embarcadero

[em-bahr-kuh-dair-oh]

em·bar·ca·de·ro

[em-bahr-kuh-dair-oh]
noun, plural em·bar·ca·de·ros.
1.
a pier, wharf, or landing place.
2.
(sometimes initial capital letter) a waterfront section in San Francisco: piers and seafood restaurants.

Origin:
1840–50, Americanism; < American Spanish, Spanish: pier, docking place, equivalent to embarcad(o) past participle of embarcar to embark, launch + -ero < Latin -ārium -arium
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Embarcadero has a plethora of syllables.
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a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C14H9Cl5, usually derived from chloral by reaction with chlorobenzene in the presence of fuming sulfuric acid: used as an insecticide and as a scabicide and pediculicide: agricultural use prohibited in the U.S.
the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).
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