A dozen lists now from POSP stringer Tim.
alembic
uh-LEM-bik
noun
1. Anything that transforms, purifies, or refines.
2. A vessel with a beaked cap or head, formerly used in distilling.
See...
Alembic...distillation apparatus
appertain
ap-er-TEYN
verb
To belong as a part, right, possession or attribute.
abnegate
AB-nih-gayt
verb
1. Deny, renounce.
2. Surrender, relinquish.
adamantine
ad-uh-MAN-teen
adjective
1. Utterly unyielding or firm in attitude or opinion.
2. Too hard to cut, break, or pierce.
3. Like a diamond in luster.
ad rem
ad REM
adverb
Without digressing, in a straightforward manner.
adjective
Relevant, pertinent.
antipode
AN-ti-pohd
noun
A direct or exact opposite.
astringent
uh-STRIN-juhnt
adjective
1. Sharply incisive, pungent.
2. Medicine/Medical. Contracting, constrictive, styptic.
3. Harshly biting, caustic: His astringent criticism.
4. Stern or severe, austere.
aubade
oh-BAHD
noun
1. A song or poem greeting the dawn.
2a. A morning love song.
2b. A song or poem of lovers parting at dawn.
3. Morning music.
auscultation
aw-skuhl-TEY-shuhn
noun
The act of listening to sounds within the body as a method of diagnosis.
brisance
bri-ZAHNS
noun
The shattering effect of a high explosive.
bucolic
byu-kaw-lic
adjective
1. Rural, simple, countrified, uncomplicated as life once was in the country.
2. Romantically rustic, pastoral, peaceful and surrounded by natural beauty.
cacography
ka-KAH-gruh-fee
noun
1. Bad spelling.
2. Bad handwriting kæl-ê-thêm-pee-ên • Hear it!
callithumpian
kael-e-them-pee-en
adjective
1. Related to a mock serenade made by banging pots and pans together, as in a wedding sendoff.
2. Related to a noisy, discordant band or parade, loud, noisy and discordant.
catercorner
KAT-ee-kor-ner
adverb or adjective
In a diagonal or oblique position, kitty-corner.
copious
KOH-pee-us
adjective
1a. Yielding something abundantly.
1b. Blentiful in number.
2. Full of thought, information, or matter.
3. Lavish, abundant.
craic
kraek
noun
Enjoyable time spent with other people, especially when the conversation
is entertaining and funny.
cynosure
si-na-shur
noun
1. (The Cynosure) The constellation Ursa Minor or the North Star, which lies within it.
2. Anything that guides, leads, or provides guidance.
3. The focal point or center of attention.
deliquescent
de-le-kwe-sent
adjective
1. Melting away, disappearing as if by melting, dissolving by absorbing moisture from the air.
2. Liquefying during the process of decomposition.
depone
dih-POHN
verb
To testify under oath, depose.
diplopia
dih-PLOH-pee-uh
noun
A disorder of vision in which two images of a single object are seen because of unequal action of the eye muscles--called also double vision.
dowager
DOU-uh-jer
noun
1. An elderly woman of stately dignity, especially one of elevated social position.
2. A woman who holds some title or property from her deceased husband, especially the widow of a king, duke, etc.
adjective
Noting, pertaining to, or characteristic of a dowager.
duende
doo-EN-day
noun
The power to attract through personal magnetism and charm.
esculent
ES-kyuh-luhnt
noun
Something edible, especially a vegetable.
adjective
Suitable for use as food, edible.
excogitate
eks-KOJ-i-teyt
verb
1. To think out, devise, invent.
2. To study intently and carefully in order to grasp or comprehend fully.
exoteric
ek-suh-TER-ik
adjective
1. Suitable for or communicated to the general public.
2. Not belonging, limited, or pertaining to the inner or select circle, as of disciples or intimates.
3. Popular, simple, commonplace.
4. Pertaining to the outside, exterior, external.
fallacious
fuh-LAY-shus
adjective
1. Embodying a fallacy.
2. Tending to deceive or mislead, delusive.
filiopietistic
fil-ee-oh-pahy-i-TIS-tik
adjective
Pertaining to reverence of forebears or tradition, especially if carried to excess.
flexuous
FLEK-shoo-uhs
adjective
Full of bends or curves, sinuous.
furcate
FUR-keyt
verb
To form a fork, branch.
adjective
Forked, branching.
hircine
HUR-sahyn
adjective
1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling a goat.
2. Having a goatish odor.
3. Lustful, libidinous.
iniquitous
ih-NIK-wi-tuhs
adjective
Characterized by injustice or wickedness, wicked, sinful.
intercalate
in-ter-ke-layt
verb trans
To insert into at various points, especially in a series, as to intercalate graphics at appropriate points in a book.
instauration
in-staw-RAY-shun
noun
1. Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation.
