It has all the requisite soft consonants, and is probably as common and more useful for writers than "potamophilous" or "inspissate.". From Wordnik.com. [A Paean to Beautiful Words] Reference
The juice inspissate, drunk with wine, helps ague. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 193, July 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
Heroin, morphine and opium are inspissate juices and narcotic poisons in the genus of poppies, called Papaver. From Wordnik.com. [Greeley Tribune - Top Stories] Reference
A spring of brine rises in the bed of a river, named Lofubu, and this the Bayenga inspissate by boiling, and sell the salt at market. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death]
In these troughs the eggs, broken and stirred with shovels, remain exposed to the sun till the oily part, which swims on the surface, has time to inspissate. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
The place beside the fireplace. inspissate. From Wordnik.com. [2009 January 28 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS] Reference
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