Word origins

• lenityleniency, mercy, forgiveness
• pleasantryA casual, courteous remark.
• crudityThe state of being crude.
• importableInsupportable, unbearable.
• Milesiana native or inhabitant of the ancient city of Miletus in Asia Minor.
• inflexionDated spelling of inflection.
• debileWeak; feeble.
• culetA component of armor, consisting of overlapping plates designed to protect the buttocks.
• contrarietyOpposition or contrariness; cross-purposes, marked contrast.
• precipitantInclined to make rapid decisions without due consideration; hasty, impulsive, rash.
• morionA kind of open brimmed helmet used by footsoldiers in the 16th and 17th centuries, having no visor or bevor.
• cannonadeThe firing of artillery for a length of time.
• irresolutionLack of resolution; lack of decision or purpose; vacillation.
• convokeTo convene, to cause to assemble for a meeting.
• reparableAble to be repaired.
• magistralOf, relating to, or befitting a master; authoritative.
• parricideSomeone who kills a relative, especially a parent.
• ortolanA small European migratory bunting (Emberiza hortulana), once eaten whole as a delicacy.
• provocatorOne who engages in provocation.
• escharA superficial structure of dead tissue, usually hardened, and commonly but not necessarily dark, adhering to underlying living or necrotic tissue, caused by gangrene or a burn.
• restaurThe remedy that assurers have against each other, or a person has against his guarantor.
• comestibleSuitable to be eaten; edible.
• accouterTo furnish with dress or equipments, especially those for military service.
• accusementAn accusation.
• adjuteTo add, include.
• adjutorAn adjutant; a helper or assistant.
• aigletA tip, originally of metal and often decorative, on a ribbon or cord that makes lacing two parts of a garment or garments together easier, as in corset lacings, "points" (lacing hose or trousers to jacket or doublet) or sleeves to a bodice.
• alamortTo the death; mortally.
• alerionA heraldic eagle, especially one displayed without legs/feet or beak.
• alexipharmacA medical remedy for protecting the body, or an antidote, against a harmful substance, especially a poison or venom (specifically, that of a snake); an alexipharmic, an antidote.
• alexipharmicSynonym of alexipharmac (“a medical remedy for protecting the body, or an antidote, against harmful substances, especially a poison or venom (specifically, that of a snake)”); an antidote.
• amicalFriendly, amicable.
• amolishTo remove forcibly.
• anagrammatismThe creation or formation of anagrams.
• ancientyage; antiquity
• animadversionA criticism, a critical remark.
• annullationAnnulment.
• anormalNot according to normality; abnormal.
• ante-cameraAn antechamber, specifically one where visitors wait before being given audience with an influential person such as a pope or monarch.
• antreCavern; cave.
• arithmeticianOne with expertise in arithmetic; a mathematician.
• armillA bracelet used in royal coronations, especially that of the monarch of the United Kingdom (symbolically known as a "bracelet of wisdom and sincerity")
• arquebusierA soldier armed with an arquebus.
• astrologizeTo study or practise astrology; to attempt to foretell the future using astrology.
• attemptateAn attempt.
• barracanA thick, strong kind of camlet from linen, wool, cotton or all three, usually with a stripe structure and fringes, traditionally used for outer garments of both sexes in the Arab World, of a similar purpose as the Roman toga and palla or the Indian sari.
• belliboneA beautiful and nice woman.
• besaielA great-grandfather.
• bitumebitumen
• bonnibelAn attractive girl.
• buffleA buffalo.
• caducecaducous.
• caliginousDark, obscure; murky.
• canailleThe lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.
• carfourSynonym of carfax.
• caruncleA small, fleshy excrescence that is a normal part of an animal's anatomy.
• cendréeGrey, ashen; the blazoning term for grey.
• chausseArmor for the legs, usually made of mail, either covering the entire leg from foot to thigh, or variously covering only the thigh or only the calf and foot, with the chausson covering the other half of the leg.
• -cidekilling
• compleaseto convince
• compostureCompost, composted manure.
• congelationThe act or process of passing, or causing to pass, from a fluid to a solid state, as by the abstraction of heat; the act or process of freezing.
• conquestorSomeone who breaks into the conductor car in a subway and takes control of the train, as a hobby or prank.
• contenementThat which is held together with another thing.
• contextureA weaving together of parts.
• controverseControversy.
• controversioncontroversy
• copiositySynonym of copiousness.
• crineTo wither, wilt, shrivel.
• criniereProtective armor for a horse's neck.
• crocheA little bud or knob at the top of a deer's antler, or as the predevelopmental stage of the antler.
• curialPertaining to a court; courtly.
• delicatesseSynonym of delicacy.
• demonstreTo demonstrate.
• denudeTo divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip.
• deperditionSynonym of loss or destruction.
• diamantineConsisting of or resembling diamond.
• diametralOf, relating to, or measured across a diameter.
• diaphaneSomething transparent.
• dictatoryExessively strict.
• disobligeto be unwilling to oblige; to disappoint, to inconvenience, not to cooperate.
• domificationThe division of the heavens into twelve astrological houses; or a particular system for such division.
• dorveilleA dreamlike semi-conscious state, such as while falling asleep or waking up, between periods of sleep, or from exhaustion; generally an altered mental state where there is no distinction between the fantastic and the familiar.
• dowableCapable of being endowed.
• effrontTo give self-confidence to.
• effusePoured out freely; profuse.
• enfelonto infuriate
• equerryAn officer responsible for the care and supervision of the horses of a person of rank.
• euripeA strait or channel of the sea.
• evagationA wandering about, excursion, trip or a roving.
• excusationThe act of offering an excuse or apology, or the fact of being excused; an excuse, a defence.
• expiableCapable of being expiated or atoned for.
• faciliteSynonym of facilitate.
• farthingaleA hooped structure in cloth worn to extend the skirt of women's dresses; a hooped petticoat.
• fatigationFatigue.
• fatuityWeakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity.
• Filles du RoyA non-religious program composed of orphaned girls of France shipped to New France to populate French North America with Frenchmen, by providing wives to the bachelor colonial French traders.
• fluxionThe derivative of a function.
• fortuitFortuitous.
• fulminationThe act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.