Grandiloquent Dictionary

Third Edition

C.S. Bird

February 25, 2006

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c© 2006, C.S. Bird and Associates

First published in electronic form in December 1998.First published in paperback in June 1999.Second Printing, January 2003Third Printing, January 2006

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abacinate - To blind by putting a hot copper basin near someone’s eyesabcedarian - A person who teaches the alphabetabderian - given to incessant or idiotic laughterabecedarian - A person who is learning the alphabetabishag - A child born to a married man’s mistressablegate - A representative of the pope who assists in selecting cardinalsabligurition - Excessive spending on food and drinkablutophobia - A fear of bathingabnormous - Something which is misshapenacarophobia - 1.A fear of insectsacarophobia - 2.A fear of mitesacarophobia - 3. A fear of small things, especially bugsacathasia - The habit of sitting downaccidia - A feeling of being unable to think or act due to excessive sadnessaccipitrine - having a nose like a hawk’s beakaccoucheur - A man who assists in delivering babies, usually at homeaccubation - The practice of eating or drinking while lying downaccubitus - Sharing a bed for sleeping onlyaceldama - A blood soaked battlefieldacerbophobia - See acerophobiaacerophobia - The fear of sournessachluophobia - A fear of darkness or of the nightacosmist - One who believes that nothing existsacouasm - A buzzing or a ringing of the earsacoucheuse - A midwife, or other person who assists in delivering babiesacousticophobia - A fear of noiseacrasia - Acting against one’s own judgment, or lacking self controlacrocephalic - Having a pointy head

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acronycal - Occurring at sunsetacronyx - An ingrown fingernail or toenailadelphepothia - An incestuous desire for one’s sisteradelphirexia - An incestuous desire for one’s nephewadelphithymia - An incestuous desire for one’s nieceadhocracy - Rulership by committees and task forcesadiabolist - One who does not believe in the existence of a Deviladoxography - Skilled writing about an unimportant subjectaelurophobia - See ailurophobiaaeolist - A pompous windy bore who pretends to have inspirationaeroacrophobia - See aerophobiaaeromancy - Divination using the airaerophobia - 1. A fear of airaerophobia - 2. A fear of flyingaesthete - One who obsessively pursues or admires beautyafflatus - A divine inspiration leading to creativityaflunters - In a messy or disordered stateaforcing - Adding rice or grains to a dish to serve more peopleagalaxy - Unable to produce milkagamous - The state of being unmarriedagapetae - early church women who lived with celibate menagathocacological - Composed of both good and evilagelast - A person who never laughsagenhina - A guest at an inn, who is considered to be one of the familyagerasia - The state of looking younger than one really isageustia - The lack of a sense of taste, either literally or in opinionsaginate - To sell small itemsaginator - A merchant who sells only small itemsagiotage - Speculation in the stock marketagist - A fee charged to private landowners for public services, or the re-quirement that private land be used for public servicesaglet - The plastic or metal tip on the end of shoelacesagogic - Pertaining to the making of wax modelsagonous - Engaged in deadly combatagoraphobia - A fear of open placesagraffe - The wire that holds the cork in a bottle of champagneagrapha - The collective name for phrases which are often quoted and at-tributed to someone who never said them.

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agrizoophobia - A fear of wild animalsagroof - flat on your faceagyiophobia - The fear of streets or crossing the streetai - A South American three toed slothaichmophobia - A fear of pointed or sharp objectsaichmorhabdophobia - A fear of being beaten with a pointed stickaichurophobia - The fear of being touched by a pointed objectailuromancy - Divination by studying a cat’s jumpailurophobia - A fear of catsalbophobia - The fear of white peoplealbuminuriaphobia - A fear of kidney diseasealcedama - A blood soaked field or a battlefieldalectromantia - A process in which a rooster is asked a question, and thena single grain is placed on each letter of the alphabet and the order of hiseating determined the answeralectryomancy - Magic using cornalektorophobia - A fear of chickensaleuromancy - Divination using flouralgerining - Prowling around with the intent to commit burglaryalgology - The study of seaweed or marine algaealgophobia - A fear of painalieniloquent - Speaking discursively or straying from one’s pointalliaceous - Smelling like garlic or onionsalliumphobia - A fear of garlicallodoxaphobia - A fear of other people’s opinionsallotheism - The worship of strange godsalopeciaphobia - A fear of going baldalopecist - A person who claims to prevent baldnessalphamegamia - The marriage between a young woman and an older manalphitomancy - Divination using barley mealalterocentric - Someone whose life revolves around other peoplealtiloquent - Speaking pompously or in a high flown manneraltitonant - Thundering from above or on highaltophobia - A fear of heights or high placesalychiphobia - The fear of failurealytarch - A referee, or person who enforces game rulesamathophobia - A fear of dustamaut - A fur lined hood on the back of a women’s parka, usually used for

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carrying an infant.amaxophobia - A fear of riding in automobilesambeer - The spittle produced when chewing tobaccoambiguphobia - A fear of being misunderstoodambulomancy - Divination by walkingambulophobia - The fear of walkingamentia - temporary insanity or a dazed tranceamomaxiaphobia - A fear of making love in an automobileampherotokous - Having both male and female offspringamphigory - A poem that seems profound but is really complete nonsenseamphigory - A seemingly profound poem which is actually nonsenseamrita - A drink which bestows immortality in Hindu mythologyamychophobia - A fear of being scratchedanabatic - Related to wind currents, especially rising windsanablepophobia - A fear of looking at high placesanacardic - Pertaining to a cashew nutanadipsia - excessive thirstanagapesis - The feeling when one no longer loves someone they once didanasarkas - A condition in which a person is so swollen that they appearto have no musclesanaxiphillia - The act of falling in love with the wrong personanconeal - Related to the elbowandrocracy - A government consisting of menandrolepsia - A kidnapping by a foreign government for political gainandrophobia - A fear of menanemophobia - The fear of windangelocracy - Rulership by angelsanginophobia - A fear of choking or suffocatinganile - Resembling a doddering old-woman, although usually used to implyloss of mental abilityanililagnia - An attraction to older womenanklyosis - The stiffness of immobility of a jointankylophobia - A fear of joint immobilityanoegenetic - Not producing new work or original knowledgeanonymuncle - A petty anonymous writeranopisthographic - Having writing only upon one sideanserine - Like a gooseantapology - A response to an apology, usually attacking the justification

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included in the apologyantedeluvian - Very old or ancient, or pertaining to the era before Noah’sfloodanteric - Pertaining to revenge against a former lover or a lover who betraysanthomancy - Divination using flowersanthophobia - A fear of flowersanthracomancy - Divination using burning coalsanthrophobia - The fear of peopleanthropoglot - Any animal, such as a parrot, which is capable of copyinghuman speechanthropolatry - Worship of a human as thought they were a godanthropomancy - Magic or divination using people, or foretelling the fu-ture using the entrails of a sacrificed personanthropopathy - Ascribing human feelings or traits to God or to the godsanthropophobia - See anthrophobiaanthroposcopy - The art of determining personality or character fromphysical featuresanthropotheism - The belief that gods began as humans and are humanin natureantinomian - Rejecting the authority of moral or religious lawantiscian - A person who lives on the other of the world from youantisocordist - One who speaks against laziness and stupidityantlophobia - A fear of floods or floodingantonomasia - The practice of using trademarked names as generic termsanuptaphobia - The fear of staying unmarriedanxiolytic - Serving to reduce tension or stressapanthropia - A fear of peopleapeirophobia - A fear of infinityaphephobia - The fear of touching or being touchedapikoros - A Jewish person who does not follow Jewish lawapiophobia - A fear of beesapocalocyntosis - The act of being turned into a pumpkinapocatastasis - The belief that all people will be saved by Godapodyopsis - The act of mentally undressing someoneaporia - The feeling you have when your problems cannot be solvedapotheosis - The elevation of a mortal to deityapricate - To spend time basking in the sunshineaproneer - A merchant or shopkeeper

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aprosexia - The inability to concentrateaptronym - An appropriate name for someone or somethingaquabib - An individual who only drinks wateraquaphobia - The fear of waterarachibutyrophagia - The act of eating peanut butterarachibutyrophillia - The love of peanut butterarachibutyrophobia - Fear of peanut butterarachnivorous - Eating spidersarachnophobia - The fear of spidersarctophilist - A collector of teddy bearsarietate - To strike with a battering ram or to butt like a ramaristology - The science of diningaristophren - A person possesing a superior intellectarithmophobia - A fear of numbersarmomancy - Divination involving the shoulder blades of animalsarrhenophobia - A fear of male offspringarrhenotokous - Having only male offspringarsle - To move backwards or to retreat rapidlyascian - A person who has no shadowaspergillum - A device for sprinkling holy water, usually a perforatedsphereaspersorium - A basin for holy waterassanka - The number ten to the sixty-third powerastereognosis - The loss of the ability to recognize shapes by touchasthenic - Being lean and frailasthenophobia - The fear of weaknessastragalomancy - Divination using diceastrapophobia - The fear of thunder and lightningastrophobia - The fear of starsataxiophobia - A fear of disorderatelophobia - A fear of defects or imperfectionsatephobia - A fear of riversatychiphobia - A fear of failureaubade - A love song which is sung at dawnaugury - Divination using bird’s flightaulophobia - A fear of flutesaureate - Pertaining to the fancy or flowery words used by poetsaurophobia - A fear of gold

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austromancy - Divination using the windautodeist - One who believes they are a godautodidact - A person who has taught themselvesautodysomophobia - A fear of one’s own body odourautohagiographer - A person who speaks or writes in a smug way abouttheir life and accomplishmentsautolatry - The worship of one’s selfautology - The study of oneselfautomysophobia - A fear of being dirtyautotheist - One who worships themselvesautotonsorialist - A person who cuts their own hairautovoxiphillia - Love of one’s own voiceaval - Pertaining to grand parentsavenage - Oats paid to a landlord when the tenant could not pay the rentavenage - Oats that were paid to landlords in lieu of rent by the pooravering - When a poor person removes all of their clothing to increasesympathy while beggingaverruncator - A long stick with shears for cutting high branchesavetrol - An illegitimate childaviatophobia - A fear of flyingayurnamat - The philosophy that there is no point in worrying aboutevents that cannot be changed

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bacillophobia - A fear of germsbadot - An idler or something or someone who is sillybaffound - To stun or perplexbailiwick - The region in which a sheriff has legal powersbaisemain - A kiss on the handbaize - The green cloth used on billiard tables and other gaming tablesbalatron - A babbling buffoonbalbutiate - To stutter or to stammerbaldric - A belt worn over the shoulder and chest used to hold a swordballicatter - The ice that forms around shores and docks from the coldocean sprayballistophobia - A fear of being shot, or of guns and misslesbalnearii - People who steal clothing for public bathsbalnearil - The people who stole clothing from a public bath in ancientRomebarathrum - A person who eats like they were a bottomless pitbarathrum - A pit into which condemned people are placed to die.barleychild - A baby born less than six months after marriagebarophobia - A fear of gravitybarophobia - Fear of gravitybasiphobia - The fear of walkingbasistasiphobia - The fear of standing and walkingbasophobia - See basiphobiabasorexia - An overwhelming desire to neck or kissbataphobia - A fear of heights or high placesbathophobia - A fear of depthbathysiderodromophobia - Fear of subwaysbatophobia - A fear of tall buildings

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batrachoid - Like a frogbatrachophagous - One who eats frogsbatrachophobia - A fear of frogs or toadsbattology - Tiresome and repetitive talkingbawcock - A nice gentlemanbdelloid - Resembling a leechbdellophobia - A fear of leechesbeaze - To dry in the sunbegrumpled - To be very unhappy or displeasedbeldam - A foul old womanbelgard - A sweet and loving lookbelomancy - Fortunetelling through the use of arrowsbelonephobia - A fear of pins and needlesbialag - A person in front of a second person riding the same horsebibliomancy - Divination using books or Bible passagesbibliophobia - A fear of booksbibliopolist - One who deals in rare booksbibliothecary - A person who collects and maintains booksbicorne - 1. The hat with two points worn by Napoleanbicorne - 2. In French lore, a two horned monster that eats hen-peckehusbandsbifilar - Sewing with two threads at oncebiometeorology - The study of how the weather affects peoplebissextile - 1. Related to the extra day in a leap yearbissextile - 2. Describing a leap yearbitheism - Believing in two godsblandiloquent - Speaking in a flattering or ingratiating wayblatherskite - An obnoxious braggartblatteroon - A person who will not stop talkingblattoid - Like a cockroachblellum - an idle boring chattererblennogenous - Something which produces mucusblennophobia - A fear of slimeblennorrhea - An unusually large discharge of mucus, or a continuousdischarge of mucusblepharon - A person with huge eyebrowsblepharospasm - A form of constant winkingbletcherous - Pertaining to something poorly designed or disgusting in

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designblodder - To flow with a gurgling sound from a small apertureblowsabella - A red faced wenchboanthropy - The delusion that one is an oxbodach - In British lore, a small creature who lives in the chimney andcomes out at night to abduct naughty childrenbogglish - Being uncertain or nervousbogyphobia - A fear of goblinsbombilate - To loudly hum or buzz continuouslybonnyclabber - Milk which has become thick due to being sourborborygmus - The rumbling sound of gas passing through the intestinebordlode - A service tenants are required to perform as part of the rentalagreementbotanomancy - Divination using plantsbotanophobia - A fear of plantsboucan - A naturally occuring bed of burning coalsbouquinist - A dealer of worthless used booksbourdon - The bass drone of a bagpipe or of the low pitched notes on apipe organboustrophedon - A form of writing which alternates left to right / rightto left, also used to describe some forms of typesetting.bowdlerize - To purge literature of all possibly offensive or morally impurematerialbrachiation - The act of swinging through the trees, such as performed bymonkeysbrachistichrone - The path between two points along which a particletravels for the shortest timebrachycephalic - Having a head that is broadbrannigan - 1. A spree of excessive drinkingbrannigan - 2. Any prolonged excessive indulgence, in activities or hobbiesbreem - Pertaining to a female pig who wants to matebreve - The small curve above a vowel which symbolizes a short soundbreviloquent - Speaking briefly about a subjectbrevirostrate - Having a short nosebrimborion - Something which is useless or nonsensicalbromatology - A discourse on foodbromidrosiphobia - A fear of body odour or sweatbronteum - A device used in theater or movies to create thunder

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brontide - The low rumbling of distant thunderbrontomancy - Divination by or magic involving thunderbrontophobia - The fear of thunderbrump - To collect branches which have fallen off of treesbruxomania - The compulsive grinding of one’s teethbubulcitate - To heard cattle or to wail like a cowbuccula - A double chinbucculent - Having a wide or large mouthbuchette - A piece of firewoodbuchettier - A person who chops and carries firewoodbuffarilla - An extremely ugly young womanbufoniform - Like a toadburghbote - Donations made to repair a castle, or to build a castleburke - A slang term for a murder which leaves the body intact, afterWilliam Burke who ran a business murdering people and selling the bodiesto medical schools.burladero - The wooden barrier in a bullring used for protectionbutyraceous - Resembling butterbyrthynsak - 1. The theft of a calf or a sheepbyrthynsak - 2. Stealing as much as one can carry

