| abiogenous | = abiogenic adj. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| abumbrellar | = abumbral adj. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| acalyculate | Bot. Of a flower or plant: having no calycle (calycle n. 1a). Obs. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| agrostographic | = agrostographical adj. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| allomerous | Displaying variation in chemical composition without change in crystalline form. Cf. allomerism n. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| amacratic | Uniting the actinic rays of the solar speculum into one focus, as an amacratic lens. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| amassable | Capable of being amassed. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| Anglo-Judaic | = Anglo-Jewish adj. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| annoyingness | The quality of being annoying, vexatiousness. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| anthropometrically | In regard to, or in the matter of, anthropometry. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| aphetically | In an aphetic manner; by way of aphesis. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| aphetize | To render aphetic, to shorten by aphesis. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| aplasia | Congenital irregularity or absence of an organ or structure (see aplastic adj.). | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| averish | To consume the eddish, arrish, or average. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| back-formation | The formation of what looks like a root-word from an already existing word which might be… | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| balking | That balks; checking; shying. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| balter | A clot, a coagulated lump. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| basial | Of or pertaining to kissing, osculatory. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| befuddle | To make stupid with tippling; also, to confuse, to stupefy. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| Bell's palsy | Paralysis of the muscles in one side of the face caused by lesion of the… | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| betterish | Somewhat better, of somewhat superior sort. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| bobbin | A small bundle or fagot of fire wood. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| Bonham's partridge | The seesee partridge, Ammoperdix griseogularis. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| broadening | Expansion in breadth, dilatation. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| brocade | To work with a raised pattern (chiefly in pa. pple.). | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| brushable | Capable of being brushed. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| cab | To pilfer, snatch dishonestly or meanly; to ‘crib’. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| canvassed | Subjected to canvassing; discussed. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| capoeira partridge | A wood quail, Odontophorus capueira, of forests of eastern Brazil and Paraguay, having… | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| carve | An act or stroke of Carving. See also carf n. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| cessio bonorum | (Latin ‘cession of goods’) = cession n. 3b: in Sc. Law, a legal proceeding by which a… | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| Chino- | used as combining form = Chinese. Chino-Japanese adj., Chinese and Japanese. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| church renter | A tenant of the church. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| ciliatifoliate | Probably: having leaves with fine bristles or cilia. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| committor | A judge (usually the Lord Chancellor) who commited a ‘lunatic’ or ‘idiot’ to the charge… | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| confidentialness | Confidential quality. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| contractable | Liable to be contracted or acquired as a disease or habit. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| denudative | Having the quality of denuding; causing denudation (e.g. of strata). | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| deoperculate | intr. To shed the operculum. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| diploid | Crystallogr. A solid belonging to the isometric system, contained within twenty-four trapezoidal planes; = diplohedron n. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| downthrown | That has been thrown down; spec. in Geol., designating the side of a fault that has moved downwards relative to the other side. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| electro | trans. = electroplate v. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| Elliot's pheasant | A pheasant of China, Syrmaticus ellioti. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| Euterpean | Pertaining to the muse Euterpe, or to music. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| fender | To provide with a fender or fenders. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| fiercen | intr. To become or grow fierce. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| footling | That footles or trifles; ‘drivelling’, ‘blithering’, trivial; hence of things. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| free throw | Chiefly Basketball. A chance or attempt to score a point, hit a target, etc.… | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| graft | intr. To dig. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| hacky | Of a cough: Characterized by hacking. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| Hey's partridge | The sand partridge, Ammoperdix heyi. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| hittable | Capable of being hit. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| Hodgson's partridge | The Tibetan partridge, Perdix hodgsoniae. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| Marennes | In full Marennes oyster. An edible oyster, Ostrea edulis, of a variety farmed in the… | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| marigram | = mareogram n. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| me-ness | The fact or consciousness of one's identity as a unique individual. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| metricize | trans. To convert or adapt to the metric system. Also intr. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| missorting | Bad or incorrect sorting. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| mkt. | = market n. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| mod | A person who holds moderate views in politics, religion, etc.; (Sc. Church Hist.) = moderate adj. 2 (cf. Non n.). | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| moff | In sing. and pl. An instrument similar to a pair of compasses, but with one curved… | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| moiring | The action or process of giving a moiré or watered appearance to something. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| mucosal | Of, relating to, or affecting a mucosa. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| mutograph | trans. To photograph (a moving object) using a mutograph. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| mygalid | A spider of the former family Mygalidae, whose members are now included in the family Theraphosidae… | 1912 | Go To Quotation |
