| abiogenetically | = abiogenically adv. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| acerous | = acerose adj. 2. | 1789 | Go To Quotation |
| achromatism | = achromaticity n. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| adrectal | Situated at or near the rectum; esp. (formerly) designating the glands of… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| aeronautics | With sing. and pl. concord. The science, art, or practice of controlled flight through… | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| aileron | Entomol. In dipteran flies: an alula. Now disused. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| alba | More fully alba rose. A shrub rose derived from Rosa × alba (an old white garden rose… | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| algivorous | Of an organism: feeding on algae. | 1856 | Go To Quotation |
| anastate | A substance formed in the process of anabolism in a living organism: opp. to katastate n. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| anatriaene | In sponges, a triæne with recurved prongs. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| ante-post | Of betting (see quot. 1902). | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| Antilegomena | (See quot. 1957.) | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| anti-sun | The point in the sky diametrically opposite the sun; esp. a point opposite the sun in azimuth, of the same altitude as the sun. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| aplanogamete | A non-ciliated stationary gamete or conjugating cell, as distinguished from a planogamete n. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| apodal | A batrachian belonging to the order Apoda, a group of the Cæcilians. | 1856 | Go To Quotation |
| arcosolium | An arched cell or niche, vaulted in semi-circular form, serving as a tomb in the Roman catacombs. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| arithmetization | The action, or the result, of arithmetizing, in various senses. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| arsine | A compound having the structure of ammonia or an amine, with arsenic instead of… | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| asciferous | = ascigerous adj. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| Aten | One of the names of the sun in ancient Egypt; the name by which the sun or solar… | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| austenite | (See quot. 1910.) | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| avertebrated | Invertebrate. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| axillant | Of or growing from the axil. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| Azerbaijani | A member of a Turkic-speaking people of Azerbaijan and north-west Iran; (also) the language of this people. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| baetyl | A sacred meteoric stone. Also in Greek-Latin form baitylos, bætylos, -us; also bæˈtylion (pl. baetylia) (Greek βαιτύλιον). | 1854 | Go To Quotation |
| balafon | A large xylophone with hollow gourds used as resonators, used in various parts of W.… | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| banderilla | A little dart, ornamented with a banderole, which dexterous bull-fighters stick into the… | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| barchan | A crescent-shaped dune of shifting sand such as occur in the deserts of Turkestan. Also attrib. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| batch | Calico-printing and Dyeing. To collect into a ‘batch’ or mass. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| batik | The Javanese art and method (introduced into England by way of Holland) of executing… | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| batrachiate | = batrachian adj. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| baum marten | The pine marten or its fur. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| benedictional | Of or pertaining to the pronouncing of a benediction. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| Berberine | A Berber. Also attrib. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| Bergamasque | Of or pertaining to the province or city of Bergamo in northern Italy; spec. pertaining… | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| bespeckle | To speckle over, to variegate with specks or spots. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| bicollateral | Of a vascular bundle: having two masses of phloem on opposite sides of the xylem. (See collateral adj. 1e.) | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| biometricist | = biometrician n. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| bionomics | With sing. or pl. concord. The ecology of a particular species of organism. Cf. ecology n. 1a. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| biramose | = biramous adj. | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| blasto- | the gummy substance which coats certain buds, as those of the horse-chestnut. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| Bloomsbury | A set of writers, artists, and intellectuals living in or associated with… | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| boule | A game resembling roulette (see quot. 1911). Also attrib. | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| brachyodont | Designating teeth with short or low crowns and well-developed roots. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| brasque | trans. To line with brasque. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| Brie | A kind of soft cheese made in the Brie district. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| Broca | Applied (chiefly in the possessive case) to anatomical features, etc., discovered by or… | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| Brocken | Applied attrib. to a magnified shadow of the spectator thrown on a bank of cloud in… | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| Bundestag | An assembly of representatives of a league, confederacy, etc.; spec. (since 1949) the… | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| buran | In the steppes, a snowstorm, esp. one accompanied by high winds; a blizzard. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| butyrometer | An instrument for estimating the percentage of butter-fat in milk. Cf. lactobutyrometer n. at lacto- comb._form 1. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| calina | (See quot. 1887.) | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| caliology | That department of ornithology which is concerned with birds' nests. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| Caucasoid | Of, pertaining to, or resembling the Caucasian race. Also as n. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| cecidium | = gall n.; (see also quot. 1902). | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| centavo | A small coin of Spain and Portugal, and of Central and South America. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| cephalont | A protozoan parasite at the stage of development in which an epimerite is attached to the anterior cyst. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| ceresin | A whitish wax, hard and brittle, prepared from ozocerite, or a petroleum wax, mixed with… | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| chaitya | A Buddhist place or object of reverence or worship. Cf. chorten n. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| chakra | A circular weapon used by the Sikhs (see quots.). | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| charpie | Old linen unravelled into short ends of thread for surgical dressings; ‘very… | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| chelydoid | A tortoise belonging to this family. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| Chibchan | The language of the Chibcha people. Also as adj., designating a group of related… | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| chondrite | Min. A meteorite containing granules. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| chone | In sponges, a cortical dome-like structure communicating with the subdermal cavity. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| chromoplast | A chromatophore that contains pigments other than chlorophyll, esp. one that contains no chlorophyll. Also attrib. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| chronotropism | = chronotropy n. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| chulo | A bullfighter's assistant. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| cinchono- | combining form of cinchona n. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| cire perdue | A method of casting bronze by making a model with a wax surface, enclosing it in a… | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| Clun | The name of a town, river, and forest in Shropshire, used to designate a breed of sheep originating in this area. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| cœlomate | Having a cœlome or body-cavity distinct from the intestinal cavity; belonging to the Cœlomata. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| collencyte | Sollas's proposed term for the corpuscles of connective tissue found embedded in the collenchyme in the mesoderm of sponges. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| commedia dell'arte | Improvised popular comedy as played in Italian theatres from the sixteenth to the… | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| conchoid | spherical conchoid: Herschel's name for a similar curve, traced on the surface of a sphere. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| conodont | A small conical toothlike glistening body, found in Silurian and other ancient strata… | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| consortial | Of or pertaining to a consortium, association, or union. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| coperta | A film of glaze given as a final coating to later Italian majolica ware. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| Cortaillod | The name of a place in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, used to denote a red wine made… | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| corticole | Growing or living in the bark of trees. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| Cowley Father | A priest of the Anglican order of the Society of Mission Priests of St. John… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| coxal | pertaining to the coxa of insects, etc. | 1853 | Go To Quotation |
| Creed | The designation of an automatic tape-printing machine; see quot. 1911. Usually attrib.… | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| cross-bond | A bond in which a course of ‘stretchers’ alternates with one of alternate… | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| cross-tongue | A cross-grained tongue of wood used to give extra strength to a joint in woodwork. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| Cruft | Used in the possessive to designate the dog show founded by Charles Cruft (now administered… | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| crystalligerous | Of a spore or cell: containing a crystal or crystals. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| cuerda seca | (See quot. 1960.) | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| cyanophycean | Of or pertaining to the class Cyanophyceae, which comprises the blue-green… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| dalo | = taro n. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| Danakil | A member of a widely spread Hamitic people of north-eastern Ethiopia. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| Danism | A Danish idiom or expression, a Danicism. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| dasypeltis | A small harmless egg-eating snake of the genus of this name found in central and south Africa. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| dayan | A religious judge in a Jewish community. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| Deacon | Used attrib. or in the possessive to designate a process for the manufacture of chlorine… | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| dead-melt | trans. To keep (metal) at a melting temperature until it is perfectly fluid and no more gas is evolved. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| decisional | Of, or of the nature of, a decision. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| declinograph | An astronomical instrument or arrangement for automatically recording the declination of stars with a filar micrometer. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| decurvation | The action or process of decurving; the condition of being bent downwards. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| dedicant | One who dedicates. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| de-monopolize | trans. To destroy the monopoly of, withdraw from monopoly. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| deoxygenize | = deoxygenate v. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| desiliconize | trans. To deprive of or free from silicon. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| destructivity | Destructiveness. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| detentive | Having the quality or function of detaining. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| Dexter | One of a breed of small hardy Irish cattle originating from the Kerry breed. Also called Dexter Kerry. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| dichasial | Belonging to or of the nature of a dichasium. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| dichotriaene | A dichotomous triæne; a three-forked sponge spicule, having each fork dividing into two. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| dipleura | With pl. concord. Organic forms with bilateral symmetry having a single pair of antimeres or corresponding opposite parts. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| discolorous | = discolor adj. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| disyllabism | Disyllabic character or state. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| dracontiasis | The condition of having a Guinea worm or its larvae inside the body. Also called dracunculiasis n., dracunculosis n. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| dso | See quot. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| Dublin | the Norway lobster, Nephrops norvegicus. | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| dwarf-man | A very small man; a dwarf. | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| dynamize | trans. To endow with power. In Homoeopathy, To increase the power of (medicines) by trituration or succussion. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| dysmerism | having the character of such an aggregation. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| elasmosaurus | An extinct marine reptile. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| electriferous | Relating to or characterized by the carrying of an electric charge or current. | 1857 | Go To Quotation |
