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9,384 Words

Geostrophic

✍️ Word: Geostrophic

📚 Definition: Of, like or pertaining to deflection due to effects of Earth’s rotation

🗣 Pronunciation: jeostrofik

Subaerial

✍️ Word: Subaerial

📚 Definition: In open air

🗣 Pronunciation: subaerial

Paleaceous

✍️ Word: Paleaceous

📚 Definition: Chaffy; like or resembling chaff

🗣 Pronunciation: paleaseous

Zelatrix

✍️ Word: Zelatrix

📚 Definition: Older nun in charge of disciplining younger nuns

🗣 Pronunciation: selatriks

Lineolate

✍️ Word: Lineolate

📚 Definition: Marked with fine lines

🗣 Pronunciation: lineolate

Vadimony

✍️ Word: Vadimony

📚 Definition: Bond or pledge given before a judge

🗣 Pronunciation: fatimon

Freestone

✍️ Word: Freestone

📚 Definition: Building stone difficult to split into layers

🗣 Pronunciation: frestone

Murrain

✍️ Word: Murrain

📚 Definition: Epidemic or plague affecting livestock

🗣 Pronunciation: murain

Inhumist

✍️ Word: Inhumist

📚 Definition: Referring to a society that burns its dead

🗣 Pronunciation: inhumist

Ubicity

✍️ Word: Ubicity

📚 Definition: Whereabouts

🗣 Pronunciation: ubisit

Haematic

✍️ Word: Haematic

📚 Definition: Blood-coloured

🗣 Pronunciation: haematik

Bluepeter

✍️ Word: Bluepeter

📚 Definition: Blue flag with white square in centre used as ship’s signal

🗣 Pronunciation: bluepeter

Repository

✍️ Word: Repository

📚 Definition: Side altar in Catholic church

🗣 Pronunciation: repositor

Epigon

✍️ Word: Epigon

📚 Definition: Descendant or successor

🗣 Pronunciation: epikon

Torsive

✍️ Word: Torsive

📚 Definition: Twisted spirally

🗣 Pronunciation: torsife

Alb

✍️ Word: Alb

📚 Definition: Long white robe worn by priests

🗣 Pronunciation: alb

Xeroradiography

✍️ Word: Xeroradiography

📚 Definition: Process for taking permanent pictures of X-ray images

🗣 Pronunciation: seroraxiokraf

Fettling

✍️ Word: Fettling

📚 Definition: Loose material thrown on furnace hearth for protection

🗣 Pronunciation: fetlink

Detinue

✍️ Word: Detinue

📚 Definition: Wrongful seizure of property; action to recover it

🗣 Pronunciation: tetinue

Plapper

✍️ Word: Plapper

📚 Definition: To make sounds with the lips

🗣 Pronunciation: plaper