angekok n. Eskimo medicine man.
anhedonia n. the inability to be happy.
anoetic adj. unthinkable.
anomia n. the inability to remember names.
anteambulo n. an usher.
antiphrasis n. a word used to mean its opposite.
aosmic adj. odorless.
ballhooter n. a lumberjack who rolls logs down a hill.
bam vt.&i. 1. to trick 2. play a joke
bathybic adj. pertaining to deep sea.
bedlamite n. a madman.
benison n. a blessing.
celation n. hiding, especially of pregnancy or childbirth.
coprolalia n. the use of words relating to dirt or excrement.
corncrake n. a long-legged bird with a grating call.
cornobbled adj. hit with a fish.
cosseted adj. cuddled, coddled, pampered, or petted.
costal adj. pertaining to the ribs or rib area.
costive adj. constipated.
crapulous adj. 1. over-eating or drinking 2. coarse.
dapifer n. someone who brings meat to the dinner table; the steward of a royal house.
decadic adj. pertaining to the decimal system.
dedans n. that part of the tennis court used by spectators.
dedentition n. loss of teeth.
defalcate v.i. to embezzle.
delphic adj. ambiguous.
demit v.i. to resign.
dentiloquist n. someone who speaks with closed teeth.
deontology n. the theory of morality or ethics.
deoppilate v.t.&i. to remove obstruction.
deosculate v.i. to kiss affectionately.
dephlogisticate v.t. to make fireproof.
depulation n. an embezzling of public funds.
ecophobia n. fear of home.
edipol n. a mild oath.
effable adj. something that can be expressed.
efflation n. an emanation; a puff; the act of blowing or puffing.
effodient adj. burrowing.
effulgent adj. shining brightly.
egest v.t. to excrete.
elute v.t. to wash out.
emeute n. an insurrection; a popular uprising.
emmenology n. the study of menstruation.
emmet n. an ant.
enceinte n. 1. pregnant. 2. the main enclosure of a fortress. 3. a fortified town.
ensky v.t. to make immortal
espringal n. a medieval stone-throwing machine.
euphelicia n. healthiness resulting from having all one's wishes granted.
expressement n. extreme politeness.
fashious adj. troublesome.
fastigate v.t. to make pointed.
fenks n.pl. leftover whale blubber used as manure.
ferd n. 1. an army troop. 2. a large number. 3. fear.
ferruminate v.t. to unite; solder.
fico n. 1. giving the finger 2. a worthless trifle.
fiddleback n. a ripple in sycamore or maple, used for fiddle backs.
figulate adj. made of clay.
fike n. 1. an itch; anything causing one to fidget. 2. anxiety.
fipple n. 1. the lower lip. 2. a stopper.
fitch n. a long-handled brush for painting those hard-to-get-to places.
fitz n. a twelfth-century patronymic for royal bastards.
flumen n. the right to direct excess rain water from one's roof to the neighbor's yard.
forslug v.t. to lose or destroy by sluggishness
gambrinous adj. full of beer.
gamophobia n. fear of marriage.
gamp n. 1. a large umbrella. 2. a midwife.
garlion n. a cross between garlic and onion.
genarch n. head of the family.
geodesic adj. the shortest distance between two points on a spherical surface; arc of a great circle.
geogenous adj. growing on or in the ground.
georgic n. a bucolic poem.
gerent adj. bearing, carrying.
gerful adj. changeable.
glock v.t. 1. to swallow in huge gulps. 2. to make a gulping sound.
halitus n. exhalation, breath.
haloid adj. saltlike.
hamble v.t. to cut off the balls of a dogs' feet to make them useless for hunting.
hanaper n. a box for documents.
haole n. a white person or foreigner in Hawaii.
hartal n. a strike to protest a governmental action (in India).
hectare n. acres.
hegumen n. the head of a small monastery.
helobious adj. living in marshy places.
helotry n. helots, or slaves, collectively; slavery.
idiolalla n. mental state characterized by use of invented language.
idioticon n. a dialect dictionary.
ignavia n. idleness, laziness.
illaqueate v.t. to catch or trap.
illision n. strike against something.
illth n. being poor or miserable, the opposite of wealth.
illutation n. a mud bath.
impavid adj. fearless.
incarn v.t&i. to heal over, as skin.
inchoate v.t&i. to begin, start, initiate.
incicurable adj. untamable.
jasey n. a wig of or like Jersey yarn.
jauk v.i. to trifle or toy with.
javel n. a tramp or beggar.
jenna n. the Mohammedan paradise.
jentacular adj. pertaining to breakfast.
jobmonger n. one who manages corrupt jobs.
