TORREFY

[verb]

1. Medicine / Pharmacology: to dry (drugs, ores, etc.) by subjection to intense heat; roast.

2. to scorch or parch.

Etymology: from French torréfier, from Latin torrefacere, from torrēre - to parch + facere - to make.

[Liiga Smilshkalne]

PARACOITA

[noun]

a female sexual partner.

[Emek]

SUPERNAL

[adjective]

1. celestial; heavenly.

2. of, coming from, or being in the sky or high above; emanating from the sky.

3. of or from the world of the divine.

4. exalted; of exceptional quality or extent.

Etymology: from Mediaeval Latin supernālis, from Latin supernus - that is on high, from super - above.

STIRPS

[noun]

1. branch of a family; pedigree.

2. a line of descendants of common ancestry; stock.

3. a person from whom a family is descended.

Etymology: Latin, stem, lineage.

[bubug]

VENENIFEROUS

[adjective]

1. carrying poison.

2. bearing or transmitting poison and especially a natural venom.

Etymology: from Anglo-Norman, from Old French venim, from Vulgar Latin *venimem, from Latin venenum.

[Stanley Lau]

XIĀNNǙ

Chinese: 仙女 - fairy.

[Bao Pham]

RUBBLE

[noun]

1. broken bits and pieces of anything, as that which is demolished.

2. any solid substance, as ice, in irregularly broken pieces.

3. rough fragments of broken stone, formed by geological processes, in quarrying, etc., and sometimes used in masonry.

4. masonry built of rough fragments of broken stone.

Etymology: Middle English rubel, robil.

[ouzo-portokali]

VENTUS

[noun]

Latin: wind; air in natural motion.

[Vladimir Kush]

SYNTERESIS

[noun]

1. conscience as guide to action; intuitive moral knowledge.

2. conscience viewed as the internal repository of the laws of duty.

3. Medical: prophylaxis; prevention of or protective treatment for disease.

[Artist Unknown]

SMUG

[adjective]

1. contentedly confident of one’s ability, superiority, or correctness; complacent; self-satisfied.

2. trim; spruce; smooth; sleek.

Etymology: perhaps < Middle Dutch smuc - neat, pretty, nice.

[Danielle Storey]

RUGOSE

[adjective]

1. having many wrinkles or creases; ridged or wrinkled.

2. Botany: having a rough, wrinkled surface, as in certain prominently veined leaves.

Etymology: from Latin rūgōsus, from rūga - a wrinkle.

[Sarah Faust]

PERIPATETIC

[noun]

1. one who walks from place to place; an itinerant.

2. a follower of the philosophy of Aristotle; an Aristotelian.

[adjective]

3. walking about or from place to place; travelling on foot.

4. of or relating to the philosophy or teaching methods of Aristotle, who conducted discussions while walking about in the Lyceum of ancient Athens.

Etymology: from Latin peripatēticus, from Greek peripatētikos, from peripatein - to pace to and fro. 

[Daniel Danger]

JUSTICIAR

[noun]

1. administrator of justice; supreme judge.

2. a high judicial officer in mediaeval England.

3. the chief political and judicial officer in England from the reign of William I to that of Henry III.

4. justiciary; of or pertaining to the administration of justice.

Etymology: Mediaeval Latin jūsticiārius.

[Source - Artist Unknown]