| mythopoetize | intr. To produce myths. rare. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| necrotize | intr. To undergo necrosis; to become necrotic. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| nemophilous | Fond of or frequenting woods. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| Oculi Sunday | The third Sunday in Lent. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| odd-leg | Designating a pair of compasses or callipers having one of the two legs bowed or bent… | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| ogreism | Ogreish behaviour or character; (also) an instance of this; a thing which threatens or intimidates. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| oligosyllable | A word of few syllables, spec. one having fewer than four syllables. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| ontographic | Of or relating to ontography. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| ostracopod | = ostracod n. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| overtreatment | Excessive treatment; spec. excessive medical treatment. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| overwound | trans. To inflict wounds all over. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| oxychromic | Designating a compound of oxygen and chromium in which chromium is in one of its… | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| palaeoherpetology | The branch of palaeontology that deals with extinct and fossil amphibians and reptiles. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| palaeornithological | Of or relating to palaeornithology. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| palaeornithology | The branch of palaeontology or ornithology that deals with extinct and fossil birds. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| palliness | The quality or condition of being friendly or ‘pally’. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| parabaptist | A person who practises or advocates uncanonical or unauthorized baptism. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| paralerous | Slightly delirious. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| paroxytonize | trans. To make a (word) paroxytonic; to pronounce or write with the stress on the penultimate syllable. Cf. paroxytone v. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| passifloral | In Bentham and Hooker's system: of or relating to a cohort (Passiflorales) of plant families allied to the Passifloraceae. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| pastoring | That gives spiritual care; relating to the position of a pastor. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| perispome | trans. To place a circumflex accent on the last syllable of (a word). | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| periuranium | The point in the path of a celestial object or spacecraft orbiting (or passing) Uranus at which it is nearest to the planet. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| perperous | Foolish, careless, wrong. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| phenenyl | A trivalent radical, —C 6 H 3 , derived from benzene by the loss of three hydrogen… | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| philosophuncule | A petty or insignificant philosopher. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| phocomele | A person with phocomelia. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| photovoltaic | Relating to, involving, or utilizing the generation of a voltage at the junction of two substances exposed to light. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| plunking | That plunks (in various senses of plunk v.); (of a sound) of the nature of or resembling a plunk. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| Plutarchical | = Plutarchian adj. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| podostemaceous | Of or relating to the large family of aquatic herbs Podostemaceae, which occur mainly… | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| poodling | The action of poodle v.; behaviour characteristic of a poodle. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| pre-acquainted | Having previous acquaintance or knowledge. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| pre-feudalic | = pre-feudal adj. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| preoccupative | Characterized by preoccupation or preoccupations; that is the dominating subject of a person's thoughts. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| presanctify | trans. To sanctify beforehand. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| pre-wire | Before the existence of the telegraph or of wire services. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| prima volta | An instruction indicating that the section of music marked is to be played on the… | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| propargylamine | A pale yellow liquid amine, several substituted derivatives of which are monoamine oxidase inhibitors. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| psalmodizing | Having the style or character of a psalm, or of the singing of psalms. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| psammophid | Of or relating to the former family Psammophidae, which comprised snakes of… | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| pulpiteer | trans. To preach from or as from a pulpit. Also intr. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| similative | Denoting or expressing similarity or likeness. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| synchronized | That has been synchronized or exhibits synchronism; synchronized swimming, a form of… | 1919 | Go To Quotation |
| synergize | intr. To act as a synergist, co-operate, as a remedy, or an organ, with another. | 1919 | Go To Quotation |
| tapeless | Without tape, without the use of tapes. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| translunar | = translunary adj. | 1914 | Go To Quotation |
| unassailability | (un- prefix 12.) | 1921 | Go To Quotation |
| understandably | For understandable reasons; in a manner that can be understood. | 1921 | Go To Quotation |