Grandiloquent DictionarySecond Edition

C.S. Bird

May 21, 2003

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c© 2003, C.S. Bird and Associates

First published in electronic form in December 1998.First published in paperback in June 1999.

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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 alphabetabligurition - Excessive spending on food and drinkablutophobia - A fear of bathingacarophobia - 1.A fear of insectsacarophobia - 2.A fear of mitesacarophobia - 3. A fear of small things, especially bugsacathasia - The habit of sitting downaccipitrine - having a nose like a hawk’s beakaccubation - The practice of eating or drinking while lying downaccubitus - Sharing a bed for sleeping onlyacerbophobia - See acerophobiaacerophobia - The fear of sournessachluophobia - A fear of darkness or of the nightacouasm - A buzzing or a ringing of the earsacousticophobia - A fear of noiseacrocephalic - Having a pointy headacronycal - 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 forcesadoxography - Skilled writing about an unimportant subjectaelurophobia - See ailurophobiaaeolist - A pompous windy bore who pretends to have inspiration

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aeroacrophobia - See aerophobiaaeromancy - Divination using the airaerophobia - 1. A fear of airaerophobia - 2. A fear of flyingaflunters - In a messy or disordered stateaforcing - Adding rice or grains to a dish to serve more peopleagapetae - 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 isagiotage - Speculation in the stock marketaglet - The plastic or metal tip on the end of shoelacesagoraphobia - A fear of open placesagraffe - The wire that holds the cork in a bottle of champagneagrizoophobia - 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 diseasealectromantia - 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 garlic

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allodoxaphobia - 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 forcarrying 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 scratchedanablepophobia - A fear of looking at high placesanacardic - Pertaining to a cashew nutanadipsia - excessive thirstanasarkas - *A condition in which a person is so swollen that they appearto have no musclesandrocracy - 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 suffocating

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anililagnia - 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 gooseanthomancy - 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 thefuture 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 natureantiscian - A person who lives on the other of the world from youantlophobia - A fear of floods or floodinganuptaphobia - 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 someoneapotheosis - The elevation of a mortal to deityapricate - To spend time basking in the sunshineaproneer - A merchant or shopkeeperaprosexia - The inability to concentrate

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aptronym - An appropriate name for someone or somethingaquaphobia - 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 goldaustromancy - Divination using the windautodeist - One who believes they are a god

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autodidact - 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 branchesaviatophobia - A fear of flying

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bacillophobia - A fear of germsbaffound - To stun or perplexbailiwick - The region in which a sheriff has legal powersbaize - The green cloth used on billiard tables and other gaming tablesbalatron - A babbling buffoonbaldric - A belt worn over the shoulder and chest used to hold a swordballistophobia - 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 pitbarleychild - 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 buildingsbatrachoid - Like a frogbatrachophagous - One who eats frogsbatrachophobia - A fear of frogs or toadsbattology - Tiresome and repetitive talkingbdellophobia - A fear of leechesbeaze - To dry in the sun

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begrumpled - To be very unhappy or displeasedbeldam - A foul old womanbelomancy - Fortunetelling through the use of arrowsbelonephobia - A fear of pins and needlesbibliomancy - Divination using books or Bible passagesbibliophobia - A fear of booksbibliopolist - One who deals in rare booksbibliothecary - A person who collects and maintains booksbicorne - The hat with two points worn by Napoleanbiometeorology - The study of how the weather affects peoplebitheism - 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 chattererblennophobia - A fear of slimeblepharon - A person with huge eyebrowsblepharospasm - A form of constant winkingbletcherous - Pertaining to something poorly designed or disgusting indesignblodder - To flow with a gurgling sound from a small apertureblowsabella - A red faced wenchboanthropy - The delusion that one is an oxbogyphobia - 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 intestinebotanomancy - Divination using plantsbotanophobia - A fear of plantsboucan - A naturally occuring bed of burning coalsbourdon - 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 by

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monkeysbrachistichrone - The path between two points along which a particletravels for the shortest timebrachycephalic - Having a head that is broadbreem - 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 thunderbrontide - 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 chinbuffarilla - An extremely ugly young womanbufoniform - Like a toadburghbote - Donations made to repair a castle, or to build a castleburladero - 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 devilcacoethes - 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-sivecagamosis - 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 womencallipygian - Having a beautiful rear endcallipygous - Having a beautiful rear endcallithumpian - The sounds of a big parade, usually accompanied by hornsand noise makerscalypso - A fashion in which women tie a knot in their shirt and exposesher 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 ringing

