Carrion

 

Carrion (from Latin caro, meaning "meat") is the decaying flesh of dead animals, including human flesh. 

 

eleventy

 

eleventy

(informal) The number 110, 11 × 10.

nutria

 The coypu (from Spanish coipú, from Mapudungun koypu; Myocastor coypus), also known as the nutria, is a large, herbivorous, semiaquatic rodent. Classified for a long time as the only member of the family Myocastoridae, Myocastor is now included within Echimyidae, the family of the spiny rats.

 

petard

 A petard is a small bomb used for blowing up gates and walls when breaching fortifications. It is of French origin and dates back to the 16th century.^[1] A typical petard was a conical or rectangular metal device containing 5–6 pounds (2–3 kg) of gunpowder, with a slow match for a fuse. 

 

Simony

 

Simony (/ˈsɪməni/) is the act of selling church offices and roles or sacred things. It is named after Simon Magus, who is described in the Acts of the Apostles as having offered two disciples of Jesus payment in exchange for their empowering him to impart the power of the Holy Spirit to anyone on whom he would place his hands. The term extends to other forms of trafficking for money in "spiritual things".

The appointment of ecclesiastical officials, such as bishops and abbots, by a secular authority came to be considered simoniacal and this became a key issue during the Investiture Controversy. 

 

Makaton

 Makaton is a language programme that uses signs together with speech and symbols, to enable people to communicate. It supports the development of essential communication skills such as attention, listening, comprehension, memory and expressive speech and language.

altarpiece

 An altarpiece is an artwork such as a painting, sculpture or relief representing a religious subject made for placing behind the altar of a Christian church.

 

strobilus

 A strobilus (plural: strobili) is a structure present on many land plant species consisting of sporangia-bearing structures densely aggregated along a stem. Strobili are often called cones, but some botanists restrict the use of the term cone to the woody seed strobili of conifers.

 

Ethnobotany

 Ethnobotany is the study of a region's plants and their practical uses through the traditional knowledge of a local culture and people. An ethnobotanist thus strives to document the local customs involving the practical uses of local flora for many aspects of life, such as plants as medicines, foods, intoxicants and clothing.

Intellectual property rights and benefit-sharing arrangements are important issues in ethnobotany.

 

Orogeny

 Orogeny is the primary mechanism by which mountains are formed on continents. An orogeny is an event that takes place at a convergent plate margin when plate motion compresses the margin. 

 

Sericulture

 Sericulture, the production of raw silk by means of raising caterpillars (larvae), particularly those of the domesticated silkworm (Bombyx mori).

The production of silk generally involves two processes:

1. Care of the silkworm from the egg stage through completion of the cocoon.
2. Production of mulberry trees that provide leaves upon which the worms feed.
    

 

Jiggs

 Jiggs dinner, also called boiled dinner or cooked dinner, is a traditional meal commonly prepared and eaten on Sundays in rural Newfoundland. Corned beef and cabbage was the favorite meal of Jiggs, the central character in the popular, long-running comic strip Bringing Up Father by George McManus and Zeke Zekley, after whom the dish is likely named. 

 

pandiculation

yawning

jentacular

 

jentacular (comparative more jentacular, superlative most jentacular)

1. Of or pertaining to a breakfast taken early in the morning, or immediately upon getting up.
   
   
   
   

Ionians

The Ionians (/aɪˈoʊniənz/; Greek: Ἴωνες, Íōnes, singular Ἴων, Íōn) were one of the four major tribes that the Greeks considered themselves to be divided into during the ancient period; the other three being the Dorians, Aeolians, and Achaeans. The Ionian dialect was one of the three major linguistic divisions of the Hellenic world, together with the Dorian and Aeolian dialects. 

Quakeress

 A quakeress is a human present participle for a human female Quaker.

allocoprophagy

 Coprophagia (/ˌkɒprəˈfeɪdʒiə/)^[or coprophagy (/kəˈprɒfədʒi/) is the consumption of feces. The word is derived from the Greek κόπρος copros, "feces" and φαγεῖν phagein, "to eat". Coprophagy refers to many kinds of feces-eating, including eating feces of other species (heterospecifics), of other individuals (allocoprophagy), or one's own (autocoprophagy).