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cacestogenous - Caused by a poor home lifecacestogenous - Caused by an unfavourable home lifecachinnation - Loud or hysterical laughtercacodaemonomania - Posessed by the devilcacoepy - The incorrect pronunciation of a wordcacoethes - A bad habit or insatiable urgecacogen - An antisocial personcacohydrophobia - The fear of sewer watercacophonophilist - One who loves harsh soundscacospectamania - The obsession of staring at something which is repul-sivecaesious - A pale blue-grey colorcagamosis - An unhappy marriagecagophilist - A collector of keyscainophobia - A fear of anything newcainotophobia - See cainophobiacaitiff - A despicable or cowardly personcalamistration - The act of curling haircallet - A drab untidy womancalligyniaphobia - The fear of beautiful womencalliopean - Piercingly loud or shrill, often used to describe a voicecallipygian - Having a beautiful rear endcallipygous - Having a beautiful rear endcallithumpian - The sounds of a big parade, usually accompanied by hornsand noise makerscallow - Not having the experience and sophistication expected of an adult,or of one in a responsible positioncalypso - A fashion in which women tie a knot in their shirt and exposes

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her waistcamelopard - A mythical beast with a camel father and a leopard as amother.cameralistics - The science of managing public financescampanology - The study of bells or of bell ringingcancatervate - To heap up into a pilecanoodle - To kiss and cuddle in an affectionate mannercantabank - A second rate singercantle - A piece or a fragment of a larger objectcaparison - Originally the ornamental decorations on a horse, now used torefer to any fancy clothingcapernoited - Slightly intoxicated or tipsycaphar - Money paid by merchants for protection, originally while travel-ling in the Middle Eastcapilotade - A quickly put together story or excusecapnomancy - Divination by smokecarapace - The shell of an animal such as a turtle or armadillocarcinomatophobia - See carcinophobiacarcinomorphic - Resembling a crabcarcinophobia - A fear of cancercarfumish - To dissipate a foul smellcarker - A mischievieous child or bratcarnophobia - A fear of meatcarphologia - See floccillationcartomancy - Magic using cards or prophecy using cardscartomaniac - A collector of mapscaryatid - A female sculpture which is used as a pillarcastaneous - Chestnut colouredcasuist - A sophist who insists on debating the smallest detailscatagelophobia - A fear of ridiculecataglottism - The act of sticking out one’s tongue while kissingcatapedamania - The obsession with jumping from high placescatapedaphobia - A fear of jumping from a high (or low) placecathartic - Something which is used to clean one’s bowelscathisophobia - A fear of sittingcatholicon - A remedy for all ailments, or a miracle cure-allcatholicum - A medicine which can cure everythingcatoptomancy - Divination using a mirror or several mirrors

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catoptromancy - Divination based on how a face appears when viewed ina mirror underwatercatoptrophobia - A fear of mirrorscauseuse - A sofa built for two peoplecebocephalic - Having a monkey’s head or brainceilidh - 1. A private conversation or visitceilidh - 2. An evening of musical entertainmentcelation - The act of hiding a pregnancycelibataire - A bachelorcenacle - The large room in which the last supper took placecenatory - Pertaining to dinner or supperceneromancy - Divination using ashescenogamy - Communal marriagecephalalgic - Any form of headache remedycephaleonomancy - Telling the future by examining the boiled head of anasscephalomancy - Divination by boiling a head, usually that of a donkeyceraunomancy - Divination by or magic using thunderboltscercopithecan - Pertaining to monkeyscerebropathophobia - A fear of going insane because of a diseasecerulean - A light blue or sky blue colourcervine - Pertaining to deercervisial - Relating to beerchaetophobia - A fear of hairchafferer - A vendor who enjoys talking while making a salechalcenterous - Having bowels of brasschamade - A signal inviting discussion or negotiationschankings - Pieces of food which are rejected from what is chewed. (spatout)charette - an intensive effort to complete something before the deadlineChargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg - A NativeAmerican lake name meaning ”you fish on your side, I fish on my side an noone fishes in the middle”charientism - An artfully veiled insultchaston - The part of a ring which holds a gem or diamondchavish - The sound of many birds chirping together, or many people chat-ting at oncecheiloproclitic - Being attracted to a person’s lips

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cheimaphobia - A fear of coldness or being coldcheimatophobia - See cheimaphobiachelonian - Like a turtlecherophobia - A fear of merrimentchessom - Soil which is free of sand and stoneschichevache - In French myth, a giant cow that eats virtuous womenchiliad - A period of one thousand yearschiliasm - The doctrine that Christ will return and reign for a thousandyearschilihedron - A solid with 1000 equal sideschionophobia - A fear of snowchirocracy - The state of being ruled by force (literally by a strong hand)chirognomy - See chiromancychirogymnast - A device used to exercise only the fingers, especially forpianistschiromancy - Foretelling the future by studying a person’s handchirotonsor - An alternate title for a barberchirotony - A vote which is taken by a show of handscholangiocholecystocholedochectomy - The surgical removal of the he-patic duct, common duct, and gall bladdercholler - A sagging double chinchoregus - The financial backer in ancient Greece, usually of a playchorizontist - One who believes that the Illiad and the Odyssey were writ-ten by different authorschorophobia - A fear of dancingchorophobia - Fear of dancingchrematistic - Pertaining to business or the pursuit of wealthchrematophobia - A fear of moneychrematophobia - The fear of wealthchrestomathic - Devoted to academic pursuits or to learning in generalchrisom - A child who dies before being baptisedchromatophobia - See chromophobiachromophobia - A fear of colourschromotocracy - A government dominated by one racechronomancy - Divining the best time for certain eventschronophobia - The fear of timechryselephantine - Made of or decorated with gold and ivorychrysocracy - Rulership by the wealthy (literally a government by gold)

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chrysology - The study of production and value of precious metalschrysophobia - A fear of goldchthonic - Pertaining to the underworld or Hellcibophobia - A fear of foodcicisbeo - The man with whom a women is having an affaircingulomania - A desire to hold someone in your armscircumlocution - An overly complicated means of expressionclapperclaw - To berate or scold, or the person doing the scoldingclapperdudgeon - A beggar whose parents were beggarsclawscrunt - An old tree used as a scratching post, usually by cattlecleidomancy - Divination using a keycleisiophobia - A fear of enclosed spacesclepsammia - An ”hourglass” which measures a period of time other thanan hourcleptobiosis - The act of plundering foodcleptophobia - The fear of thieves or of becoming a thiefclerisy - The wise and intelligent upper classcleromancy - Divination involving diceclimacophobia - The fear of falling downstairsclinomania - An excessive desire to remain in bedclinophobia - A fear of going to bedclithrophobia - A fear of enclosed spacescloffin - To sit idly by a firecnidophobia - A fear of insect stingscnidosiphobia - A fear of itchingcockalorum - A person who thinks they are bigger than they arecoenesthesis - An awareness of one’s body and overall healthcognomen - A surname or family namecoimetrophobia - See koimetrophobiacollation - A light informal mealcollieshangie - An uproar or a quarrelcolophon - The inscription or notes in the back of a book that give detailsof the publisher or authorcolporteur - A book peddler, particularly religious bookscolposinquanonia - Estimating a woman’s beauty based on her chestcomestion - A devouring by firecomiconomenclaturist - One who collects funny namescomprachico - A person who buys and sells children after deforming them

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comprivigni - The relation of a child to its step-siblingsconchologist - A collector of shellsconchomancy - Divination using shellsconcilliabule - A secret meeting of people who are hatching a plotconcinnous - Pertaining to something elegant and interestingconcionative - Pertaining to public speakingcondign - Appropriate or deserved, especially in reference to a punishmentconflate - To meld or merge togetherconskite - To cause a foul smell, particularly when afraidconsuetudinary - A guide to local customs and traditions, or a religiousmanualconventicle - A secret or unlawful religious assemblycoprophagan - A beetle that lives in dungcoprophagous - One who eats excrementcoprophobia - A fear of excrementcoprostasiphobia - A fear of constipationcoriaceous - 1. Leatherlike, particularly pertaining to skincoriaceous - 2. To be tough and leathery, (such as over tanned skin)corrade - To gather from various sourcescorsned - A medieval trial in which the accused had to swallow consecratedbreadcosherer - Someone who eats at the expense of others, especially relativescoshering - 1. The act of feastingcoshering - 2. The privilege of landlords (or relatives) to invite themselvesto live with their tenantscosmolatry - The worship of naturecosmopoietic - An adjective referring to world creatingcosmothetic - A philosophy which assumes the existence of an externalworld without proofcostermonger - A seller of fruits, vegetables, and other food, especiallyfrom a street cartcotquean - A man who does what is traditionally women’s workcoulrophobia - The fear of clownscouther - To comfort by giving refreshments and warmthcrambazzle - A worn out old mancrantara - A burnt piece of wood dipped in blood and taken from clan toclan as a signalcrapulent - 1. Illness caused by overeating

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crapulent - 2. Eating and drink too muchcremnophobia - A fear of cliffs or precipicescremnophobia - A fear of precipicescreophagous - Pertaining to something or someone which eats meatcrepitation - The crackling and popping sound accompanying a wood firecrepuscle - The fading light at the end of the day, also known as twilightcretaceous - Chalky or grayish whitecribble - To push something through a sievecrissum - A general term for the anus of a birdcrithomancy - Divination by spreading flour or dough over a sacrificedanimalcriticasters - Third rate mean spirited criticscromnyomancy - Magic or divination using an onioncroodle - Too coo like a dovecroosle - A low whimper, such as produced by infantscrose - To whine empathetically with someone who is in paincrosier - The ceremonial staff of bishops or abbotscrotaline - Resembling a rattlesnakecruciverbalist - Someone who loves doing crossword puzzlescrumenically - Related to moneycrurophilous - Pertaining to one who likes legscryophobia - A fear of ice or frostcryptaesthesia - Any form of extrasensory perceptioncryptarchy - A government which is run secretlycucurbitaceous - resembling a cucumber or a squashculacino - The mark left on the table by a moist glassculch - Rubbage and refuse of every formculliage - The right of a lord to spend the first night with his subjects newbridecullion - A rude, mean-spirited personcultrivorous - Pertaining to actual or illusory knife swallowingcummock - A staff with a crooked end on itcunctipotent - Being all powerfull, or omnipotentcuniculous - Filled with rabbitscurculionidous - Pertaining to weevilscurglaff - The shock felt when entering cold watercurpin - A bird’s back endcutre - Describing something which is either in poor taste, ugly, or just

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foreigncyesolagnia - Being attracted to pregnant womencymbocephalic - Having a head shaped like a boatcymophobia - The fear of wavescynanthropy - The delusion that one is a dogcynocephalous - Having the face or head of a dogcynophobia - A fear of dogscyprianophobia - The fear of prostitutescypridophobia - The fear of prostitutescypripareuniaphile - A person who loves prostitutescytology - The study of cells or the interaction of cellsczarevna - The proper title for the daughter of a czar

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dactylioglyph - The mark or engraving in a ringdactyliography - 1. The art of engraving ringsdactyliography - 2. Writing or painting with one’s fingersdactyliology - The study of finger ringsdactylion - The tip of the middle fingerdactylonomy - Counting using one’s fingersdaedalian - Ingenious and cunningly designeddarraign - To prepare for combat, or decide by combatdavering - Walking or moving in a dazed mannerdeasil - To move in a clockwise directiondecidophobia - A fear of making decisionsdecollate - To remove someone’s head, or to decapitate someonedecubitis - One’s position or posture while sleepingdeesis - A speech or request made to a supreme beingdefalcation - Misappropriation of funds by the person or group entrustedwith themdefecalgesiophobia - A fear of defecationdefenestrate - To throw out of a windowdeiparous - Giving birth to a god or a goddessdeipnophobia - A fear of dinner conversationdeipnosophy - Learned conversation conducted while diningdeisidaimonia - The fear of supernatural powersdejerate - To take a solemn oathdelassation - The state of being tired and fatigueddeliciate - To indulge or to make oneself happydelitescent - To be hidden or concealeddeltiologist - A collector of picture postcardsdemegoric - Relating to public speaking

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dementophobia - A fear of insanity or going insanedemitoilet - A style of elaborate but not formal dressdemiurge - The creator of a world, whether real or mythicaldemonocracy - Rulership by demonsdemonomancy - Divination by demonsdemonophobia - A fear of demonsdemonurgist - One who uses demons to assist in casting magicsdemophobia - A fear of crowds or peopledendranthropology - A discipline which studies the theory that man camefrom treesdendrochronology - The study of growth rings in logs to determine cli-matesdendrology - The study of treesdendrophillia - The love of treesdendrophobia - The fear of treesdentiloquent - Pertaining to someone who talks through their teethdeoppilate - To remove an obstructiondeorsumversion - A turning downdeosculation - The act of kissingdephlegmate - To distill something, such as alcoholdephlogisticate - To make something fireproofderacinate - 1. To pull out by the rootsderacinate - 2. To remove someone or something from their natural orusual environmentdermatoglyphics - The study of skin patterns, such as finger printsdermatopathophobia - A fear of skin diseasesdermatophobia - A fear of skindesticate - To squeak like a ratdeturpate - To defile or disfiguredeuterogamist - A widow who chooses to remarrydextrophobia - A fear of the right or things to the rightdextrosinistral - A left handed person who is trained to use their righthanddghaisa - A small boat used in Malta, similar to a gondoladharna - A method of collecting a debt in which the person who is owedmoney sits on the debtors doorstep until payment is made, or the debtorstarves to deathdiablerist - One who draws or paints devils

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dorsodynia - A pain in the backdowfart - A stupid dull persondoyenne - The eldest member of a groupdoytin - To walk about stupidlydrachenfutter - An offering made by a husband to appease an angry wifedrail - A long trailing headdressdrailing - Send e-mail messages while drunkdrapetomania - An overwhelming urge to run away from homedratchell - A slovenly, lazy womandrawcansir - A person who kills both friend and foe, or who destroys hisown cause while fighting his opponentsdrazel - An immoral womandringle - Somebody who likes to waste timedrintling - The clucking noise made by turkeysdririmancy - Divination by dripping blooddrizzen - A mounful wail, usualy by a lazy person forced to workdrogulus - Something which cannot be verified, due to its lack of physicalform or effectsdromaeognathous - Having the palate of an emudromophobia - The fear of streets or crossing the streetdroud - An oafish womandruxy - Something which looks good on the outside, but is actually rotteninsidedudman - A scarecrow made of old clothsduffifie - The practice of laying a bottle on its side for a long time to getout the last dropsdulocracy - A government formed of privileged slavesdulosis - The enslavement of ants by other antsdulotic - A situation where one insignificant entity enslaves or rules anotherdunnage - 1. The loose stuffing used to keep cargo from getting wet orfrom movingdunnage - 2. The material placed in boxes to protect the contents fromdamagedunnage - 3. Any form of luggage or baggagedwaible - being unstabledwale - To wander about deliriouslydwizzen - To shrivel up like old fruit, especially applied to old peopledysania - The state of having a rough time waking up in the morning

