| aerolithology | The branch of science that deals with meteorites (aeroliths). | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| alacrify | trans. To fill with alacrity; to energize, invigorate. Cf. alacriate v. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| amenably | In an amenable manner. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| amphigean | Extending all over the earth from the equator to both poles. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| anagnorisis | Recognition; the dénouement in a drama. | 1799 | Go To Quotation |
| androspore | The zoospore which in certain fucoid Algæ produces the male reproductive organs. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| anelectrode | The positive pole of a galvanic battery; the point at which the electric current enters the fluid to be electrolyzed. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| anxietude | = anxiety n. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| apicillary | Variant of apicilar adj. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| archwayed | Furnished with an archway. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| arenicolite | A worm-hole made originally in sand, and preserved in a sandstone rock. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| areole | = areola n. | 1856 | Go To Quotation |
| armure | A woollen or silk fabric, or a mixture of the two, with a twilled or ribbed surface. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| ascendible | = ascendable adj. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| aspergill | Anglicized form of aspergillum n. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| aspersory | = aspersive adj. | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| aspiratory | Of or pertaining to aspiration. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| assertional | Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, assertion. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| assessably | In a way liable to assessment; ratably. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| assimilatory | = assimilative adj. 1. | 1856 | Go To Quotation |
| assizement | The action of assizing; the statutory inspection of weights and measures, or fixing of the price of articles of consumption. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| astatically | In an astatic manner. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| aurated | Resembling or containing gold; gold-coloured, gilded. In Chem. Combined with auric acid (obs.). | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| aurigal | Of or pertaining to a charioteer. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| autonomian | = autonomic adj. 1. | 1854 | Go To Quotation |
| avertin | Mental disease which renders the patient obstinate and furious; crazy sullenness. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| bafflingness | Baffling quality. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| balkingly | In such a manner as to balk. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| bathymetry | The art or science of measuring depths (in the sea). | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| beaconless | Without a beacon. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| bestowage | Stowage. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| bewrayment | The fact of bewraying, disclosure. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| biacid | Of a base: Capable of combining with an acid in two different proportions. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| biflorate | = biflorous adj. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| bipalmate | Doubly or subordinately palmate: applied to compound leaves having a palmate… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| bipunctate | Having or marked by two punctures or points. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| birdikin | A little bird. | 1862 | Go To Quotation |
| bisaccate | Having two sacs, or pouches. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| bittering | A preparation used to adulterate beer; = bittern n. 2. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| blancard | A kind of linen cloth manufactured in Normandy, the thread of which is half bleached before it is woven. | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| bom | The name in Congo, W. Africa, of ‘a huge non-poisonous snake swallowing deer, etc.’… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| brant-fox | An English adaptation of the German name of a variety of the fox, chiefly distinguished… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| breachful | Full of breaches. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| bursiculate | Resembling a purse or pouch; bursiform. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| bushel | a man or woman employed in repair tailoring. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| cacodoxy | Wrong opinion or doctrine, heterodoxy. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| calcimine | A trade name given to a kind of white or coloured wash for walls. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| calibrate | trans. To determine the calibre of; spec. to try the bore of a thermometer tube… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| callose | Having callosities. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| caloriduct | A tube or channel for conducting heat. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| calorimetric | Of or pertaining to calorimetry; also loosely used for: pertaining to the measurement of temperature, thermometric. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| cambial | Relating to exchange in commerce. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| canard | An extravagant or absurd story circulated to impose on people's credulity; a hoax, a false report. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| caprid | Of or belonging to the Capridæ or goat tribe. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| cavitied | Having cavities. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| cepivorous | Feeding on onions. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| cervicide | The killing of a deer. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| cheeriness | Cheery quality or condition, lively gladsomeness. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| chippy | U.S. (Also chippy bird, chippy sparrow.) = chipping-bird n. at chipping adj. Special uses. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| chiropod | = cheiroped n. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| chromatophore | Physiol. A pigment-cell, possessing contractile processes, contained in the skin of… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| churl | Churlish. (Perh. attrib.) | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| chyometer | An instrument for measuring liquids, consisting of a tube with a piston moving in… | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| cineraceous | Of the nature or colour of ashes. