unorificed
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not orificed.
Example Sentences
- "The temperatures indicated in Fig. 3 show that the mixture of steam and air has not been promoted, as one portion of the radiator is hot while the other is practically cold. This is the way unorificed “hot-water” radiators generally perform."
- "Of the remaining 580 channels, 2.5 channels had no fuel element in them and no orifice. We assumed advisedly that these transmitted twice as much air as an unorificed, unplugged channel loaded with a fuel cartridge."
- "Borderlessness is a contrived crisis since, for regeneration to take place requires an orificed, profligate, grotesque body. This last term is [Mikhail] Bakhtin’s, for whom bodily boundaries reflect social structure. The grotesque body – low, corpulent, devouring, permeable, disgusting and fecund – may be contrasted with the classical body – smooth, noble, unorificed, bordered."
Etymology
From un- + orificed.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un