34… words

Here’s the 34 (that number!) words that I’ve put on a spreadsheet, having already hit 1000 (more of this list, and what I have done with it, later). These words come from various places, including an excellent novel called Melmoth by Sarah Perry, and an equally excellent short story called The Autopsy, by Michael Shea. See below for “splatterpunk”…

adit	An adit (from Latin aditus, entrance) or stulm is a horizontal or nearly horizontal passage to an underground mine. … Miners can use adits for access, drainage, .
bordure	In heraldry, a bordure is a band of contrasting tincture forming a border around the edge of a shield, traditionally one-sixth as wide as the shield itself. It is sometimes reckoned as an ordinary and sometimes as a subordinary.
breakfront	breakfront /ˈbreɪkfrʌnt/ noun a piece of furniture having the line of its front broken by a curve or angle. “a breakfront bookcase”
Calamansi	Calamansi (Citrus × microcarpa),[2] also known as calamondin,[3] Philippine lime,[4] or Philippine lemon,[5] is a citrus hybrid cultivated predominantly in the Philippines. It is native to the Philippines, parts of Indonesia (Borneo, Sumatra, and Sulawesi), Malaysia, and Brunei, as well as parts of southern China and Taiwan.
cerement	cerement /ˈsɪəm(ə)nt/ noun plural noun: cerements HISTORICAL waxed cloth for wrapping a corpse.
chorek	armenian sweet bread
conatus	In the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza, conatus is an innate inclination of a thing to continue to exist and enhance itself. This thing may be mind, matter, or a combination of both, and is often associated with God’s will in a pantheist view of nature.
ecchymosis	“Ecchymosis” is the medical term for bruises. These form when blood pools under your skin. They’re caused by a blood vessel break. Bruises look like a mark on your skin that’s black and blue or red to purple.
ecdysis	Ecdysis is the process of an arthropod moulting its exoskeleton. Moulting is necessary as the arthropod exoskeleton is inflexible and so, to grow larger, arthropods must moult.
eggcorn	eggcorn /ˈɛɡkɔːn/ noun a word or phrase that results from a mishearing or misinterpretation of another, an element of the original being substituted for one which sounds very similar (e.g. tow the line instead of toe the line ). “a reader sent in the eggcorn ‘sir name’ for surname”
ephectic	ephec·​tic. ə̇ˈfektik, (ˈ)e¦f- : given to suspense of judgment.
gaukel	conjure · conjures · conjured · conjuring ; juggle · juggles · juggled · juggling ; use magic · uses magic · used magic · using magic …
Grosgrain	Grosgrain (/ˈɡroʊɡreɪn/ GROH-grayn,[1] also sometimes /ˈɡrɒsɡreɪn/ GROS-grayn) is a type of fabric or ribbon defined by the fact that its weft is heavier than its warp, creating prominent transverse ribs. Grosgrain is a plain weave corded[a] fabric, with heavier cords than poplin but lighter than faille,[2][3] and is known for being a firm, close-woven, fine-corded fabric.[4] Grosgrain has a dull appearance, with little luster in comparison to many fabric weaves, such as satin, often used for ribbons; however, it is comparatively very strong.
Hantu	Hantu is the Malay and Indonesian word for spirit or ghost. In modern usage it generally means spirits of the dead but has also come to refer to any legendary invisible being, such as demons. In its traditional context the term also referred to animistic nature spirits or ancestral souls.
ideogram	An ideogram or ideograph (from Greek idéa ‘idea’ + gráphō ‘to write’) is a symbol that represents an idea or concept independent of any particular language. Some ideograms are more arbitrary than others: some are only meaningful assuming preexisting familiarity with some convention; others more directly resemble their signifieds. Ideograms that represent physical objects by visually resembling them are called pictograms.
instar	An instar is a developmental stage of arthropods, such as insects, which occurs between each moult (ecdysis) until sexual maturity is reached.
lavash	Lavash is an ancient wafer-thin, pliable flatbread made of simple pantry staples including flour, salt, water (or milk), and yeast, although some recipes do skip the yeast and rely on old dough to make an unleavened lavash.
maubrium	Manubrium. The manubrium is the most superior portion of the sternum. It is trapezoid in shape. The superior aspect of the manubrium is concave,
Narm	Narm is a moment that is supposed to be serious, but due to either over-sappiness, poor execution, excessive melodrama, unneeded use of foul language, or the sheer absurdity of the situation, the drama is lost to the point of surpassing “cheesy” and becoming unintentionally funny. It is named for a famous scene in the last season of Six Feet Under. In it, main character Nate Fisher briefly grabs his right arm and complains that it’s numb. He then suffers a brain hemorrhage while repeating the words “numb arm”. However, it quickly degenerates into “Narm! Narm!” before he comically rolls up his eyes, snorts loudly, and then drops to the floor. Even though the scene was intended to be dramatic, fans and critics overwhelmingly found it to be funny.