2. An act of instituting or establishing something.
liege
leej
adjective
1. Loyal, faithful.
2. Owing primary allegiance and service to a feudal lord.
3. Pertaining to the relation between a feudal vassal and lord.
noun
1. A feudal lord entitled to allegiance and service.
2. A feudal vassal or subject.
ludic
LOO-dik
adjective
Of, relating to, or characterized by play, playful.
mammonism
MAM-uh-niz-uhm
noun
The greedy pursuit of riches.
morceau
mawr-SOH
noun
1. Piece, morsel.
2. An excerpt or passage of poetry or music.
nugatory
NOO-guh-tor-ee
adjective
1. Of little or no consequence, trifling, inconsequential.
2. Having no force, inoperative.
oracular
aw-RAK-yuh-ler
adjective
1. Ambiguous, obscure.
2. Of the nature of, resembling, or suggesting an oracle.
3. Giving forth utterances or decisions as if by special inspiration or authority.
4. Uttered or delivered as if divinely inspired or infallible, sententious.
5. Portentous, ominous.
pachyderm
PAK-i-durm
noun
1. A person who is not sensitive to criticism, ridicule, etc.
2. Any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
3. An elephant.
peroration
per-uh-REY-shuhn
noun
1. A long speech characterized by lofty and often pompous language.
2. Rhetoric. The concluding part of a speech or discourse, in which the speaker or writer recapitulates the principal points and urges them with greater earnestness and force.
pettifog
PET-ee-fog
verb
1. To bicker or quibble over trifles or unimportant matters.
2. To carry on a petty, shifty, or unethical law business.
3. To practice chicanery of any sort.
plenum
PLEE-nuhm
noun
1. A full assembly, as a joint legislative assembly.
2. The state or a space in which a gas, usually air, is contained at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure.
3. A space, usually above a ceiling or below a floor, that can serve as a receiving chamber for air that has been heated or cooled to be distributed to inhabited areas.
4. The whole of space regarded as being filled with matter (opposed to vacuum).
prescind
prih-SIND
verb
To withdraw one's attention.
propinquity
pruh-PING-kwuh-tee
noun
1. Nearness of blood, kinship.
2. Nearness in place or time, proximity.
quietus
kwye-EE-tus
noun
1. Final settlement (as of a debt).
2. Removal from activity, especially, death.
3. Something that quiets or represses.
quodlibet
kwo-li-bet
noun
1. A topic or issue offered for debate.
2. (Music, humorous) A fanciful medley of tunes or musical pieces.
3a. A theological or philosophical issue presented for formal argument or disputation.
3b. Formal disputation of such an issue.
rutilant
ROOT-l-uhnt
adjective
Glowing or glittering with ruddy or golden light
screed
skreed
noun
1. A long discourse or essay, especially a diatribe.
2. An informal letter, account, or other piece of writing.
3. Building Trades. A. A strip of plaster or wood applied to a surface to be plastered to serve as a guide for making a true surface. B. A wooden strip serving as a guide for making a true level surface on a concrete pavement or the like. C. A board or metal strip dragged across a freshly poured concrete slab to give it its proper level.
4. British Dialect. A fragment or shred, as of cloth.
5. Scot. A. A tear or rip, especially in cloth. B. A drinking bout.
verb
Scot. To tear, rip, or shred, as cloth.
stiction
STIK-shun
noun
The force required to cause one body in contact with another to begin to move.
subdolus
seb-de-les
adjective
Sly, crafty, devious, surreptitiously deceptive.
sylph
SILF
noun
1. An elemental being in the theory of Paracelsus that inhabits air.
2. A slender graceful woman or girl.
tramontane
truh-MON-teyn
adjective
1. Being or situated beyond the mountains.
2. Beyond the Alps as viewed from Italy, transalpine.
3. Of, pertaining to, or coming from the other side of the mountains.
4. Foreign, barbarous.
vade mecum
vay-dee-MEE-kum
noun
1. A book for ready reference, manual.
2. Something regularly carried about by a person.
vernal
VUR-nl
adjective
1. Appearing or occurring in spring.
2. Of or pertaining to spring.
3. Appropriate to or suggesting spring, springlike.
4. Belonging to or characteristic of youth.
vilipend
vil-UH-pend
verb
1. To regard or treat as of little value or account.
2. To vilify, depreciate.
volplane
VAHL-playn
verb
1. To glide in or as if in an airplane.
2a. Of an airplane, to descend gradually in controlled flight.
2B. To fly in a glider.
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