| Abdominales | A (former) division of bony fishes comprising those with pelvic fins located on the… | 1771 | Go To Quotation |
| abdomino- | Forming adjectives with the sense ‘abdominal and ——’, as abdomino-anterior, abdomino-perineal, etc. | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| acerous | = acerose adj. 2. | 1789 | Go To Quotation |
| achkan | In parts of South Asia: a light, close-fitting knee-length jacket buttoned at the front, traditionally worn by men. | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| achromatism | = achromaticity n. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| admedian | Situated close to the median plane. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| aeronautics | With sing. and pl. concord. The science, art, or practice of controlled flight through… | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| aesthiology | The study of the structure or function of the sensory organs. | 1831 | Go To Quotation |
| aileron | Entomol. In dipteran flies: an alula. Now disused. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| ambreada | (See quot.) | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| anaerobiotic | = anaerobic adj. 1. | 1885 | 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 |
| apocalypticism | An apocalyptic doctrine or belief, esp. one based on an expectation of the imminent end of the present world order. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| apodal | A batrachian belonging to the order Apoda, a group of the Cæcilians. | 1856 | Go To Quotation |
| archaeocyte | A wandering amœboid cell, esp. in a sponge: see quots. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| archegonium | The female organ in Cryptogams, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants. | 1854 | 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 |
| associationism | The doctrine that mental and moral phenomena may be accounted for by association of ideas. | 1875 | 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 |
| avertebrated | Invertebrate. | 1860 | 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 |
| Ballota | A Eurasian genus of perennial herbs and shrubs of the family Lamiaceae (Labiatae)… | 1778 | Go To Quotation |
| banderillero | A bull-fighter who uses banderillas. Also fig. | 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 |
| batrachiate | = batrachian adj. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| baum marten | The pine marten or its fur. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| bematist | An official road-measurer or surveyor in the time of Alexander the Great and the Ptolemies. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| benedictional | Of or pertaining to the pronouncing of a benediction. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| benish | An outer garment of cloth with very full sleeves. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| Berberine | A Berber. Also attrib. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| bespeckle | To speckle over, to variegate with specks or spots. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| bibliopegy | Bookbinding as a fine art. | 1876 | 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 |
| Bloomsbury | A set of writers, artists, and intellectuals living in or associated with… | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| Brewster | the law that the tangent of the Brewster angle is equal to the refractive index of… | 1882 | 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 |
| 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 |
| calcicole | That grows best in calcareous soil. Hence as n., a calcicole plant. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| caliology | That department of ornithology which is concerned with birds' nests. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| cat | Variant of kat n. | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| Caucasoid | Of, pertaining to, or resembling the Caucasian race. Also as n. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| Cauchy | Used attrib. and in the possessive to denote concepts introduced by Cauchy or arising… | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| centavo | A small coin of Spain and Portugal, and of Central and South America. | 1883 | 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 |
| chalukah | The distribution of contributions or donations sent by the Jews of the diaspora to support the Jews in Palestine. Now Hist. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| Chardonnay | A white grape used for making champagne, white burgundy, and other wines, now grown… | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| Charlton white | A house-painters' pigment consisting of barium and strontium sulphates with zinc… | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| charoset(h | A mixture of apples, nuts, spices, etc., eaten ceremonially at the Passover… | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| charpie | Old linen unravelled into short ends of thread for surgical dressings; ‘very… | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| chartophylax | An officer of the household of the Patriarch of Constantinople who has charge of the official documents and records. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| Chibchan | The language of the Chibcha people. Also as adj., designating a group of related… | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| choano- | the inner part of a sponge, containing the choanocytes. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| chondral | Of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage. | 1810 | 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 |
| 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 |
