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The Alphabet of : Mephisto

I literally read the dictionary for fun, and I have compiled a list of nouns, verbs, adverbs and adjectives that one could apply to characters of AnE, along with the definitions because context. There will be a series of these posts because my lists are just that long. Starting with the character who has the LONGEST list of descriptive words you could apply to him, his house, his pawns and his attributes. Have fun learning a bigger vocabulary!

Also, if you see numbers ( e.g. 2,) 3) etc) those indicate the exact definition of a word I am referring to. Some of these are kinda ad-lib, especially those with applicable slang contexts, (Fool is a good example).

Mephisto:

- Altiloquent; adj. : high-flown or pretentious use of language

- Ardent; adj. : in the second sense, 2) intensely devoted or zealous; to be very enthusiastic

- Archaic; adj.: Out of date or old-fashioned, no longer in regular use

- Alacrity; n. : Cheerfulness, readiness or eagerness; liveliness or briskness

- Cozen; v. : to cheat, deceive or trick

- Crow; v. : 2.) to gloat, boast, or exult, also Crow; n. the bird, also crow; adj.; to liken to a crow, often to accentuate a person’s boastful, proud or stubborn nature or inability to see past it, e.g. That old man is such a crow!

- Concupiscent; adj.: sensual, eagerly desirous or lusty

- Clandestine; adj.: To act secretively or deceptively; to behave in a purposefully mysterious or secretive manner, especially with intent to be deceptive

- Decry; v. : to speak disparagingly of; to denounce as faulty or worthless or to express censure of; to condemn or depreciate by proclamation; to make official the obsolescence of something, usually using disparaging or insulting language

- Douceur; n.: 2). a conciliatory gift or bribe, 3) archaic; sweetness or agreeableness

- Facetiae; p. n. : (pronounced fuh-see-shee-ee or fuh-see-shee-ay): Amusing or witty remarks or writings

- Facetious; adj.: to use sarcasm or mockery to make a point, usually in a humorous or funny way(yes it is related to the word above)

- Fool (capital F); n. : A professional court jester, formerly employed by magistrates and noblemen for amusement; also Fool (unofficial/slang use): to refer to one’s wit or cleverness, as contrasting to their childish or immature behavior e.g. Tom is such a Fool, he’s like a child at a daycare when he’s with friends but get’s straight A’s in school. I don’t get him. also fool (lowercase f); n. : a person tricked into appearing or acting stupid.

- Futilitarian; adj.: believing that human hopes are vain, and human strivings unjustified. alternatively, ; n.: A person who holds these beliefs

- Furtive; adj: To keep a distance from or work shyly or clandestinely

- Gadabout; n.: a person who moves about restlessly or aimlessly, especially from one social activity to another. 2.) a person who travels a lot, especially seeking pleasure

- Gewgaw;n: something gaudy and useless, as of a trinket or bauble.

- Esoteric; adj. : Understood by or meant to be by only a select few whom possess specialized knowledge or interest; recondite.

- Illustrious; adj.: highly distinguished, renoened or famous; glorious, as of deeds or works. (it once meant luminous or bright, but the word is rarely ever used in that context)

- Impiety;n. / impious; adj: to lack piety (reverence of God or holy factions); irreverence. Also lack of dutifulness or respect, lacking a sense of honour.

- Isolato; n: A person who is spiritually or mentally isolated from or lacking sympathy with his/her times or society

- Kaleidoscopic; adj.: 3.) continually changing or shifting from one set of relations to another; constantly changing

- Keek; v: To peek or look furtively

- Labyrinthine; adj.: 2.) to be complicated or torturous

- Luculent; adj.: clear or lucid; convincing or cogent (follows logic)

- Lubricious; adj.: arousing or expressive of sexual desire; lustful or lecherous

- Lascivious; adj.: inclined to lustfulness; wanton or lewd

- Memorist; n.: A person who has a particularly retentive memory

- Nadir; n.: 3.) the lowest point or point of greatest adversity or despair

- Neoteric; adj.: New or modern; recent (in the context of time)

- Paltry; adj.: 3). mean or contemptible; petty.

