minacious
/mɪˈneɪʃəs
/adjective rare
Menacing; threatening.D' Annunzio's in Rome, boisterous, warmongering, minacious, getting everyone riled up like a squawking parrot on a pirate's shoulder - remember Capitoline Hill?...
- Besides, Uncle Sam is somewhat of a minacious guardian of the mail's purity.
- The shuttle traders asked the government to legalize and regulate their vanishing trade and thus to save them from avaricious and minacious customs officials.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from Latin minax, minac- 'threatening' (from minari 'threaten') + -ous.
- button man
- button mushroom
- button one's lip
- button-quail
- Buttons
- button something up
- button spider
- button-through
- buttonwood
- buttonwood tree
- butt out
- buttress
- buttress root
- butt ugly
- butty
- butty boat
- butut
- butyl
- butyl alcohol
- butylate
- butylated hydroxyanisole
- butylated hydroxytoluene
- butylation
- butylene
- butyl rubber