Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Obsolete forms of hemorrhoid.
- n. An obsolete form of emerald.
Examples
“‘chirurgeon’ will become ‘surgeon’; ‘hemorrhoid’, ‘emerod’; ‘squinancy’ will become first ‘squinzey’ (Jeremy Taylor) and then ‘quinsey’;”
“Philistine cities which gave each a golden emerod as a trespass-offering unto the Lord (1 Sam.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘emerod’.
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WWF WTF?
Ever play "Words With Friends" with someone and they throw down some strange, unlikely group of letters that makes even the most mild and squeaky clean tongued person say "whiskey tango foxtrot"? ...
oorie, sangar, merl, cwm, doum, weir, jura, invar, lawine, tapa, waw, shog and 376 more...
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Words or Phrases I Should Use In My N...
So I've always kind of eschewed the notion of producing 50,000 words of crap in a single month, but somehow something possessed me to try for it this year. Add stuff to this list and I promise I'll...
you're something ..., sticky rice, plinth, educable, resplendent, albinism, bowling pin, tappen, emerod, Hottentottenpoten..., heady, handlebar mustache and 19 more...
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Three is Compoundy.
Words that are made up of three words, be it intended for the meaning, or coincidentally (as in "attendance").
nonetheless, together, insofar, nevertheless, attendance, notwithstanding, hitherto, heretofore, whosoever, inasmuch, benjamin, psychotherapist and 40 more...
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Outlander series words
A place for me to keep words I found (or found anew) while reading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. (Culling my enormous "Learned (or Encountered) in Reading" list.)
gralloch, yeuk, corpse-candle, saprophytic, baldachin, Kermanshah, celandine, tynchal, quaich, mesentery, basidium, dittany and 244 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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Jewel or medical problem?
The proper answer for this list is, of course, "both."
emerod, carbuncle, stone, crystal, bezoar, parisite, toadstone, ruzuzuite
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bilby And as it's not too crumbly, it's a nice word for dunking in orange pekoe tea. Mar 25, 2010
ruzuzu It's three little Scrabble words in a row (em, er, and od), it's three little Scrabble words if you spell it backwards (do, re, and me), and the backwards spelling sounds like the first three solfege syllables (do, re, and mi). Mar 25, 2010
chained_bear "'I can't imagine a physician in any time who doesn't know what piles look like. The ancient Israelites and Egyptians had them, after all.'
'They did?'
'It's in the Bible. Ask Mr. Christie,' I advised.
'Ye've been discussing the Bible wi' Tom Christie? Ye're a braver man than I am, Sassenach.' ...
'Not me. Germain asked me last week what "emerods" are.'
'What are they?'
'Piles. Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines,' I quoted, 'or something of the sort. That's as close as I can come from memory....'"
—Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes (New York: Bantam Dell, 2005), 66 Jan 30, 2010