orle	In heraldry, an orle is a subordinary consisting of a narrow band occupying the inward half of where a bordure would be, following the exact outline of the shield but within it, showing the field between the outer edge of the orle and the edge of the shield
oxblood	Oxblood or ox-blood is a dark shade of red. It resembles burgundy, but has less purple and more dark brown hues. The French term sang-de-bœuf, or sang de bœuf, with the same meaning (but also “ox blood”) is used in various contexts in English,[3] but especially in pottery, where sang de boeuf glaze in the color is a classic ceramic glaze in Chinese ceramics.[4] The name is often used in fashion, especially for shoes. The term oxblood can be used to describe a range of colors from red to reddish-purple to nearly black with red, brown and blue undertones.[5]
palstave	A palstave is a type of early bronze axe. It was common in the middle Bronze Age in northern, western and south-western Europe. In the technical sense, although precise definitions differ, an axe is generally deemed to be a palstave if it is hafted by means of a forked wooden handle kept in place with high, cast flanges and stop bar.
Pancit	Pancit (Tagalog pronunciation: [panˈsɪt] pan-SIT), also spelled pansít, is a general term referring to various traditional noodle dishes in Filipino cuisine. There are numerous types of pancit, often named based on the noodles used, method of cooking, place of origin, equal and constant diameter or the ingredients.[1][2][3] Most pancit dishes are characteristically served with calamansi, which adds a citrusy flavor profile
petroglyph	A petroglyph is an image created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art.
semelparity	reproductive strategy, reproducing once and then dying, is called semelparity. It is quite common in invertebrates, especially insects, spiders, and mollusks (including many species of cephalopods). It is extremely rare in vertebrates, especially land-dwelling vertebrates. The only exceptions are antechinus (a genus of small marsupials, the only documented mammalian exception), some Hyla frogs, and some lizards. https://nicolasdelon.substack.com/p/the-cicada-the-octopus-and-the-tortoise?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=tfpzm&triedRedirect=true
sistine	“a light blue color.”
splatterpunk	Splatterpunk is a movement within horror fiction originating in the 1980s, distinguished by its graphic, often gory, depiction of violence, countercultural alignment[1] and “hyperintensive horror with no limits.”[2][3][4] The term was coined in 1986 by David J. Schow at the Twelfth World Fantasy Convention in Providence, Rhode Island. Splatterpunk is regarded as a revolt against the “traditional, meekly suggestive horror story”.[5] Splatterpunk has been defined as a “literary genre characterised by graphically described scenes of an extremely gory nature.”
stromuhr	stromuhr (literally: German for stream clock) was a medical instrument designed by Carl Ludwig in 1867 to measure the strength of flow in major arteries and veins[1] by means of animal experiments.
stope	A stope is a dugout tunnel or space that contains the ore that is being mined. Clear stopes are essential for a mining industry operation to run smoothly. The stope provides direct access to the orebody and routes ore and waste in an underground mine.
stulm	a shaft for draining a mine
Timpani	Timpani (/ˈtɪmpəni/;[2] Italian pronunciation: [ˈtimpani]) or kettledrums (also informally called timps)[2] are musical instruments in the percussion family. A type of drum categorised as a hemispherical drum, they consist of a membrane called a head stretched over a large bowl traditionally made of copper.
treadle	treadle /ˈtrɛdl/ noun a lever worked by the foot and imparting motion to a machine. verb operate (a machine) with a treadle. “he was treadling the cardboard-box machine”
Varan	Varan (Japanese: バラン, Hepburn: Baran) is a fictional monster, or kaiju, that first appeared in the 1958 film Varan the Unbelievable directed by Ishirō Honda and produced and distributed by Toho. Varan is depicted as a giant prehistoric reptile capable of gliding flight, and has gone on to appear in the 1968 film Destroy All Monsters, the ninth film in the Godzilla franchise.
vermiculation	Vermiculation is a surface pattern of dense but irregular lines, so called from the Latin vermiculus meaning “little worm” because the shapes resemble worms, worm-casts, or worm tracks in mud or wet sand. The word may be used in a number of contexts for patterns that have little in common. The adjective vermiculated is more often used than the noun.