agathocacological

Composed of both good and evil
agathakakologicalとも綴る。
ギリシア語のagatho(良い)+caco(悪い)+形容詞の接尾辞logicalより

enology

ワイン醸造学
oenologyとも綴る

viticulture

ぶどう栽培

philtrum, tragus

philtrum:
the vertical groove on the surface of the upper lip, below the septum of the nose.

tragus:
1. The projection of skin-covered cartilage in front of the meatus of the external ear.
2. Any of the hairs growing at the entrance to the meatus of the external ear.

stupefy

1.To dull the senses or faculties of. See synonyms at daze.
2.To amaze; astonish.

No meetings, ever. “I find them stupefying and useless.”

perspicacious

洞察力のある, 明敏な, 透徹した
He made a perspicacious comment on a mailing list.

androgynous

1　両性具有の;両性の特徴をもつ.
2　男女の区別のない;男女共通［共用］の
ということで、男女共通に使える名前はandrogynous nameと言われる。

ENSO

El Niño/Southern Oscillation

dipterocarp

tree of the family Dipterocarpaceae
フタバガキ科(Dipterocarpaceae)
二つの羽根が生えた実(di=2, ptero=羽根, carp=実)をつけるdipterocarpus属に由来する。
東南アジアの熱帯雨林で最も優占している種類。特にボルネオ島に多いが、ニューギニア島では少ない。優良な材を作り、ラワン材として日本にも沢山輸入されている。

魚の名前

flounder: カレイ
snapper: フエダイ
鯛を和英辞典で引くと「a sea bream」と出ている。

metathesis

1　音位［字位］転換:語の中の文字・音節・音が入れ替わること；ax→ask, clapse→claspなど.

仮定法の例

Do you really think American foreign policy after 9/11 would have been different, had there been a higher standard of religious literacy?

hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

The fear of long words.
Wikitionaryにはhippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobiaは誤りであるとされているが、そちらのグーグル力は38000に対し、p１つのほうは1070しかない。

exaltation

A flight of larks. See synonyms at flock.
e.g. an exaltation of larks

point source

A source, especially of pollution or radiation, occupying a very small area and having a concentrated output.

polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon

多環芳香族炭化水素

patriarchy

1. A social system in which the father is the head of the family and descent is traced through the father's side of the family.
2. A family, community, or society based on this system or governed by men. Also called patriarchate.

antonym: matriarchy

ball breaker

noun Slang: Vulgar.

1.	an arduous, often unpleasant task.

2.	a person who makes great demands on others; taskmaster.

bailiwick

noun
1. A person's specific area of interest, skill, or authority. See synonyms at field.
2. The office or district of a bailiff.

schwag

The term schwag refers to all manner of logoed stuff given away by companies to get people to remember them, feel good about them, have their phone number and website at hand and generally make them think about them before any of their competitors.

at one's disposal

be (left) at a person's ～　 人が好きなように処分［使用］してよい
I'm at your ～.　 おっしゃるとおりにいたします.

scutwork

noun
Informal.
Monotonous work or menial tasks that have to be done usually as part of a large, complex job or project.

disseminate

verb, transitive
1.To scatter widely, as in sowing seed.
2.To spread abroad; promulgate: disseminate information.

verb, intransitive
To become diffused; spread.

coterie

noun
A small, often select group of persons who associate with one another frequently. See synonyms at circle.

abridge

verb, transitive
1. To reduce the length of (a written text); condense.
2. To cut short; curtail. See synonyms at shorten.

egregious

adjective
Conspicuously bad or offensive. See synonyms at flagrant.

admonish

1.To reprove gently but earnestly.
2.To counsel (another) against something to be avoided; caution.
3.To remind of something forgotten or disregarded, as an obligation or a responsibility.

gild the lily

1. To adorn unnecessarily something already beautiful.
2. To make superfluous additions to what is already complete.

askance

adverb
1. With disapproval, suspicion, or distrust.
2. With a sideways glance; obliquely.

