|
fabrefaction
|
n
|
1652
-1678
|
|---|
|
act of fashioning or making a work of art
|
| The sculptor felt that fabrefaction was more important than the end result.
|
|
fallaciloquence
|
n
|
1656
-1761
|
|---|
|
deceitful speech
|
| Your fallaciloquence, though charming, will not convince the jury to acquit.
|
|
famelicose
|
adj
|
1730
-1775
|
|---|
|
often or very hungry
|
| The tribe's crops frequently fail, and their children are famelicose.
|
|
famigerate
|
v
|
1623
-1736
|
|---|
|
to carry news from abroad
|
| The bloggers famigerated about the conditions in the war-torn country.
|
|
ficulnean
|
adj
|
1716
-1716
|
|---|
|
of fig-tree wood; worthless
|
| His ficulnean arguments failed to convince his professor to raise his grade.
|
|
filicology
|
n
|
1884
-1884
|
|---|
|
study of ferns
|
| Filicology is a discipline for which paleontological training is a great asset.
|
|
findible
|
adj
|
1656
-1790
|
|---|
|
able to be cleft or split
|
| This pie is perfectly findible, if we can agree to some simple rules for cutting it.
|
|
flosculation
|
n
|
1651
-1651
|
|---|
|
an embellishment or ornament in speech
|
| The speaker's lecture was rendered laughable by ridiculous flosculations.
|
|
foppotee
|
n
|
1663
-1663
|
|---|
|
simpleton
|
| What a pitiful foppotee he was, always oblivious to our jeers!
|
|
frenigerent
|
adj
|
1656
-1681
|
|---|
|
bearing a bridle
|
| The frenigerent filly flew fast from the fire.
|
|
fumificate
|
v
|
1721
-1792
|
|---|
|
to make or cause smoke or incense
|
| The only problem with the new grill is its tendency to fumificate.
|
|
gardeviance
|
n
|
1459
-1706
|
|---|
|
chest for valuables; a travelling trunk
|
| She kept her linens in that old gardeviance for over sixty years.
|
|
gardevisure
|
n
|
1610
-1840
|
|---|
|
visor of a helmet as shown on heraldic devices
|
| Since you're so ugly, why not place a gardevisure on your coat of arms?
|
|
gaudiloquent
|
adj
|
1656
-1727
|
|---|
|
speaking joyfully or on joyful matters
|
| Her gaudiloquent tone was thought excessively perky by the stodgy faculty.
|
|
gelicide
|
n
|
1656
-1681
|
|---|
|
a frost
|
| Unfortunately, the flowers were killed too soon by an early gelicide.
|
|
gipseian
|
adj
|
1749
-1749
|
|---|
|
belonging or pertaining to gypsies
|
| The gipseian rhythms made her feel as if she were in the Middle East.
|
|
gleimous
|
adj
|
1398
-1790
|
|---|
|
slimy; full of phlegm
|
| Its gleimous tongue slipped between its teeth and ensnared the moose.
|
|
gnathonize
|
v
|
1619
-1727
|
|---|
|
to flatter
|
| I can tell that you're just trying to gnathonize me, you sycophantic buffoon!
|
|
graocracy
|
n
|
1830
-1830
|
|---|
|
government by an old woman or women
|
| High voter turnout among elderly women may soon lead us into a graocracy.
|
|
graviloquence
|
n
|
1656
-1656
|
|---|
|
grave speech
|
| The bishop's funeral orations were known for their graviloquence.
|
|
gumfiate
|
v
|
1820
-1820
|
|---|
|
to cause to swell; to puff up
|
| He just had his wisdom teeth extracted, so his cheeks are gumfiated.
|
|
gutturniform
|
adj
|
1886
-1886
|
|---|
|
shaped like a water pitcher
|
| She was never able to mould the clay into a proper gutturniform shape.
|
|
gypsation
|
n
|
1656
-1681
|
|---|
|
action or process of plastering with gypsum
|
| The gypsation of the room took much too long and irritated his allergies.
|
|
habroneme
|
adj
|
1886
-1886
|
|---|
|
having the appearance of fine threads
|
| Her habroneme hair was admired by many hairstylists for its fine texture.
|
|
halatinous
|
adj
|
1886
-1886
|
|---|
|
saline; salty
|
| The halatinous mist brought back memories of his childhood at the seashore.
|
|
hecatologue
|
n
|
1894
-1894
|
|---|
|
code consisting of 100 rules
|
| The teen whined that her parents' list of rules was practically a hecatologue.
