Dictionary game

  • Christian Chat is a moderated online Christian community allowing Christians around the world to fellowship with each other in real time chat via webcam, voice, and text, with the Christian Chat app. You can also start or participate in a Bible-based discussion here in the Christian Chat Forums, where members can also share with each other their own videos, pictures, or favorite Christian music.

    If you are a Christian and need encouragement and fellowship, we're here for you! If you are not a Christian but interested in knowing more about Jesus our Lord, you're also welcome! Want to know what the Bible says, and how you can apply it to your life? Join us!

    To make new Christian friends now around the world, click here to join Christian Chat.
TabinRivCA

TabinRivCA

Well-known member
#381
Oct 23, 2018
13,095
10,661
113
#381
Deade said:
Per Wikipedia, upspeak is most common among American and Australian speakers of English and entails a rising intonation at the end of any and all utterances. In other words, upspeak (also known as uptalk, rising inflection, or high rising intonation) turns every sentence into a question.

Trilby :cool:
Click to expand...
n. A soft felt hat with a deeply creased crown.
A foot: from the beautiful left foot of the heroine of Du Maurier's story ‘Trilby,’ of which it was said that there was only one in Paris to match it and that was Trilby's other foot.
A narrow-brimmed felt hat.

vapulate
 
Deade

Deade

Called of God
#382
Dec 17, 2017
16,724
10,531
113
78
Vinita, Oklahoma, USA
yeshuaofisrael.org
#382
TabinRivCA said:
n. A soft felt hat with a deeply creased crown.
A foot: from the beautiful left foot of the heroine of Du Maurier's story ‘Trilby,’ of which it was said that there was only one in Paris to match it and that was Trilby's other foot.
A narrow-brimmed felt hat.

vapulate
Click to expand...
vapulate. Verb. (third-person singular simple present vapulates, present participle vapulating, simple past and past participle vapulated) (obsolete) To flog or whip; to beat or strike. (obsolete, intransitive) To be flogged, beaten etc.

Rapparee o_O
 
TabinRivCA

TabinRivCA

Well-known member
#383
Oct 23, 2018
13,095
10,661
113
#383
Deade said:
vapulate. Verb. (third-person singular simple present vapulates, present participle vapulating, simple past and past participle vapulated) (obsolete) To flog or whip; to beat or strike. (obsolete, intransitive) To be flogged, beaten etc.

Rapparee o_O
Click to expand...
n. an armed Irish freebooter or plunderer, especially of the 17th century.
n. rapparees were Irish guerrilla fighters who operated on the Jacobite side during the 1690s Williamite war in Ireland. Subsequently the name was also given to bandits and highwaymen in Ireland - many former guerrillas having turned to crime after the war ended.

Xenogamy
 
Deade

Deade

Called of God
#384
Dec 17, 2017
16,724
10,531
113
78
Vinita, Oklahoma, USA
yeshuaofisrael.org
#384
TabinRivCA said:
n. an armed Irish freebooter or plunderer, especially of the 17th century.
n. rapparees were Irish guerrilla fighters who operated on the Jacobite side during the 1690s Williamite war in Ireland. Subsequently the name was also given to bandits and highwaymen in Ireland - many former guerrillas having turned to crime after the war ended.

Xenogamy
Click to expand...
noun xenogamy
  1. fertilization of a flower by pollen from a flower on a genetically different plant.

Obdurate :rolleyes:
 
TabinRivCA

TabinRivCA

Well-known member
#385
Oct 23, 2018
13,095
10,661
113
#385
Deade said:
noun xenogamy
  1. fertilization of a flower by pollen from a flower on a genetically different plant.

Obdurate :rolleyes:
Click to expand...
. adjective. unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding. stubbornly resistant to moral influence; persistently impenitent: an obdurate sinner.

Lazar
 
Deade

Deade

Called of God
#386
Dec 17, 2017
16,724
10,531
113
78
Vinita, Oklahoma, USA
yeshuaofisrael.org
#386
TabinRivCA said:
. adjective. unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding. stubbornly resistant to moral influence; persistently impenitent: an obdurate sinner.

Lazar
Click to expand...
noun lazar plural noun lazars
  1. a poor and diseased person, especially one afflicted by a feared, contagious disease such as leprosy.

Imprimis :D
 
TabinRivCA

TabinRivCA

Well-known member
#387
Oct 23, 2018
13,095
10,661
113
#387
Deade said:
noun lazar plural noun lazars
  1. a poor and diseased person, especially one afflicted by a feared, contagious disease such as leprosy.

Imprimis :D
Click to expand...
in the first place used to introduce a list of items or considerations).

latitudinarian
 
Deade

Deade

Called of God
#388
Dec 17, 2017
16,724
10,531
113
78
Vinita, Oklahoma, USA
yeshuaofisrael.org
#388
TabinRivCA said:
in the first place used to introduce a list of items or considerations).

latitudinarian
Click to expand...
adjective latitudinarian
  1. allowing latitude in religion; showing no preference among varying creeds and forms of worship.
noun latitudinarian plural noun latitudinarians
  1. a person with a latitudinarian attitude.

Crenate :cautious:
 
TabinRivCA

TabinRivCA

Well-known member
#389
Oct 23, 2018
13,095
10,661
113
#389
Deade said:
adjective latitudinarian
  1. allowing latitude in religion; showing no preference among varying creeds and forms of worship.
noun latitudinarian plural noun latitudinarians
  1. a person with a latitudinarian attitude.