Ju n. blue or white porcelain of the Sung dynasty.
jubate adj. fringed with long hair, as a mane.
jumelle adj. paired; jugate.
junkettaceous adj. frivolous, worthless.
kalon n. the kind of beauty that is more than skin deep.
kaolin n. porcelain clay with fireproof color.
karao n. 1. a widow's marriage to her brother-in-law 2. concubinage.
karimata n. a two-headed Japanese arrow that whistles while it works.
karimption n. a crown, a mass.
keest n. sap, substance, marrow.
keffel n. 1. a worthless old horse. 2. a worthless or clumsy person.
kerf n. a cut or cutting; a notch.
khamsin n. an Egyptian dust storm.
khanda n. a double edged sword.
kibbling n.pl. cut-up fish used as bait in Newfoundland.
lecanomancy n. fortunetelling by looking at water in a basin.
logolept n. a word maniac.
loimic adj. pertaining to the plague.
loof n. the palm of the hand; the inside of a cat's paw.
looping n. the technique of voice-overs for cartoon voices, dubbing, etc.
loxotic adj. slanting, distorted.
luctiferous adj. sad and sorry.
luculent adj. lucid, clear, transparent, shining.
lugulary n. the act of poisoning water.
luminiferous adj. transmitting or producing light.
lungis n. a dull clod; a lout.
lusory adj. playful.
madefy v.t. to wet.
maffic v.i. to celebrate noisily and boisterously.(from one such celebration after the British downed the Boers at Mafeking in).
maffle v.i. to mumble or stutter.
magged adj. frayed.
magirics n. cooking.
mahout n. an elephant trainer.
mancinism n. left-handed, or -sidedness.
manciple n. 1. a manager, landlord, or innkeeper. 2. a slave.
mandamus n. a Superior Court order.
mandorla n. an almond-shaped object.
mang v.t.&i. 1. to lead or go astray. 2. to be anxious or puzzled.
manit n. man-minute, or the amount of work done by one worker in one minute.
natalitious adj. pertaining to someone's birthday.
natatorium n. an indoor swimming pool.
naupathia n. seasickness.
nauscopy n. the alleged ability to spot land or ships at sea from far away.
neanic adj. youthful, immature.
nelipot n. someone going barefoot.
neossology n. the study of young birds.
nexus n. 1. connection, link 2. a connected group or series.
nibby-jibby n. a narrow margin; a close call.
Nibelungenlied n. an anonymous twelfth-century German epic.
nicknackatory n. a toy shop.
nictation n. winking.
obstringe v.t. to bind; to make indebted.
obstupefy v.t. to stupefy.
obtund v.t. to dull.
obvolve v.t. to wrap up.
occision n. slaughter.
octroy n. an important tax, where it is paid, or the agency receiving it.
olamic adj. infinite, eternal.
olent adj. fragrant.
olkology n. house-keeping; home economics.
olkonisus n. urge to start a family.
omphaloskepsis n. meditation while gazing at one's navel.
patavinity n. the use of local works or expressions.
patharmosis n. mental adjustment to one's disease.
patrilineal adj. pertaining to male descent.
patzer n. a weak chess player.
pawky adj. cunning, shrewd, crafty.
pegomancy n. fortunetelling by seeing how bubbles rise in a fountain.
pelmatogram n. a footprint.
penelopize v.i. to undo and redo to gain time.
peniaphobia n. fear of poverty.
peniatry n. branch of medicine dealing with prisoners.
pentad n. a period of five consecutive days or years.
penteteric adj. recurring every five years.
quaedam n. derogatory term for a woman.
quaggle n. a quivering, as of jelly.
quannet n. a planelike file used in making combs.
quantulum n. a small quantity.
quar v.t.&i. to fill or block.
quaver n. an 8th note.
quemado n. a burned district.
queme adj. pleasant, agreeable, suitable.
querent n. 1. someone who resorts to astrology. 2. a plaintiff.
quern n. a spice grinder.
quetch v.i. 1. to move, twitch, shake. 2. to make a noise, break the silence (no clear-cut connection with the Yiddish <I>kvetch</I>).
