| Afar | A member of a people of eastern Africa, living in Djibouti, Eritrea, and north-eastern Ethiopia. Cf. Danakil n. a. | 1845 | Go To Quotation |
| Africanoid | Designating a division of mankind represented by the indigenous peoples of Africa; of… | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| Alberti bass | Esp. in keyboard music: a style of bass accompaniment consisting of broken chords, the… | 1845 | Go To Quotation |
| amphistome | A genus of minute parasitic worms, having mouth-like openings at both ends of the body. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| amphistomoid | Like or akin to the Amphistomes. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| ana | Abbreviated for anastomosing n. | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| androphagous | Man-eating, anthropophagous. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| anodal | Pertaining to the anode; anodal closure contraction: see A.C.C. (s.v. A.C.C. n. at Initialisms). | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| anomalo- | of or belonging to the Anomalogonati, an order of birds, including sparrows, woodpeckers… | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| anticyclometer | An opponent of squarers of the circle (humorously called by De Morgan Cyclometers). | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| antipatharian | Belonging to the order Antipatharia of corals (the black corals); as n., a coral of this… | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| antiquarium | A repository of antiquities. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| anti-Semitism | Hostility and prejudice directed against Jewish people; (also) the theory, action, or practice resulting from this. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| aporose | Not porous, imperforate; spec. applied to the corals of the sub-order Aporosa. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| appatriation | Assignment to a native country; attribution of national origin. | 1857 | Go To Quotation |
| appendical | Of the nature of an appendix. | 1850 | Go To Quotation |
| aquaculture | Occas. variant of aquiculture n. Also, = hydroponics n. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| arability | Capability of being used as arable land. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| archaically | In archaic style; in regard to archaism. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| archetypist | One who studies early typography. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| argyrodite | A mineral (Ag 8 GeS 6) containing silver, sulphur, and germanium. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| asilid | Belonging to the Asilidæ, a family of dipterous insects comprising the hornet-flies. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| assumably | As may be assumed or taken for granted, presumably. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| atriopore | The posterior opening of the atrium or cavity in the body of the lancelet. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| aurifex | A worker in gold; a goldsmith. | 1862 | Go To Quotation |
| autogravure | A particular form of photoengraving in which a special carbon tissue is used. Also… | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| auxochrome | Any salt-forming group that, when combined with a chromogen, produces a dyestuff. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| awe-strike | To strike with awe. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| axeless | Without an axe; having no axe. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| axonometry | Measurement of axes. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| azoimide | Hydrazoic acid. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| back-hair | The long hair at the back of a woman's head. | 1836 | Go To Quotation |
| bacteriology | The scientific study of bacteria. bacˌteriˈologist n. a student of bacteriology. bacˌteriˈoscopy… | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| balloonation | Ballooning. | 1784 | Go To Quotation |
| bardlet | = bardling n. | 1867 | Go To Quotation |
| bari- | comb. form of barium n.; = Having barium in chemical composition. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| barrer | One who bars. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| beau rôle | A fine acting part; the leading part; also transf. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| beggardom | The beggar's profession; the mendicant fraternity. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| belleter | A bell-founder. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| biblioklept | A book-thief. ˌbiblioˌkleptoˈmaniac n. a book-thief regarded as insane. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| bibliothecarial | = bibliothecary adj. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| biocentral | = biocentric adj. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| boussingaultite | A volcanic mineral product. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| Bovril | The proprietary name of a concentrated essence of beef, invented in 1889 by J. Lawson Johnston. Also fig. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| brochantite | A mineral belonging to the hydrous sulphates, occurring in thin, rectangular, green crystals. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| buteonine | Of, pertaining to, or resembling the Buzzard. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| caesuric | = caesural adj. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| calligraph | trans. To write beautifully or ornamentally. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| canoe | intr. To paddle or propel a canoe; to move as in a canoe. to canoe it (colloq.): to do the journey in a canoe. | 1842 | Go To Quotation |
| Carolingian | = Caroline adj. 1a. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| cataclysmist | One who adopts the hypothesis of cataclysms in Geology; a ‘catastrophist’. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| catalogic | Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a catalogue. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| cathodal | Electr. Belonging to the cathode. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| caudally | In caudal fashion; in the manner of a tail. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| causticly | In a caustic manner. | 1870 | Go To Quotation |
| censing | That censes or offers incense. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| cental | A weight of one hundred pounds avoirdupois, first introduced into the Liverpool cornmarket… | 1870 | Go To Quotation |
