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- Century Dictionary (1910), Vol. 12, p. 1274
stereophotographic
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- Century Dictionary (1910), Vol. 12, p. 1274
stereophotography
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- Century Dictionary (1910), Vol. 12, p. 1274
phantasmogenesis
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- Century Dictionary (1904), Vol. 5, p. 4436
phantasmogenetic
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- Century Dictionary (1904), Vol. 5, p. 4436
phantasmology
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- Century Dictionary (1904), Vol. 5, p. 4436
phantomatic
phaneromania
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- Century Dictionary (1910), Vol. 12, p. 978
pharmacodynamically
- Note: "pharmacodynamic" + "pharmacodynamics" is already in.
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phenakistoscope + phenakistoscopes
phenylamine
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- Century Dictionary (1904), Vol. 6, p. 4441
philologue + philologues
philomath + philomaths
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- Century Dictionary (1904), Vol. 6, p. 4445
philoprogenitiveness --- "philoprogenitive" is already in.
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- Century Dictionary (1904), Vol. 6, p. 4445
paleotechnic
neotechnic + neotechnics
pantophobia
pantophobic
pantopragmatic
pangram + pangrammatic
paragram
paragrammatic
panharmonic
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- Century Dictionary (1910), Vol. 12, p. 937
panharmonicon
harmonicon
panification
panplain + panplane
panpneumatism
panlogism
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- Century Dictionary (1910), Vol. 12, p. 937
panocha
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- Century Dictionary (1910), Vol. 12, p. 937
pansporoblast + pansporoblasts
sporoblast + sporoblasts
sporogenic
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- Century Dictionary (1910), Vol. 12, p. 1257
sporogenous
sporozoite + sporozoites
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- Century Dictionary (1910), Vol. 12, p. 1257
pathometry
pathophobia
Definitions of Rarer Words
Century Dictionary, Volume 1 (1904)
acrocyst, n.
In zoöl., an external sac which in some hydroids is formed upon the summit of the gonangium, where it constitutes a receptacle in which the ova pass through some of the earlier stages of their development. Allman.
bushelage, n.
[<bushel^1 + -age.]
A duty payable on commodities by the bushel.
busheler, busheller, n.
[<bushel^2 + -er^1.]
A tailor's assistant, whose business is to repair garments. [U. S.]
bushelman, n.; pl. bushelmen (-men).
Same as busheler.
butlerage, n.
[<butler + -age.]
- In old Eng. law, a duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by foreigners or merchant strangers: so called because originally paid to the king's butler for the king.
These ordinary finances are casual or uncertain, as be the escheats, the customs, butlerage, and impost. Bacon.
2†. The office of butler; butlership.
- The butler's department in a household.
canthoplasty, n.
The operation of slitting up tho outer canthus, or corner of the eye, so as to enlarge tho opening between the lids.
Century Dictionary, Volume 3 (1904)
gigantean, a.
Like a giant; mighty.
gigantology (ji-gan-tol'o-ji), n.
An account or description of giants.
gigantomachia (ji-gan-tö-mä'ki-ä), n.
Same as gigantomachy.
gigantomachy (ji-gan-tom'a-ki), n.
The mythological war of the giants against Zeus, symbolizing the antagonism between terrestrial and oceanic and celestial forces: a favorite subject in all departments of ancient classical art.
Gigantostraca, n. pl.
A prime division of Crustacea, including the trilobites, eurypterines, xiphures, etc., all of which excepting the last are extinct. The group corresponds to Merostomata or Palœocarida.
Naturalists are now pretty well agreed in the union of the trilobites, horseshoe-crabs, etc., in a group to which Professors Haeckel and Dohrn have applied the name Gigantostraca and Dr. Packard the name Palæocarida. Stand. Nat. Hist., II. 81.
gingerness† (jin'jèr-nes), n.
The character of being ginger; niceness; delicacy; mincingness.
gingerous (jin'jér-us), a.
Resembling ginger, especially in color or taste.