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cancatervate - To heap up into a pilecantabank - A second rate singercapernoited - Slightly intoxicated or tipsycapnomancy - 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 pillarcasuist - 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 mirrorscatoptromancy - Divination based on how a face appears when viewed ina mirror underwatercatoptrophobia - A fear of mirrorscauseuse - A sofa built for two peopleceilidh - 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 remedy

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cephaleonomancy - 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 diseasechaetophobia - A fear of hairchafferer - A vendor who enjoys talking while making a salechalcenterous - Having bowels of brasschankings - 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 insultchavish - The sound of many birds chirping together, or many people chat-ting at oncecheiloproclitic - Being attracted to a person’s lipscheimaphobia - A fear of coldness or being coldcheimatophobia - See cheimaphobiachelonian - Like a turtlecherophobia - A fear of merrimentchiliad - 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 hep-atic duct, common duct, and gall bladderchoregus - The financial backer in ancient Greece, usually of a play

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chorophobia - 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)chrysology - The study of production and value of precious metalschrysophobia - A fear of goldcibophobia - A fear of foodcingulomania - 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 thiefcleromancy - 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 health

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coimetrophobia - See koimetrophobiacollieshangie - An uproar or a quarrelcolporteur - 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 themcomprivigni - 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 plotconcionative - Pertaining to public speakingconskite - To cause a foul smell, particularly when afraidconventicle - A secret or unlawful religious assemblycoprophagan - A beetle that lives in dungcoprophagous - One who eats excrementcoprophobia - A fear of excrementcoprostasiphobia - A fear of constipationcoriaceous - Leatherlike, particularly pertaining to skincoriaceous - To be tough and leathery, (such as over tanned skin)corsned - A medieval trial in which the accused had to swallow consecratedbreadcosherer - Someone who eats at the expense of others, especially relativescosmolatry - The worship of naturecosmopoietic - An adjective referring to world creatingcostermonger - A seller of fruits, vegetables, and other food, especiallyfrom a street cartcotquean - A man who does what is traditionally women’s workcouther - 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 - Illness caused by overeatingcremnophobia - 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 twilight

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cretaceous - Chalky or grayish whitecribble - To push something through a sievecrithomancy - 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 puzzlescrurophilous - Pertaining to one who likes legscryophobia - A fear of ice or frostcryptarchy - 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 omnipotentcurglaff - The shock felt when entering cold watercurpin - A bird’s back endcyesolagnia - Being attracted to pregnant womencymophobia - 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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dactyliology - The study of finger ringsdactylion - The tip of the middle fingerdactylonomy - Counting using one’s fingersdaedalian - Ingenious and cunningly designeddavering - 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 sleepingdefalcation - 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 powersdeltiologist - A collector of picture postcardsdementophobia - 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 demonsdemophobia - 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-

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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 fireproofdermatoglyphics - The study of skin patterns, such as finger printsdermatopathophobia - A fear of skin diseasesdermatophobia - A fear of skindeuterogamist - 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 deathdiabolarchy - Rulership by the devildiacritics - The marks used in dictionaries to symbolize pronounciationdiamerismapygian - one with flattened buttocksdiamerismapygianitis - inflamation from flattening of the buttocks usu-ally caused by long periods of sittingdidaskaleinophobia - A fear of schooldidine - Resembling a dodo birddikephobia - A fear of justicedinmont - A castrated ram between one and two years olddinophobia - A fear of dizzinessdiophysitic - Having two separate personalitiesdiplasiasmus - The incorrect doubling of a letter when spelling a worddippoldism - The act of beating or whipping school childrendipsomanophobia - A fear of drinking alcoholdipsophobia - A fear of drinking alcoholdiscophoran - Like a jellyfishdishabillophobia - The fear of undressing or undressing in front of some-

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onedithyramb - A hymn or poem to honor Bacchusditokous - Producing twinsdiurnation - To sleep during the daydivigate - To stray, as in the opposite of navigatedivitiphobia - The fear of wealthdoctiloquent - Talking about a subject which you have studied and knowa lot aboutdolabriform - Shaped like the head of an axdoles - The two short grips on the handle of a scythedolichocephalic - Having a head that is longer than it is widedolichprosopic - Having an unusually long facedolorifuge - Something that cures griefdomatologist - A professional housekeeperdomatophobia - A fear of houses or being stuck in a housedommerer - A beggar who fakes being deaf and mutedompteuse - A woman who trains animalsdoraphobia - A fear of fur or animal skinsdorsodynia - A pain in the backdowfart - A stupid dull persondoytin - To walk about stupidlydrapetomania - An overwhelming urge to run away from homedratchell - A slovenly, lazy 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 workdromophobia - The fear of streets or crossing the streetdroud - An oafish womandudman - 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 slavesdunnage - 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 baggage