Crenate :cautious:
Click to expand...
adj. Having a margin with low, rounded or scalloped projections.
Notched; indented; scalloped.
In entomology, having indentations, not sufficient to be called teeth, the exterior outline of which is rounded: said of a margin.

linonophobia
 
Deade

Deade

Called of God
#390
Dec 17, 2017
16,724
10,531
113
78
Vinita, Oklahoma, USA
yeshuaofisrael.org
#390
TabinRivCA said:
adj. Having a margin with low, rounded or scalloped projections.
Notched; indented; scalloped.
In entomology, having indentations, not sufficient to be called teeth, the exterior outline of which is rounded: said of a margin.

linonophobia
Click to expand...
Linonophobia is the fear of string. The origin of the word lino is Greek (meaning string) and phobia is Greek (meaning fear). Linonophobia is considered to be a specific phobia, which is discussed on the home page.

Wintle o_O
 
TabinRivCA

TabinRivCA

Well-known member
#391
Oct 23, 2018
13,095
10,661
113
#391
Deade said:
Linonophobia is the fear of string. The origin of the word lino is Greek (meaning string) and phobia is Greek (meaning fear). Linonophobia is considered to be a specific phobia, which is discussed on the home page.

Wintle o_O
Click to expand...
n. To twist; writhe; roll; reel; stagger.
A rolling or reeling motion; a stagger. Also, erroneously, whintle.
v. to reel, to stagger

telarian
 
Deade

Deade

Called of God
#392
Dec 17, 2017
16,724
10,531
113
78
Vinita, Oklahoma, USA
yeshuaofisrael.org
#392
TabinRivCA said:
n. To twist; writhe; roll; reel; stagger.
A rolling or reeling motion; a stagger. Also, erroneously, whintle.
v. to reel, to stagger

telarian
Click to expand...
telarian: Spinning a web, as a spider.
Also fictional characters in Star Trek and certain games.

Tessera :D
 
TabinRivCA

TabinRivCA

Well-known member
#393
Oct 23, 2018
13,095
10,661
113
#393
Deade said:
telarian: Spinning a web, as a spider.
Also fictional characters in Star Trek and certain games.

Tessera :D
Click to expand...
noun pl. -·serae· 1. in ancient Rome, a small tablet of wood, ivory, etc. used as a token, ticket, label, etc. 2. any of the small pieces used in mosaic workOrigin of tesseraL, square piece, cube from Classical Greek

yahrzeit
 
M

mar09

Senior Member
#394
Sep 17, 2014
4,927
1,259
113
#394
TabinRivCA said:
noun pl. -·serae· 1. in ancient Rome, a small tablet of wood, ivory, etc. used as a token, ticket, label, etc. 2. any of the small pieces used in mosaic workOrigin of tesseraL, square piece, cube from Classical Greek

yahrzeit
Click to expand...
Whoo, so many new words...!

\ ˈyärˌtsīt , ˈyȯrˌ- \

: the anniversary of the death of a parent or near relative observed annually among Jews by the recital of the Kaddish and the lighting of a memorial candle or lamp

Here, posting something not too hard.

cryo·ther·a·py | \ ˌkrī-ō-ˈther-ə-pē \
 
Deade

Deade

Called of God
#395
Dec 17, 2017
16,724
10,531
113
78
Vinita, Oklahoma, USA
yeshuaofisrael.org
#395
mar09 said:
Whoo, so many new words...!

\ ˈyärˌtsīt , ˈyȯrˌ- \

: the anniversary of the death of a parent or near relative observed annually among Jews by the recital of the Kaddish and the lighting of a memorial candle or lamp

Here, posting something not too hard.

cryo·ther·a·py | \ ˌkrī-ō-ˈther-ə-pē \
Click to expand...
noun cryotherapy
  1. the use of extreme cold in surgery or other medical treatment.

Paramnesia :confused:
 
TabinRivCA

TabinRivCA

Well-known member
#396
Oct 23, 2018
13,095
10,661
113
#396
Deade said:
noun cryotherapy
  1. the use of extreme cold in surgery or other medical treatment.

Paramnesia :confused:
Click to expand...
memory-based delusion or confabulation, or an inability to distinguish between real and fantasy memories. It may refer more specifically to: Déjà vu, the delusion that a current event has already been experienced before.

yex
 
Deade

Deade

Called of God
#397
Dec 17, 2017
16,724
10,531
113
78
Vinita, Oklahoma, USA
yeshuaofisrael.org
#397
TabinRivCA said:
memory-based delusion or confabulation, or an inability to distinguish between real and fantasy memories. It may refer more specifically to: Déjà vu, the delusion that a current event has already been experienced before.

yex
Click to expand...
yex(Verb). Hiccup. yex(Verb). Belch or burp. Origin: From yexen, yixen, yesken, from geocsian, giscian, from giskōnan, from ǵeys-. Cognate with gischen

Gramineous :)
 
TabinRivCA

TabinRivCA

Well-known member
#398
Oct 23, 2018
13,095
10,661
113
#398
Deade said:
yex(Verb). Hiccup. yex(Verb). Belch or burp. Origin: From yexen, yixen, yesken, from geocsian, giscian, from giskōnan, from ǵeys-. Cognate with gischen

Gramineous :)
Click to expand...
adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of grasses.
Of or belonging to the grass family.

abrosia
 
You must log in or register to reply here.