Word origins

• en-vessieA method of cooking, where the food is contained within a bladder (usually the urinary bladder of a pig) and cooked in simmering or boiling water
• eolithicof or relating to the early period of the Stone Age marked by the use of eoliths.
• epauleThe shoulder of a bastion, or the place where its face and flank meet and form the angle, called the angle of the shoulder.
• epaulementA barricade of heaped earth for protection from gunfire.
• epergneA table centerpiece, usually made of silver, generally consisting of a central bowl with radiating dishes or holders.
• epigeicLiving on the surface of the land.
• epigoneA follower or disciple.
• epizootyAn epizootic disease or outbreak.
• eprouvetteA one-piece, fixed-elevation mortar formerly used to test the strength of gunpowder.
• epurationpurification of a product (such as in the process of sugar extraction)
• equilibristA tightrope walker.
• erethismAbnormal excitement of a bodily organ or tissue.
• ergotismThe plant disease caused by ergot.
• EscheteA surname from French.
• Esch-sur-AlzetteOne of the twelve cantons of Luxembourg, located in the south of the country.
• esclavageA type of chain or bead necklace.
• escouadeA squad.
• eserineAn alkaloid C₁₅H₂₁N₃O₂, originally extracted from the Calabar bean.
• EsméA male given name from French.
• esquivalienceDeliberate shirking of one's official duties.
• estacadeA dyke of piles in the sea, a river, etc., to hinder the approach of an enemy.
• estragoleThe methyl ether of chavicol; it occurs in the essential oil of tarragon
• etaerioAn aggregate fruit comprised of achenes, drupelets, follicles, or berries.
• etatismSynonym of statism, sometimes (derogatory) with specific distinctions derived from Mises's political theories.
• etiolateTo make pale through lack of light, especially of a plant.
• EtonicèThe characteristic speech or slang of Eton College.
• euchlorineA rare emerald-green sulfate mineral found as a natural sublimate in fumaroles around volcanic eruptions, and having the chemical formula KNaCu₃(SO₄)₃O).
• euchologueA euchologion.
• eventrateTo open the bowels of, disembowel.
• extimateMost distant or faraway; outermost, uttermost.
• extradosThe outer or upper curve of an arch.
• faburdenA kind of counterpoint with a drone bass.
• fais do-doA Cajun dance party.
• FalgoustA surname from French.
• faradismTreatment with faradic electricity; faradization.
• FawverA surname from French.
• febrifugeSynonym of antipyretic (“a fever-reducing medication”).
• feudalityThe state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution.
• fiddlewoodThe wood of several West Indian trees, mostly of the genus Citharexylum.
• fideismThe doctrine that faith is the basis of all knowledge.
• fideistA subscriber to fideism.
• fiertéPride, high self-esteem.
• figuranteA female figurant, especially a ballet dancer.
• filandersA disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small thread-like worms (probably Capillaria), and of filaments of coagulated blood, stemming from the rupture of a vein.
• filemotSynonym of feuillemorte.
• fille fataleA young femme fatale, one who is a girl rather than a woman.
• filmologyA 1950s–60s movement of theoretical study relating to film.
• FilyawA surname from French.
• fine champagneFine French brandy from the Grande Champagne or Petite Champagne winegrowing areas of Cognac.
• FisetteA surname from French.
• fitchySharpened to a point; pointed.
• flèche faîtièreA type of decorated spear used by the Kanak to adorn their rooftops.
• flechetteA small sharp antipersonnel projectile, used as shrapnel, fired from a shotgun, or scattered from an aircraft.
• Fleur de LysA town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• fleuretAn ornament resembling a small flower.
• flongA mould, especially one made from papier-mâché, used to create a stereotype.
• floroonA border worked with flowers.
• fluateA fluoride.
• fluelliteAn orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, fluorine, hydrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus.
• foinA thrust.
• folie à troisA form of shared psychotic disorder in which three individuals have the same or similar delusional beliefs, usually by transference.
• folie de grandeurdelusion of grandeur
• Fond du LacA city and town, the county seat of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States.
• fondonA large copper vessel used for hot amalgamation.
• forcemeatAn emulsion of fat and comminuted meat (which has been subject to puréeing, grinding, sieving, chopping finely) optionally mixed with other flavour carriers and either served up alone or used as a stuffing.
• formeretOne of the half-ribs against the walls in a ceiling vaulted with ribs.
• ForteauA town in Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• fosséA fosse or ditch.
• FourierismThe cooperative socialistic system of Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, who recommended the reorganization of society into small communities, living in common.
• frambaesiayaws
• free verseA poetic form divided into lines of no particular length or meter, without a rhyme scheme.
• French LouisianaThe French vast colony of Louisiana in North America, part of New France, sold to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
• French West AfricaA federation of former French colonies in West Africa existing from 1895 to 1958, consisting of Dahomey (Benin), French Guinea (Guinea), the French Sudan (Mali), Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Upper Volta (Burkina Faso).
• fripperA dealer in frippery (old clothes).
• frippishGaudy, tawdry, showy in a cheap way.
• friseurA hairdresser.
• frizetteA fringe of hair or curls around a woman's forehead.
• FromaseA protease produced by the soil fungus Rhizomucor miehei, used as a vegetarian alternative to chymosin in the manufacture of some cheeses.
• froteTo rub or wear by rubbing; to chafe.
• fumetA type of concentrated food stock that is added to sauces to enhance their flavour. Variations are fish fumet and mushroom fumet.
• fumetteThe unpleasant odour or taste of old game meat.
• fumigatoryHaving the quality of fumigating.
• funambulistA tightrope walker or a similar performer on a slack rope.
• funestCausing death or disaster; fatal, catastrophic; deplorable, lamentable.
• furibundHaving a propensity to be furious; choleric, irate.
• galbeThe contour or outline of something.
• galleristThe owner or operator of an art gallery
• galliardisegaiety; merriment
• galliotA light galley.
• galloonA braided trimming with bullion thread, used on men's coats in the eighteenth century, on women's apparel in the nineteenth, and on such furnishings as draperies or cushions.
• gallopinAn underservant in the kitchen; a scullion, or cook's errand boy.
• Galois theoryThe branch of mathematics dealing with Galois groups, Galois fields, and polynomial equations. It provides a link between field theory and group theory: it permits certain problems in the former to be reduced to the latter, which in some respects is simpler and better understood.
• galvanismThe chemical generation of electricity.
• gamahucheOral sex, especially cunnilingus.
• gamashesHigh boots or buskins.
• garagistA French car mechanic or garage worker.
• garancineA manufactured product of madder, used as a dye.
• garde-colletSynonym of passguard, neck guard (plate on shoulder-armor to protect neck)
• garde-faudeA tuille, a plate appended to a tasset to protect the thigh.
• gardevinA large bottle or jug for holding wine.