bog down (verb)
Get stuck while doing something.
wick (noun)
Any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action.
lumbering (noun)
The trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber.
palatine (noun)
Any of various important officials in ancient Rome.
palatine bone (noun)
Either of two irregularly shaped bones that form the back of the hard palate and helps to form the nasal cavity and the floor of the orbits.
palatalized (adjective)
Produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin').
palsgrave (noun)
(Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands.
palatal (noun)
A semivowel produced with the tongue near the palate (like the initial sound in the English word `yeast').
os palatinum (noun)
Either of two irregularly shaped bones that form the back of the hard palate and helps to form the nasal cavity and the floor of the orbits.
palatalised (adjective)
Produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin').