extol

To praise highly; exalt.

a long shot

a. A bet made at great odds. b. A venture that offers a great reward if successful but has very little chance of success.

a man about town

有閑紳士、社交界の常連

oblique

基本は「傾いた, 斜めの」という意味の形容詞。名詞として使われる際に、横腹の筋肉を指す言葉として使われることがある。減量のための製品の広告で、そういう使い方をしていた。

deflect

To turn aside or cause to turn aside; bend or deviate.

with one's name on it

(弾丸などが)oneを殺す運命になっている
have one's name on itとも言う。

compulsory altruism

Technometriaというポッドキャストのこの回でGNU GPLを「compulsory altruism」と表現していた。

insinuate

verb, transitive
1.To introduce or otherwise convey (a thought, for example) gradually and insidiously. See synonyms at suggest.
2.To introduce or insert (oneself) by subtle and artful means.

verb, intransitive
To make insinuations.

-- from The American Heritageｮ Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition

resurrect

verb, transitive
1.To bring back to life; raise from the dead.
2.To bring back into practice, notice, or use.

verb, intransitive
Theology. To rise from the dead; return to life.

perfunctory

1.Done routinely and with little interest or care: The operator answered the phone with a perfunctory greeting.
2.Acting with indifference; showing little interest or care.

chifferobe

–noun
A piece of furniture having both drawers and space for hanging clothes.
It came from chiffonier (a French word meaning a small piece of furniture with drawers for needlework) and wardrobe.

miss-goodie-two-shoes

かわいらしいが疎ましい女の子。18世紀に、1つしか靴を持っていなかった貧しい女の子が、お金持ちからもう1つ靴をもらい、大喜びして「two shoes! two shoes!」と言って町中を走り回ったという話から。

chrysalis

A pupa, especially of a moth or butterfly, enclosed in a firm case or cocoon.

衝動買い

impulse buying
impulsive buyingとネーティブ氏が言っていたのような気がしたので、"impulse buying"と"impulsive buying"のGoogle力を測ってみたら、272k対22kで、impulse buyingが圧倒的に多かった。

whiz-bang

noun
One that is conspicuously effective, successful, or skillful: a whiz-bang of a speech.

villain

1.A wicked or evil person; a scoundrel.
2.A dramatic or fictional character who is typically at odds with the hero.
3.Variant of villein.
4.Something said to be the cause of particular trouble or an evil: poverty, the villain in the increase of crime.
5.Obsolete. A peasant regarded as vile and brutish.

at odds:
In disagreement; in conflict: "The artist and the self-critic . . . are, with a few felicitous exceptions, forever at odds" (Joyce Carol Oates).

accentuate

1.To stress or emphasize; intensify: "enacted sweeping land-reform plans that accentuated the already chaotic pattern of landholding" (James Fallows).
2.To pronounce with a stress or an accent.
3.To mark with an accent.

Harry Houdini

少なくとも北米では超が付くほど有名なマジシャン。

胎児関連

羊膜： amnion
羊水： amniotic fluid
羊水穿刺： amniocentesis
臍帯： umbilical cord
胎盤： placenta

favicon

発音を調べてみたら・・・2通りの発音が見つかった。
fah vIh kahn (About: Web Design / HTML)
fav - eye - con (About: Web Logs)
About.com上に別々の発音が載っているというのは少し興味深い。

歯関連の単語

エナメル質： tooth enamel
象牙質： dentin(e)
歯根： the root of a tooth
歯槽膿漏： pyorrhea
歯槽骨： alveolar bone
歯茎： the gums

weewee

《話》《幼児語》名詞非可算《またa ～》おしっこ(peepee).
"Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest

culminate

verb, intransitive
1.a. To reach the highest point or degree; climax: habitual antagonism that culminated in open hostility. b. To come to completion; end: Years of waiting culminated in a tearful reunion.
2.Astronomy. To reach the highest point above an observer's horizon. Used of stars and other celestial bodies.