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dwaible - 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 morningdysepulotic - Not healing quickly or easilydysesthesia - An impairment of the senses, especially the sense of touchdysmorphophobia - A fear of being deformeddysnomy - The creation of flawed laws which cause more problemsdysphoria - An unwell feelingdysteleogist - One who believes in the purposeless of naturedystopia - 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 orrenteccedentesiast - 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)ecophobia - A fear of one’s homeectomorphic - Being slender and thinedacious - voracious and devouringefter - 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 vomitingempleomania - 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 stressendomorphic - Being short but powerful

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enetophobia - 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 dawnephemeromorph - Any form of life too low to be classified as animal orvegetableepincion - A victory song or anthemepiscopicide - The act of killing a bishopepistaxiophobia - A fear of nose bleedseponym - A name that has become a wordequinophobia - 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 workergophobia - The fear of workeroteme - The symbol used in writing known as a question markerotographophobia - The fear of writing love letterserythrophobia - A fear of blushingescutcheon - A decorative metal plates around doorknobs or locksestafette - 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 music

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eudemonics - The study or the science of happinesseunomy - The enactment of good laws that help peopleeuonym - A good nameeuphobia - A fear of good newseupsychics - Good education or teachingeutectic - Easily melted or fused, especially at low temperaturesexclaustration - The act of leaving or being expelled from a religiousretreatexennium - A gift given at New Yearseximious - Choice, select or excellentexophagy - 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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famulus - An assistant to a scholar or magicianfarctate - The state of being stuffed with food (overeating)fashimite - Someone who is a slave to fashionfavillous - Resembling ashesfeaque - A dirty, lazy manfeazings - The frayed and unraveled ends of a ropefebriphobia - A fear of feverfelinophobia - 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 rapidlyfettler - A person skilled at repairing tools or machineryfewterer - A keeper of dogs or manager of a kennelfibriophobia - 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 - Being suspended by a single threadfilipendulous - Suspended by a single threadfimicoloud - Living in a dung heapfissilingual - Having a forked tonguefittie-lan - The near horse of the hindmost pair pulling a plough

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flavescent - 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 trivialfluctisonant - Having the sound of rolling wavesflyndrig - An impudent or deceiving womanfomentation - 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 valuablefranion - A pleasure seeker or hedonistfremescence - The grumbling sound of an unhappy mob of peoplefriendorphobia - A fear of forgetting a passwordfrisson - A shudder of excitement that courses through the bodyfritinancy - The chirping or croaking sound of insectsfrustling - 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 personfulmination - 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 fearfurfuraceous - 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 persongambrinous - Being full of beergametophobia - See gamophobiagamomania - An urge to make extravagant wedding proposalsgamophobia - A fear of marriagegargalesthesia - 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 - Divination involving laughtergenethliacon - A poem which is written for someone’s birthdaygenethliacon - A poem written for someone’s birthdaygeniophobia - A fear of chinsgenuphobia - A fear of kneesgeophagy - 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 old

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geumaphobia - The fear of tastegeumatophobia - See geumaphobiagigantomachize - To be at war with one’s superiorsgigantomachy - A war between giantsgigmania - The smug obsession with attaining middle class respectabilitygirouettism - Altering one’s opinions to match public trendsgliriform - Resembling a rodentglossophobia - The fear of speaking, especially in publicgork - A patient with unknown ailment. (Short for God only really knows)gormandizer - One who eats to excessgraminivorous - 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 writinggressible - 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 foodgubernator - A powerful man in governmentgubernatrix - A powerful woman in governmentgudgeons - The slots on a hinge which hold the pin in placeguidfather - Another name for one’s father in lawguttersnipe - 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 monks

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hadeharia - The practice of constantly using the word ”Hell” in speakinghagiarchy - A government of saintshagiocracy - Rulership by saintshagiolatry - The worship of saintshaingle - To amble along in a feeble and listless mannerhajj - A pilgrimage to Meccahalidom - Anything considered holy or sacredhaliography - 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 entrailsharuspication - Divination using entrailsharuspicy - See haruspicationhasenpfeffer - A well seasoned rabbit stewhavelock - The cloth that hangs from the back of a hat to protect thewearer’s neck

