Mardrax Posted December 13, 2006 Report Share Posted December 13, 2006 Degenerates Etymology: Middle English degenerat, from Latin degeneratus, past participle of degenerare to degenerate, from de- + gener-, genus race, kind -People that have declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state. -People that have sunk to a condition below that which is normal to a type; especially : having sunk to a lower and usually corrupt and vicious state. -Degraded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyrfalcon Posted December 13, 2006 Report Share Posted December 13, 2006 A word of horror for our coffee drinkers is: Decaffinate to extract caffeine from: to decaffeinate coffee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mardrax Posted December 14, 2006 Report Share Posted December 14, 2006 Is it Decaffinate or Decaffeinate? Make up your mind Gyr Dramatisation A rendition of something that is made more dramatic than it already was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyrfalcon Posted December 14, 2006 Report Share Posted December 14, 2006 *looks* Looks like the dictionary I pulled it from (without definition, so had to go look for it) was wrong. ;P Too bad, I liked that one. Time for a retcon... Word Length - 12 desirability n. - The state or quality of being desirable; desirableness. And to keep things moving... Word Length - 14 deconstruction –noun a philosophical and critical movement, starting in the 1960s and esp. applied to the study of literature, that questions all traditional assumptions about the ability of language to represent reality and emphasizes that a text has no stable reference or identification because words essentially only refer to other words and therefore a reader must approach a text by eliminating any metaphysical or ethnocentric assumptions through an active role of defining meaning, sometimes by a reliance on new word construction, etymology, puns, and other word play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mardrax Posted December 15, 2006 Report Share Posted December 15, 2006 Deuteriumhydride - 16 A deuterium-hydrogen molecule that, if it could be brought into being at all, would probably be unstable at best. The obliged chemist's word. Hypothetical at that, afaik. Have to love chemistry. Surely, there has to be a longer D word than 16 letters that's not entirely dependant on pre- and suffixes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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