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Question | Answer |
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abbatial | like or pertaining to abbots or an abbey |
abecedarian | like or pertaining to the order |
abiectic | like or pertaining to fir trees or fir sap |
absinthial | like or pertaining to wormwood; bitter |
abyssopelagic | like or pertaining to the depths |
acarine | like or pertaining to ticks or mites |
accipitrine | like or pertaining to falcons and hawks |
acerate | like or resembling a needle |
acolouthic | like or pertaining to an after-image or other after-sensation |
acrologic | like or pertaining to initials |
addititious | pertaining to or resulting from addition |
adenoid | like or pertaining to or like a gland |
adipic | like or pertaining to fatty substances |
aeropleustic | like or pertaining to aerial navigation |
aeruginous | |
aestival | like or pertaining to summer |
agonistic | like or pertaining to or being aggressive or argumentative |
agravic having no gravity; pertaining to the condition | zero-gravity |
agrestic | the fields; rural; unpolished |
alar | like or pertaining to the wing or shoulder |
alaudine | like or pertaining to skylarks |
alcine | like or pertaining to elks; |
aliphatic | like or pertaining to fat or fats in general |
alliaceous | like or pertaining to garlic; garlicky |
alopecoid | or resembling a fox |
alpestrine | like or pertaining to alpine regions |
alveolate | or like a honeycomb |
alvine | the belly |
ampelidious | like or pertaining to vines |
amphiscian | like or pertaining to torrid regions |
amygdaloid almond-shaped; | like or pertaining to tonsils |
anacardic | like or pertaining to cashews |
anaclastic refractive; | like or pertaining to refraction |
anatine | like or pertaining to ducks |
anconoid | like or pertaining to the elbow |
ancoral | shaped like or resembling an anchor |
anguine | like or pertaining to snakes |
anguine | like or pertaining to snakes |
anopheline | like or pertaining to malarial mosquitoes |
anserine | like or pertaining to geese |
apatetic | an animal's coloration or markings |
apian | like or pertaining to bees |
apiarian | like or pertaining to bees or beekeeping |
apical | or at the apex |
aquiline | like or pertaining to eagles; hooked like an eagle's beak |
araneidan | like or pertaining to spiders |
archididascalian | like or pertaining to headmasters |
architectonics | like or pertaining to the arrangement |
areopagitic | like or pertaining to tribunals or courts |
arietine | like or pertaining to rams |
arval | like or pertaining to ploughed land |
asinine | like or pertaining to asses; stupid |
aularian | like or pertaining to a hall in a university |
aurantiaceous | like or pertaining or pertaining to oranges or orange trees |
auricular | like or pertaining to the ear; spoken secretly |
aval | like or pertaining to a grandparent |
avian | like or pertaining to birds |
avicular | like or pertaining to birds |
avuncular like an uncle; | like or pertaining to uncles |
baculine | like or pertaining to the stick or cane; |
basial | like or pertaining to kissing |
bathyorographical | like or pertaining to depth underwater or elevation above sea level |
bathysmal | like or pertaining to the depths |
batrachian | like or pertaining to frogs or toads |
bdelloid | like or pertaining to leeches |
benthic | like or pertaining to the depths |
bibitory | like or pertaining or pertaining to drinking |
binaural | pertaining to or heard by both ears |
bisontine | like or pertaining to bison |
biverbal | like or pertaining to two words; having a double sense |
blattoid | like or pertaining to cockroaches |
blennoid | or resembling mucus |
blepharal | like or pertaining to eyelids |
bolar | like or pertaining to clay |
bombic | like or pertaining to silkworms |
bombycine | like or pertaining to silk or cotton |
bovine | like or pertaining to cows |
branchial | like or pertaining to gills |
brumal | like or pertaining to winter |
bubaline | like or pertaining to buffalo or antelopes |
buccal | like or pertaining to the mouth or cheek |
bucolic | like or pertaining to the tending |
burgensic | like or pertaining to a borough or its citizens |
bursal | like or pertaining to a state's revenues |
buteonine | like or pertaining to buzzards |
butyric | like or pertaining to butter |
caballine | like or pertaining to or suited to a horse |
cacuminal retr | lex pertaining to a point |
calycine | like or pertaining to a cup or calyx |
cameline | like or pertaining to camels |
campestral | like or pertaining to the country; pertaining to level ground |
cancellarial | like or pertaining to a chancellor |
cancrine | like or pertaining to crabs; palindromic |
canicular | like or pertaining to the dog star |
canine | like or pertaining to dogs |
cantative | like or pertaining to singing |
capitulary | like or pertaining to a chapter |
capric having a goatlike smell; | like or pertaining to goats |
caprifoliaceous | like or pertaining to the honeysuckle plant |
caprine | like or pertaining to goats |
carceral | like or pertaining to prisons |
cardinalitial | like or pertaining to church cardinals |
caricous | like or pertaining to figs |
carious | like or pertaining to dental cavities; decayed |
carnificial | like or pertaining to butchers or executioners |
carpal | like or pertaining to the wrist |
castellar | like or pertaining to a castle |
castral | or belonging to the camp |
catalactic | like or pertaining to exchange |
catarrhine | like or pertaining to Old World Monkeys |
catenarian | like or pertaining to chains |
catoptric | like or pertaining to reflection or reflected light |
caudal | like or pertaining to the tail |
causidical | like or pertaining to those who plead legal cases |
cenatory | like or pertaining to supper |
centrobaric | like or pertaining to the centre |
cercopithecan | like or pertaining to long-tailed monkeys |
cervine | pertaining to or resembling deer |
cervisial | like or pertaining or pertaining to beer |
chelonian | like or pertaining to tortoises or turtles |
chiral | like or pertaining to the hand or handedness |
cholic | like or pertaining to bile |
chorepiscopal | like or pertaining to an early local bishop |
choreutic | like or pertaining to a chorus |
chrematistic | like or pertaining to the pursuit |
chrestomathic | like or pertaining to useful knowledge |
chthonian | like or pertaining to the earth or the underworld |
cibarious | like or pertaining to food; useful for food |
ciconine | like or pertaining to storks |
cinerary | like or pertaining to ashes |
clysmian | like or pertaining to or caused by flood |
cnemial | like |
cnidarian | like |
coeliac | like or pertaining to the abdomen |
colubrine like a snake; cunning; | like or pertaining to snakes |
columbaceous | like or pertaining to doves or pigeons |
columbine | or like a dove; dove-coloured |
compital | like or pertaining to crossroads |
conative | like or pertaining to purposeful action or desire |
connubial | like or pertaining to marriage |
coriaceous having a leathery appearance; consisting | |
corvine crow-like; | like or pertaining to crows or ravens |
cosmotellurian | like or pertaining to both heaven and earth |
costal | like or pertaining to the ribs |
cothurnal | like or pertaining to tragedy |
coticular | like or pertaining to whetstones |
creatic | like or pertaining to flesh |
credal | like or pertaining to a creed |
crenitic | like or pertaining to mineral springs |
crepuscular | like or pertaining to twilight |
cretaceous | or resembling chalk; |
crinal | or related to the hair |
crotaline | like or pertaining to rattlesnakes |
crural | or belonging to the leg |
cryptaesthetic | like or pertaining to supranormal perception |
cryptous | like or pertaining to crypts |
cuculine | like or pertaining to cuckoos |
cucurbitaceous | like or pertaining to gourds |
cupulate | like or pertaining to a cup; cup-shaped |
cutaneous | or related to the skin |
cynegetic | or related to hunting |
cyprinoid | like or pertaining to carp |
cypseline | like or pertaining to swifts |
decanal | like or pertaining to a dean or deacon |
decennoval | like or pertaining to the number nineteen |
decretal | like or pertaining to a decree |
delphine pertaining to the Dauphin | France |
delphinine | like or pertaining to dolphins |
demegoric | like or pertaining to demagogues or demagogic speech |
demogenic | like or pertaining to membership by citizenship rather than kinship |
demotic | like or pertaining to the common people |
denary one | ten; tenfold; |
deontic | or relating to duty or obligation |
deric | like or pertaining to the skin |
diaconal | like or pertaining to a deacon |
diacoustic | like or pertaining to the refraction |
diadermic | like or pertaining to the puncturing |
dianoetic capable | like or pertaining to thought |
didelphine | like or pertaining to opossums |
didine | like or pertaining to dodos |
diluvial | like or pertaining to floods; especially mythical ones |
dinic | like or pertaining to vertigo or dizziness |
discophoran | like or pertaining to jellyfishes |
distaff | like or pertaining to the female branch |
dolabrate | like or pertaining to axes or hatchets |
domal | like or pertaining to a house or dome |
doxastic | like or pertaining to opinion |
dromic | like or pertaining to a racecourse |
drupaceous | like or pertaining to drupes or stone-fruits |
duodenary | like or pertaining to the number twelve |
eburnean | or like ivory; ivory-coloured |
edaphic | like or pertaining to the soil |
elaphine | like or belonging to a red deer; |
elapid | like or pertaining to cobras |
eleemosynary | like or pertaining to charity or giving alms; dependent on charity |
elenctic | like or pertaining to argument; cross-examination or refuting |
elephantine | like or pertaining to elephants |
empaestic | like or pertaining to the art |
emporeutic | like or pertaining to trade |
empyreal | like or pertaining to heaven; sublime; skyward |
enteral | pertaining to or within the intestine |
entomical | like or pertaining to insects |
eoan | like or pertaining to dawn |
epedaphic | like or pertaining to atmospheric conditions |
epicedial | like or pertaining to dirges or elegies |
epistolary | like or pertaining to letters |
epithymetic | like or pertaining to desire |
epulary | like or pertaining to banquets |
equine | like or pertaining to horses |
eristic | like or pertaining to controversy or argument |
estival | like or pertaining to summer |
ethmoid | or like a sieve |
eupeptic | like or pertaining to good digestion; cheerful |
eusuchian | like or pertaining to alligators and crocodiles |
excrementitial | like or pertaining to excrement |
falconine | like or pertaining to falcons or hawks |
favonian | like or pertaining to the west wind; mild and favourable |
feline | like or pertaining to cats |
fenestral | like or pertaining to windows |
ferial | like or pertaining to holidays |
fictile capable | being moulded; |
fidicinal | like or pertaining to stringed musical instruments |
figuline | like or pertaining to earthenware |
fimetic | like or pertaining to dung |
fodient | like or pertaining to digging |
foraneous | like or pertaining to forums |
forcipate | like or pertaining to forceps |
formic | like or pertaining to ants |
formicine | like or pertaining to ants |
fringillaceous | like or pertaining to finches |
fringilline | like or pertaining to finches |
frumentarious | like or pertaining to corn |
fulgural | like or pertaining to lightning |
fuliginous sooty; dusky; soot-coloured; | or pertaining to soot |
fuliguline | like or pertaining to sea ducks |
fullonical | like or pertaining or belonging to a fuller |
fulmineous | like or pertaining to thunder and lightning |
funebral | like or pertaining to a funeral |
fungous | or like fungus; s |
funicular | like or pertaining to a string or cable |
furuncular | like or pertaining to boils |
gadoid | resembling or pertaining to the cod |
galactic | like or pertaining to or obtained from milk |
gallinaceous | or resembling pheasants and other domestic birds |
geal | like or pertaining or pertaining to the earth |
gelastic | like or pertaining to or provoking laughter |
gemmeous | like or pertaining to gems; like a gem |
genesic | like or pertaining to procreation or the genitals |
geocyclic | like or pertaining to the rotation and revolution |
georgic | like or pertaining to agricultural or rustic affairs; rural; agrarian |
geoselenic | like or pertaining to both the Earth and the moon |
geostrophic | like or pertaining to deflection due to effects |
gerontogenous | like or pertaining to the Old World |
gestatorial | like or pertaining to carrying |
gestic | like or pertaining to gestures |
glirine rodent-like; | like or pertaining to rodents |
glottogonic | like or pertaining to the origins |
glyptic | like or pertaining to carving or gem-engraving |
gnathal | like or pertaining to the jaws |
goetic | like or pertaining to black magic |
grallatory | like or pertaining to wading birds |
gramineous | like or pertaining to grass; grassy |
gravimetrical | like or pertaining to measuring by weight |
gregal | like or pertaining to a flock |
gromatic | like or pertaining to surveys or surveying |
gruine | like or pertaining to cranes or similar birds |
habilatory | like or pertaining to clothes or dressing |
haemal | like or pertaining to blood |
halcyonine | like or pertaining to kingfishers |
halibiotic | like or pertaining to the entirety |
halieutic | like or pertaining to fishing |
halolimnic | like or pertaining to sea creatures who spend time in fresh water |
haptic | like or pertaining to the sense |
hebamic | like or pertaining to the socratic method |
hebetic | like or pertaining to puberty |
hederaceous | like or pertaining to ivy |
hepatic | like or pertaining to or acting upon the liver |
hephaestic | like or pertaining to iron-working and blacksmiths |
hermeneutic | like or pertaining to the interpretation |
hermetic | like or pertaining to sorcery or alchemy |
herpetoid | like or pertaining to snakes |
hesternal | like or pertaining to yesterday |
hibernal | like or pertaining to winter |
hiemal | like or pertaining to winter |
hippiatric | like or pertaining to the treatment |
hippic | like or pertaining to horses |
hippoid equine; | like or pertaining to horses |
hircine goat-like; having a goatish smell; | like or pertaining to smelly goats |
hirudine | like or pertaining to leeches |
hirudinean | like or pertaining to leeches |
hirundine | like or pertaining to swallows |
histrionic | like or pertaining to the stage or actors |
hodiernal | like or pertaining to the present day |
homarine | like or pertaining to lobsters |
homiletical | like or pertaining to homilies |
horal | like or pertaining to hours; hourly |
horary | like or pertaining to an hour; continuing for an hour; hourly |
hordeaceous | like or pertaining to barley |
hortensial | like or pertaining to gardens |
hortulan | like or pertaining to gardens |
humoral | like or pertaining to body fluid |
hyaloid | like or pertaining to glass |
hydric | like or pertaining to an abundance |
hyetal rainy; | like or pertaining to rainfall |
hygeian | like or pertaining to health; healthy |
hygric | like or pertaining to water or moisture |
hylobatine | like or pertaining to gibbons |
hymeneal | like or pertaining to marriage |
hypnoetic | like or pertaining to unconscious logical thought |
hypnopompic | like or pertaining to period between sleep and wakefulness |
hypothecary | like or pertaining to mortgages |
hystricine | like or pertaining to porcupines |
ichneutic | like or pertaining to a tracker or tracking |
ichthyic | resembling or pertaining to fish |
icterical | like or pertaining to or suffering from jaundice |
icterine | like or pertaining to orioles and related birds |
ictic | pertaining to |
iliac | like or pertaining to the loins |
ilicic | like or pertaining to holly |
inescatory | like or pertaining to baiting; adapted to bait |
inguinal | like or pertaining to the groin |
institorial | like or pertaining to an agent or factor |
interstitial | like or pertaining to the space between things |
ipecacuanhic | or relating to ipecac |
iridaceous | like |
iridal | or pertaining to the rainbow |
iridic | like or pertaining to the iris |
ischiatic | or pertaining to the ischium or hip |
islandic | or pertaining to an island |
ixiodic | like or pertaining to ticks |
jecoral | like or pertaining to the liver |
jentacular | like or pertaining to breakfast |
juglandaceous | like or pertaining to walnuts |
juncaceous | like or pertaining to rushes |
jural | like or pertaining to the law |
juratory | like or pertaining to an oath |
kerygmatic | like or pertaining to preaching the Gospel |
lacertilian | like or pertaining to lizards |
lacuscular | like or pertaining to pools |
lacustrine | like or pertaining to lakes |
laic | like or pertaining to lay people rather than clergy |
lamiaceous minty; | like or pertaining to the mint plant |
laminary | like or pertaining to thin plates or layer |
lampyridine | like or pertaining or pertaining to glow-worms or fireflies |
laniary | teeth or claws designed for tearing (canine teeth) |
lapidarian | like or pertaining to stones; inscribed on stones |
lardaceous | like or pertaining to lard |
larine | like or pertaining to gulls |
laroid | like or pertaining to gulls |
lavic | like or pertaining to lava |
legatine | like or pertaining to a legate |
lemurine | like or pertaining to lemurs |
leonine | like or pertaining to lions |
leonine | or like a lion; rhyming last two or three syllables in a line |
leporine | like or pertaining to the hare |
lienal | like or pertaining to the spleen |
limacine | like or pertaining to slugs |
limicoline living on a shore; | like or pertaining to wading birds |
linaceous | like or pertaining to flax |
lingual | like or pertaining to language |
littoral | like or pertaining to the shore |
lobar | like or pertaining to a lobe |
loimic | like or pertaining to plagues |
loranthaceous | like or pertaining to the mistletoe |
lucernal | like or pertaining to lamps |
lumbricine | like or pertaining to earthworms |
lupanarian | like or pertaining to a brothel |
lupine | like or pertaining to wolves |
lupulic | like or pertaining to hops |
lutaceous | like or pertaining to or comprised |
lutrine | like or pertaining to otters |
macropodine | like or pertaining to kangaroos |
magistral | like or pertaining to a master or teacher |
malar | like or pertaining to the cheek |
malvaceous | like or pertaining to the mallow family |
manal | like or pertaining to the hand |
mandative | like or pertaining to commands or leadership |
mantic | like or pertaining to divination; prophetic; divinely inspired |
marmoreal | or like marble |
materteral | or resembling an aunt |
matinal | like or pertaining to the morning |
matrical | like or pertaining to a womb or a matrix |
matricular | like or pertaining to a register |
matriherital | like or pertaining to inheritance along the female line |
matripotestal | like or pertaining to the power |
matutinal | like or pertaining to the morning; happening early in the day |
maxillary | like or pertaining to a jaw |
medianic | like or pertaining to spiritualists |
megachiropteran | like or pertaining to fruit bats |
meleagrine | like or pertaining to turkeys |
mellaginous | like or pertaining to or resembling honey |
membral | like or pertaining to the limbs rather than the trunk |
mensal | like or pertaining to the dinner-table; monthly |
mental | like or pertaining to the chin |
meretricious | like or pertaining to prostitution; superficially attractive but lacking value |
metameric | like or pertaining to serial division or segmentation |
metopic | like or pertaining to the forehead |
milvine | like or pertaining to kites and similar birds |
mimetic imitative; | like or pertaining to mimicry |
miothermic | like or pertaining to temperature conditions |
mnesic | like or pertaining to memory |
molendinar | like or pertaining to a mill or miller |
molinary | like or pertaining to mills or grinding |
morassic | like or pertaining to a morass |
morganatic | like or pertaining to a marriage between those |
morphean | like or pertaining to dreams |
morphotic | like or pertaining to formation or development |
morsal | like or pertaining to the cutting edge |
mucopurulent | mucus and pus |
mulciberian | like or pertaining to metalworking |
murine | like or pertaining to mice and rats |
musal | like or pertaining to poetry or the Muses |
muscicapine | like or pertaining to flycatchers and related birds |
muscid | like or pertaining to house-flies |
muscoid | like or pertaining to mosses; moss-like |
musteline | like or pertaining to weasels |
mycteric | like or pertaining to the nostrils |
myelic | like or pertaining to the spinal cord |
myoxine | like or pertaining to dormice |
myrmecophagid | like or pertaining to anteaters |
myrmicine | like or pertaining to ants |
mystagogical | like or pertaining to religious ritual initiation |
nacreous | or resembling mother- |
narial | like or pertaining to the nostrils |
natalitial | like or pertaining to a birthday |
natricine | like or pertaining to water-snakes |
neanic | like or pertaining to the adolescent period; young |
nectareal | or like nectar |
nemaline | or like a thread |
nemoral | a wood or grove |
neoblastic | like or pertaining to new growth |
neophrastic | like or pertaining to neologisms |
nephric | like or pertaining to the kidneys |
nepionic | like or pertaining to the embryonic period |
nepotal | like or pertaining to one's nephew |
neurergic | like or pertaining to the function or action |
niccolic made | like or pertaining to nickel |
nicotian | like or pertaining to tobacco |
nidatory | like or pertaining to nests |
nimonic | alloys used in high-temperature work |
nobiliary | like or pertaining to nobility |
nosocomial | like or pertaining to a hospital |
novenary | like or pertaining to the number nine |
novercal | like or pertaining to a stepmother |
noxal | like or pertaining to wrongful injury by object or animal |
nucal | like or pertaining to nuts |
nuchal | like or pertaining to the nape |
numinous | like or pertaining to a deity; suffused with religious awe |
nummary | like or pertaining to coins or money |
nundinal | like or pertaining to a fair or market |
nutricial | like or pertaining to nurses |
nychthemeral | like or pertaining to a nychthemeron or 24-hour period |
nymphean | like or pertaining to a nymph |
obitual | like or pertaining to obituaries |
obsidional | like or pertaining to a siege |
occipital | like or pertaining to the back |
octonary | like or pertaining to or consisting |
oecodomic | like or pertaining to architecture |
oenopoetic | like or pertaining to wine-making |
olamic | or belonging to a vast period or eon |
oleic | like or pertaining to or derived from oil |
oleraceous | the nature |
oligodynamic | like or pertaining to the effect |
olitory | like or pertaining to kitchen vegetables |
oneiric | like or pertaining to dreams |
onomastic | like or pertaining to a name or signature |
ontal | like or pertaining to reality or existence |
onymatic | like or pertaining to names |
ophic | like or pertaining to serpents |
ophidian | or like a snake |
opisthosomal | like or pertaining to posteriors |
optimate | the nobility or aristocracy |
ordalian | like or pertaining to an ordeal |
orectic | like or pertaining to appetite or desires |
ornithic | like or pertaining to birds |
orobathymetric | like or pertaining to map showing submerged heights and sea depths |
oscheal | like or pertaining to the scrotum |
oscinine | like or pertaining to song-birds |
oscular | like or pertaining to the mouth or to kissing |
osteal | like or pertaining to |
ostracean | like or pertaining to oysters |
ostraceous | like or pertaining to oysters |
otarine | like or pertaining to seals |
otic | like or pertaining to the ear |
ovibovine | like or pertaining to musk-oxen |
ovine | like or pertaining to sheep |
pabulous | like or pertaining to nourishment |
paginal | like or pertaining to pages or pagination |
palladian | like or pertaining to wisdom or learning |
palmar | like or pertaining to the palm |
palpebral | like or pertaining to the eyelid |
paludal | like or pertaining to marshes; marshy; malarial |
panary | like or pertaining to bread; bread store |
papaverous | like or pertaining to poppies |
papilionaceous | like or pertaining to butterflies |
parastatic | like or pertaining to protective mimicry |
pardine | like or pertaining to leopards |
parietal | a wall or walls especially anatomical walls |
parine | like or pertaining to titmouses |
parthenian | like or pertaining to virgins |
pascual growing on land used for grazing; | like or pertaining to pastures |
passerine | like or pertaining to sparrows |
patibulary | like or pertaining to the gallows |
patrial | like or pertaining to one’s native land |
pavonian | like or pertaining to peacocks |
pavonine | like or pertaining to peacocks |
pectinal | a comb; comb-like |
pectineal | the pubic bone |
pecuniary | like or pertaining to money; consisting |
pedalian | like or pertaining to the foot or to metrical feet |
pedary | like or pertaining to walking or feet |
pedicular | like or pertaining to lice |
pedological | like or pertaining to soils |
pelargic | like or pertaining to storks |
pendular | like or pertaining to a pendulum |
penial | like or pertaining to the penis |
perdicine | like or pertaining to partridges |
peristeronic | like or pertaining to pigeons |
petrean | like or pertaining to or made |
phacochoerine | like or pertaining to warthogs |
phallic | pertaining to or resembling a penis |
phemic | like or pertaining to speech |
phenetic | like or pertaining to classification by phenotype |
philomelian | like or pertaining to nightingales |
philoprogenitive | like or pertaining to instinctive love for |
phocine | like or pertaining to seals |
phreatic | like or pertaining to underground water supplying or wells |
phrenic | or near the midriff |
phthongal | pertaining to |
phugoid | like or pertaining to the longitudinal stability |
picaresque | like or pertaining or pertaining to rogues or roguish behaviour |
picine | like or pertaining to woodpeckers |
piscatorial | like or pertaining to fishing or fishers |
piscine | like or pertaining to fish |
planetesimal | like or pertaining to asteroids or similar tiny celestial bodies |
plantar | like or pertaining to the sole |
plaustral | like or pertaining to a wagon |
plebeian | the common people or vulgar classes |
plenilunar | like or pertaining to the full moon |
pliothermic | like or pertaining to periods |
plumeopicean | tar and feathers |
poaceous | like or pertaining or pertaining to grass |
podalic | like or pertaining to feet |
poliorcectic | like or pertaining to siegecraft or besiegement |
pomaceous | like or pertaining to or consisting |
popliteal | like or pertaining to the back |
poral | like or pertaining to pores |
porcine | like or pertaining to pigs; swinish |
potamic | like or pertaining to rivers |
praedial | like or pertaining to or connected with the land or farming |
prandial | like or pertaining to dinner |
prebendal | like or pertaining to stipends issued by a church |
prenarial | like or pertaining to or in front |
preputial | like or pertaining to the foreskin |
presidial | like or pertaining to a garrison |
Priapean | like or pertaining to male reproductive power; phallic |
pridian | like or pertaining to yesterday |
primitial | like or pertaining to first fruits; primeval |
primogenous | like or pertaining to the earliest or first developmental stage |
procephalic | like or pertaining to the front |
proctal | like or pertaining to the anus or rectum |
procyonine | like or pertaining to raccoons |
proethnic | like or pertaining to primitive races |
prosodic | like or pertaining to versification |
prosopic | like or pertaining to the face |
psephitic | like or pertaining to pebbles |
psittacine | like or pertaining to macaws |
psittacine | or like parrots |
pteric | like or pertaining to the wing or the shoulder |
pteropine | like or pertaining to flying foxes |
puerperal | like or pertaining to childbirth |
pulicine | like or pertaining to fleas |
pullastrine | like or pertaining to pigeons |
pulmonic | like or pertaining to the lungs |
pyretic | pertaining to or for the cure |
pyrrhic | like or pertaining to the dance or to the foot |
pyrrhuline | like or pertaining to bullfinches |
quadragesimal | like or pertaining to Lent; lasting forty days |
quercine | like or pertaining to oak trees |
rabic | like or pertaining to rabies |
rachidian | or concerning the spine |
rameal | like or pertaining to branches |
rangiferine | like or pertaining to or like reindeer |
ranine | like or pertaining to or like frogs |
ranunculaceous | like or pertaining to buttercups |
raptorial predacious; | like or pertaining to a bird |
ratite | like or pertaining to flightless birds |
reginal | like or pertaining to a queen |
regnal | a reign |
renal | like or pertaining to the kidneys |
reptilian | like or pertaining to reptiles |
retiary | nets; using nets as a weapon; catching insects in webs |
reticular | like or pertaining to nets; intricate |
rhematic | words or verbs; forming a word or words |
rhinal | like or pertaining to the nose |
rhinocerotic | like or pertaining to the rhinoceros |
rhizic | the root |
rhonchial | like or pertaining to snoring |
rictal | the gape; |
riparian | or inhabiting a riverbank; a riverside inhabitant |
risorial | like or pertaining to or causing laughter |
roseaceous | the rose family; roselike |
rupicaprine | like or pertaining to chamoises |
sanguineous bloody; | like or pertaining to blood; blood-red |
saporine | like or pertaining to the sense |
sarcous | flesh or muscle |
sartorial | like or pertaining to a tailor or tailored clothes |
scabious | like or pertaining to scabies or scabs |
scacchic | like or pertaining to chess |
scarabaean | like or pertaining to scarabs |
schiztic | like or pertaining to or marked by splitting |
schoenabatic | like or pertaining to rope walking |
sciatheric | like or pertaining to measurement |
sciatic | like or pertaining to the hip |
scincoid | or resembling a skink |
scioptic | like or pertaining to formation |
sciurine | like or pertaining to squirrels |
sciuroid | like or pertaining to squirrels or chipmunks |
scolopacine | like or pertaining to snipes |
scorbutic | or suffering from scurvy |
scutal | like or pertaining to shields |
scytodepsic | like or pertaining to tanning leather |
sebaceous | or like tallow |
selachian | like or pertaining to sharks or rays |
selenic | like or pertaining to the moon |
semic | like or pertaining to a sign or signs |
septentrional northern; | like or pertaining to the north |
septimal | like or pertaining to or based on the number seven |
seral | like or pertaining to the development |
serous | like or pertaining to serum; watery |
serpentine | like or pertaining to serpents or snakes |
shrieval | like or pertaining to a sheriff |
sialic | like or pertaining to saliva |
sidereal | like or pertaining to the stars |
sigillary | like or pertaining to a seal |
simian | like or pertaining to apes |
sinal | like or pertaining to the sinuses |
siphonic | like or pertaining to a siphon |
skelic | like or pertaining to the skeleton |
soliterraneous | like or pertaining to the joint effect |
somnial | like or pertaining to dreams |
sophianic | like or pertaining to wisdom |
soricine | like or pertaining to shrews |
soricine shrewlike; | like or pertaining to shrews |
sororal | like or pertaining to sisters |
soterial | like or pertaining to salvation |
spatiotemporal | like or pertaining to time and space |
speluncar | like or pertaining to caves |
spermatic | like or pertaining to sperm |
sphingal | like or pertaining to sphinxes |
sphragistic | like or pertaining to seals and signets |
sphygmic | like or pertaining to the pulse or heartbeat |
spintrian | like or pertaining to orgies or male sexual deviance |
splenic | like or pertaining to the spleen |
squaloid | like or pertaining to sharks |
stadial | like or pertaining to a stage |
statuary | pertaining to or suitable for sculpture |
stercoraceous | like or pertaining to feces |
steric | like or pertaining to the organization |
sterquilinian | like or pertaining to a dunghill |
stibial | like or pertaining to antimony |
stochastic | like or pertaining to a sequence |
stradometrical | like or pertaining to the measurement |
stratonic | an army or armies |
strigine owl-like; | like or pertaining to owls |
struthious | like or pertaining to ostriches |
stylogalmaic | like or pertaining to figures serving as columns or pillars |
suberic | or pertaining to cork |
suberous | like or having the appearance |
suburbicarian | like or pertaining to suburbs |
succinic | pertaining to or derived from amber |
suidian | like or pertaining to pigs |
suilline | like or pertaining to hogs |
suilline like a pig; | like or pertaining to pigs |
sulcal | a sulcus; grooved; furrowed |
sulphorous | like or pertaining to hellfire; infernal; blasphemous |
sumptuary | like or pertaining to expense or extravagance |
superciliary | on or near the eyebrow |
sural | like or pertaining to the calf |
surficial like or pertaining to the surface | |
surnominal | like or pertaining to surnames |
sutorian | like or pertaining to cobbling or sewing |
sybotic | like or pertaining to a swineherd |
sylvestral | like or pertaining to trees |
synodical | like or pertaining to conjunction |
syringadenous | like or pertaining to sweat glands |
syrtic | like or pertaining to quicksand |
tabernacular | like or pertaining to a tabernacle |
tactual | like or pertaining to or derived from the sense |
talaric | like or pertaining to or reaching the ankles |
taurean | like or pertaining to a bull |
taurine | like or pertaining to bulls |
taxaceous | like or pertaining to yew trees |
technolithic | like or pertaining to stone tools |
tectonic | like or pertaining to building; structural |
tegmental | like or pertaining to coverings or outer shells |
tegular | like or overlapping like tiles or slates |
telestic | like or pertaining to the mysteries |
tellural | like or pertaining to the earth |
telodynamic | like or pertaining to transmission |
tergal | like or pertaining to the back |
terpsichorean | like or pertaining to dancing |
terraneous | like or pertaining to the earth |
terrene | the earth; earthly; worldly; mundane |
tesserarian like or pertaining to dice games | |
testaceous | or having a hard shell; brick-red |
testudinal | like or pertaining to tortoises or tortoise-shell |
textorial | like or pertaining to weaving |
textrine | like or pertaining to weaving |
thelematic | like or pertaining to will or volition; voluntary |
theriacal | like or pertaining to antidotes |
thermic | like or pertaining to heat |
thermonous | like or pertaining to stimulation by heat |
theroid | like or pertaining to a beast or wild animal |
thesaurarial | or pertaining to the |
thesial | like or pertaining to a thesis |
thionic | like or pertaining to or containing sulphur |
threptic | like or pertaining to the rearing |
thronal | like or pertaining to a throne |
tigrine | like or pertaining to tigers |
tinctorial | like or pertaining to dyeing; giving colour |
tolypeutine | like or pertaining to armadillos |
tonetic | like or pertaining to tonal pronunciation or languages |
tonsorial | like or pertaining to a barber or a barber’s work |
toponomastic | like or pertaining to place names |
torrentine | like or pertaining to a torrent; having the character |
toxophilite lover | archery; an archer; |
tribunitial | like or pertaining to a tribune |
tributorian | like or pertaining to tribute or payment |
tringoid | like or pertaining to sandpipers |
trochilic | like or pertaining to rotatory motion |
trochilidine | like or pertaining to hummingbirds |
trochiline | like or pertaining to hummingbirds |
troglodytine | like or pertaining to wrens |
truttaceous | like or pertaining to trout |
turdine | like or pertaining to thrushes |
turdine | like or pertaining to thrushes |
turrical | like or pertaining to a tower or turret; like a turret |
tussicular | like or pertaining to coughs |
uletic | like or pertaining to the gums |
ulmaceous | or like elms |
umbilical | like or pertaining to the navel; related on the mother's side |
uncial | like or pertaining to an inch or an ounce |
ungual | a claw ho |
unguentary | like or pertaining to unguents; one who makes or sells unguents |
uranic | the palate |
uretic | like or pertaining to urine |
ursine | like or pertaining to bears |
urticaceous | like or pertaining to nettles |
uxorial | like or pertaining to a wife |
vaccine | like or pertaining to cows; preparation conferring immunity to disease |
vadose | like or pertaining to underground water above the water table |
valetudinarian | like or pertaining to ill-health; anxious about health |
vapulatory | like or pertaining to flogging |
varietal | like or pertaining to a variety |
vascular | like or pertaining to fluid-carrying vessels |
vectigal | like or pertaining to the paying |
velamentous | like or pertaining to or like a membrane or sail |
venatic | like or pertaining to hunting |
venous | like or pertaining to veins |
ventral | like or pertaining to the underside or the belly |
vermicular | like or pertaining to worms |
vernal | like or pertaining to spring |
versicular | or in verse |
vertiginous | like or pertaining to vertigo; dizzy; giddy |
vesical | like or pertaining to the bladder |
vespal | like or pertaining to wasps |
vespertinal | like or pertaining to the evening |
vespine | like or pertaining to hornets or wasps |
vestiary robing-room; cloakroom; | like or pertaining to clothes |
viatical | like or pertaining to roads or travel |
vibronic | or caused by electronic vibration |
vicarial | like or pertaining to a vicar or delegate |
villar | like or pertaining to a manor or village |
villatic rural; | like or pertaining to a villa |
vinal | or due to wine |
vindemial | like or pertaining to the vintage |
vineatic | like or pertaining to vines |
viperine | like or pertaining to vipers |
viperous | like |
visceral | the organs |
visile | like or pertaining to sight; learning easily by sight |
visive | like or pertaining to sight; visual; able to see or be seen |
vitular | like or pertaining to a calf or to calving |
vituline | like or pertaining to calves or veal |
viverrine | like or pertaining to civets and mongoose |
viverrine | like or pertaining to the civet |
vocabularian | like or pertaining to vocabulary |
vocicultural | like or pertaining to voice training |
volar | like or pertaining to the palm or the sole; |
volitive | like or pertaining to the will |
volucrine | like or pertaining to birds; bird-like |
voluminal | like or pertaining to volume or cubic capacity |
voraginous | like or pertaining to a whirlpool; voracious |
vortical | like or pertaining to a vortex; whirling |
vulpecular | like or pertaining to a young fox |
vulpine | like or pertaining to foxes; cunning |
vulturine rapacious; | like or pertaining to a vulture |
vulvar | like or pertaining to or resembling the vulva |
xilinous like or pertaining to cotton | |
xylary | like or pertaining to xylem |
yogic | or pertaining to yoga |
zebrine | like or pertaining to zebras |
zibeline | like or pertaining to the sable |
zincic | pertaining to or containing zinc |
zirconic | or pertaining to zirconium |
zoic | like or pertaining to animals; containing evidence |
zonal | or like a zone; arranged in zones |
zonarious | or pertaining to a girdle or purse |
zonary | or like a zone; arranged in zones |
zoochorous | seeds or spores spread by animals |
zoonic | like or pertaining to or derived from animals |
zygal formed like the letter H; | like or pertaining to a yoke or union |
zymic | like or pertaining to fermentation |
zymotic | like or pertaining to fermentation |
aligerous | winged |
aluminiferous | bearing aluminum |
antenniferous | bearing antennae |
argentiferous | bearing silver |
armigerous | entitled to bear arms |
arundiferous | bearing or producing reeds |
bacciferous | bearing berries |
balaniferous | acorn-bearing |
barbigerous | bearded; bearing a beard |
belliferous | bringing war |
brachiferous | bearing or having branches or arms |
branchiferous | having or bearing gills |
bulbiferous | bearing bulbs |
byssiferous | having tufts or threads |
calcariferous | having or bearing spurs |
calciferous | bearing lime |
carboniferous | bearing carbon |
carniferous | bearing flesh; fleshy |
celliferous | bearing cells |
celluliferous | bearing little cells |
ceriferous | producing wax |
cheliferous | bearing pincers or claws |
chyliferous | bearing chyle |
chymiferous | bearing chyme |
clavigerous | club-bearing |
clavigerous | keeping keys |
cobaltiferous | bearing cobalt |
cocciferous | bearing or yielding berries |
conchiferous | bearing a shell |
conchyliferous | bearing a shell |
coniferous | bearing cones |
coralliferous | bearing coral |
cornigerous | horned |
crinigerous | hairy |
cruciferous | bearing a cross |
culmiferous | bearing coal-dust |
cupriferous | bearing copper |
cupuliferous | bearing cupules |
dentigerous | toothed; bearing teeth |
diamantiferous | bearing diamonds |
discigerous | bearing a disc or discus |
doloriferous | bearing grief or pain |
elytriferous | having or bearing hardened forewings |
estiferous | producing heat |
ferriferous | bearing iron |
filiferous | thread-bearing |
flagelliferous | bearing a whip or flagellum |
flammiferous | producing flame |
floriferous | bearing flowers |
foetiferous | bearing or carrying a fetus |
foliaceous | bearing leaves; leaf-like |
foraminiferous | bearing foramina |
fossiliferous | bearing fossils |
frigiferous | bearing or bringing cold |
frondiferous | bearing or producing fronds |
fructiferous | bearing fruit |
frugiferous | bearing fruit |
furciferous | bearing a fork |
furciferous | bearing a forked appendage; rascally |
galactophorous | bearing or carrying milk |
garnetiferous | bearing garnets |
gemmiferous | bearing gems |
glandiferous | bearing acorns or nuts |
glanduliferous | bearing glands |
globuliferous | bearing globules |
glumiferous | bearing glumes |
granuliferous | bearing granules |
guaniferous | bearing dung |
gummiferous | bearing gum |
guttiferous | exuding drops |
gypsiferous | bearing gypsum |
hederiferous | ivy-bearing |
igniferous | bearing fire |
jaculiferous | having arrow-like prickles |
lactiferous | milk-bearing |
laniferous | wool-bearing |
lanigerous | bearing wool |
laticiferous | containing or conveying latex |
lauriferous | bearing laurels |
lethiferous | causing death; carrying or bearing death |
libaniferous | yielding or bearing incense |
luciferous | light-bringing; light-giving |
lucriferous | lucrative; yielding profit |
luminiferous | bearing or bringing light |
maliferous | harmful; unhealthy |
mammiferous | having breasts |
manganiferous | bearing manganese |
margaritiferous | pearl-bearing |
mastigophorous | bearing a whip |
melaniferous | containing or bearing melanin |
melliferous | producing or forming honey |
mentatiferous | telepathic |
metalliferous | bearing metal |
morbiferous | disease-bringing |
morigerous | obsequious or deferent |
mortiferous | death-bringing; fatal |
moschiferous | producing musk |
motiferous | conveying motion |
muciferous | conveying or secreting mucus |
nectariferous | producing nectar |
nickeliferous | bearing nickel |
nubiferous | cloud-bringing |
nuciferous | nut-bearing |
odoriferous | emitting a usually pleasant smell |
oleiferous | producing oil |
omniferous | bearing everything |
ossiferous | bearing bones |
oviferous | egg-carrying |
ovigerous | bearing eggs |
ovuliferous | bearing ovules |
ozoniferous | bearing ozone |
papilliferous | bearing papillae |
papuliferous | pimply; bearing or pertaining to pimples |
pedigerous | having or bearing feet |
peltiferous | bearing a shield |
penniferous | bearing feathers |
pestiferous | bringing plague or pestilence |
petaliferous | bearing petals |
petroliferous | bearing petroleum |
piliferous | bearing or growing hair |
placentigerous | bearing a placenta |
platiniferous | bearing platinum |
plumbiferous | bearing or yielding lead |
plumigerous | plumaged |
polliniferous | bearing pollen |
pollinigerous | pollen-bearing |
pomiferous | bearing apples |
poriferous | having pores |
proligerous | bearing offspring |
pruniferous | bearing plums |
pubigerous | hairy; bearing or growing hair |
pupigerous | bearing a puparium |
pyritiferous | bearing pyrite |
quartziferous | bearing quartz |
quiniferous | yielding quinine |
racemiferous | bearing clusters or bunches |
ramiferous | bearing branches |
ramuliferous | bearing small branches |
resiniferous | bearing resin |
roriferous | producing or bearing dew |
rotiferous | bearing rotifers |
sacchariferous | bearing sugar |
sacciferous | bearing a sac or sacs |
saliferous | salt-bearing |
salutiferous | conducive to health or well-being |
sanguiferous | bearing blood |
scapigerous | having a scape |
scutigerous | bearing a shield or scales |
scyphiferous | bearing a cup |
sebiferous | bearing fatty matter |
securigerous | bearing an axe |
seminiferous | seed-bearing |
sensiferous | conveying sensation |
septiferous | having barriers |
serpentiferous | bearing a snake; abounding in snakes |
setiferous | bearing bristles |
setigerous | bearing bristles |
siliciferous | bearing or containing silica |
soboliferous | bearing shoots or suckers |
somniferous | bearing sleep |
soniferous | producing sound |
soporiferous | bearing sleep |
spicigerous | bearing spikes |
spiniferous | bearing spines |
spinigerous | bearing spines |
spinuliferous | bearing spinules |
sporiferous | bearing spores |
staminiferous | bearing stamens |
stanniferous | bearing tin |
stelliferous | having many stars |
stigmatiferous | bearing stigma |
stoloniferous | bearing or having runners |
stomatiferous | having an orifice or mouth |
strombuliferous | bearing spirally coiled organs |
styliferous | bearing a bristle |
succiferous | bearing or producing sap |
succiniferous | bearing or producing amber |
sudoriferous | inducing or secreting sweat |
surculigerous | producing suckers |
tediferous | bearing a torch |
thuriferous | incense-bearing |
titaniferous | bearing titanium |
toxiferous | producing or bearing poison |
trochiferous | bearing a wheel or wheel-like organ |
tuberiferous | bearing tubers |
turriferous | bearing towers |
umbelliferous | bearing umbels |
umbriferous | giving or bearing shade |
uraniferous | bearing uranium |
uriniferous | bearing urine |
vasiferous | bearing a vessel or vas |
veliferous | bearing a sail or membrane |
veneniferous | carrying poison |
vermigerous | bearing containing or infested with worms |
viruliferous | bearing or containing a virus |
vitiferous | bearing vines |
yttriferous | bearing yttrium |
zinciferous | bearing zinc |
zinkiferous | bearing zinc |
aeneous | shining bronze colour |
albicant | whitish; becoming white |
albugineous | like the white of an eye or an egg; white-coloured |
amaranthine | immortal; undying; deep purple-red colour |
argent | the heraldic colour silver or white |
atrous | jet black |
aubergine | eggplant; a dark purple colour |
aurulent | gold-coloured |
azuline | blue |
azure | light or sky blue; the heraldic colour blue |
badious | chestnut-coloured |
beige | light creamy white-brown |
brunneous | dark brown |
burnet | dark brown; dark woollen cloth |
caesious | bluish or greyish green |
cardinal | deep scarlet red colour |
castaneous | chestnut-coloured |
castory | brown colour; brown dye derived from beaver pelts |
celadon | pale green; pale green glazed pottery |
celeste | sky blue |
cerulean | sky-blue; dark blue; sea-green |
cesious | bluish-grey |
chartreuse | yellow-green colour |
chlorochrous | green-coloured |
chrysochlorous | greenish-gold |
cinerious | ashen; ash-grey |
cinnabar | red crystalline mercuric sulfide pigment; deep red or scarlet colour |
citreous | lemon-coloured; lemony |
citrine | dark greenish-yellow |
coccineous | bright red |
columbine | of or like a dove; dove-coloured |
coquelicot | brilliant red; poppy red |
corbeau | blackish green |
cramoisy | crimson |
cretaceous | of or resembling chalk; of a whitish colour |
croceate | saffron-coloured |
cyaneous | sky blue |
eau-de-nil | pale green colour |
eburnean | of or like ivory; ivory-coloured |
erythraean | reddish colour |
ferruginous | of the colour of rust; impregnated with iron |
filemot | dead-leaf colour; dull brown |
flammeous | flame-coloured |
flavescent | yellowish or turning yellow |
fuliginous | sooty; dusky; soot-coloured; of or pertaining to soot |
fulvous | dull yellow; tawny |
fuscous | brown; tawny; dingy |
gamboge | reddish-yellow colour |
glaucous | sea-green; greyish-blue |
goldenrod | dark golden yellow |
greige | of a grey-beige colour |
gridelin | violet-grey |
griseous | pearl-grey or blue-grey; grizzled |
haematic | blood-coloured |
heliotrope | purplish hue; purplish-flowered plant; ancient sundial; signalling mirror |
hoary | pale silver-grey colour; grey with age |
hyacinthine | of a blue or purple colour |
ianthine | violet-coloured |
ibis | large stork-like bird; a pale apricot colour |
icterine | yellowish or marked with yellow |
icteritious | jaundiced; yellow |
incarnadine | carnation-coloured; blood-red |
indigo | deep blue-violet colour; a blue-violet dye |
infuscate | clouded or tinged with brown; obscured; cloudy brown colour |
isabelline | greyish yellow |
jacinthe | orange colour |
jessamy | yellow like a jasmine |
kermes | brilliant red colour; a red dye derived from insects |
khaki | light brown or tan |
lateritious | brick-red |
leucochroic | white or pale-coloured |
liard | grey; dapple-grey |
lovat | grey-green; blue-green |
lurid | red-yellow; yellow-brown |
luteolous | yellowish |
luteous | golden-yellow |
lutescent | yellowish |
madder | red dye made from brazil wood; a reddish or red-orange colour |
magenta | reddish purple |
maroon | brownish crimson |
mauve | light bluish purple |
mazarine | rich blue or reddish-blue colour |
melanic | black; very dark |
melichrous | having a honey-like colour |
meline | canary-yellow |
miniaceous | colour of reddish lead |
minium | vermilion; red lead |
modena | crimson |
morel | dark-coloured horse; blackish colour |
nacarat | bright orange-red |
nankeen | buff-coloured; durable buff-coloured cotton |
nigricant | of a blackish colour |
nigrine | black |
niveous | snowy; white |
ochre | yellowish or yellow-brown colour |
ochroleucous | yellowish white |
olivaceous | olive-coloured |
pavonated | peacock-blue |
periwinkle | a bluish or azure colour; a plant with bluish flowers |
perse | dark blue or bluish-grey; cloth of such a colour |
phoeniceous | bright scarlet-red colour |
piceous | like pitch; inflammable; reddish black |
ponceau | poppy red |
porphyrous | purple |
porraceous | leek-green |
prasinous | leek-green colour |
primrose | pale yellow |
puccoon | blood-root; dark red colour |
puce | brownish-purple; purplish-pink |
puniceous | bright or purplish red |
purpure | heraldic colour purple |
purpureal | purple |
pyrrhous | reddish; ruddy |
rhodopsin | visual purple |
rubiginous | rusty-coloured |
rubious | ruby red; rusty |
rufous | reddish or brownish-red |
russet | reddish brown |
sable | black; dark; of a black colour in heraldry |
saffron | orange-yellow |
sage | grey-green colour |
sanguineous | bloody; of like or pertaining to blood; blood-red |
sapphire | deep pure blue |
sarcoline | flesh-coloured |
sepia | fine brown |
sinopia | preparatory drawing for a fresco; reddish-brown colour |
slate | dull dark blue-grey |
smalt | deep blue |
smaragdine | emerald green |
solferino | purplish red |
sorrel | reddish-brown; light chestnut |
spadiceous | chestnut-coloured |
stammel | coarse woollen fabric usually dyed red; bright red colour |
stramineous | strawy; light; worthless; straw-coloured |
suede | light beige |
sulphureous | bright yellow |
tan | tawny brown |
taupe | brownish-grey |
tawny | brownish-yellow |
teal | greenish-blue |
terracotta | reddish-brown |
testaceous | of or having a hard shell; brick-red |
tilleul | pale yellowish-green |
titian | red-gold or reddish-brown |
topaz | dark yellow |
turquoise | blue-green |
ultramarine | deep blue |
umber | brownish red |
vermeil | bright red or vermilion colour; gilded silver |
vermilion | bright red |
vinaceous | wine-coloured |
vinous | deep red; burgundy |
violaceous | violet-coloured |
violet | bluish purple |
virescent | becoming green or greenish; of a greenish colour |
virid | green |
viridian | chrome green |
vitellary | bright yellow |
wallflower | yellowish-red |
watchet | pale blue |
wheaten | the golden colour of ripe wheat |
whey | off-white |
willowish | of the colour of willow leaves |
xanthic | yellow; yellowish |
zinnober | chrome green |
aba | garment of camel or goat hair; camel or goat-hair fabric |
aerophane | thin crinkled semi-transparent fabric |
alepine | mixed wool and silk or mohair and cotton fabric |
alpaca | fine wool made from alpaca hair |
angora | silk-like fabric made from wool of angora goats |
ardass | fine silk |
armure | twilled woollen or silk fabric |
arrasene | embroidery fabric of wool and silk |
atlas | rich satin fabric |
bagging | coarse fabric for making bags or sacks |
baize | coarse napped cotton or wool fabric |
balbriggan | knitted cotton fabric |
baldachin | rich embroidered silk and gold fabric |
balzarine | light cotton dress material |
barathea | pebbly silk or worsted fabric with broken rib weave |
barege | gauzy fabric of silk cotton |
barracan | fine silk cloth |
barras | coarse linen fabric |
barrateen | some kind of fabric |
batiste | fine soft sheer fabric of plain weave |
bayadere | fabric with horizontal stripes in strongly contrasting colours |
beaupers | linen fabric used for flags |
bengaline | crosswise ribbed fabric |
bombazine | twilled silk and worsted fabric |
borato | thin fabric |
bouclé | fabric of uneven looped yarn |
brilliantine | light lustrous cotton and worsted fabric |
broadcloth | dense twilled wool or worsted fabric |
brocade | rich silk fabric with raised patterns |
buckram | stiff-finished cotton or linen used for linings of garments |
bump | coarse cotton fabric |
bunting | light loosely woven fabric used for flags |
burdet | cotton fabric |
burlap | coarse plain-woven jute or hemp fabric |
burnet | dark brown; dark woollen cloth |
burrel | coarse russet cloth |
calamanco | satin twilled woollen fabric |
calico | plain white cotton |
cambresine | fine linen fabric |
cambric | fine thin white cotton or linen fabric |
camlet | strong waterproof silk or wool fabric |
caneva | fancy woollen fabric made to resemble canvas |
canque | Chinese cotton fabric |
cashmere | soft twilled fabric made of fine goat's wool |
cashmerette | soft imitation of cashmere |
cassimere | closely woven twilled cloth of fine wool |
cendal | silk fabric resembling taffeta |
challis | soft lightweight silk wool or cotton fabric |
chambray | lightweight fabric with coloured warp and white filling |
chamois | cotton fabric made in imitation of chamois leather |
charmante | silk fabric with a crepe back |
charmeuse | soft and satiny silk fabric |
chenille | velvety silk wool or cotton fabric with protruding pile |
cheviot | coarse heavy plain or twilled wool or worsted |
chiffon | sheer silk fabric |
chino | strong twilled cotton cloth |
chintz | glazed printed cotton fabric |
cire | fabric with a glazed finish |
cloque | fabric with an embossed design |
coburg | thin single-twilled worsted fabric with cotton or silk |
cordovan | soft goatskin leather |
corduroy | durable cotton piled fabric with vertical ribs |
crash | coarse drapery and towelling fabric |
crepe | light crinkled fabric |
crepon | heavy crepe fabric with lengthwise crinkles |
cretonne | heavy cotton or linen cloth |
crin | horsehair fabric |
crinoline | stiff flax or cotton fabric |
cubica | fine unglazed fabric resembling shalloon |
cypress | silk or cotton gauze fabric usually black |
damask | fine lustrous fabric with flat patterns and a satin weave |
delaine | light fabric of wool or mixed wool and cotton |
denim | firm and durable twilled cotton |
dimity | sheer and stout white cotton |
domett | plain cotton-wool blend |
dornick | stout linen |
dowlas | coarse linen |
drabbet | coarse linen |
drap-de-Berry | old woollen cloth |
dreadnought | heavy woollen cloth |
drill | durable twilled cotton |
droguet | ribbed woollen dress fabric |
drugget | coarse durable wool fabric |
ducape | plain-woven stout silk fabric |
duck | durable closely woven cotton fabric |
duffel | fabric of thick low-quality woolen cloth |
dungaree | heavy coarse durable twilled cotton usually coloured |
dupion | coarse silk |
duroy | coarse woollen |
duvetyn | smooth lustrous velvety fabric |
ecarlate | fine woollen cloth usually dyed scarlet |
éolienne | fine silk and wool |
etamine | light open-mesh cotton or worsted |
eyelet | small hole in fabric to allow passage of a cord; cotton fabric with small holes |
faille | shiny closely woven silk cotton or rayon fabric |
farandine | silk and wool cloth |
filoselle | coarse floss silk |
flannel | light woollen fabric |
foulard | soft lightweight plain-woven or twilled silk fabric |
foulé | light woollen fulled cloth |
frieze | rough heavy woollen cloth |
fuji | plain spun silk fabric |
fustian | coarse twilled cotton |
gabardine | closely woven cotton or wool twill |
galatea | striped cotton |
gambroon | twilled worsted and cloth |
gazar | silk organza fabric |
genappe | smooth worsted yarn |
georgette | thin silk |
gingham | striped cotton cloth |
grenadine | thin silk |
grogram | coarse loosely woven silk fabric |
grosgrain | heavy close-woven corded silk |
gulix | kind of fine linen |
harn | coarse linen |
herringbone | twilled fabric woven in rows of parallel sloping lines |
hodden | coarse undyed woollen cloth |
holland | coarse plain-woven cotton or linen |
hopsack | rough-surfaced loose fabric |
houndstooth | fabric with an irregular checked pattern |
huckaback | absorbent cotton or linen used for towels |
jaconet | stout cotton cloth |
jacquard | intricately-woven variegated fabric; loom for making jacquard |
jaspe | cotton or rayon cloth with shaded effect |
jean | durable twilled cotton material |
jersey | plain weft-knitted fabric of wool cotton |
kalamkari | fabric coloured by repeated dyeing |
kelt | coarse fabric made of black and white wool |
kente | hand-woven African silk fabric |
kersey | coarse woollen cloth |
kerseymere | twilled fine wool |
khaddar | homespun cotton cloth |
kincob | embroidered silk with gold and silver threads |
lamé | fabric in which metallic threads are interwoven |
lasting | sturdy cotton or worsted cloth |
lawn | fine sheer plain-woven cotton or linen |
leno | open-woven fabric |
linsey | coarse linen and wool blend |
linsey-woolsey | thin coarse fabric of wool and linen |
lockram | coarse linen |
loden | heavy waterproof woollen fabric |
lustring | glossy silk |
lutestring | plain glossy silk |
mackinaw | heavy napped and felted wool cloth |
mackintosh | lightweight rubberized waterproof cotton |
madapollam | fine cotton cloth |
madras | fine plain-woven cotton or silk |
marabout | thin downy silk |
marcella | cotton or linen in twill weave |
marocain | ribbed crepe fabric |
marquisette | sheer meshed cloth |
matelassé | having a quilted ornamentation; fabric with raised pattern as if quilted |
melton | strong and smooth heavy woollen cloth |
merino | soft wool of the merino sheep; any soft merino-like wool or wool and cotton cloth |
messaline | soft lightweight silk with a satin weave |
mockado | inferior quality woollen fabric |
mogadore | ribbed silk used in making neckties |
mohair | fabric made from silky hair of angora goats |
moire | watered silk |
moleskin | heavy durable cotton |
moreen | stout corded wool or cotton |
mousseline | fine sheer fabric |
mull | soft fine sheer cotton or silk fabric |
muslin | plain-woven fine cotton |
musterdevillers | archaic mixed grey woollen cloth |
nainsook | fine cotton fabric |
nankeen | buff-coloured; durable buff-coloured cotton |
needlecord | thinly ribbed cotton |
ninon | silk voile or other thin fabric |
organdie | fine translucent cotton |
organza | transparent thin silk or nylon |
orleans | interwoven cotton and worsted |
osnaburg | coarse linen or cotton |
ottoman | heavy clothing fabric with crosswise ribs |
oxford | soft durable plain-woven cotton |
paduasoy | corded silk |
paisley | soft wool fabric with ornamental pattern |
panne | heavy lustrous silk or rayon with waxy feel |
paramatta | worsted and cotton blend |
pashmina | fine goat's wool fabric used for making shawls |
pekin | fine soft silk |
pellicule | thin diaphanous fabric |
percale | closely woven lightweight cloth |
percaline | glossy lightweight cotton |
perse | dark blue or bluish-grey; cloth of such a colour |
piqué | stiff durable corded fabric of cotton rayon or silk |
platilla | fine white linen |
plissé | fabric with puckered finish |
pongee | thin soft fabric woven from raw silk |
poodle | coarsely looped or nubby fabric |
poplin | corded woven silk and worsted |
prunella | strong and heavy silk or wool |
rabanna | raffia fabric of Madagascar |
ramie | strong lustrous fabric resembling linen or silk |
raploch | coarse undyed woollen cloth |
raschel | light loosely kitted cloth |
ratiné | rough bulky plain-woven fabric |
rep | plain-woven fabric with crosswise ribs |
reticella | old Venetian lace-like fabric |
romal | handkerchief or headcloth; silk or cotton fabric |
rumchunder | fine silk |
russel | ribbed cotton and wool |
russet | coarse homespun cloth |
sagathy | light blend of silk and cotton or wool |
samite | rich and heavy silk sometimes interwoven with gold or silver |
sarsenet | fine and soft silk; soft or gentle |
satara | ribbed lustred wool |
sateen | glossy cotton or wool |
satin | closely woven silk with lustrous face |
satinet | thin silk satin or imitation thereof |
saxony | fine soft woollen fabric |
say | delicate woollen fabric |
scarlet | fine cloth |
scrim | durable plain-woven cotton fabric |
seersucker | light puckered cotton or linen fabric |
sempiternum | durable wool |
sendal | thin silk or linen |
serge | strong twilled worsted |
shalloon | light twilled wool or worsted |
shantung | plain rough silk or cotton |
sharkskin | smooth durable wool or worsted fabric |
shetland | lightweight loosely twisted wool fabric |
shoddy | woollen fabric made from rags |
sicilienne | ribbed silk |
silesia | thin twilled cotton or linen |
silkaline | soft light cotton fabric resembling silk |
sindon | fine linen |
stammel | coarse woollen fabric usually dyed red; bright red colour |
stockinette | soft elastic cotton fabric |
surah | soft twilled silk or rayon |
swansdown | heavy napped cotton flannel |
swanskin | soft napped fabric resembling flannel |
tabaret | striped watered silk and satin fabric |
tabby | plain-woven silk taffeta fabric |
tabinet | silk and wool watered fabric |
taffeta | thin glossy silk |
tamin | thin glazed worsted |
tamis | thin wool |
tarlatan | thin sheer stiff cotton |
terry | piled fabric consisting of uncut loops |
ticking | strong linen or cotton fabric used for mattress and pillow cases |
tiffany | transparent silk-like gauzy fabric |
tiretaine | wool cloth mixed with cotton or linen |
toile | plain or simple twilled fabric |
tricolette | silk or rayon knitted fabric |
tricot | plain knitted silk or woollen fabric |
tricotine | double-twilled worsted fabric |
tulle | sheer and delicate thin silk |
tussah | brownish silk fabric |
tweed | rough twilled wool |
twill | any diagonally woven fabric |
velour | piled velvety cotton |
veloutine | velvety corded wool |
velvet | soft piled fabric of silk cotton or synthetic material |
velvetine | cotton with silk pile |
vicuna | fabric made from wool of the vicuna a small ruminant |
voile | soft fine sheer fabric |
wadmal | thick coarse wool |
whipcord | fabric with bold twill used for making dresses |
wigan | stiff plain-woven cotton |
wincey | plain or twilled cotton |
woolsey | cotton and wool blend |
worcester | fine wool |
worsted | fine closely-woven wool |
zanella | mixed twilled umbrella fabric |
zephyr | lightweight wool or worsted fabric; the west wind |
zibeline | soft piled wool |
Aegrotat ee'gro-tat | n A medical certificate of illness excusing student's sickness |
Almacantar al-me-kan'ter | n A circle of altitude |
Barathrum ba-rath'rum | n An abyss; an insatiable person |
Cancrizans kang'kri-zanz | adj Moving backwards; especially |
Carfax kar'faks | n A place where four roads meet; an intersection of main roads at the center of a town |
Colophon kol'e-fon | n A publisher's emblem or inscription |
Delenda de-len'da | n pl Things to be deleted or destroyed |
Diaglyph die'a-glif | n A figure etched or engraved into a flat surface of a gem |
Enchiridion en-kie-rid'ee-on | n (Greek |
Episemon ep-i-say'mon | n A badge or characteristic device - in this sense |
Famulus fam'yoo-lus | n A private secretary or attendant |
Farrago fe-rah'go | n A confused mass of objects or people; any disordered mixture |
Nonsense; a confused mixture of unrelated things | |
Growlery growl'er-ee | n A retreat for times of ill humour |
Haecceity hek-see'i-tee | n The aspect of existence on which individuality depends; the hereness and nowness of reality |
Hecatomb hek'a-toam | n A large sacrifice or slaughter; the killing of one hundred animals or people |
Incunabulum in-ku-nab'u-lum | An early printed book; an early version or stage; the cradle or birthplace of something |
Kenspeckle ken'spek-l | adj Easily recognizable or distinguishable; conspicuous |
Liripipe lir'i-pipe | n The long tail of a graduate’s hood; a part or lesson committed to memory |
Mascaron mas'ke-ron | n A grotesque face on a door-knocker |
Orphrey or'free | n Gold or other rich embroidery |
pan-op'ti-kon | n A prison where all inmates can be watched from one point; an exhibition room |
Xenium zee'ni-um | n A gift made to a guest or ambassador; any compulsory gift |
Yare | Marked by quickness and agility; nimble; prepared; easily handled |
Zetetic ze-tet'ik | n or adj Proceeding by inquiry; a search or investigation; a skeptical seeker of knowledge |
Twee | affectedly or excessively dainty delicate |
sesquipedalian | A long word |
fantod | a state of extreme nervousness or restlessness |
shamble | to walk inan awkward or lazy manner |
aeipathy | continued passion; an unyielding disease |
affictitious | feigned; counterfeit |
affuage | right to cut wood in a forest for family fire |
"agonarch " | judge of a contest or activity |
anthroposophy | knowledge of the nature of humanity; human wisdom |
chirosophy | knowledge of palm-reading |
cosmosophy | knowledge of the cosmos |
deipnosophy | learned dinner-conversation |
demonosopher | one who is inspired by a demon or devil |
