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10,009 Words

Rhizophilous

✍️ Word: Rhizophilous

📚 Definition: Growing or thriving on or near roots

🗣 Pronunciation: rhisofilous

Irreptitious

✍️ Word: Irreptitious

📚 Definition: Having crept into a text

🗣 Pronunciation: ireptixious

Loupe

✍️ Word: Loupe

📚 Definition: Jeweller’s magnifying glass worn on the eye-socket

🗣 Pronunciation: loupe

Thermotaxis

✍️ Word: Thermotaxis

📚 Definition: Movement influenced or controlled by heat

🗣 Pronunciation: thermotaksis

Iconostasis

✍️ Word: Iconostasis

📚 Definition: Screen or partition in Eastern churches with tiers of icons

🗣 Pronunciation: ikonostasis

Knubble

✍️ Word: Knubble

📚 Definition: To beat with the fists

🗣 Pronunciation: nubl

Scrutator

✍️ Word: Scrutator

📚 Definition: Close examiner

🗣 Pronunciation: skrutator

Lissome

✍️ Word: Lissome

📚 Definition: Lithe; nimble; flexible

🗣 Pronunciation: lisome

Valienton

✍️ Word: Valienton

📚 Definition: Bully, braggard

🗣 Pronunciation: falienton

Bandicoot

✍️ Word: Bandicoot

📚 Definition: Small long-nosed ratlike marsupial

🗣 Pronunciation: bantikot

Biddery

✍️ Word: Biddery

📚 Definition: Metal alloy inlaid with silver and/or gold

🗣 Pronunciation: biter

Necropsy

✍️ Word: Necropsy

📚 Definition: Post-mortem examination

🗣 Pronunciation: nekrops

Grattoir

✍️ Word: Grattoir

📚 Definition: Scraper made of flint

🗣 Pronunciation: kratoir

Nave

✍️ Word: Nave

📚 Definition: Largest part of church where congregation sits

🗣 Pronunciation: nafe

Obeliscolychny

✍️ Word: Obeliscolychny

📚 Definition: Lighthouse

🗣 Pronunciation: obeliskolkshn

Thermantidote

✍️ Word: Thermantidote

📚 Definition: Apparatus for cooling air

🗣 Pronunciation: thermantitote

Transverberate

✍️ Word: Transverberate

📚 Definition: To pierce

🗣 Pronunciation: transferberate

Isohaline

✍️ Word: Isohaline

📚 Definition: Line connecting points of equal salinity

🗣 Pronunciation: isohaline

Portesse

✍️ Word: Portesse

📚 Definition: Portable breviary

🗣 Pronunciation: portese

Anopisthographic

✍️ Word: Anopisthographic

📚 Definition: Bearing writing or inscription only on one side

🗣 Pronunciation: anopisthokrafik