracoitus (n~) | a male sexual partner (B) |
| paradiastole (n~) | a euphemistic half |
| paraenetic | advisory; hortatory (G) |
| paralepsis (n~) | mentioning something by saying you won't mention it (B) |
| paralipomena (n~) | deleted passages from a book or a |
| paralipophobia (n~) | fear of responsibility (B) |
| paralogism (n~) | reasoning method that contradicts logical |
| parerethesis (n~) | abnormal excitement (B) |
| pareunia (n~) | sexual intercourse (B) |
| parisology (n~) | deliberate ambiguity in use of words (B) |
| parnel (n~) | a priest's mistress; a loose woman (B) |
| paronomasia (n~) | punning; a pun (B) |
| parorexia (n~) | perverted appetite; demanding strange foods (B) |
| parrhesia (n~) | freedom of speech (rhetoric term) (B) |
| partheniad (n~) | a poem in honor of a virgin (B) |
| parthenolatry (n~) | virgin worship (B) |
| parvanimity (n~) | pettiness; meannes; or a mean or petty person (B) |
| parvenu (n~) | a pretentious snob of the nouveau riche (B) |
| parviscient (adj~) | uninformed (B) |
| pasilaly (n~) | a universal language (B) |
| pasquinade | a lampoon or satire posted in a public place (G) |
| passalorynchite (n~) | a member of an early Christian sect who |
| passepartout (n~) | a master key; a safeconduct or passport (B) |
| patavinity (n~) | the use of local words or expressions (B) |
| patharmosis (n~) | mental adjustment to one's disease (B) |
| pathic (n~) | a catamite; or a passive participator (B) |
| pathocryptia (n~) | unwillingness to believe in or talk about |
| pathodixia (n~) | talking to excess about one's illness and |
| pathognomy (n~) | the study of emotions by their outward |
| pathomimesis (n~) | malingering (B) |
| patzer (n~) | a weak chess player (B) |
| pauciloquent (adj~) | speaking briefly (B) |
| pavid | quaking with fear; afraid; frightened (G) |
| peccable (adj~) | liable to sin (B) |
| peccatophobia (n~) | fear of sinning or of having committed an |
| peckerwood (n~) | a poor southern Anglo |
| pecksniffian (adj~) | hypocritical insincere and gutless (B) |
| pecos (v~) | to shoot a man and roll his body in the river (B) |
| peculation (n~) | embezzlement (B) |
| pedetentous (adj~) | proceedilng gradually or cautiously (B) |
| peirastic (adj~) | experimental; ready to be tried (B) |
| peladophobia (n~) | fear of baldness |
| pelology (n~) | study of mud and its therapeutic applications (B) |
| penelopize (v~) | to undo and redo to gain time (B) |
| penisterophily (n~) | raising and training pigeons |
| penotherapy (n~) | regulating prostitutes to control venereal |
| pentapopemptic (n~) | divorced five times (B) |
| pentheraphobia (n~) | fear or dislike of one's mother |
| peotomy (n~) | the surgical amputation of the penis (B) |
| perduellion (n~) | treason (B) |
| perendinate (n~) | to postpone until the next day; to postpone |
| perfectibilism (n~) | belief that anything short of perfect is |
| perfrication (n~) | thorough rubbing (B) |
| perhiemate (v~) | to spend the winter (B) |
| perichareia (n~) | excessive and violent rejoicing (B) |
| periclitate | to expose to peril; endanger; risk (G) |
| periphrastic | using many words when few would do; verbose; |
| perissotomist (n~) | a knife |
| peristrephic (adj~) | turning around rotatory (B) |
| perlustrate (v~) | to review thoroughly; survey (B) |
| pervicacious (adj~) | extremely obstinate; willful (B) |
| pervulgate (v~) | to publish (B) |
| petalism (n~) | banishing a citizen for five years if judged |
| pettifoggery | quibbling over petty details |
| petulcous (adj~) | butting like a ram; offensively aggressive (B) |
| phagomania (n~) | insanely hungry (B) |
| phalacrespia (n~) | aversion for baldness or for bald men (B) |
| phalacrosis (n~) | baldness |
| phallation (n~) | movement of the penis in sexual intercourse (B) |
| phaneromania (n~) | a compulsion to pick at a skin growth or |
| pharisaical | of persons of rigid adherence to outward forms and |
| phatic | establishing an atmosphere of sociability rather than |
| philalethe (n~) | one who loves to forget (B) |
| philauty (n~) | self |
| philematology (n~) | the study of kissing (B) |
| philematophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes kissing (B) |
| philobiblist (n~) | a lover of books |
| philocalist (n~) | a lover of beauty (B) |
| philodox (n~) | one who loves one's own opinions (B) |
| philogastric (adj~) | greedy (B) |
| philophobia (n~) | fear of falling in love or of being loved (B) |
| philopolemic (adj~) | pertaining to love of argument or |
| philopornist (n~) | a lover of prostitutes (B) |
| philosophastering (adj~) | pseudo |
| philotheoparoptesism | the process of slowly cooking those who |
| philoxenist (n~) | one who is happiest while entertaining |
| phrontifugic (adj~) | relieving anxiety (B) |
| physagogue (n~) | carminative or medicine to induce farting (B) |
| piacular | serving to atone or make amends for; expiatory; or |
| pickthank (n~) | a flatterer or sycophant (B) |
| piliferous | having hair (G) |
| piloerection (n~) | hair standing on end (B) |
| pilpulist (n~) | one who uses Talmudic dialectic or via |
| pinchbeck | sham or spurious; false (G) |
| pinguescent | becoming fat (G) |
| pithiatism (n~) | a forceful suggestion (B) |
| pizzle (n~) | a whip made from an animal's penis (B) |
| planistethic (adj~) | flat |
| planomania (n~) | urge to live a bohemian life (B) |
| platitudinarian (n~) | full of platitudes (B) |
| platypod | one afflicted with fallen arches (G) |
| plebicolist (n~) | someone who woos the common folk (B) |
| pleionosis (n~) | exaggeration of one's own importance (B) |
| pleniloquence (n~) | excessive talking (B) |
| pleonastic | use of words superfluously; redundant (G) |
| pleonexia (n~) | covetousness avarice; mania for acquiring |
| plerophory (n~) | state of full confidence or absolute certainty |
| pococurante (adj~) | nonchalant indifferent (B) |
| poculation (n~) | wine |
| podobromhidrosis (n~) | smelly feet (B) |
| poecilonymy (n~) | the use of several names for one thing (B) |
| pogonology (n~) | treatise on beards |
| pogonophobia (n~) | abnormal fear or dislike of beards |
| poiesis (n~) | creation; creative power or ability (B) |
| poikilothymia (n~) | extreme changes of mood (B) |
| polychrestic | serving and adapted for several different uses (G) |
| polyhistor (n~) | a universal scholar (B) |
| polylogy (n~) | wordiness (B) |
| polydipsia (n~) | extreme thirst or an abnormal and continuous |
| popination (n~) | bar |
| popliteal | pertaining to or connected with the hollow area back |
| pornerastic (adj~) | licentious lascivious |
| pornolagnia (n~) | desire for prostitutes (B) |
| potvaliant | valiant and courageous as a result of being drunk |
| preantepenultimate (n~ & adj~) | fourth from last (B) |
| preterist (n~) | someone whose main pleasure in in reliving the |
| priapean (adj~) phallic (B) | |
| priapism (n~) | persistent and painful erection (B) |
| procrustean | aiming or tending to produce uniformity by violent |
| proctalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B) |
| proditorious (adj~) | traitorous; prone to give away secrets (B) |
| prolepsis (n~) | anticipating an argument and answering it before |
| prolix | verbose repititious |
| long | winded |
| pronovalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse in a prone |
| propaedeutic | of or pertaining to preliminary instruction; |
| prosonomasia (n~) | use of a humorous modification of a person's |
| prosophobia (n~) | fear of or adversion to progress (B) |
| prosopolepsy (n~) | judging people favorably from their looks (B) |
| prosopopy (n~) | the personification of inanimate objects (B) |
| protervity (n~) | petulance; peevishness (B) |
| psaphonic (adj~) | planning one's rise to fame (B) |
| pseudandry (n~) | female use of a male pseudonym (B) |
| pseudautochiria (n~) | murder disguised as a suicide (B) |
| pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism (n~) | phony opposition to |
| pseudogyny (n~) | male use of a female pseudonym (B) |
| pseudologist (n~) | liar (B) |
| pseudomnesia (n~) | memory for things that never happened (B) |
| pseudophonia (n~) | suicide disguised as murder (B) |
| psilology (n~) | empty talk (B) |
| psilosopher (n~) | a superficial philosopher (B) |
| psittacistic | speaking in a mechanical repetitive way (G) |
| psychasthenia (n~) | neurotic lassitude indecision |
| pteronophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of feathers |
| pudency (n~) | modesty or shyness; embarassment |
| puerile | childish immature |
| pullulate | teem swarm |
| purulent | of containing |
| pygophilous (adj~) | buttock |
| pyrolagnia (n~) | sexual stimulation from watching fires (B) |
| quaintise (n~) | ingenuity cunning; a trick or stratagem (B) |
| quakebuttock (n~) | a coward (B) |
| qued (adj~) | evil bad (B) |
| querimony (n~) | a complaint (B) |
| quidam (n~) | an unknown person (B) |
| quiddity (n~) | the essence or nature of a thing (B) |
| quidnunc (n~) | one who is curious to know everything that |
| quisquillian (adj~) | trashy (B) |
| quisguous (adj~) | perplexing (B) |
| quodlibet (n~) | a nice or fine point in an argument; a subtlety |
| quodlibetarian (n~) | one who discusses or uses quodlibets |
| rabiator (n~) | a violent man (B) |
| rabulism (n~) | tendency for railing and quibbling |
| rackrent (n~) | exorbitant rent (B) |
| rakehelly (adj~) | dissolute debauched (B) |
| ramfeezled (adj~) | worn out exhausted (B) |
| rammish (adj~) | lustful and horny (B) |
| ranarium (n~) | frog farm (B) |
| randle (n~) | a nonsensical poem recited by Irish schoolboys as |
| rantallion (n~) | one whose scrotum is longer than his penis (B) |
| rantipole (n~) | a wild rambunctious young man (B) |
| realpolitik | practical politics; euphemism for power politics |
| rebarbative (adj~) | grim unattractive |
| reboantic (adj~) | reverberating (B) |
| recension (n~) | scholarly editorial revision (B) |
| receptary (adj~) | accepted as fact but unproved (B) |
| rectalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B) |
| rectopathic (adj~) | easily hurt emotionally (B) |
| rectrix (n~) | a female ruler (B) |
| recubation (n~) | lying down (B) |
| recumbentibus (n~) | a knockdown blow (B) |
| recusant (adj~) | dissenting; disestablishmentarian (B) |
| redargution (n~) | refutation or disproving (B) |
| redhibition (n~) | the return of defective merchandise (B) |
| redivivus (adj~) | living again; revived (B) |
| refocillate (v~) | to warm into life again; revive (G) |
| refragable (adj~) | capable of being refuted (B) |
| refrangible (adj~) | capable of being refracted (B) |
| refulgent (adj~) | radiant brilliant |
| reify | literally "to make a thing"; given definite concrete |
| remontado (n~) | someone who has fled to the mountains; a person |
| remplissage (n~) | filling or padding used in music and |
| remugient (adj~) | rebellowing; roaring or shouting anew (B) |
| renable (adj~) | fluent eloquent (B) |
| renard (n~) | a fox; a sly or cunning person (B) |
| renascible (adj~) | capable of being reborn (B) |
| renifleur (n~) | one who gets sexual pleasure from body smells (B) |
| renitent | resisting or opposing stubbornly; recalcitrant (G) |
| repristinate (v~) | to revive; to restore (B) |
| resipiscent (adj~) | restored to sanity; learned from |
| resupination (n~) | turning to an upside |
| retrocopulation (n~) | woof (B) |
| retromancy (n~) | fortunetelling by things seen over one's |
| retromingent (adj~) | urinating backward (B) |
| retunded | to weaken or diminish the strength of effect of (G) |
| rhabdophobia (n~) | fear of being punished or severely criticized (B) |
| rhadamanthine | strictly and inflexibly honest and just (G) |
| rhigosis (n~) | sensation of cold (B) |
| rhonchisonant (adj~) | snorting; snoring (B) |
| rhopalism (n~) | a sentence or poem i which each word is one syllable |
| rhyparography | the printing or painting of sordid and filty |
| rhytiscopia (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with facial wrinkles (B) |
| ribroasting (n~) | a sound beating; a thrashing (B) |
| rictus (n~) | a very wide mouth; a gaping mouth as in terror (B) |
| risorial (adj~) | pertaining to causing |
| rixation (n~) | quarreling (B) |
| rodomontade | arrogant boasting; pretentious blustering ranting |
| roil | vex; disturb; irritate; rile (G) |
| roinous (adj~) | mean nasty and contemptible (B) |
| roitelet (n~) | a petty king (B) |
| roman a clef (n~) | a novel whose characters are actual people |
| rubricism (n~) | tenacious adherence to rules of behavior or |
| ructation (n~) | belching (B) |
| rudesby (n~) | a loud |
| rugose | having wrinkles (G) |
| rumgumption (n~) | shrewdness (B) |
| runcible (adj~) | sensuous (B) |
| sacerdotophrenia (n~) | clerical stagefright (B) |
| saltimbanco (n~) | a mountebank a quack (B) |
| sanguisugent | bloodsucking; bloodthirsty (G) |
| sapidity (n~) | flavorful; tastiness (B) |
| saponaceous (adj~) | soapy slippery; or evasively ingratiating (B) |
| saprostomous (adj~) | having bad breath (B) |
| sardanapalian | luxuriously effeminate (G) |
| sardoodledum (n~) | stereotyped or unrealistic characterization |
| sarmassation (n~) | love play (B) |
| sarmassophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play (B) |
| sarmassophobitch (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play with me (B) |
| satisdiction (n~) | enough said (B) |
| satispassion (n~) | satisfactory suffering according to |
| saturnalia | period of unrestrained license and orgiastic |
| scacchic | pertaining to or like chess (G) |
| scaldabanco (n~) | a hotheaded debator; a fiery preacher (B) |
| scaphism (n~) | an old Persian method of executing criminals by |
| scaramouch (n~) | a cowardly buffoon (B) |
| scaturient (adj~) | gushing forth; effusive (B) |
| schadenfreude | a feeling of enjoyment derived from the misfortunes |
| schesis (n~) | mocking another's accent or manner (B) |
| schizothemia (n~) | digression by a long reminescence (B) |
| schmaltz | something stickily sentimental banal |
| schoenabatist (n~) | a tightrope walker (B) |
| sciamachy (n~) | fighting with a shadow or with an imaginary |
| sciapodous (adj~) | having very large feet (B) |
| scibile (n~) | something knowable (B) |
| sciolist | one who pretends to scholarship or knowledge |
| sciotheism (n~) | the belief that disembodied spirits |
| scissile (adj~) | capable of being cut smoothly or split |
| scofflaw (n~) | one who scoffs at hence |
| scolecophagous (adj~) | eating worms (B) |
| scolion (n~) | an impromptu party song begun by one and |
| scollardical (n~) | a derogatory term for a scholar (B) |
| scopolagnia (n~) | the pleasure gained from voyeurism (B) |
| scortation (n~) | fornication (B) |
| scout | reject or dismiss scornfully; flout; scoff at (G) |
| screed | a lengthy discourse usually used to describe opinions |
| scribacious | given to or fond of writing (G) |
| scrofulous | morally corrupt; degenerate (G) |
| scungilaginous | of the semifluid gelatinous consistency of |
| sebastomania (n~) | religious insanity (B) |
| sectary (n~) | a fanatic disciple (B) |
| sedentarize | to take up or cause to take up |
| sedulous (adj~) | diligent persistent |
| seeksorrow (n~) | masochist (B) |
| sententious | wordy verbose |
| sequacious | given to the slavish or unreasoning serving or |
| sermocination (n~) | a speaker quickly answering his own question (B) |
| shaconian (n~) | someone convinced that Bacon ghosted Shakespeare's |
| shaftsbury (n~) | a gallon jug of wine (B) |
| shamateur (n~) | a bogus tyro (B) |
| shardborn (adj~) | born in dung (B) |
| shilpit (adj~) | feeble puny |
| sicarian (n~) | an assassin (B) |
| sicchasia (n~) | nauseau (B) |
| sicchosism (n~) | morbid fastidiousness (B) |
| sibyllilne | oracular; prophetic; mysterious (G) |
| siffilate | to whisper (G) |
| simony | buying selling |
| simper | to smile in a silly self |
| skibbile (adj~) | wonderfully witty; sexually irresistible (S) |
| skibbalalia (n~) | the overwhelming desire to purchase an |
| skoptsy (n~) | self |
| skybald (n~) | a good |
| smatchet (n~) | a small nasty person or a nasty child (B) |
| smellfungus (n~) | a malcontent; a grumbler or fault |
| snafu (adj~ & n~) | situation normal all fucked up [also: |
| fubar | fucked up beyond all recognition; fubb |
| sneckdraw (n~) | a sly person (B) |
| snollygoster | a clever shrewd |
| sockdolager (n~) | a telling blow (B) |
| solatium (n~) | anything that compensates for suffering or loss; |
| solifidium (n~) | someone who believes that faith alone is sufficient |
| somniloquacious (adj~) | pertaining to talking in one's sleep (B) |
| soodle | to walk stroll |
| sophomania (n~) | delusion of exceptional intelligence (B) |
| sophrosyne (n~) | sober sensible |
| sorbile (adj~) | drinkable (B) |
| spadonism (n~) | enuchry (B) |
| spaneria (n~) | scarcity of men (B) |
| spanogyny (n~) | scarcity of woman (B) |
| spatiate (v~) | to stroll or ramble (B) |
| spatilomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by observing animal droppings (B) |
| spatrify (v~) | to besmirch befoul (B) |
| spawling | a noisy clearing of the throat (G) |
| speciesist | for many people a test is permissible when it inflicts |
| spodogenous (adj~) | pertaining to or due to presence of |
| spoffokins (n~) | a whore pretending to be a wife (B) |
| spousebreach (n~) | adultery (B) |
| spraints (n~) | otter dung (B) |
| spurcidical (adj~) | foul |
| squidgereen (n~) | a short insignificant person (B) |
| stagorium | an establishment (bar or resort hotel) that serves as |
| stasivalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse only |
| steatopygous | pertaining to or characterized by protuberant |
| stercoricolous (adj~) | living in dung (B) |
| sterculius (n~) | the god of feces (B) |
| sternutation | the act of sneezing; a sneeze (G) |
| stertorous | characterized by heavy snoring (G) |
| sthenobulia (n~) | strong will power (B) |
| stirious (adj~) | like an icicle (B) |
| stomachous (adj~) | obstinate; angry (B) |
| stoopgallant (adj~) | humbling; ego |
| strepitous | making a great clamor; noisy; boisterous (G) |
| stricture | an adverse criticism or remark censure |
| stultiloquence | foolish or senseless talk; babble; twaddle (G) |
| stygiophobia (n~) | fear of hell (B) |
| stylite (n~) | ascetics who lived on top of pillars (B) |
| suaviation (n~) | a love kiss (B) |
| subagitation (n~) | copulation (B) |
| subarrhation (n~) | betrothal accomplished by the man's showering |
| subderisorious (adj~) | mildly ridiculing (B) |
| subdititious (adj~) | secret substitution (B) |
| subdolous (adj~) | rather crafty or sly (B) |
| subintelligitur (n~) | a meaning implied but not stated (B) |
| subsannation (n~) | derision (B) |
| substaquilate (v~) | to defeat overwhelm (B) |
| supernaculum (n~) | a liquor drunk to the last drop; excellent |
