agazed

 agazed (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Gazing with astonishment; amazed.

befezzed

 

befezzed (not comparable)

1. Wearing a fez (“a felt hat shaped like a truncated cone with a tassel attached”); fezzed.

 

horaltic

 

Etymology

Etymology is uncertain. In 2007 it was speculated that the derivation was a mishearing of "heraldic".

Adjective

horaltic (comparative more horaltic, superlative most horaltic)

1. (rare) Used to describe birds, particularly vultures, in a characteristic pose with wings spread and raised. 

 

abalienation

 

abalienation (countable and uncountable, plural abalienations) (archaic)

1. (law) The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement; transferring a legal title.

prise

 

Verb

prise (third-person singular simple present prises, present participle prising, simple past and past participle prised)

1. To force (open) with a lever; to pry.
1. 
   
2. Extract something that is difficult to obtain.

   prise information out of someone

phyllary

 In botanical terminology, a phyllary, also known an involucral bract or tegule, is a single bract of the involucre of a composite flower.

 

Viscacha

 Viscacha or vizcacha are rodents of two genera (Lagidium and Lagostomus) in the family Chinchillidae. They are native to South America and convergently resemble rabbits.

 

managemental

 

managemental (not comparable)

1. Relating to management.

geonyctinastic

 geonyctinastic

Curvature towards the earth at night.

 

reify

 

reify (third-person singular simple present reifies, present participle reifying, simple past and past participle reified)

1. (transitive) to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing.

playwright

 

A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.

Penrose stairs

 The Penrose stairs or Penrose steps, also dubbed the impossible staircase, is an impossible object created by Oscar Reutersvärd in 1937 and later independently discovered and made popular by Lionel Penrose and his son Roger Penrose. A variation on the Penrose triangle, it is a two-dimensional depiction of a staircase in which the stairs make four 90-degree turns as they ascend or descend yet form a continuous loop, so that a person could climb them forever and never get any higher. This is clearly impossible in three-dimensional Euclidean geometry but possible in some non-eucliean geometry like in nil geometry.

 

Neuroinformatics

 

Neuroinformatics is the field that combines informatics and neuroscience. Neuroinformatics is related with neuroscience data and information processing by artificial neural networks. There are three main directions where neuroinformatics has to be applied:

• the development of computational models of the nervous system and neural processes.
• the development of tools for analyzing and modeling neuroscience data,
• the development of tools and databases for management and sharing of neuroscience data at all levels of analysis

 

exsanguinate

 

exsanguinate (third-person singular simple present exsanguinates, present participle exsanguinating, simple past and past participle exsanguinated)

1. (transitive) To kill by means of blood loss.
2. (intransitive) To die by means of blood loss.
3. (transitive) To drain a body (living or dead) of blood.

 

dank

 Dark, damp and humid.

cootie catcher

 A fortune teller (also called a cootie catcher, chatterbox, salt cellar, whirlybird, or paku-paku) is a form of origami used in children's games. Parts of the fortune teller are labelled with colors or numbers that serve as options for a player to choose from, and on the inside are eight flaps, each concealing a message. The person operating the fortune teller manipulates the device based on the choices made by the player, and finally one of the hidden messages is revealed. These messages may purport to answer questions (hence the name) or they may be activities that the player must perform. 

 

pottle

 pottle

half a gallon

Oology

 Oology (or oölogy) is a branch of ornithology studying bird eggs, nests and breeding behaviour. The word is derived from the Greek oion, meaning egg. Oology can also refer to the hobby of collecting wild birds' eggs, sometimes called egg collecting, birdnesting or egging, which is now illegal in many jurisdictions.