|
|
helctic
|
adj
|
1658
-1658
|
|---|
|
acting to drag or draw out; drawing
|
| While leechcraft is derided, it is medicinally useful from a helctic perspective.
|
|
hemerine
|
adj
|
1854
-1886
|
|---|
|
daily; quotidian
|
| The hemerine ritual of walking her dog kept her in good physical shape.
|
|
hercotectonic
|
adj
|
1672
-1672
|
|---|
|
of or pertaining to the construction of fortifications or walls
|
| The fort's hercotectonic strength was insufficient to repel cannon-fire.
|
|
hirculation
|
n
|
1656
-1721
|
|---|
|
disease of vines where they grow no fruit
|
| Despite a fantastic growing season, the vineyard was crippled by hirculation.
|
|
hirquitalliency
|
n
|
1652
-1652
|
|---|
|
strength of voice
|
| The wrestler's hirquitalliency compensated for his lack of strength and talent.
|
|
historiaster
|
n
|
1887
-1894
|
|---|
|
petty or contemptible historian
|
| While Foucault is widely praised today, he was no more than a historiaster.
|
|
hiulcity
|
n
|
1681
-1681
|
|---|
|
an opening or cleft
|
| They stepped into the hiulcity in the cliff face, unaware of the danger within.
|
|
homerkin
|
n
|
1662
-1663
|
|---|
|
old liquid measure for beer
|
| "I'm so thirsty I could drink a homerkin of beer," Simpson lamented.
|
|
hymnicide
|
n
|
1862
-1862
|
|---|
|
killing of hymns through alterations
|
| Many accused the revisionists in the Church of committing hymnicide.
|
|
hyometer
|
n
|
1886
-1886
|
|---|
|
rain gauge
|
| Her homemade hyometer was overwhelmed and destroyed by the deluge.
|
|
hypenemious
|
n
|
1855
-1886
|
|---|
|
full of wind; windy; of an egg, malformed
|
| Let us protect ourselves against the hyenemious assault of the hurricane.
|
|
icasm
|
n
|
1664
-1664
|
|---|
|
figurative expression
|
| He protested at his trial that the death threat he delivered was only an icasm.
|
|
ichorescent
|
adj
|
1684
-1684
|
|---|
|
growing or becoming ichorous
|
| After several months, the carrots were disgustingly ichorescent.
|
|
ichthyarchy
|
n
|
1853
-1853
|
|---|
|
the domain or rule of fishes
|
| Despite his ichthyarchy, Aquaman is really a very pitiful superhero.
|
|
ictuate
|
v
|
1822
-1822
|
|---|
|
to emphasize; to put metrical stress on
|
| She preferred free verse over carefully-ictuated classical poetic styles.
|
|
igniparous
|
adj
|
1684
-1684
|
|---|
|
bringing forth fire
|
| The heroes were scorched by the dragon's igniparous emanation.
|
|
impigrity
|
n
|
1623
-1721
|
|---|
|
quickness; speed
|
| The impigrity of the contract's signing led to vexing legal wranglings.
|
|
improcerous
|
adj
|
1656
-1658
|
|---|
|
low; short
|
| The coffee table was much too improcerous to be of any real use.
|
|
incabinate
|
v
|
1672
-1672
|
|---|
|
to enclose in a cabin; to confine
|
| The solution to her writer's block was to incabinate herself at her country villa.
|
|
ingeniculation
|
n
|
1623
-1658
|
|---|
|
bending of the knee
|
| His ingeniculation was in vain, and she turned away in disgust, never to return.
|
|
ingordigious
|
adj
|
1637
-1734
|
|---|
|
greedy; avaricious
|
| Your ingordigious ways are cruel and heartless; charity is the path to joy.
|
|
inocciduous
|
adj
|
1656
-1658
|
|---|
|
of a star, never setting
|
| Polaris was his inocciduous guide as he trekked across the Great Plains.
|
|
inobligality
|
n
|
1663
-1663
|
|---|
|
quality of not being obligatory
|
| Granting the inobligality of bringing a gift to the party, it is still polite to do so.
|
|
interfation
|
n
|
1656
-1658
|
|---|
|
act of interrupting another while speaking
|
| His boorish interfations were ill-received at the academic lecture.
|
|
inveteratist
|
n
|
1715
-1715
|
|---|
|
opponent of reform; one who inveterately holds to tradition
|
| The golf course's manager, being an inveteratist, continued to refuse women entry.
|
|
ipsographic
|
adj
|
1817
-1817
|
|---|
|
self-recording
|
| He used the CD burner primarily for ipsographic purposes.
|
|
irredivivous
|
adj
|
1656
-1656
|
|---|
|
unable to be revived
|
| Despite Dr. House's best effort, the patient remained irredivivous.
