| armillary | constructed of rings. | |
| leman | (archaic) n. beloved. | |
| azoth | (alchemy) mercury, as the root of metals; Paracelsus' universal remedy. | |
| virga | potential precipitation that evaporates before reaching the ground. | |
| alkahest | (alchemy) the universal solvent. | |
| reseau | a network, e.g. of lace or weather stations; mesh on a reference plate in astrophotography. | |
| embrangle | to confuse and entangle. | |
| complect | (obs.) to interweave or intertwine. | |
| rete | a plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose tips represent fixed stars; a network, as of nerves or thread. | |
| parataxis | joining without a conjunction. | |
| hololith | a ring carved from a single stone. |