gastrosopher | a person skilled in matters of eating |
gymnosophy | deep contemplation performed while naked |
helicosophy | geometry that deals with spirals |
hypnosophy | knowledge of phenomena relating to sleep |
misosophy | hatred of knowledge or wisdom |
morosophy | foolish pretence of wisdom |
mysteriosophy | system of knowledge concerning secrets and mysteries |
neutrosophy | study of the origin and nature of philosophical neutralities |
ontosophy | knowledge of being or existence |
palaeosophy | ancient learning or thought |
pansophy | universal knowledge |
pantosophy | universal knowledge; pansophy |
philosophy | science of knowledge or wisdom |
physiophilosophy | system of knowledge concerning principles of natural history |
physiosophy | assumption of knowledge of nature |
phytosophy | knowledge of plants |
pneumatophilosophy | philosophy of spirits or the spirit world |
pseudosophy | pretension to wisdom |
psilosophy | shallow philosophy; limited knowledge |
psychosophy | doctrine or theory of the soul |
pyrosophy | knowledge of the properties of fire |
rhabdology | knowledge or learning concerning divining rods |
sciosophy | system of knowledge without basis in science |
theanthroposophy | system of belief concerning Christ as god and man |
theosophy | immediate divine illumination or wisdom |
zoosophy | knowledge or learning concerning animals |
archigrapher | principal or head secretary or clerk |
archiloquy | first part of a speech |
aretaloger | braggart; one who boasts about his own accomplishments |
ascoliasm | boys' game of beating each other with gloves or leather while hopping |
assectation | act of following after something else |
austerulous | somewhat or slightly harsh |
autexousious | exercising or possessing free will |
bajulate | to bear a heavy burden |
bimarian | pertaining to two seas |
bonifate | lucky; fortunate |
boscaresque | picturesque; scenically wooded |
brabeum | reward or prize |
brochity | projecting or crooked quality of teeth |
bromography | a treatise on food |
bubulcitate | to act as a cowherd; to cry like a cowherd |
buccellation | act of dividing into small morsels |
bumposopher | one learned in bumps; a phrenologist |
cacozealous | imitating badly; poorly affected |
cameranious | of or relating to a chamber |
canitude | greyness; hoariness; whiteness |
caprizant | of the pulse uneven or irregular |
castaldy | stewardship |
cecograph | writing device for the blind |
celeripedean | swift-footed |
cestuan | No cestuan improvements can negate the damage of such blows to the head |
chermadic | of a heavy weight used as a projectile |
chronanagram | an anagram |
citharize | to play the harp |
cloakatively | superficially |
colaphize | to beat or buffet |
commendaces | funeral orations; prayers for the dead |
cosmogyral | whirling round the universe |
crassulent | very fat; grossly obese |
crebrity | frequency; period between two occurrences |
crocitation | croaking; cawing |
cynicocratical | pertaining to rule by cynics |
deartuate | to dismember |
decutient | shaking down; beating down |
defedate | to defile; to pollute |
desarcinate | to unload; to unburden |
devalgate | bow-legged |
dicaearchy | just government |
While we dream of living in a dicaearchy | in truth we're governed by dicks |
diffibulate | to unbutton; to unbuckle |
dignorate | to mark or brand an animal |
diloricate | to rip open a sewn piece of clothing |
dipsopathy | medical treatment involving abstinence from liquids |
diribitory | place where pay is distributed to soldiers |
divinipotent | having strong divinatory powers |
dodrantal | of nine inches in length |
Drollic | of or pertaining to puppet shows |
dromograph | instrument for measuring velocity of blood flow |
ducenarious | pertaining to two hundred |
ebaptization | declaring that someone has not been properly baptized |
ecstasiate | to go into an ecstasy; to cause to become ecstatic |
egrote | to feign an illness |
eicastic | imitative |
ejurate | to renounce; to abjure |
embaphium | small vessel for measuring or serving medicine |
embolimaeal | intercalary; inserted into the calendar |
epalpebrate | lacking eyebrows |
ephydriad | water-nymph |
essomenic | showing things as they will be in the future |
eternitarian | one who believes in the eternity of the soul |
eveniency | coming to pass |
excutient | shaking off |
exipotic | purgative; cleansing the body of illness |
exlineal | out of the direct line of descent |
fabrefaction | act of fashioning or making a work of art |
fallaciloquence | deceitful speech |
famelicose | often or very hungry |
famigerate | to carry news from abroad |
ficulnean | of fig-tree wood; worthless |
filicology | study of ferns |
findible | able to be cleft or split |
flosculation | an embellishment or ornament in speech |
foppotee | simpleton |
frenigerent | bearing a bridle |
fumificate | to make or cause smoke or incense |
gardeviance | chest for valuables; a travelling trunk |
gardevisure | visor of a helmet as shown on heraldic devices |
"abbatial of" | like or pertaining to abbots or an abbey |
"abecedarian of" | like or pertaining to the order of the alphabet; rudimentary |
"abiectic of" | like or pertaining to fir trees or fir sap |
"absinthial of" | like or pertaining to wormwood; bitter |
"abyssopelagic of" | like or pertaining to the depths of the ocean |
"acarine of" | like or pertaining to ticks or mites |
"accipitrine of" | like or pertaining to falcons and hawks |
"acerate of" | like or resembling a needle |
"acolouthic of" | like or pertaining to an after-image or other after-sensation |
"acrologic of" | like or pertaining to initials |
"addititious of" | pertaining to or resulting from addition |
"adenoid of" | like or pertaining to or like a gland |
"adipic of" | like or pertaining to fatty substances |
"aeropleustic of" | like or pertaining to aerial navigation |
"aeruginous of" | like or pertaining to copper-rust or verdigris |
"aestival of" | like or pertaining to summer |
"agonistic of" | like or pertaining to or being aggressive or argumentative |
"alar of" | like or pertaining to the wing or shoulder |
"alaudine of" | like or pertaining to skylarks |
"alcine of" | like or pertaining to elks; of |
"aliphatic of" | like or pertaining to fat or fats in general |
"alliaceous of" | like or pertaining to garlic; garlicky |
"alpestrine of" | like or pertaining to alpine regions |
"ampelidious of" | like or pertaining to vines |
"amphiscian of" | like or pertaining to torrid regions |
"amygdaloid almond-shaped; of" | like or pertaining to tonsils |
"anacardic of" | like or pertaining to cashews |
"anaclastic refractive; of" | like or pertaining to refraction |
"anatine of" | like or pertaining to ducks |
"anconoid of" | like or pertaining to the elbow |
"ancoral of" | shaped like or resembling an anchor |
"anguine of" | like or pertaining to snakes |
"anguine of" | like or pertaining to snakes |
"anopheline of" | like or pertaining to malarial mosquitoes |
"anserine of" | like or pertaining to geese |
"apian of" | like or pertaining to bees |
"apiarian of" | like or pertaining to bees or beekeeping |
"aquiline of" | like or pertaining to eagles; hooked like an eagle's beak |
"araneidan of" | like or pertaining to spiders |
"archididascalian of" | like or pertaining to headmasters |
"architectonics of" | like or pertaining to the arrangement of knowledge |
"areopagitic of" | like or pertaining to tribunals or courts |
"arietine of" | like or pertaining to rams |
"arval of" | like or pertaining to ploughed land |
"asinine of" | like or pertaining to asses; stupid |
"aularian of" | like or pertaining to a hall in a university |
"aurantiaceous of" | like or pertaining or pertaining to oranges or orange trees |
"auricular of" | like or pertaining to the ear; spoken secretly |
"aval of" | like or pertaining to a grandparent |
"avian of" | like or pertaining to birds |
"avicular of" | like or pertaining to birds |
"avuncular like an uncle; of" | like or pertaining to uncles |
"baculine of" | like or pertaining to the stick or cane; of |
"basial of" | like or pertaining to kissing |
"bathyorographical of" | like or pertaining to depth underwater or elevation above sea level |
"bathysmal of" | like or pertaining to the depths of the ocean |
"batrachian of" | like or pertaining to frogs or toads |
"bdelloid of" | like or pertaining to leeches |
"benthic of" | like or pertaining to the depths of the ocean |
"bibitory of" | like or pertaining or pertaining to drinking |
"binaural of" | pertaining to or heard by both ears |
"bisontine of" | like or pertaining to bison |
"biverbal of" | like or pertaining to two words; having a double sense |
"blattoid of" | like or pertaining to cockroaches |
"blepharal of" | like or pertaining to eyelids |
"bolar of" | like or pertaining to clay |
"bombic of" | like or pertaining to silkworms |
"bombycine of" | like or pertaining to silk or cotton |
"bovine of" | like or pertaining to cows |
"branchial of" | like or pertaining to gills |
"brumal of" | like or pertaining to winter |
"bubaline of" | like or pertaining to buffalo or antelopes |
"buccal of" | like or pertaining to the mouth or cheek |
"bucolic of" | like or pertaining to the tending of cattle; rustic; rural |
"burgensic of" | like or pertaining to a borough or its citizens |
"bursal of" | like or pertaining to a state's revenues |
"buteonine of" | like or pertaining to buzzards |
"butyric of" | like or pertaining to butter |
"caballine of" | like or pertaining to or suited to a horse |
"cacuminal retroflex" | pertaining to a point |
"calycine of" | like or pertaining to a cup or calyx |
"cameline of" | like or pertaining to camels |
"campestral of" | like or pertaining to the country; pertaining to level ground |
"cancellarial of" | like or pertaining to a chancellor |
"cancrine of" | like or pertaining to crabs; palindromic |
"canicular of" | like or pertaining to the dog star |
"canine of" | like or pertaining to dogs |
"cantative of" | like or pertaining to singing |
"capitulary of" | like or pertaining to a chapter of an organization |
"capric " | like or pertaining to goats having a goatlike smell; of |
"caprifoliaceous of" | like or pertaining to the honeysuckle plant |
"caprine of" | like or pertaining to goats |
"carceral of" | like or pertaining to prisons |
"cardinalitial of" | like or pertaining to church cardinals |
"caricous of" | like or pertaining to figs |
"carious of" | like or pertaining to dental cavities; decayed |
"carnificial of" | like or pertaining to butchers or executioners |
"carpal of" | like or pertaining to the wrist |
"castellar of" | like or pertaining to a castle |
"catalactic of" | like or pertaining to exchange |
"catarrhine of" | like or pertaining to Old World Monkeys |
"catenarian of" | like or pertaining to chains |
"catoptric of" | like or pertaining to reflection or reflected light |
"caudal of" | like or pertaining to the tail |
"causidical of" | like or pertaining to those who plead legal cases |
"cenatory of" | like or pertaining to supper |
"centrobaric of" | like or pertaining to the centre of gravity |
"cercopithecan of" | like or pertaining to long-tailed monkeys |
"cervine of" | pertaining to or resembling deer |
"cervisial of" | like or pertaining or pertaining to beer |
"chelonian of" | like or pertaining to tortoises or turtles |
"chiral of" | like or pertaining to the hand or handedness |
"cholic of" | like or pertaining to bile |
"chorepiscopal of" | like or pertaining to an early local bishop |
"choreutic of" | like or pertaining to a chorus |
"chrematistic of" | like or pertaining to the pursuit of wealth or to business |
"chrestomathic of" | like or pertaining to useful knowledge |
"chthonian of" | like or pertaining to the earth or the underworld |
"cibarious of" | like or pertaining to food; useful for food |
"ciconine of" | like or pertaining to storks |
"cinerary of" | like or pertaining to ashes |
"clysmian of" | like or pertaining to or caused by flood |
"cnemial of" | like |
"cnidarian of" | like |
"coeliac of" | like or pertaining to the abdomen |
"colubrine " | like or pertaining to snakes like a snake; cunning; of |
"columbaceous of" | like or pertaining to doves or pigeons |
"compital of" | like or pertaining to crossroads |
"conative of" | like or pertaining to purposeful action or desire |
"connubial of" | like or pertaining to marriage |
"coriaceous " | ofhaving a leathery appearance; consisting |
"corvine " | like or pertaining to crows or ravens crow-like; of |
"cosmotellurian of" | like or pertaining to both heaven and earth |
"costal of" | like or pertaining to the ribs |
"cothurnal of" | like or pertaining to tragedy |
"coticular of" | like or pertaining to whetstones |
"creatic of" | like or pertaining to flesh |
"credal of" | like or pertaining to a creed |
"crenitic of" | like or pertaining to mineral springs |
"crepuscular of" | like or pertaining to twilight |
"crotaline of" | like or pertaining to rattlesnakes |
"cryptaesthetic of" | like or pertaining to supranormal perception |
"cryptous of" | like or pertaining to crypts |
"cuculine of" | like or pertaining to cuckoos |
"cucurbitaceous of" | like or pertaining to gourds |
"cupulate of" | like or pertaining to a cup; cup-shaped |
"cyprinoid of" | like or pertaining to carp |
"cypseline of" | like or pertaining to swifts |
"decanal of" | like or pertaining to a dean or deacon |
"decennoval of" | like or pertaining to the number nineteen |
"decretal of" | like or pertaining to a decree |
"delphinine of" | like or pertaining to dolphins |
"demegoric of" | like or pertaining to demagogues or demagogic speech |
"demogenic of" | like or pertaining to membership by citizenship rather than kinship |
"demotic of" | like or pertaining to the common people |
"denary one of ten; tenfold; of" | like or pertaining to group of ten |
"deric of" | like or pertaining to the skin |
"diaconal of" | like or pertaining to a deacon |
"diacoustic of" | like or pertaining to the refraction of sound |
"diadermic of" | like or pertaining to the puncturing of the skin |
"dianoetic capable of" | like or pertaining to thought |
"didascalic Didactic" | pertaining to education or teaching |
"didelphine of" | like or pertaining to opossums |
"didine of" | like or pertaining to dodos |
"diluvial of" | like or pertaining to floods; especially mythical ones |
"dinic of" | like or pertaining to vertigo or dizziness |
"discophoran of" | like or pertaining to jellyfishes |
"distaff of" | like or pertaining to the female branch of a family or women's work |
"dolabrate of" | like or pertaining to axes or hatchets |
"domal of" | like or pertaining to a house or dome |
"doxastic of" | like or pertaining to opinion |
"dromic of" | like or pertaining to a racecourse |
"drupaceous of" | like or pertaining to drupes or stone-fruits |
"duodenary of" | like or pertaining to the number twelve |
"eburnean of " | or like ivory; ivory-coloured |
"edaphic of" | like or pertaining to the soil |
"edentate " | without teeth; pertaining to aardvarks and sloths |
"elaphine of" | like or belonging to a red deer; of |
"elapid of" | like or pertaining to cobras |
"eleemosynary of" | like or pertaining to charity or giving alms; dependent on charity |
"elenctic of" | like or pertaining to argument; cross-examination or refuting |
"elephantine of" | like or pertaining to elephants |
"empaestic of" | like or pertaining to the art of embossing |
"emporeutic of" | like or pertaining to trade |
"empyreal of" | like or pertaining to heaven; sublime skyward |
"emunctory conveying waste" | pertaining to nose-blowing |
"enteral of" | pertaining to or within the intestine |
"entomical of" | like or pertaining to insects |
"eoan of" | like or pertaining to dawn |
"epedaphic of" | like or pertaining to atmospheric conditions |
"epicedial of" | like or pertaining to dirges or elegies |
"epichoric " | belonging or pertaining to a rural area |
"epistolary of" | like or pertaining to letters |
"epithymetic of" | like or pertaining to desire |
"epulary of" | like or pertaining to banquets |
"equine of" | like or pertaining to horses |
"eristic of" | like or pertaining to controversy or argument |
"estival of" | like or pertaining to summer |
"ethmoid Of" | or like a sieve |
"eupeptic of" | like or pertaining to good digestion; cheerful |
"eusuchian of" | like or pertaining to alligators and crocodiles |
"excrementitial of" | like or pertaining to excrement |
"falconine of" | like or pertaining to falcons or hawks |
"familic " | pertaining to a family; domestic |
"favonian of" | like or pertaining to the west wind; mild and favourable |
"feline of" | like or pertaining to cats |
"fenestral of" | like or pertaining to windows |
"ferial of" | like or pertaining to holidays |
"fictile " | capable of being moulded; of |
"fidicinal of" | like or pertaining to stringed musical instruments |
"figuline of" | like or pertaining to earthenware |
"fimetic of" | like or pertaining to dung |
"fodient of" | like or pertaining to digging |
"foraneous of" | like or pertaining to forums |
"forcipate of" | like or pertaining to forceps |
"formic of" | like or pertaining to ants |
"formicine of" | like or pertaining to ants |
"fringillaceous of" | like or pertaining to finches |
"fringilline of" | like or pertaining to finches |
"frumentarious of" | like or pertaining to corn |
"fulgural of" | like or pertaining to lightning |
"fuliginous Sooty" | dusky; soot-coloured; of or pertaining to soot |
"fuliguline of" | like or pertaining to sea ducks |
"fullonical of" | like or pertaining or belonging to a fuller |
"fulmineous of" | like or pertaining to thunder and lightning |
"funebral of" | like or pertaining to a funeral |
"funicular of" | like or pertaining to a string or cable |
"furuncular of" | like or pertaining to boils |
"gadoid of" | resembling or pertaining to the cod |
"galactic of" | like or pertaining to or obtained from milk |
"geal of" | like or pertaining or pertaining to the earth |
"gelastic of" | like or pertaining to or provoking laughter |
"gemmeous of" | like or pertaining to gems; like a gem |
"genesic of" | like or pertaining to procreation or the genitals |
"geocyclic of" | like or pertaining to the rotation and revolution of the Earth |
"georgic of" | like or pertaining to agricultural or rustic affairs; rural; agrarian |
"geoselenic of" | like or pertaining to both |
"geostrophic of" | like or pertaining to deflection due to effects of Earth's rotation |
"gerontogenous of" | like or pertaining to the Old World |
"gestatorial of" | like or pertaining to carrying |
"gestic of" | like or pertaining to gestures |
"glirine rodent-like" | like or pertaining to rodents |
"glottogonic of" | like or pertaining to the origins of language |
"glyptic of" | like or pertaining to carving or gem-engraving |
"gnathal of" | like or pertaining to the jaws |
"gnomic " | signifying general truth; pertaining to aphorisms or proverbs |
"goetic of" | like or pertaining to black magic |
"grallatory of" | like or pertaining to wading birds |
"gramineous of" | like or pertaining to grass; grassy |
"gravimetrical of" | like or pertaining to measuring by weight |
"gregal of" | like or pertaining to a flock |
"gromatic of" | like or pertaining to surveys or surveying |
"gruine of" | like or pertaining to cranes or similar birds |
"habilatory of" | like or pertaining to clothes or dressing |
"haemal of" | like or pertaining to blood |
"halcyonine of" | like or pertaining to kingfishers |
"halibiotic of" | like or pertaining to the entirety of life under the sea |
"halieutic of" | like or pertaining to fishing |
"halolimnic of" | like or pertaining to sea creatures who spend time in fresh water |
"haptic of" | like or pertaining to the sense of touch |
"hebamic of" | like or pertaining to the socratic method |
"hebetic of" | like or pertaining to puberty |
"hederaceous of" | like or pertaining to ivy |
"hepatic of" | like or pertaining to or acting upon the liver |
"hephaestic of" | like or pertaining to iron-working and blacksmiths |
"hermeneutic of" | like or pertaining to the interpretation of passages |
"hermetic of" | like or pertaining to sorcery or alchemy |
"herpetoid of" | like or pertaining to snakes |
"hesternal of" | like or pertaining to yesterday |
"hibernal of" | like or pertaining to winter |
"hiemal of" | like or pertaining to winter |
"hippiatric of" | like or pertaining to the treatment of horses' diseases |
"hippic of" | like or pertaining to horses |
"hippoid Equine" | like or pertaining to |
"hircine goat-like" | having a goatish smell like or pertaining to smelly goats |
"hirudine of" | like or pertaining to leeches |
"hirudinean of" | like or pertaining to leeches |
"hirundine of" | like or pertaining to swallows |
"histrionic of" | like or pertaining to the stage or actors |
"hodiernal of" | like or pertaining to the present day |
"homarine of" | like or pertaining to lobsters |
"homiletical of" | like or pertaining to homilies |
"horal of" | like or pertaining to hours; hourly |
"horary of" | like or pertaining to an hour; continuing for an hour; hourly |
"hordeaceous of" | like or pertaining to barley |
"hortensial of" | like or pertaining to gardens |
"hortulan of" | like or pertaining to gardens |
"humoral of" | like or pertaining to body fluid |
"hyaloid of" | like or pertaining to glass |
"hydric of" | like or pertaining to an abundance of moisture |
"hyetal Rainy" | of |
"hygeian of" | like or pertaining to health; healthy |
"hygric of" | like or pertaining to water or moisture |
"hylobatine of" | like or pertaining to gibbons |
"hymeneal of" | like or pertaining to marriage |
"hypnagogic sleep-inducing" | pertaining to drowsiness or sleep |
"hypnoetic of" | like or pertaining to unconscious logical thought |
"hypnopompic of" | like or pertaining to period between sleep and wakefulness |
"hypothecary of" | like or pertaining to mortgages |
"hystricine of" | like or pertaining to porcupines |
"ichneutic of" | like or pertaining to a tracker or tracking |
"ichthyic of" | resembling or pertaining to fish |
"icterical of" | like or pertaining to or suffering from jaundice |
"icterine of" | like or pertaining to orioles and related birds |
"ictic of" | pertaining to |
"iliac of" | like or pertaining to the loins |
"ilicic of" | like or pertaining to holly |
"inescatory of" | like or pertaining to baiting; adapted to bait |
"inguinal of" | like or pertaining to the groin |
"institorial of" | like or pertaining to an agent or factor |
"intercrural " | within or pertaining to the area between the legs |
"interstitial of" | like or pertaining to the space between things |
"ipecacuanhic Of" | or relating to ipecac |
"iridaceous of" | like or pertaining to iris plants |
"iridal Of" | or pertaining to the rainbow |
"iridic of" | like or pertaining to the iris of the eye |
"ischiatic Of" | or pertaining to the ischium or hip |
"islandic of " | or pertaining to an island |
"ixiodic of" | like or pertaining to ticks |
"jecoral of" | like or pertaining to the liver |
"jentacular of" | like or pertaining to breakfast |
"juglandaceous of" | like or pertaining to walnuts |
"juncaceous of" | like or pertaining to rushes |
"jural of" | like or pertaining to the law |
"juratory of" | like or pertaining to an oath |
"kerygmatic of" | like or pertaining to preaching the Gospel |
"lacertilian of" | like or pertaining to lizards |
"lacuscular of" | like or pertaining to pools |
"lacustrine of" | like or pertaining to lakes |
"laic of" | like or pertaining to lay people rather than clergy |
"lamiaceous " | ofMinty |
"laminary of" | like or pertaining to thin plates or layer |
"lampyridine of" | like or pertaining or pertaining to glow-worms or fireflies |
"lapidarian of" | like or pertaining to stones; inscribed on stones |
"lardaceous of" | like or pertaining to lard |
"larine of" | like or pertaining to gulls |
"laroid of" | like or pertaining to gulls |
"lavic of" | like or pertaining to lava |
"legatine of" | like or pertaining to a legate |
"lemurine of" | like or pertaining to lemurs |
"leonine of" | like or pertaining to lions |
"leporine of" | like or pertaining to the hare |
"lienal of" | like or pertaining to the spleen |
"limacine of" | like or pertaining to slugs |
"limicoline " | ofliving on a shore |
"limnetic " | pertaining to fresh water living in fresh water |
"linaceous of" | like or pertaining to flax |
"lingual of" | like or pertaining to language |
"littoral of" | like or pertaining to the shore of a body of water |
"lobar of" | like or pertaining to a lobe |
"loimic of" | like or pertaining to plagues |
"loranthaceous of" | like or pertaining to the mistletoe |
"lucernal of" | like or pertaining to lamps |
"lumbricine of" | like or pertaining to earthworms |
"lupanarian of" | like or pertaining to a brothel |
"lupine of" | like or pertaining to wolves |
"lupulic of" | like or pertaining to hops |
"lutaceous of" | like or pertaining to or comprised of mud |
"lutrine of" | like or pertaining to otters |
"macropodine of" | like or pertaining to kangaroos |
"magistral of" | like or pertaining to a master or teacher |
"malar of" | like or pertaining to the cheek |
"malvaceous of" | like or pertaining to the mallow family of plants |
"manal of" | like or pertaining to the hand |
"mandative of" | like or pertaining to commands or leadership |
"mantic of" | like or pertaining to divination; prophetic; divinely inspired |
"matinal of" | like or pertaining to the morning |
"matrical of" | like or pertaining to a womb or a matrix |
"matricular of" | like or pertaining to a register |
"matriherital of" | like or pertaining to inheritance along the female line |
"matripotestal of" | like or pertaining to the power of mothers |
"matutinal of" | like or pertaining to the morning; happening early in the day |
"maxillary of" | like or pertaining to a jaw |
"medianic of" | like or pertaining to spiritualists |
"megachiropteran of" | like or pertaining to fruit bats |
"meleagrine of" | like or pertaining to turkeys |
"mellaginous of" | like or pertaining to or resembling honey |
"membral of" | like or pertaining to the limbs rather than the trunk |
"mensal of" | like or pertaining to the dinner-table; monthly |
"mental of" | like or pertaining to the chin |
"meretricious of" | like or pertaining to prostitution; superficially attractive but lacking value |
"metameric of" | like or pertaining to serial division or segmentation of body |
"metopic of" | like or pertaining to the forehead |
"milvine of" | like or pertaining to kites and similar birds |
"mimetic " | like or pertaining to mimicry |
"miothermic of" | like or pertaining to temperature conditions of the present day |
"mnesic of" | like or pertaining to memory |
"molendinar of" | like or pertaining to a mill or miller |
"molinary of" | like or pertaining to mills or grinding |
"morassic of" | like or pertaining to a morass |
"morganatic of" | like or pertaining to a marriage between those of unequal rank |
"morphean of" | like or pertaining to dreams |
"morphotic of" | like or pertaining to formation or development |
"morsal of" | like or pertaining to the cutting edge of a knife |
"mucopurulent Of" | mucus and pus |
"mulciberian of" | like or pertaining to metalworking |
"murine of" | like or pertaining to mice and rats |
"musal of" | like or pertaining to poetry or the Muses |
"muscicapine of" | like or pertaining to flycatchers and related birds |
"muscid of" | like or pertaining to house-flies |
"muscoid of" | like or pertaining to mosses; moss-like |
"musteline of" | like or pertaining to weasels |
"mycteric of" | like or pertaining to the nostrils |
"myelic of" | like or pertaining to the spinal cord |
"myoxine of" | like or pertaining to dormice |
"myrmecophagid of" | like or pertaining to anteaters |
"myrmicine of" | like or pertaining to ants |
"mystagogical of" | like or pertaining to religious ritual initiation |
"narial of" | like or pertaining to the nostrils |
"natalitial of" | like or pertaining to a birthday |
"natricine of" | like or pertaining to water-snakes |
"neanic of" | like or pertaining to the adolescent period; young |
"nectareal Of" | or like nectar |
"nemaline Of" | or like a thread |
"nemoral Of" | a wood or grove |
"neoblastic of" | like or pertaining to new growth |
"neophrastic of" | like or pertaining to neologisms |
"nephric of" | like or pertaining to the kidneys |
"nepionic of" | like or pertaining to the embryonic period of development |
"nepotal of" | like or pertaining to one's nephew |
"neurergic of" | like or pertaining to the function or action of the nerves |
"niccolic made of" | like or pertaining to nickel |
"nicotian of" | like or pertaining to tobacco |
"nidatory of" | like or pertaining to nests |
"nimonic Of" | alloys used in high-temperature work |
"nobiliary of" | like or pertaining to nobility |
"nosocomial of" | like or pertaining to a hospital |
"novenary of" | like or pertaining to the number nine |
"novercal of" | like or pertaining to a stepmother |
"noxal of" | like or pertaining to wrongful injury by object or animal of another |
"nucal of" | like or pertaining to nuts |
"nuchal of" | like or pertaining to the nape of the neck |
"numinous of" | like or pertaining to a deity; suffused with religious awe |
"nummary of" | like or pertaining to coins or money |
"nundinal of" | like or pertaining to a fair or market |
"nutricial of" | like or pertaining to nurses |
"nychthemeral of" | like or pertaining to a nychthemeron or 24-hour period |
"nymphean of" | like or pertaining to a nymph |
"obitual of" | like or pertaining to obituaries |
"obsidional of" | like or pertaining to a siege |
"occipital of" | like or pertaining to the back of the head |
"octonary of" | like or pertaining to or consisting of eight things; grouped in eights |
"oecodomic of" | like or pertaining to architecture |
"oenopoetic of" | like or pertaining to wine-making |
"oleic of" | like or pertaining to or derived from oil |
"oligodynamic of" | like or pertaining to the effect of small quantities |
"olitory of" | like or pertaining to kitchen vegetables |
"oneiric of" | like or pertaining to dreams |
"onomastic of" | like or pertaining to a name or signature |
"ontal of" | like or pertaining to reality or existence |
"onymatic of" | like or pertaining to names |
"ophic of" | like or pertaining to serpents |
"opisthosomal of" | like or pertaining to posteriors |
"ordalian of" | like or pertaining to an ordeal |
"orectic of" | like or pertaining to appetite or desires |
"ornithic of" | like or pertaining to birds |
"orobathymetric of" | like or pertaining to map showing submerged heights and sea depths |
"oscheal of" | like or pertaining to the scrotum |
"oscinine of" | like or pertaining to song-birds |
"oscular of" | like or pertaining to the mouth or to kissing |
"osteal of" | like or pertaining to |
"ostracean of" | like or pertaining to oysters |
"ostraceous of" | like or pertaining to oysters |
"otarine of" | like or pertaining to seals |
"otic of" | like or pertaining to the ear |
"ovibovine of" | like or pertaining to musk-oxen |
"ovine of" | like or pertaining to sheep |
"pabulous of" | like or pertaining to nourishment |
"paginal of" | like or pertaining to pages or pagination |
"palladian of" | like or pertaining to wisdom or learning |
"palmar of" | like or pertaining to the palm |
"palpebral of" | like or pertaining to the eyelid |
"paludal of" | like or pertaining to marshes; marshy; malarial |
"panary of" | like or pertaining to bread; bread store |
"papaverous of" | like or pertaining to poppies |
"papilionaceous of" | like or pertaining to butterflies |
"papuliferous Pimply" | bearing or pertaining to pimples |
"parastatic of" | like or pertaining to protective mimicry of animals |
"pardine of" | like or pertaining to leopards |
"parietal " | especially anatomical walls of a wall or walls |
"parine of" | like or pertaining to titmouses |
"parthenian of" | like or pertaining to virgins |
"pascual " | growing on land used for grazing; of |
"passerine of" | like or pertaining to sparrows |
"patibulary of" | like or pertaining to the gallows |
"patrial of" | like or pertaining to one’s native land |
"pavonian of" | like or pertaining to peacocks |
"pavonine of" | like or pertaining to peacocks |
"pectinal " | of a comb comb-like |
"pectineal " | of the pubic bone |
"pecuniary of" | like or pertaining to money; consisting of money |
"pedalian of" | like or pertaining to the foot or to metrical feet |
"pedary of" | like or pertaining to walking or feet |
"pedicular of" | like or pertaining to lice |
"pedological of" | like or pertaining to soils |
"pelargic of" | like or pertaining to storks |
"pendular of" | like or pertaining to a pendulum |
"penial of" | like or pertaining to the penis |
"perdicine of" | like or pertaining to partridges |
"peristeronic of" | like or pertaining to pigeons |
"petrean of" | like or pertaining to or made of rock |
"phacochoerine of" | like or pertaining to warthogs |
"phallic of" | pertaining to or resembling a penis |
"phemic of" | like or pertaining to speech |
"phenetic of" | like or pertaining to classification by phenotype |
"philomelian of" | like or pertaining to nightingales |
"philoprogenitive of" | like or pertaining to instinctive love for offspring |
"phocine of" | like or pertaining to seals |
"phreatic of" | like or pertaining to underground water supplying or wells |
"phthongal of" | pertaining to |
"phugoid of" | like or pertaining to the longitudinal stability of aircraft |
"picaresque of" | like or pertaining or pertaining to rogues or roguish behaviour |
"picine of" | like or pertaining to woodpeckers |
"piscatorial of" | like or pertaining to fishing or fishers |
"piscine of" | like or pertaining to fish |
"planetesimal of" | like or pertaining to asteroids or similar tiny celestial bodies |
"plantar of" | like or pertaining to the sole of the foot |
"plaustral of" | like or pertaining to a wagon |
"plenilunar of" | like or pertaining to the full moon |
"pliothermic of" | like or pertaining to periods of above-average temperatures |
"plumeopicean " | of tar and feathers |
"poaceous of" | like or pertaining or pertaining to grass |
"podalic of" | like or pertaining to feet |
"poliorcectic of" | like or pertaining to siegecraft or besiegement |
"pomaceous of" | like or pertaining to or consisting of apples |
"popliteal of" | like or pertaining to the back of the knee |
"poral of" | like or pertaining to pores |
"porcine of" | like or pertaining to pigs; swinish |
"potamic of" | like or pertaining to rivers |
"praedial of" | like or pertaining to or connected with the land or farming |
"prandial of" | like or pertaining to dinner |
"prebendal of" | like or pertaining to stipends issued by a church |
"prenarial of" | like or pertaining to or in front of the nostrils |
"preputial of" | like or pertaining to the foreskin |
"presidial of" | like or pertaining to a garrison |
"Priapean of" | like or pertaining to male reproductive power; phallic |
"pridian of" | like or pertaining to yesterday |
"primitial of" | like or pertaining to first fruits; primeval |
"primogenous of" | like or pertaining to the earliest or first developmental stage |
"procephalic of" | like or pertaining to the front of the head |
"proctal of" | like or pertaining to the anus or rectum |
"procyonine of" | like or pertaining to raccoons |
"proethnic of" | like or pertaining to primitive races |
"prosodic of" | like or pertaining to versification |
"prosopic of" | like or pertaining to the face |
"psephitic of" | like or pertaining to pebbles |
"psittacine of" | like or pertaining to macaws |
"psittacine Of" | or like parrots |
"pteropine of" | like or pertaining to flying foxes |
"puerperal of" | like or pertaining to childbirth |
"pulicine of" | like or pertaining to fleas |
"pullastrine of" | like or pertaining to pigeons |
"pulmonic of" | like or pertaining to the lungs |
"pygal " | belonging to the rump end; pertaining to the rump |
"pyretic of" | pertaining to or for the cure of fevers |
"pyrrhic of" | like or pertaining to the dance or to the foot |
"pyrrhuline of" | like or pertaining to bullfinches |
"quadragesimal of" | like or pertaining to Lent; lasting forty days |
"quercine of" | like or pertaining to oak trees |
"rabic of" | like or pertaining to rabies |
"rameal of" | like or pertaining to branches |
"rangiferine of" | like or pertaining to or like reindeer |
"ranine of" | like or pertaining to or like frogs |
"ranunculaceous of" | like or pertaining to buttercups |
"raptorial " | of like or pertaining to a bird of prey |
"ratite of" | like or pertaining to flightless birds |
"reginal of" | like or pertaining to a queen |
"regnal " | of a reign |
"renal of" | like or pertaining to the kidneys |
"reptilian of" | like or pertaining to reptiles |
"retiary " | using nets as a weapon; catching insects in webs |
"reticular of" | like or pertaining to nets; intricate |
"rhinal of" | like or pertaining to the nose |
"rhinocerotic of" | like or pertaining to the rhinoceros |
"rhizic Of" | the root of an equation |
"rhonchial of" | like or pertaining to snoring |
"risible " | laughable |
"risorial of" | like or pertaining to or causing laughter |
"rupicaprine of" | like or pertaining to chamoises |
"sanguineous " | ofBloody |
"saporine of" | like or pertaining to the sense of taste |
"sarcous " | of flesh or muscle |
"sartorial of" | like or pertaining to a tailor or tailored clothes |
"scabious of" | like or pertaining to scabies or scabs |
"scacchic of" | like or pertaining to chess |
"scarabaean of" | like or pertaining to scarabs |
"schiztic of" | like or pertaining to or marked by splitting |
"schoenabatic of" | like or pertaining to rope walking |
"sciatheric of" | like or pertaining to measurement of time by shadows |
"sciatic of" | like or pertaining to the hip |
"scioptic of" | like or pertaining to formation of images in darkrooms |
"sciurine of" | like or pertaining to squirrels |
"sciuroid of" | like or pertaining to squirrels or chipmunks |
"scolopacine of" | like or pertaining to snipes |
"scorbutic " | of or suffering from scurvy |
"scriptory by" | in or pertaining to writing |
"scutal of" | like or pertaining to shields |
"scytodepsic of" | like or pertaining to tanning leather |
"selachian of" | like or pertaining to sharks or rays |
"selenic of" | like or pertaining to the moon |
"semic of" | like or pertaining to a sign or signs |
"septentrional " | like or pertaining to the north Northern |
"septimal of" | like or pertaining to or based on the number seven |
"seral of" | like or pertaining to the development of ecological communities |
"serous of" | like or pertaining to serum; watery |
"serpentine of" | like or pertaining to serpents or snakes |
"shrieval of" | like or pertaining to a sheriff |
"sialic of" | like or pertaining to saliva |
"sidereal of" | like or pertaining to the stars |
"sigillary of" | like or pertaining to a seal |
"simian of" | like or pertaining to apes |
"sinal of" | like or pertaining to the sinuses |
"siphonic of" | like or pertaining to a siphon |
"skelic of" | like or pertaining to the skeleton |
"soliterraneous of" | like or pertaining to the joint effect of the sun and earth |
"somnial of" | like or pertaining to dreams |
"sophianic of" | like or pertaining to wisdom |
"soricine of" | like or pertaining to shrews |
"soricine of" | like or pertaining to shrews |
"sororal of" | like or pertaining to sisters |
"soterial of" | like or pertaining to salvation |
"spatiotemporal of" | like or pertaining to time and space |
"speluncar of" | like or pertaining to caves |
"spermatic of" | like or pertaining to sperm |
"sphingal of" | like or pertaining to sphinxes |
"sphragistic of" | like or pertaining to seals and signets |
"sphygmic of" | like or pertaining to the pulse or heartbeat |
"spintrian of" | like or pertaining to orgies or male sexual deviance |
"splenic of" | like or pertaining to the spleen |
"squaloid of" | like or pertaining to sharks |
"stadial of" | like or pertaining to a stage |
"statuary of" | pertaining to or suitable for sculpture |
"stercoraceous of" | like or pertaining to feces |
"steric of" | like or pertaining to the organization of atoms in a molecule |
"sterquilinian of" | like or pertaining to a dunghill |
"stibial of" | like or pertaining to antimony |
"stochastic of" | like or pertaining to a sequence of random events |
"stradometrical of" | like or pertaining to the measurement of streets and roads |
"stratonic " | of an army or armies |
"strigine owl-like" | like or pertaining to owls |
"struthious of" | like or pertaining to ostriches |
"stylogalmaic of" | like or pertaining to figures serving as columns or pillars |
"suberous of" | like or having the appearance of cork; pertaining to cork |
"suburbicarian of" | like or pertaining to suburbs |
"succinic of" | pertaining to or derived from amber |
"suidian of" | like or pertaining to pigs |
"suilline of" | like or pertaining to hogs |
"suilline " | oflike a pig |
"sulcal " | grooved; furrowed of a sulcus |
"sulphorous of" | like or pertaining to hellfire; infernal blasphemous |
"sumptuary of" | like or pertaining to expense or extravagance |
"superciliary of" | on or near the eyebrow |
"sural of" | like or pertaining to the calf of the leg |
"surficial of" | like or pertaining to the surface of the earth |
"surnominal of" | like or pertaining to surnames |
"sutorian of" | like or pertaining to cobbling or sewing |
"sybotic of" | like or pertaining to a swineherd |
"sylvestral of" | like or pertaining to trees |
"synodical of" | like or pertaining to conjunction |
"syringadenous of" | like or pertaining to sweat glands |
"syrtic of" | like or pertaining to quicksand |
"tabernacular of" | like or pertaining to a tabernacle |
"tactual of" | like or pertaining to or derived from the sense of touch |
"talaric of" | like or pertaining to or reaching the ankles |
"taurean of" | like or pertaining to a bull |
"taurine of" | like or pertaining to bulls |
"taxaceous of" | like or pertaining to yew trees |
"technolithic of" | like or pertaining to stone tools |
"tectonic of" | like or pertaining to building; structural |
"tegmental of" | like or pertaining to coverings or outer shells |
"tegular of" | like or overlapping like tiles or slates |
"telestic of" | like or pertaining to the mysteries |
"tellural of" | like or pertaining to the earth |
"telodynamic of" | like or pertaining to transmission of power to a distance |
"tergal of" | like or pertaining to the back |
"terpsichorean of" | like or pertaining to dancing |
"terraneous of" | like or pertaining to the earth |
"terrene " | earthly; worldly; mundane of the earth |
"tesserarian of" | like or pertaining to dice games |
"testaceous " | of or having a hard shell; brick-red |
"testudinal of" | like or pertaining to tortoises or tortoise-shell |
"textorial of" | like or pertaining to weaving |
"textrine of" | like or pertaining to weaving |
"thelematic of" | like or pertaining to will or volition; voluntary |
"theriacal of" | like or pertaining to antidotes |
"thermic of" | like or pertaining to heat |
"thermonous of" | like or pertaining to stimulation by heat |
"theroid of" | like or pertaining to a beast or wild animal |
"thesial of" | like or pertaining to a thesis |
"thionic of" | like or pertaining to or containing sulphur |
"threptic of" | like or pertaining to the rearing of young |
"thronal of" | like or pertaining to a throne |
"tigrine of" | like or pertaining to tigers |
"tinctorial of" | like or pertaining to dyeing; giving colour |
"tolypeutine of" | like or pertaining to armadillos |
"tonetic of" | like or pertaining to tonal pronunciation or languages |
"tonsorial of" | like or pertaining to a barber or a barber’s work |
"toponomastic of" | like or pertaining to place names |
"torrentine of" | like or pertaining to a torrent; having the character of a torrent |
"toxophilite " | like or pertaining to archery lover of archery; an archer; of |
"tribunitial of" | like or pertaining to a tribune |
"tributorian of" | like or pertaining to tribute or payment |
"tringoid of" | like or pertaining to sandpipers |
"trochilic of" | like or pertaining to rotatory motion |
"trochilidine of" | like or pertaining to hummingbirds |
"trochiline of" | like or pertaining to hummingbirds |
"troglodytine of" | like or pertaining to wrens |
"truttaceous of" | like or pertaining to trout |
"turdine of" | like or pertaining to thrushes |
"turdine of" | like or pertaining to thrushes |
"turrical of" | like or pertaining to a tower or turret; like a turret |
"tussicular of" | like or pertaining to coughs |
"tyroid " | resembling cheese; cheesy |
"uletic of" | like or pertaining to the gums |
"ulmaceous " | of or like elms |
"umbilical of" | like or pertaining to the navel; related on the mother's side |
"uncial of" | like or pertaining to an inch or an ounce |
"ungual of a claw" | hoof |
"unguentary of" | like or pertaining to unguents; one who makes or sells unguents |
"uranic " | of the palate |
"uretic of" | like or pertaining to urine |
"ursine of" | like or pertaining to bears |
"urticaceous of" | like or pertaining to nettles |
"uxorial of" | like or pertaining to a wife |
"vaccine of" | like or pertaining to cows; preparation conferring immunity to disease |
"vadose of" | like or pertaining to underground water above the water table |
"valetudinarian of" | like or pertaining to ill-health; anxious about health |
"vapulatory of" | like or pertaining to flogging |
"varietal of" | like or pertaining to a variety |
"vascular of" | like or pertaining to fluid-carrying vessels |
"vectigal of" | like or pertaining to the paying of tribute or rent |
"velamentous of" | like or pertaining to or like a membrane or sail |
"venatic of" | like or pertaining to hunting |
"venous of" | like or pertaining to veins |
"ventral of" | like or pertaining to the underside or the belly |
"vermicular of" | like or pertaining to worms |
"vernal of" | like or pertaining to spring |
"versicular " | of or in verse |
"vertiginous of" | like or pertaining to vertigo; dizzy; giddy |
"vesical of" | like or pertaining to the bladder |
"vespal of" | like or pertaining to wasps |
"vespertinal of" | like or pertaining to the evening |
"vespine of" | like or pertaining to hornets or wasps |
"vestiary robing-room" | cloakroom; of |
"vexillary " | standard-bearer; pertaining to regimental colours or flags |
"viatical of" | like or pertaining to roads or travel |
"vicarial of" | like or pertaining to a vicar or delegate |
"villar of" | like or pertaining to a manor or village |
"villatic Rural" | of like or pertaining to a villa |
"vinal " | of or due to wine |
"vindemial of" | like or pertaining to the vintage |
"vineatic of" | like or pertaining to vines |
"vinous " | like wine; pertaining to wine; wine-coloured |
"viperine of" | like or pertaining to vipers |
"viperous of" | like |
"visile of" | like or pertaining to sight; learning easily by sight |
"visive of" | like or pertaining to sight; visual; able to see or be seen |
"vitular of" | like or pertaining to a calf or to calving |
"vituline of" | like or pertaining to calves or veal |
"viverrine of" | like or pertaining to civets and mongoose |
"viverrine of" | like or pertaining to the civet |
"vocabularian of" | like or pertaining to vocabulary |
"vocicultural of" | like or pertaining to voice training |
"volar of" | like or pertaining to the palm or the sole; of |
"volitive of" | like or pertaining to the will |
"volucrine of" | like or pertaining to birds; bird-like |
"voluminal of" | like or pertaining to volume or cubic capacity |
"voraginous of" | like or pertaining to a whirlpool; voracious |
"vortical of" | like or pertaining to a vortex; whirling |
"vulpecular of" | like or pertaining to a young fox |
"vulpine of" | like or pertaining to foxes; cunning |
"vulturine " | like or pertaining to a vulture rapacious; of |
"vulvar of" | like or pertaining to or resembling the vulva |
"xilinous of" | like or pertaining to cotton |
"xylary of" | like or pertaining to xylem |
"zebrine of" | like or pertaining to zebras |
"zibeline of" | like or pertaining to the sable |
"zincic of" | pertaining to or containing zinc |
"zoic of" | like or pertaining to animals; containing evidence of life |
"zoonic of" | like or pertaining to or derived from animals |
"zygal " | like or pertaining to a yoke or union formed like the letter H; of |
"zymic of" | like or pertaining to fermentation |
"zymotic of" | like or pertaining to fermentation |
araba | " wheeled Middle Eastern carriage " |
Barouche | " four-wheeled hooded carriage " |
berlin | " four-wheeled covered carriage " |
britska | " open four-wheeled carriage " |
Brouette | " small two-wheeled carriage " |
brougham | " one-horse closed carriage " |
cabriolet | " two-wheeled carriage " |
calash | " light low-wheeled carriage with folding top " |
cariole | " light open carriage " |
caroche | " stately carriage used on ceremonial occasions " |
chaise | " light open carriage for one or two people " |
Charabanc | " open tourist coach with benches " |
clarence | " four-wheeled carriage " |
coupe | " four-wheeled closed horse-drawn carriage " |
dennet | " light two-wheeled carriage " |
Désobligeante | " carriage for one passenger " |
diligence | " horse-drawn stage-coach " |
dogcart | " light two-wheeled carriage with seats back-to-back " |
dos-a-dos | " carriage where passengers seated back to back " |
droskhy | " low four-wheeled open carriage " |
ekka | " small one-horse carriage " |
fiacre | " hackney coach; cab " |
fourgon | " baggage-wagon " |
gharry | " box-like Middle Eastern horse-drawn cab " |
gig | " light two-wheeled one-horse carriage " |
hackney | " four-wheeled two-horse carriage " |
hansom | " light two-wheeled cab " |
herdic | " low-hung carriage with back entrance " |
jinker | " light horse-drawn passenger carriage " |
karrozzin | " Maltese horse-drawn carriage " |
Landau | " horse-drawn carriage with folding top " |
noddy | " plain two-wheeled horse-drawn cart " |
phaeton | " open four-wheeled carriage " |
quadriga | " two-wheeled carriage drawn by four horses " |
roadster | " light carriage " |
rockaway | " light four-wheeled carriage with fixed top and open sides " |
rulley | " flat four-wheeled wagon for carrying goods " |
shandry | " light cart on springs " |
shay | " open carriage or chaise " |
sociable | " four-wheeled open carriage with side-seats " |
spider | " light high-wheeled carriage " |
stanhope | " light open one-seated carriage " |
sulky | " light two-wheeled" one-person horse-drawn carriage |
surrey | " light four-wheeled carriage with two seats " |
tandem | " two-seated carriage with horses harnessed in series " |
tarantas | " four-wheeled carriage mounted on poles " |
telega | " four-wheeled springless wagon " |
tilbury | " light open two-wheeled carriage " |
Timwhisky | " light carriage for one or two people" pulled by one or two horses |
tonga | " light two-wheeled carriage " |
trap | " light one-horse carriage with springs " |
troika | " carriage drawn by three horses " |
tum-tum | " dog-cart " |
vettura | " carriage" cab or car |
victoria | " light open two-seated four-wheeled carriage " |
vis-a-vis | " light carriage with seats facing one another " |
wagonette | " carriage with one crosswise seat in front" two seats in back |
Astrologaster | " a foolish or petty astrologer " |
criticaster | " inferior or petty critic " |
Grammaticaster | " a piddling grammarian " |
hereticaster | " a petty or contemptible heretic " |
latinitaster | " a petty scholar of Latin " |
logicaster | " a petty logician " |
Mathematicaster | " minor or inferior mathematician " |
medicaster | " quack; charlatan " |
militaster | " soldier without skill or ability " |
musicaster | " a mediocre musician " |
opiniaster | " one who obstinately holds to an opinion " |
parasitaster | " a mean or sorry parasite " |
Philologaster | " petty or contemptible philologist " |
philosophaster | " amateur or superficial philosopher " |
poetaster | " petty poet; writer of contemptible verses " |
politicaster | " petty politician " |
rhetoricaster | " petty rhetorician " |
scientaster | " petty scientist " |
theologaster | " petty or shallow theologian " |
usageaster | " self-appointed and conservative language usage expert " |
witticaster | " a petty or inferior wit " |
alieniloquy | " speech on subjects other than the matter at hand; off-topic speech " |
alloquy | " speaking to another or many others; an address " |
altiloquence | " pompous or high speech " |
ambiloquous | " using dubious or ambiguous expressions " |
amphoriloquy | " cavernous voice of a patient heard over a patient's lung cavity " |
anteloquy | " a preface " |
antiloquy | " speaking against some idea; contradicting or gainsaying " |
biloquist | " one capable of speaking with two distinct voices " |
blandiloquence | " complimentary speech; flattery " |
blesiloquent | " speaking with a stammer or lisp " |
breviloquence | " short-windedness; tendency towards brevity in speech " |
caverniloquy | " cavernous voice of a patient heard over a patient's lung cavity " |
centiloquy | " work consisting of one hundred aphorisms" attributed to Ptolemy |
colloquy | " speaking together; mutual discourse " |
dentiloquent | " speaking with clenched teeth " |
diversiloquent | " speaking in different ways; speaking on different subjects " |
doctiloquent | " speaking learnedly " |
dulciloquent | " speaking sweetly " |
eloquence | " forceful and appealing speech " |
falsiloquence | " deceitful speech " |
fatiloquent | " speaking prophetically; declaring fate " |
flexiloquent | " speaking ambiguously or using words of doubtful meaning " |
gastriloquist | " ventriloquist " |
grandiloquent | " bombastic " |
inaniloquent | " prone to foolish or empty babbling " |
ineloquence | " unappealing speech " |
largiloquent | " talkative; full of words " |
longiloquence | " long-winded language " |
loquence | " speech " |
magniloquent | " speaking in a grand or pompous style " |
melliloquent | " speaking harmoniously or sweetly " |
Mendaciloquence | " lying speech " |
multiloquence | " talkativeness; use of many words " |
obloquy | " censure; calumny; slander; disgrace " |
omniloquent | " speaking on all subjects " |
parciloquy | " laconic speech " |
pauciloquent | " of few words; speaking little " |
pectoriloquy | " sound of patient’s voice as heard through stethoscope " |
planiloquent | " speaking plainly " |
pleniloquence | " excessive talking; fullness of speech " |
polyloquent | " speaking much; loquacious " |
sanctiloquent | " speaking on heavenly or holy matters " |
sialoquent | " spitting greatly while speaking " |
soliloquent | " speaking in soliloquies; prone to giving soliloquies " |
soliloquy | " talking or conversing with oneself; dramatic production of this nature " |
somniloquence | " talking in one’s sleep " |
stultiloquence | " foolish or senseless talk " |
suaviloquence | " pleasing or agreeable speech " |
tardiloquent | " speaking slowly " |
tristiloquy | " mournful manner of speech " |
vaniloquence | " vain or foolish talk " |
ventriloquism | " speaking so that the voice appears to come from elsewhere " |
veriloquent | " speaking truthfully; truthful " |
abba | " Syriac or Coptic bishop " |
ablegate | " papal envoy or legate " |
absconce | " lantern used in monasteries and night offices " |
abthane | " monastic region of the old Irish church " |
accensor | " acolyte " |
adiaphoron | " tenet or belief on which a theological system is indifferent " |
adoptionism | " belief that Christ was the adopted and not natural son of God " |
advowson | " right of presentation to church living " |
adytum | " sacred part of a temple or church; church chancel " |
affusion | " pouring on; as of baptismal water " |
agape | " selfless Christian love; a feast in celebration of such love " |
agapeistic | " characterized by Christian love " |
agapetae | " churchwomen who live platonically with celibate men " |
aggiornamento | " modernization of ideas of the Catholic church " |
agrapha | " sayings of Jesus not found in the canonical gospels " |
alb | " long white robe worn by priests " |
almoner | " giver of alms; social worker in a hospital " |
altarage | " payment to priest for mass; offerings at altar " |
ambo | " early Christian raised reading desk or pulpit " |
ambry | " recess for church vessels; cupboard or niche " |
ambulatory | " aisle down the east end of a church " |
amice | " strip of fine linen worn as cloak or wrap by priest at mass " |
ampulla | " vessel for holy oil or wine for coronations or rituals " |
anamnesis | " reminiscence; prayer recalling death and resurrection of Jesus " |
anchorite | " one withdrawn from the world for religious reasons " |
ancress | " female religious recluse " |
anele | " to administer extreme unction to " |
angelus | " prayer said in morning" at noon and at sunset |
antechapel | " anteroom to a chapel or church " |
antependium | " covering or cloth over pulpit or altar " |
antilegomena | " books of the New Testament not part of early Christian Bible " |
antipedobaptism | " denial of validity of infant baptism " |
antiphon | " anthem sung as a response during church service " |
apocatastasis | " final restitution of all things at the appearance of the Messiah " |
apocrisiary | " papal secretary " |
apologetics | " defense and proof of Christianity or other doctrine " |
apse | " rounded extension of church or other building " |
archimandrite | " head of a monastery or convent " |
aspergillum | " vessel for sprinkling holy water " |
aspersory | " vessel for holding holy water " |
aureole | " radiant light around head or body of holy personage " |
autocephality | " ecclesiastical self-government " |
auto-da-fe | " burning of a heretic " |
autotheism | " belief that one is God incarnate or that one is Christ " |
baldaquin | " covering or canopy over a throne or altar " |
baptistery | " part of church reserved for performing baptisms " |
bardocucullus | " hooded cloak worn by monks " |
basilica | " Roman Catholic church given special privileges " |
beadle | " church caretaker or usher " |
beadsman | " monk or almoner who prays for benefactor " |
bema | " raised part of an Eastern church containing the altar " |
benefice | " ecclesiastical office to which revenue is attached " |
bethel | " a place of worship for seamen; nonconformist chapel " |
biretta | " square three-ridged cap worn by Catholic clergy " |
breviary | " book containing daily church service " |
bulla | " round seal attached to a papal bull " |
bullantic | " capitalized and ornamented" as letters used on papal bulls |
bullary | " collection of papal bulls " |
bursary | " treasury of a monastery or college " |
burse | " square cloth case to carry the corporal during Communion service " |
caesaropapism | " control of the church by a secular ruler " |
calefactory | " a monastery sitting room " |
calotte | " Roman Catholic skullcap " |
camerlengo | " papal treasurer " |
campanile | " freestanding bell tower on church property " |
canoness | " woman living in a community under a religious rule " |
canticle | " short holy song or sung prayer " |
cantorial | " located on the north side of the choir in a church " |
capuchin | " pointed hooded cloak worn by friars " |
cardinalitial | " of" like or pertaining to church cardinals |
cartulary | " keeper of monastic records " |
cassock | " close-fitting ankle-length clergyman's garment " |
catabaptism | " belief in the wrongness of infant baptism " |
catechumen | " one undergoing instruction prior to conversion to Christianity " |
cathedra | " chair or throne of office for a bishop or other high official " |
cathisma | " short hymn used as response " |
catholicos | " primate of Armenian or Nestorian church " |
cellarer | " monastery official in charge of provisions " |
cenacle | " room where the Last Supper was eaten " |
cenobite | " monk; member of religious group " |
cenoby | " monastery or convent " |
censer | " vessel for burning incense in religious rituals " |
cephalophore | " decapitated saint depicted with head tucked under arm " |
chancel | " part of church containing altar and seats for choir " |
chancery | " church office dealing with legal matters and archives " |
chantry | " chapel or altar built for prayers for its benefactor's soul " |
chaplet | " circlet or wreath for the head; short string of prayer beads " |
charterhouse | " Carthusian monastic building " |
chasuble | " sleeveless ecclesiastical garment " |
chevet | " east end of a church " |
chiliasm | " belief that Jesus will reign on Earth for a thousand years " |
chimere | " loose sleeveless robes worn by Anglican bishops " |
chrism | " consecrated or holy oil " |
chrismation | " sacrament of baptism in Eastern churches " |
chrismatory | " vessel for holding holy oil " |
chrisom | " white robe put on newly baptised child " |
christophany | " appearance of Christ to men " |
churching | " church ceremony given to women after childbirth " |
churchism | " devotion to church rules over religious precepts " |
ciborium | " freestanding canopy to cover altar; vessel for holding eucharistic bread " |
cilice | " haircloth shirt worn as penance " |
cimeliarch | " church vestry or treasury " |
cincture | " to gird or surround; belt worn around ecclesiastical vestment " |
cingulum | " girdle or girdle-like structure; priest's belt " |
circumincession | " the reciprocal existence of three parts of the Trinity in each other " |
classis | " a group; governing body of Reformed churches " |
clerestory | " upper storey of a church; windows near the roof of a building " |
coadjutor | " bishop assisting a diocesan bishop and having the right of succession " |
collegialism | " theory that church is independent from the state " |
colporteur | " peddler of religious tracts and books " |
compaternity | " spiritual relationship between child's parents and godparents " |
compline | " prayer service held just before bedtime " |
comprecation | " prayer meeting " |
concelebrate | " to jointly recite the canon of the Eucharist in unison with others " |
concordat | " agreement between the pope and a secular government " |
confirmand | " candidate for religious confirmation " |
confiteor | " prayer of confession of sins " |
consistory | " a solemn assembly or council; a church tribunal " |
consultor | " advisor to a Catholic bishop " |
conventicle | " secret or illegal church assembly " |
corporal | " white cloth on which Communion bread and wine are placed " |
credence | " small table for holding sacred vessels " |
credo | " concise statement of doctrine; section of Mass followed by offertory " |
crosier | " pastoral staff or crook held by bishop or abbot " |
cruet | " vessel used in religious ceremonies" especially to hold the Eucharist |
curate | " assistant to a parish priest " |
curia | " papal court and its officials " |
custos | " guardian" custodian or keeper |
dalmatic | " ecclesiastical robe or other outer vestment " |
datary | " papal officer who registers and dates bulls and edicts " |
decanal | " located on south side of the choir in a church " |
decretal | " papal decree deciding a point of church law " |
deiparous | " bearing a god " |
deodate | " a gift to or from God " |
diaconicon | " sacristy for sacred vessels in Orthodox churches " |
diphysitism | " belief in the dual nature of Christ " |
diptych | " pair of pictures on hinged panels; register of bishops and saints " |
discalced | " without shoes; barefoot; a religious order wearing no shoes " |
ditheletism | " doctrine that Christ had two wills " |
donative | " benefice presented to church without reference to bishop " |
dossal | " ornamental cloth hung behind and above an altar " |
doxology | " hymn or verse of praise to God " |
dulia | " inferior veneration of saints and angels in comparison with God " |
ecclesiastry | " affairs of the church " |
eirenics | " theological doctrine of religious unification " |
encolpion | " reliquary; cross worn on the breast " |
encyclical | " letter sent by the pope to multiple bishops " |
eparchy | " diocese of an Eastern church " |
epiclesis | " calling on the Holy Spirit to consecrate the Eucharist " |
epistoler | " reader of the epistle in Anglican service " |
epitrachelion | " stole of an Orthodox priest or bishop " |
eremite | " hermit; religious recluse " |
eschatology | " doctrine of life and afterlife " |
eschaton | " end of the world; end time " |
euchology | " prayer book " |
exarch | " viceroy; rank below patriarch in Eastern church " |
exeat | " permission from bishop for clergyman to work elsewhere " |
exedra | " semicircular bench beside episcopal throne; outdoor bench or recess " |
exegetic | " explanatory" especially of Scripture |
exequy | " funeral rites; funeral procession " |
faldstool | " desk from which the Litany is read at church service " |
fanion | " cloth worn on priest's arm and used for handling holy vessels " |
fenestella | " recess in church wall for storing communion vessels " |
feretory | " shrine for relics during a procession or for a funeral bier " |
feria | " weekday of a church calendar on which no holiday falls " |
festilogy | " treatise on ecclesiastical festivals " |
flèche | " narrow wooden spire on church roof " |
florilegium | " anthology of writings" especially of church fathers |
fossarian | " clergyman moonlighting as a gravedigger " |
frankalmoign | " land tenure requiring religious obligations on part of tenant " |
friary | " a fraternity or group of friars " |
frontal | " cloth hanging over front of altar " |
galilee | " porch in front of church " |
glebe | " church land granted to clergyman " |
gradual | " part of mass between epistle and gospel " |
guimpe | " wide cloth covering neck and shoulders worn by nuns " |
hagioscope | " opening in wall to enable viewing of altar " |
hanap | " chalice used in communion whose cover is a second chalice " |
hassock | " kneeling cushion in a church " |
hearsecloth | " cloth lain over coffin during funeral " |
hegumene | " head of a nunnery " |
hieratical | " priestly; bound by religious convention " |
hieromonach | " monk who also serves as a priest " |
holobaptism | " belief in baptism with total immersion in water " |
homolegomena | " books of the Bible used in early Christianity " |
housel | " the eucharist; the act of taking the eucharist " |
hymnal | " collection of church hymns " |
hymnody | " hymns collectively; hymn-singing " |
hyperdulia | " veneration of the Virgin Mary above saints and angels " |
iconostasis | " screen or partition in Eastern churches with tiers of icons " |
incardination | " acceptance by a diocese of clergyman from another diocese " |
indulgence | " former Catholic pardon granted for remission of punishment for sins " |
indult | " special temporary dispensation granted by the Catholic church " |
internuncio | " messenger between two parties; low-ranking papal legate " |
intinction | " administering communion by dipping bread into wine " |
introit | " psalm or hymn sung at beginning of church service " |
