English words from Old English
- over-oldToo old.
- oversowTo sow (seed) where something has already been sown.
- OxboroughA village in Norfolk, England.
- OxendaleA habitational surname.
- OxenholmeA village in Kendal parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD5389).
- OxwickA hamlet in Colkirk parish, Breckland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF9125).
- Palm SundayThe sixth Sunday in Lent, the Sunday before Easter.
- purreA bird, the dunlin.
- QuaintonA village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, formerly in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP7420).
- QuarndonA village in Amber Valley borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK344410).
- rattickTo shake, rattle, knock about; to be rickety.
- reirdUtterance, speech; an instance of this
- resthouseA house where travellers can stay; a guesthouse.
- RighaleFormer name of Ryall: a village in south Worcestershire, England.
- rightwiseRightly (correctly or justly); rightfully.
- RotherbridgeA village in West Sussex, England.
- rowlockA usually U-shaped pivot attached to the gunwale (outrigger in a sport boat) of a boat that supports and guides an oar, and provides a fulcrum for rowing; an oarlock.
- RushmereA surname.
- salternAn area used for saltmaking, especially in the East Anglian fenlands.
- senchTo cause to sink.
- shailTo walk or move unsteadily or haphazardly; stumbling or shuffling.
- SherefordA small village in the North Norfolk district, Norfolk, England.
- Shrove TuesdayThe day before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday.
- sicklewortA plant of the genus Coronilla (especially, Coronilla scorpioides), with curved pods.
- SidfordA small village on the outskirts of the town of Sidmouth, Devon, England.
- skepA basket.
- snatheTo lop; to prune.
- SomerleyA large English country house in Hampshire, England.
- southernwoodAn aromatic shrub, Artemisia abrotanum, related to wormwood.
- SouthreyA village in Bardney parish, West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF1366).
- SouthropA village in Gloucestershire, England.
- SouthumbrianA member of an Anglo-Saxon people occupying northern Mercia.
- south windA wind blowing from the south.
- spotted dickA steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit, usually currants; traditional in England.
- staitheA riverbank
- Stamford BridgeThe home stadium of Chelsea Football Club.
- StandonA hamlet in Hursley parish, Winchester district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4226).
- St IvesA coastal town and civil parish with a town council in Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW5140).
- StockfordA habitational surname from Old English.
- StofordA village in Barwick and Stoford parish, south of Yeovil, Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST5613).
- stonewrightmason
- stoundAn hour.
- SudboroughA village in Northamptonshire, England.
- SudbourneA village in Suffolk, England.
- SudbrookeA village in Lincolnshire, England.
- SwafieldA village and civil parish (served by Swafield and Bradfield Parish Council) in North Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG2832).
- SwartleyA surname.
- SwartwoodA surname.
- SwinbrookA small village in Swinbrook and Widford parish, West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP2812).
- SwinefordA hamlet in Gloucestershire, England.
- theowA bondsman or -woman; a slave, especially in an Anglo-Saxon context.
- there beOf the specified thing: to exist, physically or abstractly.
- thitherwardToward that place.
- thivela wooden stick for stirring porridge.
- thoftA rowing-bench.
- TorkseyA village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK8378).
- trangramSomething intricately contrived; a puzzle.
- tun-mootAn assembly of the town or village.
- tweenlightThe period between dusk and nightfall; twilight.
- twelftyOne hundred and twenty; 120.
- uhtsongMatins.
- unblitheNot blithe.
- undern-songSynonym of terce (“the service appointed for the third hour of daylight”).
- undertideSynonym of undern: originally terce and the morning, later (UK dialect obsolete) noon and the early afternoon.
- unheleTo uncover, to reveal.
- unmerryNot merry, the opposite of merry; sad, gloomy.
- unwaresUnexpectedly, suddenly.
- UpwoodA surname.
- WalsdenA village in Todmorden parish, Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SD9322).
- wameThe belly.
- WantsumA minor river in East Kent, England, which flows southwards from the north coast to join the River Stour.
- -wardForming adverbs denoting course or direction to, or motion or tendency toward, as in "backward", "toward", "forward", etc.
- washhouseA domestic outbuilding used as a laundry.
- weed hookA gardening tool containing a hook, used for cutting away or uprooting weeds.
- were-Prefixed to animal names to indicate a human that shapeshifts into that animal.
- West HamA town in eastern London in the borough of Newham, Greater London, England.
- WestowA village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Ryedale district (OS grid ref SE7565).
- west windA wind blowing from the west.
- what ifUsed to introduce a suggestion or proposal for a future event.
- whidA quick motion; a rapid, quiet movement, usually by small game.
- whinyardA sword, especially a hanger.
- WhitbournA characteristical surname.
- -wichVillage; settlement; hamlet; trading centre.
- widow's weedsblack garments worn by widows in mourning
- WidsithA given name.
- Wimborne MinsterA market town in Dorset, England, often known as just Wimborne.
- witherlingAn opponent, enemy, or adversary.
- withernameA second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal
- woad-waxenThe leguminous plant Genista tinctoria, native to Europe.
- WoodaleA hamlet in Coverdale, in Yorkshire Dales, England.
- WoolfreyA characteristical surname.
- wych elmAn elm (Ulmus glabra) found in northern and western Europe.
- year's mindA requiem mass or other commemoration of a dead person held one year after death or burial.
- yifta gift
- youthlyYouthful.
- ywrokenAvenged.