(historical) A Songhai state that dominated the western Sahel in the 15th and 16th centuries.

A gambling technique by which a player determines whether a face-down playing card is likely to be low or high, by observing and exploiting subtle unintentional differences on the backs of some types of card, after arranging for the croupier to cooperate by unwittingly sorting the cards into low and high.

Any of the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires, which all had considerable military success using then-innovative firearms, especially cannon and small arms.

(geology) The planet Earth when its surface was almost completely frozen some time earlier than 650 million years ago, according to a hypothesis aiming to explain certain enigmatic features in the geological record, such as apparently glacial sedimentary deposits found at tropical paleolatitudes.

plural of Fabergé egg

Alternative form of egosurfing

present participle of ego-surf

(archaic, idiomatic) Annoyed, angry.

A hoodoo (spire of rock).

The parts of a book that appear after the main portion of the body text, including the afterword, index and bibliography; the back matter.