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| clock | trans. To embroider clocks on. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| co-adjust | trans. To adjust mutually, fit to each other. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| codical | Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a codex or code. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| cœlosperm | An umbelliferous plant having such a seed. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| coercibleness | Coercible quality. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| colleterium | A glandular organ in certain insects, secreting a glutinous substance for cementing the ova together. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| columnarity | Columnar quality or state. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| compassless | Without a compass. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| conchospiral | A kind of spiral curve exemplified in shells. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| concionative | = concionatory adj. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| conclimate | trans. To inure to a climate, acclimatize. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| conferral | The action of conferring or bestowing; = conferment n. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| conformability | The quality or condition of being conformable; spec. in Geol., the relation of strata… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| confusable | Capable of being, or liable to be, confused. Also as n. pl. (and with spelling -ible), things, esp. words, that may be confused. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| conjoin | Explained as: Conjoined. App. some error for conjoined or conjoint, or a misunderstanding of conjoin used as a verb. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| consigne | Order given to a sentinel; watchword, countersign. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| convectively | In a convective manner, by convection. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| conversationism | A conversational expression; colloquialism. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| convexedness | = convexity n. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| convictism | The convict system; the system of penal settlements for convicted criminals. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| co-ordinance | Joint ordinance. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| cordeling | Twisting. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| corollate | Having a corolla; resembling a corolla. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| corollated | = corollate adj. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| corpulently | In a corpulent manner. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| corticine | Commercial name of a floor-covering made of ground cork with India rubber or a substitute. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| cosmosphere | See quot. 1864. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| costumer | A dealer in costumes; one who makes or supplies costumes. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| countershaft | An intermediate shaft driven from a main shaft for giving motion to a particular machine. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| cracklin | Variant of crackling n. 5; perh. after French craquelin biscuit. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| crack-skull | = crack-brain n. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| crebri- | combining form of Latin crēber frequent, closely placed, as in crebriˈcostate adj.… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| culminate | ‘Growing upward, as distinguished from a lateral growth; applied to the growth of corals’ (Dana). | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| cuproid | A solid contained under twelve equal triangles, formed by erecting a pyramid on each of the triangular faces of a tetrahedron. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| curvate | = curvated adj. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| cystose | Containing, or resembling, a cyst; cystic. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| damassé | A kind of linen manufactured in Flanders, woven with flowers and figures like damask. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| declinous | Error for declivous adj. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| decolorant | A decolorizing agent. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| defecator | One who or that which defecates or purifies; spec. in Sugar Manuf.: see quot. 1874. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| defendee | One who is defended. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| defile | The act of defilading a fortress. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| defile | = defilade v. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| deforciation | = deforcement n. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| deglutitory | Pertaining to deglutition; having the function of swallowing. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| delinquently | In a delinquent manner; so as to fail in duty. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| deltafication | The formation of a delta at the mouth of a river. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| demissionary | Pertaining to the transfer or conveyance of an estate. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| demoniacism | ‘The state of being a demoniac; the practice of demoniacs’ (Craig 1847). | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| dentile | (See quots.) | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| desilver | trans. To deprive of its silver, remove the silver from. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| desulphurize | trans. To free from sulphur. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| dextrorse | Turned towards the right hand. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| diamagnet | = diamagnetic n. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| dichastasis | ‘Spontaneous subdivision’ (Webster 1864). | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| dichastic | ‘Capable of subdividing spontaneously’ (Webster 1864). | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| dichroic | Having or showing two colours; spec. applied to doubly-refracting crystals that… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| dichromate | A double chromate n. (q.v.), as potassium dichromate K 2 ·CrO 4 ·CrO 3. (Also bichromate.) | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| dichroous | Of two colours; dichromatic; dichroic. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| diclinic | Having the lateral axes at right angles to each other, but both oblique to the… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| dicœlous | = dicœlious adj.; spec. Of a vertebra: Cupped or hollowed at each end. