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9,384 Words

Optophobia

✍️ Word: Optophobia

📚 Definition: Fear of opening one’s eyes

🗣 Pronunciation: optofobia

Feuilleton

✍️ Word: Feuilleton

📚 Definition: Critical article at the bottom of a newspaper page

🗣 Pronunciation: feuileton

Houndstooth

✍️ Word: Houndstooth

📚 Definition: Fabric with an irregular checked pattern

🗣 Pronunciation: hountstoth

Runcinate

✍️ Word: Runcinate

📚 Definition: Having irregular saw-toothed divisions

🗣 Pronunciation: runsinate

Frumentarious

✍️ Word: Frumentarious

📚 Definition: Of, like or pertaining to corn

🗣 Pronunciation: frumentarious

Sackbut

✍️ Word: Sackbut

📚 Definition: Early wind instrument resembling the trombone

🗣 Pronunciation: sakbut

Nasard

✍️ Word: Nasard

📚 Definition: Organ mutation stop

🗣 Pronunciation: nasart

Brachymetropia

✍️ Word: Brachymetropia

📚 Definition: Short-sightedness

🗣 Pronunciation: brakshmetropia

Twyer

✍️ Word: Twyer

📚 Definition: Nozzle for a blast of air

🗣 Pronunciation: tyer

Muntjac

✍️ Word: Muntjac

📚 Definition: Small tusked East Asian deer

🗣 Pronunciation: muntjak

Zootechnics

✍️ Word: Zootechnics

📚 Definition: Science of breeding animals

🗣 Pronunciation: sotekshniks

Pellicle

✍️ Word: Pellicle

📚 Definition: Thin skin or film

🗣 Pronunciation: pelikle

Sacciferous

✍️ Word: Sacciferous

📚 Definition: Bearing a sac or sacs

🗣 Pronunciation: saksiferous

Negannepaut

✍️ Word: Negannepaut

📚 Definition: Coarse cotton Indian fabric

🗣 Pronunciation: nekanepaut

Arctoid

✍️ Word: Arctoid

📚 Definition: Bear-like

🗣 Pronunciation: arktoit

Blattnerphone

✍️ Word: Blattnerphone

📚 Definition: Instrument used to record sound on magnetic tape

🗣 Pronunciation: blatnerfone

Iambus

✍️ Word: Iambus

📚 Definition: Poetic foot consisting of short then a long syllable

🗣 Pronunciation: iambus

Vila

✍️ Word: Vila

📚 Definition: Eastern European fairy or nymph

🗣 Pronunciation: fila

Drapetomania

✍️ Word: Drapetomania

📚 Definition: Intense desire to run away from home

🗣 Pronunciation: trapetomania

Sarcous

✍️ Word: Sarcous

📚 Definition: Of flesh or muscle

🗣 Pronunciation: sarkous