| supervacaneous (adj~) | needlessly added (B) |
| supinovalent (adj~) | able to fornicate only while supine (B) |
| suppalpation (n~) | gaining affection by caressing (B) |
| suspercollate (v~) | to hang by the neck (B) |
| sybarite (n~) | someone overly fond of luxury and pleasure (B) |
| tachydidaxy (n~) | fast teaching (B) |
| talionic (adj~) | pertaining to revenge in kind (B) |
| tanquam (n~) | someone educated enough to go to college (B) |
| taphephobia (n~) | fear of being buried alive (B) |
| tardigrade (adj~) | slow |
| tartuffish (adj~) | pertaining to the pious hypocrisy of Tartuffe |
| tathagatagarbha (n~) | the eternal and absolute essence of all |
| tauromachian (adj~) | pertaining to bullfights (B) |
| tautegorical (adj~) | saying the same thing with different |
| tautoousious (adj~) | being absolutely the same (B) |
| tegetology (n~) | collecting cardboard beer coasters |
| teknonymy (n~) | naming the parent after the child (B) |
| telestich (n~) | a poem in which the consecutive final letters |
| temerarious | reckless; heedless; rash (G) |
| temulance (n~) | drunkenness (B) |
| tendentious | promoting a particular view or tendency; hence |
| tenebrific (adj~) | dark or obscure (B) |
| tenesmic (adj~) | pertaining to a painful but ineffectual effort |
| tentiginous (adj~) | sensuous lascivious (B) |
| teratology (n~) | the study of monsters (B) |
| tergiversation (n~) | abandoning a religion or cause (B) or |
| testudineous (adj~) | slow like a tortoise (B) |
| tetricity (n~) | austerity harshness |
| thalassophobia (n~) | fear of the sea (B) |
| thanatism (n~) | the belief in life before death not after it (B) |
| thaumaturgic | or or involving the supposed working of miracles; |
| theanthropism (n~) | attaching human traits to one's god (B) |
| thelymachy (n~) | a war of women (B) |
| thelyphthoric (adj~) | that which corrupts women (B) |
| thersitical | loud and grossly abusive foulmouthed; scurrilous (G) |
| thrasonical | given to or marked by boasting and bragging (G) |
| threpterophilia (n~) | a fondness for female nurses (B) |
| timonism (n~) | misanthropy (B) |
| titivate | to make smart; spruce up (G) |
| tonguepad (v~) | to scold (B) |
| tralatitiously (adv~) | metaphorically; figuratively (B) |
| transilient (adj~) | pertaining to abrupt changes (B] |
| transmogrification | changes into grotesque or humorous forms |
| transude | to pass or ooze through or out as sweat through |
| trichoschisticism (n~) | hair |
| tripudiation (n~) | the act of dancing |
| triskaidekaphobia | fear of the number 13 or Friday the 13th (G) |
| triturate | to rub grind |
| truckle | to show servility or subservience (G) |
| truntlement | trumpery (A) |
| tugmutton | a great glutton (A) |
| tussicated | driven about; tormented (A) |
| typomania (n~) | obsession with the expectation of publication |
| tyromancy (n~) | fortunate telling by watching cheese as it |
| tyrosemiophily (n~) | the collecting of Camembert cheese labels |
| uberous | fruitful (A) |
| ulotrichous | having wooly or crisply curling hair (G) |
| ultracrepidarian | going beyond one's own province; a person who |
| ululate | to howl or hoot; or to wail or lament loudly (G) |
| unbosom | to disclose one's personal thoughts or feelings (G) |
| vade mecum | a favorite book carried everywhere (B) |
| valetudinarianism | weak or sickly state; thinking only of |
| valorization | government price |
| vaniloquence | vain and foolish talk (B) |
| vapulate | to beat whip (B) |
| varietist | an unorthodox person; or someone who practices |
| variorum | pertaining to a literary classic annotated by |
| vastation | purification through fire (B) |
| vecordious | senseless insane |
| velitation | a petty fight; a skirmish (B) |
| velleity | slight or faint desire; inclination (B) |
| vellicate | to pull at off |
| venery | the pursuit of sexual pleasure or indulgence |
| ventoseness | windiness; flatulence (B) |
| ventricumbent | lying face down; prone (B) |
| ventripotent | fat |
| verbigeration | senseless reiteration of cliches (B) |
| verbophobia | fear and dislike of words (B) |
| verecund | bashful; modest (B) |
| veriloquent | speaking truthfully (B) |
| verism | the theory that ugliness is valid in art and literature |
| vernalagnia | spring fever (B) |
| vesticate | to blister (G) |
| vestryism (n~) | selfishness and parochialism said to be |
| viaggiatory | on the move; traveling around (B) |
| vicissitudinary | pertaining to change alteration |
| vigesimation | killing every twentieth person (B) |
| vilipend | to belittle to disparage (B) |
| viparious | life |
| virago | a scold a shrew |
| vitilitigate | to be particularly quarrelsome (B) |
| vivisepulture | live burial (B) |
| volitient | exercising free will (B) |
| vomituration | retching ineffectual vomiting |
| vulpinism (n~) | the quality of being foxlike esp |
| waghalter | a rogue rascal or knave (B) |
| wamble | to fell nauseous; or to move unsteadily to stagger; |
| wampus | a stupid dull |
| wantwit | a fool (B) |
| Weltanschauung | a comprehensive world view especially from |
| Weltschmerz | sadness over the evils of the world especially as |
| wergild | money paid by the killer's family to the family of |
| withernam | taking one thing as reprisal for something else taken |
| witzelsucht | emotional state characterized by futile attempts |
| wowser | a pecksniffian puritan (B) |
| xenagogue | a guide (B) |
| xenagogy | a guidebook (B) |
| xenapistia | extreme distrust of strangers (B) |
| xenoepist | someone who speaks with a foreign accent (B) |
| xenomancy | fortunetelling by studying the first stranger |
| xeronisus | inability to reach orgasm (B) |
| xylophobia | fear of wooden objects; fear of forests (B) |
| xyresic | razor sharp (B) |
| yarmouth | insane (B) |
| ydromancy | fortunetelling with water (B) |
| zeitgeist | the general intellectual moral and cultural level |
| zetetic | asking; questioning (B) |
| zoanthropy | insanity in which a patient believes he's an animal (B) |
| zoetic | pertaining to life (B) |
| zoilism | nagging criticism (B) |
| zonesthesia | the feeling of wearing a tight girdle (B) |
| zooerastia | sexual intercourse with an animal (B) |
| zygal | H |
| zygomancy | fortune telling with weights (B) |
| longanimity (n~) | silent suffering while planning revenge (B) |
| longinquity (n~) | remoteness (B) |
| longueur (n~) | a long and tedious section of a book play |
| loquaciousness (n~) | extreme talkativenss; garrulousness (W) |
| lost positives | whimsically coined or archaic words of which only |
| lovertine (adj~) | addicted to love |
| loxotic (adj~) | slanting distorted (B) |
| lubricity (n~) | the condition of being uncertain or unstable or |
| luciferous (adj~) | illuminating literally and figuratively (B) |
| lucriferous (adj~) | profitable lucrative (B) |
| lucripetous (adj~) | money hungry (B) |
| luctation (n~) | a struggle for success (B) |
| luctiferous (adj~) | sad and sorry (B) |
| lucubration (n~) | to burn the midnight oil; suggesting pretentious |
| luculent (adj~) | readily understood; clear; lucid (G) |
| lucus a non lucendo | an absurd word derivation; illogical explanation |
| ludibrious (adj~) | ludicrous; making fun of (B) |
| ludibundness (n~) | playfulness (B) |
| ludicropathetic (adj~) | ludicrous and pathetic (B) |
| ludification (n~) | deriding (B) |
| luftmensch (n~) | someone with his head in the clouds |
| lupanariam (n~) | lubricious lascivious |
| lurgulary (n~) | the act of poisoning water (B) |
| lutarious (adj~) | pertaining to living in |
| lycanthropy (n~) | insanity in which the patient thinks he's |
| lygophilia (n~) | love of darkness (B) |
| lymacatexis (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with dirt (B) |
| lypophrenia (n~) | a vague feeling of sadness seemingly |
| lyssophobia (n~) | fear of becoming mad (B) |
| macarize (v~) | to make happy; to praise (B) |
| macerate (v~) | to oppress; torment (B) |
| macilent (adj~) | lean; thin (B) |
| macrobian (adj~) | long |
| macrology (n~) | excessive or repititious words or phrases (W) |
| macromastic (adj~) | pertaining to large breasts (B) |
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| macrosmatic (adj~) | having a supersensitive nose (B) |
| macrosomatous (adj~) | having an abnormally large body (B) |
| macrotous (adj~) | having large ears (G) |
| mactation (n~) | sacrificial murder (B) |
| maculate (adj~) | defiled; impure (G) |
| madefy (v~) to wet (B) | |
| magniloquence (n~) | grandly high |
| maieusiophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of childbirth |
| maieutic (adj~) | of the Socratic method of bringing into full |
| mala fide | in bad faith: falsely deceitfully |
| malacissation (n~) | the process of making something soft and |
| malacodermous (adj~) | soft |
| malapert (n~) | impudent outspoken |
| maliferous (adj~) | producing evil; unhealthy as a climate (B) |
| malism (n~) | the theory that the world is mostly bad (B) |
| malneirophrenia (n~) | depress following a nightmare (B) |
| malnoia (n~) | a vague feeling of mental discomfort (B) |
| mammothrept (n~) | a spoiled child (B) |
| mancinism (n~) | left |
| mangonize (v~) | to traffic in slaves (B) |
| mania | a |
| maniaphobia (n~) | fear of insanity (B) |
| manipulandum (n~) | something that is to be manipulated (B) |
| mansuetude (n~) | tameness gentleness |
| mantology (n~) | fortunetelling; a fortuneteller (B) |
| manubiary (ad~) | relating to the spoils of war (B) |
| manumission (n~) | formal liberation of a slave (B) |
| manustupration (n~) | masturbation (B) |
| maquillage (n~) | make |
| marasmic (adj~) | of the gradual loss of flesh and strength; of a wasting |
| marcescent (adj~) | withered decayed |
| margaritaceous (adj~) | pearly (B) |
| maritodespotism (n~) | ruthless domination by a husband (B) |
| marlish (adj~) | easygoing (B) |
| marlock (v~) | to cavort frolic (B) |
| maschalephidrosis (n~) | massive sweating of the armpits (B) |
| mastigophobia (n~) | fear of punishment (B) |
| mastigophoric (adj~) | whip |
| mataeology (n~) | useless of pointless discourse; worthless |
| mataeotechny (n~) | an unprofitable science or art (B) |
| matripotestal (adj~) | pertaining to maternal control (B) |
| mattoid (n~) | a congenitally insane person (B) |
| matutolagnia (n~) | antemerdian sexual desire (B) |
| matutolypea (n~) | getting up on the wrong side of the bed (B) |
| maumetry (n~) | idolatry (B) |
| mauvaise plaisanterie | an inappropriate or badly timed joke (W) |
| mawkish (adj~) | characterized by sickly weak sentimentality (G) |
| mazomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by a nursing baby (B) |
| mazophilous (adj~) | pertaining to mammary mania (B) |
| meable (adj~) | capable of being easily penetrated (B) |
| meacock (n~) | an effeminate or cowardly man (B) |
| meadophily (n~) | study of beer bottle labels |
| mechanomorphism (n~) | the doctrine that the universe is fully |
| meconology (n~) | the study of opium and its effects (B) |
| meconophagism (n~) | opium addiction (B) |
| medicaster (n~) | a medical quack (B) |
| megacephalous (adj~) | having a large head (B) |
| megalonisus (n~) | a tendency to exaggerate (B) |
| megalophobia (n~) | fear of large things (B) |
| megalopsychy (n~) | generosity of spirit or magnanamity |
| melioration (n~) | an elevation or bettering: in language a hitherto |
| melliloquence (n~) | euphonious speech; sweet talk (W) |
| melissophobia (n~) | fear of bees (B) |
| melomaniac (n~) | a music lover (B) |
| mempsis | an impassioned but somewhat caustic supplication in which |
| menacme (n~) | the menstruating part of a woman's life (B) |
| mendaciloquence (n~) | lying as a fine art; adroit prevarication (W) |
| menticide (n~) | brainwashing (B) |
| mentimutation (n~) | change of mind (B) |
| mentulate (adj~) | well hung (B) |
| mephitic | bad |
| meracious (adj~) | unadulterated full |
| meraculous (adj~) | demi |
| merdivorous (adj~) | eating dung (B) |
| merism (n~) | a pairing of contrasted terms to express a totality |
| merkin (n~) | female genitalia; or false pubic hair (B) |
| merulator (n~) | a wine |
| metagnostic (adj~) | unknowable (B) |
| metagrobolize (v~) | the mystify (B) |
| metempsychosis (n~) | alleged transmigration of souls (B) |
| metheglin (n~) | mead (B) |
| metonymy (n~) | the figurative or symbolic use of the name of one |
| metoposcopy (n~) | judging character by studying the face (B) |
| metromania (n~) | a mania for writing verse (B) |
| miasmatic (adj~) | noxious contagious |
| microcephalous (adj~) | small |
| microlipet (n~) | someone bothered by trifles (B) |
| micrology (n~) | excessive attention to or discussion of details or |
| micturition (n~) | need for frequent urination (B) |
| midden (n~) | a dunghill (B) |
| migniard (adj~) | dainty delicate; mincing (B) |
| militaster (n~) | an insignificant military man (B) |
| minatory (adj~) | portending punishment; threatening; menacing (G) |
| minauderie (n~) | coquetry (B) |
| minimifidianism (n~) | having almost no faith or belief (B) |
| minimus (n~) | a tiny creature (B) |
| mirabile dictu | wonderful to relate (W) |
| retromingent (adj~) | urinating backward (B) |
| retunded | to weaken or diminish the strength of effect of (G) |
| rhabdophobia (n~) | fear of being punished or severely criticized (B) |
| rhadamanthine | strictly and inflexibly honest and just (G) |
| rhigosis (n~) | sensation of cold (B) |
| rhonchisonant (adj~) | snorting; snoring (B) |
| rhopalism (n~) | a sentence or poem i which each word is one syllable |
| rhyparography | the printing or painting of sordid and filty |
| rhytiscopia (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with facial wrinkles (B) |
| ribroasting (n~) | a sound beating; a thrashing (B) |
| rictus (n~) | a very wide mouth; a gaping mouth as in terror (B) |
| risorial (adj~) | pertaining to causing |
| rixation (n~) | quarreling (B) |
| rodomontade | arrogant boasting; pretentious blustering ranting |
| roil | vex; disturb; irritate; rile (G) |
| roinous (adj~) | mean nasty and contemptible (B) |
| roitelet (n~) | a petty king (B) |
| roman a clef (n~) | a novel whose characters are actual people |
| rubricism (n~) | tenacious adherence to rules of behavior or |
| ructation (n~) | belching (B) |
| rudesby (n~) | a loud |
| rugose | having wrinkles (G) |
| rumgumption (n~) | shrewdness (B) |
| runcible (adj~) | sensuous (B) |
| sacerdotophrenia (n~) | clerical stagefright (B) |
| saltimbanco (n~) | a mountebank a quack (B) |
| sanguisugent | bloodsucking; bloodthirsty (G) |
| sapidity (n~) | flavorful; tastiness (B) |
| saponaceous (adj~) | soapy slippery; or evasively ingratiating (B) |
| saprostomous (adj~) | having bad breath (B) |
| sardanapalian | luxuriously effeminate (G) |
| sardoodledum (n~) | stereotyped or unrealistic characterization |
| sarmassation (n~) | love play (B) |
| sarmassophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play (B) |
| sarmassophobitch (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play with me (B) |
| satisdiction (n~) | enough said (B) |
| satispassion (n~) | satisfactory suffering according to |
| saturnalia | period of unrestrained license and orgiastic |
| scacchic | pertaining to or like chess (G) |
| scaldabanco (n~) | a hotheaded debator; a fiery preacher (B) |
| scaphism (n~) | an old Persian method of executing criminals by |
| scaramouch (n~) | a cowardly buffoon (B) |
| scaturient (adj~) | gushing forth; effusive (B) |
| schadenfreude | a feeling of enjoyment derived from the misfortunes |
| schesis (n~) | mocking another's accent or manner (B) |
| schizothemia (n~) | digression by a long reminescence (B) |
| schmaltz | something stickily sentimental banal |
| schoenabatist (n~) | a tightrope walker (B) |
| sciamachy (n~) | fighting with a shadow or with an imaginary |
| sciapodous (adj~) | having very large feet (B) |
| scibile (n~) | something knowable (B) |
| sciolist | one who pretends to scholarship or knowledge |
| sciotheism (n~) | the belief that disembodied spirits |
| scissile (adj~) | capable of being cut smoothly or split |
| scofflaw (n~) | one who scoffs at hence |
| scolecophagous (adj~) | eating worms (B) |
| scolion (n~) | an impromptu party song begun by one and |
| scollardical (n~) | a derogatory term for a scholar (B) |
| scopolagnia (n~) | the pleasure gained from voyeurism (B) |
| scortation (n~) | fornication (B) |
| scout | reject or dismiss scornfully; flout; scoff at (G) |
| screed | a lengthy discourse usually used to describe opinions |
| scribacious | given to or fond of writing (G) |
| scrofulous | morally corrupt; degenerate (G) |
| scungilaginous | of the semifluid gelatinous consistency of |
| sebastomania (n~) | religious insanity (B) |
| sectary (n~) | a fanatic disciple (B) |
| sedentarize | to take up or cause to take up |
| sedulous (adj~) | diligent persistent |
| seeksorrow (n~) | masochist (B) |
| sententious | wordy verbose |
| sequacious | given to the slavish or unreasoning serving or |
| sermocination (n~) | a speaker quickly answering his own question (B) |
| shaconian (n~) | someone convinced that Bacon ghosted Shakespeare's |
| shaftsbury (n~) | a gallon jug of wine (B) |
| shamateur (n~) | a bogus tyro (B) |
| shardborn (adj~) | born in dung (B) |
| shilpit (adj~) | feeble puny |
| sicarian (n~) | an assassin (B) |
| sicchasia (n~) | nauseau (B) |
| sicchosism (n~) | morbid fastidiousness (B) |
| sibyllilne | oracular; prophetic; mysterious (G) |
| siffilate | to whisper (G) |
| simony | buying selling |
| simper | to smile in a silly self |
| skibbile (adj~) | wonderfully witty; sexually irresistible (S) |
| skibbalalia (n~) | the overwhelming desire to purchase an |
| skoptsy (n~) | self |
| skybald (n~) | a good |
| smatchet (n~) | a small nasty person or a nasty child (B) |
| smellfungus (n~) | a malcontent; a grumbler or fault |
| snafu (adj~ & n~) | situation normal all fucked up [also: |
| fubar | fucked up beyond all recognition; fubb |
| sneckdraw (n~) | a sly person (B) |
| snollygoster | a clever shrewd |
| sockdolager (n~) | a telling blow (B) |
| solatium (n~) | anything that compensates for suffering or loss; |
| solifidium (n~) | someone who believes that faith alone is sufficient |
| somniloquacious (adj~) | pertaining to talking in one's sleep (B) |
| soodle | to walk stroll |
| sophomania (n~) | delusion of exceptional intelligence (B) |
| sophrosyne (n~) | sober sensible |
| sorbile (adj~) | drinkable (B) |
| spadonism (n~) | enuchry (B) |
| spaneria (n~) | scarcity of men (B) |
| spanogyny (n~) | scarcity of woman (B) |
| spatiate (v~) | to stroll or ramble (B) |
| spatilomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by observing animal droppings (B) |
| spatrify (v~) | to besmirch befoul (B) |
| spawling | a noisy clearing of the throat (G) |