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hawsehole - The hole on a ship through which the anchor is loweredheautontimorumenos - A form of masochismheautontimorumenos - A masochisthebephobia - 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 Hematophobiaheresyphobia - A fear of heresyhermeneutics - Interpretations of the Bibleherpetiform - Resembling a reptileherpetophobia - A fear of reptilesheteropraxy - 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 entrails

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higgler - 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 - An attraction to hairy menhirsutophilia - Being attracted to hairy menhirudinoid - Like a leechhisbid - Having stubbly or being unshavenhodophobia - The fear of travellinghomichlophobia - 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 ofmoneyhormephobia - A fear of shockhorology - The science of measuring time or making time pieceshorripilate - To get goose bumpshowdah - The riding seat on the back of an elephanthoxter - The inside pocket on a suit or coathumicubate - To lie still, as in some forms of prayerhumuhumunukunukuapuaa - A small Hawaiian fishhyalophobia - A fear of glasshydragyophobia - A fear of mercurial medicineshydromancy - Divination by water of magic involving waterhydrophobia - The fear of waterhydrophobophobia - A fear of rabieshydrophobophobia - The fear of hydrophobiahyetophobia - A fear of rainhygrophobia - A fear of dampnesshygrophobia - A fear of liquidshylephobia - A fear of epilepsy

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hylephobia - A fear of materialismhylophobia - A fear of forestshylotheism - The belief that god and the universe are the same thinghylozoism - The belief that matter has life and that life is a property ofmatterhypegiaphobia - See hypengyophobiahypengyophobia - A fear of responsibilityhyperhedonia - Excessive pleasure caused by boring taskshypermnesia - Having an exceptional memmoryhyperprosexia - Excessive attention to somethinghyperthemalgesia - An increased sensitivity to heathypnomancy - Divination by hypnosishypnophobia - A fear of sleepinghypnopompic - the fuzzy state between being awake and asleephypobulia - Trouble making up one’s mindhypophobia - A fear of not being afraidhyposmia - A disorder in which one has no sense of smellhypselotimophobia - A fear of high priceshypsiphobia - A fear of heights or high places

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iatrapistia - A lack of faith in the medical systemiatrogenic - Pertaining to medical problems caused by a doctor’s treatmentiatrophobia - A fear of going to the doctorichnography - A map or floor plan which is drawn to scaleichnology - The study of fossilized footprintsichnomancy - Divination using footprintsichor - The blood of a godichthyomancy - Divination or magic involving fishicker - A single ear of corniconomancy - Divination using iconsicthyophobia - A fear of fishidolomancy - Divination using idolsignipotent - Having control of or power over fireilleism - The practice of referring to oneself as ”he” or ”she”, or by one’snameillyngophobia - The fear of vertigoimbriferous - rain carrying, such as cloudsimpecunious - Having little or no moneyimpecunious - Having no cash or moneyinaniloquent - Speaking foolishly or saying silly thingsincicurable - Being untamableincunabula - A book which was printed before 1500 AD, in the dawn ofpublishinginfracaninophile - One who supports or defends the underdoginlapidate - To petrify an objectinteramnian - Being between riversinterfenestration - 1. The space between two windowsinterfenestration - 2. The art of placing windows

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intrapreneur - A company employee who is not bound by rules or policiesand who is free to refine productsiophobia - A fear of poison or being poisonediophobia - A fear of rustipsedixitism - The practice of dogmatic assertionirenology - The study of peaceisocracy - A government in which everyone has equal powerisopterophobia - The fear of termitesitaiitai - A diseases caused by cadmium entering the bodyizles - Any sparks or embers which rise from a chimney

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jactancy - The act of boasting or braggingjactitate - To toss and turn or to toss back and forthjaculiferous - 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 slobjejunator - A person who fastsjentacular - Pertaining to breakfastjeofail - A costly mistake made by a lawyer , usually in courtjerque - To search for smuggled itemsjookerie - 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 namekalology - The study of beautykalopsia - The delusion that things are more beautiful than they really arekamalayka - A shirt made of seal gutskantele - A five stringed harp from Finlandkarao - The marriage of a widow to her brother-in-lawkatagelophobia - See catagelophobiakathenotheism - The belief that there are multiple gods with a singleleaderkathisophobia - See cathisophobiakeb - An ewe which has aborted its lambkebbie - A Scottish walking stick or cudgelkeedug - 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 wealth

