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Many words for cold and winter

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aguish
adj.
shaking; quivering.
algid
adj.
cold; chilly.
arctic
adj.
characteristic of the extremely cold, snowy, windy weather north of the Arctic Circle; frigid; bleak:
bleak
adj.,
cold and piercing; raw:
boreal
adj.
of or pertaining to the north wind.
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brr
interj.
(used to express sensations of cold).
brumal
adj.
wintry.
ectothermic
n.
a cold-blooded animal.
floe
n.
a sheet of floating ice, chiefly on the surface of the sea, smaller than an ice field.
frigid
adj.
very cold in temperature:
frigorific
adj.
causing or producing cold.
frore
adj.
frozen; frosty.
frosty
adj.,
characterized by or producing frost; freezing; very cold:
gelid
adj.
very cold; icy.
hibernal
adj.
of or pertaining to winter; wintry.
hiemal
adj.
of or pertaining to winter; wintry.
hoarfrost
n.
a degree or state of coldness sufficient to cause the freezing of water.
horripilation
n.
a bristling of the hair on the skin from cold, fear, etc.; goose flesh.
hyperborean
adj.
of, pertaining to, or living in a far northern region.
inclement
adj.
(of the weather, the elements, etc.) severe, rough, or harsh; stormy.
isocheimenal
n.
a line on a map connecting points that have the same mean winter temperature.
neve
n.
granular snow accumulated on high mountains and subsequently compacted into glacial ice.
nippy
adj.,
chilly or cold:
niveous
adj.
resembling snow, esp. in whiteness; snowy.
poikilothermal
adj.
cold-blooded
pruinose
adj.
covered with a frostlike bloom or powdery secretion, as a plant surface.
rime
n.
an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.
serac
n.,
a large irregularity of glacial ice, as a pinnacle found in glacial crevasses and formed by melting or movement of the ice.
sleety
adj.,
of, pertaining to, or like sleet.
chilly
adj.
mildly cold or producing a sensation of cold; causing shivering; chill:

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