|
|
isangelous
|
adj
|
1768
-1774
|
|---|
|
equal to the angels
|
| I've had just about enough of her isangelous and self-righteous diatribes.
|
|
jecorary
|
adj
|
1684
-1684
|
|---|
|
of or relating to the liver
|
| The alcoholic's refusal to seek treatment caused him no end of jecorary trouble.
|
|
jobler
|
n
|
1662
-1662
|
|---|
|
one who does small jobs
|
| We've found a great jobler who takes care of our repairs quickly and cheaply.
|
|
jumperism
|
n
|
1800
-1876
|
|---|
|
principles of a jumping Methodist sect
|
| While snake-handling is ridiculous, it is no worse than jumperism or the stylites.
|
|
jungible
|
adj
|
1656
-1656
|
|---|
|
that may be joined
|
| The trailers are jungible by means of a complex hitching system.
|
|
jussulent
|
adj
|
1656
-1658
|
|---|
|
full of broth or soup
|
| The bubbling of the jussulent cauldron and the crackling of the campfire soothed her.
|
|
kalotypography
|
n
|
1834
-1834
|
|---|
|
beautiful printing
|
| Medieval manuscripts are attractive, but modern kalotypography surely surpasses them.
|
|
keleusmatically
|
adv
|
1885
-1885
|
|---|
|
imperatively; in an imperative mood
|
| "Sit down!" the teacher instructed his wife keleusmatically, to her chagrin.
|
|
kexy
|
adj
|
1608
-1884
|
|---|
|
dry, brittle, withered
|
| The rustling of the kexy leaves alerted the campers to the bear's presence.
|
|
krioboly
|
n
|
1850
-1882
|
|---|
|
sacrifice of many rams; bath in blood of rams
|
| Contrary to rumour, pagan rituals do not involve krioboly or baby-eating.
|
|
labascate
|
v
|
1727
-1727
|
|---|
|
to begin to fall or slide
|
| He watched with helpless horror as the baby carriage labascated down the stairs.
|
|
lagenarious
|
adj
|
1657
-1657
|
|---|
|
flagon-shaped
|
| He brought our champagne in a lagenarious vessel, much to our embarassment.
|
|
lambition
|
n
|
1658
-1800
|
|---|
|
act of licking or lapping
|
| The child's lambition of the ice cream was interrupted by gravity, the cruellest master.
|
|
lampistry
|
n
|
1874
-1874
|
|---|
|
art of decorating lamps
|
| The church bazaar is always full of skilled needlework, lampistry and other crafts.
|
|
lardlet
|
n
|
1659
-1659
|
|---|
|
small piece of bacon to put into meat to enrich with fat
|
| The secret to her pot roasts is the use of lardlets to enhance the flavour of the meat.
|
|
latibule
|
n
|
1623
-1691
|
|---|
|
hiding place
|
| The girl emerged triumphantly from her latibule, only to find her friends had already left.
|
|
leeftail
|
adj
|
1674
-1869
|
|---|
|
in great demand; having a quick sale
|
| The new Corvettes are a leeftail product, no doubt because of the economic boom.
|
|
legatarian
|
adj
|
1766
-1766
|
|---|
|
of or pertaining to a deputy or legate
|
| The vice-president seems uncomfortable with his legatarian duties.
|
|
leporicide
|
n
|
1788
-1914
|
|---|
|
killer or killing of hares or rabbits
|
| Elmer Fudd's futile attempts at leporicide were always foiled by his intended prey.
|
|
lignatile
|
adj
|
1855
-1855
|
|---|
|
living or growing on wood
|
| She collected lignatile mushrooms on her hike, confident in her identifications.
|
|
lignicide
|
n
|
1656
-1656
|
|---|
|
woodcutter
|
| We will not tolerate the lignicides who would despoil our old-growth forests!
|
|
lococession
|
n
|
1656
-1656
|
|---|
|
place for giving
|
| Deposit your alms in the lococession we have provided, and you will be rewarded.
|
|
locupletative
|
adj
|
1802
-1812
|
|---|
|
tending to enrich
|
| Your locupletative contributions have helped furnish the new stadium lavishly.
|
|
logarithmotechny
|
n
|
1724
-1775
|
|---|
|
the art of calculating logarithms
|
| But sir, without my calculator, I will be reduced to painful logarithmotechny!
|
|
lubency
|
n
|
1623
-1669
|
|---|
|
willingness; pleasure
|
| My lubency to help you in this matter will not be increased by your paltry bribes.
