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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is an English word-construction project by John Koenig, seeking to coin and define neologisms for emotions not yet described in language. [1] The project was launched as a website and YouTube channel, but was later compiled into a printed dictionary in 2021. The entries include extensive constructed etymologies ...
100 Weird Words. 1. Abaft: toward or at the stern of a ship; further aft. 2. Abatjour: skylight or device to direct light into a room. 3. Agastopia: admiration of a particular part of someone’s ...
A. Abacomancy. Abracadabra, an ancient word in an unknown language popularly carved onto amulets in antiquity. Abramelin oil. Acultomancy, divination by the use of needles. Adept. Aeromancy. Air (classical element), one of the four classical elements that play a role in alchemy. Agalmatomancy.
The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...
List of commonly misused English words. This is a list of English words that are thought to be commonly misused. It is meant to include only words whose misuse is deprecated by most usage writers, editors, and professional grammarians defining the norms of Standard English. It is possible that some of the meanings marked non-standard may pass ...
The following is a list of English words without rhymes, called refractory rhymes —that is, a list of words in the English language that rhyme with no other English word. The word "rhyme" here is used in the strict sense, called a perfect rhyme, that the words are pronounced the same from the vowel of the main stressed syllable onwards.
An enzyme that "scrambles" phospholipids between the inside and outside of the cell membrane. Slingshot homolog. Slit-Robo and the associated Netrin-Frazzled. SMURF1 and SMURF2, which interacts with Mothers against decapentaplegic 7. SM AD U biquitination R egulatory F actor 1/2. Son of Sevenless.
A close relative to tetramantane (a higher homologue of adamantane), its proper name is nonacyclo[11.7.1.1 12,18.0 3,16.0 4,13.0 5,10.0 6,14.0 7,11.0 15,20]docosane. Because its unusual ethano-bridge was a deviation from the standard hydrocarbon caged rearrangements, it came to be known as bastardane—the unwanted child. [3] [46] Dinocap