ACHARNE - furious or desperate
HANAPER - a case for a HANAP - a medieval goblet
PARPANE - many meanings including a parapet on a bridge and a partition
also plenty of variants:
PARPEN; PARPEND; PARPENT; PARPOINT; PERPEND; PERPENT
ACRATIC - pertaining to ACRASIA - a weakness of will
CITHARA - an ancient stringed instrument - also KITHARA
PITARAH - a basket or box for carrying clothes for travels - also PITARA and PETARA
HAVARTI - a Danish cheese
TEREFAH - adj. not kosher, not ritually clean - also TEREFA
ERATHEM - a layer of rock corresponding to a geological era
METAYER - a tenant farmer that pays with produce
EPACRID - like EPACRIS - a member of a genus of heath-like plants
RAPHIDE - like RAPHIS - a needlelike crystal found in plant cells
JEMIDAR - an Indian army officer - also JEMADAR and JAMADAR
BEATNIK - a nonconformist esp of the "beat generation"
NEMATIC - pertaining to a phase of liquid crystal - various front and back extensions:
NEMATICIDAL; NEMATICIDE(s); CHROMONEMATIC; UNCINEMATIC; PHONEMATIC; CINEMATIC;
KINEMATIC
HEMATIN - a component of hemoglobin - also HEMATINE and HEME
There is also HEMATIC(s) and HEMATINIC(s)
AMENITY - takes a front extension of DIS for DISAMENITY
PANEITY - the state of being bread
TABETIC - one affected with TABES - a syphilitic disease
ECTATIC - pertaining to ECTASIS (pl. ECTASES) - the lengthening of a usually short syllable
front extensions are not too short either:
TELANGIECTATIC - pertaining to TELANGIECTASIA or TELANGIECTASIS - dilation of the
small arteries or capillaries
ATELECTATIC - pertaining to ATELECTASIS - incomplete inflation of a lung at birth;
the collapse of a lung in an adult
CAVETTI - pl. of CAVETTO - a concave molding
THWAITE - reclaimed wasteland
CORACLE - a small boat
CALOYER - a Greek Orthodox monk
FAHLORE - like FAHLERZ - a mineral
EPHORAL - relating to an EPHOR - a magistrate of ancient Greece
ROKELAY - or ROCKLAY - a woman's short cloak worn in the 18th Century
simarly a ROQUELAURE is a man's knee length coat worn in the 18th Century and early 19th Century
PLEROMA - fullness, abundance - adj. PLEROMATIC
RAMPOLE - or RAMPIKE - a standing dead tree
PROPALE - to make a display - also PROPALED and PROPALING
OWRELAY - Scots form of OVERLAY
PRAUNCE - Spenserian form of PRANCE
FRAENUM - a connecting fold of membrane - pl. FRAENA or FRAENUMS - also FRENUM(s)and FRENA
PARVENU - one who makes a sudden rise in social status -
also PARVENUE - adj. characteristic of a PARVENU
LIMACON - a type of geometric curve
ALYCOIN - a type of chemical compound
POLYNIA - open water amid sea ice esp in Arctic waters - also POLYNYA
BOTHRIA - pl. of BOTHRIUM (also BOTHRIUMS) - a groove on a tapeworm
ACROTIC - pertaining to ACROTISM(s) - weakness of the pulse
APROTIC - adj. being a type of solvent
PAROTIC - adj. near the ear
PATRICO - slang for a hedge-priest - a disreputable, vagrant or illiterate priest
pl. PATRICOES - also PATERCOVE(s)
TOPIARY - the art of sculpting shrubs - pl. TOPIARIES
BEDIZEN - v. to dress gaudily - end extensions:
BEDIZENED; BEDIZENING; BEDIZENMENT(s)
ENDEMIC - adj. belonging to a particular area - also ENDEMIAL
n. an endemic disease or plant
- a front extension of HYPER for HYPERENDEMIC
EFFENDI - a Turkish title of respect - pl. EFFENDIS
ECHELON - n. a formation of troops, planes, warships etc
v. to make an echelon - also ECHELONED and ECHELONING
CHELONE - a genus of flowering plants endemic to North America
BIBELOT - a trinket
COCTILE - adj. baked; relating to brickmaking - hardened by fire
TELOMIC - pertaining to a TELOME(s) - a structural unit of a vascular plant
JETFOIL - a hydrofoil powered by a jet of water - a hydrofoil can mean a speedboat
fitted with a device that lifts it up as it gains speed - can also mean the device itself
and a similar device for aiding a seaplane's take-off or a seaplane fitted with hydrofoils.
FILEMOT - adj. of a dull yellow colour like dead leaves - n. the actual colour
also PHILAMOT and PHILOMOT
HOPLITE - an ancient Greek foot soldier
CROCINE - pertaining to the CROCUS (pl. CROCUSES or CROCI) - a flowering plant
CROCEIN - a red dye - also CROCEINE
FERMION - a type of atomic particle
FORPINE - Spenserian - v. to waste away - FORPINED; FORPINING
MONIKER - slang for an alias, nickname or real name - also MONICKER
PROPINE - v. to offer as a gift - PROPINED; PROPINING
POPERIN - a pear variety - also POPPERING
PROVINE - v. to propagate by layering - PROVINED; PROVINING
MORRICE - an obsolete form of MORRIS - the morris dance - an English folk dance
PORIFER - a member of the genus of sponges - related words include:
PORIFERAL; PORIFERAN; PORIFEROUS
PRIMERO - a card game - pl. PRIMEROS
COUVERT - a table cover
POUTHER - Scots form of POWDER
OUTHYRE - v. Spenserian form of OUTHIRE - to hire out - also OUTHIRED; OUTHIRING;
OUTHYRED; OUTHYRING
EUTROPY - regular variation of the crystalline form of certain compounds - also EUTROPIC
and EUTROPOUS
VIDICON - a type of television camera tube
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