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10,009 Words

Ephemeris

✍️ Word: Ephemeris

📚 Definition: Table giving location of celestial body at different specific times

🗣 Pronunciation: efemeris

Addax

✍️ Word: Addax

📚 Definition: Spiral-horned antelope dwelling in the Sahara desert

🗣 Pronunciation: ataks

Prospice

✍️ Word: Prospice

📚 Definition: Look forward

🗣 Pronunciation: prospise

Epigamic

✍️ Word: Epigamic

📚 Definition: Attractive to the other sex

🗣 Pronunciation: epikamik

Spagyric

✍️ Word: Spagyric

📚 Definition: Alchemical

🗣 Pronunciation: spajrik

Thymiatechny

✍️ Word: Thymiatechny

📚 Definition: Use of perfumes for medicinal purposes

🗣 Pronunciation: thmiatekshn

Familism

✍️ Word: Familism

📚 Definition: The tendency of a family to cohere as a group

🗣 Pronunciation: familism

Paedobaptism

✍️ Word: Paedobaptism

📚 Definition: Doctrine of infant baptism

🗣 Pronunciation: paetobaptism

Chiromancy

✍️ Word: Chiromancy

📚 Definition: Divination by means of palmistry

🗣 Pronunciation: shiromans

Narcohypnia

✍️ Word: Narcohypnia

📚 Definition: Numbness experienced upon awakening

🗣 Pronunciation: narkopnia

Viga

✍️ Word: Viga

📚 Definition: Rough-hewn roofing timber

🗣 Pronunciation: fika

Utricide

✍️ Word: Utricide

📚 Definition: One who stabs an inflated skin vessel instead of killing someone

🗣 Pronunciation: utrisite

Gharial

✍️ Word: Gharial

📚 Definition: Large Indian crocodile with long snout

🗣 Pronunciation: farial

Kyllosis

✍️ Word: Kyllosis

📚 Definition: Club foot

🗣 Pronunciation: klosis

Rostel

✍️ Word: Rostel

📚 Definition: Small beak or similar outgrowth

🗣 Pronunciation: rostel

Pronation

✍️ Word: Pronation

📚 Definition: Turning hand and forearm so that palm faces downward

🗣 Pronunciation: pronaxion

Triphthong

✍️ Word: Triphthong

📚 Definition: Three vowel sounds pronounced as one

🗣 Pronunciation: trifthonk

Tabescent

✍️ Word: Tabescent

📚 Definition: Wasting; shrivelling

🗣 Pronunciation: tabessent

Scavager

✍️ Word: Scavager

📚 Definition: Officer in charge of keeping streets clean

🗣 Pronunciation: skafajer

Vicennial

✍️ Word: Vicennial

📚 Definition: Occurring every twenty years

🗣 Pronunciation: fisenial