Wiktionary:Word of the day/Archive/2015/October

1. The preparing of a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients.
2. A mixture prepared in such a way.
3. Something made-up, an invention.

1. A wax-resist method of dyeing fabric.

Today is Batik Day in Indonesia in 2015.

1. The condition or state of being predominant; ascendancy, domination, preeminence, preponderance.

1. (archaic) A rude, uncultured or rowdy girl or woman.

1. The land immediately next to, and inland from, a coast.
2. The rural territory surrounding an urban area, especially a port.
3. A remote or undeveloped area, a backwater.
4. (figuratively) That which is unknown or unexplored about someone.
5. (figuratively) Anything vague or ill-defined, especially one that is ill understood.

1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To complain, especially in an annoying or persistent manner.
2. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To whine.

1. To publicise, to promote.

1. That is or has been recited from memory; that has been learned by heart.
2. Of, pertaining to, or involved with the practice of recitation or learning by heart.

1. A parlor game in which participants invent definitions for an unfamiliar word found in a dictionary, and as one person reads them out, the others try to guess which one is the correct definition.

1. In the shape of a vulva; in the shape of a yoni.

1. Measurement (of cloth) by the ell.
2. A duty paid for such measurement.

1. One of the five basic tastes, the savory taste of foods such as seaweed, cured fish, aged cheeses and meats.
2. The taste of flavor enhancers added to food to accentuate savoriness, notably monosodium glutamate.

Today is Health and Sports Day in Japan in 2015.

1. A deep natural well or sinkhole, especially in Central America, formed by the collapse of surface limestone that exposes ground water underneath, and sometimes used by the ancient Mayans for sacrificial offerings.

1. (slang) A hypermasculine man, especially one who is misogynist and/or homophobic.

1. (archaic, now only humorous or regional) Food, provender.

1. Golden in color or shine.
2. Of language: characterized by the use of (excessively) ornamental or grandiose terms, often of Latin or French origin.

1. (architecture) The spiral curve on an Ionic capital.
2. (zoology) The spirals or whorls on a gastropod's shell.
3. (zoology) Any marine gastropod of the family Volutidae.

1. (philosophy) The essence of a particular thing; those qualities that define it and make it unique.

1. Compulsion; mania.
2. (medicine, obsolete) A bad quality or disposition in a disease; a malignant tumour or ulcer.

1. (medicine, obsolete) Having an excess of black bile.
2. Characterized by melancholy.
3. Ill-natured; malevolent.

1. (chiefly science fiction) A levitating board that can be ridden in the manner of a surfboard or skateboard.

In the 1989 film Back to the Future Part II, where the term hoverboard is first used, the protagonist Marty McFly travels from 1985 into the future to 21 October 2015.

1. (biology) The science studying the differential growth rates of the parts of a living organism's body part or process.

1. The shallow depression (fossa) located at the back of the knee joint; the popliteal fossa or “knee pit”.

1. (usually attributive) An object meant to be carried by a single person.

1. (obsolete) A shellfish which contains mother-of-pearl.
2. A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells; mother-of-pearl.

1. A ghostly apparition.

Spectre, the 24th James Bond film by Eon Productions, premieres today in the UK.

1. Miscellaneous items.
2. A collection of writings on various subjects or topics; an anthology.

1. (orthography and typography) A caron; a diacritical mark (ˇ) usually resembling an inverted circumflex, but in the cases of ď, Ľ, ľ, and ť resembling a prime (′) instead.

Czechoslovakia was formed on this date in 1918.

1. A woman who flirts or plays with men's affections.

1. A roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
2. A roundabout expression.

1. (slang, fiction) The breakdown of society as a result of a zombie outbreak.