Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The branch of meteorology that deals with clouds.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. That part of meteorology which treats of clouds.
Wiktionary
- n. The branch of meteorology that studies clouds.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the branch of meteorology that studies clouds and cloud formation
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek νέφος (nephos, "cloud") + -logy. (Wiktionary)
- Greek nephos, cloud; see nebh- in Indo-European roots + -logy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nephology’.
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phrontistery - n
from phrontistery.info
nacarat, nacelle, nacket, nacre, nacreous, naevus, naiant, nail, nainsook, naissant, nanism, nanization and 340 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2057 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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Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 569 more...
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Browning words of cotton - often stic...
words that meander or have a partial dimension:
words that "catch on": peano curves: fractalitescotton, clue, filament, filaria, filum, filovirus, clod, cloud, peano curve, alveoli, nuance, noil and 122 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, N
nurdled, naumachia, nystagmus, nephology, nigh, noctilucent, noctambulant, nocebo, neap, napiform, nacelle, node and 95 more...
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No Ap-ology
Unusual -ologies
morology, tidology, aerology, tyrology, orology, barology, tocology, doorology, ology, battology, dittology, cacology and 244 more...
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flannagan's Words
netop, kenspeckle, loden, framboise, providence, milquetoast, schism, cadence, thrush, asphodel, clandestine, aesthete and 196 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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ologies
technology, acarology, aceology, acology, adenology, aedoeology, aerobiology, aerolithology, aerology, agriology, agrobiology, agrology and 850 more...
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OrbitalCombustion's Words
nepenthe, phrontistery, peregrination, pervicacious, sinistrality, phallogocentric, prolixity, leptokurtic, ineffable, haecceity, lucubration, vicissitudes and 1026 more...
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N
nescient, nepheligenous, nephoscope, nephology, nullifidian, nostrum, numismatic, nescience, nonce, nictitate, nictitating membrane
Tweets
Looking for tweets for nephology.

fbharjo a quick study of partial dimension boundary issues Aug 26, 2007