 

Archon

 Archon (Greek: ἄρχων, romanized: árchōn, plural: ἄρχοντες, árchontes) is a Greek word that means "ruler", frequently used as the title of a specific public office. It is the masculine present participle of the verb stem αρχ-, meaning "to be first, to rule", derived from the same root as words such as monarch and hierarchy. 

 

Dreich

 Dreich - tedious; damp and wet

outwith

 

• outwith - outside or beyond

Canicule

 

Canicule may refer to:

• The dog days of summer

 

discretization

 

In applied mathematics, discretization is the process of transferring continuous functions, models, variables, and equations into discrete counterparts. This process is usually carried out as a first step toward making them suitable for numerical evaluation and implementation on digital computers. Dichotomization is the special case of discretization in which the number of discrete classes is 2, which can approximate a continuous variable as a binary variable (creating a dichotomy for modeling purposes, as in binary classification).

Discretization is also related to discrete mathematics, and is an important component of granular computing. In this context, discretization may also refer to modification of variable or category granularity, as when multiple discrete variables are aggregated or multiple discrete categories fused. 

 

Digamma

 Digamma, waw, or wau (uppercase: Ϝ, lowercase: ϝ, numeral: ϛ) is an archaic letter of the Greek alphabet. It originally stood for the sound /w/ but it has remained in use principally as a Greek numeral for 6. Whereas it was originally called waw or wau, its most common appellation in classical Greek is digamma; as a numeral, it was called episēmon during the Byzantine era and is now known as stigma after the Byzantine ligature combining σ-τ as ϛ. 

 

 

Twenty20

 Twenty20 (T20) is a shortened game format of cricket. At the professional level, it was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the inter-county competition.

 

Communitarianism

 Communitarianism is a philosophy that emphasizes the connection between the individual and the community. Its overriding philosophy is based upon the belief that a person's social identity and personality are largely molded by community relationships, with a smaller degree of development being placed on individualism.

manky

 manky

used to describe an object that is unpleasantly dirty, usually because it is old or has been used a lot

Thunderbox

 Thunderbox, a slang word for a portable toilet

lineworker / lineman

 A lineworker (lineman (American English), linesman (British English), powerline technician (PLT), or powerline worker) is a tradesman who constructs and maintains electric power transmission, telecommunications lines (cable, internet and phone) and distribution lines.

A lineworker generally does outdoor installation and maintenance jobs. Those who install and maintain electrical wiring inside buildings are electricians. 

 

Swarf

 Swarf, also known as chips or by other process-specific names (such as turnings, filings, or shavings), are pieces of metal, wood, or plastic that are the debris or waste resulting from machining, woodworking, or similar subtractive (material-removing) manufacturing processes. 

 

silique

 A silique or siliqua (plural siliques or siliquae) is a type of fruit (seed capsule) having two fused carpels with the length being more than three times the width. When the length is less than three times the width of the dried fruit it is referred to as a silicle.

Radish siliques
 

aquosity

 

aquosity (uncountable)

1. (rare) The condition of being watery; wateriness

mononymous

 A mononymous person is an individual who is known and addressed by a single name, or mononym. In some cases, that name has been selected by the individual, who may have originally been given a polynym ("multiple name"). In other cases, it has been determined by the custom of the country or by some interested segment. In the case of historical figures, it may be the only one of the individual's names that has survived and is still known today. 

Plato is an example of a mononymous person.

Tesgüino

 Tesgüino is an artisanal corn beer produced by several Yuto-Aztec people. The Tarahumara people regard the beer as sacred, and it forms a significant part of their society. Anthropologist John Kennedy reports that "the average Tarahumaras spends at least 100 days per year directly concerned with tesgüino and much of this time under its influence or aftereffects."

Fractionation

 Fractionation is a separation process in which a certain quantity of a mixture (gas, solid, liquid, enzymes, suspension, or isotope) is divided during a phase transition, into a number of smaller quantities (fractions) in which the composition varies according to a gradient. Fractions are collected based on differences in a specific property of the individual components. A common trait in fractionations is the need to find an optimum between the amount of fractions collected and the desired purity in each fraction. Fractionation makes it possible to isolate more than two components in a mixture in a single run. This property sets it apart from other separation techniques. 

