bitrochanteric

(anatomy) Relating to, or connecting, the two trochanters.


bisweptual

From bi- + sweep (“rowing style in which each rower has only one oar and rows on one side”) + -ual, in analogy to bisexual.

affix

(US, rowing) A person who is bisweptual.


dualski

(para-skiing) Synonym of biski (A type of sit-ski.)


biski

A type of sit-ski, used in para cross country skiing, with a chair solidly mounted to a pair of side-by-side cross country skis. It is paired with ski poles much like normal cross country poles.


midepigastric

(anatomy) Of, relating to, or located in the middle of the epigastric region of the abdomen.


midtemporal

(anatomy) In the middle of the temple (of the head)


bikaryon

(cytology) Either of the nuclei of a binucleate cell


underacetylation

(biochemistry) Insufficient acetylation (typically of histones)


underambitious

en-adj

underambitious (comparative more underambitious, superlative most underambitious)

more underambitious (comparative)
most underambitious (superlative)

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A woman—or at least I thought so; she could have been a slightly underambitious transvestite—in a leather miniskirt and bustier top, and the sort of waist-length blond extensions designed for twirling around at the same time as the wearer's nipple tassels.

2014, Hester Browne, Honeymoon Hotel, →ISBN, page 241:

You risk your work being dismissed as underambitious and so failing to find out anything important.

2016, Mike Wallace, Alison Wray, Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates, →ISBN:

He is underambitious in his characterization of morality, cashing out prescriptivity in terms of prevailing expectations rather than objective authority, settling for an account of a sense of obligations rather than obligations themselves, and for empathetic behavior rather than empathetic motivations.

2016, David Baggett, Jerry L. Walls, God and Cosmos: Moral Truth and Human Meaning, →ISBN:


underambition

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Both overambition and underambition at this stage will lead to frustration and the inevitable lack of effective progress.

2002, Eric Ruding, Middle Management in Action: Practical Approaches to School Improvement, →ISBN:

So it is important to take seriously the scope to configure what your research will be about, avoiding both overreaching topics and underambition.

2003, Patrick Dunleavy, Authoring a PhD, →ISBN:

Being overambitious bears the risk of ending up empty-handed, whereas underambition will lead to a vocational track that has too little promotion potential.

2007, Rainer K Silbereisen, Richard M Lerner, Approaches to Positive Youth Development, →ISBN:


underamplify

en-verb

underamplify (third-person singular simple present underamplifies, present participle underamplifying, simple past and past participle underamplified)

underamplifies (present singular third-person)
underamplifying (participle present)
underamplified (participle past)
underamplified (past)

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In general, there is a tendency to underamplify the extreme ends of the musical scale and to overamplify certain particular frequencies below the middle, such as originate from acoustic resonance.

1933, Keith Henney, The Radio Engineering Handbook, page 286:

Physiological thresholds can differ from behavioral thresholds by ±15–20 dB HL. Thus, without verification of behavioral responses with amplification, hearing aids may underamplify or overamplify.

2006, Patricia Spencer, Advances in the Spoken-Language Development of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children, →ISBN:

What is interesting to note here is that the 2⁄3 gain can be seen to overamplify over the curved line of the impaired ear more than underamplifies, whereas the 1⁄3 gain curve illustrates the opposite, where it tends to underamplify sound to the ear.

2014, Michael J. Metz, Sandlin's Textbook of Hearing Aid Amplification, →ISBN:


underactivate

underactivate (third-person singular simple present underactivates, present participle underactivating, simple past and past participle underactivated)

underactivates (present singular third-person)
underactivating (participle present)
underactivated (participle past)
underactivated (past)

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Wood and Flowers (1999) demonstrated with Positron Emission Tomography (PET) that the same brain regions that underactivate in dyslexia also underactivate in the inattentive subtype of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

2001 -, Que Ida, Annals of Dyslexia 2001, →ISBN, page 37:

In contrast, struggling readers underactivate the reading systems in the back of the brain and overactivate the system in the front of the brain.

2014, Patrick R. Riccards, Phyllis Blaunstein, Reid Lyon, Why Kids Can't Read: Continuing to Challenge the Status Quo in Education, →ISBN:

An important discovery over the last ten years comes from studies that parametrically varied working memory load to establish that, compared to younger adults, older adults tend to overactivate PFC regions at lower loads, and to underactivate at higher loads, where performance also drops off.

2016, Roberto Cabeza, Lars Nyberg, Denise C. Park, Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging: Linking Cognitive and Cerebral Aging, →ISBN:

To produce insufficient levels of activation.


biphosphorylation

en-noun

biphosphorylation (countable and uncountable, plural biphosphorylations)

phosphorylation involving two phosphate groups


underactuate

en-verb

underactuate (third-person singular simple present underactuates, present participle underactuating, simple past and past participle underactuated)

underactuates (present singular third-person)
underactuating (participle present)
underactuated (participle past)
underactuated (past)

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The basic idea is to temporarily underactuate the robot system by releasing one of the actuators and to use some additional driving force to guide the parallel kinematic structure through the singularity of type 2.

2010, Daniel Schütz, Friedrich M. Wahl, Robotic Systems for Handling and Assembly, →ISBN, page 101:

Figure 10 refers to a first design for underactuating the LARM finger mechanism by using a linear spring within the body of phalanx 2, [17].

2015, Shaoping Bai, Marco Ceccarelli, Recent Advances in Mechanism Design for Robotics, →ISBN:

A four-bar mechanism (Fig.2) is used to underactuate the fingers so that they can automatically adapt to the shape and size of the object and be less sensitive to positioning errors of the robot relative to the object to grasp.

2018, Vigen Arakelian, Philippe Wenger, ROMANSY 22 – Robot Design, Dynamics and Control, →ISBN:

(robotics) To make less easily actuated or responsive.


midcell

(biology) The region in the middle of a cell where division takes place


binaphthoquinone

(organic chemistry) A dimer of a naphthoquinone


bicyclase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyses two cyclization reactions (typically at both ends of a carotenoid such as lycopene)


midbasal

(anatomy, botany) In the middle of a base


underallocate

underallocate (third-person singular simple present underallocates, present participle underallocating, simple past and past participle underallocated)

underallocates (present singular third-person)
underallocating (participle present)
underallocated (participle past)
underallocated (past)

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biparatopic

That targets two epitopes at the same place


salutogenesis

The production and maintenance of health or wellbeing


midvitreous

(anatomy) In the middle of the vitreous humour


midtibia

The fourth segment of the midleg of an insect (typically of a mosquito)


palmitoylatable

(biochemistry) That can be palmitoylated


underadjust

underadjust (third-person singular simple present underadjusts, present participle underadjusting, simple past and past participle underadjusted)

underadjusts (present singular third-person)
underadjusting (participle present)
underadjusted (participle past)
underadjusted (past)

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underadjustment

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uptitling

To summarise, E - while ignoring the initial ramble about the NHS, the Greeks and the 'uptitling' of Personnel to Human Resources - seems unduly exercised by 'the tendency to employ specialists of all kinds which can lead to line managers abdicating their responsibility' with consequent deleterious effect on costs and criticises the adoption of 'mee too' thinking in designing organisations.

2003, Management Services - Volume 47, page 8:

Uptitling as a strategic device, however, is not a joke: a recent UK survey by Reed International revealed that 50 per cent of workers would register greater job satisfaction with a nicer title, even if it made no difference to their duties or salary.

2007, Tony Thorne, Shoot the Puppy: A Survival Guide to the Curious Jargon of Modern Life, →ISBN:

As others have commented, uptitling is also part of a form of "credentialism" that ultimately springs from striving to produce a good CV with the disturbing side effect of inflation.

2014, Roland Paulsen, Empty Labor: Idleness and Workplace Resistance, →ISBN, page 82:

Uptitling has been seen by some as an attempt by employers to improve job satisfaction without increasing pay.

2015, BUSINESS Essential, →ISBN, page 668:

The practice of giving a job an impressive title to make it appear more desirable.

But instead, we discover after a few pages that we have been victimized by the common publisher's trick of “uptitling.”

1963, The School Counselor - Volumes 11-13, page 252:

The practice of giving a book a more impressive title than its content merits.


hyperextensor

(anatomy) A muscle involved in hyperextension of the trunk


midesophageal

(anatomy) In the middle of the esophagus


midfemoral

(anatomy) Located at the middle of the femur


midpalatal

(anatomy) Alternative form of mediopalatal.


midtrimester

During the fourth to sixth months of pregnancy


midhour

(poetic) The middle part of the day or night.


somniphobe

The thought of sleeping can produce nervousness, trembling, and, ironically, sleepiness in some somniphobes; many sufferers choose to work at night because they find it easier to sleep during the day.

2019, Andrew Thompson, Spiders, Clowns and Great Mole Rats: Over 150 Phobias That Will Freak You Out, from Arachnophobia to Zemmiphobia:

(very rare) One who suffers from somniphobia.


upglance

upglance (third-person singular simple present upglances, present participle upglancing, simple past and past participle upglanced)

upglances (present singular third-person)
upglancing (participle present)
upglanced (participle past)
upglanced (past)

I stood beside her couch, with her thin fingers clasped round my hand ever so long, looking down at the earnest eyes upglancing from the pillow.

1864, Jenny Wren, Facts and fancies, in prose and verse, page 195:

Or the rapturous light that upglances From the eyes of a myriad Loves.

1887, James Abraham Martling, Poems of Home and Country, page 300:

All of a sudden upglances Æneas, and under a cliff on the left hand Sees broad battlements loom, by a tripple enclosure surrounded, Which, with its torrent of flame, the Tartarean Phlegethon's rapid River encircles, and hurls the reverberant rocks on its current.

1888, Virgil (Oliver Crane, trans.), The Aeneid, page 116:

And with what eager enthusiasm it accepts its fate, dashing on side angles, surging against round, bossy knobs, swirling in pot holes, upglancing in shallow, curved basins, then bounding out over the brink and down the grand descent, more air than water, glowing like a sun beaten cloud.


midsporulation

Relating to the middle part of sporulation


bipalmitoylate

bipalmitoylate (third-person singular simple present bipalmitoylates, present participle bipalmitoylating, simple past and past participle bipalmitoylated)

bipalmitoylates (present singular third-person)
bipalmitoylating (participle present)
bipalmitoylated (participle past)
bipalmitoylated (past)

To palmitoylate with two palmitoyl groups, or at two locations


bipalmitoylation

palmitoylation with two palmitoyl groups, or at two locations


fungiphile

fungiphiles (plural)
fungophile (alternative)

In addition to the enjoyment of hunting and the pleasure of new mushroom discoveries, the cryptic association of fungi with the decaying dead lends to the search a certain mystique that inspires the avid fungiphile.

