| amaterialistic | Opposed to (philosophic) materialism. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| American Gothic | Archit. A style of architecture incorporating Gothic elements, originating in the… | 1836 | Go To Quotation |
| Americanness | The quality or fact of being American or having American characteristics. | 1862 | Go To Quotation |
| amphodarch | One exercising authority over a quarter of a town. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| appointive | Dependent on appointment; that is filled by appointment; holding one's place by appointment. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| Assyriology | The study of the language, history, and antiquities of Assyria. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| atavistic | Of or pertaining to atavism; atavic. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| bigential | Composed of, containing, or involving (people of) two races. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| clericism | Clerkhood as a principle and practice; a system founded upon clergymen. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| cyanidation | The process of cyaniding gold or silver ores; the extraction of these metals from their ores by means of the cyanide process. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| deaf-blind | Having a severe impairment of both hearing and vision (as a congenital or acquired condition). | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| denutrition | The opposite to nutrition; reversal of the nutritive process; in Med. treatment by deprivation of nourishment. Also attrib. | 1868 | Go To Quotation |
| dietetically | In the way of diet or dietetics. | 1845 | Go To Quotation |
| eunuchal | Of or pertaining to a eunuch; emasculate; effeminate. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| Fach | A line of work or business; an area of activity or expertise; (a person's) métier. | 1838 | Go To Quotation |
| free fall | The motion of an object under the influence of gravity alone, there being neither… | 1851 | Go To Quotation |
| free ranging | The action or practice of allowing farm animals free range; unrestricted roaming by… | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| heat-wave | A ‘wave’ or access of excessive heat in the atmosphere, esp. when regarded as passing from one place to another. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| home-delivered | Of goods, newspapers, etc.: delivered to a person's home. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| ineliminable | Incapable of being eliminated. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| inflationist | One who advocates inflation; spec. in U.S., and hence elsewhere, one who advocates an… | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| mechanicized | = mechanized adj. 1. | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| medjidie | A large Turkish silver coin minted from 1844 until 1919, a twenty kurush piece (weighing 24 grams). | 1855 | Go To Quotation |
| Meistergesang | The German tradition of musical composition and performance by the Meistersinger. | 1836 | Go To Quotation |
| melismatic | Of or relating to a melisma or melismata; characterized by melismata; spec. denoting a… | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| membra disjecta | = disjecta membra n. | 1829 | Go To Quotation |
| Midwestern | Situated in the American Midwest; of, relating to, or belonging to the Midwest. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| mirabilia | With pl. concord. Things which inspire wonder; (usu. spec.) miraculous events. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| misappreciative | Not properly or fully appreciative. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| misremembered | Remembered wrongly or inaccurately. | 1873 | Go To Quotation |
| Mizpah | ‘May the Lord watch between us’ (usually as an inscription on a piece of jewellery). | 1835 | Go To Quotation |
| mnemotechnics | = mnemonics n. | 1845 | Go To Quotation |
| molestive | Troublesome, annoying, interfering. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| Mongolianize | trans. To make Mongolian in character. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| monocratic | Of or relating to monocracy. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| monogamian | Of or relating to monogamy; practising monogamy, monogamous (monogamous adj. 1b). rare. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| monomachist | A person who fights in single combat. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| monometallist | A person who advocates or favours monometallism, or a standard of currency based upon only one metal. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| monotremous | = monotreme adj. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| motherling | Mother, ‘mummy’. Freq. as an affectionate form of address. Cf. motherkin n. | 1836 | Go To Quotation |
| mugwumpish | Characteristic of a mugwump; esp. professing (political) disinterestedness. Also: pompous, snobbish. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| multibillionaire | A person with assets worth several or many billions (of pounds, dollars, etc.). | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| mutuel | = pari-mutuel n. (see also quot. 1949). Also attrib. or as adj. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| mythico- | Forming adjectives with the sense ‘mythical and ——’ or ‘based on myth and… | 1829 | Go To Quotation |
| mythographist | A person who practises mythography; an artist who depicts mythical subjects. Cf. mythographer n. | 1840 | Go To Quotation |
