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| abbatial | like or pertaining to abbots or an abbey
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| abecedarian | like or pertaining to the order
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| abiectic | like or pertaining to fir trees or fir sap
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| absinthial | like or pertaining to wormwood; bitter
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| abyssopelagic | like or pertaining to the depths
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| acarine | like or pertaining to ticks or mites
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| accipitrine | like or pertaining to falcons and hawks
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| acerate | like or resembling a needle
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| acolouthic | like or pertaining to an after-image or other after-sensation
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| acrologic | like or pertaining to initials
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| addititious | pertaining to or resulting from addition
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| adenoid | like or pertaining to or like a gland
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| adipic | like or pertaining to fatty substances
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| aeropleustic | like or pertaining to aerial navigation
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| aeruginous |
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| aestival | like or pertaining to summer
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| agonistic | like or pertaining to or being aggressive or argumentative
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| agravic having no gravity; pertaining to the condition | zero-gravity
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| agrestic | the fields; rural; unpolished
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| alar | like or pertaining to the wing or shoulder
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| alaudine | like or pertaining to skylarks
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| alcine | like or pertaining to elks;
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| aliphatic | like or pertaining to fat or fats in general
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| alliaceous | like or pertaining to garlic; garlicky
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| alopecoid | or resembling a fox
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| alpestrine | like or pertaining to alpine regions
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| alveolate | or like a honeycomb
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| alvine | the belly
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| ampelidious | like or pertaining to vines
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| amphiscian | like or pertaining to torrid regions
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| amygdaloid almond-shaped; | like or pertaining to tonsils
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| anacardic | like or pertaining to cashews
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| anaclastic refractive; | like or pertaining to refraction
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| anatine | like or pertaining to ducks
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| anconoid | like or pertaining to the elbow
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| ancoral | shaped like or resembling an anchor
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| anguine | like or pertaining to snakes
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| anguine | like or pertaining to snakes
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| anopheline | like or pertaining to malarial mosquitoes
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| anserine | like or pertaining to geese
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| apatetic | an animal's coloration or markings
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| apian | like or pertaining to bees
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| apiarian | like or pertaining to bees or beekeeping
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| apical | or at the apex
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| aquiline | like or pertaining to eagles; hooked like an eagle's beak
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| araneidan | like or pertaining to spiders
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| archididascalian | like or pertaining to headmasters
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| architectonics | like or pertaining to the arrangement
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| areopagitic | like or pertaining to tribunals or courts
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| arietine | like or pertaining to rams
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| arval | like or pertaining to ploughed land
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| asinine | like or pertaining to asses; stupid
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| aularian | like or pertaining to a hall in a university
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| aurantiaceous | like or pertaining or pertaining to oranges or orange trees
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| auricular | like or pertaining to the ear; spoken secretly
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| aval | like or pertaining to a grandparent
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| avian | like or pertaining to birds
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| avicular | like or pertaining to birds
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| avuncular like an uncle; | like or pertaining to uncles
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| baculine | like or pertaining to the stick or cane;
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| basial | like or pertaining to kissing
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| bathyorographical | like or pertaining to depth underwater or elevation above sea level
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| bathysmal | like or pertaining to the depths
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| batrachian | like or pertaining to frogs or toads
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| bdelloid | like or pertaining to leeches
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| benthic | like or pertaining to the depths
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| bibitory | like or pertaining or pertaining to drinking
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| binaural | pertaining to or heard by both ears
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| bisontine | like or pertaining to bison
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| biverbal | like or pertaining to two words; having a double sense
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| blattoid | like or pertaining to cockroaches
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| blennoid | or resembling mucus
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| blepharal | like or pertaining to eyelids
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| bolar | like or pertaining to clay
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| bombic | like or pertaining to silkworms
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| bombycine | like or pertaining to silk or cotton
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| bovine | like or pertaining to cows
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| branchial | like or pertaining to gills
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| brumal | like or pertaining to winter
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| bubaline | like or pertaining to buffalo or antelopes
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| buccal | like or pertaining to the mouth or cheek
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| bucolic | like or pertaining to the tending
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| burgensic | like or pertaining to a borough or its citizens
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| bursal | like or pertaining to a state's revenues
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| buteonine | like or pertaining to buzzards
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| butyric | like or pertaining to butter
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| caballine | like or pertaining to or suited to a horse
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| cacuminal retr | lex pertaining to a point
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| calycine | like or pertaining to a cup or calyx
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| cameline | like or pertaining to camels
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| campestral | like or pertaining to the country; pertaining to level ground
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| cancellarial | like or pertaining to a chancellor
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| cancrine | like or pertaining to crabs; palindromic
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| canicular | like or pertaining to the dog star
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| canine | like or pertaining to dogs
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| cantative | like or pertaining to singing
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| capitulary | like or pertaining to a chapter
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| capric having a goatlike smell; | like or pertaining to goats
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| caprifoliaceous | like or pertaining to the honeysuckle plant
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| caprine | like or pertaining to goats
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| carceral | like or pertaining to prisons
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| cardinalitial | like or pertaining to church cardinals
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| caricous | like or pertaining to figs
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| carious | like or pertaining to dental cavities; decayed
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| carnificial | like or pertaining to butchers or executioners
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| carpal | like or pertaining to the wrist
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| castellar | like or pertaining to a castle
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| castral | or belonging to the camp
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| catalactic | like or pertaining to exchange
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| catarrhine | like or pertaining to Old World Monkeys
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| catenarian | like or pertaining to chains
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| catoptric | like or pertaining to reflection or reflected light
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| caudal | like or pertaining to the tail
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| causidical | like or pertaining to those who plead legal cases
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| cenatory | like or pertaining to supper
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| centrobaric | like or pertaining to the centre
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| cercopithecan | like or pertaining to long-tailed monkeys
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| cervine | pertaining to or resembling deer
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| cervisial | like or pertaining or pertaining to beer
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| chelonian | like or pertaining to tortoises or turtles
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| chiral | like or pertaining to the hand or handedness
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| cholic | like or pertaining to bile
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| chorepiscopal | like or pertaining to an early local bishop
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| choreutic | like or pertaining to a chorus
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| chrematistic | like or pertaining to the pursuit
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| chrestomathic | like or pertaining to useful knowledge
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| chthonian | like or pertaining to the earth or the underworld
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| cibarious | like or pertaining to food; useful for food
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| ciconine | like or pertaining to storks
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| cinerary | like or pertaining to ashes
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| clysmian | like or pertaining to or caused by flood
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| cnemial | like
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| cnidarian | like
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| coeliac | like or pertaining to the abdomen
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| colubrine like a snake; cunning; | like or pertaining to snakes
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| columbaceous | like or pertaining to doves or pigeons
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| columbine | or like a dove; dove-coloured
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| compital | like or pertaining to crossroads
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| conative | like or pertaining to purposeful action or desire
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| connubial | like or pertaining to marriage
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| coriaceous having a leathery appearance; consisting |
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| corvine crow-like; | like or pertaining to crows or ravens
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| cosmotellurian | like or pertaining to both heaven and earth
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| costal | like or pertaining to the ribs
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| cothurnal | like or pertaining to tragedy
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| coticular | like or pertaining to whetstones
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| creatic | like or pertaining to flesh
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| credal | like or pertaining to a creed
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| crenitic | like or pertaining to mineral springs
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| crepuscular | like or pertaining to twilight
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| cretaceous | or resembling chalk;
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| crinal | or related to the hair
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| crotaline | like or pertaining to rattlesnakes
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| crural | or belonging to the leg
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| cryptaesthetic | like or pertaining to supranormal perception
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| cryptous | like or pertaining to crypts
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| cuculine | like or pertaining to cuckoos
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| cucurbitaceous | like or pertaining to gourds
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| cupulate | like or pertaining to a cup; cup-shaped
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| cutaneous | or related to the skin
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| cynegetic | or related to hunting
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| cyprinoid | like or pertaining to carp
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| cypseline | like or pertaining to swifts
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| decanal | like or pertaining to a dean or deacon
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| decennoval | like or pertaining to the number nineteen
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| decretal | like or pertaining to a decree
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| delphine pertaining to the Dauphin | France
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| delphinine | like or pertaining to dolphins
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| demegoric | like or pertaining to demagogues or demagogic speech
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| demogenic | like or pertaining to membership by citizenship rather than kinship
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| demotic | like or pertaining to the common people
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| denary one | ten; tenfold;
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| deontic | or relating to duty or obligation
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| deric | like or pertaining to the skin
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| diaconal | like or pertaining to a deacon
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| diacoustic | like or pertaining to the refraction
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| diadermic | like or pertaining to the puncturing
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| dianoetic capable | like or pertaining to thought
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| didelphine | like or pertaining to opossums
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| didine | like or pertaining to dodos
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| diluvial | like or pertaining to floods; especially mythical ones
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| dinic | like or pertaining to vertigo or dizziness
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| discophoran | like or pertaining to jellyfishes
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| distaff | like or pertaining to the female branch
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| dolabrate | like or pertaining to axes or hatchets
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| domal | like or pertaining to a house or dome
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| doxastic | like or pertaining to opinion
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| dromic | like or pertaining to a racecourse
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| drupaceous | like or pertaining to drupes or stone-fruits
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| duodenary | like or pertaining to the number twelve
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| eburnean | or like ivory; ivory-coloured
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| edaphic | like or pertaining to the soil
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| elaphine | like or belonging to a red deer;
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| elapid | like or pertaining to cobras
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| eleemosynary | like or pertaining to charity or giving alms; dependent on charity
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| elenctic | like or pertaining to argument; cross-examination or refuting
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| elephantine | like or pertaining to elephants
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| empaestic | like or pertaining to the art
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| emporeutic | like or pertaining to trade
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| empyreal | like or pertaining to heaven; sublime; skyward
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| enteral | pertaining to or within the intestine
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| entomical | like or pertaining to insects
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| eoan | like or pertaining to dawn
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| epedaphic | like or pertaining to atmospheric conditions
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| epicedial | like or pertaining to dirges or elegies
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| epistolary | like or pertaining to letters
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| epithymetic | like or pertaining to desire
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| epulary | like or pertaining to banquets
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| equine | like or pertaining to horses
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| eristic | like or pertaining to controversy or argument
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| estival | like or pertaining to summer
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| ethmoid | or like a sieve
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| eupeptic | like or pertaining to good digestion; cheerful
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| eusuchian | like or pertaining to alligators and crocodiles
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| excrementitial | like or pertaining to excrement
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| falconine | like or pertaining to falcons or hawks
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| favonian | like or pertaining to the west wind; mild and favourable
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| feline | like or pertaining to cats
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| fenestral | like or pertaining to windows
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| ferial | like or pertaining to holidays
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| fictile capable | being moulded;
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| fidicinal | like or pertaining to stringed musical instruments
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| figuline | like or pertaining to earthenware
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| fimetic | like or pertaining to dung
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| fodient | like or pertaining to digging
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| foraneous | like or pertaining to forums
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| forcipate | like or pertaining to forceps
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| formic | like or pertaining to ants
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| formicine | like or pertaining to ants
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| fringillaceous | like or pertaining to finches
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| fringilline | like or pertaining to finches
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| frumentarious | like or pertaining to corn
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| fulgural | like or pertaining to lightning
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| fuliginous sooty; dusky; soot-coloured; | or pertaining to soot
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| fuliguline | like or pertaining to sea ducks
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| fullonical | like or pertaining or belonging to a fuller
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| fulmineous | like or pertaining to thunder and lightning
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| funebral | like or pertaining to a funeral
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| fungous | or like fungus; s
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| funicular | like or pertaining to a string or cable
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| furuncular | like or pertaining to boils
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| gadoid | resembling or pertaining to the cod
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| galactic | like or pertaining to or obtained from milk
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| gallinaceous | or resembling pheasants and other domestic birds
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| geal | like or pertaining or pertaining to the earth
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| gelastic | like or pertaining to or provoking laughter
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| gemmeous | like or pertaining to gems; like a gem
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| genesic | like or pertaining to procreation or the genitals
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| geocyclic | like or pertaining to the rotation and revolution
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| georgic | like or pertaining to agricultural or rustic affairs; rural; agrarian
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| geoselenic | like or pertaining to both the Earth and the moon
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| geostrophic | like or pertaining to deflection due to effects
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| gerontogenous | like or pertaining to the Old World
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| gestatorial | like or pertaining to carrying
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| gestic | like or pertaining to gestures
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| glirine rodent-like; | like or pertaining to rodents
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| glottogonic | like or pertaining to the origins
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| glyptic | like or pertaining to carving or gem-engraving
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| gnathal | like or pertaining to the jaws
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| goetic | like or pertaining to black magic
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| grallatory | like or pertaining to wading birds
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| gramineous | like or pertaining to grass; grassy
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| gravimetrical | like or pertaining to measuring by weight
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| gregal | like or pertaining to a flock
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| gromatic | like or pertaining to surveys or surveying
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| gruine | like or pertaining to cranes or similar birds
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| habilatory | like or pertaining to clothes or dressing
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| haemal | like or pertaining to blood
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| halcyonine | like or pertaining to kingfishers
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| halibiotic | like or pertaining to the entirety
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| halieutic | like or pertaining to fishing
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| halolimnic | like or pertaining to sea creatures who spend time in fresh water
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| haptic | like or pertaining to the sense
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| hebamic | like or pertaining to the socratic method
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| hebetic | like or pertaining to puberty
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| hederaceous | like or pertaining to ivy
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| hepatic | like or pertaining to or acting upon the liver
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| hephaestic | like or pertaining to iron-working and blacksmiths
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| hermeneutic | like or pertaining to the interpretation
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| hermetic | like or pertaining to sorcery or alchemy
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| herpetoid | like or pertaining to snakes
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| hesternal | like or pertaining to yesterday
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| hibernal | like or pertaining to winter
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| hiemal | like or pertaining to winter
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| hippiatric | like or pertaining to the treatment
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| hippic | like or pertaining to horses
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| hippoid equine; | like or pertaining to horses
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| hircine goat-like; having a goatish smell; | like or pertaining to smelly goats
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| hirudine | like or pertaining to leeches
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| hirudinean | like or pertaining to leeches
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| hirundine | like or pertaining to swallows
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| histrionic | like or pertaining to the stage or actors
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| hodiernal | like or pertaining to the present day
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| homarine | like or pertaining to lobsters
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| homiletical | like or pertaining to homilies
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| horal | like or pertaining to hours; hourly
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| horary | like or pertaining to an hour; continuing for an hour; hourly
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| hordeaceous | like or pertaining to barley
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| hortensial | like or pertaining to gardens
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| hortulan | like or pertaining to gardens
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| humoral | like or pertaining to body fluid
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| hyaloid | like or pertaining to glass
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| hydric | like or pertaining to an abundance
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| hyetal rainy; | like or pertaining to rainfall
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| hygeian | like or pertaining to health; healthy
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| hygric | like or pertaining to water or moisture
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| hylobatine | like or pertaining to gibbons
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| hymeneal | like or pertaining to marriage
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| hypnoetic | like or pertaining to unconscious logical thought
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| hypnopompic | like or pertaining to period between sleep and wakefulness
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| hypothecary | like or pertaining to mortgages
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| hystricine | like or pertaining to porcupines
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| ichneutic | like or pertaining to a tracker or tracking
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| ichthyic | resembling or pertaining to fish
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| icterical | like or pertaining to or suffering from jaundice
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| icterine | like or pertaining to orioles and related birds
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| ictic | pertaining to
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| iliac | like or pertaining to the loins
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| ilicic | like or pertaining to holly
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| inescatory | like or pertaining to baiting; adapted to bait
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| inguinal | like or pertaining to the groin
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| institorial | like or pertaining to an agent or factor
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|
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| interstitial | like or pertaining to the space between things
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|
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| ipecacuanhic | or relating to ipecac
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|
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| iridaceous | like
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| iridal | or pertaining to the rainbow
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|
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| iridic | like or pertaining to the iris
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|
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| ischiatic | or pertaining to the ischium or hip
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||||
| islandic | or pertaining to an island
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|
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| ixiodic | like or pertaining to ticks
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|
||||
| jecoral | like or pertaining to the liver
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|
||||
| jentacular | like or pertaining to breakfast
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||||
| juglandaceous | like or pertaining to walnuts
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|
||||
| juncaceous | like or pertaining to rushes
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|
||||
| jural | like or pertaining to the law
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|
||||
| juratory | like or pertaining to an oath
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|
||||
| kerygmatic | like or pertaining to preaching the Gospel
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|
||||
| lacertilian | like or pertaining to lizards
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|
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| lacuscular | like or pertaining to pools
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| lacustrine | like or pertaining to lakes
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| laic | like or pertaining to lay people rather than clergy
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| lamiaceous minty; | like or pertaining to the mint plant
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|
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| laminary | like or pertaining to thin plates or layer
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|
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| lampyridine | like or pertaining or pertaining to glow-worms or fireflies
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| laniary | teeth or claws designed for tearing (canine teeth)
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|
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| lapidarian | like or pertaining to stones; inscribed on stones
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| lardaceous | like or pertaining to lard
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|
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| larine | like or pertaining to gulls
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||||
| laroid | like or pertaining to gulls
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| lavic | like or pertaining to lava
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|
||||
| legatine | like or pertaining to a legate
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|
||||
| lemurine | like or pertaining to lemurs
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| leonine | like or pertaining to lions
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|
||||
| leonine | or like a lion; rhyming last two or three syllables in a line
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|
||||
| leporine | like or pertaining to the hare
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|
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| lienal | like or pertaining to the spleen
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|
||||
| limacine | like or pertaining to slugs
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|
||||
| limicoline living on a shore; | like or pertaining to wading birds
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|
||||
| linaceous | like or pertaining to flax
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|
||||
| lingual | like or pertaining to language
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|
||||
| littoral | like or pertaining to the shore
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|
||||
| lobar | like or pertaining to a lobe
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|
||||
| loimic | like or pertaining to plagues
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|
||||
| loranthaceous | like or pertaining to the mistletoe
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|
||||
| lucernal | like or pertaining to lamps
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|
||||
| lumbricine | like or pertaining to earthworms
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|
||||
| lupanarian | like or pertaining to a brothel
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|
||||
| lupine | like or pertaining to wolves
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|
||||
| lupulic | like or pertaining to hops
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|
||||
| lutaceous | like or pertaining to or comprised
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|
||||
| lutrine | like or pertaining to otters
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|
||||
| macropodine | like or pertaining to kangaroos
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|
||||
| magistral | like or pertaining to a master or teacher
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|
||||
| malar | like or pertaining to the cheek
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|
||||
| malvaceous | like or pertaining to the mallow family
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|
||||
| manal | like or pertaining to the hand
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|
||||
| mandative | like or pertaining to commands or leadership
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|
||||
| mantic | like or pertaining to divination; prophetic; divinely inspired
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|
||||
| marmoreal | or like marble
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|
||||
| materteral | or resembling an aunt
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|
||||
| matinal | like or pertaining to the morning
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|
||||
| matrical | like or pertaining to a womb or a matrix
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|
||||
| matricular | like or pertaining to a register
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|
||||
| matriherital | like or pertaining to inheritance along the female line
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|
||||
| matripotestal | like or pertaining to the power
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|
||||
| matutinal | like or pertaining to the morning; happening early in the day
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|
||||
| maxillary | like or pertaining to a jaw
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|
||||
| medianic | like or pertaining to spiritualists
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|
||||
| megachiropteran | like or pertaining to fruit bats
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|
||||
| meleagrine | like or pertaining to turkeys
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|
||||
| mellaginous | like or pertaining to or resembling honey
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|
||||
| membral | like or pertaining to the limbs rather than the trunk
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|
||||
| mensal | like or pertaining to the dinner-table; monthly
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|
||||
| mental | like or pertaining to the chin
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|
||||
| meretricious | like or pertaining to prostitution; superficially attractive but lacking value
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|
||||
| metameric | like or pertaining to serial division or segmentation
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| molinary | like or pertaining to mills or grinding
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|
||||
| morassic | like or pertaining to a morass
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|
||||
| morganatic | like or pertaining to a marriage between those
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|
||||
| morphean | like or pertaining to dreams
🗑
|
||||
| morphotic | like or pertaining to formation or development
🗑
|
||||
| morsal | like or pertaining to the cutting edge
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|
||||
| mucopurulent | mucus and pus
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|
||||
| mulciberian | like or pertaining to metalworking
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| muscoid | like or pertaining to mosses; moss-like
🗑
|
||||
| musteline | like or pertaining to weasels
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|
||||
| mycteric | like or pertaining to the nostrils
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|
||||
| myelic | like or pertaining to the spinal cord
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|
||||
| myoxine | like or pertaining to dormice
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|
||||
| myrmecophagid | like or pertaining to anteaters
🗑
|
||||
| myrmicine | like or pertaining to ants
🗑
|
||||
| mystagogical | like or pertaining to religious ritual initiation
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|
||||
| nacreous | or resembling mother-
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|
||||
| narial | like or pertaining to the nostrils
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|
||||
| natalitial | like or pertaining to a birthday
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|
||||
| natricine | like or pertaining to water-snakes
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|
||||
| neanic | like or pertaining to the adolescent period; young
🗑
|
||||
| nectareal | or like nectar
🗑
|
||||
| nemaline | or like a thread
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|
||||
| 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
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| shrieval | like or pertaining to a sheriff
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| sialic | like or pertaining to saliva
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|
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| sidereal | like or pertaining to the stars
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| sigillary | like or pertaining to a seal
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| simian | like or pertaining to apes
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| sinal | like or pertaining to the sinuses
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|
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| siphonic | like or pertaining to a siphon
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|
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| skelic | like or pertaining to the skeleton
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|
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| soliterraneous | like or pertaining to the joint effect
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|
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| somnial | like or pertaining to dreams
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| sophianic | like or pertaining to wisdom
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| soricine | like or pertaining to shrews
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| soricine shrewlike; | like or pertaining to shrews
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| sororal | like or pertaining to sisters
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|
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| soterial | like or pertaining to salvation
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| spatiotemporal | like or pertaining to time and space
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|
||||
| speluncar | like or pertaining to caves
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|
||||
| spermatic | like or pertaining to sperm
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| sphingal | like or pertaining to sphinxes
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|
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| sphragistic | like or pertaining to seals and signets
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|
||||
| sphygmic | like or pertaining to the pulse or heartbeat
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|
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| spintrian | like or pertaining to orgies or male sexual deviance
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|
||||
| splenic | like or pertaining to the spleen
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|
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| squaloid | like or pertaining to sharks
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|
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| stadial | like or pertaining to a stage
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||||
| statuary | pertaining to or suitable for sculpture
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| stercoraceous | like or pertaining to feces
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|
||||
| steric | like or pertaining to the organization
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| sterquilinian | like or pertaining to a dunghill
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| stibial | like or pertaining to antimony
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|
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| stochastic | like or pertaining to a sequence
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| stradometrical | like or pertaining to the measurement
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| stratonic | an army or armies
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| strigine owl-like; | like or pertaining to owls
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| struthious | like or pertaining to ostriches
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| stylogalmaic | like or pertaining to figures serving as columns or pillars
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| suberic | or pertaining to cork
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|
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| suberous | like or having the appearance
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|
||||
| suburbicarian | like or pertaining to suburbs
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|
||||
| succinic | pertaining to or derived from amber
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|
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| suidian | like or pertaining to pigs
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|
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| suilline | like or pertaining to hogs
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| suilline like a pig; | like or pertaining to pigs
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|
||||
| sulcal | a sulcus; grooved; furrowed
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| sulphorous | like or pertaining to hellfire; infernal; blasphemous
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| sumptuary | like or pertaining to expense or extravagance
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|
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| superciliary | on or near the eyebrow
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| sural | like or pertaining to the calf
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| surficial like or pertaining to the surface |
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| surnominal | like or pertaining to surnames
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| sutorian | like or pertaining to cobbling or sewing
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|
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| sybotic | like or pertaining to a swineherd
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|
||||
| sylvestral | like or pertaining to trees
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|
||||
| synodical | like or pertaining to conjunction
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|
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| syringadenous | like or pertaining to sweat glands
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|
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| syrtic | like or pertaining to quicksand
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|
||||
| tabernacular | like or pertaining to a tabernacle
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|
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| tactual | like or pertaining to or derived from the sense
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|
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| talaric | like or pertaining to or reaching the ankles
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|
||||
| taurean | like or pertaining to a bull
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|
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| taurine | like or pertaining to bulls
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|
||||
| taxaceous | like or pertaining to yew trees
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|
||||
| technolithic | like or pertaining to stone tools
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|
||||
| tectonic | like or pertaining to building; structural
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|
||||
| tegmental | like or pertaining to coverings or outer shells
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|
||||
| tegular | like or overlapping like tiles or slates
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|
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| telestic | like or pertaining to the mysteries
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|
||||
| tellural | like or pertaining to the earth
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|
||||
| telodynamic | like or pertaining to transmission
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|
||||
| tergal | like or pertaining to the back
🗑
|
||||
| terpsichorean | like or pertaining to dancing
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|
||||
| terraneous | like or pertaining to the earth
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|
||||
| terrene | the earth; earthly; worldly; mundane
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|
||||
| tesserarian like or pertaining to dice games |
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| testaceous | or having a hard shell; brick-red
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|
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| testudinal | like or pertaining to tortoises or tortoise-shell
🗑
|
||||
| textorial | like or pertaining to weaving
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| theroid | like or pertaining to a beast or wild animal
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|
||||
| thesaurarial | or pertaining to the
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|
||||
| thesial | like or pertaining to a thesis
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|
||||
| thionic | like or pertaining to or containing sulphur
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|
||||
| threptic | like or pertaining to the rearing
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|
||||
| thronal | like or pertaining to a throne
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|
||||
| tigrine | like or pertaining to tigers
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| torrentine | like or pertaining to a torrent; having the character
🗑
|
||||
| toxophilite lover | archery; an archer;
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|
||||
| tribunitial | like or pertaining to a tribune
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| 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
🗑
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| scutigerous | bearing a shield or scales
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| scyphiferous | bearing a cup
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| sebiferous | bearing fatty matter
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| securigerous | bearing an axe
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| seminiferous | seed-bearing
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| sensiferous | conveying sensation
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| septiferous | having barriers
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| serpentiferous | bearing a snake; abounding in snakes
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| setiferous | bearing bristles
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| setigerous | bearing bristles
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| siliciferous | bearing or containing silica
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| soboliferous | bearing shoots or suckers
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| somniferous | bearing sleep
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| soniferous | producing sound
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| soporiferous | bearing sleep
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| spicigerous | bearing spikes
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| spiniferous | bearing spines
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| spinigerous | bearing spines
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| spinuliferous | bearing spinules
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| sporiferous | bearing spores
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| staminiferous | bearing stamens
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| stanniferous | bearing tin
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| stelliferous | having many stars
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| stigmatiferous | bearing stigma
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| stoloniferous | bearing or having runners
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| stomatiferous | having an orifice or mouth
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| strombuliferous | bearing spirally coiled organs
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| styliferous | bearing a bristle
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| succiferous | bearing or producing sap
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| succiniferous | bearing or producing amber
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| sudoriferous | inducing or secreting sweat
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| surculigerous | producing suckers
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| tediferous | bearing a torch
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| thuriferous | incense-bearing
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| titaniferous | bearing titanium
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| toxiferous | producing or bearing poison
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| trochiferous | bearing a wheel or wheel-like organ
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| tuberiferous | bearing tubers
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| turriferous | bearing towers
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| umbelliferous | bearing umbels
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| umbriferous | giving or bearing shade
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| uraniferous | bearing uranium
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| uriniferous | bearing urine
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| vasiferous | bearing a vessel or vas
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| veliferous | bearing a sail or membrane
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| veneniferous | carrying poison
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| vermigerous | bearing containing or infested with worms
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| viruliferous | bearing or containing a virus
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| vitiferous | bearing vines
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| yttriferous | bearing yttrium
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| zinciferous | bearing zinc
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| zinkiferous | bearing zinc
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| aeneous | shining bronze colour
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| albicant | whitish; becoming white
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| albugineous | like the white of an eye or an egg; white-coloured
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| amaranthine | immortal; undying; deep purple-red colour
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| argent | the heraldic colour silver or white
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| atrous | jet black
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| aubergine | eggplant; a dark purple colour
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| aurulent | gold-coloured
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| azuline | blue
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| azure | light or sky blue; the heraldic colour blue
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| badious | chestnut-coloured
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| beige | light creamy white-brown
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| brunneous | dark brown
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| burnet | dark brown; dark woollen cloth
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| caesious | bluish or greyish green
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| cardinal | deep scarlet red colour
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| castaneous | chestnut-coloured
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| castory | brown colour; brown dye derived from beaver pelts
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| celadon | pale green; pale green glazed pottery
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| celeste | sky blue
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| cerulean | sky-blue; dark blue; sea-green
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| cesious | bluish-grey
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| chartreuse | yellow-green colour
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| chlorochrous | green-coloured
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| chrysochlorous | greenish-gold
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| cinerious | ashen; ash-grey
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| cinnabar | red crystalline mercuric sulfide pigment; deep red or scarlet colour
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| citreous | lemon-coloured; lemony
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| citrine | dark greenish-yellow
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| coccineous | bright red
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| columbine | of or like a dove; dove-coloured
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| coquelicot | brilliant red; poppy red
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| corbeau | blackish green
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| cramoisy | crimson
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| cretaceous | of or resembling chalk; of a whitish colour
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| croceate | saffron-coloured
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| cyaneous | sky blue
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| eau-de-nil | pale green colour
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| eburnean | of or like ivory; ivory-coloured
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| erythraean | reddish colour
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| ferruginous | of the colour of rust; impregnated with iron
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| filemot | dead-leaf colour; dull brown
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| flammeous | flame-coloured
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| flavescent | yellowish or turning yellow
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| fuliginous | sooty; dusky; soot-coloured; of or pertaining to soot
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| fulvous | dull yellow; tawny
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| fuscous | brown; tawny; dingy
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| gamboge | reddish-yellow colour
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| glaucous | sea-green; greyish-blue
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| goldenrod | dark golden yellow
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| greige | of a grey-beige colour
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| gridelin | violet-grey
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| griseous | pearl-grey or blue-grey; grizzled
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|
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| haematic | blood-coloured
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||||
| heliotrope | purplish hue; purplish-flowered plant; ancient sundial; signalling mirror
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|
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| hoary | pale silver-grey colour; grey with age
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| hyacinthine | of a blue or purple colour
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| ianthine | violet-coloured
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| ibis | large stork-like bird; a pale apricot colour
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| icterine | yellowish or marked with yellow
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| icteritious | jaundiced; yellow
🗑
|
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| incarnadine | carnation-coloured; blood-red
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|
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| indigo | deep blue-violet colour; a blue-violet dye
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|
||||
| infuscate | clouded or tinged with brown; obscured; cloudy brown colour
🗑
|
||||
| isabelline | greyish yellow
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|
||||
| jacinthe | orange colour
🗑
|
||||
| jessamy | yellow like a jasmine
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|
||||
| kermes | brilliant red colour; a red dye derived from insects
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|
||||
| khaki | light brown or tan
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|
||||
| lateritious | brick-red
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|
||||
| leucochroic | white or pale-coloured
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|
||||
| liard | grey; dapple-grey
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|
||||
| lovat | grey-green; blue-green
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|
||||
| lurid | red-yellow; yellow-brown
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|
||||
| luteolous | yellowish
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|
||||
| luteous | golden-yellow
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|
||||
| lutescent | yellowish
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|
||||
| madder | red dye made from brazil wood; a reddish or red-orange colour
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|
||||
| magenta | reddish purple
🗑
|
||||
| maroon | brownish crimson
🗑
|
||||
| mauve | light bluish purple
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|
||||
| mazarine | rich blue or reddish-blue colour
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|
||||
| melanic | black; very dark
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|
||||
| melichrous | having a honey-like colour
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|
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| meline | canary-yellow
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|
||||
| miniaceous | colour of reddish lead
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|
||||
| minium | vermilion; red lead
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|
||||
| modena | crimson
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|
||||
| morel | dark-coloured horse; blackish colour
🗑
|
||||
| nacarat | bright orange-red
🗑
|
||||
| nankeen | buff-coloured; durable buff-coloured cotton
🗑
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||||
| nigricant | of a blackish colour
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| nigrine | black
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| perse | dark blue or bluish-grey; cloth of such a colour
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|
||||
| phoeniceous | bright scarlet-red colour
🗑
|
||||
| piceous | like pitch; inflammable; reddish black
🗑
|
||||
| ponceau | poppy red
🗑
|
||||
| porphyrous | purple
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| rubiginous | rusty-coloured
🗑
|
||||
| rubious | ruby red; rusty
🗑
|
||||
| rufous | reddish or brownish-red
🗑
|
||||
| russet | reddish brown
🗑
|
||||
| sable | black; dark; of a black colour in heraldry
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| 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
🗑
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| hopsack | rough-surfaced loose fabric
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| houndstooth | fabric with an irregular checked pattern
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| huckaback | absorbent cotton or linen used for towels
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| jaconet | stout cotton cloth
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| jacquard | intricately-woven variegated fabric; loom for making jacquard
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| jaspe | cotton or rayon cloth with shaded effect
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| jean | durable twilled cotton material
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| jersey | plain weft-knitted fabric of wool cotton
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| kalamkari | fabric coloured by repeated dyeing
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| kelt | coarse fabric made of black and white wool
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| kente | hand-woven African silk fabric
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| kersey | coarse woollen cloth
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| kerseymere | twilled fine wool
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| khaddar | homespun cotton cloth
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| kincob | embroidered silk with gold and silver threads
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| lamé | fabric in which metallic threads are interwoven
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| lasting | sturdy cotton or worsted cloth
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| lawn | fine sheer plain-woven cotton or linen
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| leno | open-woven fabric
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| linsey | coarse linen and wool blend
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| linsey-woolsey | thin coarse fabric of wool and linen
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| lockram | coarse linen
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| loden | heavy waterproof woollen fabric
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| lustring | glossy silk
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| lutestring | plain glossy silk
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| mackinaw | heavy napped and felted wool cloth
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| mackintosh | lightweight rubberized waterproof cotton
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| madapollam | fine cotton cloth
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| madras | fine plain-woven cotton or silk
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| marabout | thin downy silk
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| marcella | cotton or linen in twill weave
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| marocain | ribbed crepe fabric
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| marquisette | sheer meshed cloth
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| matelassé | having a quilted ornamentation; fabric with raised pattern as if quilted
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| melton | strong and smooth heavy woollen cloth
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| merino | soft wool of the merino sheep; any soft merino-like wool or wool and cotton cloth
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| messaline | soft lightweight silk with a satin weave
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| mockado | inferior quality woollen fabric
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|
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| mogadore | ribbed silk used in making neckties
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|
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| mohair | fabric made from silky hair of angora goats
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| moire | watered silk
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|
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| moleskin | heavy durable cotton
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|
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| moreen | stout corded wool or cotton
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|
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| mousseline | fine sheer fabric
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|
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| mull | soft fine sheer cotton or silk fabric
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|
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| muslin | plain-woven fine cotton
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|
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| musterdevillers | archaic mixed grey woollen cloth
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|
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| nainsook | fine cotton fabric
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|
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| nankeen | buff-coloured; durable buff-coloured cotton
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|
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| needlecord | thinly ribbed cotton
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|
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| ninon | silk voile or other thin fabric
🗑
|
||||
| organdie | fine translucent cotton
🗑
|
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| organza | transparent thin silk or nylon
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|
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| orleans | interwoven cotton and worsted
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|
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| osnaburg | coarse linen or cotton
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|
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| ottoman | heavy clothing fabric with crosswise ribs
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|
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| oxford | soft durable plain-woven cotton
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|
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| paduasoy | corded silk
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|
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| paisley | soft wool fabric with ornamental pattern
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|
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| panne | heavy lustrous silk or rayon with waxy feel
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|
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| paramatta | worsted and cotton blend
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|
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| pashmina | fine goat's wool fabric used for making shawls
🗑
|
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| pekin | fine soft silk
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|
||||
| pellicule | thin diaphanous fabric
🗑
|
||||
| percale | closely woven lightweight cloth
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|
||||
| percaline | glossy lightweight cotton
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|
||||
| perse | dark blue or bluish-grey; cloth of such a colour
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|
||||
| piqué | stiff durable corded fabric of cotton rayon or silk
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|
||||
| platilla | fine white linen
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| Nonsense; a confused mixture of unrelated things |
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| buccellation | act of dividing into small morsels
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|
||||
| bumposopher | one learned in bumps; a phrenologist
🗑
|
||||
| cacozealous | imitating badly; poorly affected
🗑
|
||||
| cameranious | of or relating to a chamber
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|
||||
| canitude | greyness; hoariness; whiteness
🗑
|
||||
| caprizant | of the pulse uneven or irregular
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|
||||
| castaldy | stewardship
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|
||||
| cecograph | writing device for the blind
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|
||||
| celeripedean | swift-footed
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|
||||
| cestuan | No cestuan improvements can negate the damage of such blows to the head
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|
||||
| chermadic | of a heavy weight used as a projectile
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|
||||
| chronanagram | an anagram
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|
||||
| citharize | to play the harp
🗑
|
||||
| cloakatively | superficially
🗑
|
||||
| colaphize | to beat or buffet
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|
||||
| commendaces | funeral orations; prayers for the dead
🗑
|
||||
| cosmogyral | whirling round the universe
🗑
|
||||
| crassulent | very fat; grossly obese
🗑
|
||||
| crebrity | frequency; period between two occurrences
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|
||||
| crocitation | croaking; cawing
🗑
|
||||
| cynicocratical | pertaining to rule by cynics
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|
||||
| deartuate | to dismember
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|
||||
| decutient | shaking down; beating down
🗑
|
||||
| defedate | to defile; to pollute
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|
||||
| desarcinate | to unload; to unburden
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|
||||
| devalgate | bow-legged
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|
||||
| dicaearchy | just government
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|
||||
| While we dream of living in a dicaearchy | in truth we're governed by dicks
🗑
|
||||
| diffibulate | to unbutton; to unbuckle
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|
||||
| dignorate | to mark or brand an animal
🗑
|
||||
| diloricate | to rip open a sewn piece of clothing
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| essomenic | showing things as they will be in the future
🗑
|
||||
| eternitarian | one who believes in the eternity of the soul
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|
||||
| eveniency | coming to pass
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|
||||
| excutient | shaking off
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|
||||
| exipotic | purgative; cleansing the body of illness
🗑
|
||||
| exlineal | out of the direct line of descent
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| "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
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| "agonistic of" | like or pertaining to or being aggressive or argumentative
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| "alar of" | like or pertaining to the wing or shoulder
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|
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| "alaudine of" | like or pertaining to skylarks
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|
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| "alcine of" | like or pertaining to elks; of
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|
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| "aliphatic of" | like or pertaining to fat or fats in general
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|
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| "alliaceous of" | like or pertaining to garlic; garlicky
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|
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| "alpestrine of" | like or pertaining to alpine regions
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| "ampelidious of" | like or pertaining to vines
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|
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| "amphiscian of" | like or pertaining to torrid regions
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|
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| "amygdaloid almond-shaped; of" | like or pertaining to tonsils
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|
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| "anacardic of" | like or pertaining to cashews
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|
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| "anaclastic refractive; of" | like or pertaining to refraction
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|
||||
| "anatine of" | like or pertaining to ducks
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|
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| "anconoid of" | like or pertaining to the elbow
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|
||||
| "ancoral of" | shaped like or resembling an anchor
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|
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| "anguine of" | like or pertaining to snakes
🗑
|
||||
| "anguine of" | like or pertaining to snakes
🗑
|
||||
| "anopheline of" | like or pertaining to malarial mosquitoes
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|
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| "anserine of" | like or pertaining to geese
🗑
|
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| "apian of" | like or pertaining to bees
🗑
|
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| "apiarian of" | like or pertaining to bees or beekeeping
🗑
|
||||
| "aquiline of" | like or pertaining to eagles; hooked like an eagle's beak
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| "araneidan of" | like or pertaining to spiders
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|
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| "archididascalian of" | like or pertaining to headmasters
🗑
|
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| "architectonics of" | like or pertaining to the arrangement of knowledge
🗑
|
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| "areopagitic of" | like or pertaining to tribunals or courts
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||||
| "arietine of" | like or pertaining to rams
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| "arval of" | like or pertaining to ploughed land
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|
||||
| "asinine of" | like or pertaining to asses; stupid
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| "aularian of" | like or pertaining to a hall in a university
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|
||||
| "aurantiaceous of" | like or pertaining or pertaining to oranges or orange trees
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|
||||
| "auricular of" | like or pertaining to the ear; spoken secretly
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|
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| "aval of" | like or pertaining to a grandparent
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|
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| "avian of" | like or pertaining to birds
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|
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| "avicular of" | like or pertaining to birds
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|
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| "avuncular like an uncle; of" | like or pertaining to uncles
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|
||||
| "baculine of" | like or pertaining to the stick or cane; of
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|
||||
| "basial of" | like or pertaining to kissing
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|
||||
| "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
🗑
|
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| "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
🗑
|
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| "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
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|
||||
| "cnidarian of" | like
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|
||||
| "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
🗑
|
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| "hymeneal of" | like or pertaining to marriage
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| "hypnagogic sleep-inducing" | pertaining to drowsiness or sleep
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| "hypnoetic of" | like or pertaining to unconscious logical thought
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| "hypnopompic of" | like or pertaining to period between sleep and wakefulness
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| "hypothecary of" | like or pertaining to mortgages
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| "hystricine of" | like or pertaining to porcupines
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| "ichneutic of" | like or pertaining to a tracker or tracking
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| "ichthyic of" | resembling or pertaining to fish
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| "icterical of" | like or pertaining to or suffering from jaundice
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| "icterine of" | like or pertaining to orioles and related birds
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| "ictic of" | pertaining to
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| "iliac of" | like or pertaining to the loins
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| "ilicic of" | like or pertaining to holly
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| "inescatory of" | like or pertaining to baiting; adapted to bait
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| "inguinal of" | like or pertaining to the groin
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| "institorial of" | like or pertaining to an agent or factor
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| "intercrural " | within or pertaining to the area between the legs
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| "interstitial of" | like or pertaining to the space between things
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| "ipecacuanhic Of" | or relating to ipecac
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| "iridaceous of" | like or pertaining to iris plants
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| "iridal Of" | or pertaining to the rainbow
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|
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| "iridic of" | like or pertaining to the iris of the eye
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| "ischiatic Of" | or pertaining to the ischium or hip
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| "islandic of " | or pertaining to an island
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| "ixiodic of" | like or pertaining to ticks
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| "jecoral of" | like or pertaining to the liver
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|
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| "jentacular of" | like or pertaining to breakfast
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| "juglandaceous of" | like or pertaining to walnuts
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| "juncaceous of" | like or pertaining to rushes
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| "jural of" | like or pertaining to the law
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|
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| "juratory of" | like or pertaining to an oath
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|
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| "kerygmatic of" | like or pertaining to preaching the Gospel
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| "lacertilian of" | like or pertaining to lizards
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| "lacuscular of" | like or pertaining to pools
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| "lacustrine of" | like or pertaining to lakes
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|
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| "laic of" | like or pertaining to lay people rather than clergy
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| "lamiaceous " | ofMinty
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|
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| "laminary of" | like or pertaining to thin plates or layer
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|
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| "lampyridine of" | like or pertaining or pertaining to glow-worms or fireflies
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|
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| "lapidarian of" | like or pertaining to stones; inscribed on stones
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|
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| "lardaceous of" | like or pertaining to lard
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| "larine of" | like or pertaining to gulls
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| "laroid of" | like or pertaining to gulls
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| "lavic of" | like or pertaining to lava
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| "legatine of" | like or pertaining to a legate
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|
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| "lemurine of" | like or pertaining to lemurs
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| "leonine of" | like or pertaining to lions
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|
||||
| "leporine of" | like or pertaining to the hare
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|
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| "lienal of" | like or pertaining to the spleen
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|
||||
| "limacine of" | like or pertaining to slugs
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|
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| "limicoline " | ofliving on a shore
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|
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| "limnetic " | pertaining to fresh water living in fresh water
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| "linaceous of" | like or pertaining to flax
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|
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| "lingual of" | like or pertaining to language
🗑
|
||||
| "littoral of" | like or pertaining to the shore of a body of water
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|
||||
| "lobar of" | like or pertaining to a lobe
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|
||||
| "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
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|
||||
| "lupanarian of" | like or pertaining to a brothel
🗑
|
||||
| "lupine of" | like or pertaining to wolves
🗑
|
||||
| "lupulic of" | like or pertaining to hops
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|
||||
| "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
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|
||||
| "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
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|
||||
| "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
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|
||||
| "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
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|
||||
| "mensal of" | like or pertaining to the dinner-table; monthly
🗑
|
||||
| "mental of" | like or pertaining to the chin
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|
||||
| "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
🗑
|
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| "rhonchial of" | like or pertaining to snoring
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| "risible " | laughable
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| "risorial of" | like or pertaining to or causing laughter
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| "rupicaprine of" | like or pertaining to chamoises
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|
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| "sanguineous " | ofBloody
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|
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| "saporine of" | like or pertaining to the sense of taste
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| "sarcous " | of flesh or muscle
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|
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| "sartorial of" | like or pertaining to a tailor or tailored clothes
🗑
|
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| "scabious of" | like or pertaining to scabies or scabs
🗑
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| "scacchic of" | like or pertaining to chess
🗑
|
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| "scarabaean of" | like or pertaining to scarabs
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|
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| "schiztic of" | like or pertaining to or marked by splitting
🗑
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| "schoenabatic of" | like or pertaining to rope walking
🗑
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| "sciatheric of" | like or pertaining to measurement of time by shadows
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|
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| "sciatic of" | like or pertaining to the hip
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|
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| "scioptic of" | like or pertaining to formation of images in darkrooms
🗑
|
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| "sciurine of" | like or pertaining to squirrels
🗑
|
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| "sciuroid of" | like or pertaining to squirrels or chipmunks
🗑
|
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| "scolopacine of" | like or pertaining to snipes
🗑
|
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| "scorbutic " | of or suffering from scurvy
🗑
|
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| "scriptory by" | in or pertaining to writing
🗑
|
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| "scutal of" | like or pertaining to shields
🗑
|
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| "scytodepsic of" | like or pertaining to tanning leather
🗑
|
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| "selachian of" | like or pertaining to sharks or rays
🗑
|
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| "selenic of" | like or pertaining to the moon
🗑
|
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| "semic of" | like or pertaining to a sign or signs
🗑
|
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| "septentrional " | like or pertaining to the north Northern
🗑
|
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| "septimal of" | like or pertaining to or based on the number seven
🗑
|
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| "seral of" | like or pertaining to the development of ecological communities
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|
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| "serous of" | like or pertaining to serum; watery
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|
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| "serpentine of" | like or pertaining to serpents or snakes
🗑
|
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| "shrieval of" | like or pertaining to a sheriff
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|
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| "sialic of" | like or pertaining to saliva
🗑
|
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| "sidereal of" | like or pertaining to the stars
🗑
|
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| "sigillary of" | like or pertaining to a seal
🗑
|
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| "simian of" | like or pertaining to apes
🗑
|
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| "sinal of" | like or pertaining to the sinuses
🗑
|
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| "siphonic of" | like or pertaining to a siphon
🗑
|
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| "skelic of" | like or pertaining to the skeleton
🗑
|
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| "soliterraneous of" | like or pertaining to the joint effect of the sun and earth
🗑
|
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| "somnial of" | like or pertaining to dreams
🗑
|
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| "sophianic of" | like or pertaining to wisdom
🗑
|
||||
| "soricine of" | like or pertaining to shrews
🗑
|
||||
| "soricine of" | like or pertaining to shrews
🗑
|
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| "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
🗑
|
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| "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 "
🗑
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| witticaster | " a petty or inferior wit "
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| alieniloquy | " speech on subjects other than the matter at hand; off-topic speech "
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| alloquy | " speaking to another or many others; an address "
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| altiloquence | " pompous or high speech "
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| ambiloquous | " using dubious or ambiguous expressions "
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| amphoriloquy | " cavernous voice of a patient heard over a patient's lung cavity "
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| anteloquy | " a preface "
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| antiloquy | " speaking against some idea; contradicting or gainsaying "
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| biloquist | " one capable of speaking with two distinct voices "
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| blandiloquence | " complimentary speech; flattery "
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| blesiloquent | " speaking with a stammer or lisp "
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| breviloquence | " short-windedness; tendency towards brevity in speech "
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| caverniloquy | " cavernous voice of a patient heard over a patient's lung cavity "
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| centiloquy | " work consisting of one hundred aphorisms" attributed to Ptolemy
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| colloquy | " speaking together; mutual discourse "
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| dentiloquent | " speaking with clenched teeth "