Mr. Lammle takes his gingerous whiskers in his left hand, and bringing them together, frowns furtively at his beloved, out of a thick gingerous bush. Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, x.
glossalgia (glo-sal'ji-ä), n.
In patholology, neuralgia in the tongue.
Century Dictionary, Volume 4 (1904)
liquamen†, n.
[L., a liquid mixture, a sauce, <liquare, make liquid, dissolve: see liquate.]
A liquid sauce.
lymphoidal, a.
[<lymphoid + -al.]
Same as lymphoid.
hemidome, n.
[<hemi- + dome: see dome^1, 5.]
In crystal., an orthodome in the monoclinic system: so called because only two planes belong to any given symbol.
Corresponding forms are called minus or plus, according as they are opposite the obtuse or the acute axial angle.
Century Dictionary, Volume 5 (1904)
pathometry, n.
Literally, the measure of suffering; the distinction of suffering into different kinds; the perception, recognition, or diagnosis of different kinds of suffering.
Some of you will remember the poor little thing ... who, only seven years old and having tubercle in the brain, said it wasn't headache he suffered from, it was pain in the head. Pitifully accurate pathometry for such a time of life!
Dr. Moxon, in Lancet.
pathophobia, n.
Morbid dread of disease; hypochondria.
Morbid dread of any kind, including agoraphobia, mysophobia, pyrophobia, etc.
phantasmogenesis, n.
The origination of phantasms; the causation of apparitions; the circumstances or conditions under which spectral illusions may be produced or perceived.
phantasmogenetic, a.
[<phantasmogenesis, after genetic.]
Originating phantasms; producing or resulting in phantoms or apparitions.
Mind, XII. 282.
phantasmology, n.
The science of phantasms, phantoms, and other spontaneous or induced apparitions.
phantomatic, a.
[<phantom + -atic^2.]
Pertaining to or of the nature of a phantom. Coleridge. [Rare.]
Century Dictionary, Volume 6 (1904)
pyocolpos, n.
The presence of pus in the vagina.
pyocystis, n.
An encysted collection of pus.
pyogenic, a.
Having relation to the formation of pus; producing or generating pus.—Pyogenic fever, pyemia.
pyramidale, n. ; pl. pyramidalia
[NL., neut. of pyramidalis, q. v.]
The cuneiform bone of the carpus, more fully called os pyramidale.
pyramidate, a.
[<pyramid + -ate^1.]
In entom., pyramidal; jutting out into a prominent angle: as, a pyramidate fascia.
retroinsular, a.
[<L. retro, behind, + insula, an island: see insular, 5 .]
Situated behind the insula.—Retroinsular convolutions, two or three convolutions behind the insula, and wholly within the fissure of Sylvius. Also called temporoparietal convolutions.
retromammary, a.
[<L. retro, behind, + mamma, the breast: see mammary.]
Situated behind the mammary gland: as, a retromammary abscess.
retroposition, n.
[<L. retro, back, + positio(n-), position.]
Displacement backward, but without flexion or version: said of the uterus.
Century Dictionary, Volume 11 (1909)
butyrometer, n.
An apparatus for ascertaining the amount of butter-fat in milk.
The butyromeler is extremely useful, alike for measuring periodically the fat-producing capacity of individual cows in a herd, for rapidly ascertaining the percentage of fat in milk delivered to factories and paying for such milk on the basis of quality, and for determining the richness in fat of milk supplied for the urban milk trade.
Encyc. Brit., XXVII. 360.
bysmalith, n.
[Ignorantly formed as if from *bysma, deep, depth, or bottom, wrongly assumed as the stem of abysm, + Gr. λίθος, stone.]
In geol., a large and rudely cylindric mass of igneous rock which has been driven upward through overlying strata as a punch goes through a sheet of metal.
calcirudite, n.
In petrog., a term proposed by A. W. Grabau (1903) for a limestone or dolomite composed of broken or worn fragments of coral or shells or of limestone fragments, the interstices filled with lime-sand or mud and with a lime cement.