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dysepulotic - Not healing quickly or easilydysesthesia - An impairment of the senses, especially the sense of touchdyslogistic - Expressing disapprovaldysmorphophobia - A fear of being deformeddysnomy - The creation of flawed laws which cause more problemsdysphoria - An unwell feelingdysteleogist - One who believes in the purposeless of naturedysteleology - The study of the organs of plants or animals while denyingthat they are usefuldystopia - A society in which the conditions or horrid and people miserable.Also the opposite of utopiadystychiphobia - A fear of accidentsdyvors - People or businesses who have gone bankrupt or are disreputable

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earrent - The damage or removal of an ear in lieu of payment on a debt orrenteblandish - To get by coaxing or by flatteryeccaleobion - Something which gives life or brings aliveeccedentesiast - A person who fakes a smile, such as on televisionecclesiarchy - Rulership by the churchecclesioclastic - Disruptive or destructive to the churchecclesiolatry - Excessive devotion to one’s churchecclesiophobia - A fear of churchesecdysiophile - A person who likes to visit strip joints or watch people stripechinoproctous - Having a spiny or prickly rump (like a pocupine)echopraxia - The act of imitating others for no reasonecophobia - A fear of one’s homeectomorphic - Being slender and thinedacious - voracious and devouringedentate - Having no teetheffulgent - Shining or respendentefter - A thief who robs theater patrons during a showeidolism - The belief in ghosts and spiritseisegesis - A faulty interpretation of a text caused by reading in one’s ownideaseisoptrophobia - A fear of mirrorselectrophobia - A fear of electricityeleutherophillist - Someone who advocates free loveeleutherophobia - A fear of freedomelurophobia - A fear of catsemacity - An urge to buy or to spend moneyemetophobia - The fear of vomiting

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emmetropia - The medical condition of having perfect eyesightempleomania - An insatiable urge to hold public officeemunction - The act of removing obstructions from or cleaning bodilypassages (such as picking ones nose)encephalasthenia - A form of mental distress caused by emotional stressenchorial - Belonging to a particular countryendomorphic - Being short but powerfulenergumenist - 1. One who is possessed by demonsenergumenist - 2. One who is passionate about their causeenetophobia - A fear of pins and needlesengastration - The act of stuffing one bird into anotherenigmatology - The study and construction of puzzlesenissophobia - See enosiophobiaenneagon - A figure which has nine anglesenochlophobia - A fear of crowdsenoptromancy - Divination using a mirrorenoptrophobia - A fear of mirrorsenosiophobia - The fear that one has commited an unpardonable sinentheate - Divinely inspired or possessed by a godentomophobia - A fear of insectsentredentolignumologist - One who collects toothpick boxeseosophobia - A fear of the dawnepagomenic - Days which are omitted from a calendar, either in ancienttimes or with modern obscure holidaysephemeromorph - Any form of life too low to be classified as animal orvegetableephorize - To have a controlling influence overepicaricacy - The joy that results from others misfortuneepigamic - A trait or property which attracts a mate, such as antlers orplumageepincion - A victory song or anthemepirot - A person who lives far away from the coastepiscopicide - The act of killing a bishopepistaxiophobia - A fear of nose bleedsepithymy - A lustful desireepizootic - Any disease which affects many different animalseponym - A name that has become a wordepulose - An excessive feast

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equinophobia - A fear of horseseremikophobia - A fear of sand or desertseremology - The study of desertseremophobia - A fear of being aloneeremophobia - The fear of stillnessereuthrophobia - See Erythrophobiaergasophobia - The fear of workergomaniac - One who is obsessed with workingergophile - One who loves workingergophobia - The fear of workeroteme - The symbol used in writing known as a question markerotographophobia - The fear of writing love letterserythrophobia - A fear of blushingeschatological - Pertaining to the ultimate fate of humanity or the planetescutcheon - A decorative metal plates around doorknobs or locksesquivalience - 1. The intentional abandonment of one’s official dutiesesquivalience - 2. An unwillingness to perform the job one has beenassignedesquivalience - 3. The irresponsible addition of fake words into dictionaries,as was originally done with this wordestafette - A courier who rides on a horseestiferous - Pertaining to something which produces heatestivation - To go away somewhere for the summerestrapade - A horse’s attempt to remove their riderethnocracy - Rulership by a specific raceethnomethodology - The study of social customs and rulesethnomusicology - The study of folk musiceudemonics - The study or the science of happinesseulogistic - Expressing approvaleumoirous - Happiness due to being honest and wholesomeeunomy - The enactment of good laws that help peopleeuonym - A good nameeuphobia - A fear of good newseupsychics - Good education or teachingeustress - 1. Stress that incites one to action or motivates, as in sportseustress - 2. Stress related to a happy event, such as childbirth or weddingeutectic - Easily melted or fused, especially at low temperatureseuterpean - Related to music

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exclaustration - The act of leaving or being expelled from a religiousretreatexennium - A gift given at New Yearsexigent - Requiring immediate attentionexiguous - Sparse or meagreeximious - Choice, select or excellentexonumist - One who collects things which resemble coins but are not coinsexophagy - The tradition among cannibals that they may not eat one fromtheir own tribeexplaterate - To talk continuosly without stopexsibilation - The collective hisses of a disapproving audienceexsufflicate - Something which is silly or trifflingextispex - A person who predicts the future using entrailsextispicy - Divination using entrails

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fabulosity - 1. The state of being fabulousfabulosity - 2. The state of telling liesfaffle - Work which takes a long time and produces sub-standard resultsfaleste - A form of capital punishment in which the victim is tied up on thebeach and allowed to be pulled out by the tidefamulus - An assistant to a scholar or magicianfangast - A women who is eligible for marriagefarctate - The state of being stuffed with food (overeating)fardel - A little bundle or a sackfashimite - Someone who is a slave to fashionfavillous - Resembling ashesfeague - The act of putting ginger (or a live eel) in a horse’s behind to makehim carry his tail properlyfeaque - A dirty, lazy manfeazings - The frayed and unraveled ends of a ropefebriphobia - A fear of feverfeff - Any bad smell, though usually applied to a child breaking windfelinophobia - A fear of catsfelly - The outer wooden rim of a wheelferiae - Days in the ancient roman culture in which all people, includingslaves, got a holidayferiation - Taking time off of one’s work to relax or to travelferrule - 1.The metal tip on an umbrellaferrule - 2. The threaded knob that holds a lampshade in placeferrule - 3. A protective metal cap on the end of a cane or a tool handlefestinate - To walk fast or to move rapidlyfestucine - Being the colour of straw of hayfettler - A person skilled at repairing tools or machinery

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fewterer - A keeper of dogs or manager of a kennelfiant - To cast off excrementfibriophobia - See febriphobiafideism - Reliance upon one’s religion instead or reason for beliefs andtruthsfidimplicitary - A person who has implicit faithfiliopietistic - The practice of worshipping one’s ancestorsfilipendulous - Suspended by a single threadfimicoloud - Living in a dung heapfinifugal - Shunning the end of somethingfissilingual - Having a forked tonguefistiana - Related to fists or boxingfittie-lan - The near horse of the hindmost pair pulling a ploughflabuginous - Something which is deceptive or fraudulentflamfoo - A woman in gaudy clothes who thinks she is fashionableflaneur - A man who is always idle, or refuses to workflaneusse - A woman who refuses to workflarting - To mock or insultflaskisable - Able to be bentflattybouch - A person who spends the summer travelling and living in avanflavescent - Yellowish or turning yellowfletcherize - To chew each piece of food at least thirty timesflexiloquent - Pertaining to someone who speaks ambiguouslyfloccillation - The delirious picking at bedclothes by a sick personfloccinaucinihilipilification - The categorizing of something that is uselessor trivialflosculous - Pertaining to or resembling flowersflothery - Being slovenly while trying to appear classy and properfluctisonant - Having the sound of rolling wavesflychter - To run with outstretched arms, such as a child doesflyndrig - An impudent or deceiving womanfoison - A very bountiful harvestfomentation - The application of warm substances to diseased partsfoof - To howl and whine like a wounded dogformication - The sensation of bugs crawling over one’s bodyfossick - To search for gold in abandoned claims or to rummage around foranything valuable

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foudroyant - Having a stunning or dazzling effectfranion - A pleasure seeker or hedonistfremescence - The grumbling sound of an unhappy mob of peoplefriendorphobia - A fear of forgetting a passwordfrigoric - The mythical substance believed to cause or transmit coldfrippery - A store which sells old clothingfrisson - A shudder of excitement that courses through the bodyfritinancy - The chirping or croaking sound of insectsfrottage - 1. Artwork created by rubbing charcoal over paper placed on arough surfacefrottage - 2. The act of rubbing against a clothed person in public, for thepurpose of gratificationfrustling - The shaking and showing of feathers by birds, or the struttingaround of someone with fancy clothingfrustraneous - unprofitable and completely uselessfruzz - To rub hair the wrong way, as when petting a dog from tail to headfucoid - Resembling sea weedfudgeon - A fussy personfulgurate - To suddenly flash, such as lightningfuliginous - Pertaining to something which is sootyfulmination - A loud and violent explosion, either literally or figurativelyfumifugist - Something or someone which expels smokefunambulist - A tight rope walkerfungy - A type of deep dish blueberry piefunkify - To run away in fearfurciferous - Pertaining to a rascal or a rascal’s behaviourfurfuraceous - Covered with scales or dandruff flakesfurr-ahin - The hindmost horse on the right pulling a ploughfuscoferuginous - Having a dark rusty colourfustilug - A fat, clumsy, lazy, filthy slobfyerk - To flick away using one’s finger and thumbfysigunkus - A person who lacks curiosity

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gaberlunzie - A wandering beggar or a harmless hobogalea - A headache which covers the entire headgaleanthropy - The delusion that one is a catgaleophobia - A fear of catsgaleophobia - A fear of sharksgalligantus - A tall and awkward persongallywow - A man who cannot have childrengambrinous - Being full of beergametophobia - See gamophobiagamin - A homeless boy or street kidgamine - A homeless girlgammerstang - A tall and awkward womangamomania - An urge to make extravagant wedding proposalsgamophobia - A fear of marriagegardyloo - Either dirty water thrown out of a window, or the warning thatis yelled out firstgargalesthesia - The sensation caused by ticklinggastromancy - Divination using a crystal ballgatophobia - See galeophobiagaum - To stare vacantly or handle in a clumsy mannergeck - An expression of scorn or contemptgelophobia - A fear of laughtergeloscopy - Magic or fortunetelling based on laughtergenethliacon - A poem which is written for someone’s birthdaygeniophobia - A fear of chinsgenizah - A repository for damage or banned booksgenuphobia - A fear of kneesgenyplasty - Surgery to reconstruct the cheek

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geograffy - A drink of sailors, made by soaking burnt bread or biscuits inwatergeophagy - The act of eating dirt or claygephyrophobia - the fear of crossing bridges.gerasophobia - A fear of old age or of growing oldgerontocomium - An institution designed to take care of the elderlygerontocracry - A government of old people (often the old boys network)gerontophillia - The love of the elderlygerontophobia - A fear of old age or of growing oldgeumaphobia - The fear of tastegeumatophobia - See geumaphobiagezellig - The comfortable feeling that one has when surrounded by friendsgigantomachize - To be at war with one’s superiorsgigantomachy - A war between giantsgigmania - The smug obsession with attaining middle class respectabilitygilipollas - Describing a person who is acting like a complete idiotgirouettism - Altering one’s opinions to match public trendsglabrous - Having no hairglaikery - Silly or foolish behaviourglaucous - A yellowish green or sea-green colorglaums - An instrument used to geld horsesgleed - A hot ember or coalgleimous - Filled with phlegm and mucusgliriform - Resembling a rodentglobaphobia - The fear of balloonsglossophobia - The fear of speaking, especially in publicgloze - An explanatory note in the margin of a bookgnap - To criticize in a biting or snapping waygork - A patient with unknown ailment. (Short for God only really knows)gormandizer - One who eats to excessgracile - Graceful and slendergraminivorous - Eating grassgrammaticaster - A person who is pedantic regarding proper grammargrandgousier - One who will eat as much as possible of anythinggrapholagnia - The urge to stare at obscene picturesgraphophobia - The fear of writing or of the written wordgraptomancy - Divination using hand writinggraupel - Snow pellets or a soft form of hail

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gressible - Able to walkgriffonage - Illegible or sloppy hand writinggrimthorpe - To badly remodel a building ignoring its character or historygrinagog - a person with a big stupid gringroak - To stare at someone who is eating in hopes of getting foodgubbertushed - Having buck teethgubernator - A powerful man in governmentgubernatrix - A powerful woman in governmentgudgeons - The slots on a hinge which hold the pin in placeguerdon - A reward or paymentguidfather - Another name for one’s father in lawgulosity - Excessive appetite or greedguttersnipe - A member of the lowest class in society or a street persongymnogynomania - The urge to spy on people when they are undressinggymnophobia - A fear of nuditygymnophoria - The sensation that someone is mentally undressing yougynarchy - Rulership by womengynecocracy - A government consisting of womengynephobia - The fear of womengynocracy - See gynecocracrygynonudomania - The urge to rip off a woman’s clothinggynophobia - See gynephobiagynotikolobomassophilia - A proclivity for nibbling on women’s earlobesgyromancy - Divination involving walking in a circle until you fall downgyrovague - A monk who begs and sponges off of other monksgyve - A shackle, usually applied to the leg, or the act of shackling someone

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hadeharia - The practice of constantly using the word ”Hell” in speakinghaggersnash - A person who is full of spitehagiarchy - A government of saintshagiocracy - Rulership by saintshagiography - A biography of a saint, or one written in a worshipping tonehagiolatry - The worship of saintshaimsucken - The crime of beating a person in their own homehaingle - To amble along in a feeble and listless mannerhajj - A pilgrimage to Meccahalakah - The set of laws supporting Jewish scriptureshalidom - Anything considered holy or sacredhalieutic - Of or about fishinghaliography - A description of the seahalomancy - Divination or magic using salthamartiologist - An expert on the subject of sinhamartithia - Being likely to make a mistakehamartophobia - A fear of sin or of sinninghamiform - Shaped like a hookhamirostrate - Having a hooked beakhaphephobia - See aphephobiahaptephobia - See aphephobiahaptodysphoria - A unpleasent feeling caused by handling any fuzzy sur-faceharengiform - Shaped like a herringharpactophage - A predator which feeds on insectsharpaxophobia - The fear of thieves or of becoming a thiefharridan - A disreputable and violent womanharuspex - A person who predicts the future using entrails