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| diversiloquent | " speaking in different ways; speaking on different subjects "
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| doctiloquent | " speaking learnedly "
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| dulciloquent | " speaking sweetly "
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| eloquence | " forceful and appealing speech "
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| falsiloquence | " deceitful speech "
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| fatiloquent | " speaking prophetically; declaring fate "
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| flexiloquent | " speaking ambiguously or using words of doubtful meaning "
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| gastriloquist | " ventriloquist "
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| grandiloquent | " bombastic "
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| inaniloquent | " prone to foolish or empty babbling "
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| ineloquence | " unappealing speech "
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| largiloquent | " talkative; full of words "
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| longiloquence | " long-winded language "
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| loquence | " speech "
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| magniloquent | " speaking in a grand or pompous style "
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| melliloquent | " speaking harmoniously or sweetly "
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| Mendaciloquence | " lying speech "
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| multiloquence | " talkativeness; use of many words "
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| obloquy | " censure; calumny; slander; disgrace "
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| omniloquent | " speaking on all subjects "
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| parciloquy | " laconic speech "
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| pauciloquent | " of few words; speaking little "
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| pectoriloquy | " sound of patient’s voice as heard through stethoscope "
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| planiloquent | " speaking plainly "
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| pleniloquence | " excessive talking; fullness of speech "
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| polyloquent | " speaking much; loquacious "
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| sanctiloquent | " speaking on heavenly or holy matters "
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| sialoquent | " spitting greatly while speaking "
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| soliloquent | " speaking in soliloquies; prone to giving soliloquies "
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| soliloquy | " talking or conversing with oneself; dramatic production of this nature "
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| somniloquence | " talking in one’s sleep "
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| stultiloquence | " foolish or senseless talk "
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| suaviloquence | " pleasing or agreeable speech "
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| tardiloquent | " speaking slowly "
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| tristiloquy | " mournful manner of speech "
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| vaniloquence | " vain or foolish talk "
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| ventriloquism | " speaking so that the voice appears to come from elsewhere "
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| veriloquent | " speaking truthfully; truthful "
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| abba | " Syriac or Coptic bishop "
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|
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| ablegate | " papal envoy or legate "
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| absconce | " lantern used in monasteries and night offices "
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| abthane | " monastic region of the old Irish church "
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| accensor | " acolyte "
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| adiaphoron | " tenet or belief on which a theological system is indifferent "
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|
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| adoptionism | " belief that Christ was the adopted and not natural son of God "
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| advowson | " right of presentation to church living "
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|
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| adytum | " sacred part of a temple or church; church chancel "
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|
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| affusion | " pouring on; as of baptismal water "
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|
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| agape | " selfless Christian love; a feast in celebration of such love "
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| agapeistic | " characterized by Christian love "
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|
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| agapetae | " churchwomen who live platonically with celibate men "
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| aggiornamento | " modernization of ideas of the Catholic church "
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|
||||
| agrapha | " sayings of Jesus not found in the canonical gospels "
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|
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| alb | " long white robe worn by priests "
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|
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| almoner | " giver of alms; social worker in a hospital "
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|
||||
| altarage | " payment to priest for mass; offerings at altar "
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|
||||
| ambo | " early Christian raised reading desk or pulpit "
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|
||||
| ambry | " recess for church vessels; cupboard or niche "
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|
||||
| ambulatory | " aisle down the east end of a church "
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|
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| amice | " strip of fine linen worn as cloak or wrap by priest at mass "
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|
||||
| ampulla | " vessel for holy oil or wine for coronations or rituals "
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|
||||
| anamnesis | " reminiscence; prayer recalling death and resurrection of Jesus "
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|
||||
| anchorite | " one withdrawn from the world for religious reasons "
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|
||||
| ancress | " female religious recluse "
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|
||||
| anele | " to administer extreme unction to "
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|
||||
| angelus | " prayer said in morning" at noon and at sunset
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|
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| antechapel | " anteroom to a chapel or church "
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|
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| antependium | " covering or cloth over pulpit or altar "
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|
||||
| antilegomena | " books of the New Testament not part of early Christian Bible "
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|
||||
| antipedobaptism | " denial of validity of infant baptism "
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|
||||
| antiphon | " anthem sung as a response during church service "
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|
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| apocatastasis | " final restitution of all things at the appearance of the Messiah "
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|
||||
| apocrisiary | " papal secretary "
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|
||||
| apologetics | " defense and proof of Christianity or other doctrine "
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|
||||
| apse | " rounded extension of church or other building "
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|
||||
| archimandrite | " head of a monastery or convent "
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|
||||
| aspergillum | " vessel for sprinkling holy water "
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|
||||
| aspersory | " vessel for holding holy water "
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|
||||
| aureole | " radiant light around head or body of holy personage "
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|
||||
| autocephality | " ecclesiastical self-government "
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|
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| auto-da-fe | " burning of a heretic "
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|
||||
| autotheism | " belief that one is God incarnate or that one is Christ "
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|
||||
| baldaquin | " covering or canopy over a throne or altar "
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|
||||
| baptistery | " part of church reserved for performing baptisms "
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|
||||
| 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 "
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|
||||
| bema | " raised part of an Eastern church containing the altar "
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|
||||
| benefice | " ecclesiastical office to which revenue is attached "
🗑
|
||||
| bethel | " a place of worship for seamen; nonconformist chapel "
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|
||||
| biretta | " square three-ridged cap worn by Catholic clergy "
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|
||||
| breviary | " book containing daily church service "
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|
||||
| bulla | " round seal attached to a papal bull "
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|
||||
| bullantic | " capitalized and ornamented" as letters used on papal bulls
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|
||||
| bullary | " collection of papal bulls "
🗑
|
||||
| bursary | " treasury of a monastery or college "
🗑
|
||||
| burse | " square cloth case to carry the corporal during Communion service "
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|
||||
| caesaropapism | " control of the church by a secular ruler "
🗑
|
||||
| calefactory | " a monastery sitting room "
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|
||||
| 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 "
🗑
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| mantelletta | " knee-length sleeveless garment worn by Catholic cardinals and bishops "
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| Mariolatry | " worship of the virgin mother "
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| Mariology | " study of the Virgin Mary "
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| marrano | " Jew converted to Christianity to avoid persecution "
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| martyrium | " shrine erected in memory of a martyr "
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| martyrolatry | " excessive devotion to martyrs "
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| martyrology | " study of martyrs "
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| matins | " prayer service held in early morning hours "
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| mendicant | " member of impoverished religious order "
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| menology | " register or calendar of saints’ days "
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| mersion | " dipping; as in baptism "
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| metropolitan | " archbishop holding authority over other bishops "
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| midlenting | " custom of giving gifts to parents on mid-Lent Sunday "
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| minster | " church associated with a monastery "
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| missal | " book containing complete service for mass "
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| miter | " high headdress worn by bishop or archbishop "
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| modalism | " belief in unity of Father" Son and Holy Spirit
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| monergism | " theory that the Holy Spirit alone can act "
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| monial | " a nun "
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| monkery | " monks in general; monasticism; behaviour of monks "
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| monophysitism | " belief that Christ was primarily divine but in human form "
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| Monotheletism | " belief that Christ had only one will "
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| monstrance | " vessel used to expose the Eucharist "
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| mozzetta | " short cape with ornamental hood worn by Catholic prelates "
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| mystagogical | " of" like or pertaining to religious ritual initiation
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| naos | " temple; inner cell of a temple "
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| narthex | " small entrance or porch to a church "
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| nave | " largest part of church where congregation sits "
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| nipter | " ecclesiastical ceremony of washing the feet "
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| nones | " prayer service held at 3 p"
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| novena | " series of Catholic church services held on nine successive days "
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| nuncio | " one who brings tidings; high-ranking papal legate "
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| obit | " religious office for a dead person "
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| oblate | " layman living in a religious community under modified rule "
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| oblation | " act of offering; a sacrifice; anything offered in worship "
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| oculus | " round window" especially over main door in church
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| orant | " representation of praying figure in early art "
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| orarion | " deacon's stole in Orthodox church "
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| orarium | " book of private devotions "
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| oratory | " small chapel for private prayer; lectern for prayer "
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| ordinal | " book containing religious rites" especially for ordination
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| ordo | " calendar with list of services for each day of the year "
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| orison | " prayer "
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| orphrey | " gold or other rich embroidery on clerical robes "
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| osculatory | " carved tablet kissed by priest during celebration of mass "
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| ostensory | " container for holding consecrated Communion wafers "
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| paedobaptism | " doctrine of infant baptism "
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| pall | " covering cloth laid upon Communion chalice "
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| pallium | " white woollen band symbolising archbishop's authority "
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| panegyricon | " collection of sermons for Orthodox church festivals "
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| pannicle | " thin sheet-like vestment "
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| pannychis | " all-night vigil in preparation for Orthodox church feast "
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| paraclete | " advocate or intercessor; the Holy Spirit acting in such a role "
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| parclose | " railing in church enclosing altar" chapel or tomb
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| pardoner | " one who raises money for religious works by selling indulgences "
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| parousia | " second coming of Christ "
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| parvis | " enclosed space at the front of a church "
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| passalorynchite | " one who takes a religious vow of silence "
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| paten | " plate; metal disk used to hold Communion bread "
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| pax | " tablet decorated with sacred figure and kissed by participants in mass "
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| peculiar | " parish or church exempt from jurisdiction of the bishop of its diocese "
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| pentateuch | " the first five books of the Old Testament "
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| pericope | " an excerpt or passage read during religious services "
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| pernoctate | " to pass the night in vigil or prayer "
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| phonascus | " person who maintains rhythm in church choir "
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| pieta | " representation of Virgin Mary with dead Christ across her knees "
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| pietism | " unquestioning or dogmatic religious devotion "
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| piscina | " basin set in wall of church to drain away ceremonial water "
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| plebania | " mother-church having authority over several local churches "
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|
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| pluvial | " floor-length open-fronted ecclesiastical garment "
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|
||||
| pneumatophany | " appearance of a spirit; especially the Holy Ghost "
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|
||||
| poppyhead | " raised ornament on top of upright end of seats in churches "
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|
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| postlude | " closing piece of music at end of church service "
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|
||||
| postulant | " candidate for a religious order "
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|
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| postulator | " official who presents case for canonization or beatification "
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|
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| prebend | " stipend or salary paid to clergyman "
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||||
| prebendal | " of" like or pertaining to stipends issued by a church
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|
||||
| precentor | " leader of the singing of a church choir "
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| predella | " platform for altar; portable altar or decoration upon it "
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|
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| prelacy | " episcopal church government "
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|
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| prelate | " bishop or abbot of superior rank "
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|
||||
| presbytery | " part of church reserved for officiating clergy "
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|
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| prime | " prayer service held at 6 a"
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|
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| procathedral | " parish church serving as a cathedral "
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||||
| pronaos | " vestibule in front of a temple "
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|
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| proper | " elements of Christian mass that are variable "
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|
||||
| proseuche | " place of prayer; oratory "
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|
||||
| Prothonotary | " chief registrar of a court; keeper of canonisation records "
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|
||||
| psalmodist | " singer of psalms "
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|
||||
| psalmody | " act of singing psalms in church services "
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|
||||
| pseudepigrapha | " apocrypha; non-canonical books of the Bible "
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|
||||
| pseudepiscopy | " existence or rule of a spurious bishop "
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|
||||
| psilanthropism | " denial of Christ's divinity "
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|
||||
| pulpitum | " gigantic stone screen separating cathedral choir from the nave "
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|
||||
| purificator | " cloth used to wipe Eucharist chalice "
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|
||||
| pyx | " box or vessel in which coins or consecrated Eucharist are kept "
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|
||||
| quaestionary | " religious pardoner "
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|
||||
| qualificator | " one who prepares ecclesiastical cases for trial "
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|
||||
| quaresimal | " Lenten; having the meagreness of Lenten meals "
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|
||||
| quartodeciman | " early Christian who celebrated Easter on Passover even if not a Sunday "
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|
||||
| rantize | " to sprinkle with water during baptism "
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|
||||
| rasophore | " lowest rank of Greek Orthodox monk "
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|
||||
| recusant | " one who refuses to attend Catholic church services; nonconformist "
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|
||||
| refectory | " dining-hall of a monastery or other institution "
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|
||||
| regula | " rule of a religious order "
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|
||||
| reliquary | " a small box or shrine used to hold relics "
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|
||||
| requiescat | " prayer for the dead "
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| 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 "
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| 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)
🗑
|
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| agenhina (n.) | a guest at an inn who after having stayed for threenights
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| agenocratia (n.) | opposition to birth control (B)
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| agglutination (n.) | compound
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| agitprop (n.) | the vociferous propagandistic agitator or
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| agnogenic (n.) | of unknown cause (B)
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| agnoiology (n.) | the study of ignorance (B)
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| agnosy (n.) | ignorance; especially ignorance shared by the whole
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| agonist (n.) | a struggler; a person who is contending whether in
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| agonistic (n.) | combative; strained for the sake of effect (B)
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| agroof (n.) | flat on one's face (Scottish) (B)
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| ailurophobe (n.) | the person who can't stand cats (E)
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| airmonger (n.) | the man or woman who is attracted to visionary
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| aischrolatreia (n.) | worship of filth dirt
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| aldiborontiphoscophornio (n.) | a pompous person (from an old English
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| aleatory (adj.) | dependent upon chance luck
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| alectoromachy (n.) | cockfighting
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| algedonic (adj.) | pertaining to pain especially when associated with
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| algedonica (n.) | the science of pleasure and pain (B)
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| algidity (n.) | coldness
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| algolagnic (adj.) | relating to the perception of pleasure from
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| allagrugous (adj.) | grim and ghastly (G)
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| allision (n.) | the ramming of one object by another (B)
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| allochthonous (adj.) | foreign (B)
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| allonym (n.) | another person's name used as a pen name; a ghostwritten
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| allotheism (n.) | worship of strange gods (B)
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| allotriophagy (n.) | the craving for weird food (B)
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| alogism (n.) | unreasonableness; absurdity; illogical statement(B)
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| alopecia (n.) | baldness (B)
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| alopecoid (adj.) | foxy (B)
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| alter kocker (n.) | a canny stubborn old man who has been around but
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| altiloquence (n.) | pompous speech (B W)
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| amaranthine (adj.) | eternally beautiful; unfading; everlasting (E G)
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| amatorculist (n.) | an insignificant or hypocritical lover (B)
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| ambagious (adj.) | talking or doing things in an indirect manner;
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| ambiloquence (n.) | competence in double
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| ambivert (n.) | someone whose personality strikes a nice balance between
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| amblysia | phrasing in such a way as to forewarn or to cushion a dire
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| amende honorable | an honorable fine: a full and frank apology however
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| ami de cour (n.) | the fairweather or foul
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| amicus humani generis (n.) | a philathropist (E)
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| amniomancy (n.) | fortune telling by examining the embryonic sac
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| amphibolous (adj.) | susceptible of two meanings; ambiguous; equivocal
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| amphigean (adj.) | found or occuring throughout the world (B)
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| amphigory (n.) | nonsensical writing (B W)
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| amphilogy (n.) | a statement open to more than one interpretation
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| ampollosity (n.) | bombast; pompous style (B W)
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| amurcous (adj.) | stinking; filled with dregs (B)
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| amyctic (adj.) | irritating; abrasive (B)
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| anacampserote (n.) | something which can bring back a lost love (B)
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| anachorism (n.) | foreign to a certain locality; geographically
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| anaclitic (adj.) | overly dependent on another (B)
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| anacoluthon (n.) | an abrupt shift in midsentence in syntax to
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| anacreontic (adj.) | jovial festive and amatory (B
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| anadiplosis (n.) | repeating the final words or words of a phrase
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| anadipsic (adj.) | pertaining to excessive thirst (B)
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| anagapesis (n.) | lack of interest in former loved ones (B)
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| anagnorisis (n.) | recognition or discovery as of a disguised
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| anagogig (adj.) | relating to things spiritual and mystical; occult;
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| analects (n.) | selected parts of a literary work or works (W)
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| analeptic (adj.) | serving to renew strength and vigor; invigorating (B G)
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|
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| anamnestic (adj.) | reminiscent; aiding the memory (B)
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| ananias (n.) | a teller of untruths; liar (from a follower of the
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| ananym (n.) | a pseudonym devised by spelling one's name backward (B W)
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| anaphora (n.) | repitition of a word or phrase in successive clauses
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| anapodictic (adj.) | undemonstrable (B)
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| anastrophe (n.) | inversion of the usual order of words or withholding
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| anatreptic (adj.) | defeating refuting (B)
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| anautarchia (n.) | perpetual unhappiness (B)
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| anax andron (n.) | a leader or men a take
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| anaxiphilia (n.) | act of falling in love with a schtoonk by someone
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| ancilla (n.) | a sidekick who helps another to accomplish or master
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| andabate (n.) | one who is hoodwinked in the dark or virtually blind
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| androlepsia (n.) | international governmental kidnapping for
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| anfractuous (adj.) | winding tortuous (B
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|
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| angary (n.) | the right of a warring nation to use or destroy a
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| angst (n.) | anxiety fear; not fear of anything specific but a dread
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| anhedonia (n.) | the inability to be happy (B)
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| aniconic (adj.) | not using or permitting images effigies
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| anicular (adj.) | old
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|
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| anililagnia (n.) | sexual desire for older women (B)
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|
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| anile (adj.) | old womanish; lacking in force strength or effectiveness;
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| animadversion (n.) | generally adverse criticism (B E
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| ankylophobia (n.) | abnormal fear of stiff or immobile joints
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| anodyne (adj.) | painless soothing (G)
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| anomy (n.) | the collapse of the social structures governing a
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| anonym (n.) | a person remaining nameless; psuedonym; anonymous
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| anonymuncule (n.) | an insignificant anonymous writer (B)
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|
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| anorchous (adj.) | without testicles; or gutless (B E)
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|
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| anosognosia (n.) | the lack of interest or belief in the existence
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|
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| Anschauung (n.) | intuition; sense awareness of perception (B)
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|
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| antanaclasis (n.) | a phrasing in which the topic or key word is
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|
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| antelucan (adj.) | pertaining to or occurring before dawn (G)
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|
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| antephialtic (adj.) | preventive of nightmares (G)
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|
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| anthimeria (n.) | the using of one part of speech for another for
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|
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| anthorism (n.) | a counterdefinition or a delineation or description
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|
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| anthropophaginia (n.) | a cannibal (E)
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|
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| anthropophobia (n.) | fear of meeting people; fear of society (B)
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|
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| antilogous (adj.) | contrary; inconsistent (B)
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|
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| antinomian (n.) | a Christian who believes that faith alone will see
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|
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| antinomy (n.) | an inconsistency or built
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|
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| antipedobaptism (n.) | denial on scriptural grounds of the validityof infant baptism
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|
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| antiphrasis (n.) | a word used to mean its opposite; calling something
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|
||||
| antiscians (n.) | people living on the same meridian but on different
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|
||||
| antistasis (n.) | the defense of an action that prevented somethingworse from happening
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|
||||
| antithalian (adj.) | against enjoyment (B)
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|
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| antonomasia (n.) | substitution of an epithet or nickname for a
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|
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| anuptaphobia (n.) | fear of staying single (B E)
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|
||||
| aolist (n.) | a person who claims to be inspiredsudden wind of genius or artistic urgency; the wind is sometimes
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|
||||
| apaetesis (n.) | the angry putting aside of a matter to be taken
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|
||||
| apagogic (adj.) | pertaining to a proof by reductio ad absurdum; an
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|
||||
| apanthropy (n.) | dislike of being with people; love of solitude (B)
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|
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| apercu (n.) | a quick penetrating insight; immediate impression
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|
||||
| aphephobe (n.) | the person who doesn't like being touched (E)
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|
||||
| aphilophrenia (n.) | a feeling that one is unloved or unwanted (B)
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|
||||
| apocarteresis (n.) | suicide by starvation (B)
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|
||||
| apocrisis (n.) | replying to one's own arguments (rhetoric term) (W)
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|
||||
| apocrypha (n.) | writings reports
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|
||||
| apodiabolosis (n.) | diabolical treatment (B)
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|
||||
| apodictic (adj.) | absolutely certain or necessarily true;
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|
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| apodysophilia (n.) | feverish desire to undress (B)
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|
||||
| apolaustic (adj.) | given to enjoyment; self indulgent (B G)
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|
||||
| apomnemonysis (n.) | quoting an approved authority (rhetoric term) (W)
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|
||||
| apophasis (n.) | mentioning something by saying it won't be mentioned: "We
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|
||||
| aporia (n.) | professing to be at a loss as to what to say where to
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|
||||
| aposiopesis (n.) | a conscious breaking off in the middle of a sentence
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|
||||
| apothegm (n.) | a concise formulation of a truth; an aphorism (G)
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|
||||
| apotheosis (n.) | an exalted position highest development
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|
||||
| appellation (n.) | a name designation
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|
||||
| apposite (adj.) | appropriate fitting
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|
||||
| appropinquate (v.) | to approach (B)
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|
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| aptronym (n.) | a name befitting the occupation role or nature
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|
||||
| arcadian (adj.) | ideally simple and contented (G)
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|
||||
| argyrothecology (n.) | collecting of money boxes as found in
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|
||||
| aristarchian (adj.) | extremely critical (B E)
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|
||||
| aristophrenia (n.) | condition of having a superior intellect (B)
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|
||||
| arithmocracy (n.) | rule of the numerical majority (B)
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|
||||
| arriviste (n.) | on overly ambitious person; an opportunist (B)
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|
||||
| arrogate (v.) | to appropriate or claim unjustly; to attribute
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|
||||
| artuate (v.) | to tear limb from limb (B)
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|
||||
| ascian (n.) | one without a shadow: applied to the inhabitants of the
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|
||||
| asphalia (n.) | emphatic guaranteeing of what one is saying as by
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|
||||
| aspheterism (n.) | denial of private property (B)
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|
||||
| asportation (n.) | theft (B)
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|
||||
| asseverate (v.) | to state positively emphatically (B)
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|
||||
| assuetude (n.) | custom or habit (B)
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|
||||
| asteism (n.) | an ingeniously polite insult (B W)
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|
||||
| asthenophobe (n.) | the circumspect stoic the stiff
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|
||||
| astucious (adj.) | having keen perception; of astute and penetrating
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|
||||
| asyndetic (adj.) | not connected by conjunctions: I came I saw
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|
||||
| ataraxia (n.) | imperturbability; utter calmness (B)
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|
||||
| ataraxic (adj.) | of or pertaining to freedom from anxiety or emotional
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|
||||
| atelophobe (n.) | the driven perfectionist one with a morbid fear of
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|
||||
| athanasia (n.) | immortality (B)
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|
||||
| athetise (v.) | to spurn reject (B)
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|
||||
| atrabilarian (n.) | a gloomy hypochondriac (E)
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|
||||
| au grand serieux | with great earnestness or often
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|
||||
| augean (adj.) | filthy and difficult to clean; requiring hard work (from
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|
||||
| auscultation (n.) | the process of listening (G)
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|
||||
| autarchia (n.) | perpetual happiness (B)
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|
||||
| autoangelist (n.) | one who does his own communicating (E)
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|
||||
| autocephalous (adj.) | ecclesiastically self
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|
||||
| autochthonous (adj.) | native aboriginal
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|
||||
| autoclesis (n.) | introducing an idea or subject by seeming to
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|
||||
| autodidact (n.) | one self
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|
||||
| autognosis (n.) | knowledge of self especially the appreciation of
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|
||||
| autological (adj.) | self
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|
||||
| autologophagist (n.) | one who eats his words (B E)
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|
||||
| automysophobia (n.) | abnormal fear of being dirty
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|
||||
| autophobe (n.) | the socializer who does not like to be alone or
🗑
|
||||
| autoschediastic (adj.) | impromptu; on the spur of the moment (B)
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|
||||
| autotelic (adj.) | having in itself an end or excuse for being
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|
||||
| autothaumaturgist (n.) | the coy or cagey person whose mission is toappear mysterious or quite remarkable (E)
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|
||||
| autotheist (n.) | the individual who is not only self
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|
||||
| auxesis (n.) | an ordering of thoughts expressed in a sequence of
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|
||||
| avering (n.) | a boy's begging in the nude to arouse sympathy (B)
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|
||||
| azygophrenia (n.) | the psychoneurosis of everyday unmarried life (B)
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|
||||
| a' bouche ouverte | with open mouth: eagerly or uncritically gullibly (W)
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|
||||
| a' coups de dictionnaire | with blows of a dictionary: with continual or incessant reference to the dictionary (W)
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|
||||
| a fortiori | from the stronger: with greater reason or being
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|
||||
| a' l'envoi | in emulation: in a spirit of emulation or rivalry (W)
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|
||||
| a' outrance | to excess: to the utmost; supremely; to the bitter
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|
||||
| a' propos de bottes | on the subject of boots: an expression usedto change the subject (W)
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|
||||
| a verbis ad verbera | from words to blows (W)
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|
||||
| ab initio | from the beginning; from the very start or outset (W)
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|
||||
| ab irato | from an angry man: hence not to be taken too
🗑
|
||||
| ab ovo | from the egg: from the very beginning hence completely
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|
||||
| abattoir (n.) | a slaughterhouse (B)
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|
||||
| abderian (adj.) | pertaining to foolish or excessive laughter (B)
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|
||||
| abderite (n.) | a simpleton or dimwitted yokel and one with
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|
||||
| abdominous (adj.) | having or pertaining to a distended stomach (G)
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|
||||
| abecedarian (adj.) | simple; elementary; rudimentary; introductory; or
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|
||||
| abliguration (n.) | extravagance in cooking and serving (B)
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|
||||
| ablutomania (n.) | a mania for washing oneself (B)
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|
||||
| abscotchalater (n.) | one in hiding from the police (B)
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|
||||
| absit invidia verbo | let it be said without illoffense intended (W)
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|
||||
| absquatulate (v.) | to leave hurriedly suddenly
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|
||||
| abstersive (adv.) | serving to cleanse or purge (G)
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|
||||
| abstemious (adj.) | practicing temperance
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|
||||
| acalculia (n.) | the inability to work with numbers (B)
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|
||||
| acataleptic (adj.) | incomprehensible (B)
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|
||||
| acceptilation (n.) | the settlement of a debt without payment (B)
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|
||||
| accismus (n.) | a phony refusal hypocritical modesty (rhetoric term) (B
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|
||||
| acediast (n.) | a person who is slothful or wickedly lax when
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|
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| acephalist (n.) | the balky maverick who acknowledges no head or
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|
||||
| acersecomic (n.) | one who has never had a haircut (E)
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|
||||
| acervuline (adj.) | resembling small heaps (B)
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|
||||
| acherontic (adj.) | darky gloomy
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|
||||
| achluphobia (n.) | abnormal fear of darkness
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|
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| acouasm (n.) | a ringing sound in the head (B)
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|
||||
| acroatic (adj.) | pertaining to profound learning (B)
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|
||||
| acroamatic (adj.) | esoteric abstruse
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|
||||
| acrocephalic (n. | adj
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|
||||
| ad baculum | a baculo to the rod: appealing to or suggesting the
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| 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;
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|
||||
| adnomination (n.) | punning (B)
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| adynaton (n.) | magnifying or exaggerating an actual event by reference
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|
||||
| aenos (n.) | use of erudite words or allusions to appeal to the
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|
||||
| aeolistic (adj.) | long
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|
||||
| 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
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| alectoromachy (n~) | cockfighting
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| algedonic (adj~) | pertaining to pain especially when associated with
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| algedonica (n~) | the science of pleasure and pain (B)
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| algidity (n~) | coldness
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| algolagnic (adj~) | relating to the perception of pleasure from
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| allagrugous (adj~) | grim and ghastly (G)
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| allision (n~) | the ramming of one object by another (B)
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| allochthonous (adj~) | foreign (B)
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| allonym (n~) | another person's name used as a pen name; a ghostwritten
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| allotheism (n~) | worship of strange gods (B)
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| allotriophagy (n~) | the craving for weird food (B)
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| alogism (n~) | unreasonableness; absurdity; illogical statement(B)
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| alopecia (n~) | baldness (B)
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| alopecoid (adj~) | foxy (B)
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| alter kocker (n~) | a canny stubborn old man who has been around but
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| altiloquence (n~) | pompous speech (B W)
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| amaranthine (adj~) | eternally beautiful; unfading; everlasting (E G)
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| amatorculist (n~) | an insignificant or hypocritical lover (B)
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| ambagious (adj~) | talking or doing things in an indirect manner;
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| ambiloquence (n~) | competence in double
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| ambivert (n~) | someone whose personality strikes a nice balance between
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| amblysia | phrasing in such a way as to forewarn or to cushion a dire
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| amende honorable | an honorable fine: a full and frank apology however
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| ami de cour (n~) | the fairweather or foul
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| amicus humani generis (n~) | a philathropist (E)
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| amniomancy (n~) | fortune telling by examining the embryonic sac
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| amphibolous (adj~) | susceptible of two meanings; ambiguous; equivocal
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| amphigean (adj~) | found or occuring throughout the world (B)
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| amphigory (n~) | nonsensical writing (B W)
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| amphilogy (n~) | a statement open to more than one interpretation
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| ampollosity (n~) | bombast; pompous style (B W)
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| amurcous (adj~) | stinking; filled with dregs (B)
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| amyctic (adj~) | irritating; abrasive (B)
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| anacampserote (n~) | something which can bring back a lost love (B)
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| anachorism (n~) | foreign to a certain locality; geographically
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| anaclitic (adj~) | overly dependent on another (B)
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| anacoluthon (n~) | an abrupt shift in midsentence in syntax to
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| anacreontic (adj~) | jovial festive and amatory (B
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| anadiplosis (n~) | repeating the final words or words of a phrase
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| anadipsic (adj~) | pertaining to excessive thirst (B)
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| anagapesis (n~) | lack of interest in former loved ones (B)
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| anagnorisis (n~) | recognition or discovery as of a disguised
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| anagogig (adj~) | relating to things spiritual and mystical; occult;
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| analects (n~) | selected parts of a literary work or works (W)
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| analeptic (adj~) | serving to renew strength and vigor; invigorating (B G)
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| anamnestic (adj~) | reminiscent; aiding the memory (B)
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| ananias (n~) | a teller of untruths; liar (from a follower of the
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| ananym (n~) | a pseudonym devised by spelling one's name backward (B W)
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| anaphora (n~) | repitition of a word or phrase in successive clauses
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| anapodictic (adj~) | undemonstrable (B)
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| anastrophe (n~) | inversion of the usual order of words or withholding
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| anatreptic (adj~) | defeating refuting (B)
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| anautarchia (n~) | perpetual unhappiness (B)
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| anax andron (n~) | a leader or men a take
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| anaxiphilia (n~) | act of falling in love with a schtoonk by someone
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| ancilla (n~) | a sidekick who helps another to accomplish or master
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| andabate (n~) | one who is hoodwinked in the dark or virtually blind
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| androlepsia (n~) | international governmental kidnapping for
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| anfractuous (adj~) | winding tortuous (B
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| angary (n~) | the right of a warring nation to use or destroy a
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| angst (n~) | anxiety fear; not fear of anything specific but a dread
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| anhedonia (n~) | the inability to be happy (B)
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| aniconic (adj~) | not using or permitting images effigies
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| anicular (adj~) | old
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| anililagnia (n~) | sexual desire for older women (B)
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| anile (adj~) | old womanish; lacking in force strength or effectiveness;
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| animadversion (n~) | generally adverse criticism (B E
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| ankylophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of stiff or immobile joints
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| anodyne (adj~) | painless soothing (G)
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| anomy (n~) | the collapse of the social structures governing a
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| anonym (n~) | a person remaining nameless; psuedonym; anonymous
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| anonymuncule (n~) | an insignificant anonymous writer (B)
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| anorchous (adj~) | without testicles; or gutless (B E)
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| anosognosia (n~) | the lack of interest or belief in the existence
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| Anschauung (n~) | intuition; sense awareness of perception (B)
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| antanaclasis (n~) | a phrasing in which the topic or key word is
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| antelucan (adj~) | pertaining to or occurring before dawn (G)
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| antephialtic (adj~) | preventive of nightmares (G)
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| anthimeria (n~) | the using of one part of speech for another for
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| anthorism (n~) | a counterdefinition or a delineation or description
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| anthropophaginia (n~) | a cannibal (E)
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| anthropophobia (n~) | fear of meeting people; fear of society (B)
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| antilogous (adj~) | contrary; inconsistent (B)
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| antinomian (n~) | a Christian who believes that faith alone will see
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| antinomy (n~) | an inconsistency or built
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| antipedobaptism (n~) | denial on scriptural grounds of the validityof infant baptism
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| antiphrasis (n~) | a word used to mean its opposite; calling something
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| antiscians (n~) | people living on the same meridian but on different
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| antistasis (n~) | the defense of an action that prevented somethingworse from happening
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| antithalian (adj~) | against enjoyment (B)
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| antonomasia (n~) | substitution of an epithet or nickname for a
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| anuptaphobia (n~) | fear of staying single (B E)
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| aolist (n~) | a person who claims to be inspiredsudden wind of genius or artistic urgency; the wind is sometimes
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| apaetesis (n~) | the angry putting aside of a matter to be taken
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| apagogic (adj~) | pertaining to a proof by reductio ad absurdum; an
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| apanthropy (n~) | dislike of being with people; love of solitude (B)
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| apercu (n~) | a quick penetrating insight; immediate impression
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| aphephobe (n~) | the person who doesn't like being touched (E)
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| aphilophrenia (n~) | a feeling that one is unloved or unwanted (B)
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| apocarteresis (n~) | suicide by starvation (B)
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| apocrisis (n~) | replying to one's own arguments (rhetoric term) (W)
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| apocrypha (n~) | writings reports
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| apodiabolosis (n~) | diabolical treatment (B)
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| apodictic (adj~) | absolutely certain or necessarily true;
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| apodysophilia (n~) | feverish desire to undress (B)
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| apolaustic (adj~) | given to enjoyment; self indulgent (B G)
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| apomnemonysis (n~) | quoting an approved authority (rhetoric term) (W)
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| apophasis (n~) | mentioning something by saying it won't be mentioned: "We
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| aporia (n~) | professing to be at a loss as to what to say where to
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| aposiopesis (n~) | a conscious breaking off in the middle of a sentence
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| apothegm (n~) | a concise formulation of a truth; an aphorism (G)
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| apotheosis (n~) | an exalted position highest development
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| appellation (n~) | a name designation
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| apposite (adj~) | appropriate fitting
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| appropinquate (v~) | to approach (B)
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| aptronym (n~) | a name befitting the occupation role or nature
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| arcadian (adj~) | ideally simple and contented (G)
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| argyrothecology (n~) | collecting of money boxes as found in
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| aristarchian (adj~) | extremely critical (B E)
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| aristophrenia (n~) | condition of having a superior intellect (B)
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| arithmocracy (n~) | rule of the numerical majority (B)
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| arriviste (n~) | on overly ambitious person; an opportunist (B)
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| arrogate (v~) | to appropriate or claim unjustly; to attribute
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| artuate (v~) | to tear limb from limb (B)
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| ascian (n~) | one without a shadow: applied to the inhabitants of the
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| asphalia (n~) | emphatic guaranteeing of what one is saying as by
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| aspheterism (n~) | denial of private property (B)
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| asportation (n~) | theft (B)
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| asseverate (v~) | to state positively emphatically (B)
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| assuetude (n~) | custom or habit (B)
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| asteism (n~) | an ingeniously polite insult (B W)
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| asthenophobe (n~) | the circumspect stoic the stiff
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| astucious (adj~) | having keen perception; of astute and penetrating
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| asyndetic (adj~) | not connected by conjunctions: I came I saw
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| ataraxia (n~) | imperturbability; utter calmness (B)
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| ataraxic (adj~) | of or pertaining to freedom from anxiety or emotional
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| atelophobe (n~) | the driven perfectionist one with a morbid fear of
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| athanasia (n~) | immortality (B)
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| athetise (v~) | to spurn reject (B)
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| atrabilarian (n~) | a gloomy hypochondriac (E)
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| au grand serieux | with great earnestness or often
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| augean (adj~) | filthy and difficult to clean; requiring hard work (from
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| auscultation (n~) | the process of listening (G)
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| autarchia (n~) | perpetual happiness (B)
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| autoangelist (n~) | one who does his own communicating (E)
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| autocephalous (adj~) | ecclesiastically self
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| autochthonous (adj~) | native aboriginal
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| autoclesis (n~) | introducing an idea or subject by seeming to
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| autodidact (n~) | one self
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| autognosis (n~) | knowledge of self especially the appreciation of
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| autological (adj~) | self
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| autologophagist (n~) | one who eats his words (B E)
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| automysophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of being dirty
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|
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| autophobe (n~) | the socializer who does not like to be alone or
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|
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| autoschediastic (adj~) | impromptu; on the spur of the moment (B)
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|
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| autotelic (adj~) | having in itself an end or excuse for being
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| autothaumaturgist (n~) | the coy or cagey person whose mission is toappear mysterious or quite remarkable (E)
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| autotheist (n~) | the individual who is not only self
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| auxesis (n~) | an ordering of thoughts expressed in a sequence of
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|
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| avering (n~) | a boy's begging in the nude to arouse sympathy (B)
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| azygophrenia (n~) | the psychoneurosis of everyday unmarried life (B)
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| bacchante (n | ) - a frenzied woman
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| backberend (adj | ) - a thief caught with the goods (B)
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| badaud (n | ) - an idle markedly stupid individual
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| baffona (n | ) - a woman with a slight moustache (D)
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| baksheesh (n | ) - a tip; gratuity (Egypt and points east) (B)
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| balatron (n | ) - a joker; a clown (B)
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| balneography (n | ) - treatise on baths and bathing
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| balsamical (adj | ) - unctuous mitigating
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| banausic (adj | ) - common ordinary
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| bandersnatch (n | ) - an uncouth or unconventional person
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| baptisiphily (n | ) - interest in collecting Christian baptismal
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|
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| baragouin (n | ) - gibberish (B W)
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| bardolatry (n | ) - Shakespeare worship (B)
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| barrator (n | ) - those constant inciters of lawsuits
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| barratrous (adj | ) - pertaining to the habitual causing of fights (B)
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| bashawism (n | ) - tyranny and imperiousness
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|
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| bashi-bazouk (n | ) - a dangerously out-of-control undisciplined
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| bastinado (n | ) - striking the soles of the fet with a stick
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| bathetic (adj | ) - emotionally jumping off the deep end insincere
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| bathycolpian (adj | ) - deep-bosomed (B)
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| bathysiderodromophobe (n | ) - somebody extremely fearful of subways (D)
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| batten (v | ) - to thrive and grow fat by feeding (G)
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| battological (adj | ) - pertaining to unnecessarily repetitive
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| bavardage (n | ) - small talk or chitchat; idle chatter (W)
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|
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| beadledom (n | ) - the world of petty and incompetent officials
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|
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| bedlamite (n | ) - a madman (B)
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| bedswerver (n | ) - an unfaithful spouse (B)
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| beldam (n | ) - a repulsive older woman (D)
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|
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| belletristic (adj | ) - of or concerned (fine literature) (G)
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| bellwether (n | ) - a leader of a sheeplike and foolish crowd (B)
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|
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| belomancy (n | ) - fortune-telling by marking arrows
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|
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| bibacious (adj | ) - addicted to alcohol (B)
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|
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| bibble (v | ) - to drink often or much; or to drink or eat noisily (B)
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| bibliobibuli (n | ) - those who read too much
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|
||||
| bibliokleptomania (n | ) - abnormal compulsion to steal books
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|
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| bibliopegy (n | ) - the art of binding books
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|
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| bibliopolism (n | ) - the selling
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|
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| bibliotaphy (n | ) - the hoarding or hiding of books
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|
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| bibulous (adj | ) - intoxicating; addicted to or fond of alcoholic drinks
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| bildungsroman (n | ) - a novel that deals with the development or education
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| billingsgate (n | ) - coarse abusive
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| biophilism (n | ) - belief that animals have rights
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|
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| biunial (adj | ) - combining two in one
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|
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| blandiloquence (n | ) - mildly flattering talk (B)
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|
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| blateroon (n | ) - a constant talker one afflicted with logorrhea (D)
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|
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| blennophobia (n | ) - abnormal fear or dislike of slime
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|
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| bletonism (n | ) - the alleged ability to perceive an underground
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|
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| blinkard (n | ) - one with bad eyes; a stupid or obtuse person;
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| blissom (adj | ) - in heat; or (v
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|
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| bloviate (v | ) - to orate verbosely and windily; hold forth
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|
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| blowtop (n | ) - a person who becomes angry very easily or quickly (D)
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|
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| boanthropy (n | ) - a type of insanity in which a man thinks
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|
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| bodewash (n | ) - cow dung (B)
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|
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| boobocracy (n | ) - government by boobs; plebianism
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|
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| booboisie (n | ) - the mass rabble (B)
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|
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| boodler (n | ) - the opportunist who gladly takes bribes (D)
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|
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| bloviate (v | ) - to deliver an oration that is verbose or windy
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|
||||
| borborology (n | ) - the stomach-like rumbling of unclean talk (G)
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|
||||
| borborygm (n | ) - the noise made by gas in the bowels; a fart (B)
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|
||||
| borborygmite (n | ) - a dirty mouth
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|
||||
| bovrilise (v | ) - to condense an ad to essentials; to epitomize (B)
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|
||||
| brachylogy (n | ) - brevity; condensation omitting all non-essentials (B)
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|
||||
| brandophily (n | ) - collecting cigar bands
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|
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| breedbate (n | ) - someone looking for an argument (B)
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|
||||
| brimborion (n | ) - something useless or nonsensical (B)
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|
||||
| brobdingnagian (adj | ) - gigantic enormous (B)
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|
||||
| bromidrosis (n | ) - the secretion of foul-smelling sweat; body odor (G)
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|
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| brotus (n | ) - any extra measure without charge such as a
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|
||||
| brummagem (n | ) - making an imposing display but inferior
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|
||||
| bruxomania (n | ) - the habit of unconsciously grinding the teeth
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|
||||
| bumbledom (n | ) - the world of petty and incompetent officials
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|
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| bumbledom (n | ) - the world of petty and incompetent officials)
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|
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| buncombe (n | ) - empty insincere speechmaking (G)
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|
||||
| burke (v | ) - to smother people to sell their bodies for dissection (B)
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|
||||
| bushwah (n | ) - something poor mean
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|
||||
| bustluscious (adj | ) - having or characterized by shapely mammalia
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|
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| cacation (n | ) - excretion (B)
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|
||||
| cacemphaton (n | ) - a harsh-sounding word or phrase (B W)
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|
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| cacestogenous (adj | ) - caused by unfavorable home environment (B)
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|
||||
| cachinnation (n | ) - loud or immoderate laughter (B G)
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|
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| cacique (n | ) - a slightly pompous person (B)
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|
||||
| cacodoxical (adj | ) - heretical (B)
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|
||||
| cacoethes (n | ) - a mania or bad habit (B)
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|
||||
| cacogen (n | ) - a anti-social person (B)
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|
||||
| cacology (n | ) - bad pronunciation; impropriety of wording
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|
||||
| cacophenism (n | ) - an unfairly harsh or derogatory
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|
||||
| cacophrenic (adj | ) - pertaining to an inferior intellect (B)
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|
||||
| cacotechny (n | ) - a corrupt state of art (B)
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|
||||
| cacozelia (n | ) - studied affectation in diction or style
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|
||||
| cadge (v | ) - to hawk or peddle as fish; or to beg
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|
||||
| cagamosis (n | ) - unhappy marriage (B)
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|
||||
| cainophobia (n | ) - abnormal dislike of novelty or innovation
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|
||||
| caitiff (adj | ) - base; despicable; cowardly; wicked (B G)
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|
||||
| calcographer (n | ) - one who draws with crayons (B)
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|
||||
| calepin (n | ) - a dictionary esp
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|
||||
| caliginous (adj | ) - obscure; dim; misty; dark (B G)
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|
||||
| callipygous (or callipygian) (adj | ) - having shapely buttocks (B )
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|
||||
| callithumpian (n | ) - a noisy demonstration (B)
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|
||||
| callomania (n | ) - the delusion that one is beautiful (B)
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|
||||
| canoodle (v | ) - to caress (B)
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| cantabank (n | ) - second-rate ballad singer (B)
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| capernoited (adj | ) - tipsy lightly pifflecated nimptopsical (B)
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| captation (n | ) - trying to cadge acceptance by flattery (B W)
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| captious (adj | ) - intended to confuse or artfully
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| carminative (adj | ) - pertaining to farting (B)
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| carriwitchet (n | ) - an absurd riddling question
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| castrophrenia (n | ) - one's thoughts are beingstolen by enemies (B)
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| casuistry (n | ) - deceptive reasoning about law or morals (W)
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| catachresis (n | ) - incorrect use of a word or phrase
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| catacosmesis (n | ); anticlimactic sequence in phrasing
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| catarolysis (n | ) - cursing to let off steam (W)
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| catawamptious (adj | ) - fierce destructive; or diagonal or crooked (B)
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| catchpenny (adj | ) - popular but superficial (W)
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| causerie (n | ) - a light and informal conversation;
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| cervesial (adj | ) - pertaining to beer (B)
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| charette (n | ) - the eleventh-hour efforts
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| charientism (n | ) - a gracefully veiled insult (B W)
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| chasmophilous (adj | ) - fond of nooks crannies
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| cheimaphobia (n | ) - abnormal fear or dislike of cold
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| cherophobia (n | ) - fear of gaiety (B)
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| cherubimical (adj | ) - drunk (B)
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| cheville (n | ) - an unnecessary word added to round off a sentence
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| chiasmus (n | ) - the inverting of the second or latter of two phrases
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| choplogic (n | ) - absurdly convoluted sophistical
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| chrestomathy (n | ) - a collection of choice literary pieces (B)
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| circumbendibus (n | ) - a roundabout process or story;
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| circumforaneous (adj | ) - place to place (B)
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| cisvestitism (n | ) - wearing weird or inappropriate clothes (B)
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| cittosis (n | ) - an abnormal desire for strange foods (B)
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| clamjamfry (n | ) - the mob or rabble (Scottish) (B)
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| cledonism (n | ) - the eschewing of unlucky words
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| cleocentric (adj | ) - pertaining to the belief that fame iseverything (B)
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| clerihew (n | ) - an amusing quatrain about contemporary notables (B)
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| clinchpoop (n | ) - a lout jerk fathead
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| clinomania (n | ) - excessive desire to stay in bed (B)
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| clinquant (n | ) - showy but valueless writing or literary effects;
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| clishmaclaver (n | ) chatter; gossip (Scottish) (W)
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| clodpolish (adj | ) - awkward (B)
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| clyster (n | ) - an injection into the anus; an enema (B)
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| codswallop (n | ) - baloney or hot air; gammon or humbug (British) (W)
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| coevalneity (adj | ) - the state of being alike in age or duration
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| cogger (n | ) - a phoney flatterer (B)
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| cogitabund (adj | ) - meditative (B)
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| colloquy (n | ) - a conversation or dialogue; serious or formal
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| colluctation (n | ) - conflict (B)
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| colluvial (adj | ) - pertaining to a mass of filth (B)
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| collybist (n | ) - a usurer or miser (B)
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| collywobbles (n | ) - pain or looseness in the bowels (B)
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| colporteur (n | ) - a peddler of religious tracts
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| colubrine (adj | ) - snaky sneaky
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| commentitious (adj | ) - imaginary (B)
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| commination (n | ) - denunciation; threatening or cursing (B)
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| commoratio (n | ) - dwelling on a point
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| commorient (adj | ) - dying together (B)
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| complect (v | ) - to connect together; intertwine (B)
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| compotation (n | ) - drinking together usually to excess (B)
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| comprachico (n | ) - one who buys or sells children
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| comprobatio (n | ) - complimenting one's judges or audience
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| compurgation (n | ) - vindication; that which vindicates (B)
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| comstockery (n | ) - zealous censorship of books or art
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| conation (n | ) - mental effort (B)
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| concatervate (adj | ) - heaped up (B)
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| conciliabule (n | ) - a secret meeting of plot-hatchers (B)
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| concinnity (n | ) - skill and harmony in a literary work; elegant arrangement (W)
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| concupiscence (n | ) - strong appetite; excessive sexual desire (B)
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| conflation (n | ) - a combining or blending of two or more versions
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| consectaneous (adj | ) - logical consequence; corollary (B)
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| consilience (n | ) - a change happening or coincidence
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| conspectus (n | ) - a general survey or synopsis or summary (W)
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| conspissation (n | ) - thickness; the act of thickening (B)
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| conspurcate (v | ) - to pollute; defile (B)
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| constuprate (v | ) - to violate to debauch (B)
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| consuetude (n | ) - custom tradition (B)
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| contortuplicate (adj | ) - twisted back upon itself (B)
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| contraremonstrant (n | ) - a remonstrator against remonstrance (B)
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| contrectation (n | ) - act of caressing someone especially furtively
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| contumacy (n | ) - a refusal to obey or defiance
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| contumely (n | ) - rude abrasive insult in speech or writing;
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| copoclephily (n | ) - collecting key rings containing advertising
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| coprolalia (n | ) - the use of words relating to dirt or excrement (B)
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| coprophemia (n | ) - obscene language (B)
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| coprophobia (n | ) - abnormal fear of feces
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| coryphaeus (n | ) - a leader of a school of thought
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| costermongering (n | ) - tampering with a composer's orchestral works
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| countercaster (n | ) - a contemptuous word for a bookkeeper or accountant;
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| covinous (adj | ) - deceitful conspiring (B)
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| crapulous (adj | ) - given to gross excess in drinking or eating
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| crassilingual (adj | ) - thick-tongued (B)
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| crepehangar (n | ) - a gloomy person; a pessimist (B)
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| cri de coeur | an ardent impassioned declaration
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| cri de guerre | war cry:
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|
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| criticaster (n~) | an incompetent inferior critic (B
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| crurophilous (adj~) | liking legs (B)
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| crux criticorum | a riddle or puzzle for the critics (W)
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| cui bono | "who stands to gain from this") (W)
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| cumyxaphily (n~) | collecting match boxes
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| cunctative (adj~) | tardy dilatory (B)
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| curiosa felicitas | apt and elegant expressism;
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| curlicism (n~) | literary indecency (W)
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| currente calamo | with a running pen: fluidly or offhand (W)
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| cyprian (adj~) | lecherous licentious
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|
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| cypripareunia (n~) | sexual intercourse with a prostitute (B)
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|
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| dacrygelosis (n~) | condition of alternating laughing and crying (B)
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| daedal (adj~) | skillfully and artistically crafted (W)
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|
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| dasypygal (adj~) | having hairy buttocks (B)
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|
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| de profundis | agonized plaint or lament (W)
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| deblaterate (v~) | to babble (B)
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| decoct | extract the essence of flavor of as by boiling (G)
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||||
| decollate (v~) | to behead (B)
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|
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| decussate (v~) | to make an X; intersect (B)
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|
||||
| defalcate (v~) | to embezzle (B)
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|
||||
| defeneration (n~) | usury (B)
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|
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| dehortatory (adj~) | dissuading (B)
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|
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| deictic (adj~) | pointing to specifically eg pronouns 'that' and 'those' (W)
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| deipnophobia (n~) | fear of dining and dinner conversation
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| deipnosophist (n~) | a skillful dinner conversationalist (B)
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| deja lu | a sense of familiarity or recognition in something read (W)
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||||
| dejecture (n~) | excrement (B)
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| delator (n~) | an informer or accuser (B)
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| delectus (n~) | a book of passages from Greek and Latin authors
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|
||||
| agnoiology (n~) | the study of ignorance (B)
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| agnosy (n~) | ignorance; especially ignorance shared by the whole
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|
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| agonist (n~) | a struggler; a person who is contending whether in
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|
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| agonistic (n~) | combative; strained for the sake of effect (B)
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| agroof (n~) | flat on one's face (Scottish) (B)
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| ailurophobe (n~) | the person who can't stand cats (E)
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|
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| airmonger (n~) | the man or woman who is attracted to visionary
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|
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| aischrolatreia (n~) | worship of filth dirt
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|
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| aldiborontiphoscophornio (n~) | a pompous person (from an old English
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| aleatory (adj~) | dependent upon chance luck
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| alectoromachy (n~) | cockfighting
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|
||||
| algedonic (adj~) | pertaining to pain especially when associated with
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|
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| algedonica (n~) | the science of pleasure and pain (B)
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|
||||
| algidity (n~) | coldness
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|
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| algolagnic (adj~) | relating to the perception of pleasure from
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|
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| allagrugous (adj~) | grim and ghastly (G)
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|
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| allision (n~) | the ramming of one object by another (B)
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|
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| allochthonous (adj~) | foreign (B)
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|
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| allonym (n~) | another person's name used as a pen name; a ghostwritten
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|
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| allotheism (n~) | worship of strange gods (B)
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|
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| allotriophagy (n~) | the craving for weird food (B)
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|
||||
| alogism (n~) | unreasonableness; absurdity; illogical statement(B)
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|
||||
| alopecia (n~) | baldness (B)
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|
||||
| alopecoid (adj~) | foxy (B)
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|
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| alter kocker (n~) | a canny stubborn old man who has been around but
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|
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| altiloquence (n~) | pompous speech (B W)
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|
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| amaranthine (adj~) | eternally beautiful; unfading; everlasting (E G)
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|
