Wend - Go slowly or by an indirect route

xiphoid: shaped like a sword

ZAWSTER-An old 18th century word for a seamstress or dressmaker. 

calorimeter -


instrument for measuring absorbed or evolved heat

Canoodle- fondle or pet affectionately.

DAFFLED - If you’re daffled, then you’re bewildered or disorientated by a sensory overload.

Human Factors (The Dirty Dozen) 

The study of how people interact with their environment. In aviation, it is the study of how pilots' & mechanics' performance are influenced by personal issues, physical, psychological, environmental, etc......Personal note: We have reoccuring human factors training. Any mistake is costly in aviation.

incubous: (of leaves) overlapping, with the upper part of each leaf covering the base of the leaf above it

jumboismAdmiration of bigness, or for things or enterprises remarkable only for their size.

latitat -


writ based on supposition that person is in hiding