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kerf - 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 bullkinesipathy - The practice of treating illness with exercisekinesophobia - A fear of motion or movementkirkbuzzer - One who robs churcheskiyoodle - A mangy, worthless dogklebenleiben - A pathological reluctance to stop talking about a givensubjectklebenleiben - The reluctance to stop talking about a certain subjectknissomancy - Divination using burning incensekoimetrophobia - A fear of cemeterieskoinoniphobia - A fear of a room full of peoplekoniophobia - A fear of dustkopophobia - A fear of being mentally or physically exhaustedkorophilia - 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 cymophobiakynophobia - See cynophobiakyphophobia - The fear of stoopingkyphorrhinos - Having a nose with a bump in itkyphotic - Hump-backed

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labeorphilist - A collector of beer bottleslabrose - Having large or thick lipslachanophobia - The fear of vegetableslachanophobia - The fear of vegetableslaliophobia - See lalophobialalochezia - The use of foul or abusive language to relieve stress or easepainlalophobia - The fear of speakinglanigerous - Wool bearing or covered with fine hairLaodicean - 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 giftlatitudinarian - 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 suitleister - A three pronged, barbed spear used for catching fishlepidophobia - A fear of butterfliesleptorrhinian - having a long narrow noselestobiosis - The act of pilfering foodlethologica - 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 left

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lexiconophilist - 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 sluglimicolous - 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 fingerslithomancy - 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 eventslogomachist - 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 weekslorgnette - A pair of glasses mounted on a handleloupe - The small magnifying glass used by jewellerslubberland - A mythical paradise reserved for those who are lazy

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lucubrator - A person who studies during the nightlustration - Ceremonial purefication performed before entering a holy placelychnobite - A person who works at night and sleeps during the daylygerastia - The condition of one who is only amorous when the lights areoutlygophobia - A fear of darkness or of the nightlypothymia - Profound melancholylysistrataphobia - The fear that women will subvert men and take overthe worldlyssophobia - 1.A fear of going insanelyssophobia - 2. A fear of rabies

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machiaphobia - 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 soundmaculate - To stain or make impuremaculomancy - Divination by spotsmagniloquent - Speaking pompously or in a high flown mannermaieusiophobia - 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 wordsmalophile - One who loves applesmalversation - corruption and misconduct among public officialsmammothrept - A child who is raised and spoiled by their grandmothermanducable - Edible or soft enough to chewmargaritomancy - Divination using pearlsmariticide - 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 sermonmastigophobia - The fear of whipping or being whippedmataeotechny - An unprofitable art or sciencemathemancy - Divination using mathematics

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matronolagnia - 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 sleepmegalophobia - 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 liesmentimutation - The act of changing one’s mindmerdivorous - One who eats excrementmerdurinous - Composed of urine and dungmerinthophobia - A fear of being tied and boundmeritocracy - Rulership by the most skilled leadermesocracy - Government formed from the middle classmesomorphic - Being big-boned and muscularmetallophobia - A fear of metalsmetapneustic - Having one’s respiratory organs in one’s buttmeteoromancy - 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 commencemicrolipet - Someone who gets upset about trivial thingsmicromancy - Divination by studying the smallest object in the areamicrophobia - A fear of small thingsmimp - To speak in a prissy manner, usually with pursed lips

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minimifidian - 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)misotyrannist - One who hates tyrannymisoxene - One who hates strangersmisoxeny - The dislike of strangersmiter - The tall pointed hat worn by bishops and abbotsmnemophobia - A fear of memoriesmolendinaceous - Like a windmillmolendinaceous - Resembling a windmillmolysomophobia - 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 thingmorologist - A boring fools who speaks nonsensemoromancy - A foolish divinationmucopurulent - Composed entirely of mucus and pusmuleta - The red cape used by matadorsmultiloquent - Always talking or simply talking too muchmultisonous - Composed of many different sounds

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multivious - Having multiple possible pathsmuriphobia - A fear of mice or ratsmuseology - The science of museum curatorship, including the collectionand care of antiquesmusophobia - A fear of mice or ratsmutchkin - 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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nanophilia - 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 taxidermynatalitious - Pertaining to someone’s birthdaynatatorium - An indoor swimming poolnaufragous - Causing shipwrecksnaupathia - Sea sicknessnavicular - Resembling a boat, or boat shapedneanilagnia - 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 deadnecromimesis - 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 shoes