| speciesist | for many people a test is permissible when it inflicts |
| spodogenous (adj~) | pertaining to or due to presence of |
| spoffokins (n~) | a whore pretending to be a wife (B) |
| spousebreach (n~) | adultery (B) |
| spraints (n~) | otter dung (B) |
| spurcidical (adj~) | foul |
| squidgereen (n~) | a short insignificant person (B) |
| stagorium | an establishment (bar or resort hotel) that serves as |
| stasivalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse only |
| steatopygous | pertaining to or characterized by protuberant |
| stercoricolous (adj~) | living in dung (B) |
| sterculius (n~) | the god of feces (B) |
| sternutation | the act of sneezing; a sneeze (G) |
| stertorous | characterized by heavy snoring (G) |
| sthenobulia (n~) | strong will power (B) |
| stirious (adj~) | like an icicle (B) |
| stomachous (adj~) | obstinate; angry (B) |
| stoopgallant (adj~) | humbling; ego |
| strepitous | making a great clamor; noisy; boisterous (G) |
| stricture | an adverse criticism or remark censure |
| stultiloquence | foolish or senseless talk; babble; twaddle (G) |
| stygiophobia (n~) | fear of hell (B) |
| stylite (n~) | ascetics who lived on top of pillars (B) |
| suaviation (n~) | a love kiss (B) |
| subagitation (n~) | copulation (B) |
| subarrhation (n~) | betrothal accomplished by the man's showering |
| subderisorious (adj~) | mildly ridiculing (B) |
| subdititious (adj~) | secret substitution (B) |
| subdolous (adj~) | rather crafty or sly (B) |
| subintelligitur (n~) | a meaning implied but not stated (B) |
| subsannation (n~) | derision (B) |
| substaquilate (v~) | to defeat overwhelm (B) |
| supernaculum (n~) | a liquor drunk to the last drop; excellent |
| supervacaneous (adj~) | needlessly added (B) |
| supinovalent (adj~) | able to fornicate only while supine (B) |
| suppalpation (n~) | gaining affection by caressing (B) |
| suspercollate (v~) | to hang by the neck (B) |
| sybarite (n~) | someone overly fond of luxury and pleasure (B) |
| tachydidaxy (n~) | fast teaching (B) |
| talionic (adj~) | pertaining to revenge in kind (B) |
| tanquam (n~) | someone educated enough to go to college (B) |
| taphephobia (n~) | fear of being buried alive (B) |
| tardigrade (adj~) | slow |
| tartuffish (adj~) | pertaining to the pious hypocrisy of Tartuffe |
| tathagatagarbha (n~) | the eternal and absolute essence of all |
| tauromachian (adj~) | pertaining to bullfights (B) |
| tautegorical (adj~) | saying the same thing with different |
| tautoousious (adj~) | being absolutely the same (B) |
| tegetology (n~) | collecting cardboard beer coasters |
| teknonymy (n~) | naming the parent after the child (B) |
| telestich (n~) | a poem in which the consecutive final letters |
| temerarious | reckless; heedless; rash (G) |
| temulance (n~) | drunkenness (B) |
| tendentious | promoting a particular view or tendency; hence |
| tenebrific (adj~) | dark or obscure (B) |
| tenesmic (adj~) | pertaining to a painful but ineffectual effort |
| tentiginous (adj~) | sensuous lascivious (B) |
| teratology (n~) | the study of monsters (B) |
| tergiversation (n~) | abandoning a religion or cause (B) or |
| testudineous (adj~) | slow like a tortoise (B) |
| tetricity (n~) | austerity harshness |
| thalassophobia (n~) | fear of the sea (B) |
| thanatism (n~) | the belief in life before death not after it (B) |
| thaumaturgic | or or involving the supposed working of miracles; |
| theanthropism (n~) | attaching human traits to one's god (B) |
| thelymachy (n~) | a war of women (B) |
| thelyphthoric (adj~) | that which corrupts women (B) |
| thersitical | loud and grossly abusive foulmouthed; scurrilous (G) |
| thrasonical | given to or marked by boasting and bragging (G) |
| threpterophilia (n~) | a fondness for female nurses (B) |
| timonism (n~) | misanthropy (B) |
| titivate | to make smart; spruce up (G) |
| tonguepad (v~) | to scold (B) |
| tralatitiously (adv~) | metaphorically; figuratively (B) |
| transilient (adj~) | pertaining to abrupt changes (B] |
| transmogrification | changes into grotesque or humorous forms |
| transude | to pass or ooze through or out as sweat through |
| trichoschisticism (n~) | hair |
| tripudiation (n~) | the act of dancing |
| triskaidekaphobia | fear of the number 13 or Friday the 13th (G) |
| triturate | to rub grind |
| truckle | to show servility or subservience (G) |
| truntlement | trumpery (A) |
| tugmutton | a great glutton (A) |
| tussicated | driven about; tormented (A) |
| typomania (n~) | obsession with the expectation of publication |
| tyromancy (n~) | fortunate telling by watching cheese as it |
| tyrosemiophily (n~) | the collecting of Camembert cheese labels |
| uberous | fruitful (A) |
| ulotrichous | having wooly or crisply curling hair (G) |
| ultracrepidarian | going beyond one's own province; a person who |
| ululate | to howl or hoot; or to wail or lament loudly (G) |
| unbosom | to disclose one's personal thoughts or feelings (G) |
| vade mecum | a favorite book carried everywhere (B) |
| valetudinarianism | weak or sickly state; thinking only of |
| valorization | government price |
| vaniloquence | vain and foolish talk (B) |
| vapulate | to beat whip (B) |
| varietist | an unorthodox person; or someone who practices |
| variorum | pertaining to a literary classic annotated by |
| vastation | purification through fire (B) |
| vecordious | senseless insane |
| velitation | a petty fight; a skirmish (B) |
| velleity | slight or faint desire; inclination (B) |
| vellicate | to pull at off |
| venery | the pursuit of sexual pleasure or indulgence |
| ventoseness | windiness; flatulence (B) |
| ventricumbent | lying face down; prone (B) |
| ventripotent | fat |
| verbigeration | senseless reiteration of cliches (B) |
| verbophobia | fear and dislike of words (B) |
| verecund | bashful; modest (B) |
| veriloquent | speaking truthfully (B) |
| verism | the theory that ugliness is valid in art and literature |
| vernalagnia | spring fever (B) |
| vesticate | to blister (G) |
| vestryism (n~) | selfishness and parochialism said to be |
| viaggiatory | on the move; traveling around (B) |
| vicissitudinary | pertaining to change alteration |
| vigesimation | killing every twentieth person (B) |
| vilipend | to belittle to disparage (B) |
| viparious | life |
| virago | a scold a shrew |
| vitilitigate | to be particularly quarrelsome (B) |
| vivisepulture | live burial (B) |
| volitient | exercising free will (B) |
| vomituration | retching ineffectual vomiting |
| vulpinism (n~) | the quality of being foxlike esp |
| waghalter | a rogue rascal or knave (B) |
| wamble | to fell nauseous; or to move unsteadily to stagger; |
| wampus | a stupid dull |
| wantwit | a fool (B) |
| Weltanschauung | a comprehensive world view especially from |
| Weltschmerz | sadness over the evils of the world especially as |
| wergild | money paid by the killer's family to the family of |
| withernam | taking one thing as reprisal for something else taken |
| witzelsucht | emotional state characterized by futile attempts |
| wowser | a pecksniffian puritan (B) |
| xenagogue | a guide (B) |
| xenagogy | a guidebook (B) |
| xenapistia | extreme distrust of strangers (B) |
| xenoepist | someone who speaks with a foreign accent (B) |
| xenomancy | fortunetelling by studying the first stranger |
| xeronisus | inability to reach orgasm (B) |
| xylophobia | fear of wooden objects; fear of forests (B) |
| xyresic | razor sharp (B) |
| yarmouth | insane (B) |
| ydromancy | fortunetelling with water (B) |
| zeitgeist | the general intellectual moral and cultural level |
| zetetic | asking; questioning (B) |
| zoanthropy | insanity in which a patient believes he's an animal (B) |
| zoetic | pertaining to life (B) |
| zoilism | nagging criticism (B) |
| zonesthesia | the feeling of wearing a tight girdle (B) |
| zooerastia | sexual intercourse with an animal (B) |
| zygal | H |
| zygomancy | fortune telling with weights (B) |
| longanimity (n~) | silent suffering while planning revenge (B) |
| longinquity (n~) | remoteness (B) |
| longueur (n~) | a long and tedious section of a book play |
| loquaciousness (n~) | extreme talkativenss; garrulousness (W) |
| lost positives | whimsically coined or archaic words of which only |
| lovertine (adj~) | addicted to love |
| loxotic (adj~) | slanting distorted (B) |
| lubricity (n~) | the condition of being uncertain or unstable or |
| luciferous (adj~) | illuminating literally and figuratively (B) |
| lucriferous (adj~) | profitable lucrative (B) |
| lucripetous (adj~) | money hungry (B) |
| luctation (n~) | a struggle for success (B) |
| luctiferous (adj~) | sad and sorry (B) |
| lucubration (n~) | to burn the midnight oil; suggesting pretentious |
| luculent (adj~) | readily understood; clear; lucid (G) |
| lucus a non lucendo | an absurd word derivation; illogical explanation |
| ludibrious (adj~) | ludicrous; making fun of (B) |
| ludibundness (n~) | playfulness (B) |
| ludicropathetic (adj~) | ludicrous and pathetic (B) |
| ludification (n~) | deriding (B) |
| luftmensch (n~) | someone with his head in the clouds |
| lupanariam (n~) | lubricious lascivious |
| lurgulary (n~) | the act of poisoning water (B) |
| lutarious (adj~) | pertaining to living in |
| lycanthropy (n~) | insanity in which the patient thinks he's |
| lygophilia (n~) | love of darkness (B) |
| lymacatexis (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with dirt (B) |
| lypophrenia (n~) | a vague feeling of sadness seemingly |
| lyssophobia (n~) | fear of becoming mad (B) |
| macarize (v~) | to make happy; to praise (B) |
| macerate (v~) | to oppress; torment (B) |
| macilent (adj~) | lean; thin (B) |
| macrobian (adj~) | long |
| macrology (n~) | excessive or repititious words or phrases (W) |
| macromastic (adj~) | pertaining to large breasts (B) |
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| macrosmatic (adj~) | having a supersensitive nose (B) |
| macrosomatous (adj~) | having an abnormally large body (B) |
| macrotous (adj~) | having large ears (G) |
| mactation (n~) | sacrificial murder (B) |
| maculate (adj~) | defiled; impure (G) |
| madefy (v~) to wet (B) | |
| magniloquence (n~) | grandly high |
| maieusiophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of childbirth |
| maieutic (adj~) | of the Socratic method of bringing into full |
| mala fide | in bad faith: falsely deceitfully |
| malacissation (n~) | the process of making something soft and |
| malacodermous (adj~) | soft |
| malapert (n~) | impudent outspoken |
| maliferous (adj~) | producing evil; unhealthy as a climate (B) |
| malism (n~) | the theory that the world is mostly bad (B) |
| malneirophrenia (n~) | depress following a nightmare (B) |
| malnoia (n~) | a vague feeling of mental discomfort (B) |
| mammothrept (n~) | a spoiled child (B) |
| mancinism (n~) | left |
| mangonize (v~) | to traffic in slaves (B) |
| mania | a |
| maniaphobia (n~) | fear of insanity (B) |
| manipulandum (n~) | something that is to be manipulated (B) |
| mansuetude (n~) | tameness gentleness |
| mantology (n~) | fortunetelling; a fortuneteller (B) |
| manubiary (ad~) | relating to the spoils of war (B) |
| manumission (n~) | formal liberation of a slave (B) |
| manustupration (n~) | masturbation (B) |
| maquillage (n~) | make |
| marasmic (adj~) | of the gradual loss of flesh and strength; of a wasting |
| marcescent (adj~) | withered decayed |
| margaritaceous (adj~) | pearly (B) |
| maritodespotism (n~) | ruthless domination by a husband (B) |
| marlish (adj~) | easygoing (B) |
| marlock (v~) | to cavort frolic (B) |
| maschalephidrosis (n~) | massive sweating of the armpits (B) |
| mastigophobia (n~) | fear of punishment (B) |
| mastigophoric (adj~) | whip |
| mataeology (n~) | useless of pointless discourse; worthless |
| mataeotechny (n~) | an unprofitable science or art (B) |
| matripotestal (adj~) | pertaining to maternal control (B) |
| mattoid (n~) | a congenitally insane person (B) |
| matutolagnia (n~) | antemerdian sexual desire (B) |
| matutolypea (n~) | getting up on the wrong side of the bed (B) |
| maumetry (n~) | idolatry (B) |
| mauvaise plaisanterie | an inappropriate or badly timed joke (W) |
| mawkish (adj~) | characterized by sickly weak sentimentality (G) |
| mazomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by a nursing baby (B) |
| mazophilous (adj~) | pertaining to mammary mania (B) |
| meable (adj~) | capable of being easily penetrated (B) |
| meacock (n~) | an effeminate or cowardly man (B) |
| meadophily (n~) | study of beer bottle labels |
| mechanomorphism (n~) | the doctrine that the universe is fully |
| meconology (n~) | the study of opium and its effects (B) |
| meconophagism (n~) | opium addiction (B) |
| medicaster (n~) | a medical quack (B) |
| megacephalous (adj~) | having a large head (B) |
| megalonisus (n~) | a tendency to exaggerate (B) |
| megalophobia (n~) | fear of large things (B) |
| megalopsychy (n~) | generosity of spirit or magnanamity |
| melioration (n~) | an elevation or bettering: in language a hitherto |
| melliloquence (n~) | euphonious speech; sweet talk (W) |
| melissophobia (n~) | fear of bees (B) |
| melomaniac (n~) | a music lover (B) |
| mempsis | an impassioned but somewhat caustic supplication in which |
| menacme (n~) | the menstruating part of a woman's life (B) |
| mendaciloquence (n~) | lying as a fine art; adroit prevarication (W) |
| menticide (n~) | brainwashing (B) |
| mentimutation (n~) | change of mind (B) |
| mentulate (adj~) | well hung (B) |
| mephitic | bad |
| meracious (adj~) | unadulterated full |
| meraculous (adj~) | demi |
| merdivorous (adj~) | eating dung (B) |
| merism (n~) | a pairing of contrasted terms to express a totality |
| merkin (n~) | female genitalia; or false pubic hair (B) |
| merulator (n~) | a wine |
| metagnostic (adj~) | unknowable (B) |
| metagrobolize (v~) | the mystify (B) |
| metempsychosis (n~) | alleged transmigration of souls (B) |
| metheglin (n~) | mead (B) |
| metonymy (n~) | the figurative or symbolic use of the name of one |
| metoposcopy (n~) | judging character by studying the face (B) |
| metromania (n~) | a mania for writing verse (B) |
| miasmatic (adj~) | noxious contagious |
| microcephalous (adj~) | small |
| microlipet (n~) | someone bothered by trifles (B) |
| micrology (n~) | excessive attention to or discussion of details or |
| micturition (n~) | need for frequent urination (B) |
| midden (n~) | a dunghill (B) |
| migniard (adj~) | dainty delicate; mincing (B) |
| militaster (n~) | an insignificant military man (B) |
| minatory (adj~) | portending punishment; threatening; menacing (G) |
| minauderie (n~) | coquetry (B) |
| minimifidianism (n~) | having almost no faith or belief (B) |
| minimus (n~) | a tiny creature (B) |
| mirabile dictu | wonderful to relate (W) |
| retromingent (adj~) | urinating backward (B) |
| retunded | to weaken or diminish the strength of effect of (G) |
| rhabdophobia (n~) | fear of being punished or severely criticized (B) |
| rhadamanthine | strictly and inflexibly honest and just (G) |
| rhigosis (n~) | sensation of cold (B) |
| rhonchisonant (adj~) | snorting; snoring (B) |
| rhopalism (n~) | a sentence or poem i which each word is one syllable |
| rhyparography | the printing or painting of sordid and filty |
| rhytiscopia (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with facial wrinkles (B) |
| ribroasting (n~) | a sound beating; a thrashing (B) |
| rictus (n~) | a very wide mouth; a gaping mouth as in terror (B) |
| risorial (adj~) | pertaining to causing |
| rixation (n~) | quarreling (B) |
| rodomontade | arrogant boasting; pretentious blustering ranting |
| roil | vex; disturb; irritate; rile (G) |
| roinous (adj~) | mean nasty and contemptible (B) |
| roitelet (n~) | a petty king (B) |
| roman a clef (n~) | a novel whose characters are actual people |
| rubricism (n~) | tenacious adherence to rules of behavior or |
| ructation (n~) | belching (B) |
| rudesby (n~) | a loud |
| rugose | having wrinkles (G) |
| rumgumption (n~) | shrewdness (B) |
| runcible (adj~) | sensuous (B) |
| sacerdotophrenia (n~) | clerical stagefright (B) |
| saltimbanco (n~) | a mountebank a quack (B) |
| sanguisugent | bloodsucking; bloodthirsty (G) |
| sapidity (n~) | flavorful; tastiness (B) |
| saponaceous (adj~) | soapy slippery; or evasively ingratiating (B) |
| saprostomous (adj~) | having bad breath (B) |
| sardanapalian | luxuriously effeminate (G) |
| sardoodledum (n~) | stereotyped or unrealistic characterization |
| sarmassation (n~) | love play (B) |
| sarmassophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play (B) |
| sarmassophobitch (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play with me (B) |
| satisdiction (n~) | enough said (B) |
| satispassion (n~) | satisfactory suffering according to |
| saturnalia | period of unrestrained license and orgiastic |
| scacchic | pertaining to or like chess (G) |
| scaldabanco (n~) | a hotheaded debator; a fiery preacher (B) |
| scaphism (n~) | an old Persian method of executing criminals by |
| scaramouch (n~) | a cowardly buffoon (B) |
| scaturient (adj~) | gushing forth; effusive (B) |
| schadenfreude | a feeling of enjoyment derived from the misfortunes |
| schesis (n~) | mocking another's accent or manner (B) |
| schizothemia (n~) | digression by a long reminescence (B) |
| schmaltz | something stickily sentimental banal |
| schoenabatist (n~) | a tightrope walker (B) |
| sciamachy (n~) | fighting with a shadow or with an imaginary |
| sciapodous (adj~) | having very large feet (B) |
| scibile (n~) | something knowable (B) |
| sciolist | one who pretends to scholarship or knowledge |
| sciotheism (n~) | the belief that disembodied spirits |
| scissile (adj~) | capable of being cut smoothly or split |
| scofflaw (n~) | one who scoffs at hence |
| scolecophagous (adj~) | eating worms (B) |
| scolion (n~) | an impromptu party song begun by one and |
| scollardical (n~) | a derogatory term for a scholar (B) |
| scopolagnia (n~) | the pleasure gained from voyeurism (B) |
| scortation (n~) | fornication (B) |
| scout | reject or dismiss scornfully; flout; scoff at (G) |
| screed | a lengthy discourse usually used to describe opinions |
| scribacious | given to or fond of writing (G) |
| scrofulous | morally corrupt; degenerate (G) |
| scungilaginous | of the semifluid gelatinous consistency of |
| sebastomania (n~) | religious insanity (B) |
| sectary (n~) | a fanatic disciple (B) |
| sedentarize | to take up or cause to take up |
| sedulous (adj~) | diligent persistent |
| seeksorrow (n~) | masochist (B) |
| sententious | wordy verbose |
| sequacious | given to the slavish or unreasoning serving or |
| sermocination (n~) | a speaker quickly answering his own question (B) |
| shaconian (n~) | someone convinced that Bacon ghosted Shakespeare's |
