Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to rain or rainy regions.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or relating to rain, or its distribution with reference to different regions; descriptive of the rainfall of different districts; pluvial; rainy.
Wiktionary
- adj. rare Pertaining to rain.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to rain; descriptive of the distribution of rain, or of rainy regions.
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek ὑετός (huetos, "rain"). (Wiktionary)
- From Greek hūetos, rain; see seuə-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The amount of rain-fall, as shown by the hyetal, or rain-chart, of North”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hyetal’.
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phrontistery - h
from phrontistery.info
hysteresis, hyrax, hyoid, hymnody, hymnal, hylicism, hydric, hyalopterous, hyaloid, hyalography, hyaline, hyacinthine and 568 more...
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Rainy weather report.
Today's weather.
is it rain, sprinkles, showers, sleet, or drizzle?
Are those drops, droplets?
Is the weatherman just using the word precipitation?
Is the scientist causing ...rain, sprinkle, droplets, shower, precipitation, freezing rain, drops, drizzle, sleet, thundershower, mist, pour and 126 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Cloudy
with a chance of mizzle
puff, nebulous, fog, overcast, becloud, bedim, taint, befog, dapple, mottle, sully, pother and 83 more...
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Awesome biological adjectives
vespine, virulent, viviparous, vulpine, vulturine, xeromorphic, ursine, ungulate, terricolous, sylvan, setaceous, sciurine and 14 more...
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Rabindranath Not Included
i can't never forget thiccyn's!
bubaline, dezinkhornifistib..., hirundine, bee veil, cuckoo spit, resistentialism, hobthrush, burniebee, hookem-snivey, fattiehead, mompyns, mons and 142 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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kawy's list
subtrist, tricoteuse, undisonant, apricity, apricity, nudiustertian, snaste, chrestomath, chrestomath, velleity, zugzwang, muntin and 106 more...
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Words featured in Mrs. Byrne's Dictio...
Selections from Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words by Josefa Heifetz Byrne (University Books, 1974). Definitions in the comments when not available elsewhere.
apanthropy, anoetic, aristology, ayne, bibliopole, bibliotaph, calecannon, caoine, catlap, chirospasm, clamjamfry, coadunate and 174 more...
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weather woman
bleak, austere, stark, severe, sultry, torrid, raw, crisp, algid, misty, hyetal, pluvial and 17 more...
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Shaped Like Itself
falcate, pectinate, echinate, ctenoid, xyloid, onomastic, flocculate, hyetal, trochal, irenic, skeuomorph, erose and 2 more...
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Rainbows?!
superciliary, iridal, welkin, heterochrome, gwydion, cerulean, supernal, prismatic, optics, hypethral, cerulific, serein and 29 more...
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Weather
Tweets
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super-kawy Of or relating to rain or rainy regions. Sep 23, 2009
lyuds (adj) pertaining to rain Aug 26, 2008