Word origins

• leukemiaAny of a class of types of cancer affecting the blood cells, especially the white blood cells (usually with massive leukocytosis), and the blood cell–forming (hematopoietic) tissues.
• homosexualSexually and/or romantically attracted to members of the same sex, such as a man who is attracted to other men or a woman who is attracted to other women; gay. (Typically used in the sense of sole/exclusive attraction.)
• plumpHaving a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
• methylThe univalent hydrocarbon radical, CH₃-, formally derived from methane by the loss of a hydrogen atom; a compound or part of a compound formed by the attachment of such a radical.
• ZurichThe capital city of Zurich canton, Switzerland, on Lake Zurich.
• zeppelinA type of large dirigible rigid airship of the early 20th century, built by the German Luftschiffbau Zeppelin and designed to carry passengers or bombs.
• FriedmanA surname from German.
• WolfgangA male given name from German.
• proseLanguage, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.
• MarxA surname from German
• GoldbergA surname from German, fairly common in the United States.
• GutenbergA habitational surname from German.
• hephepatitis.
• ottoA male given name from the Germanic languages.
• WeissA characteristical surname from German.
• ErnstA surname.
• NassauA wager consisting essentially of three separate bets, for the best score on each of the front nine (holes 1–9), back nine (holes 10–18), and total 18 holes.
• graphiteAn allotrope of carbon, consisting of planes of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal arrays with the planes stacked loosely, that is used as a dry lubricant, in "lead" pencils, and as a moderator in some nuclear reactors.
• cobaltA chemical element (symbol Co) with an atomic number of 27: a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal.
• heroinA powerful and addictive drug derived from opium producing intense euphoria, classed as an illegal narcotic in most of the world.
• DresdenA variety of china, originally manufactured in the city, but manufactured in Meissen from the 18th century.
• BeethovenA surname from German [in turn from Dutch], usually applying to Ludwig van Beethoven.
• ClausA male given name from Dutch or from German [in turn from Ancient Greek].
• LudwigA male given name from German.
• StuttgartA soil series formed in alluvium and primarily used for crops, most notably rice and also soybeans, small grains and corn, all of which ducks and geese feed on in the colder months; they are classified as alfisols but their high content of montmorillonite puts them close to the vertisol class; the series is the state soil of Arkansas.
• protestantProtesting.
• kochA wooden sailing ship of Russian design for use in the Arctic.
• spdShimano Pedaling Dynamics
• BaselThe capital city of Basel-Stadt canton, Switzerland.
• quarkIn the Standard Model, one of a number of elementary subatomic particles having fractional electric charge that forms matter. They are theorized not to exist in isolation, but only in combinations in hadrons such as neutrons and protons or in quark–gluon plasmas.
• CSUThe Bavarian Christian Social Union (Christlich-Soziale Union), a major mainstream right-wing political party in Bavaria.
• chromatographyAny of various techniques for the qualitative or quantitative separation of the components of mixtures of compounds; all characterized by the use of a mobile phase (gas or liquid) moving relative to a stationary phase (liquid or solid) – the differences between the rates of migration of the compounds between the two phases affect the separation.
• MuellerA surname from German.
• liedAn art song, usually sung solo in German and accompanied on the piano.
• morphologyThe study of the internal structure of morphemes (words and their semantic building blocks).
• fifeA small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music
• BernsteinA surname from German or Yiddish.
• acronymGenerally such abbreviations, including those pronounced as individual letters (initialisms such as "TNT").
• StraussA surname from German.
• FriedrichA male given name from German, equivalent to English Frederick.
• jungA surname from German.
• dirkA long Scottish dagger with a straight blade.
• RosenbergA surname from German.
• SalzburgA city, the capital of the state of Salzburg, western Austria, famed for its baroque architecture and importance in musical history.
• SteinerA surname from German.
• BonnAn independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the Rhine River; the former capital of West Germany and (until 1999) seat of government of unified Germany.
• mullerA person who mulls wine or other alcoholic beverages.
• SchultzA surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation].
• SchwarzeneggerAn exceptionally muscular bodybuilder.
• KaufmanA surname from German of German and Ashkenazi Jewish origin.
• EisA surname from German.
• deterTo prevent something from happening.
• HumboldtA surname from German.
• OdessaA port city, the administrative center of Odessa Raion and Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, situated on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea.
• lochA lake.
• WienA surname from German.
• uberSuper; high-level; high-ranking.
• bayerA surname from German [in turn originating as an ethnonym].
• epsteinTo commit homicide and then frame it as a suicide, especially against a witness or co-conspirator in a crime.
• LeipzigAn independent city in Saxony, Germany.
• hastA surname.
• hertzIn the International System of Units, the derived unit of frequency; one (period or cycle of any periodic event) per second.
• frauUsed as a courtesy title before the surname of a (typically married) German-speaking woman.
• ifsInstitute for State Policy.
• WilhelmA male given name from German, equivalent to English William.
• waltzA ballroom dance in 3/4 time.
• KirstenA female given name from Ancient Greek.
• GoldsteinA surname from German.
• splinterA long, sharp fragment of material, often wood.
• FahrenheitDescribing a temperature scale originally defined as having 0°F as the lowest temperature obtainable with a mixture of ice and salt, and 96°F as the temperature of the human body, and now defined with 32°F equal to 0°C, and each degree Fahrenheit equal to 5/9 of a degree Celsius or 5/9 kelvin.
• strollA wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble; a saunter.
• BremenThe capital city of the state of Bremen, in northwest Germany, on the Weser river.
• Richter(Followed by a decimal number): A Richter scale magnitude to indicate the severity of an earthquake. "Richter" is prefixed to the magnitude value. This has generally been superseded by the Moment-Magnitude Scale
• orfAn exanthemous disease caused by a parapox virus, occurring primarily in sheep and goats but also capable of infecting humans.
• PfizerA surname from German.
• CarlsbadA city and beach resort in San Diego County, California, United States.
• HahnA surname from Korean.
• CramerA surname.
• RudolphA male given name from the Germanic languages.
• FeldmanA surname from German of German and Jewish origin.
• esterA compound most often formed by the condensation of an alcohol and an acid, with elimination of water, which contains the functional group carbon-oxygen double bond (i.e., carbonyl) joined via carbon to another oxygen atom.
• SchroederA surname from German.
• hellerA German coin equivalent to half a pfennig, later used widely as a small coin in Central Europe and the German Empire.
• bismarckA doughnut filled with cream, often with chocolate icing.
• shamanA traditional faith healer.
• SchwarzA surname from German.
• nestleTo settle oneself comfortably and snugly.
• hamburgerA hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef or a meat substitute, in a sliced bun, usually also containing salad vegetables, condiments, or both.
• thierA surname from German.
• hamsterAny of various Old World rodent species belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae.
• rasterA scanning pattern of parallel lines that form the display of an image projected on a cathode-ray tube of a television set or display screen.
• KohlerA surname from German.
• rottweilerA very large muscular breed of dog of German origin with black fur and tanned markings.
• nixNothing.
• PlanckUsed attributively in the names of various units, formulae etc. first devised or worked on by the German physicist Max Planck (1858–1947), chiefly in the realm of quantum theory.
• BratzA surname from German.
• practicumA college course designed to give a student supervised practical knowledge of a subject previously studied theoretically.
• SpielbergA surname from German.
• frankensteinA monster composed of body parts from various corpses attached and brought back to life by a mad scientist, typically strong, unable to speak clearly, and misunderstood.
• ethylThe univalent hydrocarbon radical, C₂H₅, formally derived from ethane by the loss of a hydrogen atom.