verb, transitive
To bring to the point of greatest intensity or to completion; climax: The ceremony culminated a long week of preparation.

illustrious

1. Well known and very distinguished; eminent. See synonyms at noted.
2. Obsolete. Shining brightly.

spite

1. Malicious ill will prompting an urge to hurt or humiliate.
2. An instance of malicious feeling.

perpendicular

adjective
1. Mathematics. Intersecting at or forming right angles.
2. Being at right angles to the horizontal; vertical. See synonyms at vertical.
3. Often Perpendicular . Of or relating to a style of English Gothic architecture of the 14th and 15th centuries, characterized by emphasis of the vertical element.

noun
1. Mathematics. A line or plane perpendicular to a given line or plane.
2. A perpendicular position.
3. A device, such as a plumb line, used in marking the vertical from a given point.
4. A vertical or nearly vertical line or plane.

膿

pus
A generally viscous, yellowish-white fluid formed in infected tissue, consisting of white blood cells, cellular debris, and necrotic tissue.

necrosis
Death of cells or tissues through injury or disease, especially in a localized area of the body.
adj. necrotic

耳関連の英単語

耳たぶ： an earlobe
外耳： the external ear
外耳道： ear canal, auditory canal
外耳炎： swimmer's ear, otitis externa
鼓膜： eardrum, tympanic membrane
中耳： the middle ear, the tympanum
中耳炎： inflamation of the middle ear, tympanitis, otis media
内耳： the inner ear
内耳炎： inflamation of the inner ear, otitis interna
耳管： auditory tube, the eustachian tube （EustachianとEを大文字にすることもあるが、それほど多くない）
耳小骨： the ear bones, the auditory ossicles
つち骨・きぬた骨・あぶみ骨： hammer, anvil, stirrupというのが普通の言い方で、それらをラテン語にしてmalleus, incus, stapesが正式な医学用語
三半規管： the semicircular canals
蝸牛殻： cochlea

adorn

1. To lend beauty to; decorate: "The pale mimosas that adorned the favorite promenade" (Ronald Firbank).
2. To fit out with or as if with ornaments: "The sugar plantations were adorned with windmills" (Alec Waugh).
3. To enhance the distinction, beauty, splendor, or glory of; add luster to: "Virtue adorned his mind" (John Ford).

slay

1. To kill violently.
2. Slang. To overwhelm, as with laughter or love: Those old jokes still slay me.
e.g. "The great tragedy of Science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact." Thomas Huxley

martyr

1. One who chooses to suffer death rather than renounce religious principles.
2. One who makes great sacrifices or suffers much in order to further a belief, cause, or principle.
3. a. One who endures great suffering: a martyr to arthritis. b. One who makes a great show of suffering in order to arouse sympathy.

renounce
1. To give up (a title, for example), especially by formal announcement. See synonyms at relinquish.
2. To reject; disown.

No taxation without representation

was a catchphrase in the period 1763-1775 that summarized a primary grievance of the American colonists in the Thirteen colonies.
-- from Wikipedia

juggernaut

1. Something, such as a belief or an institution, that elicits blind and destructive devotion or to which people are ruthlessly sacrificed.
2. An overwhelming, advancing force that crushes or seems to crush everything in its path: "It doesn't assume that people need necessarily remain passive when confronted by what appears to be the juggernaut of history"(Christopher Lehmann-Haupt).

revere

To regard with awe, deference, and devotion.

deference
1. Submission or courteous yielding to the opinion, wishes, or judgment of another.
2. Courteous respect. See synonyms at honor.

revile

To assail with abusive language; vituperate. See synonyms at scold.

assail
1.To attack with or as if with violent blows; assault.
2.To attack verbally, as with ridicule or censure. See synonyms at attack.
3.To trouble; beset: was assailed by doubts.

brisket

1. The chest of an animal.
2. The ribs and meat taken from the chest of an animal.

the Acts

《単数扱い》〔聖〕使徒行伝(the Acts of the Apostles).