| eleme | attrib. in eleme figs, a kind of dried figs from Turkey. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| Emmental | In full Emmental (etc.) cheese. A Swiss cheese containing numerous holes. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| enantiomorph | A form which is related to another as an object is related to its image in a mirror; a mirror image. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| endemism | The character or quality of being endemic; spec. of a plant or animal species, the… | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| enneastyle | Having nine columns or pillars. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| Ephthalite | = White Hun n. at white adj. 1e. Also as adj. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| ephymnium | In some Eastern Churches, a refrain to a hymn; an antiphonal refrain. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| epibenthos | The flora and fauna living at or near the bottom of any body of water, spec. on the surface of the bottom. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| epigyne | The ovipositor in arachnids; the external genital plate in spiders. Also in modern Latin form epigynum /ɛpɪˈdʒaɪnəm/. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| epimerite | (See quots.) | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| epithalamial | Of the nature of an epithalamium. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| erg | A type of desert area in the Sahara consisting of shifting sand dunes. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| ericetal | Of the type characteristic of heathy regions; moorland. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| ersatz | A substitute or imitation (usually, an inferior article instead of the real thing). Also attrib. or adj., and fig. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| estocada | The final thrust of the matador's sword, driven between the bull's shoulder-blades to kill it. Also fig. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| eurybathic | Of aquatic life: able to live at varying depths. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| Falklander | A native or inhabitant of the Falkland Islands. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| familistère | = familistery n. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| Fasci | With pl. concord. Groups of men organized politically, such as those (fasci dei lavoratori)… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| Fayum | The name of a province in upper Egypt, used attrib. to designate articles discovered there. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| Fedai | An Ismaili Muslim assassin. Cf. assassin n. 1. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| Fendant | A dry white wine produced in south-western Switzerland. | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| feng-shui | In Chinese mythology, a system of spirit influences, good and evil, which inhabit… | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| Feraghan | A costly rug made in Iran (formerly Persia), usu. of cotton. | 1929 | Go To Quotation |
| Ferrel | Used attrib. and in the possessive to designate concepts related to atmospheric… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| fili | The name given in Irish to an ancient order of poets. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| flated | Of consonant-sounds: Produced by flatus, i.e. by breath without any vibration of the vocal chords. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| Friulian | Of or pertaining to Friuli or its inhabitants. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| Gaboon | A hardwood from the tree Aucoumea klaineana. Also attrib. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| gamete | (See quot. 1887.) Also Comb. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| ganosis | (See quots.) | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| gaon | Used as an honorific for the heads of Jewish academies in Babylonia, Palestine, Syria… | 1780 | Go To Quotation |
| gentisic | In gentisic acid = gentianic acid. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| glossopteris | A fossil fern belonging to the genus so named. Also attrib. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| glottogonic | Relating to the origin of language or languages. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| gnetaceous | Belonging to, or resembling, the Gnetaceæ, an order of gymnospermous shrubs or small trees, having jointed stems or branches. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| gonimium | A gonidium which is not of an absolutely green (grass-green) colour. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| gopi | (See quot. 1962.) | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| grainering | The preparation of hides with a grainer or bate. | 1857 | Go To Quotation |
| graticule | A design or plan divided into squares to facilitate its proportionate enlargement… | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| griffe | A claw-shaped ornament carved at the angle of the square base of a column; a spur. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| Guarani | One of the main divisions of Tupi-Guarani, a family of South American Indian languages… | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| Guran | One of a people of Kurdistan; also, the language of this people. Also as adj. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| Heaviside | The name of O. Heaviside (1850 – 1925), English physicist, used attrib. to… | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| Heraclean | Pertaining to Heracles. Heraclean stone (lapis Heraclēus, λίθος Ἡρακλεία): the magnet, so called from its great attractive power. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| Herzegovinian | Of or relating to Herzegovina, a territory in the Balkan peninsula. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| heterodont | Having teeth of different kinds or forms (incisors, canines, and molars), as most… | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| heterosis | Zool. Segmentation in which the parts are different. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| hydrazoate | = azide n. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| hystricid | pertaining to the sub-family Hystricinæ. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| iatrophysical | = iatromathematical adj. b. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| idealistic | Philos. Relating to or characteristic of idealism. | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| idorgan | An ideal or potential organism. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| inductionless | Possessing no inductance. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| inédit | An unpublished work. Also fig., something secret or unrevealed. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| intermedio-lateral | Both intermediate and lateral: applied spec. to the tract of nerve cells which… | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| intransparency | The quality of being opaque; also, an instance of this. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| introversible | Capable of being introverted or drawn within, as the finger of a glove. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| Invar | The proprietary name of an alloy of iron or steel (about 64%) and nickel (about 36%), which… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| invariantive | Belonging to an invariant; not altered by a linear transformation of the original quantic. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| isoetes | An aquatic plant of the genus so called; = quillwort n. at quill n. 2. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| ispravnik | A chief of police in a rural district in Tsarist Russia. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| Jacquard | The surname of Joseph Marie Jacquard of Lyons, who, at the beginning of the 19th c.… | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| jinny | Mining. A stationary engine used to let down or draw up trucks on an inclined plane… | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| Joachimite | A heretical follower of the Italian mystic, Joachim of Fiore. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| Kabardian | The north-western Caucasian language of this people. | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| Kamchatkan | A person from the peninsula of Kamchatka in Siberia; often = Kamchadal n. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| Kara-Kirghiz | = Kyrgyz n. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| karez | In Afghanistan and Baluchistan: = kanat n. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| Kashgai | A Turkic-speaking people living around Shiraz in Iran; a member of this people. Also attrib. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| Kashmiri | The Dardic language spoken in Kashmir. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| ken | A prefecture; one of the territorial divisions of Japan. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| Khaskura | An Indic dialect spoken in Nepal. | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| Khmer | Of or pertaining to the Khmers or their language. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| Khotanese | The people of Khotan; one of this people; the Middle Iranian language of Khotan. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| kiering | Boiling in a kier or vat. | 1922 | Go To Quotation |