| ceratinous | Of horny structure or nature. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| chansonnier | In France, a writer or performer of songs, esp. satirical songs in a cabaret. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| char | Tea. | 1919 | Go To Quotation |
| chilostomatous | Having the cell-mouth closed with a movable lip. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| chiragon | (See quot.) | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| choleraic | Pertaining to, or of the nature of, cholera. | 1856 | Go To Quotation |
| chorism | = chorisis n. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| chronist | A chronologer. | 1870 | Go To Quotation |
| cinematic | Occas. form of kinematic adj. Obs. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| circiter | = circa prep. adv. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| circularism | A theory that space is circular. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| cisted | Containing a cist or cists. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| Cistercianism | The religious system of the Cistercians; the Cistercian spirit. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| claquer | A hired applauder. | 1837 | Go To Quotation |
| coleopteral | Pertaining or relating to the Coleoptera. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| collectivistic | Based on or characterized by collectivism. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| collotyped | Made by the collotype process. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| comatulid | Any crinoid of the same family as Comatula. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| comparativeness | comparative quality. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| concordance | trans. To make a concordance to. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| concretize | trans. To render concrete. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| condonance | = condonation n. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| congregationally | In a congregational manner, as a congregation; in accordance with the Congregational… | 1870 | Go To Quotation |
| consonanted | With a qualifier: having consonants (of a certain kind). | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| constructionally | As regards construction or structure. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| Copernically | According to the Copernican view of the solar system. | 1867 | Go To Quotation |
| corruptionist | A supporter, defender, or practiser of corruption, esp. in the administration of public affairs. | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| craftswoman | A woman engaged in a handicraft; a female artificer. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| criteriology | The doctrine of a criterion (of knowledge, etc.). | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| cropless | Without a crop; having no crop. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| crotaline | Of or belonging to the rattlesnake family. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| cumuliform | Having the form of cumulus. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| cymagraph | An instrument for copying or tracing the contour of profiles and mouldings. | 1837 | Go To Quotation |
| daguerreotype | A portrait produced by this process. | 1839 | Go To Quotation |
| debasing | The action of the verb debase v. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| definitional | Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a definition. | 1869 | Go To Quotation |
| denaturation | The action of denaturing; spec. in Biochem. (see quot. 1965 and denature v. 2b). | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| desoxy- | Without oxygen, deoxidated; as in desoxy-ˈanisoin n. See deoxy- comb._form., desoxy-ˈbenzoin n.… | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| developing | In senses of the vb. Esp. in developing country, developing nation, a poor or… | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| diamidogen | See di- comb._form and amidogen n. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| Dickensian | Of or pertaining to Dickens or his style; marked by conditions or features resembling those described by Dickens. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| diectasis | Lengthening by the interpolation of a syllable. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| dielectrically | In a dielectric manner; by dielectric action. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| diffusionist | One who adheres to a theory of diffusion. Also attrib. or as adj. Cf. diffusion n. 3b. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| dipnoan | A fish belonging to this order. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| dittogram | A letter or series of letters unintentionally repeated by a scribe in copying; = dittograph v. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| dodecadrachm | An ancient Greek gold coin of the value of 12 drachmas. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| domy | Having a dome or domes; dome-like. | 1833 | Go To Quotation |
| dramaturge | = dramaturgist n. | 1870 | Go To Quotation |
| dreamy | Given or pertaining to reverie or fancy. | 1809 | Go To Quotation |
| ductus litterarum | The general shape and formation of letters and their combinations in manuscripts, study… | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| Egypto- | repr. stem of Greek Αἴγυπτος Egypt, in comb. (= Egyptian and…), as Egypto-Abyssinian, Egypto-Arab… | 1831 | Go To Quotation |
| Elian | Pertaining to or characteristic of the Essays of Elia (1823), or their author, Charles Lamb. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| elopine | Resembling the genus Elops of fishes. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| elytral | Of or pertaining to the elytra of a beetle. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| energiatype | An earlier name for the photographic process called ferrotype n. | 1845 | Go To Quotation |