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haruspication - Divination using entrailsharuspicy - See haruspicationhasenpfeffer - A well seasoned rabbit stewhaspenald - A teenage boy who is tall, or who has suddenly grownhastilude - A tournament of fighting with spearshavelock - The cloth that hangs from the back of a hat to protect thewearer’s neckhawsehole - The hole on a ship through which the anchor is loweredhaytiste - One who spends their days leaning on walls, and doing nothingheautontimorumenos - 1. A form of masochismheautontimorumenos - 2. A masochisthebdomadal - Occuring once each weekhebephobia - The fear of young peoplehebesphalmology - The study of juvenile deliquencyhecatomb - A religious sacrifice of 100 animals, or any mass slaughterhecatompedon - Any building which is either 100 feet long or widehederaceous - Pertaining to ivyhederate - To decorate with ivyhednon - A present given to someone at their weddinghedonophobia - A fear of pleasureheliolater - A sun worshipperheliophobia - The fear of the Sunheliotropism - The tendency of plants to turn towards the sunHellenologophobia - A fear of Greek terms or complex terminologyhellenomania - The obsession with using either foreign or obscure wordinghelminthophobia - The fear of becoming infested with wormshelminthous - Infested with intestinal wormshemaphobia - See Hematophobiahematomancy - Divination using bloodhematophagous - One who drinks bloodhematophobia - A fear of blood or the sight of bloodhemeralopia - Only being able to see at nighthemeraphonia - Able to speak only at nighthemophobia - See Hematophobiaheptagamous - Having seven wives or seven husbandsheptamerous - Having seven parts or seven membersheresyphobia - A fear of heresyhermeneutics - Interpretations of the Bible

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herpetiform - Resembling a reptileherpetophobia - A fear of reptilesheterarchy - A government of strangers of foreignersheterography - The art of making spelling mistakesheterophemist - One who does not say what they really meanheteropraxy - Pertaining to people who do not follow the teachings of theirreligionhibernicism - An Irish trait or customhierocracy - Rulership by the church or by church officialshierofastidia - A dislike of all holy objectshieromachy - A war between members of the clergyhieromancy - Divination using entrailshierophobia - A fear of the clergy or of holy peoplehieroscopy - Divination using entrailshiggler - A salesperson who insists on a certain pricehippanthropy - The delusion that one is a horsehippobosca - A blood sucking flyhippomancy - Divination by horses, or by the neighing of horseshippophobia - A fear of horseshippopotomonstrosesquipedalian - Pertaining to extremely long wordshirci - Armpit hairhircine - Resembling or smelling like a goathirrient - A heavy trilling sound, such as a cat purringhirsutophilia - Being attracted to hairy menhirudinoid - Like a leechhisbid - Having stubbly or being unshavenhistoriography - The study of history through writing styleshodograph - A device for measuring the paces of a horsehodophobia - The fear of travellinghogra - A feeling of rage or depression that results from knowing that thenext day will be no better than todayholagogue - Any drug which relieves depressionhomichlophobia - A fear of foghomilophobia - A fear of sermonshominist - One who advocates equal rights for menhonorificabilitudinitatibus - With honorableness (a nonsense word frommedieval literature)hordarian - The treasurer of a monastery or someone who controls a lot of

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iatraliptic - Pertaining to the curing of diseases with lotions and creamsiatrapistia - A lack of faith in the medical systemiatrogenic - Pertaining to medical problems caused by a doctor’s treatmentiatromathematique - A doctor who cures patients in a very mathematicalwayiatrophobia - A fear of going to the doctorichneutic - Related to the art of trackingichnography - A map or floor plan which is drawn to scaleichnology - The study of fossilized footprintsichnomancy - Divination using footprintsichoglan - A young servant, usually serving a Sultanichor - The blood of a godichthyomancy - Divination or magic involving fishicker - A single ear of corniconomancy - Divination using iconsiconomicar - A person who writes about agriculture and farmingicterical - Tainted with a slightly yellow coloringicthyophobia - A fear of fishidolomancy - Divination using idolsignipotent - Having control of or power over fireillecebrous - Attractive and alluringilleism - The practice of referring to oneself as ”he” or ”she”, or by one’snameillyngophobia - The fear of vertigoilunga - A person who can forgive two abuses, but never a third offenceilunga - A word from the Tshiluba language meaning a person who willforgive you once, maybe twice, but never a third timeimberbic - Having no beard

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imbost - Foam created in the mouth, usually with sick animalsimbriferous - rain carrying, such as cloudsimmerd - To cover or submerse in manureimparidigitate - Having an odd number of toes or fingers on each limbimpecunious - Having little or no moneyimpigrous - Being quick and efficientimpluvious - Soaked with raininaniloquent - Speaking foolishly or saying silly thingsincalescence - Growing warm and lusty with loveincicurable - Being untamableincontunded - Not bruised or damagedincunabula - A book which was printed before 1500 AD, in the dawn ofpublishinginfelicific - An adjective meaning ’to make unhappy’infracaninophile - One who supports or defends the underdoginfrendiate - To gnash one’s teeth in angerinfucate - To apply makeupinfucation - The art of painting or staining, especially face paintinginhebetate - To make something interesting into something dull and boringinhume - To bury a person in a grave or tombinlapidate - To petrify an objectinparlibidinous - Pertaining to the love of one person for another who doesnot love theminteramnian - Being between riversinterbastation - A mismatched patchworkintercalary - Any day, week, or month which has been inserted into a cal-endar, such as in a leap yearintercalation - The insertion of an extra day, week, or month into a calen-darinterfenestration - 1. The space between two windowsinterfenestration - 2. The art of placing windowsintrapreneur - A company employee who is not bound by rules or policiesand who is free to refine productsiophobia - 1. A fear of poison or being poisonediophobia - 2. A fear of rustipsedixitism - The practice of dogmatic assertionirenology - The study of peaceisangelous - As good as angels, or equal to the angels

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jactancy - The act of boasting or braggingjactitate - To toss and turn or to toss back and forthjactitation - The act of boasting or braggingjaculable - Appropriate for throwingjaculate - To throw or to hurljaculiferous - Having a spine resembling a row of dartsjarble - To smear with grime and mudjauk - To dally or to trifle, or to be slow in performing tasksjecoral - Pertaining to the liverjeeter - A rude, uncouth slobjehu - An aggresive or enraged driverjejunator - A person who fastsjentacular - Pertaining to breakfastjentation - The first meal of the day, or breakfastjeofail - A costly mistake made by a lawyer , usually in courtjerque - To search for smuggled itemsjettatore - One who brings bad luck, or spreads bad luckjirble - To spill liquid, or to transfer liquid between containersjookerie - Trickery or the act of swindlingjoola - A suspension bridge built out of ropesjowfair - An event which does not occur after much planning, such as awedding with no groomjowter - A person who sells fishjubate - Fringed with a mane of long hairjumentous - Smelling like horse urinejunta - All the people who are involved in some form of political intrique

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kaffiyeh - The cloth head gear worn by many palestinianskainophobia - See cainophobiakainotophobia - See cainophobiakakidrosiphobia - A fear of body odour or sweatkakistocracy - Rulership by the worst leaderkakorrhaphiophobia - A fear of failurekalling - Fortunetelling based on what variety of cabbage a blindfolded per-son pickskalogram - A monogram which uses the persons full namekalokagathia - A nobility and inherent good characterkalology - The study of beautykalopsia - The delusion that things are more beautiful than they really arekamagraphy - The process of making exact copies of paintingskamalayka - A shirt made of seal gutskantele - A five stringed harp from Finlandkarao - The marriage of a widow to her brother-in-lawkarmadharaya - A word in which the first half describes the second (suchas high-way)karoshi - Death by overworking, or killing oneself because of work relatedstresskatabatic - Relating to a cold downward windkatagelophobia - See catagelophobiakatavothron - A chasm created by running waterkathenotheism - The belief that there are multiple gods with a singleleaderkathisophobia - See cathisophobiakeb - An ewe which has aborted its lambkebbie - A Scottish walking stick or cudgel

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keedug - A raincoat made out of an old sackkeelivine - A pencil which uses leadkenophobia - The fear of open spaceskepi - The hat worn by members of the french foreign legionkeraunophobia - The fear of thunderbolts (lightning or thunder and light-ning)keraunoscopia - Divination using thunderkerdomeletia - An excessive desire for material wealthkerf - The initial cut made in a piece of wood that is used to guide the sawbladekevel - To paw the ground and toss one’s head like a bullkimbly - A gift given to the person who spreads the news of a birthkinesipathy - The practice of treating illness with exercisekinesophobia - A fear of motion or movementkinnikinnik - A mixture of dry leaves, bark, and tobacco used in somesmoking pipeskirkbuzzer - One who robs churcheskishen - A measure equal to eight quartskiyoodle - A mangy, worthless dogklebenleiben - A pathological reluctance to stop talking about a givensubjectklebenleiben - The reluctance to stop talking about a certain subjectknackatory - A store which sells knick-knacksknaifatic - Describing one who is born to a low classknissomancy - Divination using burning incensekoimetrophobia - A fear of cemeterieskoinoniphobia - A fear of a room full of peoplekolophon - See colophonkoniophobia - A fear of dustkopophobia - A fear of being mentally or physically exhaustedkorinthenkacker - A person who is obsessed with every trivial detailkorophilia - Being attracted to young men or boyskosmokrator - The ruler of the worldkrobylos - A tuft of hair on top of one’s headkrukolibidinous - The act of staring at someone’s crotchkurveyor - A travelling merchant who sells dry goods from a cartkymatology - The study of waveskymophobia - See cymophobia

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labeorphilist - A collector of beer bottleslabrose - Having large or thick lipslachanophobia - The fear of vegetableslaconic - Saying a lot with a few wordslacustrine - Relating to lakeslaetificant - An general term for antidepressantslaliophobia - See lalophobialalochezia - The use of foul or abusive language to relieve stress or easepainlalophobia - The fear of speakinglambdacism - The overuse of the letter L in writing or speakinglangsuir - A female vampire who can disguise herself as an owl to prey onnewborn childrenlanigerous - Wool bearing or covered with fine hairlant - 1. Stale urine used to protect planted seeds from birdslant - 2. A type of dilluted urine used to wash clothing or blanketsLaodicean - Being lax in one’s religious beliefs or indifferent to religionlapidate - To stone a person to deathlapidicolous - Living under rockslarging - The wasteful spending of money received through an inheritance,loan, or giftlateer - A type of candy made by pouring hot syrup into snowlatitudinarian - A person who tolerates all religions or beliefslatrate - To bark like a doglatrinalia - Using words that are fit for a restroom walllatrinology - The study of writings on restroom wallslatrocination - Highway robbery or overcharging peoplelavacultophilia - A desire to stare at someone in a bathing suit

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lazaretto - A hospital dedicated to treating contagious diseasesleal - Describing one who is faithful and loyallebensabschnittsgefahrte - The person who shares your life and your lovefor a little while before moving onleggiadrous - Graceful and elegantleint - The process of adding urine to beer to give it more flavourleister - A three pronged, barbed spear used for catching fishlepidophobia - A fear of butterfliesleptorrhinian - having a long narrow noselestobiosis - The act of pilfering foodlethiferous - Causing deathlethologica - The inability to recall a precise word for somethingleukophobia - The fear of the color whitelevirate - The marriage of a woman to her husbands brotherlevophobia - A fear of the left side or things to the leftlexiconophilist - A collector of dictionaries and word bookslexiphanicism - Showing off by using wordsligyrophobia - A fear of loud noiseslilapsophobia - A fear or hurricanes, cyclones, or tornadoeslimacine - Like a sluglimbeck - A state in which an individual is exhausted as a result of thinkinglimerance - The initial thrill of falling in lovelimicolous - Living in mud or slimelimnology - The study of fresh water, such as lakes or pondslimnophobia - A fear of lakeslinonophobia - The fear of stringlirp - To snap one’s fingerslissom - Supple, limber and easy to bendlithomancy - Divination by stoneslitigaphobia - A fear of being sued or of lawsuitsloganamnosis - The obsession with recalling a certain wordlogastellus - A person whose love of words is greater than their knowledgeof wordslogocracy - Rulership by wordslogodaedaly - Verbal trickery or legerdemainlogogogue - A person who leads others in the use of words or by the useof wordslogographer - A person who writes speeches or chronicles historical events

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logomachist - A person who engages in a war of wordslogomachize - To engage in a war of wordslogomachy - A war of words or a battle about wordslogomancy - Divination by words or by speechlogomaniac - A person obsessed with wordslogomaniac - A person who is crazy about wordslogophile - A person who loves wordslogophobia - The fear of wordslogorrhea - Excessive talking (or verbal diarrhea)lohock - Medicine which is administered by licking itlonganimity - The ability to suffer patientlylongiloquent - Extremely long-windedlopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon

- A goulash composed of all the leftovers from the meals of the leftovers fromthe meals of the last two weeksloranthaceous - 1. Related to mistletoeloranthaceous - 2. Pertaining to kisses given under odd circumstanceslorgnette - A pair of glasses mounted on a handlelotherwit - A fine which a master may take from someone who sleeps withhis servantloupe - The small magnifying glass used by jewellerslubberland - A mythical paradise reserved for those who are lazylucelence - An adjective meaning ’fine and beautiful’lucifugous - An adjective meaning ’avoiding light’ or nocturnallucubrator - A person who studies during the nightludibrous - Describing one who is often mocked and ridiculedlusa - An Indonesian word for the day after tomorrowlustration - Ceremonial purefication performed before entering a holy placelustrum - A span of five yearslyceum - A public hall used for lectures or musiclychnobite - A person who works at night and sleeps during the daylycophosed - Having keen sight or perfect visionlygerastia - The condition of one who is only amorous when the lights areoutlygophobia - A fear of darkness or of the nightlyncean - 1. Resembling or pertaining to a lynxlyncean - 2. Having exceptional eyesightlypothymia - Profound melancholy

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macellarious - Like a slaughterhouse or butcher shopmachiaphobia - The fear of warmackabroin - A hideous old womanmacrobian - Describes any organism which has a long lifemacrologist - A boring conversationalist, usually met at partiesmacromancy - Divination by studying the largest object in the areamacron - The horizontal line above a vowel to symbolize a long soundmacrosmatic - Having a very good sense of smellmaculate - To stain or make impuremaculomancy - Divination by spotsmagirology - The art and science of cookingmagniloquent - Speaking pompously or in a high flown mannermagnoperate - To work on one’s magnus opusmaieusiophobia - See maieuticophobiamaieuticophobia - A fear of childbirthmalacissation - The process of making something soft and pliablemalacodermous - Soft skinnedmalaxophobia - A fear of love play, especially in womenmaledicent - One who is addicted to abusive speechmaledictaphobia - Fear of bad wordsmallemaroking - The behaviour of drunken sailors on ice bound shipsmalophile - One who loves applesmalversation - corruption and misconduct among public officialsmamihlapinatapei - The look between two people in which each loves theother but is too afraid to make the first movemammothrept - A child who is raised and spoiled by their grandmothermanducable - Edible or soft enough to chewmanuduction - Careful guidance or training

