Word origins

• edelweissA European perennial alpine plant (Leontopodium alpinum), with downy leaves and small white flower heads in a dense cluster.
• macheA former unit of volumic radioactivity: the quantity of radon (ignoring its daughters) per litre of air which ionizes a sustained current of 0.001 esu.
• chromatographicOf or pertaining to chromatography.
• denningA surname.
• ZuckermanA surname from German.
• HenkelA surname from German.
• AignerA surname from German.
• CauA surname from French.
• SondheimA surname from German.
• WeiserA surname from German.
• HelmholtzA surname from German.
• KabelA surname from German.
• bundA league or confederacy; especially the confederation of German states.
• MarburgA town, the administrative seat of Marburg-Biedenkopf district, Hesse, Germany.
• MagdeburgThe capital city of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, on the River Elbe.
• praterA person who prates; a chatterer.
• HerneHerne the Hunter, an English mythological figure; an antlered ghost associated with Windsor Forest and Great Park in the English county of Berkshire.
• endersA surname from German.
• basseThe bass voice or part within French music
• BrucknerA surname from German. Widely known as the surname of the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner (1824-96).
• bauA surname.
• HildebrandA surname from German.
• CelleA town and rural district of Lower Saxony, Germany.
• riboseA naturally occurring pentose sugar, which is a component of the nucleosides and nucleotides that constitute the nucleic acid biopolymer, RNA. It is also found in riboflavin.
• RothsteinA surname from German.
• klangAny periodic sound, especially one composed of a fundamental and harmonics, as opposed to simple periodic sounds (sine tones).
• AnheuserA surname from German.
• bilirubinA bile pigment that is a product of the breakdown of the heme portion of hemoglobin (which occurs within macrophages as they digest red blood cells), and which is responsible for the yellowish color seen in bruises. Extremely high levels of bilirubin may cause jaundice.
• beltingVery good; exceptional (can also be used adverbially)
• ambivalenceThe coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings (such as love and hate) towards a person, object or idea.
• HerbstA surname from German.
• gensA legally defined unit of Roman society, being a collection of people related through a common ancestor by birth, marriage or adoption, possibly over many generations, and sharing the same nomen gentilicium.
• WeigelA surname from German.
• bismuthA chemical element (symbol Bi) with an atomic number of 83: a brittle silvery-white metal.
• SandbergA surname.
• KirchnerA surname.
• messerSomeone or something who messes.
• BergmannA surname from German.
• narcissismExcessive love of oneself.
• bubAn alcoholic malt liquor, especially beer.
• FiedlerA surname from German.
• germaniumA nonmetallic chemical element (symbol Ge) with an atomic number of 32: a lustrous, hard-brittle, grayish-white metalloid in the carbon group.
• bucklingThe act of fastening a buckle.
• FederA surname from German, equivalent to English Feather.
• JostA surname from German.
• SchleswigA geographic area and former Danish duchy in Northern Europe, located on the southern Jutland peninsula between the rivers Eider and Kongeå; now politically divided between Denmark and Germany.
• NolteA surname.
• autobahnThe high-speed intercity highways of Germany and Austria.
• purineAny of a class of organic heterocyclic compounds, composed of fused pyrimidine and imidazole rings, that constitute one of the two groups of organic nitrogenous bases (the other being the pyrimidines) and are components of nucleic acids.
• NetzA surname from German.
• HedwigA female given name from German.
• SloveneOf or pertaining to Slovenia, the Slovenes or the Slovene language.
• OppenheimA surname from German.
• GrauA surname.
• poltergeistAn unseen ghost which makes noises and causes disruption, especially by causing physical objects to move or fly about.
• HasselhoffA surname from German.
• eskerA long, narrow, sinuous ridge created by deposits from a stream running beneath a glacier.
• MerzA surname from German.
• frankfurterA moist sausage of soft, even texture and flavor, often made from mechanically recovered meat or meat slurry.
• luftA piece moved in front of a king to prevent a back-rank mate.
• SeifertA surname from German.
• kritikIn formal debating, an argument that challenges a certain mindset or assumption made by the opposing team, often from the perspective of critical theory, rather than dealing directly with the topic under debate.
• BohmA surname from German.
• KaiserslauternAn independent town in Rhineland-Palatinate, in southwestern Germany.
• KlugA surname from German.
• LuftwaffeThe German air force, especially during the Second World War.
• larchA coniferous tree, of genus Larix, having deciduous leaves in fascicles.
• EderA surname from German.
• KnebelA surname from German.
• SteinbachA surname from German.
• SauberA surname from German.
• PragerA surname from German.
• BaumgartnerA surname from German; variant forms Baumgärtner, Baumgardner, Bumgardner, Bumgartner, Bumgarner.
• MitziA female given name from German.
• BrauerA surname from German.
• gesundheitSaid to someone who has just sneezed.
• WeintraubA surname from German.
• pluckerOne who plucks.
• JahnA surname from German.
• WenigA surname from German.
• BirnbaumA surname from German.
• morgenA unit of measurement of land in the Netherlands and the Dutch colonies and parts of the United States, where it was equivalent to about two acres; and in Denmark, Norway, and Germany, where it was equivalent to about two-thirds of an acre. Now used informally in Germany to mean one quarter of a hectare.
• PraegerA surname from German.
• HoferA hall-of-famer.
• UlmerA surname from German.
• evertTo turn inside out (like a pocket being emptied) or outwards.
• EarhartA surname from German.
• maileA flowering Hawaiian vine (Alyxia stellata), of the genus Alyxia, used to make lei.
• reiningA surname from German.
• BuchholzA surname from German.
• muensterA kind of soft white cheese.
• keratinThe protein of which hair and nails are composed.
• sontagA knitted worsted jacket, worn over the waist of a woman's dress.
• NeyerA surname from German.
• loreleiA siren; a temptress.
• ZellerA surname from German.
• pohThe negative of the base 10 logarithm of the concentration of hydroxide ions, measured in moles per liter.
• MontagA surname from German.
• PaderbornA city and rural district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
• SchumanA surname from German.