Word Meanings - FOSSA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossæ containing the nostrils in most birds.

Related words: (words related to FOSSA)

• TEMPORALNESS
  Worldliness. Cotgrave.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• DEPTH
  The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content. (more info) 1. The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface,or horizontal measurement backward
• TEMPORAL
  Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; -- used chiefly in the plural. Dryden. He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor or temporals. Lowell.
• TEMPORALTY
  1. The laity; secular people. Abp. Abbot. 2. A secular possession; a temporality.
• NASALLY
  In a nasal manner; by the nose.
• NASALIZE
  To render nasal, as sound; to insert a nasal or sound in.
• SKULLFISH
  A whaler's name for a whale more than two years old.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• NASALITY
  The quality or state of being nasal.
• DEPTHLESS
  1. Having no depth; shallow. 2. Of measureless depth; unfathomable. In clouds of depthless night. Francis.
• TEMPORALITY
  1. The state or quality of being temporary; -- opposed to perpetuity. 2. The laity; temporality. Sir T. More. 3. That which pertains to temporal welfare; material interests; especially, the revenue of an ecclesiastic proceeding from
• FOSSANE
  A species of civet resembling the genet.
• SKULLCAP
  Any plant of the labiate genus Scutellaria, the calyx of whose flower appears, when inverted, like a helmet with the visor raised. (more info) 1. A cap which fits the head closely; also, formerly, a headpiece of iron sewed inside of a
• DEPRESSION
  The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon. (more info) 1. The act of depressing. 2. The state of being depressed; a sinking. 3. A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• DEPTHEN
  To deepen.
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• FOSSA
  A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossæ containing the nostrils in most birds.
• GROOVER
  1. One who or that which grooves. 2. A miner. Holloway.
• PRAENASAL
  See PRENASAL
• PRENASAL
  Situated in front of the nose, or in front of the nasal chambers.
• LABIONASAL
  Formed by the lips and the nose. -- n.
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
• THICK-SKULLED
  Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.
• NUMSKULL
  A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow. They have talked like numskulls. Arbuthnot.
• SUPRATEMPORAL
  Situated above the temporal bone or temporal fossa. -- n.
• SUBNASAL
  Situated under the nose; as, the subnasal point, or the middle point of the inferior border of the anterior nasal aperture.
• MESONASAL
  Of or pertaining to the middle portion of the nasal region.