1999, Jack S. States, Mushrooms and Truffles of the Southwest, page 11:

Where I live, in Santa Cruz, California, one of the highlights of the fall season is the “Fungus Fair,” sponsored by the city museum and the Fungus Federation, where exotic mushroom dishes are sampled by thousands of eager fungiphiles.

2002, Christopher Hobbs, Medicinal Mushrooms: An Exploration of Tradition, Healing, and Culture:

For the past few years, Kroeger and his network of fungiphiles have been putting up posters in infected neighborhoods. The BC Centre for Disease Control sends out his warnings in press releases, and he sets up a booth at street events in order to warn anyone willing to listen that death caps should be left alone.

2019 February 9, Craig Childs, “Death-Cap Mushrooms Are Spreading Across North America”, in The Atlantic:

A person who likes to collect, cook or eat wild mushrooms.

phytophile

affinities by either people or symbionts


fungiphilic

Relating to, or characteristic of a fungiphile.


monoped

New-type monoped landing gear is to be fitted, and wing wheels are to retract.

1945, Aviation Week and Space Technology - Volume 44, page 35:

The final forms of each technique are similar, the exceptions being that stemming skills are not contained in the monoped technique. The numerous methods used to teach the biped skier are also applicable to the monoped student.

1975, Ronald C. Adams, Alfred Daniel, Lee Rullman, Games, sports, and exercises for the physically handicapped, page 241:

Curling organic orange leather armchairs are superbly stylish and comfortable only surpassed by zoomorphic monoped wood and metal tables.


forestology

Was this a new discovery in forestology? The thought was too exciting, and forgetting the weariness of the tired limbs, I proceeded to climb up and get specimens of leaves and cones, and to make notes of the new discovery.

1902, Thomas W. Webber, The Forests of Upper India and Their Inhabitants, page 83:

West Virginia, from the standpoint of forestology, is located in the north central portion of that more or less oval-shaped but distinct forest region […]

1929, David G. White, “The Hardwoods of West Virginia in Industry”, in The Southern Lumberman, volume 137, page 159:

[…] and, in a few cases, long experience almost makes up for the fact that their knowledge of the higher branches of forestology does not reach the standard of that of the professional officer.

1952, Northern Rhodesia. Commission to Review the Salary Structure, Remuneration and Terms of Service of the Civil Service, European staff. pt. 2. African staff, page 27


equiphile

Unless you’re the kind of equiphile who grew up with “Black Beauty” on your shelf, Nir’s personal horse stories can blend together — wait, was Amigo the red quarter horse with the fear of plastic bags, or the chestnut Appaloosa at the Upper West Side training academy?

2020 August 14, Ben Goldfarb, “Birds and Horses and Eels, Oh My! New Books About Animals”, in The New York Times:


panphobe

For quotations using this term, see Citations:panphobe.

A person who experiences or exhibits panphobia.


bibliovore

From biblio- (“book”) + -vore (“consumer”).

The book probably was at the bottom of a pile of 14 library books, accidentally got picked up and dumped in the bibliovore labeled “Return Books Here.” […] [Y]ou meekly approach the library to find out what they would do with a book that wasn’t theirs. […] [I]f the marking is on the inside, the marking that has your name or the name of the department on it, it disappears.

1967 November 17, Roz Davis, “‘Pre-enrollment Held’: Receipts to guard against library errors”, in Brian Weiss, editor, UCLA Daily Bruin, volume LXXII, number 36, Los Angeles, Calif.: Communications Board of the Associated Students of UCLA, →ISSN, page 4, column 3:

Virtually everything requested was provided except for the odd file that had been misindexed, mislaid, or consumed by the silverfish and other bibliovores that inhabit dark and dusty shelves.

1993, Chris Sauer, “The Case Study Approach”, in Why Information Systems Fail: A Case Study Approach (Information Systems Series), Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire: Alfred Waller Limited, →ISBN, section 2 (Research Method for the Mandata Study), subsection 3 (The research process), page 140:

Ahem, my fellow books. […] I fully realize that since the untimely mortal passage of our dear librarian, all of us have been anxious about what the future might hold for us. Some of us might even have thought of following the Catalogue into the outer world, where only dangers and hardships await—bibliovores such as the gnoles and gnurrs and zipper-nut squirrels. […] Outside is probably miles and miles of forest just teeming with bibliovores.

2002, Paul Di Filippo, “The Reluctant Book”, in Babylon Sisters and Other Posthumans, Canton, Oh.: Prime Books, →ISBN, pages 222 and 228:

“[…] Mikie has her pretty well hooked, convinced her that bibliovoria was the only way to kill the bugs, that her own body offered a more secure environment for her beloved manuscripts than the infested stacks at the Spence.[…]” Whether from the image of Mary Dilthey eating book with Michael Monihan, or from contemplating what manner of colonoscopy would now be necessary to enjoy the riches of the Spence, or from the smell of Rachel’s pie, a wave of nausea was beginning to build deep in my soul, so I paid our tab, bid farewell to the two bibliovores, and returned to Sculley’s flat.

2002 summer, Gregory Whitehead, “Hungry for God”, in Cabinet, number 7, Brooklyn, N.Y.: Immaterial Incorporated, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2020-09-27, page 65, column 1:

“[…] You’d better feed me books or you will hear me roar! I’m a great green squishy mean bibliovore.” They fed him all the reference books they never used, but the monster still was hungry and escaped. He broke into an empty elementary school where he learned that spelling books cause belly aches.

2005, Monty Harper, “The Great Green Squishy Mean Bibliovore”, in The Great Green Squishy Mean Concert CD, Stillwater, Okla.: Monty Harper Productions, →ISBN, column 3:

The Librarian's a bibliovore. She eats the written word, absorbing and storing them within her, then accessing them at will. […] Much of what she makes goes into acquiring rare books, which she devours so she's the sole repository of their information, making it that much more valuable.

2015, Gareth Lewis, “Cage of Thoughts”, in Tales of the Thief-City:

I made to go, telling her how busy I had been, how meticulously I had assessed our collection for signs of damp or the predations of bibliovores, how particularly pleased I was to have spotted some small indications of silverfish in the old chest where we kept scraps of parchment.

2023, Meg Clothier, “The Ink-Crate”, in The Book of Eve, London: Wildfire, Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN:

(uncommon) Someone or something that consumes books.


librophile

And there’s the craft people. And librophiles. Bibliophiles. It’s rather curious.

2001, Jerome Gold, Obscure in the Shade of the Giants: Publishing lives, volume II, page 126:

Turning your own librophile approach, against you, I'd have to say that your opinions make lousy references.

2005 April 7, 1X2Willows, “Re: Todays Bible Lesson”, in alt.religion.druid (Usenet), message-ID <yac5e.2034$lP1.1742@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>:

Hey fellow librophiles....just a friendly reminder that the Symphony Book Fair is being held at UNO Lakefront Arena today thru Sunday.

2008 April 1, Mystyk119, “Symphony Book Fair”, in neworleans.general (Usenet), message-ID <1998040123303301.SAA14344@ladder01.news.aol.com>:

The Essential Nicholson Baker [imo] is Double Fold, about libraries discarding their paper newspapers & magazines in favor of (often) poorly-done microfilm. Riveting reading for librophiles.

2002 August 5, Peter D. Tillman, “Re: REVIEW: The Fermata, by Nicholson Baker”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), message-ID <tillman-C2A673.21051904082002@news.toast.net>:

Hello librophiles, / I just wanted to let New Yorkers on this list know that the Godlight Theatre Company will be bringing Graham Greene's 1949 novel "The Third Man" to the stage for the first time on May 8th 2003.

2003 April 30, Maielloclypse the Younger, “First Stage Adapation of Graham Greene's The Third Man”, in rec.arts.books (Usenet), message-ID <c55e8c57.0304301016.2c25f4c4@posting.google.com>:

The “phil” (die philiale, Parkring 12, +43 (0)158 10 489, www.phil.info) is, “A new and very popular cosy hang-out for cinephiles, audiophiles, librophiles and other philes. You can browse through their selection of books, DVDs and records while you enjoy a coffee or snack. The furniture is for sale too,” she adds.

2007 May, Mary Carey, quoting Bady Minck, “Travelling [§] Artful Vienna”, in PaperJam, page 201, column 1:

But I tell her that many librophiles could see iPads – which Airport Library embraces wholeheartedly – as a serious threat to libraries as well as the traditional book form. / But for Deckers, it’s not only about taking the library to the people but also how the information is carried: if libraries offer new forms to carry information, the better this is for their future. / “We’re not librophiles,” she states. “A library is not about books. A book is just a carrier and information can be stored on all kind of carries: film, computers, anything. Most librarians I know agree on that.”

2011, David Meller, quoting Jeanine Deckers, “Pop-Up Libraries [§] The Airport Library”, in David Meller, editor, Catch. A quarterly independent publication, page 7, column 3:

So until that point, “Project Runway” will have to suffice as the proving ground for a projected dialogue and synthesis of identities and sexualities. The relative stability of these socially-determined roles and hierarchies from a historical perspective is not likely to change anytime soon, but at the very least the TV program can demonstrate for us that identity and expression through all media matters, that they need not be predetermined or repressed, and that it is possible to be a peacock in a world of pigeons. And I think that the “Project Runway” mentor Tim Gunn, a former champion swimmer, a librophile, a student and a teacher of design and a proud gay man, demonstrates this potential perfectly.

2012 November 30, Chris Kempf, “Commentary [§] Project Runway: A democracy of identity”, in The Daily Campus, volume CXIX, number 72, page 8:

The executors of Lessing’s estate decided to split her impressive collection of literature between the University of East Anglia and the Harare city library, with the majority of the librophile’s personal library contents to be sent to Zimbabwe with the help of the author’s favourite charity, Book Aid International.

2014 September, Sertan Sanderson, “La Vie des Écoles [§] Doris Lessing leaves 3000 books to Zimbabwe library”, in The South African, number 581, page 8:


caseophile

Brillat-Savarin Normandy, France
 Soft, and available all year. Although the author of Physiologie du Goût was not noted as a caseophile and wrote little on the subject beyond Le Fondue (see Chapter 6), this savory Normandy produce is named in his everlasting praise.

1955, Bob Brown, “Appendix - The A-B-Z of Cheese”, in The Complete Book of Cheese, The Floating Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 284:

Whatever the cause, it is a fact that this season, just when our importers might have been counted on to bring in an array of unfamiliar French products to delight serious caseophiles, only three that are new to our market—and, in our opinion, rather mediocre—have shown up.

