English words from Danish
- ThumbelinaA variety of small, roundish carrot that does not need to be peeled.
- Black DeathA pandemic outbreak of bubonic plague throughout Europe and most of Asia in the 14th century that killed nearly half the population of Europe and Asia.
- Black PlagueThe Black Death.
- elle-peopleA type of elf of Scandinavian folklore.
- King Frederick VIII LandAn informal geographic region of northeastern Greenland.
- North JutlandAn administrative region of Denmark.
- Potato GermansA group of German families who settled in the heathlands of central Jutland in Denmark during the mid-1700s.
- quantum leapThe discontinuous change of the state of an electron in an atom or molecule from one energy level to another.
- Southern DenmarkAn administrative region in the south of Denmark.
- street mirrorSynonym of gossip mirror.
- ugly ducklingA young person who is ugly, but who is expected to become beautiful or handsome as they mature.