Oil and water are two things that are definitley not miscible.







isoprene

While isoprene is used for manufacturing certain types of rubber derivatives of it are also used in the production of statins for the control of cholesterol.



sententious

How much more sententious can you be to think that with this word you've put one over on me?



sternutation ( there you go, snuff this one up!! )

Sternutation is not a happy thought for my better half who has allergies.

nauseous

You really don't want to know what makes me nauseous, do you?



repugnant

Actually I find the idea of what makes one nauseous extemely repugnant.







nadir

Nadir is simply the lowest point.

golly!!!

nobody says golly better than gomer pile.


tainted

With all the news stories about tainted meats cropping up in many stores it makes me very happy that we have a family member who cuts and packages our beef from our family ranch!!!

picturesque

Stephen King once described an obese woman walking as appearing like two dogs fighting under a blanket, this image is less than picturesque.



coruscate

In the night sky the stars seem to corusate until the morning sun rises and hides them from our view.





kinnikinnick

If you happen to be hiking and camping in the Northern California foothills and happen across a patch of kinnikinnick you may want to see up camp there for the night for a good nights sleep, the dense brush is soft and makes a comfortable bed. For those of you who are curious this also known as bear-berry, it's formally known as Arctostaphylos uva-ursi.



ancillary

The right necklace makes a good ancillary to any outfit.








kismet

Is this in reference to fate, the musical, or the electronic sniffer? I'm going to guess fate.

I missed my ride to a swim meet when I was in high school and the car was involved in an accident injuring all of my team mates, one of my team mates told me it was just kismet that I hadn't been there.



phototroph

Prochlorococcus is the smallest oxygenic phototroph yet described. It numerically dominates the phytoplankton community in the mid-latitude oceanic gyres, where it has an important role in the global carbon cycle.

perpetuity

At this point science has yet to build anything mechanical which could be described as achieving perpetuity, but there are rumors that if you place a piece of buttered bread butter side out to the back of a cat via double sided tape and then lift the cat and drop it you will have created perpetual motion as the buttered bread and the cat fight to be first to land.




ratite

I believe that the Rhea falls into the catagory of a ratite as do most flightless birds.








hysteronproteron

I'm guessing that you are referring to a Hysteron Proteron?

To quote Virgil's Aeneid "Let us die, and rush into the midst of the fray".



nonvolatile

If only my own memory was a little more nonvolatile

antithesis

Michael Vick is the antithesis of the SPCA.



pilaster

I fell over so put a pilaster on it to make it better

concave

You pilastered your what?!?

I was concerned and the contrite when I found that my lens had been ground convex rather than concave.



helical

I'd love to have a stairway the is helical in shape.




contrite

Remorse and contrition don't come easily to those who feel no guilt.




aphony

Are you sure you didn't mean aphonia or aphonic instead of aphony, either way I'm not a phony!!





laconic

No...I did mean aphony. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/aphony

Okay, just checking, aphony wasn't in my dictionary but it's pretty ancient, I'm due for an upgrade.
Word please.

Ooppss! I forgot you had given the word.

I shall speak not and therefore be aphonic.



acidosis

One of the side effects of renal failure is acidosis which can result in coma or death.



brachiate

Gibbons can brachiate through the trees quite easily.


spelling correction



debye

Electric dipole moments are measured in debyes.



reluctance

I have a reluctance to go up against an electrician in word games using words that are used in his area of expertise.




bitern

The bitern is the smallest member of th bittern family of herons.



verisimilitude

If you are verisimilitude you are being verisimilar or rather you are depicting realism which is what many artist strive for.
Phewwww!!




idiophone

As dissimilar as the Jew's harp and the xylophone are I was surprised to find that they are both part of the idiophone family of musical instruments.



preterit

While running the marathon he knew that others would preterithim.




rufescent

Are you turning into a bird brain now? This is the second question regarding a heron in a week.

If I see a rufescent it's a dead bird...as I chamber a number 2 magnum shell.



predilection

Predilection I listen to all de candidates...... (sorry ruining this game arent I? forgive..!)


Configuration

If I use a RAID O configuration I would loose all of my files if one of the hard drives fails.



diurnal

An example of a word that the Oxford Dictionary doesnt contain is "diurnal".



Insular

As a mountain man Jeremiah Johnson truly lead a insular life.



hysteresis

What, you may ask, is the favorite Breakfast Cereal of Physicists the world over ? Why it's "Hysteresis Loops" of course! they're charged full of magnetic-y goodness !

etymology

Etymology is the study of the history and evolution of word, but some people mistakenly believe that etymologies are definitions rather than explanations of what the word means and what it sounded like in its origin.



prevarication

If I were to tell you that the grass is blue I'd be guilty of prevarication.





predynastic

The predynastic period is also known as the late neolithic period which is marked by the beginning of a agricultural society.



hyperbolic

If I said I was going to wait for an eternity I'd really be making a statment that was hyperbolic.



moulin

...rouge....!!! (sorry..me again...ruining things...again...!) good film though..ahem..

perpetual

A side note on moulin, this is a hole in the ice which you wouldn't fish through.

You can build a perpetual motion machine by taking a piece of buttered toast and sticking it to a cat's back with double sided tape, everyone knows that a buttered piece of toast will always land on the buttered side when dropped and a cat will always lands on its feet, just drop them and there you are.

contemporaneous

Some of Tolkien's ideas of the Lord of the Rings are contemporaneous with his participation in WW1.

overtones

The overtones of crystal singing bowls are almost haunting in their quality.



Lugubrious

Some people play lugubrious music during Lent.

xanthophyll