Word of the day

Tribology (noun)

1. (physics, engineering) The science and technology of friction, lubrication, and wear.

Isocost (noun)

1. A curve that represents a combination of various inputs that cost the same.

Mithridate (noun)

1. Any of various historical medicines—typically an electuary compounded with various poisons—believed to derive from Mithridates VI and to serve as a universal antidote.
2. Synonym of cure.
3. Ellipsis of mithridate mustard.

Fideicide (noun)

1. A breaker of one`s word or trust.
2. A faith-destroyer.

nubiferous (adj)

1. Bringing, or producing, clouds; cloudy.

fulgurate (verb)

1. To flash or emit flashes like lightning.
2. To cauterize with electricity; to carry out electrofulguration or to electrocauterize.

Diaphone (noun)

1. A kind of organ pipe.
2. A sound signal which produces sound by means of a slotted piston moved back and forth by compressed air.

Stope (noun)

A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps.

Noesis (noun)

1. Cognition, the functioning of intellect.
2. The exercise of reason.
3. The consciousness component of noetics, which concerns the duality of noesis and noema.

Frontogenesis (noun)

1. The formation or strengthening of an atmospheric weather front or of an oceanic front.

quadraphonic (adj)

1. Employing four independent channels or speakers.

forsooth

1. In truth; indeed.

transude (verb)

1. To pass through a pore, membrane or interstice.

xenogeneic (adj)

1. Derived from a different species and therefore genetically and immunologically incompatible.

Eft (noun)

1. A newt.

Patina (noun)

1. A paten, flat type of dish.
2. The color or incrustation which age and wear give to (mainly metallic) objects; especially, the green rust which covers works of art such as ancient bronzes, coins and medals.
3. A green color, tinted with grey, like that of bronze patina.
4. A gloss or superficial layer.

Omphalism (noun)

1. A tendency to place the capital of a country at its geographical center, or to increase the powers of central government at the expense of local government.

Fustian (noun)

1. Originally, a kind of coarse fabric made from cotton and flax; now, a kind of coarse twilled cotton, or cotton and linen, stuff with a short pile and often dyed a dull color, which is chiefly prepared for menswear.
2. A class of fabric including corduroy and velveteen.
3. Inflated, pompous, or pretentious speech or writing; bombast; incoherent or unintelligible speech or writing; gibberish, nonsense.
4. Chiefly in rum fustian: a hot drink made of a mixture of alcoholic beverages (as beer, gin, and sherry or white wine) with egg yolk, lemon, and spices.

oosphere (noun)

1. A large nonmotile egg cell, especially of an alga or fungus, formed in an oogonium and ready for fertilization.

rubricality (noun)

1. ceremony

Lustration (noun)

1. A rite of purification, especially washing.
2. The restoration of credibility to a government by the purging of perpetrators of crimes committed under an earlier regime.

garboard (noun)

1. The board on a boat which attaches to the keel running fore and aft along the bottom.

Glockenspiel (noun)

1. A musical instrument of the percussion idiophone family of instruments; like the xylophone, it has tuned bars arranged like the keys on a piano, and is also smaller in size and higher in pitch.

triphibious (adj)

1. Capable of traveling on land, air and sea.
2. Involving land, air and sea forces.

Pyrolatry (noun)

1. The worship of fire.

meconomancy (ability)

1. Divine past, present and/or future insights by use of drug-induced sleep.