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This week's theme There is a word for it This week's words perendinate moirologist prosopagnosia xanthodontous borborygmus The gift of words Send a gift subscription Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg xanthodontous PRONUNCIATION: (zan-tho-DON-tuhs) MEANING: adjective: Having yellow teeth. ETYMOLOGY: From Greek xanthos (yellow) + -odon (toothed). USAGE: "That I am becoming, or have become, xanthodontous cannot be of interest to anybody." Reginald Moore, Edward Lane; The Windmill (London, UK); 1946. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Oh, how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living! -Philip of Macedon, king, father of Alexander the Great (382-336 BCE)

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