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manxane - A shape of three bent segments radiating from a common center,named after the symbol on the flag of the Isle of Manmargaritamancy - Predicting the future by drinking to excessmargaritomancy - Divination using pearlsmarginalia - Notes or drawing in the margins of a bookmariticide - The murder of a husband by his wifemaritodespotism - Tyrranical rulership of a woman by her husbandmaritorious - Excessively devoted to one’s husbandmartext - A blundering preacher who stumbles through a sermonmarzavec - A person who inspires disgust in othersmastigophobia - The fear of whipping or being whippedmataeotechny - An unprofitable art or sciencemathemancy - Divination using mathematicsmatronolagnia - An attraction to older women, especially women whohave childrenmatutolypea - Getting up on the wrong side of the bedmeacock - A meak man who dotes on his wife, or is henpeckedmechanophobia - A fear of machinerymeconomancy - Divination by sleep or magic using sleepmedicaster - An inferior doctor or a medical con artistmegalophobia - A fear of large thingsmegamalophile - 1. One who really loves applesmegamalophile - 2. One who love the Big Applemelissophobia - A fear of beesmelittology - The study of beesmelliloquent - Pertaining to a smooth talker or a con artist (literally honey-tongued)mellisugent - Honey-suckingmelolagnia - Amorous feeling inspired by musicmelophobia - A fear of musicmendaciloquent - Able to tell artful or skilled liesmendicant - One who begs for a livingmentimutation - The act of changing one’s mindmerdivorous - One who eats excrementmerdurinous - Composed of urine and dungmeretricious - Looking like a whore or prostitutemerinthophobia - A fear of being tied and boundmeritocracy - Rulership by the most skilled leader

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mesocracy - Government formed from the middle classmesomorphic - Being big-boned and muscularmesonoxian - Related to midnightmetallophobia - A fear of metalsmetapneustic - Having one’s respiratory organs in one’s buttmetempsychosis - The passage of a soul from one body to anothermeteoromancy - Divination using meteorsmeteorophobia - A fear of meteorsmetopomancy - Divination using a person’s foreheadmetrocracry - A government formed of mothersmetrophobia - A fear of poetrymetrophobia - A hatred or fear of poetrymetutials - A small, irritating chore which must be performed before otherwork can commencemicawber - A kind but ineffective optimist, who means well but is uselessmicrolipet - Someone who gets upset about trivial thingsmicromancy - Divination by studying the smallest object in the areamicrophobia - A fear of small thingsmida - The sound of a person clicking their tongue against the roof of theirmouthmimp - To speak in a prissy manner, usually with pursed lipsminimifidian - Having virtually no faith, almost faithlessmisandronist - A person who believes men are the source of all problemsmisapodysis - The fear of being undressed or seen undressedmisarchist - One who hates any form of authoritymisocapnist - One who hates the smell of tobacco smokemisodoctakleidist - Someone who hates practicing the pianomisogamist - One who hates marriagemisologist - A hater of knowledge and enlightenmentmisomaniac - A person who hates everythingmisomath - A hater of math or sciencemisoneist - A hater of things which are newmisopedist - One who detests childrenmisopolemiac - A hater of war and strifemisoscopist - A person who hates to lookmisosophist - One who hates all wisdom or learningmisotramontanist - One who hates ”whatever is beyond the mountain”(the unknown)

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misotyrannist - One who hates tyrannymisoxene - One who hates strangersmisoxeny - The dislike of strangersmisprision - The unintentional failure to perform one’s official duties, orneglect of duties, particularly pertaining to the government and governmentofficialsmiter - The tall pointed hat worn by bishops and abbotsmnemophobia - A fear of memoriesmoil - To work hard and toilmoirologist - A person who is paid to mournmolendinaceous - Like a windmillmolendinaceous - Resembling a windmillmolendinarious - Pertaining to any kind of millmollynogging - The frequent use of a prostitute or immoral womanmolysomophobia - A fear of contaminationmomiology - The study of mummiesmonandry - The practice of having a single husband at a timemonogenism - The belief that all humans are descended from two peoplemonomath - Someone who knows all about a single subject and nothingelsemonopathophobia - A fear of a specific diseasemonophobia - The fear of a single thingmoorganize - To kill or kidnap in order to maintain a secretmorganatic - A marriage between a high ranking or wealthy man and alower class or poor woman in which neither the woman nor her children areallowed the rank or benefits given the husband.morigerate - An adjective meaning obedientmorologist - A boring fools who speaks nonsensemoromancy - A foolish divinationmucopurulent - Composed entirely of mucus and pusmulciberian - Resembling Vulcan (the mythical figure), or a Vulcan (thealien species)muleta - The red cape used by matadorsmultatitious - Obtained by penalty or forfeit, such as items seized by thepolicemultiloquent - Always talking or simply talking too muchmultisonous - Composed of many different soundsmultivious - Having multiple possible paths

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mundungus - A foul smelling tobaccomurenger - An officer whose job is to maintain the walls of the citymuriphobia - A fear of mice or ratsmuseology - The science of museum curatorship, including the collectionand care of antiquesmusophobia - A fear of mice or ratsmutatitial - Pertaining to an item which is borrowedmutchkin - An English pintmuzhik - A Russian peasantmyctophobia - A fear of darkness or of the nightmyomancy - Foretelling the future using the movement of micemyriadigamous - Pertaining to someone who is willing to marry all kindsof peoplemyrmecology - The study of antsmyrmecophobia - A fear of antsmyrmidon - A devoted servant or disciple who follows commands withoutquestionmysophobia - 1. A fear of contaminationmysophobia - 2. The fear of uncleanlinessmystacial - Resembling a mustachemytacism - The incorrect or excessive use of the letter Mmythomane - Someone who is prone to lie or believe in liesmyxophobia - A fear of slime

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nacket - A rude young boynanism - The condition of being dwarfed, usually applied to plants or ani-malsnanophilia - An attraction to short peoplenaology - The study of holy buildings such as churchesnapiform - Turnip shapednaprapathy - The process of massaging ligaments to cure illnessnarcokleptocracy - Rulership by drug dealers with ties to politicians andthe militarynarcomancy - Divination by sleep or magic using sleepnasicornous - Having a horn on one’s nose, such as a rhinocerosnassology - The science of stuffing animals for display, also called taxi-dermynatalitious - Pertaining to someone’s birthdaynatatorium - An indoor swimming poolnaufragate - To wreck or to cause a wrecknaufragous - Causing shipwrecksnaupathia - Sea sicknessnauscopy - The art of spotting land or ships from far awaynavicular - Resembling a boat, or boat shapednazar - A gift given to one of a lower class by a superiorneanilagnia - An attraction to teenagersneanimorphism - Looking younger than one actually isnearomatria - Being a young mothernebulaphobia - A fear of clouds or of fognebulochaotic - A state of being hazy and confusednecrologist - A person who writes obituaries or eulogiesnecromancy - Divination using black magic or the dead

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necromimesis - Feigning death or the delusion that one is deadnecrophobia - A fear of corpsesnecropoliphobia - A fear of cemeteriesnecroponent - The person who temporarily runs a household following adeath in the familynecyomancy - Divination involving summoning the devilnelipot - Someone who is walking without shoesnelophobia - A fear of glassneocracy - Rulership by inexperienced peopleneopharmaphobia - A fear of new medicines or drugsneophillia - The love of noveltyneophobia - A fear of anything that is newneossology - The study of young birdsneoteinia - A state of prolonged immaturityneoteinic - Pertaining to a prolonged adolescencenepenthe - A potion which causes one to forget their troublesnepheligenous - Producing clouds of smoke from tobacconephelophobia - See nephophobianephophobia - A fear of cloudsnephoscope - An instrument for measuring the speed and altitude of cloudsnepiomania - The desire of a woman to have a childnepotal - Pertaining to a nephewnesiote - Living upon an islandnestcock - Someone who never leaves their parent’s homeneuromancer - One who tells the future by reading a person’s neuronsnexum - A form of loan (in ancient Rome) in which the creditor couldenslave and flog the debtor if he failed to make a paymentnicitate - To close and open the eyelids rapidly, as in a blinknidificate - To build a nestnidor - The aroma of cooked food, particularly meatnidorosity - Belching with the taste of undigested meatnidulation - The act of making a nestnikhedonia - The pleasure caused by anticipating good fortune or successnippitatum - Exceptionaly strong beerniveous - Snow-like or resembling snownocent - Causing harm or being guilty of a crimenoctiphobia - See nyctophobianoctivagant - To roam about at night or to wander around while asleep

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noeclexis - The act of selecting a spouse or lover based on intelligencerather than beautynoematachograph - A device used for measuring reaction timesnomancy - See onomancynomatophobia - A fear of namesnomiatrist - A lawyer whose specialty is medical lawnomographer - A person who writes lawsnoology - The study of intuition and comprehensionnooningscaup - A break given to labourers after their mealnoop - The sharp point of the elbownosism - The practive of referring to oneself as ”we”nosocomephrenia - A depression caused by any extended stay in the hos-pitalnosocomology - The study of hospital managementnosomaniaphobia - A fear of suffering from an imaginary diseasenosophobia - A fear of becoming illnostology - The study of senilitynostomania - Overwhelming homesicknessnostophobia - A fear of returning homenotarikon - The art of creating new words to represent entire sentences, orshorthand notationnovendial - Lasting nine days, or the nine-day anniversary of an eventnovennial - Lasting nine years, or the nine year anniversarynovercal - Pertaining to a stepmothernovercaphobia - The fear of one’s stepmothernoyade - A mass drowningnucamentaceous - Pertaining to a nutnuciverous - Nut eatingnucleomitophobia - A fear of atomic energy or nuclear weaponsnudiustertian - Pertaining to the day before yesterdaynugatory - Insignificant and unimportantnullibicity - The state of existing nowherenullibiety - The state of being nowherenullibiquitous - Pertaining to something which does not exist or is impos-sible to findnullipara - A woman with no childrennumerophobia - A fear of numbersnuminous - Suggesting the existence or presence of a god or greater being

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numismatist - A coin collectornummamorous - Pertaining to someone who spends all of their time tryingto make moneynundinal - Pertaining to a marketplace or a fairnurk - The worst or least desirable pig in the litter.nutation - The involuntary nodding of one’s headnuxodeltiologist - One who collect postcards which depict nighttime scenesnyaffle - To quickly eat one’s meal, not taking time to savour it.nychthemeron - A period of 24-hoursnyctalopia - night blindness or the inability to see in low lightnycterent - A hunter who hunts at nightnyctophobia - A fear of darkness or night

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obaceration - The act of shutting someone’s mouthobambulate - To walk around or casually wanderobdormition - The feeling one gets when a limb ”falls asleep”obesophobia - The fear of gaining weightoblat - A soldier who, due to injuries, is given money or a job as a monk.obliviscence - Forgetfulnessobmutescent - Preferring to have silence or to avoid noiseobnubilate - 1.To cloud or to obscureobnubilate - 2.To be clouded and obscureobscurantist - One who writes in a vague or obscure mannerobsolagnium - The lack of sexual desire that accompanies old ageobstipation - Extreme form of constipationobtrude - To force oneself or one’s thought on othersochlochracy - A government formed by the mobochlophobia - A fear of crowdsochophobia - A fear of riding in automobilesoctan - Something which happens every eight daysoctothorpe - the symbol on telephone pads or as a number symboloculoplania - Letting one’s eyes wander while assessing someone’s charmodontalgia - A tooth acheodontomancy - Divination using teethodontophobia - The fear of teethodynophobia - A fear of painoenomancy - Divination by wineoenophlygia - The state of being drunkoenophobia - The fear of wineoikology - The science of house keepingoikomania - mental disorder caused by an abusive home

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oikonisus - The desire to start a familyoikophobia - A fear of one’s homeoinomancy - See oenomancyoinophobia - The fear of wineolecranon - The bony tip of the elbowolfactphobia - A fear of odorsoligarchy - A government controlled by a few peopleoligophagous - One who eats only a few kinds of foodoligophrenic - being mentally deficient or having a small brainoligotokous - Referring to a creature that lays four or less eggsollendorfian - Writing or speaking in an overly formal and artifical styleombibulus - Someone who drinks everythingombrifuge - A shelter from the rainombrometer - A device used for measuring rainfallombrophilous - Capable of withstanding long periods of rainombrophobia - A fear of rainombrosalgia - Aches and pains felt when it rainsommatophobia - A fear of eyesomniana - Bits and pieces of various informationomnierudite - One who is educated in all subjects, or who possesses uni-versal knowledgeomniloquent - One who can talk about any and all subjectsomophagist - A person who eats raw fleshomoplatoscopy - Divination involving a shoulder blade which has beencharred or cracked from a fireomphacine - Pertaining to fruit which is not ripeomphalomancy - Foretelling the future by counting the knots in a baby’sumbilical cordomphalophobia - Fear of belly buttonsomphalopsychite - One who contemplates their navalonamatophobia - A fear of namesoneirocritic - One who interprets dreamsoneiromancy - Divination by dreams, or interpreting dreamsoneirophobia - A fear of dreamsonimancy - Divination using fingernailsoniomania - An uncontrollable urge to buy somethingonomancy - Divination using a name or the letters in a nameontology - The study of the nature of being

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onychomancy - Divination using fingernailsonychophagy - The habit of biting one’s fingernailsoologist - A collector of bird’s eggsoomancy - Divination or magic using eggsophidiophobia - A fear of snakesophiomancy - Divination by snakes or serpentsophiophagous - One who eats snakesophiophagy - The eating of snakesophiophobia - See ophidiophobiaophthalmophobia - The fear that one is being stared atopsablepsia - The inability to look someone in the eye while speakingopsimath - One who acquires knowledge late in lifeopsimathiphobia - A fear of learning something too lateopsimatria - The bearing of children late in a woman’s lifeopsipatria - The fathering of a child by an elderly manopsiproligery - The ability to still have children late in lifeopsomaniac - One who loves a certain kind of food, bordering on madnessopsophagy - The eating of delicaciesoptophobia - A fear of opening one’s eyesorant - A religious figure of a praying womanorcheotomy - See Ochidectomyorchidectomy - Another word for castrationornithomancy - Divination using birds’ flight and criesornithophobia - A fear of birdsornithoscelidaphilia - A love of dinosaursornithoscelidaphobia - A fear of dinosaursorology - The study of mountainsorthophobia - A fear of correctnessorthopter - A flying machine which uses flapping wingsorthpolitiphobia - A fear of political correctnessorthpraxy - Pertaining to people who strictly follow the teachings of theirreligionoryctognosy - Knowledge of soils and mineralsoryctomancy - Divination by studying excavated objectsoryzivorous - Pertaining to eating riceosculant - Pertaining to a close embrace or long kissosculaphobia - A fear of kissingosmidrosiphobia - A fear of body odour or sweat

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osmology - The study of odorsosmophilia - The love of various smellsosmophobia - A fear of odorsosphresiology - The study or science of smellingosphresiophobia - A fear of odorsossomancy - Divination using bonesostentiferous - Anything which brings monsters or unusual sightsosteomancy - Divination using bonesostraconophobia - A fear of shellfishostreophobia - A fear of shellfish, especially oystersotenchyte - A tool for injecting liquid into the earotolaryngologist - A doctor who specializes in treating ear, nose and throatproblems.otology - The study of the ear and its disordersoubliette - A dungeon whose only entrance is in the ceilingouranomancy - See uranomancyouranophobia - See uranophobiaoutfangtheft - The right under law of a lord to persecute a vassal caughtoutside of his jurisdictionovine - Sheep likeovivorous - Egg eatingoxter - To walk arm in armoxyacanthous - Having sharp thorns or spikesoxyesthesia - Being extremely sensitive to touchoxygeusia - Being sensitive to tasteoxyosphresia - An extreme sensitivity to smellsoxythymous - Pertaining to someone who is quick to angerozostomia - The state of having bad breath