| Kioko | A member of an African people inhabiting the Democratic Republic of the Congo and… | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| Kissi | An agricultural people inhabiting the regions of Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia… | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| knopper | A kind of oak-gall caused by an insect of the genus Cynips, formerly used in tanning and dyeing. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| Komi | A member of a people inhabiting the Komi Republic, Russia, to the west of the Ural mountains. Cf. Zyrian n. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| Kuroshiwo | The Black Current or Gulf Stream of Japan. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| lag | trans. To cover (a boiler, etc.) with wooden ‘lags’, strips of felt, etc. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| Lambert | In Cartogr. used attrib. and in the possessive to designate certain map projections… | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| Landsmål | A literary form of Norwegian devised by the Norwegian philologist Ivar Aasen (1813 –… | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| Lao | A branch of the Thai people (see quot. 1949) in South-East Asia; also, a member of this people. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| lazy-tongs | A system of several pairs of levers crossing and pivoted at their centres in the… | 1836 | Go To Quotation |
| lechriodont | (See quot.) | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| lev | The basic monetary unit of Bulgaria. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| Libyo- | comb. form of Libyan adj. n. = Libyan and (something else), as Libyo-Phœnician n.… | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| Lihyanic | The name of an ancient Semitic language known only from north Arabian inscriptions of the… | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| limicolous | Living in mud. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| lincrusta | A special type of thick embossed wall-paper. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| li shu | An ancient Chinese calligraphic script developed during the Han dynasty (206 b.c. – a.d.… | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| list | variant of lisse n. = lease n. Also Comb. list-stick n. (see quot. 1782). | 1782 | Go To Quotation |
| lobose | Having many or large lobes; spec. pertaining to the Lobosa, an order of Rhizopoda so characterized. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| lop | The infusion of bark and ooze used in tanning leather. (Cf. lopping n.) | 1773 | Go To Quotation |
| lopping | The process of barking or tanning leather. | 1773 | Go To Quotation |
| lycodont | A snake of the family Lycodontidæ, having caniniform teeth. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| Lyman | The name of Theodore Lyman (1874 – 1954), U.S. physicist, used attrib. to designate a… | 1922 | Go To Quotation |
| macaberesque | = macabre adj. 2. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| machairodont | Having long sabre-shaped upper canine teeth; sabre-toothed. Also: of or relating to… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| macrodome | A dome (dome n. 5b) whose axis is parallel to the macro-axis of a crystal. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| madrigalesque | Having the features or characteristics of a madrigal. | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| maerl | The remains of calcareous red seaweeds (coralline rhodophytes), esp. those occurring… | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| magnetizable | Capable of being magnetized. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| magnetization | The condition of being magnetized; the process or action of magnetizing something. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| magneto-optics | The branch of physics that deals with the optical effects of magnetic fields. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| Makasarese | The Malayo-Polynesian language of the Makasars. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| Malinke | A member of a people inhabiting the Manding heartland in West Africa and speaking one… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| Manoellian | = Manueline adj. | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| Manueline | Of, relating to, or designating a style of Portuguese architecture developed during the… | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| marezzo | A kind of artificial building stone made to resemble marble. More fully marezzo marble. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| Martinique rose | = China-rose n. at China n. adj. 1b. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| mashua | A perennial climbing nasturtium, Tropaeolum tuberosum (family Tropaeolaceae), which… | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| mediateur | A type of bid in a variety of the game of quadrille (see quot. 1830). | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| Megaloptera | With pl. concord. A small group of predatory flying insects related to or included… | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| megasclere | A large spicule of a sponge, forming one of the chief supporting elements of the skeleton. Cf. microsclere n. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| meizoseismic | = meizoseismal adj. | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| méride | In the morphological theory of French zoologist E. Perrier: a group of cells forming a… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| merogenesis | The formation of parts; segmentation. rare. Perh. Obs. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| mesoarial | Of or relating to a mesovarium. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| mesodesm | A layer of undifferentiated parenchyma separating the xylem and phloem in certain forms of stele. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| mesostate | A precursor or intermediate in the production of an enzyme or other substance which is secreted by a cell. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| mezzadria | A system of feudal land tenure whereby a farmer paid a proportion (originally half) of… | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| micella | Biol. and Biochem. Originally (following the terminology of C. Nägeli): a… | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| microsclere | A small, isolated spicule of a sponge. Cf. megasclere n. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| microseismometer | An instrument for detecting or measuring weak earth tremors. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| microsporidian | = microsporidium n. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| microsporophyll | A leaf or modified leaf which bears microsporangia. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| Minimite | Of, relating to, or designating the order of Minim Friars. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| mire | Gunnery. quoin of mire n. a wooden support used in sighting a gun (see quot. 1797). Obs. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| mirror image | Something that resembles the image produced by a mirror, in having left and right… | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| misidentification | Erroneous identification; an instance of this. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| mole-draining | The technique of draining land by making drainage courses with a mole plough. | 1842 | Go To Quotation |
