liquescent
/lɪˈkwɛs(ə)nt
/adjective literary
Becoming or apt to become liquid.Some of what the leadership did can be attributed to bullheadedness, such as pressing on with the Passchendaele battle even when the whole battlefield had been reduced to liquescent mud....
- To either side, a liquescent nightmare of swirling hellish flame spun round them as the Widow settled ever deeper into the maelstrom.
- There were also ‘liquescent’ neumes - ornamental neumes that required special types of vocal delivery.
Origin
Early 18th century: from Latin liquescent- 'becoming liquid', from the verb liquescere (see liquefy).
Rhymes
- one's blood freezes
- one's blood is up
- one's daily bread
- one's ears are burning
- one's ears prick up
- oneself
- one's finer feelings
- one's finest hour
- one's gorge rises
- one's head is a marley
- one's head swells
- one's heart goes out to
- one's heart's desire
- one's heart sinks
- one-shot
- one-shotter
- one's humble abode
- one-sided
- one-sidedly
- one-sidedness
- onesie
- one-size-fits-all
- one's jaw drops
- one's life's work
- one's line of country