Word origins

• advenementAn event.
• advocatriceA female advocate.
• affianceTo be betrothed to; to promise to marry.
• 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.
• allodialPertaining to land owned by someone absolutely, without any feudal obligations; held without acknowledgement of any superior; allodial title.
• 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.
• anteriorityThe state of being previous or preceding in time or in situation.
• 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.
• ataraxyAtaraxia; freedom from mental disturbance; imperturbability, dogged indifference.
• attemptateAn attempt.
• ay meExpressing grief, sorrow etc.
• 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.
• bel-accoyleA kind or favourable reception; friendly welcome.
• belamourA loved one; a darling, lover.
• belliboneA beautiful and nice woman.
• besaielA great-grandfather.
• bickernAn anvil with two projecting taper ends.
• bird of passageA migratory bird, especially a passage migrant (“a bird that stops somewhere for a short time during a seasonal migration”).
• bitumebitumen
• blue ribbonThe highest honor or prize awarded in some competitions and contests.
• bombazineA twilled or corded fabric made from silk, wool, or cotton dyed black.
• bonnibelAn attractive girl.
• bougetA charge resembling a yoke and a pair of the water bags that were formerly used to supply an army in battle.
• buffleA buffalo.
• cacographyBad spelling or punctuation, especially unintuitive spellings considered as a feature of a whole language or dialect.
• caducecaducous.
• calentureA heat stroke or fever, often suffered in the tropics.
• caliginousDark, obscure; murky.
• canailleThe lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.
• caparisonThe often ornamental coverings for an animal, especially a horse or an elephant.
• captain generalA commander-in-chief; the head of an armed force.
• carfourSynonym of carfax.
• caruncleA small, fleshy excrescence that is a normal part of an animal's anatomy.
• caryatidA sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head.
• castelletA commune of Var department, Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
• cautelousSkillful in trickery or deception; cunning, wily.
• cellarageThe space or storerooms of a cellar.
• 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.
• chimereThe upper robe worn by some bishops of the Anglican communion, usually without sleeves.
• chirographA kind of medieval document written in duplicate (or more) on a single piece of parchment, then cut across a single word, so that each holder of a portion can prove it matches the others.
• -cidekilling
• clysterA medicine applied via the rectum; an enema or suppository.
• common senseOrdinary sensible understanding; one's basic intelligence which allows for plain understanding and without which good decisions or judgments cannot be made.
• 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.
• connexityA state of connection; connectedness.
• 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.
• corrivalA fellow rival; a competitor; a rival.
• costiveConstipated.
• 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
• crineTo wither, wilt, shrivel.
• crinetEach of the small hair-like feathers growing around a hawk's cere.
• 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.
• 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.
• delicatesseSynonym of delicacy.
• demonstreTo demonstrate.
• denudeTo divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip.
• deperditionSynonym of loss or destruction.
• deprecativeTending to deprecate.
• devestTo divest; to undress.
• diamantineConsisting of or resembling diamond.
• diametralOf, relating to, or measured across a diameter.
• diaphaneSomething transparent.
• diarrhœaDated spelling of diarrhoea.
• dictatoryExessively strict.
• difformityirregularity or diversity of form; lack of uniformity
• disbarkTo strip (a tree, etc.) of bark.