A method of making stereotype plates from inscribed sheets of wax.
The art of making characters or designs in, or with, wax.
chapelgoer
chapelgoer
noun
One who regularly attends chapel.
chaptering
chaptering
verb
present participle of chapter
chargeship
chargeship
noun
The position or office of a chargé d'affaires.
chemigraph
chippering
chippering
verb
present participle of chipper
creophagia
creophagia
noun
Alternative form of kreophagy
epigraphic
epigraphic
adj
Of or pertaining to an epigraph or to epigraphy.
ergophobic
ergophobic
adj
averse to doing work
geographic
geographic
adj
Determined by geography, as opposed to magnetic (i.e. North)
Pertaining to geography (or to geographics)
geomorphic
geomorphic
adj
Of or pertaining to the shape or structure of the surface of the Earth
graecophil
graphemics
graphemics
noun
(linguistics) The study of the graphemes, or writing units, of a script, and of their relation to the phonemes of the spoken language
hectograph
hectograph
noun
(historical) An old printing machine that involves transfer of an original, prepared with special inks, to a pan of gelatin or a gelatin pad pulled tight on a metal frame.
verb
To duplicate (a document) by this process.
hygroscope
hygroscope
noun
An instrument that indicates changes in atmospheric humidity
hypergolic
hypergolic
adj
(chemistry, aeronautics, of a reactant, fuel, or propellant) Igniting spontaneously upon contact with an oxidiser.
(chemistry, aeronautics, of a reaction) Involving such a hypergolic agent.
logperches
logperches
noun
plural of logperch
macrophage
macrophage
noun
(immunology, cytology) A white blood cell that phagocytizes necrotic cell debris and foreign material, including viruses, bacteria, and tattoo ink. It presents foreign antigens on MHC II to lymphocytes. Part of the innate immune system.
microphage
microphage
noun
(biology) A small phagocyte, especially a polymorphonuclear leucocyte (a granulocyte)
necrophaga
necrophagy
necrophagy
noun
The eating of dead or decaying animal flesh
neographic
neographic
adj
Of or relating to innovative forms of writing.
nephralgic
nephralgic
adj
Relating to nephralgia.
phagocyter
preachings
preachings
noun
plural of preaching
precharged
precharged
adj
charged in advance
verb
simple past tense and past participle of precharge
rectigraph
scenograph
scenograph
noun
A perspective representation or general view of an object.
upreaching
upreaching
verb
present participle of upreach
vectograph
vectograph
noun
A kind of stereoscopic print or transparency to be viewed with polarized 3D glasses.