invination | " presence of Christ's blood in sanctified wine " |
invitatory | " psalm or anthem sung before prayer during church service " |
jube | " ornamental choir-screen " |
jubilarian | " one who celebrates a jubilee" especially a priest |
jubilate | " the third Sunday after Easter " |
kamelaukion | " tall cylindrical hat worn by Orthodox priests " |
kerygma | " preaching of the Christian gospel " |
kerygmatic | " of" like or pertaining to preaching the Gospel |
kirking | " first attendance of a couple at church after marriage " |
kyrie | " religious petition for mercy " |
laic | " of" like or pertaining to lay people rather than clergy |
laicisation | " process of returning a clergyman to lay status " |
laicism | " doctrine of opposition to clergy and priests " |
lappet | " fold or flap on a garment or headdress worn by priest " |
latria | " highest degree of veneration" assigned to God over saints |
lauds | " prayer service held at dawn following matins " |
lavabo | " ceremony in which priest washes his hands; basin for the ceremony " |
lavatory | " wash-basin for washing bodies of newly dead; room where lavabo kept " |
lavra | " group of recluses’ cells " |
lectern | " desk or stand from which church lessons are read " |
lectrice | " female reader in church " |
litany | " prayer of supplication in responsive style " |
liturgician | " one who studies or recites church rituals " |
lustration | " ritual washing; ablution " |
lychgate | " roofed gate of a churchyard " |
magisterium | " teaching function of the Catholic church " |
magnificat | " canticle in praise of the Virgin Mary " |
manciple | " steward of a college or monastery; purveyor " |
mandorla | " oval panel containing a work of art; elliptical halo around holy person " |
mandriarch | " founder or leader of a monastic order " |
maniple | " clerical vestment worn on the left arm " |
mantelletta | " knee-length sleeveless garment worn by Catholic cardinals and bishops " |
Mariolatry | " worship of the virgin mother " |
Mariology | " study of the Virgin Mary " |
marrano | " Jew converted to Christianity to avoid persecution " |
martyrium | " shrine erected in memory of a martyr " |
martyrolatry | " excessive devotion to martyrs " |
martyrology | " study of martyrs " |
matins | " prayer service held in early morning hours " |
mendicant | " member of impoverished religious order " |
menology | " register or calendar of saints’ days " |
mersion | " dipping; as in baptism " |
metropolitan | " archbishop holding authority over other bishops " |
midlenting | " custom of giving gifts to parents on mid-Lent Sunday " |
minster | " church associated with a monastery " |
missal | " book containing complete service for mass " |
miter | " high headdress worn by bishop or archbishop " |
modalism | " belief in unity of Father" Son and Holy Spirit |
monergism | " theory that the Holy Spirit alone can act " |
monial | " a nun " |
monkery | " monks in general; monasticism; behaviour of monks " |
monophysitism | " belief that Christ was primarily divine but in human form " |
Monotheletism | " belief that Christ had only one will " |
monstrance | " vessel used to expose the Eucharist " |
mozzetta | " short cape with ornamental hood worn by Catholic prelates " |
mystagogical | " of" like or pertaining to religious ritual initiation |
naos | " temple; inner cell of a temple " |
narthex | " small entrance or porch to a church " |
nave | " largest part of church where congregation sits " |
nipter | " ecclesiastical ceremony of washing the feet " |
nones | " prayer service held at 3 p" |
novena | " series of Catholic church services held on nine successive days " |
nuncio | " one who brings tidings; high-ranking papal legate " |
obit | " religious office for a dead person " |
oblate | " layman living in a religious community under modified rule " |
oblation | " act of offering; a sacrifice; anything offered in worship " |
oculus | " round window" especially over main door in church |
orant | " representation of praying figure in early art " |
orarion | " deacon's stole in Orthodox church " |
orarium | " book of private devotions " |
oratory | " small chapel for private prayer; lectern for prayer " |
ordinal | " book containing religious rites" especially for ordination |
ordo | " calendar with list of services for each day of the year " |
orison | " prayer " |
orphrey | " gold or other rich embroidery on clerical robes " |
osculatory | " carved tablet kissed by priest during celebration of mass " |
ostensory | " container for holding consecrated Communion wafers " |
paedobaptism | " doctrine of infant baptism " |
pall | " covering cloth laid upon Communion chalice " |
pallium | " white woollen band symbolising archbishop's authority " |
panegyricon | " collection of sermons for Orthodox church festivals " |
pannicle | " thin sheet-like vestment " |
pannychis | " all-night vigil in preparation for Orthodox church feast " |
paraclete | " advocate or intercessor; the Holy Spirit acting in such a role " |
parclose | " railing in church enclosing altar" chapel or tomb |
pardoner | " one who raises money for religious works by selling indulgences " |
parousia | " second coming of Christ " |
parvis | " enclosed space at the front of a church " |
passalorynchite | " one who takes a religious vow of silence " |
paten | " plate; metal disk used to hold Communion bread " |
pax | " tablet decorated with sacred figure and kissed by participants in mass " |
peculiar | " parish or church exempt from jurisdiction of the bishop of its diocese " |
pentateuch | " the first five books of the Old Testament " |
pericope | " an excerpt or passage read during religious services " |
pernoctate | " to pass the night in vigil or prayer " |
phonascus | " person who maintains rhythm in church choir " |
pieta | " representation of Virgin Mary with dead Christ across her knees " |
pietism | " unquestioning or dogmatic religious devotion " |
piscina | " basin set in wall of church to drain away ceremonial water " |
plebania | " mother-church having authority over several local churches " |
pluvial | " floor-length open-fronted ecclesiastical garment " |
pneumatophany | " appearance of a spirit; especially the Holy Ghost " |
poppyhead | " raised ornament on top of upright end of seats in churches " |
postlude | " closing piece of music at end of church service " |
postulant | " candidate for a religious order " |
postulator | " official who presents case for canonization or beatification " |
prebend | " stipend or salary paid to clergyman " |
prebendal | " of" like or pertaining to stipends issued by a church |
precentor | " leader of the singing of a church choir " |
predella | " platform for altar; portable altar or decoration upon it " |
prelacy | " episcopal church government " |
prelate | " bishop or abbot of superior rank " |
presbytery | " part of church reserved for officiating clergy " |
prime | " prayer service held at 6 a" |
procathedral | " parish church serving as a cathedral " |
pronaos | " vestibule in front of a temple " |
proper | " elements of Christian mass that are variable " |
proseuche | " place of prayer; oratory " |
Prothonotary | " chief registrar of a court; keeper of canonisation records " |
psalmodist | " singer of psalms " |
psalmody | " act of singing psalms in church services " |
pseudepigrapha | " apocrypha; non-canonical books of the Bible " |
pseudepiscopy | " existence or rule of a spurious bishop " |
psilanthropism | " denial of Christ's divinity " |
pulpitum | " gigantic stone screen separating cathedral choir from the nave " |
purificator | " cloth used to wipe Eucharist chalice " |
pyx | " box or vessel in which coins or consecrated Eucharist are kept " |
quaestionary | " religious pardoner " |
qualificator | " one who prepares ecclesiastical cases for trial " |
quaresimal | " Lenten; having the meagreness of Lenten meals " |
quartodeciman | " early Christian who celebrated Easter on Passover even if not a Sunday " |
rantize | " to sprinkle with water during baptism " |
rasophore | " lowest rank of Greek Orthodox monk " |
recusant | " one who refuses to attend Catholic church services; nonconformist " |
refectory | " dining-hall of a monastery or other institution " |
regula | " rule of a religious order " |
reliquary | " a small box or shrine used to hold relics " |
requiescat | " prayer for the dead " |
reredos | " screen behind altar " |
rescript | " answer of pope or emperor to any legal question; edict or decree " |
responsory | " set of responses sung or said after liturgical reading " |
retable | " shelf or ornamental setting for panels behind an altar " |
retrochoir | " space in choir behind high altar " |
rochet | " surplice-like vestment of a bishop or abbot " |
rogation | " asking or supplication" especially in an ecclesiastical sense |
rood | " cross or crucifix at entrance to church chancel " |
sacerdotalism | " belief that priests are necessary mediators between God and mankind " |
Sacramentarianism | " belief that sacraments have unusual properties " |
sacrarium | " place where sacred objects are kept " |
sacristan | " church official in charge of vessels and the sacristy " |
sacristy | " room in church where sacred objects are kept " |
saltire | " X-shaped cross " |
samarra | " flame-decorated cassock worn by those condemned by the Inquisition " |
scapular | " badge of monastic order worn on the shoulders " |
schola | " church choir led by a cantor " |
scholasticate | " preparatory college for those intending to enter Catholic order " |
scriptorium | " writing room; room used by monastic scribes " |
sedilia | " stone seats for clergy in wall of chancel " |
sempect | " extremely elderly Benedictine monk " |
sepulchre | " receptacle in an altar for holding religious relics " |
sext | " prayer service held at noon " |
sexton | " church caretaker or bellringer " |
shrive | " to hear a confession from and give absolution " |
sigillum | " seal of the confession " |
simony | " buying or selling of ecclesiastical offices " |
sinecure | " ecclesiastical office or other job requiring little work " |
situla | " a holy bucket " |
slype | " covered passage between walls" or between transept and chapterhouse |
solifidianism | " doctrine that faith alone will ensure salvation " |
soutane | " priest's cassock " |
squarson | " clergyman who is also a land-holding squire " |
starets | " Eastern Orthodox spiritual advisor " |
staurolatry | " worship of the cross or crucifix " |
sticharion | " vestment like an alb worn by Orthodox priests " |
stole | " narrow ecclesiastical vestment or scarf " |
stoup | " vessel for holding holy water " |
stylite | " monk who spends much time on tops of pillars " |
succinctorium | " band or scarf worn from the Pope's girdle " |
suffragan | " assistant bishop " |
superhumeral | " ecclesiastical garment worn over the shoulders " |
surplice | " loose-fitting ankle length overgarment worn by clerics " |
synaxarion | " account of a saint's life " |
synod | " ecclesiastical assembly or council " |
synthronus | " joint throne for an Orthodox bishop and his presbyters " |
tabernacle | " ornamental container for storing Communion bread and wine " |
taperer | " one who bears a taper during a religious procession " |
terce | " prayer service held at 9 a" |
tester | " canopy over a bed" pulpit or altar |
tetragrammaton | " sacred word or acronym of four letters " |
tetramorph | " artistic representation of the four evangelists in one figure " |
theanthroposophy | " system of belief concerning Christ as god and man " |
theodidact | " student of God; one who is taught by God " |
theody | " hymn in praise of God " |
theolepsy | " seizure or possession by a god " |
theologaster | " petty or shallow theologian " |
theometry | " measurement or estimation of God " |
theophany | " manifestation or appearance of a god to people " |
theotokos | " title given to the Virgin Mary as bearer of God " |
thurible | " censer " |
thurifer | " altar boy who bears censer " |
tiara | " three-tiered crown worn by or carried in front of the pope " |
tippet | " long black scarf worn by Anglican clergy " |
tonsure | " shaving of small area on the crown of head of a priest or monk " |
transept | " part of a church off to one side of main structure " |
Transubstantiation | " miraculous changing of bread and wine into body and blood of Christ " |
tremendum | " feeling of overwhelming awe associated with religious experience " |
trental | " commemoratory service held thirty days after burial " |
triduum | " period of three days of prayer preceding Roman Catholic feasts " |
triforium | " gallery or arcade over an aisle; gallery over nave and choir " |
tritheism | " belief that the members of the Trinity are separate gods " |
tropology | " figurative language; moral interpretation of the Bible " |
tunicle | " short ecclesiastical vestment worn by bishop or subdeacon " |
tympanum | " space within an arch; arched recess at entrance of cathedral " |
ubiquitarianism | " belief that Christ is everywhere " |
ultramontane | " south of the Alps; supporting the Pope " |
unalist | " priest holding one benefice " |
unaneled | " without extreme unction " |
unction | " anointing as right of consecration or healing; warmth of address " |
undercroft | " crypt or vault under a church " |
unhouseled | " not having received the Eucharist shortly before death " |
verger | " church usher and attendant " |
vernicle | " cloth with image of Christ's face impressed upon it " |
versicle | " short verse in church service normally followed by response " |
vespers | " prayer service held in early evening " |
vestry | " priest's dressing room " |
vesturer | " keeper of vestments " |
viaticum | " money or provisions for journey; Eucharist for a dying person " |
vicegod | " hostile appellation applied to the Pope " |
wicket | " small door forming part of larger door of a church or castle " |
wimple | " cloth covering for head and neck worn by nuns " |
xerophagy | " eating of dry food; fast of dry food in the week preceding Easter " |
zeta | " small room or closet in a church " |
zucchetto | " round skullcap worn by Catholic clergy to indicate rank " |
zymite | " priest using leavened bread during communion " |
a' bouche ouverte | with open mouth: eagerly or uncritically gullibly (W) |
a' coups de dictionnaire | with blows of a dictionary: with continual or incessant reference to the dictionary (W) |
a fortiori | from the stronger: with greater reason or being |
a' l'envoi | in emulation: in a spirit of emulation or rivalry (W) |
a' outrance | to excess: to the utmost; supremely; to the bitter |
a' propos de bottes | on the subject of boots: an expression usedto change the subject (W) |
a verbis ad verbera | from words to blows (W) |
ab initio | from the beginning; from the very start or outset (W) |
ab irato | from an angry man: hence not to be taken too |
ab ovo | from the egg: from the very beginning hence completely |
abattoir (n.) | a slaughterhouse (B) |
abderian (adj.) | pertaining to foolish or excessive laughter (B) |
abderite (n.) | a simpleton or dimwitted yokel and one with |
abdominous (adj.) | having or pertaining to a distended stomach (G) |
abecedarian (adj.) | simple; elementary; rudimentary; introductory; or |
abliguration (n.) | extravagance in cooking and serving (B) |
ablutomania (n.) | a mania for washing oneself (B) |
abscotchalater (n.) | one in hiding from the police (B) |
absit invidia verbo | let it be said without illoffense intended (W) |
absquatulate (v.) | to leave hurriedly suddenly |
abstersive (adv.) | serving to cleanse or purge (G) |
abstemious (adj.) | practicing temperance |
acalculia (n.) | the inability to work with numbers (B) |
acataleptic (adj.) | incomprehensible (B) |
acceptilation (n.) | the settlement of a debt without payment (B) |
accismus (n.) | a phony refusal hypocritical modesty (rhetoric term) (B |
acediast (n.) | a person who is slothful or wickedly lax when |
acephalist (n.) | the balky maverick who acknowledges no head or |
acersecomic (n.) | one who has never had a haircut (E) |
acervuline (adj.) | resembling small heaps (B) |
acherontic (adj.) | darky gloomy |
achluphobia (n.) | abnormal fear of darkness |
acouasm (n.) | a ringing sound in the head (B) |
acroatic (adj.) | pertaining to profound learning (B) |
acroamatic (adj.) | esoteric abstruse |
acrocephalic (n. | adj |
ad baculum | a baculo to the rod: appealing to or suggesting the |
ad captandum benevolentiam | with intent to win good will or favor (W) |
ad captandum vulgus | with intent to take in the public: designed to |
ad crumenam | to the purse: appealing to greed or to the hearer's |
ad ignorantium | to ignorance: depending for its effect on the |
ad judicium | to judgment: appealing to the common sense of mankind |
ad misericordiam | to compassion: appealing to a sense of pity or |
ad populum | to the people: appealing to popular sentimental weaknesses |
ad rem | to the matter: to the point; pertinent to the matter (W) |
ad unguem | to the fingernail: with great precision; finely (W) |
ad verbum | to the word: word for word; literally; verbatim (W) |
ad verecundiam | to modesty: appealing to traditional values |
adephagous (adj.) | gluttonous (B) |
adevism (n.) | the denial of legendary gods (B) |
adiaphoristic (adj.) | theologically indifferent (B E) |
adiaphorous (adj.) | neutral; neither right nor wrong; neither deleterious |
adjectitious (adj.) | added thrown in (B) |
adminicle (n.) | something that helps or supports; corroboratory evidence; |
adnomination (n.) | punning (B) |
adoxography (n.) | good writing on a trivial subject (B) |
adscititious (adj.) | not essential; supplemental; superfluous (B G) |
adventitious (adj.) | accidental added by chance; not inherent |
adversaria (n.) | miscellaneous notes comments |
adynaton (n.) | magnifying or exaggerating an actual event by reference |
aenos (n.) | use of erudite words or allusions to appeal to the |
aeolistic (adj.) | long |
aerophagist (n.) | the neurotic or somewhat hysterical gaper who |
Aesopian language | political doubletalk or euphemism that has a |
aesculapian (adj.) | relating to that which is medical or to the art |
afflatus (n.) | an artistic inspiration (B) |
afterwit (n.) | the locking of the barn door after the cows have gone (B) |
agastopia (n.) | admiration of a particular part of someone's body (B) |
agathism (n.) | the concept that all is for the better (B E) |
agathokakological (adj.) | composed of both good and evil (B) |
agelast (n.) | somebody who never but never laughs (E) |
agenhina (n.) | a guest at an inn who after having stayed for threenights |
agenocratia (n.) | opposition to birth control (B) |
agglutination (n.) | compound |
agitprop (n.) | the vociferous propagandistic agitator or |
agnogenic (n.) | of unknown cause (B) |
agnoiology (n.) | the study of ignorance (B) |
agnosy (n.) | ignorance; especially ignorance shared by the whole |
agonist (n.) | a struggler; a person who is contending whether in |
agonistic (n.) | combative; strained for the sake of effect (B) |
agroof (n.) | flat on one's face (Scottish) (B) |
ailurophobe (n.) | the person who can't stand cats (E) |
airmonger (n.) | the man or woman who is attracted to visionary |
aischrolatreia (n.) | worship of filth dirt |
aldiborontiphoscophornio (n.) | a pompous person (from an old English |
aleatory (adj.) | dependent upon chance luck |
alectoromachy (n.) | cockfighting |
algedonic (adj.) | pertaining to pain especially when associated with |
algedonica (n.) | the science of pleasure and pain (B) |
algidity (n.) | coldness |
algolagnic (adj.) | relating to the perception of pleasure from |
allagrugous (adj.) | grim and ghastly (G) |
allision (n.) | the ramming of one object by another (B) |
allochthonous (adj.) | foreign (B) |
allonym (n.) | another person's name used as a pen name; a ghostwritten |
allotheism (n.) | worship of strange gods (B) |
allotriophagy (n.) | the craving for weird food (B) |
alogism (n.) | unreasonableness; absurdity; illogical statement(B) |
alopecia (n.) | baldness (B) |
alopecoid (adj.) | foxy (B) |
alter kocker (n.) | a canny stubborn old man who has been around but |
altiloquence (n.) | pompous speech (B W) |
amaranthine (adj.) | eternally beautiful; unfading; everlasting (E G) |
amatorculist (n.) | an insignificant or hypocritical lover (B) |
ambagious (adj.) | talking or doing things in an indirect manner; |
ambiloquence (n.) | competence in double |
ambivert (n.) | someone whose personality strikes a nice balance between |
amblysia | phrasing in such a way as to forewarn or to cushion a dire |
amende honorable | an honorable fine: a full and frank apology however |
ami de cour (n.) | the fairweather or foul |
amicus humani generis (n.) | a philathropist (E) |
amniomancy (n.) | fortune telling by examining the embryonic sac |
amphibolous (adj.) | susceptible of two meanings; ambiguous; equivocal |
amphigean (adj.) | found or occuring throughout the world (B) |
amphigory (n.) | nonsensical writing (B W) |
amphilogy (n.) | a statement open to more than one interpretation |
ampollosity (n.) | bombast; pompous style (B W) |
amurcous (adj.) | stinking; filled with dregs (B) |
amyctic (adj.) | irritating; abrasive (B) |
anacampserote (n.) | something which can bring back a lost love (B) |
anachorism (n.) | foreign to a certain locality; geographically |
anaclitic (adj.) | overly dependent on another (B) |
anacoluthon (n.) | an abrupt shift in midsentence in syntax to |
anacreontic (adj.) | jovial festive and amatory (B |
anadiplosis (n.) | repeating the final words or words of a phrase |
anadipsic (adj.) | pertaining to excessive thirst (B) |
anagapesis (n.) | lack of interest in former loved ones (B) |
anagnorisis (n.) | recognition or discovery as of a disguised |
anagogig (adj.) | relating to things spiritual and mystical; occult; |
analects (n.) | selected parts of a literary work or works (W) |
analeptic (adj.) | serving to renew strength and vigor; invigorating (B G) |
anamnestic (adj.) | reminiscent; aiding the memory (B) |
ananias (n.) | a teller of untruths; liar (from a follower of the |
ananym (n.) | a pseudonym devised by spelling one's name backward (B W) |
anaphora (n.) | repitition of a word or phrase in successive clauses |
anapodictic (adj.) | undemonstrable (B) |
anastrophe (n.) | inversion of the usual order of words or withholding |
anatreptic (adj.) | defeating refuting (B) |
anautarchia (n.) | perpetual unhappiness (B) |
anax andron (n.) | a leader or men a take |
anaxiphilia (n.) | act of falling in love with a schtoonk by someone |
ancilla (n.) | a sidekick who helps another to accomplish or master |
andabate (n.) | one who is hoodwinked in the dark or virtually blind |
androlepsia (n.) | international governmental kidnapping for |
anfractuous (adj.) | winding tortuous (B |
angary (n.) | the right of a warring nation to use or destroy a |
angst (n.) | anxiety fear; not fear of anything specific but a dread |
anhedonia (n.) | the inability to be happy (B) |
aniconic (adj.) | not using or permitting images effigies |
anicular (adj.) | old |
anililagnia (n.) | sexual desire for older women (B) |
anile (adj.) | old womanish; lacking in force strength or effectiveness; |
animadversion (n.) | generally adverse criticism (B E |
ankylophobia (n.) | abnormal fear of stiff or immobile joints |
anodyne (adj.) | painless soothing (G) |
anomy (n.) | the collapse of the social structures governing a |
anonym (n.) | a person remaining nameless; psuedonym; anonymous |
anonymuncule (n.) | an insignificant anonymous writer (B) |
anorchous (adj.) | without testicles; or gutless (B E) |
anosognosia (n.) | the lack of interest or belief in the existence |
Anschauung (n.) | intuition; sense awareness of perception (B) |
antanaclasis (n.) | a phrasing in which the topic or key word is |
antelucan (adj.) | pertaining to or occurring before dawn (G) |
antephialtic (adj.) | preventive of nightmares (G) |
anthimeria (n.) | the using of one part of speech for another for |
anthorism (n.) | a counterdefinition or a delineation or description |
anthropophaginia (n.) | a cannibal (E) |
anthropophobia (n.) | fear of meeting people; fear of society (B) |
antilogous (adj.) | contrary; inconsistent (B) |
antinomian (n.) | a Christian who believes that faith alone will see |
antinomy (n.) | an inconsistency or built |
antipedobaptism (n.) | denial on scriptural grounds of the validityof infant baptism |
antiphrasis (n.) | a word used to mean its opposite; calling something |
antiscians (n.) | people living on the same meridian but on different |
antistasis (n.) | the defense of an action that prevented somethingworse from happening |
antithalian (adj.) | against enjoyment (B) |
antonomasia (n.) | substitution of an epithet or nickname for a |
anuptaphobia (n.) | fear of staying single (B E) |
aolist (n.) | a person who claims to be inspiredsudden wind of genius or artistic urgency; the wind is sometimes |
apaetesis (n.) | the angry putting aside of a matter to be taken |
apagogic (adj.) | pertaining to a proof by reductio ad absurdum; an |
apanthropy (n.) | dislike of being with people; love of solitude (B) |
apercu (n.) | a quick penetrating insight; immediate impression |
aphephobe (n.) | the person who doesn't like being touched (E) |
aphilophrenia (n.) | a feeling that one is unloved or unwanted (B) |
apocarteresis (n.) | suicide by starvation (B) |
apocrisis (n.) | replying to one's own arguments (rhetoric term) (W) |
apocrypha (n.) | writings reports |
apodiabolosis (n.) | diabolical treatment (B) |
apodictic (adj.) | absolutely certain or necessarily true; |
apodysophilia (n.) | feverish desire to undress (B) |
apolaustic (adj.) | given to enjoyment; self indulgent (B G) |
apomnemonysis (n.) | quoting an approved authority (rhetoric term) (W) |
apophasis (n.) | mentioning something by saying it won't be mentioned: "We |
aporia (n.) | professing to be at a loss as to what to say where to |
aposiopesis (n.) | a conscious breaking off in the middle of a sentence |
apothegm (n.) | a concise formulation of a truth; an aphorism (G) |
apotheosis (n.) | an exalted position highest development |
appellation (n.) | a name designation |
apposite (adj.) | appropriate fitting |
appropinquate (v.) | to approach (B) |
aptronym (n.) | a name befitting the occupation role or nature |
arcadian (adj.) | ideally simple and contented (G) |
argyrothecology (n.) | collecting of money boxes as found in |
aristarchian (adj.) | extremely critical (B E) |
aristophrenia (n.) | condition of having a superior intellect (B) |
arithmocracy (n.) | rule of the numerical majority (B) |
arriviste (n.) | on overly ambitious person; an opportunist (B) |
arrogate (v.) | to appropriate or claim unjustly; to attribute |
artuate (v.) | to tear limb from limb (B) |
ascian (n.) | one without a shadow: applied to the inhabitants of the |
asphalia (n.) | emphatic guaranteeing of what one is saying as by |
aspheterism (n.) | denial of private property (B) |
asportation (n.) | theft (B) |
asseverate (v.) | to state positively emphatically (B) |
assuetude (n.) | custom or habit (B) |
asteism (n.) | an ingeniously polite insult (B W) |
asthenophobe (n.) | the circumspect stoic the stiff |
astucious (adj.) | having keen perception; of astute and penetrating |
asyndetic (adj.) | not connected by conjunctions: I came I saw |
ataraxia (n.) | imperturbability; utter calmness (B) |
ataraxic (adj.) | of or pertaining to freedom from anxiety or emotional |
atelophobe (n.) | the driven perfectionist one with a morbid fear of |
athanasia (n.) | immortality (B) |
athetise (v.) | to spurn reject (B) |
atrabilarian (n.) | a gloomy hypochondriac (E) |
au grand serieux | with great earnestness or often |
augean (adj.) | filthy and difficult to clean; requiring hard work (from |
auscultation (n.) | the process of listening (G) |
autarchia (n.) | perpetual happiness (B) |
autoangelist (n.) | one who does his own communicating (E) |
autocephalous (adj.) | ecclesiastically self |
autochthonous (adj.) | native aboriginal |
autoclesis (n.) | introducing an idea or subject by seeming to |
autodidact (n.) | one self |
autognosis (n.) | knowledge of self especially the appreciation of |
autological (adj.) | self |
autologophagist (n.) | one who eats his words (B E) |
automysophobia (n.) | abnormal fear of being dirty |
autophobe (n.) | the socializer who does not like to be alone or |
autoschediastic (adj.) | impromptu; on the spur of the moment (B) |
autotelic (adj.) | having in itself an end or excuse for being |
autothaumaturgist (n.) | the coy or cagey person whose mission is toappear mysterious or quite remarkable (E) |
autotheist (n.) | the individual who is not only self |
auxesis (n.) | an ordering of thoughts expressed in a sequence of |
avering (n.) | a boy's begging in the nude to arouse sympathy (B) |
azygophrenia (n.) | the psychoneurosis of everyday unmarried life (B) |
a' bouche ouverte | with open mouth: eagerly or uncritically gullibly (W) |
a' coups de dictionnaire | with blows of a dictionary: with continual or incessant reference to the dictionary (W) |
a fortiori | from the stronger: with greater reason or being |
a' l'envoi | in emulation: in a spirit of emulation or rivalry (W) |
a' outrance | to excess: to the utmost; supremely; to the bitter |
a' propos de bottes | on the subject of boots: an expression usedto change the subject (W) |
a verbis ad verbera | from words to blows (W) |
ab initio | from the beginning; from the very start or outset (W) |
ab irato | from an angry man: hence not to be taken too |
ab ovo | from the egg: from the very beginning hence completely |
abattoir (n.) | a slaughterhouse (B) |
abderian (adj.) | pertaining to foolish or excessive laughter (B) |
abderite (n.) | a simpleton or dimwitted yokel and one with |
abdominous (adj.) | having or pertaining to a distended stomach (G) |
abecedarian (adj.) | simple; elementary; rudimentary; introductory; or |
abliguration (n.) | extravagance in cooking and serving (B) |
ablutomania (n.) | a mania for washing oneself (B) |
abscotchalater (n.) | one in hiding from the police (B) |
absit invidia verbo | let it be said without illoffense intended (W) |
absquatulate (v.) | to leave hurriedly suddenly |
abstersive (adv.) | serving to cleanse or purge (G) |
abstemious (adj.) | practicing temperance |
acalculia (n.) | the inability to work with numbers (B) |
acataleptic (adj.) | incomprehensible (B) |
acceptilation (n.) | the settlement of a debt without payment (B) |
accismus (n.) | a phony refusal hypocritical modesty (rhetoric term) (B |
acediast (n.) | a person who is slothful or wickedly lax when |
acephalist (n.) | the balky maverick who acknowledges no head or |
acersecomic (n.) | one who has never had a haircut (E) |
acervuline (adj.) | resembling small heaps (B) |
acherontic (adj.) | darky gloomy |
achluphobia (n.) | abnormal fear of darkness |
acouasm (n.) | a ringing sound in the head (B) |
acroatic (adj.) | pertaining to profound learning (B) |
acroamatic (adj.) | esoteric abstruse |
acrocephalic (n. | adj |
ad baculum | a baculo to the rod: appealing to or suggesting the |
ad captandum benevolentiam | with intent to win good will or favor (W) |
ad captandum vulgus | with intent to take in the public: designed to |
ad crumenam | to the purse: appealing to greed or to the hearer's |
ad ignorantium | to ignorance: depending for its effect on the |
ad judicium | to judgment: appealing to the common sense of mankind |
ad misericordiam | to compassion: appealing to a sense of pity or |
ad populum | to the people: appealing to popular sentimental weaknesses |
ad rem | to the matter: to the point; pertinent to the matter (W) |
ad unguem | to the fingernail: with great precision; finely (W) |
ad verbum | to the word: word for word; literally; verbatim (W) |
ad verecundiam | to modesty: appealing to traditional values |
adephagous (adj.) | gluttonous (B) |
adevism (n.) | the denial of legendary gods (B) |
adiaphoristic (adj.) | theologically indifferent (B E) |
adiaphorous (adj.) | neutral; neither right nor wrong; neither deleterious |
adjectitious (adj.) | added thrown in (B) |
adminicle (n.) | something that helps or supports; corroboratory evidence; |
adnomination (n.) | punning (B) |
adoxography (n.) | good writing on a trivial subject (B) |
adscititious (adj.) | not essential; supplemental; superfluous (B G) |
adventitious (adj.) | accidental added by chance; not inherent |
adversaria (n.) | miscellaneous notes comments |
adynaton (n.) | magnifying or exaggerating an actual event by reference |
aenos (n.) | use of erudite words or allusions to appeal to the |
aeolistic (adj.) | long |
aerophagist (n.) | the neurotic or somewhat hysterical gaper who |
Aesopian language | political doubletalk or euphemism that has a |
aesculapian (adj.) | relating to that which is medical or to the art |
afflatus (n.) | an artistic inspiration (B) |
afterwit (n.) | the locking of the barn door after the cows have gone (B) |
agastopia (n.) | admiration of a particular part of someone's body (B) |
agathism (n.) | the concept that all is for the better (B E) |
agathokakological (adj.) | composed of both good and evil (B) |
agelast (n.) | somebody who never but never laughs (E) |
agenhina (n.) | a guest at an inn who after having stayed for threenights |
agenocratia (n.) | opposition to birth control (B) |
agglutination (n.) | compound |
agitprop (n.) | the vociferous propagandistic agitator or |
agnogenic (n.) | of unknown cause (B) |
agnoiology (n.) | the study of ignorance (B) |
agnoiology (n~) | the study of ignorance (B) |
agnosy (n~) | ignorance; especially ignorance shared by the whole |
agonist (n~) | a struggler; a person who is contending whether in |
agonistic (n~) | combative; strained for the sake of effect (B) |
agroof (n~) | flat on one's face (Scottish) (B) |
ailurophobe (n~) | the person who can't stand cats (E) |
airmonger (n~) | the man or woman who is attracted to visionary |
aischrolatreia (n~) | worship of filth dirt |
aldiborontiphoscophornio (n~) | a pompous person (from an old English |
aleatory (adj~) | dependent upon chance luck |
alectoromachy (n~) | cockfighting |
algedonic (adj~) | pertaining to pain especially when associated with |
algedonica (n~) | the science of pleasure and pain (B) |
algidity (n~) | coldness |
algolagnic (adj~) | relating to the perception of pleasure from |
allagrugous (adj~) | grim and ghastly (G) |
allision (n~) | the ramming of one object by another (B) |
allochthonous (adj~) | foreign (B) |
allonym (n~) | another person's name used as a pen name; a ghostwritten |
allotheism (n~) | worship of strange gods (B) |
allotriophagy (n~) | the craving for weird food (B) |
alogism (n~) | unreasonableness; absurdity; illogical statement(B) |
alopecia (n~) | baldness (B) |
alopecoid (adj~) | foxy (B) |
alter kocker (n~) | a canny stubborn old man who has been around but |
altiloquence (n~) | pompous speech (B W) |
amaranthine (adj~) | eternally beautiful; unfading; everlasting (E G) |
amatorculist (n~) | an insignificant or hypocritical lover (B) |
ambagious (adj~) | talking or doing things in an indirect manner; |
ambiloquence (n~) | competence in double |
ambivert (n~) | someone whose personality strikes a nice balance between |
amblysia | phrasing in such a way as to forewarn or to cushion a dire |
amende honorable | an honorable fine: a full and frank apology however |
ami de cour (n~) | the fairweather or foul |
amicus humani generis (n~) | a philathropist (E) |
amniomancy (n~) | fortune telling by examining the embryonic sac |
amphibolous (adj~) | susceptible of two meanings; ambiguous; equivocal |
amphigean (adj~) | found or occuring throughout the world (B) |
amphigory (n~) | nonsensical writing (B W) |
amphilogy (n~) | a statement open to more than one interpretation |
ampollosity (n~) | bombast; pompous style (B W) |
amurcous (adj~) | stinking; filled with dregs (B) |
amyctic (adj~) | irritating; abrasive (B) |
anacampserote (n~) | something which can bring back a lost love (B) |
anachorism (n~) | foreign to a certain locality; geographically |
anaclitic (adj~) | overly dependent on another (B) |
anacoluthon (n~) | an abrupt shift in midsentence in syntax to |
anacreontic (adj~) | jovial festive and amatory (B |
anadiplosis (n~) | repeating the final words or words of a phrase |
anadipsic (adj~) | pertaining to excessive thirst (B) |
anagapesis (n~) | lack of interest in former loved ones (B) |
anagnorisis (n~) | recognition or discovery as of a disguised |
anagogig (adj~) | relating to things spiritual and mystical; occult; |
analects (n~) | selected parts of a literary work or works (W) |
analeptic (adj~) | serving to renew strength and vigor; invigorating (B G) |
anamnestic (adj~) | reminiscent; aiding the memory (B) |
ananias (n~) | a teller of untruths; liar (from a follower of the |
ananym (n~) | a pseudonym devised by spelling one's name backward (B W) |
anaphora (n~) | repitition of a word or phrase in successive clauses |
anapodictic (adj~) | undemonstrable (B) |
anastrophe (n~) | inversion of the usual order of words or withholding |
anatreptic (adj~) | defeating refuting (B) |
anautarchia (n~) | perpetual unhappiness (B) |
anax andron (n~) | a leader or men a take |
anaxiphilia (n~) | act of falling in love with a schtoonk by someone |
ancilla (n~) | a sidekick who helps another to accomplish or master |
andabate (n~) | one who is hoodwinked in the dark or virtually blind |
androlepsia (n~) | international governmental kidnapping for |
anfractuous (adj~) | winding tortuous (B |
angary (n~) | the right of a warring nation to use or destroy a |
angst (n~) | anxiety fear; not fear of anything specific but a dread |
anhedonia (n~) | the inability to be happy (B) |
aniconic (adj~) | not using or permitting images effigies |
anicular (adj~) | old |
anililagnia (n~) | sexual desire for older women (B) |
anile (adj~) | old womanish; lacking in force strength or effectiveness; |
animadversion (n~) | generally adverse criticism (B E |
ankylophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of stiff or immobile joints |
anodyne (adj~) | painless soothing (G) |
anomy (n~) | the collapse of the social structures governing a |
anonym (n~) | a person remaining nameless; psuedonym; anonymous |
anonymuncule (n~) | an insignificant anonymous writer (B) |
anorchous (adj~) | without testicles; or gutless (B E) |
anosognosia (n~) | the lack of interest or belief in the existence |
Anschauung (n~) | intuition; sense awareness of perception (B) |
antanaclasis (n~) | a phrasing in which the topic or key word is |
antelucan (adj~) | pertaining to or occurring before dawn (G) |
antephialtic (adj~) | preventive of nightmares (G) |
anthimeria (n~) | the using of one part of speech for another for |
anthorism (n~) | a counterdefinition or a delineation or description |
anthropophaginia (n~) | a cannibal (E) |
anthropophobia (n~) | fear of meeting people; fear of society (B) |
antilogous (adj~) | contrary; inconsistent (B) |
antinomian (n~) | a Christian who believes that faith alone will see |
antinomy (n~) | an inconsistency or built |
antipedobaptism (n~) | denial on scriptural grounds of the validityof infant baptism |
antiphrasis (n~) | a word used to mean its opposite; calling something |
antiscians (n~) | people living on the same meridian but on different |
antistasis (n~) | the defense of an action that prevented somethingworse from happening |
antithalian (adj~) | against enjoyment (B) |
antonomasia (n~) | substitution of an epithet or nickname for a |
anuptaphobia (n~) | fear of staying single (B E) |
aolist (n~) | a person who claims to be inspiredsudden wind of genius or artistic urgency; the wind is sometimes |
apaetesis (n~) | the angry putting aside of a matter to be taken |
apagogic (adj~) | pertaining to a proof by reductio ad absurdum; an |
apanthropy (n~) | dislike of being with people; love of solitude (B) |
apercu (n~) | a quick penetrating insight; immediate impression |
aphephobe (n~) | the person who doesn't like being touched (E) |
aphilophrenia (n~) | a feeling that one is unloved or unwanted (B) |
apocarteresis (n~) | suicide by starvation (B) |
apocrisis (n~) | replying to one's own arguments (rhetoric term) (W) |
apocrypha (n~) | writings reports |
apodiabolosis (n~) | diabolical treatment (B) |
apodictic (adj~) | absolutely certain or necessarily true; |
apodysophilia (n~) | feverish desire to undress (B) |
apolaustic (adj~) | given to enjoyment; self indulgent (B G) |
apomnemonysis (n~) | quoting an approved authority (rhetoric term) (W) |
apophasis (n~) | mentioning something by saying it won't be mentioned: "We |
aporia (n~) | professing to be at a loss as to what to say where to |
aposiopesis (n~) | a conscious breaking off in the middle of a sentence |
apothegm (n~) | a concise formulation of a truth; an aphorism (G) |
apotheosis (n~) | an exalted position highest development |
appellation (n~) | a name designation |
apposite (adj~) | appropriate fitting |
appropinquate (v~) | to approach (B) |
aptronym (n~) | a name befitting the occupation role or nature |
arcadian (adj~) | ideally simple and contented (G) |
argyrothecology (n~) | collecting of money boxes as found in |
aristarchian (adj~) | extremely critical (B E) |
aristophrenia (n~) | condition of having a superior intellect (B) |
arithmocracy (n~) | rule of the numerical majority (B) |
arriviste (n~) | on overly ambitious person; an opportunist (B) |
arrogate (v~) | to appropriate or claim unjustly; to attribute |
artuate (v~) | to tear limb from limb (B) |
ascian (n~) | one without a shadow: applied to the inhabitants of the |
asphalia (n~) | emphatic guaranteeing of what one is saying as by |
aspheterism (n~) | denial of private property (B) |
asportation (n~) | theft (B) |
asseverate (v~) | to state positively emphatically (B) |
assuetude (n~) | custom or habit (B) |
asteism (n~) | an ingeniously polite insult (B W) |
asthenophobe (n~) | the circumspect stoic the stiff |
astucious (adj~) | having keen perception; of astute and penetrating |
asyndetic (adj~) | not connected by conjunctions: I came I saw |
ataraxia (n~) | imperturbability; utter calmness (B) |
ataraxic (adj~) | of or pertaining to freedom from anxiety or emotional |
atelophobe (n~) | the driven perfectionist one with a morbid fear of |
athanasia (n~) | immortality (B) |
athetise (v~) | to spurn reject (B) |
atrabilarian (n~) | a gloomy hypochondriac (E) |
au grand serieux | with great earnestness or often |
augean (adj~) | filthy and difficult to clean; requiring hard work (from |
auscultation (n~) | the process of listening (G) |
autarchia (n~) | perpetual happiness (B) |
autoangelist (n~) | one who does his own communicating (E) |
autocephalous (adj~) | ecclesiastically self |
autochthonous (adj~) | native aboriginal |
autoclesis (n~) | introducing an idea or subject by seeming to |
autodidact (n~) | one self |
autognosis (n~) | knowledge of self especially the appreciation of |
autological (adj~) | self |
autologophagist (n~) | one who eats his words (B E) |
automysophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of being dirty |
autophobe (n~) | the socializer who does not like to be alone or |
autoschediastic (adj~) | impromptu; on the spur of the moment (B) |
autotelic (adj~) | having in itself an end or excuse for being |
autothaumaturgist (n~) | the coy or cagey person whose mission is toappear mysterious or quite remarkable (E) |
autotheist (n~) | the individual who is not only self |
auxesis (n~) | an ordering of thoughts expressed in a sequence of |
avering (n~) | a boy's begging in the nude to arouse sympathy (B) |
azygophrenia (n~) | the psychoneurosis of everyday unmarried life (B) |
bacchante (n | ) - a frenzied woman |
backberend (adj | ) - a thief caught with the goods (B) |
badaud (n | ) - an idle markedly stupid individual |
baffona (n | ) - a woman with a slight moustache (D) |
baksheesh (n | ) - a tip; gratuity (Egypt and points east) (B) |
balatron (n | ) - a joker; a clown (B) |
balneography (n | ) - treatise on baths and bathing |
balsamical (adj | ) - unctuous mitigating |
banausic (adj | ) - common ordinary |
bandersnatch (n | ) - an uncouth or unconventional person |
baptisiphily (n | ) - interest in collecting Christian baptismal |
baragouin (n | ) - gibberish (B W) |
bardolatry (n | ) - Shakespeare worship (B) |
barrator (n | ) - those constant inciters of lawsuits |
barratrous (adj | ) - pertaining to the habitual causing of fights (B) |
bashawism (n | ) - tyranny and imperiousness |
bashi-bazouk (n | ) - a dangerously out-of-control undisciplined |
bastinado (n | ) - striking the soles of the fet with a stick |
bathetic (adj | ) - emotionally jumping off the deep end insincere |
bathycolpian (adj | ) - deep-bosomed (B) |
bathysiderodromophobe (n | ) - somebody extremely fearful of subways (D) |
batten (v | ) - to thrive and grow fat by feeding (G) |
battological (adj | ) - pertaining to unnecessarily repetitive |
bavardage (n | ) - small talk or chitchat; idle chatter (W) |
beadledom (n | ) - the world of petty and incompetent officials |
bedlamite (n | ) - a madman (B) |
bedswerver (n | ) - an unfaithful spouse (B) |
beldam (n | ) - a repulsive older woman (D) |
belletristic (adj | ) - of or concerned (fine literature) (G) |
bellwether (n | ) - a leader of a sheeplike and foolish crowd (B) |
belomancy (n | ) - fortune-telling by marking arrows |
bibacious (adj | ) - addicted to alcohol (B) |
bibble (v | ) - to drink often or much; or to drink or eat noisily (B) |
bibliobibuli (n | ) - those who read too much |
bibliokleptomania (n | ) - abnormal compulsion to steal books |
bibliopegy (n | ) - the art of binding books |
bibliopolism (n | ) - the selling |
bibliotaphy (n | ) - the hoarding or hiding of books |
bibulous (adj | ) - intoxicating; addicted to or fond of alcoholic drinks |
bildungsroman (n | ) - a novel that deals with the development or education |
billingsgate (n | ) - coarse abusive |
biophilism (n | ) - belief that animals have rights |
biunial (adj | ) - combining two in one |
blandiloquence (n | ) - mildly flattering talk (B) |
blateroon (n | ) - a constant talker one afflicted with logorrhea (D) |
blennophobia (n | ) - abnormal fear or dislike of slime |
bletonism (n | ) - the alleged ability to perceive an underground |
blinkard (n | ) - one with bad eyes; a stupid or obtuse person; |
blissom (adj | ) - in heat; or (v |
bloviate (v | ) - to orate verbosely and windily; hold forth |
blowtop (n | ) - a person who becomes angry very easily or quickly (D) |
boanthropy (n | ) - a type of insanity in which a man thinks |
bodewash (n | ) - cow dung (B) |
boobocracy (n | ) - government by boobs; plebianism |
booboisie (n | ) - the mass rabble (B) |
boodler (n | ) - the opportunist who gladly takes bribes (D) |
bloviate (v | ) - to deliver an oration that is verbose or windy |
borborology (n | ) - the stomach-like rumbling of unclean talk (G) |
borborygm (n | ) - the noise made by gas in the bowels; a fart (B) |
borborygmite (n | ) - a dirty mouth |
bovrilise (v | ) - to condense an ad to essentials; to epitomize (B) |
brachylogy (n | ) - brevity; condensation omitting all non-essentials (B) |
brandophily (n | ) - collecting cigar bands |
breedbate (n | ) - someone looking for an argument (B) |
brimborion (n | ) - something useless or nonsensical (B) |
brobdingnagian (adj | ) - gigantic enormous (B) |
bromidrosis (n | ) - the secretion of foul-smelling sweat; body odor (G) |
brotus (n | ) - any extra measure without charge such as a |
brummagem (n | ) - making an imposing display but inferior |
bruxomania (n | ) - the habit of unconsciously grinding the teeth |
bumbledom (n | ) - the world of petty and incompetent officials |
bumbledom (n | ) - the world of petty and incompetent officials) |
buncombe (n | ) - empty insincere speechmaking (G) |
burke (v | ) - to smother people to sell their bodies for dissection (B) |
bushwah (n | ) - something poor mean |
bustluscious (adj | ) - having or characterized by shapely mammalia |
cacation (n | ) - excretion (B) |
cacemphaton (n | ) - a harsh-sounding word or phrase (B W) |
cacestogenous (adj | ) - caused by unfavorable home environment (B) |
cachinnation (n | ) - loud or immoderate laughter (B G) |
cacique (n | ) - a slightly pompous person (B) |
cacodoxical (adj | ) - heretical (B) |
cacoethes (n | ) - a mania or bad habit (B) |
cacogen (n | ) - a anti-social person (B) |
cacology (n | ) - bad pronunciation; impropriety of wording |
cacophenism (n | ) - an unfairly harsh or derogatory |
cacophrenic (adj | ) - pertaining to an inferior intellect (B) |
cacotechny (n | ) - a corrupt state of art (B) |
cacozelia (n | ) - studied affectation in diction or style |
cadge (v | ) - to hawk or peddle as fish; or to beg |
cagamosis (n | ) - unhappy marriage (B) |
cainophobia (n | ) - abnormal dislike of novelty or innovation |
caitiff (adj | ) - base; despicable; cowardly; wicked (B G) |
calcographer (n | ) - one who draws with crayons (B) |
calepin (n | ) - a dictionary esp |
caliginous (adj | ) - obscure; dim; misty; dark (B G) |
callipygous (or callipygian) (adj | ) - having shapely buttocks (B ) |
callithumpian (n | ) - a noisy demonstration (B) |
callomania (n | ) - the delusion that one is beautiful (B) |
canoodle (v | ) - to caress (B) |
cantabank (n | ) - second-rate ballad singer (B) |
capernoited (adj | ) - tipsy lightly pifflecated nimptopsical (B) |
captation (n | ) - trying to cadge acceptance by flattery (B W) |
captious (adj | ) - intended to confuse or artfully |
carminative (adj | ) - pertaining to farting (B) |
carriwitchet (n | ) - an absurd riddling question |
castrophrenia (n | ) - one's thoughts are beingstolen by enemies (B) |
casuistry (n | ) - deceptive reasoning about law or morals (W) |
catachresis (n | ) - incorrect use of a word or phrase |
catacosmesis (n | ); anticlimactic sequence in phrasing |
catarolysis (n | ) - cursing to let off steam (W) |
catawamptious (adj | ) - fierce destructive; or diagonal or crooked (B) |
catchpenny (adj | ) - popular but superficial (W) |
causerie (n | ) - a light and informal conversation; |
cervesial (adj | ) - pertaining to beer (B) |
charette (n | ) - the eleventh-hour efforts |
charientism (n | ) - a gracefully veiled insult (B W) |
chasmophilous (adj | ) - fond of nooks crannies |
cheimaphobia (n | ) - abnormal fear or dislike of cold |
cherophobia (n | ) - fear of gaiety (B) |
cherubimical (adj | ) - drunk (B) |
cheville (n | ) - an unnecessary word added to round off a sentence |
chiasmus (n | ) - the inverting of the second or latter of two phrases |
choplogic (n | ) - absurdly convoluted sophistical |
chrestomathy (n | ) - a collection of choice literary pieces (B) |
circumbendibus (n | ) - a roundabout process or story; |
circumforaneous (adj | ) - place to place (B) |
cisvestitism (n | ) - wearing weird or inappropriate clothes (B) |
cittosis (n | ) - an abnormal desire for strange foods (B) |
clamjamfry (n | ) - the mob or rabble (Scottish) (B) |
cledonism (n | ) - the eschewing of unlucky words |
cleocentric (adj | ) - pertaining to the belief that fame iseverything (B) |
clerihew (n | ) - an amusing quatrain about contemporary notables (B) |
clinchpoop (n | ) - a lout jerk fathead |
clinomania (n | ) - excessive desire to stay in bed (B) |
clinquant (n | ) - showy but valueless writing or literary effects; |
clishmaclaver (n | ) chatter; gossip (Scottish) (W) |
clodpolish (adj | ) - awkward (B) |
clyster (n | ) - an injection into the anus; an enema (B) |
codswallop (n | ) - baloney or hot air; gammon or humbug (British) (W) |
coevalneity (adj | ) - the state of being alike in age or duration |
cogger (n | ) - a phoney flatterer (B) |
cogitabund (adj | ) - meditative (B) |
colloquy (n | ) - a conversation or dialogue; serious or formal |
colluctation (n | ) - conflict (B) |
colluvial (adj | ) - pertaining to a mass of filth (B) |
collybist (n | ) - a usurer or miser (B) |
collywobbles (n | ) - pain or looseness in the bowels (B) |
colporteur (n | ) - a peddler of religious tracts |
colubrine (adj | ) - snaky sneaky |
commentitious (adj | ) - imaginary (B) |
commination (n | ) - denunciation; threatening or cursing (B) |
commoratio (n | ) - dwelling on a point |
commorient (adj | ) - dying together (B) |
complect (v | ) - to connect together; intertwine (B) |
compotation (n | ) - drinking together usually to excess (B) |
comprachico (n | ) - one who buys or sells children |
comprobatio (n | ) - complimenting one's judges or audience |
compurgation (n | ) - vindication; that which vindicates (B) |
comstockery (n | ) - zealous censorship of books or art |
conation (n | ) - mental effort (B) |
concatervate (adj | ) - heaped up (B) |
conciliabule (n | ) - a secret meeting of plot-hatchers (B) |
concinnity (n | ) - skill and harmony in a literary work; elegant arrangement (W) |
concupiscence (n | ) - strong appetite; excessive sexual desire (B) |
conflation (n | ) - a combining or blending of two or more versions |
consectaneous (adj | ) - logical consequence; corollary (B) |
consilience (n | ) - a change happening or coincidence |
conspectus (n | ) - a general survey or synopsis or summary (W) |
conspissation (n | ) - thickness; the act of thickening (B) |
conspurcate (v | ) - to pollute; defile (B) |
constuprate (v | ) - to violate to debauch (B) |
consuetude (n | ) - custom tradition (B) |
contortuplicate (adj | ) - twisted back upon itself (B) |
contraremonstrant (n | ) - a remonstrator against remonstrance (B) |
contrectation (n | ) - act of caressing someone especially furtively |
contumacy (n | ) - a refusal to obey or defiance |
contumely (n | ) - rude abrasive insult in speech or writing; |
copoclephily (n | ) - collecting key rings containing advertising |
coprolalia (n | ) - the use of words relating to dirt or excrement (B) |
coprophemia (n | ) - obscene language (B) |
coprophobia (n | ) - abnormal fear of feces |
coryphaeus (n | ) - a leader of a school of thought |
costermongering (n | ) - tampering with a composer's orchestral works |
countercaster (n | ) - a contemptuous word for a bookkeeper or accountant; |
covinous (adj | ) - deceitful conspiring (B) |
crapulous (adj | ) - given to gross excess in drinking or eating |
crassilingual (adj | ) - thick-tongued (B) |
crepehangar (n | ) - a gloomy person; a pessimist (B) |
cri de coeur | an ardent impassioned declaration |
cri de guerre | war cry: |
criticaster (n~) | an incompetent inferior critic (B |
crurophilous (adj~) | liking legs (B) |
crux criticorum | a riddle or puzzle for the critics (W) |
cui bono | "who stands to gain from this") (W) |
cumyxaphily (n~) | collecting match boxes |
cunctative (adj~) | tardy dilatory (B) |
curiosa felicitas | apt and elegant expressism; |
curlicism (n~) | literary indecency (W) |
currente calamo | with a running pen: fluidly or offhand (W) |
cyprian (adj~) | lecherous licentious |
cypripareunia (n~) | sexual intercourse with a prostitute (B) |
dacrygelosis (n~) | condition of alternating laughing and crying (B) |
daedal (adj~) | skillfully and artistically crafted (W) |
dasypygal (adj~) | having hairy buttocks (B) |
de profundis | agonized plaint or lament (W) |
deblaterate (v~) | to babble (B) |
decoct | extract the essence of flavor of as by boiling (G) |
decollate (v~) | to behead (B) |
decussate (v~) | to make an X; intersect (B) |
defalcate (v~) | to embezzle (B) |
defeneration (n~) | usury (B) |
dehortatory (adj~) | dissuading (B) |
deictic (adj~) | pointing to specifically eg pronouns 'that' and 'those' (W) |
deipnophobia (n~) | fear of dining and dinner conversation |
deipnosophist (n~) | a skillful dinner conversationalist (B) |
deja lu | a sense of familiarity or recognition in something read (W) |
dejecture (n~) | excrement (B) |
delator (n~) | an informer or accuser (B) |
delectus (n~) | a book of passages from Greek and Latin authors |
agnoiology (n~) | the study of ignorance (B) |
agnosy (n~) | ignorance; especially ignorance shared by the whole |
agonist (n~) | a struggler; a person who is contending whether in |
agonistic (n~) | combative; strained for the sake of effect (B) |
agroof (n~) | flat on one's face (Scottish) (B) |
ailurophobe (n~) | the person who can't stand cats (E) |
airmonger (n~) | the man or woman who is attracted to visionary |
aischrolatreia (n~) | worship of filth dirt |
aldiborontiphoscophornio (n~) | a pompous person (from an old English |
aleatory (adj~) | dependent upon chance luck |
alectoromachy (n~) | cockfighting |
algedonic (adj~) | pertaining to pain especially when associated with |
algedonica (n~) | the science of pleasure and pain (B) |
algidity (n~) | coldness |
algolagnic (adj~) | relating to the perception of pleasure from |
allagrugous (adj~) | grim and ghastly (G) |
allision (n~) | the ramming of one object by another (B) |
allochthonous (adj~) | foreign (B) |
allonym (n~) | another person's name used as a pen name; a ghostwritten |
allotheism (n~) | worship of strange gods (B) |
allotriophagy (n~) | the craving for weird food (B) |
alogism (n~) | unreasonableness; absurdity; illogical statement(B) |
alopecia (n~) | baldness (B) |
alopecoid (adj~) | foxy (B) |
alter kocker (n~) | a canny stubborn old man who has been around but |
altiloquence (n~) | pompous speech (B W) |
amaranthine (adj~) | eternally beautiful; unfading; everlasting (E G) |
amatorculist (n~) | an insignificant or hypocritical lover (B) |
ambagious (adj~) | talking or doing things in an indirect manner; |
ambiloquence (n~) | competence in double |
ambivert (n~) | someone whose personality strikes a nice balance between |
amblysia | phrasing in such a way as to forewarn or to cushion a dire |
amende honorable | an honorable fine: a full and frank apology however |
ami de cour (n~) | the fairweather or foul |
amicus humani generis (n~) | a philathropist (E) |
amniomancy (n~) | fortune telling by examining the embryonic sac |
amphibolous (adj~) | susceptible of two meanings; ambiguous; equivocal |
amphigean (adj~) | found or occuring throughout the world (B) |
amphigory (n~) | nonsensical writing (B W) |
amphilogy (n~) | a statement open to more than one interpretation |
ampollosity (n~) | bombast; pompous style (B W) |
amurcous (adj~) | stinking; filled with dregs (B) |
amyctic (adj~) | irritating; abrasive (B) |
anacampserote (n~) | something which can bring back a lost love (B) |
anachorism (n~) | foreign to a certain locality; geographically |
anaclitic (adj~) | overly dependent on another (B) |
anacoluthon (n~) | an abrupt shift in midsentence in syntax to |
anacreontic (adj~) | jovial festive and amatory (B |
anadiplosis (n~) | repeating the final words or words of a phrase |
anadipsic (adj~) | pertaining to excessive thirst (B) |
anagapesis (n~) | lack of interest in former loved ones (B) |
anagnorisis (n~) | recognition or discovery as of a disguised |
anagogig (adj~) | relating to things spiritual and mystical; occult; |
analects (n~) | selected parts of a literary work or works (W) |
analeptic (adj~) | serving to renew strength and vigor; invigorating (B G) |
anamnestic (adj~) | reminiscent; aiding the memory (B) |
ananias (n~) | a teller of untruths; liar (from a follower of the |
ananym (n~) | a pseudonym devised by spelling one's name backward (B W) |
anaphora (n~) | repitition of a word or phrase in successive clauses |
anapodictic (adj~) | undemonstrable (B) |
anastrophe (n~) | inversion of the usual order of words or withholding |
anatreptic (adj~) | defeating refuting (B) |
anautarchia (n~) | perpetual unhappiness (B) |
anax andron (n~) | a leader or men a take |
anaxiphilia (n~) | act of falling in love with a schtoonk by someone |
ancilla (n~) | a sidekick who helps another to accomplish or master |
andabate (n~) | one who is hoodwinked in the dark or virtually blind |
androlepsia (n~) | international governmental kidnapping for |
anfractuous (adj~) | winding tortuous (B |
angary (n~) | the right of a warring nation to use or destroy a |
angst (n~) | anxiety fear; not fear of anything specific but a dread |
anhedonia (n~) | the inability to be happy (B) |
aniconic (adj~) | not using or permitting images effigies |
anicular (adj~) | old |
anililagnia (n~) | sexual desire for older women (B) |
anile (adj~) | old womanish; lacking in force strength or effectiveness; |
animadversion (n~) | generally adverse criticism (B E |
ankylophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of stiff or immobile joints |
anodyne (adj~) | painless soothing (G) |
anomy (n~) | the collapse of the social structures governing a |
anonym (n~) | a person remaining nameless; psuedonym; anonymous |
anonymuncule (n~) | an insignificant anonymous writer (B) |
anorchous (adj~) | without testicles; or gutless (B E) |
anosognosia (n~) | the lack of interest or belief in the existence |
Anschauung (n~) | intuition; sense awareness of perception (B) |
antanaclasis (n~) | a phrasing in which the topic or key word is |
antelucan (adj~) | pertaining to or occurring before dawn (G) |
antephialtic (adj~) | preventive of nightmares (G) |
anthimeria (n~) | the using of one part of speech for another for |
anthorism (n~) | a counterdefinition or a delineation or description |
anthropophaginia (n~) | a cannibal (E) |
anthropophobia (n~) | fear of meeting people; fear of society (B) |
antilogous (adj~) | contrary; inconsistent (B) |
antinomian (n~) | a Christian who believes that faith alone will see |
antinomy (n~) | an inconsistency or built |
antipedobaptism (n~) | denial on scriptural grounds of the validityof infant baptism |
antiphrasis (n~) | a word used to mean its opposite; calling something |
antiscians (n~) | people living on the same meridian but on different |
antistasis (n~) | the defense of an action that prevented somethingworse from happening |
antithalian (adj~) | against enjoyment (B) |
antonomasia (n~) | substitution of an epithet or nickname for a |
anuptaphobia (n~) | fear of staying single (B E) |
aolist (n~) | a person who claims to be inspiredsudden wind of genius or artistic urgency; the wind is sometimes |
apaetesis (n~) | the angry putting aside of a matter to be taken |
apagogic (adj~) | pertaining to a proof by reductio ad absurdum; an |
apanthropy (n~) | dislike of being with people; love of solitude (B) |
apercu (n~) | a quick penetrating insight; immediate impression |
aphephobe (n~) | the person who doesn't like being touched (E) |
aphilophrenia (n~) | a feeling that one is unloved or unwanted (B) |
apocarteresis (n~) | suicide by starvation (B) |
apocrisis (n~) | replying to one's own arguments (rhetoric term) (W) |
apocrypha (n~) | writings reports |
apodiabolosis (n~) | diabolical treatment (B) |
apodictic (adj~) | absolutely certain or necessarily true; |
apodysophilia (n~) | feverish desire to undress (B) |
apolaustic (adj~) | given to enjoyment; self indulgent (B G) |
apomnemonysis (n~) | quoting an approved authority (rhetoric term) (W) |
apophasis (n~) | mentioning something by saying it won't be mentioned: "We |
aporia (n~) | professing to be at a loss as to what to say where to |
aposiopesis (n~) | a conscious breaking off in the middle of a sentence |
apothegm (n~) | a concise formulation of a truth; an aphorism (G) |
apotheosis (n~) | an exalted position highest development |
appellation (n~) | a name designation |
apposite (adj~) | appropriate fitting |
appropinquate (v~) | to approach (B) |
aptronym (n~) | a name befitting the occupation role or nature |
arcadian (adj~) | ideally simple and contented (G) |
argyrothecology (n~) | collecting of money boxes as found in |
aristarchian (adj~) | extremely critical (B E) |
aristophrenia (n~) | condition of having a superior intellect (B) |
arithmocracy (n~) | rule of the numerical majority (B) |
arriviste (n~) | on overly ambitious person; an opportunist (B) |
arrogate (v~) | to appropriate or claim unjustly; to attribute |
artuate (v~) | to tear limb from limb (B) |
ascian (n~) | one without a shadow: applied to the inhabitants of the |
asphalia (n~) | emphatic guaranteeing of what one is saying as by |
aspheterism (n~) | denial of private property (B) |
asportation (n~) | theft (B) |
asseverate (v~) | to state positively emphatically (B) |
assuetude (n~) | custom or habit (B) |
asteism (n~) | an ingeniously polite insult (B W) |
asthenophobe (n~) | the circumspect stoic the stiff |
astucious (adj~) | having keen perception; of astute and penetrating |
asyndetic (adj~) | not connected by conjunctions: I came I saw |
ataraxia (n~) | imperturbability; utter calmness (B) |
ataraxic (adj~) | of or pertaining to freedom from anxiety or emotional |
atelophobe (n~) | the driven perfectionist one with a morbid fear of |
athanasia (n~) | immortality (B) |
athetise (v~) | to spurn reject (B) |
atrabilarian (n~) | a gloomy hypochondriac (E) |
au grand serieux | with great earnestness or often |
augean (adj~) | filthy and difficult to clean; requiring hard work (from |
auscultation (n~) | the process of listening (G) |
autarchia (n~) | perpetual happiness (B) |
autoangelist (n~) | one who does his own communicating (E) |
autocephalous (adj~) | ecclesiastically self |
autochthonous (adj~) | native aboriginal |
autoclesis (n~) | introducing an idea or subject by seeming to |
autodidact (n~) | one self |
autognosis (n~) | knowledge of self especially the appreciation of |
autological (adj~) | self |
autologophagist (n~) | one who eats his words (B E) |
automysophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of being dirty |
autophobe (n~) | the socializer who does not like to be alone or |
autoschediastic (adj~) | impromptu; on the spur of the moment (B) |
autotelic (adj~) | having in itself an end or excuse for being |
autothaumaturgist (n~) | the coy or cagey person whose mission is toappear mysterious or quite remarkable (E) |
autotheist (n~) | the individual who is not only self |
auxesis (n~) | an ordering of thoughts expressed in a sequence of |
avering (n~) | a boy's begging in the nude to arouse sympathy (B) |
azygophrenia (n~) | the psychoneurosis of everyday unmarried life (B) |
bacchante (n | ) - a frenzied woman |
backberend (adj | ) - a thief caught with the goods (B) |
badaud (n | ) - an idle markedly stupid individual |
baffona (n | ) - a woman with a slight moustache (D) |
baksheesh (n | ) - a tip; gratuity (Egypt and points east) (B) |
balatron (n | ) - a joker; a clown (B) |
balneography (n | ) - treatise on baths and bathing |
balsamical (adj | ) - unctuous mitigating |
banausic (adj | ) - common ordinary |
bandersnatch (n | ) - an uncouth or unconventional person |
baptisiphily (n | ) - interest in collecting Christian baptismal |
baragouin (n | ) - gibberish (B W) |
bardolatry (n | ) - Shakespeare worship (B) |
barrator (n | ) - those constant inciters of lawsuits |
barratrous (adj | ) - pertaining to the habitual causing of fights (B) |
bashawism (n | ) - tyranny and imperiousness |
bashi-bazouk (n | ) - a dangerously out-of-control undisciplined |
bastinado (n | ) - striking the soles of the fet with a stick |
