In 2006, Samir lost in the seventh round because of just such a word, "eremacausis" ( "gradual oxidation of organic matter from exposure to air and moisture").    From Wordnik.com.  [Informed Reader] Reference

If you ever learnt to love her, it would not be for any lovelight in her eye; it would never be the quick, fierce, hot, biting electric passion of the fleshly poets, it would be what a chemist might call the "eremacausis" kindled by habit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series] Reference

TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): The word is eremacausis.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 30, 2007] Reference

TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The word is eremacausis.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 31, 2007] Reference

Then, if I escape that, there is a 'Charybdis' on the other side in the shape of an Evangelical party, and I so seldom get invited to those that I am half-inclined to go if it were not for the bore - my 'eremacausis' is very low just now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference

Animal matter enters into combination with oxygen in precisely the same way as vegetable matter, but as, in addition to carbon and hydrogen, it contains nitrogen, the products of the eremacausis are more numerous, being carbon and nitrate of ammonia, carburetted and sulphuretted hydrogen, and water, and these ammoniacal salts greatly favor the growth of fungi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty Centuries of Ink] Reference