The ridge that runs along the bottom of your scrotum (well, mine, anyway) is called a “raphe.”
Also, that adorable pursed-lip pouty thing that French gamines do is called a “moue.”
You named yours!?! :eek:
Also called a number sign.
There are also fraction and division slashes, which may or may not be different, depending on the font.
There are also comparable widths of spaces:
Thin space
En space
Em space
If there isn’t, how about patibulum?
The squiggly lines in Microsoft Word that indicate you might have misspelled a word are called ‘wavy underlines.’
How very goulish. It would certainly work and it’s seasonally appropriate.
A hole bored into the side of a barrel containing liquid in order to remove its contents is called a bunghole.
A group of cats is a clowder.
A group of ravens is an unkindness.
A group of lemurs is a conspiracy.
The strip of metal found on at the base of doors is called a kickplate.
When you play a piano, the string is hit by a hammer, technically making it a percussion instrument.
A group of rhinos is a crash.
A tool to route new wiring thru walls is a fish tape.
A tool to punch out holes is a knockout punch.
And I am printing this all out for my next scrabble game.
The tool for opening the bungs on a 55 gallon drum is called a bung toolor bung wrench. In the old days they were made out of brass or bronze, to prevent sparks and the explosions that could follow if the bung of something flammable wasn’t cooperating.
Now they can be made out of aluminum or plastic, and bungs are a little more standardized; so you don’t usually need one of the big old monstrosities with multiple protuberances to fit different kinds of bungs. Which is a pity. The first bung tool I ever used was one that I couldn’t pick up without thinking “blunt instrument.” I knew that the healing had started when I could use it without thinking of my ex-husband. You know, just in passing.
Actually, that was a joke. A woman in the 15th century, Juliana Berners, Prioress of Sopewell, wrote a book on hunting, and it was basically serious, but she slipped in some jokes. There was a chapter of collective nouns for animals that were hunted, like a herd of deer, which were things hunters might want to know, but after the serious animals on the list, she included a clowder (clutter) of cats, a shrewdness of apes, a baren [sic] of mules, a murder of crows, and then she went on to groups of people: a superfluity of nuns, a fighting of beggars, a lying of pardoners, an incredibility of cuckolds, among many others. It’s very funny.
A lot of people didn’t get that it was a joke, though, and some of the terms actually entered the language.
Here’s mine: what people call “camouflage,” clothing, the Army calls BDUs, or "Battle Dress Uniform. It’s not the standard anymore, though, and now the Army uses ACUs (the minecraft-looking stuff); ACU stands for “Army Combat Uniform.” The uniform that soldiers in Iraq wore was called DCUs, or “Desert Camouflage Uniform”; it had a pattern print like regular camouflage, but it sandy colors. There was also briefly a DBDU “Desert Battle Dress Uniform,” (the one with the sand and rocks) that was used in the Persian Gulf war, but the DCU was found to be more effective.
zombie or no
a nonanimal frog is part of a railroad track crossover to keep the wheels on the track which is named after an animal frog which is part of a horse’s hoof.
Those grooves on the side of the highway are called Rumble Strips. (or sleeper lines)
The empty space between the top of a container and the level of liquid contained in it is called the ullage.
Another one is cachous
(since we’re doing this again…)
The tiny piece of paper punches out by a hole puncher is called a chad. Chad became infamous during the 2000 presidential election in the US.
Any large, immobile, usually concrete item used to prevent cars from entering a pedestrian area is called a bollard.
Actors in a play with non-speaking, decorative roles, especially spear carriers, are supernumeraries.
Your big toe’s proper name is the hallux.
I thought they were dragees as well.
A Torah is a handwritten scroll of the first five books of the Hebrew bible. A printed version, which may be in any language, and is often in the language of the land where its printed, and Hebrew side by side, is called a “chumash.” The “ch” is like the ch in “Chanukah.”
It’s unusual to hear the word “yarmulke” anymore. Almost everyone calls the little head caps “kippah” pl-“kippot,” which is the Hebrew word.
I’m not aware that anyone has been using “apparsat” for @, though “appersat” has been proposed a few times by a few people in a few different places, including this board.
The dust or shavings (often mental shavings) removed from an object by a cutting or grinding tool is called swarf (also used for space junk, apparently), unless it made of diamond, in which case it is bort (I guess bort isn’t that common, though).