- Paradigm; n.: the model upon which one bases their collected thoughts, feelings or actions; also paradigm shift; the changing of the paradigm for one’s beliefs or conclusions, often abruptly

- Pettiness; adj: to be done in mean-spiritedness or out of spite. Also to give mean-spirited consequences to insignificant or unimportant things.

- Perfunctory; adj: 2). Lacking interest, care or enthusiasm; apathetic.

- Postiche; adj: 2). artificial, counterfeit or fake/ n.: an imitation, subtitute, pretense or scam.

- Prebuttal;n : An argument constructed in anticipation of criticism

- Prognosticate; v.: to forecast or predict something of the future; to prophesyze or presage

- Prudence; n. : the quality or act of being prudent (wise or knowledgable) in practical affairs; discretion; regard for one’s own interests.

- Purloin; v: to take or steal dishonestly

- Regina; adj/n.: Queen-like; demanding or bossy; uptight

- Reprobate; n: A depraved, unprincipled or wicked person; a person rejected by God and beyond hope of salvation /adj.: to be morally depraved or without principle; bad.

- Rapacious; adj.: given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed; also to be predatory or extortionate.

- Scapegoat; n: A person designated to bear the burdens or blame of others or to be held accountable for their misdoings; to unwillingly suffer in the place of others (that would be a martyr)

-Scienter; n. : a mental state in which one is fully aware and knowledgeable of their wrong, deceptive or illegal actions; often used as a standard of guilt in the court of law.

- Scurrilous; adj.: grossly or obscenely abusive; also characterized by using low buffoonery or mockery, to be coarsely jocular (making fun of).

- Sirenic; adj.: characteristic of a siren; alluring, melodious or tempting

- Sophisticated; adj: of a person’s mannerisms, habits, expressions, thoughts, etc. - to be altered by education, experience, etc. so as to be worldly or wise. Also 3), to be deceptive or misleading, 4.) intricate or complicated

- Suave; adj.: to be smoothly agreeable or polite in mannerisms, to be agreeable or blandly urbane ( to be elegant, refined or appear educated, as of mannerisms).

- Surreptitious; adj.: to be stealthy or secretive; to be subtle.

- Tacky; adj: 2) tasteless or gaudy

- Tergiversate; v.: to change repeatedly one’s attitude or views on a cause, subject, etc. to equivocate.

- Versify; v: to relate or describe something in (poetic) verse

- Voluble; adj.: characterized by ready and continuous flow of words; talkative.

- Zeal; n: fervor of a person, cause or object; eager desire or enthusiastic diligence.

There are many more, but I think I’ve left you all enough :) Up next: Lucifer boy, because he also has a long (and getting longer) list of words!

Until then!

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acerousacoria · 7 years

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(( Note to self of words to use in new trolltags (from here); incomplete and very long because there’s a lot of words and Ctrl+F didn’t really help so I’m going through them all one by one

Mirrak:

A - abditive (hidden/secret), abnegate (to renounce/repudiate), absinthial (bitter), acerous/akeratophorous (without horns), achroous (colorless), acoria (great hunger), aesopian (comprehensible only by members of a movement), aeviternal/aeviternity (endless/eternal existence), affrayer (attacker), affreux (scary), ageusia (inability to taste), agersia (unaging), agonistic (aggressive), allotriophagy (craving strange foods), anabiosis (return to life), anchorite, antiblastic (providing immunity), apterygial (finless), arrhizal (lacking roots), arrosive (gnawing), autarkic (independent)

B - bagarre (brawl), barratry (inciting violence), billingsgate (coarse language), brach/brachet (female hound / brat), brachycerous (w/ clipped horns), brachyology/breviloquence (abbreviated speech)