| shaftsbury (n~) | a gallon jug of wine (B) |
| shamateur (n~) | a bogus tyro (B) |
| shardborn (adj~) | born in dung (B) |
| shilpit (adj~) | feeble puny |
| sicarian (n~) | an assassin (B) |
| sicchasia (n~) | nauseau (B) |
| sicchosism (n~) | morbid fastidiousness (B) |
| sibyllilne | oracular; prophetic; mysterious (G) |
| siffilate | to whisper (G) |
| simony | buying selling |
| simper | to smile in a silly self |
| skibbile (adj~) | wonderfully witty; sexually irresistible (S) |
| skibbalalia (n~) | the overwhelming desire to purchase an |
| skoptsy (n~) | self |
| skybald (n~) | a good |
| smatchet (n~) | a small nasty person or a nasty child (B) |
| smellfungus (n~) | a malcontent; a grumbler or fault |
| snafu (adj~ & n~) | situation normal all fucked up [also: |
| fubar | fucked up beyond all recognition; fubb |
| sneckdraw (n~) | a sly person (B) |
| snollygoster | a clever shrewd |
| sockdolager (n~) | a telling blow (B) |
| solatium (n~) | anything that compensates for suffering or loss; |
| solifidium (n~) | someone who believes that faith alone is sufficient |
| somniloquacious (adj~) | pertaining to talking in one's sleep (B) |
| soodle | to walk stroll |
| sophomania (n~) | delusion of exceptional intelligence (B) |
| sophrosyne (n~) | sober sensible |
| sorbile (adj~) | drinkable (B) |
| spadonism (n~) | enuchry (B) |
| spaneria (n~) | scarcity of men (B) |
| spanogyny (n~) | scarcity of woman (B) |
| spatiate (v~) | to stroll or ramble (B) |
| spatilomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by observing animal droppings (B) |
| spatrify (v~) | to besmirch befoul (B) |
| spawling | a noisy clearing of the throat (G) |
| speciesist | for many people a test is permissible when it inflicts |
| spodogenous (adj~) | pertaining to or due to presence of |
| spoffokins (n~) | a whore pretending to be a wife (B) |
| spousebreach (n~) | adultery (B) |
| spraints (n~) | otter dung (B) |
| spurcidical (adj~) | foul |
| squidgereen (n~) | a short insignificant person (B) |
| stagorium | an establishment (bar or resort hotel) that serves as |
| stasivalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse only |
| steatopygous | pertaining to or characterized by protuberant |
| stercoricolous (adj~) | living in dung (B) |
| sterculius (n~) | the god of feces (B) |
| sternutation | the act of sneezing; a sneeze (G) |
| stertorous | characterized by heavy snoring (G) |
| sthenobulia (n~) | strong will power (B) |
| stirious (adj~) | like an icicle (B) |
| stomachous (adj~) | obstinate; angry (B) |
| stoopgallant (adj~) | humbling; ego |
| strepitous | making a great clamor; noisy; boisterous (G) |
| stricture | an adverse criticism or remark censure |
| stultiloquence | foolish or senseless talk; babble; twaddle (G) |
| stygiophobia (n~) | fear of hell (B) |
| stylite (n~) | ascetics who lived on top of pillars (B) |
| suaviation (n~) | a love kiss (B) |
| subagitation (n~) | copulation (B) |
| subarrhation (n~) | betrothal accomplished by the man's showering |
| subderisorious (adj~) | mildly ridiculing (B) |
| subdititious (adj~) | secret substitution (B) |
| subdolous (adj~) | rather crafty or sly (B) |
| subintelligitur (n~) | a meaning implied but not stated (B) |
| subsannation (n~) | derision (B) |
| substaquilate (v~) | to defeat overwhelm (B) |
| supernaculum (n~) | a liquor drunk to the last drop; excellent |
| supervacaneous (adj~) | needlessly added (B) |
| supinovalent (adj~) | able to fornicate only while supine (B) |
| suppalpation (n~) | gaining affection by caressing (B) |
| suspercollate (v~) | to hang by the neck (B) |
| sybarite (n~) | someone overly fond of luxury and pleasure (B) |
| tachydidaxy (n~) | fast teaching (B) |
| talionic (adj~) | pertaining to revenge in kind (B) |
| tanquam (n~) | someone educated enough to go to college (B) |
| taphephobia (n~) | fear of being buried alive (B) |
| tardigrade (adj~) | slow |
| tartuffish (adj~) | pertaining to the pious hypocrisy of Tartuffe |
| tathagatagarbha (n~) | the eternal and absolute essence of all |
| tauromachian (adj~) | pertaining to bullfights (B) |
| tautegorical (adj~) | saying the same thing with different |
| tautoousious (adj~) | being absolutely the same (B) |
| tegetology (n~) | collecting cardboard beer coasters |
| teknonymy (n~) | naming the parent after the child (B) |
| telestich (n~) | a poem in which the consecutive final letters |
| temerarious | reckless; heedless; rash (G) |
| temulance (n~) | drunkenness (B) |
| tendentious | promoting a particular view or tendency; hence |
| tenebrific (adj~) | dark or obscure (B) |
| tenesmic (adj~) | pertaining to a painful but ineffectual effort |
| tentiginous (adj~) | sensuous lascivious (B) |
| teratology (n~) | the study of monsters (B) |
| tergiversation (n~) | abandoning a religion or cause (B) or |
| testudineous (adj~) | slow like a tortoise (B) |
| tetricity (n~) | austerity harshness |
| thalassophobia (n~) | fear of the sea (B) |
| thanatism (n~) | the belief in life before death not after it (B) |
| thaumaturgic | or or involving the supposed working of miracles; |
| theanthropism (n~) | attaching human traits to one's god (B) |
| thelymachy (n~) | a war of women (B) |
| thelyphthoric (adj~) | that which corrupts women (B) |
| thersitical | loud and grossly abusive foulmouthed; scurrilous (G) |
| thrasonical | given to or marked by boasting and bragging (G) |
| threpterophilia (n~) | a fondness for female nurses (B) |
| timonism (n~) | misanthropy (B) |
| titivate | to make smart; spruce up (G) |
| tonguepad (v~) | to scold (B) |
| tralatitiously (adv~) | metaphorically; figuratively (B) |
| transilient (adj~) | pertaining to abrupt changes (B] |
| transmogrification | changes into grotesque or humorous forms |
| transude | to pass or ooze through or out as sweat through |
| trichoschisticism (n~) | hair |
| tripudiation (n~) | the act of dancing |
| triskaidekaphobia | fear of the number 13 or Friday the 13th (G) |
| triturate | to rub grind |
| truckle | to show servility or subservience (G) |
| truntlement | trumpery (A) |
| tugmutton | a great glutton (A) |
| tussicated | driven about; tormented (A) |
| typomania (n~) | obsession with the expectation of publication |
| tyromancy (n~) | fortunate telling by watching cheese as it |
| tyrosemiophily (n~) | the collecting of Camembert cheese labels |
| uberous | fruitful (A) |
| ulotrichous | having wooly or crisply curling hair (G) |
| ultracrepidarian | going beyond one's own province; a person who |
| ululate | to howl or hoot; or to wail or lament loudly (G) |
| unbosom | to disclose one's personal thoughts or feelings (G) |
| vade mecum | a favorite book carried everywhere (B) |
| valetudinarianism | weak or sickly state; thinking only of |
| valorization | government price |
| vaniloquence | vain and foolish talk (B) |
| vapulate | to beat whip (B) |
| varietist | an unorthodox person; or someone who practices |
| variorum | pertaining to a literary classic annotated by |
| vastation | purification through fire (B) |
| vecordious | senseless insane |
| velitation | a petty fight; a skirmish (B) |
| velleity | slight or faint desire; inclination (B) |
| vellicate | to pull at off |
| venery | the pursuit of sexual pleasure or indulgence |
| ventoseness | windiness; flatulence (B) |
| ventricumbent | lying face down; prone (B) |
| ventripotent | fat |
| verbigeration | senseless reiteration of cliches (B) |
| verbophobia | fear and dislike of words (B) |
| verecund | bashful; modest (B) |
| veriloquent | speaking truthfully (B) |
| verism | the theory that ugliness is valid in art and literature |
| vernalagnia | spring fever (B) |
| vesticate | to blister (G) |
| vestryism (n~) | selfishness and parochialism said to be |
| viaggiatory | on the move; traveling around (B) |
| vicissitudinary | pertaining to change alteration |
| vigesimation | killing every twentieth person (B) |
| vilipend | to belittle to disparage (B) |
| viparious | life |
| virago | a scold a shrew |
| vitilitigate | to be particularly quarrelsome (B) |
| vivisepulture | live burial (B) |
| volitient | exercising free will (B) |
| vomituration | retching ineffectual vomiting |
| vulpinism (n~) | the quality of being foxlike esp |
| waghalter | a rogue rascal or knave (B) |
| wamble | to fell nauseous; or to move unsteadily to stagger; |
| wampus | a stupid dull |
| wantwit | a fool (B) |
| Weltanschauung | a comprehensive world view especially from |
| Weltschmerz | sadness over the evils of the world especially as |
| wergild | money paid by the killer's family to the family of |
| withernam | taking one thing as reprisal for something else taken |
| witzelsucht | emotional state characterized by futile attempts |
| wowser | a pecksniffian puritan (B) |
| xenagogue | a guide (B) |
| xenagogy | a guidebook (B) |
| xenapistia | extreme distrust of strangers (B) |
| xenoepist | someone who speaks with a foreign accent (B) |
| xenomancy | fortunetelling by studying the first stranger |
| xeronisus | inability to reach orgasm (B) |
| xylophobia | fear of wooden objects; fear of forests (B) |
| xyresic | razor sharp (B) |
| yarmouth | insane (B) |
| ydromancy | fortunetelling with water (B) |
| zeitgeist | the general intellectual moral and cultural level |
| zetetic | asking; questioning (B) |
| zoanthropy | insanity in which a patient believes he's an animal (B) |
| zoetic | pertaining to life (B) |
| zoilism | nagging criticism (B) |
| zonesthesia | the feeling of wearing a tight girdle (B) |
| zooerastia | sexual intercourse with an animal (B) |
| zygal | H |
| zygomancy | fortune telling with weights (B) |
| longanimity (n~) | silent suffering while planning revenge (B) |
| longinquity (n~) | remoteness (B) |
| longueur (n~) | a long and tedious section of a book play |
| loquaciousness (n~) | extreme talkativenss; garrulousness (W) |
| lost positives | whimsically coined or archaic words of which only |
| lovertine (adj~) | addicted to love |
| loxotic (adj~) | slanting distorted (B) |
| lubricity (n~) | the condition of being uncertain or unstable or |
| luciferous (adj~) | illuminating literally and figuratively (B) |
| lucriferous (adj~) | profitable lucrative (B) |
| lucripetous (adj~) | money hungry (B) |
| luctation (n~) | a struggle for success (B) |
| luctiferous (adj~) | sad and sorry (B) |
| lucubration (n~) | to burn the midnight oil; suggesting pretentious |
| luculent (adj~) | readily understood; clear; lucid (G) |
| lucus a non lucendo | an absurd word derivation; illogical explanation |
| ludibrious (adj~) | ludicrous; making fun of (B) |
| ludibundness (n~) | playfulness (B) |
| ludicropathetic (adj~) | ludicrous and pathetic (B) |
| ludification (n~) | deriding (B) |
| luftmensch (n~) | someone with his head in the clouds |
| lupanariam (n~) | lubricious lascivious |
| lurgulary (n~) | the act of poisoning water (B) |
| lutarious (adj~) | pertaining to living in |
| lycanthropy (n~) | insanity in which the patient thinks he's |
| lygophilia (n~) | love of darkness (B) |
| lymacatexis (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with dirt (B) |
| lypophrenia (n~) | a vague feeling of sadness seemingly |
| lyssophobia (n~) | fear of becoming mad (B) |
| macarize (v~) | to make happy; to praise (B) |
| macerate (v~) | to oppress; torment (B) |
| macilent (adj~) | lean; thin (B) |
| macrobian (adj~) | long |
| macrology (n~) | excessive or repititious words or phrases (W) |
| macromastic (adj~) | pertaining to large breasts (B) |
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| macrosmatic (adj~) | having a supersensitive nose (B) |
| macrosomatous (adj~) | having an abnormally large body (B) |
| macrotous (adj~) | having large ears (G) |
| mactation (n~) | sacrificial murder (B) |
| maculate (adj~) | defiled; impure (G) |
| madefy (v~) to wet (B) | |
| magniloquence (n~) | grandly high |
| maieusiophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of childbirth |
| maieutic (adj~) | of the Socratic method of bringing into full |
| mala fide | in bad faith: falsely deceitfully |
| malacissation (n~) | the process of making something soft and |
| malacodermous (adj~) | soft |
| malapert (n~) | impudent outspoken |
| maliferous (adj~) | producing evil; unhealthy as a climate (B) |
| malism (n~) | the theory that the world is mostly bad (B) |
| malneirophrenia (n~) | depress following a nightmare (B) |
| malnoia (n~) | a vague feeling of mental discomfort (B) |
| mammothrept (n~) | a spoiled child (B) |
| mancinism (n~) | left |
| mangonize (v~) | to traffic in slaves (B) |
| mania | a |
| maniaphobia (n~) | fear of insanity (B) |
| manipulandum (n~) | something that is to be manipulated (B) |
| mansuetude (n~) | tameness gentleness |
| mantology (n~) | fortunetelling; a fortuneteller (B) |
| manubiary (ad~) | relating to the spoils of war (B) |
| manumission (n~) | formal liberation of a slave (B) |
| manustupration (n~) | masturbation (B) |
| maquillage (n~) | make |
| marasmic (adj~) | of the gradual loss of flesh and strength; of a wasting |
| marcescent (adj~) | withered decayed |
| margaritaceous (adj~) | pearly (B) |
| maritodespotism (n~) | ruthless domination by a husband (B) |
| marlish (adj~) | easygoing (B) |
| marlock (v~) | to cavort frolic (B) |
| maschalephidrosis (n~) | massive sweating of the armpits (B) |
| mastigophobia (n~) | fear of punishment (B) |
| mastigophoric (adj~) | whip |
| mataeology (n~) | useless of pointless discourse; worthless |
| mataeotechny (n~) | an unprofitable science or art (B) |
| matripotestal (adj~) | pertaining to maternal control (B) |
| mattoid (n~) | a congenitally insane person (B) |
| matutolagnia (n~) | antemerdian sexual desire (B) |
| matutolypea (n~) | getting up on the wrong side of the bed (B) |
| maumetry (n~) | idolatry (B) |
| mauvaise plaisanterie | an inappropriate or badly timed joke (W) |
| mawkish (adj~) | characterized by sickly weak sentimentality (G) |
| mazomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by a nursing baby (B) |
| mazophilous (adj~) | pertaining to mammary mania (B) |
| meable (adj~) | capable of being easily penetrated (B) |
| meacock (n~) | an effeminate or cowardly man (B) |
| meadophily (n~) | study of beer bottle labels |
| mechanomorphism (n~) | the doctrine that the universe is fully |
| meconology (n~) | the study of opium and its effects (B) |
| meconophagism (n~) | opium addiction (B) |
| medicaster (n~) | a medical quack (B) |
| megacephalous (adj~) | having a large head (B) |
| megalonisus (n~) | a tendency to exaggerate (B) |
| megalophobia (n~) | fear of large things (B) |
| megalopsychy (n~) | generosity of spirit or magnanamity |
| melioration (n~) | an elevation or bettering: in language a hitherto |
| melliloquence (n~) | euphonious speech; sweet talk (W) |
| melissophobia (n~) | fear of bees (B) |
| melomaniac (n~) | a music lover (B) |
| mempsis | an impassioned but somewhat caustic supplication in which |
| menacme (n~) | the menstruating part of a woman's life (B) |
| mendaciloquence (n~) | lying as a fine art; adroit prevarication (W) |
| menticide (n~) | brainwashing (B) |
| mentimutation (n~) | change of mind (B) |
| mentulate (adj~) | well hung (B) |
| mephitic | bad |
| meracious (adj~) | unadulterated full |
| meraculous (adj~) | demi |
| merdivorous (adj~) | eating dung (B) |
| merism (n~) | a pairing of contrasted terms to express a totality |
| merkin (n~) | female genitalia; or false pubic hair (B) |
| merulator (n~) | a wine |
| metagnostic (adj~) | unknowable (B) |
| metagrobolize (v~) | the mystify (B) |
| metempsychosis (n~) | alleged transmigration of souls (B) |
| metheglin (n~) | mead (B) |
| metonymy (n~) | the figurative or symbolic use of the name of one |
| metoposcopy (n~) | judging character by studying the face (B) |
| metromania (n~) | a mania for writing verse (B) |
| miasmatic (adj~) | noxious contagious |
| microcephalous (adj~) | small |
| microlipet (n~) | someone bothered by trifles (B) |
| micrology (n~) | excessive attention to or discussion of details or |
| micturition (n~) | need for frequent urination (B) |
| midden (n~) | a dunghill (B) |
| migniard (adj~) | dainty delicate; mincing (B) |
| militaster (n~) | an insignificant military man (B) |
| minatory (adj~) | portending punishment; threatening; menacing (G) |
| minauderie (n~) | coquetry (B) |
| minimifidianism (n~) | having almost no faith or belief (B) |
| minimus (n~) | a tiny creature (B) |
| mirabile dictu | wonderful to relate (W) |
| misandry (n~) | dislike of men (B) |
| misanthropy (n~) | hatred of mankind |
| misapodysis (n~) | hatred of undressing in front of someone (B) |
| misarchist (n~) | a person who hates authority (B) |
| miserabile dictu | miserable to relate (W) |
| miserotia (n~) | aversion to sex (B) |
| misocainia (n~) | hatred of anything new or strange such as |
| misocanpnist (n~) | a hater of tobacco smoke (B) |
| misodoctakleidist (n~) | one who hates to practice the piano (B) |
| misology (n~) | hatred of logical discussion or reason (W) |
| misoneism (n~) | hatred of new things (B) |
| misopedia (n~) | hatred of children esp |
| misopolemiac (n~) | a war |
| misoscopist (n~) | a hater of beauty; a recluse (B) |
| misosophy (n~) | hatred of wisdom (B) |
| misotramontanism (n~) | a hatred of the unknown (B) |
| misoxeny (n~) | hatred of strangers (B) |
| mithridatism (n~) | immunity to poison achieved by taking |
| moanworthy (adj~) | lamentable pitiful (B) |
| mogigraphia (n~) | writers' cramp (B) |
| moliminous (adj~) | massive; momentous (B) |
| moloch (n~) | a system or method that requires frightful sacrifice (G) |
| molysmophobia (n~) | fear of dirt or contamination (B) |
| mome (n~) | a crashing bore; a buffoon (B) |
| monorchid (adj~) | having one testicle (B) |
| mordacious (adj~) | biting acrid |
| mordant (adj~) | biting; caustic; cutting; sarcastic (G) |
| morigerous (adj~) | obedient; obsequious (B) |
| morology (n~) | deliberate nonsense of foolishness for effect (W) |
| mot juste | the perfect fitting word or phrase; precisely apt |
| mot propre | the correct or necessary word (W) |
| motatorious (adj~) | constantly active (B) |
| motitation (n~) | a quivering moment (B) |
| mulct (v~) | to punish by means of a fine (G) |
| mulierose (adj~) | extremely fond of women (B) |
| multum in parvo | much in little: containing or suggesting much in |
| mumpsimus (n~) | an erroneous word or spelling that through long |
| mundivagant (n~) | wandering over the world (B) |
| musard (n~) | an absentminded dreamer or fool (B) |
| mutatis mutandis | the (necessary) changes having been made or the |
| mycterism (n~) | derision or sarcasm that is somewhat veiled; subtle |
| myrmidon (n~) | a blindly loyal though unscrupulous |
| mythomania (n~) | compulsively telling lies and believing them (B) |
| nanism (n~) | dwarfishness (B) |