| colesule | The name given by Necker to the small membranous sheath enclosing the spore-sac of liverworts; the perianthium. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| colubrid | A member of that family. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| commedia dell'arte | Improvised popular comedy as played in Italian theatres from the sixteenth to the… | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| conceptism | In Spanish Literature, The employment of conceptos, a characteristic Spanish form of… | 1887 | 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 |
| Cowley Father | A priest of the Anglican order of the Society of Mission Priests of St. John… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| Cowper-Temple | Used attrib. to designate the clause which Cowper-Temple introduced into the Education… | 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-tongue | A cross-grained tongue of wood used to give extra strength to a joint in woodwork. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| crystalligerous | Of a spore or cell: containing a crystal or crystals. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| ctenidium | Each of the respiratory organs or gills of Mollusca, consisting of an axis with a… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| cuerda seca | (See quot. 1960.) | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| cuneator | (See quot. 1883.) | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| curiate | Of or pertaining to the curiæ. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| cury | = Latin curia. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| Dano- | | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| Darcy | Used attrib. and in the possessive to designate concepts arising out of Darcy's work on… | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| dayan | A religious judge in a Jewish community. | 1880 | 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 |
| debiteuse | An open, oblong, trough-like object made of refractory material and having a slit… | 1922 | Go To Quotation |
| decarburize | = decarbonize v. | 1856 | Go To Quotation |
| declinograph | An astronomical instrument or arrangement for automatically recording the declination of stars with a filar micrometer. | 1883 | 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 |
| desacralization | The process of the ritual removal of a taboo. | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| desmachyme | A suggested name (now abandoned) for the connective tissue of sponges, formed of desmacytes. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| desmacyte | A name suggested for one of the fusiform cells of connective tissue in sponges. Now called ino-cyte. | 1887 | 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 |
| discolorous | = discolor adj. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| dodecastyle | A portico or colonnade of twelve columns. | 1853 | Go To Quotation |
| dorje | A representation of a thunderbolt in the form of a short double trident or sceptre, held by lamas during prayers. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| dso | See quot. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| dwarf-man | A very small man; a dwarf. | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| dysmerism | having the character of such an aggregation. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| electriferous | Relating to or characterized by the carrying of an electric charge or current. | 1857 | Go To Quotation |
| embrittle | trans. To render brittle. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| emissivity | Emissive or radiating power of heat or light; spec. in Physics (see quot. 1958). | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| Emmental | In full Emmental (etc.) cheese. A Swiss cheese containing numerous holes. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| ent | See quot. (rendering of Greek τὸ ὄν). | 1880 | 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 |
| epiclesis | A part of the prayer of consecration in which the presence of the Holy Spirit is invoked… | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| epimerite | (See quots.) | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| equiformal | = equiform adj. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| erg | A type of desert area in the Sahara consisting of shifting sand dunes. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| Eritrean | Of or relating to Eritrea, or to the ancient civilization which flourished in this region. | 1902 | 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 |
| erythronium | A member of the genus of ornamental bulbous plants so called, native to North… | 1797 | 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 |
| euglenoid | Resembling Euglena, a member of the genus of single-celled aquatic flagellates so… | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| eurybathic | Of aquatic life: able to live at varying depths. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| exclave | A portion of territory separated from the country to which it politically belongs… | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| Falklander | A native or inhabitant of the Falkland Islands. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| Fasci | With pl. concord. Groups of men organized politically, such as those (fasci dei lavoratori)… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| faveolus | A small depression, like a cell of a honeycomb. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| favrile | A kind of glass characterized by rich colouring, iridescence, and enamelling. | 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 |
| feis | An assembly of kings, chiefs, etc., being a kind of early Celtic parliament. | 1792 | Go To Quotation |
| fili | The name given in Irish to an ancient order of poets. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| Firbolg | A name given in Irish legend to an early colonizing people of Ireland. Also transf. | 1797 | 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 |