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| amatorculist (n~) | an insignificant or hypocritical lover (B)
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|
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| ambagious (adj~) | talking or doing things in an indirect manner;
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|
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| ambiloquence (n~) | competence in double
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|
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| ambivert (n~) | someone whose personality strikes a nice balance between
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|
||||
| amblysia | phrasing in such a way as to forewarn or to cushion a dire
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|
||||
| amende honorable | an honorable fine: a full and frank apology however
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|
||||
| ami de cour (n~) | the fairweather or foul
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|
||||
| amicus humani generis (n~) | a philathropist (E)
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|
||||
| amniomancy (n~) | fortune telling by examining the embryonic sac
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|
||||
| amphibolous (adj~) | susceptible of two meanings; ambiguous; equivocal
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|
||||
| amphigean (adj~) | found or occuring throughout the world (B)
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|
||||
| amphigory (n~) | nonsensical writing (B W)
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|
||||
| amphilogy (n~) | a statement open to more than one interpretation
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|
||||
| ampollosity (n~) | bombast; pompous style (B W)
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|
||||
| amurcous (adj~) | stinking; filled with dregs (B)
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|
||||
| amyctic (adj~) | irritating; abrasive (B)
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|
||||
| anacampserote (n~) | something which can bring back a lost love (B)
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|
||||
| anachorism (n~) | foreign to a certain locality; geographically
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|
||||
| anaclitic (adj~) | overly dependent on another (B)
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|
||||
| anacoluthon (n~) | an abrupt shift in midsentence in syntax to
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|
||||
| anacreontic (adj~) | jovial festive and amatory (B
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|
||||
| anadiplosis (n~) | repeating the final words or words of a phrase
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|
||||
| anadipsic (adj~) | pertaining to excessive thirst (B)
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|
||||
| anagapesis (n~) | lack of interest in former loved ones (B)
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|
||||
| anagnorisis (n~) | recognition or discovery as of a disguised
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|
||||
| anagogig (adj~) | relating to things spiritual and mystical; occult;
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|
||||
| analects (n~) | selected parts of a literary work or works (W)
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|
||||
| analeptic (adj~) | serving to renew strength and vigor; invigorating (B G)
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|
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| anamnestic (adj~) | reminiscent; aiding the memory (B)
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|
||||
| ananias (n~) | a teller of untruths; liar (from a follower of the
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|
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| ananym (n~) | a pseudonym devised by spelling one's name backward (B W)
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|
||||
| anaphora (n~) | repitition of a word or phrase in successive clauses
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|
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| anapodictic (adj~) | undemonstrable (B)
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|
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| anastrophe (n~) | inversion of the usual order of words or withholding
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|
||||
| anatreptic (adj~) | defeating refuting (B)
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|
||||
| anautarchia (n~) | perpetual unhappiness (B)
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|
||||
| anax andron (n~) | a leader or men a take
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|
||||
| anaxiphilia (n~) | act of falling in love with a schtoonk by someone
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|
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| ancilla (n~) | a sidekick who helps another to accomplish or master
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|
||||
| andabate (n~) | one who is hoodwinked in the dark or virtually blind
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|
||||
| androlepsia (n~) | international governmental kidnapping for
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|
||||
| anfractuous (adj~) | winding tortuous (B
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|
||||
| angary (n~) | the right of a warring nation to use or destroy a
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|
||||
| angst (n~) | anxiety fear; not fear of anything specific but a dread
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|
||||
| anhedonia (n~) | the inability to be happy (B)
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|
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| aniconic (adj~) | not using or permitting images effigies
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|
||||
| anicular (adj~) | old
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|
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| anililagnia (n~) | sexual desire for older women (B)
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|
||||
| anile (adj~) | old womanish; lacking in force strength or effectiveness;
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|
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| animadversion (n~) | generally adverse criticism (B E
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| ankylophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of stiff or immobile joints
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|
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| anodyne (adj~) | painless soothing (G)
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|
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| anomy (n~) | the collapse of the social structures governing a
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|
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| anonym (n~) | a person remaining nameless; psuedonym; anonymous
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|
||||
| anonymuncule (n~) | an insignificant anonymous writer (B)
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|
||||
| anorchous (adj~) | without testicles; or gutless (B E)
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|
||||
| anosognosia (n~) | the lack of interest or belief in the existence
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|
||||
| Anschauung (n~) | intuition; sense awareness of perception (B)
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|
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| antanaclasis (n~) | a phrasing in which the topic or key word is
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|
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| antelucan (adj~) | pertaining to or occurring before dawn (G)
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|
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| antephialtic (adj~) | preventive of nightmares (G)
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|
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| anthimeria (n~) | the using of one part of speech for another for
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|
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| anthorism (n~) | a counterdefinition or a delineation or description
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|
||||
| anthropophaginia (n~) | a cannibal (E)
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|
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| anthropophobia (n~) | fear of meeting people; fear of society (B)
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|
||||
| antilogous (adj~) | contrary; inconsistent (B)
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|
||||
| antinomian (n~) | a Christian who believes that faith alone will see
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|
||||
| antinomy (n~) | an inconsistency or built
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|
||||
| antipedobaptism (n~) | denial on scriptural grounds of the validityof infant baptism
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|
||||
| antiphrasis (n~) | a word used to mean its opposite; calling something
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|
||||
| antiscians (n~) | people living on the same meridian but on different
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|
||||
| antistasis (n~) | the defense of an action that prevented somethingworse from happening
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|
||||
| antithalian (adj~) | against enjoyment (B)
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|
||||
| antonomasia (n~) | substitution of an epithet or nickname for a
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|
||||
| anuptaphobia (n~) | fear of staying single (B E)
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|
||||
| aolist (n~) | a person who claims to be inspiredsudden wind of genius or artistic urgency; the wind is sometimes
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|
||||
| apaetesis (n~) | the angry putting aside of a matter to be taken
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|
||||
| apagogic (adj~) | pertaining to a proof by reductio ad absurdum; an
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|
||||
| apanthropy (n~) | dislike of being with people; love of solitude (B)
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|
||||
| apercu (n~) | a quick penetrating insight; immediate impression
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|
||||
| aphephobe (n~) | the person who doesn't like being touched (E)
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|
||||
| aphilophrenia (n~) | a feeling that one is unloved or unwanted (B)
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|
||||
| apocarteresis (n~) | suicide by starvation (B)
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|
||||
| apocrisis (n~) | replying to one's own arguments (rhetoric term) (W)
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|
||||
| apocrypha (n~) | writings reports
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|
||||
| apodiabolosis (n~) | diabolical treatment (B)
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|
||||
| apodictic (adj~) | absolutely certain or necessarily true;
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|
||||
| apodysophilia (n~) | feverish desire to undress (B)
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|
||||
| apolaustic (adj~) | given to enjoyment; self indulgent (B G)
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|
||||
| apomnemonysis (n~) | quoting an approved authority (rhetoric term) (W)
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|
||||
| apophasis (n~) | mentioning something by saying it won't be mentioned: "We
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|
||||
| aporia (n~) | professing to be at a loss as to what to say where to
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|
||||
| aposiopesis (n~) | a conscious breaking off in the middle of a sentence
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|
||||
| apothegm (n~) | a concise formulation of a truth; an aphorism (G)
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|
||||
| apotheosis (n~) | an exalted position highest development
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|
||||
| appellation (n~) | a name designation
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|
||||
| apposite (adj~) | appropriate fitting
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|
||||
| appropinquate (v~) | to approach (B)
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|
||||
| aptronym (n~) | a name befitting the occupation role or nature
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|
||||
| arcadian (adj~) | ideally simple and contented (G)
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|
||||
| argyrothecology (n~) | collecting of money boxes as found in
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|
||||
| aristarchian (adj~) | extremely critical (B E)
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|
||||
| aristophrenia (n~) | condition of having a superior intellect (B)
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|
||||
| arithmocracy (n~) | rule of the numerical majority (B)
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|
||||
| arriviste (n~) | on overly ambitious person; an opportunist (B)
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|
||||
| arrogate (v~) | to appropriate or claim unjustly; to attribute
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|
||||
| artuate (v~) | to tear limb from limb (B)
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|
||||
| ascian (n~) | one without a shadow: applied to the inhabitants of the
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|
||||
| asphalia (n~) | emphatic guaranteeing of what one is saying as by
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|
||||
| aspheterism (n~) | denial of private property (B)
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|
||||
| asportation (n~) | theft (B)
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|
||||
| asseverate (v~) | to state positively emphatically (B)
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|
||||
| assuetude (n~) | custom or habit (B)
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|
||||
| asteism (n~) | an ingeniously polite insult (B W)
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|
||||
| asthenophobe (n~) | the circumspect stoic the stiff
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|
||||
| astucious (adj~) | having keen perception; of astute and penetrating
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| asyndetic (adj~) | not connected by conjunctions: I came I saw
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| ataraxia (n~) | imperturbability; utter calmness (B)
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| ataraxic (adj~) | of or pertaining to freedom from anxiety or emotional
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| atelophobe (n~) | the driven perfectionist one with a morbid fear of
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| athanasia (n~) | immortality (B)
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| athetise (v~) | to spurn reject (B)
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| atrabilarian (n~) | a gloomy hypochondriac (E)
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| au grand serieux | with great earnestness or often
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| augean (adj~) | filthy and difficult to clean; requiring hard work (from
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| auscultation (n~) | the process of listening (G)
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| autarchia (n~) | perpetual happiness (B)
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| autoangelist (n~) | one who does his own communicating (E)
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| autocephalous (adj~) | ecclesiastically self
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| autochthonous (adj~) | native aboriginal
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| autoclesis (n~) | introducing an idea or subject by seeming to
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| autodidact (n~) | one self
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| autognosis (n~) | knowledge of self especially the appreciation of
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| autological (adj~) | self
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| autologophagist (n~) | one who eats his words (B E)
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| automysophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of being dirty
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| autophobe (n~) | the socializer who does not like to be alone or
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| autoschediastic (adj~) | impromptu; on the spur of the moment (B)
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| autotelic (adj~) | having in itself an end or excuse for being
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| autothaumaturgist (n~) | the coy or cagey person whose mission is toappear mysterious or quite remarkable (E)
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| autotheist (n~) | the individual who is not only self
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| auxesis (n~) | an ordering of thoughts expressed in a sequence of
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| avering (n~) | a boy's begging in the nude to arouse sympathy (B)
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| azygophrenia (n~) | the psychoneurosis of everyday unmarried life (B)
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| bacchante (n | ) - a frenzied woman
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| backberend (adj | ) - a thief caught with the goods (B)
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| badaud (n | ) - an idle markedly stupid individual
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| baffona (n | ) - a woman with a slight moustache (D)
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| baksheesh (n | ) - a tip; gratuity (Egypt and points east) (B)
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| balatron (n | ) - a joker; a clown (B)
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| balneography (n | ) - treatise on baths and bathing
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| balsamical (adj | ) - unctuous mitigating
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| banausic (adj | ) - common ordinary
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| bandersnatch (n | ) - an uncouth or unconventional person
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| baptisiphily (n | ) - interest in collecting Christian baptismal
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| baragouin (n | ) - gibberish (B W)
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| bardolatry (n | ) - Shakespeare worship (B)
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| barrator (n | ) - those constant inciters of lawsuits
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| barratrous (adj | ) - pertaining to the habitual causing of fights (B)
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| bashawism (n | ) - tyranny and imperiousness
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|
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| bashi-bazouk (n | ) - a dangerously out-of-control undisciplined
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| bastinado (n | ) - striking the soles of the fet with a stick
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| bathetic (adj | ) - emotionally jumping off the deep end insincere
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| bathycolpian (adj | ) - deep-bosomed (B)
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| bathysiderodromophobe (n | ) - somebody extremely fearful of subways (D)
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| batten (v | ) - to thrive and grow fat by feeding (G)
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| battological (adj | ) - pertaining to unnecessarily repetitive
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| bavardage (n | ) - small talk or chitchat; idle chatter (W)
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| beadledom (n | ) - the world of petty and incompetent officials
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| bedlamite (n | ) - a madman (B)
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| bedswerver (n | ) - an unfaithful spouse (B)
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| beldam (n | ) - a repulsive older woman (D)
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| belletristic (adj | ) - of or concerned (fine literature) (G)
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| bellwether (n | ) - a leader of a sheeplike and foolish crowd (B)
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| belomancy (n | ) - fortune-telling by marking arrows
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| bibacious (adj | ) - addicted to alcohol (B)
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|
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| bibble (v | ) - to drink often or much; or to drink or eat noisily (B)
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| bibliobibuli (n | ) - those who read too much
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| bibliokleptomania (n | ) - abnormal compulsion to steal books
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|
||||
| bibliopegy (n | ) - the art of binding books
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|
||||
| bibliopolism (n | ) - the selling
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| bibliotaphy (n | ) - the hoarding or hiding of books
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|
||||
| bibulous (adj | ) - intoxicating; addicted to or fond of alcoholic drinks
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|
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| bildungsroman (n | ) - a novel that deals with the development or education
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|
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| billingsgate (n | ) - coarse abusive
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|
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| biophilism (n | ) - belief that animals have rights
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|
||||
| biunial (adj | ) - combining two in one
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|
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| blandiloquence (n | ) - mildly flattering talk (B)
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|
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| blateroon (n | ) - a constant talker one afflicted with logorrhea (D)
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|
||||
| blennophobia (n | ) - abnormal fear or dislike of slime
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|
||||
| bletonism (n | ) - the alleged ability to perceive an underground
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|
||||
| blinkard (n | ) - one with bad eyes; a stupid or obtuse person;
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|
||||
| blissom (adj | ) - in heat; or (v
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|
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| bloviate (v | ) - to orate verbosely and windily; hold forth
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|
||||
| blowtop (n | ) - a person who becomes angry very easily or quickly (D)
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|
||||
| boanthropy (n | ) - a type of insanity in which a man thinks
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|
||||
| bodewash (n | ) - cow dung (B)
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|
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| boobocracy (n | ) - government by boobs; plebianism
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| booboisie (n | ) - the mass rabble (B)
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|
||||
| boodler (n | ) - the opportunist who gladly takes bribes (D)
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|
||||
| bloviate (v | ) - to deliver an oration that is verbose or windy
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|
||||
| borborology (n | ) - the stomach-like rumbling of unclean talk (G)
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|
||||
| borborygm (n | ) - the noise made by gas in the bowels; a fart (B)
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|
||||
| borborygmite (n | ) - a dirty mouth
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|
||||
| bovrilise (v | ) - to condense an ad to essentials; to epitomize (B)
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|
||||
| brachylogy (n | ) - brevity; condensation omitting all non-essentials (B)
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|
||||
| brandophily (n | ) - collecting cigar bands
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|
||||
| breedbate (n | ) - someone looking for an argument (B)
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|
||||
| brimborion (n | ) - something useless or nonsensical (B)
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|
||||
| brobdingnagian (adj | ) - gigantic enormous (B)
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|
||||
| bromidrosis (n | ) - the secretion of foul-smelling sweat; body odor (G)
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|
||||
| brotus (n | ) - any extra measure without charge such as a
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|
||||
| brummagem (n | ) - making an imposing display but inferior
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|
||||
| bruxomania (n | ) - the habit of unconsciously grinding the teeth
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|
||||
| bumbledom (n | ) - the world of petty and incompetent officials
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|
||||
| bumbledom (n | ) - the world of petty and incompetent officials)
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|
||||
| buncombe (n | ) - empty insincere speechmaking (G)
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|
||||
| burke (v | ) - to smother people to sell their bodies for dissection (B)
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|
||||
| bushwah (n | ) - something poor mean
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|
||||
| bustluscious (adj | ) - having or characterized by shapely mammalia
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|
||||
| cacation (n | ) - excretion (B)
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|
||||
| cacemphaton (n | ) - a harsh-sounding word or phrase (B W)
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|
||||
| cacestogenous (adj | ) - caused by unfavorable home environment (B)
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|
||||
| cachinnation (n | ) - loud or immoderate laughter (B G)
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|
||||
| cacique (n | ) - a slightly pompous person (B)
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|
||||
| cacodoxical (adj | ) - heretical (B)
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|
||||
| cacoethes (n | ) - a mania or bad habit (B)
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|
||||
| cacogen (n | ) - a anti-social person (B)
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|
||||
| cacology (n | ) - bad pronunciation; impropriety of wording
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|
||||
| cacophenism (n | ) - an unfairly harsh or derogatory
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|
||||
| cacophrenic (adj | ) - pertaining to an inferior intellect (B)
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|
||||
| cacotechny (n | ) - a corrupt state of art (B)
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|
||||
| cacozelia (n | ) - studied affectation in diction or style
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|
||||
| cadge (v | ) - to hawk or peddle as fish; or to beg
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|
||||
| cagamosis (n | ) - unhappy marriage (B)
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|
||||
| cainophobia (n | ) - abnormal dislike of novelty or innovation
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|
||||
| caitiff (adj | ) - base; despicable; cowardly; wicked (B G)
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|
||||
| calcographer (n | ) - one who draws with crayons (B)
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|
||||
| calepin (n | ) - a dictionary esp
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|
||||
| caliginous (adj | ) - obscure; dim; misty; dark (B G)
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|
||||
| callipygous (or callipygian) (adj | ) - having shapely buttocks (B )
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|
||||
| callithumpian (n | ) - a noisy demonstration (B)
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|
||||
| callomania (n | ) - the delusion that one is beautiful (B)
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|
||||
| canoodle (v | ) - to caress (B)
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|
||||
| cantabank (n | ) - second-rate ballad singer (B)
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|
||||
| capernoited (adj | ) - tipsy lightly pifflecated nimptopsical (B)
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|
||||
| captation (n | ) - trying to cadge acceptance by flattery (B W)
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|
||||
| captious (adj | ) - intended to confuse or artfully
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|
||||
| carminative (adj | ) - pertaining to farting (B)
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|
||||
| carriwitchet (n | ) - an absurd riddling question
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|
||||
| castrophrenia (n | ) - one's thoughts are beingstolen by enemies (B)
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|
||||
| casuistry (n | ) - deceptive reasoning about law or morals (W)
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|
||||
| catachresis (n | ) - incorrect use of a word or phrase
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|
||||
| catacosmesis (n | ); anticlimactic sequence in phrasing
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|
||||
| catarolysis (n | ) - cursing to let off steam (W)
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|
||||
| catawamptious (adj | ) - fierce destructive; or diagonal or crooked (B)
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|
||||
| catchpenny (adj | ) - popular but superficial (W)
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|
||||
| causerie (n | ) - a light and informal conversation;
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|
||||
| cervesial (adj | ) - pertaining to beer (B)
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|
||||
| charette (n | ) - the eleventh-hour efforts
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|
||||
| charientism (n | ) - a gracefully veiled insult (B W)
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|
||||
| chasmophilous (adj | ) - fond of nooks crannies
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|
||||
| cheimaphobia (n | ) - abnormal fear or dislike of cold
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|
||||
| cherophobia (n | ) - fear of gaiety (B)
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|
||||
| cherubimical (adj | ) - drunk (B)
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|
||||
| cheville (n | ) - an unnecessary word added to round off a sentence
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|
||||
| chiasmus (n | ) - the inverting of the second or latter of two phrases
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|
||||
| choplogic (n | ) - absurdly convoluted sophistical
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|
||||
| chrestomathy (n | ) - a collection of choice literary pieces (B)
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|
||||
| circumbendibus (n | ) - a roundabout process or story;
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|
||||
| circumforaneous (adj | ) - place to place (B)
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|
||||
| cisvestitism (n | ) - wearing weird or inappropriate clothes (B)
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|
||||
| cittosis (n | ) - an abnormal desire for strange foods (B)
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|
||||
| clamjamfry (n | ) - the mob or rabble (Scottish) (B)
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|
||||
| cledonism (n | ) - the eschewing of unlucky words
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|
||||
| cleocentric (adj | ) - pertaining to the belief that fame iseverything (B)
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|
||||
| clerihew (n | ) - an amusing quatrain about contemporary notables (B)
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|
||||
| clinchpoop (n | ) - a lout jerk fathead
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|
||||
| clinomania (n | ) - excessive desire to stay in bed (B)
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|
||||
| clinquant (n | ) - showy but valueless writing or literary effects;
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|
||||
| clishmaclaver (n | ) chatter; gossip (Scottish) (W)
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|
||||
| clodpolish (adj | ) - awkward (B)
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|
||||
| clyster (n | ) - an injection into the anus; an enema (B)
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|
||||
| codswallop (n | ) - baloney or hot air; gammon or humbug (British) (W)
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|
||||
| coevalneity (adj | ) - the state of being alike in age or duration
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|
||||
| cogger (n | ) - a phoney flatterer (B)
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|
||||
| cogitabund (adj | ) - meditative (B)
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|
||||
| colloquy (n | ) - a conversation or dialogue; serious or formal
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|
||||
| colluctation (n | ) - conflict (B)
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|
||||
| colluvial (adj | ) - pertaining to a mass of filth (B)
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|
||||
| collybist (n | ) - a usurer or miser (B)
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|
||||
| collywobbles (n | ) - pain or looseness in the bowels (B)
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|
||||
| colporteur (n | ) - a peddler of religious tracts
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|
||||
| colubrine (adj | ) - snaky sneaky
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|
||||
| commentitious (adj | ) - imaginary (B)
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|
||||
| commination (n | ) - denunciation; threatening or cursing (B)
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|
||||
| commoratio (n | ) - dwelling on a point
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|
||||
| commorient (adj | ) - dying together (B)
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|
||||
| complect (v | ) - to connect together; intertwine (B)
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|
||||
| compotation (n | ) - drinking together usually to excess (B)
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|
||||
| comprachico (n | ) - one who buys or sells children
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|
||||
| comprobatio (n | ) - complimenting one's judges or audience
🗑
|
||||
| compurgation (n | ) - vindication; that which vindicates (B)
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|
||||
| comstockery (n | ) - zealous censorship of books or art
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|
||||
| conation (n | ) - mental effort (B)
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|
||||
| concatervate (adj | ) - heaped up (B)
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|
||||
| conciliabule (n | ) - a secret meeting of plot-hatchers (B)
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|
||||
| concinnity (n | ) - skill and harmony in a literary work; elegant arrangement (W)
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|
||||
| concupiscence (n | ) - strong appetite; excessive sexual desire (B)
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|
||||
| conflation (n | ) - a combining or blending of two or more versions
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|
||||
| consectaneous (adj | ) - logical consequence; corollary (B)
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|
||||
| consilience (n | ) - a change happening or coincidence
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|
||||
| conspectus (n | ) - a general survey or synopsis or summary (W)
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|
||||
| conspissation (n | ) - thickness; the act of thickening (B)
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|
||||
| conspurcate (v | ) - to pollute; defile (B)
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|
||||
| constuprate (v | ) - to violate to debauch (B)
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|
||||
| consuetude (n | ) - custom tradition (B)
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|
||||
| contortuplicate (adj | ) - twisted back upon itself (B)
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|
||||
| contraremonstrant (n | ) - a remonstrator against remonstrance (B)
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|
||||
| contrectation (n | ) - act of caressing someone especially furtively
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|
||||
| contumacy (n | ) - a refusal to obey or defiance
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|
||||
| contumely (n | ) - rude abrasive insult in speech or writing;
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|
||||
| copoclephily (n | ) - collecting key rings containing advertising
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|
||||
| coprolalia (n | ) - the use of words relating to dirt or excrement (B)
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|
||||
| coprophemia (n | ) - obscene language (B)
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|
||||
| coprophobia (n | ) - abnormal fear of feces
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|
||||
| coryphaeus (n | ) - a leader of a school of thought
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||||
| costermongering (n | ) - tampering with a composer's orchestral works
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|
||||
| countercaster (n | ) - a contemptuous word for a bookkeeper or accountant;
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|
||||
| covinous (adj | ) - deceitful conspiring (B)
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|
||||
| crapulous (adj | ) - given to gross excess in drinking or eating
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|
||||
| crassilingual (adj | ) - thick-tongued (B)
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|
||||
| crepehangar (n | ) - a gloomy person; a pessimist (B)
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|
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| cri de coeur | an ardent impassioned declaration
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|
||||
| cri de guerre | war cry:
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|
||||
| criticaster (n~) | an incompetent inferior critic (B
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|
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| crurophilous (adj~) | liking legs (B)
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|
||||
| crux criticorum | a riddle or puzzle for the critics (W)
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|
||||
| cui bono | "who stands to gain from this") (W)
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|
||||
| cumyxaphily (n~) | collecting match boxes
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|
||||
| cunctative (adj~) | tardy dilatory (B)
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|
||||
| curiosa felicitas | apt and elegant expressism;
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|
||||
| curlicism (n~) | literary indecency (W)
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|
||||
| currente calamo | with a running pen: fluidly or offhand (W)
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|
||||
| cyprian (adj~) | lecherous licentious
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|
||||
| cypripareunia (n~) | sexual intercourse with a prostitute (B)
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|
||||
| dacrygelosis (n~) | condition of alternating laughing and crying (B)
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|
||||
| daedal (adj~) | skillfully and artistically crafted (W)
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|
||||
| dasypygal (adj~) | having hairy buttocks (B)
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|
||||
| de profundis | agonized plaint or lament (W)
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|
||||
| deblaterate (v~) | to babble (B)
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|
||||
| decoct | extract the essence of flavor of as by boiling (G)
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|
||||
| decollate (v~) | to behead (B)
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|
||||
| decussate (v~) | to make an X; intersect (B)
🗑
|
||||
| defalcate (v~) | to embezzle (B)
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|
||||
| defeneration (n~) | usury (B)
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|
||||
| dehortatory (adj~) | dissuading (B)
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|
||||
| deictic (adj~) | pointing to specifically eg pronouns 'that' and 'those' (W)
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|
||||
| deipnophobia (n~) | fear of dining and dinner conversation
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|
||||
| deipnosophist (n~) | a skillful dinner conversationalist (B)
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|
||||
| deja lu | a sense of familiarity or recognition in something read (W)
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|
||||
| dejecture (n~) | excrement (B)
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|
||||
| delator (n~) | an informer or accuser (B)
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|
||||
| delectus (n~) | a book of passages from Greek and Latin authors
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|
||||
| deliquesce | melt away; gradually dissolve (G)
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|
||||
| delirament (n~) | raving; a foolish story (B)
🗑
|
||||
| delitescent (adj~) | hidden; inactive (B)
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|
||||
| deltiology (n~) | collecting picture postcards
🗑
|
||||
| demiurge (n~) | a secondary god who (a) created evil;
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|
||||
| demophobe (n~) | a people
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|
||||
| dentiloquist (n~) | one who speaks with clenched teeth (W)
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|
||||
| deorsumversion (n~) | a turning downward (B)
🗑
|
||||
| deosculate (v~) | to kiss affectionately (B)
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|
||||
| depeculation (n~) | an embezzling of public funds (B)
🗑
|
||||
| dephlogisticate (v~) | to make fireproof (B)
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|
||||
| deracinate | extirpate; eradicate; abolish completely (G)
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|
||||
| derism (n~) | an expression of scorn or contempt (W)
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|
||||
| descant (n~) | a commenting or discussing at length
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|
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| desiderata (n~) | list of books sought by a collector or library
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| desidious (adj~) | slothful (B)
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| desipient (adj~) | foolish silly (B)
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| despumate (v~) | to skim; to take the scum off (B)
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| desquamate (v~) | to peel off (B)
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| desuetude (n~) | disuse (B)
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| devenustate (v~) | to deprive of beauty (B)
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| devil's mass | indiscriminate cursing (W)
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| diacope (n~) | the separation of a word by the interpolation
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| diallage | concentration of several separate arguments
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| dialogue des sourds | dialogue of the deaf:
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| dialysis | rational disposing of reasons for or against something;
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| diaskeuasis (n~) | editorial revision (B)
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|
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| diasyrm | arch disparagement as by mocking praise
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| diatyposis | vivid presentation by means of exciting language
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| dicacity (n~) | oral playfulness; talkativeness (B)
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| dichaeologia | a defense of failure or disgrace
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| dictum de dicto | a secondhand report hearsay (W)
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| didactic | overburdened with moral emphasis therefore dull
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| autodidact | is a self
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| diffugient (adj~) | scattering (B)
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|
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| dilogical (adj~) | ambiguous; having a double meaning (B)
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| dilogy (n~) | equivocal expression
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| dimbox (n~) | an expert at getting others to make up (E)
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| dingbat (n~) | an ornamental piece of type used on a page
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| dioristically (adv~) | in a distinguishing manner (B)
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|
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| diplasiasmus (n~) | the incorrect doubling of a singgle [sic] letter (B)
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|
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| dippoldism (n~) | beating or whipping school children (B)
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| diremption (n~) | a violent or final separation (B)
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|
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| discalced | without shoes; barefoot; unshod (G)
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| disceptation (n~) | controversy or argument
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|
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| discommode | disturb; annoy; put to inconvenience (G)
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|
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| disjecta membra | verbal bits and pieces (W)
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|
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| disquisition | formal discussion discourse
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|
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| dissemble | to pretend to feign
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|
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| dissentaneous (adj~) | disagreeable; negative (B)
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|
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| dithyrambic | any wild frenzied
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|
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| divagate | to wonder or stray; or digress; deviate (G)
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|
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| divarication (n~) | a difference of opinion
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|
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| diversivolent (adj~) | looking for trouble or an argument (B)
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|
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| dixit (n~) | an unconfirmed sometimes dogmatic statement (B)
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|
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| docta ignorantia | learned ignornace (W)
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|
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| dolorifuge (n~) | something that relieves sadness (B)
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|
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| dolus bonus | good deceit: in Roman and civil law
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|
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| diacope (n~) | the separation of a word by the interpolation
🗑
|
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| diallage | concentration of several separate arguments
🗑
|
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| dialogue des sourds | dialogue of the deaf:
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|
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| dialysis | rational disposing of reasons for or against something;
🗑
|
||||
| diaskeuasis (n~) | editorial revision (B)
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|
||||
| diasyrm | arch disparagement as by mocking praise
🗑
|
||||
| diatyposis | vivid presentation by means of exciting language
🗑
|
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| dicacity (n~) | oral playfulness; talkativeness (B)
🗑
|
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| dichaeologia | a defense of failure or disgrace
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|
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| dictum de dicto | a secondhand report hearsay (W)
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|
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| didactic | overburdened with moral emphasis therefore dull
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|
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| autodidact | is a self
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|
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| diffugient (adj~) | scattering (B)
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|
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| dilogical (adj~) | ambiguous; having a double meaning (B)
🗑
|
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| dilogy (n~) | equivocal expression
🗑
|
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| dimbox (n~) | an expert at getting others to make up (E)
🗑
|
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| dingbat (n~) | an ornamental piece of type used on a page
🗑
|
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| 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)
🗑
|
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| 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)
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|
||||
| disquisition | formal discussion discourse
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|
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| dissemble | to pretend to feign
🗑
|
||||
| dissentaneous (adj~) | disagreeable; negative (B)
🗑
|
||||
| dithyrambic | any wild frenzied
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
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| 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)
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|
||||
| dryasdust (n~) | a dull pedantic speaker or writer
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|
||||
| dvandva (n~) | a compound word as bitter
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|
||||
| dysphemism (n~) |
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|
||||
| epiphoric (adj~) | pertaining to a torrent of tears (B)
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|
||||
| epiplexis | asking a question as a form of reproach
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|
||||
| episcopicide (n~) | the killing of a bishop (B)
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| eremitism (n~) | the state of being a hermit or an attitude
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|
||||
| ereption (n~) | the act of snatching away (B)
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|
||||
| erethism (n~) | excessive irritability or excitability (B)
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|
||||
| ergoism (n~) | fussy adherence to logical protocols or forms (W)
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|
||||
| ergotism (n~) | quibbling and wrangling; sophistical reasoning
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|
||||
| erigible (adj~) | capable of being erected (B)
🗑
|
||||
| erinaceous (adj~) | pertaining to the hedgehog (B)
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|
||||
| eristic (adj~) | provoking strife or controversy or discord;
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|
||||
| erotographomania (n~) | mania for writing love letters (B)
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|
||||
| erotology (n~) | the description of methods of lovemaking;
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|
||||
| errabund (n~) | wandering; erratic (B)
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|
||||
| errinophily (n~) | collecting of stamps other than postage stamps
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|
||||
| erythromania (n~) | mania for blushing
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|
||||
| eschrolalia (n~) | dirty (fecal) language (B)
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|
||||
| esemplastic (adj~) | forming disparate parts into a whole; aesthetically unifying (W)
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|
||||
| esprit de l'escalier | wishful thinking of a witty comment
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|
||||
| estivate | to spend the summer (G)
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|
||||
| estrapade (n~) | a horse's attempt to dump its rider (B)
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|
||||
| esurient | hungry (E) greedy; avaricious; covetous (G)
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|
||||
| etat present | an exhaustive summary of up
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|
||||
| ethnophaulism (n~) | an ethnic slur (B W)
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| earwig (v~) | attempt to influence or insinuate oneself through flattery (W)
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|
||||
| ebberman (n~) | one who fishes below bridges (B)
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|
||||
| ebriection (n~) | mental breakdown from too much boozing (B)
🗑
|
||||
| ebrious (adj~) | tending to overimbibe; slightly drunk (B)
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|
||||
| ecclesiolatry (n~) | an all
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|
||||
| ecdemic (adj~) | of foreign origin (B)
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|
||||
| ecdemomania (n~) | compulsive wandering (B)
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|
||||
| ecdysiast (n~) | a stripper (H
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|
||||
| echolalia (n~) | pathological repitition of others' words or remarks (B W)
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|
||||
| echopraxia (n~) | a habit of mimicking people (B)
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| ecphonesis (n~) | exclamation (W)
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|
||||
| edacious (adj~) | eats a lot; voracious (B)
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|
||||
| edea (n~) | the external genitals (B)
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|
||||
| edipol (n~) | a mild oath (B)
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|
||||
| edulcorate (v~) | to sweeten or purify (B)
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|
||||
| eesome (adj~) | pleasing to the eye (B)
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|
||||
| effictio | as a head
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|
||||
| efflation (n~) | an emanation; a puff (B)
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|
||||
| effleurage (n~) | a gentle rubbing with the palm of the hand (B)
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|
||||
| eidetic (adj~) | ability of visualizing something previously seen (B)
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|
||||
| eisegesis (n~) | sneaking in one's own ideas as the author's (B)
🗑
|
||||
| eisteddfod (n~) | an annual assembly of Welsh poets and musicians (B)
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|
||||
| eldritch (adj~) | weird eerie
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|
||||
| eleemosynary (adj~) | pertaining to charity; living on charity (B)
🗑
|
||||
| elenchus (n~) | a refutation of an opponent's conclusion
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|
||||
| eleutheromania (n~) | a mania for freedom (B)
🗑
|
||||
| elucubrate (v~) | to work studiously (B)
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|
||||
| elumbated (adj~) | weak in the loins (B)
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|
||||
| elutriation (n~) | the process of purification by washing andstraining
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|
||||
| embolalia (n~) | the use of virtually meaningless filler words
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|
||||
| embrocation (n~) | lubricating or rubbing the body
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|
||||
| embulalia (n~) | inserting of nonsense into speech
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|
||||
| embusque (n~) | a shirker a slacker (French = in ambush or hiding) (B)
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|
||||
| emenctae naris | of matured judgment; of nice discernment (W
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|
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| ) emmenology (n~) | the study of menstruation (B)
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|
||||
| empleomania (n~) | a mania for holding public office (B)
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|
||||
| empressement (n~) | extreme politeness (B)
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|
||||
| enchiridion (n~) | a manual or handbook (B)
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|
||||
| enchorial (adj~) | native endemic (B)
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|
||||
| en clair | in plain uncoded language
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|
||||
| endiablee (v~) | to put the devil into (B)
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|
||||
| energumen (n~) | a person possessed by an spirit; a fanatic (B)
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|
||||
| engastration (n~) | the stuffing of one bird inside another (B)
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|
||||
| enissophobia (n~) | fear of being reproached (B)
🗑
|
||||
| enneatic (adj~) | occurring once every nine times days
🗑
|
||||
| enosiophobia (n~) | fear of having committed an unpardonablesin (B)
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|
||||
| ensynopticity (n~) | the ability of taking a general view of something (B)
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|
||||
| entheomania (n~) | an abnormal state in which one thinks one is inspired (B)
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|
||||
| enthymeme (n~) | a premise is understood but not stated
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|
||||
| entwicklungsroman (n~) | a novel dealing with the protagonist's development
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|
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| eo ipso | by it itself: by that fact alone (W)
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|
||||
| eonism (n~) | acting and dressing like a woman (B)
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|
||||
| eosophobia (n~) | depression caused by fear of dawn (B)
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|
||||
| eunym (n~) | a name that is suitable or appropriate (W)
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|
||||
| euphelicia (n~) | healthiness having all one's wishes granted (B)
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|
||||
| euphuistic (adj~) | displaying excessive elegance of language;
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|
||||
| eusystolism (n~) | the use of initials instead of full words
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|
||||
| euthymia (n~) | mental tranquility (B)
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
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| evulgate (v~) | to publish; divulge (B)
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|
||||
| ex animo | from the soul: form the heart sincerely (W)
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|
||||
| ex cathedra | pronounced from the seat of authority
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|
||||
| ex concesso | reasoning on the basis of an opponent's premise
🗑
|
||||
| ex nihilo | out of nothing: out of nowhere (W)
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|
||||
| ex parte | in part: view; partisan (W)
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
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| festination (n | ) - walking faster and faster involuntarily (B)
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| feuilletonistic (adj | ) - or newspaper section devoted to literary trivia (B)
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| fewterer (n | ) - a dog-keeper (B)
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| fico (n | ) - giving the finger (B)
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| fideism (n | ) - depending on faith rather than reason (B)
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| fidimplicitary (adj | ) - fully trusting someone (B)
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| filiopietistic (adj | ) - pertaining to ancestor worship (B)
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| fimblefamble (n | ) - excuse particulary a phony one (B)
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| fimetarious (n | ) - growing or living in excrement (B)
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| finicalism (n | ) - an conscious affected undue concern with trifles
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| fissilingual (adj | ) - having a forked tongue (B)
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| flabellation (n | ) - fanning or otherwise cooling someone (B)
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| flagitate (v | ) - to plead (B)
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| flaneur (n | ) - an intellectual trifler (W)
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| flatulopetic (adj | ) - pretentious pompous
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| fleer (v | ) - to laugh lecherously or derisively (B)
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| flexanimous (adj | ) - mentally flexible (B)
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| floccify (v | ) - to consider worthless
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| floccilation (n | ) - searching for imaginary objects (G)
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| floccipaucinihilipilification (n | ) - the action of estimating as worthless trivia (B)
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| focillate (v | ) - to comfort (B)
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| footle (v | ) - to waste time talk nonsense (B)
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| forisfamiliate (v | ) - to disinherit; to shed parental authority (B)
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| formication (n | ) - the feeling that bugs are crawling on you (B)
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| ankylophobia (n | ) - abnormal fear of stiff or immobile joints
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| forslug (v | ) - to lose or destroy by sluggishness (B)
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| fossarian (n | ) - a clergyman moonlighting as a gravedigger (B)
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| foudroyant (adj | ) - striking as lightning; sudden
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| framis (n | ) - comic doubletalk blending actual words with made-up words (W)
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| frampold (adj | ) - peevish touchy
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| franion (n~) | the perennial hedonist reveler (B)
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| fremd (adj~) | alien strange
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| fremescent (adj~) | an incipient murmur; becoming noisy (B)
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| fribble (adj~) | of little value or importance; trifling; paltry (G)
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| fricatrice (n~) | a whore (B)
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| frotteur (n~) | kicks by rubbing against people in crowds (B)
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| froward (adj~) | perverse; willfully contrary; obstinately disobedient;
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| fructuous (adj~) | productive; fruitful; profitable (G)
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| frustraneous (adj~) | vain useless (B)
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| fubsy (adj~) | short and stout (B)
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| fucatory (adj~) | counterfeit; deceitful (B)
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| fugacious (adj~) | fleeting; ephemeral; transitory; evanescent (G)
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| fulgurant (adj~) | shining dazzling
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| fuliginous (adj~) | sooty (B)
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| fulsome (adj~) | excessive or overdone bad taste or even at times nauseating
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| fumacious (adj~) | fond of smoking (B G)
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| fumet (n~) | a flavoring agent for sauces; or deer shit (B)
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| funambulist (n~) | a tightrope walker (B)
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| funest (adj~) | harbinger of evil or death (B)
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| funkify (v~) | to retreat fearfully (B)
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| furacious (adj~) | thievish (B)
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| furibund (adj~) | furious enraged (B)
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| furor loquendi | a passion to speak (W)
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| furor scribendi | a passion to write (W)
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| fussock (n~) | a big fat woman (B)
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| fustian (n~) | pompousness pretentiousness
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| fustigate (v~) | to beat; to criticize severely (B)
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| fustilugs (n~) | a fat unwieldy person (B)
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| gaberlunzie (n~) | a wandering or licensed
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| galactophagist (n~) | a milk drinker (B)
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| deliquesce | melt away; gradually dissolve (G)
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| delirament (n~) | raving; a foolish story (B)
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| delitescent (adj~) | hidden; inactive (B)
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| deltiology (n~) | collecting picture postcards
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| demiurge (n~) | a secondary god who (a) created evil;
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| demophobe (n~) | a people
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| dentiloquist (n~) | one who speaks with clenched teeth (W)
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| deorsumversion (n~) | a turning downward (B)
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|
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| deosculate (v~) | to kiss affectionately (B)
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|
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| depeculation (n~) | an embezzling of public funds (B)
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|
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| dephlogisticate (v~) | to make fireproof (B)
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|
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| deracinate | extirpate; eradicate; abolish completely (G)
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| derism (n~) | an expression of scorn or contempt (W)
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|
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| descant (n~) | a commenting or discussing at length
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|
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| desiderata (n~) | list of books sought by a collector or library
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|
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| desidious (adj~) | slothful (B)
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|
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| desipient (adj~) | foolish silly (B)
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|
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| despumate (v~) | to skim; to take the scum off (B)
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|
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| desquamate (v~) | to peel off (B)
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|
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| desuetude (n~) | disuse (B)
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|
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| devenustate (v~) | to deprive of beauty (B)
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|
||||
| devil's mass | indiscriminate cursing (W)
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|
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| diacope (n~) | the separation of a word by the interpolation
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|
||||
| diallage | concentration of several separate arguments
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|
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| dialogue des sourds | dialogue of the deaf:
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|
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| dialysis | rational disposing of reasons for or against something;
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|
||||
| diaskeuasis (n~) | editorial revision (B)
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|
||||
| diasyrm | arch disparagement as by mocking praise
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|
||||
| diatyposis | vivid presentation by means of exciting language
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|
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| dicacity (n~) | oral playfulness; talkativeness (B)
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|
||||
| dichaeologia | a defense of failure or disgrace
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|
||||
| dictum de dicto | a secondhand report hearsay (W)
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|
||||
| didactic | overburdened with moral emphasis therefore dull
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|
||||
| autodidact | is a self
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|
||||
| diffugient (adj~) | scattering (B)
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|
||||
| dilogical (adj~) | ambiguous; having a double meaning (B)
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|
||||
| dilogy (n~) | equivocal expression
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|
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| dimbox (n~) | an expert at getting others to make up (E)
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|
||||
| dingbat (n~) | an ornamental piece of type used on a page
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|
||||
| dioristically (adv~) | in a distinguishing manner (B)
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|
||||
| diplasiasmus (n~) | the incorrect doubling of a singgle [sic] letter (B)
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|
||||
| dippoldism (n~) | beating or whipping school children (B)
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|
||||
| diremption (n~) | a violent or final separation (B)
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|
||||
| discalced | without shoes; barefoot; unshod (G)
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|
||||
| disceptation (n~) | controversy or argument
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|
||||
| discommode | disturb; annoy; put to inconvenience (G)
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|
||||
| disjecta membra | verbal bits and pieces (W)
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|
||||
| disquisition | formal discussion discourse
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|
||||
| dissemble | to pretend to feign
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|
||||
| dissentaneous (adj~) | disagreeable; negative (B)
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|
||||
| dithyrambic | any wild frenzied
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|
||||
| divagate | to wonder or stray; or digress; deviate (G)
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|
||||
| divarication (n~) | a difference of opinion
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|
||||
| diversivolent (adj~) | looking for trouble or an argument (B)
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|
||||
| dixit (n~) | an unconfirmed sometimes dogmatic statement (B)
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| dictum de dicto | a secondhand report hearsay (W)
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| dryasdust (n~) | a dull pedantic speaker or writer
🗑
|
||||
| dvandva (n~) | a compound word as bitter
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|
||||
| dysphemism (n~) |
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|
||||
| epiphoric (adj~) | pertaining to a torrent of tears (B)
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|
||||
| epiplexis | asking a question as a form of reproach
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| eremitism (n~) | the state of being a hermit or an attitude
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|
||||
| ereption (n~) | the act of snatching away (B)
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|
||||
| 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;
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|
||||
| erotographomania (n~) | mania for writing love letters (B)
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|
||||
| erotology (n~) | the description of methods of lovemaking;
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|
||||
| errabund (n~) | wandering; erratic (B)
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|
||||
| errinophily (n~) | collecting of stamps other than postage stamps
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|
||||
| erythromania (n~) | mania for blushing
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|
||||
| eschrolalia (n~) | dirty (fecal) language (B)
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|
||||
| esemplastic (adj~) | forming disparate parts into a whole; aesthetically unifying (W)
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|
||||
| esprit de l'escalier | wishful thinking of a witty comment
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|
||||
| estivate | to spend the summer (G)
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|
||||
| estrapade (n~) | a horse's attempt to dump its rider (B)
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|
||||
| esurient | hungry (E) greedy; avaricious; covetous (G)
🗑
|
||||
| etat present | an exhaustive summary of up
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|
||||
| ethnophaulism (n~) | an ethnic slur (B W)
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| ecdemic (adj~) | of foreign origin (B)
🗑
|
||||
| ecdemomania (n~) | compulsive wandering (B)
🗑
|
||||
| ecdysiast (n~) | a stripper (H
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|
||||
| echolalia (n~) | pathological repitition of others' words or remarks (B W)
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| edacious (adj~) | eats a lot; voracious (B)
🗑
|
||||
| edea (n~) | the external genitals (B)
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|
||||
| edipol (n~) | a mild oath (B)
🗑
|
||||
| edulcorate (v~) | to sweeten or purify (B)
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|
||||
| eesome (adj~) | pleasing to the eye (B)
🗑
|
||||
| effictio | as a head
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|
||||
| efflation (n~) | an emanation; a puff (B)
🗑
|
||||
| effleurage (n~) | a gentle rubbing with the palm of the hand (B)
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| eldritch (adj~) | weird eerie
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| embrocation (n~) | lubricating or rubbing the body
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| empleomania (n~) | a mania for holding public office (B)
🗑
|
||||
| empressement (n~) | extreme politeness (B)
🗑
|
||||
| enchiridion (n~) | a manual or handbook (B)
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|
||||
| enchorial (adj~) | native endemic (B)
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|
||||
| en clair | in plain uncoded language
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|
||||
| endiablee (v~) | to put the devil into (B)
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| energumen (n~) | a person possessed by an spirit; a fanatic (B)
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| engastration (n~) | the stuffing of one bird inside another (B)
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| enissophobia (n~) | fear of being reproached (B)
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| enneatic (adj~) | occurring once every nine times days
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| enosiophobia (n~) | fear of having committed an unpardonablesin (B)
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| ensynopticity (n~) | the ability of taking a general view of something (B)
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| entheomania (n~) | an abnormal state in which one thinks one is inspired (B)
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| enthymeme (n~) | a premise is understood but not stated
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| entwicklungsroman (n~) | a novel dealing with the protagonist's development
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| eo ipso | by it itself: by that fact alone (W)
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| eonism (n~) | acting and dressing like a woman (B)
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| eosophobia (n~) | depression caused by fear of dawn (B)
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| eunym (n~) | a name that is suitable or appropriate (W)
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| euphelicia (n~) | healthiness having all one's wishes granted (B)
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| euphuistic (adj~) | displaying excessive elegance of language;
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| eusystolism (n~) | the use of initials instead of full words
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| euthymia (n~) | mental tranquility (B)
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| evagation (n~) | mental wandering; digression (B)
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| evancalous (adj~) | pleasant to embrace (Greek) (B)
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| eventerate (v~) | to rip open; to open by ripping the belly (B)
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| evulgate (v~) | to publish; divulge (B)
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| ex animo | from the soul: form the heart sincerely (W)
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| ex cathedra | pronounced from the seat of authority
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| ex concesso | reasoning on the basis of an opponent's premise
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| ex nihilo | out of nothing: out of nowhere (W)
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| ex parte | in part: view; partisan (W)
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| ex professo | expressly or avowedly (W)
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| ex silentio | basing an argument on the lack or absence of evidence
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| exaugurate (v~) | to secularize; to desecrate (B)
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| excerebrose (adj~) | having no brains (B)
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| excrescent (adj~) | constituting an excess; superfluous; supernumerary (G)
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| execration (n~) | contemptuous denunciation; express loathing;
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| exegesis (n~) | explanatory comment esp
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| exemplum (n~) | a brief tale or anecdote
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| exenterate (v~) | to literally or figuratively disembowel (B)
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| exergasia | repeating a point by using different figures of speech
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| exoculate (v~) | to put out the eye of (B)
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| exoptable (adj~) | extremely desirable (B)
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| exosculate (v~) | the kiss esp
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| expatiate (v~) | to discourse at length or in detail; hold forth (W)
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| expeditio | quickly rejecting or passing over minor points
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| expergefaction (n~) | an awakening (B)
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| expiscate (v~) | to examine or discover skillfully (B)
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| explaterate (v~) | to talk a lot (B)
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| expostulate (v~) | to reason earnestly in order to demur
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| exsibilate (v~) | to reject with a hissing sound (B)
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| extradictionary (adj~) | consisting not in words but in deeds (B)
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| eyeservice (n~) | work done only when the boss is watching (B)
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| facinorous (adj~) | extremely wicked; depraved; infamous (B G)
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| facon de parler | way of speaking: manner of expression (W)
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| facundity (n~) | eloquence (B)
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| fadaise (n~) | an obvious or silly remark (W)
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| faineant (adj~) | lazy indolent (B)
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| famicide (n~) | a slanderer; a destroyer of one's reputation (B)
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| famulus (n~) | the servant of a medieval scholar or magician (B)
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| fanfaronade (n~) | bravado; braggadocio (B W)
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| farctate (adj~) | full; crammed; plethoric (G)
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| farrago (n~) | a mixture of diverse objects hodgepodge
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| fastuous (adj~) | arrogant stuck
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| fatidic | foretelling the future; prophetic; divinatory (G)
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| fatiferous (adj~) | destructive; deadly (B)
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| faux naif | falsely simple or naive; feigning artlessness (W)
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| favonian (adj~) | like the west wind; mild (B)
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| feazings (n~) | an unraveled rope end (B)
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| februation (n~) | exorcism; religious purification (B)
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| fedifragous (adj~) | treacherous deceitful (B)
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| fefnicute (n~) | hypocrite; sneak (B)
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| felicific (adj~) | producing happiness (B)
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| fellness (n~) | destructive cruelty (B)
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| feneration (n~) | usury (B)
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| fenks (n~) | leftover whale blubber used as manure (B)
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| feracious | productive of good results; fruitful (G)
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| feriation (n | ) - taking a holiday; not working (B)
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| fescennine (adj | ) - obscene; lewd; licentious; scurrilous (B G)
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| festination (n | ) - walking faster and faster involuntarily (B)
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| feuilletonistic (adj | ) - or newspaper section devoted to literary trivia (B)
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| fewterer (n | ) - a dog-keeper (B)
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| fico (n | ) - giving the finger (B)
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| fideism (n | ) - depending on faith rather than reason (B)
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| fidimplicitary (adj | ) - fully trusting someone (B)
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| filiopietistic (adj | ) - pertaining to ancestor worship (B)
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| fimblefamble (n | ) - excuse particulary a phony one (B)
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| fimetarious (n | ) - growing or living in excrement (B)
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| finicalism (n | ) - an conscious affected undue concern with trifles
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| fissilingual (adj | ) - having a forked tongue (B)
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| flabellation (n | ) - fanning or otherwise cooling someone (B)
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| flagitate (v | ) - to plead (B)
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| flaneur (n | ) - an intellectual trifler (W)
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| flatulopetic (adj | ) - pretentious pompous
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| fleer (v | ) - to laugh lecherously or derisively (B)
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| flexanimous (adj | ) - mentally flexible (B)
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| floccify (v | ) - to consider worthless
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| floccilation (n | ) - searching for imaginary objects (G)
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| floccipaucinihilipilification (n | ) - the action of estimating as worthless trivia (B)
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| focillate (v | ) - to comfort (B)
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| footle (v | ) - to waste time talk nonsense (B)
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| forisfamiliate (v | ) - to disinherit; to shed parental authority (B)
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| formication (n | ) - the feeling that bugs are crawling on you (B)
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| ankylophobia (n | ) - abnormal fear of stiff or immobile joints
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| forslug (v | ) - to lose or destroy by sluggishness (B)
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| fossarian (n | ) - a clergyman moonlighting as a gravedigger (B)
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| foudroyant (adj | ) - striking as lightning; sudden
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| framis (n | ) - comic doubletalk blending actual words with made-up words (W)
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| frampold (adj | ) - peevish touchy
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| franion (n~) | the perennial hedonist reveler (B)
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| fremd (adj~) | alien strange
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| fremescent (adj~) | an incipient murmur; becoming noisy (B)
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| fribble (adj~) | of little value or importance; trifling; paltry (G)
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| fricatrice (n~) | a whore (B)
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|
||||
| frotteur (n~) | kicks by rubbing against people in crowds (B)
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|
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| froward (adj~) | perverse; willfully contrary; obstinately disobedient;
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| fructuous (adj~) | productive; fruitful; profitable (G)
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| frustraneous (adj~) | vain useless (B)
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| fubsy (adj~) | short and stout (B)
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| fucatory (adj~) | counterfeit; deceitful (B)
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| fugacious (adj~) | fleeting; ephemeral; transitory; evanescent (G)
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|
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| fulgurant (adj~) | shining dazzling
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| fuliginous (adj~) | sooty (B)
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| fulsome (adj~) | excessive or overdone bad taste or even at times nauseating
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|
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| fumacious (adj~) | fond of smoking (B G)
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| fumet (n~) | a flavoring agent for sauces; or deer shit (B)
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|
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| funambulist (n~) | a tightrope walker (B)
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| funest (adj~) | harbinger of evil or death (B)
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|
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| funkify (v~) | to retreat fearfully (B)
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|
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| furacious (adj~) | thievish (B)
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|
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| furibund (adj~) | furious enraged (B)
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|
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| furor loquendi | a passion to speak (W)
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|
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| furor scribendi | a passion to write (W)
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| fussock (n~) | a big fat woman (B)
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| fustian (n~) | pompousness pretentiousness
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|
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| fustigate (v~) | to beat; to criticize severely (B)
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| fustilugs (n~) | a fat unwieldy person (B)
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| gaberlunzie (n~) | a wandering or licensed
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| galactophagist (n~) | a milk drinker (B)
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|
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| galeanthropy (n~) | the delusion that one has become a cat (B)
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|
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| galericulate (adj~) | covered with a hat (B)
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|
||||
| galimatias (n~) | gibberish; confused meaningless jargon (B)
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| galliardise (n~) | great merriment (B)
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|
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| gallinaceous (adj~) | like a chicken or pheasant (B)
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|
||||
| gallionic (adj~) | indifferent; careless; irresponsible (B)
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|
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| galumph (v~) | to move or march along heavily or clumsily
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|
||||
| galumptious (adj~) | tiptop; first-rate; superlatively good (G)
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|
||||
| gambrinous (adj~) | full of beer (B)
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|
||||
| gamophobia (n~) | fear of marriage (B)
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|
||||
| ganch (v~) | to execute by impaling on stakes or hooks (B)
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|
||||
| gapeseed (n~) | anything that causes stares; or someone who sares (B)
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|
||||
| garboil (n~) | confusion (B)
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|
||||
| gardyloo (n~) | a warning cry given before tossing slopes
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|
||||
| gasconade (n~) | boasting; bravado (B)
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|
||||
| gawkocracy (n~) | persons who watch television (G)
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|
||||
| gawsie (adj~) | large and jolly; lusty (B)
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|
||||
| gazophylacium (n~) | a treasury (B)
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|
||||
| geck (n~) | an object of scorn; a dupe (B)
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|
||||
| geflugelte Worte | winged words: eloquent language; expressions
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|
||||
| gelastic (adj~) | pertaining to or used in laughing (B)
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|
||||
| gelogenic (adj~) | laughter-provoking (B)
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|
||||
| geloscopy (n~) | determining someone's character or future by the way they laugh (B)
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|
||||
| gemebund (adj~) | a constant moaning (B)
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|
||||
| gemutlichkeit (n~) | agreeable agreeableness; congeniality
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|
||||
| genethliacon (n~) | a birthday poem (B)
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|
||||
| genicon (n~) | a sexual partner imagined
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|
||||
| gephyrophobia (n~) | fear of crossing bridges (B)
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|
||||
| gerascophobia (n~) | fear of growing old (B)
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|
||||
| geromorphism (n~) | condition of appearing older than one is (B)
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|
||||
| ghoom (v~) | to hunt in the dark (Anglo-Indian) (B)
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|
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| giddhom (n~) | a frantic galloping movement made by cows
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|
||||
| gigmanism (n~) | the habit of narrowmindedness or philistinism
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|
||||
| gilravage (v~) | to celebrate noisily; to go on a rampage (B)
