Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The chemistry of fermentation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The science of or knowledge concerning fermentation.
Wiktionary
- n. zymurgy A treatise on the fermentation of liquors, or the doctrine of fermentation.
- n. The science of or knowledge concerning fermentation.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A treatise on the fermentation of liquors, or the doctrine of fermentation.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the branch of chemistry concerned with fermentation (as in making wine or brewing or distilling)
Etymologies
- From zymo- + -logy. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I heard from someone else it's going to be called the zymology zone.”
The most unfortunate event in a series of unfortunate events
“They then researched like mad, focusing on the pragmatic side of zymology.”
“RETIRED GENERAL DAVID GRANGE, CNN MILITARY ANALYST: Well, the zymology of getting Omar and bin Laden would have been great, but -- and I think eventually that will happen, but it hasn't been done.”
“For others, it led to a new and more subtle radicalism, as they persuaded first themselves and then the university that the differences between the sexes extended to modes of thinking -- not just in women's studies but in every other subject, from aardvarks to zymology.”
“The Internet is now being used as a medium for everything from accommodation bookings to research on zymology," says Luke Blackwell, Head of Information Technology at Rosetta's London headquarters, who is also responsible for developing Rosetta's website localisation services.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘zymology’.
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Mirrored Vowels
Rules:
• The word must have an even number of vowels.
• There must be four or more vowels; thus, at minimum, an A-A-A-A or A-B-B-A pattern.
• The vowels must appear in a mir...feminine, solicitor, caruncular, repackager, semiprimes, fetishises, decomposer, demonlover, recomposer, sepultures, lipotropic, colesterol and 385 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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phrontistery-z
from phrontistery.info
zabaglione, zabernism, zabra, zabuton, zaffre, zaftig, zaitech, zakuska, zalambdodont, zamacueca, zamarra, zambomba and 208 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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career advisor
interesting -ologies, vocations, etc.
Please cite your chosen career if it doesn't have a weirdnet entry.vexillology, eschatology, pomology, phrenology, astacology, balneology, dactology, mycology, selenology, rhinology, hippology, somnology and 43 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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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 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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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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Obscure
You won't find these except in a list like this...or a poem just made for them:
A SESQUIPEDALIAN EXCURSION
Down streamed the rain; the evening was procellous;
Meek, madef...procellous, madefy, marcid, zymology, zythepsary, meracious, procerity, macrology, procacious, dapatical, nimiety, moliminous and 8 more...
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trivet The study of fermentation. Mar 6, 2007