bathetic (adj | ) - emotionally jumping off the deep end insincere |
bathycolpian (adj | ) - deep-bosomed (B) |
bathysiderodromophobe (n | ) - somebody extremely fearful of subways (D) |
batten (v | ) - to thrive and grow fat by feeding (G) |
battological (adj | ) - pertaining to unnecessarily repetitive |
bavardage (n | ) - small talk or chitchat; idle chatter (W) |
beadledom (n | ) - the world of petty and incompetent officials |
bedlamite (n | ) - a madman (B) |
bedswerver (n | ) - an unfaithful spouse (B) |
beldam (n | ) - a repulsive older woman (D) |
belletristic (adj | ) - of or concerned (fine literature) (G) |
bellwether (n | ) - a leader of a sheeplike and foolish crowd (B) |
belomancy (n | ) - fortune-telling by marking arrows |
bibacious (adj | ) - addicted to alcohol (B) |
bibble (v | ) - to drink often or much; or to drink or eat noisily (B) |
bibliobibuli (n | ) - those who read too much |
bibliokleptomania (n | ) - abnormal compulsion to steal books |
bibliopegy (n | ) - the art of binding books |
bibliopolism (n | ) - the selling |
bibliotaphy (n | ) - the hoarding or hiding of books |
bibulous (adj | ) - intoxicating; addicted to or fond of alcoholic drinks |
bildungsroman (n | ) - a novel that deals with the development or education |
billingsgate (n | ) - coarse abusive |
biophilism (n | ) - belief that animals have rights |
biunial (adj | ) - combining two in one |
blandiloquence (n | ) - mildly flattering talk (B) |
blateroon (n | ) - a constant talker one afflicted with logorrhea (D) |
blennophobia (n | ) - abnormal fear or dislike of slime |
bletonism (n | ) - the alleged ability to perceive an underground |
blinkard (n | ) - one with bad eyes; a stupid or obtuse person; |
blissom (adj | ) - in heat; or (v |
bloviate (v | ) - to orate verbosely and windily; hold forth |
blowtop (n | ) - a person who becomes angry very easily or quickly (D) |
boanthropy (n | ) - a type of insanity in which a man thinks |
bodewash (n | ) - cow dung (B) |
boobocracy (n | ) - government by boobs; plebianism |
booboisie (n | ) - the mass rabble (B) |
boodler (n | ) - the opportunist who gladly takes bribes (D) |
bloviate (v | ) - to deliver an oration that is verbose or windy |
borborology (n | ) - the stomach-like rumbling of unclean talk (G) |
borborygm (n | ) - the noise made by gas in the bowels; a fart (B) |
borborygmite (n | ) - a dirty mouth |
bovrilise (v | ) - to condense an ad to essentials; to epitomize (B) |
brachylogy (n | ) - brevity; condensation omitting all non-essentials (B) |
brandophily (n | ) - collecting cigar bands |
breedbate (n | ) - someone looking for an argument (B) |
brimborion (n | ) - something useless or nonsensical (B) |
brobdingnagian (adj | ) - gigantic enormous (B) |
bromidrosis (n | ) - the secretion of foul-smelling sweat; body odor (G) |
brotus (n | ) - any extra measure without charge such as a |
brummagem (n | ) - making an imposing display but inferior |
bruxomania (n | ) - the habit of unconsciously grinding the teeth |
bumbledom (n | ) - the world of petty and incompetent officials |
bumbledom (n | ) - the world of petty and incompetent officials) |
buncombe (n | ) - empty insincere speechmaking (G) |
burke (v | ) - to smother people to sell their bodies for dissection (B) |
bushwah (n | ) - something poor mean |
bustluscious (adj | ) - having or characterized by shapely mammalia |
cacation (n | ) - excretion (B) |
cacemphaton (n | ) - a harsh-sounding word or phrase (B W) |
cacestogenous (adj | ) - caused by unfavorable home environment (B) |
cachinnation (n | ) - loud or immoderate laughter (B G) |
cacique (n | ) - a slightly pompous person (B) |
cacodoxical (adj | ) - heretical (B) |
cacoethes (n | ) - a mania or bad habit (B) |
cacogen (n | ) - a anti-social person (B) |
cacology (n | ) - bad pronunciation; impropriety of wording |
cacophenism (n | ) - an unfairly harsh or derogatory |
cacophrenic (adj | ) - pertaining to an inferior intellect (B) |
cacotechny (n | ) - a corrupt state of art (B) |
cacozelia (n | ) - studied affectation in diction or style |
cadge (v | ) - to hawk or peddle as fish; or to beg |
cagamosis (n | ) - unhappy marriage (B) |
cainophobia (n | ) - abnormal dislike of novelty or innovation |
caitiff (adj | ) - base; despicable; cowardly; wicked (B G) |
calcographer (n | ) - one who draws with crayons (B) |
calepin (n | ) - a dictionary esp |
caliginous (adj | ) - obscure; dim; misty; dark (B G) |
callipygous (or callipygian) (adj | ) - having shapely buttocks (B ) |
callithumpian (n | ) - a noisy demonstration (B) |
callomania (n | ) - the delusion that one is beautiful (B) |
canoodle (v | ) - to caress (B) |
cantabank (n | ) - second-rate ballad singer (B) |
capernoited (adj | ) - tipsy lightly pifflecated nimptopsical (B) |
captation (n | ) - trying to cadge acceptance by flattery (B W) |
captious (adj | ) - intended to confuse or artfully |
carminative (adj | ) - pertaining to farting (B) |
carriwitchet (n | ) - an absurd riddling question |
castrophrenia (n | ) - one's thoughts are beingstolen by enemies (B) |
casuistry (n | ) - deceptive reasoning about law or morals (W) |
catachresis (n | ) - incorrect use of a word or phrase |
catacosmesis (n | ); anticlimactic sequence in phrasing |
catarolysis (n | ) - cursing to let off steam (W) |
catawamptious (adj | ) - fierce destructive; or diagonal or crooked (B) |
catchpenny (adj | ) - popular but superficial (W) |
causerie (n | ) - a light and informal conversation; |
cervesial (adj | ) - pertaining to beer (B) |
charette (n | ) - the eleventh-hour efforts |
charientism (n | ) - a gracefully veiled insult (B W) |
chasmophilous (adj | ) - fond of nooks crannies |
cheimaphobia (n | ) - abnormal fear or dislike of cold |
cherophobia (n | ) - fear of gaiety (B) |
cherubimical (adj | ) - drunk (B) |
cheville (n | ) - an unnecessary word added to round off a sentence |
chiasmus (n | ) - the inverting of the second or latter of two phrases |
choplogic (n | ) - absurdly convoluted sophistical |
chrestomathy (n | ) - a collection of choice literary pieces (B) |
circumbendibus (n | ) - a roundabout process or story; |
circumforaneous (adj | ) - place to place (B) |
cisvestitism (n | ) - wearing weird or inappropriate clothes (B) |
cittosis (n | ) - an abnormal desire for strange foods (B) |
clamjamfry (n | ) - the mob or rabble (Scottish) (B) |
cledonism (n | ) - the eschewing of unlucky words |
cleocentric (adj | ) - pertaining to the belief that fame iseverything (B) |
clerihew (n | ) - an amusing quatrain about contemporary notables (B) |
clinchpoop (n | ) - a lout jerk fathead |
clinomania (n | ) - excessive desire to stay in bed (B) |
clinquant (n | ) - showy but valueless writing or literary effects; |
clishmaclaver (n | ) chatter; gossip (Scottish) (W) |
clodpolish (adj | ) - awkward (B) |
clyster (n | ) - an injection into the anus; an enema (B) |
codswallop (n | ) - baloney or hot air; gammon or humbug (British) (W) |
coevalneity (adj | ) - the state of being alike in age or duration |
cogger (n | ) - a phoney flatterer (B) |
cogitabund (adj | ) - meditative (B) |
colloquy (n | ) - a conversation or dialogue; serious or formal |
colluctation (n | ) - conflict (B) |
colluvial (adj | ) - pertaining to a mass of filth (B) |
collybist (n | ) - a usurer or miser (B) |
collywobbles (n | ) - pain or looseness in the bowels (B) |
colporteur (n | ) - a peddler of religious tracts |
colubrine (adj | ) - snaky sneaky |
commentitious (adj | ) - imaginary (B) |
commination (n | ) - denunciation; threatening or cursing (B) |
commoratio (n | ) - dwelling on a point |
commorient (adj | ) - dying together (B) |
complect (v | ) - to connect together; intertwine (B) |
compotation (n | ) - drinking together usually to excess (B) |
comprachico (n | ) - one who buys or sells children |
comprobatio (n | ) - complimenting one's judges or audience |
compurgation (n | ) - vindication; that which vindicates (B) |
comstockery (n | ) - zealous censorship of books or art |
conation (n | ) - mental effort (B) |
concatervate (adj | ) - heaped up (B) |
conciliabule (n | ) - a secret meeting of plot-hatchers (B) |
concinnity (n | ) - skill and harmony in a literary work; elegant arrangement (W) |
concupiscence (n | ) - strong appetite; excessive sexual desire (B) |
conflation (n | ) - a combining or blending of two or more versions |
consectaneous (adj | ) - logical consequence; corollary (B) |
consilience (n | ) - a change happening or coincidence |
conspectus (n | ) - a general survey or synopsis or summary (W) |
conspissation (n | ) - thickness; the act of thickening (B) |
conspurcate (v | ) - to pollute; defile (B) |
constuprate (v | ) - to violate to debauch (B) |
consuetude (n | ) - custom tradition (B) |
contortuplicate (adj | ) - twisted back upon itself (B) |
contraremonstrant (n | ) - a remonstrator against remonstrance (B) |
contrectation (n | ) - act of caressing someone especially furtively |
contumacy (n | ) - a refusal to obey or defiance |
contumely (n | ) - rude abrasive insult in speech or writing; |
copoclephily (n | ) - collecting key rings containing advertising |
coprolalia (n | ) - the use of words relating to dirt or excrement (B) |
coprophemia (n | ) - obscene language (B) |
coprophobia (n | ) - abnormal fear of feces |
coryphaeus (n | ) - a leader of a school of thought |
costermongering (n | ) - tampering with a composer's orchestral works |
countercaster (n | ) - a contemptuous word for a bookkeeper or accountant; |
covinous (adj | ) - deceitful conspiring (B) |
crapulous (adj | ) - given to gross excess in drinking or eating |
crassilingual (adj | ) - thick-tongued (B) |
crepehangar (n | ) - a gloomy person; a pessimist (B) |
cri de coeur | an ardent impassioned declaration |
cri de guerre | war cry: |
criticaster (n~) | an incompetent inferior critic (B |
crurophilous (adj~) | liking legs (B) |
crux criticorum | a riddle or puzzle for the critics (W) |
cui bono | "who stands to gain from this") (W) |
cumyxaphily (n~) | collecting match boxes |
cunctative (adj~) | tardy dilatory (B) |
curiosa felicitas | apt and elegant expressism; |
curlicism (n~) | literary indecency (W) |
currente calamo | with a running pen: fluidly or offhand (W) |
cyprian (adj~) | lecherous licentious |
cypripareunia (n~) | sexual intercourse with a prostitute (B) |
dacrygelosis (n~) | condition of alternating laughing and crying (B) |
daedal (adj~) | skillfully and artistically crafted (W) |
dasypygal (adj~) | having hairy buttocks (B) |
de profundis | agonized plaint or lament (W) |
deblaterate (v~) | to babble (B) |
decoct | extract the essence of flavor of as by boiling (G) |
decollate (v~) | to behead (B) |
decussate (v~) | to make an X; intersect (B) |
defalcate (v~) | to embezzle (B) |
defeneration (n~) | usury (B) |
dehortatory (adj~) | dissuading (B) |
deictic (adj~) | pointing to specifically eg pronouns 'that' and 'those' (W) |
deipnophobia (n~) | fear of dining and dinner conversation |
deipnosophist (n~) | a skillful dinner conversationalist (B) |
deja lu | a sense of familiarity or recognition in something read (W) |
dejecture (n~) | excrement (B) |
delator (n~) | an informer or accuser (B) |
delectus (n~) | a book of passages from Greek and Latin authors |
deliquesce | melt away; gradually dissolve (G) |
delirament (n~) | raving; a foolish story (B) |
delitescent (adj~) | hidden; inactive (B) |
deltiology (n~) | collecting picture postcards |
demiurge (n~) | a secondary god who (a) created evil; |
demophobe (n~) | a people |
dentiloquist (n~) | one who speaks with clenched teeth (W) |
deorsumversion (n~) | a turning downward (B) |
deosculate (v~) | to kiss affectionately (B) |
depeculation (n~) | an embezzling of public funds (B) |
dephlogisticate (v~) | to make fireproof (B) |
deracinate | extirpate; eradicate; abolish completely (G) |
derism (n~) | an expression of scorn or contempt (W) |
descant (n~) | a commenting or discussing at length |
desiderata (n~) | list of books sought by a collector or library |
desidious (adj~) | slothful (B) |
desipient (adj~) | foolish silly (B) |
despumate (v~) | to skim; to take the scum off (B) |
desquamate (v~) | to peel off (B) |
desuetude (n~) | disuse (B) |
devenustate (v~) | to deprive of beauty (B) |
devil's mass | indiscriminate cursing (W) |
diacope (n~) | the separation of a word by the interpolation |
diallage | concentration of several separate arguments |
dialogue des sourds | dialogue of the deaf: |
dialysis | rational disposing of reasons for or against something; |
diaskeuasis (n~) | editorial revision (B) |
diasyrm | arch disparagement as by mocking praise |
diatyposis | vivid presentation by means of exciting language |
dicacity (n~) | oral playfulness; talkativeness (B) |
dichaeologia | a defense of failure or disgrace |
dictum de dicto | a secondhand report hearsay (W) |
didactic | overburdened with moral emphasis therefore dull |
autodidact | is a self |
diffugient (adj~) | scattering (B) |
dilogical (adj~) | ambiguous; having a double meaning (B) |
dilogy (n~) | equivocal expression |
dimbox (n~) | an expert at getting others to make up (E) |
dingbat (n~) | an ornamental piece of type used on a page |
dioristically (adv~) | in a distinguishing manner (B) |
diplasiasmus (n~) | the incorrect doubling of a singgle [sic] letter (B) |
dippoldism (n~) | beating or whipping school children (B) |
diremption (n~) | a violent or final separation (B) |
discalced | without shoes; barefoot; unshod (G) |
disceptation (n~) | controversy or argument |
discommode | disturb; annoy; put to inconvenience (G) |
disjecta membra | verbal bits and pieces (W) |
disquisition | formal discussion discourse |
dissemble | to pretend to feign |
dissentaneous (adj~) | disagreeable; negative (B) |
dithyrambic | any wild frenzied |
divagate | to wonder or stray; or digress; deviate (G) |
divarication (n~) | a difference of opinion |
diversivolent (adj~) | looking for trouble or an argument (B) |
dixit (n~) | an unconfirmed sometimes dogmatic statement (B) |
docta ignorantia | learned ignornace (W) |
dolorifuge (n~) | something that relieves sadness (B) |
dolus bonus | good deceit: in Roman and civil law |
diacope (n~) | the separation of a word by the interpolation |
diallage | concentration of several separate arguments |
dialogue des sourds | dialogue of the deaf: |
dialysis | rational disposing of reasons for or against something; |
diaskeuasis (n~) | editorial revision (B) |
diasyrm | arch disparagement as by mocking praise |
diatyposis | vivid presentation by means of exciting language |
dicacity (n~) | oral playfulness; talkativeness (B) |
dichaeologia | a defense of failure or disgrace |
dictum de dicto | a secondhand report hearsay (W) |
didactic | overburdened with moral emphasis therefore dull |
autodidact | is a self |
diffugient (adj~) | scattering (B) |
dilogical (adj~) | ambiguous; having a double meaning (B) |
dilogy (n~) | equivocal expression |
dimbox (n~) | an expert at getting others to make up (E) |
dingbat (n~) | an ornamental piece of type used on a page |
dioristically (adv~) | in a distinguishing manner (B) |
diplasiasmus (n~) | the incorrect doubling of a singgle [sic] letter (B) |
dippoldism (n~) | beating or whipping school children (B) |
diremption (n~) | a violent or final separation (B) |
discalced | without shoes; barefoot; unshod (G) |
disceptation (n~) | controversy or argument |
discommode | disturb; annoy; put to inconvenience (G) |
disjecta membra | verbal bits and pieces (W) |
disquisition | formal discussion discourse |
dissemble | to pretend to feign |
dissentaneous (adj~) | disagreeable; negative (B) |
dithyrambic | any wild frenzied |
divagate | to wonder or stray; or digress; deviate (G) |
divarication (n~) | a difference of opinion |
diversivolent (adj~) | looking for trouble or an argument (B) |
dixit (n~) | an unconfirmed sometimes dogmatic statement (B) |
docta ignorantia | learned ignornace (W) |
dolorifuge (n~) | something that relieves sadness (B) |
dolus bonus | good deceit: in Roman and civil law |
diacope (n~) | the separation of a word by the interpolation |
diallage | concentration of several separate arguments |
dialogue des sourds | dialogue of the deaf: |
dialysis | rational disposing of reasons for or against something; |
diaskeuasis (n~) | editorial revision (B) |
diasyrm | arch disparagement as by mocking praise |
diatyposis | vivid presentation by means of exciting language |
dicacity (n~) | oral playfulness; talkativeness (B) |
dichaeologia | a defense of failure or disgrace |
dictum de dicto | a secondhand report hearsay (W) |
didactic | overburdened with moral emphasis therefore dull |
autodidact | is a self |
diffugient (adj~) | scattering (B) |
dilogical (adj~) | ambiguous; having a double meaning (B) |
dilogy (n~) | equivocal expression |
dimbox (n~) | an expert at getting others to make up (E) |
dingbat (n~) | an ornamental piece of type used on a page |
dioristically (adv~) | in a distinguishing manner (B) |
diplasiasmus (n~) | the incorrect doubling of a singgle [sic] letter (B) |
dippoldism (n~) | beating or whipping school children (B) |
diremption (n~) | a violent or final separation (B) |
discalced | without shoes; barefoot; unshod (G) |
disceptation (n~) | controversy or argument |
discommode | disturb; annoy; put to inconvenience (G) |
disjecta membra | verbal bits and pieces (W) |
disquisition | formal discussion discourse |
dissemble | to pretend to feign |
dissentaneous (adj~) | disagreeable; negative (B) |
dithyrambic | any wild frenzied |
divagate | to wonder or stray; or digress; deviate (G) |
divarication (n~) | a difference of opinion |
diversivolent (adj~) | looking for trouble or an argument (B) |
dixit (n~) | an unconfirmed sometimes dogmatic statement (B) |
docta ignorantia | learned ignornace (W) |
dolorifuge (n~) | something that relieves sadness (B) |
dolus bonus | good deceit: in Roman and civil law |
dolus malus | evil deceit: in Roman and civil law |
doppelganger | a person's ghostly counterpart and companion |
dontopedalogy | the aptitude for putting one's foot in one's mouth |
doxastic (adj~) | pertaining to opinion (B) |
dryasdust (n~) | a dull pedantic speaker or writer |
dvandva (n~) | a compound word as bitter |
dysphemism (n~) | |
epiphoric (adj~) | pertaining to a torrent of tears (B) |
epiplexis | asking a question as a form of reproach |
episcopicide (n~) | the killing of a bishop (B) |
epistemophilia (n~) | abnormal preoccupation with knowledge (B) |
epithymetic (adj~) | pertaining to appetite sexual and otherwise (B) |
epitrope | conceding a point in such a qualified ironic way |
epizeuxis (n~) | emphatic verbal repitition (B) |
equivoque (n~) | an ambiguous statement or passage |
eremitism (n~) | the state of being a hermit or an attitude |
ereption (n~) | the act of snatching away (B) |
erethism (n~) | excessive irritability or excitability (B) |
ergoism (n~) | fussy adherence to logical protocols or forms (W) |
ergotism (n~) | quibbling and wrangling; sophistical reasoning |
erigible (adj~) | capable of being erected (B) |
erinaceous (adj~) | pertaining to the hedgehog (B) |
eristic (adj~) | provoking strife or controversy or discord; |
erotographomania (n~) | mania for writing love letters (B) |
erotology (n~) | the description of methods of lovemaking; |
errabund (n~) | wandering; erratic (B) |
errinophily (n~) | collecting of stamps other than postage stamps |
erythromania (n~) | mania for blushing |
eschrolalia (n~) | dirty (fecal) language (B) |
esemplastic (adj~) | forming disparate parts into a whole; aesthetically unifying (W) |
esprit de l'escalier | wishful thinking of a witty comment |
estivate | to spend the summer (G) |
estrapade (n~) | a horse's attempt to dump its rider (B) |
esurient | hungry (E) greedy; avaricious; covetous (G) |
etat present | an exhaustive summary of up |
ethnophaulism (n~) | an ethnic slur (B W) |
etiolation (n~) | paleness of color due to illness exclusion from light |
eucharistia | profuse praise as an expression of gratitude and emotion |
eudaemonia (n~) | true happiness (B) |
euhemerism (n) | the theory that all myths are based on reality (B) |
eumoirous (adj~) | someone who is lucky or happy as a result of being good |
eumorphous (adj~) | well |
earwig (v~) | attempt to influence or insinuate oneself through flattery (W) |
ebberman (n~) | one who fishes below bridges (B) |
ebriection (n~) | mental breakdown from too much boozing (B) |
ebrious (adj~) | tending to overimbibe; slightly drunk (B) |
ecclesiolatry (n~) | an all |
ecdemic (adj~) | of foreign origin (B) |
ecdemomania (n~) | compulsive wandering (B) |
ecdysiast (n~) | a stripper (H |
echolalia (n~) | pathological repitition of others' words or remarks (B W) |
echopraxia (n~) | a habit of mimicking people (B) |
echt (adj~) | genuine authentic |
eclaircissement (n~) | clarification (B) |
eclipsis (n~) | omission of a grammatical element necessary |
ecmnesia (n~) | loss of recent memory w retention of earlier memories (B) |
ecphonesis (n~) | exclamation (W) |
edacious (adj~) | eats a lot; voracious (B) |
edea (n~) | the external genitals (B) |
edipol (n~) | a mild oath (B) |
edulcorate (v~) | to sweeten or purify (B) |
eesome (adj~) | pleasing to the eye (B) |
effictio | as a head |
efflation (n~) | an emanation; a puff (B) |
effleurage (n~) | a gentle rubbing with the palm of the hand (B) |
eidetic (adj~) | ability of visualizing something previously seen (B) |
eisegesis (n~) | sneaking in one's own ideas as the author's (B) |
eisteddfod (n~) | an annual assembly of Welsh poets and musicians (B) |
eldritch (adj~) | weird eerie |
eleemosynary (adj~) | pertaining to charity; living on charity (B) |
elenchus (n~) | a refutation of an opponent's conclusion |
eleutheromania (n~) | a mania for freedom (B) |
elucubrate (v~) | to work studiously (B) |
elumbated (adj~) | weak in the loins (B) |
elutriation (n~) | the process of purification by washing andstraining |
embolalia (n~) | the use of virtually meaningless filler words |
embrocation (n~) | lubricating or rubbing the body |
embulalia (n~) | inserting of nonsense into speech |
embusque (n~) | a shirker a slacker (French = in ambush or hiding) (B) |
emenctae naris | of matured judgment; of nice discernment (W |
) emmenology (n~) | the study of menstruation (B) |
empleomania (n~) | a mania for holding public office (B) |
empressement (n~) | extreme politeness (B) |
enchiridion (n~) | a manual or handbook (B) |
enchorial (adj~) | native endemic (B) |
en clair | in plain uncoded language |
endiablee (v~) | to put the devil into (B) |
energumen (n~) | a person possessed by an spirit; a fanatic (B) |
engastration (n~) | the stuffing of one bird inside another (B) |
enissophobia (n~) | fear of being reproached (B) |
enneatic (adj~) | occurring once every nine times days |
enosiophobia (n~) | fear of having committed an unpardonablesin (B) |
ensynopticity (n~) | the ability of taking a general view of something (B) |
entheomania (n~) | an abnormal state in which one thinks one is inspired (B) |
enthymeme (n~) | a premise is understood but not stated |
entwicklungsroman (n~) | a novel dealing with the protagonist's development |
eo ipso | by it itself: by that fact alone (W) |
eonism (n~) | acting and dressing like a woman (B) |
eosophobia (n~) | depression caused by fear of dawn (B) |
eunym (n~) | a name that is suitable or appropriate (W) |
euphelicia (n~) | healthiness having all one's wishes granted (B) |
euphuistic (adj~) | displaying excessive elegance of language; |
eusystolism (n~) | the use of initials instead of full words |
euthymia (n~) | mental tranquility (B) |
evagation (n~) | mental wandering; digression (B) |
evancalous (adj~) | pleasant to embrace (Greek) (B) |
eventerate (v~) | to rip open; to open by ripping the belly (B) |
evulgate (v~) | to publish; divulge (B) |
ex animo | from the soul: form the heart sincerely (W) |
ex cathedra | pronounced from the seat of authority |
ex concesso | reasoning on the basis of an opponent's premise |
ex nihilo | out of nothing: out of nowhere (W) |
ex parte | in part: view; partisan (W) |
ex professo | expressly or avowedly (W) |
ex silentio | basing an argument on the lack or absence of evidence |
exaugurate (v~) | to secularize; to desecrate (B) |
excerebrose (adj~) | having no brains (B) |
excrescent (adj~) | constituting an excess; superfluous; supernumerary (G) |
execration (n~) | contemptuous denunciation; express loathing; |
exegesis (n~) | explanatory comment esp |
exemplum (n~) | a brief tale or anecdote |
exenterate (v~) | to literally or figuratively disembowel (B) |
exergasia | repeating a point by using different figures of speech |
exoculate (v~) | to put out the eye of (B) |
exoptable (adj~) | extremely desirable (B) |
exosculate (v~) | the kiss esp |
expatiate (v~) | to discourse at length or in detail; hold forth (W) |
expeditio | quickly rejecting or passing over minor points |
expergefaction (n~) | an awakening (B) |
expiscate (v~) | to examine or discover skillfully (B) |
explaterate (v~) | to talk a lot (B) |
expostulate (v~) | to reason earnestly in order to demur |
exsibilate (v~) | to reject with a hissing sound (B) |
extradictionary (adj~) | consisting not in words but in deeds (B) |
eyeservice (n~) | work done only when the boss is watching (B) |
facinorous (adj~) | extremely wicked; depraved; infamous (B G) |
facon de parler | way of speaking: manner of expression (W) |
facundity (n~) | eloquence (B) |
fadaise (n~) | an obvious or silly remark (W) |
faineant (adj~) | lazy indolent (B) |
famicide (n~) | a slanderer; a destroyer of one's reputation (B) |
famulus (n~) | the servant of a medieval scholar or magician (B) |
fanfaronade (n~) | bravado; braggadocio (B W) |
farctate (adj~) | full; crammed; plethoric (G) |
farrago (n~) | a mixture of diverse objects hodgepodge |
fastuous (adj~) | arrogant stuck |
fatidic | foretelling the future; prophetic; divinatory (G) |
fatiferous (adj~) | destructive; deadly (B) |
faux naif | falsely simple or naive; feigning artlessness (W) |
favonian (adj~) | like the west wind; mild (B) |
feazings (n~) | an unraveled rope end (B) |
februation (n~) | exorcism; religious purification (B) |
fedifragous (adj~) | treacherous deceitful (B) |
fefnicute (n~) | hypocrite; sneak (B) |
felicific (adj~) | producing happiness (B) |
fellness (n~) | destructive cruelty (B) |
feneration (n~) | usury (B) |
fenks (n~) | leftover whale blubber used as manure (B) |
feracious | productive of good results; fruitful (G) |
feriation (n | ) - taking a holiday; not working (B) |
fescennine (adj | ) - obscene; lewd; licentious; scurrilous (B G) |
festination (n | ) - walking faster and faster involuntarily (B) |
feuilletonistic (adj | ) - or newspaper section devoted to literary trivia (B) |
fewterer (n | ) - a dog-keeper (B) |
fico (n | ) - giving the finger (B) |
fideism (n | ) - depending on faith rather than reason (B) |
fidimplicitary (adj | ) - fully trusting someone (B) |
filiopietistic (adj | ) - pertaining to ancestor worship (B) |
fimblefamble (n | ) - excuse particulary a phony one (B) |
fimetarious (n | ) - growing or living in excrement (B) |
finicalism (n | ) - an conscious affected undue concern with trifles |
fissilingual (adj | ) - having a forked tongue (B) |
flabellation (n | ) - fanning or otherwise cooling someone (B) |
flagitate (v | ) - to plead (B) |
flaneur (n | ) - an intellectual trifler (W) |
flatulopetic (adj | ) - pretentious pompous |
fleer (v | ) - to laugh lecherously or derisively (B) |
flexanimous (adj | ) - mentally flexible (B) |
floccify (v | ) - to consider worthless |
floccilation (n | ) - searching for imaginary objects (G) |
floccipaucinihilipilification (n | ) - the action of estimating as worthless trivia (B) |
focillate (v | ) - to comfort (B) |
footle (v | ) - to waste time talk nonsense (B) |
forisfamiliate (v | ) - to disinherit; to shed parental authority (B) |
formication (n | ) - the feeling that bugs are crawling on you (B) |
ankylophobia (n | ) - abnormal fear of stiff or immobile joints |
forslug (v | ) - to lose or destroy by sluggishness (B) |
fossarian (n | ) - a clergyman moonlighting as a gravedigger (B) |
foudroyant (adj | ) - striking as lightning; sudden |
framis (n | ) - comic doubletalk blending actual words with made-up words (W) |
frampold (adj | ) - peevish touchy |
franion (n~) | the perennial hedonist reveler (B) |
fremd (adj~) | alien strange |
fremescent (adj~) | an incipient murmur; becoming noisy (B) |
fribble (adj~) | of little value or importance; trifling; paltry (G) |
fricatrice (n~) | a whore (B) |
frotteur (n~) | kicks by rubbing against people in crowds (B) |
froward (adj~) | perverse; willfully contrary; obstinately disobedient; |
fructuous (adj~) | productive; fruitful; profitable (G) |
frustraneous (adj~) | vain useless (B) |
fubsy (adj~) | short and stout (B) |
fucatory (adj~) | counterfeit; deceitful (B) |
fugacious (adj~) | fleeting; ephemeral; transitory; evanescent (G) |
fulgurant (adj~) | shining dazzling |
fuliginous (adj~) | sooty (B) |
fulsome (adj~) | excessive or overdone bad taste or even at times nauseating |
fumacious (adj~) | fond of smoking (B G) |
fumet (n~) | a flavoring agent for sauces; or deer shit (B) |
funambulist (n~) | a tightrope walker (B) |
funest (adj~) | harbinger of evil or death (B) |
funkify (v~) | to retreat fearfully (B) |
furacious (adj~) | thievish (B) |
furibund (adj~) | furious enraged (B) |
furor loquendi | a passion to speak (W) |
furor scribendi | a passion to write (W) |
fussock (n~) | a big fat woman (B) |
fustian (n~) | pompousness pretentiousness |
fustigate (v~) | to beat; to criticize severely (B) |
fustilugs (n~) | a fat unwieldy person (B) |
gaberlunzie (n~) | a wandering or licensed |
galactophagist (n~) | a milk drinker (B) |
deliquesce | melt away; gradually dissolve (G) |
delirament (n~) | raving; a foolish story (B) |
delitescent (adj~) | hidden; inactive (B) |
deltiology (n~) | collecting picture postcards |
demiurge (n~) | a secondary god who (a) created evil; |
demophobe (n~) | a people |
dentiloquist (n~) | one who speaks with clenched teeth (W) |
deorsumversion (n~) | a turning downward (B) |
deosculate (v~) | to kiss affectionately (B) |
depeculation (n~) | an embezzling of public funds (B) |
dephlogisticate (v~) | to make fireproof (B) |
deracinate | extirpate; eradicate; abolish completely (G) |
derism (n~) | an expression of scorn or contempt (W) |
descant (n~) | a commenting or discussing at length |
desiderata (n~) | list of books sought by a collector or library |
desidious (adj~) | slothful (B) |
desipient (adj~) | foolish silly (B) |
despumate (v~) | to skim; to take the scum off (B) |
desquamate (v~) | to peel off (B) |
desuetude (n~) | disuse (B) |
devenustate (v~) | to deprive of beauty (B) |
devil's mass | indiscriminate cursing (W) |
diacope (n~) | the separation of a word by the interpolation |
diallage | concentration of several separate arguments |
dialogue des sourds | dialogue of the deaf: |
dialysis | rational disposing of reasons for or against something; |
diaskeuasis (n~) | editorial revision (B) |
diasyrm | arch disparagement as by mocking praise |
diatyposis | vivid presentation by means of exciting language |
dicacity (n~) | oral playfulness; talkativeness (B) |
dichaeologia | a defense of failure or disgrace |
dictum de dicto | a secondhand report hearsay (W) |
didactic | overburdened with moral emphasis therefore dull |
autodidact | is a self |
diffugient (adj~) | scattering (B) |
dilogical (adj~) | ambiguous; having a double meaning (B) |
dilogy (n~) | equivocal expression |
dimbox (n~) | an expert at getting others to make up (E) |
dingbat (n~) | an ornamental piece of type used on a page |
dioristically (adv~) | in a distinguishing manner (B) |
diplasiasmus (n~) | the incorrect doubling of a singgle [sic] letter (B) |
dippoldism (n~) | beating or whipping school children (B) |
diremption (n~) | a violent or final separation (B) |
discalced | without shoes; barefoot; unshod (G) |
disceptation (n~) | controversy or argument |
discommode | disturb; annoy; put to inconvenience (G) |
disjecta membra | verbal bits and pieces (W) |
disquisition | formal discussion discourse |
dissemble | to pretend to feign |
dissentaneous (adj~) | disagreeable; negative (B) |
dithyrambic | any wild frenzied |
divagate | to wonder or stray; or digress; deviate (G) |
divarication (n~) | a difference of opinion |
diversivolent (adj~) | looking for trouble or an argument (B) |
dixit (n~) | an unconfirmed sometimes dogmatic statement (B) |
docta ignorantia | learned ignornace (W) |
dolorifuge (n~) | something that relieves sadness (B) |
dolus bonus | good deceit: in Roman and civil law |
diacope (n~) | the separation of a word by the interpolation |
diallage | concentration of several separate arguments |
dialogue des sourds | dialogue of the deaf: |
dialysis | rational disposing of reasons for or against something; |
diaskeuasis (n~) | editorial revision (B) |
diasyrm | arch disparagement as by mocking praise |
diatyposis | vivid presentation by means of exciting language |
dicacity (n~) | oral playfulness; talkativeness (B) |
dichaeologia | a defense of failure or disgrace |
dictum de dicto | a secondhand report hearsay (W) |
didactic | overburdened with moral emphasis therefore dull |
autodidact | is a self |
diffugient (adj~) | scattering (B) |
dilogical (adj~) | ambiguous; having a double meaning (B) |
dilogy (n~) | equivocal expression |
dimbox (n~) | an expert at getting others to make up (E) |
dingbat (n~) | an ornamental piece of type used on a page |
dioristically (adv~) | in a distinguishing manner (B) |
diplasiasmus (n~) | the incorrect doubling of a singgle [sic] letter (B) |
dippoldism (n~) | beating or whipping school children (B) |
diremption (n~) | a violent or final separation (B) |
discalced | without shoes; barefoot; unshod (G) |
disceptation (n~) | controversy or argument |
discommode | disturb; annoy; put to inconvenience (G) |
disjecta membra | verbal bits and pieces (W) |
disquisition | formal discussion discourse |
dissemble | to pretend to feign |
dissentaneous (adj~) | disagreeable; negative (B) |
dithyrambic | any wild frenzied |
divagate | to wonder or stray; or digress; deviate (G) |
divarication (n~) | a difference of opinion |
diversivolent (adj~) | looking for trouble or an argument (B) |
dixit (n~) | an unconfirmed sometimes dogmatic statement (B) |
docta ignorantia | learned ignornace (W) |
dolorifuge (n~) | something that relieves sadness (B) |
dolus bonus | good deceit: in Roman and civil law |
diacope (n~) | the separation of a word by the interpolation |
diallage | concentration of several separate arguments |
dialogue des sourds | dialogue of the deaf: |
dialysis | rational disposing of reasons for or against something; |
diaskeuasis (n~) | editorial revision (B) |
diasyrm | arch disparagement as by mocking praise |
diatyposis | vivid presentation by means of exciting language |
dicacity (n~) | oral playfulness; talkativeness (B) |
dichaeologia | a defense of failure or disgrace |
dictum de dicto | a secondhand report hearsay (W) |
didactic | overburdened with moral emphasis therefore dull |
autodidact | is a self |
diffugient (adj~) | scattering (B) |
dilogical (adj~) | ambiguous; having a double meaning (B) |
dilogy (n~) | equivocal expression |
dimbox (n~) | an expert at getting others to make up (E) |
dingbat (n~) | an ornamental piece of type used on a page |
dioristically (adv~) | in a distinguishing manner (B) |
diplasiasmus (n~) | the incorrect doubling of a singgle [sic] letter (B) |
dippoldism (n~) | beating or whipping school children (B) |
diremption (n~) | a violent or final separation (B) |
discalced | without shoes; barefoot; unshod (G) |
disceptation (n~) | controversy or argument |
discommode | disturb; annoy; put to inconvenience (G) |
disjecta membra | verbal bits and pieces (W) |
disquisition | formal discussion discourse |
dissemble | to pretend to feign |
dissentaneous (adj~) | disagreeable; negative (B) |
dithyrambic | any wild frenzied |
divagate | to wonder or stray; or digress; deviate (G) |
divarication (n~) | a difference of opinion |
diversivolent (adj~) | looking for trouble or an argument (B) |
dixit (n~) | an unconfirmed sometimes dogmatic statement (B) |
docta ignorantia | learned ignornace (W) |
dolorifuge (n~) | something that relieves sadness (B) |
dolus bonus | good deceit: in Roman and civil law |
dolus malus | evil deceit: in Roman and civil law |
doppelganger | a person's ghostly counterpart and companion |
dontopedalogy | the aptitude for putting one's foot in one's mouth |
doxastic (adj~) | pertaining to opinion (B) |
dryasdust (n~) | a dull pedantic speaker or writer |
dvandva (n~) | a compound word as bitter |
dysphemism (n~) | |
epiphoric (adj~) | pertaining to a torrent of tears (B) |
epiplexis | asking a question as a form of reproach |
episcopicide (n~) | the killing of a bishop (B) |
epistemophilia (n~) | abnormal preoccupation with knowledge (B) |
epithymetic (adj~) | pertaining to appetite sexual and otherwise (B) |
epitrope | conceding a point in such a qualified ironic way |
epizeuxis (n~) | emphatic verbal repitition (B) |
equivoque (n~) | an ambiguous statement or passage |
eremitism (n~) | the state of being a hermit or an attitude |
ereption (n~) | the act of snatching away (B) |
erethism (n~) | excessive irritability or excitability (B) |
ergoism (n~) | fussy adherence to logical protocols or forms (W) |
ergotism (n~) | quibbling and wrangling; sophistical reasoning |
erigible (adj~) | capable of being erected (B) |
erinaceous (adj~) | pertaining to the hedgehog (B) |
eristic (adj~) | provoking strife or controversy or discord; |
erotographomania (n~) | mania for writing love letters (B) |
erotology (n~) | the description of methods of lovemaking; |
errabund (n~) | wandering; erratic (B) |
errinophily (n~) | collecting of stamps other than postage stamps |
erythromania (n~) | mania for blushing |
eschrolalia (n~) | dirty (fecal) language (B) |
esemplastic (adj~) | forming disparate parts into a whole; aesthetically unifying (W) |
esprit de l'escalier | wishful thinking of a witty comment |
estivate | to spend the summer (G) |
estrapade (n~) | a horse's attempt to dump its rider (B) |
esurient | hungry (E) greedy; avaricious; covetous (G) |
etat present | an exhaustive summary of up |
ethnophaulism (n~) | an ethnic slur (B W) |
etiolation (n~) | paleness of color due to illness exclusion from light |
eucharistia | profuse praise as an expression of gratitude and emotion |
eudaemonia (n~) | true happiness (B) |
euhemerism (n) | the theory that all myths are based on reality (B) |
eumoirous (adj~) | someone who is lucky or happy as a result of being good |
eumorphous (adj~) | well |
earwig (v~) | attempt to influence or insinuate oneself through flattery (W) |
ebberman (n~) | one who fishes below bridges (B) |
ebriection (n~) | mental breakdown from too much boozing (B) |
ebrious (adj~) | tending to overimbibe; slightly drunk (B) |
ecclesiolatry (n~) | an all |
ecdemic (adj~) | of foreign origin (B) |
ecdemomania (n~) | compulsive wandering (B) |
ecdysiast (n~) | a stripper (H |
echolalia (n~) | pathological repitition of others' words or remarks (B W) |
echopraxia (n~) | a habit of mimicking people (B) |
echt (adj~) | genuine authentic |
eclaircissement (n~) | clarification (B) |
eclipsis (n~) | omission of a grammatical element necessary |
ecmnesia (n~) | loss of recent memory w retention of earlier memories (B) |
ecphonesis (n~) | exclamation (W) |
edacious (adj~) | eats a lot; voracious (B) |
edea (n~) | the external genitals (B) |
edipol (n~) | a mild oath (B) |
edulcorate (v~) | to sweeten or purify (B) |
eesome (adj~) | pleasing to the eye (B) |
effictio | as a head |
efflation (n~) | an emanation; a puff (B) |
effleurage (n~) | a gentle rubbing with the palm of the hand (B) |
eidetic (adj~) | ability of visualizing something previously seen (B) |
eisegesis (n~) | sneaking in one's own ideas as the author's (B) |
eisteddfod (n~) | an annual assembly of Welsh poets and musicians (B) |
eldritch (adj~) | weird eerie |
eleemosynary (adj~) | pertaining to charity; living on charity (B) |
elenchus (n~) | a refutation of an opponent's conclusion |
eleutheromania (n~) | a mania for freedom (B) |
elucubrate (v~) | to work studiously (B) |
elumbated (adj~) | weak in the loins (B) |
elutriation (n~) | the process of purification by washing andstraining |
embolalia (n~) | the use of virtually meaningless filler words |
embrocation (n~) | lubricating or rubbing the body |
embulalia (n~) | inserting of nonsense into speech |
embusque (n~) | a shirker a slacker (French = in ambush or hiding) (B) |
emenctae naris | of matured judgment; of nice discernment (W |
) emmenology (n~) | the study of menstruation (B) |
empleomania (n~) | a mania for holding public office (B) |
empressement (n~) | extreme politeness (B) |
enchiridion (n~) | a manual or handbook (B) |
enchorial (adj~) | native endemic (B) |
en clair | in plain uncoded language |
endiablee (v~) | to put the devil into (B) |
energumen (n~) | a person possessed by an spirit; a fanatic (B) |
engastration (n~) | the stuffing of one bird inside another (B) |
enissophobia (n~) | fear of being reproached (B) |
enneatic (adj~) | occurring once every nine times days |
enosiophobia (n~) | fear of having committed an unpardonablesin (B) |
ensynopticity (n~) | the ability of taking a general view of something (B) |
entheomania (n~) | an abnormal state in which one thinks one is inspired (B) |
enthymeme (n~) | a premise is understood but not stated |
entwicklungsroman (n~) | a novel dealing with the protagonist's development |
eo ipso | by it itself: by that fact alone (W) |
eonism (n~) | acting and dressing like a woman (B) |
eosophobia (n~) | depression caused by fear of dawn (B) |
eunym (n~) | a name that is suitable or appropriate (W) |
euphelicia (n~) | healthiness having all one's wishes granted (B) |
euphuistic (adj~) | displaying excessive elegance of language; |
eusystolism (n~) | the use of initials instead of full words |
euthymia (n~) | mental tranquility (B) |
evagation (n~) | mental wandering; digression (B) |
evancalous (adj~) | pleasant to embrace (Greek) (B) |
eventerate (v~) | to rip open; to open by ripping the belly (B) |
evulgate (v~) | to publish; divulge (B) |
ex animo | from the soul: form the heart sincerely (W) |
ex cathedra | pronounced from the seat of authority |
ex concesso | reasoning on the basis of an opponent's premise |
ex nihilo | out of nothing: out of nowhere (W) |
ex parte | in part: view; partisan (W) |
ex professo | expressly or avowedly (W) |
ex silentio | basing an argument on the lack or absence of evidence |
exaugurate (v~) | to secularize; to desecrate (B) |
excerebrose (adj~) | having no brains (B) |
excrescent (adj~) | constituting an excess; superfluous; supernumerary (G) |
execration (n~) | contemptuous denunciation; express loathing; |
exegesis (n~) | explanatory comment esp |
exemplum (n~) | a brief tale or anecdote |
exenterate (v~) | to literally or figuratively disembowel (B) |
exergasia | repeating a point by using different figures of speech |
exoculate (v~) | to put out the eye of (B) |
exoptable (adj~) | extremely desirable (B) |
exosculate (v~) | the kiss esp |
expatiate (v~) | to discourse at length or in detail; hold forth (W) |
expeditio | quickly rejecting or passing over minor points |
expergefaction (n~) | an awakening (B) |
expiscate (v~) | to examine or discover skillfully (B) |
explaterate (v~) | to talk a lot (B) |
expostulate (v~) | to reason earnestly in order to demur |
exsibilate (v~) | to reject with a hissing sound (B) |
extradictionary (adj~) | consisting not in words but in deeds (B) |
eyeservice (n~) | work done only when the boss is watching (B) |
facinorous (adj~) | extremely wicked; depraved; infamous (B G) |
facon de parler | way of speaking: manner of expression (W) |
facundity (n~) | eloquence (B) |
fadaise (n~) | an obvious or silly remark (W) |
faineant (adj~) | lazy indolent (B) |
famicide (n~) | a slanderer; a destroyer of one's reputation (B) |
famulus (n~) | the servant of a medieval scholar or magician (B) |
fanfaronade (n~) | bravado; braggadocio (B W) |
farctate (adj~) | full; crammed; plethoric (G) |
farrago (n~) | a mixture of diverse objects hodgepodge |
fastuous (adj~) | arrogant stuck |
fatidic | foretelling the future; prophetic; divinatory (G) |
fatiferous (adj~) | destructive; deadly (B) |
faux naif | falsely simple or naive; feigning artlessness (W) |
favonian (adj~) | like the west wind; mild (B) |
feazings (n~) | an unraveled rope end (B) |
februation (n~) | exorcism; religious purification (B) |
fedifragous (adj~) | treacherous deceitful (B) |
fefnicute (n~) | hypocrite; sneak (B) |
felicific (adj~) | producing happiness (B) |
fellness (n~) | destructive cruelty (B) |
feneration (n~) | usury (B) |
fenks (n~) | leftover whale blubber used as manure (B) |
feracious | productive of good results; fruitful (G) |
feriation (n | ) - taking a holiday; not working (B) |
fescennine (adj | ) - obscene; lewd; licentious; scurrilous (B G) |
festination (n | ) - walking faster and faster involuntarily (B) |
feuilletonistic (adj | ) - or newspaper section devoted to literary trivia (B) |
fewterer (n | ) - a dog-keeper (B) |
fico (n | ) - giving the finger (B) |
fideism (n | ) - depending on faith rather than reason (B) |
fidimplicitary (adj | ) - fully trusting someone (B) |
filiopietistic (adj | ) - pertaining to ancestor worship (B) |
fimblefamble (n | ) - excuse particulary a phony one (B) |
fimetarious (n | ) - growing or living in excrement (B) |
finicalism (n | ) - an conscious affected undue concern with trifles |
fissilingual (adj | ) - having a forked tongue (B) |
flabellation (n | ) - fanning or otherwise cooling someone (B) |
flagitate (v | ) - to plead (B) |
flaneur (n | ) - an intellectual trifler (W) |
flatulopetic (adj | ) - pretentious pompous |
fleer (v | ) - to laugh lecherously or derisively (B) |
flexanimous (adj | ) - mentally flexible (B) |
floccify (v | ) - to consider worthless |
floccilation (n | ) - searching for imaginary objects (G) |
floccipaucinihilipilification (n | ) - the action of estimating as worthless trivia (B) |
focillate (v | ) - to comfort (B) |
footle (v | ) - to waste time talk nonsense (B) |
forisfamiliate (v | ) - to disinherit; to shed parental authority (B) |
formication (n | ) - the feeling that bugs are crawling on you (B) |
ankylophobia (n | ) - abnormal fear of stiff or immobile joints |
forslug (v | ) - to lose or destroy by sluggishness (B) |
fossarian (n | ) - a clergyman moonlighting as a gravedigger (B) |
foudroyant (adj | ) - striking as lightning; sudden |
framis (n | ) - comic doubletalk blending actual words with made-up words (W) |
frampold (adj | ) - peevish touchy |
franion (n~) | the perennial hedonist reveler (B) |
fremd (adj~) | alien strange |
fremescent (adj~) | an incipient murmur; becoming noisy (B) |
fribble (adj~) | of little value or importance; trifling; paltry (G) |
fricatrice (n~) | a whore (B) |
frotteur (n~) | kicks by rubbing against people in crowds (B) |
froward (adj~) | perverse; willfully contrary; obstinately disobedient; |
fructuous (adj~) | productive; fruitful; profitable (G) |
frustraneous (adj~) | vain useless (B) |
fubsy (adj~) | short and stout (B) |
fucatory (adj~) | counterfeit; deceitful (B) |
fugacious (adj~) | fleeting; ephemeral; transitory; evanescent (G) |
fulgurant (adj~) | shining dazzling |
fuliginous (adj~) | sooty (B) |
fulsome (adj~) | excessive or overdone bad taste or even at times nauseating |
fumacious (adj~) | fond of smoking (B G) |
fumet (n~) | a flavoring agent for sauces; or deer shit (B) |
funambulist (n~) | a tightrope walker (B) |
funest (adj~) | harbinger of evil or death (B) |
funkify (v~) | to retreat fearfully (B) |
furacious (adj~) | thievish (B) |
furibund (adj~) | furious enraged (B) |
furor loquendi | a passion to speak (W) |
furor scribendi | a passion to write (W) |
fussock (n~) | a big fat woman (B) |
fustian (n~) | pompousness pretentiousness |
fustigate (v~) | to beat; to criticize severely (B) |
fustilugs (n~) | a fat unwieldy person (B) |
gaberlunzie (n~) | a wandering or licensed |
galactophagist (n~) | a milk drinker (B) |
galeanthropy (n~) | the delusion that one has become a cat (B) |
galericulate (adj~) | covered with a hat (B) |
galimatias (n~) | gibberish; confused meaningless jargon (B) |
galliardise (n~) | great merriment (B) |
gallinaceous (adj~) | like a chicken or pheasant (B) |
gallionic (adj~) | indifferent; careless; irresponsible (B) |
galumph (v~) | to move or march along heavily or clumsily |
galumptious (adj~) | tiptop; first-rate; superlatively good (G) |
gambrinous (adj~) | full of beer (B) |
gamophobia (n~) | fear of marriage (B) |
ganch (v~) | to execute by impaling on stakes or hooks (B) |
gapeseed (n~) | anything that causes stares; or someone who sares (B) |
garboil (n~) | confusion (B) |
gardyloo (n~) | a warning cry given before tossing slopes |
gasconade (n~) | boasting; bravado (B) |
gawkocracy (n~) | persons who watch television (G) |
gawsie (adj~) | large and jolly; lusty (B) |
gazophylacium (n~) | a treasury (B) |
geck (n~) | an object of scorn; a dupe (B) |
geflugelte Worte | winged words: eloquent language; expressions |
gelastic (adj~) | pertaining to or used in laughing (B) |
gelogenic (adj~) | laughter-provoking (B) |
geloscopy (n~) | determining someone's character or future by the way they laugh (B) |
gemebund (adj~) | a constant moaning (B) |
gemutlichkeit (n~) | agreeable agreeableness; congeniality |
genethliacon (n~) | a birthday poem (B) |
genicon (n~) | a sexual partner imagined |
gephyrophobia (n~) | fear of crossing bridges (B) |
gerascophobia (n~) | fear of growing old (B) |
geromorphism (n~) | condition of appearing older than one is (B) |
ghoom (v~) | to hunt in the dark (Anglo-Indian) (B) |
giddhom (n~) | a frantic galloping movement made by cows |
gigmanism (n~) | the habit of narrowmindedness or philistinism |
gilravage (v~) | to celebrate noisily; to go on a rampage (B) |
girning (v~) | act or process of contorting one's face; snarling (G) |
girouettism (n~) | frequently altering one's opinions or principles |
glabrous (adj~) | free from hair or down; hairless; bald (G) |
glossolalia (n~) | nonsensical talk; gibberish (B) |
gnathonic (adj~) | falsely flattering; fawning; sycophantic; parasitic (G) |
gnomic (adj~) | full of aphorisms or maxims; or wise and pithy (G) |
gobemouche (n~) | a gullible person (B) |
godemiche (n~) | a dildo (B) |
gongoozler (n~) | an inquisitive idler who stares and gawks |
grammaticaster (n~) | a petty grammarian; |
grammatolatry (n~) | worship of letters or words (B) |
grandgousier (n~) | a glutton; someone with an enormous gullet |
grandiloquence (n~) | lofty extravagantly styled language (B) |
grandisonant (adj~) | stately sounding (B) |
grangerism (n~) | augmenting the illustrative material in a book |
grapholagnia (n~) | a more than passing interest in obscene pictures (B) |
graphospasm (n~) | a writer's cramp (B) |
grassation (n~) | act of attacking violently; a lying in wait to attack (B) |
gratis dictum | an unsolicited or voluntary remark; mere assertion (B) |
gratulant (adj~) | expressing joy or satisfaction; congratulatory (G) |
graveolent (adj~) | having a rank smell; fetid; stinking (G) |
gravific (adj~) | that which makes heavy or produces weight (G) |
gregarian (adj~) | belonging to the herd or common sort (G) |
grinagog (n~) | a perpetual grinner (B) |
grivoiserie (n~) | lewd and lascivious behavior; a lewd act (B) |
groak (v~) | to watch people silently while they're eating hoping to join |
grobianism (n~) | rudeness; boorishness (B) |
growtnoul (n~) | a blockhead (A) |
grundyism (n~) | censorship of personal conduct based upon conventionalism |
gugusse (n~) | a young effeminate man who trysts with priests (B) |
gulosity (n~) | enormous appetite; greediness (B) |
gyascutus (n~) | a huge imaginary |
hesternopothia (n~) | a pathologic yearning for the good old days (B) |
hesychastic (adj~) | soothing calming |
hetaerism (n~) | extra |
heterochthonous (adj~) | foreign (B) |
heterophemy (n~) | Freudian slipsism (B) |
heterotelic (adj~) | existing for an outside or extraneous purpose (B) |
hierofastidia (n~) | dislike of holy things (B) |
hieromachy (n~) | a fight between men or owmen of the cloth (B) |
hindermate (n~) | a mate who is a hindrance (B) |
hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian (adj~) | pertaining to a long word (B) |
hircismus (n~) | stinky armpits (B) |
hirsutorufous (adj~) | red |
hobberdehoy (n~) | a youth entering manhood (B) |
holmgang (n~) | a duel fought on an island (B) |
holophrasis (n~) | a whole phrase or idea expressed in one word (B) |
honorificabilitudinitatibus (n~) | with honorablenesses |
horapthia (n~) | a neurotic preoccupation with one's youth (B) |
horripilation (n~) | bristling of the hair on the skin; gooseflesh (G) |
horrisonous (adj~) | sounding very bad; horribly discordant (G) |
hotspur (n~) | a hotheaded impetuous man (B) |
hoydenism (n~) | ill |
hubristic (adj~) | insolent; contemptuous; wantonly arrogant (G) |
humicubation (n~) | lying on the ground in penitence (B) |
hunkerousness (n~) | opposition to progress; old |
hygeioloatry (n~) | health fanaticism (B) |
hypengyophobia (n~) | fear of responsibility (B) |
hyperhedonia (n~) | abnormal pleasure from doing ho |
hypnagogic | inducing sleep (G) |
hypnopompic | dispelling sleep; waking (G) |
hypobulia (n~) | difficulty in making decisions (B) |
hypophobia (n~) | lack of fear (B) |
iatromisia (n~) | dislike of doctors (B) |
ichnogram (n~) | a footprint (B) |
ichthyomancy (n~) | fortunetelling with fish offal |
iconolagny (n~) | sexual stimulation from pictures or statues (B) |
idee fixe | a fixed |
hesternopothia (n~) | a pathologic yearning for the good old days (B) |
hesychastic (adj~) | soothing calming |
hetaerism (n~) | extra |
heterochthonous (adj~) | foreign (B) |
heterophemy (n~) | Freudian slipsism (B) |
heterotelic (adj~) | existing for an outside or extraneous purpose (B) |
hierofastidia (n~) | dislike of holy things (B) |
hieromachy (n~) | a fight between men or owmen of the cloth (B) |
hindermate (n~) | a mate who is a hindrance (B) |
hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian (adj~) | pertaining to a long word (B) |
hircismus (n~) | stinky armpits (B) |
hirsutorufous (adj~) | red |
hobberdehoy (n~) | a youth entering manhood (B) |
holmgang (n~) | a duel fought on an island (B) |
holophrasis (n~) | a whole phrase or idea expressed in one word (B) |
honorificabilitudinitatibus (n~) | with honorablenesses |
horapthia (n~) | a neurotic preoccupation with one's youth (B) |
horripilation (n~) | bristling of the hair on the skin; gooseflesh (G) |
horrisonous (adj~) | sounding very bad; horribly discordant (G) |
hotspur (n~) | a hotheaded impetuous man (B) |
hoydenism (n~) | ill |
hubristic (adj~) | insolent; contemptuous; wantonly arrogant (G) |
humicubation (n~) | lying on the ground in penitence (B) |
hunkerousness (n~) | opposition to progress; old |
hygeioloatry (n~) | health fanaticism (B) |
hypengyophobia (n~) | fear of responsibility (B) |
hyperhedonia (n~) | abnormal pleasure from doing ho |
hypnagogic | inducing sleep (G) |
hypnopompic | dispelling sleep; waking (G) |
hypobulia (n~) | difficulty in making decisions (B) |
hypophobia (n~) | lack of fear (B) |
iatromisia (n~) | dislike of doctors (B) |
ichnogram (n~) | a footprint (B) |
ichthyomancy (n~) | fortunetelling with fish offal |
iconolagny (n~) | sexual stimulation from pictures or statues (B) |
idee fixe | a fixed |
illaqueate (v | ) - to catch or trap (B) |
illeism (n | ) - affected or excessive use of the third-person pronoun |
illicitator (n | ) - an auctioneer's shill (B) |
illocutionary (adj | ) - such as a question implying dissatisfaction (W) |
illutation (n | ) - a mud bath (B) |
imbonity (n | ) - lack of good qualities (B) |
immarcescible (adj | ) - indestructible (B) |
immerd (v | ) - to cover with excrement (B) |
immorigerous (adj | ) - rude boorish (B) |
immund (adj | ) - unclean; foul; filthy (G) |
impanation (n | ) - cannibalistic doctrine of baking christ |
idiolalia (n | ) - mental state characterized by use of invented language (B) |
ideopraxist (n | ) - one who puts ideas into practice (B) |
idioticon (n | ) - a dialect dictionary (B) |
idoneous (adj | ) - apt; suitable (B) |
ignavia (n | ) - idleness; laziness (B) |
ignoscency (n | ) - forgiveness; a forgiving nature (B) |
illachrymable (adj | ) - unable to cry ( |
illaqueate (v | ) - to catch or trap (B) |
illeism (n | ) - affected or excessive use of the third-person pronoun |
illicitator (n | ) - an auctioneer's shill (B) |
illocutionary (adj | ) - such as a question implying dissatisfaction (W) |
illutation (n | ) - a mud bath (B) |
imbonity (n | ) - lack of good qualities (B) |
immarcescible (adj | ) - indestructible (B) |
immerd (v | ) - to cover with excrement (B) |
immorigerous (adj | ) - rude boorish (B) |
immund (adj | ) - unclean; foul; filthy (G) |
impanation (n | ) - cannibalistic doctrine of baking christ |
idiolalia (n | ) - mental state characterized by use of invented language (B) |
ideopraxist (n | ) - one who puts ideas into practice (B) |
idioticon (n | ) - a dialect dictionary (B) |
idoneous (adj | ) - apt; suitable (B) |
ignavia (n | ) - idleness; laziness (B) |
ignoscency (n | ) - forgiveness; a forgiving nature (B) |
illachrymable (adj | ) - unable to cry ( |
impavid (adj~) | not afraid; fearless; undaunted (G) |
impeccant (adj~) | sinless (B) |
imperdible (adj~) | incapable of being lost (B) |
imperscriptible (adj~) | not supported or backed by written authority (British) (W) |
impinguate (v~) | to fatten (B) |
improcreant (adj~) | impotent (B) |
improlificate (v~) | to impregnate (B) |
impudicity (n~) | lack of shame or modesty |
in extenso | at full length (W) |
in invidiam | in ill |
in malam partem | in bad part: in a bad sense (W) |
in media res | in the middle of the thing |
inaniloquent (adj~) | loquacious windy |
inconcinnity (n~) | unsuitableness; ineptitude (B) |
incondite (adj~) | crude unfinished (B) |
incrassate (v~) | to make or become thick or thicker; to thicken; inspissate (G) |
increpation (n~) | criticism censure (B) |
incruental (adj~) | bloodless (B) |
inculpate (v~) | to blame accuse |
incunabula (n~) | extant books printed before 1500 A |
indictum sit | let it be unsaid (W) |
indurated (adj~) | obstinate hardened |
ineffable (adj~) | unable to be spoken |
ineluctable (adj~) | inevitable; irresistable (B) |
inenerrable (adj~) | indescribable (B) |
inexpugnable (adj~) | that cannot be taken by assault or storm; |
inexsuperable (adj~) | insurmountable impassable (B) |
infandous (adj~) | too horrible to mention unspeakably awful (B) |
infibulation (n~) | sewing up the vulva |
inficete (adj~) | dull unfunny |
infracaninophile (n~) | champion of the underdog (B) |
infralapsarianism (n~) | the doctrine that God foresaw and |
infucation (n~) | putting on make |
ingannation (n~) | deception; fraud (B) |
ingeminate (v~) | repeat; reiterate; to emphasize by repetition (G) |
ingluvious (adj~) | gluttonous (B) |
ingravidate (v~) | to impregnate (B) |
ingustable (adj~) | tasteless (B) |
innascible (adj~) | without a beginning (B) |
inquinate (v~) | to corrupt (B) |
insalubrious (adj~) | unhealthy deleterious (B) |
insapory (adj~) | tasteless (B) |
inspissated (adj~) | thickened heavy |
insuetude (n~) | state of disuse (B) |
insulse (adj~) | tasteless flat |
insusurration (n~) | whispering in the ear; insinuation (B) |
intempestive (adj~) | |
inter alia | among other things (W) |
intercalation (n~) | an insertion or interposing |
interdigitate (v~) | to interlace the fingers (B) |
intergern (v~) | to snarl back (B) |
internecion (n~) | mutual destruction (B) |
interpellation (n~) | a formal questioning or challenging |
intersilient (adj~) | suddenly emerging in the midst of something (B) |
intussusception (n~) | a taking within (B) |
inusitate (adj~) | obsolete (B) |
invidious (adj~) | likely to cause ill will envy |
invita Minerva | without any natural talent or inspiration (W) |
invultuation (n~) | wishing death or injury on by melting a wax image |
ipse dixit | an unsupported assertion or a presumption bearing no evidence |
ipsedixitism (n~) | dogmatism (B) |
ipsism (n~) | masturbation (B) |
ipsissima verba | the very words (W) |
iracund (adj~) | easily provoked quick |
irrefragable (adj~) | undeniable; indisputable; that cannot be refuted (G) |
irrefrangible (adj~) | that cannot or should not be broken; inviolable (G) |
irreptitious (adj~) | creeping stealthily (B) |
irrumation (n~) | fellatio (B) |
isagogic (adj~) | introductory (G) |
jacquerie (n~) | a revolt of peasants against the social classes |
jactancy (n~) | boasting bragging (B) |
jactitation (n~) | loud or public bragging; or excessive twitching |
jaculative (adj~) | darting sporadic (B) |
janissaries (n~) | any loyal submissive follower or supporter |
jape (v~) | to jest; jibe; play tricks (G) |
jejunator (n~) | one who fasts (B) |
jentacular (adj~) | pertaining to breakfast (B) |
jiggery | pokert (n |
jobation (n~) | tedious criticism (B) |
jobbernowl (n~) | a blockhead (B) |
jocoserious (adj~) | a combination of funny and serious (B) |
jugulate (v~) | to check or suppress by extreme measures; |
jumentous (adj~) | having a strong animal smell (B) |
junkettaceous (adj~) | frivolous worthless (B) |
jus et norma loquendi | the law and rule of speaking: common usage (W) |
kakistocracy (n~) | government by the worst citizens (B) |
kakorrhaphiophobia (n~) | fear of failure (B) |
kalokagathia (n~) | a combination of the good and the beautiful in a person (B) |
kalon (n~) | the kind of beauty that is more than skin deep (B) |
kalopsia (n~) | condition where things appear more beautiful than they really are (B) |
kaput (adj~) | broken wrecked |
karimption (n~) | a crowd; a mass (B) |
kashruth (n~) | the state of being kosher (B) |
katabasis (n~) | a going down; descent; or a retreat especially a military retreat (G) |
kathenotheism (n~) | polytheism with a head god (B) |
katowse (n~) | a ruckus tumult |
kauderwelsch (n~) | jargon; gibberish (German) (W) |
kedogenous (adj~) | produced by worry (B) |
kef (n~) | drug |
kenophobia (n~) | fear of empty or open spaces (B) |
keraunophobia (n~) | fear of thunder and lightning (B) |
keraunoscopia (n~) | fortunetelling by thunder (B) |
kerdomeletia (n~) | excessive attention to material wealth (B) |
kerlerap (v~) | to cavort; to play (B) |
kerygma (n~) | Christian preaching (B) |
kippage (n~) | commotion confusion |
kitthoge (adj~ & n~) | left |
kneippism (n~) | treatment of disease by walking barefoot on wet grass |
knipperdolling (n~) | fanatic and polygamist; or any fanatic (B) |
knissomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by incense |
kombinationsfahigkeit (n~) | the way a medium picks up clues: |
kompology (n~) | braggadocio (B) |
kopophobia (n~) | fear of physical or mental exhaustion (B) |
kosmokrator (n~) | the ruler of the world (B) |
kreatophagia (n~) | the eating of raw meat (B) |
kwistgoed (n~) | a spendthrift (B) |
kymatology (n~) | the science of waves (B) |
labefy (v~) | to weaken (B) |
labeorphily (n~) | collecting beer bottle labels |
labile (adj~) | prone to change; unstable (G) |
laciniate (adj~) | fringed (B) |
laclabphily (n~) | the collecting of cheese labels |
lactivorous (adj~) | living on milk (B) |
lagnosis (n~) | satyriasis (B) |
lagotic (adj~) | having rabbitlike ears (B) |
lallation (n~) | pronunciation of "R" so that it sound like "L"; or baby talk or infantile utterance) |
lallophobia (n~) | fear of speaking (B) |
lalochezia (n~) | filthy talk to relieve tension (W) |
lampadomancy (n~) | fortunetelling with the flame of a torch (B) |
lamprophony (n~) | shining ringing oratory (W) |
languescent (adj~) | becoming tired (B) |
laodiceanism (n~) | being indifferent in politics or religion |
lapsus calami | a slip of the pen; lapsus pennae (W) |
lapsus comicus | term for an amusingly truistic or tautological statement |
lapsus linguae | a slip of the tongue; lapsus loquendi (W) |
larrikinism (n~) | state of being noisy rowdy or disorderly |
lassipedes (n~) | tired feet (B) |
lasslorn (adj~) | stood up by one's lady (B) |
latitidinarian (n~) | characterized by liberality in opinion or in action; tolerant in one's views (G) |
latrant (adj~) | snarling complaining (B) |
lecanomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by looking at water in a basin (B) |
lecheur (n~) | a devotee of oral intercourse; a licker (B) |
leggiadrous (adj~) | graceful (B) |
leitmotif (n~) | a specific recurring theme or expression in a literaryor musical work |
lenity (n~) | being gentle or merciful |
lenocinant (adj~) | lewd (B) |
lentiginous (adj~) | full of freckles (G) |
leodicean (adj~) | lacking religious fervor; or lacking strong feelings generally; indifferent (G) |
leptologia (n~) | subtle speech or quibbling (W) |
leptodactylous (adj~) | having slender toes (G) |
lethiforous (adj~) | deadly; destructive (B) |
lethologica (n~) | inability to remember the right word (W) |
lethonomia (n~) | a propensity for forgetting names (W) |
levisomnous (adj~) | watchful (B) |
limophoitos (n~) | insanity due to lack of food (B) |
limosis (n~) | a mania for eating chalk (B) |
lipsanography (n~) | the research and composition of treatises about relics |
litotes (n~) | understatement irony or innuendo |
lobcock (n~) | a dull sluggish lout; or a large |
locus classicus | a place of the highest class: |
locus communis | a public place: cliche expression (W) |
loganamnosis (n~) | a mania to recall forgotten words (W) |
logicaster (n~) | a person whose logic is less valid than he thinks |
logodaedaly (n~) | verbal legerdemain |
logolept (n~) | a word maniac (B) |
logomachy (n~) | a dispute over words; dual wit opprobrious words (W) |
logomisia (n~) | disgust for particular words (W) |
logorrhea (n~) | protracted or uncontrollable talk; compulsive garrulousness (W) |
logrolling (n~) | the exchanging of favors repiprocally flattering reviews |
longanimity (n~) | silent suffering while planning revenge (B) |
longinquity (n~) | remoteness (B) |
longueur (n~) | a long and tedious section of a book play |
loquaciousness (n~) | extreme talkativenss; garrulousness (W) |
lovertine (adj~) | addicted to love |
loxotic (adj~) | slanting distorted (B) |
lubricity (n~) | the condition of being uncertain or unstable or the capacity for reducing friction |
luciferous (adj~) | illuminating literally and figuratively (B) |
lucriferous (adj~) | profitable lucrative (B) |
lucripetous (adj~) | money hungry (B) |
luctation (n~) | a struggle for success (B) |
luctiferous (adj~) | sad and sorry (B) |
lucubration (n~) | to burn the midnight oil; suggesting pretentious laborious study |
luculent (adj~) | readily understood; clear; lucid (G) |
lucus a non lucendo | an absurd word derivation; illogical explanation or non sequitur (W) |
ludibrious (adj~) | ludicrous; making fun of (B) |