C - cachaemic (has poisoned blood), calver (to eat live fish), calvous (bald), canophilia (love of dogs), capistrate (hooded), carnassial / creatophagous / creophagous (flesh-eating), catarolysis (cursing to let off steam), cataplexy (feigning death), chlamydate/cucullate (hooded), cittosis (desire for strange foods). contumacious (stubborn/anti-authority), cryptadia (hidden things), cynegetic (hunting-related)

D - dacnomania (obsession with killing), dapifer (one who brings meat to the table), decalvant/depilatory (removing hair), dentigerous (bearing teeth), depascent (eating), diprionidian (serrated), diutiurnal (long-lasting), dolioform (barrel shaped), donnybrook (brawl)

E - ecdemomania (compulsive wandering), eclipsis (omission of words in speech), edacious (voracious), embonpoint (plump), epilate (to remove hair), esculent (edible), esurient (hungry)

F -

G - gauntlet, gestatorial (pertaining to carrying), gnathal (pertaining to the jaws), gomphosis (excessive tooth growth), grobianism (boorishness)

T - tachygraphy (shorthand), talionic (retributive), temporicide (killing time), thyestean (cannibalistic), titanism (defiance of social norms), toxicophagous (eating poison), trachyphonia (roughness of voice), tramontane (uncivilized), tranation (swimming across)

Kynara:

A - abirritate (to habituate), aboideau (tide gate), abyssopelagic (ocean depths), acersecomic (someone who’s never had a haircut), agathism (belief that things proceed towards an ultimate good), alamode/ardass (silk), alembicated (over-refined), amaranth (unfading flower), apotropaic (designed to turn away evil), aulic (courtly),

B - bahadur (self-important official), baisemain (kiss on hand), baldachin (silk and gold fabric), barege/barracan/bombycine (silk), bienséance (proper thing), brilliantine (hair oil)

C - camaca/cendal/charmeuse (silk), caritative (generous), cervicorn (antler-like), cladose (branching), coralliferous (bearing coral)

D - dapatical (costly, sumptuous), dation (act of donating), deipnosophy (learned conversation), demesne (feudal manor), deontic (relating to duty), devoir (duty), didact, dispendious (expensive)

E - eirenarch (keeper of the peace), ennomic (lawful), éolienne (silk)

F -

G - gazar/georgette/grenadine (silk), gracility (slenderness)

T - tabaret (silk), tabinet (silk), taffeta, talar (ankle-length robe), thalassiarchy (sovereignty of the seas), thalassophilous (loves the sea), thesmothete (law-giver), togated, tournure (poise), tulle

Desill:

A - abrosia (fasting), achaenocarp (type of fruit), adelaster (plant with unknown flowers), adscript (bound to the earth), adynamia (helplessness), agrology (study agricultural soil), agrostology (study of grasses), alkanet (red plant-based dye), ambsace (bad luck), amyous (lacking muscle), anguiform/anguine (snake-y), apositia (dislike of food), asitia (lack of appetite), assibilate (speak w/ a hiss)

B - bistre (brown pigment), brunneous (brown), burnet/burrel (brown cloth)

C - carpogenous (fruit eating), castory/castaneous (brown), colubriform / colubrine / crotaline (snakelike)

D - doloriferous (bearing grief/pain), dormition (sleeping/death)

E - egestuous (desperately poor), elapid (cobra-like), emarcid (wilted), epitonic (overstrained)

F -

G - gymnophobia (fear of nudity)

T - tabefaction (wasting away), tabescent (wasting/shriveling), tabific (consumptive), tatterdemalion, taupe (brownish-grey), tenne (orange-brown), thalassophobia (fear of the sea), torpid (lethargic)

Maikol:

A - acanaceous (prickly), actinism (radiation causing chemical change), aeneous (bronze color), agrypnia (insomnia), almagest (astronomy textbook), arreptitious (hurried), astrionics (spaceflight electronics),