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| dietarian | (See quot. 1880.) | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| digammate | = digammated adj. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| digamous | Married a second time; that contracts a second marriage after the death of the first spouse; of the nature of digamy. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| digram | A proposed synonym of digraph n. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| dihexagonal | Having twelve angles, of which the first, third, fifth,…eleventh, are equal to one another… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| diplomatism | The practice of the diplomat; diplomacy n. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| dipolar | Of or pertaining to two poles; having two poles, esp. poles such that the relations of the… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| disacidify | trans. To do away with the acidity of. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| disattire | trans. To divest of attire; disrobe. | 1597 | Go To Quotation |
| disconsecrate | trans. To deprive of consecration, to desecrate. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| disputatiously | In a disputatious manner; contentiously. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| distillate | That which is distilled (see distil v. 5); a product of distillation. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| diversory | Serving to divert, divertive. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| dobule | A North American species of dace (Leuciscus dobula). | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| doubletree | The cross-piece to which the swingle-tree of a carriage, plough, etc. is attached. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| dragoon-bird | A Brazilian bird (Cephalopterus ornatus), having a large, umbrella-like crest of feathers… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| dumetose | Bush-like. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| dumpage | The work of dumping or emptying out refuse, ballast, etc.; the privilege of doing this… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| effranchise | To invest with franchises or privileges. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| elocular | Without partitions or loculi. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| elytroid | Resembling an elytron or sheath, sheath-like. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| endamageable | Capable of receiving damage, susceptible to injury; perishable. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| enervative | Tending to enervate. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| Englishable | Capable of being translated into, or expressed in, English. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| entassment | A heap, accumulation. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| equestrienne | A horsewoman, female equestrian. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| escapable | That can be escaped. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| eternization | The action of eternizing; immortalization. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| ethologic | = ethological adj. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| exotericism | Exoteric doctrines, or belief in these. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| extensionist | A member of the Association for the Extension of University Teaching. colloq.… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| factorize | trans. U.S. Law. In Vermont and Connecticut, = garnish v. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| faucal | Of or pertaining to the fauces or throat. In phonology applied chiefly to certain… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| feminism | Feminine quality or character; femininity. Now rare. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| festoony | Of, pertaining to, or resembling a festoon; in quot. of a person: Making festoon-like movements. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| filipendulous | Hanging or having the appearance of hanging by a thread. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| five-twenty | Used attrib. in five-twenty bonds (or shortly five-twenties), certain bonds issued by… | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| footy | Having foots or dregs (see foot n. 22). | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| formularistic | Pertaining to or exhibiting formularization. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| frangipani | A fragrant ornamental shrub or tree of the genus Plumeria, esp. P. rubra. Cf. frangipane n. 2. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| fructose | ‘Fruit sugar or lævulose. Also applied to the sugar found in fruit, which consists… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| fumacious | Fond of smoking. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| fuscin | ‘A brown substance obtained by Unverdorben from the animal oil of Dippel after exposure to… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| galvanizer | One who or that which galvanizes. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| grave | trans. To render (a note or tone) grave. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| gravic | Pertaining to or causing gravitation. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| gripeful | Apt to ‘gripe’; gripy. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| gyroidal | Crystallogr. Having a spiral arrangement, as certain planes, etc. in some crystalline forms. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| hachure | trans. To shade (a map) with hachures to represent the elevations. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| halo- | a plant which is adapted to grow in saline conditions. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| halomancy | Divination by means of salt. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| harmine | An alkaloid (C 13 H 12 N 2 O) contained in the seeds of harmala n., or obtained by oxidation of harmaline. (Discovered in 1847.) | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| hastile | = hastate adj. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| hautboyist | A player on the hautboy: = oboist n. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| havenage | Harbour-dues. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| heavy | Of a horse: Suffering from the heaves. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| hectostere | In the Metric system, a measure of capacity containing 100 steres, or 3531·65 cubic feet. (Little used even in French). | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| helicoidal | = helicoid adj. 1. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| heliotroper | One who manages a heliotrope n. (sense 4). | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| helmage | Guidance, direction, management. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| hemimorphic | Of a crystal: Having unlike planes or modifications at the ends of the same axis. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| hemiprism | A pair of parallel faces, parallel to the vertical axis of the crystal in the triclinic… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| heptamerous | Consisting of seven members or parts. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| heteromorphic | Entomol. Existing in different forms at different stages of life: said of insects… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| heteropter | One of the Heteroptera. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| hieromartyr | In the Greek Calendar, a martyr who was in holy orders. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| hilar | Of or pertaining to a hilum n. (senses 2a, and 3a). | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| hippocrepiform | Shaped like a horse-shoe. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| horse-car | A tramcar (or railway-car) drawn by a horse or horses. Also attrib. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| howel | trans. To plane or smooth with a howel. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| huller | One who or that which hulls; spec. a machine for separating the hulls from seeds. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| hyalescent | Becoming hyaline or glassy. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| hydriad | A water-nymph. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| hydroid | Of the nature of a hydroid (see B. 1b): opposed to medusoid. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| hygienism | = hygiene n. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| hymnography | The literary history and bibliography of hymns. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| hypophosphate | A salt of hypophosphoric acid. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| hypsometer | An instrument for measuring altitudes, consisting essentially of a delicate thermometer… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| imparidigitate | Having an odd number of digits (fingers or toes) on each limb; perissodactyl. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| impassionable | Easily roused to passion; excitable. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| impressionless | Without impression; void of impressions; unimpressible. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| inapplicably | In a way not capable of application; unsuitably. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| inappreciation | Want of appreciation; failure to appreciate or estimate duly. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| incalculableness | The quality of being incalculable. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| incanous | Hoary with white pubescence. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| incarnification | = incarnation n. 1. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| incipience | Beginning, commencement, origination; the fact or condition of being incipient or in… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| incuse | trans. To impress by stamping; to mark with an impressed figure. Chiefly in pa. pple. (or ppl. adj.) inˈcused adj. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| induplicative | = induplicate adj. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| indusiated | Bot. = indusiate adj. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| inexcitability | The quality of being unexcitable; constitutional calmness. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| infundibulate | Funnel-shaped; infundibuliform. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| initial | trans. To mark or sign with initials; to put one's initials to or upon. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| inopercular | = inoperculate adj. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| inorthography | Incorrect spelling; heterography. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| inoxidizable | Not oxidizable; that cannot be oxidized; incapable of rusting. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| insularly | After the manner of an island or islander. | 1856 | Go To Quotation |
| interdigitation | The action or condition of interdigitating; concr. an interdigitating structure, or one of a number of interdigitating processes. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| interjacence | The fact of lying between. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| intermeddlesome | ‘Prone to intermeddle; meddlesome’. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| internationalist | One versed in international law. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| internationalize | trans. To render international in character or use; spec. in Mod. Polit., to bring… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| intrapetiolar | to a stipule, or pair of confluent stipules, between the petiole and the axis. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| irenic | Pacific, non-polemic; = irenical adj. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| iridian | Pertaining to the iris of the eye. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| iridize | To cover with iridium; to tip with iridium. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| irrepressibly | In an irrepressible manner or degree. | 1856 | Go To Quotation |
| isobar | A line (drawn on a map or chart, or imaginary) connecting places on the earth's surface… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| isobarometric | = isobaric adj. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| isocheim | A line (on a map, etc.) connecting places at which the mean winter temperature is the… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| isogeotherm | A line or surface (usually imaginary) connecting points in the interior of the earth… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| isomeromorphism | Isomorphism between isomeric substances. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| isomorph | Chem. and Min. A substance or organism isomorphous with another. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| isonomic | Characterized by isonomy; having equal laws or rights. rare. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| isotherombrose | Applied to a line (on a map, etc.) connecting places at which the ratio of the summer… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| isotropic | Exhibiting equal physical properties or actions (e.g. refraction of light… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| itemize | trans. To set down by items or enter as an item; to specify the items of (an account, etc.). | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| Jovicentric | Referred to Jupiter as a centre; viewed as from the centre of Jupiter. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| Jovinianist | A follower or adherent of Jovinian, a Milanese monk in the end of the 4th century, who… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| kinematical | Of or pertaining to kinematics; kinematic. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| kinetics | The branch of dynamics which investigates the relations between the motions of bodies… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| krummhorn | An organ reed-stop of 8 ft. pitch, resembling the clarinet in tone; called also cromorne n., and corruptly cremona n. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| lappet | trans. To cover with, or as with a lappet. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| lentoid | Having the form of a lens or lentil; lens-shaped. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| limnite | Palaeontol. A fossil species of the genus Limnæa. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| Lingism | ‘Ling's mode of treating disease by the use of gymnastics and appropriate movements’ (New Sydenham… | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| lophiodont | Pertaining to or resembling the lophiodon; belonging to the family Lophiodontidæ. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| loudful | Error for loud full. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| lunicurrent | Depending in current on the phases of the moon. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| luteolein | Chevreul's term for a substance which accompanies, and is a product of the normal… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| lymphy | Of the nature of or resembling lymph. | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| lyterian | Terminating a disease: indicating the end of a disease. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| macrotone | = macron n. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| malacostracology | The branch of zoology that deals with malacostracans or (more generally) with crustaceans in general. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| manoscopy | The branch of science that deals with the determination of the density of vapours and gases. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| mantologist | A person who practises divination. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| matting | An ornamental border or mat surrounding a picture; the action of providing a print, etc., with a mat as a border or backing. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| mechanurgy | The branch of mechanics that deals with moving machines. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| medusidan | A jellyfish; = medusid n. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| melodics | The theory and study of melody. rare. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| metaplast | In an inflected language: a word which shows alteration of case by a change to letters, esp. after a stem (see metaplasm n. 1). | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| metoposcopic | = metoposcopical adj. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| minatorially | = minatorily adv. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| mixed ale | Ale taken with strong liquor. Freq. with allusion to the effects of drinking such a mixture. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| Mohammedize | trans. = Mohammedanize v. | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| monocardian | Of a vertebrate: having a heart with a single ventricle. Also as n. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| monoclinate | = monoclinic adj. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| monosymmetric | Crystallogr. = monoclinic adj. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| morioplasty | Plastic surgery. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| mormal | Perh. a mistaken inference from mormal n. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| mucivore | A dipteran insect of the former group Mucivora, which feeds on the mucilaginous juices of plants. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| myopsis | A (supposed) disorder of the eyes characterized by unusual prominence or awareness of the muscae volitantes. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| myriological | Of or relating to a myriologue. | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| myriologist | The singer of a myriologue. | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| naevose | Spotted, freckled. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| namingly | By name. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| nucleole | = nucleolus n. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| objicient | A person who objects or makes an objection; an opponent of a motion or proposition. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| obversion | The action of turning towards a person or thing. Obs. rare. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| oceanology | = oceanography n. Also: spec. the branch of technology and economics concerned with human use of the ocean. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| octuor | = octet n. 2a. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| oleo- | the liquid part of a volatile oil, as contrasted with the crystallizable part. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| oolitiferous | Producing or containing oolite. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| orbituary | Of, relating to, or of the nature of an orbit; = orbital adj. 2. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| originable | Able to be originated. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| orthostade | A long loose tunic, ungirded so as to hang in straight folds. | 1854 | Go To Quotation |
| overcautiously | In an overcautious manner. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| oxygenator | An apparatus for oxygenating something, esp. a device for oxygenating the blood. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| ozonification | = ozonation n. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| paedeutics | The science, art, or practice of education. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| palaeograph | An ancient text or manuscript; (also) an ancient character or word. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| palaeolith | A stone artefact of Palaeolithic date. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| palindromical | = palindromic adj. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| pandurate | = panduriform adj. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| penological | Of or relating to penology. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| perspectography | The theory or practice of delineating objects, scenes, etc., according to the rules of perspective; the theory of perspective. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| pertusate | = pertuse adj. 2. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| petrologic | Of or relating to petrology. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| petrostearin | The mineral ozokerite; natural paraffin wax. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| phonascetics | Vocal exercises for strengthening or restoring the voice; vocal training. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| phonologer | = phonologist n. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| photomagnetism | The branch of physics which deals with the relations between light and magnetism. Obs. rare. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| phytochimy | = phytochemistry n. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| phytolithology | The branch of palaeontology concerned with extinct and fossil plants; phytopalaeontology. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| phytopathology | The branch of science concerned with diseases of plants; plant pathology. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| pickwick | A pointed instrument for pulling up a wick, as on an oil lamp. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| plagueless | Unaffected by or free from plague. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| pleochromatic | = pleochroic adj. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| pleochromatism | = pleochroism n. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| pleochroous | = pleochroic adj. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| plumulaceous | Of the nature of or resembling a down feather or plumule (plumule n. 2a); downy; spec.… | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| polarimetry | The use of a polarimeter; esp. the measurement of the polarization of light. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| polyembryonate | = polyembryonic adj. 1. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| polyembryonic | Bot. Of a seed: containing more than one embryo. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| polymerous | = polymeric adj. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| polyommatous | Having many eyes. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| polytheize | intr. To believe in, or advocate belief in, more than one god. Obs. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| pomonic | Consisting of or relating to fruits, esp. apples. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| poriferan | A member of the phylum Porifera; a sponge. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| port-bar | A shoal, bank, or boom across the entrance to a port. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| preselect | trans. To select in advance. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| pretonic | Coming immediately before a stressed or accented syllable. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| procellarian | A bird of the genus Procellaria or the family Procellariidae (petrels and shearwaters). Cf. procellariid n. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| protozoic | = protozoan adj. Also in extended (non-technical) use: designating or associated… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| pyroxyle | Gun cotton; = pyroxylin n. 2. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| quakiness | The quality or condition of being quaky. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| revalescent | Recovering or tending to recovery; convalescent. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| ruminantly | By or while chewing. Usu. fig.: meditatively; = ruminatingly adv. at ruminating adj. Derivatives. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| sacciferous | Bearing a sac. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| sacerdotalism | The sacerdotal spirit or system; the principles or practice of the priesthood.… | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| salutatorian | In American schools and colleges the student who delivers the ‘salutatory’ oration at the annual commencement day exercises. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| Satanophany | The appearing, or visible manifestation, of Satan. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| sclerometer | An instrument for measuring the hardness of crystals. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| sectism | Devotion to a sect; sectarian spirit. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| seismal | Seismic. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| selenographist | A selenographer. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| self-regulated | Regulated from within or automatically. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| sensitory | = sensory n. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| sepic | | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| septulate | Having a septulum or septula. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| sermonish | = sermonic adj. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| shirred | Having elastic threads woven into the texture. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| sightlessness | Lack of sight. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| silentious | Given to silence. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| siliquiform | Having the form of a silique. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| single-tree | = swingletree n. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| siphuncled | Possessing or furnished with a siphuncle. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| sito- | combining form of Greek σῖτος food made from grain, bread, as siˈtology n. = sitiology n.… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| skimmingly | In a skimming manner; esp. lightly, carelessly, superficially. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| skimp | = scrimp v. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| snarler | One who works with a snarling-iron. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| snottily | In a snotty manner. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| sombreness | The state of being sombre; gloominess; gloom; dullness. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| sorbefacient | Causing or promoting absorption. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| soteriology | (See quot. 1847) rare. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| souffle | A murmuring or breathing sound. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| sparker | A spark-arrester. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| spathal | ‘Furnished with a spathe; as, spathal flowers.’ | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| spermary | The organ or gland in which spermatozoa are generated in male animals. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| sporid | Anglicized f. sporidium n. rare. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| spyism | Espionage. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| stichic | Pertaining to or consisting of verses or lines. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| stomatous | Having or furnished with stomata. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| tabetic | Of, pertaining to, or affected with tabes or emaciation. