Word origins

• DearnleyA surname from Old English.
• DetheridgeA surname from Old English.
• DethickA hamlet in Dethick, Lea and Holloway parish, Amber Valley borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3258).
• DisboroughA surname from Old English.
• DitteridgeA village in Box parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST818694).
• do away withTo abolish; to put an end to; to eliminate.
• DorricottA surname from Old English.
• DownleyA village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, formerly in Wycombe district (OS grid ref SU8595).
• DrakeleyA habitational surname.
• DrewsteigntonA village and civil parish in West Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX7390).
• DunbabinA surname from Old English.
• DuncalfA characteristical surname.
• DungateA hamlet in Lynsted with Kingsdown parish and Rodmersham parish, Swale borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9159).
• DungworthA hamlet in Bradfield civil parish, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK2889).
• DurwestonA village and civil parish north-west of Blandford Forum, Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST8508).
• dwalmA swoon; a sudden sickness.
• EacottA habitational surname from Old English.
• eagrea tidal bore
• ealdormanThe chief magistrate of a shire in Anglo-Saxon England.
• EastermonthThe typical month of the Paschal cycle; Paschal month; the month in which Easter typically occurs; April.
• eastmostFurthest to the east; most eastern.
• Eaton SoconA village in St Neots parish, Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL165595).
• EdrickA male given name from Old English, variant of Edric.
• Edward the ConfessorAn English king (c. 1005 – 1066), last monarch of the House of Wessex.
• eelpoutAny fish of the family Zoarcidae.
• EggingtonA village and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP9525).
• EgglescliffeA village and civil parish (served by Egglescliffe and Eaglescliffe Parish Council) in Stockton-on-Tees borough, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ4113).
• eleventyThe number 110, 11 × 10.
• ElfredaA female given name from Old English borne by a medieval English queen; rare today.
• EllesboroughA village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP8306).
• embowerTo enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.
• EnborneA hamlet and civil parish in West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU4365).
• endlongAlong (as opposed to across), from end to end of.
• EnfordA village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1351).
• eorlAn Anglo-Saxon of noble rank; a nobleman ranking above a thane; alderman.
• eorlcundmanA kinsman of an Anglo-Saxon eorl.
• EostreA hypothesised West Germanic goddess, supposedly of the spring season, but of uncertain provenance.
• eotenA giant from Old English literature and mythology.
• EppridgeA habitational surname from a lost placename in England.
• errand-ghostA spirit or spiritual messenger; an angel.
• esneA hireling of servile status; slave.
• ethelbornNoble; high-born.
• EthelwolfA male given name.
• evenglomeTwilight; dusk; crepusculum.
• evennightEquinox.
• EverleighA village and civil parish of Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU204538).
• ExbourneA village and civil parish of Devon, Southern England.
• ExminsterA village and civil parish in Teignbridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9487).
• EyeworthA village and civil parish of Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL248455).
• faederA male ruff (bird, Philomachus pugnax, syn. Calidris pugnax) that permanently mimics a female so as to gain access to mating territories and "steal" matings.
• FairhallA surname from Old English.
• FairmeadA census-designated place in Madera County, California, United States.
• FarndishA village in Podington parish, Bedford borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP9263).
• Farne IslandsAn archipelago off the coast of Northumberland, England, included in North Sunderland parish (OS grid ref NU23).
• FarnhillA village and civil parish in Craven district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE005465).
• FarrawayA surname from Old English.
• FeatherstonehaughA surname.
• feltwortmullein (Verbascum gen. et spp.)
• feorm-fultumIn Anglo-Saxon law, a tax for the king's sustentation as he went through his realm.
• FernyhoughA surname from Old English.
• filacerA former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas and the Court of King's Bench, so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process
• FinkleyA hamlet in Test Valley district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU387234).
• FinstallA village and civil parish in Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9870).
• firebareA beacon or lighthouse
• FishlockA surname from Old English.
• fistmeleA traditional unit of distance equal to the width of a clenched fist with the thumb extended (approx. 6½ inches or 16½ centimetres).
• fleshmeatThe flesh of animals (excluding fish or invertebrates) used or prepared for food.
• FlocktonA village in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2415).
• folklandLand held in villeinage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and taken back at his discretion.
• for-Forth: prefixed to verbs to indicate a direction of 'away', 'off', 'forth'.
• forebusyTo busy beforehand; preoccupy.
• forewallThe foremost outer wall of a fortification; rampart, bulwark.
• forhewTo cut to pieces.
• foster childA child in foster care; a child in one's foster care, in relation to oneself.
• FotheringhayA village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, previously in East Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref TL0593).
• Four MarksA large village and civil parish in East Hampshire district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU6735).
• friborgThe pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the Normans frankpledge.
• FrithvilleA village in Frithville and Westville parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3150).
• fromwardsaway from
• frumgildIn Anglo-Saxon law, the first payment made to the kindred of a person slain, toward the recompense of his murder.
• FulstowA village and civil parish in East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3297).
• fyrdIn early Anglo-Saxon times, an army that was mobilized from freemen to defend their shire, or from select representatives to join a royal expedition.
• fyrdmanAn English militiaman of the Saxon period; often a land worker called to arms in support of the king or a local lord, and usually armed with a spear and shield.
• gafolgelderAn Anglo-Saxon householder who owes rent to the king or his grantees rather than to a private landowner.
• gallockThe left hand.
• gannet's bathThe ocean; the open sea.
• GarswoodA village in Seneley Green parish, Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ5599).
• -gateCombined with a relevant place, person, activity, etc. to form the names of scandals.
• GateleyA small village and civil parish in Breckland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF9624).
• GeatishOf or pertaining to the Geats.
• geburIn Anglo-Saxon law, the owner of an allotment or yard-land, usually consisting of 30 acres; a villein.
• gemotA (legislative or judicial) assembly in Anglo-Saxon England.
• gemwrightA worker in gems; a jeweler
• geneatA retainer; vassal; one who holds lands of a superior either by service or payment of rent.
• gesithA companion to an athel or king in medieval England; a thegn; a comrade
• gesithcundHaving the rank of a gesith (member of the king's retinue) in medieval England; well-born.
• gesithcundmanA gesith.
• gesithmanA gesith.
• geteldA tent, of a style historically used by the Anglo-Saxons, which resembles a shelter-half or pup tent.
• gift hallA large communal building used in early Germanic and Norse societies as a place where valuable gifts were distributed to loyal warriors, thanes, retainers, etc.