Vocabulary Browser

anacrusis

art film

second string (of a shamisen, etc.)

descriptive linguistics

to hammer out thinly (e.g. goldleaf)

rural medicine

anvil cloud

neroli oil (essential oil made from bitter orange flowers)

Russian Communist Party

four grave prohibitions (killing, theft, adultery, and deceit)

twisting (thread, etc.)

Lamium album var. barbatum (variety of white deadnettle)

giant clam (any clam of subfamily Tridacninae)

baggage

Kuznets swings

Coriaria japonica (species of shrub)

to dry out and crack

Australian (zoogeographical region)

darnel (Lolium temulentum)

Federation of Independent Unions of Japan (1956-1987)

quixotic

rooftop structure, e.g. tower, elevator machine room, etc.

Bloody Sunday (esp. the January 22, 1905 Saint Petersburg incident)

plaster cast

Hamletish

botanical

shipworm (esp. naval shipworm, Teredo navalis)

Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961)

tentaculate (a tube worm, moss animal or lampshell)

to speak through one's tears