| naology (n~) | the study of holy buildings (B) |
| naprapathy (n~) | the manipulation of strained ligaments i the |
| nates (n~) | the buttocks (B) |
| nattering (adj~) | grumbling fault |
| naufragous (adj~) | causing shipwrecks (B) |
| neanilagnia (n~) | a yen for nymphets (B) |
| neanimorphism (n~) | looking younger than one's years (B) |
| nebulaphobia (n~) | fear of fog (B) |
| nebulochaotic (adj~) | chaotic confused (B) |
| necromimesis (n~) | feigning death; the delusion of being dead (B) |
| necyomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by summoning lucifer (B) |
| nefandous (adj~) | unmentionable unspeakable (B) |
| nefast (adj~) | wicked (B) |
| nelipot (n~) | someone going barefoot (B) |
| nemophilous (adj~) | loving the forest (B) |
| neocracy (n~) | government by tyros (B) |
| neologism (n~) | a newly coined word or phrase or a novel expression |
| neomnesia (n~) | good memory for recent events (B) |
| nephalism (n~) | teetotalism (B) |
| nepheligenous (adj~) | producing clouds of tobacco smoke (B) |
| neoteny (n~) | retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult |
| nepotation (n~) | riotous living (B) |
| nervus probandi | the strong point of the proving: crux of the |
| nescient (adj~) | uneducated unaware |
| nettling (v~) | to irritate; vex; annoy (G) |
| nictitate (v~) | to wink (G) |
| nidorous (adj~) | smelling like burning or decaying animal matter (B) |
| nihil ad rem | nothing to the matter: irrelevant (W) |
| nihil obstat | nothing stands in the way: in Roman Catholocism |
| nikhedonia (n~) | pleasure derived from anticipating success (B) |
| nimgimmer (n~) | a doctor who cures the clap (British slang) (B) |
| nimiety (n~) | excess redundancy |
| nimious (adj~) | extravagant (B) |
| nimptopsical (adj~) | drunk (B) |
| nimshy (n~) | a silly ass (B) |
| nipperkin (n~) | amount of liquor roughly equivalent to a half pint (B) |
| nippitatum (n~) | exceptionally good and strong ale (B) |
| noctivagation (n~) | wandering around at night (B) |
| non est disputandum | it is not to be disputed (W) |
| non possumus | a statement of inability to do something (W) |
| nostrificate (v~) | to accept as one's own (B) |
| nothosonomia (n~) | calling someone a bastard (W) |
| noumenon (n~) | an object implied by intuition rather than evidence |
| nuchal (adj~) | of the nape of the neck (G) |
| nudis verbis | in naked words (W) |
| nudiustertian (adj~) | pertaining to the day before yesterday (B) |
| nugatory (adj~) | worthless trifling |
| nullifidian (adj~) | skeptical (B) |
| nulliparous (adj~) | pertaining to a woman who has never foaled (B) |
| numbles (n~) | edible deer innards (B) |
| nummamorous (adj~) | money |
| nuncupate (v~) | to declare orally (B) |
| nychthemeron (n~) | a twenty |
| nympholepsy (n~) | trance incurred by erotic daydreams (B) |
| obumbration (n~) | the act or process of darkening or obscuring |
| obambulate (v~) | to walk about wander (B) |
| obdormition (n~) | numbness caused by pressure on a nerve (B) |
| obduracy (n~) | being obstinate or hardhearted |
| obganiate (v~) | to irritate with reiteration (B) |
| objurgation (n~) | an earnest denunciation rebuke |
| oblatrate (n~) | to snarl at inveigh against (B) |
| oblectation (n~) | delight pleasure (B) |
| oblocution | interruption (A) |
| obloquy (n~) | the state of bad repute borne by one being harshly |
| obnubilation (n~) | beclouding or obscuring; obfuscation (W) |
| obreption (n~) | creeping up on (B) |
| obsecrations (n~) | entreaties (A) |
| obscurum per obscurius | explaining the obscure by means of the |
| obsolagnium (n~) | waning sexual desire due to age (B) |
| obstrobogulous (adj~) | a vehement oath of expansive meaning (G) |
| obtund (adj~) | serving to blunt dull or deaden (G) |
| ochlocracy (n~) | mob rule (B) |
| odium aestheticum | the bitterness of aesthetical controversy (W) |
| odium scholasticum | acrimony between scholars or pedants; academic |
| odium theologicum | bitter hatred between rival theologians (W) |
| oeillade (n~) | an ogle a flirtatious glance (B) |
| oikofugic (n~) | obsessive wandering (B) |
| oikonisus (n~) | urge to start a family (B) |
| olamic (adj~) | infinite eternal (B) |
| olet lucernam | it smells of the lamp: describing something written |
| oligophrenia (n~) | feeble |
| olisbos (n~) | a dildo (B) |
| omadhaun (n~) | an idiot fool (B) |
| ombibulous (adj~) | drinking everything (B) |
| omnilegent (adj~) | reading or having read everything; having |
| omphalomancy (n~) | predicting the number of children a mother will |
| omphalopsychites (n~) | term for literary Anglophiles who wish American |
| omphaloskepsis (n~) | contemplation of the navel for the purpose of |
| oneirataxia (n~) | inability to distinguish between fantasy and |
| oneiric (adj~) | having to do with dreams (E G) |
| oniochalasia (n~) | buying as a means of mental relaxation (B) |
| onolatry (n~) | ass |
| onomastic (adj~) | pertaining to a proper name or names (W) |
| onomatomania (n~) | preoccupation with words and names (B) |
| onomatophobia (n~) | fear of hearing a certain word (B) |
| onomatopoeia (n~) | the forming of or use of a word that imitates in |
| onus probandi | the burden of proof (W) |
| operose (adj~) | involving much labor; laborious (G) |
| ophelimity (n~) | the ability to please sexually (B) |
| oppugnant (adj~) | opposing; antagonistic; contrary (G) |
| ophthalmophobia (n~) | fear of being stared at (B) |
| opiparous (adj~) | sumptuous (B) |
| oppilations (n~) | obstructions (A) |
| opsablepsia (n~) | not looking into another's eyes (B) |
| opuscule (n~) | a minor composition or work (W) |
| oratio obliqua | indirect speech: reported speech or relating |
| oratio recta | straight speech: actual or direct speech (W) |
| orchidectomy (n~) | castration (B) |
| ore rotundo | with a round mouth: eloquently with considered |
| orgulous (adj~) | proud and haughty; swelling (G) |
| orismology (n~) | the science of defining or explaining technical |
| otiose | futile functionless |
| oubliette (n~) | a secret place of imprisonment usually with |
| outrecuidance (n~) | egomania; gross conceit (B) |
| overweening | excessively proud; arrogant; conceited; or |
| oxythymous (adj~) | quick |
| pachycephalic (adj~) | thick |
| pageism (n~) | masochism fantasy of a man imagining himself as |
| pagophagia (n~) | eating a tray of ice daily for two months to |
| paideutics (n~) | pedagogy (B) |
| paizogony (n~) | love play (B) |
| paleomnesia (n~) | good memory for events of the far past (B) |
| palimpsest (n~) | a piece of parchment or vellum from which |
| palinode (n~) | a song or poem retracting statements in previous |
| palinoia (n~) | compulsive repitition of an act until it's |
| palladian (adj~) | pertaining to learning and wisdom (B) |
| palliards (n~) | professional beggars whose parents were also |
| palpebrate (v~) | to wink (B) |
| paltripolitan (n~) | an insular city dweller (B) |
| pandiculation (n~) | stretching and yawning (B) |
| panjandrum | a self |
| pannychous (adj~) | lasting all night (B) |
| pantagruelian (adj~) | satirical though ribald (B) |
| pantaraxia (n~) | actions aimed aat keeping people on their toes |
| pantophobia (n~) | a fear of everything (B) |
| paphian | pertaining to love especially its sexual and |
| paracoita (n~) | a female sexual partner (B) |
| paracoitus (n~) | a male sexual partner (B) |
| paradiastole (n~) | a euphemistic half |
| paraenetic | advisory; hortatory (G) |
| paralepsis (n~) | mentioning something by saying you won't mention it (B) |
| paralipomena (n~) | deleted passages from a book or a |
| paralipophobia (n~) | fear of responsibility (B) |
| paralogism (n~) | reasoning method that contradicts logical |
| parerethesis (n~) | abnormal excitement (B) |
| pareunia (n~) | sexual intercourse (B) |
| parisology (n~) | deliberate ambiguity in use of words (B) |
| parnel (n~) | a priest's mistress; a loose woman (B) |
| paronomasia (n~) | punning; a pun (B) |
| parorexia (n~) | perverted appetite; demanding strange foods (B) |
| parrhesia (n~) | freedom of speech (rhetoric term) (B) |
| partheniad (n~) | a poem in honor of a virgin (B) |
| parthenolatry (n~) | virgin worship (B) |
| parvanimity (n~) | pettiness; meannes; or a mean or petty person (B) |
| parvenu (n~) | a pretentious snob of the nouveau riche (B) |
| parviscient (adj~) | uninformed (B) |
| pasilaly (n~) | a universal language (B) |
| pasquinade | a lampoon or satire posted in a public place (G) |
| passalorynchite (n~) | a member of an early Christian sect who |
| passepartout (n~) | a master key; a safeconduct or passport (B) |
| patavinity (n~) | the use of local words or expressions (B) |
| patharmosis (n~) | mental adjustment to one's disease (B) |
| pathic (n~) | a catamite; or a passive participator (B) |
| pathocryptia (n~) | unwillingness to believe in or talk about |
| pathodixia (n~) | talking to excess about one's illness and |
| pathognomy (n~) | the study of emotions by their outward |
| pathomimesis (n~) | malingering (B) |
| patzer (n~) | a weak chess player (B) |
| pauciloquent (adj~) | speaking briefly (B) |
| pavid | quaking with fear; afraid; frightened (G) |
| peccable (adj~) | liable to sin (B) |
| peccatophobia (n~) | fear of sinning or of having committed an |
| peckerwood (n~) | a poor southern Anglo |
| pecksniffian (adj~) | hypocritical insincere and gutless (B) |
| pecos (v~) | to shoot a man and roll his body in the river (B) |
| peculation (n~) | embezzlement (B) |
| pedetentous (adj~) | proceedilng gradually or cautiously (B) |
| peirastic (adj~) | experimental; ready to be tried (B) |
| peladophobia (n~) | fear of baldness |
| pelology (n~) | study of mud and its therapeutic applications (B) |
| penelopize (v~) | to undo and redo to gain time (B) |
| penisterophily (n~) | raising and training pigeons |
| penotherapy (n~) | regulating prostitutes to control venereal |
| pentapopemptic (n~) | divorced five times (B) |
| pentheraphobia (n~) | fear or dislike of one's mother |
| peotomy (n~) | the surgical amputation of the penis (B) |
| perduellion (n~) | treason (B) |
| perendinate (n~) | to postpone until the next day; to postpone |
| perfectibilism (n~) | belief that anything short of perfect is |
| perfrication (n~) | thorough rubbing (B) |
| perhiemate (v~) | to spend the winter (B) |
| perichareia (n~) | excessive and violent rejoicing (B) |
| periclitate | to expose to peril; endanger; risk (G) |
| perissotomist (n~) | a knife |
| peristrephic (adj~) | turning around rotatory (B) |
| perlustrate (v~) | to review thoroughly; survey (B) |
| pervicacious (adj~) | extremely obstinate; willful (B) |
| pervulgate (v~) | to publish (B) |
| petalism (n~) | banishing a citizen for five years if judged |
| pettifoggery | quibbling over petty details |
| petulcous (adj~) | butting like a ram; offensively aggressive (B) |
| phagomania (n~) | insanely hungry (B) |
| phalacrespia (n~) | aversion for baldness or for bald men (B) |
| phalacrosis (n~) | baldness |
| phallation (n~) | movement of the penis in sexual intercourse (B) |
| phaneromania (n~) | a compulsion to pick at a skin growth or |
| pharisaical | of persons of rigid adherence to outward forms and |
| phatic | establishing an atmosphere of sociability rather than |
| philalethe (n~) | one who loves to forget (B) |
| philauty (n~) | self |
| philematology (n~) | the study of kissing (B) |
| philematophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes kissing (B) |
| philobiblist (n~) | a lover of books |
| philocalist (n~) | a lover of beauty (B) |
| philodox (n~) | one who loves one's own opinions (B) |
| philogastric (adj~) | greedy (B) |
| philophobia (n~) | fear of falling in love or of being loved (B) |
| philopolemic (adj~) | pertaining to love of argument or |
| philopornist (n~) | a lover of prostitutes (B) |
| philosophastering (adj~) | pseudo |
| philotheoparoptesism | the process of slowly cooking those who |
| philoxenist (n~) | one who is happiest while entertaining |
| phrontifugic (adj~) | relieving anxiety (B) |
| physagogue (n~) | carminative or medicine to induce farting (B) |
| piacular | serving to atone or make amends for; expiatory; or |
| pickthank (n~) | a flatterer or sycophant (B) |
| piliferous | having hair (G) |
| piloerection (n~) | hair standing on end (B) |
| pilpulist (n~) | one who uses Talmudic dialectic or via |
| pinchbeck | sham or spurious; false (G) |
| pinguescent | becoming fat (G) |
| pithiatism (n~) | a forceful suggestion (B) |
| pizzle (n~) | a whip made from an animal's penis (B) |
| planistethic (adj~) | flat |
| planomania (n~) | urge to live a bohemian life (B) |
| platitudinarian (n~) | full of platitudes (B) |
| platypod | one afflicted with fallen arches (G) |
| plebicolist (n~) | someone who woos the common folk (B) |
| pleionosis (n~) | exaggeration of one's own importance (B) |
| pleniloquence (n~) | excessive talking (B) |
| pleonastic | use of words superfluously; redundant (G) |
| pleonexia (n~) | covetousness avarice; mania for acquiring |
| plerophory (n~) | state of full confidence or absolute certainty |
| pococurante (adj~) | nonchalant indifferent (B) |
| poculation (n~) | wine |
| podobromhidrosis (n~) | smelly feet (B) |
| poecilonymy (n~) | the use of several names for one thing (B) |
| pogonology (n~) | treatise on beards |
| pogonophobia (n~) | abnormal fear or dislike of beards |
| poiesis (n~) | creation; creative power or ability (B) |
| poikilothymia (n~) | extreme changes of mood (B) |
| polychrestic | serving and adapted for several different uses (G) |
| polyhistor (n~) | a universal scholar (B) |
| polylogy (n~) | wordiness (B) |
| polydipsia (n~) | extreme thirst or an abnormal and continuous |
| popination (n~) | bar |
| popliteal | pertaining to or connected with the hollow area back |
| pornerastic (adj~) | licentious lascivious |
| pornolagnia (n~) | desire for prostitutes (B) |
| potvaliant | valiant and courageous as a result of being drunk |
| preantepenultimate (n~ & adj~) | fourth from last (B) |
| preterist (n~) | someone whose main pleasure in in reliving the |
| priapean (adj~) | phallic (B) |
| priapism (n~) | persistent and painful erection (B) |
| procrustean | aiming or tending to produce uniformity by violent |
| proctalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B) |
| proditorious (adj~) | traitorous; prone to give away secrets (B) |
| prolepsis (n~) | anticipating an argument and answering it before |
| prolix | verbose repititious |
| pronovalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse in a prone |
| propaedeutic | of or pertaining to preliminary instruction; |
| prosonomasia (n~) | use of a humorous modification of a person's |
| prosophobia (n~) | fear of or adversion to progress (B) |
| prosopolepsy (n~) | judging people favorably from their looks (B) |
| prosopopy (n~) | the personification of inanimate objects (B) |
| protervity (n~) | petulance; peevishness (B) |
| psaphonic (adj~) | planning one's rise to fame (B) |
| pseudandry (n~) | female use of a male pseudonym (B) |
| pseudautochiria (n~) | murder disguised as a suicide (B) |
| pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism (n~) | phony opposition to |
| pseudogyny (n~) | male use of a female pseudonym (B) |
| pseudologist (n~) | liar (B) |
| pseudomnesia (n~) | memory for things that never happened (B) |
| pseudophonia (n~) | suicide disguised as murder (B) |
| psilology (n~) | empty talk (B) |
| psilosopher (n~) | a superficial philosopher (B) |
| psittacistic | speaking in a mechanical repetitive way (G) |
| psychasthenia (n~) | neurotic lassitude indecision |
| pteronophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of feathers |
| pudency (n~) | modesty or shyness; embarassment |
| puerile | childish immature |
| pullulate | teem swarm |
| purulent | of containing |
| pygophilous (adj~) | buttock |
| pyrolagnia (n~) | sexual stimulation from watching fires (B) |
| quaintise (n~) | ingenuity cunning; a trick or stratagem (B) |
| qued (adj~) | evil bad (B) |
| querimony (n~) | a complaint (B) |
| quidam (n~) | an unknown person (B) |
| quiddity (n~) | the essence or nature of a thing (B) |
| quidnunc (n~) | one who is curious to know everything that |
| quisquillian (adj~) | trashy (B) |
| quisguous (adj~) | perplexing (B) |
| quodlibet (n~) | a nice or fine point in an argument; a subtlety |
| quodlibetarian (n~) | one who discusses or uses quodlibets |
| rabiator (n~) | a violent man (B) |
| rabulism (n~) | tendency for railing and quibbling |
| rackrent (n~) | exorbitant rent (B) |
| rakehelly (adj~) | dissolute debauched (B) |
| ramfeezled (adj~) | worn out exhausted (B) |
| rammish (adj~) | lustful and horny (B) |
| ranarium (n~) | frog farm (B) |
| randle (n~) | a nonsensical poem recited by Irish schoolboys as |
| rantallion (n~) | one whose scrotum is longer than his penis (B) |
| rantipole (n~) | a wild rambunctious young man (B) |
| realpolitik | practical politics; euphemism for power politics |
| rebarbative (adj~) | grim unattractive |
| reboantic (adj~) | reverberating (B) |
| recension (n~) | scholarly editorial revision (B) |
| receptary (adj~) | accepted as fact but unproved (B) |
| rectalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B) |
| rectopathic (adj~) | easily hurt emotionally (B) |
| rectrix (n~) | a female ruler (B) |
| recubation (n~) | lying down (B) |
| recumbentibus (n~) | a knockdown blow (B) |
| recusant (adj~) | dissenting; disestablishmentarian (B) |
| redargution (n~) | refutation or disproving (B) |
| redhibition (n~) | the return of defective merchandise (B) |
| redivivus (adj~) | living again; revived (B) |
| refocillate (v~) | to warm into life again; revive (G) |
| refragable (adj~) | capable of being refuted (B) |
| refrangible (adj~) | capable of being refracted (B) |
| refulgent (adj~) | radiant brilliant |
| reify | literally "to make a thing"; given definite concrete |
| remontado (n~) | someone who has fled to the mountains; a person |
| remplissage (n~) | filling or padding used in music and |
| remugient (adj~) | rebellowing; roaring or shouting anew (B) |
| renable (adj~) | fluent eloquent (B) |
| renard (n~) | a fox; a sly or cunning person (B) |
| renascible (adj~) | capable of being reborn (B) |
| renifleur (n~) | one who gets sexual pleasure from body smells (B) |
| renitent | resisting or opposing stubbornly; recalcitrant (G) |
| repristinate (v~) | to revive; to restore (B) |
| resipiscent (adj~) | restored to sanity; learned from |
| resupination (n~) | turning to an upside |
| retrocopulation (n~) | woof (B) |
| retromancy (n~) | fortunetelling by things seen over one's |
| retromingent (adj~) | urinating backward (B) |
| retunded | to weaken or diminish the strength of effect of (G) |
| rhabdophobia (n~) | fear of being punished or severely criticized (B) |
