Word origins

• hinterlandThe land immediately next to, and inland from, a coast.
• flakGround-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells.
• KolbA surname from German.
• platzTo become aggravated.
• BielSynonym of Bienne: a town and municipality in Bern canton, Switzerland.
• BlumeA surname from German.
• getterOne who, or that which, gets.
• geistA ghost, an apparition.
• chamAn autocrat or dominant critic, especially Samuel Johnson.
• WittgensteinA surname from German.
• InterlakenA town in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland.
• StudebakerA surname from German.
• GottA surname.
• euchreA trump card game played by four players in two partnerships with a reduced deck of 24 cards.
• mitosisThe division of a cell nucleus in which the genome is copied and separated into two identical halves. It is normally followed by cell division.
• almsSomething given to the poor as charity, such as money, clothing or food.
• ZinnA surname from German.
• WiesbadenThe capital city of Hesse, Germany, on the River Rhine.
• panningThe act of one who pans, as for gold.
• BeitA surname.
• HeideggerA surname from German.
• rathA walled enclosure, especially in Ireland; a ringfort built sometime between the Iron Age and the Viking Age.
• OldenburgSynonym of Oldenburger (“breed of horse”).
• LindnerA surname from German.
• blitzerOne engaging in a blitz.
• ZuckerA surname from German.
• SchweizerA surname from German.
• JohSir Johannes “Joh” Bjelke-Petersen (1911–2005), Premier of Queensland 1968–1987.
• zanderA European freshwater fish in the family Percidae, closely related to the perch, Sander lucioperca.
• kulturGerman culture or civilization, especially seen as authoritarian or racist during the period of world wars (1914-18 and 1939-45)
• masochismThe (often sexual) enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation.
• blickTo shine, gleam.
• BoehmA surname from German.
• wassermanA mythical sea monster, part man, thought to destroy ships.
• heftThe feel of the weight of something; heaviness.
• ambivalentSimultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, motivations, or meanings.
• loupA mass or ball of iron in a pasty condition, beaten by the trip hammer or rolls.
• karstA type of land formation, usually with many caves formed through the dissolving of limestone by underground drainage.
• WilliA surname from German.
• kiltsA surname from German.
• adenineA base, C₅H₅N₅, found in certain glands and tissues, which pairs with thymine in DNA and uracil in RNA.
• EKGSynonym of ECG (“electrocardiogram”).
• foosballtable soccer (US), table football (UK)
• OktoberfestA two-week public festival in Munich (Bavaria, southern Germany), held yearly in late September and early October, known especially for the large party tents in which revellers consume beer on long benches.
• priestlyOf or relating to priests.
• DuisburgA city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
• sonneA surname.
• wanderlustA strong impulse or longing to travel.
• EckertA surname from German.
• SchroderA surname from German.
• cypherA surname from German.
• BrinkmannA surname from German.
• hausfrauA traditional housewife.
• BraunschweigA city in Lower Saxony, Germany; Brunswick
• glitzGarish, brilliant showiness.
• heilTo greet with a Sieg Heil.
• staveOne of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, barrel, pail, etc.
• RauchA surname.
• rummyA card game with many rule variants, conceptually similar to mahjong.
• pinscherAny of several breeds of dog.
• ketoneA homologous series of organic molecules whose functional group is an oxygen atom joined to a carbon atom—by a double bond—in a carbon-hydrogen based molecule.
• ReuterA surname from German
• PauliA surname of German origin.
• MachtA surname from German.
• seidelA large beer mug or tankard, especially one with a lid.
• MaximilianA male given name from Latin, rare in English.
• DiamantA surname from German.
• EckA surname from German. — famously held by
• AuerbachA surname from German.
• GuentherA surname.
• BucherA surname from German.
• SeitzA surname.
• lehUsed to convey uncertainty (in response to inconsistent information).
• spitzAny of several Nordic breeds of dog such as the Pomeranian or Samoyed.
• LunenburgFormer name of Lüneburg: a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, in English.
• fensterA geologic structure formed by erosion or normal faulting on a thrust system; a tectonic window.
• stadeSynonym of stadion (“former Greek unit of distance”).
• rucksackA bag carried on the back or shoulder, supported by straps.
• KarpA surname.
• WetzelA surname from German.
• pfaffIndicating disapproval, scoffery, irritation, impatience or disbelief.
• VoigtA surname from German.
• hindersA surname from German.
• HeineA surname from German, notably of Heinrich Heine, a German poet.
• pretzelA toasted bread or cracker usually in the shape of a loose knot.
• neutrophilOf a cell: being more easily or more fully stained by neutral dyes than by acidic or alkaline (basic) ones.
• KlausnerA surname.
• aldehydeAny of a large class of reactive organic compounds (R·CHO) having a carbonyl functional group attached to one hydrocarbon radical and a hydrogen atom.
• harkenTo hark back, to return or revert (to a subject, etc.), to allude to, to evoke, to long or pine for (a past event or era).
• BielefeldA city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
• SchlossA surname from German.
• AfDAlternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland), a right-wing German political party.
• FetteA surname from German.
• HeisenbergA surname from German.
• LipmanA surname from German.
• 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.