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Friday 17 July 2009

beni

is a sesame plant.

Variations: beni, benis.

jeelieing

is the present participle of the verb jeelie, an alternative spelling of jelly (lexic.us).

Variations: jeelie, jeelied, jeelieing, jeelies.

ourn

is an obsolete or dialectal form of 'ours' (Wiktionary).

Variations: ourn.

oidium

is an asexually produced fungal spore (Wikipedia).

Variations: oidium, oidiam, oidioid.

volute

can be used as a noun meaning an 'ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center' or 'a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops' or as an adjective meaning 'in the shape of a coil' (WordNet).

Variations: volute, voluted, volutes, volutoid.

ecdysiast

a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music (WordNet).

Variations: ecdysiast, ecdysiasts.

ignitron

is 'a mercury-containing rectifier tube in which the arc is struck again at the beginning of each cycle by a special electrode separately energized by an auxiliary circuit; (Merriam-Webster).

Variations: ignitron, ignitrons.

soojey

is a ship cleaning agent (lexic.us).

Variations: soojey, soojeys.

quoif

is an alternative spelling of coif which can be used as a noun meaning either (dictionary.com):
  1. a hood-shaped cap, usually of white cloth and with extended sides, worn beneath a veil, as by nuns.
  2. any of various hoodlike caps, varying through the centuries in shape and purpose, worn by men and women.
  3. a cap similar to a skullcap, formerly worn by sergeants at law.
  4. Armor. a covering for the head and neck, made of leather, padded cloth, or mail.
  5. British. the rank or position of a sergeant at law.
or as a transitive verb meaning 'to cover or dress with or as with a coif'.

Variations: coif, coifed, coifing, coifs, quoif, quoifed, quoifing, quoifs.

reif

has three definitions (Dictionary.com):
  1. plunder; booty; loot.
  2. robbery; piracy.
  3. the act of seizing booty.
Variations: reif, reifs.

piraya

is a large, aggressive piranha from the São Francisco River basin in Brazil (Wikipedia).

Variations: piraya, pirayas.

meith

is a landmark (lexic.us).

Variations: meith, meiths.

kaf

is the eleventh letter of many Semitic consonantal alphabets such as Hebrew (Wikipedia).

Variations: kaf, kafs.

ould

means 'old, aged, long-established' (wiktionary).

Variations: auld, aulder, auldest, ould, oulder, ouldest.

rayne

is another word for 'kingdom' (lexic.us).

Variations: rayne, raynes.

hakea

is an Australian shrub or small tree with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers (WordNet).

Variations: hakea, hakeas.