obelisk

• A heap of combustibles arranged for burning a dead body.
• A square shaft with pyramidal top, usually monumental or commemorative.
• The art or process of preserving dead animals or parts of them.
• The fine dust-like grains or powder formed within the anther of a flowering plant.

metallurgy

• The seven- or nine-headed water-serpent slain by Hercules.
• The art or science of extracting a metal from ores, as by smelting.
• Sorrow.
• Any position having emoluments with few or no duties.

indicator

• A washing or cleansing, especially of the body.
• One who or that which points out.
• The depression on the abdomen where the umbilical cord of the fetus was attached.
• An artificially induced somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestion.

loch

• Scarcity, as of something customary, essential ,or desirable.
• One who works for wages or a salary.
• Deportment.
• A lake.

subterfuge

• A hereditary nobility
• A becoming worse.
• The physical structure or organization of a person.
• Evasion.

soothsayer

• A wide lower part of a tidal river.
• Semblance.
• One who claims to have supernatural insight or foresight.
• The condition or process of gradually falling into disuse.

malcontent

• The state of being normal.
• The quality of curving in and out.
• The practice of obtaining by violence or compulsion.
• One who is dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs.

automaton

• A man who owns and lets a tenement or tenements.
• Authoritative act of prohibition.
• Any living being whose actions are or appear to be involuntary or mechanical.
• The process of fostering or promoting growth.

equity

• The science of organic functions.
• The unreasonable pursuit of one idea.
• Rapt or rapturous utterance.
• Fairness or impartiality.

trait

• An impediment.
• Separation.
• The act or process of coming together so as to form one body, combination, or product.
• A distinguishing feature or quality.