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|
||||
| girning (v~) | act or process of contorting one's face; snarling (G)
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|
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| girouettism (n~) | frequently altering one's opinions or principles
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|
||||
| glabrous (adj~) | free from hair or down; hairless; bald (G)
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|
||||
| glossolalia (n~) | nonsensical talk; gibberish (B)
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|
||||
| gnathonic (adj~) | falsely flattering; fawning; sycophantic; parasitic (G)
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|
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| gnomic (adj~) | full of aphorisms or maxims; or wise and pithy (G)
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|
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| gobemouche (n~) | a gullible person (B)
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|
||||
| godemiche (n~) | a dildo (B)
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|
||||
| gongoozler (n~) | an inquisitive idler who stares and gawks
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|
||||
| grammaticaster (n~) | a petty grammarian;
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| grammatolatry (n~) | worship of letters or words (B)
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|
||||
| grandgousier (n~) | a glutton; someone with an enormous gullet
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|
||||
| grandiloquence (n~) | lofty extravagantly styled language (B)
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|
||||
| grandisonant (adj~) | stately sounding (B)
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|
||||
| grangerism (n~) | augmenting the illustrative material in a book
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|
||||
| grapholagnia (n~) | a more than passing interest in obscene pictures (B)
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|
||||
| graphospasm (n~) | a writer's cramp (B)
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|
||||
| grassation (n~) | act of attacking violently; a lying in wait to attack (B)
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|
||||
| gratis dictum | an unsolicited or voluntary remark; mere assertion (B)
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|
||||
| gratulant (adj~) | expressing joy or satisfaction; congratulatory (G)
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|
||||
| graveolent (adj~) | having a rank smell; fetid; stinking (G)
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|
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| gravific (adj~) | that which makes heavy or produces weight (G)
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|
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| gregarian (adj~) | belonging to the herd or common sort (G)
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|
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| grinagog (n~) | a perpetual grinner (B)
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|
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| grivoiserie (n~) | lewd and lascivious behavior; a lewd act (B)
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|
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| groak (v~) | to watch people silently while they're eating hoping to join
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|
||||
| grobianism (n~) | rudeness; boorishness (B)
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|
||||
| growtnoul (n~) | a blockhead (A)
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|
||||
| grundyism (n~) | censorship of personal conduct based upon conventionalism
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|
||||
| gugusse (n~) | a young effeminate man who trysts with priests (B)
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|
||||
| gulosity (n~) | enormous appetite; greediness (B)
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|
||||
| gyascutus (n~) | a huge imaginary
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|
||||
| hesternopothia (n~) | a pathologic yearning for the good old days (B)
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|
||||
| hesychastic (adj~) | soothing calming
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|
||||
| hetaerism (n~) | extra
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|
||||
| heterochthonous (adj~) | foreign (B)
🗑
|
||||
| heterophemy (n~) | Freudian slipsism (B)
🗑
|
||||
| heterotelic (adj~) | existing for an outside or extraneous purpose (B)
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|
||||
| hierofastidia (n~) | dislike of holy things (B)
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|
||||
| hieromachy (n~) | a fight between men or owmen of the cloth (B)
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|
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| hindermate (n~) | a mate who is a hindrance (B)
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|
||||
| hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian (adj~) | pertaining to a long word (B)
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|
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| hircismus (n~) | stinky armpits (B)
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|
||||
| hirsutorufous (adj~) | red
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|
||||
| hobberdehoy (n~) | a youth entering manhood (B)
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|
||||
| holmgang (n~) | a duel fought on an island (B)
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|
||||
| holophrasis (n~) | a whole phrase or idea expressed in one word (B)
🗑
|
||||
| honorificabilitudinitatibus (n~) | with honorablenesses
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|
||||
| horapthia (n~) | a neurotic preoccupation with one's youth (B)
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| hoydenism (n~) | ill
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|
||||
| hubristic (adj~) | insolent; contemptuous; wantonly arrogant (G)
🗑
|
||||
| humicubation (n~) | lying on the ground in penitence (B)
🗑
|
||||
| hunkerousness (n~) | opposition to progress; old
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|
||||
| hygeioloatry (n~) | health fanaticism (B)
🗑
|
||||
| hypengyophobia (n~) | fear of responsibility (B)
🗑
|
||||
| hyperhedonia (n~) | abnormal pleasure from doing ho
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|
||||
| hypnagogic | inducing sleep (G)
🗑
|
||||
| hypnopompic | dispelling sleep; waking (G)
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|
||||
| hypobulia (n~) | difficulty in making decisions (B)
🗑
|
||||
| hypophobia (n~) | lack of fear (B)
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|
||||
| iatromisia (n~) | dislike of doctors (B)
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|
||||
| ichnogram (n~) | a footprint (B)
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|
||||
| 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)
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| hypnopompic | dispelling sleep; waking (G)
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| hypobulia (n~) | difficulty in making decisions (B)
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| hypophobia (n~) | lack of fear (B)
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| iatromisia (n~) | dislike of doctors (B)
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| ichnogram (n~) | a footprint (B)
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| ichthyomancy (n~) | fortunetelling with fish offal
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| iconolagny (n~) | sexual stimulation from pictures or statues (B)
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| idee fixe | a fixed
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| illaqueate (v | ) - to catch or trap (B)
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| illeism (n | ) - affected or excessive use of the third-person pronoun
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| illicitator (n | ) - an auctioneer's shill (B)
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| illocutionary (adj | ) - such as a question implying dissatisfaction (W)
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| illutation (n | ) - a mud bath (B)
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| imbonity (n | ) - lack of good qualities (B)
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| immarcescible (adj | ) - indestructible (B)
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| immerd (v | ) - to cover with excrement (B)
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| immorigerous (adj | ) - rude boorish (B)
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| immund (adj | ) - unclean; foul; filthy (G)
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| impanation (n | ) - cannibalistic doctrine of baking christ
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| idiolalia (n | ) - mental state characterized by use of invented language (B)
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| ideopraxist (n | ) - one who puts ideas into practice (B)
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| idioticon (n | ) - a dialect dictionary (B)
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| idoneous (adj | ) - apt; suitable (B)
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| ignavia (n | ) - idleness; laziness (B)
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| ignoscency (n | ) - forgiveness; a forgiving nature (B)
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| illachrymable (adj | ) - unable to cry (
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| illaqueate (v | ) - to catch or trap (B)
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| illeism (n | ) - affected or excessive use of the third-person pronoun
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| illicitator (n | ) - an auctioneer's shill (B)
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| illocutionary (adj | ) - such as a question implying dissatisfaction (W)
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| illutation (n | ) - a mud bath (B)
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| imbonity (n | ) - lack of good qualities (B)
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| immarcescible (adj | ) - indestructible (B)
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| immerd (v | ) - to cover with excrement (B)
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| immorigerous (adj | ) - rude boorish (B)
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| immund (adj | ) - unclean; foul; filthy (G)
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| impanation (n | ) - cannibalistic doctrine of baking christ
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| idiolalia (n | ) - mental state characterized by use of invented language (B)
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| ideopraxist (n | ) - one who puts ideas into practice (B)
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| idioticon (n | ) - a dialect dictionary (B)
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| idoneous (adj | ) - apt; suitable (B)
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| ignavia (n | ) - idleness; laziness (B)
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| ignoscency (n | ) - forgiveness; a forgiving nature (B)
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| illachrymable (adj | ) - unable to cry (
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| impavid (adj~) | not afraid; fearless; undaunted (G)
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| impeccant (adj~) | sinless (B)
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| imperdible (adj~) | incapable of being lost (B)
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| imperscriptible (adj~) | not supported or backed by written authority (British) (W)
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| impinguate (v~) | to fatten (B)
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| improcreant (adj~) | impotent (B)
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| improlificate (v~) | to impregnate (B)
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| impudicity (n~) | lack of shame or modesty
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| in extenso | at full length (W)
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| in invidiam | in ill
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| in malam partem | in bad part: in a bad sense (W)
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| in media res | in the middle of the thing
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| inaniloquent (adj~) | loquacious windy
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| inconcinnity (n~) | unsuitableness; ineptitude (B)
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| incondite (adj~) | crude unfinished (B)
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| incrassate (v~) | to make or become thick or thicker; to thicken; inspissate (G)
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| increpation (n~) | criticism censure (B)
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| incruental (adj~) | bloodless (B)
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| inculpate (v~) | to blame accuse
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| incunabula (n~) | extant books printed before 1500 A
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| indictum sit | let it be unsaid (W)
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| indurated (adj~) | obstinate hardened
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| ineffable (adj~) | unable to be spoken
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| ineluctable (adj~) | inevitable; irresistable (B)
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| inenerrable (adj~) | indescribable (B)
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| inexpugnable (adj~) | that cannot be taken by assault or storm;
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| inexsuperable (adj~) | insurmountable impassable (B)
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| infandous (adj~) | too horrible to mention unspeakably awful (B)
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| infibulation (n~) | sewing up the vulva
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| inficete (adj~) | dull unfunny
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| infracaninophile (n~) | champion of the underdog (B)
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| infralapsarianism (n~) | the doctrine that God foresaw and
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| infucation (n~) | putting on make
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| ingannation (n~) | deception; fraud (B)
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|
||||
| ingeminate (v~) | repeat; reiterate; to emphasize by repetition (G)
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|
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| ingluvious (adj~) | gluttonous (B)
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|
||||
| ingravidate (v~) | to impregnate (B)
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|
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| ingustable (adj~) | tasteless (B)
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|
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| innascible (adj~) | without a beginning (B)
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|
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| inquinate (v~) | to corrupt (B)
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|
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| insalubrious (adj~) | unhealthy deleterious (B)
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|
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| insapory (adj~) | tasteless (B)
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|
||||
| inspissated (adj~) | thickened heavy
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|
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| insuetude (n~) | state of disuse (B)
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|
||||
| insulse (adj~) | tasteless flat
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|
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| insusurration (n~) | whispering in the ear; insinuation (B)
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|
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| intempestive (adj~) |
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| inter alia | among other things (W)
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|
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| intercalation (n~) | an insertion or interposing
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|
||||
| interdigitate (v~) | to interlace the fingers (B)
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|
||||
| intergern (v~) | to snarl back (B)
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|
||||
| internecion (n~) | mutual destruction (B)
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|
||||
| interpellation (n~) | a formal questioning or challenging
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|
||||
| intersilient (adj~) | suddenly emerging in the midst of something (B)
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|
||||
| intussusception (n~) | a taking within (B)
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|
||||
| inusitate (adj~) | obsolete (B)
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|
||||
| invidious (adj~) | likely to cause ill will envy
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|
||||
| invita Minerva | without any natural talent or inspiration (W)
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|
||||
| invultuation (n~) | wishing death or injury on by melting a wax image
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|
||||
| ipse dixit | an unsupported assertion or a presumption bearing no evidence
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|
||||
| ipsedixitism (n~) | dogmatism (B)
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|
||||
| ipsism (n~) | masturbation (B)
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|
||||
| ipsissima verba | the very words (W)
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|
||||
| iracund (adj~) | easily provoked quick
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|
||||
| irrefragable (adj~) | undeniable; indisputable; that cannot be refuted (G)
🗑
|
||||
| irrefrangible (adj~) | that cannot or should not be broken; inviolable (G)
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|
||||
| irreptitious (adj~) | creeping stealthily (B)
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|
||||
| irrumation (n~) | fellatio (B)
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|
||||
| isagogic (adj~) | introductory (G)
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|
||||
| jacquerie (n~) | a revolt of peasants against the social classes
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|
||||
| jactancy (n~) | boasting bragging (B)
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|
||||
| jactitation (n~) | loud or public bragging; or excessive twitching
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|
||||
| jaculative (adj~) | darting sporadic (B)
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|
||||
| janissaries (n~) | any loyal submissive follower or supporter
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|
||||
| jape (v~) | to jest; jibe; play tricks (G)
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|
||||
| jejunator (n~) | one who fasts (B)
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|
||||
| jentacular (adj~) | pertaining to breakfast (B)
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|
||||
| jiggery | pokert (n
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|
||||
| jobation (n~) | tedious criticism (B)
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|
||||
| jobbernowl (n~) | a blockhead (B)
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|
||||
| jocoserious (adj~) | a combination of funny and serious (B)
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|
||||
| jugulate (v~) | to check or suppress by extreme measures;
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|
||||
| jumentous (adj~) | having a strong animal smell (B)
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|
||||
| junkettaceous (adj~) | frivolous worthless (B)
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|
||||
| jus et norma loquendi | the law and rule of speaking: common usage (W)
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|
||||
| kakistocracy (n~) | government by the worst citizens (B)
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|
||||
| kakorrhaphiophobia (n~) | fear of failure (B)
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|
||||
| kalokagathia (n~) | a combination of the good and the beautiful in a person (B)
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|
||||
| kalon (n~) | the kind of beauty that is more than skin deep (B)
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|
||||
| kalopsia (n~) | condition where things appear more beautiful than they really are (B)
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|
||||
| kaput (adj~) | broken wrecked
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|
||||
| karimption (n~) | a crowd; a mass (B)
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|
||||
| kashruth (n~) | the state of being kosher (B)
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|
||||
| katabasis (n~) | a going down; descent; or a retreat especially a military retreat (G)
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|
||||
| kathenotheism (n~) | polytheism with a head god (B)
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|
||||
| katowse (n~) | a ruckus tumult
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|
||||
| kauderwelsch (n~) | jargon; gibberish (German) (W)
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|
||||
| kedogenous (adj~) | produced by worry (B)
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|
||||
| kef (n~) | drug
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|
||||
| kenophobia (n~) | fear of empty or open spaces (B)
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|
||||
| keraunophobia (n~) | fear of thunder and lightning (B)
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|
||||
| keraunoscopia (n~) | fortunetelling by thunder (B)
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|
||||
| kerdomeletia (n~) | excessive attention to material wealth (B)
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|
||||
| kerlerap (v~) | to cavort; to play (B)
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|
||||
| kerygma (n~) | Christian preaching (B)
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|
||||
| kippage (n~) | commotion confusion
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|
||||
| kitthoge (adj~ & n~) | left
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|
||||
| kneippism (n~) | treatment of disease by walking barefoot on wet grass
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|
||||
| knipperdolling (n~) | fanatic and polygamist; or any fanatic (B)
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|
||||
| knissomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by incense
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|
||||
| kombinationsfahigkeit (n~) | the way a medium picks up clues:
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|
||||
| kompology (n~) | braggadocio (B)
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|
||||
| kopophobia (n~) | fear of physical or mental exhaustion (B)
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|
||||
| kosmokrator (n~) | the ruler of the world (B)
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|
||||
| kreatophagia (n~) | the eating of raw meat (B)
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|
||||
| kwistgoed (n~) | a spendthrift (B)
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|
||||
| kymatology (n~) | the science of waves (B)
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|
||||
| labefy (v~) | to weaken (B)
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|
||||
| labeorphily (n~) | collecting beer bottle labels
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|
||||
| labile (adj~) | prone to change; unstable (G)
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|
||||
| laciniate (adj~) | fringed (B)
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|
||||
| laclabphily (n~) | the collecting of cheese labels
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|
||||
| lactivorous (adj~) | living on milk (B)
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|
||||
| lagnosis (n~) | satyriasis (B)
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|
||||
| lagotic (adj~) | having rabbitlike ears (B)
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|
||||
| lallation (n~) | pronunciation of "R" so that it sound like "L"; or baby talk or infantile utterance)
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|
||||
| lallophobia (n~) | fear of speaking (B)
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|
||||
| lalochezia (n~) | filthy talk to relieve tension (W)
🗑
|
||||
| lampadomancy (n~) | fortunetelling with the flame of a torch (B)
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|
||||
| lamprophony (n~) | shining ringing oratory (W)
🗑
|
||||
| languescent (adj~) | becoming tired (B)
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|
||||
| laodiceanism (n~) | being indifferent in politics or religion
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|
||||
| lapsus calami | a slip of the pen; lapsus pennae (W)
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|
||||
| lapsus comicus | term for an amusingly truistic or tautological statement
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|
||||
| lapsus linguae | a slip of the tongue; lapsus loquendi (W)
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|
||||
| larrikinism (n~) | state of being noisy rowdy or disorderly
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|
||||
| lassipedes (n~) | tired feet (B)
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|
||||
| lasslorn (adj~) | stood up by one's lady (B)
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|
||||
| latitidinarian (n~) | characterized by liberality in opinion or in action; tolerant in one's views (G)
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|
||||
| latrant (adj~) | snarling complaining (B)
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|
||||
| lecanomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by looking at water in a basin (B)
🗑
|
||||
| lecheur (n~) | a devotee of oral intercourse; a licker (B)
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| locus classicus | a place of the highest class:
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|
||||
| locus communis | a public place: cliche expression (W)
🗑
|
||||
| loganamnosis (n~) | a mania to recall forgotten words (W)
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| longueur (n~) | a long and tedious section of a book play
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|
||||
| loquaciousness (n~) | extreme talkativenss; garrulousness (W)
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|
||||
| lovertine (adj~) | addicted to love
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| mala fide | in bad faith: falsely deceitfully
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| malacissation (n~) | the process of making something soft and pliable (B)
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| malacodermous (adj~) | soft
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| malapert (n~) | impudent outspoken
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| maliferous (adj~) | producing evil; unhealthy as a climate (B)
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| malism (n~) | the theory that the world is mostly bad (B)
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| malneirophrenia (n~) | depress following a nightmare (B)
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| malnoia (n~) | a vague feeling of mental discomfort (B)
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| mammothrept (n~) | a spoiled child (B)
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| mancinism (n~) | left
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| mangonize (v~) | to traffic in slaves (B)
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| mania | a
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| maniaphobia (n~) | fear of insanity (B)
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| manipulandum (n~) | something that is to be manipulated (B)
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| mansuetude (n~) | tameness gentleness
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| mantology (n~) | fortunetelling; a fortuneteller (B)
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| manubiary (ad~) | relating to the spoils of war (B)
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| manumission (n~) | formal liberation of a slave (B)
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| manustupration (n~) | masturbation (B)
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| maquillage (n~) | make
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| marasmic (adj~) | of the gradual loss of flesh and strength; of a wasting of the body (G)
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| marcescent (adj~) | withered decayed
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| margaritaceous (adj~) | pearly (B)
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| maritodespotism (n~) | ruthless domination by a husband (B)
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| marlish (adj~) | easygoing (B)
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| marlock (v~) | to cavort frolic (B)
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| maschalephidrosis (n~) | massive sweating of the armpits (B)
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| mastigophobia (n~) | fear of punishment (B)
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| mastigophoric (adj~) | whip
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| mataeology (n~) | useless of pointless discourse; worthless conversation (W)
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| mataeotechny (n~) | an unprofitable science or art (B)
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| matripotestal (adj~) | pertaining to maternal control (B)
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| mattoid (n~) | a congenitally insane person (B)
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| matutolagnia (n~) | antemerdian sexual desire (B)
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| matutolypea (n~) | getting up on the wrong side of the bed (B)
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| maumetry (n~) | idolatry (B)
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| mauvaise plaisanterie | an inappropriate or badly timed joke (W)
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| mawkish (adj~) | characterized by sickly weak sentimentality (G)
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| mazomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by a nursing baby (B)
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| mazophilous (adj~) | pertaining to mammary mania (B)
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| meable (adj~) | capable of being easily penetrated (B)
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| meacock (n~) | an effeminate or cowardly man (B)
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| meadophily (n~) | study of beer bottle labels
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|
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| mechanomorphism (n~) | the doctrine that the universe is fully explicable in mechanistic terms
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|
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| meconology (n~) | the study of opium and its effects (B)
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|
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| meconophagism (n~) | opium addiction (B)
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| medicaster (n~) | a medical quack (B)
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|
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| megacephalous (adj~) | having a large head (B)
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| megalonisus (n~) | a tendency to exaggerate (B)
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| megalophobia (n~) | fear of large things (B)
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| megalopsychy (n~) | generosity of spirit or magnanamity
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|
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| meiosis (n~) | rhetorical understatement
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| melioration (n~) | an elevation or bettering
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| melliloquence (n~) | euphonious speech; sweet talk (W)
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| melissophobia (n~) | fear of bees (B)
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| melomaniac (n~) | a music lover (B)
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|
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| mempsis | an impassioned but somewhat caustic supplication
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|
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| menacme (n~) | the menstruating part of a woman's life (B)
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|
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| mendaciloquence (n~) | lying as a fine art; adroit prevarication (W)
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| menticide (n~) | brainwashing (B)
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| mentimutation (n~) | change of mind (B)
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|
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| mentulate (adj~) | well hung (B)
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| mephitic | bad
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|
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| meracious (adj~) | unadulterated full
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|
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| meraculous (adj~) | demi
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| merdivorous (adj~) | eating dung (B)
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|
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| merism (n~) | a pairing of contrasted terms to express a totality synecdoche
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|
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| merkin (n~) | female genitalia; or false pubic hair (B)
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|
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| merulator (n~) | a wine
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|
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| metagnostic (adj~) | unknowable (B)
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|
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| metagrobolize (v~) | the mystify (B)
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| metallege (n~) | spoonerism (B)
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|
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| metempsychosis (n~) | alleged transmigration of souls (B)
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|
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| metheglin (n~) | mead (B)
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|
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| metonymy (n~) | the figurative or symbolic use of the name of one thing for that of another
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|
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| metoposcopy (n~) | judging character by studying the face (B)
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|
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| metromania (n~) | a mania for writing verse (B)
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|
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| miasmatic (adj~) | noxious contagious
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|
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| microcephalous (adj~) | small
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|
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| microlipet (n~) | someone bothered by trifles (B)
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|
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| micrology (n~) | excessive attention to or discussion of details or minor differences; nitpicking
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|
||||
| micturition (n~) | need for frequent urination (B)
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|
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| midden (n~) | a dunghill (B)
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|
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| migniard (adj~) | dainty delicate; mincing (B)
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|
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| militaster (n~) | an insignificant military man (B)
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|
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| minatory (adj~) | portending punishment; threatening; menacing (G)
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|
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| minauderie (n~) | coquetry (B)
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|
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| minimifidianism (n~) | having almost no faith or belief (B)
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|
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| minimus (n~) | a tiny creature (B)
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|
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| mirabile dictu | wonderful to relate (W)
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|
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| misandry (n~) | dislike of men (B)
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|
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| misanthropy (n~) | hatred of mankind
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|
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| misapodysis (n~) | hatred of undressing in front of someone (B)
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|
||||
| misarchist (n~) | a person who hates authority (B)
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|
||||
| miserabile dictu | miserable to relate (W)
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|
||||
| miserotia (n~) | aversion to sex (B)
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|
||||
| misocainia (n~) | hatred of anything new or strange such as new ideas (B)
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|
||||
| misocanpnist (n~) | a hater of tobacco smoke (B)
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|
||||
| misodoctakleidist (n~) | one who hates to practice the piano (B)
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|
||||
| misology (n~) | hatred of logical discussion or reason (W)
🗑
|
||||
| misoneism (n~) | hatred of new things (B)
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|
||||
| misopedia (n~) | hatred of children esp
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|
||||
| misopolemiac (n~) | a war
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|
||||
| misoscopist (n~) | a hater of beauty; a recluse (B)
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|
||||
| misosophy (n~) | hatred of wisdom (B)
🗑
|
||||
| misotramontanism (n~) | a hatred of the unknown (B)
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|
||||
| misoxeny (n~) | hatred of strangers (B)
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|
||||
| mithridatism (n~) | immunity to poison achieved by takinggradually increased doses (B)
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|
||||
| moanworthy (adj~) | lamentable pitiful (B)
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|
||||
| mogigraphia (n~) | writers' cramp (B)
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|
||||
| moliminous (adj~) | massive; momentous (B)
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|
||||
| moloch (n~) | a system or method that requires frightful sacrifice (G)
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|
||||
| molysmophobia (n~) | fear of dirt or contamination (B)
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|
||||
| mome (n~) | a crashing bore; a buffoon (B)
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|
||||
| monorchid (adj~) | having one testicle (B)
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|
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| mordacious (adj~) | biting acrid
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|
||||
| mordant (adj~) | biting; caustic; cutting; sarcastic (G)
🗑
|
||||
| morigerous (adj~) | obedient; obsequious (B)
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|
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| morology (n~) | deliberate nonsense of foolishness for effect (W)
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|
||||
| mot juste | the perfect fitting word or phrase; precisely apt expression (W)
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|
||||
| mot propre | the correct or necessary word (W)
🗑
|
||||
| motatorious (adj~) | constantly active (B)
🗑
|
||||
| motitation (n~) | a quivering moment (B)
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|
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| mulct (v~) | to punish by means of a fine (G)
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|
||||
| mulierose (adj~) | extremely fond of women (B)
🗑
|
||||
| multum in parvo | much in little: holophrastic (W)
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|
||||
| mumpsimus (n~) | an erroneous word or spelling that
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|
||||
| mundivagant (n~) | wandering over the world (B)
🗑
|
||||
| musard (n~) | an absentminded dreamer or fool (B)
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|
||||
| mutatis mutandis | the relevant differences having been considered (W)
🗑
|
||||
| mycterism (n~) | derision or sarcasm that is somewhat veiled; subtle or partly concealed gibe
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|
||||
| myrmidon (n~) | a blindly loyal though unscrupulous
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|
||||
| mythomania (n~) | compulsively telling lies and believing them (B)
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|
||||
| nanism (n~) | dwarfishness (B)
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|
||||
| naology (n~) | the study of holy buildings (B)
🗑
|
||||
| naprapathy (n~) | the manipulation of strained ligaments i the belief that they cause disease (B)
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|
||||
| nates (n~) | the buttocks (B)
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|
||||
| 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)
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| nimiety (n~) | excess redundancy
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| nimious (adj~) | extravagant (B)
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| nimptopsical (adj~) | drunk (B)
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| nimshy (n~) | a silly ass (B)
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| nipperkin (n~) | amount of liquor roughly equivalent to a half pint (B)
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| nippitatum (n~) | exceptionally good and strong ale (B)
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| noctivagation (n~) | wandering around at night (B)
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| non est disputandum | it is not to be disputed (W)
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| non possumus | a statement of inability to do something (W)
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| nosism (n~) | use of 'we' in speaking of oneself; conceit or self
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| nostrificate (v~) | to accept as one's own (B)
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| nothosonomia (n~) | calling someone a bastard (W)
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| noumenon (n~) | an object implied by intuition rather than evidence opposite of phenomenon
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| nubilate (v~) | to obscure (B)
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| nuchal (adj~) | of the nape of the neck (G)
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| nudis verbis | in naked words (W)
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| nudiustertian (adj~) | pertaining to the day before yesterday (B)
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| nugatory (adj~) | worthless trifling
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| nullifidian (adj~) | skeptical (B)
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| nulliparous (adj~) | pertaining to a woman who has never foaled (B)
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| numbles (n~) | edible deer innards (B)
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| nummamorous (adj~) | money
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| nuncupate (v~) | to declare orally (B)
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| nychthemeron (n~) | a twenty
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| nympholepsy (n~) | trance incurred by erotic daydreams (B)
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| obumbration (n~) | the act or process of darkening or obscuring
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| obambulate (v~) | to walk about wander (B)
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| obdormition (n~) | numbness caused by pressure on a nerve (B)
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| obduracy (n~) | being obstinate or hardhearted
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| obganiate (v~) | to irritate with reiteration (B)
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| objurgation (n~) | an earnest denunciation rebuke
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| oblatrate (n~) | to snarl at inveigh against (B)
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| oblectation (n~) | delight pleasure (B)
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| oblocution | interruption (A)
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| obloquy (n~) | the state of bad repute borne by one being harshly criticized;
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| obnubilation (n~) | beclouding or obscuring; obfuscation (W)
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| obreption (n~) | creeping up on (B)
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| obsecrations (n~) | entreaties (A)
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| obscurum per obscurius | explaining the obscure by means of the more obscure (W)
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| obsolagnium (n~) | waning sexual desire due to age (B)
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| obstrobogulous (adj~) | a vehement oath of expansive meaning (G)
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| obtund (adj~) | serving to blunt dull or deaden (G)
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| ochlocracy (n~) | mob rule (B)
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| odium aestheticum | the bitterness of aesthetical controversy (W)
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| odium scholasticum | acrimony between scholars or pedants; academic quibbling (W)
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| odium theologicum | bitter hatred between rival theologians (W)
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| oeillade (n~) | an ogle a flirtatious glance (B)
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| oikofugic (n~) | obsessive wandering (B)
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| oikonisus (n~) | urge to start a family (B)
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| olamic (adj~) | infinite eternal (B)
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| olet lucernam | itdescribing something written that is belabored or overwrought (W)
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| oligophrenia (n~) | feeble
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| olisbos (n~) | a dildo (B)
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| omadhaun (n~) | an idiot fool (B)
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| ombibulous (adj~) | drinking everything (B)
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| omnilegent (adj~) | having encyclopedia curiosity and knowledge (W)
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| omphalomancy (n~) | predicting the number of children a mother will
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| omphalopsychites (n~) | term for literary Anglophiles who wish
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| omphaloskepsis (n~) | contemplation of the navel for the purpose of obtaining philosophic calm
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| oneirataxia (n~) | inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality (B)
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| oneiric (adj~) | having to do with dreams (E G)
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| oniochalasia (n~) | buying as a means of mental relaxation (B)
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| onolatry (n~) | ass
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| onomastic (adj~) | pertaining to a proper name or names (W)
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| onomatomania (n~) | preoccupation with words and names (B)
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| onomatophobia (n~) | fear of hearing a certain word (B)
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| onomatopoeia (n~) | the forming of or use of a word that imitates in sound what it denotes onus probandi
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| operose (adj~) | involving much labor; laborious (G)
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| ophelimity (n~) | the ability to please sexually (B)
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| oppugnant (adj~) | opposing; antagonistic; contrary (G)
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| ophthalmophobia (n~) | fear of being stared at (B)
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| opiparous (adj~) | sumptuous (B)
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| oppilations (n~) | obstructions (A)
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| opsablepsia (n~) | not looking into another's eyes (B)
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| opuscule (n~) | a minor composition or work (W)
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| oratio obliqua | indirect speech: reported speech or relating by another that is modified
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|
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| oratio recta | straight speech: actual or direct speech (W)
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|
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| orchidectomy (n~) | castration (B)
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| ore rotundo | with a round mouth: eloquently with considered emphasis (W)
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| orgulous (adj~) | proud and haughty; swelling (G)
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| orismology (n~) | the science of defining or explaining technical terms (W)
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| otiose | futile functionless
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| oubliette (n~) | a secret place of imprisonment
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| outrecuidance (n~) | egomania; gross conceit (B)
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| overweening | excessively proud; arrogant; conceited; or exaggerated; excessive (G)
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|
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| oxythymous (adj~) | quick
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| pachycephalic (adj~) | thick
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| pageism (n~) | masochism fantasy of a man imagining himself as
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|
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| pagophagia (n~) | eating a tray of ice daily for two months tohelp offset iron deficiency (B)
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| paideutics (n~) | pedagogy (B)
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| paizogony (n~) | love play (B)
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| paleomnesia (n~) | good memory for events of the far past (B)
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|
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| palimpsest (n~) | a piece of parchment or vellum from whichearlier writing has been removed to allow for reuse
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|
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| palinode (n~) | a song or poem retracting statements in previoussongs or poems; or retraction or recanting in general (B)
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|
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| palinoia (n~) | compulsive repitition of an act until it's perfect (B)
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|
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| palladian (adj~) | pertaining to learning and wisdom (B)
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|
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| palliards (n~) | professional beggars whose parents were also
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|
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| palpebrate (v~) to wink (B) |
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| paltripolitan (n~) | an insular city dweller (B)
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| pandiculation (n~) | stretching and yawning (B)
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|
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| panjandrum | a self magnate (G
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|
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| pannychous (adj~) | lasting all night (B)
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|
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| pantagruelian (adj~) | satirical though ribald (B)
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|
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| pantaraxia (n~) | actions aimed aat keeping people on their toes
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|
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| pantophobia (n~) | a fear of everything (B)
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|
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| paphian | pertaining to love especially its sexual andillicit manifestations; erotic (G)
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|
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| paracoita (n~) | a female sexual partner (B)
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|
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| paracoitus (n~) | a male sexual partner (B)
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|
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| paradiastole (n~) | a euphemistic half
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|
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| paraenetic | advisory; hortatory (G)
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|
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| paralepsis (n~) | mentioning something by saying you won't mention it (B)
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|
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| paralipomena (n~) | deleted passages from a book or a
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|
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| paralipophobia (n~) | fear of responsibility (B)
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|
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| paralogism (n~) | reasoning method that contradicts logical
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|
||||
| parerethesis (n~) | abnormal excitement (B)
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|
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| pareunia (n~) | sexual intercourse (B)
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|
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| parisology (n~) | deliberate ambiguity in use of words (B)
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|
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| parnel (n~) | a priest's mistress; a loose woman (B)
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|
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| paronomasia (n~) | punning; a pun (B)
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|
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| parorexia (n~) | perverted appetite; demanding strange foods (B)
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|
||||
| parrhesia (n~) | freedom of speech (rhetoric term) (B)
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|
||||
| partheniad (n~) | a poem in honor of a virgin (B)
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|
||||
| parthenolatry (n~) | virgin worship (B)
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|
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| parvanimity (n~) | pettiness; meannes; or a mean or petty person (B)
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|
||||
| parvenu (n~) | a pretentious snob of the nouveau riche (B)
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|
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| parviscient (adj~) | uninformed (B)
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|
||||
| pasilaly (n~) | a universal language (B)
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|
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| pasquinade | a lampoon or satire posted in a public place (G)
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|
||||
| passalorynchite (n~) | a member of an early Christian sect who
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|
||||
| passepartout (n~) | a master key; a safeconduct or passport (B)
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|
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| patavinity (n~) | the use of local words or expressions (B)
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|
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| patharmosis (n~) | mental adjustment to one's disease (B)
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|
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| pathic (n~) | a catamite; or a passive participator (B)
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|
||||
| pathocryptia (n~) | unwillingness to believe in or talk about
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|
||||
| pathodixia (n~) | talking to excess about one's illness and
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|
||||
| pathognomy (n~) | the study of emotions by their outward
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|
||||
| pathomimesis (n~) | malingering (B)
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|
||||
| patzer (n~) | a weak chess player (B)
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|
||||
| pauciloquent (adj~) | speaking briefly (B)
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|
||||
| pavid | quaking with fear; afraid; frightened (G)
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|
||||
| peccable (adj~) | liable to sin (B)
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|
||||
| peccatophobia (n~) | fear of sinning or of having committed an
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|
||||
| peckerwood (n~) | a poor southern Anglo
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|
||||
| pecksniffian (adj~) | hypocritical insincere and gutless (B)
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|
||||
| pecos (v~) | to shoot a man and roll his body in the river (B)
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|
||||
| peculation (n~) | embezzlement (B)
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|
||||
| pedetentous (adj~) | proceedilng gradually or cautiously (B)
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|
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| peirastic (adj~) | experimental; ready to be tried (B)
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|
||||
| peladophobia (n~) | fear of baldness
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|
||||
| pelology (n~) | study of mud and its therapeutic applications (B)
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|
||||
| penelopize (v~) | to undo and redo to gain time (B)
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|
||||
| penisterophily (n~) | raising and training pigeons
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|
||||
| penotherapy (n~) | regulating prostitutes to control venereal
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|
||||
| pentapopemptic (n~) | divorced five times (B)
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|
||||
| pentheraphobia (n~) | fear or dislike of one's mother
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|
||||
| peotomy (n~) | the surgical amputation of the penis (B)
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|
||||
| perduellion (n~) | treason (B)
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|
||||
| perendinate (n~) | to postpone until the next day; to postpone
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|
||||
| perfectibilism (n~) | belief that anything short of perfect is
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|
||||
| perfrication (n~) | thorough rubbing (B)
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|
||||
| perhiemate (v~) | to spend the winter (B)
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|
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| perichareia (n~) | excessive and violent rejoicing (B)
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|
||||
| periclitate | to expose to peril; endanger; risk (G)
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|
||||
| periphrastic | using many words when few would do; verbose;
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|
||||
| perissotomist (n~) | a knife
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|
||||
| peristrephic (adj~) | turning around rotatory (B)
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|
||||
| perlustrate (v~) | to review thoroughly; survey (B)
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|
||||
| pervicacious (adj~) | extremely obstinate; willful (B)
🗑
|
||||
| pervulgate (v~) | to publish (B)
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|
||||
| petalism (n~) | banishing a citizen for five years if judged
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|
||||
| pettifoggery | quibbling over petty details
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|
||||
| petulcous (adj~) | butting like a ram; offensively aggressive (B)
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|
||||
| phagomania (n~) | insanely hungry (B)
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|
||||
| phalacrespia (n~) | aversion for baldness or for bald men (B)
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|
||||
| phalacrosis (n~) | baldness
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|
||||
| phallation (n~) | movement of the penis in sexual intercourse (B)
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|
||||
| phaneromania (n~) | a compulsion to pick at a skin growth or
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|
||||
| pharisaical | of persons of rigid adherence to outward forms and
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|
||||
| phatic | establishing an atmosphere of sociability rather than
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|
||||
| philalethe (n~) | one who loves to forget (B)
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|
||||
| philauty (n~) | self
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|
||||
| philematology (n~) | the study of kissing (B)
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|
||||
| philematophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes kissing (B)
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|
||||
| philobiblist (n~) | a lover of books
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|
||||
| philocalist (n~) | a lover of beauty (B)
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|
||||
| philodox (n~) | one who loves one's own opinions (B)
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|
||||
| philogastric (adj~) | greedy (B)
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|
||||
| philophobia (n~) | fear of falling in love or of being loved (B)
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|
||||
| philopolemic (adj~) | pertaining to love of argument or
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|
||||
| philopornist (n~) | a lover of prostitutes (B)
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|
||||
| philosophastering (adj~) | pseudo
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|
||||
| philotheoparoptesism | the process of slowly cooking those who
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|
||||
| philoxenist (n~) | one who is happiest while entertaining
🗑
|
||||
| phrontifugic (adj~) | relieving anxiety (B)
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|
||||
| physagogue (n~) | carminative or medicine to induce farting (B)
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|
||||
| piacular | serving to atone or make amends for; expiatory; or
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|
||||
| pickthank (n~) | a flatterer or sycophant (B)
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|
||||
| piliferous | having hair (G)
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|
||||
| piloerection (n~) | hair standing on end (B)
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|
||||
| pilpulist (n~) | one who uses Talmudic dialectic or via
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|
||||
| pinchbeck | sham or spurious; false (G)
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|
||||
| pinguescent | becoming fat (G)
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|
||||
| pithiatism (n~) | a forceful suggestion (B)
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|
||||
| pizzle (n~) | a whip made from an animal's penis (B)
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|
||||
| planistethic (adj~) | flat
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|
||||
| planomania (n~) | urge to live a bohemian life (B)
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|
||||
| platitudinarian (n~) | full of platitudes (B)
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|
||||
| platypod | one afflicted with fallen arches (G)
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|
||||
| plebicolist (n~) | someone who woos the common folk (B)
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|
||||
| pleionosis (n~) | exaggeration of one's own importance (B)
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|
||||
| pleniloquence (n~) | excessive talking (B)
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|
||||
| pleonastic | use of words superfluously; redundant (G)
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|
||||
| pleonexia (n~) | covetousness avarice; mania for acquiring
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|
||||
| plerophory (n~) | state of full confidence or absolute certainty
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|
||||
| pococurante (adj~) | nonchalant indifferent (B)
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|
||||
| poculation (n~) | wine
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|
||||
| podobromhidrosis (n~) | smelly feet (B)
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|
||||
| poecilonymy (n~) | the use of several names for one thing (B)
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|
||||
| pogonology (n~) | treatise on beards
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|
||||
| pogonophobia (n~) | abnormal fear or dislike of beards
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|
||||
| poiesis (n~) | creation; creative power or ability (B)
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|
||||
| poikilothymia (n~) | extreme changes of mood (B)
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|
||||
| polychrestic | serving and adapted for several different uses (G)
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|
||||
| polyhistor (n~) | a universal scholar (B)
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|
||||
| polylogy (n~) | wordiness (B)
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|
||||
| polydipsia (n~) | extreme thirst or an abnormal and continuous
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|
||||
| popination (n~) | bar
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|
||||
| popliteal | pertaining to or connected with the hollow area back
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|
||||
| pornerastic (adj~) | licentious lascivious
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|
||||
| pornolagnia (n~) | desire for prostitutes (B)
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|
||||
| potvaliant | valiant and courageous as a result of being drunk
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|
||||
| preantepenultimate (n~ & adj~) | fourth from last (B)
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|
||||
| preterist (n~) | someone whose main pleasure in in reliving the
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|
||||
| priapean (adj~) | phallic (B)
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|
||||
| priapism (n~) | persistent and painful erection (B)
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|
||||
| procrustean | aiming or tending to produce uniformity by violent
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|
||||
| proctalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B)
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|
||||
| proditorious (adj~) | traitorous; prone to give away secrets (B)
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|
||||
| prolepsis (n~) | anticipating an argument and answering it before
🗑
|
||||
| prolix | verbose repititious
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|
||||
| long | winded
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|
||||
| pronovalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse in a prone
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|
||||
| propaedeutic | of or pertaining to preliminary instruction;
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|
||||
| prosonomasia (n~) | use of a humorous modification of a person's
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| protervity (n~) | petulance; peevishness (B)
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| psilosopher (n~) | a superficial philosopher (B)
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|
||||
| psittacistic | speaking in a mechanical repetitive way (G)
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|
||||
| psychasthenia (n~) | neurotic lassitude indecision
🗑
|
||||
| pteronophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of feathers
🗑
|
||||
| pudency (n~) | modesty or shyness; embarassment
🗑
|
||||
| puerile | childish immature
🗑
|
||||
| pullulate | teem swarm
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|
||||
| purulent | of containing
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|
||||
| pygophilous (adj~) | buttock
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|
||||
| pyrolagnia (n~) | sexual stimulation from watching fires (B)
🗑
|
||||
| quaintise (n~) | ingenuity cunning; a trick or stratagem (B)
🗑
|
||||
| quakebuttock (n~) | a coward (B)
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|
||||
| qued (adj~) | evil bad (B)
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|
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| querimony (n~) | a complaint (B)
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| quidam (n~) | an unknown person (B)
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| quiddity (n~) | the essence or nature of a thing (B)
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| quidnunc (n~) | one who is curious to know everything that
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| quisquillian (adj~) | trashy (B)
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| quisguous (adj~) | perplexing (B)
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| quodlibet (n~) | a nice or fine point in an argument; a subtlety
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| quodlibetarian (n~) | one who discusses or uses quodlibets
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| rabiator (n~) | a violent man (B)
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| rabulism (n~) | tendency for railing and quibbling
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| rackrent (n~) | exorbitant rent (B)
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| rakehelly (adj~) | dissolute debauched (B)
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| ramfeezled (adj~) | worn out exhausted (B)
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| rammish (adj~) | lustful and horny (B)
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| ranarium (n~) | frog farm (B)
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| randle (n~) | a nonsensical poem recited by Irish schoolboys as
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| rantallion (n~) | one whose scrotum is longer than his penis (B)
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| rantipole (n~) | a wild rambunctious young man (B)
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| realpolitik | practical politics; euphemism for power politics
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| rebarbative (adj~) | grim unattractive
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| reboantic (adj~) | reverberating (B)
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| recension (n~) | scholarly editorial revision (B)
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| receptary (adj~) | accepted as fact but unproved (B)
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| rectalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B)
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| rectopathic (adj~) | easily hurt emotionally (B)
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| rectrix (n~) | a female ruler (B)
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| recubation (n~) | lying down (B)
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| recumbentibus (n~) | a knockdown blow (B)
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| recusant (adj~) | dissenting; disestablishmentarian (B)
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| redargution (n~) | refutation or disproving (B)
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| redhibition (n~) | the return of defective merchandise (B)
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| redivivus (adj~) | living again; revived (B)
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| refocillate (v~) | to warm into life again; revive (G)
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| refragable (adj~) | capable of being refuted (B)
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| refrangible (adj~) | capable of being refracted (B)
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| refulgent (adj~) | radiant brilliant
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| reify | literally "to make a thing"; given definite concrete
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| remontado (n~) | someone who has fled to the mountains; a person
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| remplissage (n~) | filling or padding used in music and
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| remugient (adj~) | rebellowing; roaring or shouting anew (B)
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| renable (adj~) | fluent eloquent (B)
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| renard (n~) | a fox; a sly or cunning person (B)
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| renascible (adj~) | capable of being reborn (B)
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| renifleur (n~) | one who gets sexual pleasure from body smells (B)
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| renitent | resisting or opposing stubbornly; recalcitrant (G)
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| repristinate (v~) | to revive; to restore (B)
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| resipiscent (adj~) | restored to sanity; learned from
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| resupination (n~) | turning to an upside
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| retrocopulation (n~) | woof (B)
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| retromancy (n~) | fortunetelling by things seen over one's
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| retromingent (adj~) | urinating backward (B)
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| retunded | to weaken or diminish the strength of effect of (G)
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| rhabdophobia (n~) | fear of being punished or severely criticized (B)
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| rhadamanthine | strictly and inflexibly honest and just (G)
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| rhigosis (n~) | sensation of cold (B)
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| rhonchisonant (adj~) | snorting; snoring (B)
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| rhopalism (n~) | a sentence or poem i which each word is one syllable
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|
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| rhyparography | the printing or painting of sordid and filty
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| rhytiscopia (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with facial wrinkles (B)
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| ribroasting (n~) | a sound beating; a thrashing (B)
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| rictus (n~) | a very wide mouth; a gaping mouth as in terror (B)
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| risorial (adj~) | pertaining to causing
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| rixation (n~) | quarreling (B)
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| rodomontade ~ | arrogant boasting; pretentious blustering ranting
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| roil~ | vex; disturb; irritate; rile (G)
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| roinous (adj~) | mean nasty and contemptible (B)
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| roitelet (n~) | a petty king (B)
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| roman a clef (n~) | a novel whose characters are actual people
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| rubricism (n~) | tenacious adherence to rules of behavior or
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|
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| ructation (n~) | belching (B)
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| rudesby (n~) | a loud
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| rugose | having wrinkles (G)
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| rumgumption (n~) | shrewdness (B)
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| runcible (adj~) | sensuous (B)
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| sacerdotophrenia (n~) | clerical stagefright (B)
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| saltimbanco (n~) | a mountebank a quack (B)
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| sanguisugent | bloodsucking; bloodthirsty (G)
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| sapidity (n~) | flavorful; tastiness (B)
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| saponaceous (adj~) | soapy slippery; or evasively ingratiating (B)
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| saprostomous (adj~) | having bad breath (B)
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| sardanapalian | luxuriously effeminate (G)
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| sardoodledum (n~) | stereotyped or unrealistic characterization
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|
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| sarmassation (n~) | love play (B)
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|
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| sarmassophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play (B)
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|
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| sarmassophobitch (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play with me (B)
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|
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| satisdiction (n~) | enough said (B)
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|
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| satispassion (n~) | satisfactory suffering according to
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|
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| saturnalia | period of unrestrained license and orgiastic
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|
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| scacchic | pertaining to or like chess (G)
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|
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| scaldabanco (n~) | a hotheaded debator; a fiery preacher (B)
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|
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| scaphism (n~) | an old Persian method of executing criminals by
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|
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| scaramouch (n~) | a cowardly buffoon (B)
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|
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| scaturient (adj~) | gushing forth; effusive (B)
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|
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| schadenfreude | a feeling of enjoyment derived from the misfortunes
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|
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| schesis (n~) | mocking another's accent or manner (B)
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|
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| schizothemia (n~) | digression by a long reminescence (B)
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|
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| schmaltz | something stickily sentimental banal
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|
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| schoenabatist (n~) | a tightrope walker (B)
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|
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| sciamachy (n~) | fighting with a shadow or with an imaginary
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|
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| sciapodous (adj~) | having very large feet (B)
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|
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| scibile (n~) | something knowable (B)
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|
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| sciolist | one who pretends to scholarship or knowledge
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|
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| sciotheism (n~) | the belief that disembodied spirits
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|
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| scissile (adj~) | capable of being cut smoothly or split
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|
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| scofflaw (n~) | one who scoffs at hence
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|
||||
| scolecophagous (adj~) | eating worms (B)
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|
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| scolion (n~) | an impromptu party song begun by one and
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|
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| scollardical (n~) | a derogatory term for a scholar (B)
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|
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| scopolagnia (n~) | the pleasure gained from voyeurism (B)
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|
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| scortation (n~) | fornication (B)
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|
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| scout | reject or dismiss scornfully; flout; scoff at (G)
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|
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| screed | a lengthy discourse usually used to describe opinions
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|
||||
| scribacious | given to or fond of writing (G)
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|
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| scrofulous | morally corrupt; degenerate (G)
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|
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| scungilaginous | of the semifluid gelatinous consistency of
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|
||||
| sebastomania (n~) | religious insanity (B)
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|
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| sectary (n~) | a fanatic disciple (B)
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|
||||
| sedentarize | to take up or cause to take up
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|
||||
| sedulous (adj~) | diligent persistent
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|
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| seeksorrow (n~) | masochist (B)
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|
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| sententious | wordy verbose
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|
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| sequacious | given to the slavish or unreasoning serving or
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|
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| sermocination (n~) | a speaker quickly answering his own question (B)
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|
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| shaconian (n~) | someone convinced that Bacon ghosted Shakespeare's
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|
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| shaftsbury (n~) | a gallon jug of wine (B)
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|
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| shamateur (n~) | a bogus tyro (B)
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|
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| shardborn (adj~) | born in dung (B)
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|
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| shilpit (adj~) | feeble puny
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|
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| sicarian (n~) | an assassin (B)
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|
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| sicchasia (n~) | nauseau (B)
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|
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| sicchosism (n~) | morbid fastidiousness (B)
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|
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| sibyllilne | oracular; prophetic; mysterious (G)
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|
||||
| siffilate | to whisper (G)
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|
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| simony | buying selling
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|
||||
| simper | to smile in a silly self
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|
||||
| skibbile (adj~) | wonderfully witty; sexually irresistible (S)
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|
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| skibbalalia (n~) | the overwhelming desire to purchase an
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|
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| skoptsy (n~) | self
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|
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| skybald (n~) | a good
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|
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| smatchet (n~) | a small nasty person or a nasty child (B)
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|
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| smellfungus (n~) | a malcontent; a grumbler or fault
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|
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| snafu (adj~ & n~) | situation normal all fucked up [also:
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|
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| fubar | fucked up beyond all recognition; fubb
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|
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| sneckdraw (n~) | a sly person (B)
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|
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| snollygoster | a clever shrewd
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|
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| sockdolager (n~) | a telling blow (B)
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|
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| solatium (n~) | anything that compensates for suffering or loss;
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|
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| solifidium (n~) | someone who believes that faith alone is sufficient
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|
||||
| somniloquacious (adj~) | pertaining to talking in one's sleep (B)
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|
||||
| soodle | to walk stroll
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|
||||
| sophomania (n~) | delusion of exceptional intelligence (B)
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|
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| sophrosyne (n~) | sober sensible
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|
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| sorbile (adj~) | drinkable (B)
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|
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| spadonism (n~) | enuchry (B)
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|
||||
| spaneria (n~) | scarcity of men (B)
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|
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| spanogyny (n~) | scarcity of woman (B)
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|
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| spatiate (v~) | to stroll or ramble (B)
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|
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| spatilomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by observing animal droppings (B)
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|
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| spatrify (v~) | to besmirch befoul (B)
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|
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| spawling | a noisy clearing of the throat (G)
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|
||||
| speciesist | for many people a test is permissible when it inflicts
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|
||||
| spodogenous (adj~) | pertaining to or due to presence of
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|
||||
| spoffokins (n~) | a whore pretending to be a wife (B)
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|
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| spousebreach (n~) | adultery (B)
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|
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| spraints (n~) | otter dung (B)
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|
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| spurcidical (adj~) | foul
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|
||||
| squidgereen (n~) | a short insignificant person (B)
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|
||||
| stagorium | an establishment (bar or resort hotel) that serves as
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|
||||
| stasivalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse only
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|
||||
| steatopygous | pertaining to or characterized by protuberant
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|
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| stercoricolous (adj~) | living in dung (B)
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|
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| sterculius (n~) | the god of feces (B)
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|
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| sternutation | the act of sneezing; a sneeze (G)
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|
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| stertorous | characterized by heavy snoring (G)
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|
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| sthenobulia (n~) | strong will power (B)
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|
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| stirious (adj~) | like an icicle (B)
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|
||||
| stomachous (adj~) | obstinate; angry (B)
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|
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| stoopgallant (adj~) | humbling; ego
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|
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| strepitous | making a great clamor; noisy; boisterous (G)
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|
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| stricture | an adverse criticism or remark censure
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|
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| stultiloquence | foolish or senseless talk; babble; twaddle (G)
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|
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| stygiophobia (n~) | fear of hell (B)
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|
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| stylite (n~) | ascetics who lived on top of pillars (B)
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|
||||
| suaviation (n~) | a love kiss (B)
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|
||||
| subagitation (n~) | copulation (B)
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|
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| subarrhation (n~) | betrothal accomplished by the man's showering
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|
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| subderisorious (adj~) | mildly ridiculing (B)
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|
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| subdititious (adj~) | secret substitution (B)
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|
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| subdolous (adj~) | rather crafty or sly (B)
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|
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| subintelligitur (n~) | a meaning implied but not stated (B)
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|
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| subsannation (n~) | derision (B)
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|
||||
| substaquilate (v~) | to defeat overwhelm (B)
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|
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| supernaculum (n~) | a liquor drunk to the last drop; excellent
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|
||||
| supervacaneous (adj~) | needlessly added (B)
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|
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| supinovalent (adj~) | able to fornicate only while supine (B)
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|