| rhadamanthine | strictly and inflexibly honest and just (G) |
| rhigosis (n~) | sensation of cold (B) |
| rhonchisonant (adj~) | snorting; snoring (B) |
| rhopalism (n~) | a sentence or poem i which each word is one syllable |
| rhyparography | the printing or painting of sordid and filty |
| rhytiscopia (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with facial wrinkles (B) |
| ribroasting (n~) | a sound beating; a thrashing (B) |
| rictus (n~) | a very wide mouth; a gaping mouth as in terror (B) |
| risorial (adj~) | pertaining to causing |
| rixation (n~) | quarreling (B) |
| rodomontade | arrogant boasting; pretentious blustering ranting |
| roil | vex; disturb; irritate; rile (G) |
| roinous (adj~) | mean nasty and contemptible (B) |
| roitelet (n~) | a petty king (B) |
| roman a clef (n~) | a novel whose characters are actual people |
| rubricism (n~) | tenacious adherence to rules of behavior or |
| ructation (n~) | belching (B) |
| rudesby (n~) | a loud |
| rugose | having wrinkles (G) |
| rumgumption (n~) | shrewdness (B) |
| runcible (adj~) | sensuous (B) |
| sacerdotophrenia (n~) | clerical stagefright (B) |
| saltimbanco (n~) | a mountebank a quack (B) |
| sanguisugent | bloodsucking; bloodthirsty (G) |
| sapidity (n~) | flavorful; tastiness (B) |
| saponaceous (adj~) | soapy slippery; or evasively ingratiating (B) |
| saprostomous (adj~) | having bad breath (B) |
| sardanapalian | luxuriously effeminate (G) |
| sardoodledum (n~) | stereotyped or unrealistic characterization |
| sarmassation (n~) | love play (B) |
| sarmassophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play (B) |
| sarmassophobitch (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play with me (B) |
| satisdiction (n~) | enough said (B) |
| satispassion (n~) | satisfactory suffering according to |
| saturnalia | period of unrestrained license and orgiastic |
| scacchic | pertaining to or like chess (G) |
| scaldabanco (n~) | a hotheaded debator; a fiery preacher (B) |
| scaphism (n~) | an old Persian method of executing criminals by |
| scaramouch (n~) | a cowardly buffoon (B) |
| scaturient (adj~) | gushing forth; effusive (B) |
| schadenfreude | a feeling of enjoyment derived from the misfortunes |
| schesis (n~) | mocking another's accent or manner (B) |
| schizothemia (n~) | digression by a long reminescence (B) |
| schmaltz | something stickily sentimental banal |
| schoenabatist (n~) | a tightrope walker (B) |
| sciamachy (n~) | fighting with a shadow or with an imaginary |
| sciapodous (adj~) | having very large feet (B) |
| scibile (n~) | something knowable (B) |
| sciolist | one who pretends to scholarship or knowledge |
| sciotheism (n~) | the belief that disembodied spirits |
| scissile (adj~) | capable of being cut smoothly or split |
| scofflaw (n~) | one who scoffs at hence |
| scolecophagous (adj~) | eating worms (B) |
| scollardical (n~) | a derogatory term for a scholar (B) |
| scopolagnia (n~) | the pleasure gained from voyeurism (B) |
| scortation (n~) | fornication (B) |
| scout | reject or dismiss scornfully; flout; scoff at (G) |
| screed | a lengthy discourse usually used to describe opinions |
| scribacious | given to or fond of writing (G) |
| scrofulous | morally corrupt; degenerate (G) |
| scungilaginous | of the semifluid gelatinous consistency of |
| sebastomania (n~) | religious insanity (B) |
| sectary (n~) | a fanatic disciple (B) |
| sedentarize | to take up or cause to take up |
| sedulous (adj~) | diligent persistent |
| seeksorrow (n~) | masochist (B) |
| sententious | wordy verbose |
| sequacious | given to the slavish or unreasoning serving or |
| sermocination (n~) | a speaker quickly answering his own question (B) |
| shaconian (n~) | someone convinced that Bacon ghosted Shakespeare's |
| shaftsbury (n~) | a gallon jug of wine (B) |
| shamateur (n~) | a bogus tyro (B) |
| shardborn (adj~) | born in dung (B) |
| shilpit (adj~) | feeble puny |
| sicarian (n~) | an assassin (B) |
| sicchasia (n~) | nauseau (B) |
| sicchosism (n~) | morbid fastidiousness (B) |
| sibyllilne | oracular; prophetic; mysterious (G) |
| siffilate | to whisper (G) |
| simony | buying selling |
| simper | to smile in a silly self |
| skibbile (adj~) | wonderfully witty; sexually irresistible (S) |
| skibbalalia (n~) | the overwhelming desire to purchase an |
| skoptsy (n~) | self |
| skybald (n~) | a good |
| smatchet (n~) | a small nasty person or a nasty child (B) |
| smellfungus (n~) | a malcontent; a grumbler or fault |
| snafu (adj~ & n~) | situation normal all fucked up [also: |
| fubar | fucked up beyond all recognition; fubb |
| sneckdraw (n~) | a sly person (B) |
| snollygoster | a clever shrewd |
| sockdolager (n~) | a telling blow (B) |
| solatium (n~) | anything that compensates for suffering or loss; |
| solifidium (n~) | someone who believes that faith alone is sufficient |
| somniloquacious (adj~) | pertaining to talking in one's sleep (B) |
| soodle | to walk stroll |
| sophomania (n~) | delusion of exceptional intelligence (B) |
| sophrosyne (n~) | sober sensible |
| sorbile (adj~) | drinkable (B) |
| spadonism (n~) | enuchry (B) |
| spaneria (n~) | scarcity of men (B) |
| spanogyny (n~) | scarcity of woman (B) |
| spatiate (v~) | to stroll or ramble (B) |
| spatilomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by observing animal droppings (B) |
| spatrify (v~) | to besmirch befoul (B) |
| spawling | a noisy clearing of the throat (G) |
| speciesist | for many people a test is permissible when it inflicts |
| spodogenous (adj~) | pertaining to or due to presence of |
| spoffokins (n~) | a whore pretending to be a wife (B) |
| spousebreach (n~) | adultery (B) |
| spraints (n~) | otter dung (B) |
| spurcidical (adj~) | foul |
| squidgereen (n~) | a short insignificant person (B) |
| stagorium | an establishment (bar or resort hotel) that serves as |
| stasivalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse only |
| steatopygous | pertaining to or characterized by protuberant |
| stercoricolous (adj~) | living in dung (B) |
| sterculius (n~) | the god of feces (B) |
| sternutation | the act of sneezing; a sneeze (G) |
| stertorous | characterized by heavy snoring (G) |
| sthenobulia (n~) | strong will power (B) |
| stirious (adj~) | like an icicle (B) |
| stomachous (adj~) | obstinate; angry (B) |
| stoopgallant (adj~) | humbling; ego |
| strepitous | making a great clamor; noisy; boisterous (G) |
| stricture | an adverse criticism or remark censure |
| stultiloquence | foolish or senseless talk; babble; twaddle (G) |
| stygiophobia (n~) | fear of hell (B) |
| stylite (n~) | ascetics who lived on top of pillars (B) |
| suaviation (n~) | a love kiss (B) |
| subagitation (n~) | copulation (B) |
| subarrhation (n~) | betrothal accomplished by the man's showering |
| subderisorious (adj~) | mildly ridiculing (B) |
| subdititious (adj~) | secret substitution (B) |
| subdolous (adj~) | rather crafty or sly (B) |
| subintelligitur (n~) | a meaning implied but not stated (B) |
| subsannation (n~) | derision (B) |
| substaquilate (v~) | to defeat overwhelm (B) |
| supernaculum (n~) | a liquor drunk to the last drop; excellent |
| supinovalent (adj~) | able to fornicate only while supine (B) |
| suppalpation (n~) | gaining affection by caressing (B) |
| suspercollate (v~) | to hang by the neck (B) |
| sybarite (n~) | someone overly fond of luxury and pleasure (B) |
| tachydidaxy (n~) | fast teaching (B) |
| talionic (adj~) | pertaining to revenge in kind (B) |
| tanquam (n~) | someone educated enough to go to college (B) |
| taphephobia (n~) | fear of being buried alive (B) |
| tardigrade (adj~) | slow |
| tartuffish (adj~) | pertaining to the pious hypocrisy of Tartuffe |
| tathagatagarbha (n~) | the eternal and absolute essence of all |
| tauromachian (adj~) | pertaining to bullfights (B) |
| tautegorical (adj~) | saying the same thing with different |
| tautoousious (adj~) | being absolutely the same (B) |
| tegetology (n~) | collecting cardboard beer coasters |
| teknonymy (n~) | naming the parent after the child (B) |
| telestich (n~) | a poem in which the consecutive final letters |
| temerarious | reckless; heedless; rash (G) |
| temulance (n~) | drunkenness (B) |
| tendentious | promoting a particular view or tendency; hence |
| tenebrific (adj~) | dark or obscure (B) |
| tenesmic (adj~) | pertaining to a painful but ineffectual effort |
| tentiginous (adj~) | sensuous lascivious (B) |
| teratology (n~) | the study of monsters (B) |
| tergiversation (n~) | abandoning a religion or cause (B) or |
| testudineous (adj~) | slow like a tortoise (B) |
| thalassophobia (n~) | fear of the sea (B) |
| thanatism (n~) | the belief in life before death not after it (B) |
| thaumaturgic | or or involving the supposed working of miracles; |
| theanthropism (n~) | attaching human traits to one's god (B) |
| thelymachy (n~) | a war of women (B) |
| thelyphthoric (adj~) | that which corrupts women (B) |
| thersitical | loud and grossly abusive foulmouthed; scurrilous (G) |
| thrasonical | given to or marked by boasting and bragging (G) |
| threpterophilia (n~) | a fondness for female nurses (B) |
| titivate | to make smart; spruce up (G) |
| tonguepad (v~) | to scold (B) |
| tralatitiously (adv~) | metaphorically; figuratively (B) |
| transilient (adj~) | pertaining to abrupt changes (B] |
| transmogrification | changes into grotesque or humorous forms |
| transude | to pass or ooze through or out as sweat through |
| trichoschisticism (n~) | hair |
| tripudiation (n~) | the act of dancing |
| triskaidekaphobia | fear of the number 13 or Friday the 13th (G) |
| triturate | to rub grind |
| truckle | to show servility or subservience (G) |
| truntlement | trumpery (A) |
| tugmutton | a great glutton (A) |
| tussicated | driven about; tormented (A) |
| typomania (n~) | obsession with the expectation of publication |
| tyromancy (n~) | fortunate telling by watching cheese as it |
| tyrosemiophily (n~) | the collecting of Camembert cheese labels |
| uberous | fruitful (A) |
| ulotrichous | having wooly or crisply curling hair (G) |
| ultracrepidarian | going beyond one's own province; a person who |
| unbosom | to disclose one's personal thoughts or feelings (G) |
| vade mecum | a favorite book carried everywhere (B) |
| valetudinarianism | weak or sickly state; thinking only of |
| valorization | government price |
| vaniloquence | vain and foolish talk (B) |
| vapulate | to beat whip (B) |
| varietist | an unorthodox person; or someone who practices |
| variorum | pertaining to a literary classic annotated by |
| vastation | purification through fire (B) |
| vecordious | senseless insane |
| velitation | a petty fight; a skirmish (B) |
| velleity | slight or faint desire; inclination (B) |
| vellicate | to pull at off |
| venery | the pursuit of sexual pleasure or indulgence |
| ventricumbent | lying face down; prone (B) |
| ventripotent | fat |
| verbigeration | senseless reiteration of cliches (B) |
| verbophobia | fear and dislike of words (B) |
| verecund | bashful; modest (B) |
| veriloquent | speaking truthfully (B) |
| verism | the theory that ugliness is valid in art and literature |
| vernalagnia | spring fever (B) |
| vesticate | to blister (G) |
| vestryism (n~) | selfishness and parochialism said to be |
| viaggiatory | on the move; traveling around (B) |
| vicissitudinary | pertaining to change alteration |
| vigesimation | killing every twentieth person (B) |
| vilipend | to belittle to disparage (B) |
| viparious | life |
| vitilitigate | to be particularly quarrelsome (B) |
| vivisepulture | live burial (B) |
| volitient | exercising free will (B) |
| vomituration | retching ineffectual vomiting |
| vulpinism (n~) | the quality of being foxlike esp |
| waghalter | a rogue rascal or knave (B) |
| wamble | to fell nauseous; or to move unsteadily to stagger; |
| wampus | a stupid dull |
| wantwit | a fool (B) |
| Weltanschauung | a comprehensive world view especially from |
| Weltschmerz | sadness over the evils of the world especially as |
| wergild | money paid by the killer's family to the family of |
| withernam | taking one thing as reprisal for something else taken |
| witzelsucht | emotional state characterized by futile attempts |
| wowser | a pecksniffian puritan (B) |
| xenagogue | a guide (B) |
| xenagogy | a guidebook (B) |
| xenapistia | extreme distrust of strangers (B) |
| xenoepist | someone who speaks with a foreign accent (B) |
| xenomancy | fortunetelling by studying the first stranger |
| xylophobia | fear of wooden objects; fear of forests (B) |
| xyresic | razor sharp (B) |
| yarmouth | insane (B) |
| ydromancy | fortunetelling with water (B) |
| zeitgeist | the general intellectual moral and cultural level |
| zetetic | asking; questioning (B) |
| zoanthropy | insanity in which a patient believes he's an animal (B) |
| zoetic | pertaining to life (B) |
| zoilism | nagging criticism (B) |
| zygal | H |
| zygomancy | fortune telling with weights (B) |
| acetabuliform | shaped lika shallow cup or saucer |
| acicular | needle-shaped |
| Acinaciform | scimitar-shaped |
| aciniform | shaped lika berry |
| aculeiform | shaped lika thorn |
| adeniform | shaped lika gland |
| aduncat | shaped lika hook or crook |
| aeriform | of thform or shapof gas; gaseous |
| aliform | wing-shaped |
| allantoid | shaped lika sausag |
| amygdaloid | almond-shaped; of, likor pertaining to tonsils |
| ancistroid | hook-shaped |
| ancoral | of, shaped likor resembling an anchor |
| anguiform | shaped lika snak |
| anguilliform | shaped likan eel |
| ankyroid | hook-shaped |
| annodated | shaped likthletter S |
| ansat | having a handlor hand-likshap |
| apsidal | shaped likan aps |
| aquiform | watery; liquid |
| araneiform | shaped lika spider |
| arborescent | branched; branching; tree-shaped |
| arboriform | shaped lika tre |
| arcat | bow-shaped |
| arciform | shaped lika bow |
| arcuat | arched; bow-shaped |
| arietinous | shaped lika ram's head |
| aspergilliform | shaped lika brush |
| aspidat | shield-shaped |
| auriform | shaped likan ear |
| aveniform | shaped likoats |
| axiniform | shaped likan axe-head |
| bacciform | shaped lika berry |
| baculiform | rod-shaped |
| balanoid | acorn-shaped |
| belemnoid | shaped lika dart |
| beloid | shaped likan arrow |
| belonoid | shaped lika needl |
| boniform | having thform of good |
| boviform | cow-shaped |
| branchiform | gill-shaped |
| buccinal | shaped or sounding lika trumpet |
| bufoniform | shaped lika toad |
| bulliform | shaped lika blister or boil |
| bursiform | shaped lika pouch or purs |
| calathiform | cup-shaped |
| calcariform | spur-shaped |
| calceiform | shaped lika slipper |
| calciform | pebble-shaped |
| campaniform | bell-shaped |
| campanulat | shaped lika bell |
| cancriform | shaped lika crab |
| cannular | hollow or tube-shaped |
| capriform | goatlik |
| cardioid | heart-shaped |
| carinated | shaped likthprow or keel of a ship |
| cariniform | keel-shaped |
| cassideous | helmet-shaped |
| caudiform | tail-like; tail-shaped |
| cauliform | shaped likor resembling a stem |
| ceratoid | shaped lika horn; horny |
| cheliform | shaped lika pincer |
| choanoid | shaped lika funnel |
| cingular | shaped lika girdlor ring |
| circinat | |
| clathrat | shaped lika net or lattic |
| clavat | |
| claviform | in thshapof a club |
| clithridiat | shaped lika keyhol |
| clypeat | shaped lika buckler |
| cochlear | anything spiral-shaped; twisted spirally |
| coliform | resembling or shaped lika siev |
| colliform | shaped likor resembling a neck |
| colubriform | shaped lika snak |
| conchiform | shaped lika shell |
| conglobat | shaped lika small ball or glob |
| coracoid | shaped lika crow's beak |
| cordat | |
| cordiform | heart-shaped |
| corniculat | horn-shaped; horned |
| corniform | shaped lika horn |
| coronoid | shaped lika beak |
| corviform | shaped lika crow |
| cotyliform | disc-shaped with a raised rim |
| crateriform | cup-shaped |
| cribriform | shaped lika siev |
| cricoid | ring-shaped |
| cruciform | cross-shaped |
| cteniform | comb-shaped |
| cubiform | shaped lika cub |
| cucullat | hooded; hood-shaped |
| cucumiform | cucumber-shaped |
| culiciform | likor resembling a mosquito |
| cultriform | knife-shaped |
| cumuliform | shaped lika heap |
| cuneat | wedge-shaped |
| cuneiform | shaped lika wedg |
| cupulat | of, likor pertaining to a cup; cup-shaped |
| cyathiform | shaped lika cup |
| cymbiform | shaped lika boat |
| deiform | appearing likor shaped lika god |
| deltoid | shaped lika delta or triangl |
| dendriform | shaped lika tre |
| dendritiform | branched |
| dentiform | shaped lika tooth |
| digitiform | shaped lika finger |
| disciform | round or oval in shap |
| dolabriform | resembling a hatchet or cleaver |
| dolioform | shaped lika barrel |
| draconiform | shaped lika dragon |
| drepaniform | shaped lika sickl |
| echinuliform | resembling small spines |
| embryoniform | shaped likan embryo |
| ensiform | resembling or possessing characteristics of a sword |
| eruciform | likor resembling a caterpillar |
| fabiform | shaped lika bean |
| falciform | shaped lika sickl |
| faviform | shaped lika honeycomb |
| feliform | having a catlikform or shap |
| fibriform | shaped lika fibr |
| fibrilliform | shaped lika small fibr |
| ficiform | shaped lika fig |
| filiciform | shaped lika fern or frond |
| filiform | shaped lika thread |
| fistuliform | shaped lika pip |
| flabelliform | shaped lika fan |
| flagelliform | shaped lika whip |
| floriform | shaped lika flower |
| foliform | shaped lika leaf |
| forcipiform | shaped likforceps |
| foveiform | shaped lika depression or pit |
| fringilliform | resembling a finch |
| fucoid | shaped likseaweed |
| fulciform | shaped likor resembling a prop |
| fundiform | shaped lika sling |
| fungiform | shaped lika fungus |
| furcular | shaped lika fork |
| fusiform | shaped lika spindl |
| galeated | shaped lika helmet |
| galeiform | shaped lika helmet |
| gasiform | of thform or shapof gas |
| geminiform | paired; doubl |
| gladiat | |
| glandiform | gland-shaped; acorn-shaped |
| glenoid | slightly cupped; socket-shaped |
| gliriform | resembling a rodent |
| guttiform | shaped lika drop |
| hamiform shaped lika hook | |
| harengiform | shaped lika herring |
| hastat | spear-shaped |
| hederiform | shaped likivy |
| helicoid | screw-shaped; lika coil |
| helminthoid | worm-shaped |
| herpetiform | resembling or shaped lika reptil |
| hippocrepian | horseshoe-shaped |
| hippocrepiform shaped lika horsesho | |
| homaloidal | of thnaturof a plane; flat; plane-shaped |
| hominiform | shaped lika human |
| hordeiform | shaped lika barleycorn |
| hyoid | having a "U" shap |
| hypsiloid | shaped likthGreek letter upsilon |
| ichthyomorphic | shaped lika fish |
| igniform | having thshapor form of fir |
