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desalinized

vb. (en-past of: desalinize)

legionnaires' disease

n. A severe form of legionellosis, producing high fever and pneumonia

invalidity

n. The state of being invalid; lack of validity.

annoint

vb. (context nonstandard English) (alternative spelling of anoint English)

fantasm

n. (alternative spelling of phantasm English)

profligated

vb. (en-past of: profligate)

junto

n. A group of men assembled for some common purpose; a club, or cabal.

inulas

n. (plural of inula English)

managee

n. Someone who is managed, a subordinate of a manager.

geolinguist

n. One who studies geolinguistics.

polychromator

n. (context physics English) An optical device used to generate multiple beams of light of different frequency

back labour

n. (alternative spelling of back labor from=UK English)

lunkheaded

a. Seeming to have a lunk for a head; obtuse

queen breeding

n. (context beekeeping English) The breeding of queen bees

dishing out

vb. (present participle of dish out English)

imenes

n. (plural of imene English)

semi-finalists

n. (semi-finalist English)

shagged out

a. exhausted (as if with sexual activity)

hang out to dry

vb. 1 (&lit hang out dry English) 2 (context transitive idiomatic English) To abandon someone who is in need or in danger, especially a colleague or one dependent.

reshow

vb. To show again.

defictionalized

vb. (en-past of: defictionalize)

carnalite

n. (context mineral English) A saline evaporite consisting of a mixed potassium and magnesium chloride; sometimes used as a flux in steelmaking.

moldable

a. (alternative spelling of mouldable English)

baling out

vb. (present participle of bale out English)

tompion

n. (alternative spelling of tampion English)

replumb

vb. (context transitive English) To fit with new plumbing.

glossing over

vb. (present participle of gloss over English)

inadhesion

n. Lack of adhesion.

chairfolk

n. (context informal English) chairpeople

vibrion

n. (cx biology archaic English) A microorganism, especially one that is pathogenic.

out of luck

a. (context idiomatic English) experience a temporary misfortune

out like a light

a. (context simile colloquial English) asleep or unconscious, particularly if this has occurred suddenly and the sleep is deep.

deadened

vb. (en-past of: deaden)

anaerobicidal

a. (context medicine English) Acting to kill anaerobic bacteria

datacast

n. A broadcast stream of data

becomes one flesh

vb. (en-third-person singularbecome one flesh)

emergents

n. (plural of emergent English)

even steven

a. 1 exactly even, equal 2 being equal, as in score or account; tied 3 having nothing due, or no balance of debt on either side adv. 1 equally, evenly 2 evenly divided n. 1 equity; equilibrium 2 harmony, balance; parity

weedier

a. (en-comparativeweedy)

bucainide

n. An antiarrhythmic drug.

news hole

n. The amount of space in a newspaper or broadcast news show that remains for journalism after advertising has been placed; the amount of content a news provider needs to create in every publishing cycle.

reckfulness

n. The state or quality of being reckful or careful; heedfulness; caution.

photo booth

n. A coin-operated kiosk used to take photographs, typically used for passport photographs.

alchemistry

n. (context obsolete English) alchemy

pre-eminent

a. (alternative spelling of preeminent English)

aesthetasc

n. (context anatomy English) A specialized organ used to determine the concentration and direction of a smell.

work surface

n. (alternative form of worksurface English)

ak47

n. (alternative form of AK-47 English)

tabtoxin

n. A simple monobactam biotoxin produced by (taxlink Pseudomonas syringae species noshow=1)

senso stricto

phr. in the strict sense

second-degree burn

n. a burn, more severe than a first-degree burn, that blisters the skin

whyte

a. (obsolete spelling of white English)

strategy games

n. (plural of strategy game English)

bad-mouthing

vb. (present participle of bad-mouth English)

m-1

alt. The Garand semiautomatic rifle, also named the United States Rifle, Caliber .30, M1. n. The Garand semiautomatic rifle, also named the United States Rifle, Caliber .30, M1.

equiatomic

a. (context physics chemistry English) Containing equal numbers of two or more atoms

occlusives

n. (plural of occlusive English)

paddocks

n. (plural of paddock English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: paddock)

intwines

vb. (en-third-person singular of: intwine)

zinco-

pre. containing, or combined with, or using zinc

waxy spleen

n. (context pathology English) amyloidosis of the spleen

achest

vb. (context archaic English) (en-archaic second-person singular of: ache)

cliental

a. (context rare English) Of or pertaining to a client

aviate

vb. To operate an aircraft.

anemometer

n. (context meteorology English) An instrument for measuring and recording the speed of the wind, a windmeter.

c@

abbr. (context text messaging English) cat

sump pump

n. a pump used for the removal of liquid from a sump or sump pit

oxaphospholes

n. (plural of oxaphosphole English)

haileth

vb. (en-archaic third-person singular of: hail)

tyrociny

n. The condition of being a tyro or beginner; apprenticeship

oaps

n. (OAP English)

wheel ore

n. A variety of bournonite with wheel-shaped twin crystals.

jargonist

n. One addicted to jargon; one who uses cant or slang.

lasing

vb. (present participle of lase English) Using a laser beam.

handbaskets

n. (plural of handbasket English)

thioanisole

n. (context organic compound English) The aromatic thioether ''methyl phenyl sulfide''; it is used in organic synthesis; and derivative of this compound

sculp

vb. (context obsolete sometimes humorous English) To sculpture; to carve or engrave.

collocative

a. Of or pertaining to a collocation

Usage examples of "collocative".

And his sculp come off in her hands and left his head as bare as what mine was!

Wedge turned his eyes away from the expensive contour sculp on the wall in front of him, and his thoughts away from contemplation of how Moranda might have come into possession of such a prize.

In fact, I start for Rome by the first train to-morrow to sit as a model to a celebrated artist who is about to sculp a statue to be called Sweet Innocence.

When I was in Rome--Rome in New York State I mean--a distinguished sculpist wanted to sculp me.

The sculp tured doors to the throne room were locked, from the inside.

The architecture was ornate, cluttered with sculp ture and friezes swarming with demons and monsters and many-armed gods.

Once I make the other side, I can drop into a Tank Farm and have the flesh sculps regrow it for me good as new.

One sculps and one married a Communist and one lives on an island called Lesbos.

The rush of a sculper, its soft cluttering laugh of a retreat--sounds he already knew by heart.

Riker, no longer between the sculper and the cave, threw himself after it, landing heavily in the damp, trampled ground growth Missing the creature entirely.

Panting, somehow already smeared with sculper blood, Riker climbed to his feet and ran to the cave, where he found Ketan sprawled in a dazed and bloody state, his previously wounded arm now badly bitten as well.

After the sounds of struggle in the darkness--the wounded sculper, torn to pieces and consumed--the sculpers came back.

Chapter Ten AS DAWN finally trickled down to the bottom layers of the canopied forest, Riker dropped the tip of his club to the ground and leaned the handle against his leg while he wiped the sweat and grime from his face--careful not to use the sleeve stiff with dried sculper blood.

Takan shifted restlessly, the dark purple of his blood seeping to the surface of the bandages around the sculper bites.

The absurd was overpowered by the sinister, by the figures in bronze and sculped stone which, made furtive and hideous by encroaching moss and decades of fallen grime, lurked among the trailing tendrils and even, as the wind rustled between leathery leaves and broken masonary, seemed to move.