| entepicondylar | a foramen in the humerus of many vertebrates just above the medial epicondyle. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| epexegetic | Pertaining to, or of the nature of, an epexegesis; given as an additional explanation. Const. of. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| epigenic | Originating above the surface of the earth. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| epigone | One of a succeeding generation. Chiefly in pl. the less distinguished successors of… | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| epiphytical | = epiphytic adj. | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| epochism | The practice of dividing time into epochs. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| erept | trans. To snatch away, carry off. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| ethide | A compound formed by the union of an element or a radical with the monad radical ethyl. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| ethnodicy | Comparative jurisprudence as a branch of ethnology. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| etna | A vessel (in the form of an inverted cone placed in a saucer) for heating a small… | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| eugenetic | Of or pertaining to eugenesis, favourable to the production of healthy offspring. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| eugenism | (See quot. 1887.) | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| examinatory | = examinatorial adj. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| excerptible | That admits of being excerpted; suitable to make extracts or selections from. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| farmlet | A little farm. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| faunistical | = faunistic adj. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| feasten | Made for a feast. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| fenestellid | One of the Fenestellidæ, a family of palæozoic polyzoans. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| feuilleton | In French newspapers (or others in which the French custom is followed), a portion of one… | 1845 | Go To Quotation |
| filarial | Of or pertaining to the genus Filaria of parasitic worms. filarial periodicity (see quot.). | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| fils | The son, junior: appended to a name to distinguish between a father and son of the same name. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| fitchant | Nimble, restless. | 1615 | Go To Quotation |
| five-merous | = pentamerous adj. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| flamboyance | The quality of being flamboyant. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| flavaniline | (See quot. 1889.) | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| floriculturist | One who devotes himself to or is skilled in floriculture. | 1869 | Go To Quotation |
| foliageous | Containing representations of foliage. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| folklore | The traditional beliefs, legends, and customs, current among the common people; the study of these. | 1846 | Go To Quotation |
| formene | Methane or marsh-gas (CH 4). | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| frou-frou | A rustling, esp. the rustling of a dress. | 1870 | Go To Quotation |
| frowsty | Fusty; having an unpleasant smell. (In Berks., Oxf., Leic., and Glouc. glossaries.) Also in Comb. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| fucaceous | Of or belonging to the group Fucaceæ of seaweeds. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| gargoylism | Grotesqueness. rare. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| gas furnace | A furnace in which coal is heated in order to manufacture gas. Now rare. | 1807 | Go To Quotation |
| geadephagous | Of or pertaining to the Geadephaga, a tribe of terrestrial and predaceous beetles. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| Girtonian | One who is, or has been, a student at Girton College, one of the two Cambridge colleges for women. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| Gladstone | Gladstone (claret): a jocular name given to the cheap French wines, the importation… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| gnomometry | (See quot. 1882.) | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| gorgonesque | Having the characteristics of a gorgon; hideous, repulsive. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| guepard | A kind of leopard, the Cynailurus guttata. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| Guevarism | The fashion of literary style resulting from imitation of the Spanish writer Ant. de Guevara (1490 – 1544). | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| gutta-percha | The inspissated juice of various trees found chiefly in the Malayan archipelago (see sense 2), now extensively used in the arts. | 1845 | Go To Quotation |
| hagio- | saintly madness; a mania for sainthood. | 1807 | Go To Quotation |
| hashy | Of the nature of a ‘hash’, or mixture of mangled fragments. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| haute bourgeoisie | The French upper middle class; also extended to the upper middle class of other countries. Cf. bourgeoisie n. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| heft | A number of sheets of paper fastened together to form a book; spec. a division of a serial… | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| heliometric | Pertaining to, or obtained or made by, the heliometer; relating to measurement of the sun. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| Hellenization | The action of Hellenizing or condition of being Hellenized; the process of making Greek or Hellenistic in character. | 1844 | Go To Quotation |
| hemichordate | An animal of the phylum Hemichordata. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| heterocerous | Belonging to the sub-order of lepidopterous insects Heterocera (Moths); so called… | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| hickboo | An air raid. Obs. | 1919 | Go To Quotation |
| hidated | Made or measured according to hides. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| hierogrammate | A writer of sacred records, spec. of hieroglyphics. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| historionomical | Of or relating to the principles that regulate the course of history. Cf. historionomer n. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| hoosh | trans. To force or turn or drive (an animal, etc.) off (or out, etc.); also intr., to move (rapidly). Cf. also quot. 1943. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| horniness | Horny quality or character. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| horrescent | Shuddering; expressive of horror. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| hubristically | With hubris; in a presumptuous manner. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| hydrazine | A colourless stable gas, with strong alkaline reaction, also called diamidogen n., N 2 H… | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| hydrocarbide | = hydrocarbon n. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| hydrocephaly | = hydrocephalus n. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| hydrophyton | The branched plant-like structure supporting the zooids in certain colonial Hydrozoa. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| hydrotherapeutic | Pertaining to or connected with hydrotherapeutics; hydropathic. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| hypsography | That department of geography which deals with the comparative altitude of places, or parts of the earth's surface. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| Icarian | A follower or adherent of Cabet; a member of an Icarian community such as that at Nauvoo. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| iconographer | One who makes figures or drawings of objects. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| idiasm | A peculiarity, especially a verbal one; a mannerism. | 1868 | Go To Quotation |