| Mongoloid | Resembling or having some of the characteristic physical features of Mongolians; spec.… | 1833 | Go To Quotation |
| monogynoecial | Of a simple fruit: formed by the gynoecium of a single flower. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| monoline | Printing. In form Monoline. A kind of type-composing machine which casts a line at a time. Cf. Linotype n. rare. Now hist. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| monophase | Electr. (Of an electric current or signal) exhibiting a single phase; (of an… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| monospored | = monosporous adj. 1. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| monotonic | Of, relating to, or uttered in a monotone; (of an instrument or a line of music) limited or confined to one tone or pitch. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| monsoonal | Of, relating to, or of the nature of a monsoon; characterized by monsoons. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| mordanting | That acts as a mordant. | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| morphographical | = morphographic adj. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| mosaiculture | = carpet-bedding at carpet n. 1e. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| moulage | A cast or impression, esp. of a person or a part of the body; the process of making a… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| multiple-unit | Of, relating to, or designating a train with a number of coaches each provided with… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| musculocutaneous | Of a nerve or blood vessel: supplying both muscles and skin; spec. designating a branch… | 1788 | Go To Quotation |
| myal | Relating to or originating in muscle tissue; (Embryol.) associated with or connected to a myotome. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| mycetozoon | = mycetozoan n. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| myocyte | A muscle cell; esp. a contractile cell not forming part of an organized muscle, as in… | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| myosote | A forget-me-not, esp. Myosotis scorpioides. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| mystacocete | A whale of the suborder Mysticeti (formerly also called Mystacoceti) of baleen or whalebone whales. Cf. mysticete n. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| mysticete | A whale of the suborder Mysticeti of baleen or whalebone whales; spec. the Greenland right whale or bowhead, Balaena mysticetus. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| myxopod | T. H. Huxley's name for: a protozoan possessing pseudopodia, as distinguished from one possessing cilia or flagella. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| myxospore | Biol. A fungal spore produced within a slimy or gelatinous mass; the spore of a myxomycete. Obs. | 1854 | Go To Quotation |
| myzostomid | Any of various small annelid worms belonging to the class Myzostomida, which have… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| naturistic | Of, connected with, or characteristic of naturism or nature; relating to the natural order of things. Cf. naturalistic adj. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| nexum | Usu. italicized. A form of binding obligation between a creditor and a debtor, whereby… | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| Nicol | In full Nicol prism (also Nicol's prism). A device for producing plane-polarized… | 1838 | Go To Quotation |
| nidifugous | Of a young bird or (in later use also) other animal: well developed at birth or hatching… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| nomenclatorial | Of or relating to nomenclature or nomenclators. Cf. nomenclatory adj., nomenclatural adj. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| non-integral | Not integral; (Math. and Physics) not having an integral value. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| notal | Of, relating to, or using notes (in various senses). | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| notochordal | Of, relating to, or of the nature of a notochord; characterized by possession of a notochord. | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| Oblomovism | Sluggish or languorous inertia; supineness, indecision, procrastination. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| ocydrome | Any of several rails of the former genus Ocydromus, most of which are now regarded as forms of the weka, Gallirallus australis. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| ocydromine | Of, relating to, or denoting rails of the former genus Ocydromus (see ocydrome n.). | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| odontocete | A cetacean of the suborder Odontoceti; a toothed whale. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| oghamic | Of or relating to ogham; consisting of oghams. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| Orphizing | Practising or following the doctrines and rites of Orphism (Orphism n. 1). | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| orthodome | In a monoclinic crystal: a dome with faces parallel to the orthodiagonal axis. Cf. dome n. 5b. Also attrib. or as adj. | 1858 | Go To Quotation |
| orthostyle | A straight row of columns. | 1831 | Go To Quotation |
| orthotriaene | A sponge spicule with three short rays projecting at right angles from a longer ray. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| orthotropic | Bot. Of a stem, root, etc.: having a tendency to grow in a vertical direction… | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| overbridge | A bridge over a railway or road. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| pairing | That pairs (in various senses of pair v.) | 1781 | Go To Quotation |
| palaeonemertine | = palaeonemertean n. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| palmification | The artificial fertilization of date palms. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| pandrop | A hard, white, peppermint-flavoured sweet shaped like a slightly flattened sphere. | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| panmelodicon | A keyboard instrument similar to the clavicylinder, in which sound is made by… | 1838 | Go To Quotation |
| Panoan | A family of languages spoken by a number of South American Indian peoples inhabiting areas… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| pantopod | A member of the Pantopoda, the only living order in the class Pycnogonida of marine… | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| papulous | Bot. = papulose adj. Obs. rare. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| paraflagellum | An additional or supplementary flagellum in certain protozoans. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| paragaster | A central cavity in a sponge, open to the exterior through ostia. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| paragastrula | A stage in the development of the larva of certain calcareous sponges, formed by invagination of the amphiblastula. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| paramere | Each of a series of radiating parts or organs, as a ray of a starfish. Obs. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| paranuclear | Located beside or near the nucleus; (in early use also) of, relating to, or of the nature of a paranucleus. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| parthenogonidium | An algal gonidium; = gonidium n. 2a. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| pedal | The lower and thicker part of a kind of straw grown in Italy for weaving and plaiting; a… | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| Pell | In full Pell equation, Pell's equation. A Diophantine equation of the form y 2 − ax 2 =… | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| pentamery | The condition or character of being pentamerous. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| pentoside | A glycoside, usually a nucleoside, which yields a pentose on hydrolysis. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| peridieine | Resembling or consisting of a peridium. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| peromelous | (Of an amphibian) having no limbs; characteristic of the former group Peromela. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| Persianization | The process of making or becoming Persian in appearance, structure, etc.; the result of this; Persian influence. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| perturbant | A perturbing agent. rare. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| Petrarchism | The formal literary style peculiar to or imitated from Petrarch, esp. the Petrarchan sonnet; = Petrarchanism n. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| photocopier | A machine for producing photocopies; (now) spec. a machine for producing facsimiles… | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| photolithographer | A person who practises photolithography; a photolithographic printer. | 1857 | Go To Quotation |