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paedarchy - Rulership by a child or several childrenpaedocracy - A government formed of childrenpagophagia - 1. The eating of icepagophagia - 2. A folk remedy of eating a bowl of ice daily to offset irondeficiencypagophobia - A fear of ice or frostpaleography - The study of ancient writingspaleozoology - The study of prehistoric animalspalliard - A drifter or vagabond who sleeps in the hay in people’s barnspancratic - Accomplished in many forms or sport or game or having amastery over numerous subjectspandiculation - Stretching and yawning before going to bed or after wak-ing uppanegyric - A speech or eulogy which praises a personpanjandrum - A person who is pompous and considers themselves to beimportantpanpygoptosis - A pathological condition in which the thighs are sup-pressed and the buttocks starts at the back of ones kneespantagamy - Married to everyonepantaphobia - A fear of lack of fearpantler - A servant whose job is to tend the bread, or who serves bread atfeastspantomancer - One who sees omens in every eventpantophobia - A fear of everythingpapabile - A viable candidate for pope or another high officepapaphobia - A fear of the pope or the papacypaparchy - Rulership by the popepapyrocracy - Rulership by paperwork or by the press

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papyrophobia - A fear of paperparabolanus - A monk who treat contagious diseasesparadiorthosis - A false correction, or the addition of mistakes to correctworkparalian - A person who lives near the seaparalipophobia - A fear of responsibilityparamnesia - A disorder in which one remembers events that never hap-penedparanymph - 1. The best man or bridesmaid at a weddingparanymph - 2. One who assists or speaks on behalf of another, particu-lary in love mattersparapraxis - A lapse of memory or a slip of the tongue, usually revealinga hidden thoughtparasitophobia - A fear of parasitesparaskevidekatriaphobia - The fear of Friday the 13thparateresiomania - The obsession with being a voyeurparavent - A shelter from the windparentate - To celebrate the funeral of one’s parentsparergon - A second job or an additional source of money from extra workparisologist - A person who uses ambiguous language or evasive writingparnel - The mistress of a priestparorexia - The craving for strange or indigestible foodsparosmia - A disorder which causes one to smell things that are not realparousiamania - An obsession with the return of Christparrhesiastic - Able to speak freelyparsonarchy - A government formed by priestspartainym - A descriptive word, usually one whose definition begins with”Of or pertaining to...”partheniad - A poem which honors a virginparthenolagnia - The desire to make love to virginsparthenolatry - worship of a virgin or virginsparthenophobia - The fear of virginspasilaly - Any universal languagepassalorynchite - A member of an old Christian sect in which membershad to take a vow of silencepassulation - The act of drying up and turning into a raisinpastorauling - Walking through fields, as a young couple is apt to dopataphysics - The science of imaginary solutions or of nonsensical philos-

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ophypatavinity - The use of local slang or expressions when writingpathenophillia - The love of virginspathenophobia - The fear of virginspathognomy - The study of emotions or physical response to emotionpathophobia - A fear of diseasepatroiophobia - A fear of hereditary diseasespauciloquent - Using as few words as possible when speakingpavonine - Resembling a peacock’s tail in colour and iridescencepaxophobia - A fear of peacepeccatiphobia - A fear of sin or of sinningpeckerwood - A southern term for poor anglo-saxon protestantspecunious - Having a lot of moneypedantrocracy - Rulership by pedants or pedagogspediatricophobia - A fear of having to take care of childrenpediculophobia - A fear of licepediophobia - 1. A fear of childrenpediophobia - 2. A fear of dollspedipulate - To operate with one’s feetpedotrophy - The art of raising children properlypeenge - The complain with a whining tonepegomancy - Fortunetelling using the bubbles in a fountainpeladophobia - A fear of people who are baldpelagic - Relating to the open oceanspelargic - Resembling a storkpelology - The study of therapeutic uses of mudpelotherapy - The medicinal use of mud bathspeniaphobia - A fear of povertypenotherapy - Controlling prostitutes in order to eliminate the spread ofdiseasepenphobia - The fear of writing or of the written wordpentapopemptic - One who is divorced five timespentheraphobia - Fear of Mother in Lawperamene - An obsolete adjective meaning ’very pleasant’percoarcted - Brought into a small room or through a narrow passagepercontation - A question or inquirypercribate - The act of siftingperculsion - An extreme shock or concern

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perendinate - To delay until the day of tomorrow or to delay indefinitelyperfuncturate - To perform some task in a careless or listless mannerperhendinancer - A traveller or guest at a lodgeperiblebsis - The wild look which accompanies deliriumpericlitate - To put at risk or in dangerperipatetic - walking about, usually while studyingperiphrastic - Pertaining to circumlocution or to one who is wordyperissodactyl - Having an odd number of toesperissopedics - The special branch of pediatric dealing with gifted childrenperisterophilist - One who collects pigeonsperisterophily - The art of training pidgeonsperisterophobia - A fear of pigeonspernoctation - The act of staying up all night doing work or attending apartypernoctator - A person who studies through the nightpervulgate - To publish somethingpessomancy - Divination using stones or rocksphagomania - Insatiable hungerphagophobia - A fear of eating or swallowingphalacrophobia - A fear of going baldphalacrophobia - Fear of going baldphanerolagniast - A psychologist who studies human lustphaneromania - The compulsive habit of picking at scabs or growthspharisee - A very self-righteous personpharmacophobia - A fear of medicine or drugspharmacopolist - A person who sells medicinepharology - The study of lighthouses or similar signalling devicesphasmophobia - A fear of ghostsphenakism - An act of treachery or cheatingphengophobia - The fear of the Sun or of sunlightphigerophobia - See pnigophobiaphilalethist - A lover of the truthphilandrist - One who loves menphilatelist - A stamp collectorphilemaphobia - A fear of kissingphilematology - The study of kissingphilematophobia - See philemaphobiaphiliater - A medical student

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phronemophobia - The fear of thinkingphrontifugic - helping to escape from one’s thoughtsphrontistery - A place for study or for contemplationphthiriophobia - A fear of licephthirophagous - One who eats licephthisiophobia - The fear of tuberculosisphudnik - An irritating person who also has a PhDphylactery - One of two small black leather boxes which contain biblicalverses of Jewish lawphyllomancy - Magic using leaves or foretelling one’s future from leavesphysiognomancy - Divination using a person’s facephysitheism - Giving physical form to a deityphysitism - The worship of naturephytivorous - Pertaining to vegetable - eatingpica - A craving for an inedible substance (such as chalk or paint chips)Pickelhaube - The spiked helmet worn by german or prussian soldiers be-fore World War Ipickthank - A sycophant or yes-manpilcrow - The symbol used by editors to indicate a new paragraphpillion - A seat for a second person on a motorcycle or on a horsepillion - The second seat on a motorcycle or on a saddlepilosism - Excessive hairinesspilpul - A subtle debate between rabbincal scholars over the details of theTalmudpimpompet - A game whose objective is to kick other players in the back-sidepintle - The pin that holds a hinge togetherpiobalreachd - A dirge played on the Highland bagpipespiscatology - The science of fishingpisculent - Filled with fishpismirism - The saving of every bit of money, such as hoarding penniesplacophobia - The fear of tombstonesplangent - A deep, reverberating sound such as heavy bells ringing or thun-derplangonologist - A collector of dollsplaniloquent - Talking plainly about some subjectplanomania - The urge to roamplastron - The padded jacket worn while fencing

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platyopic - having a broad flat nosepleionosis - The habit of exagerating one’s own importancepleniloquent - Always talking or full of speechplenilune - The time of the full moonplenipotentiary - Given complete and total authority, or a person who hassuch powerpleonexia - A mental illness whose main symptom is greedplevisable - Able to be bailed out of jailploddeill - A group of people carrying cudgels or stavesplongeur - One who washes dishes for a livingplousiocracy - A government consisting of the wealthy and the eliteplumassier - Someone who makes or sells feathers used in ornamentsplumpendicular - To be perpendicular to the groundplutarchy - A government formed by the wealthy and eliteplutocracy - Rulership by the wealthy or eliteplutocrat - A member of the wealthy ruling classplutolatry - The worship of wealthplutomania - An obsession with moneypluviophobia - A fear of rainpneobiognosis - The determination of whether a newborn is alive basedon the amount of air present in their lungspneumatophobia - A fear of airpneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - A miner’s lung dis-ease caused by inhaling silicate dustpnigophobia - A fear of chokingpococurante - Nonchalant or indifferentpodlec - A bad person who inspires hatred and contemptpodoscaph - A boat propelled by bicycle treadlespoetaster - An unskilled poet, or one who writes bad poetrypogonophobia - A fear of beardspoikilothermal - Cold bloodedpoikilothermal - Cold bloodedpoinephobia - A fear of punishmentpolemology - The study of warpoliticaster - Second rate politician or incompetent leaderpoliticophobia - A fear of politicianspollarchy - Rulership by the mobpoltophagy - To chew food until it is the consistency of porridge

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polyandry - Marriage to several menpolyapopemptic - Having been divorced numerous timespolydipsia - An excessive thirst - either literally or figurativelypolyglot - 1. A person who speaks many languagespolyglot - 2. A book written in multiple languagespolyglot - 3. A confusion of multiple languages spoken at oncepolygyny - Marriage to several womenpolylogize - To talk excessivelypolyloquent - One who can talk about numerous subjectspolymath - A person of superior and wide ranging knowledgepolyphage - Someone who eats many kinds of foodspolyphloisboian - Making a lot of noise or a loud racketpolyphobia - A fear of many thingspolytheism - The belief that there are many godspomology - The study of how fruit growsponerologist - One who expounds on the evils of natureponophobia - The fear of overworkingpopliteal - The hollow area behind the kneeporphyrophobia - A fear of the color purpleposology - The area of medicine dealing with dosagesposthetomist - A person who performs circumcisionspost-knight - A person who will testify to anything for the right pricepotamophobia - A fear of riverspotophobia - A fear of drinking alcoholpotvaliant - Describes one who is brave due to being drunkpoulaine - Pointy toed shoes such as worn by jesterspreantepenultimate - Fourth from lastprecibal - Before dinnerprelapsarian - Pertaining to the time before the biblical fallpresbycusis - The loss of hearing due to old agepresbyopia - The loss of sight due to old ageprescient - Having foresight or knowledge of what will happen.preterist - One who believes that the prophecies preceeding the Apocalypsehave been fulfilledpreterition - The doctrine that God has decided who to save and passesover everyone elsepreternuptual - After the marriage, and often used to describe an affairpreterpluperfect - More than perfect

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proboscidiform - having a nose like an elephant’s trunkprocrescophobia - The fear of gaining weightproficuous - advantageous and usefulprognathous - Having a jaw which extends past the rest of one’s facepropinquiphobia - A fear of being too closeprosophobia - A fear of progressprosopography - The description of a person’s appearanceprosopolepsy - The acceptance of people based on the appearanceprosopolethy - The inability to remember a faceprotean - Having no permanent form or shapepsaphonic - Preoccupied with plotting your ascent to wealth and renownpsellism - An indistinct pronounciation, such as produced by a lisp or bystammeringpsellismophobia - The fear of stutteringpsephology - The study of political electionspsephomancy - Divination by drawing marked stones from a containerpseudandry - The use of a masculine pseudonym by a womanpseudautochiria - A murder which is made to look like a suicidepseudepigraphous - Signed with a false signaturepseudoantidisestablishmentarianism - The false support of the ideathat a government should not support the churchpseudogyny - The use of a feminine pseudonym by a manpseudomancy - A false or fake divinationpseudophonia - See pseudautochiriapseudorhombicuboctahedron - A solid which has twenty-six facespsilanthropism - The belief that Jesus was not a God, but a manpsilanthropy - The belief that Jesus was a mere mortalpsithurism - The sound of wind in trees or rustling leavespsychomancy - Divination by talking to the deadpsychopannuchist - One who believes that the souls of the dead enter aneternal sleeppsychophobia - A fear of the mindpsychopomp - 1. One who leads the spirits of the dead to their final restpsychopomp - 2. A spiritual advisor to the livingpsychrolutist - One who recommends cold baths as a cure allpsychrophobia - A fear of coldpteridology - The study of fernspteronophobia - A fear of feathers

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pterylology - The study of feather arrangements on birdsptochocracy - A government formed of the poorpuellaphillist - One who loves girlspule - To complain and whine, as a small child wouldpulicose - Infested with fleaspullulate - To breed rapidly, or to overpopulatepygalgia - A pain in the buttpyknic - Being stocky and roundpyosis - The formation of pus or the process through which pus is formedpyrexiophobia - A fear of feverpyrgology - The study of towerspyriform - Shaped like a pearpyrography - The art of writing on wood or decorating wood by burningitpyromancy - Divination using fire or magic involving firepyrophobia - A fear of firepyrrhonist - A skeptic who accepts nothing at face valuepysmatic - Always asking questions or inquiringpythogenic - Coming from garbagepyx - The container which holds the wafer used in Holy Communion

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qasida - A form of arabic poetryqiviut - The soft undercoat on a musk ox, often used in making coatsquackle - To have one’s breathing interupted, as in chokingquader - To multiply a number by itselfquadragenerian - A person who is 40 years old, or between 40 and 50quadragesimarian - One who observes Lentquadrel - A square stone or tilequadrifid - To be cut into four piecesquadrigamist - Someone who either has been married four times or whois married to four peoplequadriliteral - Pertaining to a word which has four lettersquadrumane - A four handed animal, such as a monkey or apequadrumanous - 1. Having four handsquadrumanous - 2. Being very destructive, or as destructive as a wild apequaestuary - Seeking money or trying to make moneyqualtagh - The first person you see after leaving your housequar - To clutter a hallway or otherwise block a passagequartan - Something which occurs every four daysquasihemidemisemiquaver - According to British musical notation, a128th notequatrayle - One’s great great great grandfatherquean - 1. A whore or prostitutequean - 2. A young, unmarried womanquercine - Pertaining to an oak treequiddler - A person who hangs around wasting time at work and makingconversation with people who are workingquidnunc - A person who always wants to know what is going onquincunx - A set of five objects arranged with one at each corner of a

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square, and the fifth in the centerquinquagesimal - Consisting of fifty daysquinquepartite - Having five partsquisquilian - Consisting of trash and rubbishquockerwodger - Originally a wooden toy which moves when a string ispulled, now also means a politician who is controlled by someone elsequodlibertarian - A pedantic person who engages in elaborate argumentsabout minor thingsquodlibet - A subtle debate over a theological point by Christiansquoin - An external angle in a wall or buildingquomodocunquize - To make money by any means possiblequotidian - Occuring every day