C - celidography (marks on a planet/sun), chevelure (comet tail), citigrade (fast), cosmosophy, cosmotellurian (like heaven and earth)

D - diddicoy (tinkerer, scrap-dealer)

G - gerascophobia (fear of growing old)

T - tanquam (person fit for education)

Oci:

A - absquatulate (to flee), acatamathesia (inability to understand), accollé (collared), agacerie (allurement), ahimsa (non-violence), ambulophobia, aneabil (unmarried), anuptaphobia (fear of being single), apodysophilia (feverish desire to undress)

B - basial/basiation (kissing), blarney/blandiloquence/blandish, byssine/byssoid (soft)

C - cabriole (exuberant dance), cadge (to beg), caesious (teal), callipygous (has a nice butt), callisteia (awards for beauty), carcanet (collar), chirapsia (massage), cisvestism (wearing weird clothes), claque (sycophants)

D - deosculate (to kiss), discalced (barefoot), douceur (gentlessness / a bribe), dulciloquent (speaking sweetly)

E - effleurage (stroking), eleemosynary (dependent on charity), emollient (softening), epigamic (attractive), epithymetic (pertaining to desire)

F -

G - galeanthropy (belief that you’re a cat), gawdelpus (helpless person), gremial (intimate; on lap)

T - tentiginous (lust-provoking), thalposis (feeling of warmth), torquated (collared), trangam (showy, worthless thing), twee

Tsorro:

A - accourt (to entertain), accubation (reclining), ackamarackus (nonsense), aestheticism, ailurophilia (love of cats), alcatote (silly elf), amphibology (dual meaning), amphigory (nonsense), apistia (faithlessness), apolaustic (seeking pleasure)

B - bacchanal (reveler), bambosh (deceptive nonsense), bedswerver (unfaithful spouse)

C - cagamosis (unhappy marriage), cardiognost (one who understands the heart), cautelous (cunning), chicanery, chouse (to cheat), clinophilia (love of beds), cocker (to pamper), covinous (fraudulent), cozen (to coax/deceive), cubation/cumbent (reclining), cyrenaic (philosophy of pleasure-seeking)

D - decumbent (lying down), desipient (playing the fool), diablerie (magic, mischief), dittology (double meaning), dizen (to dress gaudily)

G - gleek (a trick), glozing (flattery)

T - tergiversation (lying), tosh, tregetour (trickster), trumpery (trickery), twaddle

Deveri:

A - accessit (second place / honorable mention), agapeistic (loving selflessly), almandine (violet gem), altiloquence (pompous speech), amoret (love sonnet), appui (to support militarily)

B - bavian (unskilled poet)

C - caesura (breathing space in poetry), camaïeu (boring writing), cancellarial, cheville (unnecessary word in poetry), cimier (token of courtly love)

D - digladiate (to sword-fight)

E - encomiast (praiser), epinikion (ode to a winner), epithalamion (wedding song)

T - tabellary (auditor), threnody (dirge)

Cavmar (I guess Cavmar probably wouldn’t change his tag since he’s dead, but ...):

A - aceldama (scene of violence), acinaciform (scrimitar-shaped), acratia (impotence), acyrology (incorrect pronunciation), agrize (to horrify/disfigure), algetic (creating pain), allision (intentional collision of ships)

B - bilge, blague (pretentious nonsense), bodach (churl/goblin), braguette (codpiece), bumptious (conceited)

C - cacoepy/cacology (bad pronunciation), caitiff (cowardly), capreolate (tentacle-like), carrack (galleon), chrematistic (about pursuit of wealth), cnidarian, conferva (algae)

D - dapocaginous (heartless), dispiteous/dolose (malicious), dolorific (causing sorrow), dontopedalogy (foot in mouth)

E - egoism

F -

G - gilderoy (proud person), gulpin (simpleton), gulosity (greed)