It corresponds to psephite among the silicious rocks. Calcirudites embrace rocks known as coral-, shell-, or lime-stone-breccia and conglomerate.
camphorous, a.
[camphor + -ous.]
Camphor-like [resembling camphor: as, a camphorous smell.
camphory, a.
[camphor + -y^1.]
Somewhat camphor-like.
canthotomy, n.
In surg., division of either canthus of the eye.
capilliculture, n.
[L. capillus, hair, + cultura, culture.]
Methodical care of the hair.
chasmophyte, n.
In phytogeog., a plant inhabiting the crevices of rocks.
Schimper, (trans.) Plant Geog., p. 178.
chlorapatite, n.
[chlor(in) + apatite.]
An apatite containing chlorin. The common varieties of apatite contain fluorin and are called fluorapatites. See apatite.
dacryocystotomy, n.
In surg.: (a) Incision into the lacrymal sac. (b) Division of a stricture of the lacrymal duct.
dacryostenosis, n.
Stricture of the lacrymal duct.
daimonion, n.
Same as demon, 1: usually with reference to the demon of Socrates.
rhabdosome, n.
The colonial stock of a graptolite produced by gemmation from a sicula. In the Dendroidea and the axonolipous Graptoloidea each colony consists of one rhabdosome; in the axonophorous Graptoloidea and the Retioloidea many rhabdosomes are united into a colony of a higher order.
glgantoblast, n.
A specially large nucleated red blood-corpuscle of the megaloblastic type.
gigantocyte n.
A non-nucleated red blood-corpuscle of large size.
Century Dictionary, Volume 12 (1909)
panharmonic, a.
Adapted to all the harmonies or musical modes. N. E. D.
Harmonizing with all: agreeing with all. N. E. D.
panification (pan'i-fi-kà'shon), n.
[F. panification, <panifier, make bread (cf. L. panifex, bread-maker, panificium, bread-making), <L. panis, bread, + facere, make.]
The making of bread; the chemical changes which convert flour into bread.
Among other things, they recommended great attention to bees, to panification, and to the obstetrick art.
Arthur Young, Travels in France, p. 292, line 14.
The purposes which should be kept in view in the growth of wheat include those relating to the possibilities of panification.
Science, Feb. 17, 1905, p. 272.
panpneumatism, n.
A term used by Von Hartmann (only) to designate a “ higher synthesis of panlogism and panthelism according to which the absolute is both will and thought.” Baldwin, Dict. of Philos. and Psychol., II. 256.
The panpneumatism of Hartmann, combining Hegel with Schopenhauer.
Encyc. Brit., XXX. 663.
pansporoblast, n.
[pan- + sporoblast.]
In some sporozoans, as the Myxosporidia, that portion of the body of the organism which gives rise to spores. It is separated from the surrounding endoplasm by a pellicle of thicker protoplasm, within which division of nuclei and subsequent formation of spores take place.
pantophobic, a.
[pantophohia + -ic.]
Relating to or affected with pantophobia.
pantopragmatic, a. and n.
I. a. Meddling with everything. [Humorous.]
II. n. A meddling person; pl., a satirical name for the alleged ‘science’ of universal meddling. N. E. D.
phaneromania, n.
An uncontrollable habit of picking at loose bits of skin, warts, hangnails, etc.
pretrochal, a.
[pre- + trochal.]
- Anterior to the trochal disk.
The entire ectoblast of the trochal and prae-trachal regions.
E. B. Wilsan, Biol. Lectures, 1893, p. 10.
- Lying in front of the prototroch: said of the position of cells or organs in the trochophore larva of the marine annelids.
protoveratrine, n.
An intensely poisonous alkaloid obtained from the rhizomes of white hellebore, Veratrum album. It probably occurs also in Veratrum viride.
pyocyanic, a.
Producing blue pus.