| immoralism | The reverse or negation of moralism; a system of thought or practice which rejects moral law. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| inadaptive | Not adaptive. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| inadvisedly | Unadvisedly. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| incisively | In an incisive manner or style (lit. and fig.). | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| incontinuity | The quality or fact of being incontinuous; absence or breach of continuity. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| indexing | The action or process of compiling an index. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| induline | A general name for a series of compounds related to aniline, yielding blue-black… | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| inferring | That infers, that draws inferences. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| informulable | Incapable of being formulated; that cannot be expressed in a definite and systematic manner. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| ingrammaticism | An ungrammatical form or construction; a solecism. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| insulite | The trade name of an artificially made insulating or non-conducting substance. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| interleaving | The insertion of (blank) leaves; interfoliation. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| interspersal | = interspersion n. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| iodizer | One who or that which iodizes; an iodizing agent. | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| iodo- | | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| Islamophobe | A person who has an intense dislike or fear of Islam or Muslims. | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| kalsomine | = calcimine n. Also as v. trans. and intr., to whitewash with kalsomine. | 1840 | Go To Quotation |
| kinematic | Relating to pure motion, i.e. to motion considered abstractly, without reference to force or mass. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| leaderette | A short editorial paragraph, printed in the same type as the ‘leaders’ in a newspaper. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| lecturership | = lectureship n. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| limmu | The year of office to which the holder gave his name; hence, the office itself. Cf. eponym n. 2. | 1862 | Go To Quotation |
| lionism | The practice of lionizing; the condition of being treated as a ‘lion’ or celebrity. | 1835 | Go To Quotation |
| literose | Literary in a studied or affected way. | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| liturgiological | Pertaining to or connected with liturgiology. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| loranthad | = loranth n. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| magic-lantern | trans. To produce an image of (something) as with a magic lantern. | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| mantid | Entomol. A mantis (mantis n.). | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| matriarchy | A form of social organization in which the mother or oldest female is the head of the… | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| matriculatory | Relating to matriculation at a university, etc. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| matronship | The character of a matron. Chiefly humorously with possessive adjective, as a title of… | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| medallary | A collection or set of medals. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| megasporangium | A sporangium containing megaspores; the part of a plant in which the female gametophyte is formed. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| mercerization | The process of treating cotton yarn or fabric (often under tension) with a… | 1852 | Go To Quotation |
| mercerized | Of cotton yarn or fabric: treated by the process of mercerization. | 1852 | Go To Quotation |
| Mesha | attrib. Designating a monument erected in the 9th cent. b.c. by Mesha, king of the… | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| metricist | A person who writes in or analyses metre. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| metricized | Converted or adapted to the metric system. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| mezzo | = mezzotint n. 2. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| microphysics | A branch of physics that deals with microscopic or submicroscopic phenomena; spec. the… | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| microseismology | The scientific study of microseismic activity. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| mirroring | Reflection, replication, etc., as in a mirror; an instance of this. | 1857 | Go To Quotation |
| misderivation | Incorrect derivation. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| mitsumata | A deciduous shrub, Edgeworthia papyrifera (family Thymelaeaceae) bearing clusters… | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| mixogamy | The gathering of male and female fishes in unequal numbers at spawning time, such that a… | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| momiology | The scientific study of mummies. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| monistically | In a monistic manner. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| monogeneity | The state or property of being monogenic (monogenic adj. 4). Cf. monogenicity n. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| murrained | Of cattle, sheep, etc.: infected with murrain. | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| museographer | A person who classifies and catalogues the contents of museums. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| myomeric | Of, relating to, or derived from myomeres. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| neo-romanticism | Neo-romantic attitudes or beliefs; a neo-romantic school or movement. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| niellated | Inlaid with niello; nielloed. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| obit | An obituary, esp. in a newspaper. | 1874 | Go To Quotation |
