Matt Petty

Matt Petty (lodestone)

Location: Kansas City

Lodestone's recent words:

aesthete

one who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature

sartorial

of or relating to a tailor or to tailoring

albedo

the ratio of reflected to incident light

cocotte

a small casserole in which individual portions can be cooked and served † a woman who engages in sexual i...

ruction

the act of making a noisy disturbance

extirpate

surgically remove (an organ) † pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all ove...

psychopomp

a conductor of souls to the afterworld; "Hermes was their psychopomp"

bubo

a lymph node that is inflamed and swollen because of plague or gonorrhea or tuberculosis

grebe

small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that builds floating nests; similar to loons but smaller and...

avocet

long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill

besom

a broom made of twigs tied together on a long handle

pique

tightly woven fabric with raised cords † a sudden outburst of anger; "his temper sparked like damp firewo...

tappet

a lever that is moved in order to tap something else

bursal

relating to or affecting a bursa

nitid

bright with a steady but subdued shining; "from the plane we saw the city below agleam with lights"; "the gleami...

ombu

fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of South America having a broad trunk with high water content and dark gr...

pokeweed

perennial of the genus Phytolacca

reify

consider an abstract concept to be real

abulia

a loss of will power

fanwort

common aquatic plant of eastern North America having floating and submerged leaves and white yellow-spotted flowers