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10,009 Words

Fairlead

✍️ Word: Fairlead

📚 Definition: Ring through which rope is led to change its direction without friction

🗣 Pronunciation: fairleat

Lucripetous

✍️ Word: Lucripetous

📚 Definition: Eager for gain

🗣 Pronunciation: lukripetous

Eolith

✍️ Word: Eolith

📚 Definition: Stone naturally formed but thought to be manufactured

🗣 Pronunciation: eolith

Adust

✍️ Word: Adust

📚 Definition: Burnt; scorched

🗣 Pronunciation: atust

Antithesis

✍️ Word: Antithesis

📚 Definition: Contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangement of words or clauses

🗣 Pronunciation: antithesis

Indite

✍️ Word: Indite

📚 Definition: To compose

🗣 Pronunciation: intite

Belike

✍️ Word: Belike

📚 Definition: Most likely; probably

🗣 Pronunciation: belike

Casualism

✍️ Word: Casualism

📚 Definition: The belief that chance governs all things

🗣 Pronunciation: kasualism

Lumpenintelligentsia

✍️ Word: Lumpenintelligentsia

📚 Definition: Those of the intellectual class regarded disparagingly as of little worth

🗣 Pronunciation: lumpenintelijentksia

Diphysitism

✍️ Word: Diphysitism

📚 Definition: Belief in the dual nature of Christ

🗣 Pronunciation: tifsitism

Hotchpot

✍️ Word: Hotchpot

📚 Definition: Aggregation of property prior to equal division among heirs

🗣 Pronunciation: hotkshpot

Parochial

✍️ Word: Parochial

📚 Definition: Local; confined to one region

🗣 Pronunciation: parokshial

Telestereoscope

✍️ Word: Telestereoscope

📚 Definition: Instrument for viewing distant objects stereoscopically

🗣 Pronunciation: telestereoskope

Polysarcous

✍️ Word: Polysarcous

📚 Definition: Obese

🗣 Pronunciation: polsarkous

Radular

✍️ Word: Radular

📚 Definition: Coarse; scraping; raspy

🗣 Pronunciation: ratular

Melaniferous

✍️ Word: Melaniferous

📚 Definition: Containing or bearing melanin

🗣 Pronunciation: melaniferous

Virelay

✍️ Word: Virelay

📚 Definition: Old French poem with refrain and unusual rhyming scheme

🗣 Pronunciation: firela

Tensiometer

✍️ Word: Tensiometer

📚 Definition: Instrument for measuring tension

🗣 Pronunciation: tenksiometer

Torulose

✍️ Word: Torulose

📚 Definition: With small swellings at intervals

🗣 Pronunciation: torulose

Inappetent

✍️ Word: Inappetent

📚 Definition: Lacking desire or appetite

🗣 Pronunciation: inapetent