 

Egg collecting was still popular in the early 20th century, even as its scientific value became less prominent. Egg collectors built large collections and traded with one another. Frequently, collectors would go to extreme lengths to obtain eggs of rare birds. For example, Charles Bendire was willing to have his teeth broken to remove a rare egg that became stuck in his mouth. He had placed the egg in his mouth while climbing down a tree.

yeuk

 

yeuk (plural yeuks)

1. (Scotland) itch, a prickly feeling

holoalphabetic sentence

 A pangram or holoalphabetic sentence is a sentence using every letter of a given alphabet at least once. Pangrams have been used to display typefaces, test equipment, and develop skills in handwriting, calligraphy, and keyboarding. 

 

Estoppel

 Estoppel is a judicial device in common law legal systems whereby a court may prevent or "estop" a person from making assertions or from going back on his or her word; the person being sanctioned is "estopped".

jomo

 JOMO

Joy of missing out

 

abiogenesis

 In biology, abiogenesis (from a-‘not’ + Greek bios ‘life’ + genesis 'origin') or the origin of life is the natural process by which life has arisen from non-living matter, such as simple organic compounds. The prevailing scientific hypothesis is that the transition from non-living to living entities was not a single event, but an evolutionary process of increasing complexity that involved the formation of a habitable planet, the prebiotic synthesis of organic molecules, molecular self-replication, self-assembly, autocatalysis, and the emergence of cell membranes. Many proposals have been made for different stages of the process. 

 

half term

 

half term (plural half terms)

1. (UK) A short school holiday in the middle of the term.
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see half,‎ term.

guydom

 

guydom (uncountable)

(informal) The quality of being a guy, or man. 

 

imposthume

 

imposthume (plural imposthumes)

1. (obsolete) An abscess.
2. (obsolete) A person suffering from an abscess.

metrocentric

 

metrocentric (comparative more metrocentric, superlative most metrocentric)

1. Focusing on a metropolis, or large city.

 

Campanology

 Campanology (/kæmpəˈnɒlədʒi/) is the scientific and musical study of bells. It encompasses the technology of bells – how they are founded, tuned and rung – as well as the history, methods, and traditions of bellringing as an art.

 

It is common to collect together a set of tuned bells and treat the whole as one musical instrument. Such collections – such as a Flemish carillon, a Russian zvon, or an English "ring of bells" used for change ringing – have their own practices and challenges; and campanology is likewise the study of perfecting such instruments and composing and performing music for them. 

 

In this sense, however, the word campanology is most often used in reference to relatively large bells, often hung in a tower. It is not usually applied to assemblages of smaller bells, such as a glockenspiel, a collection of tubular bells, or an Indonesian gamelan.

Gytrash

 

The Gytrash , a legendary black dog known in Northern England, was said to haunt lonely roads awaiting travelers. Appearing in the shape of horses, mules, cranes or dogs, the Gytrash haunt solitary ways and lead people astray, but they can also be benevolent, guiding lost travelers to the right road. They are usually feared.

In some parts of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, the Gytrash was known as the Shagfoal and took the form of a spectral mule or donkey with eyes that glowed like burning coals. In this form, the beast was believed to be purely malevolent. 

 

liminality

 In anthropology, liminality (from the Latin word līmen, meaning "a threshold") is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the rite is complete.

More recently, usage of the term has broadened to describe political and cultural change as well as rites. During liminal periods of all kinds, social hierarchies may be reversed or temporarily dissolved, continuity of tradition may become uncertain, and future outcomes once taken for granted may be thrown into doubt.

amanuensis

 An amanuensis (/əˌmænjuˈɛnsɪs/) is a person employed to write or type what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another, and also refers to a person who signs a document on behalf of another under the latter's authority. In one example Eric Fenby assisted the blind composer Frederick Delius in writing down the notes that Delius dictated. 

 

Torschlusspanik

 

Torschlusspanik f (genitive Torschlusspanik, no plural)

eleventh hour panic (the fear that time to act is running out)

From Tor +‎ Schluss +‎ Panik, literally “gate-shut panic”. For safety reasons city gates used to be shut at nightfall (Torschluss, from Tor +‎ Schluss), leaving latecomers no other choice than to stay outside, thereby exposing them to various dangers. 