T - tanacles (instruments of torture), terrisonant (sounding bad), tumid (bombastic)

That goldblood I kind of want to someday introduce who doesn’t have a name or design (I decided to name her after one of these words so now she’s) Aislin:

A - abacinate (to blind), ablepsia/anopsia (blindness), akinesia (inability to move), algedonics (science of pleasure/pain), analgia (inability to feel pain), antalgic (relieving pain), antephialtic (preventing nightmares), antimnemonic (eliminating memories), aponia (painlessness)

B - bufotenine (hallucinogen)

C - calipace (turtle shell), cecutiency (tendency to blindness), chelonian (turtle-like), chrysopoetics (transmutation into gold), cimelia/cimeliarch (stored treasures), coenaesthesis (sensation)

D - dégagé (untroubled, at rest), demiurge (creative spirit), dreamery (place of dreams)

E - ecmnesia (loss of memory of a specific period), eidetic (vivid mental image), eidolon (apparition), eirenism (peaceful state of mind), emys (freshwater turtle), engram (lasting effect on memory), esemplasy (unifying power of imagination), eupathy (contentment)

T - testudinal (tortoise-like)

Tellin:

A - absolutory (forgiving), aby (to atone), acutiator (sharpens weapons), agathodaimon (good conscience), agnize (to confess)

C - cathexis (investment of emotional energy), chrysology (study of precious metals), cybernate (computer control)

D - doctiloquent (speaking learnedly)

E - elocation (removed from someone’s control), encephaloid (brain-like), ephectic (reserving judgment), exeat (leave of absence), expiate (to make amends), expiscate (to discover by examination), exstrophy (turning an organ inside out)

F -

G - gallionic (uncaring), gradgrind (one who manages with statistics)

T - tatonnement (experimentation), technocracy, tentamen/tentation (experiment)

Niksir:

A - alieniloquy (off-topic speech), armipotent

B - bavardage (prattle), brabble (to quarrel)

C - criant (garish)

D - dicacity (banter)

E - eft (a newt), effutiation (humbug), élan

F -

G - gamin/gaminesque (precocious imp, boyish), gelastic/gelogenic (provoking laughter)

Jocass:

A - accentor (song bird), accoy (to pacify), adjutor (assistant), auceps/austringer (bird tender), avicular (bird-like)

B - boanerges (orator), bulbul (songbird)

C - caduceator (messenger), caliology (study of bird’s nests), columbaceous/columbine (dove-like), conure, culver (dove), cymotrichous (wavy-haired)

E - eirenicon (peaceful message), elchee (ambassador)

G - gregatim (in flocks)

T - tectrix (small feather)

Good-end empress:

A - accismus (false refusal), acierate (to turn into steel), acracy (anarchy), acolouthic (after-sensation), adhocracy (unstructured government), adventitious (accidental), afterclap (unexpected effect), agist (charge with public burden), amaranthine (undying), anatreptic (overcoming), anemocracy (government by whim), anomic/anomie (lacking social norms), antibasilican (anti-monarchic), antonomasia (use of epithet instead of name), aristarchy (government by the best), astringe (binding obligation)

B - barbarocracy (gov’t by barbarians), bestiocracy (rule of beasts)

C - catholicon (cure-all), cementatory (binding), chirocracy (gov’t by force), ciplinarian (anarchist), cleronomy (inheritance), cosmarchy (devil’s rule over the world), curule (high authority)

D - debel/debellate (to conquer in battle), deicide

E - eclat (to make notorious), eleutherian (freedom-giving), émeute (uprising), enantiodromia (replacement by opposite), epinician (celebrating triumph)

F -

G - giganticide, gramercy (expression of gratitude/surprise)

T - tyrannicide

General:

A - abessive (absence/lack), aboulia (indecision), absterge (to clean/purify), acatalepsy (unknowableness), accidie (sloth), acciaccatura (short note before long one), acedia (sloth, listlessness) acescence (souring), acharné (furious/desperate), aculeate (prickly), adespota (anonymous works), adevism (denial of gods), adiaphoron (belief something’s indifferent about), adnomination (punning), adonise (to adorn), adumbrate (to foreshadow), adust (scorched), aeolistic (long-winded), afferent (bearing), agelast (never laughs), agnosy (ignorance), agowilt (fear), aigrette (plume/jewel spray), aischrolatry (worship of filth), aleatoric (depending on chance), alethiology (study of truth), alible (nourishing), aliicide (murder), allemande (courtly dance), almoner (alms-giver/social worker), alterity (being different), altitonant (thundering loudly), amadelphous (outgoing), amerce (to deprive/to punish), amicicide (murder of a friend), anaerectic (destructive), anencephalic (brainless), anfractuous (winding/intricate), anglice (in plain English), animadvert (to criticize), anisothenic (being of unequal strength), annomination (pun), anoesis (not-understood sensation), antiloquy (contradiction), antiperistasis (resistance), antithalian (anti-fun), antipudic (concealing private body parts), appetence (craving), arefy (to wither), aristarch (severe critic), armigerous (entitled to bear arms), armisonant (loud with battle noises), asperse (disparage), aspidate (shield-shaped), assurgent (rising), ataraxia (tranquility), athanasy (deathlessness), athymia (melancholy), atimy (disgrace)

B - badinage (banter), badious (chestnut-colored), barathrum (an abyss / someone insatiable), barnard (decoy), baryphonic (having difficulty speaking), bathysmal (in ocean depths), battue (indiscriminate slaughter), beldam, bellecism (inclination to violence), belliferous (bringing war), bellipotent (militarily powerful), bellwether (leader), benefic (benign), benthic/benthos, berceuse (lullaby), bethel (seamen’s chapel), bewray (to divulge), bindle (blanket roll), bismer (shame), bletherskate (speaker of nonsense), boeotian (stupid), borborology (filthy talk), borné (narrow-minded), bourasque (tempest), boutade (sudden outburst), breedbate (someone seeking argument), breme (fierce), brimborion (nonsense/trash), brobdingnagian (big), bugaboo/bushwa (nonsense), bulimy (great hunger), bullyrag (to badger)

C - cacaesthesia (morbid sensation), cachexic (physically/mentally unhealthy), cacodoxy (wrong opinion), cacoethes (bad habit), cacogen (antisocial person), cacotopia (state of maximum bad), cafard (depression), calefacient (warming), callant (boy), calumniate (to slander), camarilla (king’s associates), camisade (night attack), camorra (traitors), camsteary (unruly), canaille (riffraff), captious (peevish), captation (seeking recognition), carnaptious (bad-tempered), carriwitchet (pun), casuistry (flawed moral reasoning), catachthonian (underground), cauponate (questionable trade), causerie (gossip), celation (concealment), celsitude (loftiness), cerberic (vigilant), charientism (euphemism), chevisance (gain), chrestomathic (useful knowledge), clinamen (prejudice), colluctation (strife), colytic (restraining), comity (civility), commination (threatening), concetto (witticism), concinnity (elegance/harmony), conspurcation (defilement), corybantic (excited/frenzied), cothurnal (tragic), crepehanger (pessimist), crescive (growing), croceate (saffron), cullion (rascal), cunctation (delay), curvet (frisk), cynosure (object of interest)