1957, The New Yorker, volume 33, page 153:

The story he has chosen to tell is in itself extraordinarily complex, but this has not deterred him from discoursing on philosophy, politics, international relations, and countless other matters, including wine and cheese. (One of the characters is a caseophile.)

1958, Saturday Review, volume 41, page 15, column 1:

A new kit for caseophiles (cheese lovers) has just been produced for classroom use by the Switzerland Cheese Association.

Caseophiles like me inaugurate a trip with a stop at the Marin French Cheese Factory in Petaluma, Sonoma, home of the glorious Rouge et Noir cheeses, which I have never found outside California.

1974, House & Garden, volume 145, page 111, column 2:

Presented with a selection like this, you’ll no doubt agree with critic (and caseophile) Clifton Fadiman, who wisely said that cheese is “milk’s leap toward immortality.”

The uncertain caseophile may circle around the Fiumorbu twice before landing.

2005, Max McCalman, David Gibbons, Cheese: A Connoisseur’s Guide to the World’s Best, Clarkson Potter/Publishers, →ISBN, “Fiomorbu Brébis”, page 137:

Milk: Great cheese requires great milk, but the milk can come from any animal. Sheep’s milk produces the whitest cheese and cow’s the yellowest. Seasonality creates nuances of flavor which a Caseophile (cheese lover) consider the cheese’s terroir.

2007, Wine Enthusiast, volume 20, page 18, column 1:

Some people avoid goat’s milk cheeses because they taste strong or “goaty,” and these people probably should avoid washed rinds at all cost. But true caseophiles adore a washed rind, and the French, of course, are masters at producing these pungent beauties.

2008, Steve Ehlers, Jeanette Hurt, “Part 2: Old World Favorites”, “Chapter 5: French Cheeses”, in The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Cheeses of the World, Alpha Books, →ISBN, “From Brie to Z: The Great Cheeses of France”, “Washed Rind Cheeses”, page 53:

Honey can also help caseophiles survive winter months.

2010, Eric LeMay, “Chuck’s Picks”, in Immortal Milk: Adventures in Cheese, Free Press, →ISBN, “Honey”, page 204:

Vermont is America’s top cheesemaking state per capita (over 40 in all), which makes this festival the ideal place for caseophiles to mingle with the cheesemakers.

2012, Laurel Miller, Thalassa Skinner, “Part V: The Part of Tens”, “Chapter 22: Ten Cheese Festivals You Shouldn’t Miss”, in Cheese For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, “Vermont Cheesemaker’s Festival, page 346:

By now the doors had been opened to the general attendees and the ballroom was flooded with eager caseophiles, who were swarming around the table like mutants from The Omega Man.

2015, Simon Majumdar, “Whey Out in Wisconsin”, in Fed, White, and Blue: Finding America with My Fork, Avery, published 2016, →ISBN, page 156:


fromagophile

From French fromagophile. Equivalent of fromage + -o- + -phile.

The cheese aspired to dizzy gustorial heights in the mouths of campus fromagophiles.

1969 April 18, Clay G. Greighbome, “In the mouths of fromagophiles”, in The Observer, page 7, column 4:

Eager fromagophiles will be able to track René down at his headquarters at 27 rue de Tonneliers, Strasbourg, France, Tel: +33 388 231 319.

>I know the proper word for a cheese-lover, though. / > / Fromagophile?

[1999 November 10, Mark Whickman, “OT: Pokemon is EVIL!!!”, in alt.fan.sonic-hedgehog (Usenet):

To the boston fromagophile, are you in boston or about 10 miles west and visiting steve, carol & brian as they have turned me into a cheese-freak as well.

2002 September 28, Iguanachef, “recommend a cheese please!”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet):

Célina Gagneux has a heart-rending choice to make this winter. Will she make another cheese? Mme Gagneux, 73, is the last maker of the Vacherin d'Abondance, a rich, creamy cheese, so liquid you eat it with a spoon. Her cheeses are much prized by fromagophiles, in the way rare birds and rare flowers and rare wines are prized.

2005 August 1, John Lichfield, “The death of a cheesy tradition”, in The Independent:

Local fromagophiles will have the opportunity for a private tour and tutored tastings with two star artisans when we bus out to the country to visit Doe Run Dairy in Coatesville, where Kristian Holbrooke is crafting and aging stunning mixed-milk cheeses from their herd of goats, sheep and cows.

2011 June, “A Caravan of Freshness”, in Grid, number 27, Cheesemakers of Chester County, page 22:

Card-carrying fromagophile Ihsan Gurdal of Formaggio Kitchen will send you home ready to toss those month-old Kraft squares and invest in something likely older but definitely tastier.

2012, “Food & Drink: Calendar”, “Chew Out”, in The Phœnix, “Tuesday 27: A Taste of French Fromages”, page 45:

However, lest you fromagophiles/cheesaholics be tempted to taste this pharaonic delicacy, be advised that the team also identified the presence of Brucella melitensis – the causative agent of brucellosis, which affects several mammals, including humans – in the samples.

2018 December 4, Nigel Chaffey, “Plant Cuttings: News in Botany”, in Annals of Botany, volume 122, number 7, “Bread’s birth bested by 4400 years”, page v, column 2:


vitology

From Latin vīta (“life”), from vīvō (“I live”), + -ology.

The science of vitology consists of social sciences like economics, legal studies, health sciences, sociology, psychology and educational studies even as they regard the educational system a part of the social system which encompasses system of sciences, health and polical system, etc.

2002, Rajendra Pal Singh, Gopal Rana, Teacher Education in Turmoil: Quest for a Solution, page 72:


ursophile

When a rogue grizzly must be exterminated by government officials, the laments of these new ursophiles continue for months, and letters to the editor run four or five to one in condemnation of the exterminators.

1969, Jack Olsen, “Prologue”, in Night of the Grizzlies, Signet, published 1971, page 23:

The anthology, suitable for the junior school library, Michael Bond’s Book of Bears, could well have been a feast for ursophiles but turns out to be only a good dinner.

1975, Education for Development Quarterly, page 52:

The Burton Collection of the Detroit Public Library, which has so many varieties, owns a copy, printed as part of a little seven-page pamphlet, Sir Bruin, issued in 1866, and ursophiles may read it there.

Bialosky is on the cover—to extend comfort and congratulations to ursophiles everywhere.

1984, Publishers Weekly, volume 225, page 51, column 1:

One reason: a contest that allows ursophiles to submit pictures of their own Teddies, which may be selected for inclusion in the ’86 edition.

Which much loved and sadly missed English writer, actor and ursophile wrote a lovely book all about living in a small house on the same island?

1986, Punch, volume 291, page 31, column 3:

About six months later, Chuck Gibbs, another avid amateur photographer and ursophile, approached too close to a sow grizzly and her three cubs in Glacier National Park and was killed.

1993, Martha Hill, The Art of Photographing Nature, Three Rivers Press, →ISBN:

These two new books are designed to stoke the insatiable appetite of ursophiles.

1993, Canadian Geographic, page 6, column 1:

Bears are among the most popular animals, and this book of photos and essays will satisfy the most particular ursophiles.

1997, Book Review Digest, volume 93, page 1357:

Dedicated ursophile and BBC Wildlife staff writer James Fair believes brown bears would thrive in the valleys and beech woods of the western Cotswolds.

2006 April, BBC Wildlife, volume 24, page 36, column 3:

To Diann, my alpha partner, ursophile, and tracking friend, for all her loving support and help.

2008, James C. Halfpenny, Scats and Tracks of North America: A Field Guide to the Signs of Nearly 150 Wildlife Species, Falcon Guides, →ISBN:

This is a beary special quiz for ursophiles—all the answers contain the letters b-e-a-r.

2009, Sylvia Dolson, “Test Your Voca-bear-lary!”, in Bear-ology: Fascinating Bear Facts, Tales & Trivia, PixyJack Press, →ISBN, page 172:


araneophobia

From Latin arānea or arāneus + -o- + -phobia.

To exasperation caused by this impotence in the past, we may ascribe at least some portion of man’s susceptibility to araneophobia in the present; but it is probably due, in the main, to the spider’s unprepossessing features, and to his possession of venomous fangs.

1929, J. C. Squire, editor, The London Mercury, volume XX, page 330:

On the other hand, the subcategories pertinent to arachnid-produced phobias would only rarely lead to a definitive diagnosis of arachnophobia or the more specific scorpiophobia, araneophobia, or acarophobia.[…]This term, arachnophobia (fear of arachnids), has been used so often in connection with the disease condition of the Middle Ages known as “tarantism” that it has become synonymous with araneophobia (or araneidophobia). In technical reports, arachnophobia should only be used when there is assurance that the phobia is limited to all arachnids[…]. As with scorpions, these large-bodied arachnids [spiders] are spectacles of the media and currently exaggerated both as aesthetic trouble-free pets (“talk shows”) and as the central attraction in horror films. The wide distribution and overlap of habitat with animals must produce an acceleration of the number of cases of araneophobia.

1984, Herman Beerman, William B. Nutting, “Arachnid-Related Phobias: Symbiophobia, Preventions, and Treatments”, in William B. Nutting, editor, Mammalian Diseases and Arachnids, volumes II, “Medico-Veterinary, Laboratory, and Wildlife Diseases, and Control”, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, pages 106–107:

Since most arthropods are usually harmless or beneficial to mankind, it may at first be hard to understand why araneophobia, the irrational fear of spiders, is so common.

1987 January, Lloyd E. King, “Spider Bites”, in Archives of Dermatology, volume 123, page 41, column 1:

Spiders have been given a “bad rap” by a sensation-seeking press that plays on one of humanity’s most common phobias, araneophobia (the irrational fear of spiders).

1987 October, E.W.T. Turgeon, “Insects and Spiders: Infestations and Bites”, in Canadian Family Physician, volume 33, page 2369, column 2:

Bites by spiders, otherwise known as arachnidism, seem to hold a particular terror for humans. There is significant fear of these organisms (araneophobia), and yet few actually cause disease.

1996, Mervyn L. Elgart, “Insect Bites and Stings”, in Kenneth A. Arndt, Philip E. LeBoit, June K. Robinson, Bruce U. Wintroub, editors, Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery: An Integrated Program in Dermatology, volume 1, Philadelphia, Pa.: W.B. Saunders Company, →ISBN, section “Arachnid Bites”, subsection “Definition”, page 811, column 1:

A good form of the protection of spiders would be ”curing” the society from araneophobia, which is unfortunately common in our country.