|
|
lugent
|
adj
|
1656
-1889
|
|---|
|
weeping; mourning
|
| After hearing of the attack, her brothers were lugent at first, then enraged.
|
|
Lutherolatry
|
n
|
1859
-1883
|
|---|
|
worship of Martin Luther and his teachings
|
| The priest was poorly received for his denunciation of Lutherolatry and paganism.
|
|
macellarious
|
adj
|
1656
-1656
|
|---|
|
pertaining to butchers or meat markets
|
| Some practitioners of the macellarious arts are more humane to animals than vegans.
|
|
magastromancy
|
n
|
1652
-1652
|
|---|
|
magical astrology
|
| Her reliance on magastromancy to decide the students' grades got her in trouble.
|
|
magistricide
|
n
|
1670
-1670
|
|---|
|
the killing or killer of a teacher or master
|
| While many have considered magistricide, few are bold or wicked enough to do so.
|
|
magophony
|
n
|
1711
-1711
|
|---|
|
massacre of magi or priests
|
| The acts of magophony that accompany religious intolerance are simply unacceptable.
|
|
maleolent
|
adj
|
1657
-1727
|
|---|
|
having an ill odour
|
| His maleolent recipe was avoided by all but the most courageous or polite guests.
|
|
mancation
|
n
|
1727
-1727
|
|---|
|
maiming; mutilation
|
| The general would suffer no mancation or execution of fallen enemy troops.
|
|
mariturient
|
adj
|
1765
-1765
|
|---|
|
eager to marry
|
| He was beset with offers from several distant cousins who were desperately mariturient.
|
|
mecography
|
n
|
1603
-1890
|
|---|
|
measurement of the dimensions and weight of body parts
|
| The condom company used mecography to obtain necessary data about its clientele.
|
|
medioxumate
|
adj
|
1723
-1723
|
|---|
|
of gods of intermediate rank between those of heaven and of hell
|
| Medioxumate deities such as those of the Greek pantheon are rarely worshipped today.
|
|
melanochalcographer
|
n
|
1697
-1697
|
|---|
|
engraver of copper printing plates
|
| No melanochalcographer can match a photographic print in quality of reproduction.
|
|
miliaceous
|
adj
|
1684
-1890
|
|---|
|
like millet or the millet-seed
|
| This miliaceous gift will keep our nation from starvation, but will not appease us.
|
|
mingent
|
adj
|
1685
-1685
|
|---|
|
discharging urine
|
| The mingent dog amused the children but not the owner of the flower garden.
|
|
misqueme
|
v
|
1395
-1658
|
|---|
|
to displease; to offend
|
| If my actions misqueme you or your friends, you need only leave me alone.
|
|
mitescent
|
adj
|
1727
-1727
|
|---|
|
growing mild
|
| You're becoming mitescent in your old age, and can hardly stomach conflict any more.
|
|
mochlic
|
n
|
1657
-1753
|
|---|
|
drastic purgative medicine
|
| This mochlic remedy is worse than the disease, but at least it will be over quickly.
|
|
modernicide
|
n
|
1774
-1774
|
|---|
|
killing or killer of modern people
|
| While the Luddites were radical traditionalists, they never engaged in modernicide.
|
|
molrowing
|
n
|
1860
-1896
|
|---|
|
caterwauling; cavorting with prostitutes
|
| Her son is a molrowing vagabond without any social graces, much to her shame.
|
|
montivagant
|
adj
|
1656
-1658
|
|---|
|
wandering over hills and mountains
|
| The montivagant hiker crossed the Alps with ease but was stymied by the Andes.
|
|
morsicant
|
adj
|
1891
-1891
|
|---|
|
producing the sensation of repeated biting or pricking
|
| After sitting for several hours, I had a terrible morsicant pain in my rear end.
|
|
mowburnt
|
adj
|
1548
-1900
|
|---|
|
of crops, spoiled by becoming overheated
|
| The heat wave last August left us with heaps of mowburnt and useless crops.
|
|
mulcible
|
adj
|
1656
-1656
|
|---|
|
able to be appeased
|
| Despite his promises of food, the crowd was not mulcible and began to riot.
|
|
mulomedic
|
adj
|
1678
-1678
|
|---|
|
relating to the medical care of mules
|
| The doctor's mulomedic abilities were of enormous importance to the trek's success.
|
|
murklins
|
adv
|
1568
-1674
|
|---|
|
in the dark
|
| She stumbled murklins about the house until she found the light switch.
|
|
myriander
|
adj
|
1693
-1693
|
|---|
|
consisting of ten thousand men
|
| Her myriander host of suitors never figured out that she was a lesbian.
|
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