Word Meanings - OCTENNIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Happening every eighth year; also, lasting a period of eight years. Johnson. -- Oc*ten"ni*al*ly, adv.

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• PERIODIC; PERIODICAL
  Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet , a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function , a function whose values
• EIGHTFOLD
  Eight times a quantity.
• LAST
  of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth. Chaucer.
• LASTERY
  A red color. Spenser.
• LASTE
  of Last, to endure. Chaucer.
• EVERYWHERENESS
  Ubiquity; omnipresence. Grew.
• EVERYWHERE
  In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether.
• PERIODONTAL
  Surrounding the teeth.
• EIGHTEEN
  Eight and ten; as, eighteen pounds.
• EIGHT
  An island in a river; an ait. "Osiers on their eights." Evelyn.
• EIGHTIETH
  1. The next in order after seventy-ninth. 2. Consisting of one of eighty equal parts or divisions.
• EIGHTHLY
  As the eighth in order.
• JOHNSONIANISM
  A manner of acting or of writing peculiar to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson.
• JOHNSONESE
  The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words. E. Everett.
• EIGHTSCORE
  Eight times twenty; a hundred and sixty.
• PERIOD
  One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology. 4. The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end;
• PERIODICALLY
  In a periodical manner.
• EIGHTY
  Eight times ten; fourscore.
• EIGHTETETHE
  Eighteenth.
• LASTLY
  1. In the last place; in conclusion. 2. at last; finally.
• PROPLASTIC
  Forming a mold.
• FREIGHT
  1. That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight. The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use
• MISHAPPEN
  To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
• SLEIGHTLY
  Cunningly. Huloet.
• ODONTOPLAST
  An odontoblast.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• EVERLASTINGLY
  In an everlasting manner.
• BEHAPPEN
  To happen to.
• LABIOPLASTY
  A plastic operation for making a new lip, or for replacing a lost tissue of a lip.
• APLASTIC
  Not plastic or easily molded.
• EMPLASTER
  See WISEMAN (more info) plaster or salve, fr. Gr.
• STOMATOPLASTIC
  Of or pertaining to the operation of forming a mouth where the aperture has been contracted, or in any way deformed.
• MONOPLAST
  A monoplastic element.
• SLEIGHT
  1. Cunning; craft; artful practice. "His sleight and his covin." Chaucer. 2. An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation. The world hath many subtle sleights. Latimer. 3. Dexterous
• WOLLASTON'S DOUBLET
  A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses. It is designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion.
• ANTIPERIODIC
  A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.
• PHELLOPLASTICS
  Art of modeling in cork.