| nasally | In a nasal manner; in a nasal tone, with a nasal pronunciation. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| natural unit | A unit of measurement that is considered to be natural; esp. one based on… | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| necessitarianism | The theory or doctrine that action is necessarily determined by antecedent causes; determinism. | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| necessitative | Tending to necessitate; characterized by need or necessity. | 1851 | Go To Quotation |
| new frontier | A newly established frontier, esp. (in U.S. Hist.) one marking a westward expansion… | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| non-capital | Of a crime: not punishable by the death penalty. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| non-contagionist | A person who believes that disease, or a disease (esp. yellow fever or cholera), is not contagious. | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| non-contingent | Not dependent on some other condition, circumstance, or variable. | 1872 | Go To Quotation |
| non-official | Not official, not sanctioned by authority; not consisting of officials. | 1833 | Go To Quotation |
| non-working | That does not work; spec. not in paid employment. Also as n. (with the): non-working people collectively. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| no-see-um | Any of several minute, bloodsucking flies, esp. biting midges (family Ceratopogonidae). | 1842 | Go To Quotation |
| nutlet | A small nut or nutlike fruit. | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| objectionably | In an objectionable manner. | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| obscuringly | So as to obscure. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| octamerism | The condition of being octamerous; (humorously) the condition of being in eight parts. | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| oil palm | A palm tree that bears oil-yielding fruit or seed; spec. (a) (more fully African oil palm)… | 1850 | Go To Quotation |
| old guard | French Hist. The reserve division of the Imperial Guard of Napoleon I, noted for their staunch loyalty to him. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| Olympianism | The polytheistic religious system of the ancient Greeks, in which the Olympians were… | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| one-idea | That focuses entirely on a single idea; that has only one idea. | 1845 | Go To Quotation |
| Oscillatoria | A genus of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae), the members of which form dark… | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| otherwise-mindedness | The quality of being of an independent, individual, or contrary mind. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| otiant | Inactive, doing nothing, indolent. Obs. | 1845 | Go To Quotation |
| outcropping | An appearance, emergence, or outbreak; something which protrudes; an outward manifestation: = outcrop n. 2. | 1836 | Go To Quotation |
| outpoured | That has been poured out. | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| overbanking | The excessive provision of banks or banking facilities; the granting of charters to… | 1829 | Go To Quotation |
| overcooked | Cooked too much or for too long. Also fig. | 1846 | Go To Quotation |
| overestimate | A numerical estimate that is too high; an appraisal or evaluation that is too favourable. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| overgoverned | That is governed too much; that suffers from too much government intervention. | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| overissue | trans. To issue (something) in excess; esp. to issue (banknotes, shares, etc.)… | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| oversensitive | Excessively or unduly sensitive. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| oversensitiveness | Excessive or undue sensitiveness. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| ovulite | A fossil of ovoidal form and uncertain identity. Obs. rare. | 1836 | Go To Quotation |
| pan-Slavist | An adherent or supporter of pan-Slavism. | 1850 | Go To Quotation |
| panzoism | The theory or belief that a life force is present in all objects and phenomena. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| parallelistic | Relating to or characterized by parallelism (in various senses). | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| parcellation | Division into separate parcels, parts, or portions; an instance of this. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| passivist | Of, relating to, or characterized by an opposition to war or violence; pacifist.… | 1872 | Go To Quotation |
| passman | At Oxford and Cambridge Universities: a (male) student who reads for and takes a pass… | 1853 | Go To Quotation |
| paternalistic | Of, relating to, or of the nature of paternalism; practising paternalism. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| paternalize | trans. To treat in a paternalistic manner. Also intr.: to behave in a paternalistic manner. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| pathometer | An indicator of the feelings of a society or period. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| Pattinson's process | A process formerly used for desilverizing and purifying lead, in which the metal… | 1852 | Go To Quotation |