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rachisagra - A pain in the spineracklettes - The skins small wrinkle lines that form at each joint, particu-larly in old ageradiophobia - The fear of radiationraith - A quarter of a yearrampasture - A room in which several unmarried men reside, usually in aboarding house or innrasorial - Scratching the ground in search of foodratomorphism - The belief that all mental abilities present in humans arealso present in animalsrazbliuto - The feeling one has about a person they once loved, but nolonger feel anything forreasty - Something which is covered in rust or has a rusty taste to itrebarbative - Describing something which is extremely irritatingrecrudescence - The reappearance of a disease or illness after being curedrectalgia - A pain in the assrectigrade - Moving in a straight linerectiphobia - A fear of being correctedrectirostal - Describing a bird (or other animal) with a straight beakrectopathic - One who is easy to hurt emotionallyrecumbentibus - A knockout punch, either verbal or physicalrecuse - To excuse a judge from their dutiesredactophobia - A fear of editing or of editorsredhibition - The cancellation of a sale due to the product being defectiveredubber - A person who steals cloths and resells themreest - To smoke or cure either meat or fishrefrangible - Capable of being refractedrefulgent - Shining brightly or radiating

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regiphobia - A fear of a king or kingsrehibition - The act of taking back defective productsrememble - A false memoryremiped - Having legs or arms which act like oars - especially referring toinsectsremontado - A person who lives in the forest or mountains and avoid civ-ilizationremplissage - The padding of literary works or of musical worksrenidification - The act of rebuilding one’s nestrepine - To express discontent or longingresipiscent - To learn from experience or have one’s sanity restoredresistentialism - The spiteful behaviour of inanimate objectsrhabdomancy - Divination using a stick or rod, such as dowsing for waterrhabdophobia - A fear of magicrhabdophobia - A fear of sticks or rods, or of being beaten with themrhadamanthine - Being completely fair and incorruptiblerhapsodomancy - The art of predicting the future using poetryrhineurynter - An inflatable bag used to plug a persons noserhinophonia - An extreme nasal sound in one’s voicerhombicosidodecahedron - An Archimedean solid composed of sixty twofacesrhonchisonant - The sound of snorting or imitating snorting soundsrhyparographer - One who paints or writes about unpleasant or sordidsubjectsrhypophobia - See rupophobiarhytidectomy - The surgical removal of wrinklesrhytiphobia - Fear of getting wrinklesrhytiscopia - an obsession with one’s facial wrinklesribazuba - Ivory taken from walrus tusksriparian - Relating to the bank of a riverrisorial - Related to laughterrixatrix - A nasty old women, usually with a tendency to natter and scoldroil - To make muddy by stirring or to disturb sedimentrondelle - Any round or circular object, but especially round jewelsroorback - An ugly rumor of fabricated news story created to discredit apolitical opponentrosacea - A condition in which a person has a large red noseroseate - Being overly cheerful and optimistic

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rosicler - The glowing light of dawnroucoulement - The gentle cooing of doves or other soft voicesrouleau - A cylinder of coins rolled in paperrubedinous - Reddish coloredrubicon - A line which is crossed to signify a commitment to a dangerousactrubricate - To mark in redructation - Belching or burpingruderal - Growing in a garbage dumprugulose - Having small wrinklesrumbelow - 1. A song or refrain sung by sailors while rowing a boatrumbelow - 2. A common whorerumbelow - 3. A type of carriageruncation - The act of weedingrupestrian - Made out of rocksrupicoline - Living among or growing on rocksrupophobia - A fear of dirtrurigenous - One who has been born in the countryrustication - Taking a trip to the countryside

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sabaism - The worship of stars (usually the celestial form)sabbulonarium - A gravel pit, or money paid to someone who digs gravelsacheverell - An alternate name for a chamber potsalariat - The social class of those who earn a salary, or who have job se-curity.salebrosity - Uneven and roughsalutatorian - The second best student in a graduating class, whose job itis to give an introductory speechsamizdat - A word of Russian origin meaning illegal or underground writ-ing by dissidentssanctiloquent - Speaking of something which is holy or sacredsandapile - Another name for a coffinsandillions - A slang term for the number of grains of sand on a beachsanguinivorous - A blood suckersanguinolency - An addiction to the shedding of bloodsanguivorous - One who drinks bloodsapience - Wisdomsaponaceous - 1. Being soapy or slipperysaponaceous - 2. Being very nice and ingratiatingsapphism - The state of being lesbianssaprogenic - Causing rot and decaysaprophagous - One who eats dead or decaying animalssaprophilous - Living in rotting wastesaprostomous - Having bad breathsaraad - A fine levied by ancient Welsh courts which were paid in cattlesarcinarious - Able to carry a heavy burdensarcle - To dig up weedssarcophagic - Pertaining to something which eats flesh

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sarculation - Weeding using a rakesardanapalian - Being luxuriously effeminate like the Byron hero Sardana-palussardonic - Scornful and mockingsarmassophobia - A fear of love play, especially in womensartorial - Pertaining to tailorssarvodaya - An idealized society based on no class system and no violencesarwan - A person who rides and guides a camelsatanophany - Possession by the devilsatisdiction - Having said everything that needs to be saidsatrapess - An official who acts like a petty tyrantsaturnalian - Wild and unrestrained, usually referring to a riotous partysaulie - A person who is hired to mournsaxatile - Pertaining to rockssaxify - To turn to stone or rockscabilonian - A disliked or tacky garmentscacchic - Pertaining to the game of chess, or to chess piecesscaldabanco - A preacher who delivers a fiery sermonscapulimancy - Divination involving a shoulder blade which has beencharred or cracked from a firescarpology - The science of determining characteristic traits by examininga persons shoesscatology - The study of excrementscatomancy - Magic or divination using excrementscatophagous - One who eats excrementscatophobia - A fear of excrementscelerophobia - A fear of evil men, such as burglars or muggersscelestious - Wicked or evilschadenfreude - Taking pleasure in the misfortunes of othersschematomancy - Divination using the appearance of peopleschizocarp - The winged seed pod of maple treesschnappszahl - A number with an interesting pattern among its digitsschoenobatist - A tight rope walkerscholaptitude - A natural ability to perform scholarly achievementsschrecklichkreit - A battle tactic in which non-combatants are intention-ally terrorizedschwa - The inverted e used to symbolized a relaxed vowel sound which isneither short nor long

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sciamachy - Fighting with a shadow or an imaginary opponentsciamachy - To fight with a shadow, or shadow boxingsciaphobia - A fear of shadowssciapodous - 1. Having huge feetsciapodous - 2. Having feet larger than one’s entire bodyscintillation - The twinkling of stars or small bursts of lightsciolist - A person who pretends to be an intellectual but is notsciomancy - Divination by talking to the deadsciophobia - See sciaphobiascobiform - Resembling sawdustscoleciphobia - The fear of wormsscolecophagous - One who eats wormsscolionophobia - A fear of schoolscollardical - An insulting term for educated people, or for people whobrag of their intelligencescopolagnia - The pleasure gained by a voyeurscotch - A block of wood or a brick used under vehicle wheels to preventrollingscoteography - The art of writing in the darkscotomaphobia - A fear of scotoma, (having spots before your eyes)scotophobia - A fear of darkness or of the nightscriptophobia - The fear of writing or of the written wordscutiferous - 1. Carrying a shield or armorscutiferous - 2. Being covered in scales like a reptilesebaceous - Oozing slime or greasesecundogeniture - 1. Being the second born sonsecundogeniture - 2. Any property inherited by the second sonseel - To sew one’s eyes shutselachostomous - Shark - mouthedselacophobia - A fear of sharksselaphobia - A fear of flashing lights or strobe lightsselenocentric - One whose life revolves around the moon (a ”space cadet”)selenography - The science of geography of the moonselenomancy - Divination using the moonselenophobia - A fear of the moonself-agglandize - To make oneself more attractive by artificial meanssemelparous - Having only one child, or one littersempiternal - Lasting forever

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senectitude - Old agesepicolous - Living in a bush or hedgesseptemplicate - One of seven exact copiesseptimanarian - A monk who is given a week of duties to performseptophobia - A fear of decay or decaying mattersermocination - A speaker answering their own questionssesquialteral - Having a ratrio of one to one and a halfsgiomlaireached - The habit of dropping in at mealtimessgriob - The itchiness of the upper lip just before taking a sip of whiskeyshaconian - A person who believes Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare’sworksshakos - The hat usually worn by members of a marching bandshanachie - A person who enjoys telling stories or legendsshapka - The fur covered, brimless hat worn by many Russians in the wintershibboleth - Any dialect or custom which marks an individual or group asbeing foreignshistaceous - slate colored or livid, especially pertaining to skinshivviness - A rough feeling caused by new underwearshoat - A worthless young fellow, originally a young hogshunamitism - The rejuvenation of an older man by a younger womanshurocracy - A government based on consensussialagogue - Anything which promotes salivationsialoquent - Spraying saliva when speakingsiderodromophobia - Fear of railroads or trainssideromancy - 1 Foretelling the future by studying the starssideromancy - 2. Divination using straw burned on hot metalsiderophobia - The fear of starssiffilate - To talk in a whispersiffleur - A professional whistlersigillate - To cover with official stamps and sealssilential - Performed in silence or pertaining to silencesilentium - A place in which silence is enforcedsimphobia - The fear of speaking straight forwardly and in simple termssingerie - A piece of artwork which includes monkeys instead of peoplesinistrophobia - A fear of the left side or things on the left sidesithcundman - The oldest resident of an areasitiophobia - A fear of foodskiaphobia - See sciaphobia

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skirl - A piercing sound such as produced by the high notes of a bagpipeskookum - First rate or the best (from Chinook jargon)skoptsy - The act of self castrationslavocracy - A government formed of slave ownersslidikins - An oath on God’s eyelidssloken - To quench one’s thirstsloyd - Skilled work (usually manufacturing) which requires dexterous useof toolsslubberdegullion - A boorish slobsmaragdine - Pertaining to emeraldssmatchet - A small nasty person or a nasty childsmellfungus - A person who finds faults with everythingsnarf - 1. To fall asleep with your clothes onsnarf - 2. The act of laughing while drinking and expelling the fluid throughone’s nosesnath - The long bent handle on a scythesnead - The long bent handle of a scythesnipsnapsnorum - A type of card gamesnirtle - The sound made by someone who is suppressing laughtersnoach - To speak through the nosesnollygosters - Sleazy politicians or lawyerssnood - The fleshy appendage on the beak of a male turkeysnup - To buy something of value which some ignorant person has discardedor sold cheapsnurl - To turn up one’s nose in scornsnurt - To expel mucus when sneezingsnuzzle - To poke around with one’s nose, as dogs dosoceraphobia - A fear of parents in lawsociophobia - The fear of society or friendshipsodality - An association or organized groupsolecism - An error in word usage, grammar, or in social etiquettesolfeggio - A singing exercise using the syllable do,re,mi,fa,so,la,tisolipsism - The philosophy the one’s self or one’s mind in the only thingthat existssolivagant - Wandering all alonesolleret - A metallic pointy toed shoe worn by knightssomatology - The science of using a person’s physical features to determinetheir personality

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somnifugous - Something which drives away sleepsomniloquent - Speaking in one’s sleepsophist - A person who uses deceptive reasoning to win debatessophophobia - 1. A fear of knowledge or wisdomsophophobia - 2. A fear of learningsophrosyne - The quality of wise moderation or discreet good sensesorbile - Drinkablesorocide - The killing of one’s own sistersororate - The marriage of a man to his wife’s sistersoterial - Pertaining to salvationsoteriology - The doctrine the salvation can only be granted by Christspaneria - A place with few or no menspanghew - To cause a frog or a toad to fly through the airspanogyny - A place with few or no womensparge - To moisten by sprinkling with waterspargefaction - The moistening of something by sprinkling it with waterspartle - To flounder and flail aboutspartostatics - The study of rope strength or how to strengthen ropespasmatomancy - Divination using convulsions or twitching of one’s limbsspatilomancy - Divination using animal droppingsspatulamancy - Divination involving the shoulder blades of animalsspectocloacaphobia - The fear of one’s eyeglasses falling in the sewerspectroheliokinematograph - A special camera used to film the Sunspectrophobia - A fear of mirrorssphallolalia - Flirtatious talk that leads nowherespheksophobia - The fear of waspsspheromancy - Divination using a crystal spheresphragistics - The science and history of seals and stampssphygmomanometer - The device used to measure blood pressurespiculate - To sharpen to a pointspilikins - The wooden pegs used in the game of cribbagespindrift - The ocean spray which is blown by the windspindrift - The spray that comes of water in a wind stormsplanchnology - The study of the internal organs of humansspodogenous - Pertaining to being in the presence of wastespodomancy - Divination using ashesspoliate - The act of spoiling or damagingspoliator - One who spoils, or destroys

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sprag - A block of wood or a brick used under vehicle wheels to preventrollingsproag - To chase girls in the dark, usually through fields of hayspuddle - To treat minor business as if it were serious and importantsquamous - covered with scalessquamulose - covered with very small scales, as in snakessquirearchy - Rulership by the landed gentrystafador - A fake or an imposterstagiary - A student of lawstagnicolous - Living in stagnant waterstalko - A poor man who pretends he is richstasibasiphobia - The fear of standing and walkingstasiphobia - The fear of standing (for fear of falling)staurolatry - Worship of the cross or Christ on a crossstaurophobia - A fear of crucifxessteatopygic - Having a fat behindstellionate - The unauthorized sale of a piece of propertystenophobia - A fear of narrow placesstenotopic - One who can only live in a very specific environmentstentorian - Pertaining to very loud and resonant soundsstentorophonic - Having a loud, powerful voice or making a loud soundstercoricolous - Living in dungsterculius - A God who rules over feces and dungstereognosis - Deducing the weight of an object by handling itsternutation - The sound of a sneeze or the act of sneezingsternutatory - Something which causes sneezingsterquilinous - Pertaining to a dung heapstertorous - Having a deep raspy sound produced by an obstructed airpassagestichomancy - Divination using random lines from a book or the Biblestigmeology - The art of proper punctuationstoriology - The study of folklore and legendsstratephrenia - A neurosis caused by serving in the militarystratocracy - A government formed of the militarystridulation - The shrill sound produced by crickets and other insectsstrigil - A device for removing sweat from wrestlersstrikhedonia - The pleasure of being able to say to hell with itstrumpetocracy - A government formed of prostitutes

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struthious - Like an ostrichstultiloquent - Speaking senselessly or babbling idioticallystupration - The rape of a virginstygiophobia - A fear of hellsuaviloquent - Speaking in a sophisticated mannersuccedaneum - An acceptable but inferior subsititutionsudorific - Causing perspiration or inducing sweatingsuggilated - Badly beaten black and bluesuoid - Like a hogsupernaculum - To drink to the last dropsuppedaneum - The block of wood supporting the feet of a crucified personsurbater - One who walks until their companions are exhaustedsurfeitigo - The sudden feeling of being stuffed by food, friends, or invita-tionssuriphobia - A fear of mice or ratssutler - A person who follows the army in order to sell provisions to thesoldiersswarf - The metallic dust that accumulates after sharpening or grindingmetalswinophobia - A fear of pigs or swinesybarite - A person devoted to luxury and pleasuresycomancy - Divination using figssymmetrophobia - The fear of symmetrysymposiarch - A master of ceremoniessyndyasmia - The proper term for an open marriage in which either part-ner may live with other peoplesynesthesia - A condition in which a stimulation of one sense causes sen-sation of another sensesyngenesophobia - A fear of relativessyntality - The predictable behaviour of a specific social group