A virulent pyocyanic bacillus was isolated from the ice at the summit, and an exceedingly pure water taken near the Montanvert showed twelve colonies of a virulent bacterium coll per cc.
Nature, March 27, 1902, p. 504.
retrorectal, a.
[L. retro, back, behind, + NL. rectum + -al^1.]
Situated behind the rectum.
rheograph, n.
A type of instrument for the study of rapidly fluctuating currents. It is distinguished from the oscillograph and from other vibration-galvanometers by its large moment of inertia and slow natural period of oscillation.
Jour. Brit. Inst. Elect. Engin., 1903–04, p. 75.
rheoscope, n.
-Physiological rheoscope. Same as rheoscopic limb.
rhinacanthin, n.
[Rhinacanthus (sec def.) + -in^2.]
A tasteless viscous resin, C_14H_18O_4, found in the root of Rhittaeanthus communis.
rhizomatic, a.
Pertaining to rhizomes; having the nature or appearance of a rhizome; rhizomalous.
rhodate, n.
[rhod(ic) + -ate^1.]
The salt of a hypothetical rhodic acid. Potassium rhodate perhaps exists in a blue-violet liquid obtained by passing chlorin into an alkaline solution of the rhodium hydroxid, Rh_2(HO)_6.
rhodinol, n.
[rhodin-ol + -al^3.]
An unsaturated aldehyde, (CH_3)_2C:CHCH_2-CH_2CH(CH_3)CH_2CHO, prepared by the oxidation of rhodinol. Also called 2,6-dimethyloctene-2-al-8.
rhodite, n.
Rhodium-gold.
rhopalium, n.; pl. rhopalia (-a).
A kind of sense-organ, or marginal body, as in Scyphomcdusæ.
Sense organs when present are modified tentacles, variously designated as tentaculocysts, rhopalia, etc.
Amer. Nat., May, 1903, p. 331.
rhopography, n.
Painting in still life. N. E. D. [Rare.]
ruthenate, n.
[ruthen(ic) + -ate.]
A salt which corresponds to the hypothetical ruthenic acid, as potassium ruthenate (K_2RuO_4); also formerly used for what is now called a perrathenate, as potassium perruthenate (KRuO_4). Sometimes written rutheniate.
sedentation, n.
[sedent(ary) + -ation.]
The state of having become sedentary, or fixed in a given place or location.
Climatic conditions, degree of sedentation, nature of food supply, and availability of material have each a marked influence on the condition of the arts.
An. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethnol., 1898–99, p. 22.
shonkinite (shon'kin-it), n.
[Shonkin, an Indian name of the Highwood Mountains in Montana, + -ite^2.]
In petrog., a phaneric igneous rock with granular texture, consisting of augite and orthoclase, with or without olivin, and small quantities of nephelite, sodalite, etc. A rock related to syenite but rich in augite.
Weed and Pirsson, 1895.
shoshonite, n.
[Shoshone (Indians) + -ite^2.]
In petrog., a variety of basalt comparatively rich in potash, having phenocrysts of labradorite with variable amounts of augite and olivin, in a ground-mass containing labradorite and orthoelase, with pyroxene, magnetite, etc. It grades into absarokite with increase of augite and olivin and decrease in labradorite.
Iddings, 1895.
sporoblast, n.
—Definitive sporoblast, in Sporozoa, a sporoblast formed by the complete union, including the nuclei, of two conjugating gametes.
undecane, n.
[L. undec(im), eleven, + -ane.]
