Word origins

• leavenAny agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods.
• loutA troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob.
• cubitThe distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger used as an informal unit of length.
• groundlessWithout any grounds to support it; baseless.
• ameliorationThe act of making better.
• warkPain; ache.
• dwindleTo decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity.
• alacrityEagerness; liveliness; enthusiasm.
• drawbridgeA hinged bridge which can be raised (to prevent its being crossed, as across a moat, or to allow watercraft to travel beneath it).
• BriggA market town and civil parish with a town council in North Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TA0007).
• howsoeverRegardless of the way in which.
• rejoinderThe defendant's answer to the replication.
• dilateTo enlarge; to make bigger.
• netterOne who nets (in any sense), or who uses a net.
• clothierA person who makes or sells cloth or clothing.
• likenFollowed by to or (archaic) unto: to regard or state that (someone or something) is like another person or thing; to compare.
• wordlessConveyed without the use of words; unspoken or unsaid.
• revelryJoyful or riotous merry-making.
• defaceTo damage or vandalize something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner.
• meteTo dispense, measure in order to dispense, allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).
• liefBeloved, dear, agreeable.
• litigiousOf or relating to litigation.
• ruinousCausing ruin; destructive, calamitous.
• luggingThe process by which something is lugged from one place to another; a laborious carrying or dragging.
• sunshadeSomething to keep the sun off, or create shade from the sun; a parasol or awning.
• shudA shed.
• CaxtonAny book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer.
• blitheCasually careless or indifferent; showing a lack of concern; nonchalant.
• paralyzeTo afflict with paralysis.
• tillingThe act of one who tills.
• languishTo lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness.
• RunnymedeA meadow near the Thames in Surrey, where the Magna Carta was signed.
• ArtoisA geographic region and former administrative region of France; since 2016, part of the region of Hauts-de-France.
• molestTo sexually assault or sexually harass.
• lickerSomeone or something that licks.
• lawmanA lawspeaker: a declarer of the law.
• HampA surname.
• feverfewA European aromatic perennial herb, Tanacetum parthenium (or Chrysanthemum parthenium or Pyrethrum parthenium), having daisy-like flowers; valued as a traditional medicine, especially for headaches.
• weelA trap for catching fish; a weely.
• razeTo level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.
• bereBarley, especially four-rowed barley or six-rowed barley.
• AckroydA surname from Middle English.
• repulseTo repel or drive back.
• journeyerA traveller.
• haspA clasp, especially a metal strap fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a hook for fastening a door.
• wainA wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.
• gadlingA companion in arms; fellow; comrade.
• thresherAnything or anyone that threshes.
• overchargeTo charge (somebody) more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain limit while charging a bill.
• evangelThe Christian gospel.
• hedgerowA row of closely planted bushes or trees forming a hedge.
• nowellA surname.
• vehemenceAn intense concentration, force or power.
• marshyOf, or resembling a marsh; boggy.
• frizzOf hair, to form into a mass of tight curls.
• kileAn ulcer; sore.
• guiderOne who guides.
• agitateTo disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up (a person).
• grouchA complaint, a grumble, a fit of ill-humor.
• eyesoreAn eye lesion.
• queasyExperiencing or causing nausea or uneasiness, often characterized by an unsettled stomach.
• rameA remark or complaint repeated incessantly.
• sacrilegeDesecration, profanation, misuse or violation of something regarded as sacred.
• demeanTo debase; to lower; to degrade.
• biterA fish that tends to take bait.
• summeryRelating to the summer.
• MahometA male given name.
• gegTo walk carelessly or in a careless manner.
• freckledHaving freckles; covered with freckles.
• operantThat operates to produce an effect.
• sedumAny of various succulent plants, of the genus Sedum, native to temperate zones; the stonecrop.
• goshawkAny of several birds of prey, principally in the genus Accipiter.
• bricklayerA craftsman who builds walls and suchlike out of bricks.
• moorhenAny of various medium-sized water birds of the genus Gallinula, of the rail family, that feed in open water margins.
• wonkyLopsided, misaligned or off-centre.
• exhortTo urge; to advise earnestly.
• supportableCapable of being supported, upheld, maintained, or defended.
• whereonOn which, on what.
• lornDoomed; lost.
• hodgepodgeA collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.
• gibbousCurved or bulged outward.
• addledBad, rotten; inviable, containing a dead embryo.
• firelightThe light of a fire, such as from a campfire or fireplace.
• anointTo smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil.
• nockEither of the two grooves in a bow that hold the bowstring.
• revealerA person or thing that reveals.
• bedheadThe condition of having unkempt hair, generally as a result of having just woken up from sleep.
• knightlyOf or pertaining to a knight or knights.
• vinerA winegrower.
• meeknessThe state or quality of being meek.
• dewyCovered by dew.
• saltireAn ordinary (geometric design) in the shape of an X. It usually occupies the entire field in which it is placed.
• balthazarA very large wine bottle with the capacity of about 12 liters, equivalent to 16 standard bottles.
• squeamishEasily shocked, sickened or frightened; tending to be nauseated or nervous; oversensitive.
• cockleAny of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
• stepchildThe child of one's spouse from a previous relationship.
• creakThe sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.
• archdeaconA senior administrative official in a diocese, just under the bishop, often in charge of an archdeaconry. As a title, it can be filled by either a deacon or priest.
• splayTo spread, spread apart, or spread out (something); to expand.
• teachableCapable of being taught; apt to learn.