Definitions
Etymologies
- See humectate. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I sup, I wet, I humect, I moisten my gullet, I drink, and all for fear of dying.”
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
“Except in Ireland, I never heard _humour_ or _humorous_ aspirated, though in _humid_ and _humect_ the _h_ is always sounded.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘humect’.
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phrontistery - h
from phrontistery.info
habanera, habile, habiliment, hackle, hackney, hadal, hame, hank, hansom, hapax, hark, harl and 568 more...
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Rabelation
Words and phrases from Urquhart and Motteaux's matchless translation of Rabelais' "Gargantua and Pantagruel" (available here).
Make bold with suggestions down in the comment box.bum-gut, torchecul, septembral juice, turdy, linkie pinkie, neat's tongues, variorum, fanfreluches, well-mouthed wench, the close buttock..., rataconniculation, beeves and 300 more...
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Oh them words, them words
My fancies, my cudgels.
liquescent, ferly, lamia, basilisk, trigon, fantast, stirp, tristesse, enfleurage, stemma, formicary, lacrimation and 346 more...
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To Moisten or Wet
Verbs meaning moisten or wet
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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Verbophile's Words
callidity, evirate, calcitrate, periplus, versipel, dout, putanism, subvene, repristinate, impleach, ferruginate, incrassate and 153 more...
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Rabelais
fanfreluches, nax, robidilardic, rataconniculation, kyles, baste, humect, cotyledon, fig, stopple, exiture, maleficiate and 14 more...
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Miscellany, pt. h
hottentottentente..., honorificabilitud..., halithere, haruspex, hegemony, horripilate, homodox, heterodox, holmquistite, hormé, halinous, haole and 39 more...
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pavonine Also humectate to moisten;to wet;to become moistened Nov 6, 2007