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It's clear that I should have kept my mouth shut about only one person knowing it for sure!

1. Term for an empty–headed, brainless dimwit.
Stella's submission.

2. In radiation thermodynamics, a cavity whose walls are in radiative equilibrium with the radiant energy within the cavity.

The real thing, as Bob, arnie, and Stanley surmised. I learned this word while visiting here: https://lasers.llnl.gov/ It's the container for the target of all these monster lasers.

3. A toilet stall or outhouse
Beethree asked if we do "walk-ins." She walked right into David Franks's outhouse! Ewwww!

4. An aperture in the front of a medieval German knight's jousting helmet.

Proofreader's submission

5. An ancient word for an amalgam of bronze and iron.

Also Proofreader's

6. The inner sanctum; the holy of holies.

Wordmatic got Stella feeling all holy, but it's heresy! Don't anyone burn anyone else at the stake, OK?

7. The hole left in a wall by bricklayers for the later installation of a window.
Arnie's hole defenestrated WM.

8. The feeling of ecstasy that Schizophrenics can experience when they commit murder.

I wonder who Kalleh was thinking of when she wrote this one?

9. An insult. Equivalent to "airhead".

Bob Hale's submission

10. Early German word for "brassiere," now an haute-couture dress with an accentuated bodice.

I submitted this uplifting item just for Proofreaders pleasure.