Examples
“The manufacture of smokeless powders on the one hand, and of celluloid and xylonite (both in the form of films and solid aggregates) on the other, has taken no new departure.”
“ASCENSION, MARE BOAT -- Wreck of unknown racing-plane, Parden rudder, wire-stiffened xylonite vans, and Harliss engine-seating, sighted and salved 7 20 'S. 18 41' W.Dec. 15th.”
“The Chaplain is plainly uncertain, as he wrestles with the clerical guillotine of washable xylonite, and stammers something about unwarrantable liberty and a lady's reputation!”
“He is aflame, from the edge of his collar -- a patent clerical guillotine of washable xylonite, purchased at a famous travellers 'emporium in the Strand -- to the thin, silky rings of dark hair that are wearing from his high, pale temples.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘xylonite’.
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xylo- words
xylo is Greek for wood
xylophone is listed 37 timesxylobalsamum, xylocarp, xylocarpous, xylochrome, xylogen, xylograph, xylographed, xylographer, xylographic, xylographical, xylographing, xylography and 24 more...
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trademark
all of these are from 7 English
dictionaries and Macquarie dictionary
I havent listed capitalized ones yet
but Viagra would be one and common
words like sterling a sub-machi...agene, adware, airbus, alnico, amberina, amarone, apiezon, aspirin, atebrin, atebrine, autocue, autoharp and 774 more...
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Verrines of Random Palavery
broth of a man, broth of a boy, saturege, satureja, selachophobia, misopogonistically, prosiopesis, excave, intermicate, meletian, cone-anchor, goose wing and 454 more...
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