Word origins

• guesthouseA small house near a main house, for lodging visitors.
• edgedThat has a sharp planar surface.
• encompassTo form a circle around; to encircle.
• glareAn intense, blinding light.
• metaphysicalOf or pertaining to metaphysics.
• turbulentViolently disturbed or agitated; tempestuous, tumultuous.
• pipAny of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
• reaperOne who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.
• beggingThe act of one who begs.
• contendTo be in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
• segA man; warrior; hero.
• gloverA person who makes or sells gloves.
• unicornA mythical horselike creature with a horn on its forehead, supposed to be extremely rare and to be drawn to virgins and other chaste maidens.
• NormandyAn administrative region, historical province, and medieval kingdom in northwest France, on the English Channel. The modern region was created in 2016 with the merger of Upper Normandy and Lower Normandy.
• kempA coarse or bristly hair, whisker; (in the plural) knotty hairs that will not felt.
• waferA light, thin, flat biscuit/cookie.
• puckA mischievous or hostile spirit.
• semenA sticky, milky fluid produced in male reproductive organs that contains the reproductive cells.
• hoverTo keep (something, such as an aircraft) in a stationary state in the air.
• subsistenceReal being; existence.
• chilledCooled.
• foeHostile.
• topographyA precise description of a place.
• wrinkleA small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface.
• adolescenceThe transitional period of physical and psychological development between childhood and maturity, beginning at the onset of puberty and with an endpoint defined either legally (at the age of majority, such as 18 in many jurisdictions) or psychocognitively (at various ages, depending on individual experience).
• nunA member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (Roman Catholicism, specifically) those living together in a cloister.
• hearthThe place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by at least a hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos, fireplace, oven, smoke hood, or chimney.
• strideTo walk with long steps.
• greatnessThe state, condition, or quality of being great
• bleachA chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.
• ferretAn often domesticated mammal (Mustela putorius furo) rather like a weasel, descended from the European polecat and often trained to hunt burrowing animals.
• moorAn extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. (Compare bog, peatland, marsh, swamp, fen.)
• enrichTo enhance.
• raffleA drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize.
• labyrinthA complicated irregular network of passages or paths, especially underground or covered, in which it is difficult to find one's way.
• swayThe act of swaying; a swaying motion; a swing or sweep of a weapon.
• preachTo give a sermon.
• triangularShaped like a triangle.
• thankfullyIn a thankful manner; giving thanks.
• excitationThe act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening.
• confederationA union or alliance of states or political organizations.
• hellerA German coin equivalent to half a pfennig, later used widely as a small coin in Central Europe and the German Empire.
• JunoThe queen of the gods, the equivalent of the Greek goddess Hera.
• defianceThe feeling, or spirit of being defiant.
• valiantPossessing or showing courage or determination; brave, heroic.
• rhymeRhyming verse (poetic form).
• sufficeTo be enough or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be adequate; to be good enough.
• stallionSpecifically, one that is uncastrated.
• bookerOne who makes a reservation.
• snortThe sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose.
• manifestationThe act or process of becoming manifest.
• maltMalted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.
• attireOne's dress; what one wears; one's clothes.
• leachA quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
• milkyResembling milk in color, consistency, smell, etc.; consisting of milk.
• uplandThe area in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation.
• raptorA bird of prey.
• coulterA cutter, consisting of a blade in either knife form or disk form, attached to the ploughbeam of a plough to cut the sward, in front of the ploughshare and mouldboard.
• pilgrimageA journey made to a sacred place, or a religious journey.
• eighteenthThe ordinal form of the number eighteen.
• hurstA wood or grove.
• universallyIn a universal manner.
• chewingThe act by which something is chewed on; mastication.
• ahaAn exclamation of understanding, realization, invention, or recognition.
• depictTo render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.
• navelThe indentation or bump remaining in the abdomen of placental mammals where the umbilical cord was attached before birth.
• arbitratorA person to whom the authority to settle or judge a dispute is delegated.
• wildlyIn a wild, uncontrolled manner.
• sableA small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.
• singletonA playing card that is the only one of its suit in a hand, especially at bridge.
• spanielAny of various small to medium-sized breeds of gun dog having a broad muzzle, long, wavy fur and long ears that hang at the side of the head, bred for flushing and retrieving game.
• worthlessHaving no worth or use; without value.
• spoolA reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.
• dictA saying; a statement.
• jeopardyDanger of failure, harm, or loss.
• annoyTo disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
• clapThe act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces, together.
• hardnessThe quality of being hard.
• aboundTo be full to overflowing; to bristle.
• curingThe act by which something is cured.
• crownedWearing a crown.
• sandstoneA sedimentary rock produced by the consolidation and compaction of sand, cemented with clay etc.
• CalvertA surname.
• proctorA person who supervises students as they take an examination, in the United States at the college/university level; often the department secretary, or a fellow/graduate student; an invigilator.
• twillA pattern, characterised by diagonal ridges, created by the regular interlacing of threads of the warp and weft during weaving.
• loudlyIn a loud manner; at a high volume.
• horseshoeThe U-shaped shoe of a horse, now typically made of metal; by extension, a representation of this used to play the game horseshoes, hung as a luck charm, etc.
• constellationAn arbitrary formation of stars perceived as a figure (especially one from mythology) or pattern, or a division of the sky including it, especially one officially recognized by astronomers; an asterism.
• bedtimeThe time or hour at which one retires to bed in order to sleep.
• brinkThe edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge.
• trussA bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.
• kilnAn oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.
• strangelyIn a strange or coincidental manner.
• skipperThe master of a ship.
• JacobsonAn English surname transferred from the given name.
• sloughThe skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
• prodigyAn extraordinary occurrence or creature; an anomaly, especially a monster; a freak.
• mouldCommonwealth standard spelling of mold.
• ElyA cathedral city and civil parish (served by City of Ely Council) in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England.
• waspAny of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.