2001, Marzena Stańska, “Spiders Araneae of the Mazovian Lowland - the state of knowledge, threats and forms of conservation”, in Henryk Kot, Andrzej Dombrowski, editors, Strategia Ochrony Fauny na Nizinie Mazowieckiej, Siedlce: Mazowieckie Towarzystwo Ochrony Fauny, page 304:

There also are cases in which individuals develop an abnormal fear of spiders such that the mere sight of one can cause panic or hysteria, a condition called arachnophobia or, more specifically, araneophobia.

[2002, Gary R. Mullen, “Spiders (Araneae)”, in Gary Mullen, Lance Durden, editors, Medical and Veterinary Entomology, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 427, column 2:

Araneophobia, or an irrational fear of spiders, is common among people in the United States.

2002 July, Harry E. Williams, Robert G. Breene, Riley S. Rees, Karen M. Vail, Carl Jones, “Introduction”, in The Black Widow Spider, The University of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service, page 3:

(Note: because spiders are in the order Araneae, “araneophobia” would be, strictly speaking, the more precise, but less understood term for fear of spiders; yet when a psychologist refers to arachnophobia, this is almost always solely restricted to spiders.)

[2018, Richard S. Vetter, Michael L. Draney, Christopher A. Brown, John T. Trumble, Dawn H. Gouge, Nancy C. Hinkle, Edward F. Pace-Schott, “Spider Fear Versus Scorpion Fear in Undergraduate Students at Five American Universities”, in American Entomologist, volume 64, number 2, page 79, column 3:


felophile

Sir,—In case no more experienced felophile answers Mr Blakiston’s delightful letter in your issue of last Friday, I write to say that my cat reacts with similar abandon to the gift of an olive.

1934 August 29, “The Cat and the Olive”, in Douglas Woodruff, editor, Dear Sir: A Selection of Letters to the Editor of the Times, London: Methuen & Co., published 1936, page 321:

Feline pesematology (from the Greek pesema, for “fall”), the science of falling cats, may not strike you initially as the stuff for which Nobel Prizes are won. But it is undoubtedly of emotional importance, as any concerned felophile (cat lover) knows.

1989 August, Jared Diamond, “How Cats Survive Falls from New York Skyscrapers”, in Natural History, page 20, column 2:

Moreover, he will welcome the attentions of your cats. I have not dared to say before, but I am not a felophile.

2001, Jim Crace, The Devil’s Larder, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 67:

In fact, Father turned into a felophile, or whatever is the term for a cat-doter.

2011, F. Nigel Hepper, “Cat in a Bag and a Lakeland Terrier”, in Life on a Lake District Smallholding: Before and During the Second World War, →ISBN, page 75:

If instead you measure brain mass as a percentage of body mass, cats win by a whisker. / Felophiles should not gloat yet.

2020, New Scientist, “Dogs vs cats: The great pet showdown”, in Cats vs Dogs: Misbehaving Mammals, Intellectual Insects, Flatulent Fish and the Great Pet Showdown, John Murray, →ISBN, section 1 (Brains):


downtitrate

downtitrate (third-person singular simple present downtitrates, present participle downtitrating, simple past and past participle downtitrated)

downtitrates (present singular third-person)
downtitrating (participle present)
downtitrated (participle past)
downtitrated (past)
down titrate (alternative)
down-titrate (alternative)

From down- + titrate; compare also upregulate and downregulate.

(medicine) To gradually reduce a dosage while observing the effects; (and usually, especially) to arrive at the optimal dose by so doing.


downtitration

en-noun

downtitration (usually uncountable, plural downtitrations)

From down- + titrate; compare also upregulation and downregulation.

(medicine) The gradual reduction of a dose accompanied by observation of effects, usually and especially to arrive at an optimal dose.


canophile

“I don’t know what all the fuss is about,” offered Pat in his pleasantest voice. “Even if I’d broken that paw off he’d still have three left, which is one better than you or me.” / “She looked at him then, a glare of hate under brows like a black-stone cliff. “You’ll know me again, won’t you?” Pat offered. / And so, in due course, she did. / “These canophiles!” sighed Pat, rejoining Jan on the bride. “It’s a disease really, particularly rampant in the British Isles, though not unknown in the States.” / “Cano—?” Her voice was still abstracted, as though her thought was far away. / “Canophiles—dog worshipers. Mind you, I’ve nothing against dogs so long as they’re not kept by people who will spell the word the wrong way around. Then they become a nuisance to the community.”

1963, Detective Book Club Selections, pages 11–12:

Overlooking, for the moment, people who have been bitten only once or twice (even a canophile can make a mistake), let us examine some revealing statistics about people who have been bitten three or more times.

1972, Raymond Hull, Man’s Best Fiend, New York, N.Y.: Hippocrene Books, published 1982, →ISBN, page 24:

Dogs in modern life did not fit neatly into the old categories. All dogs, it was argued by the canophiles, were guard dogs, whether living in an apartment or chained in a yard.

2007, David Goode, “At Play and Work: Some Reflections on Companion Dogs and Working Dogs”, in Playing with My Dog Katie: An Ethnomethodological Study of Dog–Human Interaction (New Discoveries in the Human-Animal Bond Series), Purdue University Press, →ISBN, “The Social Invention of Companion (“Pet”) Dogs”, page 107:


pentacolor

FEMINIST ASTROLOGERS—pentacolor, hand-cast, interpreted horoscopes, $17.50.

Feminist Astrologers—attractive pentacolor, hand-cast birth chart, in-depth interpretation, $35.

Here’s a simple color-cued key to healthful eating that I call the pentacolor principle: At mealtime, try and include at least five differently colored foods.

1982 January 13, Trisha Yeager, “Count the food colors”, in Standard-Speaker, volume 115, number 32,771, Hazleton, Pa., page 33, column 1:

With the money the committee raises, they will light the field with 80-foot pentacolor poles holding 1500 watt quartz lights.

1987 February 16, Ann Patterson-Rabon, “Blacksburg seeking lighted ball field”, in The Gaffney Ledger, volume 94, number 1, Gaffney, S.C., page 1, column 1:

As for those whose annular screens were big, they (measured) three to four feet in diameter; they were all made up of pentacolor glass tiles, (painted with) landscapes and genre scenes, flowers and bamboo, feathered and pelted creatures— each and every single one was marvellous and unusual and imposing like a colored folding fan.[…]In the middle pentacolor jade staves formed the four large characters "Myriad Years (to the) August Thearch".[…]There were also secluded wards and quiet backstreets where the houses of those who loved to busy themselves set up pentacolor bubble lanterns made of glass.

1988, Patricia Angela Sieber, Highlighting Competing Discourses: The Lantern Festival in the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties, pages 31, 36, and 42:

In that year, the same year as the Addaura bomb against Giovanni Falcone, of Corvo, and of the anonymous letters, Alberto Di Pisa, Palermo deputy procurator, started the investigations of the contracts that smelled of irregularities managed by the city council, first pentaparty and then pentacolor council, led by then-Christian Democrat Leoluca Orlando.

1993, Daily Report, West Europe, page 32, column 2:

[…]bicolor, tricolor, tetracolor, pentacolor, and multicolor formations, plus patterns in which all diagonals seem to have a different color configuration.

Color patterns with pentacolor diagonals (Figure 5.3) include variations that employ wild card color blocks.

2004, Anne Paul, “Symmetry Schemes on Paracas Necrópolis Textiles”, in Dorothy K. Washburn, editor, Embedded Symmetries, Natural and Cultural, The University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, section “Color”, page 75, column 2:


octoped

octopeds (plural)
octopede (alternative)


felinology

But your chances of killing the cat decrease as the square of the distance increase. This is an axiom in natural philosophy, and a fundamental truth of felinology.

1878 October 12, “The Cost in Time and Material of Killing a Cat”, in Daily Evening Republican, volume I, number 288, Columbus, Ind., column 2:

Country people in going through strange woods blaze a trail so they can retrace their steps. If animals do the same, are they directed by the blazes of sight or scent? Some veterinarian or one versed in “felinology” might help me and I covet his knowledge on the information asked for.

1954 June 17, B. C. Threadgill, “The Cat Came Back, But How Did He Do It?”, in The Birmingham News, number 82, Birmingham, Ala., column 5:

Especially cats, who think they have done Earth’s entire populace a favor just for being cats. Which also exempts them from blame, according to felinology.

1982 May 5, Jacqueline Toller, “‘Be Kind’ week celebrated all year”, in The Odessa American, volume 57, number 125, Odessa, Tex., page 2C, columns 3–4:

But enough of this stomatology (the study of the mouth, not be confused with philematology, the science of kissing). We have bigger fish to fry in ichthyology, biology, cosmology and — break out the cute cat videos — felinology.

2015 January 27, Darryl Levings, “Frothy Facts: Wired cats, North Korean hairstyles and space gravel; The Kiss of Minutiae”, in The Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Mo., page D1:

Make sure to say hello to drummer Barry Higginson, who aside from his musical skills is considered one of the world’s foremost experts on felinology.

2017 October 5, “10 To Do”, in Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, Alta., section “Uptights”, page B3, column 3:


araneophobe

From Latin arānea or arāneus + -o- + -phobe.

Headlamp gleaming, he [Willis J. Gertsch] has spent nights searching for specimens [of spiders] in such unlikely places as high-altitude peaks in the Rocky Mountains, Mexican deserts alive with scorpions, and a tropic island in the Panama Canal Zone. This sort of thing has been going on for more than 20 years, ever since Gertsch first caught the spider bug in college. He’s even more enraptured now than when he started, so much so that he usually works 2 hours or so at home every day after office hours. To the general public, araneophobes all (just plain scared of spiders), such devotion is incomprehensible.

1955 November 12, William E. Oriol, “Who’s Afraid Of Spiders?: Many People Are, But Not This Ramsey Scientist, Who Is Fascinated By Them”, in Bergen Evening Record, volume 61, number 136, Hackensack, N.J., page 4:

Spiders are all predatory, some even cannibalistic; they may be grotesque, even hideous to look at – although some are extraordinarily beautiful. But they are also artisans, and it is this trait which captivates the interest of the most hardened araneophobe.

1976, Barbara York Main, Spiders (The Australian Naturalist Library), Sydney: William Collins Publishers, →ISBN, page 12:

The computer stand was a giant spider, and Sam sat down on the fuzzy seat, a smaller version of the same spider. All the hairy legs around him made him uncomfortable, as he was a bit of an araneophobe.