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tachophobia - The fear of speedtachydidactic - Being taught rapidly or teaching quicklytachydidaxy - Rapid teaching or instructiontachygrapher - A person who writes quickly, such as a stenographertachygraphy - Short hand or stenographytachyphagia - Fast eatingtachyphrasia - The act of talking very fasttadoma - The ability of the deaf to ’listen’ to someone by placing theirfingers on the speakers facetaeniophobia - See teniophobiatalaria - Winged shoes, such as worn by Hermestaligrade - Walking on the outer edge of one’s foottallith - The traditional prayer shawl worn by Jewish mentam-o-shanter - The beret worn by Scottish higland piperstanquam - A person with enough education to attend collegetantony - 1. The runt of the littertantony - 2. The smallest bell in a churchtantony - 3. One who always follows otherstantrels - People who refuse to get a jobtaphephillia - The love of funeralstaphephobia - 1.A fear of gravestaphephobia - 2. Fear of being buried alivetapinophobia - A fear of small thingstarantism - an urge to overcome melancholy by dancingtarantismus - A disease in which people suddenly start dancing to imagi-nary musictarassis - The male equivlant of hysteria (which technically only applied towomen)

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tartarology - The study of the underworld or doctrine pertaining to Helltatamae - A Japanese word for a belief that everyone claim publically, butdo not always agree with privatelytath - Either cattle manure or the grass that grows in dungtatterdemalion - An unkempt person who wears ragstaurophobia - A fear of bullstechnocracy - Rulership by technicians or expertstechnophobia - The fear of technologytegestologist - A collector of beer mugs and beer coastersteleology - The philosophical study of one’s purpose in lifeteleophobia - A fear of religious ceremoniestelmatology - The study of swamps and bogstemerity - A form of extreme boldnesstemulentia - An advanced stage of drunkeness, to the point of unconcious-nesstenebrosity - Darkness or obscurityteniophobia - The fear of tapewormstentiginous - 1. Tight or strainedtentiginous - 2. Full of lustteratophobia - A fear of deformed peopleteratophobia - A fear of monsters or of having a deformed childterebinthine - Pertaining to or resembling turpentineterebration - A pain that feels as though a drill is boring through somebody parttergiversate - To change sides and abandon a cause, often religioustermagant - A violent, brawling womanterpsichorean - Pertaining to dancing, or a dancertessaraglot - A person who is capable of speaking in four languagestestudineous - Being as slow as a tortoisetextophobia - A fear of certain fabricsthaasophobia - A fear of sittingthalassophobia - A fear of the sea or an oceanthalian - Pertaining to comics or comedythallasocracy - Command of the sea, or by the seathanatophobia - A fear of deaththanatopsis - The contemplation of deaththaumatology - The study of miraclestheandric - Pertaining to a person who is both a human and a god

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theanthropism - The belief in the union of the divine and humantheanthropist - One who believes that gods can take human formstheanthropos - A person who is worshipped as a godtheanthropy - The belief in the union of the divine and humanthearchy - Rulership by a god or godsthelyotokous - Having only female offspringthenar - The fleshy mass at the base of the thumbtheochristic - anointed by Godtheocracy - Government formed by the church or by a representative ofGodtheocrasy - The worship of different godstheodemocracy - A democracy which is controlled by divine powerstheogamy - A marriage between godstheoktony - The death of God or of godstheologaster - A religious charlatantheologicophobia - The fear of theologytheologoumenon - Individual opinion on God or divinitytheomachy - A war between gods or a war against godstheomancy - Using gods or oracles to foretell the futuretheomania - A madness in which one claims to be a god or represent Godon some missiontheomastix - A divine scourge of mortals or a disaster sent by Godtheomicrist - A person who mocks God or divinitytheomorphic - Resembling a god or having godlike qualitiestheonomy - Rulership by God or a government formed by Godtheophagy - The eating of a god (such as in the Christian communion)theophany - The manifestation of a deity on Earththeophilanthropist - A person who loves both God and mankindtheophobia - A fear of Gods or the wrath of Godtheoplasm - The stuff gods are made oftheopneusty - Divine inspiration, especially one that enables someone toreveal divine truthstherianthropic - Combining human and animal forms, such as the centaurtheriolater - A person who worships animalstheriolatry - The worship of animals as godstheriomancy - Divination using animals or their movementthermophobia - A fear of heatthixophobia - The fear of touching or being touched

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thole - A pin in the gunwhale of a boat to hold an oarthrasonical - Being brash and boastfulthrepterophilia - An attraction to female nursesthrioboly - Divination using stones or rocksthrip - To snap one’s fingersthumbstal - A leather cap put on an injured thumb to protect it fromfurther injurythurible - The incense holder used in religious ceremoniesthurification - The burning of incensethygatrilagnia - An incestuous desire for one’s daughtertibialoconcupiscent - Having a lascivious interest in watching a womenput on stockingstimbromaniac - An avid stamp collectortimmynoggy - A device the saves time and labortimocracy - A government of honorable peopletirocinium - A soldier’s first battletitubate - To stumble and stagger, or to roll back and forthtocology - The study of obstetrics or midwiferytocophobia - A fear of childbirthtocsin - The ringing of an alarm, or the alarm itselftoggy - A long beaverskin coat popular among northern fur traderstolutiloquent - Pertaining to a smooth talkertomalley - A type of lobster liver that turns green when heatedtomecide - The act of murdering or destroying a booktomentose - Covered with thick tangled hairtomophobia - The fear of surgerytonitruone - A device used in theater or movies to create thundertonitruous - Reverberating with the sound of thundertonitruphobia - The fear of thundertopomancy - Divination using the shape of the landtoponymics - The study of place namestopophobia - 1.A fear of performingtopophobia - 2. A fear of a particular placetorschlusspanik - The fear of young women that they will not be marrieduntil they are to old to have childrentortfeaser - A wrongdoertoxicophobia - See toxiphobiatoxiphobia - A fear of poison or being poisoned

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tramontane - Pertaining to something foreign or strangetransume - To make an official copy of a documenttraumatophobia - A fear of injurytregetour - A street magician or jugglertremophobia - The fear of tremblingtrichechine - Resembling a walrustrichinophobia - The fear of trichinosistrichology - The science of hair and hair diseasestrichopathophobia - A fear of hair diseasetrichophobia - A fear of hairtrichotillomania - Tearing out one’s hairtricorne - A hat with three points such as was worn by american revolu-tionariestriskaidekaphobia - A fear of the number thirteentritavia - The great grandmother of one’s great grandmothertritavus - The great grandfather of one’s great grandfathertritheism - Believing in three gods, such as the Trinitytriturate - To crush into a fine powdertriumvirate - A government consisting of three peopletrochilidist - A person who studies hummingbirdstrochomancy - Divination by studying wheel trackstropoclastics - The science of breaking habitstropophobia - A fear of changes or making changestruckle - To act submissive to someone elsetrullization - The act of laying on plaster with a troweltruttaceous - Resembling a trouttrypanophobia - A fear of injections or inoculationstsiology - The study of tea, or a dissertation on teatubicination - The sound made by someone blowing a hornturistaphobia - The fear of contaminated waterturistaphobia - The fear of travellingturpitude - A deprave or shamefully wicked acttwiss - An alternate name for a chamber pottychopotamic - Pertaining to something which lives in fresh watertycolosis - Accident preventiontyg - A seventeenth century mug having twelve handlestyphlobasia - The act of kissing with closed eyestyphlology - The study of blindness

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typp - The number of thousands of yards of yarn which weighs one poundtyrannophobia - The fear of tyrantstyromancy - Divination or magic using cheesetyrophagia - The act of eating cheesetyrophillia - The love of cheesetyrophobia - The fear of cheesetyrotoxism - Poisoning by cheesetziganologist - One who studies gypsies and their culture

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ubiquarian - A person who has travelled everywhereubuntu - The philosophy that society is built upon individuals helping eachotheruitbuiken - To enjoy a leisurely meal without rushinguitwaaien - To walk in a windstorm for no reason or for funuliginous - Full of moisture, or swampy and slimyullage - The amount of a container which is empty, or the unused part of acontaineruloid - Resembling a scarulotrichous - Having very wooly hairultimogeniture - Inheritance by the youngest sonultracrepidarian - One who speaks or offers opinions in subjects they knownothing aboutultracrepidarianism - The act or habit of talking constantly about sub-jects of which you know little or nothingultroneous - Pertaining to a witness who testifies voluntarilyumtagati - A worker of evil magicunasinous - Being equally stupid or assinineundecillion - A large number - a one followed by either 36 or 66 zeroes.undigenous - Created or generated by waterundinism - The trait of having erotic thoughts when viewing or thinkingof waterunigravida - A woman’s first pregnancyuranomancy - Divination by consulting the heavensuranomania - The delusion that one is of Heavenly descenturanophobia - A fear of heavenurbicolous - Living in the cityuredinology - The study of rust

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uredinology - The study of rusturedophobia - See urticariaphobiaurimancy - Magic or fortunetelling using urineurophobia - The fear of urinatingurticariaphobia - A fear of itchingurticate - 1. To beat with a whipurticate - 2. To sting with nettlesustulate - Scorched or discolored from prolonged exposure to heatusufruct - The right to use another’s property, with the condition that theproperty be unchangedutlesse - An escape from prisonuvate - Grape jam or jellyuxoricide - The murder of a wife by her husbanduxorious - Excessively devoted to one’s husbanduxorodespotic - Tyrranical rulership by one’s wife

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vaccinophobia - The fear of vaccinationsvaledutinarian - 1. A person who constantly believes that they are sickvaletudinarian - 2. A person who is obsessed with some ailmentvalgus - Being bow-leggedvaniloquent - Speaking only of oneself or speaking egotisticallyvapulate - To beat with a whipvastation - To purify something by using fire, or to purify a soul by cre-mationvaticide - The murder of a prophetvauntie - Being proud or in high spiritsvellicate - To twitch or move erraticallyveneniferous - Transferring or bearing poisonventifact - A stone which has been shaped by the wind or wind driven sandventripotent - Having a fat belly, or being a gluttonvenustaphobia - The fear of beautiful womenverbigerate - To continually repeat a word or phrase, usually unconciouslyverbivore - A person who devours wordsverbophobia - The fear of wordsverdure - The shades of green describing plants and vegatationveriloquent - Speaking nothing but the truthvermiform - Like a wormvermiphobia - The fear of wormsvernalagnia - A romantic mood brought on by Spring. Also known asSpring Feververnorexia - A romantic mood inspired by Springverticordious - Describing an act that turns another from evilvespertillian - Resembling a batvespertine - Happening in the evening

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vespine - Resembling a waspvesthibitionism - The flirtatious display of undergarments by a womanvestiphobia - A fear of clothingvexillologist - A collector of flagsvexillology - The study of flagsviaticum - 1.Money and supplies given to someone going on a journeyviaticum - 2. The Holy Communion given to a dying personvibratiunculation - A slight shudder or vibrationvibrissae - The sensitive whiskers of a catviciniphobia - A fear of neighbors or a neighborhoodvigesimation - The act of killing every twentieth personvilipend - To verbally belittle someoneviraginity - The masculine qualities of some womenvirgivitiphobia - A fear of being rapedvirgulate - Shaped like a rodvirvestitism - A preference of some women to wear mens clothingvisagiste - A make-up artist or a person whose specialty is cosmeticsvitricophobia - The fear of one’s stepfathervittate - Resembling a ribbonvoidee - A last minute snackvolitorial - Having the ability to flyvolower - A person who performs baptismsvoraginous - Pertaining to something which devours everything

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waggoner - A collection or book of nautical mapswanweird - An unhappy fatewapperjawed - Having a crooked jawwarison - A musical note used to signal the start of an attackwegotism - The excessive use of ’we’ in writing, particulary in newspapereditorialswheeple - A poor attempt at whistlingwhiddin - To be running like a harewilliwaw - A sudden unexpected wind stormwimple - The traditional headress of nunswinx - To bray like a donkey, or speak foolishnesswinx - To bray like a jackasswittol - A man who meakly accepts his wife’s adulterywitzchoura - A woman’s cloak with large sleeves. Primarily worn in theearly nineteenth centurywitzelsucht - A feebly attempt at humorwlatsome - Describing something which is loathedwommacky - Shaking and weak while recovering from illness or surgerywuntee - A lonely old buffalo bull

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xanthippe - An ill tempered woman. (Also Socrates’ wife)xanthochroid - Blond haired and blue eyed person with fair white skinxanthodont - Having yellow teethxanthous - Yellow coloredxenarthral - Resembling a sloth, anteater, or armadilloxenelasy - A law or rule that allows foreigners to be expelled withoutreason, or that allows a business to refuse to serve customers without reasonxeniatrophobia - A fear of going to strange or foreign doctorsxenium - A present given to a guestxenobombulate - To be malingeringxenodochiophobia - A fear of foreign hotelsxenodochium - A home for the disabled and for the friendlessxenomancy - Divination by using the first stranger to be foundxenonosocomiophobia - A fear of pick pockets, especially foreign onesxerophagy - A diet of bread and waterxerophilous - Drought loving, particularly pertaining to plantsxerophobia - A fear of dryness or dry placesxertz - To gulp down quickly and greedilyximelolagnia - The desire to look a women who cross their legsximelolagnia - The urge to stare at women who are sitting with their legscrossedxiphoid - Sword shapedxylology - The study of wood or of the structure of woodxylomancy - Divination using a piece of wood or magic using woodxylophage - One who eats woodxylophagous - Describing someone who eats woodxylophobia - A fear of forests or of woodsxylopolist - One who sells wood products

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yashmak - The veil worn by Muslim women when in publicyataghan - A long knife, common in Turkey, which has a double curvedbladeyaud - A worn out or old horseyburpananseca - The theft of a calf or ram, or of as much as the thief cancarryyemeless - To be negligent and carelessyestreen - Yesterday eveningyouf - A quiet of muffled bark

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zabernism - The unjustified use of or abuse of military or police authority,particularly in an aggressive mannerzamzodden - Anything which is heated but not boiled, or heated with avery low heatzarf - A special sleeve for a coffee cup or a beer canzeitgeist - The general culture, education, and morals of a given erazelophobia - A fear of jealousy or intense emotionzenocratic - A government chosen by Zeuszenzizenzizenzic - A number raised to the eighth powerzills - The finger cymbals worn by belly dancerszizany - A dangerous or toxic weedzizith - The fringes at the corners of a tallithzoanthropy - The delusion that one is an animalzob - A worthless personzoilist - A very nasty or rude critic, or one who enjoys finding faultszoonosis - Any disease that can be passed from animals to humanszoophobia - A fear of animalszoosemiotics - The language of animals, or the study of animal communi-cationszori - A form of sandals with a leather strap over the instep and a leatherstrip between the hallux and second toezucchetto - A skull cap worn by Roman Catholic clericszugzwang - A position in which any decision or move will result in prob-lems.zygodactyl - Having two toes pointing forward and two backwardszymology - The study of fermentationzythepsary - A brewery

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