 Fractionation is widely employed in many branches of science and technology. Mixtures of liquids and gases are separated by fractional distillation by difference in boiling point. Fractionation of components also takes place in column chromatography by a difference in affinity between stationary phase and the mobile phase. In fractional crystallization and fractional freezing, chemical substances are fractionated based on difference in solubility at a given temperature. In cell fractionation, cell components are separated by difference in mass. 

 

plurinationalism

 Plurinationality, plurinational, or plurinationalism is defined as the coexistence of two or more sealed or preserved national groups within a polity (an organized community or body of peoples). In plurinationalism, the idea of nationality is plural, meaning there are many nationals within an organized community or body of peoples. Derived from this concept, a plurinational state is the existence of multiple political communities and constitutional asymmetry. The usage of plurinationality assists in avoiding the division of societies within a state or country. Furthermore, a plurinational democracy recognizes the multiple demoi (common people or populace) within a polity.

 

ferroequinology

 

ferroequinology (uncountable)

(humorous, nonstandard) The study of railways in general, but especially locomotives. The study of iron horses.

skinflint

 

skinflint

Noun

• a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend

stopgap

 

stopgap

Noun

• something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency

okapi

 

okapi

Noun

• similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs

liegeman

 

liegeman

a loyal follower

batik

 

batik

Noun

• a dyed fabric; a removable wax is used where the dye is not wanted

Verb

• dye with wax

Monoceros

 

Monoceros

• proper noun: Monoceros (astronomy) A winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a unicorn. It lies amid the Milky Way, just east of the constellation Orion.

pigging

 

pigging

Verb

• live like a pig, in squalor
• eat greedily
• give birth to piglets

lemme

 

lemme

Lemme is an abbreviation of "let me". Although used mostly in text, this vocal verbatim is a key component of the language of modern youths. Since the pronunciation of "let me" requires too many syllables, lemme has become an accepted form of expressing this action.

amble

 

amble (plural ambles)

1. An unhurried leisurely walk or stroll.
2. An easy gait, especially that of a horse.

 

Siping

 

Siping is a process of cutting thin slits across a rubber surface to improve traction in wet or icy conditions.

Siping was invented and patented in 1923 under the name of John F. Sipe. The story told on various websites is that, in the 1920s, Sipe worked in a slaughterhouse and grew tired of slipping on the wet floors. He found that cutting slits in the tread on the bottoms of his shoes provided better traction than the uncut tread. Another story is that he was a deckhand and wanted to avoid slipping on a wet deck. 

 

 A tire with ziggy-zag sipes.

Pedipalps

 Pedipalps (commonly shortened to palps or palpi) are the second pair of appendages of chelicerates – a group of arthropods including spiders, scorpions, horseshoe crabs, and sea spiders. The pedipalps are lateral to the chelicerae ("jaws") and anterior to the first pair of walking legs. 

 

O tempora! O mores!

 Latin for "Oh the times! Oh the habits!"

In the Roman Senate Cicero said this to decry the times he lived in.

Super-resolution

 Super-resolution imaging (SR) is a class of techniques that enhance (increase) the resolution of an imaging system. In optical SR the diffraction limit of systems is transcended, while in geometrical SR the resolution of digital imaging sensors is enhanced. 

 

 

vapulate

 

vapulate (third-person singular simple present vapulates, present participle vapulating, simple past and past participle vapulated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To flog or whip; to beat or strike.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To be flogged, beaten etc.

visitoress

 A female visitor

aroha

Aroha is a Māori word meaning "love", cognate with the Hawaiian term aloha.

 

zenithward

 

Adjective

zenithward (not comparable)

1. Facing or moving toward the zenith.

1. 
   

Adverb

zenithward (not comparable)

1. Toward the zenith. 

 

mawger

 Thin or lean, from meager (Carribbean)

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/thin

 

cornpone

 

cornpone (plural cornpones)

1. (US, Appalachia) A form of cornbread made without milk or eggs.

   Synonym: johnnycake

2. (derogatory) Something or someone considered stereotypical of rural, Southern US attitudes or attributes. 