2009, Jim Musgrave, “The Web of Love”, in The Mayan Magician and Other Stories, San Diego, Calif.: CIC Publishers, →ISBN, page 234:


fluviophile

Enough of this lecture on hydrography by a mere fluviophile. Is it because I was born on a river bank — the Potomac — of river valley ancestors — the Hudson — and grew up in Southern California in the halcyon years when the rivers ran wild in spring and spread over the plain; is it because of this conditioning, as well as by fondness for the rivers of Europe — the Seine, Rhone, Var, Arno, Tiber, Tagus, Tyne, and Thames, that I have come to love rivers more than any other form of water?

1976, Lawrence Clark Powell, “Desert, Mountains, and Rivers”, in From the Heartland: Profiles of People and Places of the Southwest and Beyond, Flagstaff: Northland Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 18:

Now I am a fluviophile, planning a book on Arizona in terms of its river systems.

1977, Lawrence Clark Powell, “The Phoenix Has Risen—Now What?”, in The Journal of Arizona History, Arizona Historical Society, page 244:

“I work for the state,” I said, thinking I’d tell him I write occasionally for Arizona Highways. He laughed. “The state cuts no ice up here. We’re the Salt River Project.” I tried again. “I’m a fluviophile,” I explained. “You’re a what?” “A fluviophile. A lover of rivers.” “I’ll be damned! That’s a new one.” I played my last card. “I know Rod McMullin,” I said, naming the manager of the Salt River Project.

1977, Lawrence Clark Powell, Westways, Automobile Club of Southern California, page 66, column 3:

An extreme example of the southern European rivers is Albania’s Semani River (a name perhaps recognized only by the most fervent fluviophile).

2011, John D. Milliman, Katherine L. Farnsworth, “Runoff, erosion, and delivery to the coastal ocean”, in River Discharge to the Coastal Ocean: A Global Synthesis, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, section “Sediment: erosion and discharge”, page 44:

This is a book for fluviophiles, which is to say that this is a book for me.

2020 May 1, David Aaronovitch, “Rivers of Power by Laurence C Smith review — how rivers made history”, in The Times:

A self-confessed ‘fluviophile’, David Aaronovich in the Times found the book ‘instructive and entertaining on the subject of riparian disasters, natural and man-made.’

2020 July, “Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations and Shapes Our World; Laurence C Smith; Allen Lane, 356pp, £20”, in The Oldie, number 389, section “Review of Books” (issue 52), page 7, column 2:


pentacolored

There were pentacolored cushions woven out of dragon hair, rugs whose borders were silk brocaded, couches made out of long elephants’ tusks, and mattresses plainted with purplish silk matting.[…]The story is about a handsome and amorous fisherman who once failed to catch a fish for three days, but instead obtained a pentacolored tortoise.

1965, Two Chinese Sex Classics, pages 23 and 91:

Two wildlife sanctuaries extinguished another, longer held, appetite – to meet Australia’s fauna. At the better of the two, Oasis Gardens, gravel paths sneaking through three acres of lush greenery led to cages of pentacolored birds, kangaroos of all ages and sizes, and irritable emus (one of which startled me by butting my camera on an attempted close - up).

1973 April 5, Dick Glovsky, “Brisbane: Calm, Quiet And Cuddly Koalas”, in The Newton Graphic, page two, column 2:

There were two kinds of porcelain in the Sung Dynasty; celadon porcelain and a plain white one. If we compare those with the Tang Dynasty’s tricolored porcelain of the previous era, of the Ming Dynasty’s pentacolored one of a later era, Sung’s one gave us some impression of plainness and simplicity.

1983, Seiki Sha, New Perspective on the History of Science, New York, N.Y.: Carlton Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 69:

The extant Scripture of the Five Numinous Treasure Talismans (Lingbao wufu jing 靈寳五符經), a text assembled ca. 280 CE, features an exercise in which the cosmic “sprouts” of the pentacolored qi of the five directions are systematically ingested, leading to transcendence (HY 388, 3.12a–b).

2005, Robert F. Campany, “Eating Better than Gods and Ancestors”, in Roel Sterckx, editor, Of Tripod and Palate: Food, Politics, and Religion in Traditional China, Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, →ISBN, page 112:

Cover illustration: Ddaaddee, Lucky Pentacolored Flag (adapted from a photograph taken by Hu Geshan).

2014, A Grammar of Prinmi: Based on the Central Dialect of Northwest Yunnan, China (Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library: Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region; volume 5/14), Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN:

In the nine layers of heaven above we smelled the aroma of flowers, / And in pentacolored clouds responded to laughing sounds.

2017, Stephen H. West, “The Pains of Pleasure: The Lanterns of Kaifeng”, in Joseph S. C. Lam, Shuen-fu Lin, Christian de Pee, Martin Powers, editors, Senses of the City: Perceptions of Hangzhou and Southern Song China, 1127–1279, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, →ISBN, page 135:


tetracolored

Count De Prorak gave a highly interesting account of his adventures and his findings in that part of the Dark Continent bordering on the Mediterranean, and showed two reels of excellent tetracolored motion pictures he had taken in the regions he had explored in recent years.

1951 January 11, “Dads, Sons Dine; Enjoy Explorer’s Talk and Movies”, in Ridgewood Herald-News, sixty-second year, number 2, Ridgewood, N.J., page 2, column 5:

In partial heterochromia iridis the iris is either tricolored or tetracolored.

1998 January, Assiut Veterinary Medical Journal, volume 38, number 76, page 165:

[…]dorsal hairs are tetracolored in C. colombiana, but tricolored in C. manu;

2004 June 8, Victor Pacheco, Sergio Solari, Paul M. Velazco, A New Species of Carollia (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from the Andes of Peru and Bolivia (Occasional Papers; number 236), Museum of Texas Tech University, →ISSN, page 9, column 2:

(c) Tetracolored Mechanochromism

2019, Tomohiro Seki, Hajime Ito, “Gold Isocyanide Complexes Exhibiting Luminescent Mechanochromism and Phase Transitions”, in Hiroko Yamada, Shiki Yagai, editors, Light-Active Functional Organic Materials, Jenny Stanford Publishing, section 2 (Emission Control of Aryl Gold Isocyanide Complexes), subsection 1 (Aryl Gold Isocyanide Complexes), page 136:


wormicide

wormicide (countable and uncountable, plural wormicides)

Sal Tone is a medicated salt tonic wormicide and conditioner.

1913 January 25, “Give Hogs Sal Tone and Watch ’em Grow”, in Missouri Ruralist with Which is Combined the Breeders Special: A Weekly Journal for Missouri Farmers and Breeders, volume XI, number 537 (whole), page 6:

Worms get the upper hand when the balance of health is on the ebb. The use of wormicides when the animal has lost its vitality is detrimental to its life.

1938, Report, Bombay (Province) Dept. of Agriculture, page 247:

Sizable quantities of livestock dips and wormicides are used—South Africa is a major producer of merine wool, butter, and cheese.

1962 September–October, “Chemicals and Allied Products”, in Chemical and Rubber, volume 9, number 9, Washington, D.C.: U. S. Department of Commerce, Business and Defense Services Administration, section “Inorganica and Agricultural Chemicals”, subsection “Pesticides in the Republic of South Africa”, page 9, column 2:

Tubers are given to sheep as remedy for colic and also as wormicide.

1997, Journal of Non-timber Forest Products, page 7:


roachicide

roachicide (countable and uncountable, plural roachicides)

Cockroaches cannot be completely eliminated, and only with constant spraying appropriate roachicides will they be kept under control.

1944 November, William S. Gevurtz, Albert J. Michel, “Medical Experiences on an APD”, in United States Naval Medical Bulletin, volume 43, number 5, page 931:

In addition to the common insecticides generally used, various special preparations are known which may be found useful against different kinds of insects, such as roachicides, anticides, culicides, larvicides, etc.

1963, Handbook of Economic Entomology for South India, page 98:

Inadequate availability of termiticides, rodenticides and roachicides in the ghetto may turn our post bicentennial years into a nightmare.

1975, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Extension: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture; House of Representatives, Ninety-Fourth Congress, First Session, Serial No. 94-O, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 528:

High school locker rooms smell from sweat, mildew, roachicide, and pimple cream.

1996, Charley Rosen, The House of Moses All-Stars, Seven Stories Press, page 244:

(US) A substance that kills cockroaches.


cockroachicide

cockroachicide (countable and uncountable, plural cockroachicides)

“I have tried,” said he, “everything that has ever been recommended as a cockroachicide.[…]”

Should be pleased if some of your botanical readers would throw any light on the subject, as really good “cockroachicide” seems to be only with difficulty obtainable in this country.

1901, English Mechanic and World of Science, page 252:

Boric acid: lowers sintering temperature, 421 / reaction with monosilicic acid, 190 / with silica as cockroachicide, 752

1979, Ralph K. Iler, “Subject Index”, in The Chemistry of Silica: Solubility, Polymerization, Colloid and Surface Properties and Biochemistry of Silica, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 838:

(rare) A substance that kills cockroaches.


anticide

anticide (countable and uncountable, plural anticides)

Therefore a parathion-treated upland pineapple orchard guarded with anticide throughout the growing seasons showed only negligible pineapple wilt infestation.

Dusting the seed with an anticide, such as 20% lindane dust at 1 lb. of dust to 80 lb. of seed, will discourage them. Inoculated legume seed should not be mixed with dusted seed as the anticide will kill the bacteria.

1973, Queensland Agricultural Journal, page 567:


vinophilic

In the past, grape and wine history has been told in vinophilic and boosterish narratives, as a subtopic within religious history, or within histories of prohibition politics.⁸

2013 November 10, Erica Hannickel, Empire of Vines: Wine Culture in America (Nature and Culture in America), University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 5:


felinophobia

And there is felinophobia, or fear of cats. About a year ago, Rockwell Sayre, wealthy Chicago realtor, left most of his fortune for the extermination of these animals, for which he had maintained a lifelong aversion.

1936 November 9, “Strange Cure for Agoraphobia, Worst of Fears: Science Studies the Amazing Liberation From a Psychic Prison of Mr. Kern”, in The Shreveport Times, volume LXIV, number 162, Shreveport, La.:

Shakespeare was afraid of cats. This fear, felinophobia, is shared by hundreds of persons and by the Dowager Queen Mary of England.

1937 November 20, Zeke Cook, “Scared Sick: Many Persons Really Have Bee[n] Stricken As Result of Fright”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, volume 11, number 96, Pittsburgh, Pa., page 28:

At Oakland California, three cats have inherited stock valued at $25,000—thus providing the public with yet another silly example of felinophobia!

1959 August 24, The Ottawa Journal, 74th year, Ottawa, Ont., page 6:

It’s so much easier to condescend to him, to make up stories about his Puritanism, his felinophobia, his general scariness.

