Word origins

• coucalAny bird of the genus Centropus in the cuckoo family Cuculidae.
• homophoneA word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin.
• SeydouA male given name from Arabic.
• diplomatistSynonym of diplomat.
• LonguetA surname from French.
• calkA pointed projection on a horseshoe to prevent its slipping.
• piastreA coin and unit of currency, originally a Spanish or Spanish-American one worth eight real, later also used (with various values) in the Ottoman Empire and in Cyprus, in the French-speaking parts of Canada, and in French Indochina.
• archduchessA daughter or granddaughter of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, or the wife of a son or grandson of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary
• bedelAn administrative official at universities in several European countries, often with a policiary function at the time when universities had their own jurisdiction over students.
• palpSynonym of pedipalp.
• ecurieA stable.
• briquetSynonym of lighter in reference to any device used to light cigarettes.
• BrumaireThe second month of the French Republican Calendar, from October 22, 23 or 24 to November 20, 21 or 22.
• outremerAn area beyond the sea.
• embroilTo bring (something) into a state of confusion or uproar; to complicate, to confuse, to jumble.
• frangipaneA cream made from ground almonds used in confectionery
• aerostatAn aircraft, such as a dirigible or balloon, that derives its lift from buoyancy rather than from wings or rotors.
• LimouxA city in Aude department, France.
• ToupinA surname from French.
• ChartreuxA member of a breed of large, blue, short-haired domestic cats, originating in France.
• OrthezA town in Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
• RancourtA surname from French.
• FlochA surname.
• eponymA person who gave or supposedly gave their name to a people, place, institution, etc.
• soupleOf raw silk: deprived of its silk-glue.
• DenaultA surname from French.
• LaprairieA surname from French.
• LajeunesseA surname from French.
• AngladeA village in Gironde department, France.
• vauntTo speak boastfully.
• railleryGood-natured banter, jest, or ridicule.
• jetonA counter or token.
• potageA thick soup, especially a creamy one.
• RiendeauA surname from French.
• traumatizeTo injure, e.g. tissues, by force or by thermal, chemical or other agents.
• favoriA favorite.
• quatorzeThe four aces, kings, queens, jacks, or tens, in the game of piquet, any of these counting as fourteen points.
• RousselleA surname from French.
• EsmeeA female given name from French.
• teosinteZea diploperennis
• DubeauA surname from French.
• VaudoisAn inhabitant of the Swiss canton of Vaud.
• ValadeA surname from French.
• OllierA surname from French.
• BompasA village and commune of Ariège department, Occitania, France.
• beloteA trick-taking card game using a 32 card deck.
• AnticostiAn island of Minganie Regional County Municipality, Côte-Nord, Quebec, Canada, at the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
• GiroudA surname from French
• aggrandizeTo make great; to enlarge; to increase.
• souterrainAn underground chamber or passage sometimes used as a store, especially one associated with Iron Age settlements.
• contretempsAn unforeseen, inopportune, or embarrassing event.
• quintillionA billion billion: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 10¹⁸; one million million million.
• HoarauA surname from French.
• pachyteneThe third stage of prophase 1 of meiosis, during which the chromosomes shorten and divide into four chromatids.
• khediveThe title of the hereditary monarch of Egypt from 1805–1914, nominally ruling as a viceroy of the Sultan of Turkey.
• trichomeA hair- or scale-like extension of the epidermis of a plant.
• disinterTo take out of the grave or tomb.
• DucoteA surname from French.
• ambuscadeAn ambush; a trap laid for an enemy.
• LabrancheA surname from French.
• morionA kind of open brimmed helmet used by footsoldiers in the 16th and 17th centuries, having no visor or bevor.
• plastronThe nearly flat part of the shell structure of a tortoise or other animal, similar in composition to the carapace.
• indeterminismThe doctrine that all human actions are not so much determined by the preceding events, conditions, causes or karma as by deliberate choice or free will.
• GuillardA surname from French [in turn from Proto-Germanic].
• oleaginousOily, greasy.
• DelagrangeA surname from French.
• addaxA large African antelope (Addax nasomaculatus) with long, corkscrewing horns which lives in the desert.
• OrgeronA surname from French.
• virementThe transfer of a surplus from one account to cover a deficit in another.
• douarA camp or village of tents in a North African country.
• BeaumierA surname from French.
• beziqueA trick-taking card game for two players.
• barriqueA barrel or cask of varying capacity, very roughly 200 litres.
• brumeMist, fog, vapour.
• LeclereA surname from French.
• KrivineA surname from French.
• DegrangeA surname from French.
• brochetteA small skewer or spit on which small pieces of meat, fish or vegetables are roasted or broiled.
• LangresA soft, pungent cow's-milk cheese with a washed rind, from the Langres region of France.
• DouvilleA surname from French.
• vitrailA stained glass window.
• QuennevilleA surname from French.
• doleriteA type of fine-grained basaltic rock.
• doyenneA female doyen.
• MilotA town in northwestern Albania, located just south of the left bank of the river Mat near the Zogu Bridge below the western slope of the Mali e Sukës; it is the seat of its eponymous municipal unit.
• torchonA coarse, loose-textured bobbin lace.
• SaintongeA former province of France, whose capital was Saintes; now part of the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
• concubinageThe state of cohabiting or living together as man and woman while not married.
• salpAny of the free-swimming tunicates of the order Salpida and its single family Salpidae.
• LesieurA surname from French.
• pedaloA small boat propelled by pedals that directly turn external paddles, used for recreation.
• rentierAn individual who receives an income, usually interest, rent, dividends, capital gains, or profits from his or her assets and investments.
• ValiquetteA surname from French.
• eclosionThe emergence of an insect from the pupa case, or of a larva from the egg.
• desmanEither of two species, Desmana moschata or Galemys pyrenaicus, of aquatic or semiaquatic insectivore of the mole family, Talpidae, found in Europe.
• PellandA surname from French.
• CrepeauA surname.
• LacailleA surname from French.
• JacmelA port town, commune, and capital of Sud-Est department, Haiti.
• HauryA surname from French.