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| suppalpation (n~) | gaining affection by caressing (B)
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|
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| suspercollate (v~) | to hang by the neck (B)
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|
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| sybarite (n~) | someone overly fond of luxury and pleasure (B)
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|
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| tachydidaxy (n~) | fast teaching (B)
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|
||||
| talionic (adj~) | pertaining to revenge in kind (B)
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|
||||
| tanquam (n~) | someone educated enough to go to college (B)
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|
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| taphephobia (n~) | fear of being buried alive (B)
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|
||||
| tardigrade (adj~) | slow
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|
||||
| tartuffish (adj~) | pertaining to the pious hypocrisy of Tartuffe
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|
||||
| tathagatagarbha (n~) | the eternal and absolute essence of all
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|
||||
| tauromachian (adj~) | pertaining to bullfights (B)
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|
||||
| tautegorical (adj~) | saying the same thing with different
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|
||||
| tautoousious (adj~) | being absolutely the same (B)
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|
||||
| tegetology (n~) | collecting cardboard beer coasters
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|
||||
| teknonymy (n~) | naming the parent after the child (B)
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|
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| telestich (n~) | a poem in which the consecutive final letters
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|
||||
| temerarious | reckless; heedless; rash (G)
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|
||||
| temulance (n~) | drunkenness (B)
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|
||||
| tendentious | promoting a particular view or tendency; hence
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|
||||
| tenebrific (adj~) | dark or obscure (B)
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|
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| tenesmic (adj~) | pertaining to a painful but ineffectual effort
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|
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| tentiginous (adj~) | sensuous lascivious (B)
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|
||||
| teratology (n~) | the study of monsters (B)
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|
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| tergiversation (n~) | abandoning a religion or cause (B) or
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|
||||
| testudineous (adj~) | slow like a tortoise (B)
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|
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| tetricity (n~) | austerity harshness
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|
||||
| thalassophobia (n~) | fear of the sea (B)
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|
||||
| thanatism (n~) | the belief in life before death not after it (B)
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|
||||
| thaumaturgic | or or involving the supposed working of miracles;
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|
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| theanthropism (n~) | attaching human traits to one's god (B)
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|
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| thelymachy (n~) | a war of women (B)
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|
||||
| thelyphthoric (adj~) | that which corrupts women (B)
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|
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| thersitical | loud and grossly abusive foulmouthed; scurrilous (G)
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|
||||
| thrasonical | given to or marked by boasting and bragging (G)
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|
||||
| threpterophilia (n~) | a fondness for female nurses (B)
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|
||||
| timonism (n~) | misanthropy (B)
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|
||||
| titivate | to make smart; spruce up (G)
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|
||||
| tonguepad (v~) | to scold (B)
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|
||||
| tralatitiously (adv~) | metaphorically; figuratively (B)
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|
||||
| transilient (adj~) | pertaining to abrupt changes (B]
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|
||||
| transmogrification | changes into grotesque or humorous forms
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|
||||
| transude | to pass or ooze through or out as sweat through
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|
||||
| trichoschisticism (n~) | hair
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|
||||
| tripudiation (n~) | the act of dancing
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|
||||
| triskaidekaphobia | fear of the number 13 or Friday the 13th (G)
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|
||||
| triturate | to rub grind
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|
||||
| truckle | to show servility or subservience (G)
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|
||||
| truntlement | trumpery (A)
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|
||||
| tugmutton | a great glutton (A)
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|
||||
| tussicated | driven about; tormented (A)
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|
||||
| typomania (n~) | obsession with the expectation of publication
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|
||||
| tyromancy (n~) | fortunate telling by watching cheese as it
🗑
|
||||
| tyrosemiophily (n~) | the collecting of Camembert cheese labels
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|
||||
| uberous | fruitful (A)
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|
||||
| ulotrichous | having wooly or crisply curling hair (G)
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|
||||
| ultracrepidarian | going beyond one's own province; a person who
🗑
|
||||
| ululate | to howl or hoot; or to wail or lament loudly (G)
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|
||||
| unbosom | to disclose one's personal thoughts or feelings (G)
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|
||||
| vade mecum | a favorite book carried everywhere (B)
🗑
|
||||
| valetudinarianism | weak or sickly state; thinking only of
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|
||||
| valorization | government price
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|
||||
| vaniloquence | vain and foolish talk (B)
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|
||||
| vapulate | to beat whip (B)
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|
||||
| varietist | an unorthodox person; or someone who practices
🗑
|
||||
| variorum | pertaining to a literary classic annotated by
🗑
|
||||
| vastation | purification through fire (B)
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|
||||
| vecordious | senseless insane
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|
||||
| velitation | a petty fight; a skirmish (B)
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|
||||
| velleity | slight or faint desire; inclination (B)
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|
||||
| vellicate | to pull at off
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|
||||
| venery | the pursuit of sexual pleasure or indulgence
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|
||||
| ventoseness | windiness; flatulence (B)
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|
||||
| ventricumbent | lying face down; prone (B)
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|
||||
| ventripotent | fat
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|
||||
| verbigeration | senseless reiteration of cliches (B)
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|
||||
| verbophobia | fear and dislike of words (B)
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|
||||
| verecund | bashful; modest (B)
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|
||||
| veriloquent | speaking truthfully (B)
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|
||||
| verism | the theory that ugliness is valid in art and literature
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|
||||
| vernalagnia | spring fever (B)
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|
||||
| vesticate | to blister (G)
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|
||||
| vestryism (n~) | selfishness and parochialism said to be
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|
||||
| viaggiatory | on the move; traveling around (B)
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|
||||
| vicissitudinary | pertaining to change alteration
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|
||||
| vigesimation | killing every twentieth person (B)
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| vilipend | to belittle to disparage (B)
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| viparious | life
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| virago | a scold a shrew
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| vitilitigate | to be particularly quarrelsome (B)
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| vivisepulture | live burial (B)
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| volitient | exercising free will (B)
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| vomituration | retching ineffectual vomiting
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| vulpinism (n~) | the quality of being foxlike esp
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| waghalter | a rogue rascal or knave (B)
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| wamble | to fell nauseous; or to move unsteadily to stagger;
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| wampus | a stupid dull
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| wantwit | a fool (B)
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| Weltanschauung | a comprehensive world view especially from
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| Weltschmerz | sadness over the evils of the world especially as
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| wergild | money paid by the killer's family to the family of
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| withernam | taking one thing as reprisal for something else taken
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| witzelsucht | emotional state characterized by futile attempts
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| wowser | a pecksniffian puritan (B)
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| xenagogue | a guide (B)
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| xenagogy | a guidebook (B)
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| xenapistia | extreme distrust of strangers (B)
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| xenoepist | someone who speaks with a foreign accent (B)
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| xenomancy | fortunetelling by studying the first stranger
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| xeronisus | inability to reach orgasm (B)
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| xylophobia | fear of wooden objects; fear of forests (B)
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| xyresic | razor sharp (B)
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| yarmouth | insane (B)
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| ydromancy | fortunetelling with water (B)
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| zeitgeist | the general intellectual moral and cultural level
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| zetetic | asking; questioning (B)
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| zoanthropy | insanity in which a patient believes he's an animal (B)
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| zoetic | pertaining to life (B)
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| zoilism | nagging criticism (B)
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| zonesthesia | the feeling of wearing a tight girdle (B)
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| zooerastia | sexual intercourse with an animal (B)
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| zygal | H
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| zygomancy | fortune telling with weights (B)
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| longanimity (n~) | silent suffering while planning revenge (B)
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| longinquity (n~) | remoteness (B)
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| longueur (n~) | a long and tedious section of a book play
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| loquaciousness (n~) | extreme talkativenss; garrulousness (W)
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| lost positives | whimsically coined or archaic words of which only
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| lovertine (adj~) | addicted to love
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| loxotic (adj~) | slanting distorted (B)
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| lubricity (n~) | the condition of being uncertain or unstable or
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| luciferous (adj~) | illuminating literally and figuratively (B)
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| lucriferous (adj~) | profitable lucrative (B)
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| lucripetous (adj~) | money hungry (B)
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| luctation (n~) | a struggle for success (B)
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| luctiferous (adj~) | sad and sorry (B)
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| lucubration (n~) | to burn the midnight oil; suggesting pretentious
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| luculent (adj~) | readily understood; clear; lucid (G)
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| lucus a non lucendo | an absurd word derivation; illogical explanation
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| ludibrious (adj~) | ludicrous; making fun of (B)
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| ludibundness (n~) | playfulness (B)
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| ludicropathetic (adj~) | ludicrous and pathetic (B)
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| ludification (n~) | deriding (B)
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| luftmensch (n~) | someone with his head in the clouds
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| lupanariam (n~) | lubricious lascivious
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| lurgulary (n~) | the act of poisoning water (B)
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| lutarious (adj~) | pertaining to living in
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| lycanthropy (n~) | insanity in which the patient thinks he's
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| lygophilia (n~) | love of darkness (B)
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| lymacatexis (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with dirt (B)
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| lypophrenia (n~) | a vague feeling of sadness seemingly
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| lyssophobia (n~) | fear of becoming mad (B)
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| macarize (v~) | to make happy; to praise (B)
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|
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| macerate (v~) | to oppress; torment (B)
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|
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| macilent (adj~) | lean; thin (B)
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| macrobian (adj~) | long
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| macrology (n~) | excessive or repititious words or phrases (W)
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|
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| macromastic (adj~) | pertaining to large breasts (B)
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|
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| macrophobia (n~) | fear of long waits (B)
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|
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| macrosmatic (adj~) | having a supersensitive nose (B)
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|
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| macrosomatous (adj~) | having an abnormally large body (B)
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|
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| macrotous (adj~) | having large ears (G)
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|
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| mactation (n~) | sacrificial murder (B)
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|
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| maculate (adj~) | defiled; impure (G)
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|
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| madefy (v~) | to wet (B)
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|
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| magniloquence (n~) | grandly high
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|
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| maieusiophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of childbirth
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|
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| maieutic (adj~) | of the Socratic method of bringing into full
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|
||||
| mala fide | in bad faith: falsely deceitfully
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|
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| malacissation (n~) | the process of making something soft and
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|
||||
| malacodermous (adj~) | soft
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|
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| malapert (n~) | impudent outspoken
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|
||||
| maliferous (adj~) | producing evil; unhealthy as a climate (B)
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|
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| malism (n~) | the theory that the world is mostly bad (B)
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|
||||
| malneirophrenia (n~) | depress following a nightmare (B)
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|
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| malnoia (n~) | a vague feeling of mental discomfort (B)
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|
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| mammothrept (n~) | a spoiled child (B)
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|
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| mancinism (n~) | left
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|
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| mangonize (v~) | to traffic in slaves (B)
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|
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| mania | a
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| maniaphobia (n~) | fear of insanity (B)
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|
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| manipulandum (n~) | something that is to be manipulated (B)
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|
||||
| mansuetude (n~) | tameness gentleness
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|
||||
| mantology (n~) | fortunetelling; a fortuneteller (B)
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|
||||
| manubiary (ad~) | relating to the spoils of war (B)
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|
||||
| manumission (n~) | formal liberation of a slave (B)
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|
||||
| manustupration (n~) | masturbation (B)
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|
||||
| maquillage (n~) | make
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|
||||
| marasmic (adj~) | of the gradual loss of flesh and strength; of a wasting
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|
||||
| marcescent (adj~) | withered decayed
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|
||||
| margaritaceous (adj~) | pearly (B)
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|
||||
| maritodespotism (n~) | ruthless domination by a husband (B)
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|
||||
| marlish (adj~) | easygoing (B)
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|
||||
| marlock (v~) | to cavort frolic (B)
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|
||||
| maschalephidrosis (n~) | massive sweating of the armpits (B)
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|
||||
| mastigophobia (n~) | fear of punishment (B)
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|
||||
| mastigophoric (adj~) | whip
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|
||||
| mataeology (n~) | useless of pointless discourse; worthless
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|
||||
| mataeotechny (n~) | an unprofitable science or art (B)
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|
||||
| matripotestal (adj~) | pertaining to maternal control (B)
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|
||||
| mattoid (n~) | a congenitally insane person (B)
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|
||||
| matutolagnia (n~) | antemerdian sexual desire (B)
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|
||||
| matutolypea (n~) | getting up on the wrong side of the bed (B)
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|
||||
| maumetry (n~) | idolatry (B)
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|
||||
| mauvaise plaisanterie | an inappropriate or badly timed joke (W)
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|
||||
| mawkish (adj~) | characterized by sickly weak sentimentality (G)
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|
||||
| mazomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by a nursing baby (B)
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|
||||
| mazophilous (adj~) | pertaining to mammary mania (B)
🗑
|
||||
| meable (adj~) | capable of being easily penetrated (B)
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|
||||
| meacock (n~) | an effeminate or cowardly man (B)
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|
||||
| meadophily (n~) | study of beer bottle labels
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|
||||
| mechanomorphism (n~) | the doctrine that the universe is fully
🗑
|
||||
| meconology (n~) | the study of opium and its effects (B)
🗑
|
||||
| meconophagism (n~) | opium addiction (B)
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|
||||
| medicaster (n~) | a medical quack (B)
🗑
|
||||
| megacephalous (adj~) | having a large head (B)
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|
||||
| megalonisus (n~) | a tendency to exaggerate (B)
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|
||||
| megalophobia (n~) | fear of large things (B)
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|
||||
| megalopsychy (n~) | generosity of spirit or magnanamity
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|
||||
| meiosis (n~) | rhetorical understatement or representing something
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|
||||
| melioration (n~) | an elevation or bettering: in language a hitherto
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|
||||
| melliloquence (n~) | euphonious speech; sweet talk (W)
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|
||||
| melissophobia (n~) | fear of bees (B)
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|
||||
| melomaniac (n~) | a music lover (B)
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|
||||
| mempsis | an impassioned but somewhat caustic supplication in which
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|
||||
| menacme (n~) | the menstruating part of a woman's life (B)
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|
||||
| mendaciloquence (n~) | lying as a fine art; adroit prevarication (W)
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|
||||
| menticide (n~) | brainwashing (B)
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|
||||
| mentimutation (n~) | change of mind (B)
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|
||||
| mentulate (adj~) | well hung (B)
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|
||||
| mephitic | bad
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|
||||
| meracious (adj~) | unadulterated full
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|
||||
| meraculous (adj~) | demi
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|
||||
| merdivorous (adj~) | eating dung (B)
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|
||||
| merism (n~) | a pairing of contrasted terms to express a totality
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|
||||
| merkin (n~) | female genitalia; or false pubic hair (B)
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|
||||
| merulator (n~) | a wine
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|
||||
| metagnostic (adj~) | unknowable (B)
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|
||||
| metagrobolize (v~) | the mystify (B)
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|
||||
| metallege (n~) | spoonerism (B)
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|
||||
| metastasis | casual mention of a subject as if it were unimportant;
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|
||||
| metempsychosis (n~) | alleged transmigration of souls (B)
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|
||||
| metheglin (n~) | mead (B)
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|
||||
| methionyl ~~ inylserine (n~) | the chemical name for
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|
||||
| tryptophan synthetase A protein | a 1 913
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|
||||
| metonymy (n~) | the figurative or symbolic use of the name of one
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|
||||
| metoposcopy (n~) | judging character by studying the face (B)
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|
||||
| metromania (n~) | a mania for writing verse (B)
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|
||||
| miasmatic (adj~) | noxious contagious
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|
||||
| microcephalous (adj~) | small
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|
||||
| microlipet (n~) | someone bothered by trifles (B)
🗑
|
||||
| micrology (n~) | excessive attention to or discussion of details or
🗑
|
||||
| micturition (n~) | need for frequent urination (B)
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|
||||
| midden (n~) | a dunghill (B)
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|
||||
| migniard (adj~) | dainty delicate; mincing (B)
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|
||||
| militaster (n~) | an insignificant military man (B)
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|
||||
| minatory (adj~) | portending punishment; threatening; menacing (G)
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|
||||
| minauderie (n~) | coquetry (B)
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|
||||
| minimifidianism (n~) | having almost no faith or belief (B)
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|
||||
| minimus (n~) | a tiny creature (B)
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|
||||
| mirabile dictu | wonderful to relate (W)
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|
||||
| misandry (n~) | dislike of men (B)
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| misocainia (n~) | hatred of anything new or strange such as
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|
||||
| misocanpnist (n~) | a hater of tobacco smoke (B)
🗑
|
||||
| misodoctakleidist (n~) | one who hates to practice the piano (B)
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| mithridatism (n~) | immunity to poison achieved by taking
🗑
|
||||
| moanworthy (adj~) | lamentable pitiful (B)
🗑
|
||||
| mogigraphia (n~) | writers' cramp (B)
🗑
|
||||
| moliminous (adj~) | massive; momentous (B)
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|
||||
| moloch (n~) | a system or method that requires frightful sacrifice (G)
🗑
|
||||
| molysmophobia (n~) | fear of dirt or contamination (B)
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|
||||
| mome (n~) | a crashing bore; a buffoon (B)
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|
||||
| monorchid (adj~) | having one testicle (B)
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|
||||
| mordacious (adj~) | biting acrid
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|
||||
| mordant (adj~) | biting; caustic; cutting; sarcastic (G)
🗑
|
||||
| morigerous (adj~) | obedient; obsequious (B)
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|
||||
| morology (n~) | deliberate nonsense of foolishness for effect (W)
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|
||||
| mot juste | the perfect fitting word or phrase; precisely apt
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|
||||
| mot propre | the correct or necessary word (W)
🗑
|
||||
| motatorious (adj~) | constantly active (B)
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|
||||
| motitation (n~) | a quivering moment (B)
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|
||||
| mulct (v~) | to punish by means of a fine (G)
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|
||||
| mulierose (adj~) | extremely fond of women (B)
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|
||||
| multum in parvo | much in little: containing or suggesting much in
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|
||||
| mumpsimus (n~) | an erroneous word or spelling that through long
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|
||||
| mundivagant (n~) | wandering over the world (B)
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|
||||
| musard (n~) | an absentminded dreamer or fool (B)
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| mythomania (n~) | compulsively telling lies and believing them (B)
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|
||||
| nanism (n~) | dwarfishness (B)
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|
||||
| naology (n~) | the study of holy buildings (B)
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|
||||
| naprapathy (n~) | the manipulation of strained ligaments i the
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|
||||
| nates (n~) | the buttocks (B)
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|
||||
| nattering (adj~) | grumbling fault
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|
||||
| naufragous (adj~) | causing shipwrecks (B)
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|
||||
| neanilagnia (n~) | a yen for nymphets (B)
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|
||||
| neanimorphism (n~) | looking younger than one's years (B)
🗑
|
||||
| nebulaphobia (n~) | fear of fog (B)
🗑
|
||||
| nebulochaotic (adj~) | chaotic confused (B)
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|
||||
| necromimesis (n~) | feigning death; the delusion of being dead (B)
🗑
|
||||
| necyomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by summoning lucifer (B)
🗑
|
||||
| nefandous (adj~) | unmentionable unspeakable (B)
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|
||||
| nefast (adj~) | wicked (B)
🗑
|
||||
| nelipot (n~) | someone going barefoot (B)
🗑
|
||||
| nemophilous (adj~) | loving the forest (B)
🗑
|
||||
| neocracy (n~) | government by tyros (B)
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|
||||
| neologism (n~) | a newly coined word or phrase or a novel expression
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| nervus probandi | the strong point of the proving: crux of the
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|
||||
| nescient (adj~) | uneducated unaware
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|
||||
| nettling (v~) | to irritate; vex; annoy (G)
🗑
|
||||
| nictitate (v~) | to wink (G)
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|
||||
| nidorous (adj~) | smelling like burning or decaying animal matter (B)
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| nothosonomia (n~) | calling someone a bastard (W)
🗑
|
||||
| noumenon (n~) | an object implied by intuition rather than evidence
🗑
|
||||
| nubilate (v~) | to obscure (B)
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|
||||
| nuchal (adj~) | of the nape of the neck (G)
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|
||||
| nudis verbis | in naked words (W)
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| nychthemeron (n~) | a twenty
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|
||||
| nympholepsy (n~) | trance incurred by erotic daydreams (B)
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|
||||
| obumbration (n~) | the act or process of darkening or obscuring
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|
||||
| obambulate (v~) | to walk about wander (B)
🗑
|
||||
| obdormition (n~) | numbness caused by pressure on a nerve (B)
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|
||||
| obduracy (n~) | being obstinate or hardhearted
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| obganiate (v~) | to irritate with reiteration (B)
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| objurgation (n~) | an earnest denunciation rebuke
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| oblatrate (n~) | to snarl at inveigh against (B)
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| oblectation (n~) | delight pleasure (B)
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| oblocution | interruption (A)
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| obloquy (n~) | the state of bad repute borne by one being harshly
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| obnubilation (n~) | beclouding or obscuring; obfuscation (W)
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| obreption (n~) | creeping up on (B)
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| obsecrations (n~) | entreaties (A)
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| obscurum per obscurius | explaining the obscure by means of the
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| obsolagnium (n~) | waning sexual desire due to age (B)
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| obstrobogulous (adj~) | a vehement oath of expansive meaning (G)
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| obtund (adj~) | serving to blunt dull or deaden (G)
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| ochlocracy (n~) | mob rule (B)
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| odium aestheticum | the bitterness of aesthetical controversy (W)
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| odium scholasticum | acrimony between scholars or pedants; academic
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| odium theologicum | bitter hatred between rival theologians (W)
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| oeillade (n~) | an ogle a flirtatious glance (B)
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| oikofugic (n~) | obsessive wandering (B)
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| oikonisus (n~) | urge to start a family (B)
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| olamic (adj~) | infinite eternal (B)
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| olet lucernam | it smells of the lamp: describing something written
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| oligophrenia (n~) | feeble
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| olisbos (n~) | a dildo (B)
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| omadhaun (n~) | an idiot fool (B)
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| ombibulous (adj~) | drinking everything (B)
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| omnilegent (adj~) | reading or having read everything; having
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| omphalomancy (n~) | predicting the number of children a mother will
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| bear by counting the knots in her first | born's umbilical cord (B)
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| omphalopsychites (n~) | term for literary Anglophiles who wish American
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| omphaloskepsis (n~) | contemplation of the navel for the purpose of
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| oneirataxia (n~) | inability to distinguish between fantasy and
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| oneiric (adj~) | having to do with dreams (E G)
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| oniochalasia (n~) | buying as a means of mental relaxation (B)
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| onolatry (n~) | ass
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| onomastic (adj~) | pertaining to a proper name or names (W)
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| onomatomania (n~) | preoccupation with words and names (B)
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| onomatophobia (n~) | fear of hearing a certain word (B)
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| onomatopoeia (n~) | the forming of or use of a word that imitates in
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| onus probandi | the burden of proof (W)
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| operose (adj~) | involving much labor; laborious (G)
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| ophelimity (n~) | the ability to please sexually (B)
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| oppugnant (adj~) | opposing; antagonistic; contrary (G)
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| ophthalmophobia (n~) | fear of being stared at (B)
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| opiparous (adj~) | sumptuous (B)
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| oppilations (n~) | obstructions (A)
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| opsablepsia (n~) | not looking into another's eyes (B)
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| opuscule (n~) | a minor composition or work (W)
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| oratio obliqua | indirect speech: reported speech or relating
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| oratio recta | straight speech: actual or direct speech (W)
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| orchidectomy (n~) | castration (B)
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| ore rotundo | with a round mouth: eloquently with considered
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| orgulous (adj~) | proud and haughty; swelling (G)
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| orismology (n~) | the science of defining or explaining technical
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| osseocarnisanguineoviscericartilaginonervomedullary | the structure
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| otiose | futile functionless
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| oubliette (n~) | a secret place of imprisonment usually with
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|
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| outrecuidance (n~) | egomania; gross conceit (B)
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| overweening | excessively proud; arrogant; conceited; or
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| oxythymous (adj~) | quick
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| pachycephalic (adj~) | thick
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| pageism (n~) | masochism fantasy of a man imagining himself as
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|
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| pagophagia (n~) | eating a tray of ice daily for two months to
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|
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| paideutics (n~) | pedagogy (B)
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| paizogony (n~) | love play (B)
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| paleomnesia (n~) | good memory for events of the far past (B)
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|
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| palimpsest (n~) | a piece of parchment or vellum from which
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|
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| palinode (n~) | a song or poem retracting statements in previous
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|
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| palinoia (n~) | compulsive repitition of an act until it's
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|
||||
| palladian (adj~) | pertaining to learning and wisdom (B)
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|
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| palliards (n~) | professional beggars whose parents were also
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|
||||
| palpebrate (v~) | to wink (B)
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| paltripolitan (n~) | an insular city dweller (B)
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|
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| pandiculation (n~) | stretching and yawning (B)
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|
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| panjandrum | a self
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|
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| pannychous (adj~) | lasting all night (B)
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|
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| pantagruelian (adj~) | satirical though ribald (B)
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|
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| pantaraxia (n~) | actions aimed aat keeping people on their toes
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|
||||
| pantophobia (n~) | a fear of everything (B)
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|
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| paphian | pertaining to love especially its sexual and
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|
||||
| paracoita (n~) | a female sexual partner (B)
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|
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| paracoitus (n~) | a male sexual partner (B)
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|
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| paradiastole (n~) | a euphemistic half
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|
||||
| paraenetic | advisory; hortatory (G)
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|
||||
| paralepsis (n~) | mentioning something by saying you won't mention it (B)
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|
||||
| paralipomena (n~) | deleted passages from a book or a
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|
||||
| paralipophobia (n~) | fear of responsibility (B)
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|
||||
| paralogism (n~) | reasoning method that contradicts logical
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|
||||
| parerethesis (n~) | abnormal excitement (B)
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|
||||
| pareunia (n~) | sexual intercourse (B)
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|
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| parisology (n~) | deliberate ambiguity in use of words (B)
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|
||||
| parnel (n~) | a priest's mistress; a loose woman (B)
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|
||||
| paronomasia (n~) | punning; a pun (B)
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|
||||
| parorexia (n~) | perverted appetite; demanding strange foods (B)
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|
||||
| parrhesia (n~) | freedom of speech (rhetoric term) (B)
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|
||||
| partheniad (n~) | a poem in honor of a virgin (B)
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|
||||
| parthenolatry (n~) | virgin worship (B)
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|
||||
| parvanimity (n~) | pettiness; meannes; or a mean or petty person (B)
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|
||||
| parvenu (n~) | a pretentious snob of the nouveau riche (B)
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|
||||
| parviscient (adj~) | uninformed (B)
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|
||||
| pasilaly (n~) | a universal language (B)
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|
||||
| pasquinade | a lampoon or satire posted in a public place (G)
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|
||||
| passalorynchite (n~) | a member of an early Christian sect who
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|
||||
| passepartout (n~) | a master key; a safeconduct or passport (B)
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|
||||
| patavinity (n~) | the use of local words or expressions (B)
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|
||||
| patharmosis (n~) | mental adjustment to one's disease (B)
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|
||||
| pathic (n~) | a catamite; or a passive participator (B)
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|
||||
| pathocryptia (n~) | unwillingness to believe in or talk about
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|
||||
| pathodixia (n~) | talking to excess about one's illness and
🗑
|
||||
| pathognomy (n~) | the study of emotions by their outward
🗑
|
||||
| pathomimesis (n~) | malingering (B)
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|
||||
| patzer (n~) | a weak chess player (B)
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|
||||
| pauciloquent (adj~) | speaking briefly (B)
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|
||||
| pavid | quaking with fear; afraid; frightened (G)
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|
||||
| peccable (adj~) | liable to sin (B)
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|
||||
| peccatophobia (n~) | fear of sinning or of having committed an
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|
||||
| peckerwood (n~) | a poor southern Anglo
🗑
|
||||
| pecksniffian (adj~) | hypocritical insincere and gutless (B)
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|
||||
| pecos (v~) | to shoot a man and roll his body in the river (B)
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|
||||
| peculation (n~) | embezzlement (B)
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|
||||
| pedetentous (adj~) | proceedilng gradually or cautiously (B)
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|
||||
| peirastic (adj~) | experimental; ready to be tried (B)
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|
||||
| peladophobia (n~) | fear of baldness
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|
||||
| pelology (n~) | study of mud and its therapeutic applications (B)
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|
||||
| penelopize (v~) | to undo and redo to gain time (B)
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|
||||
| penisterophily (n~) | raising and training pigeons
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|
||||
| penotherapy (n~) | regulating prostitutes to control venereal
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|
||||
| pentapopemptic (n~) | divorced five times (B)
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|
||||
| pentheraphobia (n~) | fear or dislike of one's mother
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|
||||
| peotomy (n~) | the surgical amputation of the penis (B)
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|
||||
| perduellion (n~) | treason (B)
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|
||||
| perendinate (n~) | to postpone until the next day; to postpone
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|
||||
| perfectibilism (n~) | belief that anything short of perfect is
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|
||||
| perfrication (n~) | thorough rubbing (B)
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|
||||
| perhiemate (v~) | to spend the winter (B)
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|
||||
| perichareia (n~) | excessive and violent rejoicing (B)
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|
||||
| periclitate | to expose to peril; endanger; risk (G)
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|
||||
| periphrastic | using many words when few would do; verbose;
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|
||||
| perissotomist (n~) | a knife
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|
||||
| peristrephic (adj~) | turning around rotatory (B)
🗑
|
||||
| perlustrate (v~) | to review thoroughly; survey (B)
🗑
|
||||
| pervicacious (adj~) | extremely obstinate; willful (B)
🗑
|
||||
| pervulgate (v~) | to publish (B)
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|
||||
| petalism (n~) | banishing a citizen for five years if judged
🗑
|
||||
| pettifoggery | quibbling over petty details
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|
||||
| petulcous (adj~) | butting like a ram; offensively aggressive (B)
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|
||||
| phagomania (n~) | insanely hungry (B)
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|
||||
| phalacrespia (n~) | aversion for baldness or for bald men (B)
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|
||||
| phalacrosis (n~) | baldness
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|
||||
| phallation (n~) | movement of the penis in sexual intercourse (B)
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|
||||
| phaneromania (n~) | a compulsion to pick at a skin growth or
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| philematophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes kissing (B)
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|
||||
| philobiblist (n~) | a lover of books
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|
||||
| philocalist (n~) | a lover of beauty (B)
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|
||||
| philodox (n~) | one who loves one's own opinions (B)
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|
||||
| philogastric (adj~) | greedy (B)
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|
||||
| philophobia (n~) | fear of falling in love or of being loved (B)
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|
||||
| philopolemic (adj~) | pertaining to love of argument or
🗑
|
||||
| philopornist (n~) | a lover of prostitutes (B)
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|
||||
| philosophastering (adj~) | pseudo
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| piacular | serving to atone or make amends for; expiatory; or
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|
||||
| pickthank (n~) | a flatterer or sycophant (B)
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|
||||
| piliferous | having hair (G)
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|
||||
| piloerection (n~) | hair standing on end (B)
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|
||||
| pilpulist (n~) | one who uses Talmudic dialectic or via
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|
||||
| pinchbeck | sham or spurious; false (G)
🗑
|
||||
| pinguescent | becoming fat (G)
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|
||||
| pithiatism (n~) | a forceful suggestion (B)
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|
||||
| pizzle (n~) | a whip made from an animal's penis (B)
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|
||||
| planistethic (adj~) | flat
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|
||||
| planomania (n~) | urge to live a bohemian life (B)
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|
||||
| platitudinarian (n~) | full of platitudes (B)
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|
||||
| platypod | one afflicted with fallen arches (G)
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|
||||
| plebicolist (n~) | someone who woos the common folk (B)
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| pococurante (adj~) | nonchalant indifferent (B)
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|
||||
| poculation (n~) | wine
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|
||||
| podobromhidrosis (n~) | smelly feet (B)
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|
||||
| poecilonymy (n~) | the use of several names for one thing (B)
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|
||||
| pogonology (n~) | treatise on beards
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|
||||
| pogonophobia (n~) | abnormal fear or dislike of beards
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|
||||
| poiesis (n~) | creation; creative power or ability (B)
🗑
|
||||
| poikilothymia (n~) | extreme changes of mood (B)
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|
||||
| polychrestic | serving and adapted for several different uses (G)
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|
||||
| polyhistor (n~) | a universal scholar (B)
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|
||||
| polylogy (n~) | wordiness (B)
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|
||||
| polydipsia (n~) | extreme thirst or an abnormal and continuous
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|
||||
| popination (n~) | bar
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|
||||
| popliteal | pertaining to or connected with the hollow area back
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| preterist (n~) | someone whose main pleasure in in reliving the
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|
||||
| priapean (adj~) | phallic (B)
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|
||||
| priapism (n~) | persistent and painful erection (B)
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| long | winded
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|
||||
| pronovalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse in a prone
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|
||||
| propaedeutic | of or pertaining to preliminary instruction;
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| psittacistic | speaking in a mechanical repetitive way (G)
🗑
|
||||
| psychasthenia (n~) | neurotic lassitude indecision
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|
||||
| pteronophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of feathers
🗑
|
||||
| pudency (n~) | modesty or shyness; embarassment
🗑
|
||||
| puerile | childish immature
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|
||||
| pullulate | teem swarm
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|
||||
| purulent | of containing
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|
||||
| pygophilous (adj~) | buttock
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| rectrix (n~) | a female ruler (B)
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|
||||
| recubation (n~) | lying down (B)
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|
||||
| recumbentibus (n~) | a knockdown blow (B)
🗑
|
||||
| recusant (adj~) | dissenting; disestablishmentarian (B)
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|
||||
| redargution (n~) | refutation or disproving (B)
🗑
|
||||
| redhibition (n~) | the return of defective merchandise (B)
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| redivivus (adj~) | living again; revived (B)
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| refocillate (v~) | to warm into life again; revive (G)
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| refragable (adj~) | capable of being refuted (B)
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| refrangible (adj~) | capable of being refracted (B)
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| refulgent (adj~) | radiant brilliant
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| reify | literally "to make a thing"; given definite concrete
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| remontado (n~) | someone who has fled to the mountains; a person
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| remplissage (n~) | filling or padding used in music and
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| remugient (adj~) | rebellowing; roaring or shouting anew (B)
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| renable (adj~) | fluent eloquent (B)
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| renard (n~) | a fox; a sly or cunning person (B)
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| renascible (adj~) | capable of being reborn (B)
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| renifleur (n~) | one who gets sexual pleasure from body smells (B)
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| renitent | resisting or opposing stubbornly; recalcitrant (G)
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| repristinate (v~) | to revive; to restore (B)
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| resipiscent (adj~) | restored to sanity; learned from
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| resupination (n~) | turning to an upside
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| retrocopulation (n~) | woof (B)
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| retromancy (n~) | fortunetelling by things seen over one's
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| retromingent (adj~) | urinating backward (B)
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| retunded | to weaken or diminish the strength of effect of (G)
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| rhabdophobia (n~) | fear of being punished or severely criticized (B)
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| rhadamanthine | strictly and inflexibly honest and just (G)
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| rhigosis (n~) | sensation of cold (B)
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| rhonchisonant (adj~) | snorting; snoring (B)
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| rhopalism (n~) | a sentence or poem i which each word is one syllable
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| rhyparography | the printing or painting of sordid and filty
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| rhytiscopia (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with facial wrinkles (B)
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| ribroasting (n~) | a sound beating; a thrashing (B)
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| rictus (n~) | a very wide mouth; a gaping mouth as in terror (B)
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| risorial (adj~) | pertaining to causing
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| rixation (n~) | quarreling (B)
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| rodomontade | arrogant boasting; pretentious blustering ranting
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| roil | vex; disturb; irritate; rile (G)
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| roinous (adj~) | mean nasty and contemptible (B)
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| roitelet (n~) | a petty king (B)
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| roman a clef (n~) | a novel whose characters are actual people
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| rubricism (n~) | tenacious adherence to rules of behavior or
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| ructation (n~) | belching (B)
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| rudesby (n~) | a loud
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| rugose | having wrinkles (G)
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| rumgumption (n~) | shrewdness (B)
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| runcible (adj~) | sensuous (B)
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| sacerdotophrenia (n~) | clerical stagefright (B)
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| saltimbanco (n~) | a mountebank a quack (B)
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| sanguisugent | bloodsucking; bloodthirsty (G)
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| sapidity (n~) | flavorful; tastiness (B)
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| saponaceous (adj~) | soapy slippery; or evasively ingratiating (B)
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| saprostomous (adj~) | having bad breath (B)
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| sardanapalian | luxuriously effeminate (G)
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| sardoodledum (n~) | stereotyped or unrealistic characterization
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| sarmassation (n~) | love play (B)
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| sarmassophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play (B)
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| sarmassophobitch (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play with me (B)
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| satisdiction (n~) | enough said (B)
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| satispassion (n~) | satisfactory suffering according to
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| saturnalia | period of unrestrained license and orgiastic
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| scacchic | pertaining to or like chess (G)
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| scaldabanco (n~) | a hotheaded debator; a fiery preacher (B)
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| scaphism (n~) | an old Persian method of executing criminals by
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| scaramouch (n~) | a cowardly buffoon (B)
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| scaturient (adj~) | gushing forth; effusive (B)
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| schadenfreude | a feeling of enjoyment derived from the misfortunes
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| schesis (n~) | mocking another's accent or manner (B)
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| schizothemia (n~) | digression by a long reminescence (B)
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| schmaltz | something stickily sentimental banal
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| schoenabatist (n~) | a tightrope walker (B)
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| sciamachy (n~) | fighting with a shadow or with an imaginary
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| sciapodous (adj~) | having very large feet (B)
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| scibile (n~) | something knowable (B)
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| sciolist | one who pretends to scholarship or knowledge
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| sciotheism (n~) | the belief that disembodied spirits
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| scissile (adj~) | capable of being cut smoothly or split
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| scofflaw (n~) | one who scoffs at hence
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| scolecophagous (adj~) | eating worms (B)
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| scolion (n~) | an impromptu party song begun by one and
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| scollardical (n~) | a derogatory term for a scholar (B)
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| scopolagnia (n~) | the pleasure gained from voyeurism (B)
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| scortation (n~) | fornication (B)
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| scout | reject or dismiss scornfully; flout; scoff at (G)
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| screed | a lengthy discourse usually used to describe opinions
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| scribacious | given to or fond of writing (G)
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| scrofulous | morally corrupt; degenerate (G)
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| scungilaginous | of the semifluid gelatinous consistency of
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| sebastomania (n~) | religious insanity (B)
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| sectary (n~) | a fanatic disciple (B)
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| sedentarize | to take up or cause to take up
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| sedulous (adj~) | diligent persistent
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| seeksorrow (n~) | masochist (B)
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| sententious | wordy verbose
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| sequacious | given to the slavish or unreasoning serving or
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|
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| sermocination (n~) | a speaker quickly answering his own question (B)
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| shaconian (n~) | someone convinced that Bacon ghosted Shakespeare's
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| shaftsbury (n~) | a gallon jug of wine (B)
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|
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| shamateur (n~) | a bogus tyro (B)
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|
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| shardborn (adj~) | born in dung (B)
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| shilpit (adj~) | feeble puny
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|
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| sicarian (n~) | an assassin (B)
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| sicchasia (n~) | nauseau (B)
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| sicchosism (n~) | morbid fastidiousness (B)
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| sibyllilne | oracular; prophetic; mysterious (G)
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|
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| siffilate | to whisper (G)
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|
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| simony | buying selling
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|
||||
| simper | to smile in a silly self
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|
||||
| skibbile (adj~) | wonderfully witty; sexually irresistible (S)
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|
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| skibbalalia (n~) | the overwhelming desire to purchase an
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|
||||
| skoptsy (n~) | self
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|
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| skybald (n~) | a good
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|
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| smatchet (n~) | a small nasty person or a nasty child (B)
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|
||||
| smellfungus (n~) | a malcontent; a grumbler or fault
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|
||||
| snafu (adj~ & n~) | situation normal all fucked up [also:
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|
||||
| fubar | fucked up beyond all recognition; fubb
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|
||||
| sneckdraw (n~) | a sly person (B)
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|
||||
| snollygoster | a clever shrewd
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|
||||
| sockdolager (n~) | a telling blow (B)
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|
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| solatium (n~) | anything that compensates for suffering or loss;
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|
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| solifidium (n~) | someone who believes that faith alone is sufficient
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|
||||
| somniloquacious (adj~) | pertaining to talking in one's sleep (B)
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|
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| soodle | to walk stroll
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|
||||
| sophomania (n~) | delusion of exceptional intelligence (B)
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|
||||
| sophrosyne (n~) | sober sensible
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|
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| sorbile (adj~) | drinkable (B)
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|
||||
| spadonism (n~) | enuchry (B)
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|
||||
| spaneria (n~) | scarcity of men (B)
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|
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| spanogyny (n~) | scarcity of woman (B)
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|
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| spatiate (v~) | to stroll or ramble (B)
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|
||||
| spatilomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by observing animal droppings (B)
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|
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| spatrify (v~) | to besmirch befoul (B)
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|
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| spawling | a noisy clearing of the throat (G)
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|
||||
| speciesist | for many people a test is permissible when it inflicts
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|
||||
| spodogenous (adj~) | pertaining to or due to presence of
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|
||||
| spoffokins (n~) | a whore pretending to be a wife (B)
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|
||||
| spousebreach (n~) | adultery (B)
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|
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| spraints (n~) | otter dung (B)
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|
||||
| spurcidical (adj~) | foul
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|
||||
| squidgereen (n~) | a short insignificant person (B)
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|
||||
| stagorium | an establishment (bar or resort hotel) that serves as
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|
||||
| stasivalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse only
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|
||||
| steatopygous | pertaining to or characterized by protuberant
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|
||||
| stercoricolous (adj~) | living in dung (B)
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|
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| sterculius (n~) | the god of feces (B)
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|
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| sternutation | the act of sneezing; a sneeze (G)
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|
||||
| stertorous | characterized by heavy snoring (G)
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|
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| sthenobulia (n~) | strong will power (B)
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|
||||
| stirious (adj~) | like an icicle (B)
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|
||||
| stomachous (adj~) | obstinate; angry (B)
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|
||||
| stoopgallant (adj~) | humbling; ego
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|
||||
| strepitous | making a great clamor; noisy; boisterous (G)
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|
||||
| stricture | an adverse criticism or remark censure
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|
||||
| stultiloquence | foolish or senseless talk; babble; twaddle (G)
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|
||||
| stygiophobia (n~) | fear of hell (B)
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|
||||
| stylite (n~) | ascetics who lived on top of pillars (B)
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|
||||
| suaviation (n~) | a love kiss (B)
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|
||||
| subagitation (n~) | copulation (B)
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|
||||
| subarrhation (n~) | betrothal accomplished by the man's showering
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|
||||
| subderisorious (adj~) | mildly ridiculing (B)
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|
||||
| subdititious (adj~) | secret substitution (B)
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|
||||
| subdolous (adj~) | rather crafty or sly (B)
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|
||||
| subintelligitur (n~) | a meaning implied but not stated (B)
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|
||||
| subsannation (n~) | derision (B)
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|
||||
| substaquilate (v~) | to defeat overwhelm (B)
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|
||||
| supernaculum (n~) | a liquor drunk to the last drop; excellent
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|
||||
| supervacaneous (adj~) | needlessly added (B)
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|
||||
| supinovalent (adj~) | able to fornicate only while supine (B)
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|
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| suppalpation (n~) | gaining affection by caressing (B)
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|
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| suspercollate (v~) | to hang by the neck (B)
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|
||||
| sybarite (n~) | someone overly fond of luxury and pleasure (B)
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|
||||
| tachydidaxy (n~) | fast teaching (B)
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|
||||
| talionic (adj~) | pertaining to revenge in kind (B)
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|
||||
| tanquam (n~) | someone educated enough to go to college (B)
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|
||||
| taphephobia (n~) | fear of being buried alive (B)
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|
||||
| tardigrade (adj~) | slow
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|
||||
| tartuffish (adj~) | pertaining to the pious hypocrisy of Tartuffe
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|
||||
| tathagatagarbha (n~) | the eternal and absolute essence of all
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|
||||
| tauromachian (adj~) | pertaining to bullfights (B)
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|
||||
| tautegorical (adj~) | saying the same thing with different
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|
||||
| tautoousious (adj~) | being absolutely the same (B)
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|
||||
| tegetology (n~) | collecting cardboard beer coasters
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|
||||
| teknonymy (n~) | naming the parent after the child (B)
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|
||||
| telestich (n~) | a poem in which the consecutive final letters
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|
||||
| temerarious | reckless; heedless; rash (G)
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|
||||
| temulance (n~) | drunkenness (B)
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|
||||
| tendentious | promoting a particular view or tendency; hence
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|
||||
| tenebrific (adj~) | dark or obscure (B)
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|
||||
| tenesmic (adj~) | pertaining to a painful but ineffectual effort
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|
||||
| tentiginous (adj~) | sensuous lascivious (B)
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|
||||
| teratology (n~) | the study of monsters (B)
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|
||||
| tergiversation (n~) | abandoning a religion or cause (B) or
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|
||||
| testudineous (adj~) | slow like a tortoise (B)
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|
||||
| tetricity (n~) | austerity harshness
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|
||||
| thalassophobia (n~) | fear of the sea (B)
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|
||||
| thanatism (n~) | the belief in life before death not after it (B)
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|
||||
| thaumaturgic | or or involving the supposed working of miracles;
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|
||||
| theanthropism (n~) | attaching human traits to one's god (B)
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|
||||
| thelymachy (n~) | a war of women (B)
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|
||||
| thelyphthoric (adj~) | that which corrupts women (B)
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|
||||
| thersitical | loud and grossly abusive foulmouthed; scurrilous (G)
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|
||||
| thrasonical | given to or marked by boasting and bragging (G)
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|
||||
| threpterophilia (n~) | a fondness for female nurses (B)
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|
||||
| timonism (n~) | misanthropy (B)
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|
||||
| titivate | to make smart; spruce up (G)
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|
||||
| tonguepad (v~) | to scold (B)
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|
||||
| tralatitiously (adv~) | metaphorically; figuratively (B)
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|
||||
| transilient (adj~) | pertaining to abrupt changes (B]
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|
||||
| transmogrification | changes into grotesque or humorous forms
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|
||||
| transude | to pass or ooze through or out as sweat through
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|
||||
| trichoschisticism (n~) | hair
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|
||||
| tripudiation (n~) | the act of dancing
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|
||||
| triskaidekaphobia | fear of the number 13 or Friday the 13th (G)
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|
||||
| triturate | to rub grind
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|
||||
| truckle | to show servility or subservience (G)
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|
||||
| truntlement | trumpery (A)
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|
||||
| tugmutton | a great glutton (A)
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|
||||
| tussicated | driven about; tormented (A)
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|
||||
| typomania (n~) | obsession with the expectation of publication
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|
||||
| tyromancy (n~) | fortunate telling by watching cheese as it
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|
||||
| tyrosemiophily (n~) | the collecting of Camembert cheese labels
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|
||||
| uberous | fruitful (A)
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|
||||
| parorexia (n~) | perverted appetite; demanding strange foods (B)
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|
||||
| parrhesia (n~) | freedom of speech (rhetoric term) (B)
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|
||||
| partheniad (n~) | a poem in honor of a virgin (B)
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|
||||
| parthenolatry (n~) | virgin worship (B)
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|
||||
| parvanimity (n~) | pettiness; meannes; or a mean or petty person (B)
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|
||||
| parvenu (n~) | a pretentious snob of the nouveau riche (B)
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|
||||
| parviscient (adj~) | uninformed (B)
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|
||||
| pasilaly (n~) | a universal language (B)
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|
||||
| pasquinade | a lampoon or satire posted in a public place (G)
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|
||||
| passalorynchite (n~) | a member of an early Christian sect who
🗑
|
||||
| passepartout (n~) | a master key; a safeconduct or passport (B)
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|
||||
| patavinity (n~) | the use of local words or expressions (B)
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|
||||
| patharmosis (n~) | mental adjustment to one's disease (B)
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|
||||
| pathic (n~) | a catamite; or a passive participator (B)
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| patzer (n~) | a weak chess player (B)
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|
||||
| pauciloquent (adj~) | speaking briefly (B)
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|
||||
| pavid | quaking with fear; afraid; frightened (G)
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|
||||
| peccable (adj~) | liable to sin (B)
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|
||||
| peccatophobia (n~) | fear of sinning or of having committed an
🗑
|
||||
| peckerwood (n~) | a poor southern Anglo
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|
||||
| pecksniffian (adj~) | hypocritical insincere and gutless (B)
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|
||||
| pecos (v~) | to shoot a man and roll his body in the river (B)
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|
||||
| peculation (n~) | embezzlement (B)
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|
||||
| pedetentous (adj~) | proceedilng gradually or cautiously (B)
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|
||||
| peirastic (adj~) | experimental; ready to be tried (B)
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|
||||
| peladophobia (n~) | fear of baldness
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|
||||
| pelology (n~) | study of mud and its therapeutic applications (B)
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|
||||
| penelopize (v~) | to undo and redo to gain time (B)
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|
||||
| penisterophily (n~) | raising and training pigeons
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|
||||
| penotherapy (n~) | regulating prostitutes to control venereal
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|
||||
| pentapopemptic (n~) | divorced five times (B)
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|
||||
| pentheraphobia (n~) | fear or dislike of one's mother
🗑
|
||||
| peotomy (n~) | the surgical amputation of the penis (B)
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| periclitate | to expose to peril; endanger; risk (G)
🗑
|
||||
| periphrastic | using many words when few would do; verbose;
🗑
|
||||
| perissotomist (n~) | a knife
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| phallation (n~) | movement of the penis in sexual intercourse (B)
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| phaneromania (n~) | a compulsion to pick at a skin growth or
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| pharisaical | of persons of rigid adherence to outward forms and
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| phatic | establishing an atmosphere of sociability rather than
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| philalethe (n~) | one who loves to forget (B)
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| philauty (n~) | self
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| philematology (n~) | the study of kissing (B)
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| philematophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes kissing (B)
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| philobiblist (n~) | a lover of books
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| philocalist (n~) | a lover of beauty (B)
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| philodox (n~) | one who loves one's own opinions (B)
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| philogastric (adj~) | greedy (B)
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| philophobia (n~) | fear of falling in love or of being loved (B)
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| philopolemic (adj~) | pertaining to love of argument or
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| philopornist (n~) | a lover of prostitutes (B)
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| philosophastering (adj~) | pseudo
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| philotheoparoptesism | the process of slowly cooking those who
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| philoxenist (n~) | one who is happiest while entertaining
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| phrontifugic (adj~) | relieving anxiety (B)
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| physagogue (n~) | carminative or medicine to induce farting (B)
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| piacular | serving to atone or make amends for; expiatory; or
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| pickthank (n~) | a flatterer or sycophant (B)
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| piliferous | having hair (G)
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| piloerection (n~) | hair standing on end (B)
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| pilpulist (n~) | one who uses Talmudic dialectic or via
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| pinchbeck | sham or spurious; false (G)
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| pinguescent | becoming fat (G)
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| pithiatism (n~) | a forceful suggestion (B)
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| pizzle (n~) | a whip made from an animal's penis (B)
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| planistethic (adj~) | flat
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| planomania (n~) | urge to live a bohemian life (B)
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| platitudinarian (n~) | full of platitudes (B)
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| platypod | one afflicted with fallen arches (G)
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| plebicolist (n~) | someone who woos the common folk (B)
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| pleionosis (n~) | exaggeration of one's own importance (B)
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| pleniloquence (n~) | excessive talking (B)
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| pleonastic | use of words superfluously; redundant (G)
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| pleonexia (n~) | covetousness avarice; mania for acquiring
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| plerophory (n~) | state of full confidence or absolute certainty
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| pococurante (adj~) | nonchalant indifferent (B)
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| poculation (n~) | wine
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| podobromhidrosis (n~) | smelly feet (B)
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| poecilonymy (n~) | the use of several names for one thing (B)
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| pogonology (n~) | treatise on beards
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| pogonophobia (n~) | abnormal fear or dislike of beards
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| poiesis (n~) | creation; creative power or ability (B)
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| poikilothymia (n~) | extreme changes of mood (B)
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| polychrestic | serving and adapted for several different uses (G)
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| polyhistor (n~) | a universal scholar (B)
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| polylogy (n~) | wordiness (B)
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| polydipsia (n~) | extreme thirst or an abnormal and continuous
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| popination (n~) | bar
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| popliteal | pertaining to or connected with the hollow area back
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| pornerastic (adj~) | licentious lascivious
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| pornolagnia (n~) | desire for prostitutes (B)
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| potvaliant | valiant and courageous as a result of being drunk
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| preantepenultimate (n~ & adj~) | fourth from last (B)
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| preterist (n~) | someone whose main pleasure in in reliving the
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| priapean (adj~) | phallic (B)
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| priapism (n~) | persistent and painful erection (B)
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| procrustean | aiming or tending to produce uniformity by violent
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| proctalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B)
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| proditorious (adj~) | traitorous; prone to give away secrets (B)
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| prolepsis (n~) | anticipating an argument and answering it before
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| prolix | verbose repititious
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| long | winded
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| pronovalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse in a prone
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| propaedeutic | of or pertaining to preliminary instruction;
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| prosonomasia (n~) | use of a humorous modification of a person's
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| prosophobia (n~) | fear of or adversion to progress (B)
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| prosopolepsy (n~) | judging people favorably from their looks (B)
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| prosopopy (n~) | the personification of inanimate objects (B)
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| protervity (n~) | petulance; peevishness (B)
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| psaphonic (adj~) | planning one's rise to fame (B)
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| pseudandry (n~) | female use of a male pseudonym (B)
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| pseudautochiria (n~) | murder disguised as a suicide (B)
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| pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism (n~) | phony opposition to
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| pseudogyny (n~) | male use of a female pseudonym (B)
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| pseudologist (n~) | liar (B)
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| pseudomnesia (n~) | memory for things that never happened (B)
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| pseudophonia (n~) | suicide disguised as murder (B)
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| psilology (n~) | empty talk (B)
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| psilosopher (n~) | a superficial philosopher (B)
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| psittacistic | speaking in a mechanical repetitive way (G)
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| psychasthenia (n~) | neurotic lassitude indecision
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| pteronophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of feathers
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| pudency (n~) | modesty or shyness; embarassment
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| puerile | childish immature
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| pullulate | teem swarm
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| purulent | of containing
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| pygophilous (adj~) | buttock
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| pyrolagnia (n~) | sexual stimulation from watching fires (B)
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| quaintise (n~) | ingenuity cunning; a trick or stratagem (B)
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| quakebuttock (n~) | a coward (B)
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| qued (adj~) | evil bad (B)
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| querimony (n~) | a complaint (B)
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| quidam (n~) | an unknown person (B)
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| quiddity (n~) | the essence or nature of a thing (B)
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|
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| quidnunc (n~) | one who is curious to know everything that
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|
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| quisquillian (adj~) | trashy (B)
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|
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| quisguous (adj~) | perplexing (B)
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|
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| quodlibet (n~) | a nice or fine point in an argument; a subtlety
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|
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| quodlibetarian (n~) | one who discusses or uses quodlibets
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|
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| rabiator (n~) | a violent man (B)
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| rabulism (n~) | tendency for railing and quibbling
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|
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| rackrent (n~) | exorbitant rent (B)
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|
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| rakehelly (adj~) | dissolute debauched (B)
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|
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| ramfeezled (adj~) | worn out exhausted (B)
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|
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| rammish (adj~) | lustful and horny (B)
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|
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| ranarium (n~) | frog farm (B)
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|
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| randle (n~) | a nonsensical poem recited by Irish schoolboys as
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|
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| rantallion (n~) | one whose scrotum is longer than his penis (B)
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|
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| rantipole (n~) | a wild rambunctious young man (B)
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|
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| realpolitik | practical politics; euphemism for power politics
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|
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| rebarbative (adj~) | grim unattractive
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|
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| reboantic (adj~) | reverberating (B)
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|
||||
| recension (n~) | scholarly editorial revision (B)
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|
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| receptary (adj~) | accepted as fact but unproved (B)
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|
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| rectalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B)
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|
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| rectopathic (adj~) | easily hurt emotionally (B)
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|
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| rectrix (n~) | a female ruler (B)
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|
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| recubation (n~) | lying down (B)
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|