| physharmonica | An early form of harmonium, in which metal springs are set in vibration by a current of… | 1838 | Go To Quotation |
| physoclistic | = physoclistous adj. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| picarian | A bird of the former order Picariae, which included birds from several modern orders such… | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| pinacocyte | Each of the flattened cells which form the outermost cell layer in a sponge. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| pinnulus | A type of sponge spicule in which one ray has a series of short spines along its length, arranged pinnately. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| placoganoid | Of or relating to the former division Placoganoidei of fossil fishes having the body… | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| plasmodium | A multinucleate amoeboid mass or sheet of protoplasm formed by the fusion or aggregation… | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| plasmotomy | A mode of reproduction in certain protozoans, in which the organism divides into two or more multinucleate daughter cells. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| plastinoid | Resembling plastin. | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| pleopodite | = pleopod n. | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| pleurecbolic | In E. R. Lankester's terminology: designating a process of eversion of an organ, or… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| pleurembolic | Of an eversible organ, as the proboscis of a gastropod mollusc: withdrawn from… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| poblacion | In the Philippines: the principal community of a district; a town that is an administrative centre. | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| podophyllic | either of two isomeric, tetracyclic, crystalline acids, C 22 H 24 O 9, occurring in podophyllin. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| porodinic | In E. R. Lankester's terminology: designating a coelomate animal having a pore through which gametes are discharged. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| prefixing | That prefixes (in various senses). | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| pre-flight | Of or relating to the time before the invention of powered flight. | 1922 | Go To Quotation |
| preformationist | A person who advocates or believes in the theory of preformation (preformation n. 2). | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| primine | The outer of the two integuments of an ovule, where two are present. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| prothallial | Of or relating to a prothallus. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| prothallus | The gametophyte of a pteridophyte (fern, horsetail, clubmoss, etc.), which is typically… | 1854 | Go To Quotation |
| protoplasmic | Biol. Of, relating to, or having the character of protoplasm; (also) acting on or affecting protoplasm. | 1854 | Go To Quotation |
| Pseudechis | A genus of Australasian snakes of the family Elapidae, which consists of… | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| pseudovelum | The velarium of a box jelly (cubozoan), which resembles the velum of a hydromedusa… | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| pterobranchiate | = pterobranch adj. rare. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| pulmobranchia | An organ regarded as a gill modified for breathing air, spec. (a) a book-lung in… | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| punctigerous | Bearing or including a small round structure or marking resembling a point. In… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| purpuriparous | Producing or secreting purple (purple n. 4); spec. designating the hypobranchial gland… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| pyramoidal | = pyramidoidal adj. 1. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| quadruplet | Each of four children (or offspring of an animal) present in or produced from a single pregnancy. Cf. quad n. | 1781 | Go To Quotation |
| quercitrin | A pale yellow crystalline glycoside obtained from quercitron bark, which yields… | 1833 | Go To Quotation |
| rebbe | A Jewish teacher or leader, a rabbi; esp. a Hasidic religious leader. Cf. tsaddik n. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| recock | trans. To cock (a firearm) again. Also intr. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| renminbi | (The name of) the system of currency of the People's Republic of China, introduced in… | 1957 | Go To Quotation |
| resmooth | trans. To smooth again. | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| rhabdome | A long ray of a sponge spicule from which three short rays diverge at the end. Cf. rhabd n., rhabdus n. 2. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| rhagon | Originally: a hypothetical stage in the development of sponges, having a simple… | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| roding | The performance by a male woodcock of a regular display flight at dusk and dawn. Cf. rode v. 2. Freq. attrib. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| Sabora | Any of a group of Jewish scholars of the 6th century c.e. who contributed explanations and revisions to the Babylonian Talmud. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| Safavid | Of or relating to a dynasty which ruled in Persia (now Iran), from 1500 to 1730; (also) designating this dynasty. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| Sami | The native name of the Lapps; occas. sing., a Lapp. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| sampaguita | A local name in the Philippines for the Arabian jasmine, Jasminum sambac; the flowers of this tree. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| samsara | The endless cycle of death and rebirth to which life in the material world is bound; also attrib. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| sapphirite | = sapphirine n. a. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| scala naturae | = scale of nature at scale n. 5a; the chain of being (chain n. 4a). | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| scallom | trans. (See quot.) | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| scaraboid | Antiq. = scarabaeoid adj. b. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| Schwendenerism | The theory of Simon Schwendener, Swiss botanist (1829 – 1919), that lichens are… | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| secateurs | With pl. concord. A kind of pruning shears with crossed blades. rare in sing. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| secreta | With pl. concord. Secreted matters; the products of secretion. Cf. excreta n. | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| segmentate | Formed of segments, segmented. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| seismicity | The frequency per unit area of earthquakes of a particular country; the number representing this. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| selenodont | Of molar teeth: Having crescentic ridges on the crowns. Also, having such teeth, of or pertaining to the Selenodonta. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| selenyl | A compound radical consisting of one atom of selenium and one of oxygen. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| semi-feral | Half-wild. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| semi-transparent | Partially or imperfectly transparent. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| sentoku | Originally, a Chinese bronze produced during the era (1426 – 35) of Emperor Hsüan of… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| Senussia | The fraternity founded by es-Senussi. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| serigraph | An instrument for testing the uniformity of raw silk. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| serpentinoid | Having the characters of the mineral serpentine. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| servo-mechanism | A powered mechanism in which a controlled motion is produced at a high energy or power… | 1926 | Go To Quotation |
| sewamono | In Japanese kabuki and bunraku theatre: a domestic drama or melodrama. | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| sextern | A quire consisting of six sheets of parchment or paper folded in two, so as to give twelve leaves. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| Shardana | With pl. concord. One of the Sea Peoples, tentatively identified with the later… | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| Shiism | The doctrines or principles of the Shiahs. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| Shinwari | (A member of) a nomadic people inhabiting areas of Afghanistan around the Khyber Pass. Also attrib. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| shosagoto | In Japanese Kabuki drama: a dance play; a mime performed to music. | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| sialagogue | A medicine which has the effect of producing a flow of saliva. | 1783 | Go To Quotation |
| Sican | A member of an ancient people inhabiting Sicily at the time of the coming of the Sicels (see Sicel n. adj.). | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| siddhi | In Indian and Tibetan religion, a collective term for supernatural or magical powers… | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| siglos | A silver coin of ancient Persia. | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| significal | = signific adj. | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| Simonist | = Simonian n. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| sinu-auricular | Of or belonging to, situated between, the sinus venosus and the auricle. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| siting | The action of locating or placing buildings, trenches, etc. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| sized | Treated or prepared in some way with size. | 1771 | Go To Quotation |
| slath | = slat n. 5a. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| slivovitz | A central and eastern European plum brandy. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| slopfall | A cord or rope fastened to the front frame of a loom in order to support the weaver when bending to the shuttle. | 1782 | Go To Quotation |
| Sobieski's Shield | The constellation Scutum. | 1773 | Go To Quotation |
| Socraticism | The philosophy of Socrates or some aspect of this. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| somon | In Mongolia: an administrative division subordinate to the aimag n. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| Soninke | A member of a people living in Mali and Senegal; the people itself; the Mandingo… | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| sphacelia | The first stage of the fungus which produces ergot in rye. Also attrib. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| spheno- | | 1768 | Go To Quotation |
| Sphex | A genus of digger-wasps; a wasp of this genus. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| spiriferous | Containing or yielding spirifers. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| sporal | Consisting of, relating to, spores. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| sporont | A protozoan cell at a stage of the life cycle following syngenesis and preceding the formation of spores. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| spur | A set of folded sheets of paper. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| squamuliform | Having the shape or character of a squamula. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| squareman | A carpenter, stone-cutter, or other workman who regularly uses a square for adjusting or testing his work. | 1790 | Go To Quotation |
| stampage | A copy or impression (of an inscription) made by stamping. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| stapedial | Pertaining to the stapes. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| staurus | A type of sponge spicule of the form of a cross. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| steatization | (See quot. 1911.) | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| stencilling | The action of stencil v. Also attrib. | 1781 | Go To Quotation |
| sterculia | Bot. A genus of polypetalous plants (typical of the N.O. Sterculiaceæ); a plant of this genus. | 1771 | Go To Quotation |
| sterraster | A stellate sponge-spicule having very numerous rays soldered together for the greater part of their length. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| stressless | Having no stress, unstressed. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| strobila | A stage in the development of certain Hydrozoa. Also attrib. | 1842 | Go To Quotation |
| Stroh | The name of the inventor Charles Stroh (fl. 1901) used attrib. to designate… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| strut | The act of strutting; deflection (of the spoke of a wheel) from the perpendicular. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| stubby | A short, squat beer-bottle with a capacity of 375 ml. Also Comb., as stubby beer bottle. | 1957 | Go To Quotation |
| stylomastoid | Common to the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| subnotochordal | Situated beneath the notochord. Now chiefly hist. | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| Sumerian | Pertaining to Sumer or Sumir, one of the districts of ancient Babylonia, or to… | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| sundang | A heavy two-edged sword used in Malaysia. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| sundri | A tree abundant in the Ganges delta, Heritiera minor, yielding a tough and durable… | 1831 | Go To Quotation |
| superencipher | trans. To recode a message that is already enciphered; = recipher v. | 1957 | Go To Quotation |
