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spermaceti

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Noun

1. wax

Usage
Sperm whales dive to depths of nearly 2,250 metres on a single breath, their heads packed with a waxy oil called spermaceti that solidifies under cold pressure and helps them sink like a stone toward prey they hunt in total darkness - Silicon Canals
A Slightly Embarrassing Misunderstanding Led To Sperm Whales' Name - IFLScience
Jeanette Woolley Bower 1976 - National Park Service (.gov)
It can weigh the same as 9 elephants, is nearly as long as a tennis court and is the planet's largest 'active' hunter - BBC Wildlife Magazine
How Whale Oil Helped Cars Survive Before Modern Lubricants - Jalopnik
More to the heads of sperm whales than Moby Dick & spermaceti - Animals 24-7
Sperm Whales: Revealing the Mysteries of the Deep - NOAA Fisheries (.gov)
How Far Away Can Sperm Whales Detect Their Prey? - Baleines en direct
Sperm Whale Found Dead on Cuttyhunk - The Vineyard Gazette
Peak Whale - Orion Magazine
New fossil rattles Moby Dick's family tree - Phys.org
The Book Report: ‘Moby Dick’ - The Gatepost
Rare sperm whale fossils discovered in Panama - EurekAlert!
Here We Go Again: Another Oil Crisis - yesterdaysisland.com
The Sounds of the Sperm Whale - Smithsonian Magazine
Livyatan Melvillei – Uchneat RCL2 Blog - PSU Sites
Expert Says Beached 'Sea Monster' In Mexico Is Just The Head Of A Sperm Whale - DOGO News
Mystic Seaport Museum exhibition chronicles whale oil industry's far-reaching impact - The Art Newspaper
The bizarre (and pretty gross) science of whale vomit - BBC Science Focus Magazine
Whale Wax Helps Scholars Solve Mystery of Supposed Leonardo da Vinci Sculpture - Smithsonian Magazine
9 Enormous Facts About Sperm Whales, Gigantic Creatures of the Sea - HowStuffWorks
Nature up close: Sperm whales - CBS News
Candle-making and the world’s first energy cartel - The Inquirer and Mirror
Massive Brains and Appetites Make Sperm Whales Masters of the Deep - Discover Magazine
The genome of jojoba: The only plant to store wax in its seeds - Phys.org
Rare Sperm Whale Fossils Shed Light on Mysterious Family Tree - Live Science
Science shows how Moby Dick could totally have sunk that whaling ship - The Washington Post
Moby Dick Whale Tale Maybe Not so Fictional - Alaska Native News
SPERM WHALE BEACHED IN OREGON KILLED BY SHIP A 40-foot sperm whale that beached on Oregon’s northwestern coast was killed after being struck by a ship, federal biologists conducting a post-mortem examination of the animal determined Monday. - facebook.com
spermaceti - The Wire Science
The Sunday Morning Post: What Was It Like to Live in 1776? - derekthompson.org
Why Car Brands Used Sperm Oil In Transmission Fluid Until The 1970s - SlashGear
Space Whales on Jupiter: Announcing Hell’s Heart by Alexis Hall - reactormag.com
The Mastermind - Martha's Vineyard Magazine
Two Whales, 400 Years Apart - Mother Jones
Pobjoy Mint celebrates Melville’s Moby Dick with Sperm Whale Coin - CoinWeek
U.S. Attorney: South Carolina man sold endangered sperm whale parts on eBay. What to know - Greenville Online
Sea Bright’s Seawall Saved More Than the Town - Two River Times
Body of NJ man missing for weeks turns up in nearby waters - SILive.com
Missing Boater - NJ.com
Family of N.J. man whose boat was found empty asks Staten Islanders to be on the lookout after Coast Guard en - SILive.com
Best Boating Anchorage Coordinates in New Jersey - vuenj.com
Ancient monster whale more fearsome than Moby Dick - New Scientist
Picture of the Day: Out for a Family Stroll - TwistedSifter
What animal has the biggest brain? - BBC Wildlife Magazine
Sperm whale harvested, buried off Te Tai Tokerau - Te Ao Māori News
Candle Crunch (Published 1974) - The New York Times
Chilean experts say 'blob' a sperm whale - ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Spermaceti Wax Market Valued to Reach US$773.9 Mn by 2032 with 5.0% CAGR - Persistence Market Research - openPR.com
Nanokogia isthmia: Moby Dick's extinct pigmy cousin discovered in Panama - International Business Times UK
Foreign Language Equivalents
Foreign Language Equivalents of 'spermaceti'
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Misspellings - Typos
sperrmaceti,   spermaceri,   spermacetii,   spermaecti,   sper,aceti,   spermacwti,   dpermaceti,   sprrmaceti,   seprmaceti,   sspermaceti,   spermmaceti,   sppermaceti,   s[ermaceti,   spermaceeti,   spermactei,   permaceti,   soermaceti,   spermacetti,   speraceti,   spermacet,   spetmaceti,   spernaceti,   spermaaceti,   spermaeti,   spwrmaceti,   speramceti,   spermaceto,   spormaceti,   spemaceti,   spermceti,   spermacrti,   spermacti,   speermaceti,   spermacei,   sermaceti,   spermsceti,   speemaceti,   spermcaeti,   spermaceit,   spermacceti,   spremaceti,   spermacetu,   spermaceyi,   spermaveti,   apermaceti,   spemraceti,   sprmaceti,   spermaxeti,   psermaceti
Words Starting with Letter - 'A'
a a battery a billion
a bit a bit much a capella singing
a cappella singing a couple of a few
a fortiori a good deal a great deal
a horizon a hundred a hundred and one
a hundred thousand a hundred times a kempis
a la carte a la mode a level
a little a lot a million
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