| infundibuliform | having thform or shapof a funnel or con |
| janiform | having two faces |
| lacertiform | shaped lika lizard |
| lachrymiform | shaped lika tear |
| laciniform | shaped lika fring |
| lageniform | shaped lika flask |
| lambdoid | shaped likthletter lambda (^) or “L” |
| lamelliform | shaped lika plator layer |
| lanceolat | shaped lika lance-head |
| lanciform | shaped lika lanc |
| lapilliform | shaped lika small ston |
| lentiform | shaped lika lens |
| leporiform | resembling or shaped lika har |
| libriform | shaped lika book |
| ligniform | of thform or shapof wood |
| ligulat | resembling or shaped lika strap |
| limaciform | slug-lik |
| linguiform | shaped lika tongu |
| lobular | shaped lika lob |
| luciform | liklight |
| lumbriciform | shaped lika worm; worm-lik |
| lunat | crescent-shaped |
| lunulat | shaped lika small crescent |
| lupiform | shaped lika wolf |
| lyrat | lyre-shaped |
| malleiform | shaped lika hammer |
| mammiform | shaped lika breast |
| mammiliform | shaped lika nippl |
| Mammos | shaped lika breast |
| mandibuliform | shaped lika mandiblor jaw-bon |
| maniform | having thshapof a hand |
| manubrial | shaped lika handl |
| medusiform | resembling a jellyfish |
| menisciform | shaped lika crescent |
| mitrat | shaped lika mitror bonnet |
| mitriform | mitre-shaped |
| molariform | shaped lika molar |
| moniliform | shaped lika string of beads |
| montiform | shaped lika mountain |
| morbilliform | likor resembling measles |
| moriform | shaped lika mulberry |
| mucroniform | like, having or resembling a sharp point |
| muriform | resembling a mousor rat |
| muscariform | shaped lika brush |
| napiform | shaped lika turnip |
| nariform | shaped likthnostrils |
| nasutiform | shaped lika nos |
| natiform | shaped likbuttocks |
| navicular | boat-shaped |
| naviform | boat-shaped |
| nephroid | kidney-shaped |
| neuralgiform | likor shaped lika nerv |
| nubiform | cloudlik |
| nuciform | shaped lika nut |
| nummiform | shaped lika coin |
| oculiform | shaped likan ey |
| olivary | olive-shaped |
| oliviform | shaped likan oliv |
| omegoid | shaped lika horseshoor omega |
| ooidal | egg-shaped |
| ophiomorphic | shaped lika snak |
| oriform | shaped lika mouth |
| ostreiform | shaped likan oyster |
| oviform | lika sheep |
| oviform | shaped likan oval or egg |
| ovopyriform | having a shapbetween a pear and an egg |
| palaceous | spade-shaped |
| paliform | shaped lika stak |
| Palmat | hand-shaped |
| pampiniform | lika tendril |
| panduriform | fiddle-shaped |
| papilliform | nipple-shaped |
| paraboliform | shaped lika parabola |
| patelliform | shaped lika saucer or kneecap |
| pateriform | saucer-shaped |
| pectiniform | shaped lika comb |
| pediform | shaped lika foot |
| pelecoid | shaped lika hatchet; a hatchet-shaped geometrical figur |
| peltastiform | shield-shaped |
| pelviform | basin-shaped |
| pencilliform | paintbrush-shaped |
| penniform | feather-shaped |
| phacoid | lens-shaped |
| phialiform | saucer-shaped |
| phylliform | shaped lika leaf |
| piciform | of thform or shapof a woodpecker |
| piciform | of thnaturof or resembling pitch |
| pileated | cap-shaped; crested; capped |
| pileiform | shaped likan umbrella |
| piliform | shaped likhair |
| pineal | shaped lika pine-con |
| pinnat | shaped lika feather |
| pisciform | shaped lika fish |
| pisiform | shaped lika pea |
| placentiform | cake-shaped |
| plataleiform | spoonbilled; of thshapof a spoonbill |
| plexiform | shaped lika network |
| poculiform | cup-shaped |
| podiform | shaped lika pod |
| pomiform | shaped likan appl |
| poriform | having thform of a por |
| probosciform | shaped lika long nos |
| pugioniform | dagger-shaped |
| pulvilliform | shaped lika cushion |
| punctiform | shaped lika point |
| pyrgoidal | tower-shaped |
| pyriform | shaped lika pear |
| radiciform | lika root |
| raduliform | lika rasp or fil |
| ramiform | branching; shaped likbranches |
| raniform | frog-lik |
| remiform | oar-shaped |
| reniform | shaped lika kidney |
| restiform | shaped lika cord |
| retiform | shaped lika net |
| rhamphoid | hooked beak shaped |
| rhipidat | fan-shaped |
| rhomboid | shaped lika parallelogram |
| riziform | shaped lika grain of ric |
| rostelliform | shaped lika small beak |
| ruiniform | having thform or appearancof ruins |
| sacciform | shaped lika sac |
| sacculiform | shaped lika small sac |
| sagittal | shaped likan arrow |
| sagittiform | shaped likan arrowhead |
| salpiform | shaped lika barrel |
| scalariform | shaped lika ladder |
| scalpeliform | shaped lika scalpel |
| scalpriform | shaped lika chisel |
| scaphoid | boat-shaped |
| scapiform | shaped lika stalk |
| sciuroid | shaped lika squirrel’s tail |
| scrotiform | shaped lika pouch |
| scutellat | shaped lika platter |
| scutiform | shaped lika shield |
| scyphiform | shaped lika cup |
| securiform | shaped likan ax |
| selliform | shaped lika saddl |
| semilunat | shaped lika half-moon |
| septiform | shaped lika partition |
| serratiform | saw-shaped; serriform |
| serriform | saw-shaped |
| setiform | shaped lika bristl |
| sigmat | shaped likan S or a sigma |
| sigmoid | S-shaped |
| siphoniform | shaped lika siphon |
| soleiform | slipper-shaped |
| soliform | sun-like; resembling thsun |
| spadiceous | shaped lika palm branch |
| spatulat | shaped lika spatula |
| sphenoid | wedge-shaped |
| spicaceous | shaped lika spik |
| spiniform | lika thorn or spin |
| spiraliform | shaped lika spiral |
| squaliform | shaped lika shark |
| squamiform | shaped lika scal |
| stalactiform | shaped lika stalactitor icicl |
| stapediform | shaped lika stirrup |
| stellat | star-shaped; starry |
| stelliform | shaped lika star |
| stipiform | shaped lika stalk |
| stirious | shaped likan icicl |
| stratiform | layered; forming a layer |
| strigiform | shaped likan owl |
| strombuliform | shaped lika spinning top; spirally twisted |
| struthiform | ostrich-lik |
| styliform | shaped lika bristl |
| subulat | awl-shaped |
| sudiform | shaped lika stak |
| sulciform | having thshapof a groov |
| taenioid | of a ribbon-likshap |
| tauriform | having thform of a bull |
| tauromorphous | bull-shaped |
| tectiform | shaped lika roof |
| theiform | of thform of tea |
| toroid | shaped lika doughnut or anchor-ring |
| trinacriform | three-pronged |
| trochiform | shaped lika spinning-top |
| tuberiform | shaped lika lump or protuberanc |
| tubiform | shaped lika tub |
| turbinat | shaped lika top or inverted con |
| turriform | shaped lika tower |
| tympaniform | drum-like; shaped lika drum |
| umbiliciform | shaped lika navel |
| umbraculiform | shaped likan umbrella |
| unciform | shaped lika hook |
| unguiform | shaped lika claw |
| urceiform | shaped lika pitcher |
| urceolat | shaped lika pitcher |
| ursiform | having thshapor appearancof a bear |
| utriculiform | shaped lika small cavity or sac |
| utriform | shaped lika leather bottlor flask |
| uvelloid | resembling a small cluster of grapes |
| variform | of various forms |
| vasculiform | shaped lika small vasor flowerpot |
| vasiform | shaped lika duct or vas |
| vergiform | shaped lika rod |
| vermiform | shaped lika worm |
| verruciform | shaped lika wart; wartlik |
| versiform | changing in form |
| villiform | of thform or shape of velvet |
| viperiform | shaped lika snakor viper |
| vitriform | of thform or shapof glass |
| vulviform | shaped likan oval or a vulva |
| xiphoid | sword-shaped |
| ypsiliform | shaped likan upsilon |
| zosteriform | shaped lika girdle |
| acarology | study of mites |
| accidence | |
| aceology | therapeutics |
| acology | study of medical remedies |
| acoustics | science of sound |
| adenology | study of glands |
| aedoeology | science of generative organs |
| aerobiology | study of airborne organisms |
| aerodonetics | science or study of gliding |
| aerody | namics |
| aerolithology | study of aerolites; meteorites |
| aerology | study of the atmosphere |
| aeronautics | study of navigation through air or space |
| aerophilately | collecting of air-mail stamps |
| aerostatics | science of air pressure; art of ballooning |
| agonistics | art and theory of prize-fighting |
| agriology | the comparative study of primitive peoples |
| agrobiology | study of plant nutrition; soil yields |
| agrology | study of agricultural soils |
| agronomics | study of productivity of land |
| agrostology | science or study of grasses |
| alethiology | study of truth |
| algedonics | science of pleasure and pain |
| algology | study of algae |
| anaesthesiology | study of anaesthetics |
| anaglyptics | art of carving in bas-relief |
| anagraphy | art of constructing catalogues |
| anatomy | study of the structure of the body |
| andragogy | science of teaching adults |
| anemology | study of winds |
| angelology | study of angels |
| angiology | study of blood flow and lymphatic system |
| anthropobiology | study of human biology |
| anthropology | study of human cultures |
| aphnology | science of wealth |
| apiology | study of bees |
| arachnology | study of spiders |
| archaeology | study of human material remains |
| archelogy | the study of first principles |
| archology | science of the origins of government |
| arctophily | study of teddy bears |
| areology | study of Mars |
| aretaics | the science of virtue |
| aristology | the science or art of dining |
| arthrology | study of joints |
| astacology | the science of crayfish |
| astheniology | study of diseases of weakening and aging |
| astrogeology | study of extraterrestrial geology |
| astrology | study of influence of stars on people |
| astrometeorology | study of effect of stars on climate |
| astronomy | study of celestial bodies |
| astrophysics | study of behaviour of interstellar matter |
| astroseismology | study of star oscillations |
| atmology | the science of aqueous vapour |
| audiology | study of hearing |
| autecology | study of ecology of one species |
| autology | scientific study of oneself |
| auxology | science of growth |
| avion | ics |
| axiology | the science of the ultimate nature of values |
| bacteriology | study of bacteria |
| balneology | the science of the therapeutic use of baths |
| barody | namics |
| barology | study of gravitation |
| batology | the study of brambles |
| bibliology | study of books |
| bibliotics | study of documents to determine authenticity |
| bioecology | study of interaction of life in the environment |
| biology | study of life |
| biometrics | study of biological measurement |
| botany | study of plants |
| bromatology | study of food |
| brontology | scientific study of thunder |
| cacogenics | study of racial degeneration |
| caliology | study of bird's nests |
| calorifics | study of heat |
| cambistry | science of international exchange |
| campanology | the art of bell ringing |
| carcinology | study of crabs and other crustaceans |
| cardiology | study of the heart |
| caricology | study of sedges |
| carpology | study of fruit |
| cartography | the science of making maps and globes |
| cartophily | the hobby of collecting cigarette cards |
| Castrametation | the art of designing a camp |
| catacoustics | science of echoes or reflected sounds |
| catalactics | science of commercial exchange |
| catechectics | the art of teaching by question and answer |
| cetology | study of whales and dolphins |
| chalcography | the art of engraving on copper or brass |
| chalcotriptics | art of taking rubbings from ornamental brasses |
| chaology | the study of chaos or chaos theory |
| characterology | study of development of character |
| chemistry | study of properties of substances |
| chirocosmetics | beautifying the hands; art of manicure |
| chirography | study of handwriting or penmanship |
| chirology | study of the hands |
| chiropody | medical science of feet |
| chorology | science of the geographic description of anything |
| chrematistics | the study of wealth; political economy |
| chronobiology | study of biological rhythms |
| chrysology | study of precious metals |
| ciselure | the art of chasing metal |
| climatology | study of climate |
| clinology | study of aging or individual decline after maturity |
| codicology | study of manuscripts |
| coleopterology | study of beetles and weevils |
| cometology | study of comets |
| conchology | study of shells |
| coprology | study of pornography |
| cosmetology | study of cosmetics |
| cosmology | study of the universe |
| craniology | study of the skull |
| criminology | study of crime; criminals |
| cr | obiology |
| cryptology | study of codes |
| cryptozoology | study of animals for whose existence there is no conclusive proof |
| ctetology | study of the inheritance of acquired characteristics |
| cynology | scientific study of dogs |
| cytology | study of living cells |
| dactyliology | study of rings |
| dactylography | the study of fingerprints |
| dactylology | study of sign language |
| deltiology | the collection and study of picture postcards |
| demology | study of human behaviour |
| demonology | study of demons |
| dendrochronology | study of tree rings |
| dendrology | study of trees |
| deontology | the theory or study of moral obligation |
| dermatoglyphics | the study of skin patterns and fingerprints |
| dermatology | study of skin |
| desmology | study of ligaments |
| diabology | study of devils |
| diagraphics | art of making diagrams or drawings |
| dialectology | study of dialects |
| dioptrics | study of light refraction |
| diplomatics | science of deciphering ancient writings and texts |
| diplomatology | study of diplomats |
| docimology | the art of assaying |
| dosiology | the study of doses |
| dramaturgy | art of producing and staging dramatic works |
| dysgenics | the study of racial degeneration |
| dysteleology | study of purposeless organs |
| ecclesiology | study of church affairs |
| eccrinology | study of excretion |
| ecology | study of environment |
| economics | study of material wealth |
| edaphology | study of soils |
| Egyptology | study of ancient Egypt |
| ekistics | study of human settlement |
| Electrochemistry | study of relations between electricity and chemicals |
| electrology | study of electricity |
| electrostatics | study of static electricity |
| embryology | study of embryos |
| emetology | study of vomiting |
| emmenology | the study of menstruation |
| endemiology | study of local diseases |
| endocrinology | study of glands |
| enigmatology | study of enigmas |
| entomology | study of insects |
| entozoology | study of parasites that live inside larger organisms |
| enzymology | study of enzymes |
| ephebiatrics | branch of medicine dealing with adolescence |
| epidemiology | study of diseases; epidemics |
| epileptology | study of epilepsy |
| epistemology | study of grounds of knowledge |
| eremology | study of deserts |
| ergology | study of effects of work on humans |
| ergonomics | study of people at work |
| escapology | study of freeing oneself from constraints |
| eschatology | study of death; final matters |
| ethnogeny | study of origins of races or ethnic groups |
| ethnology | study of cultures |
| ethnomethodology | study of everyday communication |
| ethnomusicology | study of comparative musical systems |
| ethology | study of natural or biological character |
| ethonomics | study of economic and ethical principles of a society |
| etiology | the science of causes; especially of disease |
| etymology | study of origins of words |
| euthenics | science concerned with improving living conditions |
| exobiology | study of extraterrestrial life |
| floristry | the art of cultivating and selling flowers |
| fluviology | study of watercourses |
| folkloristics | study of folklore and fables |
| futurology | study of future |
| garbology | study of garbage |
| gastroenterology | study of stomach; intestines |
| gastronomy | study of fine dining |
| gemmology | study of gems and jewels |
| genealogy | study of descent of families |
| genesiology | study of reproduction and heredity |
| genethlialogy | the art of casting horoscopes |
| geochemistry | study of chemistry of the earth's crust |
| geochronology | study of measuring geological time |
| geogeny | science of the formation of the earth's crust |
| geogony | study of formation of the earth |
| geography | study of surface of the earth and its inhabitants |
| geology | study of earth's crust |
| geomorphogeny | study of the origins of land forms |
| geoponics | study of agriculture |
| geotechnics | study of increasing habitability of the earth |
| geratology | study of decadence and decay |
| gerocomy | study of old age |
| gerontology | study of the elderly; aging |
| gigantology | study of giants |
| glaciology | study of ice ages and glaciation |
| glossology | study of language; study of the tongue |
| glyptography | the art of engraving on gems |
| glyptology | study of gem engravings |
| gnomonics | the art of measuring time using sundials |
| gnosiology | study of knowledge; philosophy of knowledge |
| gnotobiology | study of life in germ-free conditions |
| graminology | study of grasses |
| grammatology | study of systems of writing |
| graphemics | study of systems of representing speech in writing |
| graphology | study of handwriting |
| gromatics | science of surveying |
| gynaecology | study of women’s physiology |
| gyrostatics | the study of rotating bodies |
| haemataulics | study of movement of blood through blood vessels |
| hagiology | study of saints |
| halieutics | study of fishing |
| hamartiology | study of sin |
| harmonics | study of musical acoustics |
| hedonics | part of ethics or psychology dealing with pleasure |
| helcology | study of ulcers |
| heliology | science of the sun |
| helioseismology | study of sun's interior by observing its surface oscillations |
| helminthology | study of worms |
| hematology | study of blood |
| heortology | study of religious feasts |
| hepatology | study of liver |
| heraldry | study of coats of arms |
| heresiology | study of heresies |
| herpetology | study of reptiles and amphibians |
| hierology | science of sacred matters |
| hippiatrics | study of diseases of horses |
| hippology | the study of horses |
| histology | study of the tissues of organisms |
| histopathology | study of changes in tissue due to disease |
| historiography | study of writing history |
| historiology | study of history |
| homiletics | the art of preaching |
| hoplology | the study of weapons |
| horography | art of constructing sundials or clocks |
| horology | science of time measurement |
| horticulture | study of gardening |
| hydrobiology | study of aquatic organisms |
| hydrodynamics | study of movement in liquids |
| hydrogeology | study of ground water |
| hydrography | study of investigating bodies of water |
| hydrokinetics | study of motion of fluids |