ludibundness (n~) | playfulness (B) |
ludicropathetic (adj~) | ludicrous and pathetic (B) |
ludification (n~) | deriding (B) |
luftmensch (n~) | someone with his head in the clouds |
lupanariam (n~) | lubricious lascivious |
lurgulary (n~) | the act of poisoning water (B) |
lutarious (adj~) | pertaining to living in |
lycanthropy (n~) | insanity in which the patient thinks he's a wolf (B) |
lygophilia (n~) | love of darkness (B) |
lymacatexis (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with dirt (B) |
lypophrenia (n~) | a vague feeling of sadness seemingly without cause (B) |
lyssophobia (n~) | fear of becoming mad (B) |
macarize (v~) | to make happy; to praise (B) |
macerate (v~) | to oppress; torment (B) |
macilent (adj~) | lean; thin (B) |
macrobian (adj~) | long |
macrology (n~) | excessive or repititious words or phrases (W) |
macromastic (adj~) | pertaining to large breasts (B) |
macrophobia (n~) | fear of long waits (B) |
macrosmatic (adj~) | having a supersensitive nose (B) |
macrosomatous (adj~) | having an abnormally large body (B) |
macrotous (adj~) | having large ears (G) |
mactation (n~) | sacrificial murder (B) |
maculate (adj~) | defiled; impure (G) |
madefy (v~) | to wet (B) |
magniloquence (n~) | grandly high |
maieusiophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of childbirth |
maieutic (adj~) | of the Socratic method of bringing into full consciousness latent ideas |
macarize (v~) | to make happy; to praise (B) |
macerate (v~) | to oppress; torment (B) |
macilent (adj~) | lean; thin (B) |
macrobian (adj~) | long |
macrology (n~) | excessive or repititious words or phrases (W) |
macromastic (adj~) | pertaining to large breasts (B) |
macrophobia (n~) | fear of long waits (B) |
macrosmatic (adj~) | having a supersensitive nose (B) |
macrosomatous (adj~) | having an abnormally large body (B) |
macrotous (adj~) | having large ears (G) |
mactation (n~) | sacrificial murder (B) |
maculate (adj~) | defiled; impure (G) |
madefy (v~) | to wet (B) |
magniloquence (n~) | grandly high |
maieusiophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of childbirth |
maieutic (adj~) | of the Socratic method of bringing into full consciousness latent ideas |
mala fide | in bad faith: falsely deceitfully |
malacissation (n~) | the process of making something soft and pliable (B) |
malacodermous (adj~) | soft |
malapert (n~) | impudent outspoken |
maliferous (adj~) | producing evil; unhealthy as a climate (B) |
malism (n~) | the theory that the world is mostly bad (B) |
malneirophrenia (n~) | depress following a nightmare (B) |
malnoia (n~) | a vague feeling of mental discomfort (B) |
mammothrept (n~) | a spoiled child (B) |
mancinism (n~) | left |
mangonize (v~) | to traffic in slaves (B) |
mania | a |
maniaphobia (n~) | fear of insanity (B) |
manipulandum (n~) | something that is to be manipulated (B) |
mansuetude (n~) | tameness gentleness |
mantology (n~) | fortunetelling; a fortuneteller (B) |
manubiary (ad~) | relating to the spoils of war (B) |
manumission (n~) | formal liberation of a slave (B) |
manustupration (n~) | masturbation (B) |
maquillage (n~) | make |
marasmic (adj~) | of the gradual loss of flesh and strength; of a wasting of the body (G) |
marcescent (adj~) | withered decayed |
margaritaceous (adj~) | pearly (B) |
maritodespotism (n~) | ruthless domination by a husband (B) |
marlish (adj~) | easygoing (B) |
marlock (v~) | to cavort frolic (B) |
maschalephidrosis (n~) | massive sweating of the armpits (B) |
mastigophobia (n~) | fear of punishment (B) |
mastigophoric (adj~) | whip |
mataeology (n~) | useless of pointless discourse; worthless conversation (W) |
mataeotechny (n~) | an unprofitable science or art (B) |
matripotestal (adj~) | pertaining to maternal control (B) |
mattoid (n~) | a congenitally insane person (B) |
matutolagnia (n~) | antemerdian sexual desire (B) |
matutolypea (n~) | getting up on the wrong side of the bed (B) |
maumetry (n~) | idolatry (B) |
mauvaise plaisanterie | an inappropriate or badly timed joke (W) |
mawkish (adj~) | characterized by sickly weak sentimentality (G) |
mazomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by a nursing baby (B) |
mazophilous (adj~) | pertaining to mammary mania (B) |
meable (adj~) | capable of being easily penetrated (B) |
meacock (n~) | an effeminate or cowardly man (B) |
meadophily (n~) | study of beer bottle labels |
mechanomorphism (n~) | the doctrine that the universe is fully explicable in mechanistic terms |
meconology (n~) | the study of opium and its effects (B) |
meconophagism (n~) | opium addiction (B) |
medicaster (n~) | a medical quack (B) |
megacephalous (adj~) | having a large head (B) |
megalonisus (n~) | a tendency to exaggerate (B) |
megalophobia (n~) | fear of large things (B) |
megalopsychy (n~) | generosity of spirit or magnanamity |
meiosis (n~) | rhetorical understatement |
melioration (n~) | an elevation or bettering |
melliloquence (n~) | euphonious speech; sweet talk (W) |
melissophobia (n~) | fear of bees (B) |
melomaniac (n~) | a music lover (B) |
mempsis | an impassioned but somewhat caustic supplication |
menacme (n~) | the menstruating part of a woman's life (B) |
mendaciloquence (n~) | lying as a fine art; adroit prevarication (W) |
menticide (n~) | brainwashing (B) |
mentimutation (n~) | change of mind (B) |
mentulate (adj~) | well hung (B) |
mephitic | bad |
meracious (adj~) | unadulterated full |
meraculous (adj~) | demi |
merdivorous (adj~) | eating dung (B) |
merism (n~) | a pairing of contrasted terms to express a totality synecdoche |
merkin (n~) | female genitalia; or false pubic hair (B) |
merulator (n~) | a wine |
metagnostic (adj~) | unknowable (B) |
metagrobolize (v~) | the mystify (B) |
metallege (n~) | spoonerism (B) |
metempsychosis (n~) | alleged transmigration of souls (B) |
metheglin (n~) | mead (B) |
metonymy (n~) | the figurative or symbolic use of the name of one thing for that of another |
metoposcopy (n~) | judging character by studying the face (B) |
metromania (n~) | a mania for writing verse (B) |
miasmatic (adj~) | noxious contagious |
microcephalous (adj~) | small |
microlipet (n~) | someone bothered by trifles (B) |
micrology (n~) | excessive attention to or discussion of details or minor differences; nitpicking |
micturition (n~) | need for frequent urination (B) |
midden (n~) | a dunghill (B) |
migniard (adj~) | dainty delicate; mincing (B) |
militaster (n~) | an insignificant military man (B) |
minatory (adj~) | portending punishment; threatening; menacing (G) |
minauderie (n~) | coquetry (B) |
minimifidianism (n~) | having almost no faith or belief (B) |
minimus (n~) | a tiny creature (B) |
mirabile dictu | wonderful to relate (W) |
misandry (n~) | dislike of men (B) |
misanthropy (n~) | hatred of mankind |
misapodysis (n~) | hatred of undressing in front of someone (B) |
misarchist (n~) | a person who hates authority (B) |
miserabile dictu | miserable to relate (W) |
miserotia (n~) | aversion to sex (B) |
misocainia (n~) | hatred of anything new or strange such as new ideas (B) |
misocanpnist (n~) | a hater of tobacco smoke (B) |
misodoctakleidist (n~) | one who hates to practice the piano (B) |
misology (n~) | hatred of logical discussion or reason (W) |
misoneism (n~) | hatred of new things (B) |
misopedia (n~) | hatred of children esp |
misopolemiac (n~) | a war |
misoscopist (n~) | a hater of beauty; a recluse (B) |
misosophy (n~) | hatred of wisdom (B) |
misotramontanism (n~) | a hatred of the unknown (B) |
misoxeny (n~) | hatred of strangers (B) |
mithridatism (n~) | immunity to poison achieved by takinggradually increased doses (B) |
moanworthy (adj~) | lamentable pitiful (B) |
mogigraphia (n~) | writers' cramp (B) |
moliminous (adj~) | massive; momentous (B) |
moloch (n~) | a system or method that requires frightful sacrifice (G) |
molysmophobia (n~) | fear of dirt or contamination (B) |
mome (n~) | a crashing bore; a buffoon (B) |
monorchid (adj~) | having one testicle (B) |
mordacious (adj~) | biting acrid |
mordant (adj~) | biting; caustic; cutting; sarcastic (G) |
morigerous (adj~) | obedient; obsequious (B) |
morology (n~) | deliberate nonsense of foolishness for effect (W) |
mot juste | the perfect fitting word or phrase; precisely apt expression (W) |
mot propre | the correct or necessary word (W) |
motatorious (adj~) | constantly active (B) |
motitation (n~) | a quivering moment (B) |
mulct (v~) | to punish by means of a fine (G) |
mulierose (adj~) | extremely fond of women (B) |
multum in parvo | much in little: holophrastic (W) |
mumpsimus (n~) | an erroneous word or spelling that |
mundivagant (n~) | wandering over the world (B) |
musard (n~) | an absentminded dreamer or fool (B) |
mutatis mutandis | the relevant differences having been considered (W) |
mycterism (n~) | derision or sarcasm that is somewhat veiled; subtle or partly concealed gibe |
myrmidon (n~) | a blindly loyal though unscrupulous |
mythomania (n~) | compulsively telling lies and believing them (B) |
nanism (n~) | dwarfishness (B) |
naology (n~) | the study of holy buildings (B) |
naprapathy (n~) | the manipulation of strained ligaments i the belief that they cause disease (B) |
nates (n~) | the buttocks (B) |
nattering (adj~) | grumbling fault |
naufragous (adj~) | causing shipwrecks (B) |
neanilagnia (n~) | a yen for nymphets (B) |
neanimorphism (n~) | looking younger than one's years (B) |
nebulaphobia (n~) | fear of fog (B) |
nebulochaotic (adj~) | chaotic confused (B) |
necromimesis (n~) | feigning death; the delusion of being dead (B) |
necyomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by summoning lucifer (B) |
nefandous (adj~) | unmentionable unspeakable (B) |
nefast (adj~) | wicked (B) |
nelipot (n~) | someone going barefoot (B) |
nemophilous (adj~) | loving the forest (B) |
neocracy (n~) | government by tyros (B) |
neologism (n~) | a newly coined word or phrase or a novel expression |
neomnesia (n~) | good memory for recent events (B) |
nephalism (n~) | teetotalism (B) |
nepheligenous (adj~) | producing clouds of tobacco smoke (B) |
neoteny (n~) | retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult |
nepotation (n~) | riotous living (B) |
nervus probandi | the strong point of the proving: crux of the argument (W) |
nescient (adj~) | uneducated unaware |
nettling (v~) | to irritate; vex; annoy (G) |
nictitate (v~) | to wink (G) |
nidorous (adj~) | smelling like burning or decaying animal matter (B) |
nihil ad rem | nothing to the matter: irrelevant (W) |
nihil obstat | nothing stands in the way: |
nikhedonia (n~) | pleasure derived from anticipating success (B) |
nimgimmer (n~) | a doctor who cures the clap (British slang) (B) |
nimiety (n~) | excess redundancy |
nimious (adj~) | extravagant (B) |
nimptopsical (adj~) | drunk (B) |
nimshy (n~) | a silly ass (B) |
nipperkin (n~) | amount of liquor roughly equivalent to a half pint (B) |
nippitatum (n~) | exceptionally good and strong ale (B) |
noctivagation (n~) | wandering around at night (B) |
non est disputandum | it is not to be disputed (W) |
non possumus | a statement of inability to do something (W) |
nosism (n~) | use of 'we' in speaking of oneself; conceit or self |
nostrificate (v~) | to accept as one's own (B) |
nothosonomia (n~) | calling someone a bastard (W) |
noumenon (n~) | an object implied by intuition rather than evidence opposite of phenomenon |
nubilate (v~) | to obscure (B) |
nuchal (adj~) | of the nape of the neck (G) |
nudis verbis | in naked words (W) |
nudiustertian (adj~) | pertaining to the day before yesterday (B) |
nugatory (adj~) | worthless trifling |
nullifidian (adj~) | skeptical (B) |
nulliparous (adj~) | pertaining to a woman who has never foaled (B) |
numbles (n~) | edible deer innards (B) |
nummamorous (adj~) | money |
nanism (n~) | dwarfishness (B) |
naology (n~) | the study of holy buildings (B) |
naprapathy (n~) | the manipulation of strained ligaments i the belief that they cause disease (B) |
nates (n~) | the buttocks (B) |
nattering (adj~) | grumbling fault |
naufragous (adj~) | causing shipwrecks (B) |
neanilagnia (n~) | a yen for nymphets (B) |
neanimorphism (n~) | looking younger than one's years (B) |
nebulaphobia (n~) | fear of fog (B) |
nebulochaotic (adj~) | chaotic confused (B) |
necromimesis (n~) | feigning death; the delusion of being dead (B) |
necyomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by summoning lucifer (B) |
nefandous (adj~) | unmentionable unspeakable (B) |
nefast (adj~) | wicked (B) |
nelipot (n~) | someone going barefoot (B) |
nemophilous (adj~) | loving the forest (B) |
neocracy (n~) | government by tyros (B) |
neologism (n~) | a newly coined word or phrase or a novel expression |
neomnesia (n~) | good memory for recent events (B) |
nephalism (n~) | teetotalism (B) |
nepheligenous (adj~) | producing clouds of tobacco smoke (B) |
neoteny (n~) | retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult |
nepotation (n~) | riotous living (B) |
nervus probandi | the strong point of the proving: crux of the argument (W) |
nescient (adj~) | uneducated unaware |
nettling (v~) | to irritate; vex; annoy (G) |
nictitate (v~) | to wink (G) |
nidorous (adj~) | smelling like burning or decaying animal matter (B) |
nihil ad rem | nothing to the matter: irrelevant (W) |
nihil obstat | nothing stands in the way: |
nikhedonia (n~) | pleasure derived from anticipating success (B) |
nimgimmer (n~) | a doctor who cures the clap (British slang) (B) |
nimiety (n~) | excess redundancy |
nimious (adj~) | extravagant (B) |
nimptopsical (adj~) | drunk (B) |
nimshy (n~) | a silly ass (B) |
nipperkin (n~) | amount of liquor roughly equivalent to a half pint (B) |
nippitatum (n~) | exceptionally good and strong ale (B) |
noctivagation (n~) | wandering around at night (B) |
non est disputandum | it is not to be disputed (W) |
non possumus | a statement of inability to do something (W) |
nosism (n~) | use of 'we' in speaking of oneself; conceit or self |
nostrificate (v~) | to accept as one's own (B) |
nothosonomia (n~) | calling someone a bastard (W) |
noumenon (n~) | an object implied by intuition rather than evidence opposite of phenomenon |
nubilate (v~) | to obscure (B) |
nuchal (adj~) | of the nape of the neck (G) |
nudis verbis | in naked words (W) |
nudiustertian (adj~) | pertaining to the day before yesterday (B) |
nugatory (adj~) | worthless trifling |
nullifidian (adj~) | skeptical (B) |
nulliparous (adj~) | pertaining to a woman who has never foaled (B) |
numbles (n~) | edible deer innards (B) |
nummamorous (adj~) | money |
nanism (n~) | dwarfishness (B) |
naology (n~) | the study of holy buildings (B) |
naprapathy (n~) | the manipulation of strained ligaments i the belief that they cause disease (B) |
nates (n~) | the buttocks (B) |
nattering (adj~) | grumbling fault |
naufragous (adj~) | causing shipwrecks (B) |
neanilagnia (n~) | a yen for nymphets (B) |
neanimorphism (n~) | looking younger than one's years (B) |
nebulaphobia (n~) | fear of fog (B) |
nebulochaotic (adj~) | chaotic confused (B) |
necromimesis (n~) | feigning death; the delusion of being dead (B) |
necyomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by summoning lucifer (B) |
nefandous (adj~) | unmentionable unspeakable (B) |
nefast (adj~) | wicked (B) |
nelipot (n~) | someone going barefoot (B) |
nemophilous (adj~) | loving the forest (B) |
neocracy (n~) | government by tyros (B) |
neologism (n~) | a newly coined word or phrase or a novel expression |
neomnesia (n~) | good memory for recent events (B) |
nephalism (n~) | teetotalism (B) |
nepheligenous (adj~) | producing clouds of tobacco smoke (B) |
neoteny (n~) | retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult |
nepotation (n~) | riotous living (B) |
nervus probandi | the strong point of the proving: crux of the argument (W) |
nescient (adj~) | uneducated unaware |
nettling (v~) | to irritate; vex; annoy (G) |
nictitate (v~) | to wink (G) |
nidorous (adj~) | smelling like burning or decaying animal matter (B) |
nihil ad rem | nothing to the matter: irrelevant (W) |
nihil obstat | nothing stands in the way: |
nikhedonia (n~) | pleasure derived from anticipating success (B) |
nimgimmer (n~) | a doctor who cures the clap (British slang) (B) |
nimiety (n~) | excess redundancy |
nimious (adj~) | extravagant (B) |
nimptopsical (adj~) | drunk (B) |
nimshy (n~) | a silly ass (B) |
nipperkin (n~) | amount of liquor roughly equivalent to a half pint (B) |
nippitatum (n~) | exceptionally good and strong ale (B) |
noctivagation (n~) | wandering around at night (B) |
non est disputandum | it is not to be disputed (W) |
non possumus | a statement of inability to do something (W) |
nosism (n~) | use of 'we' in speaking of oneself; conceit or self |
nostrificate (v~) | to accept as one's own (B) |
nothosonomia (n~) | calling someone a bastard (W) |
noumenon (n~) | an object implied by intuition rather than evidence opposite of phenomenon |
nubilate (v~) | to obscure (B) |
nuchal (adj~) | of the nape of the neck (G) |
nudis verbis | in naked words (W) |
nudiustertian (adj~) | pertaining to the day before yesterday (B) |
nugatory (adj~) | worthless trifling |
nullifidian (adj~) | skeptical (B) |
nulliparous (adj~) | pertaining to a woman who has never foaled (B) |
numbles (n~) | edible deer innards (B) |
nummamorous (adj~) | money |
nuncupate (v~) | to declare orally (B) |
nychthemeron (n~) | a twenty |
nympholepsy (n~) | trance incurred by erotic daydreams (B) |
obumbration (n~) | the act or process of darkening or obscuring |
obambulate (v~) | to walk about wander (B) |
obdormition (n~) | numbness caused by pressure on a nerve (B) |
obduracy (n~) | being obstinate or hardhearted |
obganiate (v~) | to irritate with reiteration (B) |
objurgation (n~) | an earnest denunciation rebuke |
oblatrate (n~) | to snarl at inveigh against (B) |
oblectation (n~) | delight pleasure (B) |
oblocution | interruption (A) |
obloquy (n~) | the state of bad repute borne by one being harshly criticized; |
obnubilation (n~) | beclouding or obscuring; obfuscation (W) |
obreption (n~) | creeping up on (B) |
obsecrations (n~) | entreaties (A) |
obscurum per obscurius | explaining the obscure by means of the more obscure (W) |
obsolagnium (n~) | waning sexual desire due to age (B) |
obstrobogulous (adj~) | a vehement oath of expansive meaning (G) |
obtund (adj~) | serving to blunt dull or deaden (G) |
ochlocracy (n~) | mob rule (B) |
odium aestheticum | the bitterness of aesthetical controversy (W) |
odium scholasticum | acrimony between scholars or pedants; academic quibbling (W) |
odium theologicum | bitter hatred between rival theologians (W) |
oeillade (n~) | an ogle a flirtatious glance (B) |
oikofugic (n~) | obsessive wandering (B) |
oikonisus (n~) | urge to start a family (B) |
olamic (adj~) | infinite eternal (B) |
olet lucernam | itdescribing something written that is belabored or overwrought (W) |
oligophrenia (n~) | feeble |
olisbos (n~) | a dildo (B) |
omadhaun (n~) | an idiot fool (B) |
ombibulous (adj~) | drinking everything (B) |
omnilegent (adj~) | having encyclopedia curiosity and knowledge (W) |
omphalomancy (n~) | predicting the number of children a mother will |
omphalopsychites (n~) | term for literary Anglophiles who wish |
omphaloskepsis (n~) | contemplation of the navel for the purpose of obtaining philosophic calm |
oneirataxia (n~) | inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality (B) |
oneiric (adj~) | having to do with dreams (E G) |
oniochalasia (n~) | buying as a means of mental relaxation (B) |
onolatry (n~) | ass |
onomastic (adj~) | pertaining to a proper name or names (W) |
onomatomania (n~) | preoccupation with words and names (B) |
onomatophobia (n~) | fear of hearing a certain word (B) |
onomatopoeia (n~) | the forming of or use of a word that imitates in sound what it denotes onus probandi |
operose (adj~) | involving much labor; laborious (G) |
ophelimity (n~) | the ability to please sexually (B) |
oppugnant (adj~) | opposing; antagonistic; contrary (G) |
ophthalmophobia (n~) | fear of being stared at (B) |
opiparous (adj~) | sumptuous (B) |
oppilations (n~) | obstructions (A) |
opsablepsia (n~) | not looking into another's eyes (B) |
opuscule (n~) | a minor composition or work (W) |
oratio obliqua | indirect speech: reported speech or relating by another that is modified |
oratio recta | straight speech: actual or direct speech (W) |
orchidectomy (n~) | castration (B) |
ore rotundo | with a round mouth: eloquently with considered emphasis (W) |
orgulous (adj~) | proud and haughty; swelling (G) |
orismology (n~) | the science of defining or explaining technical terms (W) |
otiose | futile functionless |
oubliette (n~) | a secret place of imprisonment |
outrecuidance (n~) | egomania; gross conceit (B) |
overweening | excessively proud; arrogant; conceited; or exaggerated; excessive (G) |
oxythymous (adj~) | quick |
pachycephalic (adj~) | thick |
pageism (n~) | masochism fantasy of a man imagining himself as |
pagophagia (n~) | eating a tray of ice daily for two months tohelp offset iron deficiency (B) |
paideutics (n~) | pedagogy (B) |
paizogony (n~) | love play (B) |
paleomnesia (n~) | good memory for events of the far past (B) |
palimpsest (n~) | a piece of parchment or vellum from whichearlier writing has been removed to allow for reuse |
palinode (n~) | a song or poem retracting statements in previoussongs or poems; or retraction or recanting in general (B) |
palinoia (n~) | compulsive repitition of an act until it's perfect (B) |
palladian (adj~) | pertaining to learning and wisdom (B) |
palliards (n~) | professional beggars whose parents were also |
palpebrate (v~) to wink (B) | |
paltripolitan (n~) | an insular city dweller (B) |
pandiculation (n~) | stretching and yawning (B) |
panjandrum | a self magnate (G |
pannychous (adj~) | lasting all night (B) |
pantagruelian (adj~) | satirical though ribald (B) |
pantaraxia (n~) | actions aimed aat keeping people on their toes |
pantophobia (n~) | a fear of everything (B) |
paphian | pertaining to love especially its sexual andillicit manifestations; erotic (G) |
paracoita (n~) | a female sexual partner (B) |
paracoitus (n~) | a male sexual partner (B) |
paradiastole (n~) | a euphemistic half |
paraenetic | advisory; hortatory (G) |
paralepsis (n~) | mentioning something by saying you won't mention it (B) |
paralipomena (n~) | deleted passages from a book or a |
paralipophobia (n~) | fear of responsibility (B) |
paralogism (n~) | reasoning method that contradicts logical |
parerethesis (n~) | abnormal excitement (B) |
pareunia (n~) | sexual intercourse (B) |
parisology (n~) | deliberate ambiguity in use of words (B) |
parnel (n~) | a priest's mistress; a loose woman (B) |
paronomasia (n~) | punning; a pun (B) |
parorexia (n~) | perverted appetite; demanding strange foods (B) |
parrhesia (n~) | freedom of speech (rhetoric term) (B) |
partheniad (n~) | a poem in honor of a virgin (B) |
parthenolatry (n~) | virgin worship (B) |
parvanimity (n~) | pettiness; meannes; or a mean or petty person (B) |
parvenu (n~) | a pretentious snob of the nouveau riche (B) |
parviscient (adj~) | uninformed (B) |
pasilaly (n~) | a universal language (B) |
pasquinade | a lampoon or satire posted in a public place (G) |
passalorynchite (n~) | a member of an early Christian sect who |
passepartout (n~) | a master key; a safeconduct or passport (B) |
patavinity (n~) | the use of local words or expressions (B) |
patharmosis (n~) | mental adjustment to one's disease (B) |
pathic (n~) | a catamite; or a passive participator (B) |
pathocryptia (n~) | unwillingness to believe in or talk about |
pathodixia (n~) | talking to excess about one's illness and |
pathognomy (n~) | the study of emotions by their outward |
pathomimesis (n~) | malingering (B) |
patzer (n~) | a weak chess player (B) |
pauciloquent (adj~) | speaking briefly (B) |
pavid | quaking with fear; afraid; frightened (G) |
peccable (adj~) | liable to sin (B) |
peccatophobia (n~) | fear of sinning or of having committed an |
peckerwood (n~) | a poor southern Anglo |
pecksniffian (adj~) | hypocritical insincere and gutless (B) |
pecos (v~) | to shoot a man and roll his body in the river (B) |
peculation (n~) | embezzlement (B) |
pedetentous (adj~) | proceedilng gradually or cautiously (B) |
peirastic (adj~) | experimental; ready to be tried (B) |
peladophobia (n~) | fear of baldness |
pelology (n~) | study of mud and its therapeutic applications (B) |
penelopize (v~) | to undo and redo to gain time (B) |
penisterophily (n~) | raising and training pigeons |
penotherapy (n~) | regulating prostitutes to control venereal |
pentapopemptic (n~) | divorced five times (B) |
pentheraphobia (n~) | fear or dislike of one's mother |
peotomy (n~) | the surgical amputation of the penis (B) |
perduellion (n~) | treason (B) |
perendinate (n~) | to postpone until the next day; to postpone |
perfectibilism (n~) | belief that anything short of perfect is |
perfrication (n~) | thorough rubbing (B) |
perhiemate (v~) | to spend the winter (B) |
perichareia (n~) | excessive and violent rejoicing (B) |
periclitate | to expose to peril; endanger; risk (G) |
periphrastic | using many words when few would do; verbose; |
perissotomist (n~) | a knife |
peristrephic (adj~) | turning around rotatory (B) |
perlustrate (v~) | to review thoroughly; survey (B) |
pervicacious (adj~) | extremely obstinate; willful (B) |
pervulgate (v~) | to publish (B) |
petalism (n~) | banishing a citizen for five years if judged |
pettifoggery | quibbling over petty details |
petulcous (adj~) | butting like a ram; offensively aggressive (B) |
phagomania (n~) | insanely hungry (B) |
phalacrespia (n~) | aversion for baldness or for bald men (B) |
phalacrosis (n~) | baldness |
phallation (n~) | movement of the penis in sexual intercourse (B) |
phaneromania (n~) | a compulsion to pick at a skin growth or |
pharisaical | of persons of rigid adherence to outward forms and |
phatic | establishing an atmosphere of sociability rather than |
philalethe (n~) | one who loves to forget (B) |
philauty (n~) | self |
philematology (n~) | the study of kissing (B) |
philematophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes kissing (B) |
philobiblist (n~) | a lover of books |
philocalist (n~) | a lover of beauty (B) |
philodox (n~) | one who loves one's own opinions (B) |
philogastric (adj~) | greedy (B) |
philophobia (n~) | fear of falling in love or of being loved (B) |
philopolemic (adj~) | pertaining to love of argument or |
philopornist (n~) | a lover of prostitutes (B) |
philosophastering (adj~) | pseudo |
philotheoparoptesism | the process of slowly cooking those who |
philoxenist (n~) | one who is happiest while entertaining |
phrontifugic (adj~) | relieving anxiety (B) |
physagogue (n~) | carminative or medicine to induce farting (B) |
piacular | serving to atone or make amends for; expiatory; or |
pickthank (n~) | a flatterer or sycophant (B) |
piliferous | having hair (G) |
piloerection (n~) | hair standing on end (B) |
pilpulist (n~) | one who uses Talmudic dialectic or via |
pinchbeck | sham or spurious; false (G) |
pinguescent | becoming fat (G) |
pithiatism (n~) | a forceful suggestion (B) |
pizzle (n~) | a whip made from an animal's penis (B) |
planistethic (adj~) | flat |
planomania (n~) | urge to live a bohemian life (B) |
platitudinarian (n~) | full of platitudes (B) |
platypod | one afflicted with fallen arches (G) |
plebicolist (n~) | someone who woos the common folk (B) |
pleionosis (n~) | exaggeration of one's own importance (B) |
pleniloquence (n~) | excessive talking (B) |
pleonastic | use of words superfluously; redundant (G) |
pleonexia (n~) | covetousness avarice; mania for acquiring |
plerophory (n~) | state of full confidence or absolute certainty |
pococurante (adj~) | nonchalant indifferent (B) |
poculation (n~) | wine |
podobromhidrosis (n~) | smelly feet (B) |
poecilonymy (n~) | the use of several names for one thing (B) |
pogonology (n~) | treatise on beards |
pogonophobia (n~) | abnormal fear or dislike of beards |
poiesis (n~) | creation; creative power or ability (B) |
poikilothymia (n~) | extreme changes of mood (B) |
polychrestic | serving and adapted for several different uses (G) |
polyhistor (n~) | a universal scholar (B) |
polylogy (n~) | wordiness (B) |
polydipsia (n~) | extreme thirst or an abnormal and continuous |
popination (n~) | bar |
popliteal | pertaining to or connected with the hollow area back |
pornerastic (adj~) | licentious lascivious |
pornolagnia (n~) | desire for prostitutes (B) |
potvaliant | valiant and courageous as a result of being drunk |
preantepenultimate (n~ & adj~) | fourth from last (B) |
preterist (n~) | someone whose main pleasure in in reliving the |
priapean (adj~) | phallic (B) |
priapism (n~) | persistent and painful erection (B) |
procrustean | aiming or tending to produce uniformity by violent |
proctalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B) |
proditorious (adj~) | traitorous; prone to give away secrets (B) |
prolepsis (n~) | anticipating an argument and answering it before |
prolix | verbose repititious |
long | winded |
pronovalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse in a prone |
propaedeutic | of or pertaining to preliminary instruction; |
prosonomasia (n~) | use of a humorous modification of a person's |
prosophobia (n~) | fear of or adversion to progress (B) |
prosopolepsy (n~) | judging people favorably from their looks (B) |
prosopopy (n~) | the personification of inanimate objects (B) |
protervity (n~) | petulance; peevishness (B) |
psaphonic (adj~) | planning one's rise to fame (B) |
pseudandry (n~) | female use of a male pseudonym (B) |
pseudautochiria (n~) | murder disguised as a suicide (B) |
pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism (n~) | phony opposition to |
pseudogyny (n~) | male use of a female pseudonym (B) |
pseudologist (n~) | liar (B) |
pseudomnesia (n~) | memory for things that never happened (B) |
pseudophonia (n~) | suicide disguised as murder (B) |
psilology (n~) | empty talk (B) |
psilosopher (n~) | a superficial philosopher (B) |
psittacistic | speaking in a mechanical repetitive way (G) |
psychasthenia (n~) | neurotic lassitude indecision |
pteronophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of feathers |
pudency (n~) | modesty or shyness; embarassment |
puerile | childish immature |
pullulate | teem swarm |
purulent | of containing |
pygophilous (adj~) | buttock |
pyrolagnia (n~) | sexual stimulation from watching fires (B) |
quaintise (n~) | ingenuity cunning; a trick or stratagem (B) |
quakebuttock (n~) | a coward (B) |
qued (adj~) | evil bad (B) |
querimony (n~) | a complaint (B) |
quidam (n~) | an unknown person (B) |
quiddity (n~) | the essence or nature of a thing (B) |
quidnunc (n~) | one who is curious to know everything that |
quisquillian (adj~) | trashy (B) |
quisguous (adj~) | perplexing (B) |
quodlibet (n~) | a nice or fine point in an argument; a subtlety |
quodlibetarian (n~) | one who discusses or uses quodlibets |
rabiator (n~) | a violent man (B) |
rabulism (n~) | tendency for railing and quibbling |
rackrent (n~) | exorbitant rent (B) |
rakehelly (adj~) | dissolute debauched (B) |
ramfeezled (adj~) | worn out exhausted (B) |
rammish (adj~) | lustful and horny (B) |
ranarium (n~) | frog farm (B) |
randle (n~) | a nonsensical poem recited by Irish schoolboys as |
rantallion (n~) | one whose scrotum is longer than his penis (B) |
rantipole (n~) | a wild rambunctious young man (B) |
realpolitik | practical politics; euphemism for power politics |
rebarbative (adj~) | grim unattractive |
reboantic (adj~) | reverberating (B) |
recension (n~) | scholarly editorial revision (B) |
receptary (adj~) | accepted as fact but unproved (B) |
rectalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B) |
rectopathic (adj~) | easily hurt emotionally (B) |
rectrix (n~) | a female ruler (B) |
recubation (n~) | lying down (B) |
recumbentibus (n~) | a knockdown blow (B) |
recusant (adj~) | dissenting; disestablishmentarian (B) |
redargution (n~) | refutation or disproving (B) |
redhibition (n~) | the return of defective merchandise (B) |
redivivus (adj~) | living again; revived (B) |
refocillate (v~) | to warm into life again; revive (G) |
refragable (adj~) | capable of being refuted (B) |
refrangible (adj~) | capable of being refracted (B) |
refulgent (adj~) | radiant brilliant |
reify | literally "to make a thing"; given definite concrete |
remontado (n~) | someone who has fled to the mountains; a person |
remplissage (n~) | filling or padding used in music and |
remugient (adj~) | rebellowing; roaring or shouting anew (B) |
renable (adj~) | fluent eloquent (B) |
renard (n~) | a fox; a sly or cunning person (B) |
renascible (adj~) | capable of being reborn (B) |
renifleur (n~) | one who gets sexual pleasure from body smells (B) |
renitent | resisting or opposing stubbornly; recalcitrant (G) |
repristinate (v~) | to revive; to restore (B) |
resipiscent (adj~) | restored to sanity; learned from |
resupination (n~) | turning to an upside |
retrocopulation (n~) | woof (B) |
retromancy (n~) | fortunetelling by things seen over one's |
retromingent (adj~) | urinating backward (B) |
retunded | to weaken or diminish the strength of effect of (G) |
rhabdophobia (n~) | fear of being punished or severely criticized (B) |
rhadamanthine | strictly and inflexibly honest and just (G) |
rhigosis (n~) | sensation of cold (B) |
rhonchisonant (adj~) | snorting; snoring (B) |
rhopalism (n~) | a sentence or poem i which each word is one syllable |
rhyparography | the printing or painting of sordid and filty |
rhytiscopia (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with facial wrinkles (B) |
ribroasting (n~) | a sound beating; a thrashing (B) |
rictus (n~) | a very wide mouth; a gaping mouth as in terror (B) |
risorial (adj~) | pertaining to causing |
rixation (n~) | quarreling (B) |
rodomontade ~ | arrogant boasting; pretentious blustering ranting |
roil~ | vex; disturb; irritate; rile (G) |
roinous (adj~) | mean nasty and contemptible (B) |
roitelet (n~) | a petty king (B) |
roman a clef (n~) | a novel whose characters are actual people |
rubricism (n~) | tenacious adherence to rules of behavior or |
ructation (n~) | belching (B) |
rudesby (n~) | a loud |
rugose | having wrinkles (G) |
rumgumption (n~) | shrewdness (B) |
runcible (adj~) | sensuous (B) |
sacerdotophrenia (n~) | clerical stagefright (B) |
saltimbanco (n~) | a mountebank a quack (B) |
sanguisugent | bloodsucking; bloodthirsty (G) |
sapidity (n~) | flavorful; tastiness (B) |
saponaceous (adj~) | soapy slippery; or evasively ingratiating (B) |
saprostomous (adj~) | having bad breath (B) |
sardanapalian | luxuriously effeminate (G) |
sardoodledum (n~) | stereotyped or unrealistic characterization |
sarmassation (n~) | love play (B) |
sarmassophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play (B) |
sarmassophobitch (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play with me (B) |
satisdiction (n~) | enough said (B) |
satispassion (n~) | satisfactory suffering according to |
saturnalia | period of unrestrained license and orgiastic |
scacchic | pertaining to or like chess (G) |
scaldabanco (n~) | a hotheaded debator; a fiery preacher (B) |
scaphism (n~) | an old Persian method of executing criminals by |
scaramouch (n~) | a cowardly buffoon (B) |
scaturient (adj~) | gushing forth; effusive (B) |
schadenfreude | a feeling of enjoyment derived from the misfortunes |
schesis (n~) | mocking another's accent or manner (B) |
schizothemia (n~) | digression by a long reminescence (B) |
schmaltz | something stickily sentimental banal |
schoenabatist (n~) | a tightrope walker (B) |
sciamachy (n~) | fighting with a shadow or with an imaginary |
sciapodous (adj~) | having very large feet (B) |
scibile (n~) | something knowable (B) |
sciolist | one who pretends to scholarship or knowledge |
sciotheism (n~) | the belief that disembodied spirits |
scissile (adj~) | capable of being cut smoothly or split |
scofflaw (n~) | one who scoffs at hence |
scolecophagous (adj~) | eating worms (B) |
scolion (n~) | an impromptu party song begun by one and |
scollardical (n~) | a derogatory term for a scholar (B) |
scopolagnia (n~) | the pleasure gained from voyeurism (B) |
scortation (n~) | fornication (B) |
scout | reject or dismiss scornfully; flout; scoff at (G) |
screed | a lengthy discourse usually used to describe opinions |
scribacious | given to or fond of writing (G) |
scrofulous | morally corrupt; degenerate (G) |
scungilaginous | of the semifluid gelatinous consistency of |
sebastomania (n~) | religious insanity (B) |
sectary (n~) | a fanatic disciple (B) |
sedentarize | to take up or cause to take up |
sedulous (adj~) | diligent persistent |
seeksorrow (n~) | masochist (B) |
sententious | wordy verbose |
sequacious | given to the slavish or unreasoning serving or |
sermocination (n~) | a speaker quickly answering his own question (B) |
shaconian (n~) | someone convinced that Bacon ghosted Shakespeare's |
shaftsbury (n~) | a gallon jug of wine (B) |
shamateur (n~) | a bogus tyro (B) |
shardborn (adj~) | born in dung (B) |
shilpit (adj~) | feeble puny |
sicarian (n~) | an assassin (B) |
sicchasia (n~) | nauseau (B) |
sicchosism (n~) | morbid fastidiousness (B) |
sibyllilne | oracular; prophetic; mysterious (G) |
siffilate | to whisper (G) |
simony | buying selling |
simper | to smile in a silly self |
skibbile (adj~) | wonderfully witty; sexually irresistible (S) |
skibbalalia (n~) | the overwhelming desire to purchase an |
skoptsy (n~) | self |
skybald (n~) | a good |
smatchet (n~) | a small nasty person or a nasty child (B) |
smellfungus (n~) | a malcontent; a grumbler or fault |
snafu (adj~ & n~) | situation normal all fucked up [also: |
fubar | fucked up beyond all recognition; fubb |
sneckdraw (n~) | a sly person (B) |
snollygoster | a clever shrewd |
sockdolager (n~) | a telling blow (B) |
solatium (n~) | anything that compensates for suffering or loss; |
solifidium (n~) | someone who believes that faith alone is sufficient |
somniloquacious (adj~) | pertaining to talking in one's sleep (B) |
soodle | to walk stroll |
sophomania (n~) | delusion of exceptional intelligence (B) |
sophrosyne (n~) | sober sensible |
sorbile (adj~) | drinkable (B) |
spadonism (n~) | enuchry (B) |
spaneria (n~) | scarcity of men (B) |
spanogyny (n~) | scarcity of woman (B) |
spatiate (v~) | to stroll or ramble (B) |
spatilomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by observing animal droppings (B) |
spatrify (v~) | to besmirch befoul (B) |
spawling | a noisy clearing of the throat (G) |
speciesist | for many people a test is permissible when it inflicts |
spodogenous (adj~) | pertaining to or due to presence of |
spoffokins (n~) | a whore pretending to be a wife (B) |
spousebreach (n~) | adultery (B) |
spraints (n~) | otter dung (B) |
spurcidical (adj~) | foul |
squidgereen (n~) | a short insignificant person (B) |
stagorium | an establishment (bar or resort hotel) that serves as |
stasivalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse only |
steatopygous | pertaining to or characterized by protuberant |
stercoricolous (adj~) | living in dung (B) |
sterculius (n~) | the god of feces (B) |
sternutation | the act of sneezing; a sneeze (G) |
stertorous | characterized by heavy snoring (G) |
sthenobulia (n~) | strong will power (B) |
stirious (adj~) | like an icicle (B) |
stomachous (adj~) | obstinate; angry (B) |
stoopgallant (adj~) | humbling; ego |
strepitous | making a great clamor; noisy; boisterous (G) |
stricture | an adverse criticism or remark censure |
stultiloquence | foolish or senseless talk; babble; twaddle (G) |
stygiophobia (n~) | fear of hell (B) |
stylite (n~) | ascetics who lived on top of pillars (B) |
suaviation (n~) | a love kiss (B) |
subagitation (n~) | copulation (B) |
subarrhation (n~) | betrothal accomplished by the man's showering |
subderisorious (adj~) | mildly ridiculing (B) |
subdititious (adj~) | secret substitution (B) |
subdolous (adj~) | rather crafty or sly (B) |
subintelligitur (n~) | a meaning implied but not stated (B) |
subsannation (n~) | derision (B) |
substaquilate (v~) | to defeat overwhelm (B) |
supernaculum (n~) | a liquor drunk to the last drop; excellent |
supervacaneous (adj~) | needlessly added (B) |
supinovalent (adj~) | able to fornicate only while supine (B) |
suppalpation (n~) | gaining affection by caressing (B) |
suspercollate (v~) | to hang by the neck (B) |
sybarite (n~) | someone overly fond of luxury and pleasure (B) |
tachydidaxy (n~) | fast teaching (B) |
talionic (adj~) | pertaining to revenge in kind (B) |
tanquam (n~) | someone educated enough to go to college (B) |
taphephobia (n~) | fear of being buried alive (B) |
tardigrade (adj~) | slow |
tartuffish (adj~) | pertaining to the pious hypocrisy of Tartuffe |
tathagatagarbha (n~) | the eternal and absolute essence of all |
tauromachian (adj~) | pertaining to bullfights (B) |
tautegorical (adj~) | saying the same thing with different |
tautoousious (adj~) | being absolutely the same (B) |
tegetology (n~) | collecting cardboard beer coasters |
teknonymy (n~) | naming the parent after the child (B) |
telestich (n~) | a poem in which the consecutive final letters |
temerarious | reckless; heedless; rash (G) |
temulance (n~) | drunkenness (B) |
tendentious | promoting a particular view or tendency; hence |
tenebrific (adj~) | dark or obscure (B) |
tenesmic (adj~) | pertaining to a painful but ineffectual effort |
tentiginous (adj~) | sensuous lascivious (B) |
teratology (n~) | the study of monsters (B) |
tergiversation (n~) | abandoning a religion or cause (B) or |
testudineous (adj~) | slow like a tortoise (B) |
tetricity (n~) | austerity harshness |
thalassophobia (n~) | fear of the sea (B) |
thanatism (n~) | the belief in life before death not after it (B) |
thaumaturgic | or or involving the supposed working of miracles; |
theanthropism (n~) | attaching human traits to one's god (B) |
thelymachy (n~) | a war of women (B) |
thelyphthoric (adj~) | that which corrupts women (B) |
thersitical | loud and grossly abusive foulmouthed; scurrilous (G) |
thrasonical | given to or marked by boasting and bragging (G) |
threpterophilia (n~) | a fondness for female nurses (B) |
timonism (n~) | misanthropy (B) |
titivate | to make smart; spruce up (G) |
tonguepad (v~) | to scold (B) |
tralatitiously (adv~) | metaphorically; figuratively (B) |
transilient (adj~) | pertaining to abrupt changes (B] |
transmogrification | changes into grotesque or humorous forms |
transude | to pass or ooze through or out as sweat through |
trichoschisticism (n~) | hair |
tripudiation (n~) | the act of dancing |
triskaidekaphobia | fear of the number 13 or Friday the 13th (G) |
triturate | to rub grind |
truckle | to show servility or subservience (G) |
truntlement | trumpery (A) |
tugmutton | a great glutton (A) |
tussicated | driven about; tormented (A) |
typomania (n~) | obsession with the expectation of publication |
tyromancy (n~) | fortunate telling by watching cheese as it |
tyrosemiophily (n~) | the collecting of Camembert cheese labels |
uberous | fruitful (A) |
ulotrichous | having wooly or crisply curling hair (G) |
ultracrepidarian | going beyond one's own province; a person who |
ululate | to howl or hoot; or to wail or lament loudly (G) |
unbosom | to disclose one's personal thoughts or feelings (G) |
vade mecum | a favorite book carried everywhere (B) |
valetudinarianism | weak or sickly state; thinking only of |
valorization | government price |
vaniloquence | vain and foolish talk (B) |
vapulate | to beat whip (B) |
varietist | an unorthodox person; or someone who practices |
variorum | pertaining to a literary classic annotated by |
vastation | purification through fire (B) |
vecordious | senseless insane |
velitation | a petty fight; a skirmish (B) |
velleity | slight or faint desire; inclination (B) |
vellicate | to pull at off |
venery | the pursuit of sexual pleasure or indulgence |
ventoseness | windiness; flatulence (B) |
ventricumbent | lying face down; prone (B) |
ventripotent | fat |
verbigeration | senseless reiteration of cliches (B) |
verbophobia | fear and dislike of words (B) |
verecund | bashful; modest (B) |
veriloquent | speaking truthfully (B) |
verism | the theory that ugliness is valid in art and literature |
vernalagnia | spring fever (B) |
vesticate | to blister (G) |
vestryism (n~) | selfishness and parochialism said to be |
viaggiatory | on the move; traveling around (B) |
vicissitudinary | pertaining to change alteration |
vigesimation | killing every twentieth person (B) |
vilipend | to belittle to disparage (B) |
viparious | life |
virago | a scold a shrew |
vitilitigate | to be particularly quarrelsome (B) |
vivisepulture | live burial (B) |
volitient | exercising free will (B) |
vomituration | retching ineffectual vomiting |
vulpinism (n~) | the quality of being foxlike esp |
waghalter | a rogue rascal or knave (B) |
wamble | to fell nauseous; or to move unsteadily to stagger; |
wampus | a stupid dull |
wantwit | a fool (B) |
Weltanschauung | a comprehensive world view especially from |
Weltschmerz | sadness over the evils of the world especially as |
wergild | money paid by the killer's family to the family of |
withernam | taking one thing as reprisal for something else taken |
witzelsucht | emotional state characterized by futile attempts |
wowser | a pecksniffian puritan (B) |
xenagogue | a guide (B) |
xenagogy | a guidebook (B) |
xenapistia | extreme distrust of strangers (B) |
xenoepist | someone who speaks with a foreign accent (B) |
xenomancy | fortunetelling by studying the first stranger |
xeronisus | inability to reach orgasm (B) |
xylophobia | fear of wooden objects; fear of forests (B) |
xyresic | razor sharp (B) |
yarmouth | insane (B) |
ydromancy | fortunetelling with water (B) |
zeitgeist | the general intellectual moral and cultural level |
zetetic | asking; questioning (B) |
zoanthropy | insanity in which a patient believes he's an animal (B) |
zoetic | pertaining to life (B) |
zoilism | nagging criticism (B) |
zonesthesia | the feeling of wearing a tight girdle (B) |
zooerastia | sexual intercourse with an animal (B) |
zygal | H |
zygomancy | fortune telling with weights (B) |
longanimity (n~) | silent suffering while planning revenge (B) |
longinquity (n~) | remoteness (B) |
longueur (n~) | a long and tedious section of a book play |
loquaciousness (n~) | extreme talkativenss; garrulousness (W) |
lost positives | whimsically coined or archaic words of which only |
lovertine (adj~) | addicted to love |
loxotic (adj~) | slanting distorted (B) |
lubricity (n~) | the condition of being uncertain or unstable or |
luciferous (adj~) | illuminating literally and figuratively (B) |
lucriferous (adj~) | profitable lucrative (B) |
lucripetous (adj~) | money hungry (B) |
luctation (n~) | a struggle for success (B) |
luctiferous (adj~) | sad and sorry (B) |
lucubration (n~) | to burn the midnight oil; suggesting pretentious |
luculent (adj~) | readily understood; clear; lucid (G) |
lucus a non lucendo | an absurd word derivation; illogical explanation |
ludibrious (adj~) | ludicrous; making fun of (B) |
ludibundness (n~) | playfulness (B) |
ludicropathetic (adj~) | ludicrous and pathetic (B) |
ludification (n~) | deriding (B) |
luftmensch (n~) | someone with his head in the clouds |
lupanariam (n~) | lubricious lascivious |
lurgulary (n~) | the act of poisoning water (B) |
lutarious (adj~) | pertaining to living in |
lycanthropy (n~) | insanity in which the patient thinks he's |
lygophilia (n~) | love of darkness (B) |
lymacatexis (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with dirt (B) |
lypophrenia (n~) | a vague feeling of sadness seemingly |
lyssophobia (n~) | fear of becoming mad (B) |
macarize (v~) | to make happy; to praise (B) |
macerate (v~) | to oppress; torment (B) |
macilent (adj~) | lean; thin (B) |
macrobian (adj~) | long |
macrology (n~) | excessive or repititious words or phrases (W) |
macromastic (adj~) | pertaining to large breasts (B) |
macrophobia (n~) | fear of long waits (B) |
macrosmatic (adj~) | having a supersensitive nose (B) |
macrosomatous (adj~) | having an abnormally large body (B) |
macrotous (adj~) | having large ears (G) |
mactation (n~) | sacrificial murder (B) |
maculate (adj~) | defiled; impure (G) |
madefy (v~) | to wet (B) |
magniloquence (n~) | grandly high |
maieusiophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of childbirth |
maieutic (adj~) | of the Socratic method of bringing into full |
mala fide | in bad faith: falsely deceitfully |
malacissation (n~) | the process of making something soft and |
malacodermous (adj~) | soft |
malapert (n~) | impudent outspoken |
maliferous (adj~) | producing evil; unhealthy as a climate (B) |
malism (n~) | the theory that the world is mostly bad (B) |
malneirophrenia (n~) | depress following a nightmare (B) |
malnoia (n~) | a vague feeling of mental discomfort (B) |
mammothrept (n~) | a spoiled child (B) |
mancinism (n~) | left |
mangonize (v~) | to traffic in slaves (B) |
mania | a |
maniaphobia (n~) | fear of insanity (B) |
manipulandum (n~) | something that is to be manipulated (B) |
mansuetude (n~) | tameness gentleness |
mantology (n~) | fortunetelling; a fortuneteller (B) |
manubiary (ad~) | relating to the spoils of war (B) |
manumission (n~) | formal liberation of a slave (B) |
manustupration (n~) | masturbation (B) |
maquillage (n~) | make |
marasmic (adj~) | of the gradual loss of flesh and strength; of a wasting |
marcescent (adj~) | withered decayed |
margaritaceous (adj~) | pearly (B) |
maritodespotism (n~) | ruthless domination by a husband (B) |
marlish (adj~) | easygoing (B) |
marlock (v~) | to cavort frolic (B) |
maschalephidrosis (n~) | massive sweating of the armpits (B) |
mastigophobia (n~) | fear of punishment (B) |
mastigophoric (adj~) | whip |
mataeology (n~) | useless of pointless discourse; worthless |
mataeotechny (n~) | an unprofitable science or art (B) |
matripotestal (adj~) | pertaining to maternal control (B) |
mattoid (n~) | a congenitally insane person (B) |
matutolagnia (n~) | antemerdian sexual desire (B) |
matutolypea (n~) | getting up on the wrong side of the bed (B) |
maumetry (n~) | idolatry (B) |
mauvaise plaisanterie | an inappropriate or badly timed joke (W) |
mawkish (adj~) | characterized by sickly weak sentimentality (G) |
mazomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by a nursing baby (B) |
mazophilous (adj~) | pertaining to mammary mania (B) |
meable (adj~) | capable of being easily penetrated (B) |
meacock (n~) | an effeminate or cowardly man (B) |
meadophily (n~) | study of beer bottle labels |
mechanomorphism (n~) | the doctrine that the universe is fully |
meconology (n~) | the study of opium and its effects (B) |
meconophagism (n~) | opium addiction (B) |
medicaster (n~) | a medical quack (B) |
megacephalous (adj~) | having a large head (B) |
megalonisus (n~) | a tendency to exaggerate (B) |
megalophobia (n~) | fear of large things (B) |
megalopsychy (n~) | generosity of spirit or magnanamity |
meiosis (n~) | rhetorical understatement or representing something |
melioration (n~) | an elevation or bettering: in language a hitherto |
melliloquence (n~) | euphonious speech; sweet talk (W) |
melissophobia (n~) | fear of bees (B) |
melomaniac (n~) | a music lover (B) |
mempsis | an impassioned but somewhat caustic supplication in which |
menacme (n~) | the menstruating part of a woman's life (B) |
mendaciloquence (n~) | lying as a fine art; adroit prevarication (W) |
menticide (n~) | brainwashing (B) |
mentimutation (n~) | change of mind (B) |
mentulate (adj~) | well hung (B) |
mephitic | bad |
meracious (adj~) | unadulterated full |
meraculous (adj~) | demi |
merdivorous (adj~) | eating dung (B) |
merism (n~) | a pairing of contrasted terms to express a totality |
merkin (n~) | female genitalia; or false pubic hair (B) |
merulator (n~) | a wine |
metagnostic (adj~) | unknowable (B) |
metagrobolize (v~) | the mystify (B) |
metallege (n~) | spoonerism (B) |
metastasis | casual mention of a subject as if it were unimportant; |
metempsychosis (n~) | alleged transmigration of souls (B) |
metheglin (n~) | mead (B) |
methionyl ~~ inylserine (n~) | the chemical name for |
tryptophan synthetase A protein | a 1 913 |
metonymy (n~) | the figurative or symbolic use of the name of one |
metoposcopy (n~) | judging character by studying the face (B) |
metromania (n~) | a mania for writing verse (B) |
miasmatic (adj~) | noxious contagious |
microcephalous (adj~) | small |
microlipet (n~) | someone bothered by trifles (B) |
micrology (n~) | excessive attention to or discussion of details or |
micturition (n~) | need for frequent urination (B) |
midden (n~) | a dunghill (B) |
migniard (adj~) | dainty delicate; mincing (B) |
militaster (n~) | an insignificant military man (B) |
minatory (adj~) | portending punishment; threatening; menacing (G) |
minauderie (n~) | coquetry (B) |
minimifidianism (n~) | having almost no faith or belief (B) |
minimus (n~) | a tiny creature (B) |
mirabile dictu | wonderful to relate (W) |
misandry (n~) | dislike of men (B) |
misanthropy (n~) | hatred of mankind |
misapodysis (n~) | hatred of undressing in front of someone (B) |
misarchist (n~) | a person who hates authority (B) |
miserabile dictu | miserable to relate (W) |
miserotia (n~) | aversion to sex (B) |
misocainia (n~) | hatred of anything new or strange such as |
misocanpnist (n~) | a hater of tobacco smoke (B) |
misodoctakleidist (n~) | one who hates to practice the piano (B) |
misology (n~) | hatred of logical discussion or reason (W) |
misoneism (n~) | hatred of new things (B) |
misopedia (n~) | hatred of children esp |
misopolemiac (n~) | a war |
misoscopist (n~) | a hater of beauty; a recluse (B) |
misosophy (n~) | hatred of wisdom (B) |
misotramontanism (n~) | a hatred of the unknown (B) |
misoxeny (n~) | hatred of strangers (B) |
mithridatism (n~) | immunity to poison achieved by taking |
moanworthy (adj~) | lamentable pitiful (B) |
mogigraphia (n~) | writers' cramp (B) |
moliminous (adj~) | massive; momentous (B) |
moloch (n~) | a system or method that requires frightful sacrifice (G) |
molysmophobia (n~) | fear of dirt or contamination (B) |
mome (n~) | a crashing bore; a buffoon (B) |
monorchid (adj~) | having one testicle (B) |
mordacious (adj~) | biting acrid |
mordant (adj~) | biting; caustic; cutting; sarcastic (G) |
morigerous (adj~) | obedient; obsequious (B) |
morology (n~) | deliberate nonsense of foolishness for effect (W) |
mot juste | the perfect fitting word or phrase; precisely apt |
mot propre | the correct or necessary word (W) |
motatorious (adj~) | constantly active (B) |
motitation (n~) | a quivering moment (B) |
mulct (v~) | to punish by means of a fine (G) |
mulierose (adj~) | extremely fond of women (B) |
multum in parvo | much in little: containing or suggesting much in |
mumpsimus (n~) | an erroneous word or spelling that through long |
mundivagant (n~) | wandering over the world (B) |
musard (n~) | an absentminded dreamer or fool (B) |
mutatis mutandis | the (necessary) changes having been made or the |
mycterism (n~) | derision or sarcasm that is somewhat veiled; subtle |
myrmidon (n~) | a blindly loyal though unscrupulous |
mythomania (n~) | compulsively telling lies and believing them (B) |
nanism (n~) | dwarfishness (B) |
naology (n~) | the study of holy buildings (B) |
naprapathy (n~) | the manipulation of strained ligaments i the |
nates (n~) | the buttocks (B) |
nattering (adj~) | grumbling fault |
naufragous (adj~) | causing shipwrecks (B) |
neanilagnia (n~) | a yen for nymphets (B) |
neanimorphism (n~) | looking younger than one's years (B) |
nebulaphobia (n~) | fear of fog (B) |
nebulochaotic (adj~) | chaotic confused (B) |
necromimesis (n~) | feigning death; the delusion of being dead (B) |
necyomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by summoning lucifer (B) |
nefandous (adj~) | unmentionable unspeakable (B) |
nefast (adj~) | wicked (B) |
nelipot (n~) | someone going barefoot (B) |
nemophilous (adj~) | loving the forest (B) |
neocracy (n~) | government by tyros (B) |
neologism (n~) | a newly coined word or phrase or a novel expression |
neomnesia (n~) | good memory for recent events (B) |
nephalism (n~) | teetotalism (B) |
nepheligenous (adj~) | producing clouds of tobacco smoke (B) |
neoteny (n~) | retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult |
nepotation (n~) | riotous living (B) |
nervus probandi | the strong point of the proving: crux of the |
nescient (adj~) | uneducated unaware |
nettling (v~) | to irritate; vex; annoy (G) |
nictitate (v~) | to wink (G) |
nidorous (adj~) | smelling like burning or decaying animal matter (B) |
nihil ad rem | nothing to the matter: irrelevant (W) |
nihil obstat | nothing stands in the way: in Roman Catholocism |
nikhedonia (n~) | pleasure derived from anticipating success (B) |
nimgimmer (n~) | a doctor who cures the clap (British slang) (B) |
nimiety (n~) | excess redundancy |
nimious (adj~) | extravagant (B) |
nimptopsical (adj~) | drunk (B) |
nimshy (n~) | a silly ass (B) |
nipperkin (n~) | amount of liquor roughly equivalent to a half pint (B) |
nippitatum (n~) | exceptionally good and strong ale (B) |
noctivagation (n~) | wandering around at night (B) |
non est disputandum | it is not to be disputed (W) |
non possumus | a statement of inability to do something (W) |
nosism (n~) | use of 'we' in speaking of oneself; conceit or |
self | exultation by a group (W) |
nostrificate (v~) | to accept as one's own (B) |
nothosonomia (n~) | calling someone a bastard (W) |
noumenon (n~) | an object implied by intuition rather than evidence |
nubilate (v~) | to obscure (B) |
nuchal (adj~) | of the nape of the neck (G) |
nudis verbis | in naked words (W) |
nudiustertian (adj~) | pertaining to the day before yesterday (B) |
nugatory (adj~) | worthless trifling |
nullifidian (adj~) | skeptical (B) |
nulliparous (adj~) | pertaining to a woman who has never foaled (B) |
numbles (n~) | edible deer innards (B) |
nummamorous (adj~) | money |
nuncupate (v~) | to declare orally (B) |
nychthemeron (n~) | a twenty |
nympholepsy (n~) | trance incurred by erotic daydreams (B) |
obumbration (n~) | the act or process of darkening or obscuring |
obambulate (v~) | to walk about wander (B) |
obdormition (n~) | numbness caused by pressure on a nerve (B) |
obduracy (n~) | being obstinate or hardhearted |
obganiate (v~) | to irritate with reiteration (B) |
objurgation (n~) | an earnest denunciation rebuke |
oblatrate (n~) | to snarl at inveigh against (B) |
oblectation (n~) | delight pleasure (B) |
oblocution | interruption (A) |
obloquy (n~) | the state of bad repute borne by one being harshly |
obnubilation (n~) | beclouding or obscuring; obfuscation (W) |
obreption (n~) | creeping up on (B) |
obsecrations (n~) | entreaties (A) |
obscurum per obscurius | explaining the obscure by means of the |
obsolagnium (n~) | waning sexual desire due to age (B) |
obstrobogulous (adj~) | a vehement oath of expansive meaning (G) |
obtund (adj~) | serving to blunt dull or deaden (G) |
ochlocracy (n~) | mob rule (B) |
odium aestheticum | the bitterness of aesthetical controversy (W) |
odium scholasticum | acrimony between scholars or pedants; academic |
odium theologicum | bitter hatred between rival theologians (W) |
oeillade (n~) | an ogle a flirtatious glance (B) |
oikofugic (n~) | obsessive wandering (B) |
oikonisus (n~) | urge to start a family (B) |
olamic (adj~) | infinite eternal (B) |
olet lucernam | it smells of the lamp: describing something written |
oligophrenia (n~) | feeble |
olisbos (n~) | a dildo (B) |
omadhaun (n~) | an idiot fool (B) |
ombibulous (adj~) | drinking everything (B) |
omnilegent (adj~) | reading or having read everything; having |
omphalomancy (n~) | predicting the number of children a mother will |
bear by counting the knots in her first | born's umbilical cord (B) |
omphalopsychites (n~) | term for literary Anglophiles who wish American |
omphaloskepsis (n~) | contemplation of the navel for the purpose of |
oneirataxia (n~) | inability to distinguish between fantasy and |
oneiric (adj~) | having to do with dreams (E G) |
oniochalasia (n~) | buying as a means of mental relaxation (B) |
onolatry (n~) | ass |
onomastic (adj~) | pertaining to a proper name or names (W) |
onomatomania (n~) | preoccupation with words and names (B) |
onomatophobia (n~) | fear of hearing a certain word (B) |
onomatopoeia (n~) | the forming of or use of a word that imitates in |
onus probandi | the burden of proof (W) |
operose (adj~) | involving much labor; laborious (G) |
ophelimity (n~) | the ability to please sexually (B) |
oppugnant (adj~) | opposing; antagonistic; contrary (G) |
ophthalmophobia (n~) | fear of being stared at (B) |
opiparous (adj~) | sumptuous (B) |
oppilations (n~) | obstructions (A) |
opsablepsia (n~) | not looking into another's eyes (B) |
opuscule (n~) | a minor composition or work (W) |
oratio obliqua | indirect speech: reported speech or relating |
oratio recta | straight speech: actual or direct speech (W) |
orchidectomy (n~) | castration (B) |
ore rotundo | with a round mouth: eloquently with considered |
orgulous (adj~) | proud and haughty; swelling (G) |
orismology (n~) | the science of defining or explaining technical |
osseocarnisanguineoviscericartilaginonervomedullary | the structure |
otiose | futile functionless |
oubliette (n~) | a secret place of imprisonment usually with |
outrecuidance (n~) | egomania; gross conceit (B) |
overweening | excessively proud; arrogant; conceited; or |
oxythymous (adj~) | quick |
pachycephalic (adj~) | thick |
pageism (n~) | masochism fantasy of a man imagining himself as |
pagophagia (n~) | eating a tray of ice daily for two months to |
paideutics (n~) | pedagogy (B) |
paizogony (n~) | love play (B) |
paleomnesia (n~) | good memory for events of the far past (B) |
palimpsest (n~) | a piece of parchment or vellum from which |
palinode (n~) | a song or poem retracting statements in previous |
palinoia (n~) | compulsive repitition of an act until it's |
palladian (adj~) | pertaining to learning and wisdom (B) |
palliards (n~) | professional beggars whose parents were also |
palpebrate (v~) | to wink (B) |
paltripolitan (n~) | an insular city dweller (B) |
pandiculation (n~) | stretching and yawning (B) |
panjandrum | a self |
pannychous (adj~) | lasting all night (B) |
pantagruelian (adj~) | satirical though ribald (B) |
pantaraxia (n~) | actions aimed aat keeping people on their toes |
pantophobia (n~) | a fear of everything (B) |
paphian | pertaining to love especially its sexual and |
paracoita (n~) | a female sexual partner (B) |
paracoitus (n~) | a male sexual partner (B) |
paradiastole (n~) | a euphemistic half |
paraenetic | advisory; hortatory (G) |
paralepsis (n~) | mentioning something by saying you won't mention it (B) |
paralipomena (n~) | deleted passages from a book or a |
paralipophobia (n~) | fear of responsibility (B) |
paralogism (n~) | reasoning method that contradicts logical |
parerethesis (n~) | abnormal excitement (B) |
pareunia (n~) | sexual intercourse (B) |
parisology (n~) | deliberate ambiguity in use of words (B) |
parnel (n~) | a priest's mistress; a loose woman (B) |
paronomasia (n~) | punning; a pun (B) |
parorexia (n~) | perverted appetite; demanding strange foods (B) |
parrhesia (n~) | freedom of speech (rhetoric term) (B) |
partheniad (n~) | a poem in honor of a virgin (B) |
parthenolatry (n~) | virgin worship (B) |
parvanimity (n~) | pettiness; meannes; or a mean or petty person (B) |
parvenu (n~) | a pretentious snob of the nouveau riche (B) |
parviscient (adj~) | uninformed (B) |
pasilaly (n~) | a universal language (B) |
pasquinade | a lampoon or satire posted in a public place (G) |
passalorynchite (n~) | a member of an early Christian sect who |
passepartout (n~) | a master key; a safeconduct or passport (B) |
patavinity (n~) | the use of local words or expressions (B) |
patharmosis (n~) | mental adjustment to one's disease (B) |
pathic (n~) | a catamite; or a passive participator (B) |
pathocryptia (n~) | unwillingness to believe in or talk about |
pathodixia (n~) | talking to excess about one's illness and |
pathognomy (n~) | the study of emotions by their outward |
pathomimesis (n~) | malingering (B) |
patzer (n~) | a weak chess player (B) |
pauciloquent (adj~) | speaking briefly (B) |
pavid | quaking with fear; afraid; frightened (G) |
peccable (adj~) | liable to sin (B) |
peccatophobia (n~) | fear of sinning or of having committed an |
peckerwood (n~) | a poor southern Anglo |
pecksniffian (adj~) | hypocritical insincere and gutless (B) |
pecos (v~) | to shoot a man and roll his body in the river (B) |
peculation (n~) | embezzlement (B) |
pedetentous (adj~) | proceedilng gradually or cautiously (B) |
peirastic (adj~) | experimental; ready to be tried (B) |
peladophobia (n~) | fear of baldness |
pelology (n~) | study of mud and its therapeutic applications (B) |
penelopize (v~) | to undo and redo to gain time (B) |
penisterophily (n~) | raising and training pigeons |
penotherapy (n~) | regulating prostitutes to control venereal |
pentapopemptic (n~) | divorced five times (B) |
pentheraphobia (n~) | fear or dislike of one's mother |
peotomy (n~) | the surgical amputation of the penis (B) |
perduellion (n~) | treason (B) |
perendinate (n~) | to postpone until the next day; to postpone |
perfectibilism (n~) | belief that anything short of perfect is |
perfrication (n~) | thorough rubbing (B) |
perhiemate (v~) | to spend the winter (B) |
perichareia (n~) | excessive and violent rejoicing (B) |
periclitate | to expose to peril; endanger; risk (G) |
periphrastic | using many words when few would do; verbose; |
perissotomist (n~) | a knife |
peristrephic (adj~) | turning around rotatory (B) |
perlustrate (v~) | to review thoroughly; survey (B) |
pervicacious (adj~) | extremely obstinate; willful (B) |
pervulgate (v~) | to publish (B) |
petalism (n~) | banishing a citizen for five years if judged |
pettifoggery | quibbling over petty details |
petulcous (adj~) | butting like a ram; offensively aggressive (B) |
phagomania (n~) | insanely hungry (B) |
phalacrespia (n~) | aversion for baldness or for bald men (B) |
phalacrosis (n~) | baldness |
phallation (n~) | movement of the penis in sexual intercourse (B) |
phaneromania (n~) | a compulsion to pick at a skin growth or |
pharisaical | of persons of rigid adherence to outward forms and |
phatic | establishing an atmosphere of sociability rather than |
philalethe (n~) | one who loves to forget (B) |
philauty (n~) | self |
philematology (n~) | the study of kissing (B) |
philematophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes kissing (B) |
philobiblist (n~) | a lover of books |
philocalist (n~) | a lover of beauty (B) |
philodox (n~) | one who loves one's own opinions (B) |
philogastric (adj~) | greedy (B) |
philophobia (n~) | fear of falling in love or of being loved (B) |
philopolemic (adj~) | pertaining to love of argument or |