qulapo n. the water lettuce.
ramfeezled adj. worn out, exhausted.
ranarium n. a frog farm.
raphe n. a dice game.
rasorial adj. habitually scratching the ground in search of food.
ratihabition n. ratification, sanction.
razzia n. a sudden or plundering raid.
receptary adj. accepted as fact but unproven.
recheat n. blast on the horn to call the hunting hounds.
recoct v.t. to recook; to redo, make over.
redhibition n. the return of defective merchandise.
remiferous adj. bearing branches.
rhytiphobia n. a neurotic preoccupation with facial wrinkles.
salse n. a mud volcano saturated with salts.
saltimbanco n. a mountebank, a quack.
salvific adj. tending to help or promote safety.
sammy adj. damp, clammy.
sanability n. capability of being healed.
sanglot n. a sobbing grace note inflicted upon us by singers.
saraad n. a fine or injury payable in cattle.
sarab n. a mirage; deceit.
saran n. a Hindu violin.
sarcle n. a hoe.
satisdiction n. enough said.
satrapess n. a female.
savate n. fighting with the feet.
saxify v.t. to turn into stone; to petrify.
sayyid n. chief, prince; a Moslem title of honor.
scacchic adj. pertaining to chess; chesslike.
screeve v.i. to ooze, leak. -v.i. & t. 1. to write [begging letters]. 2. to draw on a sidewalk for charity.<I>-n.</I> a begging letter or sidewalk drawing for charity. screever, n. (all slang).
tetragram n. 1. a word of four letters 2. a quadrilateral.
tetricity n. austerity, harshness, gloominess.
texorial adj. pertaining to weaving.
thalassophobia n. fear of the sea.
thalian adj. pertaining to comedy; comic.
thanatoid adj. deathlike, deadly.
thestreen adj. last night.
thetical adj. arbitrary; prescribed; laid down; positive.
theurgy n. alleged supernatural intervention in earthly affairs.
thigging n. begging or borrowing.
thoke v.i. to lie in bed; idle.
threnody n. a funeral song or dirge.
ultrafidian adj. ultracredulous; extremely gullible.
ultraism n. extremism, radicalism.
ultramundane adj. lying beyond this world.
ulua n. a large Hawaiian fish.
ululate v.i. to howl or wail.
ursal adj. boorish or bearish.
urubu n. the black vulture.
ushabti n. a mummy-like figure entombed with mummy for certain farm chores required in next world.
usquebaugh n. Irish or Scotch whiskey.
usufruct n. the right to use another's property while not changing or harming it.
uxoricide n. wife-murder
veery n. the brown-and-white spotted thrush.
vega n. a fertile meadow.
vegete adj. alive and flourishing.
velitation n. a petty fight; a skirmish.
velleity n. slight or faint desire; inclination.
viator n. a traveler.
viridarium n. a villa's garden.
virtu n. 1. enjoyment of the arts. 2. being rare or beautiful: interesting to a collector. 3. art curious or antiquest, collectively.
vitellus n. an egg yolk.
vituline adj. like a calf; pertaining to veal.
warmouth n. the fresh-water sunfish of the eastern U.S.
waveson n. goods floating after a shipwreck.
wawa n. language, speech.
webster n. a weaver.
wooer-bab n. a garter tie below the knee as a lover's keepsake.
woofy adj. dense texture.
woom n. beaver fur.
wort n. fermenting malt, incipient beer; anything fermenting.
woundy adj. crazy, wild, extreme.
wrapperjawed adj. having crooked jaws.
xenoepist n. someone who speaks with a foreign accent.
xenomancy n. fortunetelling by studying the first stranger that appears.
xenomania n. a mania for foreign customs, traditions, manners, etc.
xeres n. sherry.
xerga n. a saddle blanket.
yex n. hiccup, cough.
yill-caup n. an ale cup or mug.
yirn n. to whine or pout.
yiver adj. greedy; eager.
ythe n. a wave.
zoolite n. an animal fossil.
zoozoo n. the ringdove.
zoppo adj. musically syncopated.
zubr n. the aurochs, ancestor of modern cattle.
zucchetto n. a Catholic yarmulke: white for the pope, red for the cardinal, purple for the bishop, and black for the rest.
zuche n. a tree stump.
zygal adj. H-shaped.
zythepsary n. a brewery.
zythum n. beer in ancient Egypt.