Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. An air deflector mounted usually at the rear of an automobile to reduce lift at high speeds
  2. 5. An instrument for copying a plane figure to a desired scale, consisting of styluses for tracing and copying mounted on four jointed rods in the form of a parallelogram with extended sides.
  3. 8. A flaky deposit left in containers such as kettles by the action of heat on water containing calcium salts
  4. 9. A slight puncture made by or as if by a pin.
  5. 12. A scientist who studies volcanoes and volcanic phenomena.
  6. 14. a swinging lever, weighted at the lower end, for regulating the speed of a clock mechanism
  7. 15. Completely confused or disordered
Down
  1. 1. A separate streamlined enclosure on an aircraft for sheltering the crew or cargo or housing an engine.
  2. 3. Run by or using compressed air
  3. 4. Providing information or stimulation for a number of senses, not only sight and sound
  4. 5. A salt or ester of phosphoric acid
  5. 6. Any of various tubular optical instruments that contain reflecting elements, such as mirrors and prisms, to permit observation from a position displaced from a direct line of sight.
  6. 7. A device for shifting gears on a bicycle by moving the chain between sprocket wheels of different sizes.
  7. 10. A hard, white, translucent ceramic made by firing a pure clay and then glazing it with variously colored fusible materials; china.
  8. 11. A thin plastic or metal woven mesh
  9. 13. A lustrous, hard, steel-gray metallic element, resistant to tarnish and corrosion and found primarily in chromite