 

Rhyolite

 Rhyolite (/ˈraɪ.əlaɪt/ RY-ə-lyte) is the most silica-rich of volcanic rocks. It is generally glassy or fine-grained (aphanitic) in texture, but may be porphyritic, containing larger mineral crystals (phenocrysts) in an otherwise fine-grained groundmass. The mineral assemblage is predominantly quartz, sanidine, and plagioclase. It is the extrusive equivalent to granite.

 

ingester

 

ingester (plural ingesters)

One who ingests.

rerebrace

 A rerebrace (sometimes known as an upper cannon) is a piece of armour designed to protect the upper arms (above the elbow). Splint rerebraces were a feature of Byzantine armour in the Early Medieval period. The rerebrace seems to have re-emerged in England, in the early 14th century. As part of the full plate armour of the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance the rerebrace was a tubular piece of armour between the shoulder defences (spaulder or pauldron) and the elbow protection (couter). 

 

pauldron

 A pauldron (sometimes spelled pouldron or powldron) is a component of plate armor that evolved from spaulders in the 15th century. As with spaulders, pauldrons cover the shoulder area.

Oga

 

The word Oga is a Pidgin word which means "senior or boss." The phrase "my oga at the top" may be used to show respect to someone in a position of authority.

For example, in a question like this: "When will you pay my debt?" Reply: "My oga at the top has not paid my salary."

Cathemerality

 Cathemerality, sometimes called metaturnality, is an organismal activity pattern of irregular intervals during the day or night in which food is acquired, socializing with other organisms occurs, and any other activities necessary for livelihood are undertaken.

 

Hatzalah

 Hatzalah (/hətˈsʌlə/; Hebrew: הַצָּלָה, lit. 'rescue, relief') is one of several Jewish volunteer emergency medical service (EMS) organizations serving mostly areas with Jewish communities around the world, giving free medical service no matter their religion. Most local branches operate independently of each other, but use the common name. The Hebrew spelling of the name is always the same, but there are many variations in transliteration, such as Hatzolah, Hatzoloh, and Hatzola.

It is also often called Chevra Hatzalah, which loosely translates as "Company of Rescuers", "Group of Rescuers", or "Rescue Squad".

 

systematics

 Biological systematics is the study of the diversification of living forms, both past and present, and the relationships among living things through time. Relationships are visualized as evolutionary trees (synonyms: cladograms, phylogenetic trees, phylogenies). Phylogenies have two components: branching order (showing group relationships) and branch length (showing amount of evolution). Phylogenetic trees of species and higher taxa are used to study the evolution of traits (e.g., anatomical or molecular characteristics) and the distribution of organisms (biogeography).

 

between Scylla and Charybdis

 Being between Scylla and Charybdis is an idiom deriving from Greek mythology, which has been associated with the proverbial advice "to choose the lesser of two evils". Several other idioms, such as "on the horns of a dilemma", "between the devil and the deep blue sea", and "between a rock and a hard place" express similar meanings. The mythical situation also developed a proverbial use in which seeking to choose between equally dangerous extremes is seen as leading inevitably to disaster. 

 Scylla and Charybdis were mythical sea monsters noted by Homer; Greek mythology sited them on opposite sides of the Strait of Messina between Sicily and Calabria, on the Italian mainland. Scylla was rationalized as a rock shoal (described as a six-headed sea monster) on the Calabrian side of the strait and Charybdis was a whirlpool off the coast of Sicily. They were regarded as maritime hazards located close enough to each other that they posed an inescapable threat to passing sailors; avoiding Charybdis meant passing too close to Scylla and vice versa. According to Homer's account, Odysseus was advised to pass by Scylla and lose only a few sailors, rather than risk the loss of his entire ship in the whirlpool.

 croffle: a croissant cooked in a waffle iron

 

skeeve 

(verb) to gross out; to digust; to make your skin crawl

kaketsugi

 

Photo: kelly (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Tucked away in a Minokamo City workshop located in Gifu prefecture Japan, a father and daughter team repair damaged clothing using "kaketsugi", an "invisible mending" technique that uses a needle, thread and craftmanship so fine that virtually no trace of repair is visible.

