Definitions
WordNet 3.0
- n. a constant and imminent peril
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Vorpal Swords
Swords with names. (A real name, not The Sword of Doom or anything...)
Please add to this list! (Just cite your sword's wielder.)excalibur, hruntling, arondight, tizona, galatine, dyrnwyn, sting, joyeuse, nothung, caladbolg, durendal, zulfiqar and 13 more...
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ancient signs
ouroboros, calypso, la sirene, Medusa, chthonic, aureole, colophon, succubus, peri, homunculus, zephyr, numinous and 56 more...
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Is it morning yet?
coterie, lexeme, counterbalance, forthright, pigtail, ponytail, french-braid, barrette, listless, counsel, sitting duck, dead duck and 268 more...
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addendumb's Words
fey, cockshut, redact, beatific, melange, arcanum, rarefied, dissemble, capitulation, detritus, ennui, anodyne and 381 more...
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simple & useful9
heartrendingly, rancorous, ferocity, earful, dispiriting, dandification, ascribing, monotonic, smattering, yesteryear, sword of damocles, blubbering and 104 more...
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je les adore!
fusillade, foal, celestial, abattoir, byzantium, berlin, casablanca, babylon, balkans, albion, avalon, between the devil... and 471 more...
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Predictionary
EXPECTED vs. SURPRISE
aberration, exception, spontaneous, synchronicity, startle, waylay, prophecy, zemblanity, inadvertent, atavism, sui generis, anomaly and 127 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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today's word
copemate, quiddity, ere, maugre, argal, cultivar, exurb, spokesmodel, rollick, logy, cadastral, corpulent and 259 more...
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Valse's Words
fastidious, fervent, bellicose, personification, onomatopoeia, burly, concomitant, tempura, serendipity, pecuniary, foment, chum and 418 more...
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I like : S
saga, saturnalia, saturnine, satyriasis, satyricon, scheherazade, schism, scintillate, sciolism, scuppernong, seelie, shadowy and 46 more...
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Absinthe's list
termagant, velleity, penumbra, bluetool, food baby, lozenge, minutia, folderol, dirigible, overwrought, narnia, smidge and 72 more...
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MisterC's list
schadefreude, perspicacious, indefatigable, lycanthropy, palindrome, tumescence, triskaidekaphobia, anachronism, antiestablishment..., abecedarian, sword of damocles, pyrrhic victory and 41 more...
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stackpool Ah yes, but there has been seepage with this expression. It has not been unknown for potential victims to mutter utterances such as: "the phal of Damocles" for particularly demanding curries etc, etc, etc. Aug 26, 2009
whichbe A thing or situation which causes a prolonged state of impending doom or misfortune. (Wiktionary) May 28, 2008