 

fucktangular

fucktangular: a situation that was complicated and messy in multiple unpleasant and difficult ways.

phlebotomist

 Phlebotomy is the process of making a puncture in a vein usually in the arm, with a cannula, for the purpose of drawing blood. The procedure itself is known as a venipuncture, which is also used for intravenous therapy. A person who performs a phlebotomy is called a phlebotomist, although most doctors, nurses, and other technicians can also carry out a phlebotomy. In contrast, phlebectomy is the removal of a vein. 

 

 

misapprehension

 

misapprehension (countable and uncountable, plural misapprehensions)

1. A failure to understand something; an illusion, misconception or misunderstanding.

acarpous

 

acarpous

Not producing fruit; unfruitful, sterile; (Botany). Frequently figurative: failing to achieve the desired results, unproductive; barren.

Orbisculate

 

parvenu

 

A parvenu is a person who is a relative newcomer to a socioeconomic class. The word is borrowed from the French language; it is the past participle of the verb parvenir (to reach, to arrive, to manage to do something). 

 

Sui generis

 Sui generis (/ˌsuːi ˈdʒɛnərɪs/ SOO-ee JEN-ər-iss, Latin: [ˈsʊ.iː ˈɡɛnɛrɪs]) is a Latin phrase that means "of its/his/her/their own kind, in a class by itself", therefore "unique".

 The grand canyon, an example of sui generis

dogsbody

 

A dogsbody, dog's body, or less commonly dog robber is someone who does menial or drudge work. Originally, in the British Royal Navy, a dogsbody was a semi-sarcastic colloquialism for a junior officer or midshipman.

A rough American equivalent would be a package-handler, gofer, grunt, or lackey.

qualia

  In philosophy and certain models of psychology, qualia (/ˈkwɑːliə/ or /ˈkweɪliə/; singular form: quale) are defined as individual instances of subjective, conscious experience. 

 

capsid

 A capsid is the protein shell of a virus, enclosing its genetic material. 

 

primorial

 

In mathematics, and more particularly in number theory, primorial, denoted by “#”, is a function from natural numbers to natural numbers similar to the factorial function, but rather than successively multiplying positive integers, the function only multiplies prime numbers.

The name "primorial", coined by Harvey Dubner, draws an analogy to primes similar to the way the name "factorial" relates to factors. 

 

Perseveration

 Perseveration according to psychology, psychiatry, and speech-language pathology, is the repetition of a particular response (such as a word, phrase, or gesture) regardless of the absence or cessation of a stimulus. It is usually caused by a brain injury or other organic disorder. Symptoms include "lacking ability to transition or switch ideas appropriately with the social context, as evidenced by the repetition of words or gestures after they have ceased to be socially relevant or appropriate", or the "act or task of doing so", and are not better described as stereotypy (a highly repetitive idiosyncratic behaviour).

commensurate

 

commensurate (comparative more commensurate, superlative most commensurate)

1. Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.

commesensurate punishments

demitasse

 A demitasse (/ˈdɛmɪtæs/; French: "half cup") or demi-tasse is a small cup used to serve Turkish coffee or espresso. It may also refer to the contents served in such a cup (though that usage had disappeared in France by the early 20th century).

 

Indolence

 

Indolence means lack of activity and may refer to:

• Laziness of people and living beings
• A sign of benignity in histopathology of tumors

Heliopause

 Heliopause: the boundary between solar wind and interstellar wind where they are in equilibrium.

perfusionist

 A cardiovascular perfusionist, clinical perfusionist' or perfusiologist or clinical perfusion scientist, is a healthcare professional who operates the cardiopulmonary bypass machine (heart–lung machine) during cardiac surgery and other surgeries that require cardiopulmonary bypass to manage the patient's physiological status.

runcinate

 

1. (botany, of leaves) Having tooth-like projections pointing away from the apex.
2. (botany, of leaves) Having a lacerated aspect with the projection pointing away from the apex, like dandelion leaves.

Cachinnate

 Laugh loudly

dysregulation

 Emotional dysregulation is a term used in the mental health community that refers to emotional responses that are poorly modulated and do not lie within the accepted range of emotive response.

mare nostrum

 Latin for 'our sea', used by Romans to describe the Mediterranean Sea.

bridge line

 A bridge line or bridge route was an American rail carrier tasked primarily with moving traffic from one major carrier to another (hence the "bridge" moniker). Bridge lines often were located between two major cities, connecting rail carriers that served those cities and interchanging their cars. As railroads have continued to evolve and large Class I railroads have sought to keep cars on line (as well as collect the revenues for the tonnage moved over their own route miles), most bridge lines are now gone.