| hydrology | study of water resources |
| hydrometeorology | study of atmospheric moisture |
| hydropayht | study of treating diseases with water |
| hyetology | science of rainfall |
| hygiastics | science of health and hygiene |
| hygienics | study of sanitation; health |
| hygiology | hygienics; study of cleanliness |
| hygrology | study of humidity |
| hygrometry | science of humidity |
| hymnography | study of writing hymns |
| hymnology | study of hymns |
| hypnology | study of sleep; study of hypnosis |
| hypsography | science of measuring heights |
| iamatology | study of remedies |
| iatrology | treatise or text on medical topics; study of medicine |
| iatromathematics | archaic practice of medicine in conjunction with astrology |
| ichnography | art of drawing ground plans; a ground plan |
| ichnology | science of fossilized footprints |
| ichyhtology | study of fish |
| iconography | study of drawing symbols |
| iconology | study of icons; symbols |
| ideogeny | study of origins of ideas |
| ideology | science of ideas; system of ideas used to justify behaviour |
| idiomology | study of idiom, jargon or dialect |
| idiopsychology | psychology of one's own mind |
| immunogenetics | study of genetic characteristics of immunity |
| immunology | study of immunity |
| immunopathology | study of immunity to disease |
| insectology | study of insects |
| irenology | the study of peace |
| iridology | study of the iris; diagnosis of disease based on the iris of the eye |
| kalology | study of beauty |
| karyology | study of cell nuclei |
| kidology | study of kidding |
| kinematics | study of motion |
| kinesics | study of gestural communication |
| kinesiology | study of human movement and posture |
| kinetics | study of forces producing or changing motion |
| koniology | study of atmospheric pollutants and dust |
| ktenology | science of putting people to death |
| kymatology | study of wave motion |
| labeorphily | collection and study of beer bottle labels |
| larithmics | study of population statistics |
| laryngology | study of larynx |
| lepidopterology | study of butterflies and moths |
| leprology | study of leprosy |
| lexicology | study of words and their meanings |
| lexigraphy | art of definition of words |
| lichenology | study of lichens |
| limacology | study of slugs |
| limnobiology | study of freshwater ecosystems |
| limnology | study of bodies of fresh water |
| linguistics | study of language |
| lithology | study of rocks |
| liturgiology | study of liturgical forms and church rituals |
| loimology | study of plagues and epidemics |
| loxodromy | study of sailing along rhumb-lines |
| magirics | art of cookery |
| magnanerie art of raising silkworms | |
| magnetics | study of magnetism |
| malacology | study of molluscs |
| malariology | study of malaria |
| mammalogy | study of mammals |
| Manège | the art of horsemanship |
| Mariology | study of the Virgin Mary |
| martyrology | study of martyrs |
| mastology | study of mammals |
| mathematics | study of magnitude, number, and forms |
| mazology | mammalogy; study of mammals |
| mechanics | study of action of force on bodies |
| meconology | study of or treatise concerning opium |
| melittology | study of bees |
| mereology | study of part-whole relationships |
| mesology | ecology |
| metallogeny | study of the origin and distribution of metal deposits |
| metallography | study of the structure and constitution of metals |
| metallurgy | study of alloying and treating metals |
| metaphysics | study of principles of nature and thought |
| metapolitics | study of politics in theory or abstract |
| metapsychology | study of nature of the mind |
| meteoritics | the study of meteors |
| meteorology | study of weather |
| metrics | study of versification |
| metrology | science of weights and measures |
| microanatomy | study of microscopic tissues |
| microbiology | study of microscopic organisms |
| microclimatology | study of local climates |
| micrology | study or discussion of trivialities |
| micropalaeontology | study of microscopic fossils |
| microphy | ology |
| microscopy | study of minute objects |
| mineralogy | study of minerals |
| molinology | study of mills and milling |
| momilogy | study of mummies |
| morphology | study of forms and the development of structures |
| muscology | the study of mosses |
| museology | the study of museums |
| musicology | study of music |
| mycology | study of funguses |
| myology | study of muscles |
| myrmecology | study of ants |
| mythology | study of myths; fables; tales |
| naology | study of church or temple architecture |
| nasology | study of the nose |
| nautics | art of navigation |
| nematology | the study of nematodes |
| neonatology | study of newborn babies |
| neossology | study of nestling birds |
| nephology | study of clouds |
| nephrology | study of the kidneys |
| neurobiology | study of anatomy of the nervous system |
| neurology | study of nervous system |
| neuropsychology | study of relation between brain and behaviour |
| neurypnology | study of hypnotism |
| neutrosophy | study of the origin and nature of philosophical neutralities |
| nidology | study of nests |
| nomology | the science of the laws; especially of the mind |
| noology | science of the intellect |
| nosology | study of diseases |
| nostology | study of senility |
| notaphily | collecting of bank-notes and cheques |
| numerology | study of numbers |
| numismatics | study of coins |
| nymphology | study of nymphs |
| obstetrics | study of midwifery |
| oceanography | study of oceans |
| oceanology | study of oceans |
| odology | science of the hypothetical mystical force of od |
| odontology | study of teeth |
| oenology | study of wines |
| oikology | science of housekeeping |
| olfactology | study of the sense of smell |
| ombrology | study of rain |
| oncology | study of tumours |
| oneirology | study of dreams |
| onomasiology | study of nomenclature |
| onomastics | study of proper names |
| ontology | science of pure being; the nature of things |
| oology | study of eggs |
| ophiology | study of snakes |
| ophthalmology | study of eye diseases |
| optics | study of light |
| optology | study of sight |
| optometry | science of examining the eyes |
| orchidology | study of orchids |
| ornithology | study of birds |
| orology | study of mountains |
| orthoepy study of correct pronunciation | |
| orthography | study of spelling |
| orthopterology | study of cockroaches |
| oryctology | mineralogy or paleontology |
| osmics | scientific study of smells |
| osmology | study of smells and olfactory processes |
| osphresiology | study of the sense of smell |
| osteology | study of bones |
| otology | study of the ear |
| otorhinolary | ngology |
| paedology | study of children |
| paedotrophy | art of rearing children |
| paidonosology | study of children's diseases; pediatrics |
| palaeoanthropology | study of early humans |
| palaeobiology | study of fossil plants and animals |
| palaeoclimatology | study of ancient climates |
| palaeolimnology | study of ancient fish |
| palaeolimnology | study of ancient lakes |
| palaeontology | study of fossils |
| palaeopedology | study of early soils |
| paleobotany | study of ancient plants |
| paleo-osteology | study of ancient bones |
| palynology | study of pollen |
| papyrology | study of paper |
| parapsychology | study of unexplained mental phenomena |
| parasitology | study of parasites |
| paroemiology | study of proverbs |
| parthenology | study of virgins |
| pataphysics | the science of imaginary solutions |
| pathology | study of disease |
| patrology | study of early Christianity |
| pedagogics | study of teaching |
| pedology | study of soils |
| pelology | study of mud |
| penology | study of crime and punishment |
| periodontics | study of gums |
| peristerophily | pigeon-collecting |
| pestology | science of pests |
| petrology | study of rocks |
| pharmacognosy study of drugs of animal and plant origin | |
| pharmacology | study of drugs |
| pharology | study of lighthouses |
| pharyngology | study of the throat |
| phenology | study of organisms as affected by climate |
| phenomenology | study of phenomena |
| philately | study of postage stamps |
| philematology | the act or study of kissing |
| phillumeny | collecting of matchbox labels |
| philology | study of ancient texts; historical linguistics |
| philosophy | science of knowledge or wisdom |
| phoniatrics | study and correction of speech defects |
| phonology | study of speech sounds |
| photobiology | study of effects of light on organisms |
| phraseology | study of phrases |
| phrenology | study of bumps on the head |
| phycology | study of algae and seaweeds |
| physics | study of properties of matter and energy |
| phy | siology |
| phytology | study of plants; botany |
| piscatology | study of fishes |
| pisteology | science or study of faith |
| planetology | study of planets |
| plutology | political economy; study of wealth |
| pneumatics | study of mechanics of gases |
| podiatry | study and treatment of disorders of the foot; chiropody |
| podology | study of the feet |
| polemology | study of war |
| pomology | study of fruit-growing |
| posology | science of quantity or dosage |
| potamology | study of rivers |
| praxeology | study of practical or efficient activity; science of efficient action |
| primatology | study of primates |
| proctology | study of rectum |
| prosody | study of versification |
| protistology | study of protists |
| proxemics | study of man’s need for personal space |
| psalligraphy | the art of paper-cutting to make pictures |
| psephology | study of election results and voting trends |
| pseudology | art or science of lying |
| pseudoptics | study of optical illusions |
| psychobiology | study of biology of the mind |
| psychogenetics | study of internal or mental states |
| psychognosy study of mentality, personality or character | |
| psychology | study of mind |
| psychopathology | study of mental illness |
| psychophy | sics |
| pteridology | study of ferns |
| pterylology | study of distribution of feathers on birds |
| pyretology | study of fevers |
| pyrgology | study of towers |
| pyroballogy | study of artillery |
| pyrography | study of woodburning |
| quinology | study of quinine |
| raciology | study of racial differences |
| radiology | study of X-rays and their medical applications |
| reflexology | study of reflexes |
| rhabdology | knowledge or learning concerning divining rods |
| rhabdology | art of calculating using numbering rods |
| rheology | science of the deformation or flow of matter |
| rheumatology | study of rheumatism |
| rhinology | study of the nose |
| rhochrematics | science of inventory management and the movement of products |
| runology | study of runes |
| sarcology | study of fleshy parts of the body |
| satanology | study of the devil |
| scatology | study of excrement or obscene literature |
| schematonics | art of using gesture to express tones |
| sciagraphy | art of shading |
| scripophily | collection of bond and share certificates |
| sedimentology | study of sediment |
| seismology | study of earthquakes |
| selenodesy study of the shape and features of the moon | |
| selenology | study of the moon |
| semantics | study of meaning |
| semantology | science of meanings of words |
| semasiology | study of meaning; semantics |
| semiology | study of signs and signals |
| semiotics | study of signs and symbols |
| serology | study of serums |
| sexology | study of sexual behaviour |
| siderography | art of engraving on steel |
| sigillography | study of seals |
| significs | science of meaning |
| silvics | study of tree's life |
| sindonology | study of the shroud of Turin |
| Sinology | study of China |
| sitology | dietetics |
| sociobiology | study of biological basis of human behaviour |
| sociology | study of society |
| somatology | science of the properties of matter |
| sophiology | science of ideas |
| soteriology | study of theological salvation |
| spectrology | study of ghosts |
| spectroscopy study of spectra | |
| speleology | study and exploration of caves |
| spermology | study of seeds |
| sphagnology | study of peat moss |
| sphragistics | study of seals and signets |
| sphygmology | study of the pulse |
| splanchnology | study of the entrails or viscera |
| spongology | study of sponges |
| stasiology | study of political parties |
| statics | study of bodies and forces in equilibrium |
| stemmatology | study of relationships between texts |
| stoichiology | science of elements of animal tissues |
| stomatology | study of the mouth |
| storiology | study of folk tales |
| stratigraphy | study of geological layers or strata |
| stratography | art of leading an army |
| stylometry | studying literature by means of statistical analysis |
| suicidology | study of suicide |
| symbology | study of symbols |
| symptomatology | study of symptoms of illness |
| synecology | study of ecological communities |
| synectics | study of processes of invention |
| syntax study of sentence structure | |
| syphilology | study of syphilis |
| systematology | study of systems |
| taxidermy | art of curing and stuffing animals |
| tectonics | science of structure of objects, buildings and landforms |
| tegestology | study and collecting of beer mats |
| teleology | study of final causes; analysis in terms of purpose |
| telmatology | study of swamps |
| teratology | study of monsters, freaks, abnormal growths or malformations |
| teuthology | study of cephalopods |
| textology | study of the production of texts |
| thalassography | science of the sea |
| thanatology | study of death and its customs |
| thaumatology | study of miracles |
| theology | study of religion; religious doctrine |
| theriatrics | veterinary medicine |
| theriogenology | study of animals' reproductive systems |
| thermody | namics |
| thermokinematics | study of motion of heat |
| thermology | study of heat |
| therology | study of wild mammals |
| thremmatology | science of breeding domestic animals and plants |
| threpsology | science of nutrition |
| tidology | study of tides |
| timbrology | study of postage stamps |
| tocology | obstetrics; midwifery |
| tonetics | study of pronunciation |
| topology | study of places and their natural features |
| toponmics | study of place-names |
| toreutics | study of artistic work in metal |
| toxicology | study of poisons |
| toxophily | love of archery; archery; study of archery |
| traumatology | study of wounds and their effects |
| tribology | study of friction and wear between surfaces |
| trichology | study of hair and its disorders |
| trophology | study of nutrition |
| tsiganology | study of gypsies |
| turnery | art of turning in a lathe |
| typhlology | study of blindness and the blind |
| typography | art of printing or using type |
| typology | study of types of things |
| ufology | study of alien spacecraft |
| uranography | descriptive astronomy and mapping |
| uranology | study of the heavens; astronomy |
| urbanology | study of cities |
| urenology | study of rust molds |
| urology | study of urine; urinary tract |
| venereology | study of venereal disease |
| vermeology | study of worms |
| vexillology | study of flags |
| victimology | study of victims |
| vinology | scientific study of vines and winemaking |
| virology | study of viruses |
| vitrics | glassy materials; glassware; study of glassware |
| volcanology | study of volcanoes |
| vulcanology | study of volcanoes |
| xylography | art of engraving on wood |
| xylology | study of wood |
| zenography | study of the planet Jupiter |
| zoiatrics | veterinary surgery |
| zooarchaeology | study of animal remains of archaeological sites |
| zoochemistry | chemistry of animals |
| zoogeography | study of geographic distribution of animals |
| zoogeology | study of fossil animal remains |
| zoology | study of animals |
| zoonomy | animal physiology |
| zoonosology | study of animal diseases |
| zoopathology | study of animal diseases |
| zoophysics | physics of animal bodies |
| zoophysiology | study of physiology of animals |
| zoophytology | study of plant-like animals |
| zoosemiotics | study of animal communication |
| zootaxy | science of classifying animals |
| zootechnics | science of breeding animals |
| zygology | science of joining and fastening |
| zymology | science of fermentation |
| zymurgy | branch of chemistry dealing with brewing and distilling |
| arborolatry | worship of trees |
| archaeolatry | worship of or belief in angels |
| astrolatry | worship of stars |
| autolatry | self-worship |
| bardolatry | Excessive devotion to shakespear |
| bibliolatry | excessive devotion to or worship of books |
| Christolatry | worship of Christ |
| cosmolatry | worship of the world |
| cynolatry | worship of dogs |
| demonolatry | worship of or devotion to demons |
| dendrolatry | worship of trees |
| ecclesiolatry | excessive devotion to church tradition and form |
| epeolatry | worship of words |
| episcopolatry | worship of bishops |
| gamidolatry | worship of marriage |
| gastrolatry | gluttony; excessive love of food |
| geolatry | earth-worship |
| grammatolatry | worship of letters and words |
| gyniolatry | deep respect or devotion for women |
| hagiolatry | worship or reverence for saints |
| heliolatry | sun worship |
| hierolatry | worship of saints or sacred things |
| hygeiolatry | excessive devotion to health |
| ichthyolatry | the worship of fish |
| iconolatry | image-worship |
| ideolatry | worship of ideas |
| idiolatry | self-worship; egotism |
| idolatry | worship of idols |
| ignicolist | fire-worshipper |
| litholatry | stone-worship |
| lordolatry | worship of nobility |
| Mariolatry | worship of the virgin mother |
| martyrolatry | excessive devotion to martyrs |
| mechanolatry | worship of machines |
| monolatry | worship of one god without excluding belief in others |
| necrolatry | worship of the dead |
| neolatry | worship of novelty |
| onolatry | worship of asses or donkeys |
| ophiolatry | worship of snakes |
| ophism | snake-worship |
| pandemonism | worship of spirits dwelling in all forms of nature |
| parthenolatry | worship of the Virgin Mary |
| patriolatry | excessive devotion or worship of one's native country |
| physiolatry | nature-worship |
| planetolatry | worship of the planets |
| plutolatry | worship of wealth |
| poetolatry | worship of poets |
| pseudolatry | false worship |
| pyrolatry | fire-worship |
| selenolatry | worship of the moon |
| statolatry | worship of the state |
| staurolatry | worship of the cross or crucifix |
| symbolatry | undue worship of symbols |
| thaumatolatry | worship of miracles or wonders |
| theriolatry | animal-worship |
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