philopornist (n~) | a lover of prostitutes (B) |
philosophastering (adj~) | pseudo |
philotheoparoptesism | the process of slowly cooking those who |
philoxenist (n~) | one who is happiest while entertaining |
phrontifugic (adj~) | relieving anxiety (B) |
physagogue (n~) | carminative or medicine to induce farting (B) |
piacular | serving to atone or make amends for; expiatory; or |
pickthank (n~) | a flatterer or sycophant (B) |
piliferous | having hair (G) |
piloerection (n~) | hair standing on end (B) |
pilpulist (n~) | one who uses Talmudic dialectic or via |
pinchbeck | sham or spurious; false (G) |
pinguescent | becoming fat (G) |
pithiatism (n~) | a forceful suggestion (B) |
pizzle (n~) | a whip made from an animal's penis (B) |
planistethic (adj~) | flat |
planomania (n~) | urge to live a bohemian life (B) |
platitudinarian (n~) | full of platitudes (B) |
platypod | one afflicted with fallen arches (G) |
plebicolist (n~) | someone who woos the common folk (B) |
pleionosis (n~) | exaggeration of one's own importance (B) |
pleniloquence (n~) | excessive talking (B) |
pleonastic | use of words superfluously; redundant (G) |
pleonexia (n~) | covetousness avarice; mania for acquiring |
plerophory (n~) | state of full confidence or absolute certainty |
pococurante (adj~) | nonchalant indifferent (B) |
poculation (n~) | wine |
podobromhidrosis (n~) | smelly feet (B) |
poecilonymy (n~) | the use of several names for one thing (B) |
pogonology (n~) | treatise on beards |
pogonophobia (n~) | abnormal fear or dislike of beards |
poiesis (n~) | creation; creative power or ability (B) |
poikilothymia (n~) | extreme changes of mood (B) |
polychrestic | serving and adapted for several different uses (G) |
polyhistor (n~) | a universal scholar (B) |
polylogy (n~) | wordiness (B) |
polydipsia (n~) | extreme thirst or an abnormal and continuous |
popination (n~) | bar |
popliteal | pertaining to or connected with the hollow area back |
pornerastic (adj~) | licentious lascivious |
pornolagnia (n~) | desire for prostitutes (B) |
potvaliant | valiant and courageous as a result of being drunk |
preantepenultimate (n~ & adj~) | fourth from last (B) |
preterist (n~) | someone whose main pleasure in in reliving the |
priapean (adj~) | phallic (B) |
priapism (n~) | persistent and painful erection (B) |
procrustean | aiming or tending to produce uniformity by violent |
proctalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B) |
proditorious (adj~) | traitorous; prone to give away secrets (B) |
prolepsis (n~) | anticipating an argument and answering it before |
prolix | verbose repititious |
long | winded |
pronovalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse in a prone |
propaedeutic | of or pertaining to preliminary instruction; |
prosonomasia (n~) | use of a humorous modification of a person's |
prosophobia (n~) | fear of or adversion to progress (B) |
prosopolepsy (n~) | judging people favorably from their looks (B) |
prosopopy (n~) | the personification of inanimate objects (B) |
protervity (n~) | petulance; peevishness (B) |
psaphonic (adj~) | planning one's rise to fame (B) |
pseudandry (n~) | female use of a male pseudonym (B) |
pseudautochiria (n~) | murder disguised as a suicide (B) |
pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism (n~) | phony opposition to |
pseudogyny (n~) | male use of a female pseudonym (B) |
pseudologist (n~) | liar (B) |
pseudomnesia (n~) | memory for things that never happened (B) |
pseudophonia (n~) | suicide disguised as murder (B) |
psilology (n~) | empty talk (B) |
psilosopher (n~) | a superficial philosopher (B) |
psittacistic | speaking in a mechanical repetitive way (G) |
psychasthenia (n~) | neurotic lassitude indecision |
pteronophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of feathers |
pudency (n~) | modesty or shyness; embarassment |
puerile | childish immature |
pullulate | teem swarm |
purulent | of containing |
pygophilous (adj~) | buttock |
pyrolagnia (n~) | sexual stimulation from watching fires (B) |
quaintise (n~) | ingenuity cunning; a trick or stratagem (B) |
quakebuttock (n~) | a coward (B) |
qued (adj~) | evil bad (B) |
querimony (n~) | a complaint (B) |
quidam (n~) | an unknown person (B) |
quiddity (n~) | the essence or nature of a thing (B) |
quidnunc (n~) | one who is curious to know everything that |
quisquillian (adj~) | trashy (B) |
quisguous (adj~) | perplexing (B) |
quodlibet (n~) | a nice or fine point in an argument; a subtlety |
quodlibetarian (n~) | one who discusses or uses quodlibets |
rabiator (n~) | a violent man (B) |
rabulism (n~) | tendency for railing and quibbling |
rackrent (n~) | exorbitant rent (B) |
rakehelly (adj~) | dissolute debauched (B) |
ramfeezled (adj~) | worn out exhausted (B) |
rammish (adj~) | lustful and horny (B) |
ranarium (n~) | frog farm (B) |
randle (n~) | a nonsensical poem recited by Irish schoolboys as |
rantallion (n~) | one whose scrotum is longer than his penis (B) |
rantipole (n~) | a wild rambunctious young man (B) |
realpolitik | practical politics; euphemism for power politics |
rebarbative (adj~) | grim unattractive |
reboantic (adj~) | reverberating (B) |
recension (n~) | scholarly editorial revision (B) |
receptary (adj~) | accepted as fact but unproved (B) |
rectalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B) |
rectopathic (adj~) | easily hurt emotionally (B) |
rectrix (n~) | a female ruler (B) |
recubation (n~) | lying down (B) |
recumbentibus (n~) | a knockdown blow (B) |
recusant (adj~) | dissenting; disestablishmentarian (B) |
redargution (n~) | refutation or disproving (B) |
redhibition (n~) | the return of defective merchandise (B) |
redivivus (adj~) | living again; revived (B) |
refocillate (v~) | to warm into life again; revive (G) |
refragable (adj~) | capable of being refuted (B) |
refrangible (adj~) | capable of being refracted (B) |
refulgent (adj~) | radiant brilliant |
reify | literally "to make a thing"; given definite concrete |
remontado (n~) | someone who has fled to the mountains; a person |
remplissage (n~) | filling or padding used in music and |
remugient (adj~) | rebellowing; roaring or shouting anew (B) |
renable (adj~) | fluent eloquent (B) |
renard (n~) | a fox; a sly or cunning person (B) |
renascible (adj~) | capable of being reborn (B) |
renifleur (n~) | one who gets sexual pleasure from body smells (B) |
renitent | resisting or opposing stubbornly; recalcitrant (G) |
repristinate (v~) | to revive; to restore (B) |
resipiscent (adj~) | restored to sanity; learned from |
resupination (n~) | turning to an upside |
retrocopulation (n~) | woof (B) |
retromancy (n~) | fortunetelling by things seen over one's |
retromingent (adj~) | urinating backward (B) |
retunded | to weaken or diminish the strength of effect of (G) |
rhabdophobia (n~) | fear of being punished or severely criticized (B) |
rhadamanthine | strictly and inflexibly honest and just (G) |
rhigosis (n~) | sensation of cold (B) |
rhonchisonant (adj~) | snorting; snoring (B) |
rhopalism (n~) | a sentence or poem i which each word is one syllable |
rhyparography | the printing or painting of sordid and filty |
rhytiscopia (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with facial wrinkles (B) |
ribroasting (n~) | a sound beating; a thrashing (B) |
rictus (n~) | a very wide mouth; a gaping mouth as in terror (B) |
risorial (adj~) | pertaining to causing |
rixation (n~) | quarreling (B) |
rodomontade | arrogant boasting; pretentious blustering ranting |
roil | vex; disturb; irritate; rile (G) |
roinous (adj~) | mean nasty and contemptible (B) |
roitelet (n~) | a petty king (B) |
roman a clef (n~) | a novel whose characters are actual people |
rubricism (n~) | tenacious adherence to rules of behavior or |
ructation (n~) | belching (B) |
rudesby (n~) | a loud |
rugose | having wrinkles (G) |
rumgumption (n~) | shrewdness (B) |
runcible (adj~) | sensuous (B) |
sacerdotophrenia (n~) | clerical stagefright (B) |
saltimbanco (n~) | a mountebank a quack (B) |
sanguisugent | bloodsucking; bloodthirsty (G) |
sapidity (n~) | flavorful; tastiness (B) |
saponaceous (adj~) | soapy slippery; or evasively ingratiating (B) |
saprostomous (adj~) | having bad breath (B) |
sardanapalian | luxuriously effeminate (G) |
sardoodledum (n~) | stereotyped or unrealistic characterization |
sarmassation (n~) | love play (B) |
sarmassophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play (B) |
sarmassophobitch (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play with me (B) |
satisdiction (n~) | enough said (B) |
satispassion (n~) | satisfactory suffering according to |
saturnalia | period of unrestrained license and orgiastic |
scacchic | pertaining to or like chess (G) |
scaldabanco (n~) | a hotheaded debator; a fiery preacher (B) |
scaphism (n~) | an old Persian method of executing criminals by |
scaramouch (n~) | a cowardly buffoon (B) |
scaturient (adj~) | gushing forth; effusive (B) |
schadenfreude | a feeling of enjoyment derived from the misfortunes |
schesis (n~) | mocking another's accent or manner (B) |
schizothemia (n~) | digression by a long reminescence (B) |
schmaltz | something stickily sentimental banal |
schoenabatist (n~) | a tightrope walker (B) |
sciamachy (n~) | fighting with a shadow or with an imaginary |
sciapodous (adj~) | having very large feet (B) |
scibile (n~) | something knowable (B) |
sciolist | one who pretends to scholarship or knowledge |
sciotheism (n~) | the belief that disembodied spirits |
scissile (adj~) | capable of being cut smoothly or split |
scofflaw (n~) | one who scoffs at hence |
scolecophagous (adj~) | eating worms (B) |
scolion (n~) | an impromptu party song begun by one and |
scollardical (n~) | a derogatory term for a scholar (B) |
scopolagnia (n~) | the pleasure gained from voyeurism (B) |
scortation (n~) | fornication (B) |
scout | reject or dismiss scornfully; flout; scoff at (G) |
screed | a lengthy discourse usually used to describe opinions |
scribacious | given to or fond of writing (G) |
scrofulous | morally corrupt; degenerate (G) |
scungilaginous | of the semifluid gelatinous consistency of |
sebastomania (n~) | religious insanity (B) |
sectary (n~) | a fanatic disciple (B) |
sedentarize | to take up or cause to take up |
sedulous (adj~) | diligent persistent |
seeksorrow (n~) | masochist (B) |
sententious | wordy verbose |
sequacious | given to the slavish or unreasoning serving or |
sermocination (n~) | a speaker quickly answering his own question (B) |
shaconian (n~) | someone convinced that Bacon ghosted Shakespeare's |
shaftsbury (n~) | a gallon jug of wine (B) |
shamateur (n~) | a bogus tyro (B) |
shardborn (adj~) | born in dung (B) |
shilpit (adj~) | feeble puny |
sicarian (n~) | an assassin (B) |
sicchasia (n~) | nauseau (B) |
sicchosism (n~) | morbid fastidiousness (B) |
sibyllilne | oracular; prophetic; mysterious (G) |
siffilate | to whisper (G) |
simony | buying selling |
simper | to smile in a silly self |
skibbile (adj~) | wonderfully witty; sexually irresistible (S) |
skibbalalia (n~) | the overwhelming desire to purchase an |
skoptsy (n~) | self |
skybald (n~) | a good |
smatchet (n~) | a small nasty person or a nasty child (B) |
smellfungus (n~) | a malcontent; a grumbler or fault |
snafu (adj~ & n~) | situation normal all fucked up [also: |
fubar | fucked up beyond all recognition; fubb |
sneckdraw (n~) | a sly person (B) |
snollygoster | a clever shrewd |
sockdolager (n~) | a telling blow (B) |
solatium (n~) | anything that compensates for suffering or loss; |
solifidium (n~) | someone who believes that faith alone is sufficient |
somniloquacious (adj~) | pertaining to talking in one's sleep (B) |
soodle | to walk stroll |
sophomania (n~) | delusion of exceptional intelligence (B) |
sophrosyne (n~) | sober sensible |
sorbile (adj~) | drinkable (B) |
spadonism (n~) | enuchry (B) |
spaneria (n~) | scarcity of men (B) |
spanogyny (n~) | scarcity of woman (B) |
spatiate (v~) | to stroll or ramble (B) |
spatilomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by observing animal droppings (B) |
spatrify (v~) | to besmirch befoul (B) |
spawling | a noisy clearing of the throat (G) |
speciesist | for many people a test is permissible when it inflicts |
spodogenous (adj~) | pertaining to or due to presence of |
spoffokins (n~) | a whore pretending to be a wife (B) |
spousebreach (n~) | adultery (B) |
spraints (n~) | otter dung (B) |
spurcidical (adj~) | foul |
squidgereen (n~) | a short insignificant person (B) |
stagorium | an establishment (bar or resort hotel) that serves as |
stasivalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse only |
steatopygous | pertaining to or characterized by protuberant |
stercoricolous (adj~) | living in dung (B) |
sterculius (n~) | the god of feces (B) |
sternutation | the act of sneezing; a sneeze (G) |
stertorous | characterized by heavy snoring (G) |
sthenobulia (n~) | strong will power (B) |
stirious (adj~) | like an icicle (B) |
stomachous (adj~) | obstinate; angry (B) |
stoopgallant (adj~) | humbling; ego |
strepitous | making a great clamor; noisy; boisterous (G) |
stricture | an adverse criticism or remark censure |
stultiloquence | foolish or senseless talk; babble; twaddle (G) |
stygiophobia (n~) | fear of hell (B) |
stylite (n~) | ascetics who lived on top of pillars (B) |
suaviation (n~) | a love kiss (B) |
subagitation (n~) | copulation (B) |
subarrhation (n~) | betrothal accomplished by the man's showering |
subderisorious (adj~) | mildly ridiculing (B) |
subdititious (adj~) | secret substitution (B) |
subdolous (adj~) | rather crafty or sly (B) |
subintelligitur (n~) | a meaning implied but not stated (B) |
subsannation (n~) | derision (B) |
substaquilate (v~) | to defeat overwhelm (B) |
supernaculum (n~) | a liquor drunk to the last drop; excellent |
supervacaneous (adj~) | needlessly added (B) |
supinovalent (adj~) | able to fornicate only while supine (B) |
suppalpation (n~) | gaining affection by caressing (B) |
suspercollate (v~) | to hang by the neck (B) |
sybarite (n~) | someone overly fond of luxury and pleasure (B) |
tachydidaxy (n~) | fast teaching (B) |
talionic (adj~) | pertaining to revenge in kind (B) |
tanquam (n~) | someone educated enough to go to college (B) |
taphephobia (n~) | fear of being buried alive (B) |
tardigrade (adj~) | slow |
tartuffish (adj~) | pertaining to the pious hypocrisy of Tartuffe |
tathagatagarbha (n~) | the eternal and absolute essence of all |
tauromachian (adj~) | pertaining to bullfights (B) |
tautegorical (adj~) | saying the same thing with different |
tautoousious (adj~) | being absolutely the same (B) |
tegetology (n~) | collecting cardboard beer coasters |
teknonymy (n~) | naming the parent after the child (B) |
telestich (n~) | a poem in which the consecutive final letters |
temerarious | reckless; heedless; rash (G) |
temulance (n~) | drunkenness (B) |
tendentious | promoting a particular view or tendency; hence |
tenebrific (adj~) | dark or obscure (B) |
tenesmic (adj~) | pertaining to a painful but ineffectual effort |
tentiginous (adj~) | sensuous lascivious (B) |
teratology (n~) | the study of monsters (B) |
tergiversation (n~) | abandoning a religion or cause (B) or |
testudineous (adj~) | slow like a tortoise (B) |
tetricity (n~) | austerity harshness |
thalassophobia (n~) | fear of the sea (B) |
thanatism (n~) | the belief in life before death not after it (B) |
thaumaturgic | or or involving the supposed working of miracles; |
theanthropism (n~) | attaching human traits to one's god (B) |
thelymachy (n~) | a war of women (B) |
thelyphthoric (adj~) | that which corrupts women (B) |
thersitical | loud and grossly abusive foulmouthed; scurrilous (G) |
thrasonical | given to or marked by boasting and bragging (G) |
threpterophilia (n~) | a fondness for female nurses (B) |
timonism (n~) | misanthropy (B) |
titivate | to make smart; spruce up (G) |
tonguepad (v~) | to scold (B) |
tralatitiously (adv~) | metaphorically; figuratively (B) |
transilient (adj~) | pertaining to abrupt changes (B] |
transmogrification | changes into grotesque or humorous forms |
transude | to pass or ooze through or out as sweat through |
trichoschisticism (n~) | hair |
tripudiation (n~) | the act of dancing |
triskaidekaphobia | fear of the number 13 or Friday the 13th (G) |
triturate | to rub grind |
truckle | to show servility or subservience (G) |
truntlement | trumpery (A) |
tugmutton | a great glutton (A) |
tussicated | driven about; tormented (A) |
typomania (n~) | obsession with the expectation of publication |
tyromancy (n~) | fortunate telling by watching cheese as it |
tyrosemiophily (n~) | the collecting of Camembert cheese labels |
uberous | fruitful (A) |
parorexia (n~) | perverted appetite; demanding strange foods (B) |
parrhesia (n~) | freedom of speech (rhetoric term) (B) |
partheniad (n~) | a poem in honor of a virgin (B) |
parthenolatry (n~) | virgin worship (B) |
parvanimity (n~) | pettiness; meannes; or a mean or petty person (B) |
parvenu (n~) | a pretentious snob of the nouveau riche (B) |
parviscient (adj~) | uninformed (B) |
pasilaly (n~) | a universal language (B) |
pasquinade | a lampoon or satire posted in a public place (G) |
passalorynchite (n~) | a member of an early Christian sect who |
passepartout (n~) | a master key; a safeconduct or passport (B) |
patavinity (n~) | the use of local words or expressions (B) |
patharmosis (n~) | mental adjustment to one's disease (B) |
pathic (n~) | a catamite; or a passive participator (B) |
pathocryptia (n~) | unwillingness to believe in or talk about |
pathodixia (n~) | talking to excess about one's illness and |
pathognomy (n~) | the study of emotions by their outward |
pathomimesis (n~) | malingering (B) |
patzer (n~) | a weak chess player (B) |
pauciloquent (adj~) | speaking briefly (B) |
pavid | quaking with fear; afraid; frightened (G) |
peccable (adj~) | liable to sin (B) |
peccatophobia (n~) | fear of sinning or of having committed an |
peckerwood (n~) | a poor southern Anglo |
pecksniffian (adj~) | hypocritical insincere and gutless (B) |
pecos (v~) | to shoot a man and roll his body in the river (B) |
peculation (n~) | embezzlement (B) |
pedetentous (adj~) | proceedilng gradually or cautiously (B) |
peirastic (adj~) | experimental; ready to be tried (B) |
peladophobia (n~) | fear of baldness |
pelology (n~) | study of mud and its therapeutic applications (B) |
penelopize (v~) | to undo and redo to gain time (B) |
penisterophily (n~) | raising and training pigeons |
penotherapy (n~) | regulating prostitutes to control venereal |
pentapopemptic (n~) | divorced five times (B) |
pentheraphobia (n~) | fear or dislike of one's mother |
peotomy (n~) | the surgical amputation of the penis (B) |
perduellion (n~) | treason (B) |
perendinate (n~) | to postpone until the next day; to postpone |
perfectibilism (n~) | belief that anything short of perfect is |
perfrication (n~) | thorough rubbing (B) |
perhiemate (v~) | to spend the winter (B) |
perichareia (n~) | excessive and violent rejoicing (B) |
periclitate | to expose to peril; endanger; risk (G) |
periphrastic | using many words when few would do; verbose; |
perissotomist (n~) | a knife |
peristrephic (adj~) | turning around rotatory (B) |
perlustrate (v~) | to review thoroughly; survey (B) |
pervicacious (adj~) | extremely obstinate; willful (B) |
pervulgate (v~) | to publish (B) |
petalism (n~) | banishing a citizen for five years if judged |
pettifoggery | quibbling over petty details |
petulcous (adj~) | butting like a ram; offensively aggressive (B) |
phagomania (n~) | insanely hungry (B) |
phalacrespia (n~) | aversion for baldness or for bald men (B) |
phalacrosis (n~) | baldness |
phallation (n~) | movement of the penis in sexual intercourse (B) |
phaneromania (n~) | a compulsion to pick at a skin growth or |
pharisaical | of persons of rigid adherence to outward forms and |
phatic | establishing an atmosphere of sociability rather than |
philalethe (n~) | one who loves to forget (B) |
philauty (n~) | self |
philematology (n~) | the study of kissing (B) |
philematophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes kissing (B) |
philobiblist (n~) | a lover of books |
philocalist (n~) | a lover of beauty (B) |
philodox (n~) | one who loves one's own opinions (B) |
philogastric (adj~) | greedy (B) |
philophobia (n~) | fear of falling in love or of being loved (B) |
philopolemic (adj~) | pertaining to love of argument or |
philopornist (n~) | a lover of prostitutes (B) |
philosophastering (adj~) | pseudo |
philotheoparoptesism | the process of slowly cooking those who |
philoxenist (n~) | one who is happiest while entertaining |
phrontifugic (adj~) | relieving anxiety (B) |
physagogue (n~) | carminative or medicine to induce farting (B) |
piacular | serving to atone or make amends for; expiatory; or |
pickthank (n~) | a flatterer or sycophant (B) |
piliferous | having hair (G) |
piloerection (n~) | hair standing on end (B) |
pilpulist (n~) | one who uses Talmudic dialectic or via |
pinchbeck | sham or spurious; false (G) |
pinguescent | becoming fat (G) |
pithiatism (n~) | a forceful suggestion (B) |
pizzle (n~) | a whip made from an animal's penis (B) |
planistethic (adj~) | flat |
planomania (n~) | urge to live a bohemian life (B) |
platitudinarian (n~) | full of platitudes (B) |
platypod | one afflicted with fallen arches (G) |
plebicolist (n~) | someone who woos the common folk (B) |
pleionosis (n~) | exaggeration of one's own importance (B) |
pleniloquence (n~) | excessive talking (B) |
pleonastic | use of words superfluously; redundant (G) |
pleonexia (n~) | covetousness avarice; mania for acquiring |
plerophory (n~) | state of full confidence or absolute certainty |
pococurante (adj~) | nonchalant indifferent (B) |
poculation (n~) | wine |
podobromhidrosis (n~) | smelly feet (B) |
poecilonymy (n~) | the use of several names for one thing (B) |
pogonology (n~) | treatise on beards |
pogonophobia (n~) | abnormal fear or dislike of beards |
poiesis (n~) | creation; creative power or ability (B) |
poikilothymia (n~) | extreme changes of mood (B) |
polychrestic | serving and adapted for several different uses (G) |
polyhistor (n~) | a universal scholar (B) |
polylogy (n~) | wordiness (B) |
polydipsia (n~) | extreme thirst or an abnormal and continuous |
popination (n~) | bar |
popliteal | pertaining to or connected with the hollow area back |
pornerastic (adj~) | licentious lascivious |
pornolagnia (n~) | desire for prostitutes (B) |
potvaliant | valiant and courageous as a result of being drunk |
preantepenultimate (n~ & adj~) | fourth from last (B) |
preterist (n~) | someone whose main pleasure in in reliving the |
priapean (adj~) | phallic (B) |
priapism (n~) | persistent and painful erection (B) |
procrustean | aiming or tending to produce uniformity by violent |
proctalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B) |
proditorious (adj~) | traitorous; prone to give away secrets (B) |
prolepsis (n~) | anticipating an argument and answering it before |
prolix | verbose repititious |
long | winded |
pronovalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse in a prone |
propaedeutic | of or pertaining to preliminary instruction; |
prosonomasia (n~) | use of a humorous modification of a person's |
prosophobia (n~) | fear of or adversion to progress (B) |
prosopolepsy (n~) | judging people favorably from their looks (B) |
prosopopy (n~) | the personification of inanimate objects (B) |
protervity (n~) | petulance; peevishness (B) |
psaphonic (adj~) | planning one's rise to fame (B) |
pseudandry (n~) | female use of a male pseudonym (B) |
pseudautochiria (n~) | murder disguised as a suicide (B) |
pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism (n~) | phony opposition to |
pseudogyny (n~) | male use of a female pseudonym (B) |
pseudologist (n~) | liar (B) |
pseudomnesia (n~) | memory for things that never happened (B) |
pseudophonia (n~) | suicide disguised as murder (B) |
psilology (n~) | empty talk (B) |
psilosopher (n~) | a superficial philosopher (B) |
psittacistic | speaking in a mechanical repetitive way (G) |
psychasthenia (n~) | neurotic lassitude indecision |
pteronophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of feathers |
pudency (n~) | modesty or shyness; embarassment |
puerile | childish immature |
pullulate | teem swarm |
purulent | of containing |
pygophilous (adj~) | buttock |
pyrolagnia (n~) | sexual stimulation from watching fires (B) |
quaintise (n~) | ingenuity cunning; a trick or stratagem (B) |
quakebuttock (n~) | a coward (B) |
qued (adj~) | evil bad (B) |
querimony (n~) | a complaint (B) |
quidam (n~) | an unknown person (B) |
quiddity (n~) | the essence or nature of a thing (B) |
quidnunc (n~) | one who is curious to know everything that |
quisquillian (adj~) | trashy (B) |
quisguous (adj~) | perplexing (B) |
quodlibet (n~) | a nice or fine point in an argument; a subtlety |
quodlibetarian (n~) | one who discusses or uses quodlibets |
rabiator (n~) | a violent man (B) |
rabulism (n~) | tendency for railing and quibbling |
rackrent (n~) | exorbitant rent (B) |
rakehelly (adj~) | dissolute debauched (B) |
ramfeezled (adj~) | worn out exhausted (B) |
rammish (adj~) | lustful and horny (B) |
ranarium (n~) | frog farm (B) |
randle (n~) | a nonsensical poem recited by Irish schoolboys as |
rantallion (n~) | one whose scrotum is longer than his penis (B) |
rantipole (n~) | a wild rambunctious young man (B) |
realpolitik | practical politics; euphemism for power politics |
rebarbative (adj~) | grim unattractive |
reboantic (adj~) | reverberating (B) |
recension (n~) | scholarly editorial revision (B) |
receptary (adj~) | accepted as fact but unproved (B) |
rectalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B) |
rectopathic (adj~) | easily hurt emotionally (B) |
rectrix (n~) | a female ruler (B) |
recubation (n~) | lying down (B) |
recumbentibus (n~) | a knockdown blow (B) |
recusant (adj~) | dissenting; disestablishmentarian (B) |
redargution (n~) | refutation or disproving (B) |
redhibition (n~) | the return of defective merchandise (B) |
redivivus (adj~) | living again; revived (B) |
refocillate (v~) | to warm into life again; revive (G) |
refragable (adj~) | capable of being refuted (B) |
refrangible (adj~) | capable of being refracted (B) |
refulgent (adj~) | radiant brilliant |
reify | literally "to make a thing"; given definite concrete |
remontado (n~) | someone who has fled to the mountains; a person |
remplissage (n~) | filling or padding used in music and |
remugient (adj~) | rebellowing; roaring or shouting anew (B) |
renable (adj~) | fluent eloquent (B) |
renard (n~) | a fox; a sly or cunning person (B) |
renascible (adj~) | capable of being reborn (B) |
renifleur (n~) | one who gets sexual pleasure from body smells (B) |
renitent | resisting or opposing stubbornly; recalcitrant (G) |
repristinate (v~) | to revive; to restore (B) |
resipiscent (adj~) | restored to sanity; learned from |
resupination (n~) | turning to an upside |
retrocopulation (n~) | woof (B) |
retromancy (n~) | fortunetelling by things seen over one's |
retromingent (adj~) | urinating backward (B) |
retunded | to weaken or diminish the strength of effect of (G) |
rhabdophobia (n~) | fear of being punished or severely criticized (B) |
rhadamanthine | strictly and inflexibly honest and just (G) |
rhigosis (n~) | sensation of cold (B) |
rhonchisonant (adj~) | snorting; snoring (B) |
rhopalism (n~) | a sentence or poem i which each word is one syllable |
rhyparography | the printing or painting of sordid and filty |
rhytiscopia (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with facial wrinkles (B) |
ribroasting (n~) | a sound beating; a thrashing (B) |
rictus (n~) | a very wide mouth; a gaping mouth as in terror (B) |
risorial (adj~) | pertaining to causing |
rixation (n~) | quarreling (B) |
rodomontade | arrogant boasting; pretentious blustering ranting |
roil | vex; disturb; irritate; rile (G) |
roinous (adj~) | mean nasty and contemptible (B) |
roitelet (n~) | a petty king (B) |
roman a clef (n~) | a novel whose characters are actual people |
rubricism (n~) | tenacious adherence to rules of behavior or |
ructation (n~) | belching (B) |
rudesby (n~) | a loud |
rugose | having wrinkles (G) |
rumgumption (n~) | shrewdness (B) |
runcible (adj~) | sensuous (B) |
sacerdotophrenia (n~) | clerical stagefright (B) |
saltimbanco (n~) | a mountebank a quack (B) |
sanguisugent | bloodsucking; bloodthirsty (G) |
sapidity (n~) | flavorful; tastiness (B) |
saponaceous (adj~) | soapy slippery; or evasively ingratiating (B) |
saprostomous (adj~) | having bad breath (B) |
sardanapalian | luxuriously effeminate (G) |
sardoodledum (n~) | stereotyped or unrealistic characterization |
sarmassation (n~) | love play (B) |
sarmassophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play (B) |
sarmassophobitch (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play with me (B) |
satisdiction (n~) | enough said (B) |
satispassion (n~) | satisfactory suffering according to |
saturnalia | period of unrestrained license and orgiastic |
scacchic | pertaining to or like chess (G) |
scaldabanco (n~) | a hotheaded debator; a fiery preacher (B) |
scaphism (n~) | an old Persian method of executing criminals by |
scaramouch (n~) | a cowardly buffoon (B) |
scaturient (adj~) | gushing forth; effusive (B) |
schadenfreude | a feeling of enjoyment derived from the misfortunes |
schesis (n~) | mocking another's accent or manner (B) |
schizothemia (n~) | digression by a long reminescence (B) |
schmaltz | something stickily sentimental banal |
schoenabatist (n~) | a tightrope walker (B) |
sciamachy (n~) | fighting with a shadow or with an imaginary |
sciapodous (adj~) | having very large feet (B) |
scibile (n~) | something knowable (B) |
sciolist | one who pretends to scholarship or knowledge |
sciotheism (n~) | the belief that disembodied spirits |
scissile (adj~) | capable of being cut smoothly or split |
scofflaw (n~) | one who scoffs at hence |
scolecophagous (adj~) | eating worms (B) |
scolion (n~) | an impromptu party song begun by one and |
scollardical (n~) | a derogatory term for a scholar (B) |
scopolagnia (n~) | the pleasure gained from voyeurism (B) |
scortation (n~) | fornication (B) |
scout | reject or dismiss scornfully; flout; scoff at (G) |
screed | a lengthy discourse usually used to describe opinions |
scribacious | given to or fond of writing (G) |
scrofulous | morally corrupt; degenerate (G) |
scungilaginous | of the semifluid gelatinous consistency of |
sebastomania (n~) | religious insanity (B) |
sectary (n~) | a fanatic disciple (B) |
sedentarize | to take up or cause to take up |
sedulous (adj~) | diligent persistent |
seeksorrow (n~) | masochist (B) |
sententious | wordy verbose |
sequacious | given to the slavish or unreasoning serving or |
sermocination (n~) | a speaker quickly answering his own question (B) |
shaconian (n~) | someone convinced that Bacon ghosted Shakespeare's |
shaftsbury (n~) | a gallon jug of wine (B) |
shamateur (n~) | a bogus tyro (B) |
shardborn (adj~) | born in dung (B) |
shilpit (adj~) | feeble puny |
sicarian (n~) | an assassin (B) |
sicchasia (n~) | nauseau (B) |
sicchosism (n~) | morbid fastidiousness (B) |
sibyllilne | oracular; prophetic; mysterious (G) |
siffilate | to whisper (G) |
simony | buying selling |
simper | to smile in a silly self |
skibbile (adj~) | wonderfully witty; sexually irresistible (S) |
skibbalalia (n~) | the overwhelming desire to purchase an |
skoptsy (n~) | self |
skybald (n~) | a good |
smatchet (n~) | a small nasty person or a nasty child (B) |
smellfungus (n~) | a malcontent; a grumbler or fault |
snafu (adj~ & n~) | situation normal all fucked up [also: |
fubar | fucked up beyond all recognition; fubb |
sneckdraw (n~) | a sly person (B) |
snollygoster | a clever shrewd |
sockdolager (n~) | a telling blow (B) |
solatium (n~) | anything that compensates for suffering or loss; |
solifidium (n~) | someone who believes that faith alone is sufficient |
somniloquacious (adj~) | pertaining to talking in one's sleep (B) |
soodle | to walk stroll |
sophomania (n~) | delusion of exceptional intelligence (B) |
sophrosyne (n~) | sober sensible |
sorbile (adj~) | drinkable (B) |
spadonism (n~) | enuchry (B) |
spaneria (n~) | scarcity of men (B) |
spanogyny (n~) | scarcity of woman (B) |
spatiate (v~) | to stroll or ramble (B) |
spatilomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by observing animal droppings (B) |
spatrify (v~) | to besmirch befoul (B) |
spawling | a noisy clearing of the throat (G) |
speciesist | for many people a test is permissible when it inflicts |
spodogenous (adj~) | pertaining to or due to presence of |
spoffokins (n~) | a whore pretending to be a wife (B) |
spousebreach (n~) | adultery (B) |
spraints (n~) | otter dung (B) |
spurcidical (adj~) | foul |
squidgereen (n~) | a short insignificant person (B) |
stagorium | an establishment (bar or resort hotel) that serves as |
stasivalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse only |
steatopygous | pertaining to or characterized by protuberant |
stercoricolous (adj~) | living in dung (B) |
sterculius (n~) | the god of feces (B) |
sternutation | the act of sneezing; a sneeze (G) |
stertorous | characterized by heavy snoring (G) |
sthenobulia (n~) | strong will power (B) |
stirious (adj~) | like an icicle (B) |
stomachous (adj~) | obstinate; angry (B) |
stoopgallant (adj~) | humbling; ego |
strepitous | making a great clamor; noisy; boisterous (G) |
stricture | an adverse criticism or remark censure |
stultiloquence | foolish or senseless talk; babble; twaddle (G) |
stygiophobia (n~) | fear of hell (B) |
stylite (n~) | ascetics who lived on top of pillars (B) |
suaviation (n~) | a love kiss (B) |
subagitation (n~) | copulation (B) |
subarrhation (n~) | betrothal accomplished by the man's showering |
subderisorious (adj~) | mildly ridiculing (B) |
subdititious (adj~) | secret substitution (B) |
subdolous (adj~) | rather crafty or sly (B) |
subintelligitur (n~) | a meaning implied but not stated (B) |
subsannation (n~) | derision (B) |
substaquilate (v~) | to defeat overwhelm (B) |
supernaculum (n~) | a liquor drunk to the last drop; excellent |
supervacaneous (adj~) | needlessly added (B) |
supinovalent (adj~) | able to fornicate only while supine (B) |
suppalpation (n~) | gaining affection by caressing (B) |
suspercollate (v~) | to hang by the neck (B) |
sybarite (n~) | someone overly fond of luxury and pleasure (B) |
tachydidaxy (n~) | fast teaching (B) |
talionic (adj~) | pertaining to revenge in kind (B) |
tanquam (n~) | someone educated enough to go to college (B) |
taphephobia (n~) | fear of being buried alive (B) |
tardigrade (adj~) | slow |
tartuffish (adj~) | pertaining to the pious hypocrisy of Tartuffe |
tathagatagarbha (n~) | the eternal and absolute essence of all |
tauromachian (adj~) | pertaining to bullfights (B) |
tautegorical (adj~) | saying the same thing with different |
tautoousious (adj~) | being absolutely the same (B) |
tegetology (n~) | collecting cardboard beer coasters |
teknonymy (n~) | naming the parent after the child (B) |
telestich (n~) | a poem in which the consecutive final letters |
temerarious | reckless; heedless; rash (G) |
temulance (n~) | drunkenness (B) |
tendentious | promoting a particular view or tendency; hence |
tenebrific (adj~) | dark or obscure (B) |
tenesmic (adj~) | pertaining to a painful but ineffectual effort |
tentiginous (adj~) | sensuous lascivious (B) |
teratology (n~) | the study of monsters (B) |
tergiversation (n~) | abandoning a religion or cause (B) or |
testudineous (adj~) | slow like a tortoise (B) |
tetricity (n~) | austerity harshness |
thalassophobia (n~) | fear of the sea (B) |
thanatism (n~) | the belief in life before death not after it (B) |
thaumaturgic | or or involving the supposed working of miracles; |
theanthropism (n~) | attaching human traits to one's god (B) |
thelymachy (n~) | a war of women (B) |
thelyphthoric (adj~) | that which corrupts women (B) |
thersitical | loud and grossly abusive foulmouthed; scurrilous (G) |
thrasonical | given to or marked by boasting and bragging (G) |
threpterophilia (n~) | a fondness for female nurses (B) |
timonism (n~) | misanthropy (B) |
titivate | to make smart; spruce up (G) |
tonguepad (v~) | to scold (B) |
tralatitiously (adv~) | metaphorically; figuratively (B) |
transilient (adj~) | pertaining to abrupt changes (B] |
transmogrification | changes into grotesque or humorous forms |
transude | to pass or ooze through or out as sweat through |
trichoschisticism (n~) | hair |
tripudiation (n~) | the act of dancing |
triskaidekaphobia | fear of the number 13 or Friday the 13th (G) |
triturate | to rub grind |
truckle | to show servility or subservience (G) |
truntlement | trumpery (A) |
tugmutton | a great glutton (A) |
tussicated | driven about; tormented (A) |
typomania (n~) | obsession with the expectation of publication |
tyromancy (n~) | fortunate telling by watching cheese as it |
tyrosemiophily (n~) | the collecting of Camembert cheese labels |
uberous | fruitful (A) |
ulotrichous | having wooly or crisply curling hair (G) |
ultracrepidarian | going beyond one's own province; a person who |
ululate | to howl or hoot; or to wail or lament loudly (G) |
unbosom | to disclose one's personal thoughts or feelings (G) |
vade mecum | a favorite book carried everywhere (B) |
valetudinarianism | weak or sickly state; thinking only of |
valorization | government price |
vaniloquence | vain and foolish talk (B) |
vapulate | to beat whip (B) |
varietist | an unorthodox person; or someone who practices |
variorum | pertaining to a literary classic annotated by |
vastation | purification through fire (B) |
vecordious | senseless insane |
velitation | a petty fight; a skirmish (B) |
velleity | slight or faint desire; inclination (B) |
vellicate | to pull at off |
venery | the pursuit of sexual pleasure or indulgence |
ventoseness | windiness; flatulence (B) |
ventricumbent | lying face down; prone (B) |
ventripotent | fat |
verbigeration | senseless reiteration of cliches (B) |
verbophobia | fear and dislike of words (B) |
verecund | bashful; modest (B) |
veriloquent | speaking truthfully (B) |
verism | the theory that ugliness is valid in art and literature |
vernalagnia | spring fever (B) |
vesticate | to blister (G) |
vestryism (n~) | selfishness and parochialism said to be |
viaggiatory | on the move; traveling around (B) |
vicissitudinary | pertaining to change alteration |
vigesimation | killing every twentieth person (B) |
vilipend | to belittle to disparage (B) |
viparious | life |
virago | a scold a shrew |
vitilitigate | to be particularly quarrelsome (B) |
vivisepulture | live burial (B) |
volitient | exercising free will (B) |
vomituration | retching ineffectual vomiting |
vulpinism (n~) | the quality of being foxlike esp |
waghalter | a rogue rascal or knave (B) |
wamble | to fell nauseous; or to move unsteadily to stagger; |
wampus | a stupid dull |
wantwit | a fool (B) |
Weltanschauung | a comprehensive world view especially from |
Weltschmerz | sadness over the evils of the world especially as |
wergild | money paid by the killer's family to the family of |
withernam | taking one thing as reprisal for something else taken |
witzelsucht | emotional state characterized by futile attempts |
wowser | a pecksniffian puritan (B) |
xenagogue | a guide (B) |
xenagogy | a guidebook (B) |
xenapistia | extreme distrust of strangers (B) |
xenoepist | someone who speaks with a foreign accent (B) |
xenomancy | fortunetelling by studying the first stranger |
xeronisus | inability to reach orgasm (B) |
xylophobia | fear of wooden objects; fear of forests (B) |
xyresic | razor sharp (B) |
yarmouth | insane (B) |
ydromancy | fortunetelling with water (B) |
zeitgeist | the general intellectual moral and cultural level |
zetetic | asking; questioning (B) |
zoanthropy | insanity in which a patient believes he's an animal (B) |
zoetic | pertaining to life (B) |
zoilism | nagging criticism (B) |
zonesthesia | the feeling of wearing a tight girdle (B) |
zooerastia | sexual intercourse with an animal (B) |
zygal | H |
zygomancy | fortune telling with weights (B) |
pageism (n~) | masochism fantasy of a man imagining himself as |
pagophagia (n~) | eating a tray of ice daily for two months tohelp offset iron deficiency (B) |
paideutics (n~) | pedagogy (B) |
paizogony (n~) | love play (B) |
paleomnesia (n~) | good memory for events of the far past (B) |
palimpsest (n~) | a piece of parchment or vellum from whichearlier writing has been removed to allow for reuse |
palinode (n~) | a song or poem retracting statements in previoussongs or poems; or retraction or recanting in general (B) |
palinoia (n~) | compulsive repitition of an act until it's perfect (B) |
palladian (adj~) | pertaining to learning and wisdom (B) |
palliards (n~) | professional beggars whose parents were also |
palpebrate (v~) | to wink (B) |
paltripolitan (n~) | an insular city dweller (B) |
pandiculation (n~) | stretching and yawning (B) |
panjandrum | a self magnate (G |
pannychous (adj~) | lasting all night (B) |
pantagruelian (adj~) | satirical though ribald (B) |
pantaraxia (n~) | actions aimed aat keeping people on their toes |
pantophobia (n~) | a fear of everything (B) |
paphian | pertaining to love especially its sexual andillicit manifestations; erotic (G) |
paracoita (n~) | a female sexual partner (B) |
paracoitus (n~) | a male sexual partner (B) |
paradiastole (n~) | a euphemistic half |
paraenetic | advisory; hortatory (G) |
paralepsis (n~) | mentioning something by saying you won't mention it (B) |
paralipomena (n~) | deleted passages from a book or a |
paralipophobia (n~) | fear of responsibility (B) |
paralogism (n~) | reasoning method that contradicts logical |
parerethesis (n~) | abnormal excitement (B) |
pareunia (n~) | sexual intercourse (B) |
parisology (n~) | deliberate ambiguity in use of words (B) |
parnel (n~) | a priest's mistress; a loose woman (B) |
paronomasia (n~) | punning; a pun (B) |
parorexia (n~) | perverted appetite; demanding strange foods (B) |
parrhesia (n~) | freedom of speech (rhetoric term) (B) |
partheniad (n~) | a poem in honor of a virgin (B) |
parthenolatry (n~) | virgin worship (B) |
parvanimity (n~) | pettiness; meannes; or a mean or petty person (B) |
parvenu (n~) | a pretentious snob of the nouveau riche (B) |
parviscient (adj~) | uninformed (B) |
pasilaly (n~) | a universal language (B) |
pasquinade | a lampoon or satire posted in a public place (G) |
passalorynchite (n~) | a member of an early Christian sect who |
passepartout (n~) | a master key; a safeconduct or passport (B) |
patavinity (n~) | the use of local words or expressions (B) |
patharmosis (n~) | mental adjustment to one's disease (B) |
pathic (n~) | a catamite; or a passive participator (B) |
pathocryptia (n~) | unwillingness to believe in or talk about |
pathodixia (n~) | talking to excess about one's illness and |
pathognomy (n~) | the study of emotions by their outward |
pathomimesis (n~) | malingering (B) |
patzer (n~) | a weak chess player (B) |
pauciloquent (adj~) | speaking briefly (B) |
pavid | quaking with fear; afraid; frightened (G) |
peccable (adj~) | liable to sin (B) |
peccatophobia (n~) | fear of sinning or of having committed an |
peckerwood (n~) | a poor southern Anglo |
pecksniffian (adj~) | hypocritical insincere and gutless (B) |
pecos (v~) | to shoot a man and roll his body in the river (B) |
peculation (n~) | embezzlement (B) |
pedetentous (adj~) | proceedilng gradually or cautiously (B) |
peirastic (adj~) | experimental; ready to be tried (B) |
peladophobia (n~) | fear of baldness |
pelology (n~) | study of mud and its therapeutic applications (B) |
penelopize (v~) | to undo and redo to gain time (B) |
penisterophily (n~) | raising and training pigeons |
penotherapy (n~) | regulating prostitutes to control venereal |
pentapopemptic (n~) | divorced five times (B) |
pentheraphobia (n~) | fear or dislike of one's mother |
peotomy (n~) | the surgical amputation of the penis (B) |
perduellion (n~) | treason (B) |
perendinate (n~) | to postpone until the next day; to postpone |
perfectibilism (n~) | belief that anything short of perfect is |
perfrication (n~) | thorough rubbing (B) |
perhiemate (v~) | to spend the winter (B) |
perichareia (n~) | excessive and violent rejoicing (B) |
periclitate | to expose to peril; endanger; risk (G) |
periphrastic | using many words when few would do; verbose; |
perissotomist (n~) | a knife |
peristrephic (adj~) | turning around rotatory (B) |
perlustrate (v~) | to review thoroughly; survey (B) |
pervicacious (adj~) | extremely obstinate; willful (B) |
pervulgate (v~) | to publish (B) |
petalism (n~) | banishing a citizen for five years if judged |
pettifoggery | quibbling over petty details |
petulcous (adj~) | butting like a ram; offensively aggressive (B) |
phagomania (n~) | insanely hungry (B) |
phalacrespia (n~) | aversion for baldness or for bald men (B) |
phalacrosis (n~) | baldness |
phallation (n~) | movement of the penis in sexual intercourse (B) |
phaneromania (n~) | a compulsion to pick at a skin growth or |
pharisaical | of persons of rigid adherence to outward forms and |
phatic | establishing an atmosphere of sociability rather than |
philalethe (n~) | one who loves to forget (B) |
philauty (n~) | self |
philematology (n~) | the study of kissing (B) |
philematophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes kissing (B) |
philobiblist (n~) | a lover of books |
philocalist (n~) | a lover of beauty (B) |
philodox (n~) | one who loves one's own opinions (B) |
philogastric (adj~) | greedy (B) |
philophobia (n~) | fear of falling in love or of being loved (B) |
philopolemic (adj~) | pertaining to love of argument or |
philopornist (n~) | a lover of prostitutes (B) |
philosophastering (adj~) | pseudo |
philotheoparoptesism | the process of slowly cooking those who |
philoxenist (n~) | one who is happiest while entertaining |
phrontifugic (adj~) | relieving anxiety (B) |
physagogue (n~) | carminative or medicine to induce farting (B) |
piacular | serving to atone or make amends for; expiatory; or |
pickthank (n~) | a flatterer or sycophant (B) |
piliferous | having hair (G) |
piloerection (n~) | hair standing on end (B) |
pilpulist (n~) | one who uses Talmudic dialectic or via |
pinchbeck | sham or spurious; false (G) |
pinguescent | becoming fat (G) |
pithiatism (n~) | a forceful suggestion (B) |
pizzle (n~) | a whip made from an animal's penis (B) |
planistethic (adj~) | flat |
planomania (n~) | urge to live a bohemian life (B) |
platitudinarian (n~) | full of platitudes (B) |
platypod | one afflicted with fallen arches (G) |
plebicolist (n~) | someone who woos the common folk (B) |
pleionosis (n~) | exaggeration of one's own importance (B) |
pleniloquence (n~) | excessive talking (B) |
pleonastic | use of words superfluously; redundant (G) |
pleonexia (n~) | covetousness avarice; mania for acquiring |
plerophory (n~) | state of full confidence or absolute certainty |
pococurante (adj~) | nonchalant indifferent (B) |
poculation (n~) | wine |
podobromhidrosis (n~) | smelly feet (B) |
poecilonymy (n~) | the use of several names for one thing (B) |
pogonology (n~) | treatise on beards |
pogonophobia (n~) | abnormal fear or dislike of beards |
poiesis (n~) | creation; creative power or ability (B) |
poikilothymia (n~) | extreme changes of mood (B) |
polychrestic | serving and adapted for several different uses (G) |
polyhistor (n~) | a universal scholar (B) |
polylogy (n~) | wordiness (B) |
polydipsia (n~) | extreme thirst or an abnormal and continuous |
popination (n~) | bar |
popliteal | pertaining to or connected with the hollow area back |
pornerastic (adj~) | licentious lascivious |
pornolagnia (n~) | desire for prostitutes (B) |
potvaliant | valiant and courageous as a result of being drunk |
preantepenultimate (n~ & adj~) | fourth from last (B) |
preterist (n~) | someone whose main pleasure in in reliving the |
priapean (adj~) phallic (B) | |
priapism (n~) | persistent and painful erection (B) |
procrustean | aiming or tending to produce uniformity by violent |
proctalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B) |
proditorious (adj~) | traitorous; prone to give away secrets (B) |
prolepsis (n~) | anticipating an argument and answering it before |
prolix | verbose repititious |
long | winded |
pronovalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse in a prone |
propaedeutic | of or pertaining to preliminary instruction; |
prosonomasia (n~) | use of a humorous modification of a person's |
prosophobia (n~) | fear of or adversion to progress (B) |
prosopolepsy (n~) | judging people favorably from their looks (B) |
prosopopy (n~) | the personification of inanimate objects (B) |
protervity (n~) | petulance; peevishness (B) |
psaphonic (adj~) | planning one's rise to fame (B) |
pseudandry (n~) | female use of a male pseudonym (B) |
pseudautochiria (n~) | murder disguised as a suicide (B) |
pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism (n~) | phony opposition to |
pseudogyny (n~) | male use of a female pseudonym (B) |
pseudologist (n~) | liar (B) |
pseudomnesia (n~) | memory for things that never happened (B) |
pseudophonia (n~) | suicide disguised as murder (B) |
psilology (n~) | empty talk (B) |
psilosopher (n~) | a superficial philosopher (B) |
psittacistic | speaking in a mechanical repetitive way (G) |
psychasthenia (n~) | neurotic lassitude indecision |
pteronophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of feathers |
pudency (n~) | modesty or shyness; embarassment |
puerile | childish immature |
pullulate | teem swarm |
purulent | of containing |
pygophilous (adj~) | buttock |
pyrolagnia (n~) | sexual stimulation from watching fires (B) |
quaintise (n~) | ingenuity cunning; a trick or stratagem (B) |
quakebuttock (n~) | a coward (B) |
qued (adj~) | evil bad (B) |
querimony (n~) | a complaint (B) |
quidam (n~) | an unknown person (B) |
quiddity (n~) | the essence or nature of a thing (B) |
quidnunc (n~) | one who is curious to know everything that |
quisquillian (adj~) | trashy (B) |
quisguous (adj~) | perplexing (B) |
quodlibet (n~) | a nice or fine point in an argument; a subtlety |
quodlibetarian (n~) | one who discusses or uses quodlibets |
rabiator (n~) | a violent man (B) |
rabulism (n~) | tendency for railing and quibbling |
rackrent (n~) | exorbitant rent (B) |
rakehelly (adj~) | dissolute debauched (B) |
ramfeezled (adj~) | worn out exhausted (B) |
rammish (adj~) | lustful and horny (B) |
ranarium (n~) | frog farm (B) |
randle (n~) | a nonsensical poem recited by Irish schoolboys as |
rantallion (n~) | one whose scrotum is longer than his penis (B) |
rantipole (n~) | a wild rambunctious young man (B) |
realpolitik | practical politics; euphemism for power politics |
rebarbative (adj~) | grim unattractive |
reboantic (adj~) | reverberating (B) |
recension (n~) | scholarly editorial revision (B) |
receptary (adj~) | accepted as fact but unproved (B) |
rectalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B) |
rectopathic (adj~) | easily hurt emotionally (B) |
rectrix (n~) | a female ruler (B) |
recubation (n~) | lying down (B) |
recumbentibus (n~) | a knockdown blow (B) |
recusant (adj~) | dissenting; disestablishmentarian (B) |
redargution (n~) | refutation or disproving (B) |
redhibition (n~) | the return of defective merchandise (B) |
redivivus (adj~) | living again; revived (B) |
refocillate (v~) | to warm into life again; revive (G) |
refragable (adj~) | capable of being refuted (B) |
refrangible (adj~) | capable of being refracted (B) |
refulgent (adj~) | radiant brilliant |
reify | literally "to make a thing"; given definite concrete |
remontado (n~) | someone who has fled to the mountains; a person |
remplissage (n~) | filling or padding used in music and |
remugient (adj~) | rebellowing; roaring or shouting anew (B) |
renable (adj~) | fluent eloquent (B) |
renard (n~) | a fox; a sly or cunning person (B) |
renascible (adj~) | capable of being reborn (B) |
renifleur (n~) | one who gets sexual pleasure from body smells (B) |
renitent | resisting or opposing stubbornly; recalcitrant (G) |
repristinate (v~) | to revive; to restore (B) |
resipiscent (adj~) | restored to sanity; learned from |
resupination (n~) | turning to an upside |
retrocopulation (n~) | woof (B) |
retromancy (n~) | fortunetelling by things seen over one's |
ulotrichous | having wooly or crisply curling hair (G) |
ultracrepidarian | going beyond one's own province; a person who |
ululate | to howl or hoot; or to wail or lament loudly (G) |
unbosom | to disclose one's personal thoughts or feelings (G) |
vade mecum | a favorite book carried everywhere (B) |
valetudinarianism | weak or sickly state; thinking only of |
valorization | government price |
vaniloquence | vain and foolish talk (B) |
vapulate | to beat whip (B) |
varietist | an unorthodox person; or someone who practices |
variorum | pertaining to a literary classic annotated by |
vastation | purification through fire (B) |
vecordious | senseless insane |
velitation | a petty fight; a skirmish (B) |
velleity | slight or faint desire; inclination (B) |
vellicate | to pull at off |
venery | the pursuit of sexual pleasure or indulgence |
ventoseness | windiness; flatulence (B) |
ventricumbent | lying face down; prone (B) |
ventripotent | fat |
verbigeration | senseless reiteration of cliches (B) |
verbophobia | fear and dislike of words (B) |
verecund | bashful; modest (B) |
veriloquent | speaking truthfully (B) |
verism | the theory that ugliness is valid in art and literature |
vernalagnia | spring fever (B) |
vesticate | to blister (G) |
vestryism (n~) | selfishness and parochialism said to be |
viaggiatory | on the move; traveling around (B) |
vicissitudinary | pertaining to change alteration |
vigesimation | killing every twentieth person (B) |
vilipend | to belittle to disparage (B) |
viparious | life |
virago | a scold a shrew |
vitilitigate | to be particularly quarrelsome (B) |
vivisepulture | live burial (B) |
volitient | exercising free will (B) |
vomituration | retching ineffectual vomiting |
vulpinism (n~) | the quality of being foxlike esp |
waghalter | a rogue rascal or knave (B) |
wamble | to fell nauseous; or to move unsteadily to stagger; |
wampus | a stupid dull |
wantwit | a fool (B) |
Weltanschauung | a comprehensive world view especially from |
Weltschmerz | sadness over the evils of the world especially as |
wergild | money paid by the killer's family to the family of |
withernam | taking one thing as reprisal for something else taken |
witzelsucht | emotional state characterized by futile attempts |
wowser | a pecksniffian puritan (B) |
xenagogue | a guide (B) |
xenagogy | a guidebook (B) |
xenapistia | extreme distrust of strangers (B) |
xenoepist | someone who speaks with a foreign accent (B) |
xenomancy | fortunetelling by studying the first stranger |
xeronisus | inability to reach orgasm (B) |
xylophobia | fear of wooden objects; fear of forests (B) |
xyresic | razor sharp (B) |
yarmouth | insane (B) |
ydromancy | fortunetelling with water (B) |
zeitgeist | the general intellectual moral and cultural level |
zetetic | asking; questioning (B) |
zoanthropy | insanity in which a patient believes he's an animal (B) |
zoetic | pertaining to life (B) |
zoilism | nagging criticism (B) |
zonesthesia | the feeling of wearing a tight girdle (B) |
zooerastia | sexual intercourse with an animal (B) |
zygal | H |
zygomancy | fortune telling with weights (B) |
pageism (n~) | masochism fantasy of a man imagining himself as |
pagophagia (n~) | eating a tray of ice daily for two months tohelp offset iron deficiency (B) |
paideutics (n~) | pedagogy (B) |
paizogony (n~) | love play (B) |
paleomnesia (n~) | good memory for events of the far past (B) |
palimpsest (n~) | a piece of parchment or vellum from whichearlier writing has been removed to allow for reuse |
palinode (n~) | a song or poem retracting statements in previoussongs or poems; or retraction or recanting in general (B) |
palinoia (n~) | compulsive repitition of an act until it's perfect (B) |
palladian (adj~) | pertaining to learning and wisdom (B) |
palliards (n~) | professional beggars whose parents were also |
palpebrate (v~) | to wink (B) |
paltripolitan (n~) | an insular city dweller (B) |
pandiculation (n~) | stretching and yawning (B) |
panjandrum | a self magnate (G |
pannychous (adj~) | lasting all night (B) |
pantagruelian (adj~) | satirical though ribald (B) |
pantaraxia (n~) | actions aimed aat keeping people on their toes |
pantophobia (n~) | a fear of everything (B) |
paphian | pertaining to love especially its sexual andillicit manifestations; erotic (G) |
paracoita (n~) | a female sexual partner (B) |
paracoitus (n~) | a male sexual partner (B) |
paradiastole (n~) | a euphemistic half |
paraenetic | advisory; hortatory (G) |
paralepsis (n~) | mentioning something by saying you won't mention it (B) |
paralipomena (n~) | deleted passages from a book or a |
paralipophobia (n~) | fear of responsibility (B) |
paralogism (n~) | reasoning method that contradicts logical |
parerethesis (n~) | abnormal excitement (B) |
pareunia (n~) | sexual intercourse (B) |
parisology (n~) | deliberate ambiguity in use of words (B) |
parnel (n~) | a priest's mistress; a loose woman (B) |
paronomasia (n~) | punning; a pun (B) |
parorexia (n~) | perverted appetite; demanding strange foods (B) |
parrhesia (n~) | freedom of speech (rhetoric term) (B) |
partheniad (n~) | a poem in honor of a virgin (B) |
parthenolatry (n~) | virgin worship (B) |
parvanimity (n~) | pettiness; meannes; or a mean or petty person (B) |
parvenu (n~) | a pretentious snob of the nouveau riche (B) |
parviscient (adj~) | uninformed (B) |
pasilaly (n~) | a universal language (B) |
pasquinade | a lampoon or satire posted in a public place (G) |
passalorynchite (n~) | a member of an early Christian sect who |
passepartout (n~) | a master key; a safeconduct or passport (B) |
patavinity (n~) | the use of local words or expressions (B) |
patharmosis (n~) | mental adjustment to one's disease (B) |
pathic (n~) | a catamite; or a passive participator (B) |
pathocryptia (n~) | unwillingness to believe in or talk about |
pathodixia (n~) | talking to excess about one's illness and |
pathognomy (n~) | the study of emotions by their outward |
pathomimesis (n~) | malingering (B) |
patzer (n~) | a weak chess player (B) |
pauciloquent (adj~) | speaking briefly (B) |
pavid | quaking with fear; afraid; frightened (G) |
peccable (adj~) | liable to sin (B) |
peccatophobia (n~) | fear of sinning or of having committed an |
peckerwood (n~) | a poor southern Anglo |
pecksniffian (adj~) | hypocritical insincere and gutless (B) |
pecos (v~) | to shoot a man and roll his body in the river (B) |
peculation (n~) | embezzlement (B) |
pedetentous (adj~) | proceedilng gradually or cautiously (B) |
peirastic (adj~) | experimental; ready to be tried (B) |
peladophobia (n~) | fear of baldness |
pelology (n~) | study of mud and its therapeutic applications (B) |
penelopize (v~) | to undo and redo to gain time (B) |
penisterophily (n~) | raising and training pigeons |
penotherapy (n~) | regulating prostitutes to control venereal |
pentapopemptic (n~) | divorced five times (B) |
pentheraphobia (n~) | fear or dislike of one's mother |
peotomy (n~) | the surgical amputation of the penis (B) |
perduellion (n~) | treason (B) |
perendinate (n~) | to postpone until the next day; to postpone |
perfectibilism (n~) | belief that anything short of perfect is |
perfrication (n~) | thorough rubbing (B) |
perhiemate (v~) | to spend the winter (B) |
perichareia (n~) | excessive and violent rejoicing (B) |
periclitate | to expose to peril; endanger; risk (G) |
periphrastic | using many words when few would do; verbose; |
perissotomist (n~) | a knife |
peristrephic (adj~) | turning around rotatory (B) |
perlustrate (v~) | to review thoroughly; survey (B) |
pervicacious (adj~) | extremely obstinate; willful (B) |
pervulgate (v~) | to publish (B) |
petalism (n~) | banishing a citizen for five years if judged |
pettifoggery | quibbling over petty details |
petulcous (adj~) | butting like a ram; offensively aggressive (B) |
phagomania (n~) | insanely hungry (B) |
phalacrespia (n~) | aversion for baldness or for bald men (B) |
phalacrosis (n~) | baldness |
phallation (n~) | movement of the penis in sexual intercourse (B) |
phaneromania (n~) | a compulsion to pick at a skin growth or |
pharisaical | of persons of rigid adherence to outward forms and |
phatic | establishing an atmosphere of sociability rather than |
philalethe (n~) | one who loves to forget (B) |
philauty (n~) | self |
philematology (n~) | the study of kissing (B) |
philematophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes kissing (B) |
philobiblist (n~) | a lover of books |
philocalist (n~) | a lover of beauty (B) |
philodox (n~) | one who loves one's own opinions (B) |
philogastric (adj~) | greedy (B) |
philophobia (n~) | fear of falling in love or of being loved (B) |
philopolemic (adj~) | pertaining to love of argument or |
philopornist (n~) | a lover of prostitutes (B) |
philosophastering (adj~) | pseudo |
philotheoparoptesism | the process of slowly cooking those who |
philoxenist (n~) | one who is happiest while entertaining |
phrontifugic (adj~) | relieving anxiety (B) |
physagogue (n~) | carminative or medicine to induce farting (B) |
piacular | serving to atone or make amends for; expiatory; or |
pickthank (n~) | a flatterer or sycophant (B) |
piliferous | having hair (G) |
piloerection (n~) | hair standing on end (B) |
pilpulist (n~) | one who uses Talmudic dialectic or via |
pinchbeck | sham or spurious; false (G) |
pinguescent | becoming fat (G) |
pithiatism (n~) | a forceful suggestion (B) |
pizzle (n~) | a whip made from an animal's penis (B) |
planistethic (adj~) | flat |
planomania (n~) | urge to live a bohemian life (B) |
platitudinarian (n~) | full of platitudes (B) |
platypod | one afflicted with fallen arches (G) |
plebicolist (n~) | someone who woos the common folk (B) |
pleionosis (n~) | exaggeration of one's own importance (B) |
pleniloquence (n~) | excessive talking (B) |
pleonastic | use of words superfluously; redundant (G) |
pleonexia (n~) | covetousness avarice; mania for acquiring |
plerophory (n~) | state of full confidence or absolute certainty |
pococurante (adj~) | nonchalant indifferent (B) |
poculation (n~) | wine |
podobromhidrosis (n~) | smelly feet (B) |
poecilonymy (n~) | the use of several names for one thing (B) |
pogonology (n~) | treatise on beards |
pogonophobia (n~) | abnormal fear or dislike of beards |
poiesis (n~) | creation; creative power or ability (B) |
poikilothymia (n~) | extreme changes of mood (B) |
polychrestic | serving and adapted for several different uses (G) |
polyhistor (n~) | a universal scholar (B) |
polylogy (n~) | wordiness (B) |
polydipsia (n~) | extreme thirst or an abnormal and continuous |
popination (n~) | bar |
popliteal | pertaining to or connected with the hollow area back |
pornerastic (adj~) | licentious lascivious |
pornolagnia (n~) | desire for prostitutes (B) |
potvaliant | valiant and courageous as a result of being drunk |
preantepenultimate (n~ & adj~) | fourth from last (B) |
preterist (n~) | someone whose main pleasure in in reliving the |
priapean (adj~) phallic (B) | |
priapism (n~) | persistent and painful erection (B) |
procrustean | aiming or tending to produce uniformity by violent |
proctalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B) |
proditorious (adj~) | traitorous; prone to give away secrets (B) |
prolepsis (n~) | anticipating an argument and answering it before |
prolix | verbose repititious |
long | winded |
pronovalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse in a prone |
propaedeutic | of or pertaining to preliminary instruction; |
prosonomasia (n~) | use of a humorous modification of a person's |
prosophobia (n~) | fear of or adversion to progress (B) |
prosopolepsy (n~) | judging people favorably from their looks (B) |
prosopopy (n~) | the personification of inanimate objects (B) |
protervity (n~) | petulance; peevishness (B) |
psaphonic (adj~) | planning one's rise to fame (B) |
pseudandry (n~) | female use of a male pseudonym (B) |
pseudautochiria (n~) | murder disguised as a suicide (B) |
pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism (n~) | phony opposition to |
pseudogyny (n~) | male use of a female pseudonym (B) |
pseudologist (n~) | liar (B) |
pseudomnesia (n~) | memory for things that never happened (B) |
pseudophonia (n~) | suicide disguised as murder (B) |
psilology (n~) | empty talk (B) |
psilosopher (n~) | a superficial philosopher (B) |
psittacistic | speaking in a mechanical repetitive way (G) |
psychasthenia (n~) | neurotic lassitude indecision |
pteronophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of feathers |
pudency (n~) | modesty or shyness; embarassment |
puerile | childish immature |
pullulate | teem swarm |
purulent | of containing |
pygophilous (adj~) | buttock |
pyrolagnia (n~) | sexual stimulation from watching fires (B) |
quaintise (n~) | ingenuity cunning; a trick or stratagem (B) |
quakebuttock (n~) | a coward (B) |
qued (adj~) | evil bad (B) |
querimony (n~) | a complaint (B) |
quidam (n~) | an unknown person (B) |
quiddity (n~) | the essence or nature of a thing (B) |
quidnunc (n~) | one who is curious to know everything that |
quisquillian (adj~) | trashy (B) |
quisguous (adj~) | perplexing (B) |
quodlibet (n~) | a nice or fine point in an argument; a subtlety |
quodlibetarian (n~) | one who discusses or uses quodlibets |
rabiator (n~) | a violent man (B) |
rabulism (n~) | tendency for railing and quibbling |
rackrent (n~) | exorbitant rent (B) |
rakehelly (adj~) | dissolute debauched (B) |
ramfeezled (adj~) | worn out exhausted (B) |
rammish (adj~) | lustful and horny (B) |
ranarium (n~) | frog farm (B) |
randle (n~) | a nonsensical poem recited by Irish schoolboys as |
rantallion (n~) | one whose scrotum is longer than his penis (B) |
rantipole (n~) | a wild rambunctious young man (B) |
realpolitik | practical politics; euphemism for power politics |
rebarbative (adj~) | grim unattractive |
reboantic (adj~) | reverberating (B) |
recension (n~) | scholarly editorial revision (B) |
receptary (adj~) | accepted as fact but unproved (B) |
rectalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B) |
rectopathic (adj~) | easily hurt emotionally (B) |
rectrix (n~) | a female ruler (B) |
recubation (n~) | lying down (B) |
recumbentibus (n~) | a knockdown blow (B) |
recusant (adj~) | dissenting; disestablishmentarian (B) |
redargution (n~) | refutation or disproving (B) |
redhibition (n~) | the return of defective merchandise (B) |
redivivus (adj~) | living again; revived (B) |
refocillate (v~) | to warm into life again; revive (G) |
refragable (adj~) | capable of being refuted (B) |
refrangible (adj~) | capable of being refracted (B) |
