what is this word please

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, omegadelta.net is proud to bring you “what is this word please” a weekly competition of literary and archeological merit. Below is this weeks word. To play the game, all you have to do is reply with your guess as first line of your comment (the rest of your comment can be whatever you like). In the future I may even give out a small reward to any registered user who guesses it correctly :). Well, don’t waste any time – try and decipher the word below. Take as many guesses as you like – just one guess per comment reply :)

There are no tricks – that is a real English word, you would be able to find it in most (if not all) English dictionaries.