Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or inhabiting the earth.
- n. An inhabitant of the earth; a terrestrial.
- n. Variant of tellurion.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining, relating to, or characteristic of the earth or an inhabitant of the earth.
- n. An inhabitant of the earth: so called with reference to supposed inhabitants of other planets.
- n. Same as tellurion.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or relating to, or inhabiting the Earth.
- adj. mineralogy Describing minerals containing tellurium.
- n. An inhabitant of the Earth.
- n. alternative spelling of tellurion.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to the earth.
- n. A dweller on the earth.
- n. An instrument for showing the operation of the causes which produce the succession of day and night, and the changes of the seasons.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air
- n. an inhabitant of the earth
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tellurian’.
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phrontistery-t
from phrontistery.info
tyromancy, tyroma, tyroid, tyriasis, tyrannicide, typtology, typothetae, typomania, typography, typographia, typhonic, typhomania and 930 more...
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250 Extra Spelling Words
Some more words for intermediate and advanced spellers.
cultellarius, barouche, palanquin, badelaire, cavetto, tregetour, tergiversate, rhododendron, rhadamanthine, thyrsus, cappelletti, bradycardia and 238 more...
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eg's list
lexicolony
nefandous, ineffable, ultracrepidate, haecceity, quiddity, noumenon, hypokeimenon, extemporaneous, theomastix, caducity, niddering, tellurian and 16 more...
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Cosmic
Relating to sci-fi or outer space.
xenophobia, tellurian, terrene, cislunar, ectoplasm, ufology, recalesce, panspermia, jetavator, siderism, exocide, sabaism and 10 more...
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Joycean Vocab
You ain't read no English til you read Joyce.
rasher, cygnet, usquebaugh, ephebe, entelechy, kish, caul, vicereine, atelier, daguerreotype, communard, connubial and 99 more...
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via Weird and Wonderful Words
Catch-all for things culled from Weird and Wonderful Words, More Weird and Wonderful Words, and Totally Weird and Wonderful Words, by Erin McKean, et al.
aboulia, alexiteric, angletouch, dactylion, alveary, sparlire, glabella, philtrum, pallium, heart-spoon, hyperprosexia, paraprosexia and 438 more...
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summer words 2009
how many words can I make mine this summer?
largess, hoyden, catholic, fornicatress, quean, slattern, bildungsroman, sybaritic, descresent, nodus, frittle, callipygian and 529 more...
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avawake's list
elpis, transient, anon, remeet, orerry, fitfull, benediction, infinitum, ad, ananym, halcyon, bird and 93 more...
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use•ful
palmary, glossolalia, bothum, high-proof, synesthesia, odious, autochthonous, yawp, mordacious, dynamo, dishevel, titely and 414 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, T
torquate, thalassocracy, toothsome, travois, tempestuous, tone, tincture, tripwire, tether, trill, tenacious, travesty and 355 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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Summer 12
vitrine, viaduct, traceries, taxonomic, ternary, vicegerent, stratagem, vermeil, shippon, rostral, scherzando, retinue and 197 more...
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Words to Learn
recrudescent, feckless, incorrigible, turbid, exiguity, fatuous, fatuitous, patent, parry, repose, resurgent, scurvy and 264 more...
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AllenBlocker's Words
lenitive, dulcify, solatium, concinnity, consentaneity, gimcrack, incondite, dissilient, toothsome, tumefy, revivified, frenetic and 19 more...
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freerice vocab
wrong answers + attractive new vocab
parturition, lyophilization, pharisaic, ligneous, hoyden, hyaloid, frangible, anthropophagous, edentulous, candent, sarcoid, intumescence and 33 more...
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Interesting
Words I didn't know that might come in handy one day...
muniment, underlock, stochastic, stertorous, turnsole, littoral, Lemniscate, fugacity, rodomontade, ambes-ace, Apophasis, folderol and 74 more...
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