A gum-bichromate photographic print by Robert de Machey.
These words from POSP stringer Tim won't melt the snow or warm the air, but they will please the mind.
ailurophilia
ahy-loor-uh-fil-ee-uh, ey-loor
noun
A liking for cats, as by cat fanciers.
artless
ahrt-lus
adjective
1. Lacking art, knowledge, or skill, uncultured.
2a. Made without skill, crude.
2b. Free from artificiality, natural.
3. Free from guile or craft, sincerely simple.
august
aw-guhst
adjective
1. Venerable, eminent, an august personage.
2. Inspiring reverence or admiration; of supreme dignity or grandeur, majestic.
billingsgate
bil-ingz-gayt
noun
Coarsely abusive language.
blatherskite
blath-er-skahyt
noun
1. A person given to voluble, empty talk.
2. Nonsense, blather.
cheeseparing
cheez-pair-ing
noun
1. Something worthless or insignificant>
2. Miserly economizing.
cognizant
kog-nuh-zuhnt, kon-uh
adjective
1. Having cognizance; aware (usually followed by of ): He was cognizant of the difficulty.
2. Having legal cognizance.
crepitate
krep-uh-tayt
verb
To make a crackling sound, to make a series of short, sharp noises.
decoct
dih-kahkt
verb
1. To extract the flavor of by boiling.
2. Boil down, concentrate.
dulcify
duhl-suh-fahy
verb
1. To make more agreeable; mollify; appease.
2. To sweeten.
fantod
fan-tahd
noun
1a. [Plural], a state of irritability and tension.
1b. Fidgets.
2. An emotional outburst, fit.
froward
froh-erd
adjective
Habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition.
geomancy
jee-uh-man-see
noun
Divination by geographic features or by figures or lines.
gritty
grit-ee
adjective
1. Containing or resembling grit.
2. Courageously persistent, plucky.
3. Having strong qualities of tough uncompromising realism.
hegira
hih-jye-ruh
noun
A journey especially when undertaken to escape from a dangerous or undesirable situation, exodus.
jingoism
jing-goh-iz-im
noun
Extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy.
lingua franca
ling-gwuh frang-kuh
noun
1. Any language that is widely used as a means of communication among speakers of other languages.
2. [Initial capital letter] the Italian-Provençal jargon [with elements of Spanish, French, Greek, Arabic, and Turkish] formerly widely used in eastern Mediterranean ports.
picayun
pik-ee-yoon
adjective
Of little value, paltry, also: petty, small-minded.
pluvial
ploo-vee-uhl
adjective
1. Of or pertaining to rain; rainy.
2. [Geology]. occurring through the action of rain.
probity
proh-buh-tee
noun
Adherence to the highest principles and ideals, uprightness.
redoubtable
rih-dout-uh-bul
adjective
1, Causing fear or alarm, formidable.
2. Illustrious, eminent, broadly, worthy of respect.
sciamachy
sahy-am-uh-kee
noun
An act or instance of fighting a shadow or an imaginary enemy.
serendipity
sair-un-dip-uh-tee
noun
The faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for, also: an instance of this.
schatzi
shaht-see
noun
Slang. sweetheart, darling.
solatium
soh-lay-shee-um
noun
A compensation [as money] given as solace for suffering, loss, or injured feelings.
toothsome
tooth-suhm
adjective
1. Pleasing to the taste, palatable, a toothsome dish.
2. Pleasing or desirable, as fame or power.
3. Voluptuous, sexually alluring, a toothsome blonde.
zeitgeber
tsyte-gay-ber
noun
An environmental agent or event that provides the stimulus setting or resetting a biological clock of an organism.
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