| Fortin | Used attrib. or in the possessive to designate a type of mercury barometer invented by Fortin. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| Friulian | Of or pertaining to Friuli or its inhabitants. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| Galla | A member of a group of Hamitic peoples inhabiting equatorial Africa, allied to the… | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| galvanotropism | The phenomenon of curvature produced in growing plant-organs by the passage of… | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| gametophyte | In the life cycle of plants with alternating generations: the gamete-producing… | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| Gelalaean | Of or pertaining to Gelal-ed-Din, ‘Glory of the Faith’, a title of Malek Shah, Sultan… | 1780 | Go To Quotation |
| geobotanic | = geobotanical adj. | 1888 | 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 |
| 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 |
| grand mal | General convulsive epilepsy with loss of consciousness; epilepsis gravior.… | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| Guran | One of a people of Kurdistan; also, the language of this people. Also as adj. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| Gurian | One of a Caucasian race, inhabiting Tiflis, closely related to the Georgians. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| Gurkhali | The language spoken by this people. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| gyttja | A sediment which is typically black, rich in organic matter, and deposited in productive lakes. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| halide | A binary compound formed from a halogen and a metal or radical. Also attrib. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| Heaviside | The name of O. Heaviside (1850 – 1925), English physicist, used attrib. to… | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| Heptanesian | Of or pertaining to the Ionian Isles. | 1881 | 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 |
| Hurrian | Of or pertaining to the Hurrians or their language. | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| hydrazoate | = azide n. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| hypoblast | Biol. The inner layer of cells in the blastoderm n. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| hystricid | pertaining to the sub-family Hystricinæ. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| iatrophysical | = iatromathematical adj. b. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| Ibanag | The name of one of the peoples inhabiting northern Luzon in the Republic of the Philippines; a member of this people. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| idealistic | Philos. Relating to or characteristic of idealism. | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| incopresentable | Incapable of simultaneous presentation (to the senses or intellect). | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| inductionless | Possessing no inductance. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| inflowering | A process whereby the aroma of flowers is extracted, the essential oils being absorbed in fixed oils and fatty substances. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| Ingush | The North Caucasic language of this people. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| interludial | Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of an interlude. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| intraclitellian | as n. An earthworm of this division. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| introvert | A part or organ that is or can be introverted. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| invaginable | Susceptible of invagination. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| invariantive | Belonging to an invariant; not altered by a linear transformation of the original quantic. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| irrotational | Not rotational; characterized by absence of rotation: said of fluid motion in… | 1875 | 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 |
| jalapin | A glucoside resin, one of the purgative principles of officinal jalap and allied plants; the resin of jalap-stalks. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| Jeremianic | Of or pertaining to the prophet Jeremiah or the book of the Old Testament which bears his name. | 1880 | 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 |
| Kajar | A member of a northern Iranian people of Turcoman origin, who formed the ruling dynasty of Persia from 1794 to 1925. Also attrib. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| Kanjar | A generic term for certain small gypsy communities which wander about India. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| Kanuri | A group of black African peoples living in the region of Lake Chad, in north-eastern… | 1876 | 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 |
| Khaskura | An Indic dialect spoken in Nepal. | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| Khotanese | The people of Khotan; one of this people; the Middle Iranian language of Khotan. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| Khowar | A Dardic language spoken in Chitral in north-west Pakistan. Also attrib. or as adj. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| kiering | Boiling in a kier or vat. | 1922 | Go To Quotation |
| Kissi | An agricultural people inhabiting the regions of Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia… | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| klippe | A part of a nappe which has become detached from its parent mass by sliding or by erosion of intervening parts. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| kuka | A name used in Ghana for Khaya senegalensis; also kuka-tree; see khaya n. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| labradorescence | The brilliant play of colours exhibited by some specimens of feldspars, esp. labradorite. | 1911 | 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 |
