English words from Middle English
- assoilzieTo absolve or release (someone) from blame or sin; to forgive, to pardon.
- astandTo arise; rise up.
- astartTo cause to start; startle; start up; jump.
- astonyTo astound; to paralyse, to stun.
- astrologianAn astrologer.
- astrologueAn astrologer.
- astronomianAn astrologer.
- astrutSticking out, puffed out, or in a strutting manner.
- astunTo astonish.
- at a bruntsuddenly and violently, all at once
- at easeFree of anxiety; not stressed or tense.
- atgoTo expend; go; pass away; vanish.
- athelnoble, highborn
- athelingA prince; especially, an Anglo-Saxon prince or royal heir.
- -ationAn action or process.
- Atlantic OceanThe ocean lying between the Americas to the west and Europe and Africa to the east.
- at largeOn the loose; roaming freely; not confined.
- at leastAt a minimum or lower limit.
- at onceAt the same time; simultaneously; together.
- at one blastAt once, at the same moment in time.
- -atorUsed to form agent nouns, usually from verbs that have the ending -ate.
- atramentInk or an inklike substance.
- atrayTo vex; trouble; frighten; torment; harass.
- atredeTo surpass or outdo in counsel.
- atrenTo run away; escape.
- atrideTo ride away; escape (by riding).
- atrinTo run away; escape (from).
- atrineTo touch.
- atristTo trust.
- atrokeTo fail; give out; become faint.
- atroutTo rush away; escape.
- atsakeTo deny.
- atshakeTo flee away; escape.
- atshootTo shoot away; shoot away from.
- atsitTo remain sitting; stay; abide.
- atslikeTo slip away.
- atslipTo slip away.
- atspringTo spring forth; emerge; spring into existence; originate.
- atstandTo stand still; remain; stay.
- atstuntTo bring to an end; put a stop to.
- atstutTo remain; to stay.
- attaintConvicted, attainted.
- attemperTo temper by adjusting relative quantities, or blending qualities.
- attemperancetemperance; temperament
- AtterberryA surname from Middle English.
- attercopA spider.
- atterlyPoisonous; attery
- atternVenomous; poisonous.
- atteryPoisonous; venomous
- atweenBetween.
- atwiteTo blame or reproach (someone); to twit.
- atwixbetween; betwixt
- austringerA keeper of goshawks.
- avaleTo cause to descend; to lower; to let fall
- avant-gardeThe vanguard of an army or other force.
- Ave MariaHail Mary (Catholic prayer, part of the rosary)
- avorebefore
- avoutererAn adulterer.
- avowryThe act of avowing and justifying in one's own right the distraining of goods.
- avowtryadultery
- awaiterOne who awaits.
- awarnTo warn.
- awelessWithout fear; fearless, unafraid.
- axle toothA molar tooth; molar.
- axletreeA bar or beam of wood or iron, connecting the opposite wheels of a carriage, on the ends of which the wheels revolve.
- axtreeAn axle or axletree.
- ayelA grandfather.
- ayieldTo yield up.
- ayrantNesting.
- babe in armsAn infant.
- babooneryBaboonish behavior.
- bachelryCollectively, aspiring knights.
- back-Back in its adverbial senses.
- backbiteTo make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone.
- backbiterA person who says nasty things about another person behind the second person's back: that is, out of their sight and hearing.
- badlingOne who is considered bad.
- bainlyreadily, willingly; at once.
- bairnishHaving the manners of a child; childish; silly.
- bairnlesschildless
- bakemeatAny baked product (such as a pie)
- balefireA bonfire, any large outdoor fire (for example those used in a funeral pyre, or in witches' rituals).
- balefullyIn a baleful, ominous manner.
- ballowRound; pot-bellied.
- bannutAn English walnut.
- bansticklethree-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).
- baptizationBaptism.
- bare-footenBarefoot.
- bareleggedHaving uncovered legs.
- BarkhouseA surname from Middle English.
- barmclothAn apron.
- barmedfrothy
- barmskinA blacksmith's leather apron.
- barnfulThe amount that can fit in a barn
- baronagebarons or nobles collectively
- barratorOne who is guilty of barratry, vexing others with frequent and often groundless lawsuits; a brangler and pettifogger.
- barrelfulAs much as a barrel will hold.
- barrulyTraversed (transversely) by barrulets or small bars.
- BarsabeBathsheba
- bascinetA light helmet, typically with a high, pointed skull, either open-faced (in early models) or made with a visor (later models).
- baselingOne who is base or inferior