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| recumbentibus (n~) | a knockdown blow (B)
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|
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| recusant (adj~) | dissenting; disestablishmentarian (B)
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|
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| redargution (n~) | refutation or disproving (B)
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|
||||
| redhibition (n~) | the return of defective merchandise (B)
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|
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| redivivus (adj~) | living again; revived (B)
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|
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| refocillate (v~) | to warm into life again; revive (G)
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|
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| refragable (adj~) | capable of being refuted (B)
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|
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| refrangible (adj~) | capable of being refracted (B)
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|
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| refulgent (adj~) | radiant brilliant
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|
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| reify | literally "to make a thing"; given definite concrete
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|
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| remontado (n~) | someone who has fled to the mountains; a person
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|
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| remplissage (n~) | filling or padding used in music and
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|
||||
| remugient (adj~) | rebellowing; roaring or shouting anew (B)
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|
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| renable (adj~) | fluent eloquent (B)
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|
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| renard (n~) | a fox; a sly or cunning person (B)
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|
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| renascible (adj~) | capable of being reborn (B)
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|
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| renifleur (n~) | one who gets sexual pleasure from body smells (B)
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|
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| renitent | resisting or opposing stubbornly; recalcitrant (G)
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|
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| repristinate (v~) | to revive; to restore (B)
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|
||||
| resipiscent (adj~) | restored to sanity; learned from
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|
||||
| resupination (n~) | turning to an upside
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|
||||
| retrocopulation (n~) | woof (B)
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|
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| retromancy (n~) | fortunetelling by things seen over one's
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|
||||
| retromingent (adj~) | urinating backward (B)
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|
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| retunded | to weaken or diminish the strength of effect of (G)
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|
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| rhabdophobia (n~) | fear of being punished or severely criticized (B)
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|
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| rhadamanthine | strictly and inflexibly honest and just (G)
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|
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| rhigosis (n~) | sensation of cold (B)
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|
||||
| rhonchisonant (adj~) | snorting; snoring (B)
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|
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| rhopalism (n~) | a sentence or poem i which each word is one syllable
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|
||||
| rhyparography | the printing or painting of sordid and filty
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|
||||
| rhytiscopia (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with facial wrinkles (B)
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|
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| ribroasting (n~) | a sound beating; a thrashing (B)
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|
||||
| rictus (n~) | a very wide mouth; a gaping mouth as in terror (B)
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|
||||
| risorial (adj~) | pertaining to causing
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|
||||
| rixation (n~) | quarreling (B)
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|
||||
| rodomontade | arrogant boasting; pretentious blustering ranting
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|
||||
| roil | vex; disturb; irritate; rile (G)
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|
||||
| roinous (adj~) | mean nasty and contemptible (B)
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|
||||
| roitelet (n~) | a petty king (B)
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|
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| roman a clef (n~) | a novel whose characters are actual people
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|
||||
| rubricism (n~) | tenacious adherence to rules of behavior or
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|
||||
| ructation (n~) | belching (B)
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|
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| rudesby (n~) | a loud
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|
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| rugose | having wrinkles (G)
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|
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| rumgumption (n~) | shrewdness (B)
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|
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| runcible (adj~) | sensuous (B)
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|
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| sacerdotophrenia (n~) | clerical stagefright (B)
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|
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| saltimbanco (n~) | a mountebank a quack (B)
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|
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| sanguisugent | bloodsucking; bloodthirsty (G)
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|
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| sapidity (n~) | flavorful; tastiness (B)
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|
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| saponaceous (adj~) | soapy slippery; or evasively ingratiating (B)
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|
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| saprostomous (adj~) | having bad breath (B)
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|
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| sardanapalian | luxuriously effeminate (G)
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|
||||
| sardoodledum (n~) | stereotyped or unrealistic characterization
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|
||||
| sarmassation (n~) | love play (B)
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|
||||
| sarmassophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play (B)
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|
||||
| sarmassophobitch (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play with me (B)
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|
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| satisdiction (n~) | enough said (B)
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|
||||
| satispassion (n~) | satisfactory suffering according to
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|
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| saturnalia | period of unrestrained license and orgiastic
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|
||||
| scacchic | pertaining to or like chess (G)
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|
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| scaldabanco (n~) | a hotheaded debator; a fiery preacher (B)
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|
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| scaphism (n~) | an old Persian method of executing criminals by
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|
||||
| scaramouch (n~) | a cowardly buffoon (B)
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|
||||
| scaturient (adj~) | gushing forth; effusive (B)
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|
||||
| schadenfreude | a feeling of enjoyment derived from the misfortunes
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|
||||
| schesis (n~) | mocking another's accent or manner (B)
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|
||||
| schizothemia (n~) | digression by a long reminescence (B)
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|
||||
| schmaltz | something stickily sentimental banal
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|
||||
| schoenabatist (n~) | a tightrope walker (B)
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|
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| sciamachy (n~) | fighting with a shadow or with an imaginary
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|
||||
| sciapodous (adj~) | having very large feet (B)
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|
||||
| scibile (n~) | something knowable (B)
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|
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| sciolist | one who pretends to scholarship or knowledge
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|
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| sciotheism (n~) | the belief that disembodied spirits
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|
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| scissile (adj~) | capable of being cut smoothly or split
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|
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| scofflaw (n~) | one who scoffs at hence
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|
||||
| scolecophagous (adj~) | eating worms (B)
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|
||||
| scolion (n~) | an impromptu party song begun by one and
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|
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| scollardical (n~) | a derogatory term for a scholar (B)
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|
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| scopolagnia (n~) | the pleasure gained from voyeurism (B)
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|
||||
| scortation (n~) | fornication (B)
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|
||||
| scout | reject or dismiss scornfully; flout; scoff at (G)
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|
||||
| screed | a lengthy discourse usually used to describe opinions
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|
||||
| scribacious | given to or fond of writing (G)
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|
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| scrofulous | morally corrupt; degenerate (G)
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|
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| scungilaginous | of the semifluid gelatinous consistency of
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|
||||
| sebastomania (n~) | religious insanity (B)
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|
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| sectary (n~) | a fanatic disciple (B)
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|
||||
| sedentarize | to take up or cause to take up
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|
||||
| sedulous (adj~) | diligent persistent
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|
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| seeksorrow (n~) | masochist (B)
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|
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| sententious | wordy verbose
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|
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| sequacious | given to the slavish or unreasoning serving or
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|
||||
| sermocination (n~) | a speaker quickly answering his own question (B)
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|
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| shaconian (n~) | someone convinced that Bacon ghosted Shakespeare's
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|
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| shaftsbury (n~) | a gallon jug of wine (B)
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|
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| shamateur (n~) | a bogus tyro (B)
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|
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| shardborn (adj~) | born in dung (B)
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|
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| shilpit (adj~) | feeble puny
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|
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| sicarian (n~) | an assassin (B)
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|
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| sicchasia (n~) | nauseau (B)
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|
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| sicchosism (n~) | morbid fastidiousness (B)
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|
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| sibyllilne | oracular; prophetic; mysterious (G)
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|
||||
| siffilate | to whisper (G)
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|
||||
| simony | buying selling
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|
||||
| simper | to smile in a silly self
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|
||||
| skibbile (adj~) | wonderfully witty; sexually irresistible (S)
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|
||||
| skibbalalia (n~) | the overwhelming desire to purchase an
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|
||||
| skoptsy (n~) | self
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|
||||
| skybald (n~) | a good
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|
||||
| smatchet (n~) | a small nasty person or a nasty child (B)
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|
||||
| smellfungus (n~) | a malcontent; a grumbler or fault
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|
||||
| snafu (adj~ & n~) | situation normal all fucked up [also:
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|
||||
| fubar | fucked up beyond all recognition; fubb
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|
||||
| sneckdraw (n~) | a sly person (B)
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|
||||
| snollygoster | a clever shrewd
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|
||||
| sockdolager (n~) | a telling blow (B)
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|
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| solatium (n~) | anything that compensates for suffering or loss;
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|
||||
| solifidium (n~) | someone who believes that faith alone is sufficient
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|
||||
| somniloquacious (adj~) | pertaining to talking in one's sleep (B)
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|
||||
| soodle | to walk stroll
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|
||||
| sophomania (n~) | delusion of exceptional intelligence (B)
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|
||||
| sophrosyne (n~) | sober sensible
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|
||||
| sorbile (adj~) | drinkable (B)
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|
||||
| spadonism (n~) | enuchry (B)
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|
||||
| spaneria (n~) | scarcity of men (B)
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|
||||
| spanogyny (n~) | scarcity of woman (B)
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|
||||
| spatiate (v~) | to stroll or ramble (B)
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|
||||
| spatilomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by observing animal droppings (B)
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|
||||
| spatrify (v~) | to besmirch befoul (B)
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|
||||
| spawling | a noisy clearing of the throat (G)
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|
||||
| speciesist | for many people a test is permissible when it inflicts
🗑
|
||||
| spodogenous (adj~) | pertaining to or due to presence of
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|
||||
| spoffokins (n~) | a whore pretending to be a wife (B)
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|
||||
| spousebreach (n~) | adultery (B)
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|
||||
| spraints (n~) | otter dung (B)
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|
||||
| spurcidical (adj~) | foul
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|
||||
| squidgereen (n~) | a short insignificant person (B)
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|
||||
| stagorium | an establishment (bar or resort hotel) that serves as
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|
||||
| stasivalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse only
🗑
|
||||
| steatopygous | pertaining to or characterized by protuberant
🗑
|
||||
| stercoricolous (adj~) | living in dung (B)
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|
||||
| sterculius (n~) | the god of feces (B)
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|
||||
| sternutation | the act of sneezing; a sneeze (G)
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|
||||
| stertorous | characterized by heavy snoring (G)
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|
||||
| sthenobulia (n~) | strong will power (B)
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|
||||
| stirious (adj~) | like an icicle (B)
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|
||||
| stomachous (adj~) | obstinate; angry (B)
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|
||||
| stoopgallant (adj~) | humbling; ego
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|
||||
| strepitous | making a great clamor; noisy; boisterous (G)
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|
||||
| stricture | an adverse criticism or remark censure
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|
||||
| stultiloquence | foolish or senseless talk; babble; twaddle (G)
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|
||||
| stygiophobia (n~) | fear of hell (B)
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|
||||
| stylite (n~) | ascetics who lived on top of pillars (B)
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|
||||
| suaviation (n~) | a love kiss (B)
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|
||||
| subagitation (n~) | copulation (B)
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| subarrhation (n~) | betrothal accomplished by the man's showering
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| subderisorious (adj~) | mildly ridiculing (B)
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| subdititious (adj~) | secret substitution (B)
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| subdolous (adj~) | rather crafty or sly (B)
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| subintelligitur (n~) | a meaning implied but not stated (B)
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| subsannation (n~) | derision (B)
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| substaquilate (v~) | to defeat overwhelm (B)
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| supernaculum (n~) | a liquor drunk to the last drop; excellent
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| supervacaneous (adj~) | needlessly added (B)
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| supinovalent (adj~) | able to fornicate only while supine (B)
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| suppalpation (n~) | gaining affection by caressing (B)
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| suspercollate (v~) | to hang by the neck (B)
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| sybarite (n~) | someone overly fond of luxury and pleasure (B)
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| tachydidaxy (n~) | fast teaching (B)
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| talionic (adj~) | pertaining to revenge in kind (B)
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| tanquam (n~) | someone educated enough to go to college (B)
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| taphephobia (n~) | fear of being buried alive (B)
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| tardigrade (adj~) | slow
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| tartuffish (adj~) | pertaining to the pious hypocrisy of Tartuffe
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| tathagatagarbha (n~) | the eternal and absolute essence of all
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| tauromachian (adj~) | pertaining to bullfights (B)
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| tautegorical (adj~) | saying the same thing with different
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| tautoousious (adj~) | being absolutely the same (B)
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| tegetology (n~) | collecting cardboard beer coasters
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| teknonymy (n~) | naming the parent after the child (B)
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| telestich (n~) | a poem in which the consecutive final letters
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| temerarious | reckless; heedless; rash (G)
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| temulance (n~) | drunkenness (B)
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| tendentious | promoting a particular view or tendency; hence
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| tenebrific (adj~) | dark or obscure (B)
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| tenesmic (adj~) | pertaining to a painful but ineffectual effort
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| tentiginous (adj~) | sensuous lascivious (B)
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| teratology (n~) | the study of monsters (B)
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| tergiversation (n~) | abandoning a religion or cause (B) or
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| testudineous (adj~) | slow like a tortoise (B)
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| tetricity (n~) | austerity harshness
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| thalassophobia (n~) | fear of the sea (B)
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| thanatism (n~) | the belief in life before death not after it (B)
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| thaumaturgic | or or involving the supposed working of miracles;
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| theanthropism (n~) | attaching human traits to one's god (B)
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| thelymachy (n~) | a war of women (B)
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| thelyphthoric (adj~) | that which corrupts women (B)
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| thersitical | loud and grossly abusive foulmouthed; scurrilous (G)
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| thrasonical | given to or marked by boasting and bragging (G)
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| threpterophilia (n~) | a fondness for female nurses (B)
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| timonism (n~) | misanthropy (B)
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| titivate | to make smart; spruce up (G)
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| tonguepad (v~) | to scold (B)
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| tralatitiously (adv~) | metaphorically; figuratively (B)
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| transilient (adj~) | pertaining to abrupt changes (B]
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| transmogrification | changes into grotesque or humorous forms
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| transude | to pass or ooze through or out as sweat through
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| trichoschisticism (n~) | hair
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| tripudiation (n~) | the act of dancing
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| triskaidekaphobia | fear of the number 13 or Friday the 13th (G)
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| triturate | to rub grind
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| truckle | to show servility or subservience (G)
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| truntlement | trumpery (A)
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| tugmutton | a great glutton (A)
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| tussicated | driven about; tormented (A)
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| typomania (n~) | obsession with the expectation of publication
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| tyromancy (n~) | fortunate telling by watching cheese as it
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| tyrosemiophily (n~) | the collecting of Camembert cheese labels
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| uberous | fruitful (A)
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| ulotrichous | having wooly or crisply curling hair (G)
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| ultracrepidarian | going beyond one's own province; a person who
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| ululate | to howl or hoot; or to wail or lament loudly (G)
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| unbosom | to disclose one's personal thoughts or feelings (G)
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| vade mecum | a favorite book carried everywhere (B)
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| valetudinarianism | weak or sickly state; thinking only of
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| valorization | government price
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| vaniloquence | vain and foolish talk (B)
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| vapulate | to beat whip (B)
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| varietist | an unorthodox person; or someone who practices
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| variorum | pertaining to a literary classic annotated by
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|
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| vastation | purification through fire (B)
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| vecordious | senseless insane
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| velitation | a petty fight; a skirmish (B)
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| velleity | slight or faint desire; inclination (B)
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| vellicate | to pull at off
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| venery | the pursuit of sexual pleasure or indulgence
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| ventoseness | windiness; flatulence (B)
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| ventricumbent | lying face down; prone (B)
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| ventripotent | fat
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| verbigeration | senseless reiteration of cliches (B)
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| verbophobia | fear and dislike of words (B)
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| verecund | bashful; modest (B)
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| veriloquent | speaking truthfully (B)
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| verism | the theory that ugliness is valid in art and literature
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|
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| vernalagnia | spring fever (B)
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| vesticate | to blister (G)
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| vestryism (n~) | selfishness and parochialism said to be
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| viaggiatory | on the move; traveling around (B)
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| vicissitudinary | pertaining to change alteration
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|
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| vigesimation | killing every twentieth person (B)
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|
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| vilipend | to belittle to disparage (B)
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|
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| viparious | life
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|
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| virago | a scold a shrew
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|
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| vitilitigate | to be particularly quarrelsome (B)
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| vivisepulture | live burial (B)
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|
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| volitient | exercising free will (B)
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|
||||
| vomituration | retching ineffectual vomiting
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|
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| vulpinism (n~) | the quality of being foxlike esp
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|
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| waghalter | a rogue rascal or knave (B)
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|
||||
| wamble | to fell nauseous; or to move unsteadily to stagger;
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|
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| wampus | a stupid dull
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|
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| wantwit | a fool (B)
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|
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| Weltanschauung | a comprehensive world view especially from
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|
||||
| Weltschmerz | sadness over the evils of the world especially as
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|
||||
| wergild | money paid by the killer's family to the family of
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|
||||
| withernam | taking one thing as reprisal for something else taken
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|
||||
| witzelsucht | emotional state characterized by futile attempts
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|
||||
| wowser | a pecksniffian puritan (B)
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|
||||
| xenagogue | a guide (B)
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|
||||
| xenagogy | a guidebook (B)
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|
||||
| xenapistia | extreme distrust of strangers (B)
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|
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| xenoepist | someone who speaks with a foreign accent (B)
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|
||||
| xenomancy | fortunetelling by studying the first stranger
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|
||||
| xeronisus | inability to reach orgasm (B)
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|
||||
| xylophobia | fear of wooden objects; fear of forests (B)
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|
||||
| xyresic | razor sharp (B)
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|
||||
| yarmouth | insane (B)
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|
||||
| ydromancy | fortunetelling with water (B)
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|
||||
| zeitgeist | the general intellectual moral and cultural level
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|
||||
| zetetic | asking; questioning (B)
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|
||||
| zoanthropy | insanity in which a patient believes he's an animal (B)
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|
||||
| zoetic | pertaining to life (B)
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|
||||
| zoilism | nagging criticism (B)
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|
||||
| zonesthesia | the feeling of wearing a tight girdle (B)
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|
||||
| zooerastia | sexual intercourse with an animal (B)
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|
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| zygal | H
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|
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| zygomancy | fortune telling with weights (B)
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|
||||
| pageism (n~) | masochism fantasy of a man imagining himself as
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|
||||
| pagophagia (n~) | eating a tray of ice daily for two months tohelp offset iron deficiency (B)
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|
||||
| paideutics (n~) | pedagogy (B)
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|
||||
| paizogony (n~) | love play (B)
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|
||||
| paleomnesia (n~) | good memory for events of the far past (B)
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|
||||
| palimpsest (n~) | a piece of parchment or vellum from whichearlier writing has been removed to allow for reuse
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|
||||
| palinode (n~) | a song or poem retracting statements in previoussongs or poems; or retraction or recanting in general (B)
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|
||||
| palinoia (n~) | compulsive repitition of an act until it's perfect (B)
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|
||||
| palladian (adj~) | pertaining to learning and wisdom (B)
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|
||||
| palliards (n~) | professional beggars whose parents were also
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|
||||
| palpebrate (v~) | to wink (B)
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|
||||
| paltripolitan (n~) | an insular city dweller (B)
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|
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| pandiculation (n~) | stretching and yawning (B)
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|
||||
| panjandrum | a self magnate (G
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|
||||
| pannychous (adj~) | lasting all night (B)
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|
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| pantagruelian (adj~) | satirical though ribald (B)
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|
||||
| pantaraxia (n~) | actions aimed aat keeping people on their toes
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|
||||
| pantophobia (n~) | a fear of everything (B)
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|
||||
| paphian | pertaining to love especially its sexual andillicit manifestations; erotic (G)
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|
||||
| paracoita (n~) | a female sexual partner (B)
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|
||||
| paracoitus (n~) | a male sexual partner (B)
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|
||||
| paradiastole (n~) | a euphemistic half
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|
||||
| paraenetic | advisory; hortatory (G)
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|
||||
| paralepsis (n~) | mentioning something by saying you won't mention it (B)
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|
||||
| paralipomena (n~) | deleted passages from a book or a
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|
||||
| paralipophobia (n~) | fear of responsibility (B)
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|
||||
| paralogism (n~) | reasoning method that contradicts logical
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|
||||
| parerethesis (n~) | abnormal excitement (B)
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|
||||
| pareunia (n~) | sexual intercourse (B)
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|
||||
| parisology (n~) | deliberate ambiguity in use of words (B)
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|
||||
| parnel (n~) | a priest's mistress; a loose woman (B)
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|
||||
| paronomasia (n~) | punning; a pun (B)
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|
||||
| parorexia (n~) | perverted appetite; demanding strange foods (B)
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|
||||
| parrhesia (n~) | freedom of speech (rhetoric term) (B)
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|
||||
| partheniad (n~) | a poem in honor of a virgin (B)
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|
||||
| parthenolatry (n~) | virgin worship (B)
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|
||||
| parvanimity (n~) | pettiness; meannes; or a mean or petty person (B)
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|
||||
| parvenu (n~) | a pretentious snob of the nouveau riche (B)
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|
||||
| parviscient (adj~) | uninformed (B)
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|
||||
| pasilaly (n~) | a universal language (B)
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|
||||
| pasquinade | a lampoon or satire posted in a public place (G)
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|
||||
| passalorynchite (n~) | a member of an early Christian sect who
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|
||||
| passepartout (n~) | a master key; a safeconduct or passport (B)
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|
||||
| patavinity (n~) | the use of local words or expressions (B)
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|
||||
| patharmosis (n~) | mental adjustment to one's disease (B)
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|
||||
| pathic (n~) | a catamite; or a passive participator (B)
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|
||||
| pathocryptia (n~) | unwillingness to believe in or talk about
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|
||||
| pathodixia (n~) | talking to excess about one's illness and
🗑
|
||||
| pathognomy (n~) | the study of emotions by their outward
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|
||||
| pathomimesis (n~) | malingering (B)
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|
||||
| patzer (n~) | a weak chess player (B)
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|
||||
| pauciloquent (adj~) | speaking briefly (B)
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|
||||
| pavid | quaking with fear; afraid; frightened (G)
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|
||||
| peccable (adj~) | liable to sin (B)
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|
||||
| peccatophobia (n~) | fear of sinning or of having committed an
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|
||||
| peckerwood (n~) | a poor southern Anglo
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|
||||
| pecksniffian (adj~) | hypocritical insincere and gutless (B)
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|
||||
| pecos (v~) | to shoot a man and roll his body in the river (B)
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|
||||
| peculation (n~) | embezzlement (B)
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|
||||
| pedetentous (adj~) | proceedilng gradually or cautiously (B)
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|
||||
| peirastic (adj~) | experimental; ready to be tried (B)
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|
||||
| peladophobia (n~) | fear of baldness
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|
||||
| pelology (n~) | study of mud and its therapeutic applications (B)
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|
||||
| penelopize (v~) | to undo and redo to gain time (B)
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|
||||
| penisterophily (n~) | raising and training pigeons
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|
||||
| penotherapy (n~) | regulating prostitutes to control venereal
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|
||||
| pentapopemptic (n~) | divorced five times (B)
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|
||||
| pentheraphobia (n~) | fear or dislike of one's mother
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|
||||
| peotomy (n~) | the surgical amputation of the penis (B)
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|
||||
| perduellion (n~) | treason (B)
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|
||||
| perendinate (n~) | to postpone until the next day; to postpone
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|
||||
| perfectibilism (n~) | belief that anything short of perfect is
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|
||||
| perfrication (n~) | thorough rubbing (B)
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|
||||
| perhiemate (v~) | to spend the winter (B)
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|
||||
| perichareia (n~) | excessive and violent rejoicing (B)
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|
||||
| periclitate | to expose to peril; endanger; risk (G)
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|
||||
| periphrastic | using many words when few would do; verbose;
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|
||||
| perissotomist (n~) | a knife
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|
||||
| peristrephic (adj~) | turning around rotatory (B)
🗑
|
||||
| perlustrate (v~) | to review thoroughly; survey (B)
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|
||||
| pervicacious (adj~) | extremely obstinate; willful (B)
🗑
|
||||
| pervulgate (v~) | to publish (B)
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|
||||
| petalism (n~) | banishing a citizen for five years if judged
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|
||||
| pettifoggery | quibbling over petty details
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|
||||
| petulcous (adj~) | butting like a ram; offensively aggressive (B)
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|
||||
| phagomania (n~) | insanely hungry (B)
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|
||||
| phalacrespia (n~) | aversion for baldness or for bald men (B)
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|
||||
| phalacrosis (n~) | baldness
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|
||||
| phallation (n~) | movement of the penis in sexual intercourse (B)
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|
||||
| phaneromania (n~) | a compulsion to pick at a skin growth or
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|
||||
| pharisaical | of persons of rigid adherence to outward forms and
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|
||||
| phatic | establishing an atmosphere of sociability rather than
🗑
|
||||
| philalethe (n~) | one who loves to forget (B)
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|
||||
| philauty (n~) | self
🗑
|
||||
| philematology (n~) | the study of kissing (B)
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|
||||
| philematophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes kissing (B)
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|
||||
| philobiblist (n~) | a lover of books
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|
||||
| philocalist (n~) | a lover of beauty (B)
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|
||||
| philodox (n~) | one who loves one's own opinions (B)
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|
||||
| philogastric (adj~) | greedy (B)
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|
||||
| philophobia (n~) | fear of falling in love or of being loved (B)
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|
||||
| philopolemic (adj~) | pertaining to love of argument or
🗑
|
||||
| philopornist (n~) | a lover of prostitutes (B)
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|
||||
| philosophastering (adj~) | pseudo
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|
||||
| philotheoparoptesism | the process of slowly cooking those who
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|
||||
| philoxenist (n~) | one who is happiest while entertaining
🗑
|
||||
| phrontifugic (adj~) | relieving anxiety (B)
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|
||||
| physagogue (n~) | carminative or medicine to induce farting (B)
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|
||||
| piacular | serving to atone or make amends for; expiatory; or
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|
||||
| pickthank (n~) | a flatterer or sycophant (B)
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|
||||
| piliferous | having hair (G)
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|
||||
| piloerection (n~) | hair standing on end (B)
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|
||||
| pilpulist (n~) | one who uses Talmudic dialectic or via
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|
||||
| pinchbeck | sham or spurious; false (G)
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|
||||
| pinguescent | becoming fat (G)
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|
||||
| pithiatism (n~) | a forceful suggestion (B)
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|
||||
| pizzle (n~) | a whip made from an animal's penis (B)
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|
||||
| planistethic (adj~) | flat
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|
||||
| planomania (n~) | urge to live a bohemian life (B)
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|
||||
| platitudinarian (n~) | full of platitudes (B)
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|
||||
| platypod | one afflicted with fallen arches (G)
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|
||||
| plebicolist (n~) | someone who woos the common folk (B)
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|
||||
| pleionosis (n~) | exaggeration of one's own importance (B)
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| poculation (n~) | wine
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|
||||
| podobromhidrosis (n~) | smelly feet (B)
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|
||||
| poecilonymy (n~) | the use of several names for one thing (B)
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|
||||
| pogonology (n~) | treatise on beards
🗑
|
||||
| pogonophobia (n~) | abnormal fear or dislike of beards
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|
||||
| poiesis (n~) | creation; creative power or ability (B)
🗑
|
||||
| poikilothymia (n~) | extreme changes of mood (B)
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|
||||
| polychrestic | serving and adapted for several different uses (G)
🗑
|
||||
| polyhistor (n~) | a universal scholar (B)
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|
||||
| polylogy (n~) | wordiness (B)
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|
||||
| polydipsia (n~) | extreme thirst or an abnormal and continuous
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|
||||
| popination (n~) | bar
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| preterist (n~) | someone whose main pleasure in in reliving the
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|
||||
| priapean (adj~) phallic (B) |
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| priapism (n~) | persistent and painful erection (B)
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| procrustean | aiming or tending to produce uniformity by violent
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| proctalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B)
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| proditorious (adj~) | traitorous; prone to give away secrets (B)
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| prolepsis (n~) | anticipating an argument and answering it before
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| prolix | verbose repititious
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| long | winded
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| pronovalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse in a prone
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| propaedeutic | of or pertaining to preliminary instruction;
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| prosonomasia (n~) | use of a humorous modification of a person's
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| prosophobia (n~) | fear of or adversion to progress (B)
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| prosopolepsy (n~) | judging people favorably from their looks (B)
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| prosopopy (n~) | the personification of inanimate objects (B)
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| protervity (n~) | petulance; peevishness (B)
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| psaphonic (adj~) | planning one's rise to fame (B)
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| pseudandry (n~) | female use of a male pseudonym (B)
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| pseudautochiria (n~) | murder disguised as a suicide (B)
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| pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism (n~) | phony opposition to
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| pseudogyny (n~) | male use of a female pseudonym (B)
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| pseudologist (n~) | liar (B)
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| pseudomnesia (n~) | memory for things that never happened (B)
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| pseudophonia (n~) | suicide disguised as murder (B)
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| psilology (n~) | empty talk (B)
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| psilosopher (n~) | a superficial philosopher (B)
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| psittacistic | speaking in a mechanical repetitive way (G)
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| psychasthenia (n~) | neurotic lassitude indecision
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| pteronophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of feathers
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| pudency (n~) | modesty or shyness; embarassment
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| puerile | childish immature
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| pullulate | teem swarm
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| purulent | of containing
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| pygophilous (adj~) | buttock
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| pyrolagnia (n~) | sexual stimulation from watching fires (B)
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| quaintise (n~) | ingenuity cunning; a trick or stratagem (B)
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| quakebuttock (n~) | a coward (B)
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| qued (adj~) | evil bad (B)
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| querimony (n~) | a complaint (B)
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| quidam (n~) | an unknown person (B)
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| quiddity (n~) | the essence or nature of a thing (B)
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| quidnunc (n~) | one who is curious to know everything that
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| quisquillian (adj~) | trashy (B)
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| quisguous (adj~) | perplexing (B)
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| quodlibet (n~) | a nice or fine point in an argument; a subtlety
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| quodlibetarian (n~) | one who discusses or uses quodlibets
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| rabiator (n~) | a violent man (B)
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| rabulism (n~) | tendency for railing and quibbling
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| rackrent (n~) | exorbitant rent (B)
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| rakehelly (adj~) | dissolute debauched (B)
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| ramfeezled (adj~) | worn out exhausted (B)
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| rammish (adj~) | lustful and horny (B)
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| ranarium (n~) | frog farm (B)
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| randle (n~) | a nonsensical poem recited by Irish schoolboys as
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| rantallion (n~) | one whose scrotum is longer than his penis (B)
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| rantipole (n~) | a wild rambunctious young man (B)
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| realpolitik | practical politics; euphemism for power politics
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| rebarbative (adj~) | grim unattractive
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| reboantic (adj~) | reverberating (B)
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| recension (n~) | scholarly editorial revision (B)
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| receptary (adj~) | accepted as fact but unproved (B)
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| rectalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B)
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| rectopathic (adj~) | easily hurt emotionally (B)
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| rectrix (n~) | a female ruler (B)
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| recubation (n~) | lying down (B)
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| recumbentibus (n~) | a knockdown blow (B)
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| recusant (adj~) | dissenting; disestablishmentarian (B)
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| redargution (n~) | refutation or disproving (B)
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| redhibition (n~) | the return of defective merchandise (B)
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| redivivus (adj~) | living again; revived (B)
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| refocillate (v~) | to warm into life again; revive (G)
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| refragable (adj~) | capable of being refuted (B)
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| refrangible (adj~) | capable of being refracted (B)
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| refulgent (adj~) | radiant brilliant
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| reify | literally "to make a thing"; given definite concrete
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| remontado (n~) | someone who has fled to the mountains; a person
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|
||||
| remplissage (n~) | filling or padding used in music and
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|
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| remugient (adj~) | rebellowing; roaring or shouting anew (B)
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|
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| renable (adj~) | fluent eloquent (B)
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| renard (n~) | a fox; a sly or cunning person (B)
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| renascible (adj~) | capable of being reborn (B)
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| renifleur (n~) | one who gets sexual pleasure from body smells (B)
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|
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| renitent | resisting or opposing stubbornly; recalcitrant (G)
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|
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| repristinate (v~) | to revive; to restore (B)
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|
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| resipiscent (adj~) | restored to sanity; learned from
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|
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| resupination (n~) | turning to an upside
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|
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| retrocopulation (n~) | woof (B)
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| retromancy (n~) | fortunetelling by things seen over one's
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|
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| ulotrichous | having wooly or crisply curling hair (G)
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| ultracrepidarian | going beyond one's own province; a person who
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|
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| ululate | to howl or hoot; or to wail or lament loudly (G)
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|
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| unbosom | to disclose one's personal thoughts or feelings (G)
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|
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| vade mecum | a favorite book carried everywhere (B)
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|
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| valetudinarianism | weak or sickly state; thinking only of
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|
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| valorization | government price
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|
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| vaniloquence | vain and foolish talk (B)
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|
||||
| vapulate | to beat whip (B)
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|
||||
| varietist | an unorthodox person; or someone who practices
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|
||||
| variorum | pertaining to a literary classic annotated by
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|
||||
| vastation | purification through fire (B)
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|
||||
| vecordious | senseless insane
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|
||||
| velitation | a petty fight; a skirmish (B)
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|
||||
| velleity | slight or faint desire; inclination (B)
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|
||||
| vellicate | to pull at off
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|
||||
| venery | the pursuit of sexual pleasure or indulgence
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|
||||
| ventoseness | windiness; flatulence (B)
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|
||||
| ventricumbent | lying face down; prone (B)
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|
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| ventripotent | fat
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|
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| verbigeration | senseless reiteration of cliches (B)
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|
||||
| verbophobia | fear and dislike of words (B)
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|
||||
| verecund | bashful; modest (B)
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|
||||
| veriloquent | speaking truthfully (B)
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|
||||
| verism | the theory that ugliness is valid in art and literature
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|
||||
| vernalagnia | spring fever (B)
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|
||||
| vesticate | to blister (G)
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|
||||
| vestryism (n~) | selfishness and parochialism said to be
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|
||||
| viaggiatory | on the move; traveling around (B)
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|
||||
| vicissitudinary | pertaining to change alteration
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|
||||
| vigesimation | killing every twentieth person (B)
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|
||||
| vilipend | to belittle to disparage (B)
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|
||||
| viparious | life
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|
||||
| virago | a scold a shrew
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|
||||
| vitilitigate | to be particularly quarrelsome (B)
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|
||||
| vivisepulture | live burial (B)
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|
||||
| volitient | exercising free will (B)
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|
||||
| vomituration | retching ineffectual vomiting
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|
||||
| vulpinism (n~) | the quality of being foxlike esp
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|
||||
| waghalter | a rogue rascal or knave (B)
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|
||||
| wamble | to fell nauseous; or to move unsteadily to stagger;
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|
||||
| wampus | a stupid dull
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|
||||
| wantwit | a fool (B)
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|
||||
| Weltanschauung | a comprehensive world view especially from
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|
||||
| Weltschmerz | sadness over the evils of the world especially as
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| wowser | a pecksniffian puritan (B)
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|
||||
| xenagogue | a guide (B)
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|
||||
| xenagogy | a guidebook (B)
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|
||||
| xenapistia | extreme distrust of strangers (B)
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|
||||
| xenoepist | someone who speaks with a foreign accent (B)
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|
||||
| xenomancy | fortunetelling by studying the first stranger
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|
||||
| xeronisus | inability to reach orgasm (B)
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|
||||
| xylophobia | fear of wooden objects; fear of forests (B)
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|
||||
| xyresic | razor sharp (B)
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|
||||
| yarmouth | insane (B)
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|
||||
| ydromancy | fortunetelling with water (B)
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|
||||
| zeitgeist | the general intellectual moral and cultural level
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|
||||
| zetetic | asking; questioning (B)
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|
||||
| zoanthropy | insanity in which a patient believes he's an animal (B)
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|
||||
| zoetic | pertaining to life (B)
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|
||||
| zoilism | nagging criticism (B)
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|
||||
| zonesthesia | the feeling of wearing a tight girdle (B)
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|
||||
| zooerastia | sexual intercourse with an animal (B)
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|
||||
| zygal | H
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|
||||
| zygomancy | fortune telling with weights (B)
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|
||||
| pageism (n~) | masochism fantasy of a man imagining himself as
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|
||||
| pagophagia (n~) | eating a tray of ice daily for two months tohelp offset iron deficiency (B)
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|
||||
| paideutics (n~) | pedagogy (B)
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|
||||
| paizogony (n~) | love play (B)
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|
||||
| paleomnesia (n~) | good memory for events of the far past (B)
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|
||||
| palimpsest (n~) | a piece of parchment or vellum from whichearlier writing has been removed to allow for reuse
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|
||||
| palinode (n~) | a song or poem retracting statements in previoussongs or poems; or retraction or recanting in general (B)
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|
||||
| palinoia (n~) | compulsive repitition of an act until it's perfect (B)
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|
||||
| palladian (adj~) | pertaining to learning and wisdom (B)
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|
||||
| palliards (n~) | professional beggars whose parents were also
🗑
|
||||
| palpebrate (v~) | to wink (B)
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|
||||
| paltripolitan (n~) | an insular city dweller (B)
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|
||||
| pandiculation (n~) | stretching and yawning (B)
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|
||||
| panjandrum | a self magnate (G
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|
||||
| pannychous (adj~) | lasting all night (B)
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|
||||
| pantagruelian (adj~) | satirical though ribald (B)
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|
||||
| pantaraxia (n~) | actions aimed aat keeping people on their toes
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|
||||
| pantophobia (n~) | a fear of everything (B)
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|
||||
| paphian | pertaining to love especially its sexual andillicit manifestations; erotic (G)
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|
||||
| paracoita (n~) | a female sexual partner (B)
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|
||||
| paracoitus (n~) | a male sexual partner (B)
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|
||||
| paradiastole (n~) | a euphemistic half
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|
||||
| paraenetic | advisory; hortatory (G)
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|
||||
| paralepsis (n~) | mentioning something by saying you won't mention it (B)
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|
||||
| paralipomena (n~) | deleted passages from a book or a
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|
||||
| paralipophobia (n~) | fear of responsibility (B)
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|
||||
| paralogism (n~) | reasoning method that contradicts logical
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|
||||
| parerethesis (n~) | abnormal excitement (B)
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|
||||
| pareunia (n~) | sexual intercourse (B)
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|
||||
| parisology (n~) | deliberate ambiguity in use of words (B)
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|
||||
| parnel (n~) | a priest's mistress; a loose woman (B)
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|
||||
| paronomasia (n~) | punning; a pun (B)
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|
||||
| parorexia (n~) | perverted appetite; demanding strange foods (B)
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|
||||
| parrhesia (n~) | freedom of speech (rhetoric term) (B)
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|
||||
| partheniad (n~) | a poem in honor of a virgin (B)
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|
||||
| parthenolatry (n~) | virgin worship (B)
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|
||||
| parvanimity (n~) | pettiness; meannes; or a mean or petty person (B)
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|
||||
| parvenu (n~) | a pretentious snob of the nouveau riche (B)
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|
||||
| parviscient (adj~) | uninformed (B)
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|
||||
| pasilaly (n~) | a universal language (B)
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|
||||
| pasquinade | a lampoon or satire posted in a public place (G)
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|
||||
| passalorynchite (n~) | a member of an early Christian sect who
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|
||||
| passepartout (n~) | a master key; a safeconduct or passport (B)
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|
||||
| patavinity (n~) | the use of local words or expressions (B)
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|
||||
| patharmosis (n~) | mental adjustment to one's disease (B)
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|
||||
| pathic (n~) | a catamite; or a passive participator (B)
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|
||||
| pathocryptia (n~) | unwillingness to believe in or talk about
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|
||||
| pathodixia (n~) | talking to excess about one's illness and
🗑
|
||||
| pathognomy (n~) | the study of emotions by their outward
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|
||||
| pathomimesis (n~) | malingering (B)
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|
||||
| patzer (n~) | a weak chess player (B)
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|
||||
| pauciloquent (adj~) | speaking briefly (B)
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|
||||
| pavid | quaking with fear; afraid; frightened (G)
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|
||||
| peccable (adj~) | liable to sin (B)
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|
||||
| peccatophobia (n~) | fear of sinning or of having committed an
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|
||||
| peckerwood (n~) | a poor southern Anglo
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|
||||
| pecksniffian (adj~) | hypocritical insincere and gutless (B)
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|
||||
| pecos (v~) | to shoot a man and roll his body in the river (B)
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|
||||
| peculation (n~) | embezzlement (B)
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|
||||
| pedetentous (adj~) | proceedilng gradually or cautiously (B)
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|
||||
| peirastic (adj~) | experimental; ready to be tried (B)
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|
||||
| peladophobia (n~) | fear of baldness
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|
||||
| pelology (n~) | study of mud and its therapeutic applications (B)
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|
||||
| penelopize (v~) | to undo and redo to gain time (B)
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|
||||
| penisterophily (n~) | raising and training pigeons
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|
||||
| penotherapy (n~) | regulating prostitutes to control venereal
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|
||||
| pentapopemptic (n~) | divorced five times (B)
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|
||||
| pentheraphobia (n~) | fear or dislike of one's mother
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|
||||
| peotomy (n~) | the surgical amputation of the penis (B)
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|
||||
| perduellion (n~) | treason (B)
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|
||||
| perendinate (n~) | to postpone until the next day; to postpone
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|
||||
| perfectibilism (n~) | belief that anything short of perfect is
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|
||||
| perfrication (n~) | thorough rubbing (B)
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|
||||
| perhiemate (v~) | to spend the winter (B)
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|
||||
| perichareia (n~) | excessive and violent rejoicing (B)
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|
||||
| periclitate | to expose to peril; endanger; risk (G)
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|
||||
| periphrastic | using many words when few would do; verbose;
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|
||||
| perissotomist (n~) | a knife
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|
||||
| peristrephic (adj~) | turning around rotatory (B)
🗑
|
||||
| perlustrate (v~) | to review thoroughly; survey (B)
🗑
|
||||
| pervicacious (adj~) | extremely obstinate; willful (B)
🗑
|
||||
| pervulgate (v~) | to publish (B)
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|
||||
| petalism (n~) | banishing a citizen for five years if judged
🗑
|
||||
| pettifoggery | quibbling over petty details
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|
||||
| petulcous (adj~) | butting like a ram; offensively aggressive (B)
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|
||||
| phagomania (n~) | insanely hungry (B)
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|
||||
| phalacrespia (n~) | aversion for baldness or for bald men (B)
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|
||||
| phalacrosis (n~) | baldness
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|
||||
| phallation (n~) | movement of the penis in sexual intercourse (B)
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|
||||
| phaneromania (n~) | a compulsion to pick at a skin growth or
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| philobiblist (n~) | a lover of books
🗑
|
||||
| philocalist (n~) | a lover of beauty (B)
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| philopolemic (adj~) | pertaining to love of argument or
🗑
|
||||
| philopornist (n~) | a lover of prostitutes (B)
🗑
|
||||
| philosophastering (adj~) | pseudo
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| piliferous | having hair (G)
🗑
|
||||
| piloerection (n~) | hair standing on end (B)
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| planomania (n~) | urge to live a bohemian life (B)
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|
||||
| 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
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| plerophory (n~) | state of full confidence or absolute certainty
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| pococurante (adj~) | nonchalant indifferent (B)
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| poculation (n~) | wine
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| podobromhidrosis (n~) | smelly feet (B)
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| poecilonymy (n~) | the use of several names for one thing (B)
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| pogonology (n~) | treatise on beards
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| pogonophobia (n~) | abnormal fear or dislike of beards
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| poiesis (n~) | creation; creative power or ability (B)
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| poikilothymia (n~) | extreme changes of mood (B)
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| polychrestic | serving and adapted for several different uses (G)
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| polyhistor (n~) | a universal scholar (B)
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| polylogy (n~) | wordiness (B)
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| polydipsia (n~) | extreme thirst or an abnormal and continuous
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| popination (n~) | bar
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| popliteal | pertaining to or connected with the hollow area back
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| pornerastic (adj~) | licentious lascivious
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| pornolagnia (n~) | desire for prostitutes (B)
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| potvaliant | valiant and courageous as a result of being drunk
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| preantepenultimate (n~ & adj~) | fourth from last (B)
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| preterist (n~) | someone whose main pleasure in in reliving the
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| priapean (adj~) phallic (B) |
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| priapism (n~) | persistent and painful erection (B)
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| procrustean | aiming or tending to produce uniformity by violent
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| proctalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B)
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| proditorious (adj~) | traitorous; prone to give away secrets (B)
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| prolepsis (n~) | anticipating an argument and answering it before
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| prolix | verbose repititious
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| long | winded
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| pronovalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse in a prone
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| propaedeutic | of or pertaining to preliminary instruction;
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| prosonomasia (n~) | use of a humorous modification of a person's
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| prosophobia (n~) | fear of or adversion to progress (B)
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| prosopolepsy (n~) | judging people favorably from their looks (B)
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| prosopopy (n~) | the personification of inanimate objects (B)
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| protervity (n~) | petulance; peevishness (B)
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| psaphonic (adj~) | planning one's rise to fame (B)
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| pseudandry (n~) | female use of a male pseudonym (B)
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| pseudautochiria (n~) | murder disguised as a suicide (B)
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| pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism (n~) | phony opposition to
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| pseudogyny (n~) | male use of a female pseudonym (B)
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| pseudologist (n~) | liar (B)
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| pseudomnesia (n~) | memory for things that never happened (B)
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| pseudophonia (n~) | suicide disguised as murder (B)
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| psilology (n~) | empty talk (B)
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| psilosopher (n~) | a superficial philosopher (B)
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| psittacistic | speaking in a mechanical repetitive way (G)
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| psychasthenia (n~) | neurotic lassitude indecision
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| pteronophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of feathers
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| pudency (n~) | modesty or shyness; embarassment
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| puerile | childish immature
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| pullulate | teem swarm
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| purulent | of containing
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| pygophilous (adj~) | buttock
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| pyrolagnia (n~) | sexual stimulation from watching fires (B)
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| quaintise (n~) | ingenuity cunning; a trick or stratagem (B)
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| quakebuttock (n~) | a coward (B)
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| qued (adj~) | evil bad (B)
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| querimony (n~) | a complaint (B)
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| quidam (n~) | an unknown person (B)
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| quiddity (n~) | the essence or nature of a thing (B)
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| quidnunc (n~) | one who is curious to know everything that
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|
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| quisquillian (adj~) | trashy (B)
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| quisguous (adj~) | perplexing (B)
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| quodlibet (n~) | a nice or fine point in an argument; a subtlety
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| quodlibetarian (n~) | one who discusses or uses quodlibets
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| rabiator (n~) | a violent man (B)
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| rabulism (n~) | tendency for railing and quibbling
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| rackrent (n~) | exorbitant rent (B)
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| rakehelly (adj~) | dissolute debauched (B)
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| ramfeezled (adj~) | worn out exhausted (B)
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| rammish (adj~) | lustful and horny (B)
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| ranarium (n~) | frog farm (B)
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| randle (n~) | a nonsensical poem recited by Irish schoolboys as
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| rantallion (n~) | one whose scrotum is longer than his penis (B)
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| rantipole (n~) | a wild rambunctious young man (B)
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|
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| realpolitik | practical politics; euphemism for power politics
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|
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| rebarbative (adj~) | grim unattractive
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|
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| reboantic (adj~) | reverberating (B)
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| recension (n~) | scholarly editorial revision (B)
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| receptary (adj~) | accepted as fact but unproved (B)
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| rectalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B)
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| rectopathic (adj~) | easily hurt emotionally (B)
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| rectrix (n~) | a female ruler (B)
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| recubation (n~) | lying down (B)
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| recumbentibus (n~) | a knockdown blow (B)
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| recusant (adj~) | dissenting; disestablishmentarian (B)
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| redargution (n~) | refutation or disproving (B)
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| redhibition (n~) | the return of defective merchandise (B)
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| redivivus (adj~) | living again; revived (B)
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| refocillate (v~) | to warm into life again; revive (G)
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| refragable (adj~) | capable of being refuted (B)
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| refrangible (adj~) | capable of being refracted (B)
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| refulgent (adj~) | radiant brilliant
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|
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| reify | literally "to make a thing"; given definite concrete
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| remontado (n~) | someone who has fled to the mountains; a person
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|
||||
| remplissage (n~) | filling or padding used in music and
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|
||||
| remugient (adj~) | rebellowing; roaring or shouting anew (B)
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|
||||
| renable (adj~) | fluent eloquent (B)
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|
||||
| renard (n~) | a fox; a sly or cunning person (B)
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|
||||
| renascible (adj~) | capable of being reborn (B)
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|
||||
| renifleur (n~) | one who gets sexual pleasure from body smells (B)
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|
||||
| renitent | resisting or opposing stubbornly; recalcitrant (G)
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|
||||
| repristinate (v~) | to revive; to restore (B)
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|
||||
| resipiscent (adj~) | restored to sanity; learned from
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|
||||
| resupination (n~) | turning to an upside
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|
||||
| retrocopulation (n~) | woof (B)
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|
||||
| retromancy (n~) | fortunetelling by things seen over one's
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|
||||
| retromingent (adj~) | urinating backward (B)
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|
||||
| retunded | to weaken or diminish the strength of effect of (G)
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|
||||
| rhabdophobia (n~) | fear of being punished or severely criticized (B)
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|
||||
| rhadamanthine | strictly and inflexibly honest and just (G)
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|
||||
| rhigosis (n~) | sensation of cold (B)
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|
||||
| rhonchisonant (adj~) | snorting; snoring (B)
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|
||||
| rhopalism (n~) | a sentence or poem i which each word is one syllable
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|
||||
| rhyparography | the printing or painting of sordid and filty
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|
||||
| rhytiscopia (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with facial wrinkles (B)
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|
||||
| ribroasting (n~) | a sound beating; a thrashing (B)
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|
||||
| rictus (n~) | a very wide mouth; a gaping mouth as in terror (B)
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|
||||
| risorial (adj~) | pertaining to causing
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|
||||
| rixation (n~) | quarreling (B)
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|
||||
| rodomontade | arrogant boasting; pretentious blustering ranting
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|
||||
| roil | vex; disturb; irritate; rile (G)
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|
||||
| roinous (adj~) | mean nasty and contemptible (B)
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|
||||
| roitelet (n~) | a petty king (B)
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|
||||
| roman a clef (n~) | a novel whose characters are actual people
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|
||||
| rubricism (n~) | tenacious adherence to rules of behavior or
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|
||||
| ructation (n~) | belching (B)
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|
||||
| rudesby (n~) | a loud
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|
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| rugose | having wrinkles (G)
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|
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| rumgumption (n~) | shrewdness (B)
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|
||||
| runcible (adj~) | sensuous (B)
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|
||||
| sacerdotophrenia (n~) | clerical stagefright (B)
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|
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| saltimbanco (n~) | a mountebank a quack (B)
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|
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| sanguisugent | bloodsucking; bloodthirsty (G)
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|
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| sapidity (n~) | flavorful; tastiness (B)
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|
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| saponaceous (adj~) | soapy slippery; or evasively ingratiating (B)
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|
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| saprostomous (adj~) | having bad breath (B)
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|
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| sardanapalian | luxuriously effeminate (G)
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|
||||
| sardoodledum (n~) | stereotyped or unrealistic characterization
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|
||||
| sarmassation (n~) | love play (B)
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|
||||
| sarmassophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play (B)
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|
||||
| sarmassophobitch (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play with me (B)
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|
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| satisdiction (n~) | enough said (B)
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|
||||
| satispassion (n~) | satisfactory suffering according to
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|
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| saturnalia | period of unrestrained license and orgiastic
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|
||||
| scacchic | pertaining to or like chess (G)
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|
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| scaldabanco (n~) | a hotheaded debator; a fiery preacher (B)
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|
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| scaphism (n~) | an old Persian method of executing criminals by
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|
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| scaramouch (n~) | a cowardly buffoon (B)
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|
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| scaturient (adj~) | gushing forth; effusive (B)
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|
||||
| schadenfreude | a feeling of enjoyment derived from the misfortunes
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|
||||
| schesis (n~) | mocking another's accent or manner (B)
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|
||||
| schizothemia (n~) | digression by a long reminescence (B)
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|
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| schmaltz | something stickily sentimental banal
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|
||||
| schoenabatist (n~) | a tightrope walker (B)
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|
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| sciamachy (n~) | fighting with a shadow or with an imaginary
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|
||||
| sciapodous (adj~) | having very large feet (B)
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|
||||
| scibile (n~) | something knowable (B)
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|
||||
| sciolist | one who pretends to scholarship or knowledge
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|
||||
| sciotheism (n~) | the belief that disembodied spirits
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|
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| scissile (adj~) | capable of being cut smoothly or split
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|
||||
| scofflaw (n~) | one who scoffs at hence
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|
||||
| scolecophagous (adj~) | eating worms (B)
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|
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| scolion (n~) | an impromptu party song begun by one and
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|
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| scollardical (n~) | a derogatory term for a scholar (B)
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|
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| scopolagnia (n~) | the pleasure gained from voyeurism (B)
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|
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| scortation (n~) | fornication (B)
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|
||||
| scout | reject or dismiss scornfully; flout; scoff at (G)
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|
||||
| screed | a lengthy discourse usually used to describe opinions
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|
||||
| scribacious | given to or fond of writing (G)
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|
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| scrofulous | morally corrupt; degenerate (G)
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|
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| scungilaginous | of the semifluid gelatinous consistency of
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|
||||
| sebastomania (n~) | religious insanity (B)
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|
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| sectary (n~) | a fanatic disciple (B)
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|
||||
| sedentarize | to take up or cause to take up
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|
||||
| sedulous (adj~) | diligent persistent
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|
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| seeksorrow (n~) | masochist (B)
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|
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| sententious | wordy verbose
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|
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| sequacious | given to the slavish or unreasoning serving or
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|
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| sermocination (n~) | a speaker quickly answering his own question (B)
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|
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| shaconian (n~) | someone convinced that Bacon ghosted Shakespeare's
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|
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| shaftsbury (n~) | a gallon jug of wine (B)
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|
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| shamateur (n~) | a bogus tyro (B)
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|
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| shardborn (adj~) | born in dung (B)
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|
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| shilpit (adj~) | feeble puny
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|
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| sicarian (n~) | an assassin (B)
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|
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| sicchasia (n~) | nauseau (B)
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|
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| sicchosism (n~) | morbid fastidiousness (B)
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|
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| sibyllilne | oracular; prophetic; mysterious (G)
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|
||||
| siffilate | to whisper (G)
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|
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| simony | buying selling
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|