| Lao | A branch of the Thai people (see quot. 1949) in South-East Asia; also, a member of this people. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| lautite | An orthorhombic, grey or black sulphide of copper and arsenic, CuAsS (possibly… | 1883 | 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 |
| Lee-Enfield | Used to designate a type of rifle used by the British Army in the S. African War and… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| lentigerous | Having a crystalline lens; said of the eyes of some molluscs. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| leucorrhœa | A mucous or mucopurulent discharge from the lining membrane of the female genital organs; the whites. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| lev | The basic monetary unit of Bulgaria. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| leveche | A hot, dry, more or less southerly wind of south-eastern Spain, the local counterpart of the sirocco. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| limicolous | Living in mud. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| lincrusta | A special type of thick embossed wall-paper. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| line standard | Metrology. A standard of length in the form of a metal bar on which are engraved two… | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| lisse | = lease n. 2 3 Also see quots. 1878 1885. | 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 |
| Luo | Of or pertaining to the Luo or their language. | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| luzonite | A sulph-arsenide of copper, similar to enargite (A. H. Chester 1896). | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| lycodont | A snake of the family Lycodontidæ, having caniniform teeth. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| Lyraid | One of a group of meteors observed in some years about April 20th, apparently radiating from the constellation Lyra. | 1883 | 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 |
| 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 |
| mallardite | A monoclinic hydrated sulphate of manganese, usually occurring as rose-coloured fibrous masses and crusts. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| Mammalia | (In form Mammalia; with pl. or sing. concord) the large class of vertebrate animals… | 1773 | Go To Quotation |
| Mandaeism | The doctrine or observance of the Mandaeans. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| manganeisen | An alloy of iron containing manganese. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| Manhattanization | The process of making or becoming similar in character or appearance to Manhattan. | 1974 | 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 |
| mastigopod | T. H. Huxley's name for: a protozoan having cilia or flagella. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| mecodont | Having long teeth. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| mediateur | A type of bid in a variety of the game of quadrille (see quot. 1830). | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| mercerize | trans. To treat (cotton yarn or fabric) by the process of mercerization. | 1911 | 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 |
| mesodesm | A layer of undifferentiated parenchyma separating the xylem and phloem in certain forms of stele. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| mezzadria | A system of feudal land tenure whereby a farmer paid a proportion (originally half) of… | 1875 | 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 |
| microseismoscope | An instrument for detecting 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 |
| mineral oil | Petroleum; (also) a distillation product of petroleum, esp. one used as a lubricant, moisturizer, or laxative. | 1771 | Go To Quotation |
| mirror image | Something that resembles the image produced by a mirror, in having left and right… | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| Mitannite | = Mitanni adj. | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| Moebius process | An electrolytic process for refining silver and separating any gold that may be in it… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| mole-draining | The technique of draining land by making drainage courses with a mole plough. | 1842 | Go To Quotation |
| monactine | = monactinal adj. Cf. diactine adj. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| monaxon | Zool. Of a sponge spicule: having a single (straight or curved) axis. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| monaxonic | Of a sponge spicule, coral sclerite, etc.: that has a single axis; = monaxon adj.… | 1885 | 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 |
| monopodial | Relating to or of the nature of a monopodium; having a single and continuous axis from which lateral shoots are produced. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| Montpellier | a small tree or shrub, Acer monspessulanum, native to the Mediterranean region… | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| mordanting | That acts as a mordant. | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| Mordvinian | = Mordvin n. 2. | 1879 | 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 |
| Mozambican | Of or relating to Mozambique or its inhabitants. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| multituberculated | Of a tooth: having many cusps, multituberculate. More generally: having many tubercles. | 1883 | 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 |
| 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 |