Demonyms of Canadian Provinces

 from wikipedia:

• Alberta (Province): Albertans 

• British Columbia (Province): British Columbians 

• Manitoba (Province): Manitobans 

• New Brunswick (Province): New Brunswickers 

• Newfoundland and Labrador (Province): Newfoundlanders, Labradorians 

• Northwest Territories (Territory): Northwest Territorians 

• Nova Scotia (Province): Nova Scotians 

• Nunavut (Territory): Nunavummiut (Nunavummiuq sing.) 

• Ontario (Province): Ontarians 

• Prince Edward Island (Province): Prince Edward Islanders, Islanders 

• Quebec (Province): Quebecers, Quebeckers, Québécois, Québécoise[ 

• Saskatchewan (Province): Saskatchewanians 

• Yukon (Territory): Yukoners

Catharism

 Catharism (/ˈkæθərɪzəm/; from the Greek: καθαροί, katharoi, "the pure [ones]") was a Christian dualist or Gnostic movement between the 12th and 14th centuries which thrived in Southern Europe, particularly in northern Italy and southern France.

anticyclone

 An anticyclone is a weather phenomenon defined as a large-scale circulation of winds around a central region of high atmospheric pressure, clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere as viewed from above (opposite to a cyclone). Effects of surface-based anticyclones include clearing skies as well as cooler, drier air.

 

musical hoax

 A musical hoax (also musical forgery and musical mystification) is a piece of music composed by an individual who intentionally misattributes it to someone else.

egestion

 pooing

 

 

legate

 A papal legate or apostolic legate (from the ancient Roman title legatus) is a personal representative of the pope to foreign nations, or to some part of the Catholic Church. He is empowered on matters of Catholic faith and for the settlement of ecclesiastical matters.

Overture

 Overture (from French ouverture, lit. "opening") in music was originally the instrumental introduction to a ballet, opera, or oratorio in the 17th century. During the early Romantic era, composers such as Beethoven and Mendelssohn composed overtures which were independent, self-existing instrumental, programmatic works that presaged genres such as the symphonic poem. These were "at first undoubtedly intended to be played at the head of a programme".

Fidelio

 Fidelio (/fɪˈdeɪljoʊ/; German: [fiˈdeːlio]), originally titled Leonore, oder Der Triumph der ehelichen Liebe (Leonore, or The Triumph of Marital Love), Op. 72, is Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera. 

 

Signalong

 

Signalong is an alternative and augmentative key-word signing communication method used by those individuals with a speech, language and communication need. The Signalong methodology has been effectively used with individuals who have cognitive impairments, autism, Down's Syndrome, specific language impairment, multisensory impairment and acquired neurological disorders that have negatively affected the ability to communicate, including stroke patients and English as an additional language.

The name "Signalong" is derived from the understanding that wherever possible the sign is accompanied with speech, hence you "sign along with speech". The programme was devised in 1991 by Gill Kennard, a language teacher, Linda Hall, a science teacher who produced the illustrations and Thelma Grove, a speech and language therapist from the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists.

quasicrystal

 A quasiperiodic crystal, or quasicrystal, is a structure that is ordered but not periodic. A quasicrystalline pattern can continuously fill all available space, but it lacks translational symmetry. 

 

Grindcore

 Grindcore is an extreme fusion genre of heavy metal and hardcore punk that originated in the mid-1980s.

BioArt

 BioArt is an art practice where humans work with live tissues, bacteria, living organisms, and life processes. Using scientific processes such as biotechnology (including technologies such as genetic engineering, tissue culture, and cloning) the artworks are produced in laboratories, galleries, or artists' studios. The scope of BioArt is considered by some artists to be strictly limited to "living forms".

Sangaku

 Sangaku or San Gaku (算額; lit. translation: calculation tablet) are Japanese geometrical problems or theorems on wooden tablets which were placed as offerings at Shinto shrines or Buddhist temples during the Edo period by members of all social classes.