||||
| simper | to smile in a silly self
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|
||||
| skibbile (adj~) | wonderfully witty; sexually irresistible (S)
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|
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| skibbalalia (n~) | the overwhelming desire to purchase an
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|
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| skoptsy (n~) | self
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|
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| skybald (n~) | a good
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|
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| smatchet (n~) | a small nasty person or a nasty child (B)
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|
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| smellfungus (n~) | a malcontent; a grumbler or fault
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|
||||
| snafu (adj~ & n~) | situation normal all fucked up [also:
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|
||||
| fubar | fucked up beyond all recognition; fubb
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|
||||
| sneckdraw (n~) | a sly person (B)
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|
||||
| snollygoster | a clever shrewd
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|
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| sockdolager (n~) | a telling blow (B)
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|
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| solatium (n~) | anything that compensates for suffering or loss;
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|
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| solifidium (n~) | someone who believes that faith alone is sufficient
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|
||||
| somniloquacious (adj~) | pertaining to talking in one's sleep (B)
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|
||||
| soodle | to walk stroll
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|
||||
| sophomania (n~) | delusion of exceptional intelligence (B)
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|
||||
| sophrosyne (n~) | sober sensible
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|
||||
| sorbile (adj~) | drinkable (B)
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|
||||
| spadonism (n~) | enuchry (B)
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|
||||
| spaneria (n~) | scarcity of men (B)
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|
||||
| spanogyny (n~) | scarcity of woman (B)
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|
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| spatiate (v~) | to stroll or ramble (B)
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|
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| spatilomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by observing animal droppings (B)
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|
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| spatrify (v~) | to besmirch befoul (B)
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|
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| spawling | a noisy clearing of the throat (G)
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|
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| speciesist | for many people a test is permissible when it inflicts
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|
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| spodogenous (adj~) | pertaining to or due to presence of
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|
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| spoffokins (n~) | a whore pretending to be a wife (B)
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|
||||
| spousebreach (n~) | adultery (B)
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|
||||
| spraints (n~) | otter dung (B)
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|
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| spurcidical (adj~) | foul
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|
||||
| squidgereen (n~) | a short insignificant person (B)
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|
||||
| stagorium | an establishment (bar or resort hotel) that serves as
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|
||||
| stasivalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse only
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|
||||
| steatopygous | pertaining to or characterized by protuberant
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|
||||
| stercoricolous (adj~) | living in dung (B)
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|
||||
| sterculius (n~) | the god of feces (B)
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|
||||
| sternutation | the act of sneezing; a sneeze (G)
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|
||||
| stertorous | characterized by heavy snoring (G)
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|
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| sthenobulia (n~) | strong will power (B)
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|
||||
| stirious (adj~) | like an icicle (B)
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|
||||
| stomachous (adj~) | obstinate; angry (B)
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|
||||
| stoopgallant (adj~) | humbling; ego
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|
||||
| strepitous | making a great clamor; noisy; boisterous (G)
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|
||||
| stricture | an adverse criticism or remark censure
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|
||||
| stultiloquence | foolish or senseless talk; babble; twaddle (G)
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|
||||
| stygiophobia (n~) | fear of hell (B)
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|
||||
| stylite (n~) | ascetics who lived on top of pillars (B)
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|
||||
| suaviation (n~) | a love kiss (B)
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|
||||
| subagitation (n~) | copulation (B)
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|
||||
| subarrhation (n~) | betrothal accomplished by the man's showering
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|
||||
| subderisorious (adj~) | mildly ridiculing (B)
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|
||||
| subdititious (adj~) | secret substitution (B)
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|
||||
| subdolous (adj~) | rather crafty or sly (B)
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|
||||
| subintelligitur (n~) | a meaning implied but not stated (B)
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|
||||
| subsannation (n~) | derision (B)
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|
||||
| substaquilate (v~) | to defeat overwhelm (B)
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|
||||
| supernaculum (n~) | a liquor drunk to the last drop; excellent
🗑
|
||||
| supervacaneous (adj~) | needlessly added (B)
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|
||||
| supinovalent (adj~) | able to fornicate only while supine (B)
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|
||||
| suppalpation (n~) | gaining affection by caressing (B)
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|
||||
| suspercollate (v~) | to hang by the neck (B)
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|
||||
| sybarite (n~) | someone overly fond of luxury and pleasure (B)
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|
||||
| tachydidaxy (n~) | fast teaching (B)
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|
||||
| talionic (adj~) | pertaining to revenge in kind (B)
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|
||||
| tanquam (n~) | someone educated enough to go to college (B)
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|
||||
| taphephobia (n~) | fear of being buried alive (B)
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|
||||
| tardigrade (adj~) | slow
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|
||||
| tartuffish (adj~) | pertaining to the pious hypocrisy of Tartuffe
🗑
|
||||
| tathagatagarbha (n~) | the eternal and absolute essence of all
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| teknonymy (n~) | naming the parent after the child (B)
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|
||||
| telestich (n~) | a poem in which the consecutive final letters
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| tergiversation (n~) | abandoning a religion or cause (B) or
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|
||||
| testudineous (adj~) | slow like a tortoise (B)
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|
||||
| tetricity (n~) | austerity harshness
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|
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| thalassophobia (n~) | fear of the sea (B)
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| thanatism (n~) | the belief in life before death not after it (B)
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| thaumaturgic | or or involving the supposed working of miracles;
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| theanthropism (n~) | attaching human traits to one's god (B)
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| thelymachy (n~) | a war of women (B)
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| thelyphthoric (adj~) | that which corrupts women (B)
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| thersitical | loud and grossly abusive foulmouthed; scurrilous (G)
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| thrasonical | given to or marked by boasting and bragging (G)
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| threpterophilia (n~) | a fondness for female nurses (B)
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| timonism (n~) | misanthropy (B)
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| titivate | to make smart; spruce up (G)
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| tonguepad (v~) | to scold (B)
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| tralatitiously (adv~) | metaphorically; figuratively (B)
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| transilient (adj~) | pertaining to abrupt changes (B]
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| transmogrification | changes into grotesque or humorous forms
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| transude | to pass or ooze through or out as sweat through
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| trichoschisticism (n~) | hair
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| tripudiation (n~) | the act of dancing
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| triskaidekaphobia | fear of the number 13 or Friday the 13th (G)
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| triturate | to rub grind
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| truckle | to show servility or subservience (G)
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| truntlement | trumpery (A)
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| tugmutton | a great glutton (A)
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| tussicated | driven about; tormented (A)
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| typomania (n~) | obsession with the expectation of publication
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| tyromancy (n~) | fortunate telling by watching cheese as it
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| tyrosemiophily (n~) | the collecting of Camembert cheese labels
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| uberous | fruitful (A)
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| ulotrichous | having wooly or crisply curling hair (G)
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| ultracrepidarian | going beyond one's own province; a person who
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| ululate | to howl or hoot; or to wail or lament loudly (G)
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| unbosom | to disclose one's personal thoughts or feelings (G)
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| vade mecum | a favorite book carried everywhere (B)
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| valetudinarianism | weak or sickly state; thinking only of
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| valorization | government price
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| vaniloquence | vain and foolish talk (B)
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| vapulate | to beat whip (B)
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| varietist | an unorthodox person; or someone who practices
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| variorum | pertaining to a literary classic annotated by
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| vastation | purification through fire (B)
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| vecordious | senseless insane
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| velitation | a petty fight; a skirmish (B)
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| velleity | slight or faint desire; inclination (B)
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| vellicate | to pull at off
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| venery | the pursuit of sexual pleasure or indulgence
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| ventoseness | windiness; flatulence (B)
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| ventricumbent | lying face down; prone (B)
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| ventripotent | fat
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| verbigeration | senseless reiteration of cliches (B)
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| verbophobia | fear and dislike of words (B)
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| verecund | bashful; modest (B)
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| veriloquent | speaking truthfully (B)
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| verism | the theory that ugliness is valid in art and literature
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| vernalagnia | spring fever (B)
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| vesticate | to blister (G)
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| vestryism (n~) | selfishness and parochialism said to be
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| viaggiatory | on the move; traveling around (B)
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| vicissitudinary | pertaining to change alteration
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| vigesimation | killing every twentieth person (B)
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| vilipend | to belittle to disparage (B)
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| viparious | life
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| virago | a scold a shrew
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| vitilitigate | to be particularly quarrelsome (B)
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| vivisepulture | live burial (B)
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| volitient | exercising free will (B)
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| vomituration | retching ineffectual vomiting
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| vulpinism (n~) | the quality of being foxlike esp
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| waghalter | a rogue rascal or knave (B)
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| wamble | to fell nauseous; or to move unsteadily to stagger;
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| wampus | a stupid dull
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| wantwit | a fool (B)
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| Weltanschauung | a comprehensive world view especially from
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| Weltschmerz | sadness over the evils of the world especially as
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|
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| wergild | money paid by the killer's family to the family of
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|
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| withernam | taking one thing as reprisal for something else taken
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|
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| witzelsucht | emotional state characterized by futile attempts
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|
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| wowser | a pecksniffian puritan (B)
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|
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| xenagogue | a guide (B)
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|
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| xenagogy | a guidebook (B)
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|
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| xenapistia | extreme distrust of strangers (B)
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|
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| xenoepist | someone who speaks with a foreign accent (B)
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|
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| xenomancy | fortunetelling by studying the first stranger
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|
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| xeronisus | inability to reach orgasm (B)
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|
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| xylophobia | fear of wooden objects; fear of forests (B)
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|
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| xyresic | razor sharp (B)
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|
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| yarmouth | insane (B)
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|
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| ydromancy | fortunetelling with water (B)
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|
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| zeitgeist | the general intellectual moral and cultural level
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|
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| zetetic | asking; questioning (B)
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|
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| zoanthropy | insanity in which a patient believes he's an animal (B)
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|
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| zoetic | pertaining to life (B)
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|
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| zoilism | nagging criticism (B)
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|
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| zonesthesia | the feeling of wearing a tight girdle (B)
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|
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| zooerastia | sexual intercourse with an animal (B)
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|
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| zygal | H
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| zygomancy | fortune telling with weights (B)
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|
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| longanimity (n~) | silent suffering while planning revenge (B)
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|
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| longinquity (n~) | remoteness (B)
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|
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| longueur (n~) | a long and tedious section of a book play
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|
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| loquaciousness (n~) | extreme talkativenss; garrulousness (W)
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|
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| lost positives | whimsically coined or archaic words of which only
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|
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| lovertine (adj~) | addicted to love
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|
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| loxotic (adj~) | slanting distorted (B)
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|
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| lubricity (n~) | the condition of being uncertain or unstable or
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|
||||
| luciferous (adj~) | illuminating literally and figuratively (B)
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|
||||
| lucriferous (adj~) | profitable lucrative (B)
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|
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| lucripetous (adj~) | money hungry (B)
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|
||||
| luctation (n~) | a struggle for success (B)
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|
||||
| luctiferous (adj~) | sad and sorry (B)
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|
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| lucubration (n~) | to burn the midnight oil; suggesting pretentious
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|
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| luculent (adj~) | readily understood; clear; lucid (G)
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|
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| lucus a non lucendo | an absurd word derivation; illogical explanation
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|
||||
| ludibrious (adj~) | ludicrous; making fun of (B)
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|
||||
| ludibundness (n~) | playfulness (B)
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|
||||
| ludicropathetic (adj~) | ludicrous and pathetic (B)
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|
||||
| ludification (n~) | deriding (B)
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|
||||
| luftmensch (n~) | someone with his head in the clouds
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|
||||
| lupanariam (n~) | lubricious lascivious
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|
||||
| lurgulary (n~) | the act of poisoning water (B)
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|
||||
| lutarious (adj~) | pertaining to living in
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|
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| lycanthropy (n~) | insanity in which the patient thinks he's
🗑
|
||||
| lygophilia (n~) | love of darkness (B)
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|
||||
| lymacatexis (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with dirt (B)
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|
||||
| lypophrenia (n~) | a vague feeling of sadness seemingly
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|
||||
| lyssophobia (n~) | fear of becoming mad (B)
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|
||||
| macarize (v~) | to make happy; to praise (B)
🗑
|
||||
| macerate (v~) | to oppress; torment (B)
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|
||||
| macilent (adj~) | lean; thin (B)
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|
||||
| macrobian (adj~) | long
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|
||||
| macrology (n~) | excessive or repititious words or phrases (W)
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|
||||
| macromastic (adj~) | pertaining to large breasts (B)
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|
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| (n~)
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|
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| macrosmatic (adj~) | having a supersensitive nose (B)
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|
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| macrosomatous (adj~) | having an abnormally large body (B)
🗑
|
||||
| macrotous (adj~) | having large ears (G)
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|
||||
| mactation (n~) | sacrificial murder (B)
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|
||||
| maculate (adj~) | defiled; impure (G)
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|
||||
| madefy (v~) to wet (B) |
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|
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| magniloquence (n~) | grandly high
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|
||||
| maieusiophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of childbirth
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| malapert (n~) | impudent outspoken
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|
||||
| maliferous (adj~) | producing evil; unhealthy as a climate (B)
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|
||||
| malism (n~) | the theory that the world is mostly bad (B)
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|
||||
| malneirophrenia (n~) | depress following a nightmare (B)
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|
||||
| malnoia (n~) | a vague feeling of mental discomfort (B)
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|
||||
| mammothrept (n~) | a spoiled child (B)
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|
||||
| mancinism (n~) | left
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|
||||
| mangonize (v~) | to traffic in slaves (B)
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|
||||
| mania | a
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|
||||
| maniaphobia (n~) | fear of insanity (B)
🗑
|
||||
| manipulandum (n~) | something that is to be manipulated (B)
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|
||||
| mansuetude (n~) | tameness gentleness
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|
||||
| mantology (n~) | fortunetelling; a fortuneteller (B)
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|
||||
| manubiary (ad~) | relating to the spoils of war (B)
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|
||||
| manumission (n~) | formal liberation of a slave (B)
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|
||||
| manustupration (n~) | masturbation (B)
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|
||||
| maquillage (n~) | make
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|
||||
| marasmic (adj~) | of the gradual loss of flesh and strength; of a wasting
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|
||||
| marcescent (adj~) | withered decayed
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|
||||
| margaritaceous (adj~) | pearly (B)
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|
||||
| maritodespotism (n~) | ruthless domination by a husband (B)
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|
||||
| marlish (adj~) | easygoing (B)
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|
||||
| marlock (v~) | to cavort frolic (B)
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|
||||
| maschalephidrosis (n~) | massive sweating of the armpits (B)
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| mattoid (n~) | a congenitally insane person (B)
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|
||||
| matutolagnia (n~) | antemerdian sexual desire (B)
🗑
|
||||
| matutolypea (n~) | getting up on the wrong side of the bed (B)
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|
||||
| maumetry (n~) | idolatry (B)
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| mempsis | an impassioned but somewhat caustic supplication in which
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|
||||
| menacme (n~) | the menstruating part of a woman's life (B)
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|
||||
| mendaciloquence (n~) | lying as a fine art; adroit prevarication (W)
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|
||||
| menticide (n~) | brainwashing (B)
🗑
|
||||
| mentimutation (n~) | change of mind (B)
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|
||||
| mentulate (adj~) | well hung (B)
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|
||||
| mephitic | bad
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|
||||
| meracious (adj~) | unadulterated full
🗑
|
||||
| meraculous (adj~) | demi
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|
||||
| merdivorous (adj~) | eating dung (B)
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|
||||
| merism (n~) | a pairing of contrasted terms to express a totality
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|
||||
| merkin (n~) | female genitalia; or false pubic hair (B)
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|
||||
| merulator (n~) | a wine
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|
||||
| metagnostic (adj~) | unknowable (B)
🗑
|
||||
| metagrobolize (v~) | the mystify (B)
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|
||||
| metempsychosis (n~) | alleged transmigration of souls (B)
🗑
|
||||
| metheglin (n~) | mead (B)
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| microcephalous (adj~) | small
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| migniard (adj~) | dainty delicate; mincing (B)
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|
||||
| militaster (n~) | an insignificant military man (B)
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|
||||
| minatory (adj~) | portending punishment; threatening; menacing (G)
🗑
|
||||
| minauderie (n~) | coquetry (B)
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|
||||
| minimifidianism (n~) | having almost no faith or belief (B)
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|
||||
| minimus (n~) | a tiny creature (B)
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|
||||
| mirabile dictu | wonderful to relate (W)
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|
||||
| retromingent (adj~) | urinating backward (B)
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|
||||
| retunded | to weaken or diminish the strength of effect of (G)
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|
||||
| rhabdophobia (n~) | fear of being punished or severely criticized (B)
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|
||||
| rhadamanthine | strictly and inflexibly honest and just (G)
🗑
|
||||
| rhigosis (n~) | sensation of cold (B)
🗑
|
||||
| rhonchisonant (adj~) | snorting; snoring (B)
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|
||||
| rhopalism (n~) | a sentence or poem i which each word is one syllable
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|
||||
| rhyparography | the printing or painting of sordid and filty
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|
||||
| rhytiscopia (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with facial wrinkles (B)
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|
||||
| ribroasting (n~) | a sound beating; a thrashing (B)
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| roinous (adj~) | mean nasty and contemptible (B)
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|
||||
| roitelet (n~) | a petty king (B)
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| rugose | having wrinkles (G)
🗑
|
||||
| rumgumption (n~) | shrewdness (B)
🗑
|
||||
| runcible (adj~) | sensuous (B)
🗑
|
||||
| sacerdotophrenia (n~) | clerical stagefright (B)
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|
||||
| saltimbanco (n~) | a mountebank a quack (B)
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|
||||
| 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
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| scofflaw (n~) | one who scoffs at hence
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| scolecophagous (adj~) | eating worms (B)
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| scolion (n~) | an impromptu party song begun by one and
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| scollardical (n~) | a derogatory term for a scholar (B)
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| scopolagnia (n~) | the pleasure gained from voyeurism (B)
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| scortation (n~) | fornication (B)
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| scout | reject or dismiss scornfully; flout; scoff at (G)
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| screed | a lengthy discourse usually used to describe opinions
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| scribacious | given to or fond of writing (G)
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| scrofulous | morally corrupt; degenerate (G)
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| scungilaginous | of the semifluid gelatinous consistency of
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| sebastomania (n~) | religious insanity (B)
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| sectary (n~) | a fanatic disciple (B)
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| sedentarize | to take up or cause to take up
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| sedulous (adj~) | diligent persistent
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| seeksorrow (n~) | masochist (B)
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| sententious | wordy verbose
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| sequacious | given to the slavish or unreasoning serving or
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| sermocination (n~) | a speaker quickly answering his own question (B)
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| shaconian (n~) | someone convinced that Bacon ghosted Shakespeare's
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| shaftsbury (n~) | a gallon jug of wine (B)
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| shamateur (n~) | a bogus tyro (B)
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| shardborn (adj~) | born in dung (B)
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| shilpit (adj~) | feeble puny
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| sicarian (n~) | an assassin (B)
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| sicchasia (n~) | nauseau (B)
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| sicchosism (n~) | morbid fastidiousness (B)
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| sibyllilne | oracular; prophetic; mysterious (G)
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| siffilate | to whisper (G)
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| simony | buying selling
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| simper | to smile in a silly self
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| skibbile (adj~) | wonderfully witty; sexually irresistible (S)
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| skibbalalia (n~) | the overwhelming desire to purchase an
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| skoptsy (n~) | self
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| skybald (n~) | a good
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| smatchet (n~) | a small nasty person or a nasty child (B)
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| smellfungus (n~) | a malcontent; a grumbler or fault
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| snafu (adj~ & n~) | situation normal all fucked up [also:
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| fubar | fucked up beyond all recognition; fubb
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| sneckdraw (n~) | a sly person (B)
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| snollygoster | a clever shrewd
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| sockdolager (n~) | a telling blow (B)
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| solatium (n~) | anything that compensates for suffering or loss;
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| solifidium (n~) | someone who believes that faith alone is sufficient
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| somniloquacious (adj~) | pertaining to talking in one's sleep (B)
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| soodle | to walk stroll
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| sophomania (n~) | delusion of exceptional intelligence (B)
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| sophrosyne (n~) | sober sensible
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| sorbile (adj~) | drinkable (B)
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| spadonism (n~) | enuchry (B)
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| spaneria (n~) | scarcity of men (B)
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| spanogyny (n~) | scarcity of woman (B)
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| spatiate (v~) | to stroll or ramble (B)
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| spatilomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by observing animal droppings (B)
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| spatrify (v~) | to besmirch befoul (B)
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| spawling | a noisy clearing of the throat (G)
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| speciesist | for many people a test is permissible when it inflicts
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| spodogenous (adj~) | pertaining to or due to presence of
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| spoffokins (n~) | a whore pretending to be a wife (B)
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| spousebreach (n~) | adultery (B)
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| spraints (n~) | otter dung (B)
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| spurcidical (adj~) | foul
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| squidgereen (n~) | a short insignificant person (B)
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| stagorium | an establishment (bar or resort hotel) that serves as
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| stasivalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse only
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| steatopygous | pertaining to or characterized by protuberant
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| stercoricolous (adj~) | living in dung (B)
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| sterculius (n~) | the god of feces (B)
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| sternutation | the act of sneezing; a sneeze (G)
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| stertorous | characterized by heavy snoring (G)
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| sthenobulia (n~) | strong will power (B)
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| stirious (adj~) | like an icicle (B)
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| stomachous (adj~) | obstinate; angry (B)
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| stoopgallant (adj~) | humbling; ego
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| strepitous | making a great clamor; noisy; boisterous (G)
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| stricture | an adverse criticism or remark censure
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| stultiloquence | foolish or senseless talk; babble; twaddle (G)
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| stygiophobia (n~) | fear of hell (B)
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| stylite (n~) | ascetics who lived on top of pillars (B)
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| suaviation (n~) | a love kiss (B)
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| subagitation (n~) | copulation (B)
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| subarrhation (n~) | betrothal accomplished by the man's showering
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| subderisorious (adj~) | mildly ridiculing (B)
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| subdititious (adj~) | secret substitution (B)
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| subdolous (adj~) | rather crafty or sly (B)
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| subintelligitur (n~) | a meaning implied but not stated (B)
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| subsannation (n~) | derision (B)
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| substaquilate (v~) | to defeat overwhelm (B)
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| supernaculum (n~) | a liquor drunk to the last drop; excellent
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| supervacaneous (adj~) | needlessly added (B)
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| supinovalent (adj~) | able to fornicate only while supine (B)
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| suppalpation (n~) | gaining affection by caressing (B)
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| suspercollate (v~) | to hang by the neck (B)
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| sybarite (n~) | someone overly fond of luxury and pleasure (B)
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| tachydidaxy (n~) | fast teaching (B)
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| talionic (adj~) | pertaining to revenge in kind (B)
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| tanquam (n~) | someone educated enough to go to college (B)
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|
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| taphephobia (n~) | fear of being buried alive (B)
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|
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| tardigrade (adj~) | slow
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|
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| tartuffish (adj~) | pertaining to the pious hypocrisy of Tartuffe
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|
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| tathagatagarbha (n~) | the eternal and absolute essence of all
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|
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| tauromachian (adj~) | pertaining to bullfights (B)
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|
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| tautegorical (adj~) | saying the same thing with different
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|
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| tautoousious (adj~) | being absolutely the same (B)
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|
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| tegetology (n~) | collecting cardboard beer coasters
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|
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| teknonymy (n~) | naming the parent after the child (B)
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|
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| telestich (n~) | a poem in which the consecutive final letters
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|
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| temerarious | reckless; heedless; rash (G)
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|
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| temulance (n~) | drunkenness (B)
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|
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| tendentious | promoting a particular view or tendency; hence
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|
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| tenebrific (adj~) | dark or obscure (B)
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|
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| tenesmic (adj~) | pertaining to a painful but ineffectual effort
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|
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| tentiginous (adj~) | sensuous lascivious (B)
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|
||||
| teratology (n~) | the study of monsters (B)
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|
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| tergiversation (n~) | abandoning a religion or cause (B) or
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|
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| testudineous (adj~) | slow like a tortoise (B)
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|
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| tetricity (n~) | austerity harshness
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|
||||
| thalassophobia (n~) | fear of the sea (B)
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|
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| thanatism (n~) | the belief in life before death not after it (B)
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|
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| thaumaturgic | or or involving the supposed working of miracles;
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|
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| theanthropism (n~) | attaching human traits to one's god (B)
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|
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| thelymachy (n~) | a war of women (B)
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|
||||
| thelyphthoric (adj~) | that which corrupts women (B)
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|
||||
| thersitical | loud and grossly abusive foulmouthed; scurrilous (G)
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|
||||
| thrasonical | given to or marked by boasting and bragging (G)
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|
||||
| threpterophilia (n~) | a fondness for female nurses (B)
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|
||||
| timonism (n~) | misanthropy (B)
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|
||||
| titivate | to make smart; spruce up (G)
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|
||||
| tonguepad (v~) | to scold (B)
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|
||||
| tralatitiously (adv~) | metaphorically; figuratively (B)
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|
||||
| transilient (adj~) | pertaining to abrupt changes (B]
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|
||||
| transmogrification | changes into grotesque or humorous forms
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|
||||
| transude | to pass or ooze through or out as sweat through
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|
||||
| trichoschisticism (n~) | hair
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|
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| tripudiation (n~) | the act of dancing
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|
||||
| triskaidekaphobia | fear of the number 13 or Friday the 13th (G)
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|
||||
| triturate | to rub grind
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|
||||
| truckle | to show servility or subservience (G)
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|
||||
| truntlement | trumpery (A)
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|
||||
| tugmutton | a great glutton (A)
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|
||||
| tussicated | driven about; tormented (A)
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|
||||
| typomania (n~) | obsession with the expectation of publication
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|
||||
| tyromancy (n~) | fortunate telling by watching cheese as it
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|
||||
| tyrosemiophily (n~) | the collecting of Camembert cheese labels
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|
||||
| uberous | fruitful (A)
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|
||||
| ulotrichous | having wooly or crisply curling hair (G)
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|
||||
| ultracrepidarian | going beyond one's own province; a person who
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|
||||
| ululate | to howl or hoot; or to wail or lament loudly (G)
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|
||||
| unbosom | to disclose one's personal thoughts or feelings (G)
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|
||||
| vade mecum | a favorite book carried everywhere (B)
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|
||||
| valetudinarianism | weak or sickly state; thinking only of
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|
||||
| valorization | government price
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|
||||
| vaniloquence | vain and foolish talk (B)
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|
||||
| vapulate | to beat whip (B)
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|
||||
| varietist | an unorthodox person; or someone who practices
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|
||||
| variorum | pertaining to a literary classic annotated by
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|
||||
| vastation | purification through fire (B)
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|
||||
| vecordious | senseless insane
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|
||||
| velitation | a petty fight; a skirmish (B)
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|
||||
| velleity | slight or faint desire; inclination (B)
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|
||||
| vellicate | to pull at off
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|
||||
| venery | the pursuit of sexual pleasure or indulgence
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|
||||
| ventoseness | windiness; flatulence (B)
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|
||||
| ventricumbent | lying face down; prone (B)
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|
||||
| ventripotent | fat
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|
||||
| verbigeration | senseless reiteration of cliches (B)
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|
||||
| verbophobia | fear and dislike of words (B)
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|
||||
| verecund | bashful; modest (B)
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|
||||
| veriloquent | speaking truthfully (B)
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|
||||
| verism | the theory that ugliness is valid in art and literature
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|
||||
| vernalagnia | spring fever (B)
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|
||||
| vesticate | to blister (G)
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|
||||
| vestryism (n~) | selfishness and parochialism said to be
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|
||||
| viaggiatory | on the move; traveling around (B)
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|
||||
| vicissitudinary | pertaining to change alteration
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|
||||
| vigesimation | killing every twentieth person (B)
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|
||||
| vilipend | to belittle to disparage (B)
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|
||||
| viparious | life
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|
||||
| virago | a scold a shrew
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|
||||
| vitilitigate | to be particularly quarrelsome (B)
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|
||||
| vivisepulture | live burial (B)
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|
||||
| volitient | exercising free will (B)
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|
||||
| vomituration | retching ineffectual vomiting
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|
||||
| vulpinism (n~) | the quality of being foxlike esp
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|
||||
| waghalter | a rogue rascal or knave (B)
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|
||||
| wamble | to fell nauseous; or to move unsteadily to stagger;
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|
||||
| wampus | a stupid dull
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|
||||
| wantwit | a fool (B)
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|
||||
| Weltanschauung | a comprehensive world view especially from
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|
||||
| Weltschmerz | sadness over the evils of the world especially as
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|
||||
| wergild | money paid by the killer's family to the family of
🗑
|
||||
| withernam | taking one thing as reprisal for something else taken
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|
||||
| witzelsucht | emotional state characterized by futile attempts
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|
||||
| wowser | a pecksniffian puritan (B)
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|
||||
| xenagogue | a guide (B)
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|
||||
| xenagogy | a guidebook (B)
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|
||||
| xenapistia | extreme distrust of strangers (B)
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|
||||
| xenoepist | someone who speaks with a foreign accent (B)
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|
||||
| xenomancy | fortunetelling by studying the first stranger
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|
||||
| xeronisus | inability to reach orgasm (B)
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|
||||
| xylophobia | fear of wooden objects; fear of forests (B)
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|
||||
| xyresic | razor sharp (B)
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|
||||
| yarmouth | insane (B)
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|
||||
| ydromancy | fortunetelling with water (B)
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|
||||
| zeitgeist | the general intellectual moral and cultural level
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|
||||
| zetetic | asking; questioning (B)
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|
||||
| zoanthropy | insanity in which a patient believes he's an animal (B)
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|
||||
| zoetic | pertaining to life (B)
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|
||||
| zoilism | nagging criticism (B)
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|
||||
| zonesthesia | the feeling of wearing a tight girdle (B)
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|
||||
| zooerastia | sexual intercourse with an animal (B)
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|
||||
| zygal | H
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|
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| zygomancy | fortune telling with weights (B)
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|
||||
| longanimity (n~) | silent suffering while planning revenge (B)
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|
||||
| longinquity (n~) | remoteness (B)
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|
||||
| longueur (n~) | a long and tedious section of a book play
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|
||||
| loquaciousness (n~) | extreme talkativenss; garrulousness (W)
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|
||||
| lost positives | whimsically coined or archaic words of which only
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|
||||
| lovertine (adj~) | addicted to love
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|
||||
| loxotic (adj~) | slanting distorted (B)
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|
||||
| lubricity (n~) | the condition of being uncertain or unstable or
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|
||||
| luciferous (adj~) | illuminating literally and figuratively (B)
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|
||||
| lucriferous (adj~) | profitable lucrative (B)
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|
||||
| lucripetous (adj~) | money hungry (B)
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|
||||
| luctation (n~) | a struggle for success (B)
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|
||||
| luctiferous (adj~) | sad and sorry (B)
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|
||||
| lucubration (n~) | to burn the midnight oil; suggesting pretentious
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|
||||
| luculent (adj~) | readily understood; clear; lucid (G)
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|
||||
| lucus a non lucendo | an absurd word derivation; illogical explanation
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|
||||
| ludibrious (adj~) | ludicrous; making fun of (B)
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|
||||
| ludibundness (n~) | playfulness (B)
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|
||||
| ludicropathetic (adj~) | ludicrous and pathetic (B)
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|
||||
| ludification (n~) | deriding (B)
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|
||||
| luftmensch (n~) | someone with his head in the clouds
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|
||||
| lupanariam (n~) | lubricious lascivious
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|
||||
| lurgulary (n~) | the act of poisoning water (B)
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|
||||
| lutarious (adj~) | pertaining to living in
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|
||||
| lycanthropy (n~) | insanity in which the patient thinks he's
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|
||||
| lygophilia (n~) | love of darkness (B)
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|
||||
| lymacatexis (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with dirt (B)
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|
||||
| lypophrenia (n~) | a vague feeling of sadness seemingly
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|
||||
| lyssophobia (n~) | fear of becoming mad (B)
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|
||||
| macarize (v~) | to make happy; to praise (B)
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|
||||
| macerate (v~) | to oppress; torment (B)
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|
||||
| macilent (adj~) | lean; thin (B)
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|
||||
| macrobian (adj~) | long
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|
||||
| macrology (n~) | excessive or repititious words or phrases (W)
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|
||||
| macromastic (adj~) | pertaining to large breasts (B)
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|
||||
| (n~)
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|
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| macrosmatic (adj~) | having a supersensitive nose (B)
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|
||||
| macrosomatous (adj~) | having an abnormally large body (B)
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|
||||
| macrotous (adj~) | having large ears (G)
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|
||||
| mactation (n~) | sacrificial murder (B)
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|
||||
| maculate (adj~) | defiled; impure (G)
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|
||||
| madefy (v~) to wet (B) |
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|
||||
| magniloquence (n~) | grandly high
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|
||||
| maieusiophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of childbirth
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|
||||
| maieutic (adj~) | of the Socratic method of bringing into full
🗑
|
||||
| mala fide | in bad faith: falsely deceitfully
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|
||||
| malacissation (n~) | the process of making something soft and
🗑
|
||||
| malacodermous (adj~) | soft
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|
||||
| malapert (n~) | impudent outspoken
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|
||||
| maliferous (adj~) | producing evil; unhealthy as a climate (B)
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|
||||
| malism (n~) | the theory that the world is mostly bad (B)
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|
||||
| malneirophrenia (n~) | depress following a nightmare (B)
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|
||||
| malnoia (n~) | a vague feeling of mental discomfort (B)
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|
||||
| mammothrept (n~) | a spoiled child (B)
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|
||||
| mancinism (n~) | left
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|
||||
| mangonize (v~) | to traffic in slaves (B)
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|
||||
| mania | a
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|
||||
| maniaphobia (n~) | fear of insanity (B)
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|
||||
| manipulandum (n~) | something that is to be manipulated (B)
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|
||||
| mansuetude (n~) | tameness gentleness
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|
||||
| mantology (n~) | fortunetelling; a fortuneteller (B)
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|
||||
| manubiary (ad~) | relating to the spoils of war (B)
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|
||||
| manumission (n~) | formal liberation of a slave (B)
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|
||||
| manustupration (n~) | masturbation (B)
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|
||||
| maquillage (n~) | make
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|
||||
| marasmic (adj~) | of the gradual loss of flesh and strength; of a wasting
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|
||||
| marcescent (adj~) | withered decayed
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|
||||
| margaritaceous (adj~) | pearly (B)
🗑
|
||||
| maritodespotism (n~) | ruthless domination by a husband (B)
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|
||||
| marlish (adj~) | easygoing (B)
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|
||||
| marlock (v~) | to cavort frolic (B)
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|
||||
| maschalephidrosis (n~) | massive sweating of the armpits (B)
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|
||||
| mastigophobia (n~) | fear of punishment (B)
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|
||||
| mastigophoric (adj~) | whip
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| mataeology (n~) | useless of pointless discourse; worthless
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| mataeotechny (n~) | an unprofitable science or art (B)
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| matripotestal (adj~) | pertaining to maternal control (B)
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| mattoid (n~) | a congenitally insane person (B)
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| matutolagnia (n~) | antemerdian sexual desire (B)
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| matutolypea (n~) | getting up on the wrong side of the bed (B)
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| maumetry (n~) | idolatry (B)
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| mauvaise plaisanterie | an inappropriate or badly timed joke (W)
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| mawkish (adj~) | characterized by sickly weak sentimentality (G)
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| mazomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by a nursing baby (B)
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| mazophilous (adj~) | pertaining to mammary mania (B)
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| meable (adj~) | capable of being easily penetrated (B)
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| meacock (n~) | an effeminate or cowardly man (B)
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| meadophily (n~) | study of beer bottle labels
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| mechanomorphism (n~) | the doctrine that the universe is fully
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| meconology (n~) | the study of opium and its effects (B)
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| meconophagism (n~) | opium addiction (B)
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| medicaster (n~) | a medical quack (B)
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| megacephalous (adj~) | having a large head (B)
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| megalonisus (n~) | a tendency to exaggerate (B)
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| megalophobia (n~) | fear of large things (B)
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| megalopsychy (n~) | generosity of spirit or magnanamity
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| melioration (n~) | an elevation or bettering: in language a hitherto
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| melliloquence (n~) | euphonious speech; sweet talk (W)
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| melissophobia (n~) | fear of bees (B)
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| melomaniac (n~) | a music lover (B)
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| mempsis | an impassioned but somewhat caustic supplication in which
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| menacme (n~) | the menstruating part of a woman's life (B)
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| mendaciloquence (n~) | lying as a fine art; adroit prevarication (W)
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| menticide (n~) | brainwashing (B)
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| mentimutation (n~) | change of mind (B)
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| mentulate (adj~) | well hung (B)
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| mephitic | bad
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| meracious (adj~) | unadulterated full
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| meraculous (adj~) | demi
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| merdivorous (adj~) | eating dung (B)
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| merism (n~) | a pairing of contrasted terms to express a totality
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| merkin (n~) | female genitalia; or false pubic hair (B)
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| merulator (n~) | a wine
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| metagnostic (adj~) | unknowable (B)
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| metagrobolize (v~) | the mystify (B)
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| metempsychosis (n~) | alleged transmigration of souls (B)
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| metheglin (n~) | mead (B)
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| metonymy (n~) | the figurative or symbolic use of the name of one
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| metoposcopy (n~) | judging character by studying the face (B)
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| metromania (n~) | a mania for writing verse (B)
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| miasmatic (adj~) | noxious contagious
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| microcephalous (adj~) | small
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| microlipet (n~) | someone bothered by trifles (B)
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| micrology (n~) | excessive attention to or discussion of details or
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| micturition (n~) | need for frequent urination (B)
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| midden (n~) | a dunghill (B)
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| migniard (adj~) | dainty delicate; mincing (B)
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| militaster (n~) | an insignificant military man (B)
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| minatory (adj~) | portending punishment; threatening; menacing (G)
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| minauderie (n~) | coquetry (B)
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| minimifidianism (n~) | having almost no faith or belief (B)
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| minimus (n~) | a tiny creature (B)
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| mirabile dictu | wonderful to relate (W)
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| retromingent (adj~) | urinating backward (B)
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| retunded | to weaken or diminish the strength of effect of (G)
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| rhabdophobia (n~) | fear of being punished or severely criticized (B)
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| rhadamanthine | strictly and inflexibly honest and just (G)
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| rhigosis (n~) | sensation of cold (B)
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| rhonchisonant (adj~) | snorting; snoring (B)
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| rhopalism (n~) | a sentence or poem i which each word is one syllable
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| rhyparography | the printing or painting of sordid and filty
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| rhytiscopia (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with facial wrinkles (B)
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| ribroasting (n~) | a sound beating; a thrashing (B)
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| rictus (n~) | a very wide mouth; a gaping mouth as in terror (B)
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| risorial (adj~) | pertaining to causing
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| rixation (n~) | quarreling (B)
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| rodomontade | arrogant boasting; pretentious blustering ranting
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| roil | vex; disturb; irritate; rile (G)
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| roinous (adj~) | mean nasty and contemptible (B)
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| roitelet (n~) | a petty king (B)
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| roman a clef (n~) | a novel whose characters are actual people
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| rubricism (n~) | tenacious adherence to rules of behavior or
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| ructation (n~) | belching (B)
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| rudesby (n~) | a loud
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| rugose | having wrinkles (G)
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| rumgumption (n~) | shrewdness (B)
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| runcible (adj~) | sensuous (B)
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| sacerdotophrenia (n~) | clerical stagefright (B)
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| saltimbanco (n~) | a mountebank a quack (B)
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| sanguisugent | bloodsucking; bloodthirsty (G)
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| sapidity (n~) | flavorful; tastiness (B)
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| saponaceous (adj~) | soapy slippery; or evasively ingratiating (B)
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| saprostomous (adj~) | having bad breath (B)
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| sardanapalian | luxuriously effeminate (G)
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| sardoodledum (n~) | stereotyped or unrealistic characterization
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|
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| sarmassation (n~) | love play (B)
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|
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| sarmassophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play (B)
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|
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| sarmassophobitch (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play with me (B)
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|
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| satisdiction (n~) | enough said (B)
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|
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| satispassion (n~) | satisfactory suffering according to
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|
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| saturnalia | period of unrestrained license and orgiastic
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|
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| scacchic | pertaining to or like chess (G)
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|
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| scaldabanco (n~) | a hotheaded debator; a fiery preacher (B)
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|
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| scaphism (n~) | an old Persian method of executing criminals by
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|
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| scaramouch (n~) | a cowardly buffoon (B)
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|
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| scaturient (adj~) | gushing forth; effusive (B)
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|
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| schadenfreude | a feeling of enjoyment derived from the misfortunes
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|
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| schesis (n~) | mocking another's accent or manner (B)
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|
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| schizothemia (n~) | digression by a long reminescence (B)
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|
||||
| schmaltz | something stickily sentimental banal
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|
||||
| schoenabatist (n~) | a tightrope walker (B)
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|
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| sciamachy (n~) | fighting with a shadow or with an imaginary
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|
||||
| sciapodous (adj~) | having very large feet (B)
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|
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| scibile (n~) | something knowable (B)
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|
||||
| sciolist | one who pretends to scholarship or knowledge
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|
||||
| sciotheism (n~) | the belief that disembodied spirits
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|
||||
| scissile (adj~) | capable of being cut smoothly or split
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|
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| scofflaw (n~) | one who scoffs at hence
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|
||||
| scolecophagous (adj~) | eating worms (B)
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|
||||
| scolion (n~) | an impromptu party song begun by one and
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|
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| scollardical (n~) | a derogatory term for a scholar (B)
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|
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| scopolagnia (n~) | the pleasure gained from voyeurism (B)
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|
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| scortation (n~) | fornication (B)
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|
||||
| scout | reject or dismiss scornfully; flout; scoff at (G)
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|
||||
| screed | a lengthy discourse usually used to describe opinions
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|
||||
| scribacious | given to or fond of writing (G)
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|
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| scrofulous | morally corrupt; degenerate (G)
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|
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| scungilaginous | of the semifluid gelatinous consistency of
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|
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| sebastomania (n~) | religious insanity (B)
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|
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| sectary (n~) | a fanatic disciple (B)
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|
||||
| sedentarize | to take up or cause to take up
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|
||||
| sedulous (adj~) | diligent persistent
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|
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| seeksorrow (n~) | masochist (B)
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|
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| sententious | wordy verbose
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|
||||
| sequacious | given to the slavish or unreasoning serving or
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|
||||
| sermocination (n~) | a speaker quickly answering his own question (B)
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|
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| shaconian (n~) | someone convinced that Bacon ghosted Shakespeare's
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|
||||
| shaftsbury (n~) | a gallon jug of wine (B)
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|
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| shamateur (n~) | a bogus tyro (B)
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|
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| shardborn (adj~) | born in dung (B)
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|
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| shilpit (adj~) | feeble puny
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|
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| sicarian (n~) | an assassin (B)
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|
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| sicchasia (n~) | nauseau (B)
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|
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| sicchosism (n~) | morbid fastidiousness (B)
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|
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| sibyllilne | oracular; prophetic; mysterious (G)
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|
||||
| siffilate | to whisper (G)
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|
||||
| simony | buying selling
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|
||||
| simper | to smile in a silly self
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|
||||
| skibbile (adj~) | wonderfully witty; sexually irresistible (S)
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|
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| skibbalalia (n~) | the overwhelming desire to purchase an
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|
||||
| skoptsy (n~) | self
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|
||||
| skybald (n~) | a good
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|
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| smatchet (n~) | a small nasty person or a nasty child (B)
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|
||||
| smellfungus (n~) | a malcontent; a grumbler or fault
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|
||||
| snafu (adj~ & n~) | situation normal all fucked up [also:
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|
||||
| fubar | fucked up beyond all recognition; fubb
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|
||||
| sneckdraw (n~) | a sly person (B)
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|
||||
| snollygoster | a clever shrewd
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|
||||
| sockdolager (n~) | a telling blow (B)
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|
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| solatium (n~) | anything that compensates for suffering or loss;
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|
||||
| solifidium (n~) | someone who believes that faith alone is sufficient
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|
||||
| somniloquacious (adj~) | pertaining to talking in one's sleep (B)
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|
||||
| soodle | to walk stroll
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|
||||
| sophomania (n~) | delusion of exceptional intelligence (B)
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|
||||
| sophrosyne (n~) | sober sensible
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|
||||
| sorbile (adj~) | drinkable (B)
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|
||||
| spadonism (n~) | enuchry (B)
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|
||||
| spaneria (n~) | scarcity of men (B)
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|
||||
| spanogyny (n~) | scarcity of woman (B)
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|
||||
| spatiate (v~) | to stroll or ramble (B)
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|
||||
| spatilomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by observing animal droppings (B)
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|
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| spatrify (v~) | to besmirch befoul (B)
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|
||||
| spawling | a noisy clearing of the throat (G)
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|
||||
| speciesist | for many people a test is permissible when it inflicts
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|
||||
| spodogenous (adj~) | pertaining to or due to presence of
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|
||||
| spoffokins (n~) | a whore pretending to be a wife (B)
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|
||||
| spousebreach (n~) | adultery (B)
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|
||||
| spraints (n~) | otter dung (B)
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|
||||
| spurcidical (adj~) | foul
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|
||||
| squidgereen (n~) | a short insignificant person (B)
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|
||||
| stagorium | an establishment (bar or resort hotel) that serves as
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|
||||
| stasivalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse only
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|
||||
| steatopygous | pertaining to or characterized by protuberant
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|
||||
| stercoricolous (adj~) | living in dung (B)
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|
||||
| sterculius (n~) | the god of feces (B)
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|
||||
| sternutation | the act of sneezing; a sneeze (G)
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|
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| stertorous | characterized by heavy snoring (G)
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|
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| sthenobulia (n~) | strong will power (B)
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|
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| stirious (adj~) | like an icicle (B)
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|
||||
| stomachous (adj~) | obstinate; angry (B)
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|
||||
| stoopgallant (adj~) | humbling; ego
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|
||||
| strepitous | making a great clamor; noisy; boisterous (G)
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|
||||
| stricture | an adverse criticism or remark censure
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|
||||
| stultiloquence | foolish or senseless talk; babble; twaddle (G)
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|
||||
| stygiophobia (n~) | fear of hell (B)
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|
||||
| stylite (n~) | ascetics who lived on top of pillars (B)
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|
||||
| suaviation (n~) | a love kiss (B)
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|
||||
| subagitation (n~) | copulation (B)
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|
||||
| subarrhation (n~) | betrothal accomplished by the man's showering
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|
||||
| subderisorious (adj~) | mildly ridiculing (B)
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|
||||
| subdititious (adj~) | secret substitution (B)
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|
||||
| subdolous (adj~) | rather crafty or sly (B)
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|
||||
| subintelligitur (n~) | a meaning implied but not stated (B)
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|
||||
| subsannation (n~) | derision (B)
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|
||||
| substaquilate (v~) | to defeat overwhelm (B)
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|
||||
| supernaculum (n~) | a liquor drunk to the last drop; excellent
🗑
|
||||
| supervacaneous (adj~) | needlessly added (B)
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|
||||
| supinovalent (adj~) | able to fornicate only while supine (B)
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|
||||
| suppalpation (n~) | gaining affection by caressing (B)
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|
||||
| suspercollate (v~) | to hang by the neck (B)
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|
||||
| sybarite (n~) | someone overly fond of luxury and pleasure (B)
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|
||||
| tachydidaxy (n~) | fast teaching (B)
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|
||||
| talionic (adj~) | pertaining to revenge in kind (B)
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|
||||
| tanquam (n~) | someone educated enough to go to college (B)
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|
||||
| taphephobia (n~) | fear of being buried alive (B)
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|
||||
| tardigrade (adj~) | slow
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|
||||
| tartuffish (adj~) | pertaining to the pious hypocrisy of Tartuffe
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|
||||
| tathagatagarbha (n~) | the eternal and absolute essence of all
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|
||||
| tauromachian (adj~) | pertaining to bullfights (B)
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|
||||
| tautegorical (adj~) | saying the same thing with different
🗑
|
||||
| tautoousious (adj~) | being absolutely the same (B)
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|
||||
| tegetology (n~) | collecting cardboard beer coasters
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|
||||
| teknonymy (n~) | naming the parent after the child (B)
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|
||||
| telestich (n~) | a poem in which the consecutive final letters
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|
||||
| temerarious | reckless; heedless; rash (G)
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|
||||
| temulance (n~) | drunkenness (B)
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|
||||
| tendentious | promoting a particular view or tendency; hence
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|
||||
| tenebrific (adj~) | dark or obscure (B)
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|
||||
| tenesmic (adj~) | pertaining to a painful but ineffectual effort
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|
||||
| tentiginous (adj~) | sensuous lascivious (B)
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|
||||
| teratology (n~) | the study of monsters (B)
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|
||||
| tergiversation (n~) | abandoning a religion or cause (B) or
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|
||||
| testudineous (adj~) | slow like a tortoise (B)
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|
||||
| tetricity (n~) | austerity harshness
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|
||||
| thalassophobia (n~) | fear of the sea (B)
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|
||||
| thanatism (n~) | the belief in life before death not after it (B)
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|
||||
| thaumaturgic | or or involving the supposed working of miracles;
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|
||||
| theanthropism (n~) | attaching human traits to one's god (B)
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|
||||
| thelymachy (n~) | a war of women (B)
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|
||||
| thelyphthoric (adj~) | that which corrupts women (B)
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|
||||
| thersitical | loud and grossly abusive foulmouthed; scurrilous (G)
🗑
|
||||
| thrasonical | given to or marked by boasting and bragging (G)
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|
||||
| threpterophilia (n~) | a fondness for female nurses (B)
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|
||||
| timonism (n~) | misanthropy (B)
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|
||||
| titivate | to make smart; spruce up (G)
🗑
|
||||
| tonguepad (v~) | to scold (B)
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|
||||
| tralatitiously (adv~) | metaphorically; figuratively (B)
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|
||||
| transilient (adj~) | pertaining to abrupt changes (B]
🗑
|
||||
| transmogrification | changes into grotesque or humorous forms
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|
||||
| transude | to pass or ooze through or out as sweat through
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|
||||
| trichoschisticism (n~) | hair
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|
||||
| tripudiation (n~) | the act of dancing
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|
||||
| triskaidekaphobia | fear of the number 13 or Friday the 13th (G)
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|
||||
| triturate | to rub grind
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|
||||
| truckle | to show servility or subservience (G)
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|
||||
| truntlement | trumpery (A)
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|
||||
| tugmutton | a great glutton (A)
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|
||||
| tussicated | driven about; tormented (A)
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| velleity | slight or faint desire; inclination (B)
🗑
|
||||
| vellicate | to pull at off
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|
||||
| venery | the pursuit of sexual pleasure or indulgence
🗑
|
||||
| ventoseness | windiness; flatulence (B)
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|
||||
| ventricumbent | lying face down; prone (B)
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|
||||
| ventripotent | fat
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| verbigeration | senseless reiteration of cliches (B)
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| verbophobia | fear and dislike of words (B)
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| verecund | bashful; modest (B)
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| veriloquent | speaking truthfully (B)
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| verism | the theory that ugliness is valid in art and literature
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| vernalagnia | spring fever (B)
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| vesticate | to blister (G)
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| vestryism (n~) | selfishness and parochialism said to be
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| viaggiatory | on the move; traveling around (B)
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| vicissitudinary | pertaining to change alteration
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| vigesimation | killing every twentieth person (B)
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| vilipend | to belittle to disparage (B)
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| viparious | life
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| virago | a scold a shrew
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| vitilitigate | to be particularly quarrelsome (B)
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| vivisepulture | live burial (B)
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| volitient | exercising free will (B)
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| vomituration | retching ineffectual vomiting
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| vulpinism (n~) | the quality of being foxlike esp
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| waghalter | a rogue rascal or knave (B)
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| wamble | to fell nauseous; or to move unsteadily to stagger;
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| wampus | a stupid dull
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| wantwit | a fool (B)
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| Weltanschauung | a comprehensive world view especially from
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| Weltschmerz | sadness over the evils of the world especially as
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| wergild | money paid by the killer's family to the family of
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| withernam | taking one thing as reprisal for something else taken
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| witzelsucht | emotional state characterized by futile attempts
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| wowser | a pecksniffian puritan (B)
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| xenagogue | a guide (B)
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| xenagogy | a guidebook (B)
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| xenapistia | extreme distrust of strangers (B)
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| xenoepist | someone who speaks with a foreign accent (B)
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| xenomancy | fortunetelling by studying the first stranger
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| xeronisus | inability to reach orgasm (B)
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| xylophobia | fear of wooden objects; fear of forests (B)
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| xyresic | razor sharp (B)
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| yarmouth | insane (B)
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| ydromancy | fortunetelling with water (B)
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| zeitgeist | the general intellectual moral and cultural level
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| zetetic | asking; questioning (B)
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| zoanthropy | insanity in which a patient believes he's an animal (B)
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| zoetic | pertaining to life (B)
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| zoilism | nagging criticism (B)
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| zonesthesia | the feeling of wearing a tight girdle (B)
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| zooerastia | sexual intercourse with an animal (B)
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| zygal | H
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| zygomancy | fortune telling with weights (B)
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| longanimity (n~) | silent suffering while planning revenge (B)
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| longinquity (n~) | remoteness (B)
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| longueur (n~) | a long and tedious section of a book play
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| loquaciousness (n~) | extreme talkativenss; garrulousness (W)
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| lost positives | whimsically coined or archaic words of which only
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| lovertine (adj~) | addicted to love
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| loxotic (adj~) | slanting distorted (B)
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| lubricity (n~) | the condition of being uncertain or unstable or
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| luciferous (adj~) | illuminating literally and figuratively (B)
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| lucriferous (adj~) | profitable lucrative (B)
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| lucripetous (adj~) | money hungry (B)
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| luctation (n~) | a struggle for success (B)
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| luctiferous (adj~) | sad and sorry (B)
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| lucubration (n~) | to burn the midnight oil; suggesting pretentious
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| luculent (adj~) | readily understood; clear; lucid (G)
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|