refulgent (adj~) | radiant brilliant |
reify | literally "to make a thing"; given definite concrete |
remontado (n~) | someone who has fled to the mountains; a person |
remplissage (n~) | filling or padding used in music and |
remugient (adj~) | rebellowing; roaring or shouting anew (B) |
renable (adj~) | fluent eloquent (B) |
renard (n~) | a fox; a sly or cunning person (B) |
renascible (adj~) | capable of being reborn (B) |
renifleur (n~) | one who gets sexual pleasure from body smells (B) |
renitent | resisting or opposing stubbornly; recalcitrant (G) |
repristinate (v~) | to revive; to restore (B) |
resipiscent (adj~) | restored to sanity; learned from |
resupination (n~) | turning to an upside |
retrocopulation (n~) | woof (B) |
retromancy (n~) | fortunetelling by things seen over one's |
retromingent (adj~) | urinating backward (B) |
retunded | to weaken or diminish the strength of effect of (G) |
rhabdophobia (n~) | fear of being punished or severely criticized (B) |
rhadamanthine | strictly and inflexibly honest and just (G) |
rhigosis (n~) | sensation of cold (B) |
rhonchisonant (adj~) | snorting; snoring (B) |
rhopalism (n~) | a sentence or poem i which each word is one syllable |
rhyparography | the printing or painting of sordid and filty |
rhytiscopia (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with facial wrinkles (B) |
ribroasting (n~) | a sound beating; a thrashing (B) |
rictus (n~) | a very wide mouth; a gaping mouth as in terror (B) |
risorial (adj~) | pertaining to causing |
rixation (n~) | quarreling (B) |
rodomontade | arrogant boasting; pretentious blustering ranting |
roil | vex; disturb; irritate; rile (G) |
roinous (adj~) | mean nasty and contemptible (B) |
roitelet (n~) | a petty king (B) |
roman a clef (n~) | a novel whose characters are actual people |
rubricism (n~) | tenacious adherence to rules of behavior or |
ructation (n~) | belching (B) |
rudesby (n~) | a loud |
rugose | having wrinkles (G) |
rumgumption (n~) | shrewdness (B) |
runcible (adj~) | sensuous (B) |
sacerdotophrenia (n~) | clerical stagefright (B) |
saltimbanco (n~) | a mountebank a quack (B) |
sanguisugent | bloodsucking; bloodthirsty (G) |
sapidity (n~) | flavorful; tastiness (B) |
saponaceous (adj~) | soapy slippery; or evasively ingratiating (B) |
saprostomous (adj~) | having bad breath (B) |
sardanapalian | luxuriously effeminate (G) |
sardoodledum (n~) | stereotyped or unrealistic characterization |
sarmassation (n~) | love play (B) |
sarmassophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play (B) |
sarmassophobitch (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play with me (B) |
satisdiction (n~) | enough said (B) |
satispassion (n~) | satisfactory suffering according to |
saturnalia | period of unrestrained license and orgiastic |
scacchic | pertaining to or like chess (G) |
scaldabanco (n~) | a hotheaded debator; a fiery preacher (B) |
scaphism (n~) | an old Persian method of executing criminals by |
scaramouch (n~) | a cowardly buffoon (B) |
scaturient (adj~) | gushing forth; effusive (B) |
schadenfreude | a feeling of enjoyment derived from the misfortunes |
schesis (n~) | mocking another's accent or manner (B) |
schizothemia (n~) | digression by a long reminescence (B) |
schmaltz | something stickily sentimental banal |
schoenabatist (n~) | a tightrope walker (B) |
sciamachy (n~) | fighting with a shadow or with an imaginary |
sciapodous (adj~) | having very large feet (B) |
scibile (n~) | something knowable (B) |
sciolist | one who pretends to scholarship or knowledge |
sciotheism (n~) | the belief that disembodied spirits |
scissile (adj~) | capable of being cut smoothly or split |
scofflaw (n~) | one who scoffs at hence |
scolecophagous (adj~) | eating worms (B) |
scolion (n~) | an impromptu party song begun by one and |
scollardical (n~) | a derogatory term for a scholar (B) |
scopolagnia (n~) | the pleasure gained from voyeurism (B) |
scortation (n~) | fornication (B) |
scout | reject or dismiss scornfully; flout; scoff at (G) |
screed | a lengthy discourse usually used to describe opinions |
scribacious | given to or fond of writing (G) |
scrofulous | morally corrupt; degenerate (G) |
scungilaginous | of the semifluid gelatinous consistency of |
sebastomania (n~) | religious insanity (B) |
sectary (n~) | a fanatic disciple (B) |
sedentarize | to take up or cause to take up |
sedulous (adj~) | diligent persistent |
seeksorrow (n~) | masochist (B) |
sententious | wordy verbose |
sequacious | given to the slavish or unreasoning serving or |
sermocination (n~) | a speaker quickly answering his own question (B) |
shaconian (n~) | someone convinced that Bacon ghosted Shakespeare's |
shaftsbury (n~) | a gallon jug of wine (B) |
shamateur (n~) | a bogus tyro (B) |
shardborn (adj~) | born in dung (B) |
shilpit (adj~) | feeble puny |
sicarian (n~) | an assassin (B) |
sicchasia (n~) | nauseau (B) |
sicchosism (n~) | morbid fastidiousness (B) |
sibyllilne | oracular; prophetic; mysterious (G) |
siffilate | to whisper (G) |
simony | buying selling |
simper | to smile in a silly self |
skibbile (adj~) | wonderfully witty; sexually irresistible (S) |
skibbalalia (n~) | the overwhelming desire to purchase an |
skoptsy (n~) | self |
skybald (n~) | a good |
smatchet (n~) | a small nasty person or a nasty child (B) |
smellfungus (n~) | a malcontent; a grumbler or fault |
snafu (adj~ & n~) | situation normal all fucked up [also: |
fubar | fucked up beyond all recognition; fubb |
sneckdraw (n~) | a sly person (B) |
snollygoster | a clever shrewd |
sockdolager (n~) | a telling blow (B) |
solatium (n~) | anything that compensates for suffering or loss; |
solifidium (n~) | someone who believes that faith alone is sufficient |
somniloquacious (adj~) | pertaining to talking in one's sleep (B) |
soodle | to walk stroll |
sophomania (n~) | delusion of exceptional intelligence (B) |
sophrosyne (n~) | sober sensible |
sorbile (adj~) | drinkable (B) |
spadonism (n~) | enuchry (B) |
spaneria (n~) | scarcity of men (B) |
spanogyny (n~) | scarcity of woman (B) |
spatiate (v~) | to stroll or ramble (B) |
spatilomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by observing animal droppings (B) |
spatrify (v~) | to besmirch befoul (B) |
spawling | a noisy clearing of the throat (G) |
speciesist | for many people a test is permissible when it inflicts |
spodogenous (adj~) | pertaining to or due to presence of |
spoffokins (n~) | a whore pretending to be a wife (B) |
spousebreach (n~) | adultery (B) |
spraints (n~) | otter dung (B) |
spurcidical (adj~) | foul |
squidgereen (n~) | a short insignificant person (B) |
stagorium | an establishment (bar or resort hotel) that serves as |
stasivalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse only |
steatopygous | pertaining to or characterized by protuberant |
stercoricolous (adj~) | living in dung (B) |
sterculius (n~) | the god of feces (B) |
sternutation | the act of sneezing; a sneeze (G) |
stertorous | characterized by heavy snoring (G) |
sthenobulia (n~) | strong will power (B) |
stirious (adj~) | like an icicle (B) |
stomachous (adj~) | obstinate; angry (B) |
stoopgallant (adj~) | humbling; ego |
strepitous | making a great clamor; noisy; boisterous (G) |
stricture | an adverse criticism or remark censure |
stultiloquence | foolish or senseless talk; babble; twaddle (G) |
stygiophobia (n~) | fear of hell (B) |
stylite (n~) | ascetics who lived on top of pillars (B) |
suaviation (n~) | a love kiss (B) |
subagitation (n~) | copulation (B) |
subarrhation (n~) | betrothal accomplished by the man's showering |
subderisorious (adj~) | mildly ridiculing (B) |
subdititious (adj~) | secret substitution (B) |
subdolous (adj~) | rather crafty or sly (B) |
subintelligitur (n~) | a meaning implied but not stated (B) |
subsannation (n~) | derision (B) |
substaquilate (v~) | to defeat overwhelm (B) |
supernaculum (n~) | a liquor drunk to the last drop; excellent |
supervacaneous (adj~) | needlessly added (B) |
supinovalent (adj~) | able to fornicate only while supine (B) |
suppalpation (n~) | gaining affection by caressing (B) |
suspercollate (v~) | to hang by the neck (B) |
sybarite (n~) | someone overly fond of luxury and pleasure (B) |
tachydidaxy (n~) | fast teaching (B) |
talionic (adj~) | pertaining to revenge in kind (B) |
tanquam (n~) | someone educated enough to go to college (B) |
taphephobia (n~) | fear of being buried alive (B) |
tardigrade (adj~) | slow |
tartuffish (adj~) | pertaining to the pious hypocrisy of Tartuffe |
tathagatagarbha (n~) | the eternal and absolute essence of all |
tauromachian (adj~) | pertaining to bullfights (B) |
tautegorical (adj~) | saying the same thing with different |
tautoousious (adj~) | being absolutely the same (B) |
tegetology (n~) | collecting cardboard beer coasters |
teknonymy (n~) | naming the parent after the child (B) |
telestich (n~) | a poem in which the consecutive final letters |
temerarious | reckless; heedless; rash (G) |
temulance (n~) | drunkenness (B) |
tendentious | promoting a particular view or tendency; hence |
tenebrific (adj~) | dark or obscure (B) |
tenesmic (adj~) | pertaining to a painful but ineffectual effort |
tentiginous (adj~) | sensuous lascivious (B) |
teratology (n~) | the study of monsters (B) |
tergiversation (n~) | abandoning a religion or cause (B) or |
testudineous (adj~) | slow like a tortoise (B) |
tetricity (n~) | austerity harshness |
thalassophobia (n~) | fear of the sea (B) |
thanatism (n~) | the belief in life before death not after it (B) |
thaumaturgic | or or involving the supposed working of miracles; |
theanthropism (n~) | attaching human traits to one's god (B) |
thelymachy (n~) | a war of women (B) |
thelyphthoric (adj~) | that which corrupts women (B) |
thersitical | loud and grossly abusive foulmouthed; scurrilous (G) |
thrasonical | given to or marked by boasting and bragging (G) |
threpterophilia (n~) | a fondness for female nurses (B) |
timonism (n~) | misanthropy (B) |
titivate | to make smart; spruce up (G) |
tonguepad (v~) | to scold (B) |
tralatitiously (adv~) | metaphorically; figuratively (B) |
transilient (adj~) | pertaining to abrupt changes (B] |
transmogrification | changes into grotesque or humorous forms |
transude | to pass or ooze through or out as sweat through |
trichoschisticism (n~) | hair |
tripudiation (n~) | the act of dancing |
triskaidekaphobia | fear of the number 13 or Friday the 13th (G) |
triturate | to rub grind |
truckle | to show servility or subservience (G) |
truntlement | trumpery (A) |
tugmutton | a great glutton (A) |
tussicated | driven about; tormented (A) |
typomania (n~) | obsession with the expectation of publication |
tyromancy (n~) | fortunate telling by watching cheese as it |
tyrosemiophily (n~) | the collecting of Camembert cheese labels |
uberous | fruitful (A) |
ulotrichous | having wooly or crisply curling hair (G) |
ultracrepidarian | going beyond one's own province; a person who |
ululate | to howl or hoot; or to wail or lament loudly (G) |
unbosom | to disclose one's personal thoughts or feelings (G) |
vade mecum | a favorite book carried everywhere (B) |
valetudinarianism | weak or sickly state; thinking only of |
valorization | government price |
vaniloquence | vain and foolish talk (B) |
vapulate | to beat whip (B) |
varietist | an unorthodox person; or someone who practices |
variorum | pertaining to a literary classic annotated by |
vastation | purification through fire (B) |
vecordious | senseless insane |
velitation | a petty fight; a skirmish (B) |
velleity | slight or faint desire; inclination (B) |
vellicate | to pull at off |
venery | the pursuit of sexual pleasure or indulgence |
ventoseness | windiness; flatulence (B) |
ventricumbent | lying face down; prone (B) |
ventripotent | fat |
verbigeration | senseless reiteration of cliches (B) |
verbophobia | fear and dislike of words (B) |
verecund | bashful; modest (B) |
veriloquent | speaking truthfully (B) |
verism | the theory that ugliness is valid in art and literature |
vernalagnia | spring fever (B) |
vesticate | to blister (G) |
vestryism (n~) | selfishness and parochialism said to be |
viaggiatory | on the move; traveling around (B) |
vicissitudinary | pertaining to change alteration |
vigesimation | killing every twentieth person (B) |
vilipend | to belittle to disparage (B) |
viparious | life |
virago | a scold a shrew |
vitilitigate | to be particularly quarrelsome (B) |
vivisepulture | live burial (B) |
volitient | exercising free will (B) |
vomituration | retching ineffectual vomiting |
vulpinism (n~) | the quality of being foxlike esp |
waghalter | a rogue rascal or knave (B) |
wamble | to fell nauseous; or to move unsteadily to stagger; |
wampus | a stupid dull |
wantwit | a fool (B) |
Weltanschauung | a comprehensive world view especially from |
Weltschmerz | sadness over the evils of the world especially as |
wergild | money paid by the killer's family to the family of |
withernam | taking one thing as reprisal for something else taken |
witzelsucht | emotional state characterized by futile attempts |
wowser | a pecksniffian puritan (B) |
xenagogue | a guide (B) |
xenagogy | a guidebook (B) |
xenapistia | extreme distrust of strangers (B) |
xenoepist | someone who speaks with a foreign accent (B) |
xenomancy | fortunetelling by studying the first stranger |
xeronisus | inability to reach orgasm (B) |
xylophobia | fear of wooden objects; fear of forests (B) |
xyresic | razor sharp (B) |
yarmouth | insane (B) |
ydromancy | fortunetelling with water (B) |
zeitgeist | the general intellectual moral and cultural level |
zetetic | asking; questioning (B) |
zoanthropy | insanity in which a patient believes he's an animal (B) |
zoetic | pertaining to life (B) |
zoilism | nagging criticism (B) |
zonesthesia | the feeling of wearing a tight girdle (B) |
zooerastia | sexual intercourse with an animal (B) |
zygal | H |
zygomancy | fortune telling with weights (B) |
longanimity (n~) | silent suffering while planning revenge (B) |
longinquity (n~) | remoteness (B) |
longueur (n~) | a long and tedious section of a book play |
loquaciousness (n~) | extreme talkativenss; garrulousness (W) |
lost positives | whimsically coined or archaic words of which only |
lovertine (adj~) | addicted to love |
loxotic (adj~) | slanting distorted (B) |
lubricity (n~) | the condition of being uncertain or unstable or |
luciferous (adj~) | illuminating literally and figuratively (B) |
lucriferous (adj~) | profitable lucrative (B) |
lucripetous (adj~) | money hungry (B) |
luctation (n~) | a struggle for success (B) |
luctiferous (adj~) | sad and sorry (B) |
lucubration (n~) | to burn the midnight oil; suggesting pretentious |
luculent (adj~) | readily understood; clear; lucid (G) |
lucus a non lucendo | an absurd word derivation; illogical explanation |
ludibrious (adj~) | ludicrous; making fun of (B) |
ludibundness (n~) | playfulness (B) |
ludicropathetic (adj~) | ludicrous and pathetic (B) |
ludification (n~) | deriding (B) |
luftmensch (n~) | someone with his head in the clouds |
lupanariam (n~) | lubricious lascivious |
lurgulary (n~) | the act of poisoning water (B) |
lutarious (adj~) | pertaining to living in |
lycanthropy (n~) | insanity in which the patient thinks he's |
lygophilia (n~) | love of darkness (B) |
lymacatexis (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with dirt (B) |
lypophrenia (n~) | a vague feeling of sadness seemingly |
lyssophobia (n~) | fear of becoming mad (B) |
macarize (v~) | to make happy; to praise (B) |
macerate (v~) | to oppress; torment (B) |
macilent (adj~) | lean; thin (B) |
macrobian (adj~) | long |
macrology (n~) | excessive or repititious words or phrases (W) |
macromastic (adj~) | pertaining to large breasts (B) |
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macrosmatic (adj~) | having a supersensitive nose (B) |
macrosomatous (adj~) | having an abnormally large body (B) |
macrotous (adj~) | having large ears (G) |
mactation (n~) | sacrificial murder (B) |
maculate (adj~) | defiled; impure (G) |
madefy (v~) to wet (B) | |
magniloquence (n~) | grandly high |
maieusiophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of childbirth |
maieutic (adj~) | of the Socratic method of bringing into full |
mala fide | in bad faith: falsely deceitfully |
malacissation (n~) | the process of making something soft and |
malacodermous (adj~) | soft |
malapert (n~) | impudent outspoken |
maliferous (adj~) | producing evil; unhealthy as a climate (B) |
malism (n~) | the theory that the world is mostly bad (B) |
malneirophrenia (n~) | depress following a nightmare (B) |
malnoia (n~) | a vague feeling of mental discomfort (B) |
mammothrept (n~) | a spoiled child (B) |
mancinism (n~) | left |
mangonize (v~) | to traffic in slaves (B) |
mania | a |
maniaphobia (n~) | fear of insanity (B) |
manipulandum (n~) | something that is to be manipulated (B) |
mansuetude (n~) | tameness gentleness |
mantology (n~) | fortunetelling; a fortuneteller (B) |
manubiary (ad~) | relating to the spoils of war (B) |
manumission (n~) | formal liberation of a slave (B) |
manustupration (n~) | masturbation (B) |
maquillage (n~) | make |
marasmic (adj~) | of the gradual loss of flesh and strength; of a wasting |
marcescent (adj~) | withered decayed |
margaritaceous (adj~) | pearly (B) |
maritodespotism (n~) | ruthless domination by a husband (B) |
marlish (adj~) | easygoing (B) |
marlock (v~) | to cavort frolic (B) |
maschalephidrosis (n~) | massive sweating of the armpits (B) |
mastigophobia (n~) | fear of punishment (B) |
mastigophoric (adj~) | whip |
mataeology (n~) | useless of pointless discourse; worthless |
mataeotechny (n~) | an unprofitable science or art (B) |
matripotestal (adj~) | pertaining to maternal control (B) |
mattoid (n~) | a congenitally insane person (B) |
matutolagnia (n~) | antemerdian sexual desire (B) |
matutolypea (n~) | getting up on the wrong side of the bed (B) |
maumetry (n~) | idolatry (B) |
mauvaise plaisanterie | an inappropriate or badly timed joke (W) |
mawkish (adj~) | characterized by sickly weak sentimentality (G) |
mazomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by a nursing baby (B) |
mazophilous (adj~) | pertaining to mammary mania (B) |
meable (adj~) | capable of being easily penetrated (B) |
meacock (n~) | an effeminate or cowardly man (B) |
meadophily (n~) | study of beer bottle labels |
mechanomorphism (n~) | the doctrine that the universe is fully |
meconology (n~) | the study of opium and its effects (B) |
meconophagism (n~) | opium addiction (B) |
medicaster (n~) | a medical quack (B) |
megacephalous (adj~) | having a large head (B) |
megalonisus (n~) | a tendency to exaggerate (B) |
megalophobia (n~) | fear of large things (B) |
megalopsychy (n~) | generosity of spirit or magnanamity |
melioration (n~) | an elevation or bettering: in language a hitherto |
melliloquence (n~) | euphonious speech; sweet talk (W) |
melissophobia (n~) | fear of bees (B) |
melomaniac (n~) | a music lover (B) |
mempsis | an impassioned but somewhat caustic supplication in which |
menacme (n~) | the menstruating part of a woman's life (B) |
mendaciloquence (n~) | lying as a fine art; adroit prevarication (W) |
menticide (n~) | brainwashing (B) |
mentimutation (n~) | change of mind (B) |
mentulate (adj~) | well hung (B) |
mephitic | bad |
meracious (adj~) | unadulterated full |
meraculous (adj~) | demi |
merdivorous (adj~) | eating dung (B) |
merism (n~) | a pairing of contrasted terms to express a totality |
merkin (n~) | female genitalia; or false pubic hair (B) |
merulator (n~) | a wine |
metagnostic (adj~) | unknowable (B) |
metagrobolize (v~) | the mystify (B) |
metempsychosis (n~) | alleged transmigration of souls (B) |
metheglin (n~) | mead (B) |
metonymy (n~) | the figurative or symbolic use of the name of one |
metoposcopy (n~) | judging character by studying the face (B) |
metromania (n~) | a mania for writing verse (B) |
miasmatic (adj~) | noxious contagious |
microcephalous (adj~) | small |
microlipet (n~) | someone bothered by trifles (B) |
micrology (n~) | excessive attention to or discussion of details or |
micturition (n~) | need for frequent urination (B) |
midden (n~) | a dunghill (B) |
migniard (adj~) | dainty delicate; mincing (B) |
militaster (n~) | an insignificant military man (B) |
minatory (adj~) | portending punishment; threatening; menacing (G) |
minauderie (n~) | coquetry (B) |
minimifidianism (n~) | having almost no faith or belief (B) |
minimus (n~) | a tiny creature (B) |
mirabile dictu | wonderful to relate (W) |
retromingent (adj~) | urinating backward (B) |
retunded | to weaken or diminish the strength of effect of (G) |
rhabdophobia (n~) | fear of being punished or severely criticized (B) |
rhadamanthine | strictly and inflexibly honest and just (G) |
rhigosis (n~) | sensation of cold (B) |
rhonchisonant (adj~) | snorting; snoring (B) |
rhopalism (n~) | a sentence or poem i which each word is one syllable |
rhyparography | the printing or painting of sordid and filty |
rhytiscopia (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with facial wrinkles (B) |
ribroasting (n~) | a sound beating; a thrashing (B) |
rictus (n~) | a very wide mouth; a gaping mouth as in terror (B) |
risorial (adj~) | pertaining to causing |
rixation (n~) | quarreling (B) |
rodomontade | arrogant boasting; pretentious blustering ranting |
roil | vex; disturb; irritate; rile (G) |
roinous (adj~) | mean nasty and contemptible (B) |
roitelet (n~) | a petty king (B) |
roman a clef (n~) | a novel whose characters are actual people |
rubricism (n~) | tenacious adherence to rules of behavior or |
ructation (n~) | belching (B) |
rudesby (n~) | a loud |
rugose | having wrinkles (G) |
rumgumption (n~) | shrewdness (B) |
runcible (adj~) | sensuous (B) |
sacerdotophrenia (n~) | clerical stagefright (B) |
saltimbanco (n~) | a mountebank a quack (B) |
sanguisugent | bloodsucking; bloodthirsty (G) |
sapidity (n~) | flavorful; tastiness (B) |
saponaceous (adj~) | soapy slippery; or evasively ingratiating (B) |
saprostomous (adj~) | having bad breath (B) |
sardanapalian | luxuriously effeminate (G) |
sardoodledum (n~) | stereotyped or unrealistic characterization |
sarmassation (n~) | love play (B) |
sarmassophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play (B) |
sarmassophobitch (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play with me (B) |
satisdiction (n~) | enough said (B) |
satispassion (n~) | satisfactory suffering according to |
saturnalia | period of unrestrained license and orgiastic |
scacchic | pertaining to or like chess (G) |
scaldabanco (n~) | a hotheaded debator; a fiery preacher (B) |
scaphism (n~) | an old Persian method of executing criminals by |
scaramouch (n~) | a cowardly buffoon (B) |
scaturient (adj~) | gushing forth; effusive (B) |
schadenfreude | a feeling of enjoyment derived from the misfortunes |
schesis (n~) | mocking another's accent or manner (B) |
schizothemia (n~) | digression by a long reminescence (B) |
schmaltz | something stickily sentimental banal |
schoenabatist (n~) | a tightrope walker (B) |
sciamachy (n~) | fighting with a shadow or with an imaginary |
sciapodous (adj~) | having very large feet (B) |
scibile (n~) | something knowable (B) |
sciolist | one who pretends to scholarship or knowledge |
sciotheism (n~) | the belief that disembodied spirits |
scissile (adj~) | capable of being cut smoothly or split |
scofflaw (n~) | one who scoffs at hence |
scolecophagous (adj~) | eating worms (B) |
scolion (n~) | an impromptu party song begun by one and |
scollardical (n~) | a derogatory term for a scholar (B) |
scopolagnia (n~) | the pleasure gained from voyeurism (B) |
scortation (n~) | fornication (B) |
scout | reject or dismiss scornfully; flout; scoff at (G) |
screed | a lengthy discourse usually used to describe opinions |
scribacious | given to or fond of writing (G) |
scrofulous | morally corrupt; degenerate (G) |
scungilaginous | of the semifluid gelatinous consistency of |
sebastomania (n~) | religious insanity (B) |
sectary (n~) | a fanatic disciple (B) |
sedentarize | to take up or cause to take up |
sedulous (adj~) | diligent persistent |
seeksorrow (n~) | masochist (B) |
sententious | wordy verbose |
sequacious | given to the slavish or unreasoning serving or |
sermocination (n~) | a speaker quickly answering his own question (B) |
shaconian (n~) | someone convinced that Bacon ghosted Shakespeare's |
shaftsbury (n~) | a gallon jug of wine (B) |
shamateur (n~) | a bogus tyro (B) |
shardborn (adj~) | born in dung (B) |
shilpit (adj~) | feeble puny |
sicarian (n~) | an assassin (B) |
sicchasia (n~) | nauseau (B) |
sicchosism (n~) | morbid fastidiousness (B) |
sibyllilne | oracular; prophetic; mysterious (G) |
siffilate | to whisper (G) |
simony | buying selling |
simper | to smile in a silly self |
skibbile (adj~) | wonderfully witty; sexually irresistible (S) |
skibbalalia (n~) | the overwhelming desire to purchase an |
skoptsy (n~) | self |
skybald (n~) | a good |
smatchet (n~) | a small nasty person or a nasty child (B) |
smellfungus (n~) | a malcontent; a grumbler or fault |
snafu (adj~ & n~) | situation normal all fucked up [also: |
fubar | fucked up beyond all recognition; fubb |
sneckdraw (n~) | a sly person (B) |
snollygoster | a clever shrewd |
sockdolager (n~) | a telling blow (B) |
solatium (n~) | anything that compensates for suffering or loss; |
solifidium (n~) | someone who believes that faith alone is sufficient |
somniloquacious (adj~) | pertaining to talking in one's sleep (B) |
soodle | to walk stroll |
sophomania (n~) | delusion of exceptional intelligence (B) |
sophrosyne (n~) | sober sensible |
sorbile (adj~) | drinkable (B) |
spadonism (n~) | enuchry (B) |
spaneria (n~) | scarcity of men (B) |
spanogyny (n~) | scarcity of woman (B) |
spatiate (v~) | to stroll or ramble (B) |
spatilomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by observing animal droppings (B) |
spatrify (v~) | to besmirch befoul (B) |
spawling | a noisy clearing of the throat (G) |
speciesist | for many people a test is permissible when it inflicts |
spodogenous (adj~) | pertaining to or due to presence of |
spoffokins (n~) | a whore pretending to be a wife (B) |
spousebreach (n~) | adultery (B) |
spraints (n~) | otter dung (B) |
spurcidical (adj~) | foul |
squidgereen (n~) | a short insignificant person (B) |
stagorium | an establishment (bar or resort hotel) that serves as |
stasivalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse only |
steatopygous | pertaining to or characterized by protuberant |
stercoricolous (adj~) | living in dung (B) |
sterculius (n~) | the god of feces (B) |
sternutation | the act of sneezing; a sneeze (G) |
stertorous | characterized by heavy snoring (G) |
sthenobulia (n~) | strong will power (B) |
stirious (adj~) | like an icicle (B) |
stomachous (adj~) | obstinate; angry (B) |
stoopgallant (adj~) | humbling; ego |
strepitous | making a great clamor; noisy; boisterous (G) |
stricture | an adverse criticism or remark censure |
stultiloquence | foolish or senseless talk; babble; twaddle (G) |
stygiophobia (n~) | fear of hell (B) |
stylite (n~) | ascetics who lived on top of pillars (B) |
suaviation (n~) | a love kiss (B) |
subagitation (n~) | copulation (B) |
subarrhation (n~) | betrothal accomplished by the man's showering |
subderisorious (adj~) | mildly ridiculing (B) |
subdititious (adj~) | secret substitution (B) |
subdolous (adj~) | rather crafty or sly (B) |
subintelligitur (n~) | a meaning implied but not stated (B) |
subsannation (n~) | derision (B) |
substaquilate (v~) | to defeat overwhelm (B) |
supernaculum (n~) | a liquor drunk to the last drop; excellent |
supervacaneous (adj~) | needlessly added (B) |
supinovalent (adj~) | able to fornicate only while supine (B) |
suppalpation (n~) | gaining affection by caressing (B) |
suspercollate (v~) | to hang by the neck (B) |
sybarite (n~) | someone overly fond of luxury and pleasure (B) |
tachydidaxy (n~) | fast teaching (B) |
talionic (adj~) | pertaining to revenge in kind (B) |
tanquam (n~) | someone educated enough to go to college (B) |
taphephobia (n~) | fear of being buried alive (B) |
tardigrade (adj~) | slow |
tartuffish (adj~) | pertaining to the pious hypocrisy of Tartuffe |
tathagatagarbha (n~) | the eternal and absolute essence of all |
tauromachian (adj~) | pertaining to bullfights (B) |
tautegorical (adj~) | saying the same thing with different |
tautoousious (adj~) | being absolutely the same (B) |
tegetology (n~) | collecting cardboard beer coasters |
teknonymy (n~) | naming the parent after the child (B) |
telestich (n~) | a poem in which the consecutive final letters |
temerarious | reckless; heedless; rash (G) |
temulance (n~) | drunkenness (B) |
tendentious | promoting a particular view or tendency; hence |
tenebrific (adj~) | dark or obscure (B) |
tenesmic (adj~) | pertaining to a painful but ineffectual effort |
tentiginous (adj~) | sensuous lascivious (B) |
teratology (n~) | the study of monsters (B) |
tergiversation (n~) | abandoning a religion or cause (B) or |
testudineous (adj~) | slow like a tortoise (B) |
tetricity (n~) | austerity harshness |
thalassophobia (n~) | fear of the sea (B) |
thanatism (n~) | the belief in life before death not after it (B) |
thaumaturgic | or or involving the supposed working of miracles; |
theanthropism (n~) | attaching human traits to one's god (B) |
thelymachy (n~) | a war of women (B) |
thelyphthoric (adj~) | that which corrupts women (B) |
thersitical | loud and grossly abusive foulmouthed; scurrilous (G) |
thrasonical | given to or marked by boasting and bragging (G) |
threpterophilia (n~) | a fondness for female nurses (B) |
timonism (n~) | misanthropy (B) |
titivate | to make smart; spruce up (G) |
tonguepad (v~) | to scold (B) |
tralatitiously (adv~) | metaphorically; figuratively (B) |
transilient (adj~) | pertaining to abrupt changes (B] |
transmogrification | changes into grotesque or humorous forms |
transude | to pass or ooze through or out as sweat through |
trichoschisticism (n~) | hair |
tripudiation (n~) | the act of dancing |
triskaidekaphobia | fear of the number 13 or Friday the 13th (G) |
triturate | to rub grind |
truckle | to show servility or subservience (G) |
truntlement | trumpery (A) |
tugmutton | a great glutton (A) |
tussicated | driven about; tormented (A) |
typomania (n~) | obsession with the expectation of publication |
tyromancy (n~) | fortunate telling by watching cheese as it |
tyrosemiophily (n~) | the collecting of Camembert cheese labels |
uberous | fruitful (A) |
ulotrichous | having wooly or crisply curling hair (G) |
ultracrepidarian | going beyond one's own province; a person who |
ululate | to howl or hoot; or to wail or lament loudly (G) |
unbosom | to disclose one's personal thoughts or feelings (G) |
vade mecum | a favorite book carried everywhere (B) |
valetudinarianism | weak or sickly state; thinking only of |
valorization | government price |
vaniloquence | vain and foolish talk (B) |
vapulate | to beat whip (B) |
varietist | an unorthodox person; or someone who practices |
variorum | pertaining to a literary classic annotated by |
vastation | purification through fire (B) |
vecordious | senseless insane |
velitation | a petty fight; a skirmish (B) |
velleity | slight or faint desire; inclination (B) |
vellicate | to pull at off |
venery | the pursuit of sexual pleasure or indulgence |
ventoseness | windiness; flatulence (B) |
ventricumbent | lying face down; prone (B) |
ventripotent | fat |
verbigeration | senseless reiteration of cliches (B) |
verbophobia | fear and dislike of words (B) |
verecund | bashful; modest (B) |
veriloquent | speaking truthfully (B) |
verism | the theory that ugliness is valid in art and literature |
vernalagnia | spring fever (B) |
vesticate | to blister (G) |
vestryism (n~) | selfishness and parochialism said to be |
viaggiatory | on the move; traveling around (B) |
vicissitudinary | pertaining to change alteration |
vigesimation | killing every twentieth person (B) |
vilipend | to belittle to disparage (B) |
viparious | life |
virago | a scold a shrew |
vitilitigate | to be particularly quarrelsome (B) |
vivisepulture | live burial (B) |
volitient | exercising free will (B) |
vomituration | retching ineffectual vomiting |
vulpinism (n~) | the quality of being foxlike esp |
waghalter | a rogue rascal or knave (B) |
wamble | to fell nauseous; or to move unsteadily to stagger; |
wampus | a stupid dull |
wantwit | a fool (B) |
Weltanschauung | a comprehensive world view especially from |
Weltschmerz | sadness over the evils of the world especially as |
wergild | money paid by the killer's family to the family of |
withernam | taking one thing as reprisal for something else taken |
witzelsucht | emotional state characterized by futile attempts |
wowser | a pecksniffian puritan (B) |
xenagogue | a guide (B) |
xenagogy | a guidebook (B) |
xenapistia | extreme distrust of strangers (B) |
xenoepist | someone who speaks with a foreign accent (B) |
xenomancy | fortunetelling by studying the first stranger |
xeronisus | inability to reach orgasm (B) |
xylophobia | fear of wooden objects; fear of forests (B) |
xyresic | razor sharp (B) |
yarmouth | insane (B) |
ydromancy | fortunetelling with water (B) |
zeitgeist | the general intellectual moral and cultural level |
zetetic | asking; questioning (B) |
zoanthropy | insanity in which a patient believes he's an animal (B) |
zoetic | pertaining to life (B) |
zoilism | nagging criticism (B) |
zonesthesia | the feeling of wearing a tight girdle (B) |
zooerastia | sexual intercourse with an animal (B) |
zygal | H |
zygomancy | fortune telling with weights (B) |
longanimity (n~) | silent suffering while planning revenge (B) |
longinquity (n~) | remoteness (B) |
longueur (n~) | a long and tedious section of a book play |
loquaciousness (n~) | extreme talkativenss; garrulousness (W) |
lost positives | whimsically coined or archaic words of which only |
lovertine (adj~) | addicted to love |
loxotic (adj~) | slanting distorted (B) |
lubricity (n~) | the condition of being uncertain or unstable or |
luciferous (adj~) | illuminating literally and figuratively (B) |
lucriferous (adj~) | profitable lucrative (B) |
lucripetous (adj~) | money hungry (B) |
luctation (n~) | a struggle for success (B) |
luctiferous (adj~) | sad and sorry (B) |
lucubration (n~) | to burn the midnight oil; suggesting pretentious |
luculent (adj~) | readily understood; clear; lucid (G) |
lucus a non lucendo | an absurd word derivation; illogical explanation |
ludibrious (adj~) | ludicrous; making fun of (B) |
ludibundness (n~) | playfulness (B) |
ludicropathetic (adj~) | ludicrous and pathetic (B) |
ludification (n~) | deriding (B) |
luftmensch (n~) | someone with his head in the clouds |
lupanariam (n~) | lubricious lascivious |
lurgulary (n~) | the act of poisoning water (B) |
lutarious (adj~) | pertaining to living in |
lycanthropy (n~) | insanity in which the patient thinks he's |
lygophilia (n~) | love of darkness (B) |
lymacatexis (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with dirt (B) |
lypophrenia (n~) | a vague feeling of sadness seemingly |
lyssophobia (n~) | fear of becoming mad (B) |
macarize (v~) | to make happy; to praise (B) |
macerate (v~) | to oppress; torment (B) |
macilent (adj~) | lean; thin (B) |
macrobian (adj~) | long |
macrology (n~) | excessive or repititious words or phrases (W) |
macromastic (adj~) | pertaining to large breasts (B) |
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macrosmatic (adj~) | having a supersensitive nose (B) |
macrosomatous (adj~) | having an abnormally large body (B) |
macrotous (adj~) | having large ears (G) |
mactation (n~) | sacrificial murder (B) |
maculate (adj~) | defiled; impure (G) |
madefy (v~) to wet (B) | |
magniloquence (n~) | grandly high |
maieusiophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of childbirth |
maieutic (adj~) | of the Socratic method of bringing into full |
mala fide | in bad faith: falsely deceitfully |
malacissation (n~) | the process of making something soft and |
malacodermous (adj~) | soft |
malapert (n~) | impudent outspoken |
maliferous (adj~) | producing evil; unhealthy as a climate (B) |
malism (n~) | the theory that the world is mostly bad (B) |
malneirophrenia (n~) | depress following a nightmare (B) |
malnoia (n~) | a vague feeling of mental discomfort (B) |
mammothrept (n~) | a spoiled child (B) |
mancinism (n~) | left |
mangonize (v~) | to traffic in slaves (B) |
mania | a |
maniaphobia (n~) | fear of insanity (B) |
manipulandum (n~) | something that is to be manipulated (B) |
mansuetude (n~) | tameness gentleness |
mantology (n~) | fortunetelling; a fortuneteller (B) |
manubiary (ad~) | relating to the spoils of war (B) |
manumission (n~) | formal liberation of a slave (B) |
manustupration (n~) | masturbation (B) |
maquillage (n~) | make |
marasmic (adj~) | of the gradual loss of flesh and strength; of a wasting |
marcescent (adj~) | withered decayed |
margaritaceous (adj~) | pearly (B) |
maritodespotism (n~) | ruthless domination by a husband (B) |
marlish (adj~) | easygoing (B) |
marlock (v~) | to cavort frolic (B) |
maschalephidrosis (n~) | massive sweating of the armpits (B) |
mastigophobia (n~) | fear of punishment (B) |
mastigophoric (adj~) | whip |
mataeology (n~) | useless of pointless discourse; worthless |
mataeotechny (n~) | an unprofitable science or art (B) |
matripotestal (adj~) | pertaining to maternal control (B) |
mattoid (n~) | a congenitally insane person (B) |
matutolagnia (n~) | antemerdian sexual desire (B) |
matutolypea (n~) | getting up on the wrong side of the bed (B) |
maumetry (n~) | idolatry (B) |
mauvaise plaisanterie | an inappropriate or badly timed joke (W) |
mawkish (adj~) | characterized by sickly weak sentimentality (G) |
mazomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by a nursing baby (B) |
mazophilous (adj~) | pertaining to mammary mania (B) |
meable (adj~) | capable of being easily penetrated (B) |
meacock (n~) | an effeminate or cowardly man (B) |
meadophily (n~) | study of beer bottle labels |
mechanomorphism (n~) | the doctrine that the universe is fully |
meconology (n~) | the study of opium and its effects (B) |
meconophagism (n~) | opium addiction (B) |
medicaster (n~) | a medical quack (B) |
megacephalous (adj~) | having a large head (B) |
megalonisus (n~) | a tendency to exaggerate (B) |
megalophobia (n~) | fear of large things (B) |
megalopsychy (n~) | generosity of spirit or magnanamity |
melioration (n~) | an elevation or bettering: in language a hitherto |
melliloquence (n~) | euphonious speech; sweet talk (W) |
melissophobia (n~) | fear of bees (B) |
melomaniac (n~) | a music lover (B) |
mempsis | an impassioned but somewhat caustic supplication in which |
menacme (n~) | the menstruating part of a woman's life (B) |
mendaciloquence (n~) | lying as a fine art; adroit prevarication (W) |
menticide (n~) | brainwashing (B) |
mentimutation (n~) | change of mind (B) |
mentulate (adj~) | well hung (B) |
mephitic | bad |
meracious (adj~) | unadulterated full |
meraculous (adj~) | demi |
merdivorous (adj~) | eating dung (B) |
merism (n~) | a pairing of contrasted terms to express a totality |
merkin (n~) | female genitalia; or false pubic hair (B) |
merulator (n~) | a wine |
metagnostic (adj~) | unknowable (B) |
metagrobolize (v~) | the mystify (B) |
metempsychosis (n~) | alleged transmigration of souls (B) |
metheglin (n~) | mead (B) |
metonymy (n~) | the figurative or symbolic use of the name of one |
metoposcopy (n~) | judging character by studying the face (B) |
metromania (n~) | a mania for writing verse (B) |
miasmatic (adj~) | noxious contagious |
microcephalous (adj~) | small |
microlipet (n~) | someone bothered by trifles (B) |
micrology (n~) | excessive attention to or discussion of details or |
micturition (n~) | need for frequent urination (B) |
midden (n~) | a dunghill (B) |
migniard (adj~) | dainty delicate; mincing (B) |
militaster (n~) | an insignificant military man (B) |
minatory (adj~) | portending punishment; threatening; menacing (G) |
minauderie (n~) | coquetry (B) |
minimifidianism (n~) | having almost no faith or belief (B) |
minimus (n~) | a tiny creature (B) |
mirabile dictu | wonderful to relate (W) |
retromingent (adj~) | urinating backward (B) |
retunded | to weaken or diminish the strength of effect of (G) |
rhabdophobia (n~) | fear of being punished or severely criticized (B) |
rhadamanthine | strictly and inflexibly honest and just (G) |
rhigosis (n~) | sensation of cold (B) |
rhonchisonant (adj~) | snorting; snoring (B) |
rhopalism (n~) | a sentence or poem i which each word is one syllable |
rhyparography | the printing or painting of sordid and filty |
rhytiscopia (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with facial wrinkles (B) |
ribroasting (n~) | a sound beating; a thrashing (B) |
rictus (n~) | a very wide mouth; a gaping mouth as in terror (B) |
risorial (adj~) | pertaining to causing |
rixation (n~) | quarreling (B) |
rodomontade | arrogant boasting; pretentious blustering ranting |
roil | vex; disturb; irritate; rile (G) |
roinous (adj~) | mean nasty and contemptible (B) |
roitelet (n~) | a petty king (B) |
roman a clef (n~) | a novel whose characters are actual people |
rubricism (n~) | tenacious adherence to rules of behavior or |
ructation (n~) | belching (B) |
rudesby (n~) | a loud |
rugose | having wrinkles (G) |
rumgumption (n~) | shrewdness (B) |
runcible (adj~) | sensuous (B) |
sacerdotophrenia (n~) | clerical stagefright (B) |
saltimbanco (n~) | a mountebank a quack (B) |
sanguisugent | bloodsucking; bloodthirsty (G) |
sapidity (n~) | flavorful; tastiness (B) |
saponaceous (adj~) | soapy slippery; or evasively ingratiating (B) |
saprostomous (adj~) | having bad breath (B) |
sardanapalian | luxuriously effeminate (G) |
sardoodledum (n~) | stereotyped or unrealistic characterization |
sarmassation (n~) | love play (B) |
sarmassophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play (B) |
sarmassophobitch (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play with me (B) |
satisdiction (n~) | enough said (B) |
satispassion (n~) | satisfactory suffering according to |
saturnalia | period of unrestrained license and orgiastic |
scacchic | pertaining to or like chess (G) |
scaldabanco (n~) | a hotheaded debator; a fiery preacher (B) |
scaphism (n~) | an old Persian method of executing criminals by |
scaramouch (n~) | a cowardly buffoon (B) |
scaturient (adj~) | gushing forth; effusive (B) |
schadenfreude | a feeling of enjoyment derived from the misfortunes |
schesis (n~) | mocking another's accent or manner (B) |
schizothemia (n~) | digression by a long reminescence (B) |
schmaltz | something stickily sentimental banal |
schoenabatist (n~) | a tightrope walker (B) |
sciamachy (n~) | fighting with a shadow or with an imaginary |
sciapodous (adj~) | having very large feet (B) |
scibile (n~) | something knowable (B) |
sciolist | one who pretends to scholarship or knowledge |
sciotheism (n~) | the belief that disembodied spirits |
scissile (adj~) | capable of being cut smoothly or split |
scofflaw (n~) | one who scoffs at hence |
scolecophagous (adj~) | eating worms (B) |
scolion (n~) | an impromptu party song begun by one and |
scollardical (n~) | a derogatory term for a scholar (B) |
scopolagnia (n~) | the pleasure gained from voyeurism (B) |
scortation (n~) | fornication (B) |
scout | reject or dismiss scornfully; flout; scoff at (G) |
screed | a lengthy discourse usually used to describe opinions |
scribacious | given to or fond of writing (G) |
scrofulous | morally corrupt; degenerate (G) |
scungilaginous | of the semifluid gelatinous consistency of |
sebastomania (n~) | religious insanity (B) |
sectary (n~) | a fanatic disciple (B) |
sedentarize | to take up or cause to take up |
sedulous (adj~) | diligent persistent |
seeksorrow (n~) | masochist (B) |
sententious | wordy verbose |
sequacious | given to the slavish or unreasoning serving or |
sermocination (n~) | a speaker quickly answering his own question (B) |
shaconian (n~) | someone convinced that Bacon ghosted Shakespeare's |
shaftsbury (n~) | a gallon jug of wine (B) |
shamateur (n~) | a bogus tyro (B) |
shardborn (adj~) | born in dung (B) |
shilpit (adj~) | feeble puny |
sicarian (n~) | an assassin (B) |
sicchasia (n~) | nauseau (B) |
sicchosism (n~) | morbid fastidiousness (B) |
sibyllilne | oracular; prophetic; mysterious (G) |
siffilate | to whisper (G) |
simony | buying selling |
simper | to smile in a silly self |
skibbile (adj~) | wonderfully witty; sexually irresistible (S) |
skibbalalia (n~) | the overwhelming desire to purchase an |
skoptsy (n~) | self |
skybald (n~) | a good |
smatchet (n~) | a small nasty person or a nasty child (B) |
smellfungus (n~) | a malcontent; a grumbler or fault |
snafu (adj~ & n~) | situation normal all fucked up [also: |
fubar | fucked up beyond all recognition; fubb |
sneckdraw (n~) | a sly person (B) |
snollygoster | a clever shrewd |
sockdolager (n~) | a telling blow (B) |
solatium (n~) | anything that compensates for suffering or loss; |
solifidium (n~) | someone who believes that faith alone is sufficient |
somniloquacious (adj~) | pertaining to talking in one's sleep (B) |
soodle | to walk stroll |
sophomania (n~) | delusion of exceptional intelligence (B) |
sophrosyne (n~) | sober sensible |
sorbile (adj~) | drinkable (B) |
spadonism (n~) | enuchry (B) |
spaneria (n~) | scarcity of men (B) |
spanogyny (n~) | scarcity of woman (B) |
spatiate (v~) | to stroll or ramble (B) |
spatilomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by observing animal droppings (B) |
spatrify (v~) | to besmirch befoul (B) |
spawling | a noisy clearing of the throat (G) |
speciesist | for many people a test is permissible when it inflicts |
spodogenous (adj~) | pertaining to or due to presence of |
spoffokins (n~) | a whore pretending to be a wife (B) |
spousebreach (n~) | adultery (B) |
spraints (n~) | otter dung (B) |
spurcidical (adj~) | foul |
squidgereen (n~) | a short insignificant person (B) |
stagorium | an establishment (bar or resort hotel) that serves as |
stasivalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse only |
steatopygous | pertaining to or characterized by protuberant |
stercoricolous (adj~) | living in dung (B) |
sterculius (n~) | the god of feces (B) |
sternutation | the act of sneezing; a sneeze (G) |
stertorous | characterized by heavy snoring (G) |
sthenobulia (n~) | strong will power (B) |
stirious (adj~) | like an icicle (B) |
stomachous (adj~) | obstinate; angry (B) |
stoopgallant (adj~) | humbling; ego |
strepitous | making a great clamor; noisy; boisterous (G) |
stricture | an adverse criticism or remark censure |
stultiloquence | foolish or senseless talk; babble; twaddle (G) |
stygiophobia (n~) | fear of hell (B) |
stylite (n~) | ascetics who lived on top of pillars (B) |
suaviation (n~) | a love kiss (B) |
subagitation (n~) | copulation (B) |
subarrhation (n~) | betrothal accomplished by the man's showering |
subderisorious (adj~) | mildly ridiculing (B) |
subdititious (adj~) | secret substitution (B) |
subdolous (adj~) | rather crafty or sly (B) |
subintelligitur (n~) | a meaning implied but not stated (B) |
subsannation (n~) | derision (B) |
substaquilate (v~) | to defeat overwhelm (B) |
supernaculum (n~) | a liquor drunk to the last drop; excellent |
supervacaneous (adj~) | needlessly added (B) |
supinovalent (adj~) | able to fornicate only while supine (B) |
suppalpation (n~) | gaining affection by caressing (B) |
suspercollate (v~) | to hang by the neck (B) |
sybarite (n~) | someone overly fond of luxury and pleasure (B) |
tachydidaxy (n~) | fast teaching (B) |
talionic (adj~) | pertaining to revenge in kind (B) |
tanquam (n~) | someone educated enough to go to college (B) |
taphephobia (n~) | fear of being buried alive (B) |
tardigrade (adj~) | slow |
tartuffish (adj~) | pertaining to the pious hypocrisy of Tartuffe |
tathagatagarbha (n~) | the eternal and absolute essence of all |
tauromachian (adj~) | pertaining to bullfights (B) |
tautegorical (adj~) | saying the same thing with different |
tautoousious (adj~) | being absolutely the same (B) |
tegetology (n~) | collecting cardboard beer coasters |
teknonymy (n~) | naming the parent after the child (B) |
telestich (n~) | a poem in which the consecutive final letters |
temerarious | reckless; heedless; rash (G) |
temulance (n~) | drunkenness (B) |
tendentious | promoting a particular view or tendency; hence |
tenebrific (adj~) | dark or obscure (B) |
tenesmic (adj~) | pertaining to a painful but ineffectual effort |
tentiginous (adj~) | sensuous lascivious (B) |
teratology (n~) | the study of monsters (B) |
tergiversation (n~) | abandoning a religion or cause (B) or |
testudineous (adj~) | slow like a tortoise (B) |
tetricity (n~) | austerity harshness |
thalassophobia (n~) | fear of the sea (B) |
thanatism (n~) | the belief in life before death not after it (B) |
thaumaturgic | or or involving the supposed working of miracles; |
theanthropism (n~) | attaching human traits to one's god (B) |
thelymachy (n~) | a war of women (B) |
thelyphthoric (adj~) | that which corrupts women (B) |
thersitical | loud and grossly abusive foulmouthed; scurrilous (G) |
thrasonical | given to or marked by boasting and bragging (G) |
threpterophilia (n~) | a fondness for female nurses (B) |
timonism (n~) | misanthropy (B) |
titivate | to make smart; spruce up (G) |
tonguepad (v~) | to scold (B) |
tralatitiously (adv~) | metaphorically; figuratively (B) |
transilient (adj~) | pertaining to abrupt changes (B] |
transmogrification | changes into grotesque or humorous forms |
transude | to pass or ooze through or out as sweat through |
trichoschisticism (n~) | hair |
tripudiation (n~) | the act of dancing |
triskaidekaphobia | fear of the number 13 or Friday the 13th (G) |
triturate | to rub grind |
truckle | to show servility or subservience (G) |
truntlement | trumpery (A) |
tugmutton | a great glutton (A) |
tussicated | driven about; tormented (A) |
typomania (n~) | obsession with the expectation of publication |
tyromancy (n~) | fortunate telling by watching cheese as it |
tyrosemiophily (n~) | the collecting of Camembert cheese labels |
uberous | fruitful (A) |
ulotrichous | having wooly or crisply curling hair (G) |
ultracrepidarian | going beyond one's own province; a person who |
ululate | to howl or hoot; or to wail or lament loudly (G) |
unbosom | to disclose one's personal thoughts or feelings (G) |
vade mecum | a favorite book carried everywhere (B) |
valetudinarianism | weak or sickly state; thinking only of |
valorization | government price |
vaniloquence | vain and foolish talk (B) |
vapulate | to beat whip (B) |
varietist | an unorthodox person; or someone who practices |
variorum | pertaining to a literary classic annotated by |
vastation | purification through fire (B) |
vecordious | senseless insane |
velitation | a petty fight; a skirmish (B) |
velleity | slight or faint desire; inclination (B) |
vellicate | to pull at off |
venery | the pursuit of sexual pleasure or indulgence |
ventoseness | windiness; flatulence (B) |
ventricumbent | lying face down; prone (B) |
ventripotent | fat |
verbigeration | senseless reiteration of cliches (B) |
verbophobia | fear and dislike of words (B) |
verecund | bashful; modest (B) |
veriloquent | speaking truthfully (B) |
verism | the theory that ugliness is valid in art and literature |
vernalagnia | spring fever (B) |
vesticate | to blister (G) |
vestryism (n~) | selfishness and parochialism said to be |
viaggiatory | on the move; traveling around (B) |
vicissitudinary | pertaining to change alteration |
vigesimation | killing every twentieth person (B) |
vilipend | to belittle to disparage (B) |
viparious | life |
virago | a scold a shrew |
vitilitigate | to be particularly quarrelsome (B) |
vivisepulture | live burial (B) |
volitient | exercising free will (B) |
vomituration | retching ineffectual vomiting |
vulpinism (n~) | the quality of being foxlike esp |
waghalter | a rogue rascal or knave (B) |
wamble | to fell nauseous; or to move unsteadily to stagger; |
wampus | a stupid dull |
wantwit | a fool (B) |
Weltanschauung | a comprehensive world view especially from |
Weltschmerz | sadness over the evils of the world especially as |
wergild | money paid by the killer's family to the family of |
withernam | taking one thing as reprisal for something else taken |
witzelsucht | emotional state characterized by futile attempts |
wowser | a pecksniffian puritan (B) |
xenagogue | a guide (B) |
xenagogy | a guidebook (B) |
xenapistia | extreme distrust of strangers (B) |
xenoepist | someone who speaks with a foreign accent (B) |
xenomancy | fortunetelling by studying the first stranger |
xeronisus | inability to reach orgasm (B) |
xylophobia | fear of wooden objects; fear of forests (B) |
xyresic | razor sharp (B) |
yarmouth | insane (B) |
ydromancy | fortunetelling with water (B) |
zeitgeist | the general intellectual moral and cultural level |
zetetic | asking; questioning (B) |
zoanthropy | insanity in which a patient believes he's an animal (B) |
zoetic | pertaining to life (B) |
zoilism | nagging criticism (B) |
zonesthesia | the feeling of wearing a tight girdle (B) |
zooerastia | sexual intercourse with an animal (B) |
zygal | H |
zygomancy | fortune telling with weights (B) |
longanimity (n~) | silent suffering while planning revenge (B) |
longinquity (n~) | remoteness (B) |
longueur (n~) | a long and tedious section of a book play |
loquaciousness (n~) | extreme talkativenss; garrulousness (W) |
lost positives | whimsically coined or archaic words of which only |
lovertine (adj~) | addicted to love |
loxotic (adj~) | slanting distorted (B) |
lubricity (n~) | the condition of being uncertain or unstable or |
luciferous (adj~) | illuminating literally and figuratively (B) |
lucriferous (adj~) | profitable lucrative (B) |
lucripetous (adj~) | money hungry (B) |
luctation (n~) | a struggle for success (B) |
luctiferous (adj~) | sad and sorry (B) |
lucubration (n~) | to burn the midnight oil; suggesting pretentious |
luculent (adj~) | readily understood; clear; lucid (G) |
lucus a non lucendo | an absurd word derivation; illogical explanation |
ludibrious (adj~) | ludicrous; making fun of (B) |
ludibundness (n~) | playfulness (B) |
ludicropathetic (adj~) | ludicrous and pathetic (B) |
ludification (n~) | deriding (B) |
luftmensch (n~) | someone with his head in the clouds |
lupanariam (n~) | lubricious lascivious |
lurgulary (n~) | the act of poisoning water (B) |
lutarious (adj~) | pertaining to living in |
lycanthropy (n~) | insanity in which the patient thinks he's |
lygophilia (n~) | love of darkness (B) |
lymacatexis (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with dirt (B) |
lypophrenia (n~) | a vague feeling of sadness seemingly |
lyssophobia (n~) | fear of becoming mad (B) |
macarize (v~) | to make happy; to praise (B) |
macerate (v~) | to oppress; torment (B) |
macilent (adj~) | lean; thin (B) |
macrobian (adj~) | long |
macrology (n~) | excessive or repititious words or phrases (W) |
macromastic (adj~) | pertaining to large breasts (B) |
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macrosmatic (adj~) | having a supersensitive nose (B) |
macrosomatous (adj~) | having an abnormally large body (B) |
macrotous (adj~) | having large ears (G) |
mactation (n~) | sacrificial murder (B) |
maculate (adj~) | defiled; impure (G) |
madefy (v~) to wet (B) | |
magniloquence (n~) | grandly high |
maieusiophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of childbirth |
maieutic (adj~) | of the Socratic method of bringing into full |
mala fide | in bad faith: falsely deceitfully |
malacissation (n~) | the process of making something soft and |
malacodermous (adj~) | soft |
malapert (n~) | impudent outspoken |
maliferous (adj~) | producing evil; unhealthy as a climate (B) |
malism (n~) | the theory that the world is mostly bad (B) |
malneirophrenia (n~) | depress following a nightmare (B) |
malnoia (n~) | a vague feeling of mental discomfort (B) |
mammothrept (n~) | a spoiled child (B) |
mancinism (n~) | left |
mangonize (v~) | to traffic in slaves (B) |
mania | a |
maniaphobia (n~) | fear of insanity (B) |
manipulandum (n~) | something that is to be manipulated (B) |
mansuetude (n~) | tameness gentleness |
mantology (n~) | fortunetelling; a fortuneteller (B) |
manubiary (ad~) | relating to the spoils of war (B) |
manumission (n~) | formal liberation of a slave (B) |
manustupration (n~) | masturbation (B) |
maquillage (n~) | make |
marasmic (adj~) | of the gradual loss of flesh and strength; of a wasting |
marcescent (adj~) | withered decayed |
margaritaceous (adj~) | pearly (B) |
maritodespotism (n~) | ruthless domination by a husband (B) |
marlish (adj~) | easygoing (B) |
marlock (v~) | to cavort frolic (B) |
maschalephidrosis (n~) | massive sweating of the armpits (B) |
mastigophobia (n~) | fear of punishment (B) |
mastigophoric (adj~) | whip |
mataeology (n~) | useless of pointless discourse; worthless |
mataeotechny (n~) | an unprofitable science or art (B) |
matripotestal (adj~) | pertaining to maternal control (B) |
mattoid (n~) | a congenitally insane person (B) |
matutolagnia (n~) | antemerdian sexual desire (B) |
matutolypea (n~) | getting up on the wrong side of the bed (B) |
maumetry (n~) | idolatry (B) |
mauvaise plaisanterie | an inappropriate or badly timed joke (W) |
mawkish (adj~) | characterized by sickly weak sentimentality (G) |
mazomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by a nursing baby (B) |
mazophilous (adj~) | pertaining to mammary mania (B) |
meable (adj~) | capable of being easily penetrated (B) |
meacock (n~) | an effeminate or cowardly man (B) |
meadophily (n~) | study of beer bottle labels |
mechanomorphism (n~) | the doctrine that the universe is fully |
meconology (n~) | the study of opium and its effects (B) |
meconophagism (n~) | opium addiction (B) |
medicaster (n~) | a medical quack (B) |
megacephalous (adj~) | having a large head (B) |
megalonisus (n~) | a tendency to exaggerate (B) |
megalophobia (n~) | fear of large things (B) |
megalopsychy (n~) | generosity of spirit or magnanamity |
melioration (n~) | an elevation or bettering: in language a hitherto |
melliloquence (n~) | euphonious speech; sweet talk (W) |
melissophobia (n~) | fear of bees (B) |
melomaniac (n~) | a music lover (B) |
mempsis | an impassioned but somewhat caustic supplication in which |
menacme (n~) | the menstruating part of a woman's life (B) |
mendaciloquence (n~) | lying as a fine art; adroit prevarication (W) |
menticide (n~) | brainwashing (B) |
mentimutation (n~) | change of mind (B) |
mentulate (adj~) | well hung (B) |
mephitic | bad |
meracious (adj~) | unadulterated full |
meraculous (adj~) | demi |
merdivorous (adj~) | eating dung (B) |
merism (n~) | a pairing of contrasted terms to express a totality |
merkin (n~) | female genitalia; or false pubic hair (B) |
merulator (n~) | a wine |
metagnostic (adj~) | unknowable (B) |
metagrobolize (v~) | the mystify (B) |
metempsychosis (n~) | alleged transmigration of souls (B) |
metheglin (n~) | mead (B) |
metonymy (n~) | the figurative or symbolic use of the name of one |
metoposcopy (n~) | judging character by studying the face (B) |
metromania (n~) | a mania for writing verse (B) |
miasmatic (adj~) | noxious contagious |
microcephalous (adj~) | small |
microlipet (n~) | someone bothered by trifles (B) |
micrology (n~) | excessive attention to or discussion of details or |
micturition (n~) | need for frequent urination (B) |
midden (n~) | a dunghill (B) |
migniard (adj~) | dainty delicate; mincing (B) |
militaster (n~) | an insignificant military man (B) |
minatory (adj~) | portending punishment; threatening; menacing (G) |
minauderie (n~) | coquetry (B) |
minimifidianism (n~) | having almost no faith or belief (B) |
minimus (n~) | a tiny creature (B) |
mirabile dictu | wonderful to relate (W) |
misandry (n~) | dislike of men (B) |
misanthropy (n~) | hatred of mankind |
misapodysis (n~) | hatred of undressing in front of someone (B) |
misarchist (n~) | a person who hates authority (B) |
miserabile dictu | miserable to relate (W) |
miserotia (n~) | aversion to sex (B) |
misocainia (n~) | hatred of anything new or strange such as |
misocanpnist (n~) | a hater of tobacco smoke (B) |
misodoctakleidist (n~) | one who hates to practice the piano (B) |
misology (n~) | hatred of logical discussion or reason (W) |
misoneism (n~) | hatred of new things (B) |
misopedia (n~) | hatred of children esp |
misopolemiac (n~) | a war |
misoscopist (n~) | a hater of beauty; a recluse (B) |
misosophy (n~) | hatred of wisdom (B) |
misotramontanism (n~) | a hatred of the unknown (B) |
misoxeny (n~) | hatred of strangers (B) |
mithridatism (n~) | immunity to poison achieved by taking |
moanworthy (adj~) | lamentable pitiful (B) |
mogigraphia (n~) | writers' cramp (B) |
moliminous (adj~) | massive; momentous (B) |
moloch (n~) | a system or method that requires frightful sacrifice (G) |
molysmophobia (n~) | fear of dirt or contamination (B) |
mome (n~) | a crashing bore; a buffoon (B) |
monorchid (adj~) | having one testicle (B) |
mordacious (adj~) | biting acrid |
mordant (adj~) | biting; caustic; cutting; sarcastic (G) |
morigerous (adj~) | obedient; obsequious (B) |
morology (n~) | deliberate nonsense of foolishness for effect (W) |
mot juste | the perfect fitting word or phrase; precisely apt |
mot propre | the correct or necessary word (W) |
motatorious (adj~) | constantly active (B) |
motitation (n~) | a quivering moment (B) |
mulct (v~) | to punish by means of a fine (G) |
mulierose (adj~) | extremely fond of women (B) |
multum in parvo | much in little: containing or suggesting much in |
mumpsimus (n~) | an erroneous word or spelling that through long |
mundivagant (n~) | wandering over the world (B) |
musard (n~) | an absentminded dreamer or fool (B) |
mutatis mutandis | the (necessary) changes having been made or the |
mycterism (n~) | derision or sarcasm that is somewhat veiled; subtle |
myrmidon (n~) | a blindly loyal though unscrupulous |
mythomania (n~) | compulsively telling lies and believing them (B) |
nanism (n~) | dwarfishness (B) |
naology (n~) | the study of holy buildings (B) |
naprapathy (n~) | the manipulation of strained ligaments i the |
nates (n~) | the buttocks (B) |
nattering (adj~) | grumbling fault |
naufragous (adj~) | causing shipwrecks (B) |
neanilagnia (n~) | a yen for nymphets (B) |
neanimorphism (n~) | looking younger than one's years (B) |
nebulaphobia (n~) | fear of fog (B) |
nebulochaotic (adj~) | chaotic confused (B) |
necromimesis (n~) | feigning death; the delusion of being dead (B) |
necyomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by summoning lucifer (B) |
nefandous (adj~) | unmentionable unspeakable (B) |
nefast (adj~) | wicked (B) |
nelipot (n~) | someone going barefoot (B) |
nemophilous (adj~) | loving the forest (B) |
neocracy (n~) | government by tyros (B) |
neologism (n~) | a newly coined word or phrase or a novel expression |
neomnesia (n~) | good memory for recent events (B) |
nephalism (n~) | teetotalism (B) |
nepheligenous (adj~) | producing clouds of tobacco smoke (B) |
neoteny (n~) | retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult |
nepotation (n~) | riotous living (B) |
nervus probandi | the strong point of the proving: crux of the |
nescient (adj~) | uneducated unaware |
nettling (v~) | to irritate; vex; annoy (G) |
nictitate (v~) | to wink (G) |
nidorous (adj~) | smelling like burning or decaying animal matter (B) |
nihil ad rem | nothing to the matter: irrelevant (W) |
nihil obstat | nothing stands in the way: in Roman Catholocism |
nikhedonia (n~) | pleasure derived from anticipating success (B) |
nimgimmer (n~) | a doctor who cures the clap (British slang) (B) |
nimiety (n~) | excess redundancy |
nimious (adj~) | extravagant (B) |
nimptopsical (adj~) | drunk (B) |
nimshy (n~) | a silly ass (B) |
nipperkin (n~) | amount of liquor roughly equivalent to a half pint (B) |
nippitatum (n~) | exceptionally good and strong ale (B) |
noctivagation (n~) | wandering around at night (B) |
non est disputandum | it is not to be disputed (W) |
non possumus | a statement of inability to do something (W) |
nostrificate (v~) | to accept as one's own (B) |
nothosonomia (n~) | calling someone a bastard (W) |
noumenon (n~) | an object implied by intuition rather than evidence |
nuchal (adj~) | of the nape of the neck (G) |
nudis verbis | in naked words (W) |
nudiustertian (adj~) | pertaining to the day before yesterday (B) |
nugatory (adj~) | worthless trifling |
nullifidian (adj~) | skeptical (B) |
nulliparous (adj~) | pertaining to a woman who has never foaled (B) |
numbles (n~) | edible deer innards (B) |
nummamorous (adj~) | money |
nuncupate (v~) | to declare orally (B) |
nychthemeron (n~) | a twenty |
nympholepsy (n~) | trance incurred by erotic daydreams (B) |
obumbration (n~) | the act or process of darkening or obscuring |
obambulate (v~) | to walk about wander (B) |
obdormition (n~) | numbness caused by pressure on a nerve (B) |
obduracy (n~) | being obstinate or hardhearted |
obganiate (v~) | to irritate with reiteration (B) |
objurgation (n~) | an earnest denunciation rebuke |
oblatrate (n~) | to snarl at inveigh against (B) |
oblectation (n~) | delight pleasure (B) |
oblocution | interruption (A) |
obloquy (n~) | the state of bad repute borne by one being harshly |
obnubilation (n~) | beclouding or obscuring; obfuscation (W) |
obreption (n~) | creeping up on (B) |
obsecrations (n~) | entreaties (A) |
obscurum per obscurius | explaining the obscure by means of the |
obsolagnium (n~) | waning sexual desire due to age (B) |
obstrobogulous (adj~) | a vehement oath of expansive meaning (G) |
obtund (adj~) | serving to blunt dull or deaden (G) |
ochlocracy (n~) | mob rule (B) |
odium aestheticum | the bitterness of aesthetical controversy (W) |
odium scholasticum | acrimony between scholars or pedants; academic |
odium theologicum | bitter hatred between rival theologians (W) |
oeillade (n~) | an ogle a flirtatious glance (B) |
oikofugic (n~) | obsessive wandering (B) |
oikonisus (n~) | urge to start a family (B) |
olamic (adj~) | infinite eternal (B) |
olet lucernam | it smells of the lamp: describing something written |
oligophrenia (n~) | feeble |
olisbos (n~) | a dildo (B) |
omadhaun (n~) | an idiot fool (B) |
ombibulous (adj~) | drinking everything (B) |
omnilegent (adj~) | reading or having read everything; having |
omphalomancy (n~) | predicting the number of children a mother will |
omphalopsychites (n~) | term for literary Anglophiles who wish American |
omphaloskepsis (n~) | contemplation of the navel for the purpose of |
oneirataxia (n~) | inability to distinguish between fantasy and |
oneiric (adj~) | having to do with dreams (E G) |
oniochalasia (n~) | buying as a means of mental relaxation (B) |
onolatry (n~) | ass |
onomastic (adj~) | pertaining to a proper name or names (W) |
onomatomania (n~) | preoccupation with words and names (B) |
