Word origins

• utensilAn instrument or device for domestic use, especially in the kitchen.
• pullerAnything that pulls, but especially a hoist in which a cable is attached to a lever and a ratchet mechanism.
• heightenTo make high; to raise higher; to elevate.
• ladleA deep-bowled spoonlike utensil with a long, usually curved, handle.
• rectificationThe action or process of rectifying.
• keelerOne who works on a barge or keel.
• cleatA strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.
• softenerA water softener.
• fainOften followed by of: glad, well-pleased.
• cruellyIn a cruel manner; with cruelty.
• furrowA trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.
• bushelA dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts; equivalent in volume to approximately 0.0364 cubic meters (imperial bushel) or 0.0352 cubic meters (U.S. bushel).
• beholderSomeone who observes or beholds; an observer or spectator.
• tonguedResembling a tongue.
• ghastlyLike a ghost in appearance; death-like; pale; pallid; dismal.
• cowlA monk's hood that can be pulled forward to cover the face; a robe with such a hood attached to it.
• guttedEviscerated.
• armingThe act of supplying (oneself or others) with armor and (now especially) arms and ammunition in preparation for a conflict; the act of providing with the means of defense and attack.
• slatA thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath), metal, or plastic.
• countableCapable of being counted; having a quantity.
• dearthA period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.
• conservatorOne who conserves, preserves or protects something.
• perversionThe action of perverting someone or something; humiliation; debasement.
• acquaintTo furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) know; to make familiar.
• togA cloak.
• tautOf a body, muscle, etc., not flabby; firm, toned.
• foolishnessThe state of being foolish.
• silkenMade of silk.
• hieTo hasten; to go quickly, to hurry.
• bistUsed to form the second person singular of be.
• needlesslyIn a needless manner.
• dodsA surname originating as a patronymic.
• grazeThe act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
• hotlyWith great amounts of heat.
• hackmanThe driver of a hack (a carriage, cab, or taxi).
• sordidDistasteful, ignoble, vile, or contemptible.
• crudDirt, filth or refuse.
• semblanceThe outward appearance or form of a person or thing.
• avengeTo take vengeance (for); to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.
• yarrowAny of several pungent Eurasian and North American herbs, of the genus Achillea, used in traditional herbal medicine.
• fickleQuick to change one’s opinion or allegiance; insincere; not loyal or reliable.
• lukewarmBetween warm and cool.
• crickA painful stiffness in some part of the body, like the neck or back, which makes it difficult to move the affected body part for some time; a cramp.
• faintlyIn a faint manner; very quietly or lightly.
• idolatryThe worship of idols.
• sedgeAny plant of the family Cyperaceae.
• tineA spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb.
• dwellerAn inhabitant of a specific place; an inhabitant or denizen.
• bitumenAn immensely viscous constituent of petroleum, primarily used in road construction
• diabolicOf, being, or pertaining to a devil or the Devil.
• demonstrableAble to be demonstrated.
• churchyardA patch of land adjoining a church, often used as a graveyard.
• stoopA stooping, bent position of the body.
• beinWealthy; well-to-do.
• sneezeTo expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose.
• awryObliquely, crookedly; askew.
• spayTo destroy or remove the ovaries or uterus (of a female animal) to prevent pregnancy.
• titheA tenth.
• glazerOne who applies glaze, as in pottery, etc.; one who gives a glasslike or glossy surface to anything; a calenderer or smoother of cloth, paper, etc.
• trendingPopular or becoming more popular.
• forsakeTo abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something).
• congruenceThe quality of agreeing or corresponding; being suitable and appropriate.
• lentilAny of several plants of the genus Lens, especially Lens culinaris, from southwest Asia, that have edible, lens-shaped seeds within flattened pods.
• pitchforkAn agricultural hand tool comprising a fork with sparse, light tines, attached to a long handle, used for pitching hay (especially loose hay) high up onto a stack (as on a wagon or haystack, or into a haymow).
• depressTo press down.
• transgressionA violation of a law, duty or commandment.
• scapeA leafless stalk growing directly out of a root, bulb, or subterranean structure.
• mausoleumA large stately tomb or a building housing such a tomb or several tombs.
• NorthumbriaAn Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the Northeast of England; in full, Kingdom of Northumbria.
• periwinkleAny of several evergreen plants of the genus Vinca with blue or white flowers.
• farrowA litter of piglets.
• annulmentAn act or instance of annulling.
• spateA (sudden) flood or inundation of water; specifically, a flood in or overflow of a river or other watercourse due to heavy rain or melting snow; (uncountable, archaic) flooding, inundation.
• dingleA small, narrow or enclosed, usually wooded valley.
• gleamAn appearance of light, especially one which is indistinct or small, or short-lived.
• suppositionSomething that is supposed; an assumption made to account for known facts, conjecture.
• BrabantA draft horse of a strong, heavy breed originating from the Brabant region of modern Belgium.
• superlativeHaving the power to carry something or someone above, over or beyond others.
• StaggAn English surname transferred from the nickname.
• fondnessThe quality of being fond: liking something, foolishness; doting affection; propensity.
• fruitlessBearing no fruit; barren.
• alienateEstranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign
• moyenIntercession; intervention.
• threefoldThree times as great.
• triceTo pull, to pull out or away, to pull sharply.
• violatorOne who violates (a rule, a boundary, another person's body, etc.); offender
• cinderPartially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc.; it often rides the rising smoke column into the air, and it can pose a fire hazard when it lands, in dry conditions.
• peltThe skin of an animal with the hair or wool on; either a raw or undressed hide, or a skin preserved with the hair or wool on it (sometimes worn as a garment with minimal modification).
• thorpA group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village.
• SeeleyA surname.
• rejuvenateTo render young again.
• malevolentHaving or displaying ill will; wishing harm on others.
• stileA set of one or more steps surmounting a fence or wall, or a narrow gate or contrived passage through a fence or wall, which in either case allows people but not livestock to pass.
• naughtNothing.
• coinageThe process of coining money.
• CarmarthenA town and community (with a town council) in and the county town of Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN4120).
• planerA tool which smooths a surface or makes one surface of a workpiece parallel to the tool's bed.
• gavelRent.
• weightyHaving a lot of weight; heavy.
• goofA mistake or error.