Word Of The Day

Ha?ek

a diacritic (ˇ) placed over a letter in some languages, as Czech and Lithuanian, and in some systems of phonetic transcription, especially to indicate that a sound is palatalized.



Sennachie

a professional storyteller of family genealogy, history, and legend.



Defenestrate

to throw (a person or thing) out of a window.



Chaparral

a dense growth of shrubs or small trees.



Quasar

one of over a thousand known extragalactic objects, starlike in appearance and having spectra with characteristically large redshifts, that are thought to be the most distant and most luminous objects in the universe.



Subgum

prepared with mixed vegetables, as with water chestnuts, mushrooms, and bean sprouts.



Viscid

having a glutinous consistency; sticky; adhesive.



Hieroglyphic

designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.



Esemplastic

having the ability to shape diverse elements or concepts into a unified whole.



Misnomer

a misapplied or inappropriate name or designation.