Word origins

• galangalAny of several east Asian plants of genera Alpinia and Kaempferia in the ginger family, used as a spice, but principally Alpinia galanga.
• beardlessLacking a beard.
• preciousnessThe state or condition of being precious.
• dissimulationThe act of concealing the truth; hypocrisy or deception.
• glomTo take.
• filchTo illegally take possession of (something, especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal.
• eightiethThe ordinal form of the number eighty.
• purpureA purple colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees clockwise.
• HeswallA town in Wirral borough, Merseyside, England, formerly in Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ2781).
• upmostUppermost.
• blasphemerOne who commits blasphemy; a person who mocks or derides a deity or religion, or claims to be God.
• cheekboneThe small prominent bone of the cheek.
• FurseA surname from Old English.
• alonenessThe state of being alone; solitude, isolation.
• taillessWithout a tail; not having a tail.
• prioressA nun in charge of a priory (usually lower in rank than an abbess); mother superior.
• bluntnessThe characteristic of being blunt.
• ChallonerA surname originating as an occupation.
• athwartFrom side to side, often in an oblique manner; across or over.
• godhoodSynonym of divinity: the state of being a god or God.
• blameworthyDeserving blame or censure; reprehensible.
• targeA small shield.
• propoundTo put forward; to offer for discussion or debate.
• styeA bacterial infection in the eyelash or eyelid.
• immoderateNot moderate; excessive.
• accomptAccount.
• welkinThe sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible; the firmament.
• insatiateThat is not satiated; insatiable.
• hasletThe internal organs of an animal, especially the heart and liver of a pig.
• frimFlourishing; thriving
• charyCareful, cautious, shy, wary.
• mizzenMizzenmast.
• manumissionRelease from slavery or other legally sanctioned servitude; the giving of freedom.
• yareReady; prepared.
• furrierA person who sells, makes, repairs, alters, cleans, or otherwise deals in pelts or in clothing made of fur.
• swageA tool, used by blacksmiths and other metalworkers, for shaping of a metal item.
• ChaytorA surname originating as an occupation.
• HuytonA town in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ4491).
• pulletA young hen, especially one less than a year old.
• coucherOne who couches.
• phialA bottle or other vessel for containing a liquid; originally any such vessel, especially one for holding a beverage; now (specifically), a small, narrow glass bottle with a cap used to hold liquid chemicals, medicines, etc.
• contrariwiseIn the contrary or opposite way, order, or direction.
• arrantComplete; downright; utter.
• sitchA brook; an occasional small waterway: a ditch, a gutter or drain; a ravine.
• miscarryTo have an unfortunate accident of some kind; to be killed, or come to harm.
• apertopen; uncovered; revealed
• choristerA singer in a choir; especially a child in a church or cathedral choir.
• dukedomA region ruled by a duke or duchess.
• sneezyProne to sneeze with little (if any) nasal agitation.
• pindTo impound (as cattle), to shut up in a pound.
• wittilyin a witty manner; using wit.
• fooleryFoolish behaviour or speech.
• deepnessThe state or quality of being deep (either physically or metaphorically)
• habitantA member of a habitation colony at Stadacona founded by Samuel de Champlain, where Quebec City now lies.
• ockerInterest on money; usury; increase.
• wantonnessThe state or characteristic of being wanton; recklessness, especially as represented in lascivious or other excessive behavior.
• teaselAny of several plants of the genus Dipsacus.
• yellowhammerA passerine bird, Emberiza citrinella, of western Eurasia, which is mainly yellow in colour.
• snifterTo sniff; also, to snivel or snuffle.
• unstintingGenerous and tireless with one's contributions of money, time, etc.
• CholmondeleyA village in Cheshire, England.
• trullA female prostitute or harlot.
• byreA barn, especially one used for keeping cattle in.
• dissembleTo disguise or conceal something.
• swaddleTo bind (a baby) with long narrow strips of cloth.
• dastdare (infinitive).
• liquefyTo make (something) into a liquid.
• feeblenessThe quality or state of being feeble; debility; infirmity.
• EcclesiasticusA book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
• auguryA divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.
• humblesEntrails of a deer.
• glimBrightness; splendour.
• rithA small stream or channel.
• crocketAny of a series of hook-shaped decorative floral elements used in Gothic architecture.
• nicetyA small detail or distinction.
• shippenA stable; a cowhouse.
• mucilageA thick gluey substance (gum) produced by many plants and some microorganisms.
• hollinholly
• gangrelA tramp, vagrant, vagabond.
• TitmusA surname from Middle English.
• dulcetSweet, especially when describing voice or tones; melodious.
• frigidityThe state of being frigid; coldness; lack of heat.
• irradiateMade brilliant or bright; irradiated, illuminated.
• whelkCertain edible sea snails, especially, any one of numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinidae, much used as food in Europe.
• sparrAn English sparrow, house sparrow (Passer domesticus).
• ingrainTo dye with a fast or lasting colour.
• daintilyIn a dainty manner, delicately.
• chitteringThe sound of a chitter.
• exactionThe act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force
• overspreadTo spread over or across (something); cover over; be scattered over; permeate, overrun.
• piteouslyIn a piteous manner; pathetically; plaintively.
• prickleA sharp and often small point, especially that of a plant; a thorn.
• nomanNobody.
• beestbeestings, colostrum
• poisonerA person who poisons something or someone.
• girdlerA person who made girdles.
• hailstoneA single ball of hail, or solid precipitation
• qualmA feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc.
• liverwortA type of bryophyte with a leafy stem or leafless thallus characterized by a dominant gametophyte stage and a lack of stomata on the sporophyte stage of the life cycle.
• forewarningAn advance warning; an omen.