| obscenometer | An imaginary instrument for measuring the degree of indecency in something. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| obtruncator | A person who cuts something off or causes something to be cut off. | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| occidentalization | The action or process of making occidental in character or appearance. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| octonarian | Consisting of eight feet. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| old-masterly | = old-masterish adj. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| oogamous | Designating, relating to, or involving the union of dissimilar gametes, usually of a… | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| opisthoglyphous | Of, relating to, or designating a colubrid snake having the rear one or two pairs of teeth… | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| optimistically | In an optimistic manner. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| optimization | The action or process of making the best of something; (also) the action or process… | 1857 | Go To Quotation |
| orthochromatic | Photogr. Representing colours in their correct relations, i.e. without exaggerating the… | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| ostreiculturist | A person engaged in the breeding of oysters. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| paedogenetic | Relating to or characterized by (parthenogenetic) reproduction occurring in a larval or immature form. Cf. paedogenesis n. 1. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| paintiness | The quality of being painty. | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| palaeotypography | Early printing or typography. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| panegyrism | A panegyric, a eulogy; a compliment. Also: the action of panegyrizing. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| panifiable | Of flour: suitable for use in breadmaking. Of the properties of flour: rendering it suitable for use in breadmaking. | 1844 | Go To Quotation |
| pansophic | = pansophical adj. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| pantothermal | Able to tolerate a wide range of temperature. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| papyrology | The study, interpretation, and editing of texts written on papyrus, or of texts written… | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| paradoxer | A propounder of paradoxes. | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| pastose | Painting. Thickly painted; loaded with paint. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| Paulinize | trans. To associate or align with Pauline teachings or doctrines (Pauline adj. 1a). | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| pelmatozoic | Designating or relating to echinoderms which are fixed to the substrate by a stalk. Cf. pelmatozoan adj. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| perceivability | The state or quality of being perceivable. | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| perceivedness | The quality of being perceptible; the fact of being perceived. | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| perchlorination | Conversion to a perchlorinated form. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| periastron | The point in the path of a celestial object orbiting a star at which it is nearest to the star. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| perimetric | Of or relating to a perimeter (perimeter n. 1a). | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| perosmic | Of osmium in its highest oxidation state (8). Chiefly in perosmic acid n. = osmium tetroxide n.… | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| perturbatory | = perturbative adj. | 1846 | Go To Quotation |
| phaeism | Slight darkness or duskiness of colour, distinguished from melanism as being a less dark coloration. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| philosophercraft | Philosophical skill. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| phlyarologist | A person who talks nonsense. | 1867 | Go To Quotation |
| photo-etch | trans. To etch by a photographic process. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| photogrammetrical | = photogrammetric adj. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| photophonic | Relating to or produced by a photophone (photophone n. 1). Also fig. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| photosculpture | trans. To produce by photosculpture. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| phototaxis | The orientated movement of a motile organism in response to light; an instance of this. Cf. phototropism n. 1. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| photozinc | That is produced by photozincography. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| phratriac | = phratric adj. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| phyllostomine | Of or relating to the subfamily Phyllostominae, originally comprising all New World… | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| physico-chemist | An expert in or student of physical chemistry, or physics and chemistry. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| phytobiological | Of or relating to the biology of plants; biological and relating to plants in particular. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| pilocarpidine | An alkaloid, C 10 H 14 N 2 O 2, obtained from the leaves of jaborandi which has… | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| pogromist | An organizer of or participant in a pogrom. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| poietic | Creative, formative, productive, active. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| polysemous | That has a multiplicity of meanings, or bears many different interpretations; spec.… | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| posh | trans. and refl. With up: to make smart, stylish, or luxurious, esp. in a way… | 1919 | Go To Quotation |
| possessiveness | The quality of being possessive, esp. with regard to another person. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| postcerebral | Situated behind the cerebrum; (also) situated in the posterior part of the cerebrum. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| posterioric | Of a posteriori origin; empirical. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| prank | Prancing; capering. | 1843 | Go To Quotation |