D - daedal (displaying inventive skill), damoiseau (male version of “damsel”), darraign (to vindicate), debarrass (to disentangle), declassé (below one’s class), decollate (to behead, to disorganize), decuman (large), decurtate (to shorten or abbreviate), dedition (surrender), deflexure (deviation), dégringolade (downfall), dehort (to dissuade), delenda (things to be destroyed), deliration (madness), delirifacient (causing madness), delphically (enigmatically), demersal (living underwater), deodate (gift from god), depaysé (out of one’s element), desiderium (longing), diacope (deep wound/incision), diamanté (glittering), diallelus (circular argument), diogenic (cynical), dirigent (guiding), disembogue (to throw into the sea), disimmure (to liberate), disorbed (deprived of authority), dissentient (dissenter), dithyrambic (passionate, frenzied), dodoism (stupid remark), dominicide (killing one’s master), doomster, donnism (self-importance), doxastic (of opinion), draffish (worthless), ducdame (meaningless refrain), duncical (stupid), dysaesthesia (loss of sensation), dysania (struggling to wake up), dysbulia (loss of wllpower)

E - ebullition (agitation, boiling over), ecbatic (indicates results without intention), egency (need), emberlucock/embrangle (to confuse), emicate (to sparkle), encraty (self-control), endarchy (centralized government), enervate, enosis (union), entelechy (perfect realization of ultimate goal), epicureanism, epideictic (done for show), epigon (successor), epinosic (unhealthy). equiparate (to treat as an equal), eremite (hermit), erethism (irritability), ergasia (workaholism), eristic (pertaining to argument), esclandre (unpleasantness), espiègle (mischievous), essoin (giving an excuse to not appear in court), eucrasy (fitness/physical well-being), eunoia (mental health), eunomia (being well-governed), euphuism (affected writing style), eupraxia (correct/orthodox action), eutrapely (wit/urbanity), exaugurate (to desanctify), excarnate (to remove flesh), exheredate (to disinherit), expatiate (to wander, to write about in detail)

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G - galbanum/galimatias (nonsense), galère (group of undesirables, unpleasant situation), gasconade (to boast), gaucherie (awkward remark), gaudiloquent (speaking joyfully), gaumless (stupid), gement (lamenting), genarch (head of family), genetrix (mother/female ancestor), geratology (study of decadence nad decay), gerent (ruler, manager), grandeval (ancient), grinagog (one who constantly grins), gripulous (greedy), grith (sanctuary), grithbreach (breach of the peace), groundling (commoner), growlery (retreat for when angry), guignol (something intended to horrify), gunarchy/gynaecocracy/gynarchy/gynocracy (government by women)

T - tacenda (secrets), tacent (silent), taction (touch), tahr (wild goat), takin (goatlike animal), tallage (feudal tax), tapinosis (degrading speech), taradiddle (nonsense), tarassis (manly hysteria), tardiloquent (speaking slowly), tardigrade (slow-paced), tarpan (small wild horse), tarriance (procrastination), taws (whip), taciturn, teen (grief), tegminal (protecting), telegnosis (clairvoyance), teleonomy (governance by purpose), telos (purpose), temenos (sacred place), temerarious (daring), temperative (calming), temporaneous (short-lived), tenebrose (gloomy), tendentious (meant to advance a cause), tenue (bearing, manner), teramorphous/teratoid (monstruous), teratism (monster), terraqueous (amphibious), thanatoid (deadly), thelematic (of free will, voluntary), thelemic (allowing people to do as they please), theomastix (god-send punishment), thereoid (bestial), thersitical (violent in speech), theriodic (malignant), thiasus (worshippers), thole (to endure), thrasonic (boastful), threnetic/threnodic (mournful), tigerism (swagger), timbrous (sonorous), tiro (novice), tonish (fashionable), toplofty (haughty), topophobia (stage fright), tortious (doing wrong), torvity (grimness), traditive (traditional), traduce (to slander), tralineate (to deviate), transpontine (melodramatic), tristiloquy/tristisonous (mournfu), troglodytic (cave-dwelling), trucidation (slaughter), tufthunter (toady)

#ooc #(( i love words ...#(( it's gonna take me forever to get through the entire alphabet though #(( i've spent like 4 hours on this and i'm only to the CA's #(( this list is kind of weird ... some of the words are truly obscure but then there's ones that i use every day #(( well not /every/ day but quite a bit

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