Word origins

• substantiousSubstantial.
• subtilityCunning, craftiness.
• supercherieFoul play; an attack made by deceit.
• survivantSurviving.
• taintureDirtiness; uncleanliness; contamination, tainting.
• thyrseA type of inflorescence; a compact panicle having an obscured main axis and cymose subaxes.
• torseA twist of cloth or wreath, typically placed underneath and forming part of a crest (as an orle or wreath) and customarily shown with six twists, the first tincture being the tincture of the field, the second the tincture of the metal, and so on; rarely, it occurs as a charge.
• transfixTo render motionless, by arousing terror, amazement or awe.
• tresayleA grandfather's grandfather; a great-great-grandfather.
• ultramontanePromoting the supremacy of the Pope.
• usurpatorA usurper.
• verdourVerdure.
• victimaryA person whose role it is to kill the sacrificial victim(s) during a ritual sacrifice.
• vidameOne of a class of temporal officers who originally represented the bishops, but later were given status of fiefs, and became feudal nobles.
• virguleA medieval punctuation mark similar to the slash ⟨/⟩ or pipe ⟨|⟩ and used as a scratch comma and caesura mark.