Word origins

• tonneA unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms.
• manicureA cosmetic treatment for the fingernails.
• colossalExtremely large or on a great scale.
• JanineA female given name from French.
• LoireThe longest river in France, passing (from southeast to northwest) through the departments of Ardèche, Haute-Loire, Loire, Saône-et-Loire, Allier, Nièvre, Cher, Loiret, Loir-et-Cher, Indre-et-Loire, Maine-et-Loire and Loire-Atlantique.
• anaerobicWithout oxygen; especially of an environment or organism.
• cadreA frame or framework.
• velourA knit fabric similar to velvet, but usually somewhat coarser.
• koalaA tree-dwelling marsupial, Phascolarctos cinereus, that resembles a small bear with a broad head, large ears and sharp claws, mainly found in eastern Australia.
• cassieA thorny shrub with fragrant yellow flowers, Vachellia farnesiana; the needle bush.
• typographyThe art or practice of setting and arranging type; typesetting.
• StephA diminutive of the female given name Stephanie.
• cepAn edible mushroom (Boletus edulis).
• camisoleA short, sleeveless undergarment worn by women underneath a blouse, or as a form of short négligée.
• sashA piece of cloth designed to be worn around the waist.
• physiqueThe natural constitution, or physical structure, of a person.
• emancipationThe act of setting free from the power of another, as from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence.
• rainierA hybrid cherry cultivar, sweet with a thin skin and thick creamy-yellow flesh.
• lactoseThe disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products, C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁, a product of glucose and galactose used as a food and in medicinal compounds.
• souAn old French copper coin equal to one twentieth of a livre or twelve deniers; one sou is to the livre as one shilling is to the pound.
• VerneA surname from French.
• MontpellierA large city, the prefecture of Hérault department, Occitania, France.
• margueriteAn oxeye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare).
• dressageThe schooling of a horse.
• agitationThe act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being disrupted with violence, or with irregular action; commotion.
• nomeA prefecture or unit of regional government in Greece.
• LeblancA surname from French.
• choreographyThe art of creating, arranging and recording the dance movements of a work, such as a ballet.
• LaudeA surname.
• louvreA famous art museum and former royal palace in Paris, France.
• margeMargin; edge; brink or verge.
• honeA sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.
• carotidEither of the two main arteries that supply blood to the head of which the left in humans arises from the arch of the aorta and the right by bifurcation of the brachiocephalic artery with each passing up the side of the neck and dividing opposite the upper border of the thyroid cartilage into an external branch supplying the face, tongue, and external parts of the head and an internal branch supplying the brain, eye, and other internal parts of the head.
• chenilleAn extremely soft and bunchy fabric often used to make sweaters.
• mobilizeTo make something mobile.
• rationalityThe quality or state of being rational; due exercise of reason; reasonableness.
• tubaA large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys.
• ellipseA closed curve, the locus of a point such that the sum of the distances from that point to two other fixed points (called the foci of the ellipse) is constant; equivalently, the conic section that is the intersection of a cone with a plane that does not intersect the base of the cone.
• JustineA female given name from Latin.
• apathyLack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something).
• mercantileConcerned with the exchange of goods for profit.
• adeleAn infinite sequence consisting of a real number and a p-adic number for every prime number p, such that all but finitely many of them are p-adic integers. More generally, a member of a self-dual topological ring built on any algebraic number field, and involving in a symmetric way all the completions of the field.
• cabrioletAn automobile with a retractable top.
• stereotypeA conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person or a group of people).
• escaladeAn act of scaling walls or fortifications.
• MontclairA city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
• lavalOf or relating to lava.
• emulsionA stable suspension of small droplets of one liquid in another with which it is immiscible.
• federalismA system of national government in which power is divided between a central authority and a number of regions with delimited self-governing authority.
• RousseauA surname from French.
• symptomaticShowing symptoms.
• capriceAn impulsive, seemingly unmotivated action, change of mind, or notion.
• mottA copse or small grove of trees, especially live oak or elm.
• ChantalA female given name from French.
• pateThe head, particularly the top or crown.
• vignetteA running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.
• modalityThe fact of being modal.
• utiliseTo make use of; to use.
• albuminAny of a class of monomeric proteins that are soluble in water, and are coagulated by heat; they occur in egg white, milk etc; they function as carrier protein for steroids, fatty acids, and thyroid hormones and play a role in stabilizing extracellular fluid volume.
• dumasA surname from French.
• gallantBrave, valiant, courteous, especially with regard to male attitudes towards women.
• recollectionThe act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the act of recalling to memory.
• insecticideAny of various substances used to kill insects.
• chouChoux pastry, usually in the form of a small round cake with a sweet filling.
• looA lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
• fichea microfiche
• dorianOf or relating to the Dorians.
• cliqueA small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic such as lifestyle or social status, or common purpose; specifically one formed for disreputable purposes, or which purports to be an authority on a particular matter; a cabal.
• chuteA framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.
• bohemiaA community of bohemians, unconventional artists or writers.
• fondsThe entire collection of the records originating from the same creator; an archive term used to describe a collection of papers that originate from the same source.
• ogreA large, grotesque, brutish humanoid monster, typically marked by great strength and a propensity to kill or devour humans.
• fatalityThe state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
• baudA unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second.
• cruA vineyard or group of vineyards in France, especially one having a high reputation.
• abrasionThe act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.
• reciprocityThe characteristic of being reciprocal, e.g. of a relationship between people.
• MathisA surname.
• chauffeurA person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).
• HenriettaA female given name from the Germanic languages.
• WabashAn unincorporated community in Phillips County, Arkansas.
• picketA stake driven into the ground.
• margarineA spread, manufactured from a blend of vegetable oils (some of which are hydrogenated), emulsifiers etc, mostly used as a substitute for butter.
• celluliteSkin dimpling caused by the herniation (protrusion) of subcutaneous adipose tissue (fat within connective tissue), especially on the pelvic area of women.
• cartographyThe creation of charts and maps based on the layout of a territory's geography.
• incompetenceAn inability to perform; a lack of competence; ineptitude.
• appelAn act of striking the ground with the leading foot to frighten, distract, or mislead one's opponent.
• retroactiveExtending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions.
• sarcasticContaining sarcasm.
• tuffA light porous rock, now especially a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash varying in size from fine sand to coarse gravel.
• evokeTo call out; to draw out or bring forth.
• NantesThe prefecture of the department of Loire-Atlantique, France; the capital city of the region of Pays de la Loire, in historical Brittany.
• mousseAn airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse.
• provenancePlace or source of origin.
• chiffonA lightweight, balanced plain-woven sheer fabric, or gauze, like gossamer, woven of alternate S- and Z-twist crepe (high-twist) yarns made of silk, polyester, or cotton.
• fanfareA flourish of trumpets or horns as to announce; a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.
• archaicThe prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘Paleo-Indian’, ‘Paleo-American’, ‘American‐paleolithic’, etc.) of human presence in the Western Hemisphere, and the most recent prehistoric period (‘Woodland’, etc.).
• hangarA large garagelike structure where aircraft are kept.
• miseThe issue in a writ of right.
• tendonA tough band of flexible but inelastic fibrous collagen tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment and transmits the force which the muscle exerts.