Starlorn

snow flakes in the dark

Starlorn

n.
a sense of loneliness looking up at the night sky, feeling like a castaway marooned in the middle of the ocean, whose currents are steadily carrying off all other castaways—entire worlds and stars whose only remnant is a scrap of light they flung overboard centuries ago, a message in a bottle that’s only just now washing up on our shores.

From star, a luminous dot in the cloudless sky + -lorn, sorely missing. Pronounced “stahr-lawrn.”

Winnewaw

a person wearing a party hat

Starlorn

snow flakes in the dark

Rookish

a stone tower with a person seated on top

Furosha

a storm raging in the sky over a building

Typifice

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Suerza

a tunnel with a light emanating from the end

Lyssamania

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Mauerbauertraurigkeit

Mauerbauer-traurigkeit

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Anchorage

a person's arm extended over river rapids

Ledsome

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Vaucasy

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Sayfish

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Rialtoscuro

a blurry image of a light source