2002 April 5, Paul Greenberg, “John Ashcroft: The scariest man in government”, in The Item, volume 107, number 169, Sumter, S.C., page 8A:


ailurocide

From ailuro- (“cat”) + -cide (“killing”).

Your thoughts consider Ailurocide combined with a little homicide justifiable.

1955, James D[aniel] McCrae, Experimental Breeding; Genetics of the Feline, Caribou, Me.: Caribou Publishing Company, page 8:

As we go to press we receive word of the passing of Senior Correspondent Pussifica T. Catt, by ailurocide at the hands of an animal rights activist.

It’s been a tough week for cabaret megastar Sherry Vine in her alter ego Keith Levy’s new solo drag comedy: Falsely accused of ailurocide, condemned to the hot seat, defended by the usual celebrity rabble (Edith Piaf, Aimee McPherson, Sally Struthers), and—ouch—branded ‘Kitty Killer!’ by the tabs.

And one must agree that Monty can be very alarming, especially on the matter of his cat, which drives him into frenzies of rage and fantasies of ailurocide.

2004, Kevin Jackson, Withnail & I (BFI Modern Classics), British Film Institute, →ISBN, page 44:


hexagenarian

Blend of hexa- + sexagenarian, from a conflation of Greek and Latin roots.

(uncommon, sometimes proscribed) Synonym of sixtysomething: a person between 60 and 69 years old.


quoiromantic

en-adj

quoiromantic (comparative more quoiromantic, superlative most quoiromantic)

more quoiromantic (comparative)
most quoiromantic (superlative)

Learned borrowing from French quoi (“what”) + romantic. Coined as a non-vulgar synonym of WTFromantic.

lbor

They listened to me and didn't talk about my gender and sexuality issues when I didn't bring it up. They also never said anything rude or judged me for the alternative or feminine clothes I started to wear. (16, agender/man, grey-asexual/sensual, grey-aromantic, demisexual/sensual, demiromantic, sapiosexual/sensual, sapioromantic, lithsexual/sensual, lithromantic, quoiromantic.)

2017 February, Paul Byron, Sophia Rasmussen, Dani Wright Toussaint, Roanna Lobo, Kerry Robinson, Brett Paradise, ‘You learn from each other’: LGBTIQ Young People’s Mental Health Help-seeking and the RAD Australia Online Director, Sydney: Western Sydney University Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre, →DOI, →ISBN, page 31:

For a while, I thought I might be quoiromantic because of the frustration and confusion I felt about how subjective romantic attraction is.

2018, Christina Lang, Intimacy and Desire Through the Lens of an Aro-Ace Woman of Color, Bates College, page 69:

These participants identified on the asexual spectrum, including identities such as asexual (Miranda), demisexual (Desi), and quoiromantic (Jackie).

2018 May 10 – June 30, Ryan A. Miller, “Toward Intersectional Identity Perspectives on Disability and LGBTQ Identities in Higher Education”, in Journal of College Student Development, volume 59, number 3:

(rare, neologism) Unable to distinguish romantic attraction from platonic attraction in oneself.


biphilia

[…] from the outset it does not exhibit Gentlemen Prefer Blondes biphilia', of which, as Doty notes, "It's never a matter of the woman choosing either men or each other, but of having both women and men available to them."

2012 December 17, Timothy Shary, Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN, page 186:

Philia is the propensity to fall in love romantically with members of a particular sex or gender (or both, as in the case of biphilia). The three affectional orientations include opposite-sex, same-sex, and bidirectional.

2015 January 1, Ada L. Sinacore, Freda Ginsberg, Canadian Counselling and Counselling Psychology in the 21st Century, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, →ISBN, page 114:


demolater

The demolater does speak of "real people"; but he ends, in truth, with making a fetish of an ideal people accurately placed out of sight.

1987, Giovanni Sartori, “2.2: The People in Mass Society”, in The Theory of Democracy Revisited, page 25:

(rare, nonce word) an adherent of demolatry, especially in a derogatory sense of having an excessive regard for the common people


hexatrigesimal

en-noun

hexatrigesimal (countable and uncountable, plural hexatrigesimals)

From hexa- + tri- + decimal; see the Wikipedia article for hexadecimal for more information.

(countable, computing) A number expressed in the hexatridecimal system.


bibliocide

In September 1939, special arson squads followed the German army in Poland with the task of burning Jewish synagogues, books, and libraries. What followed was a systematic bibliocide.

2014, Alon Confino, A World Without Jews, page 207:


hexavigesimal

hexavigesimal (countable and uncountable, plural hexavigesimals)

From hexa- + vigesimal; see the Wikipedia article Hexadecimal for more information.

(countable, computing) A number expressed in the hexavigesimal system.


quadravigesimal

quadravigesimal (countable and uncountable, plural quadravigesimals)

/ˌkwɒdˈɹɑvaɪd͡ʒɛsɪməl/

(countable, computing) A number expressed in the quadravigesimal system.


militocracy

militocracy (countable and uncountable, plural militocracies)

Germany under Wilhelm II and Poland under Pilsudski exemplify a variant of militocracy where political preponderance and economic favours were restricted to the officer corps.

1968, Stanislav Andreski, “Postscript to the second edition”, in Military Organization and Society, 2nd edition, University of California Press, page 185:

Early states were usually governed by militocracies, whose main source of social power was simply force. This was a consequence of one of the most important principles of social evolution, namely that “war made the state, and states made war.”

2023, Peter Turchin, End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration, Penguin, →ISBN:


senilocracy

senilocracy (countable and uncountable, plural senilocracies)

The national party is divided into two factions: the progressists, who want to overthrow the senilocracy and bring to power the young and vigorous capacities that are needed by the state of the country; and the acculards [blind alley men, " stick-in-the-muds "] who are endeavouring to cling to all the old clothes of our government.

1899, The Personal Opinions of Honore de Balzac, page 19:

The chairmen of committees are beyond the reach of the Administration and even of Congress itself and constitute a kind of senilocracy that makes as much trouble and confusion as anything in Congress.

This apparent Soviet receptivity to arms control can be attributed to several factors. First, after a number of years of suffering under a “senilocracy,’ the Soviet Union, at last, is under the direction of a dynamic, “live” leader who is able to make decisions, to respond more flexibly to the challenges of East-West public diplomacy, and to appreciate the impact of Soviet behavior on other nations.

1988, Soviet-American relations : understanding differences, avoiding conflicts, page 142:

(derogatory) A form of government where society is ruled by the senile.


juvenocracy

juvenocracy (countable and uncountable, plural juvenocracies)

While we write, that Advent is in progress! It is the Advent of Youth—Juvenocracy in the ascendant! A flowery arch spans the breadth of Broadway, and under it winds, at this moment, the procession in honor of first maturity—manhood in youth! It scarce needed, it is true, that the world should be born again before its new monarch should make formal entry. It was, ten years ago, discovered in France—two years ago in England—last year in America—that the gray head was only the wisest while there were no books but experience! That which men once waited to know till the hair was silvered, is now taught the child at school—conned in the ambitious dream of the youth in his puberty. The world has “hung fire” in other ages, from the damp of burnt-out enthusiasm spread like a blanket over its brain-powder. Improvement has gone upon crutches. Action waited for enterprise to cough. Courage stayed to fumble for spectacles. The forenoon shadows of the sun of human intellect were of untrustworthy measure, and the dial to begin to work by was shadowed till post-meridian!

1845, N[athaniel] P[arker] Willis, “Part IV; Ephemera”, in Dashes at Life with a Free Pencil, New York, N.Y.: […] Burgess, Stringer, & Co., […], page 151, column 2:

This regnum juventi is the curse of our country and our age. It lays us aside, and it threatens to retire the naval and military branches of the Government on a pension! Fifty-three years is the limit of a naval officer’s active fighting or exploring life, recommended by the young men, and about fifty for a clergyman’s services as a parish minister! Soon the same rule will be applied to the Army, and to our whole educational system. Shades of Plato and Humboldt! What are we to do with this tyrannical Juvenocracy? […] Chancellor Kent wrote his commentaries after he had been “retired” from the bench, I believe, at the age of sixty-five, by the “Juvenocracy.”

1882 July 9, E. F., ““Juvenomania.” A Protest Against the Too Early Retirement of Efficient Officers on “Account of Age.””, in New-York Tribune, volume XLII, number 13,020, New York, N.Y., page 10, column 3:

,‘JUVENOCRACY” IS COLLEGE FAILING […] “It is a new reign of juvenocracy,” said Dr. Anthony. The remedy, he suggested, in Shakespeare’s lines: “To thine own self be true and it then will follow as the night the day thou canst not be false to any man.”

1925 September 28, Lewiston Evening Journal, Lewiston, Me., page 12, column 5:

Officials Enjoy Rest As Young People Rule Over Borough for Day / Brooklyn is a juvenocracy today. Youth rules the borough and age is ousted from office. Twenty-eight boys and girls from the borough’s high schools are “in” while all officials, from the Borough President down, are “out” playing golf, or something.

1937 April 29, The Brooklyn Citizen, volume C, number 101, Brooklyn, N.Y., page one, column 5:

Q.—Spokane. — Gerontocracy means government by old men. What is the comparable word meaning government by young men? A.—There is no ready-made word for this. However, by combining the Latin word “juven” meaning “youth,” and “ocracy,” the Greek word for government, you get “juvenocracy.” Another word would be “hebeocracy,” employing the Greek word “hebe,” meaning “youth,” with the Greek word for government.

[1962 April 14, “Reader Service”, in The Spokesman-Review, 79th year, number 335, Spokane, Wash., page 4:

Should College Students Grade Their Teachers? The Risk Is ‘Juvenocracy’; Students and Teachers “In each generation a minority hears the call to find utopia”

1966 September 18, Lewis S. Feuer, “Should College Students Grade Their Teachers?”, in The New York Times Magazine, page 267:

Adolescence is lengthened and the gerontocracy of ancient and modern times is succeeded by a juvenocracy, a phenomenon whose economic, sociocultural, and moral consequences are not yet fully measurable.

1968, Denis Szabo, “Psychocultural Basis of Contemporary Juvenile Inadaptation”, in Marvin E[ugene] Wolfgang, editor, Crime and Culture: Essays in Honor of Thorsten Sellin, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 97:

The problem of group identity among the blacks is now being paralleled by the demands of youth for increased dignity and responsibility. This situation can be seen as part of a significant shift in sources of authority, away from the traditional gerontocracy and toward a sort of juvenocracy. On the most surface levels, it has expressed itself in the law in terms of legislation to lower the voting age and the various reforms of the military draft system.

