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Word Meanings - FOSSA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossæ containing the nostrils in most birds.

Related words: (words related to FOSSA)

  • TEMPORALNESS
    Worldliness. Cotgrave.
  • CONTAINMENT
    That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
  • DEPTH
    The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content. (more info) 1. The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface,or horizontal measurement backward
  • TEMPORAL
    Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; -- used chiefly in the plural. Dryden. He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor or temporals. Lowell.
  • NASALLY
    In a nasal manner; by the nose.
  • TEMPORALTY
    1. The laity; secular people. Abp. Abbot. 2. A secular possession; a temporality.
  • NASALIZE
    To render nasal, as sound; to insert a nasal or sound in.
  • SKULLFISH
    A whaler's name for a whale more than two years old.
  • CONTAINANT
    A container.
  • NASALITY
    The quality or state of being nasal.
  • DEPTHLESS
    1. Having no depth; shallow. 2. Of measureless depth; unfathomable. In clouds of depthless night. Francis.
  • TEMPORALITY
    1. The state or quality of being temporary; -- opposed to perpetuity. 2. The laity; temporality. Sir T. More. 3. That which pertains to temporal welfare; material interests; especially, the revenue of an ecclesiastic proceeding from
  • FOSSANE
    A species of civet resembling the genet.
  • SKULLCAP
    Any plant of the labiate genus Scutellaria, the calyx of whose flower appears, when inverted, like a helmet with the visor raised. (more info) 1. A cap which fits the head closely; also, formerly, a headpiece of iron sewed inside of a
  • DEPRESSION
    The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon. (more info) 1. The act of depressing. 2. The state of being depressed; a sinking. 3. A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness
  • CONTAINABLE
    Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
  • DEPTHEN
    To deepen.
  • CONTAINER
    One who, or that which, contains.
  • FOSSA
    A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossæ containing the nostrils in most birds.
  • GROOVER
    1. One who or that which grooves. 2. A miner. Holloway.
  • PRAENASAL
    See PRENASAL
  • PRENASAL
    Situated in front of the nose, or in front of the nasal chambers.
  • LABIONASAL
    Formed by the lips and the nose. -- n.
  • SELF-CONTAINED
    Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
  • THICK-SKULLED
    Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.
  • NUMSKULL
    A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow. They have talked like numskulls. Arbuthnot.
  • SUPRATEMPORAL
    Situated above the temporal bone or temporal fossa. -- n.
  • SUBNASAL
    Situated under the nose; as, the subnasal point, or the middle point of the inferior border of the anterior nasal aperture.
  • MESONASAL
    Of or pertaining to the middle portion of the nasal region.

 

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