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nelophobia - 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 cloudsnepiomania - The desire of a woman to have a childnepotal - Pertaining to a nephewnesiote - Living upon an islandneuromancer - 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 meatnikhedonia - The pleasure caused by anticipating good fortune or successnippitatum - Exceptionaly strong beernoctiphobia - See nyctophobianoctivagant - To roam about at night or to wander around while asleepnoctivagant - To rove or wander at nightnoematachograph - 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 comprehensionnosism - The practive of referring to oneself as ”we”nosocomephrenia - A depression caused by any extended stay in thehospitalnosocomology - The study of hospital managementnosomaniaphobia - A fear of suffering from an imaginary disease

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nosophobia - A fear of becoming illnostology - The study of senilitynostomania - Overwhelming homesicknessnostophobia - A fear of returning homenovercal - 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 yesterdaynullibiety - The state of being nowherenullipara - A woman with no childrennumerophobia - A fear of numbersnumismatist - A coin collectornummamorous - Pertaining to someone who spends all of their time tryingto make moneynundinal - Pertaining to a marketplace or a fairnutation - The involuntary nodding of one’s headnychthemeron - 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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obambulate - To walk around or casually wanderobdormition - The feeling one gets when a limb ”falls asleep”obesophobia - The fear of gaining weightobliviscence - Forgetfulnessobmutescent - Preferring to have silence or to avoid noiseobnubilate - 1.To cloud or to obscureobnubilate - 2.To be clouded and obscureobsolagnium - The lack of sexual desire that accompanies old ageobstipation - Extreme form of constipationochlochracy - A government formed by the mobochlophobia - A fear of crowdsochophobia - A fear of riding in automobilesoctan - Something which happens every eight daysoculoplania - 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 homeoikonisus - The desire to start a familyoikophobia - A fear of one’s homeoinomancy - See oenomancyoinophobia - The fear of wineolecranon - The bony tip of the elbow

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olfactphobia - 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 eggsombibulus - Someone who drinks everythingombrometer - 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 beingonychomancy - 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 snakes

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ophiophagy - 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 theirreligionoryctomancy - 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 sweatosmology - The study of odorsosmophilia - The love of various smellsosmophobia - A fear of odorsosphresiophobia - A fear of odorsossomancy - Divination using bonesosteomancy - Divination using bonesostraconophobia - A fear of shellfishostreophobia - A fear of shellfish, especially oysters

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otolaryngologist - 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 animalspancratic - 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 uppanpygoptosis - 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 fearpantomancer - One who sees omens in every eventpantophobia - A fear of everythingpapaphobia - A fear of the pope or the papacypaparchy - Rulership by the popepapyrocracy - Rulership by paperwork or by the presspapyrophobia - A fear of paperparabolanus - A monk who treat contagious diseasesparalian - A person who lives near the seaparalipophobia - A fear of responsibilityparamnesia - A disorder in which one remembers events that never hap-penedparanymph - The best man or bridesmaid at a wedding

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parapraxis - 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 voyeurparergon - A second job or an additional source of money from extra workparisologist - A person who uses ambiguous language or evasive writingparorexia - 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 priestspartheniad - 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 raisinpataphysics - The science of imaginary solutions or of nonsensical philos-ophypatavinity - The use of local slang or expressions when writingpathenophillia - The love of virginspathenophobia - The fear of virginspathophobia - A fear of diseasepatroiophobia - A fear of hereditary diseasespauciloquent - Using as few words as possible when speakingpaxophobia - 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 feet

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pedotrophy - The art of raising children properlypegomancy - Fortunetelling using the bubbles in a fountainpeladophobia - A fear of people who are baldpelargic - Resembling a storkpelology - The study of therapeutic uses of mudpeniaphobia - 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 Lawperendinate - To delay until the day of tomorrow or to delay indefinitelyperfuncturate - To perform some task in a careless or listless mannerperiblebsis - 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 wordyperissopedics - 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 growthspharmacophobia - A fear of medicine or drugspharology - The study of lighthouses or similar signalling devicesphasmophobia - A fear of ghostsphengophobia - The fear of the Sun or of sunlightphigerophobia - See pnigophobiaphilalethist - A lover of the truth