| pre-conquestual | = pre-conquestal adj. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| prepollex | A rudimentary digit found on the inner side of the hand or manus of some mammals, reptiles, and amphibians. Cf. prehallux n. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| primatal | Of, relating to, or characteristic of primates (mammals of the order Primates). Cf. primatial adj. 2. | 1870 | Go To Quotation |
| prioric | That has been deduced a priori; of or relating to a priori reasoning. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| profiteer | A person who makes an excessive or unfair profit, esp. by the sale of necessary goods at extortionate prices. | 1912 | Go To Quotation |
| proverbiologist | A person who studies proverbs. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| pulvino | A dosseret resembling a cushion pressed down by a weight. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| pumpkinify | trans. To make a pumpkin of, subject to pumpkinification. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| push-through | colloq. A narrow passage through something. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| pyrgologist | An expert or specialist in the structure and history of towers. | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| quindecasyllabic | Consisting of fifteen syllables; composed of lines of fifteen syllables each. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| Rabelaisianism | The characteristic style or attitude of Rabelais or his writings; bawdiness… | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| radiophony | Originally: any of various techniques for producing or transmitting sound or… | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| refectorarian | = refectioner n. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| restriking | The action or process of restrike v.; an instance of this. | 1834 | Go To Quotation |
| rhythmopoetic | That writes, or is inclined to write, verses. Obs. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| Risso's dolphin | A large pale grey dolphin, Grampus griseus (family Delphinidae), having a rounded… | 1870 | Go To Quotation |
| ritualless | Without ritual; unaccompanied by ritual. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| rougeless | Without rouge, esp. cosmetic rouge; not rouged. Also fig. | 1829 | Go To Quotation |
| roughed-in | That has been worked, planned, or sketched in roughly. Cf. to rough in at rough v. 2. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| Sacramentarianism | ‘High’ doctrine in regard to the sacraments (cf. sacramentarian n. 3). | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| salol | A white, crystalline, aromatic powder, prepared from salicylic and carbolic acids, used… | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| Salvinia | The typical genus of the N.O. Salviniaceæ of small cryptogamous plants; a plant of this genus. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| satellitary | Belonging to satellites. | 1867 | Go To Quotation |
| Semitist | One versed in Semitic languages, literature, etc.; a Semitic scholar. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| sextillionth | That is one of the sextillion equal parts into which something may be divided; forming the… | 1833 | Go To Quotation |
| shoey | A shoeing-smith in a cavalry regiment. | 1919 | Go To Quotation |
| sigillography | The science or study of seals. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| sinicization | The action or process of sinicizing. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| sinicize | trans. To invest with a Chinese character. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| sinification | Sinicization. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| skat | A three-handed card-game of German origin, with bidding for contract. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| skeleton | trans. To outline or mark after the manner of a skeleton. | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| skive | intr. To evade a duty, to shirk; to avoid work by absenting oneself, to play truant. Also with off. | 1919 | Go To Quotation |
| sloosh | A pouring of water; a wash; a noise of, or as of, heavily splashing or rushing water. | 1919 | Go To Quotation |
| smudgily | In a smudgy manner. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| somewhy | For some reason or reasons. | 1858 | Go To Quotation |
| soral | Of or pertaining to the sori of ferns. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| specialistic | Of or pertaining to specialism or specialists. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| spectro- | | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| spectroscopic | Performed by means of the spectroscope. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| spectroscopist | One who pursues researches with the spectroscope. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| sphericist | (See quot. 1897.) | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| spookery | Spookiness, eeriness; also, something spooky. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| spoonless | Lacking a spoon. | 1837 | Go To Quotation |
| stagily | In a stagy manner. | 1867 | Go To Quotation |
| stagnator | One who denies the motion (of the earth). | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| succuss | trans. To shake up; spec. to shake (a patient) to elicit the splashing sound in pneumothorax. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| suggestionism | The doctrine or practice of hypnotic suggestion. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| supernalist | Relating to or dealing with a realm or state beyond the earthly world. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| supersubtlety | Extreme or excessive subtlety; an instance of this. | 1834 | Go To Quotation |
| tabulator | A machine or apparatus for this purpose; spec. a part of the mechanism of a typewriter… | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| tackman | One who looks after horses or cattle which are grazed on tack. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| talayot | A Bronze Age stone tower found in the Balearic Islands, usu. circular with a corbelled… | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| telephony | Name for a system of signalling by means of musical sounds, and for the practice of other early forms of telephone. Obs. | 1835 | Go To Quotation |
