Word origins

• nationalisationThe act or process of making or becoming a nation.
• RoxaneA female given name from Old Persian.
• oblateA person dedicated to a life of religion or monasticism, especially a member of an order without religious vows or a lay member of a religious community.
• biliousOf or pertaining to something containing or consisting of bile.
• PoteauA city, the county seat of Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States.
• surtoutA man's overcoat; a close-bodied frock coat.
• myogenicForming muscle fibres; pertaining to myogenesis.
• terrasseTerrace, patio.
• gargleTo clean one's mouth by holding water or some other liquid in the back of the mouth and blowing air out from the lungs.
• dogmatismThe manner or character of a dogmatist; arrogance or positiveness in stating opinion.
• brogueA strong dialectal accent, usually Irish or Scottish.
• concordatA formal agreement between two parties, especially between a church and a state; specifically, an agreement between the Pope and a government.
• motetA composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem.
• ToomerA surname.
• abordThe act of approaching or arriving; approach.
• sazThe baglama.
• druggistA manufacturer and vendor of drugs and medicines.
• mystifyTo thoroughly confuse, befuddle, or bewilder.
• polytheismThe belief in the existence of multiple gods.
• balconetteA false balcony, or railing at the outer plane of a window-opening reaching to the floor, and resembling a balcony when the window is open.
• LauzonA surname.
• TuileriesA palace in Paris, France which was built in the 16th century and destroyed by fire in 1871.
• mummificationThe preserving of a dead body, by making it into a mummy.
• cadavericPertaining to a corpse.
• mercuricPertaining to or derived from mercury.
• MustiqueAn island of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
• pompadourA women's hairstyle in which the hair is swept upwards from the face and worn high over the forehead.
• immobilizeTo render motionless; to stop moving or stop from moving.
• surtaxAn additional or extra tax.
• alewifeA woman who keeps an alehouse.
• steleAn upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions; a stela.
• crapeMourning garments, especially an armband or hatband.
• remiseTo send or give back.
• mordantHaving or showing a sharp or critical quality.
• PhilbertA surname from French.
• crevasseA crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
• rizlaA rolling paper.
• HellenismAny of the characteristics of ancient Greek culture, religion, civilization, principles and ideals, including humanism, reason, the pursuit of knowledge and the arts, moderation and civic responsibility.
• defeatistOf or relating to defeatism.
• BasseterreThe capital city of Saint Kitts and Nevis.
• invulnerabilityThe state of being invulnerable.
• batisteA fine cloth made from cotton or linen; cambric.
• RobinetteA surname from French.
• BelpreA minor city and township in Edwards County, Kansas, United States.
• barbyBarbed, like the ends of an arrow cross.
• functionaryA person employed as an official in a bureaucracy (usually corporate or governmental) who holds limited authority and primarily serves to carry out a simple function for which discretion is minimal or not required.
• EvelyneA female given name from French, anglicized by Évelyne.
• tricolourA flag consisting of three stripes that are either vertical or horizontal, all of equal size, and each of a different colour.
• quadrillionA thousand trillion (logic: 1,000 × 1,000⁴): 1 followed by fifteen zeros, 10¹⁵.
• hygroscopicReadily taking up and retaining water, especially from the atmosphere.
• SuperiaA former continent in Earth. A proposed ancient continent that would later merge together with the continents of Vaalbara and Sclavia to form the supercontinent Kenorland.
• confidanteA female confidant.
• cutletA thin slice of meat, usually fried.
• decampTo break camp and move on.
• chicaneryDeception by the use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.
• AntwanA male given name from French, equivalent to English Anthony.
• manqueunable to fully realise one's ambitions; would-be
• trompTo tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot.
• gooleyA surname.
• cravatA wide fabric band worn as a necktie by men having long ends hanging in front.
• monarchistA supporter of, or believer in, monarchy.
• civetAny of the small carnivorous catlike mammals encompassing certain species from the families Viverridae, Eupleridae, and Nandiniidae, native to tropical Africa and Asia.
• cressyAbounding in cresses.
• TrappistA monk or nun of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (a branch of the Cistercians Roman Catholic religious brotherhood that use a particularly strict interpretation of the Rule of St Benedict).
• abareTo strip; to uncover (make bare).
• condyleA smooth prominence on a bone where it forms a joint with another bone.
• envelopmentThe act of enveloping.
• CresseyA surname.
• neologismA word or phrase which has recently been coined; a new word or phrase.
• democratizeTo make democratic.
• pompomA ball made of pieces of soft fabric, tinsel, plastic, or paper streamers, tied together in the middle and left loose at the ends, used as decoration or as a showy prop for cheerleading.
• stratifyTo become separated out into distinct layers or strata.
• vicomteA French viscount.
• pomadeA greasy or waxy substance that is used to style hair, making it look slick and shiny.
• AyotteA surname from French.
• tartareChopped fine and served raw.
• imitatorA person who imitates or apes another.
• daguerreotypeAn early type of photograph created by exposing a silver surface which has previously been exposed to either iodine vapor or iodine and bromine vapors; such a photograph.
• berberisAny of very many evergreen or deciduous shrubs of the genus Berberis.
• adsorbTo accumulate on a surface, by adsorption.
• congenerA plant or animal of the same taxonomic genus as another.
• graphologyThe study of handwriting, especially as a means of analyzing a person's character.
• pantographA mechanical linkage based on parallelograms causing two objects to move in parallel; notably as a drawing aid.
• LapineA surname.
• hypochondriacRelated to, or affected by hypochondria.
• musherOne who drives a dogsled over ice and snow; specifically, one who participates in a dogsled race.
• flagellationBeating, or an instance of beating, consisting of lashes, notably as corporal punishment or mortification, such as a whipping or scourging.
• bokoThe nose.
• PouliotA surname.
• aeronautA person who travels through the air in an airship or balloon.
• limpidClear, transparent or bright.
• polarizeTo cause to have a polarization.
• naphtholEither of two isomeric phenols derived from naphthalene; they are used in the preparation of dyes and many other compounds
• CollenA surname originating as a patronymic.
• lubricityDegree of ability to lubricate.
• carlockA sort of Russian isinglass, made from the air bladder of the sturgeon. Among its uses is clarifying wine, restoration, and making gelatin.
• syndicalismControl of both industry and government by labor unions, especially as achieved through revolutionary direct action; advocacy for attempts to bring it about.
• exploiterOne who exploits.
• JarboeA surname from French.
• orvalA sage, of species Salvia viridis.