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philandrist - One who loves menphilatelist - A stamp collectorphilemaphobia - A fear of kissingphilematology - The study of kissingphilematophobia - See philemaphobiaphiliater - A medical studentphillumenist - A collector of matchbooks or matchboxesphilocalist - A lover of beautyphilocomal - Pertaining to hair carephilocubist - A lover of games involving dicephilodespot - One who loves tyrannyphilodox - Someone who loves their own opinionsphilogeant - One who loves everything on the Earthphilographer - A collector of autographsphilogynist - One who loves womenphilologist - One who loves literature and languagesphilomath - One who loves math and the sciencesphilomythist - A person who loves mythologyphiloneist - One who is obsessed with trends or fadsphilonoist - Someone who is seeking knowledgephilophobia - A fear of love or of falling in lovephilopolemicist - A person who loves to argue or debatephiloprogeneity - The love of your childrenphilosophaster - A person who pretends to know more than they do toimpress othersphilosophobia - A fear of philosophy or philosophersphilosophunculist - A person who pretends to know more than they doto impress othersphilotherian - An animal loverphiloxenist - A person who loves to entertain strangersphiltrum - The groove in the middle of one’s upper lipphobologophobia - The fear of words about fearsphobophobia - A fear of being afraidphonophobia - 1. The fear of soundphonophobia - 2. The fear of speaking to an audiencephotoaugiaphobia - A fear of glaring lights or being in the spot lightphotophobia - A fear of lightphrenology - The study of how the shape of one’s skull determines char-

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plousiocracy - A government consisting of the wealthy and the eliteplumassier - Someone who makes or sells feathers used in ornamentsplutarchy - 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 rainpneumatophobia - A fear of airpneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - A miner’s lung dis-ease caused by inhaling silicate dustpnigophobia - A fear of chokingpodoscaph - A boat propelled by bicycle treadlespogonophobia - 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 porridgepolyandry - Marriage to several menpolyapopemptic - Having been divorced numerous timespolygyny - 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 overworkingporphyrophobia - A fear of the color purpleposology - The area of medicine dealing with dosagesposthetomist - A person who performs circumcisions

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potamophobia - A fear of riverspotophobia - A fear of drinking alcoholpoulaine - 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 elsepreterpluperfect - More than perfectproboscidiform - 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 facepsaphonic - 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 faces

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qasida - A form of arabic poetryqiviut - The soft undercoat on a musk ox, often used in making coatsquadragenerian - A person who is 40 years old, or between 40 and 50quadrel - 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 apequaestuary - Seeking money or trying to make moneyqualtagh - The first person you see after leaving your housequartan - 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 asquare, and the fifth in the centerquinquagesimal - Consisting of fifty daysquinquepartite - Having five partsquisquilian - Consisting of trash and rubbishquodlibertarian - A pedantic person who engages in elaborate argumentsabout minor things

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radiophobia - 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 foodreasty - Something which is covered in rust or has a rusty taste to itrecrudescence - 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 refractedregiphobia - A fear of a king or kingsrehibition - The act of taking back defective productsremiped - Having legs or arms which act like oars - especially referring toinsectsremontado - A person who lives in the forest or mountains and avoidcivilizationremplissage - The padding of literary works or of musical worksrenidification - The act of rebuilding one’s nestresipiscent - To learn from experience or have one’s sanity restored

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resistentialism - 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 themrhabdophobia - The fear of being beaten with a stickrhadamanthine - Being completely fair and incorruptiblerhapsodomancy - The art of predicting the future using poetryrhinophonia - An extreme nasal sound in one’s voicerhombicosidodecahedron - An Archimedean solid composed of sixty twofacesrhypophobia - See rupophobiarhytiphobia - Fear of getting wrinklesrhytiscopia - an obsession with one’s facial wrinklesrixatrix - A nasty old women, usually with a tendency to natter and scoldroil - To make muddy by stirring or to disturb sedimentroorback - An ugly rumor of fabricated news story created to discredit apolitical opponentrosacea - A condition in which a person has a large red noserouleau - A cylinder of coins rolled in paperrubedinous - Reddish coloredructation - 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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sabbulonarium - A gravel pit, or money paid to someone who digs gravelsalutatorian - The second best student in a graduating class, whose job itis to give an introductory speechsanctiloquent - Speaking of something which is holy or sacredsanguinivorous - A blood suckersanguivorous - One who drinks bloodsaponaceous - 1. Being soapy or slipperysaponaceous - 2. Being very nice and ingratiatingsaprogenic - 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 cattlesarcle - To dig up weedssarcophagic - Pertaining to something which eats fleshsarculation - Weeding using a rakesardanapalian - Being luxuriously effeminate like the Byron hero Sardana-palussarmassophobia - A fear of love play, especially in womensartorial - Pertaining to tailorssarwan - A person who rides and guides a camelsatanophany - Possession by the devilsatrapess - 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 rockscacchic - Pertaining to the game of chess, or to chess pieces

