List Words
Ponderously
In a ponderous manner.
Flies
of Fly
Miscitation
Erroneous citation.
Yearly
Happening, accruing, or coming every year; annual; as, a yearly income; a yearly feast.
Ill-natured
Of habitual bad temper; peevish; fractious; cross; crabbed; surly; as, an ill-natured person.
Friendliness
The condition or quality of being friendly.
Dissimulate
Feigning; simulating; pretending.
Tangency
The quality or state of being tangent; a contact or touching.
Stultifying
of Stultify
Duplicature
A doubling; a fold, as of a membrane.
Electrotype
A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively.
Coronary
Of or pertaining to a crown; forming, or adapted to form, a crown or garland.
Polychromic
Polychromatic.
Wreckage
The act of wrecking, or state of being wrecked.
Adductor
A muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body; -- opposed to abductor; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye..
Backbite
To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).
Paternal
Of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father; as, paternal care.
Headland
A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water.
Shalloon
A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff.
Neckerchief
A kerchief for the neck; -- called also neck handkerchief.
Retained
of Retain
Capitulation
A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement.
Loosened
of Loosen
Bluebell
A plant of the genus Campanula, especially the Campanula rotundifolia, which bears blue bell-shaped flowers; the harebell.
Murmured
of Murmur
Endocardium
The membrane lining the cavities of the heart.
Snippety
Ridiculously small; petty.
Milt
The spleen.
Quadrivial
Having four ways meeting in a point.
Draughts
A mild vesicatory. See Draught, n., 3 (c).
Armature
Armor; whatever is worn or used for the protection and defense of the body, esp. the protective outfit of some animals and plants.
Emperorship
The rank or office of an emperor.
Methodic
Alt. of Methodical
Colliquate
To change from solid to fluid; to make or become liquid; to melt.
Pollen
Fine bran or flour.
Turgid
Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb..
Mooter
A disputer of a mooted case.
Proximity
The quality or state of being next in time, place, causation, influence, etc.; immediate nearness, either in place, blood, or alliance.
Pommel
To beat soundly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with something knoblike; hence, to beat with the fists.
Tumid
Swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh.
Capper
One whose business is to make or sell caps.
Aldine
An epithet applied to editions (chiefly of the classics) which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign ..
Elaterium
A cathartic substance obtained, in the form of yellowish or greenish cakes, as the dried residue of the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly called Momordica E..
Toft
A place where a messuage has once stood; the site of a burnt or decayed house.
Eponym
Alt. of Eponyme
Sheaf
Any collection of things bound together; a bundle; specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, -- usually twenty-four.
Colliquation
A melting together; the act of melting; fusion.
Conglobed
of Conglobe
Nighness
The quality or state of being nigh.
Chromogen
Any colored compound, supposed to contain one or more chromophores.
Random Quote
"Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. 'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her. 'I feel all sleepy,' she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. ...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children."
I just checked google books for BFG, and the dedication is there.
https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/_/quybcXrFhCIC?hl=en&gbpv=1
Roald Dahl, 1986