| nauscopy | A supposed method for perceiving ships or land beyond the horizon, claimed to have been invented by M. Bottineau in 1784. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| nexum | Usu. italicized. A form of binding obligation between a creditor and a debtor, whereby… | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| niaouli | An evergreen tree, Melaleuca quinquenervia (family Myrtaceae), native to New… | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| nickelite | = niccolite n. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| nonent | That which does not exist. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| Nordenfelt | Designating a form of machine-gun having between one and twelve barrels fixed in… | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| nosing | The rounded edge of a step, projecting beyond the riser; a shield or cover for this… | 1773 | Go To Quotation |
| notal | Of, relating to, or using notes (in various senses). | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| Oblomovism | Sluggish or languorous inertia; supineness, indecision, procrastination. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| obolite | Only in obolite grit, a sandstone formation containing fossil brachiopods of the genus Obolus. | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| occulter | Something that occults; spec. (a) a device for temporarily cutting off a lighthouse light; (b)… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| octaving | The addition of strings to the ordinary strings of a piano, etc., tuned an octave higher, so as to reinforce the tone. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| ocydromine | Of, relating to, or denoting rails of the former genus Ocydromus (see ocydrome n.). | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| odophone | An instrument for converting scents or odours into musical notes for the purposes… | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| oophore | A gametophyte, esp. of a vascular cryptogam. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| orchestrion | A mechanical instrument, resembling a barrel organ but of more elaborate… | 1838 | 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 |
| 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 |
| orthotropism | The condition of being orthotropic; tendency to grow in a vertical direction, upwards or downwards. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| osphradium | An olfactory organ in some gastropod molluscs, consisting of an area of sensitive tissue on the gill membranes. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| pairing | That pairs (in various senses of pair v.) | 1781 | Go To Quotation |
| paisa | In Bangladesh: a monetary unit equal to one-hundredth of a taka. Cf. poisha n. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| palaeichthyic | Of or relating to fishes of an ancient or primitive type, as contrasted with the teleosts. Cf. palaeichthyan adj. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| pandoura | A Graeco-Roman stringed instrument of the lute type, having a small body, a long thick… | 1797 | 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 |
| par | trans. To make equal in value. Obs. rare. | 1878 | 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 |
| parma | A chain of broad, low, dome-shaped formations running parallel to the main axis of a line… | 1888 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| pistillidium | = archegonium n. | 1854 | Go To Quotation |
| placoganoid | Of or relating to the former division Placoganoidei of fossil fishes having the body… | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| plasmogen | Lankester's term for: a hypothetical complex organic compound present in cytoplasm, of… | 1888 | 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 |
| Plateau | attrib., in the genitive, and with of. Designating or relating to the problem of… | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| pleurecbolic | In E. R. Lankester's terminology: designating a process of eversion of an organ, or… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| pluviograph | A recording rain gauge. Also: a record of rainfall made by such an instrument. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| poblacion | In the Philippines: the principal community of a district; a town that is an administrative centre. | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| podial | Of or relating to a podium; (Zool.) of or relating to a foot or an organ acting as a foot (cf. podium n. 3). | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| podophyllic | either of two isomeric, tetracyclic, crystalline acids, C 22 H 24 O 9, occurring in podophyllin. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| pollinodial | Relating to or of the nature of a pollinodium. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| polycladose | Of a sponge spicule: having many branches. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| polytype | Printing. A cast, or form of stereotype, made from an intaglio matrix obtained by pressing… | 1839 | 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 |
| preformationist | A person who advocates or believes in the theory of preformation (preformation n. 2). | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| protensity | The quality of taking up time; the fact of having duration. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| prothallial | Of or relating to a prothallus. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| protococcoid | Having the form of or resembling an alga of the genus Protococcus. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| protomerite | In certain gregarine protozoans: a distinct anterior section of the main body. Cf. deutomerite… | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| protomyxoid | Resembling that of the former genus Protomyxa, (supposedly) comprising… | 1883 | 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 |
