Word origins

• cottiseA diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend: a thin line borne around another charge.
• counterchangeTo give and receive; C; to exchange.
• counterfortA buttress built against a wall.
• -craticused to form adjectives, of or befitting -cracy
• crinetEach of the small hair-like feathers growing around a hawk's cere.
• dalmaticA long wide-sleeved tunic, which serves as a liturgical vestment in the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches and is worn by a deacon at the Eucharist or Mass and, although infrequently, by bishops as an undergarment above the alb.
• dancetteA zigzag or indented line or figure.
• decrepityDecrepitude.
• decretalPertaining to a decree.
• decrewTo decrease, wane.
• defalkTo reduce by deducting a part, especially when used in a financial sense.
• deificdivine; of or relating to a deity or deities.
• deprecativeTending to deprecate.
• devestTo divest; to undress.
• diarrhœaDated spelling of diarrhoea.
• difformityirregularity or diversity of form; lack of uniformity
• disbarkTo strip (a tree, etc.) of bark.
• discountenanceTo have an unfavorable opinion of; to deprecate or disapprove of.
• dismeA dime minted in 1792.
• diversificateSynonym of diversify.
• domifyTo divide (the heavens) into different astrological houses.
• drogherA West Indian coasting vessel, with long masts and lateen sails.
• -eerUsed to form an occupational noun denoting someone associated with, concerned with, or engaged in a specified activity.
• efficacityEfficacy.
• efforceTo force oneself.
• effrayTo frighten, startle.
• enervationAct of enervating; debilitation.
• escallopA scallop.
• eternizeTo make or render eternal.
• ethnarchThe governor of a Jewish province under the Roman Empire.
• evitablePossible to avoid; avertible.
• exigibleThat may be exacted; demandable; requirable.
• exiguityThe quality of being meagre or scanty.
• expeditivePerforming with speed.
• expurgeTo expurgate.
• fanfaronA boaster; a braggart.
• favorousfavourable, favorable.
• feculentDirty with faeces or other impurities
• feruleA ruler-shaped instrument, generally used to slap naughty children on the hand.
• feticideThe killing of a fetus or embryo; an induced abortion.
• grandiloquenceLofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing.
• have reasonTo be right.
• hortatoryGiving exhortation or advice; encouraging.
• immarcesciblePermanent, enduring; that does not perish.
• imprescriptibleNot subject to self-restraint: absolute, inalienable.
• inconsequentillogical; not following from the premises
• incorporableAble to be incorporated.
• indigeneIndigenous.
• ineleganceThe state or quality of being inelegant; lack of grace, refinement, beauty, or polish in language, composition, or manners.
• infatigableindefatigable
• integrantThat is part of a whole; integral
• intellectiveOf, related to, or caused by the intellect.
• intricableIntricate, entangled.
• -ionAn action or process, or the result of an action or process.
• lanner falconFalco biarmicus, a large bird of prey found in Africa, southeast Europe, and southwest Asia.
• legistSomeone skilled in the law; a lawmaker, a legislator.
• long robeThe legal profession.
• loordA dull, stupid fellow; a lout.
• lurdaneA lazy, stupid person; a sluggard.
• magnificMagnificent, splendid; illustrious.
• malapertA cheeky, impudent, or saucy person.
• mammillaryResembling a breast or nipple in shape or form.
• mammillo-Nipple, breast.
• mandilionA loose outer garment resembling a cassock or coat, often sleeveless, worn by soldiers over armour or by menservants as a type of overcoat.
• mansuetudeGentleness, tameness.
• marquisateThe territory held by a marquis, margrave or marchioness.
• mesteeA mixed race person, especially if mostly white in ancestry, appearance and culture.
• metagrobolizeTo puzzle, mystify.
• metoposcopyThe practice of judging someone's character, or telling their fortune, from studying their face or forehead.
• minorativeThat diminishes or attenuates
• misprizeTo despise or hold in contempt; to undervalue.
• mixtionThe act or process of mixing; the state of being mixed or becoming mixed; a mixture.
• momentanyMomentary, transient.
• monomachyA fight or other contest between two people or forces; a duel; single combat.
• morbificThat causes disease; sickening, pathogenic.
• mordacityThe quality of being mordacious; biting severity, or sarcastic quality.
• musculousMade up of muscle or muscle tissue; muscular.
• mutineMutiny, rebellion.
• mythologizeTo interpret (a story etc.) as mythological; to explain the symbolic meaning of.
• naiantDepicted swimming horizontally.
• naumachyA place built to stage a mock sea-battle, or the show performed therein.
• numblesThe entrails of a deer or other animal, used for food.
• obeliscolychnyA lighthouse.
• observatorAn observer.
• obtrectationDisparagement, the belittling of someone or something; slander.
• ochlocracyMob rule; government by the masses; mobocracy.
• Olympic GamesAn international multi-sport event (inspired by the ancient festival) taking place every fourth year.
• opinativeConjectural; expressing an opinion rather than a fact.
• oppugnTo contradict or controvert; to oppose; to challenge or question the truth or validity of a given statement.
• optativeExpressing a wish or a choice.
• ossiconeEither of the horn-like protuberances on the heads of giraffes and male okapi. Some extinct species in the family bore antler-like ossicones.
• ossifrageGypaetus barbatus, the bearded vulture, the diet of which is almost exclusively bone marrow.
• ostentTo make an ambitious display of; to exhibit or show boastingly; to ostentate.
• otiosityThe state or quality of being otiose.
• Ottoman EmpireA large former Turkish empire which began as a sultanate centered in modern Turkey and at its height ruled over much of Southeastern Europe, West Asia and North Africa; founded in the late 13th century, it lasted until the 1920s.
• palinodeAn ode or other poem in which the author retracts something said in an earlier poem; (loosely) a recantation.
• palliardiseFornication, lechery.
• pannicleA membrane of tissue in the body of a human or animal.
• paranymphA friend of the bridegroom; a best man; a bridesmaid.
• paravantPre-eminently; first.