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| lucus a non lucendo | an absurd word derivation; illogical explanation
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| ludibrious (adj~) | ludicrous; making fun of (B)
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| ludibundness (n~) | playfulness (B)
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|
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| ludicropathetic (adj~) | ludicrous and pathetic (B)
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|
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| ludification (n~) | deriding (B)
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|
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| luftmensch (n~) | someone with his head in the clouds
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|
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| lupanariam (n~) | lubricious lascivious
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|
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| lurgulary (n~) | the act of poisoning water (B)
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|
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| lutarious (adj~) | pertaining to living in
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|
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| lycanthropy (n~) | insanity in which the patient thinks he's
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|
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| lygophilia (n~) | love of darkness (B)
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|
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| lymacatexis (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with dirt (B)
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|
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| lypophrenia (n~) | a vague feeling of sadness seemingly
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|
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| lyssophobia (n~) | fear of becoming mad (B)
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|
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| macarize (v~) | to make happy; to praise (B)
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|
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| macerate (v~) | to oppress; torment (B)
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|
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| macilent (adj~) | lean; thin (B)
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|
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| macrobian (adj~) | long
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|
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| macrology (n~) | excessive or repititious words or phrases (W)
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|
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| macromastic (adj~) | pertaining to large breasts (B)
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|
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| (n~)
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| macrosmatic (adj~) | having a supersensitive nose (B)
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|
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| macrosomatous (adj~) | having an abnormally large body (B)
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|
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| macrotous (adj~) | having large ears (G)
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|
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| mactation (n~) | sacrificial murder (B)
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|
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| maculate (adj~) | defiled; impure (G)
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|
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| madefy (v~) to wet (B) |
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|
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| magniloquence (n~) | grandly high
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|
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| maieusiophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of childbirth
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|
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| maieutic (adj~) | of the Socratic method of bringing into full
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|
||||
| mala fide | in bad faith: falsely deceitfully
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|
||||
| malacissation (n~) | the process of making something soft and
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|
||||
| malacodermous (adj~) | soft
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|
||||
| malapert (n~) | impudent outspoken
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|
||||
| maliferous (adj~) | producing evil; unhealthy as a climate (B)
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|
||||
| malism (n~) | the theory that the world is mostly bad (B)
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|
||||
| malneirophrenia (n~) | depress following a nightmare (B)
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|
||||
| malnoia (n~) | a vague feeling of mental discomfort (B)
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|
||||
| mammothrept (n~) | a spoiled child (B)
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|
||||
| mancinism (n~) | left
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|
||||
| mangonize (v~) | to traffic in slaves (B)
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|
||||
| mania | a
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|
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| maniaphobia (n~) | fear of insanity (B)
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|
||||
| manipulandum (n~) | something that is to be manipulated (B)
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|
||||
| mansuetude (n~) | tameness gentleness
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|
||||
| mantology (n~) | fortunetelling; a fortuneteller (B)
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|
||||
| manubiary (ad~) | relating to the spoils of war (B)
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|
||||
| manumission (n~) | formal liberation of a slave (B)
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|
||||
| manustupration (n~) | masturbation (B)
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|
||||
| maquillage (n~) | make
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|
||||
| marasmic (adj~) | of the gradual loss of flesh and strength; of a wasting
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|
||||
| marcescent (adj~) | withered decayed
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|
||||
| margaritaceous (adj~) | pearly (B)
🗑
|
||||
| maritodespotism (n~) | ruthless domination by a husband (B)
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|
||||
| marlish (adj~) | easygoing (B)
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|
||||
| marlock (v~) | to cavort frolic (B)
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|
||||
| maschalephidrosis (n~) | massive sweating of the armpits (B)
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|
||||
| mastigophobia (n~) | fear of punishment (B)
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|
||||
| mastigophoric (adj~) | whip
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|
||||
| mataeology (n~) | useless of pointless discourse; worthless
🗑
|
||||
| mataeotechny (n~) | an unprofitable science or art (B)
🗑
|
||||
| matripotestal (adj~) | pertaining to maternal control (B)
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|
||||
| mattoid (n~) | a congenitally insane person (B)
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|
||||
| matutolagnia (n~) | antemerdian sexual desire (B)
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|
||||
| matutolypea (n~) | getting up on the wrong side of the bed (B)
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|
||||
| maumetry (n~) | idolatry (B)
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|
||||
| mauvaise plaisanterie | an inappropriate or badly timed joke (W)
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|
||||
| mawkish (adj~) | characterized by sickly weak sentimentality (G)
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| meadophily (n~) | study of beer bottle labels
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| melioration (n~) | an elevation or bettering: in language a hitherto
🗑
|
||||
| melliloquence (n~) | euphonious speech; sweet talk (W)
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|
||||
| melissophobia (n~) | fear of bees (B)
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|
||||
| melomaniac (n~) | a music lover (B)
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|
||||
| mempsis | an impassioned but somewhat caustic supplication in which
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|
||||
| menacme (n~) | the menstruating part of a woman's life (B)
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|
||||
| mendaciloquence (n~) | lying as a fine art; adroit prevarication (W)
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|
||||
| menticide (n~) | brainwashing (B)
🗑
|
||||
| mentimutation (n~) | change of mind (B)
🗑
|
||||
| mentulate (adj~) | well hung (B)
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|
||||
| mephitic | bad
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|
||||
| meracious (adj~) | unadulterated full
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|
||||
| meraculous (adj~) | demi
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|
||||
| merdivorous (adj~) | eating dung (B)
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|
||||
| merism (n~) | a pairing of contrasted terms to express a totality
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|
||||
| merkin (n~) | female genitalia; or false pubic hair (B)
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|
||||
| merulator (n~) | a wine
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|
||||
| metagnostic (adj~) | unknowable (B)
🗑
|
||||
| metagrobolize (v~) | the mystify (B)
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|
||||
| metempsychosis (n~) | alleged transmigration of souls (B)
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|
||||
| metheglin (n~) | mead (B)
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| mirabile dictu | wonderful to relate (W)
🗑
|
||||
| misandry (n~) | dislike of men (B)
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| mordacious (adj~) | biting acrid
🗑
|
||||
| mordant (adj~) | biting; caustic; cutting; sarcastic (G)
🗑
|
||||
| morigerous (adj~) | obedient; obsequious (B)
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| naprapathy (n~) | the manipulation of strained ligaments i the
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|
||||
| nates (n~) | the buttocks (B)
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|
||||
| nattering (adj~) | grumbling fault
🗑
|
||||
| naufragous (adj~) | causing shipwrecks (B)
🗑
|
||||
| neanilagnia (n~) | a yen for nymphets (B)
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| 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)
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| obdormition (n~) | numbness caused by pressure on a nerve (B)
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| obduracy (n~) | being obstinate or hardhearted
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| obganiate (v~) | to irritate with reiteration (B)
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| objurgation (n~) | an earnest denunciation rebuke
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| oblatrate (n~) | to snarl at inveigh against (B)
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| oblectation (n~) | delight pleasure (B)
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| oblocution | interruption (A)
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| obloquy (n~) | the state of bad repute borne by one being harshly
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| obnubilation (n~) | beclouding or obscuring; obfuscation (W)
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| obreption (n~) | creeping up on (B)
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| obsecrations (n~) | entreaties (A)
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| obscurum per obscurius | explaining the obscure by means of the
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| obsolagnium (n~) | waning sexual desire due to age (B)
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| obstrobogulous (adj~) | a vehement oath of expansive meaning (G)
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| obtund (adj~) | serving to blunt dull or deaden (G)
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| ochlocracy (n~) | mob rule (B)
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| odium aestheticum | the bitterness of aesthetical controversy (W)
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| odium scholasticum | acrimony between scholars or pedants; academic
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| odium theologicum | bitter hatred between rival theologians (W)
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| oeillade (n~) | an ogle a flirtatious glance (B)
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| oikofugic (n~) | obsessive wandering (B)
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| oikonisus (n~) | urge to start a family (B)
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| olamic (adj~) | infinite eternal (B)
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| olet lucernam | it smells of the lamp: describing something written
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| oligophrenia (n~) | feeble
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| olisbos (n~) | a dildo (B)
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| omadhaun (n~) | an idiot fool (B)
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| ombibulous (adj~) | drinking everything (B)
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| omnilegent (adj~) | reading or having read everything; having
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| omphalomancy (n~) | predicting the number of children a mother will
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| omphalopsychites (n~) | term for literary Anglophiles who wish American
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| omphaloskepsis (n~) | contemplation of the navel for the purpose of
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| oneirataxia (n~) | inability to distinguish between fantasy and
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| oneiric (adj~) | having to do with dreams (E G)
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| oniochalasia (n~) | buying as a means of mental relaxation (B)
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| onolatry (n~) | ass
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| onomastic (adj~) | pertaining to a proper name or names (W)
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| onomatomania (n~) | preoccupation with words and names (B)
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| onomatophobia (n~) | fear of hearing a certain word (B)
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| onomatopoeia (n~) | the forming of or use of a word that imitates in
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| onus probandi | the burden of proof (W)
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| operose (adj~) | involving much labor; laborious (G)
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| ophelimity (n~) | the ability to please sexually (B)
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| oppugnant (adj~) | opposing; antagonistic; contrary (G)
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| ophthalmophobia (n~) | fear of being stared at (B)
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| opiparous (adj~) | sumptuous (B)
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| oppilations (n~) | obstructions (A)
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| opsablepsia (n~) | not looking into another's eyes (B)
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| opuscule (n~) | a minor composition or work (W)
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| oratio obliqua | indirect speech: reported speech or relating
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| oratio recta | straight speech: actual or direct speech (W)
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| orchidectomy (n~) | castration (B)
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| ore rotundo | with a round mouth: eloquently with considered
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| orgulous (adj~) | proud and haughty; swelling (G)
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| orismology (n~) | the science of defining or explaining technical
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| otiose | futile functionless
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| oubliette (n~) | a secret place of imprisonment usually with
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| outrecuidance (n~) | egomania; gross conceit (B)
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| overweening | excessively proud; arrogant; conceited; or
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| oxythymous (adj~) | quick
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| pachycephalic (adj~) | thick
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| pageism (n~) | masochism fantasy of a man imagining himself as
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| pagophagia (n~) | eating a tray of ice daily for two months to
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| paideutics (n~) | pedagogy (B)
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| paizogony (n~) | love play (B)
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| paleomnesia (n~) | good memory for events of the far past (B)
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| palimpsest (n~) | a piece of parchment or vellum from which
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| palinode (n~) | a song or poem retracting statements in previous
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| palinoia (n~) | compulsive repitition of an act until it's
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|
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| palladian (adj~) | pertaining to learning and wisdom (B)
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| palliards (n~) | professional beggars whose parents were also
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| palpebrate (v~) | to wink (B)
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| paltripolitan (n~) | an insular city dweller (B)
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| pandiculation (n~) | stretching and yawning (B)
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| panjandrum | a self
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| pannychous (adj~) | lasting all night (B)
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| pantagruelian (adj~) | satirical though ribald (B)
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| pantaraxia (n~) | actions aimed aat keeping people on their toes
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| pantophobia (n~) | a fear of everything (B)
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| paphian | pertaining to love especially its sexual and
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| paracoita (n~) | a female sexual partner (B)
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| paracoitus (n~) | a male sexual partner (B)
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| paradiastole (n~) | a euphemistic half
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| paraenetic | advisory; hortatory (G)
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| paralepsis (n~) | mentioning something by saying you won't mention it (B)
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| paralipomena (n~) | deleted passages from a book or a
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|
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| paralipophobia (n~) | fear of responsibility (B)
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| paralogism (n~) | reasoning method that contradicts logical
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|
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| parerethesis (n~) | abnormal excitement (B)
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| pareunia (n~) | sexual intercourse (B)
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| parisology (n~) | deliberate ambiguity in use of words (B)
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| parnel (n~) | a priest's mistress; a loose woman (B)
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| paronomasia (n~) | punning; a pun (B)
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| parorexia (n~) | perverted appetite; demanding strange foods (B)
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|
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| parrhesia (n~) | freedom of speech (rhetoric term) (B)
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| partheniad (n~) | a poem in honor of a virgin (B)
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|
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| parthenolatry (n~) | virgin worship (B)
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|
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| parvanimity (n~) | pettiness; meannes; or a mean or petty person (B)
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|
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| parvenu (n~) | a pretentious snob of the nouveau riche (B)
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|
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| parviscient (adj~) | uninformed (B)
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| pasilaly (n~) | a universal language (B)
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|
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| pasquinade | a lampoon or satire posted in a public place (G)
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|
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| passalorynchite (n~) | a member of an early Christian sect who
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|
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| passepartout (n~) | a master key; a safeconduct or passport (B)
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| patavinity (n~) | the use of local words or expressions (B)
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| patharmosis (n~) | mental adjustment to one's disease (B)
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|
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| pathic (n~) | a catamite; or a passive participator (B)
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|
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| pathocryptia (n~) | unwillingness to believe in or talk about
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|
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| pathodixia (n~) | talking to excess about one's illness and
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|
||||
| pathognomy (n~) | the study of emotions by their outward
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|
||||
| pathomimesis (n~) | malingering (B)
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|
||||
| patzer (n~) | a weak chess player (B)
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|
||||
| pauciloquent (adj~) | speaking briefly (B)
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|
||||
| pavid | quaking with fear; afraid; frightened (G)
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|
||||
| peccable (adj~) | liable to sin (B)
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|
||||
| peccatophobia (n~) | fear of sinning or of having committed an
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|
||||
| peckerwood (n~) | a poor southern Anglo
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|
||||
| pecksniffian (adj~) | hypocritical insincere and gutless (B)
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|
||||
| pecos (v~) | to shoot a man and roll his body in the river (B)
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|
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| peculation (n~) | embezzlement (B)
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|
||||
| pedetentous (adj~) | proceedilng gradually or cautiously (B)
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|
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| peirastic (adj~) | experimental; ready to be tried (B)
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|
||||
| peladophobia (n~) | fear of baldness
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|
||||
| pelology (n~) | study of mud and its therapeutic applications (B)
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|
||||
| penelopize (v~) | to undo and redo to gain time (B)
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|
||||
| penisterophily (n~) | raising and training pigeons
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|
||||
| penotherapy (n~) | regulating prostitutes to control venereal
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|
||||
| pentapopemptic (n~) | divorced five times (B)
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|
||||
| pentheraphobia (n~) | fear or dislike of one's mother
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|
||||
| peotomy (n~) | the surgical amputation of the penis (B)
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|
||||
| perduellion (n~) | treason (B)
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|
||||
| perendinate (n~) | to postpone until the next day; to postpone
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|
||||
| perfectibilism (n~) | belief that anything short of perfect is
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|
||||
| perfrication (n~) | thorough rubbing (B)
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|
||||
| perhiemate (v~) | to spend the winter (B)
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|
||||
| perichareia (n~) | excessive and violent rejoicing (B)
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|
||||
| periclitate | to expose to peril; endanger; risk (G)
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|
||||
| perissotomist (n~) | a knife
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|
||||
| peristrephic (adj~) | turning around rotatory (B)
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|
||||
| perlustrate (v~) | to review thoroughly; survey (B)
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|
||||
| pervicacious (adj~) | extremely obstinate; willful (B)
🗑
|
||||
| pervulgate (v~) | to publish (B)
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|
||||
| petalism (n~) | banishing a citizen for five years if judged
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|
||||
| pettifoggery | quibbling over petty details
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|
||||
| petulcous (adj~) | butting like a ram; offensively aggressive (B)
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|
||||
| phagomania (n~) | insanely hungry (B)
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|
||||
| phalacrespia (n~) | aversion for baldness or for bald men (B)
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|
||||
| phalacrosis (n~) | baldness
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|
||||
| phallation (n~) | movement of the penis in sexual intercourse (B)
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|
||||
| phaneromania (n~) | a compulsion to pick at a skin growth or
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|
||||
| pharisaical | of persons of rigid adherence to outward forms and
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|
||||
| phatic | establishing an atmosphere of sociability rather than
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|
||||
| philalethe (n~) | one who loves to forget (B)
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|
||||
| philauty (n~) | self
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|
||||
| philematology (n~) | the study of kissing (B)
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|
||||
| philematophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes kissing (B)
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|
||||
| philobiblist (n~) | a lover of books
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|
||||
| philocalist (n~) | a lover of beauty (B)
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|
||||
| philodox (n~) | one who loves one's own opinions (B)
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|
||||
| philogastric (adj~) | greedy (B)
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|
||||
| philophobia (n~) | fear of falling in love or of being loved (B)
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|
||||
| philopolemic (adj~) | pertaining to love of argument or
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|
||||
| philopornist (n~) | a lover of prostitutes (B)
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|
||||
| philosophastering (adj~) | pseudo
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|
||||
| philotheoparoptesism | the process of slowly cooking those who
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|
||||
| philoxenist (n~) | one who is happiest while entertaining
🗑
|
||||
| phrontifugic (adj~) | relieving anxiety (B)
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|
||||
| physagogue (n~) | carminative or medicine to induce farting (B)
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|
||||
| piacular | serving to atone or make amends for; expiatory; or
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|
||||
| pickthank (n~) | a flatterer or sycophant (B)
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|
||||
| piliferous | having hair (G)
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|
||||
| piloerection (n~) | hair standing on end (B)
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|
||||
| pilpulist (n~) | one who uses Talmudic dialectic or via
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|
||||
| pinchbeck | sham or spurious; false (G)
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|
||||
| pinguescent | becoming fat (G)
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|
||||
| pithiatism (n~) | a forceful suggestion (B)
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|
||||
| pizzle (n~) | a whip made from an animal's penis (B)
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|
||||
| planistethic (adj~) | flat
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|
||||
| planomania (n~) | urge to live a bohemian life (B)
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|
||||
| platitudinarian (n~) | full of platitudes (B)
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|
||||
| platypod | one afflicted with fallen arches (G)
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|
||||
| plebicolist (n~) | someone who woos the common folk (B)
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|
||||
| pleionosis (n~) | exaggeration of one's own importance (B)
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|
||||
| pleniloquence (n~) | excessive talking (B)
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|
||||
| pleonastic | use of words superfluously; redundant (G)
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|
||||
| pleonexia (n~) | covetousness avarice; mania for acquiring
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|
||||
| plerophory (n~) | state of full confidence or absolute certainty
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|
||||
| pococurante (adj~) | nonchalant indifferent (B)
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|
||||
| poculation (n~) | wine
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|
||||
| podobromhidrosis (n~) | smelly feet (B)
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|
||||
| poecilonymy (n~) | the use of several names for one thing (B)
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|
||||
| pogonology (n~) | treatise on beards
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|
||||
| pogonophobia (n~) | abnormal fear or dislike of beards
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|
||||
| poiesis (n~) | creation; creative power or ability (B)
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|
||||
| poikilothymia (n~) | extreme changes of mood (B)
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|
||||
| polychrestic | serving and adapted for several different uses (G)
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|
||||
| polyhistor (n~) | a universal scholar (B)
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|
||||
| polylogy (n~) | wordiness (B)
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|
||||
| polydipsia (n~) | extreme thirst or an abnormal and continuous
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|
||||
| popination (n~) | bar
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|
||||
| popliteal | pertaining to or connected with the hollow area back
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|
||||
| pornerastic (adj~) | licentious lascivious
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|
||||
| pornolagnia (n~) | desire for prostitutes (B)
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|
||||
| potvaliant | valiant and courageous as a result of being drunk
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|
||||
| preantepenultimate (n~ & adj~) | fourth from last (B)
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|
||||
| preterist (n~) | someone whose main pleasure in in reliving the
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|
||||
| priapean (adj~) | phallic (B)
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|
||||
| priapism (n~) | persistent and painful erection (B)
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|
||||
| procrustean | aiming or tending to produce uniformity by violent
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|
||||
| proctalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B)
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|
||||
| proditorious (adj~) | traitorous; prone to give away secrets (B)
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|
||||
| prolepsis (n~) | anticipating an argument and answering it before
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|
||||
| prolix | verbose repititious
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|
||||
| pronovalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse in a prone
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|
||||
| propaedeutic | of or pertaining to preliminary instruction;
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|
||||
| prosonomasia (n~) | use of a humorous modification of a person's
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|
||||
| prosophobia (n~) | fear of or adversion to progress (B)
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|
||||
| prosopolepsy (n~) | judging people favorably from their looks (B)
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|
||||
| prosopopy (n~) | the personification of inanimate objects (B)
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|
||||
| protervity (n~) | petulance; peevishness (B)
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|
||||
| psaphonic (adj~) | planning one's rise to fame (B)
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|
||||
| pseudandry (n~) | female use of a male pseudonym (B)
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|
||||
| pseudautochiria (n~) | murder disguised as a suicide (B)
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|
||||
| pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism (n~) | phony opposition to
🗑
|
||||
| pseudogyny (n~) | male use of a female pseudonym (B)
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|
||||
| pseudologist (n~) | liar (B)
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|
||||
| pseudomnesia (n~) | memory for things that never happened (B)
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|
||||
| pseudophonia (n~) | suicide disguised as murder (B)
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|
||||
| psilology (n~) | empty talk (B)
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|
||||
| psilosopher (n~) | a superficial philosopher (B)
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|
||||
| psittacistic | speaking in a mechanical repetitive way (G)
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|
||||
| psychasthenia (n~) | neurotic lassitude indecision
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|
||||
| pteronophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of feathers
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|
||||
| pudency (n~) | modesty or shyness; embarassment
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|
||||
| puerile | childish immature
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|
||||
| pullulate | teem swarm
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|
||||
| purulent | of containing
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|
||||
| pygophilous (adj~) | buttock
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|
||||
| pyrolagnia (n~) | sexual stimulation from watching fires (B)
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|
||||
| quaintise (n~) | ingenuity cunning; a trick or stratagem (B)
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|
||||
| qued (adj~) | evil bad (B)
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|
||||
| querimony (n~) | a complaint (B)
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|
||||
| quidam (n~) | an unknown person (B)
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|
||||
| quiddity (n~) | the essence or nature of a thing (B)
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|
||||
| quidnunc (n~) | one who is curious to know everything that
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|
||||
| quisquillian (adj~) | trashy (B)
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|
||||
| quisguous (adj~) | perplexing (B)
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|
||||
| quodlibet (n~) | a nice or fine point in an argument; a subtlety
🗑
|
||||
| quodlibetarian (n~) | one who discusses or uses quodlibets
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|
||||
| rabiator (n~) | a violent man (B)
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|
||||
| rabulism (n~) | tendency for railing and quibbling
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|
||||
| rackrent (n~) | exorbitant rent (B)
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|
||||
| rakehelly (adj~) | dissolute debauched (B)
🗑
|
||||
| ramfeezled (adj~) | worn out exhausted (B)
🗑
|
||||
| rammish (adj~) | lustful and horny (B)
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|
||||
| ranarium (n~) | frog farm (B)
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|
||||
| randle (n~) | a nonsensical poem recited by Irish schoolboys as
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|
||||
| rantallion (n~) | one whose scrotum is longer than his penis (B)
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|
||||
| rantipole (n~) | a wild rambunctious young man (B)
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|
||||
| realpolitik | practical politics; euphemism for power politics
🗑
|
||||
| rebarbative (adj~) | grim unattractive
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|
||||
| reboantic (adj~) | reverberating (B)
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|
||||
| recension (n~) | scholarly editorial revision (B)
🗑
|
||||
| receptary (adj~) | accepted as fact but unproved (B)
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|
||||
| rectalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B)
🗑
|
||||
| rectopathic (adj~) | easily hurt emotionally (B)
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|
||||
| rectrix (n~) | a female ruler (B)
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|
||||
| recubation (n~) | lying down (B)
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|
||||
| recumbentibus (n~) | a knockdown blow (B)
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|
||||
| recusant (adj~) | dissenting; disestablishmentarian (B)
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|
||||
| redargution (n~) | refutation or disproving (B)
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|
||||
| redhibition (n~) | the return of defective merchandise (B)
🗑
|
||||
| redivivus (adj~) | living again; revived (B)
🗑
|
||||
| refocillate (v~) | to warm into life again; revive (G)
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|
||||
| refragable (adj~) | capable of being refuted (B)
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| refrangible (adj~) | capable of being refracted (B)
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| refulgent (adj~) | radiant brilliant
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| reify | literally "to make a thing"; given definite concrete
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| remontado (n~) | someone who has fled to the mountains; a person
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| remplissage (n~) | filling or padding used in music and
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| remugient (adj~) | rebellowing; roaring or shouting anew (B)
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| renable (adj~) | fluent eloquent (B)
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| renard (n~) | a fox; a sly or cunning person (B)
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| renascible (adj~) | capable of being reborn (B)
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| renifleur (n~) | one who gets sexual pleasure from body smells (B)
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| renitent | resisting or opposing stubbornly; recalcitrant (G)
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| repristinate (v~) | to revive; to restore (B)
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| resipiscent (adj~) | restored to sanity; learned from
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| resupination (n~) | turning to an upside
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| retrocopulation (n~) | woof (B)
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| retromancy (n~) | fortunetelling by things seen over one's
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| retromingent (adj~) | urinating backward (B)
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| retunded | to weaken or diminish the strength of effect of (G)
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| rhabdophobia (n~) | fear of being punished or severely criticized (B)
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| rhadamanthine | strictly and inflexibly honest and just (G)
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| rhigosis (n~) | sensation of cold (B)
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| rhonchisonant (adj~) | snorting; snoring (B)
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| rhopalism (n~) | a sentence or poem i which each word is one syllable
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| rhyparography | the printing or painting of sordid and filty
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| rhytiscopia (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with facial wrinkles (B)
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| ribroasting (n~) | a sound beating; a thrashing (B)
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| rictus (n~) | a very wide mouth; a gaping mouth as in terror (B)
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| risorial (adj~) | pertaining to causing
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| rixation (n~) | quarreling (B)
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| rodomontade | arrogant boasting; pretentious blustering ranting
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| roil | vex; disturb; irritate; rile (G)
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| roinous (adj~) | mean nasty and contemptible (B)
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| roitelet (n~) | a petty king (B)
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| roman a clef (n~) | a novel whose characters are actual people
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| rubricism (n~) | tenacious adherence to rules of behavior or
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| ructation (n~) | belching (B)
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| rudesby (n~) | a loud
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| rugose | having wrinkles (G)
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| rumgumption (n~) | shrewdness (B)
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| runcible (adj~) | sensuous (B)
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| sacerdotophrenia (n~) | clerical stagefright (B)
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| saltimbanco (n~) | a mountebank a quack (B)
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| sanguisugent | bloodsucking; bloodthirsty (G)
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| sapidity (n~) | flavorful; tastiness (B)
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| saponaceous (adj~) | soapy slippery; or evasively ingratiating (B)
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| saprostomous (adj~) | having bad breath (B)
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| sardanapalian | luxuriously effeminate (G)
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| sardoodledum (n~) | stereotyped or unrealistic characterization
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| sarmassation (n~) | love play (B)
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| sarmassophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play (B)
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| sarmassophobitch (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play with me (B)
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| satisdiction (n~) | enough said (B)
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| satispassion (n~) | satisfactory suffering according to
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| saturnalia | period of unrestrained license and orgiastic
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| scacchic | pertaining to or like chess (G)
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| scaldabanco (n~) | a hotheaded debator; a fiery preacher (B)
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| scaphism (n~) | an old Persian method of executing criminals by
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| scaramouch (n~) | a cowardly buffoon (B)
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| scaturient (adj~) | gushing forth; effusive (B)
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| schadenfreude | a feeling of enjoyment derived from the misfortunes
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| schesis (n~) | mocking another's accent or manner (B)
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| schizothemia (n~) | digression by a long reminescence (B)
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| schmaltz | something stickily sentimental banal
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| schoenabatist (n~) | a tightrope walker (B)
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| sciamachy (n~) | fighting with a shadow or with an imaginary
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| sciapodous (adj~) | having very large feet (B)
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| scibile (n~) | something knowable (B)
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| sciolist | one who pretends to scholarship or knowledge
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| sciotheism (n~) | the belief that disembodied spirits
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| scissile (adj~) | capable of being cut smoothly or split
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| scofflaw (n~) | one who scoffs at hence
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| scolecophagous (adj~) | eating worms (B)
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| scollardical (n~) | a derogatory term for a scholar (B)
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| scopolagnia (n~) | the pleasure gained from voyeurism (B)
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| scortation (n~) | fornication (B)
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| scout | reject or dismiss scornfully; flout; scoff at (G)
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| screed | a lengthy discourse usually used to describe opinions
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| scribacious | given to or fond of writing (G)
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| scrofulous | morally corrupt; degenerate (G)
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| scungilaginous | of the semifluid gelatinous consistency of
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| sebastomania (n~) | religious insanity (B)
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| sectary (n~) | a fanatic disciple (B)
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| sedentarize | to take up or cause to take up
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| sedulous (adj~) | diligent persistent
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| seeksorrow (n~) | masochist (B)
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| sententious | wordy verbose
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| sequacious | given to the slavish or unreasoning serving or
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|
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| sermocination (n~) | a speaker quickly answering his own question (B)
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| shaconian (n~) | someone convinced that Bacon ghosted Shakespeare's
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| shaftsbury (n~) | a gallon jug of wine (B)
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| shamateur (n~) | a bogus tyro (B)
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|
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| shardborn (adj~) | born in dung (B)
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| shilpit (adj~) | feeble puny
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|
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| sicarian (n~) | an assassin (B)
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| sicchasia (n~) | nauseau (B)
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| sicchosism (n~) | morbid fastidiousness (B)
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| sibyllilne | oracular; prophetic; mysterious (G)
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|
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| siffilate | to whisper (G)
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|
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| simony | buying selling
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|
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| simper | to smile in a silly self
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|
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| skibbile (adj~) | wonderfully witty; sexually irresistible (S)
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|
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| skibbalalia (n~) | the overwhelming desire to purchase an
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|
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| skoptsy (n~) | self
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|
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| skybald (n~) | a good
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|
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| smatchet (n~) | a small nasty person or a nasty child (B)
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|
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| smellfungus (n~) | a malcontent; a grumbler or fault
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|
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| snafu (adj~ & n~) | situation normal all fucked up [also:
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|
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| fubar | fucked up beyond all recognition; fubb
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|
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| sneckdraw (n~) | a sly person (B)
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|
||||
| snollygoster | a clever shrewd
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|
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| sockdolager (n~) | a telling blow (B)
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|
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| solatium (n~) | anything that compensates for suffering or loss;
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|
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| solifidium (n~) | someone who believes that faith alone is sufficient
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|
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| somniloquacious (adj~) | pertaining to talking in one's sleep (B)
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|
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| soodle | to walk stroll
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|
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| sophomania (n~) | delusion of exceptional intelligence (B)
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|
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| sophrosyne (n~) | sober sensible
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|
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| sorbile (adj~) | drinkable (B)
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|
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| spadonism (n~) | enuchry (B)
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|
||||
| spaneria (n~) | scarcity of men (B)
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|
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| spanogyny (n~) | scarcity of woman (B)
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|
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| spatiate (v~) | to stroll or ramble (B)
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|
||||
| spatilomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by observing animal droppings (B)
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|
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| spatrify (v~) | to besmirch befoul (B)
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|
||||
| spawling | a noisy clearing of the throat (G)
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|
||||
| speciesist | for many people a test is permissible when it inflicts
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|
||||
| spodogenous (adj~) | pertaining to or due to presence of
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|
||||
| spoffokins (n~) | a whore pretending to be a wife (B)
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|
||||
| spousebreach (n~) | adultery (B)
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|
||||
| spraints (n~) | otter dung (B)
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|
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| spurcidical (adj~) | foul
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|
||||
| squidgereen (n~) | a short insignificant person (B)
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|
||||
| stagorium | an establishment (bar or resort hotel) that serves as
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|
||||
| stasivalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse only
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|
||||
| steatopygous | pertaining to or characterized by protuberant
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|
||||
| stercoricolous (adj~) | living in dung (B)
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|
||||
| sterculius (n~) | the god of feces (B)
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|
||||
| sternutation | the act of sneezing; a sneeze (G)
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|
||||
| stertorous | characterized by heavy snoring (G)
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|
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| sthenobulia (n~) | strong will power (B)
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|
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| stirious (adj~) | like an icicle (B)
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|
||||
| stomachous (adj~) | obstinate; angry (B)
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|
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| stoopgallant (adj~) | humbling; ego
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|
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| strepitous | making a great clamor; noisy; boisterous (G)
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|
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| stricture | an adverse criticism or remark censure
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|
||||
| stultiloquence | foolish or senseless talk; babble; twaddle (G)
🗑
|
||||
| stygiophobia (n~) | fear of hell (B)
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|
||||
| stylite (n~) | ascetics who lived on top of pillars (B)
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|
||||
| suaviation (n~) | a love kiss (B)
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|
||||
| subagitation (n~) | copulation (B)
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|
||||
| subarrhation (n~) | betrothal accomplished by the man's showering
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|
||||
| subderisorious (adj~) | mildly ridiculing (B)
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|
||||
| subdititious (adj~) | secret substitution (B)
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|
||||
| subdolous (adj~) | rather crafty or sly (B)
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|
||||
| subintelligitur (n~) | a meaning implied but not stated (B)
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|
||||
| subsannation (n~) | derision (B)
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|
||||
| substaquilate (v~) | to defeat overwhelm (B)
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|
||||
| supernaculum (n~) | a liquor drunk to the last drop; excellent
🗑
|
||||
| supinovalent (adj~) | able to fornicate only while supine (B)
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|
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| suppalpation (n~) | gaining affection by caressing (B)
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|
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| suspercollate (v~) | to hang by the neck (B)
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|
||||
| sybarite (n~) | someone overly fond of luxury and pleasure (B)
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|
||||
| tachydidaxy (n~) | fast teaching (B)
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|
||||
| talionic (adj~) | pertaining to revenge in kind (B)
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|
||||
| tanquam (n~) | someone educated enough to go to college (B)
🗑
|
||||
| taphephobia (n~) | fear of being buried alive (B)
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|
||||
| tardigrade (adj~) | slow
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|
||||
| tartuffish (adj~) | pertaining to the pious hypocrisy of Tartuffe
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|
||||
| tathagatagarbha (n~) | the eternal and absolute essence of all
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|
||||
| tauromachian (adj~) | pertaining to bullfights (B)
🗑
|
||||
| tautegorical (adj~) | saying the same thing with different
🗑
|
||||
| tautoousious (adj~) | being absolutely the same (B)
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|
||||
| tegetology (n~) | collecting cardboard beer coasters
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|
||||
| teknonymy (n~) | naming the parent after the child (B)
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|
||||
| telestich (n~) | a poem in which the consecutive final letters
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|
||||
| temerarious | reckless; heedless; rash (G)
🗑
|
||||
| temulance (n~) | drunkenness (B)
🗑
|
||||
| tendentious | promoting a particular view or tendency; hence
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| 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;
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|
||||
| theanthropism (n~) | attaching human traits to one's god (B)
🗑
|
||||
| thelymachy (n~) | a war of women (B)
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|
||||
| thelyphthoric (adj~) | that which corrupts women (B)
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|
||||
| thersitical | loud and grossly abusive foulmouthed; scurrilous (G)
🗑
|
||||
| thrasonical | given to or marked by boasting and bragging (G)
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|
||||
| threpterophilia (n~) | a fondness for female nurses (B)
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|
||||
| titivate | to make smart; spruce up (G)
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|
||||
| tonguepad (v~) | to scold (B)
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|
||||
| tralatitiously (adv~) | metaphorically; figuratively (B)
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|
||||
| transilient (adj~) | pertaining to abrupt changes (B]
🗑
|
||||
| transmogrification | changes into grotesque or humorous forms
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|
||||
| transude | to pass or ooze through or out as sweat through
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|
||||
| trichoschisticism (n~) | hair
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|
||||
| tripudiation (n~) | the act of dancing
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|
||||
| triskaidekaphobia | fear of the number 13 or Friday the 13th (G)
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|
||||
| triturate | to rub grind
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|
||||
| truckle | to show servility or subservience (G)
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|
||||
| truntlement | trumpery (A)
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|
||||
| tugmutton | a great glutton (A)
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|
||||
| tussicated | driven about; tormented (A)
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|
||||
| typomania (n~) | obsession with the expectation of publication
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|
||||
| tyromancy (n~) | fortunate telling by watching cheese as it
🗑
|
||||
| tyrosemiophily (n~) | the collecting of Camembert cheese labels
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|
||||
| uberous | fruitful (A)
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|
||||
| ulotrichous | having wooly or crisply curling hair (G)
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| varietist | an unorthodox person; or someone who practices
🗑
|
||||
| variorum | pertaining to a literary classic annotated by
🗑
|
||||
| vastation | purification through fire (B)
🗑
|
||||
| vecordious | senseless insane
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|
||||
| velitation | a petty fight; a skirmish (B)
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|
||||
| velleity | slight or faint desire; inclination (B)
🗑
|
||||
| vellicate | to pull at off
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|
||||
| venery | the pursuit of sexual pleasure or indulgence
🗑
|
||||
| ventricumbent | lying face down; prone (B)
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|
||||
| ventripotent | fat
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|
||||
| verbigeration | senseless reiteration of cliches (B)
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|
||||
| verbophobia | fear and dislike of words (B)
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|
||||
| verecund | bashful; modest (B)
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|
||||
| veriloquent | speaking truthfully (B)
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|
||||
| verism | the theory that ugliness is valid in art and literature
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|
||||
| vernalagnia | spring fever (B)
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|
||||
| vesticate | to blister (G)
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|
||||
| vestryism (n~) | selfishness and parochialism said to be
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|
||||
| viaggiatory | on the move; traveling around (B)
🗑
|
||||
| vicissitudinary | pertaining to change alteration
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|
||||
| vigesimation | killing every twentieth person (B)
🗑
|
||||
| vilipend | to belittle to disparage (B)
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|
||||
| viparious | life
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|
||||
| vitilitigate | to be particularly quarrelsome (B)
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|
||||
| vivisepulture | live burial (B)
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|
||||
| volitient | exercising free will (B)
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|
||||
| vomituration | retching ineffectual vomiting
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|
||||
| vulpinism (n~) | the quality of being foxlike esp
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|
||||
| waghalter | a rogue rascal or knave (B)
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|
||||
| wamble | to fell nauseous; or to move unsteadily to stagger;
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|
||||
| wampus | a stupid dull
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|
||||
| wantwit | a fool (B)
🗑
|
||||
| Weltanschauung | a comprehensive world view especially from
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|
||||
| 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)
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|
||||
| xenagogy | a guidebook (B)
🗑
|
||||
| xenapistia | extreme distrust of strangers (B)
🗑
|
||||
| xenoepist | someone who speaks with a foreign accent (B)
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|
||||
| xenomancy | fortunetelling by studying the first stranger
🗑
|
||||
| xylophobia | fear of wooden objects; fear of forests (B)
🗑
|
||||
| xyresic | razor sharp (B)
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| zygomancy | fortune telling with weights (B)
🗑
|
||||
| acetabuliform | shaped lika shallow cup or saucer
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|
||||
| acicular | needle-shaped
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|
||||
| Acinaciform | scimitar-shaped
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|
||||
| aciniform | shaped lika berry
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|
||||
| aculeiform | shaped lika thorn
🗑
|
||||
| adeniform | shaped lika gland
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|
||||
| aduncat | shaped lika hook or crook
🗑
|
||||
| aeriform | of thform or shapof gas; gaseous
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|
||||
| aliform | wing-shaped
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|
||||
| allantoid | shaped lika sausag
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|
||||
| amygdaloid | almond-shaped; of, likor pertaining to tonsils
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|
||||
| ancistroid | hook-shaped
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| ancoral | of, shaped likor resembling an anchor
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| anguiform | shaped lika snak
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| anguilliform | shaped likan eel
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| ankyroid | hook-shaped
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| annodated | shaped likthletter S
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| ansat | having a handlor hand-likshap
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| apsidal | shaped likan aps
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| aquiform | watery; liquid
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| araneiform | shaped lika spider
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| arborescent | branched; branching; tree-shaped
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| arboriform | shaped lika tre
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| arcat | bow-shaped
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| arciform | shaped lika bow
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| arcuat | arched; bow-shaped
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| arietinous | shaped lika ram's head
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| aspergilliform | shaped lika brush
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| aspidat | shield-shaped
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| auriform | shaped likan ear
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| aveniform | shaped likoats
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| axiniform | shaped likan axe-head
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| bacciform | shaped lika berry
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| baculiform | rod-shaped
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| balanoid | acorn-shaped
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| belemnoid | shaped lika dart
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| beloid | shaped likan arrow
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| belonoid | shaped lika needl
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| boniform | having thform of good
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| boviform | cow-shaped
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| branchiform | gill-shaped
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| buccinal | shaped or sounding lika trumpet
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| bufoniform | shaped lika toad
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| bulliform | shaped lika blister or boil
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| bursiform | shaped lika pouch or purs
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| calathiform | cup-shaped
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| calcariform | spur-shaped
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| calceiform | shaped lika slipper
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| calciform | pebble-shaped
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| campaniform | bell-shaped
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| campanulat | shaped lika bell
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| cancriform | shaped lika crab
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| cannular | hollow or tube-shaped
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| capriform | goatlik
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| cardioid | heart-shaped
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| carinated | shaped likthprow or keel of a ship
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| cariniform | keel-shaped
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| cassideous | helmet-shaped
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| caudiform | tail-like; tail-shaped
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| cauliform | shaped likor resembling a stem
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| ceratoid | shaped lika horn; horny
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| cheliform | shaped lika pincer
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| choanoid | shaped lika funnel
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| cingular | shaped lika girdlor ring
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| circinat |
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| clathrat | shaped lika net or lattic
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| clavat |
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| claviform | in thshapof a club
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| clithridiat | shaped lika keyhol
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| clypeat | shaped lika buckler
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| cochlear | anything spiral-shaped; twisted spirally
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| coliform | resembling or shaped lika siev
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| colliform | shaped likor resembling a neck
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| colubriform | shaped lika snak
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| conchiform | shaped lika shell
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| conglobat | shaped lika small ball or glob
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| coracoid | shaped lika crow's beak
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| cordat |
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| cordiform | heart-shaped
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| corniculat | horn-shaped; horned
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| corniform | shaped lika horn
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| coronoid | shaped lika beak
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| corviform | shaped lika crow
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| cotyliform | disc-shaped with a raised rim
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| crateriform | cup-shaped
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| cribriform | shaped lika siev
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| cricoid | ring-shaped
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| cruciform | cross-shaped
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| cteniform | comb-shaped
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| cubiform | shaped lika cub
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| cucullat | hooded; hood-shaped
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| cucumiform | cucumber-shaped
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| culiciform | likor resembling a mosquito
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| cultriform | knife-shaped
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| cumuliform | shaped lika heap
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| cuneat | wedge-shaped
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| cuneiform | shaped lika wedg
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| cupulat | of, likor pertaining to a cup; cup-shaped
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| cyathiform | shaped lika cup
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| cymbiform | shaped lika boat
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| deiform | appearing likor shaped lika god
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| deltoid | shaped lika delta or triangl
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| dendriform | shaped lika tre
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| dendritiform | branched
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| dentiform | shaped lika tooth
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| digitiform | shaped lika finger
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| disciform | round or oval in shap
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| dolabriform | resembling a hatchet or cleaver
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| dolioform | shaped lika barrel
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| draconiform | shaped lika dragon
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| drepaniform | shaped lika sickl
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| echinuliform | resembling small spines
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| embryoniform | shaped likan embryo
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| ensiform | resembling or possessing characteristics of a sword
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| eruciform | likor resembling a caterpillar
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| fabiform | shaped lika bean
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| falciform | shaped lika sickl
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| faviform | shaped lika honeycomb
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| feliform | having a catlikform or shap
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| fibriform | shaped lika fibr
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| fibrilliform | shaped lika small fibr
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| ficiform | shaped lika fig
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| filiciform | shaped lika fern or frond
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| filiform | shaped lika thread
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| fistuliform | shaped lika pip
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| flabelliform | shaped lika fan
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| flagelliform | shaped lika whip
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| floriform | shaped lika flower
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| foliform | shaped lika leaf
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| forcipiform | shaped likforceps
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| foveiform | shaped lika depression or pit
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| fringilliform | resembling a finch
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| fucoid | shaped likseaweed
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| fulciform | shaped likor resembling a prop
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| fundiform | shaped lika sling
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| fungiform | shaped lika fungus
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|
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| furcular | shaped lika fork
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| fusiform | shaped lika spindl
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| galeated | shaped lika helmet
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| galeiform | shaped lika helmet
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| gasiform | of thform or shapof gas
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| geminiform | paired; doubl
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| gladiat |
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| glandiform | gland-shaped; acorn-shaped
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| glenoid | slightly cupped; socket-shaped
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| gliriform | resembling a rodent
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| guttiform | shaped lika drop
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| hamiform shaped lika hook |
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| harengiform | shaped lika herring
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|
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| hastat | spear-shaped
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|
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| hederiform | shaped likivy
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| helicoid | screw-shaped; lika coil
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|
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| helminthoid | worm-shaped
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|
||||
| herpetiform | resembling or shaped lika reptil
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|
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| hippocrepian | horseshoe-shaped
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|
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| hippocrepiform shaped lika horsesho |
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|
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| homaloidal | of thnaturof a plane; flat; plane-shaped
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|
||||
| hominiform | shaped lika human
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|
||||
| hordeiform | shaped lika barleycorn
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|
||||
| hyoid | having a "U" shap
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|
||||
| hypsiloid | shaped likthGreek letter upsilon
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|
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| ichthyomorphic | shaped lika fish
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|
||||
| igniform | having thshapor form of fir
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|
||||
| infundibuliform | having thform or shapof a funnel or con
🗑
|
||||
| janiform | having two faces
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|
||||
| lacertiform | shaped lika lizard
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|
||||
| lachrymiform | shaped lika tear
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|
||||
| laciniform | shaped lika fring
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|
||||
| lageniform | shaped lika flask
🗑
|
||||
| lambdoid | shaped likthletter lambda (^) or “L”
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|
||||
| lamelliform | shaped lika plator layer
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|
||||
| lanceolat | shaped lika lance-head
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|
||||
| lanciform | shaped lika lanc
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|
||||
| lapilliform | shaped lika small ston
🗑
|
||||
| lentiform | shaped lika lens
🗑
|
||||
| leporiform | resembling or shaped lika har
🗑
|
||||
| libriform | shaped lika book
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|
||||
| ligniform | of thform or shapof wood
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|
||||
| ligulat | resembling or shaped lika strap
🗑
|
||||
| limaciform | slug-lik
🗑
|
||||
| linguiform | shaped lika tongu
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|
||||
| 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
🗑
|
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| variform | of various forms
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| vasculiform | shaped lika small vasor flowerpot
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| vasiform | shaped lika duct or vas
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| vergiform | shaped lika rod
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| vermiform | shaped lika worm
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| verruciform | shaped lika wart; wartlik
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| versiform | changing in form
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| villiform | of thform or shape of velvet
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| viperiform | shaped lika snakor viper
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| vitriform | of thform or shapof glass
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| vulviform | shaped likan oval or a vulva
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| xiphoid | sword-shaped
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| ypsiliform | shaped likan upsilon
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| zosteriform | shaped lika girdle
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| acarology | study of mites
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| accidence |
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| aceology | therapeutics
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|
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| acology | study of medical remedies
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|
||||
| acoustics | science of sound
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|
||||
| adenology | study of glands
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|
||||
| aedoeology | science of generative organs
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|
||||
| aerobiology | study of airborne organisms
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|
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| aerodonetics | science or study of gliding
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|
||||
| aerody | namics
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|
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| aerolithology | study of aerolites; meteorites
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|
||||
| aerology | study of the atmosphere
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|
||||
| aeronautics | study of navigation through air or space
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|
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| aerophilately | collecting of air-mail stamps
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|
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| aerostatics | science of air pressure; art of ballooning
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|
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| agonistics | art and theory of prize-fighting
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|
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| agriology | the comparative study of primitive peoples
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|
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| agrobiology | study of plant nutrition; soil yields
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|
||||
| agrology | study of agricultural soils
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|
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| agronomics | study of productivity of land
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|
||||
| agrostology | science or study of grasses
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|
||||
| alethiology | study of truth
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|
||||
| algedonics | science of pleasure and pain
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|
||||
| algology | study of algae
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|
||||
| anaesthesiology | study of anaesthetics
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|
||||
| anaglyptics | art of carving in bas-relief
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|
||||
| anagraphy | art of constructing catalogues
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|
||||
| anatomy | study of the structure of the body
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|
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| andragogy | science of teaching adults
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|
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| anemology | study of winds
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|
||||
| angelology | study of angels
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|
||||
| angiology | study of blood flow and lymphatic system
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|
||||
| anthropobiology | study of human biology
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|
||||
| anthropology | study of human cultures
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|
||||
| aphnology | science of wealth
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|
||||
| apiology | study of bees
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|
||||
| arachnology | study of spiders
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|
||||
| archaeology | study of human material remains
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|
||||
| archelogy | the study of first principles
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|
||||
| archology | science of the origins of government
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|
||||
| arctophily | study of teddy bears
🗑
|
||||
| areology | study of Mars
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|
||||
| aretaics | the science of virtue
🗑
|
||||
| aristology | the science or art of dining
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|
||||
| arthrology | study of joints
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|
||||
| astacology | the science of crayfish
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|
||||
| 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
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| metallurgy | study of alloying and treating metals
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| metaphysics | study of principles of nature and thought
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| metapolitics | study of politics in theory or abstract
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| metapsychology | study of nature of the mind
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| meteoritics | the study of meteors
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| meteorology | study of weather
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| metrics | study of versification
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| metrology | science of weights and measures
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|
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| microanatomy | study of microscopic tissues
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| microbiology | study of microscopic organisms
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||||
| microclimatology | study of local climates
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| micrology | study or discussion of trivialities
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| micropalaeontology | study of microscopic fossils
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| microphy | ology
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| microscopy | study of minute objects
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| mineralogy | study of minerals
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| molinology | study of mills and milling
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| momilogy | study of mummies
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| morphology | study of forms and the development of structures
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| muscology | the study of mosses
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| museology | the study of museums
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| musicology | study of music
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|
||||
| mycology | study of funguses
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||||
| myology | study of muscles
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|
||||
| myrmecology | study of ants
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||||
| mythology | study of myths; fables; tales
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||||
| naology | study of church or temple architecture
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||||
| nasology | study of the nose
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| nautics | art of navigation
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|
||||
| nematology | the study of nematodes
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|
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| neonatology | study of newborn babies
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||||
| neossology | study of nestling birds
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| nephology | study of clouds
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||||
| nephrology | study of the kidneys
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| neurobiology | study of anatomy of the nervous system
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| neurology | study of nervous system
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| neuropsychology | study of relation between brain and behaviour
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|
||||
| neurypnology | study of hypnotism
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||||
| neutrosophy | study of the origin and nature of philosophical neutralities
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||||
| nidology | study of nests
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| nomology | the science of the laws; especially of the mind
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| noology | science of the intellect
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| nosology | study of diseases
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||||
| nostology | study of senility
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| notaphily | collecting of bank-notes and cheques
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| numerology | study of numbers
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||||
| numismatics | study of coins
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|
||||
| nymphology | study of nymphs
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|
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| obstetrics | study of midwifery
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|
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| oceanography | study of oceans
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||||
| oceanology | study of oceans
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|
||||
| odology | science of the hypothetical mystical force of od
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|
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| odontology | study of teeth
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|
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| oenology | study of wines
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|
||||
| oikology | science of housekeeping
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|
||||
| olfactology | study of the sense of smell
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|
||||
| ombrology | study of rain
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|
||||
| oncology | study of tumours
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|
||||
| oneirology | study of dreams
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|
||||
| onomasiology | study of nomenclature
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|
||||
| onomastics | study of proper names
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|
||||
| ontology | science of pure being; the nature of things
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|
||||
| oology | study of eggs
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|
||||
| ophiology | study of snakes
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|
||||
| ophthalmology | study of eye diseases
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|
||||
| optics | study of light
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|
||||
| optology | study of sight
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|
||||
| optometry | science of examining the eyes
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|
||||
| orchidology | study of orchids
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|
||||
| ornithology | study of birds
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|
||||
| orology | study of mountains
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|
||||
| orthoepy study of correct pronunciation |
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| otorhinolary | ngology
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|
||||
| 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
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| pandemonism | worship of spirits dwelling in all forms of nature
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| parthenolatry | worship of the Virgin Mary
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| patriolatry | excessive devotion or worship of one's native country
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| physiolatry | nature-worship
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| planetolatry | worship of the planets
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| plutolatry | worship of wealth
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| poetolatry | worship of poets
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| pseudolatry | false worship
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| pyrolatry | fire-worship
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| selenolatry | worship of the moon
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| statolatry | worship of the state
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| staurolatry | worship of the cross or crucifix
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| symbolatry | undue worship of symbols
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| thaumatolatry | worship of miracles or wonders
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| theriolatry | animal-worship
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