English words from German
- categorical imperativeA fundamental ethical principle intended as a guide for determining whether any contemplated action is morally right, based on the concept that an action is good or bad in and of itself regardless of what the actor's aims or preferences are.
- cathectTo focus one's emotional energies on someone or something.
- Central GermanOne of two major dialect groups of the High German language which is spoken primarily in central Germany, Luxembourg, easternmost Belgium, and southeastern Limburg (in the Netherlands); distinguished from Upper German by the preservation of Proto-Germanic *-pp- and *-mp-.
- CheelyA surname from German.
- chisleyHaving a mixture of small pebbles or gravel.
- cholereticStimulating the production of bile by the liver.
- ChristingleA small Christmas gift for children symbolizing Jesus Christ as the “light” of the world. A typical modern Christingle is made of an orange with sweets skewered into it, a candle inserted into the top, and a red ribbon wrapped round it.
- ChristogramA monogram that forms an abbreviation for the name of Jesus Christ, traditionally used as a Christian symbol, such as the chi-rho.
- chylocaulousHaving fleshy / succulent stems
- clerisyAn elite group of intellectuals; learned people, the literati.
- ClonchA surname from German.
- CluttsA surname from German.
- CochenourA surname from German.
- ColglazierA surname from German.
- CompherA surname from German.
- compulsion neurosisA psychiatric disorder characterised by recurrent compulsions or compulsive ideas; obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- ConkelA surname.
- constativePertaining to an utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false.
- CoonerA surname from German.
- CourishCuronian; of, from, or pertaining to Courland
- CourlandishCuronian; of, from, or pertaining to Courland
- coventrateTo devastate by heavy bombing.
- CragleA surname from German.
- creachan incursion for plunder, raid, forray
- CregerA surname.
- crepsCrepitations.
- CrevistonA surname.
- CrihfieldA surname from German.
- CrissingerA surname from German.
- CrueyA surname.
- CryderA surname from German.
- CrydermanA surname from German.
- CuddebackA surname from German.
- CyphertA surname from German.
- danglebahnA suspended monorail, cable car or public transport system.
- DannemillerA surname from German.
- dauermodificationThe persistence of an abnormal characteristic – generally an environmentally induced trait – over several generations of the organism. Such characteristics are inherited through the cytoplasm and tend to disappear after a few generations.
- daxophoneAn electric wooden experimental musical instrument, a kind of friction idiophone.
- DeahlA surname from German.
- DearingerA surname from German.
- DeboldA surname from German.
- deckmanA man who works on the deck of a ship.
- DeisherA surname from German.
- DemickA surname from German.
- DendingerA surname from German.
- DerfnerA surname from German.
- DermatozoenwahnDelusional parasitosis (delusional disorder in which individuals incorrectly believe they are infested with parasites, insects, or bugs).
- detritivoreAn organism that feeds on detritus.
- DibertA surname from German.
- DiedrickA surname from German.
- DiekmanA surname from German.
- DiemertA surname from German.
- DietzmanA surname from German.
- DiffenderferA surname from German.
- DishnerA surname from German.
- DivelbissA surname from German.
- DonmoyerA surname from German.
- DoofenshmirtzianOf or pertaining to Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz, an affable, hapless mad scientist character from the 2007 American animated television series Phineas and Ferb.
- DouttA surname from German.
- DoverspikeA surname from German.
- DuersonA surname from German.
- DurflingerA surname from German.
- dussackA short cutlass or sabre used in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- Dutch angleA cinematic tactic achieved by tilting the camera off to the side. The shot is composed with the horizon not parallel with the bottom of the frame. The technique is often used to portray the psychological uneasiness of the subject being filmed.
- dyopolySynonym of duopoly.
- DysingerA surname from German.
- EarlywineA surname from German.
- ecphoreTo activate a latent engram as part of memory retrieval.
- ecphoriaA stage in memory retrieval in which a latent engram is activated
- EdgemonA surname from German.
- elfbeinSynonym of hendecad.
- EllenbeckerA surname from German.
- EmmickA surname from German.
- EmslandA German district in Lower Saxony.
- EmswilerA surname from German.
- EmtmanA surname from German.
- EntzmingerA surname from German.
- epicritiqueA critique of a critique; a metacritique.
- EplinA surname from German.
- ErbesA surname from German.
- ErgleA surname from German.
- ErneyA surname from German.
- EsselmanA surname from German.
- EssenmacherA surname from German.
- EttelbruckA municipality with city status of Diekirch canton, in central Luxembourg.
- exmatriculateTo deregister or unenroll (a student in Germany or Austria), as a result of graduation, expulsion, or voluntary termination of courses.
- EzernackA surname from German.
- FacemireA surname from German.
- facticityThe quality or state of being a fact.
- FalerA surname from German.
- FarlerA surname from German.
- FeightA surname from German.
- feldspathicContaining feldspar.
- feldspathoidAny of a small group of igneous, plutonic, and volcanic minerals formed in magma that did not contain enough silica to satisfy all the chemical bonds. Feldspathoids are silica-poor variants of the feldspar group.
- felstoneFelsite.
- FerdigA surname from German.
- -festA festival, a fest; used in names of events.
- FetterlyA surname from German.
- feutererA keeper of dogs, especially of greyhounds.
- FlesnerA surname from German.