A colorless hydrocarbon, CH_3(CH_2)_9CH_3, of the methane series, prepared by the action of hydriodic acid and phosphorus on undecylic acid. It melts at −26.5°C. and boils at 194.5°C. Also called hendecane and normal undecane.
marcoagpinto
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planometry
planometric + planometrics
Wittgensteinian
dunum + dunums (Variant of "dunam" or "donum")
Angeleno + Angelenos
Angelino + Angelinos
bioacoustic (
-scurrently exists, but not the non-s version)Bithynia + Bithynian
liquamen
undecillion + undecillions
* undecillionth
crosshair + crosshairs
spork + sporks
pogromist + pogromists
methacrylate
methacrylic
methanation
snollygoster
germanous
gigantoblast + gigantoblasts
gigantocyte + gigantocytes
gigantean
gigantology
gigantomachy + gigantomachies
gigantomachia
Gigantostraca
gingerness
gingerous
glossalgia
abattis = alternate spelling of "abatis"
jansky + janskys (lowercase)
millijansky
milli-prefix combined with "jansky" unit.lymphopenia
lymphopenic
lymphogenesis
lymphogenous
lymphography
lymphogram
lymphographic
lymphomatous
lymphoidal
lymphosarcoma
lymphogranuloma
lymphopoiesis
lymphopoietic
hemidome
Hemiptera
hemipteran
hemipterous
hemimorphic
hemimorphism
hemitrope
hemitropic
hemitropous
hemitropy
hempweed
henchwoman + henchwomen
heptarchy + heptarchies
heptastich
heptasyllable
heptasyllabic
heptatomic
heptatonic
heptadecane
heptahydrate
heptahydrated
heptanone
undecane + undecanes
chloramine
chlorapatite
chorology + chorologies
chorten + chortens
dacryocystotomy
dacryostenosis
dactinomycin
daimonion
prototonic
protoveratrine
pyocyanic
pyogenic
pyocolpos
pyocystis
pyocyaneus pyocyaneous
-euswas by far the more common spelling in the 1880s->1990s.sporocyst
acrocyst
precyst + precystic
pyramidical
pyramidically
pyramidale
pyramidalis + pyramidales (= plural)
pyramidate
pyrenocarp
pyrenocarpous
pyrenoid
pyrazole
pyrazoline
pyrazolone
piroplasm ("piroplasmosis" exists)
piscatorially
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Century Dictionary (1910), Vol. 12, p. 1008
burry (Note: Currently has this as capital.) burrier
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Century Dictionary (1904), Vol. 1, p. 729
burriest, but this one is EXTREMELY rare, effectively 0.Note: I'd also be very careful with this word in a spellchecker, because it's extremely close to "bury" or "berry", which are EXTREMELY common.
bursal
bursarship
burse
burseraceous
burweed
bushelage
busheler
bushelman + bushelmen
buteonine + buteonines
butlerage
buttony
butyrometer + butyrometers
butyrometric
bysmalith + bysmaliths
byssinosis
Byzantinesque
calcirudite + calcirudites
camphene
camphorate + camphorated
camphorous
camphory
campimeter
campimetry
camptonite
canthotomy
capilliculture
canthoplasty
canthus + canthi
canticum
chasmophyte
retromolar
melanocortin + melanocortins
racloir + racloirs
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Wikipedia: "Racloir"
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magnetostratigraphy
lithostratigraphy
biostratigraphy
chronostratigraphy
OED
thermoremanent
thermoremanence
paleomagnetism
paleomagnetist + paleomagnetists
tiltmeter
geomechanics
periaqueductal
retroinsular
retromammary
retropharyngeal
retroposition
retropulsive
retropulsion
pretrochal
retrorectal
revelative
revelator
rhabdosome
rhamnose
rhamnoside + rhamnosides
rheograph + rheographs
rheometer + rheometers
rheoscope + rheoscopes
rheostatic
rheotaxis
rhinacanthin + rhinacanthins
rhinolith + rhinoliths
rhinolithiasis
rhinology
rhinologic rhinological
rhinologist
rhizobia
rhizomatic
rhizomic
rhodanide
rhodate + rhodates
rhodinol
rhodite
rhopalium
rhopography
rhythmicity
rhythmization
ruthenate
sedentation
shonkinite + shonkinites
shoshonite + shoshonites
shovelnose
sneezeweed + sneezeweeds
sociogenetic
sociogenesis
sodamide
staminode
staminodium
staminody
stamnos
starcher