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secundogeniture - 1. Being the second born sonsecundogeniture - 2. Any property inherited by the second sonselachostomous - 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 meanssenectitude - 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 bandshapka - The fur covered, brimless hat worn by many Russians in the wintershistaceous - slate colored or livid, especially pertaining to skinshoat - A worthless young fellow, originally a young hogshurocracy - 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 terms

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sinistrophobia - A fear of the left side or things on the left sidesitiophobia - A fear of foodskiaphobia - See sciaphobiaskirl - 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 ownerssloken - 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 gamesnoach - 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 groupsolfeggio - A singing exercise using the syllable do,re,mi,fa,so,la,tisolivagant - Wandering all alonesolleret - A metallic pointy toed shoe worn by knightssomatology - The science of using a person’s physical features to determinetheir personalitysomnifugous - Something which drives away sleepsomniloquent - Speaking in one’s sleep

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tachophobia - The fear of speedtachydidactic - Being taught rapidly or teaching quicklytachydidaxy - Rapid teaching or instructiontachygraphy - Short hand or stenographytachyphagia - Fast eatingtachyphrasia - The act of talking very fasttaeniophobia - 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 collegetaphephillia - 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 dancingtartarology - The study of the underworld or doctrine pertaining to Helltath - 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 coastersteleophobia - A fear of religious ceremoniestelmatology - The study of swamps and bogstemerity - A form of extreme boldnessteniophobia - The fear of tapeworms

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teratophobia - A fear of deformed peopleteratophobia - A fear of monsters or of having a deformed childterebration - A pain that feels as though a drill is boring through somebody parttermagant - A violent, brawling womantessaraglot - A person who is capable of speaking in four languagestextophobia - A fear of certain fabricsthaasophobia - A fear of sittingthalassophobia - A fear of the sea or an oceanthanatophobia - A fear of deaththanatopsis - The contemplation of deaththaumatology - The study of miraclestheandric - Pertaining to a person who is both a human and a godtheanthropism - 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 offspringtheochristic - 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)

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theophany - The manifestation of a deity on Earththeophilanthropist - A person who loves both God and mankindtheophobia - A fear of Gods or the wrath of Godtheophobia - The fear of Godtheopneusty - 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 touchedthole - A pin in the gunwhale of a boat to hold an oarthrepterophilia - An attraction to female nursesthrioboly - Divination using stones or rocksthrip - To snap one’s fingersthurible - 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 battletocology - The study of obstetrics or midwiferytocophobia - A fear of childbirthtoggy - 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 names

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topophobia - 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 poisonedtraumatophobia - A fear of injurytregetour - A street magician or jugglertremophobia - The fear of tremblingtrichinophobia - 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 powdertrochilidist - A person who studies hummingbirdstrochomancy - Divination by studying wheel trackstropoclastics - The science of breaking habitstropophobia - A fear of changes or making changestrullization - 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 travellingtychopotamic - Pertaining to something which lives in fresh watertycolosis - Accident preventiontyg - A seventeenth century mug having twelve handlestyphlology - The study of blindnesstypp - The number of thousands of yards of yarn which weighs one pound

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tyrannophobia - The fear of tyrantstyromancy - Divination or magic using cheesetyrophagia - The act of eating cheesetyrophillia - The love of cheesetyrophobia - The fear of cheese

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uloid - 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 voluntarilyunasinous - 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 rusturedinology - 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 the

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property 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 vaccinationsvaletudinarian - 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 spiritsveneniferous - Transferring or bearing poisonventripotent - 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 wordsveriloquent - 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 Springvespertillian - Resembling a batvespertine - Happening in the eveningvespine - Resembling a waspvesthibitionism - The flirtatious display of undergarments by a womanvestiphobia - A fear of clothingvexillologist - A collector of flagsvexillology - The study of flags

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viaticum - 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 clothingvitricophobia - The fear of one’s stepfathervittate - Resembling a ribbonvoidee - A last minute snackvolower - 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 harewimple - The traditional headress of nunswinx - 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 skinxanthous - Yellow coloredxenarthral - Resembling a sloth, anteater, or armadilloxeniatrophobia - 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 productsxyresic - Being as sharp as a razor

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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 horse

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zarf - 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 emotionzenzizenzizenzic - A number raised to the eighth powerzills - The finger cymbals worn by belly dancerszizith - The fringes at the corners of a tallithzoanthropy - The delusion that one is an animalzob - A worthless personzoonosis - Any disease that can be passed from animals to humanszoophobia - A fear of animalszori - 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 clericszygodactyl - Having two toes pointing forward and two backwardszymology - The study of fermentationzythepsary - A brewery

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