1971, Christopher D. Stone, chapter, in Thomas C. Greening, editor, Existential Humanistic Psychology, Brooks/Cole, →ISBN, page 165:

The recent worldwide outbreak of student movements and rebellions bears witness to the conflicts of another kind of “inheritance” situation in which the “juvenocracy” revolts against the situational definition of the “gerontocracy” in power in much the same way as peasants revolt against absentee landlords and workers against capitalist bosses.

1971, Joan Abbott, Student Life in a Class Society, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 5:

It would come as no surprise to find that optimum science policy is apt to be developed neither by gerontocracy nor by juvenocracy but, like the community of scientists itself, by age-diversified meritocracy.

1972, Harriet Zuckerman, Robert K. Merton, “Age, Aging, and Age Structure in Science”, in Matilda White Riley, Marilyn Johnson, Anne Foner, Aging and Society, volume 3 (A Sociology of Age Stratification), New York, N.Y.: Russell Sage Foundation, →ISBN, page 337:

Juvenocracy—i.e., when children and youth govern adults—has been academically developed and extended as a concept since the early 1970s. Since that time, scholarly thought has moved away from static modernistic attributions of power to focus more on how power relations are negotiated and unfold. Whilst early conceptualizations of juvenocracy rest on assumptions about existing structures, later theorizing rests on an affirmation of contingency. With this shift, studies of juvenocracy have come to address broader aspects of child and youth authority in adolescence processes and intergenerational relations, also conceptualized as ‘juvenocratic spaces’.

2020, Annika Skoglund, Mats Börjesson, “Juvenocracy: Juvenocratic Spaces”, in Daniel Thomas Cook, editor, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies, London, New York, N.Y.: Sage, →ISBN:


multihypergraph

From multi- + hypergraph. Compare multigraph.

(graph theory) A set V (whose elements are called vertices or nodes), taken together with a multiset E, each of whose elements (called an edge or hyperedge) is a subset of V.


Ecce Mono

By replacing Latin homō (“man”) of ecce homō (“behold the man”) with Spanish mono (“monkey”).

The heartfelt but awful result was described as “a furry alien Neanderthal,” “Ewok Jesus,” and, ultimately, “Ecce Mono” (Behold the Monkey). Martínez’s descendants and the church were distressed, but the story endeared the world to “Ecce Mono.”

2013, Sarah Janssen, editor, The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2013, New York, N.Y.: World Almanac® Books, Infobase Learning, →ISBN:

“That’s what people call it. The worst restoration job ever. Un fracaso. The old woman says the priest gave her permission. He denies it. They are bringing in experts to see if it can be saved. The piece is an Ecce Homo. Behold the man. But people now call it Ecce Mono. Behold the monkey.” […] “That’s why you took me to the Ecce Mono. You didn’t just happen to stop in my café. Gonzáles sent you. You never cared about me, you were keeping an eye on the mask. That’s why you’re here now. Not for me. For the mask.”

2016, Lili Wright, Dancing with the Tiger, London: Harvill Secker, →ISBN, pages 207 and 278:

Split-screens of the mural before and after the ‘restoration’ tickled the funny bone of people worldwide, who dubbed it ‘Ecce Mono’ (behold the monkey) and ‘the Beast Christ’.

[2017 August, Secret Marvels of the World: 360 Extraordinary Places You Never Knew Existed and How to Find Them, Lonely Planet Global Limited, →ISBN:

Jimnénez’s^([sic]) restoration, which, to be fair, looks nothing like Martínez’s original, was immediately mocked around the world with the monikers Monkey Christ or Ecce Mono.

[2018, Jeffrey Taylor, Visual Arts Management (Mastering Management in the Creative and Cultural Industries), Abingdon, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN:

Giménez, an elderly amateur artist, botched the intervention so badly that mockers have dubbed the painting Ecce Mono (“Behold the monkey”).

[2019, Bradley Jersak, A More Christlike Way: A More Beautiful Faith, Pasadena, Calif.: Plain Truth Ministries, →ISBN:

So popular was Giménez’s handiwork, that budget airline Ryanair offered special flight deals to nearby Zaragoza, for those wanting to make the pilgrimage to see Ecce Homo. The purists amongst us will question why so many are visiting. We know the answer—to have a laugh and take a ‘selfie’ with Ecce Mono (Behold the Monkey) as Martinez’s^([sic]) painting is often now referred to as.

2019, Penelope Jackson, “She Vandals”, in Females in the Frame: Women, Art, and Crime, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 73:

(derogatory, humorous) A nickname for the ecce homo (depiction of Jesus with a crown of thorns) in the Sanctuary of Mercy church in Borja, Spain, a fresco painted circa 1930 by the Spanish painter Elías García Martínez and attempted to be restored by Cecilia Giménez, an untrained amateur artist, in 2012.


molluscophobia

Mrs. Blethering herself was not overly bright but, worse yet, was afflicted by molluscophobia (a fear of slugs and snails), which might explain why she devised ever more gruesome methods of slug assassination.

2011, I. H. Smythe, “Slugfest”, in Stories for Animals, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 109:

A recent estimate suggests that 10,000 tonnes of whelks are landed in the UK each year. But nearly all of those get exported to South-East Asia. Why? Molluscophobia? Possibly.

2016, Tim Wharton, Richard Horsey, “Ugly Fish”, in Ugly Food: Overlooked and Undercooked, London: C. Hurst & Co., →ISBN, pages 132–133:

For years I had been carrying the burden of molluscophobia, an extreme fear of snails. The presence of a snail could reduce me to an uncontrollable and quivering wreck within seconds.

2017, Maria Hocking, “Finding Self Love”, in Strip Naked and Re-Dress with Happiness: How to Survive and Thrive Through Personal Challenge, Great Britain: Practical Inspiration Publishing, →ISBN:


pentagenarian

The path of Youth is illumined and flooded with the sunshine of optimism, courage, and sincerity: it does not stand in need of such feeble and flickering candle-light as the musty, out-of-date “experience” of cynical and disillusioned pentagenarians and sexagenarians can provide.

1934, Har Dayal, “[Ethical Culture] The Five Concentric Circles”, in Hints for Self-Culture, London: Watts & Co., […], page 277:

To pentagenarians whose dimming eyes can read this small type it may come as a surprise, indeed a shock, to learn that the household goods of their childhood and early maturity have become collectors’ items and that the very pieces they discarded only yesterday as junk are shatched up today as antiques.

1959 November, Helen Papashvily, “Holiday Handbook of 20th Century Antiques”, in Ted Patrick, editor, Holiday, volume 26, number 5, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis Publishing Company, page 149:

We are concerned with the prescription of qualifications for promotion of the lower division clerks to upper division posts in the Registration Department. Rule 13 insists on passing certain tests for promotional eligibility. When tests were newly introduced, R. 13A gave 2 years from their introduction for passing them, to all hands — harijan and non-harijan, but the former enjoyed an extra two-year grace period. Rule 13B totally exempted pentagenarians from passing these tests.

1976 March, S. Appu Rao, editor, All India Reporter, part 747, page 526, column 1:

I had never read a more devastating review from Jean Riverton—or, come to think of it, anyone—in my entire life. I could understand why she might have felt Vicky shouldn’t have invaded turf sacred to many of Calusa’s pentagenarians, but Jesus, did she have to rip her to shreds besides?

1981, Ed McBain [pseudonym; Evan Hunter], Rumpelstiltskin (Matthew Hope), New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →ISBN, page 118:

A 2003 survey by DBM, an outplacement firm, found that only 32% of workers over 57 earned the same or higher pay at their new employer, versus 42% of 38-to-56-year-olds (and 60% of 21-to-37-year-olds). Those data are all a year or two old, but the trends are continuing. “Older white-collar workers quickly become disenfranchised,” says Mark Zandi, chief economist of Economy.com. “They have difficulty getting back into the job market, and when they do, their compensation is often significantly reduced.” / How did life get so bad for pentagenarians? Age discrimination is part of the problem.

2005 May 16, John Helyar, “50 and Fired”, in Fortune, New York, N.Y., →ISSN; republished in John E. Richardson, editor, Business Ethics 06/07 (Annual Editions), 18th edition, Dubuque, Ia.: McGraw-Hill Contemporary Learning Series, 2007, →ISBN, part E (Downsizing of the Work Force), page 63, column 1:

Ta Det Piano, Kipervikgata 1B (✆ 70-10-06-99), is one of Ålesund’s longest-running bars and still one of its most popular. This great hole in the wall is popular with everyone from college students to youthful pentagenarians.

2011, Roger Norum, Frommer’s Norway, 5th edition, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 341:

Bodies age, triumphs fade. There’s no use trying to hang on. If you do, you’ll look like the chrome-domed pentagenarian down at Skink’s who, having dispatched the biscuits-in-redeye-gravy breakfast special for the two thousandth day in a row, shimmies into his decades-old letterman’s jacket—blue wool body, vinyl sleeves gone from white to tallow, the L on his chest the size and subtlety of Superman’s S.

2011, Michael Griffith, “Ollie the Punt Returner”, in Trophy: A Novel, [Evanston, Ill.]: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 144:

One of our favorite pentagenarians is back.

2016, 50+, volume 8, Las Vegas, Nev.: Blair Publishing, Inc.:

They both traveled the world, climbed the holy mountains of Peru, Bolivia, and Columbia, visited other sites all over Europe and Asia. They came after three months of fitness training. I met Boris on the first weekend in March. He came to visit the Bosnian pyramids. These pentagenarians thought very highly of our work in Visoko.

2018, Sam Osmanagich, “China - My Tibetan Adventure: Lhasa”, in Meditation at the Planet’s Sacred Sites: From Tibet, Bulgaria, Cambodia and Caribbean to Macedonia, Italy, Belize and Egypt, revised 2nd edition, Sarajevo: ‘Archaeological Park: Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun’ Foundation, →ISBN, page 228:

(rare) A person between 50 and 59 years old.


mihi itch

From Latin mihī̆, dative of egō̆ (“I”), + itch.

Unscrupulous individuals can and do jump freely into taxonomy to satisfy their ‘mihi itch’ by engaging in a practice called ‘taxonomic vandalism’ creating taxon names without proper scientific work to back them up.

2023, Wolfgang Denzer, Hinrich Kaiser, “Naming And Gaming: The Illicit Taxonomic Practice Of 'Nomenclatural Harvesting' And How To Avoid It”, in Journal of Zoology, volume 320, number 3, page 161:

(taxonomy) The ambition to publish and name large numbers of taxa as a form of personal aggrandizement.


rodentophobia

Meronym: musophobia

I was a janitorial understudy in a big church office building, when one of the old hand secretaries from the fourth floor showed up on the first floor with nervous perspiration and tales of mice in her desk. By the time I got back to her office with her, rodentophobia had filled the rooms of her fellow workers.