| ptere | A winglike lobe in certain sponge spicules. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| pterobranchiate | = pterobranch adj. rare. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| pterocymba | A C-shaped sponge spicule with expanded and broadened ends. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| pteropodial | Designating the winglike lobes of the foot of a pteropod. Also (of a mollusc): having a… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| purpuriparous | Producing or secreting purple (purple n. 4); spec. designating the hypobranchial gland… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| Pycnaspideae | With pl. concord. In Sundevall's classification: a group of suboscine passerine birds… | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| pyramoidal | = pyramidoidal adj. 1. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| Qing | A Chinese dynasty of Manchu emperors which ruled from 1644 until 1912, when it was… | 1790 | 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 |
| quidditas | The inherent nature or essence of a person or thing; = quiddity n. 1. | 1782 | Go To Quotation |
| Rayonism | A style of abstract painting developed in Russia in the early 20th cent. by Mikhail… | 1922 | Go To Quotation |
| rebbe | A Jewish teacher or leader, a rabbi; esp. a Hasidic religious leader. Cf. tsaddik n. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| resmooth | trans. To smooth again. | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| retrofract | = retrofracted adj. | 1797 | 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 |
| Rigsmaal | A modified form of the Danish language used in Norway after its separation from Denmark… | 1902 | 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 |
| Sabellic | Pertaining to the language or the nationality of the Sabellians. | 1880 | 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 |
| Sami | The native name of the Lapps; occas. sing., a Lapp. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| sapphirite | = sapphirine n. a. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| saurio-coprolite | The fossilized excrement of a saurian. | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| saxicole | = saxicolous adj. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| scala naturae | = scale of nature at scale n. 5a; the chain of being (chain n. 4a). | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| scalenoidal | Having scalene faces. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| schill | A European pike-perch; the zander n. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| sclere | A hard siliceous or calcareous body forming an element in the skeleton of a sponge. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| scuddy | Turbid, full of sediment. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| scutch | = scutcher n. | 1791 | Go To Quotation |
| scutum | Zool. A shield-like dermal plate; a scute. | 1771 | Go To Quotation |
| sea-front | That portion or side of a building, etc. which faces the sea. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| Sebastianism | (See quot. 1980.) | 1911 | 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 |
| 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 |
| sentoku | Originally, a Chinese bronze produced during the era (1426 – 35) of Emperor Hsüan of… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| sequela | Pathol. A morbid affection occurring as the result of a previous disease. Chiefly pl. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| serpentinoid | Having the characters of the mineral serpentine. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| Servo- | combining form of Servian adj. n., as Servo-Croat, Servo-Croatian. Also Servo-Turkish adj. | 1887 | 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 |
| Shardana | With pl. concord. One of the Sea Peoples, tentatively identified with the later… | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| sheathing | Bot. | 1778 | Go To Quotation |
| shor | In Turkistan, an elongated saline depression in desert sand. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| shosagoto | In Japanese Kabuki drama: a dance play; a mime performed to music. | 1911 | 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 |
| siglos | A silver coin of ancient Persia. | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| similor | A very yellow kind of brass used in making cheap jewellery. | 1783 | Go To Quotation |
| Sinhalese | As adj. Belonging or pertaining to Sri Lanka or to the native inhabitants of that island. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| Skoda | The name of the Czech engineer and industrialist Emil von Skoda (1839 – 1900), used attrib.… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| slagless | Of iron, steel, etc.: free from slag. | 1902 | 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 |
| slype | trans. To cut away one side of (a rod or cane) with a long slanting cut, so that it comes to a point. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| Socraticism | The philosophy of Socrates or some aspect of this. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| solandra | A genus of tropical American shrubs belonging to the Solanaceæ (sub-order Atropeæ); also, a plant belonging to this genus. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| Solidago | A plant of this genus, esp. S. virgaurea, a European and British species, formerly in… | 1771 | 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 |
| sopheric | Of or pertaining to the Jewish scribes or their teaching. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| spheno- | | 1768 | Go To Quotation |