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| tactless | Destitute of tact; awkward. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| tamper | One who tamps a boring, etc.; also, a tamping-bar; an instrument or machine used for tamping. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| tangram | The name given to a Chinese geometrical puzzle consisting of a square dissected… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| tannable | Capable of being tanned. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| taste | A kind of narrow thin silk ribbon used for edge-binding: now commonly called taffeta-binding. See also wire n. 2 -taste. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| taxidermic | Of or pertaining to taxidermy. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| technism | Technicality, technical quality; concern with details or technicalities. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| tellural | Of or pertaining to the earth; terrestrial. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| tendsome | Explained as: Requiring much attendance. Known only in the following Dict. entries. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| tergiferous | Bearing the fructification on the back of the frond, as a fern: = dorsiferous adj. 1. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| terraculture | = agriculture n. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| tessellar | Of the nature or form of tessellæ. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| testacy | The state of being testate; the condition of leaving a valid will at death. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| testicond | Having the testes contained within the body, as the Cetacea. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| testudinate | Formed like a testudo; arched, vaulted. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| tetraonid | Pertaining to the family Tetraonidæ of gallinaceous birds, including the grouse and… | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| Thalian | Of or pertaining to Thalia as the muse of pastoral and comic poetry; hence, of the nature of comedy, comic. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| thermochrosy | The ‘coloration’ of heat-rays; the property possessed by radiant heat of being composed… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| thermogen | A name for the fluid formerly supposed to exist as the material substance of heat; = caloric n. 1. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| thoria | An oxide of thorium, ThO 2; a very heavy white substance discovered in the mineral… | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| thralless | Having no thrall; without bondmen. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| thysanopter | An insect of the order Thysanoptera, comprising Thrips and allied genera, characterized by long fringes on the wings. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| tilde | The diacritic mark ˜ placed in Spanish above the letter n to indicate the mouillé… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| titration | The action or process of titrating; volumetric analysis. Also attrib. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| Torinese | The dialect of Italian spoken in Turin. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| torsibility | Capability of being twisted; esp. in reference to degree or amount. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| tortulous | Erron. form of torulous adj. at torulose adj. Derivatives. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| traditionism | = traditionalism n. 2. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| traitor | intr. To act as a traitor. | 1600 | Go To Quotation |
| tralatition | = tralation n. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| transflux | A flowing through, across, or beyond. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| trappy | = trappean adj., trappose adj. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| tribular | Tribal. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| trichroism | Crystallogr.: see trichroic adj. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| truncal | Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a trunk; situated in or affecting the trunk. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| tsarevna | A daughter of a tsar. (Not the official title in Russia; the wife of the cesarevitch was the cesaˈrevna. See tsarevich n.) | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| turgesce | intr. To begin to swell, to become turgid or inflated. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| umbraculi- | the stem of Latin umbrācul-um sunshade (see umbracle n.), employed in the… | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| unctuously | In an unctuous manner; with unction. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| unsectarian | (un- prefix 7 12.) | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| usurpatory | Marked or characterized by usurpation; usurping. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| utilization | The action of utilizing; the fact of being utilized. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| utriculoid | Resembling a bladder; utricular. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| vaccinist | A vaccinator; a supporter or advocate of vaccination. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| valedictorian | In colleges, academies, etc., the student (male or female) appointed on grounds of… | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| vapidly | In a vapid manner. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| vigesimo-quarto | = twentyfourmo n. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| vigorite | A nitro-glycerine explosive used in blasting. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| violescent | Tending to a violet colour; tinged with violet. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| wash-off | Of colours: Capable of being washed off; not permanent. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| wavure | Erroneous variant of waiver n. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| wood-spell | A spell or turn of work at piling or storing wood for fuel. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| wrister | A knitted covering for the wrist; a muffetee. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| wristlet | (See quot.) | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| xylograph | A wood-engraving (i.e. either an engraving on wood, or an impression from one), esp. one of the early period. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| yardful | As much or as many as a yard will hold. Also fig. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| zinziberaceous | = zingiberaceous adj. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| zoogenic | Produced from animals; in Geol. applied to formations of animal origin, e.g. limestones formed from shells. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |