Word origins

• garledSpotted; speckled;
• gleekA once-popular game of cards played by three people.
• GrecismA word or idiom of the Greek language used in another language, especially for literary effect.
• gurgeonsA coarse bran flour.
• halecretA kind of light armour protecting the bust, used in the 16th century, usually thought to have been a corselet or light cuirass.
• harquebusAn obsolete matchlock firearm.
• hatchmentA display of the arms, supporters, crests, motto, etc of a deceased person, placed within a black lozenge and hung on a wall
• hautboyAn oboe or similar treble double reed instrument.
• heaumeA large helmet extended to and rested on the shoulders, worn in the 12th and 13th centuries: a great helm.
• HebraismA characteristic trait of the Hebrew language. By extension it is sometimes applied to the Jewish people or their faith, national ideology, or culture.
• honi soit qui mal y penseThe motto of the British chivalric Order of the Garter, still used in the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom.
• hostiethe consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist, host.
• -idForming the names of dynasts, being suffixed to the name of their progenitors and meaning “descendant of”.
• -ideAny of a group of related compounds - azide, polysaccharide, glycoside.
• illustreSynonym of illustrious.
• immedicableIncurable; not able to be assisted by medicine.
• immensiveSynonym of immense.
• impatronizeTo make lord, ruler or master.
• importuneTo bother, irritate, trouble.
• impudicityImmodesty; shamelessness.
• impuissanceImpotence, weakness.
• incitationThe act of inciting or moving to action.
• inconsiderationLack of due consideration; inattention to consequences, thoughtlessness.
• indemnWithout loss or injury.
• indignUnworthy, undeserving.
• indisposeTo render unfit or unsuited; to disqualify.
• inextinguibleInextinguishable.
• infractorOne who infracts or infringes; a violator; a rule breaker.
• infrangibleUnbreakable, indestructible, or very difficult to break.
• -itudeUsed to forms nouns of state, condition or quality.
• javelineerA soldier who throws a javelin.
• kickshawA dainty or delicacy.
• legerityNimbleness or quickness of mind or body.
• -logueSpeech, or a way of speaking, a narrative, logical discourse.
• loquacityTalkativeness; the quality of being loquacious.
• loriotThe oriole.
• madefyTo make wet or moist.
• martagonThe Turk's cap lily (Lilium martagon).
• matelotA sailor.
• matitudinalOf, occurring in, or relating to the morning, especially the early morning upon waking up.
• matutinalOf, occurring in, or relating to the morning, especially the early morning upon waking up.
• megrimA headache; a migraine.
• metagrobolismConcealment, mystification, obfuscation.
• minatoryThreatening, menacing.
• monarchicOf, or relating to monarchy or to a monarch.
• mousquetaireA musketeer, especially one of the French royal musketeers of the 17th and 18th centuries, famed for their daring and their fine clothing.
• mulctA fine or penalty, especially a pecuniary one.
• muletA male mule.
• muschetorA black spot like an ermine spot, but without its three specks.
• musetA small hole or gap through which a wild animal passes; a muse.
• mutenTo make or become mute or muted.
• naissantHaving only its forepart shown, especially if because it is issuing from an ordinary or division of the field. (Compare issuant.)
• narcissNarcissus.
• navewA kind of small turnip, a variety of Brassica napus.
• necessitousNeedy, indigent, destitute, poor.
• NicodemiteSomeone who hides their faith or belief in something; a secret adherent.
• nombrilA point halfway between the fess point (centre of the shield) and the middle base (bottom) point of an escutcheon.
• nuqueThe nape of the neck.
• occurrentCurrent, actual, occurring.
• olibanOlibanum.
• opusculeA small or petty work.
• ostensionThe act of presenting an ostensive definition.
• ostensiveApparently true, but not necessarily; ostensible
• pall mallA cigarette of the British Pall Mall brand.
• paralogismA fallacious argument or illogical conclusion, especially one committed by mistake, or believed by the speaker to be logical.
• paraphernalsSynonym of paraphernalia (“married woman’s property besides her dowry”).
• patricideThe murder of one's father.
• pavéA paved surface, a pavement (now only in French contexts).
• peccantOf a person, etc.: that commits or has committed an offence or a sin; blameworthy, culpable, offending, sinful, sinning.
• perfectionateTo make perfect or complete; to perfect.
• petronelA short but large-caliber, heavy 16th- and 17th-century firearm that used a matchlock or wheellock mechanism, intermediate between the arquebuse and pistol.
• philologueA philologist.
• pistoleerA person, especially a soldier, armed with a pistol
• planchA plank.
• poitrinalSynonym of poitrel (“chest-armor for a horse”).
• poniardA dagger typically having a slender square or triangular blade.
• potencePower or strength; potency.
• practicianA practitioner; someone who practises a particular profession, especially medicine.
• prejacentExisting previously, preexistent.
• pretendantA pretender; a claimant.
• procelleA storm, a tempest.
• prosodiacA verse used in prosodia, having three anapests, of which the first may be substituted with a spondee or iamb.
• proveneTo originate, stem (from)
• prudhommieCharacter typical of a prudhomme; trustworthiness, loyalty.
• psalterionSynonym of psaltery.
• psychogonyThe study of the origins and development of the soul or mind.
• putageProstitution, copulation or lewdness by a woman.
• ramifyTo divide into branches or subdivisions.
• recidiveSynonym of recidivous (“recurring”).
• reconductionRepeat undertaking or restoration.
• requiesceTo rest, repose.
• resipiscenceRecognition of one or more past mistakes, especially with a desire to improve in the future; repentance; (countable) an instance of this.
• revulsiveCausing revulsion.
• roiteletA petty king, a kinglet.
• roturierA commoner or plebeian; a person of low rank; especially, in pre-Revolutionary France, a member of the social class comprising all who were not nobles or clergy.
• SaturnalsSynonym of Saturnalia (“ancient Roman holiday”).
• scapularyscapular
• sesterceSynonym of sestertius.
• solecismAn error or improper usage.
• sublimatoryA vessel or device used for sublimation.