| tenorite | Black oxide of copper, found in thin iron-black scales on lava at Vesuvius: see quot. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| tergite | A back-plate, formed by the fusion of a pair of serial plates of one of the somites or… | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| tetrakaidekahedron | A fourteen-sided solid figure. Also tessarescædecahedron (Cent. Dict.). | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| tetrasporangium | A sporangium producing or containing tetraspores. Rarely anglicized as ˈtetraspoˌrange n. (Cent. Dict. 1891). | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| Teutonity | The quality or condition of being Teutonic; Teutonism. | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| thesaurarial | Of or pertaining to the office of treasurer. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| tinty | Full of tints; having the tints too prominent or inharmoniously combined. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| tip | A piece of useful private or special information communicated by an expert; a… | 1845 | Go To Quotation |
| torsile | Of the nature of torsion. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| Trajanic | Of or pertaining to the Roman emperor Trajan (53 – 117 a.d.), esp. to the style of triumphal art associated with him. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| trans-atlantal | Transverse to, or crossing the atlas (vertebra). | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| transformational | Of or pertaining to transformation; spec. in Linguistics, of or pertaining to a… | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| transriverine | Situated across a (or the) river; transfluvial. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| trigonometrician | = trigonometer n. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| trilobal | = trilobate adj.; spec. applied to (man-made fibres having) a cross-section of this form. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| trisector | One who or that which trisects; spec. in quot. 1872, one who attempts the trisection of an angle. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| tritagonist | The third actor in a Greek tragedy. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| tri-vided | Divided into three. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| tropo- | an instrument for measuring the angle of turning or torsion of some part of the body, as the eyeball or a long bone. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| tucktoo | Name in Burma (Myanmar) for a large house lizard. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| typewrite | trans. To print by means of a typewriter; to type; also intr. to use a typewriter, to practise typewriting. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| ubiquism | = ubiquitism n. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| umbrette | = umbre n. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| unaddressed | (un- prefix 8. Cf. German unaddressirt.) | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| undecorative | (un- prefix 7.) | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| undenominational | Not belonging to any particular religious denomination. | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| undertoned | Defective in tone. | 1849 | Go To Quotation |
| ungreenable | (un- prefix 7b.) | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| unhomely | (un- prefix 7.) | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| unhumorous | (un- prefix 7.) | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| unlyrically | (un- prefix 11.) | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| unmassed | (un- prefix 6b 8.) | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| unpermissible | (un- prefix 7 5b.) | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| unpsychological | (un- prefix 7.) | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| unrecommended | (un- prefix 8.) | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| unremittently | (un- prefix 11.) | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| unrhythmic | (un- prefix 7.) | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| unshrinement | (< unshrine v.) | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| unsingable | (un- prefix 7b.) | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| unsqueamish | (un- prefix 7.) | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| unwormed | Not worm-eaten. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| Valliscaulian | Of or belonging to the Valliscaulians or their order. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| vanning | Travelling or touring in a van; caravanning. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| Vedism | The system of religious beliefs and practices contained in the Vedas. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| venalization | The action or process of making venal. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| versed | Composed or written in verse; turned into verse. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| Victorian | Of or belonging to, designating, or typical of the reign of Queen Victoria (1837 – 1901). | 1839 | Go To Quotation |
| viva | = viva voce n. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| voluntaristic | Pertaining or belonging to the philosophical theory of voluntarism. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| vorticist | An advocate of the theory of vortices. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| Waldism | The doctrine or tenets of the Waldenses. Cf. Vaudism n. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| wanderlust | An eager desire or fondness for wandering or travelling. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| warbled | Of hides: Injured by warbles. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| weldless | Made without a weld. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| whacked | Tired out, exhausted. | 1919 | Go To Quotation |
| wish-hounds | With pl. concord. Local name for a ghostly pack of hounds popularly believed to hunt over Dartmoor (Devon) by night. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| xenophobia | A deep antipathy to foreigners. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| xylophone | A musical instrument consisting of a graduated series of flat wooden bars, played by… | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| zoid | Applied to a larval or zoea stage in Crustacea. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| Zolaism | The literary manner characteristic of the French novelist Émile Zola (1840 – 1902)… | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| zoonist | One who holds that nature as a whole is a living being, or that natural objects are such. (In quots. only attrib.) | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| zygnemaceous | Belonging to the N.O. Zygnemaceæ of filamentous fresh-water algæ, typified by the genus Zygnema, which propagate by conjugation. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