onomatophobia (n~) | fear of hearing a certain word (B) |
onomatopoeia (n~) | the forming of or use of a word that imitates in |
onus probandi | the burden of proof (W) |
operose (adj~) | involving much labor; laborious (G) |
ophelimity (n~) | the ability to please sexually (B) |
oppugnant (adj~) | opposing; antagonistic; contrary (G) |
ophthalmophobia (n~) | fear of being stared at (B) |
opiparous (adj~) | sumptuous (B) |
oppilations (n~) | obstructions (A) |
opsablepsia (n~) | not looking into another's eyes (B) |
opuscule (n~) | a minor composition or work (W) |
oratio obliqua | indirect speech: reported speech or relating |
oratio recta | straight speech: actual or direct speech (W) |
orchidectomy (n~) | castration (B) |
ore rotundo | with a round mouth: eloquently with considered |
orgulous (adj~) | proud and haughty; swelling (G) |
orismology (n~) | the science of defining or explaining technical |
otiose | futile functionless |
oubliette (n~) | a secret place of imprisonment usually with |
outrecuidance (n~) | egomania; gross conceit (B) |
overweening | excessively proud; arrogant; conceited; or |
oxythymous (adj~) | quick |
pachycephalic (adj~) | thick |
pageism (n~) | masochism fantasy of a man imagining himself as |
pagophagia (n~) | eating a tray of ice daily for two months to |
paideutics (n~) | pedagogy (B) |
paizogony (n~) | love play (B) |
paleomnesia (n~) | good memory for events of the far past (B) |
palimpsest (n~) | a piece of parchment or vellum from which |
palinode (n~) | a song or poem retracting statements in previous |
palinoia (n~) | compulsive repitition of an act until it's |
palladian (adj~) | pertaining to learning and wisdom (B) |
palliards (n~) | professional beggars whose parents were also |
palpebrate (v~) | to wink (B) |
paltripolitan (n~) | an insular city dweller (B) |
pandiculation (n~) | stretching and yawning (B) |
panjandrum | a self |
pannychous (adj~) | lasting all night (B) |
pantagruelian (adj~) | satirical though ribald (B) |
pantaraxia (n~) | actions aimed aat keeping people on their toes |
pantophobia (n~) | a fear of everything (B) |
paphian | pertaining to love especially its sexual and |
paracoita (n~) | a female sexual partner (B) |
paracoitus (n~) | a male sexual partner (B) |
paradiastole (n~) | a euphemistic half |
paraenetic | advisory; hortatory (G) |
paralepsis (n~) | mentioning something by saying you won't mention it (B) |
paralipomena (n~) | deleted passages from a book or a |
paralipophobia (n~) | fear of responsibility (B) |
paralogism (n~) | reasoning method that contradicts logical |
parerethesis (n~) | abnormal excitement (B) |
pareunia (n~) | sexual intercourse (B) |
parisology (n~) | deliberate ambiguity in use of words (B) |
parnel (n~) | a priest's mistress; a loose woman (B) |
paronomasia (n~) | punning; a pun (B) |
parorexia (n~) | perverted appetite; demanding strange foods (B) |
parrhesia (n~) | freedom of speech (rhetoric term) (B) |
partheniad (n~) | a poem in honor of a virgin (B) |
parthenolatry (n~) | virgin worship (B) |
parvanimity (n~) | pettiness; meannes; or a mean or petty person (B) |
parvenu (n~) | a pretentious snob of the nouveau riche (B) |
parviscient (adj~) | uninformed (B) |
pasilaly (n~) | a universal language (B) |
pasquinade | a lampoon or satire posted in a public place (G) |
passalorynchite (n~) | a member of an early Christian sect who |
passepartout (n~) | a master key; a safeconduct or passport (B) |
patavinity (n~) | the use of local words or expressions (B) |
patharmosis (n~) | mental adjustment to one's disease (B) |
pathic (n~) | a catamite; or a passive participator (B) |
pathocryptia (n~) | unwillingness to believe in or talk about |
pathodixia (n~) | talking to excess about one's illness and |
pathognomy (n~) | the study of emotions by their outward |
pathomimesis (n~) | malingering (B) |
patzer (n~) | a weak chess player (B) |
pauciloquent (adj~) | speaking briefly (B) |
pavid | quaking with fear; afraid; frightened (G) |
peccable (adj~) | liable to sin (B) |
peccatophobia (n~) | fear of sinning or of having committed an |
peckerwood (n~) | a poor southern Anglo |
pecksniffian (adj~) | hypocritical insincere and gutless (B) |
pecos (v~) | to shoot a man and roll his body in the river (B) |
peculation (n~) | embezzlement (B) |
pedetentous (adj~) | proceedilng gradually or cautiously (B) |
peirastic (adj~) | experimental; ready to be tried (B) |
peladophobia (n~) | fear of baldness |
pelology (n~) | study of mud and its therapeutic applications (B) |
penelopize (v~) | to undo and redo to gain time (B) |
penisterophily (n~) | raising and training pigeons |
penotherapy (n~) | regulating prostitutes to control venereal |
pentapopemptic (n~) | divorced five times (B) |
pentheraphobia (n~) | fear or dislike of one's mother |
peotomy (n~) | the surgical amputation of the penis (B) |
perduellion (n~) | treason (B) |
perendinate (n~) | to postpone until the next day; to postpone |
perfectibilism (n~) | belief that anything short of perfect is |
perfrication (n~) | thorough rubbing (B) |
perhiemate (v~) | to spend the winter (B) |
perichareia (n~) | excessive and violent rejoicing (B) |
periclitate | to expose to peril; endanger; risk (G) |
perissotomist (n~) | a knife |
peristrephic (adj~) | turning around rotatory (B) |
perlustrate (v~) | to review thoroughly; survey (B) |
pervicacious (adj~) | extremely obstinate; willful (B) |
pervulgate (v~) | to publish (B) |
petalism (n~) | banishing a citizen for five years if judged |
pettifoggery | quibbling over petty details |
petulcous (adj~) | butting like a ram; offensively aggressive (B) |
phagomania (n~) | insanely hungry (B) |
phalacrespia (n~) | aversion for baldness or for bald men (B) |
phalacrosis (n~) | baldness |
phallation (n~) | movement of the penis in sexual intercourse (B) |
phaneromania (n~) | a compulsion to pick at a skin growth or |
pharisaical | of persons of rigid adherence to outward forms and |
phatic | establishing an atmosphere of sociability rather than |
philalethe (n~) | one who loves to forget (B) |
philauty (n~) | self |
philematology (n~) | the study of kissing (B) |
philematophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes kissing (B) |
philobiblist (n~) | a lover of books |
philocalist (n~) | a lover of beauty (B) |
philodox (n~) | one who loves one's own opinions (B) |
philogastric (adj~) | greedy (B) |
philophobia (n~) | fear of falling in love or of being loved (B) |
philopolemic (adj~) | pertaining to love of argument or |
philopornist (n~) | a lover of prostitutes (B) |
philosophastering (adj~) | pseudo |
philotheoparoptesism | the process of slowly cooking those who |
philoxenist (n~) | one who is happiest while entertaining |
phrontifugic (adj~) | relieving anxiety (B) |
physagogue (n~) | carminative or medicine to induce farting (B) |
piacular | serving to atone or make amends for; expiatory; or |
pickthank (n~) | a flatterer or sycophant (B) |
piliferous | having hair (G) |
piloerection (n~) | hair standing on end (B) |
pilpulist (n~) | one who uses Talmudic dialectic or via |
pinchbeck | sham or spurious; false (G) |
pinguescent | becoming fat (G) |
pithiatism (n~) | a forceful suggestion (B) |
pizzle (n~) | a whip made from an animal's penis (B) |
planistethic (adj~) | flat |
planomania (n~) | urge to live a bohemian life (B) |
platitudinarian (n~) | full of platitudes (B) |
platypod | one afflicted with fallen arches (G) |
plebicolist (n~) | someone who woos the common folk (B) |
pleionosis (n~) | exaggeration of one's own importance (B) |
pleniloquence (n~) | excessive talking (B) |
pleonastic | use of words superfluously; redundant (G) |
pleonexia (n~) | covetousness avarice; mania for acquiring |
plerophory (n~) | state of full confidence or absolute certainty |
pococurante (adj~) | nonchalant indifferent (B) |
poculation (n~) | wine |
podobromhidrosis (n~) | smelly feet (B) |
poecilonymy (n~) | the use of several names for one thing (B) |
pogonology (n~) | treatise on beards |
pogonophobia (n~) | abnormal fear or dislike of beards |
poiesis (n~) | creation; creative power or ability (B) |
poikilothymia (n~) | extreme changes of mood (B) |
polychrestic | serving and adapted for several different uses (G) |
polyhistor (n~) | a universal scholar (B) |
polylogy (n~) | wordiness (B) |
polydipsia (n~) | extreme thirst or an abnormal and continuous |
popination (n~) | bar |
popliteal | pertaining to or connected with the hollow area back |
pornerastic (adj~) | licentious lascivious |
pornolagnia (n~) | desire for prostitutes (B) |
potvaliant | valiant and courageous as a result of being drunk |
preantepenultimate (n~ & adj~) | fourth from last (B) |
preterist (n~) | someone whose main pleasure in in reliving the |
priapean (adj~) | phallic (B) |
priapism (n~) | persistent and painful erection (B) |
procrustean | aiming or tending to produce uniformity by violent |
proctalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B) |
proditorious (adj~) | traitorous; prone to give away secrets (B) |
prolepsis (n~) | anticipating an argument and answering it before |
prolix | verbose repititious |
pronovalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse in a prone |
propaedeutic | of or pertaining to preliminary instruction; |
prosonomasia (n~) | use of a humorous modification of a person's |
prosophobia (n~) | fear of or adversion to progress (B) |
prosopolepsy (n~) | judging people favorably from their looks (B) |
prosopopy (n~) | the personification of inanimate objects (B) |
protervity (n~) | petulance; peevishness (B) |
psaphonic (adj~) | planning one's rise to fame (B) |
pseudandry (n~) | female use of a male pseudonym (B) |
pseudautochiria (n~) | murder disguised as a suicide (B) |
pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism (n~) | phony opposition to |
pseudogyny (n~) | male use of a female pseudonym (B) |
pseudologist (n~) | liar (B) |
pseudomnesia (n~) | memory for things that never happened (B) |
pseudophonia (n~) | suicide disguised as murder (B) |
psilology (n~) | empty talk (B) |
psilosopher (n~) | a superficial philosopher (B) |
psittacistic | speaking in a mechanical repetitive way (G) |
psychasthenia (n~) | neurotic lassitude indecision |
pteronophobia (n~) | abnormal fear of feathers |
pudency (n~) | modesty or shyness; embarassment |
puerile | childish immature |
pullulate | teem swarm |
purulent | of containing |
pygophilous (adj~) | buttock |
pyrolagnia (n~) | sexual stimulation from watching fires (B) |
quaintise (n~) | ingenuity cunning; a trick or stratagem (B) |
qued (adj~) | evil bad (B) |
querimony (n~) | a complaint (B) |
quidam (n~) | an unknown person (B) |
quiddity (n~) | the essence or nature of a thing (B) |
quidnunc (n~) | one who is curious to know everything that |
quisquillian (adj~) | trashy (B) |
quisguous (adj~) | perplexing (B) |
quodlibet (n~) | a nice or fine point in an argument; a subtlety |
quodlibetarian (n~) | one who discusses or uses quodlibets |
rabiator (n~) | a violent man (B) |
rabulism (n~) | tendency for railing and quibbling |
rackrent (n~) | exorbitant rent (B) |
rakehelly (adj~) | dissolute debauched (B) |
ramfeezled (adj~) | worn out exhausted (B) |
rammish (adj~) | lustful and horny (B) |
ranarium (n~) | frog farm (B) |
randle (n~) | a nonsensical poem recited by Irish schoolboys as |
rantallion (n~) | one whose scrotum is longer than his penis (B) |
rantipole (n~) | a wild rambunctious young man (B) |
realpolitik | practical politics; euphemism for power politics |
rebarbative (adj~) | grim unattractive |
reboantic (adj~) | reverberating (B) |
recension (n~) | scholarly editorial revision (B) |
receptary (adj~) | accepted as fact but unproved (B) |
rectalgia (n~) | a pain in the ass (B) |
rectopathic (adj~) | easily hurt emotionally (B) |
rectrix (n~) | a female ruler (B) |
recubation (n~) | lying down (B) |
recumbentibus (n~) | a knockdown blow (B) |
recusant (adj~) | dissenting; disestablishmentarian (B) |
redargution (n~) | refutation or disproving (B) |
redhibition (n~) | the return of defective merchandise (B) |
redivivus (adj~) | living again; revived (B) |
refocillate (v~) | to warm into life again; revive (G) |
refragable (adj~) | capable of being refuted (B) |
refrangible (adj~) | capable of being refracted (B) |
refulgent (adj~) | radiant brilliant |
reify | literally "to make a thing"; given definite concrete |
remontado (n~) | someone who has fled to the mountains; a person |
remplissage (n~) | filling or padding used in music and |
remugient (adj~) | rebellowing; roaring or shouting anew (B) |
renable (adj~) | fluent eloquent (B) |
renard (n~) | a fox; a sly or cunning person (B) |
renascible (adj~) | capable of being reborn (B) |
renifleur (n~) | one who gets sexual pleasure from body smells (B) |
renitent | resisting or opposing stubbornly; recalcitrant (G) |
repristinate (v~) | to revive; to restore (B) |
resipiscent (adj~) | restored to sanity; learned from |
resupination (n~) | turning to an upside |
retrocopulation (n~) | woof (B) |
retromancy (n~) | fortunetelling by things seen over one's |
retromingent (adj~) | urinating backward (B) |
retunded | to weaken or diminish the strength of effect of (G) |
rhabdophobia (n~) | fear of being punished or severely criticized (B) |
rhadamanthine | strictly and inflexibly honest and just (G) |
rhigosis (n~) | sensation of cold (B) |
rhonchisonant (adj~) | snorting; snoring (B) |
rhopalism (n~) | a sentence or poem i which each word is one syllable |
rhyparography | the printing or painting of sordid and filty |
rhytiscopia (n~) | neurotic preoccupation with facial wrinkles (B) |
ribroasting (n~) | a sound beating; a thrashing (B) |
rictus (n~) | a very wide mouth; a gaping mouth as in terror (B) |
risorial (adj~) | pertaining to causing |
rixation (n~) | quarreling (B) |
rodomontade | arrogant boasting; pretentious blustering ranting |
roil | vex; disturb; irritate; rile (G) |
roinous (adj~) | mean nasty and contemptible (B) |
roitelet (n~) | a petty king (B) |
roman a clef (n~) | a novel whose characters are actual people |
rubricism (n~) | tenacious adherence to rules of behavior or |
ructation (n~) | belching (B) |
rudesby (n~) | a loud |
rugose | having wrinkles (G) |
rumgumption (n~) | shrewdness (B) |
runcible (adj~) | sensuous (B) |
sacerdotophrenia (n~) | clerical stagefright (B) |
saltimbanco (n~) | a mountebank a quack (B) |
sanguisugent | bloodsucking; bloodthirsty (G) |
sapidity (n~) | flavorful; tastiness (B) |
saponaceous (adj~) | soapy slippery; or evasively ingratiating (B) |
saprostomous (adj~) | having bad breath (B) |
sardanapalian | luxuriously effeminate (G) |
sardoodledum (n~) | stereotyped or unrealistic characterization |
sarmassation (n~) | love play (B) |
sarmassophobe (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play (B) |
sarmassophobitch (n~) | a woman who dislikes love play with me (B) |
satisdiction (n~) | enough said (B) |
satispassion (n~) | satisfactory suffering according to |
saturnalia | period of unrestrained license and orgiastic |
scacchic | pertaining to or like chess (G) |
scaldabanco (n~) | a hotheaded debator; a fiery preacher (B) |
scaphism (n~) | an old Persian method of executing criminals by |
scaramouch (n~) | a cowardly buffoon (B) |
scaturient (adj~) | gushing forth; effusive (B) |
schadenfreude | a feeling of enjoyment derived from the misfortunes |
schesis (n~) | mocking another's accent or manner (B) |
schizothemia (n~) | digression by a long reminescence (B) |
schmaltz | something stickily sentimental banal |
schoenabatist (n~) | a tightrope walker (B) |
sciamachy (n~) | fighting with a shadow or with an imaginary |
sciapodous (adj~) | having very large feet (B) |
scibile (n~) | something knowable (B) |
sciolist | one who pretends to scholarship or knowledge |
sciotheism (n~) | the belief that disembodied spirits |
scissile (adj~) | capable of being cut smoothly or split |
scofflaw (n~) | one who scoffs at hence |
scolecophagous (adj~) | eating worms (B) |
scollardical (n~) | a derogatory term for a scholar (B) |
scopolagnia (n~) | the pleasure gained from voyeurism (B) |
scortation (n~) | fornication (B) |
scout | reject or dismiss scornfully; flout; scoff at (G) |
screed | a lengthy discourse usually used to describe opinions |
scribacious | given to or fond of writing (G) |
scrofulous | morally corrupt; degenerate (G) |
scungilaginous | of the semifluid gelatinous consistency of |
sebastomania (n~) | religious insanity (B) |
sectary (n~) | a fanatic disciple (B) |
sedentarize | to take up or cause to take up |
sedulous (adj~) | diligent persistent |
seeksorrow (n~) | masochist (B) |
sententious | wordy verbose |
sequacious | given to the slavish or unreasoning serving or |
sermocination (n~) | a speaker quickly answering his own question (B) |
shaconian (n~) | someone convinced that Bacon ghosted Shakespeare's |
shaftsbury (n~) | a gallon jug of wine (B) |
shamateur (n~) | a bogus tyro (B) |
shardborn (adj~) | born in dung (B) |
shilpit (adj~) | feeble puny |
sicarian (n~) | an assassin (B) |
sicchasia (n~) | nauseau (B) |
sicchosism (n~) | morbid fastidiousness (B) |
sibyllilne | oracular; prophetic; mysterious (G) |
siffilate | to whisper (G) |
simony | buying selling |
simper | to smile in a silly self |
skibbile (adj~) | wonderfully witty; sexually irresistible (S) |
skibbalalia (n~) | the overwhelming desire to purchase an |
skoptsy (n~) | self |
skybald (n~) | a good |
smatchet (n~) | a small nasty person or a nasty child (B) |
smellfungus (n~) | a malcontent; a grumbler or fault |
snafu (adj~ & n~) | situation normal all fucked up [also: |
fubar | fucked up beyond all recognition; fubb |
sneckdraw (n~) | a sly person (B) |
snollygoster | a clever shrewd |
sockdolager (n~) | a telling blow (B) |
solatium (n~) | anything that compensates for suffering or loss; |
solifidium (n~) | someone who believes that faith alone is sufficient |
somniloquacious (adj~) | pertaining to talking in one's sleep (B) |
soodle | to walk stroll |
sophomania (n~) | delusion of exceptional intelligence (B) |
sophrosyne (n~) | sober sensible |
sorbile (adj~) | drinkable (B) |
spadonism (n~) | enuchry (B) |
spaneria (n~) | scarcity of men (B) |
spanogyny (n~) | scarcity of woman (B) |
spatiate (v~) | to stroll or ramble (B) |
spatilomancy (n~) | fortunetelling by observing animal droppings (B) |
spatrify (v~) | to besmirch befoul (B) |
spawling | a noisy clearing of the throat (G) |
speciesist | for many people a test is permissible when it inflicts |
spodogenous (adj~) | pertaining to or due to presence of |
spoffokins (n~) | a whore pretending to be a wife (B) |
spousebreach (n~) | adultery (B) |
spraints (n~) | otter dung (B) |
spurcidical (adj~) | foul |
squidgereen (n~) | a short insignificant person (B) |
stagorium | an establishment (bar or resort hotel) that serves as |
stasivalence (n~) | ability to have sexual intercourse only |
steatopygous | pertaining to or characterized by protuberant |
stercoricolous (adj~) | living in dung (B) |
sterculius (n~) | the god of feces (B) |
sternutation | the act of sneezing; a sneeze (G) |
stertorous | characterized by heavy snoring (G) |
sthenobulia (n~) | strong will power (B) |
stirious (adj~) | like an icicle (B) |
stomachous (adj~) | obstinate; angry (B) |
stoopgallant (adj~) | humbling; ego |
strepitous | making a great clamor; noisy; boisterous (G) |
stricture | an adverse criticism or remark censure |
stultiloquence | foolish or senseless talk; babble; twaddle (G) |
stygiophobia (n~) | fear of hell (B) |
stylite (n~) | ascetics who lived on top of pillars (B) |
suaviation (n~) | a love kiss (B) |
subagitation (n~) | copulation (B) |
subarrhation (n~) | betrothal accomplished by the man's showering |
subderisorious (adj~) | mildly ridiculing (B) |
subdititious (adj~) | secret substitution (B) |
subdolous (adj~) | rather crafty or sly (B) |
subintelligitur (n~) | a meaning implied but not stated (B) |
subsannation (n~) | derision (B) |
substaquilate (v~) | to defeat overwhelm (B) |
supernaculum (n~) | a liquor drunk to the last drop; excellent |
supinovalent (adj~) | able to fornicate only while supine (B) |
suppalpation (n~) | gaining affection by caressing (B) |
suspercollate (v~) | to hang by the neck (B) |
sybarite (n~) | someone overly fond of luxury and pleasure (B) |
tachydidaxy (n~) | fast teaching (B) |
talionic (adj~) | pertaining to revenge in kind (B) |
tanquam (n~) | someone educated enough to go to college (B) |
taphephobia (n~) | fear of being buried alive (B) |
tardigrade (adj~) | slow |
tartuffish (adj~) | pertaining to the pious hypocrisy of Tartuffe |
tathagatagarbha (n~) | the eternal and absolute essence of all |
tauromachian (adj~) | pertaining to bullfights (B) |
tautegorical (adj~) | saying the same thing with different |
tautoousious (adj~) | being absolutely the same (B) |
tegetology (n~) | collecting cardboard beer coasters |
teknonymy (n~) | naming the parent after the child (B) |
telestich (n~) | a poem in which the consecutive final letters |
temerarious | reckless; heedless; rash (G) |
temulance (n~) | drunkenness (B) |
tendentious | promoting a particular view or tendency; hence |
tenebrific (adj~) | dark or obscure (B) |
tenesmic (adj~) | pertaining to a painful but ineffectual effort |
tentiginous (adj~) | sensuous lascivious (B) |
teratology (n~) | the study of monsters (B) |
tergiversation (n~) | abandoning a religion or cause (B) or |
testudineous (adj~) | slow like a tortoise (B) |
thalassophobia (n~) | fear of the sea (B) |
thanatism (n~) | the belief in life before death not after it (B) |
thaumaturgic | or or involving the supposed working of miracles; |
theanthropism (n~) | attaching human traits to one's god (B) |
thelymachy (n~) | a war of women (B) |
thelyphthoric (adj~) | that which corrupts women (B) |
thersitical | loud and grossly abusive foulmouthed; scurrilous (G) |
thrasonical | given to or marked by boasting and bragging (G) |
threpterophilia (n~) | a fondness for female nurses (B) |
titivate | to make smart; spruce up (G) |
tonguepad (v~) | to scold (B) |
tralatitiously (adv~) | metaphorically; figuratively (B) |
transilient (adj~) | pertaining to abrupt changes (B] |
transmogrification | changes into grotesque or humorous forms |
transude | to pass or ooze through or out as sweat through |
trichoschisticism (n~) | hair |
tripudiation (n~) | the act of dancing |
triskaidekaphobia | fear of the number 13 or Friday the 13th (G) |
triturate | to rub grind |
truckle | to show servility or subservience (G) |
truntlement | trumpery (A) |
tugmutton | a great glutton (A) |
tussicated | driven about; tormented (A) |
typomania (n~) | obsession with the expectation of publication |
tyromancy (n~) | fortunate telling by watching cheese as it |
tyrosemiophily (n~) | the collecting of Camembert cheese labels |
uberous | fruitful (A) |
ulotrichous | having wooly or crisply curling hair (G) |
ultracrepidarian | going beyond one's own province; a person who |
unbosom | to disclose one's personal thoughts or feelings (G) |
vade mecum | a favorite book carried everywhere (B) |
valetudinarianism | weak or sickly state; thinking only of |
valorization | government price |
vaniloquence | vain and foolish talk (B) |
vapulate | to beat whip (B) |
varietist | an unorthodox person; or someone who practices |
variorum | pertaining to a literary classic annotated by |
vastation | purification through fire (B) |
vecordious | senseless insane |
velitation | a petty fight; a skirmish (B) |
velleity | slight or faint desire; inclination (B) |
vellicate | to pull at off |
venery | the pursuit of sexual pleasure or indulgence |
ventricumbent | lying face down; prone (B) |
ventripotent | fat |
verbigeration | senseless reiteration of cliches (B) |
verbophobia | fear and dislike of words (B) |
verecund | bashful; modest (B) |
veriloquent | speaking truthfully (B) |
verism | the theory that ugliness is valid in art and literature |
vernalagnia | spring fever (B) |
vesticate | to blister (G) |
vestryism (n~) | selfishness and parochialism said to be |
viaggiatory | on the move; traveling around (B) |
vicissitudinary | pertaining to change alteration |
vigesimation | killing every twentieth person (B) |
vilipend | to belittle to disparage (B) |
viparious | life |
vitilitigate | to be particularly quarrelsome (B) |
vivisepulture | live burial (B) |
volitient | exercising free will (B) |
vomituration | retching ineffectual vomiting |
vulpinism (n~) | the quality of being foxlike esp |
waghalter | a rogue rascal or knave (B) |
wamble | to fell nauseous; or to move unsteadily to stagger; |
wampus | a stupid dull |
wantwit | a fool (B) |
Weltanschauung | a comprehensive world view especially from |
Weltschmerz | sadness over the evils of the world especially as |
wergild | money paid by the killer's family to the family of |
withernam | taking one thing as reprisal for something else taken |
witzelsucht | emotional state characterized by futile attempts |
wowser | a pecksniffian puritan (B) |
xenagogue | a guide (B) |
xenagogy | a guidebook (B) |
xenapistia | extreme distrust of strangers (B) |
xenoepist | someone who speaks with a foreign accent (B) |
xenomancy | fortunetelling by studying the first stranger |
xylophobia | fear of wooden objects; fear of forests (B) |
xyresic | razor sharp (B) |
yarmouth | insane (B) |
ydromancy | fortunetelling with water (B) |
zeitgeist | the general intellectual moral and cultural level |
zetetic | asking; questioning (B) |
zoanthropy | insanity in which a patient believes he's an animal (B) |
zoetic | pertaining to life (B) |
zoilism | nagging criticism (B) |
zygal | H |
zygomancy | fortune telling with weights (B) |
acetabuliform | shaped lika shallow cup or saucer |
acicular | needle-shaped |
Acinaciform | scimitar-shaped |
aciniform | shaped lika berry |
aculeiform | shaped lika thorn |
adeniform | shaped lika gland |
aduncat | shaped lika hook or crook |
aeriform | of thform or shapof gas; gaseous |
aliform | wing-shaped |
allantoid | shaped lika sausag |
amygdaloid | almond-shaped; of, likor pertaining to tonsils |
ancistroid | hook-shaped |
ancoral | of, shaped likor resembling an anchor |
anguiform | shaped lika snak |
anguilliform | shaped likan eel |
ankyroid | hook-shaped |
annodated | shaped likthletter S |
ansat | having a handlor hand-likshap |
apsidal | shaped likan aps |
aquiform | watery; liquid |
araneiform | shaped lika spider |
arborescent | branched; branching; tree-shaped |
arboriform | shaped lika tre |
arcat | bow-shaped |
arciform | shaped lika bow |
arcuat | arched; bow-shaped |
arietinous | shaped lika ram's head |
aspergilliform | shaped lika brush |
aspidat | shield-shaped |
auriform | shaped likan ear |
aveniform | shaped likoats |
axiniform | shaped likan axe-head |
bacciform | shaped lika berry |
baculiform | rod-shaped |
balanoid | acorn-shaped |
belemnoid | shaped lika dart |
beloid | shaped likan arrow |
belonoid | shaped lika needl |
boniform | having thform of good |
boviform | cow-shaped |
branchiform | gill-shaped |
buccinal | shaped or sounding lika trumpet |
bufoniform | shaped lika toad |
bulliform | shaped lika blister or boil |
bursiform | shaped lika pouch or purs |
calathiform | cup-shaped |
calcariform | spur-shaped |
calceiform | shaped lika slipper |
calciform | pebble-shaped |
campaniform | bell-shaped |
campanulat | shaped lika bell |
cancriform | shaped lika crab |
cannular | hollow or tube-shaped |
capriform | goatlik |
cardioid | heart-shaped |
carinated | shaped likthprow or keel of a ship |
cariniform | keel-shaped |
cassideous | helmet-shaped |
caudiform | tail-like; tail-shaped |
cauliform | shaped likor resembling a stem |
ceratoid | shaped lika horn; horny |
cheliform | shaped lika pincer |
choanoid | shaped lika funnel |
cingular | shaped lika girdlor ring |
circinat | |
clathrat | shaped lika net or lattic |
clavat | |
claviform | in thshapof a club |
clithridiat | shaped lika keyhol |
clypeat | shaped lika buckler |
cochlear | anything spiral-shaped; twisted spirally |
coliform | resembling or shaped lika siev |
colliform | shaped likor resembling a neck |
colubriform | shaped lika snak |
conchiform | shaped lika shell |
conglobat | shaped lika small ball or glob |
coracoid | shaped lika crow's beak |
cordat | |
cordiform | heart-shaped |
corniculat | horn-shaped; horned |
corniform | shaped lika horn |
coronoid | shaped lika beak |
corviform | shaped lika crow |
cotyliform | disc-shaped with a raised rim |
crateriform | cup-shaped |
cribriform | shaped lika siev |
cricoid | ring-shaped |
cruciform | cross-shaped |
cteniform | comb-shaped |
cubiform | shaped lika cub |
cucullat | hooded; hood-shaped |
cucumiform | cucumber-shaped |
culiciform | likor resembling a mosquito |
cultriform | knife-shaped |
cumuliform | shaped lika heap |
cuneat | wedge-shaped |
cuneiform | shaped lika wedg |
cupulat | of, likor pertaining to a cup; cup-shaped |
cyathiform | shaped lika cup |
cymbiform | shaped lika boat |
deiform | appearing likor shaped lika god |
deltoid | shaped lika delta or triangl |
dendriform | shaped lika tre |
dendritiform | branched |
dentiform | shaped lika tooth |
digitiform | shaped lika finger |
disciform | round or oval in shap |
dolabriform | resembling a hatchet or cleaver |
dolioform | shaped lika barrel |
draconiform | shaped lika dragon |
drepaniform | shaped lika sickl |
echinuliform | resembling small spines |
embryoniform | shaped likan embryo |
ensiform | resembling or possessing characteristics of a sword |
eruciform | likor resembling a caterpillar |
fabiform | shaped lika bean |
falciform | shaped lika sickl |
faviform | shaped lika honeycomb |
feliform | having a catlikform or shap |
fibriform | shaped lika fibr |
fibrilliform | shaped lika small fibr |
ficiform | shaped lika fig |
filiciform | shaped lika fern or frond |
filiform | shaped lika thread |
fistuliform | shaped lika pip |
flabelliform | shaped lika fan |
flagelliform | shaped lika whip |
floriform | shaped lika flower |
foliform | shaped lika leaf |
forcipiform | shaped likforceps |
foveiform | shaped lika depression or pit |
fringilliform | resembling a finch |
fucoid | shaped likseaweed |
fulciform | shaped likor resembling a prop |
fundiform | shaped lika sling |
fungiform | shaped lika fungus |
furcular | shaped lika fork |
fusiform | shaped lika spindl |
galeated | shaped lika helmet |
galeiform | shaped lika helmet |
gasiform | of thform or shapof gas |
geminiform | paired; doubl |
gladiat | |
glandiform | gland-shaped; acorn-shaped |
glenoid | slightly cupped; socket-shaped |
gliriform | resembling a rodent |
guttiform | shaped lika drop |
hamiform shaped lika hook | |
harengiform | shaped lika herring |
hastat | spear-shaped |
hederiform | shaped likivy |
helicoid | screw-shaped; lika coil |
helminthoid | worm-shaped |
herpetiform | resembling or shaped lika reptil |
hippocrepian | horseshoe-shaped |
hippocrepiform shaped lika horsesho | |
homaloidal | of thnaturof a plane; flat; plane-shaped |
hominiform | shaped lika human |
hordeiform | shaped lika barleycorn |
hyoid | having a "U" shap |
hypsiloid | shaped likthGreek letter upsilon |
ichthyomorphic | shaped lika fish |
igniform | having thshapor form of fir |
infundibuliform | having thform or shapof a funnel or con |
janiform | having two faces |
lacertiform | shaped lika lizard |
lachrymiform | shaped lika tear |
laciniform | shaped lika fring |
lageniform | shaped lika flask |
lambdoid | shaped likthletter lambda (^) or “L” |
lamelliform | shaped lika plator layer |
lanceolat | shaped lika lance-head |
lanciform | shaped lika lanc |
lapilliform | shaped lika small ston |
lentiform | shaped lika lens |
leporiform | resembling or shaped lika har |
libriform | shaped lika book |
ligniform | of thform or shapof wood |
ligulat | resembling or shaped lika strap |
limaciform | slug-lik |
linguiform | shaped lika tongu |
lobular | shaped lika lob |
luciform | liklight |
lumbriciform | shaped lika worm; worm-lik |
lunat | crescent-shaped |
lunulat | shaped lika small crescent |
lupiform | shaped lika wolf |
lyrat | lyre-shaped |
malleiform | shaped lika hammer |
mammiform | shaped lika breast |
mammiliform | shaped lika nippl |
Mammos | shaped lika breast |
mandibuliform | shaped lika mandiblor jaw-bon |
maniform | having thshapof a hand |
manubrial | shaped lika handl |
medusiform | resembling a jellyfish |
menisciform | shaped lika crescent |
mitrat | shaped lika mitror bonnet |
mitriform | mitre-shaped |
molariform | shaped lika molar |
moniliform | shaped lika string of beads |
montiform | shaped lika mountain |
morbilliform | likor resembling measles |
moriform | shaped lika mulberry |
mucroniform | like, having or resembling a sharp point |
muriform | resembling a mousor rat |
muscariform | shaped lika brush |
napiform | shaped lika turnip |
nariform | shaped likthnostrils |
nasutiform | shaped lika nos |
natiform | shaped likbuttocks |
navicular | boat-shaped |
naviform | boat-shaped |
nephroid | kidney-shaped |
neuralgiform | likor shaped lika nerv |
nubiform | cloudlik |
nuciform | shaped lika nut |
nummiform | shaped lika coin |
oculiform | shaped likan ey |
olivary | olive-shaped |
oliviform | shaped likan oliv |
omegoid | shaped lika horseshoor omega |
ooidal | egg-shaped |
ophiomorphic | shaped lika snak |
oriform | shaped lika mouth |
ostreiform | shaped likan oyster |
oviform | lika sheep |
oviform | shaped likan oval or egg |
ovopyriform | having a shapbetween a pear and an egg |
palaceous | spade-shaped |
paliform | shaped lika stak |
Palmat | hand-shaped |
pampiniform | lika tendril |
panduriform | fiddle-shaped |
papilliform | nipple-shaped |
paraboliform | shaped lika parabola |
patelliform | shaped lika saucer or kneecap |
pateriform | saucer-shaped |
pectiniform | shaped lika comb |
pediform | shaped lika foot |
pelecoid | shaped lika hatchet; a hatchet-shaped geometrical figur |
peltastiform | shield-shaped |
pelviform | basin-shaped |
pencilliform | paintbrush-shaped |
penniform | feather-shaped |
phacoid | lens-shaped |
phialiform | saucer-shaped |
phylliform | shaped lika leaf |
piciform | of thform or shapof a woodpecker |
piciform | of thnaturof or resembling pitch |
pileated | cap-shaped; crested; capped |
pileiform | shaped likan umbrella |
piliform | shaped likhair |
pineal | shaped lika pine-con |
pinnat | shaped lika feather |
pisciform | shaped lika fish |
pisiform | shaped lika pea |
placentiform | cake-shaped |
plataleiform | spoonbilled; of thshapof a spoonbill |
plexiform | shaped lika network |
poculiform | cup-shaped |
podiform | shaped lika pod |
pomiform | shaped likan appl |
poriform | having thform of a por |
probosciform | shaped lika long nos |
pugioniform | dagger-shaped |
pulvilliform | shaped lika cushion |
punctiform | shaped lika point |
pyrgoidal | tower-shaped |
pyriform | shaped lika pear |
radiciform | lika root |
raduliform | lika rasp or fil |
ramiform | branching; shaped likbranches |
raniform | frog-lik |
remiform | oar-shaped |
reniform | shaped lika kidney |
restiform | shaped lika cord |
retiform | shaped lika net |
rhamphoid | hooked beak shaped |
rhipidat | fan-shaped |
rhomboid | shaped lika parallelogram |
riziform | shaped lika grain of ric |
rostelliform | shaped lika small beak |
ruiniform | having thform or appearancof ruins |
sacciform | shaped lika sac |
sacculiform | shaped lika small sac |
sagittal | shaped likan arrow |
sagittiform | shaped likan arrowhead |
salpiform | shaped lika barrel |
scalariform | shaped lika ladder |
scalpeliform | shaped lika scalpel |
scalpriform | shaped lika chisel |
scaphoid | boat-shaped |
scapiform | shaped lika stalk |
sciuroid | shaped lika squirrel’s tail |
scrotiform | shaped lika pouch |
scutellat | shaped lika platter |
scutiform | shaped lika shield |
scyphiform | shaped lika cup |
securiform | shaped likan ax |
selliform | shaped lika saddl |
semilunat | shaped lika half-moon |
septiform | shaped lika partition |
serratiform | saw-shaped; serriform |
serriform | saw-shaped |
setiform | shaped lika bristl |
sigmat | shaped likan S or a sigma |
sigmoid | S-shaped |
siphoniform | shaped lika siphon |
soleiform | slipper-shaped |
soliform | sun-like; resembling thsun |
spadiceous | shaped lika palm branch |
spatulat | shaped lika spatula |
sphenoid | wedge-shaped |
spicaceous | shaped lika spik |
spiniform | lika thorn or spin |
spiraliform | shaped lika spiral |
squaliform | shaped lika shark |
squamiform | shaped lika scal |
stalactiform | shaped lika stalactitor icicl |
stapediform | shaped lika stirrup |
stellat | star-shaped; starry |
stelliform | shaped lika star |
stipiform | shaped lika stalk |
stirious | shaped likan icicl |
stratiform | layered; forming a layer |
strigiform | shaped likan owl |
strombuliform | shaped lika spinning top; spirally twisted |
struthiform | ostrich-lik |
styliform | shaped lika bristl |
subulat | awl-shaped |
sudiform | shaped lika stak |
sulciform | having thshapof a groov |
taenioid | of a ribbon-likshap |
tauriform | having thform of a bull |
tauromorphous | bull-shaped |
tectiform | shaped lika roof |
theiform | of thform of tea |
toroid | shaped lika doughnut or anchor-ring |
trinacriform | three-pronged |
trochiform | shaped lika spinning-top |
tuberiform | shaped lika lump or protuberanc |
tubiform | shaped lika tub |
turbinat | shaped lika top or inverted con |
turriform | shaped lika tower |
tympaniform | drum-like; shaped lika drum |
umbiliciform | shaped lika navel |
umbraculiform | shaped likan umbrella |
unciform | shaped lika hook |
unguiform | shaped lika claw |
urceiform | shaped lika pitcher |
urceolat | shaped lika pitcher |
ursiform | having thshapor appearancof a bear |
utriculiform | shaped lika small cavity or sac |
utriform | shaped lika leather bottlor flask |
uvelloid | resembling a small cluster of grapes |
variform | of various forms |
vasculiform | shaped lika small vasor flowerpot |
vasiform | shaped lika duct or vas |
vergiform | shaped lika rod |
vermiform | shaped lika worm |
verruciform | shaped lika wart; wartlik |
versiform | changing in form |
villiform | of thform or shape of velvet |
viperiform | shaped lika snakor viper |
vitriform | of thform or shapof glass |
vulviform | shaped likan oval or a vulva |
xiphoid | sword-shaped |
ypsiliform | shaped likan upsilon |
zosteriform | shaped lika girdle |
acarology | study of mites |
accidence | |
aceology | therapeutics |
acology | study of medical remedies |
acoustics | science of sound |
adenology | study of glands |
aedoeology | science of generative organs |
aerobiology | study of airborne organisms |
aerodonetics | science or study of gliding |
aerody | namics |
aerolithology | study of aerolites; meteorites |
aerology | study of the atmosphere |
aeronautics | study of navigation through air or space |
aerophilately | collecting of air-mail stamps |
aerostatics | science of air pressure; art of ballooning |
agonistics | art and theory of prize-fighting |
agriology | the comparative study of primitive peoples |
agrobiology | study of plant nutrition; soil yields |
agrology | study of agricultural soils |
agronomics | study of productivity of land |
agrostology | science or study of grasses |
alethiology | study of truth |
algedonics | science of pleasure and pain |
algology | study of algae |
anaesthesiology | study of anaesthetics |
anaglyptics | art of carving in bas-relief |
anagraphy | art of constructing catalogues |
anatomy | study of the structure of the body |
andragogy | science of teaching adults |
anemology | study of winds |
angelology | study of angels |
angiology | study of blood flow and lymphatic system |
anthropobiology | study of human biology |
anthropology | study of human cultures |
aphnology | science of wealth |
apiology | study of bees |
arachnology | study of spiders |
archaeology | study of human material remains |
archelogy | the study of first principles |
archology | science of the origins of government |
arctophily | study of teddy bears |
areology | study of Mars |
aretaics | the science of virtue |
aristology | the science or art of dining |
arthrology | study of joints |
astacology | the science of crayfish |
astheniology | study of diseases of weakening and aging |
astrogeology | study of extraterrestrial geology |
astrology | study of influence of stars on people |
astrometeorology | study of effect of stars on climate |
astronomy | study of celestial bodies |
astrophysics | study of behaviour of interstellar matter |
astroseismology | study of star oscillations |
atmology | the science of aqueous vapour |
audiology | study of hearing |
autecology | study of ecology of one species |
autology | scientific study of oneself |
auxology | science of growth |
avion | ics |
axiology | the science of the ultimate nature of values |
bacteriology | study of bacteria |
balneology | the science of the therapeutic use of baths |
barody | namics |
barology | study of gravitation |
batology | the study of brambles |
bibliology | study of books |
bibliotics | study of documents to determine authenticity |
bioecology | study of interaction of life in the environment |
biology | study of life |
biometrics | study of biological measurement |
botany | study of plants |
bromatology | study of food |
brontology | scientific study of thunder |
cacogenics | study of racial degeneration |
caliology | study of bird's nests |
calorifics | study of heat |
cambistry | science of international exchange |
campanology | the art of bell ringing |
carcinology | study of crabs and other crustaceans |
cardiology | study of the heart |
caricology | study of sedges |
carpology | study of fruit |
cartography | the science of making maps and globes |
cartophily | the hobby of collecting cigarette cards |
Castrametation | the art of designing a camp |
catacoustics | science of echoes or reflected sounds |
catalactics | science of commercial exchange |
catechectics | the art of teaching by question and answer |
cetology | study of whales and dolphins |
chalcography | the art of engraving on copper or brass |
chalcotriptics | art of taking rubbings from ornamental brasses |
chaology | the study of chaos or chaos theory |
characterology | study of development of character |
chemistry | study of properties of substances |
chirocosmetics | beautifying the hands; art of manicure |
chirography | study of handwriting or penmanship |
chirology | study of the hands |
chiropody | medical science of feet |
chorology | science of the geographic description of anything |
chrematistics | the study of wealth; political economy |
chronobiology | study of biological rhythms |
chrysology | study of precious metals |
ciselure | the art of chasing metal |
climatology | study of climate |
clinology | study of aging or individual decline after maturity |
codicology | study of manuscripts |
coleopterology | study of beetles and weevils |
cometology | study of comets |
conchology | study of shells |
coprology | study of pornography |
cosmetology | study of cosmetics |
cosmology | study of the universe |
craniology | study of the skull |
criminology | study of crime; criminals |
cr | obiology |
cryptology | study of codes |
cryptozoology | study of animals for whose existence there is no conclusive proof |
ctetology | study of the inheritance of acquired characteristics |
cynology | scientific study of dogs |
cytology | study of living cells |
dactyliology | study of rings |
dactylography | the study of fingerprints |
dactylology | study of sign language |
deltiology | the collection and study of picture postcards |
demology | study of human behaviour |
demonology | study of demons |
dendrochronology | study of tree rings |
dendrology | study of trees |
deontology | the theory or study of moral obligation |
dermatoglyphics | the study of skin patterns and fingerprints |
dermatology | study of skin |
desmology | study of ligaments |
diabology | study of devils |
diagraphics | art of making diagrams or drawings |
dialectology | study of dialects |
dioptrics | study of light refraction |
diplomatics | science of deciphering ancient writings and texts |
diplomatology | study of diplomats |
docimology | the art of assaying |
dosiology | the study of doses |
dramaturgy | art of producing and staging dramatic works |
dysgenics | the study of racial degeneration |
dysteleology | study of purposeless organs |
ecclesiology | study of church affairs |
eccrinology | study of excretion |
ecology | study of environment |
economics | study of material wealth |
edaphology | study of soils |
Egyptology | study of ancient Egypt |
ekistics | study of human settlement |
Electrochemistry | study of relations between electricity and chemicals |
electrology | study of electricity |
electrostatics | study of static electricity |
embryology | study of embryos |
emetology | study of vomiting |
emmenology | the study of menstruation |
endemiology | study of local diseases |
endocrinology | study of glands |
enigmatology | study of enigmas |
entomology | study of insects |
entozoology | study of parasites that live inside larger organisms |
enzymology | study of enzymes |
ephebiatrics | branch of medicine dealing with adolescence |
epidemiology | study of diseases; epidemics |
epileptology | study of epilepsy |
epistemology | study of grounds of knowledge |
eremology | study of deserts |
ergology | study of effects of work on humans |
ergonomics | study of people at work |
escapology | study of freeing oneself from constraints |
eschatology | study of death; final matters |
ethnogeny | study of origins of races or ethnic groups |
ethnology | study of cultures |
ethnomethodology | study of everyday communication |
ethnomusicology | study of comparative musical systems |
ethology | study of natural or biological character |
ethonomics | study of economic and ethical principles of a society |
etiology | the science of causes; especially of disease |
etymology | study of origins of words |
euthenics | science concerned with improving living conditions |
exobiology | study of extraterrestrial life |
floristry | the art of cultivating and selling flowers |
fluviology | study of watercourses |
folkloristics | study of folklore and fables |
futurology | study of future |
garbology | study of garbage |
gastroenterology | study of stomach; intestines |
gastronomy | study of fine dining |
gemmology | study of gems and jewels |
genealogy | study of descent of families |
genesiology | study of reproduction and heredity |
genethlialogy | the art of casting horoscopes |
geochemistry | study of chemistry of the earth's crust |
geochronology | study of measuring geological time |
geogeny | science of the formation of the earth's crust |
geogony | study of formation of the earth |
geography | study of surface of the earth and its inhabitants |
geology | study of earth's crust |
geomorphogeny | study of the origins of land forms |
geoponics | study of agriculture |
geotechnics | study of increasing habitability of the earth |
geratology | study of decadence and decay |
gerocomy | study of old age |
gerontology | study of the elderly; aging |
gigantology | study of giants |
glaciology | study of ice ages and glaciation |
glossology | study of language; study of the tongue |
glyptography | the art of engraving on gems |
glyptology | study of gem engravings |
gnomonics | the art of measuring time using sundials |
gnosiology | study of knowledge; philosophy of knowledge |
gnotobiology | study of life in germ-free conditions |
graminology | study of grasses |
grammatology | study of systems of writing |
graphemics | study of systems of representing speech in writing |
graphology | study of handwriting |
gromatics | science of surveying |
gynaecology | study of women’s physiology |
gyrostatics | the study of rotating bodies |
haemataulics | study of movement of blood through blood vessels |
hagiology | study of saints |
halieutics | study of fishing |
hamartiology | study of sin |
harmonics | study of musical acoustics |
hedonics | part of ethics or psychology dealing with pleasure |
helcology | study of ulcers |
heliology | science of the sun |
helioseismology | study of sun's interior by observing its surface oscillations |
helminthology | study of worms |
hematology | study of blood |
heortology | study of religious feasts |
hepatology | study of liver |
heraldry | study of coats of arms |
heresiology | study of heresies |
herpetology | study of reptiles and amphibians |
hierology | science of sacred matters |
hippiatrics | study of diseases of horses |
hippology | the study of horses |
histology | study of the tissues of organisms |
histopathology | study of changes in tissue due to disease |
historiography | study of writing history |
historiology | study of history |
homiletics | the art of preaching |
hoplology | the study of weapons |
horography | art of constructing sundials or clocks |
horology | science of time measurement |
horticulture | study of gardening |
hydrobiology | study of aquatic organisms |
hydrodynamics | study of movement in liquids |
hydrogeology | study of ground water |
hydrography | study of investigating bodies of water |
hydrokinetics | study of motion of fluids |
hydrology | study of water resources |
hydrometeorology | study of atmospheric moisture |
hydropayht | study of treating diseases with water |
hyetology | science of rainfall |
hygiastics | science of health and hygiene |
hygienics | study of sanitation; health |
hygiology | hygienics; study of cleanliness |
hygrology | study of humidity |
hygrometry | science of humidity |
hymnography | study of writing hymns |
hymnology | study of hymns |
hypnology | study of sleep; study of hypnosis |
hypsography | science of measuring heights |
iamatology | study of remedies |
iatrology | treatise or text on medical topics; study of medicine |
iatromathematics | archaic practice of medicine in conjunction with astrology |
ichnography | art of drawing ground plans; a ground plan |
ichnology | science of fossilized footprints |
ichyhtology | study of fish |
iconography | study of drawing symbols |
iconology | study of icons; symbols |
ideogeny | study of origins of ideas |
ideology | science of ideas; system of ideas used to justify behaviour |
idiomology | study of idiom, jargon or dialect |
idiopsychology | psychology of one's own mind |
immunogenetics | study of genetic characteristics of immunity |
immunology | study of immunity |
immunopathology | study of immunity to disease |
insectology | study of insects |
irenology | the study of peace |
iridology | study of the iris; diagnosis of disease based on the iris of the eye |
kalology | study of beauty |
karyology | study of cell nuclei |
kidology | study of kidding |
kinematics | study of motion |
kinesics | study of gestural communication |
kinesiology | study of human movement and posture |
kinetics | study of forces producing or changing motion |
koniology | study of atmospheric pollutants and dust |
ktenology | science of putting people to death |
kymatology | study of wave motion |
labeorphily | collection and study of beer bottle labels |
larithmics | study of population statistics |
laryngology | study of larynx |
lepidopterology | study of butterflies and moths |
leprology | study of leprosy |
lexicology | study of words and their meanings |
lexigraphy | art of definition of words |
lichenology | study of lichens |
limacology | study of slugs |
limnobiology | study of freshwater ecosystems |
limnology | study of bodies of fresh water |
linguistics | study of language |
lithology | study of rocks |
liturgiology | study of liturgical forms and church rituals |
loimology | study of plagues and epidemics |
loxodromy | study of sailing along rhumb-lines |
magirics | art of cookery |
magnanerie art of raising silkworms | |
magnetics | study of magnetism |
malacology | study of molluscs |
malariology | study of malaria |
mammalogy | study of mammals |
Manège | the art of horsemanship |
Mariology | study of the Virgin Mary |
martyrology | study of martyrs |
mastology | study of mammals |
mathematics | study of magnitude, number, and forms |
mazology | mammalogy; study of mammals |
mechanics | study of action of force on bodies |
meconology | study of or treatise concerning opium |
melittology | study of bees |
mereology | study of part-whole relationships |
mesology | ecology |
metallogeny | study of the origin and distribution of metal deposits |
metallography | study of the structure and constitution of metals |
metallurgy | study of alloying and treating metals |
metaphysics | study of principles of nature and thought |
metapolitics | study of politics in theory or abstract |
metapsychology | study of nature of the mind |
meteoritics | the study of meteors |
meteorology | study of weather |
metrics | study of versification |
metrology | science of weights and measures |
microanatomy | study of microscopic tissues |
microbiology | study of microscopic organisms |
microclimatology | study of local climates |
micrology | study or discussion of trivialities |
micropalaeontology | study of microscopic fossils |
microphy | ology |
microscopy | study of minute objects |
mineralogy | study of minerals |
molinology | study of mills and milling |
momilogy | study of mummies |
morphology | study of forms and the development of structures |
muscology | the study of mosses |
museology | the study of museums |
musicology | study of music |
mycology | study of funguses |
myology | study of muscles |
myrmecology | study of ants |
mythology | study of myths; fables; tales |
naology | study of church or temple architecture |
nasology | study of the nose |
nautics | art of navigation |
nematology | the study of nematodes |
neonatology | study of newborn babies |
neossology | study of nestling birds |
nephology | study of clouds |
nephrology | study of the kidneys |
neurobiology | study of anatomy of the nervous system |
neurology | study of nervous system |
neuropsychology | study of relation between brain and behaviour |
neurypnology | study of hypnotism |
neutrosophy | study of the origin and nature of philosophical neutralities |
nidology | study of nests |
nomology | the science of the laws; especially of the mind |
noology | science of the intellect |
nosology | study of diseases |
nostology | study of senility |
notaphily | collecting of bank-notes and cheques |
numerology | study of numbers |
numismatics | study of coins |
nymphology | study of nymphs |
obstetrics | study of midwifery |
oceanography | study of oceans |
oceanology | study of oceans |
odology | science of the hypothetical mystical force of od |
odontology | study of teeth |
oenology | study of wines |
oikology | science of housekeeping |
olfactology | study of the sense of smell |
ombrology | study of rain |
oncology | study of tumours |
oneirology | study of dreams |
onomasiology | study of nomenclature |
onomastics | study of proper names |
ontology | science of pure being; the nature of things |
oology | study of eggs |
ophiology | study of snakes |
ophthalmology | study of eye diseases |
optics | study of light |
optology | study of sight |
optometry | science of examining the eyes |
orchidology | study of orchids |
ornithology | study of birds |
orology | study of mountains |
orthoepy study of correct pronunciation | |
orthography | study of spelling |
orthopterology | study of cockroaches |
oryctology | mineralogy or paleontology |
osmics | scientific study of smells |
osmology | study of smells and olfactory processes |
osphresiology | study of the sense of smell |
osteology | study of bones |
otology | study of the ear |
otorhinolary | ngology |
paedology | study of children |
paedotrophy | art of rearing children |
paidonosology | study of children's diseases; pediatrics |
palaeoanthropology | study of early humans |
palaeobiology | study of fossil plants and animals |
palaeoclimatology | study of ancient climates |
palaeolimnology | study of ancient fish |
palaeolimnology | study of ancient lakes |
palaeontology | study of fossils |
palaeopedology | study of early soils |
paleobotany | study of ancient plants |
paleo-osteology | study of ancient bones |
palynology | study of pollen |
papyrology | study of paper |
parapsychology | study of unexplained mental phenomena |
parasitology | study of parasites |
paroemiology | study of proverbs |
parthenology | study of virgins |
pataphysics | the science of imaginary solutions |
pathology | study of disease |
patrology | study of early Christianity |
pedagogics | study of teaching |
pedology | study of soils |
pelology | study of mud |
penology | study of crime and punishment |
periodontics | study of gums |
peristerophily | pigeon-collecting |
pestology | science of pests |
petrology | study of rocks |
pharmacognosy study of drugs of animal and plant origin | |
pharmacology | study of drugs |
pharology | study of lighthouses |
pharyngology | study of the throat |
phenology | study of organisms as affected by climate |
phenomenology | study of phenomena |
philately | study of postage stamps |
philematology | the act or study of kissing |
phillumeny | collecting of matchbox labels |
philology | study of ancient texts; historical linguistics |
philosophy | science of knowledge or wisdom |
phoniatrics | study and correction of speech defects |
phonology | study of speech sounds |
photobiology | study of effects of light on organisms |
phraseology | study of phrases |
phrenology | study of bumps on the head |
phycology | study of algae and seaweeds |
physics | study of properties of matter and energy |
phy | siology |
phytology | study of plants; botany |
piscatology | study of fishes |
pisteology | science or study of faith |
planetology | study of planets |
plutology | political economy; study of wealth |
pneumatics | study of mechanics of gases |
podiatry | study and treatment of disorders of the foot; chiropody |
podology | study of the feet |
polemology | study of war |
pomology | study of fruit-growing |
posology | science of quantity or dosage |
potamology | study of rivers |
praxeology | study of practical or efficient activity; science of efficient action |
primatology | study of primates |
proctology | study of rectum |
prosody | study of versification |
protistology | study of protists |
proxemics | study of man’s need for personal space |
psalligraphy | the art of paper-cutting to make pictures |
psephology | study of election results and voting trends |
pseudology | art or science of lying |
pseudoptics | study of optical illusions |
psychobiology | study of biology of the mind |
psychogenetics | study of internal or mental states |
psychognosy study of mentality, personality or character | |
psychology | study of mind |
psychopathology | study of mental illness |
psychophy | sics |
pteridology | study of ferns |
pterylology | study of distribution of feathers on birds |
pyretology | study of fevers |
pyrgology | study of towers |
pyroballogy | study of artillery |
pyrography | study of woodburning |
quinology | study of quinine |
raciology | study of racial differences |
radiology | study of X-rays and their medical applications |
reflexology | study of reflexes |
rhabdology | knowledge or learning concerning divining rods |
rhabdology | art of calculating using numbering rods |
rheology | science of the deformation or flow of matter |
rheumatology | study of rheumatism |
rhinology | study of the nose |
rhochrematics | science of inventory management and the movement of products |
runology | study of runes |
sarcology | study of fleshy parts of the body |
satanology | study of the devil |
scatology | study of excrement or obscene literature |
schematonics | art of using gesture to express tones |
sciagraphy | art of shading |
scripophily | collection of bond and share certificates |
sedimentology | study of sediment |
seismology | study of earthquakes |
selenodesy study of the shape and features of the moon | |
selenology | study of the moon |
semantics | study of meaning |
semantology | science of meanings of words |
semasiology | study of meaning; semantics |
semiology | study of signs and signals |
semiotics | study of signs and symbols |
serology | study of serums |
sexology | study of sexual behaviour |
siderography | art of engraving on steel |
sigillography | study of seals |
significs | science of meaning |
silvics | study of tree's life |
sindonology | study of the shroud of Turin |
Sinology | study of China |
sitology | dietetics |
sociobiology | study of biological basis of human behaviour |
sociology | study of society |
somatology | science of the properties of matter |
sophiology | science of ideas |
soteriology | study of theological salvation |
spectrology | study of ghosts |
spectroscopy study of spectra | |
speleology | study and exploration of caves |
spermology | study of seeds |
sphagnology | study of peat moss |
sphragistics | study of seals and signets |
sphygmology | study of the pulse |
splanchnology | study of the entrails or viscera |
spongology | study of sponges |
stasiology | study of political parties |
statics | study of bodies and forces in equilibrium |
stemmatology | study of relationships between texts |
stoichiology | science of elements of animal tissues |
stomatology | study of the mouth |
storiology | study of folk tales |
stratigraphy | study of geological layers or strata |
stratography | art of leading an army |
stylometry | studying literature by means of statistical analysis |
suicidology | study of suicide |
symbology | study of symbols |
symptomatology | study of symptoms of illness |
synecology | study of ecological communities |
synectics | study of processes of invention |
syntax study of sentence structure | |
syphilology | study of syphilis |
systematology | study of systems |
taxidermy | art of curing and stuffing animals |
tectonics | science of structure of objects, buildings and landforms |
tegestology | study and collecting of beer mats |
teleology | study of final causes; analysis in terms of purpose |
telmatology | study of swamps |
teratology | study of monsters, freaks, abnormal growths or malformations |
teuthology | study of cephalopods |
textology | study of the production of texts |
thalassography | science of the sea |
thanatology | study of death and its customs |
thaumatology | study of miracles |
theology | study of religion; religious doctrine |
theriatrics | veterinary medicine |
theriogenology | study of animals' reproductive systems |
thermody | namics |
thermokinematics | study of motion of heat |
thermology | study of heat |
therology | study of wild mammals |
thremmatology | science of breeding domestic animals and plants |
threpsology | science of nutrition |
tidology | study of tides |
timbrology | study of postage stamps |
tocology | obstetrics; midwifery |
tonetics | study of pronunciation |
topology | study of places and their natural features |
toponmics | study of place-names |
toreutics | study of artistic work in metal |
toxicology | study of poisons |
toxophily | love of archery; archery; study of archery |
traumatology | study of wounds and their effects |
tribology | study of friction and wear between surfaces |
trichology | study of hair and its disorders |
trophology | study of nutrition |
tsiganology | study of gypsies |
turnery | art of turning in a lathe |
typhlology | study of blindness and the blind |
typography | art of printing or using type |
typology | study of types of things |
ufology | study of alien spacecraft |
uranography | descriptive astronomy and mapping |
uranology | study of the heavens; astronomy |
urbanology | study of cities |
urenology | study of rust molds |
urology | study of urine; urinary tract |
venereology | study of venereal disease |
vermeology | study of worms |
vexillology | study of flags |
victimology | study of victims |
vinology | scientific study of vines and winemaking |
virology | study of viruses |
vitrics | glassy materials; glassware; study of glassware |
volcanology | study of volcanoes |
vulcanology | study of volcanoes |
xylography | art of engraving on wood |
xylology | study of wood |
zenography | study of the planet Jupiter |
zoiatrics | veterinary surgery |
zooarchaeology | study of animal remains of archaeological sites |
zoochemistry | chemistry of animals |
zoogeography | study of geographic distribution of animals |
zoogeology | study of fossil animal remains |
zoology | study of animals |
zoonomy | animal physiology |
zoonosology | study of animal diseases |
zoopathology | study of animal diseases |
zoophysics | physics of animal bodies |
zoophysiology | study of physiology of animals |
zoophytology | study of plant-like animals |
zoosemiotics | study of animal communication |
zootaxy | science of classifying animals |
zootechnics | science of breeding animals |
zygology | science of joining and fastening |
zymology | science of fermentation |
zymurgy | branch of chemistry dealing with brewing and distilling |
arborolatry | worship of trees |
archaeolatry | worship of or belief in angels |
astrolatry | worship of stars |
autolatry | self-worship |
bardolatry | Excessive devotion to shakespear |
bibliolatry | excessive devotion to or worship of books |
Christolatry | worship of Christ |
cosmolatry | worship of the world |
cynolatry | worship of dogs |
demonolatry | worship of or devotion to demons |
dendrolatry | worship of trees |
ecclesiolatry | excessive devotion to church tradition and form |
epeolatry | worship of words |
episcopolatry | worship of bishops |
gamidolatry | worship of marriage |
gastrolatry | gluttony; excessive love of food |
geolatry | earth-worship |
grammatolatry | worship of letters and words |
gyniolatry | deep respect or devotion for women |
hagiolatry | worship or reverence for saints |
heliolatry | sun worship |
hierolatry | worship of saints or sacred things |
hygeiolatry | excessive devotion to health |
ichthyolatry | the worship of fish |
iconolatry | image-worship |
ideolatry | worship of ideas |
idiolatry | self-worship; egotism |
idolatry | worship of idols |
ignicolist | fire-worshipper |
litholatry | stone-worship |
lordolatry | worship of nobility |
Mariolatry | worship of the virgin mother |
martyrolatry | excessive devotion to martyrs |
mechanolatry | worship of machines |
monolatry | worship of one god without excluding belief in others |
necrolatry | worship of the dead |
neolatry | worship of novelty |
onolatry | worship of asses or donkeys |
ophiolatry | worship of snakes |
ophism | snake-worship |
pandemonism | worship of spirits dwelling in all forms of nature |
parthenolatry | worship of the Virgin Mary |
patriolatry | excessive devotion or worship of one's native country |
physiolatry | nature-worship |
planetolatry | worship of the planets |
plutolatry | worship of wealth |
poetolatry | worship of poets |
pseudolatry | false worship |
pyrolatry | fire-worship |
selenolatry | worship of the moon |
statolatry | worship of the state |
staurolatry | worship of the cross or crucifix |
symbolatry | undue worship of symbols |
thaumatolatry | worship of miracles or wonders |
theriolatry | animal-worship |