Tuesday 19 November 2019
Ab Vrbe Condita 2772
11/17/2019
Deliquesce (verb)
For a solid, to liquify gradually by absorbing moisture from the air
Deliquesce (verb)
For a solid, to liquify gradually by absorbing moisture from the air
Recent entries
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11/10/2019: Illinium (noun) Based on experimental data later found to have been erroneous, a name honoring the University of Illinois proposed for the element now known as promethium. Two other preliminary names for it were florentium and cyclonium.
11/03/2019: Quaquaversal (adjective) Turning or dipping in any or every direction
10/27/2019: Frugivory (noun) The symbiotic relationship between fruit-eating birds and the fruiting plant itself whereby its seeds get dispersed
10/20/2019: Dephlogisticate (verb) To render something fireproof
10/13/2019: Parnel (noun) A priest’s mistress
10/06/2019: Fluviatile (adjective) Living in rivers
09/29/2019: Atopognosia (noun) The inability to tell where something is touching you
09/22/2019: Assoil (verb) To absolve, to pronounce Not Guilty
09/15/2019: Corncrake (noun) An elusive, omnivorous, chestnut-colored bird of the family Rallidae (rails) that ranges through Eurasia and winters in Africa
09/08/2019: Agonic (noun) The imaginary line, roughly longitudinal, where magnetic and true north lie in exactly the same direction. It wanders unpredictably, typically about 10 miles per year.
09/01/2019: Penniform (adjective) Feather-shaped
08/25/2019: Nixie (noun) A letter or package that’s undeliverable due to a faulty address. Or, a female water spirit. Or, one of those old-fashioned numeric displays consisting of a neon-filled glass tube and multiple cathodes.
08/18/2019: Grimthorpe (verb) To alter or remodel a building without taking its history and character into account. Named for Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe, QC (1816–1905).
08/11/2019: Ulotrichous (adjective) Having tightly curled or “peppercorn” hair
08/04/2019: Distichiasis (noun) The condition, caused by a genetic mutation, of having double rows of eyelashes. One of its better known sufferers was actress Elizabeth Taylor.
07/28/2019: Absquatulate (verb) To slip out without being seen
07/21/2019: Semiotician (noun) An expert at reading signs, symbols, gestures, and other visual cues
07/14/2019: Jyngine (adjective) Wryneck-like. A wryneck is either of two species of European woodpeckers that can whip their heads around almost 180 degrees, which, combined with hissing, serves as a threat display.
07/07/2019: Idiolect (noun) The individualistic traits of a person’s speech. A further subdivision of dialect.
06/30/2019: Hapax legomenon (noun) The bane of dictionary authors, a word within a particular language that occurrs only once in the written record
Touch word to see definition.
11/10/2019: Illinium (noun) Based on experimental data later found to have been erroneous, a name honoring the University of Illinois proposed for the element now known as promethium. Two other preliminary names for it were florentium and cyclonium.
11/03/2019: Quaquaversal (adjective) Turning or dipping in any or every direction
10/27/2019: Frugivory (noun) The symbiotic relationship between fruit-eating birds and the fruiting plant itself whereby its seeds get dispersed
10/20/2019: Dephlogisticate (verb) To render something fireproof
10/13/2019: Parnel (noun) A priest’s mistress
10/06/2019: Fluviatile (adjective) Living in rivers
09/29/2019: Atopognosia (noun) The inability to tell where something is touching you
09/22/2019: Assoil (verb) To absolve, to pronounce Not Guilty
09/15/2019: Corncrake (noun) An elusive, omnivorous, chestnut-colored bird of the family Rallidae (rails) that ranges through Eurasia and winters in Africa
09/08/2019: Agonic (noun) The imaginary line, roughly longitudinal, where magnetic and true north lie in exactly the same direction. It wanders unpredictably, typically about 10 miles per year.
09/01/2019: Penniform (adjective) Feather-shaped
08/25/2019: Nixie (noun) A letter or package that’s undeliverable due to a faulty address. Or, a female water spirit. Or, one of those old-fashioned numeric displays consisting of a neon-filled glass tube and multiple cathodes.
08/18/2019: Grimthorpe (verb) To alter or remodel a building without taking its history and character into account. Named for Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe, QC (1816–1905).
08/11/2019: Ulotrichous (adjective) Having tightly curled or “peppercorn” hair
08/04/2019: Distichiasis (noun) The condition, caused by a genetic mutation, of having double rows of eyelashes. One of its better known sufferers was actress Elizabeth Taylor.
07/28/2019: Absquatulate (verb) To slip out without being seen
07/21/2019: Semiotician (noun) An expert at reading signs, symbols, gestures, and other visual cues
07/14/2019: Jyngine (adjective) Wryneck-like. A wryneck is either of two species of European woodpeckers that can whip their heads around almost 180 degrees, which, combined with hissing, serves as a threat display.
07/07/2019: Idiolect (noun) The individualistic traits of a person’s speech. A further subdivision of dialect.
06/30/2019: Hapax legomenon (noun) The bane of dictionary authors, a word within a particular language that occurrs only once in the written record
