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10,009 Words

Pleochroic

✍️ Word: Pleochroic

📚 Definition: Displaying different colours when seen from different directions

🗣 Pronunciation: pleokshroik

Angary

✍️ Word: Angary

📚 Definition: The right of a belligerent to seize neutral property

🗣 Pronunciation: ankar

Chiasmus

✍️ Word: Chiasmus

📚 Definition: Contrast by parallelism in reverse order

🗣 Pronunciation: shiasmus

Quindecagon

✍️ Word: Quindecagon

📚 Definition: Plane figure having fifteen sides

🗣 Pronunciation: kuintekakon

Sigmate

✍️ Word: Sigmate

📚 Definition: Shaped like an S or a sigma

🗣 Pronunciation: sikmate

Scleroid

✍️ Word: Scleroid

📚 Definition: Hard; hardened

🗣 Pronunciation: skleroit

Gynarchy

✍️ Word: Gynarchy

📚 Definition: Government by women

🗣 Pronunciation: jnarksh

Laicisation

✍️ Word: Laicisation

📚 Definition: Process of returning a clergyman to lay status

🗣 Pronunciation: laisisaxion

Acroterion

✍️ Word: Acroterion

📚 Definition: Pedestal or ornament at the angle of a pediment

🗣 Pronunciation: akroterion

Thermokinematics

✍️ Word: Thermokinematics

📚 Definition: Study of motion of heat

🗣 Pronunciation: thermokinematiks

Selcouth

✍️ Word: Selcouth

📚 Definition: Strange; unfamiliar; marvellous

🗣 Pronunciation: selkouth

Vendemmia

✍️ Word: Vendemmia

📚 Definition: Grape harvest

🗣 Pronunciation: fentemia

Chrismation

✍️ Word: Chrismation

📚 Definition: Sacrament of baptism in Eastern churches

🗣 Pronunciation: shrismaxion

Isobar

✍️ Word: Isobar

📚 Definition: Line connecting points of same atmospheric pressure

🗣 Pronunciation: isobar

Hypotaxis

✍️ Word: Hypotaxis

📚 Definition: Dependent construction

🗣 Pronunciation: hpotaksis

Oneirology

✍️ Word: Oneirology

📚 Definition: Study of dreams

🗣 Pronunciation: oneiroloj

Dippydro

✍️ Word: Dippydro

📚 Definition: Person who often changes mind

🗣 Pronunciation: tiptro

Urkingdom

✍️ Word: Urkingdom

📚 Definition: Taxonomic group of organisms larger than a kingdom

🗣 Pronunciation: urkinktom

Ichthytaxidermy

✍️ Word: Ichthytaxidermy

📚 Definition: Fish taxidermy

🗣 Pronunciation: ikshthtaksiterm

Timocracy

✍️ Word: Timocracy

📚 Definition: Government by the propertied class

🗣 Pronunciation: timokras