 

Lean 

Aka. Purple Drank.

A mixture of Jolly Ranchers, Sprite, and codeine that will get you high asf.
Gary: Aye bro imma sip on yo purple kool aid.

Vozhd

 

Vozhd or Vožd (Serbian: Вожд) (Russian: Вождь, lit. 'leader, guide') is a Serbian and Russian Church Slavonic loanword derived from the verb vesti (вестивести, meaning "to lead", "to guide").

In Serbia, it was the title Vožd (Serbian Cyrillic: Вожд) that was given to Karađorđe Petrović by all the voivodes who elected him to be their leader at their first Praviteljstvujusceg sovejeta (Self-government Council) during the First Serbian Uprising.

Later, in Russian, it was often used in reference to Soviet leaders such as Joseph Stalin or Lenin as Vozhd of the proletariat (Russian: Вождь пролетариата), Vozhd of the Russian Communist Party (Russian: Вождь Российской Коммунистической Партии), Vozhd of the World Revolution (Russian: Вождь мировой революции), Vozhd of the Peoples (Russian: Вождь народов).

 

fjeld

 

fjeld (plural fjelds)

1. (geography) A rocky, barren plateau, especially in Scandinavia.

waqf

 A waqf (Arabic: وَقْف; [ˈwɑqf]), also known as hubous (حُبوس)^[1] or mortmain property is an inalienable charitable endowment under Islamic law. It typically involves donating a building, plot of land or other assets for Muslim religious or charitable purposes with no intention of reclaiming the assets.

inflorescence

 An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed on the axis of a plant. 

 

 

Deaditor

A Wikipedia editor that, within seconds, updates an article on a famous person who has recently passed away in order to change every present tense verb, such as the word "is", to a past tense verb, such as "was".

zoeal

 

zoeal (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to zoeae.

 

Semite

Semite

a member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia including the Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs

abditory

 

abditory (plural abditories)

(rare) A concealed location used for storage or to hide items.

shan

 

shan (comparative more shan, superlative most shan)

1. (Tyneside) unfair, harsh

   Here man! that's pure shan that like

2. (Scotland, Hartlepool) poor, low-quality

in flagrante delicto

 

in flagrante delicto (not comparable)

1. In the act of committing a misdeed.
1. 
   
2. While performing sexual activity. 

Borrowed from Medieval Latin in flagrante delicto (literally “while the crime is blazing”), from in + flāgrō (“burn”) + dēlictō, form of dēlictum (“crime, misdeed”).

 

overrent

 

overrent (third-person singular simple present overrents, present participle overrenting, simple past and past participle overrented)

1. (transitive) To rent for too much.
2. (intransitive) To exact too high a rent.

riquiqui

 

riquiqui (invariable)

(informal, also figuratively) tiny, narrow, cramped.

Onomatopoeic reduplication, compare ric-rac (“just about”).

disacknowledge

 

disacknowledge (third-person singular simple present disacknowledges, present participle disacknowledging, simple past and past participle disacknowledged)

1. (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.

arbiter elegantiarum

 

arbiter elegantiarum

An authority on manners or etiquette.

circuitous

 

circuitous (comparative more circuitous, superlative most circuitous)

1. Not direct or to the point.
2. Of a long and winding route.

 

lilly dipper

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1) A rafting slang for someone who doesn't put their entire paddle in the water.

Shaivism

 Shaivism (/ˈʃaɪvɪzəm/; Sanskrit: शैवसम्प्रदायः, Śaivasampradāyaḥ) is one of the major Hindu traditions that worships Shiva as the Supreme Being.