| personalia | Personal allusions, belongings, writings, information, etc. Cf. realia n. 1. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| perspectograph | An instrument for delineating the outlines of a scene or object, in order to facilitate drawing in perspective. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| philologian | An expert in or student of linguistics; = philologist n. 2. | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| phosphorent | = phosphorescent adj. | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| phototype | Printing. A printing plate or block produced by a photographic process (as photosetting).… | 1854 | Go To Quotation |
| phototype | trans. To reproduce by means of a phototype. | 1855 | Go To Quotation |
| phthisiotherapy | The treatment of tuberculosis. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| picaroon | A long pole fitted with a spike or hook, used in logging and fishing. | 1837 | Go To Quotation |
| pigeonholing | The action of pigeonhole v. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| pilpulistic | Of, resembling, or designating subtle or keen rabbinical argumentation. In extended use: subtle, quibbling, pedantic. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| pinless | Lacking a pin or pins. | 1867 | Go To Quotation |
| play-act | intr. To act in or as if in a play; esp. to behave theatrically or insincerely… | 1856 | Go To Quotation |
| plimsoll | Naut. attrib. and in the genitive. Chiefly with capital initial. Designating a marking or… | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| Podsnap | A person resembling Dickens's Mr Podsnap, embodying insular complacency… | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| polaric | Magnetically polar, magnetic. Obs. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| Polonian | Characteristic of or resembling Polonius, the elderly and sententious courtier… | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| polygenesis | Linguistics. The hypothetical origination of language from a number of independent… | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| polytonal | Using more than one key; relating to or making use of polytonality. | 1923 | Go To Quotation |
| pooling | The action of pool v. | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| post-classical | Occurring in or characteristic of a period after one regarded as classical, esp.… | 1851 | Go To Quotation |
| pre-announcement | A previous or prior announcement. | 1844 | Go To Quotation |
| pre-sartorial | Before the existence of clothing or tailoring; (hence) of or relating to the time before the Fall, prelapsarian. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| prescriptiveness | Prescriptive character or quality. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| preyed-upon | That is preyed upon; subject to predation; exploited or persecuted. Also as n. | 1845 | Go To Quotation |
| primitivistic | = primitivist adj. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| Proboscidea | With sing. concord: an order of large mammals that comprises the elephants and… | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| protist | An organism of the kingdom Protista; esp. a single-celled eukaryotic organism; a protozoan or a unicellular alga. | 1873 | Go To Quotation |
| pseudepigraph | A book or writing that is falsely titled or attributed; a spurious or pseudonymous writing. Cf. pseudepigrapha n. | 1851 | Go To Quotation |
| psychiatry | The branch of medicine concerned with the causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental illness. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| psychophysics | With sing. concord. The interaction between mental states and physical events… | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| pump log | A hollowed log used in the construction of a pump or as a water pipe. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| punctiuncle | An extremely minute or trifling point. | 1874 | Go To Quotation |
| raider | A person who raids or mounts a hostile and predatory incursion; a marauder. | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| regionalism | Chiefly Polit. The theory or practice of regional organization; esp. regional… | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| representativity | Representative character; representativeness. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| right-about face | Towards the right through one hundred and eighty degrees, so as to face in the opposite direction. Also fig. Cf. right about adv. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| right to die | Freedom (as a human right or within a given legal system) to choose the time and manner… | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| Rip Van Winkle | attrib. Characteristic of or resembling Rip Van Winkle or (an aspect of) his experience. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| selectiveness | The attribute of being selective. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| sentimentalizer | One who sentimentalizes. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| sub-prefectorial | Of or relating to a sub-prefect or sub-prefecture. | 1856 | Go To Quotation |
| supe | intr. To act as a supernumerary in a theatre, shop, etc. Cf. super v. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| surf beat | The beating of surf on a shore; an instance of this. Chiefly literary and poet. Now rare. | 1857 | Go To Quotation |
| tipple | = tip n. 3. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| unrepublican | (un- prefix 7.) | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| upstate | In that part of a state which is (regarded as) higher than another, or is more remote… | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