| superparasitic | Of or relating to a parasite of a parasite; = hyperparasitic adj. at hyperparasite n.… | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| syllid | A small errant polychæte worm of the family Syllidæ, distinguished by three tentacles on its head and found on rocky shores. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| synangium | Anat. and Zool. A collective or common blood vessel from which several arteries branch; spec.… | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| synectic | Math. Applied to certain continuous functions: see quot. 1888. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| synedrial | = synedrian adj. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| szaboite | A variety of hypersthene. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| szlachta | The aristocratic or land-owning class in Poland before 1945. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| taenio- | in Mollusca, having upon the lingual ribbon one median tooth between three admedian teeth on either side. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| Tamashek | The Berber language spoken by the Tuaregs. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| taphrenchyma | Pitted tissue; = bothrenchyma n. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| Tarragona | The name of a town and a province in north-eastern Spain, used attrib. and absol. to… | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| Tartarized | Converted or transformed into a Tartar. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| taungya | A temporary hillside clearing. Usu. attrib., designating a method of… | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| Tavgi | The language of this people. Also attrib. or as adj., esp. in Tavgi-Samoyed. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| tectology | (See quot. 1883, and cf. promorphology n.) | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| tercine | A third integument supposed by some to occur in certain ovules: cf. primine n. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| terrazzo | A flooring material made of chips of marble or granite set in concrete and polished to give a smooth surface. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| terre-à-terre | In Ballet, applied to a step or manner of dancing in which the feet remain on or close… | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| thalamencephalon | That part of the brain which develops from the posterior part of the anterior cerebral… | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| thallous | = thallious adj. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| theodicy | The, or a, vindication of the divine attributes, esp. justice and holiness, in respect… | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| thesocyte | (See quot. 1887.) | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| thorite | Hydrous silicate of thorium, occurring crystalline, massive, and compact, orange-yellow (orangite… | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| thorium | A rare metallic element discovered by Berzelius in the mineral thorite, and subsequently… | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| thrashing-machine | A power-driven machine for separating grain or other seed from the straw or husk. Also in Comb. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| thremmatology | That part of biology which treats of the propagation or breeding of domestic animals and plants. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| Tibeto- | (a) adj. relating to Tibet and the Himalayas; (b) n. a branch of the Tibeto-Burmese… | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| Tocharish | The Tocharian language. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| Töpler | Töpler (or †Töpler's) pump: a pump in which the reservoir to be evacuated is connected by… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| toponymy | The place-names of a country or district as a subject of study. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| toquilla | = jipijapa n. a. | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| toxaspire | In sponges, a form of microsclere or flesh-spicule: see quots. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| traditionalize | trans. To render traditional; to imbue with or constrain by tradition. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| trapeze | An apparatus for gymnastic exercises and feats, consisting of a horizontal cross-bar… | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| triaene | A kind of sponge-spicule. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| tricho- | having triple or trifurcate cladi or secondary rays, as a sponge-spicule. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| trophal | Pertaining to or forming the trophi. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| tropidial | Pertaining to the tropis or keel of a C-shaped sponge-spicule. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| Tsakonian | (Of or pertaining to) a modern Greek dialect spoken in an area of the… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| ts'ao shu | In Chinese calligraphy, a cursive script developed during the Han dynasty (206 b.c.–a.d. 220) from the ‘official’ script. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| tubar | Of the form of a tube; tubular. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| tylosis | Bot. = tylose n. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| undercooled | (See quot. 1902.) | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| underlye | (under- prefix 2b(b).) | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| unencysted | (un- prefix 8.) | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| unprime | (un- prefix 7.) | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| unsulphureous | (un- prefix 7.) | 1781 | Go To Quotation |
| Uralian | Of or pertaining to, dwelling in or near, the Ural mountains; also, Ural-Altaic. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| vaccinal | Of or pertaining to, connected with, vaccine or vaccination. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| Vanda | A genus of epiphytal orchids, native to tropical Asia, characterized by large showy… | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| varicella | The disease chickenpox. In early use also: any of several diseases resembling or… | 1771 | Go To Quotation |
| Vaudese | Variant of Vaudois n. adj. | 1781 | Go To Quotation |
| Vegliote | An extinct dialect of the Romance language Dalmatian, formerly spoken on the island of… | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| Venetic | Of or pertaining to the ancient Veneti, their country, or their language, or to the modern province of Venice. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| Venstre | In Norway and Denmark, the Liberal Party, so called because it was orig. perceived… | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| ventriloquism | The art or practice of speaking or producing sounds in such a manner that the voice… | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| verbenaceous | Of or pertaining to the Verbenaceæ, an extensive order of monopetalous (chiefly tropical) plants. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| vers libre | Poetic writing in which the traditional rules of prosody, esp. those of metre and… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| vesiculo- | | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| vibex | A long and narrow mark or patch in the skin caused by the subcutaneous extravasation… | 1771 | Go To Quotation |
| victorine | Of or pertaining to the mysticism of St. Victor. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| viner | An implement for gathering the product of ‘vines’; esp. one used to harvest peas. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| viscero- | | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| Visigothic | Of or belonging to the Visigoths. | 1788 | Go To Quotation |
| volvocinean | Of or pertaining to the Volvocineæ, a family of microscopic confervaceous plants. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| Wanderobo | The name of a nomadic hunting tribe of Kenya. Also attrib. or as adj. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| windshield | Any of various devices for shielding a person or thing from wind; spec. (chiefly U.S.) on… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| word mark | A (real or invented) word used as a trade mark; a trade mark in the form of a word (as… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| ypsiliform | Shaped like the Greek letter upsilon; Y-shaped. Cf. hypsiloid adj. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| zadruga | A type of patriarchal social unit traditional to (agricultural) Serbians and other… | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| zygobranchiate | Belonging to the division Zygobranchiata or Zygobranchia of gastropod molluscs… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