 

diddy

 

diddy (comparative diddier, superlative diddiest)

(UK, informal) very small, tiny

flowery

 flowery (comparative flowerier or more flowery, superlative floweriest or most flowery)

3. 1. (not comparable) Pertaining to flowers.
   2. Decorated with or abundant in flowers.
   3.  (of a speech or piece of writing) overly complicated or elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions; marked by rhetorical elegance

      Synonyms: bombastic, verbose

vellichor

 

vellichor (uncountable)

(neologism) The pensive nostalgia and temporality of used bookstores; the feeling evoked by the scent of old books or paper.

florid

 

florid (comparative more florid, superlative most florid)

1. Having a rosy or pale red colour; ruddy.
2. Elaborately ornate; flowery.
3. (of a disorder, especially mental) In a blatant, vivid, or highly disorganized state.

1. florid psychosis

2. (obsolete) Flourishing; in the bloom of health.

avocation

 An avocation is an activity that someone engages in as a hobby outside their main occupation. There are many examples of people whose professions were the ways that they made their livings, but for whom their activities outside their workplaces were their true passions in life.

procedural generation

 In computing, procedural generation is a method of creating data algorithmically as opposed to manually, typically through a combination of human-generated assets and algorithms coupled with computer-generated randomness and processing power. In computer graphics, it is commonly used to create textures and 3D models. In video games, it is used to automatically create large amounts of content in a game. Depending on the implementation, advantages of procedural generation can include smaller file sizes, larger amounts of content, and randomness for less predictable gameplay. Procedural generation is a branch of media synthesis. 

 

rivalrous

 n economics, a good is said to be rivalrous or a rival if its consumption by one consumer prevents simultaneous consumption by other consumers, or if consumption by one party reduces the ability of another party to consume it. A good is considered non-rivalrous or non-rival if, for any level of production, the cost of providing it to a marginal (additional) individual is zero. A good is "anti-rivalrous" and "inclusive" if each person benefits more when other people consume it. 

 Wild fish stocks are a rivalrous good, as the amount of fish caught by one boat reduces the number of fish available to be caught by others.

trice

 

trice (plural trices)

1. Now only in the phrase in a trice: a very short time; the blink of an eye, an instant, a moment.

onism

 

onism

n. the frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time, which is like standing in front of the departures screen at an airport, flickering over with strange place names like other people’s passwords, each representing one more thing you’ll never get to see before you die—and all because, as the arrow on the map helpfully points out, you are here.

springhead

 

a spring or fountainhead from which a stream flows.

gobo

 

A gobo is an object placed inside or in front of a light source to control the shape of the emitted light and its shadow.

For studio photography purposes, the term "gobo" has come to refer to any device that casts a shadow, and various pieces of equipment that go in front of a light (such as a gobo arm or gobo head).

blobject

 A blobject is a design product, often a brightly-coloured household object which has smooth curves and no sharp edges. The word is a portmanteau of "blob" and "object." 

 

Apiaceae

 Apiaceae or Umbelliferae is a family of mostly aromatic flowering plants named after the type genus Apium and commonly known as the celery, carrot or parsley family, or simply as umbellifers.

madrigal

 A madrigal is a secular vocal music composition of the Renaissance (15th–16th c.) and early Baroque (1600–1750) eras.

tautoko

 

tautoko

1. (verb) (-hia,-na,-tia) to support, prop up, verify, advocate, accept (an invitation), agree.

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Gullah

The Gullah (/ˈɡʌlə/) are an African American ethnic group who predominantly live in the Lowcountry region of the U.S. states of Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, within the coastal plain and the Sea Islands. Their language and culture have preserved a significant influence of Africanisms as a result of their historical geographic isolation and the community's relation to their shared history and identity.

 

fissiparous

 

fissiparous (comparative more fissiparous, superlative most fissiparous)

1. Factious, tending to break into pieces
2. Causing division or fragmenting something (often appearing in the collocation "fissiparous tendencies").
3. (biology) Of cells that reproduce through fission, splitting into two.

overglow

 

overglow (countable and uncountable, plural overglows)

1. The glow of light appearing above or surrounding an object; halation
2. The state of excessive glowing.