| Sphex | A genus of digger-wasps; a wasp of this genus. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| squamuliform | Having the shape or character of a squamula. | 1882 | 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 |
| stercoricolous | Living in dung or excrement. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| stereometer | An instrument for measuring the specific gravity of porous or pulverulent bodies, invented… | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| sternutator | A substance that causes nasal irritation; esp. a poison gas that causes irritation of the… | 1922 | 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 |
| strobiline | Relating to or of the nature of a strobila or strobilus; strobilaceous. | 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 |
| stump | A kind of pencil consisting of a roll of paper or soft leather, or of a cylindrical… | 1778 | Go To Quotation |
| stupor mundi | The marvel of the world; an object of admiring bewilderment and wonder. Cf. stupor n. 2b. | 1879 | 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 |
| subramose | Slightly ramose; having few branches; having a slight tendency to branch. Cf. subramous adj. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| Sufic | Pertaining to the Sufis or their mystical system. | 1884 | 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 |
| syzygium | = syzygy n. 3b. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| szaboite | A variety of hypersthene. | 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 |
| taungya | A temporary hillside clearing. Usu. attrib., designating a method of… | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| tec-tec | A species of whinchat (Pratincola sybilla) found in some of the islands off the E. coast of Africa. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| tectology | (See quot. 1883, and cf. promorphology n.) | 1883 | 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 |
| thalamite | In the ancient trireme, a rower in one of the tiers of rowers, generally supposed to be… | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| thallous | = thallious adj. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| tholobate | (See quots.) | 1831 | Go To Quotation |
| thoriated | Of tungsten, or a valve filament made of tungsten: containing a proportion of thorium… | 1922 | 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 |
| thremmatology | That part of biology which treats of the propagation or breeding of domestic animals and plants. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| througher | (See quots.) | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| Thymallus | The genus of fishes containing the graylings; = grayling n. 1a. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| Tibeto- | (a) adj. relating to Tibet and the Himalayas; (b) n. a branch of the Tibeto-Burmese… | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| Tigre | A Semitic language spoken in northern Ethiopia and adjoining parts of Sudan… | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| Tigrinya | A Semitic language spoken in the Tigre province of Ethiopia. Cf. Tigray n. | 1878 | 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 |
| Torgut | A migratory Mongol people now absorbed into China; a member of this people. Also attrib. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| Tortrix | Entomol. A genus of moths, typical of the family Tortricidæ (see tortricid adj. n. a); a… | 1797 | 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 |
| triclasite | Obsolete synonym of fahlunite n. | 1835 | Go To Quotation |
| trilingual | Speaking or using, written or expressed in, or relating to three languages. | 1834 | Go To Quotation |
| trionychoid | n. A turtle of this suborder. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| tropidial | Pertaining to the tropis or keel of a C-shaped sponge-spicule. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| tropis | The ‘keel’ or middle part of a cymba or C-shaped sponge-spicule, between the proræ or ‘prows’. | 1887 | 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 |
| turnaway | The action or an act of turning away or deviating (from a course, etc.). | 1922 | Go To Quotation |
| underlye | (under- prefix 2b(b).) | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| unmonopolizing | (un- prefix 10.) | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| unpuckered | (un- prefix 8.) | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| unsulphureous | (un- prefix 7.) | 1781 | Go To Quotation |
| unvitrified | (un- prefix 8.) | 1779 | 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 |
| Vandellia | A genus of scrophulariaceous plants, some of which possess emetic or purgative properties… | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| vanessid | Belonging to the family of butterflies of which Vanessa is the type. | 1911 | 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 |
| 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 |
| vibex | A long and narrow mark or patch in the skin caused by the subcutaneous extravasation… | 1771 | Go To Quotation |
| vibrograph | An instrument for measuring or recording mechanical vibrations. | 1875 | 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 |
| volunto-motory | Associated with voluntary motion. | 1878 | 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 |
| water-ret | trans. To ret (flax or hemp) by steeping in water: opposed to dew-ret v. | 1797 | 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 |
| Yenisei | One of a group of Palæo-Siberian languages belonging to the Finno-Ugric group. Usu. in Comb.… | 1888 | 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 |
| Zapotec | A member of an American Indian people of southern Mexico. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| zygopleura | With pl. concord. Organic forms having bilateral symmetry, with either two or four… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