1977 March 20, J. D. Smith, “[The Lefthanded Bear—more Animal Stories] Mouse Stash One”, in The CoEvolution Quarterly, number 13, San Francisco, Calif.: POINT, page 110, column 2:

JUST IMAGINE HOW YOU WOULD FEEL IF two days after spending $400 on a brand new snow tent a hungry bush rat literally gnawed its way through your investment late on a stormy night at the base of Mt Jagungal, leaving a hole big enough to shove your fist through. (If you suffer from rodentophobia, stop reading now.)

1988 January–March, Peter Sesterka, “Wild Ski Touring: Rats!”, in Wild: Australia’s Wilderness Adventure Magazine, volume 8, number 1 / 27, page 46, column 1:

The CS was a rat, which initially didn’t produce any “fear” in Little Albert. After a few pairings of sudden noise and rat, however, merely seeing the rat was enough to make Little Albert cry. Voilà—“rodentophobia.”

2006, André Kukla, Joel Walmsley, “[Psychology Loses Its Mind: The Behavioral Revolution] Classical Conditioning”, in Mind: A Historical and Philosophical Introduction to the Major Theories, Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 86:

[Charles] Dickens’s rodentophobia was instilled at an early age. In The Uncommercial Traveller, which he published at the late age of 48, he recalls the horrific tales his nurse told him 40 years before, as a child in Chatham. Most horrible was that of ‘Chips’, a shipwright who makes a pact with the devil in return for ‘an iron pot and a bushel of tenpenny nails and half a ton of copper and a rat that could speak’.

2012, John Sutherland, “Rats”, in The Dickens Dictionary: An A-Z of England’s Greatest Novelist, London: Icon Books Ltd, →ISBN, pages 166–167:


juvenophobia

Those who prohibit students from getting involved in the political process are simply suffering from “juvenophobia”. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a neologism that I coined to refer to a sickness that prevents some adults from associating with young people, to open up a sincere and frank dialogue with them and to seek to improve their education.

1992 Summer, René Philombé, translated by Ahmed Sheikh Bangura, ALA Bulletin, volume 18, number 3, African Literature Association, page 29:

Fortunately, the intergenerational problem in Russian society today is not yet antagonistic, and such conflicts are not accompanied by deformations of relations such as gerontophobia or juvenophobia.

2004 February, V.T. Lisovskii, “For a Dialogue on Relations Between the Generations”, in Russian Education and Society, volume 46, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, page 56:

In a sense, this conclusion echoes the ‘juvenophobia’ of the Soviet regime, which was expressed in either direct suppression of youth culture or in its covert control (Kretzschmar, 1994).

2004 April, Tat’iana Barchunova, Natal’ia Beletskaia, “Without fear and reproach: the role-playing games community as a challenge to mainstream culture”, in Sibirica, volume 4, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, page 119:

(rare) An aversion or hatred towards young people.


oligolingual

/ˌɒlɪɡəˈlɪŋɡwəl/

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(rare) Relating to, involving, or knowing few languages.


fatphile

So be a sucker for trans women, if you are. Be a fatphile. Let intellectuals in power chairs be your type, if it is.

2020 September 3, Phoenix Huber, “Are You Being Objectified, or Are You Guarded Around Love?”, in Hello, Love:


juvenomimetic

16 plants were collected locally, of which 12 showed presence of juvenomimetic activity in the extract by the method employed for the study, whereas the remaining 4 did not give any positive indication of this activity in their extracts.

1975 October 15, V. K. K. Prabhu, M. John, “Juvenomimetic activity in some plants”, in Experientia, volume 31, →DOI, page 913:

(biology) Preventing metamorphosis in insects by imitating the effects of juvenile hormones.


juvenocratic

en-adj

juvenocratic (comparative more juvenocratic, superlative most juvenocratic)

more juvenocratic (comparative)
most juvenocratic (superlative)

Without excesses or defects, they combine the valuable qualities of youth and old age. The mind at the age of forty-five was Aristotle’s happiest mean. It was then, as we would say today, most free from ideology, of either the juvenocratic or gerontocratic kind.

1969, Lewis Samuel Feuer, The Conflict of Generations: The Character and Significance of Student Movements, New York, N.Y: Basic Books, Inc., →LCCN, pages 29–30:


juvenophilia

Do we need another waist-deep wallow in the 1960s, ensconcing us cheek by jowl with Frank Rizzo and Eldridge Cleaver, Sam Yorty and Mark Rudd, Lester Maddox and Herbert Marcuse and other long-forgotten bit players in a period drama? Do we need to be reminded of that era’s gaseous juvenophilia, like Time magazine’s celebration of Americans 25 or younger as 1967’s “Man of the Year”[?]

2008 May 11, George F. Will, “Bring Us Apart” (review of Nixonland by Rick Perlstein), in The New York Times:

(rare) An admiration for or obsession with young people.


corundophilite

(mineralogy) An iron-rich variety of clinochlore.


faunoiphilia

From fauna (“animal”) + Ancient Greek κοινωνία (koinōnía, “sexual intercourse”) + -philia (“used to form nouns meaning the abnormal liking of something; a paraphilia”).

der

(sexology, formal, very rare) The sexual attraction to watching non-human animals copulate; zoophilia.


altocalciphilia

From Latin altus (“high”) + -o- + Latin calx, calcis (“heel”) + -philia.

affix

altocalciphilia […]

[1954, J[acob] E[dward] Schmidt, Sex Dictionary, and Lexicon of Related Emotions, La Crescenta, Calif.: Hannah Publications, →OCLC, page 84:

The executive liked to indulge in altocalciphilia and masochism by persuading women to dig their high heels into his chest.

2002 February, Rod L. Evans, “altocalciphilia”, in Sexicon: The Ultimate X-Rated Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: Citadel Press, →ISBN, page 11:

Then again, I’m most certainly not alone in my “shoey” fetish. Forget women, but men across the globe too have been suffering in their sweet-and-silent agony over their altocalciphilia, which is defined as an uncontrollable desire or sexual fetish for high heels—by far the most common sexual fetish around the globe.

2016 February 11, Mallika Nawal, “The Secret Spell Of The Stiletto”, in Swarajya, archived from the original on 2016-02-12:

The theme of this issue? Fetishes as realized by photographer Steven Klein, especially: altocalciphilia (the fetish of high heels), pictophilia (the fetish for erotic pictures), and autagonistophilia (the fetish for being on camera).

2017 October 3, Lilah Ramzi, “Killer Heels Dominated at Visionaire’s 67th Issue Launch Party”, in Vogue, archived from the original on 2024-12-20:

Among the Trump women, Marla Maples is the only one consistently photographed wearing flats—sneakers and espadrilles—a result of her inner tomboy, her post-divorce downsizing, and her former publicist’s [Chuck Jones’s] shoe fetish. The diagnostic name for Chuck Jones’s problem is altocalciphilia.

2018, Nina Burleigh, “#FreeMelania”, in The Trump Women: Part of the Deal, New York, N.Y.: Gallery Books, →ISBN, part 5 (Ivanka Trump, First Daughter):

Altocalciphilia, the attraction to high-heeled shoes specifically, is probably the largest subset of Retifism. […] Richard von Krafft-Ebing hypothesized that most Retifists are also masochists, and this can be seen most acutely in Altocalciphilia, where the long and sharp heels are often used to inflict pain upon submissive men—most popularly in the genitals.

2019, Dennis DiClaudio, “Retifism”, in “Inanimate Objects”, in The Deviant’s Pocket Guide to the Outlandish Sexual Desires Barely Contained in Your Subconscious, Bellevue, Wash.: becker&mayer! books, →ISBN, page 101:

This objectification in altocalciphilia—shoe fetish—is preserved through an optical casting of a perceptual frame that makes a ‘cut’ from the field; immobilizing that cut within a static framework (Bryson, 1980: 97), so as to produce a redundancy: the material dead object and its referent, which it presents (Berkeley, 1989). […] In opposition to glamour, the high heel as fetish performs a distinction: the sexual difference through the masculinization of the female body.

2020, Mike Zundel, “Fetish”, in “High Heels”, in Timon Beyes, Robin Holt, Claus Pias, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 250:

I am not aware of any empirical research specifically into altocalciphilia, but in researching this topic I did come across an interesting Master’s Thesis by Sancaktar (2006), who provided an analysis of shoes within the context of the social history of fashion, and which included a chapter on shoe fetishism. […] The “preparatory paraphilias” that typically precede serial killing and attack paraphilias, such as anthropophagolagnia, include agonophilia (sexual arousal caused by a sexual partner pretending to struggle), altocalciphilia (sexual arousal from high-heeled shoes), […]

2024, Mark Griffiths, edited by Mike Sutton, Sexual Perversions and Paraphilias: An A to Z, Curtis Press, →ISBN, “Altocalciphilia” and “Anthropophagolagnia”:

(sexuality, rare) A fetish involving sexual attraction to high-heeled shoes.


aplatonic

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From a- + platonic. Compare asocial and aromantic.

One who does not experience platonic attraction to others.


octopedal

From octoped + -al. Compare Latin octōpedālis.

Had an octopedal cat presented herself to Noah, that astute mariner would unquestionably have refused to give her permission to enter the ark, out of a sense of duty to his confiding mice and birds. Neither Noah nor Moses ever heard of a cat with eight feet, and hence the sudden production of such an animal in the nineteenth century is clearly a blow at the Mosaic theory of creation, and an effort to prove that the theory of development is true.

1877 April 16, “Hamiltonian Cats”, in The New-York Times, volume XXVI, number 7984, New York, N.Y., →OCLC, page 4, column 6:

There was a spider, however, in the room, which, entranced by the melodious strains, grew more and more familiar, until at length it would climb upon the mobile arm that held the bow. Little Berthome needed no other listener to kindle his enthusiasm. But a cruel step-mother appeared on the scene suddenly one day, and with a single blow of her slipper annihilated the octopedal audience.

1879, R[obert] Vashon Rogers Jr., “Accidents, Rooms, Dogs”, in The Law of Hotel Life, or The Wrongs and Rights of Host and Guest, San Francisco, Calif.: Sumner Whitney and Company; Boston, Mass.: Houghton, Osgood & Co.; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, →OCLC, page 42:

His face bore the expression of pain which defiance of tune wrings from involuntary muscles, and he put his hands to his ears and drew up his legs with that octopedal contraction which is part of the same expression of suffering.

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