Word origins

• discountenanceTo have an unfavorable opinion of; to deprecate or disapprove of.
• dismeA dime minted in 1792.
• disobligeto be unwilling to oblige; to disappoint, to inconvenience, not to cooperate.
• diversificateSynonym of diversify.
• domificationThe division of the heavens into twelve astrological houses; or a particular system for such division.
• domifyTo divide (the heavens) into different astrological houses.
• 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.
• 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.
• effrontTo give self-confidence to.
• effusePoured out freely; profuse.
• enervationAct of enervating; debilitation.
• enfelonto infuriate
• equerryAn officer responsible for the care and supervision of the horses of a person of rank.
• escallopA scallop.
• eternizeTo make or render eternal.
• ethnarchThe governor of a Jewish province under the Roman Empire.
• euripeA strait or channel of the sea.
• evagationA wandering about, excursion, trip or a roving.
• evitablePossible to avoid; avertible.
• excusationThe act of offering an excuse or apology, or the fact of being excused; an excuse, a defence.
• exigibleThat may be exacted; demandable; requirable.
• exiguityThe quality of being meagre or scanty.
• expeditivePerforming with speed.
• expiableCapable of being expiated or atoned for.
• expurgeTo expurgate.
• faciliteSynonym of facilitate.
• fanfaronA boaster; a braggart.
• farthingaleA hooped structure in cloth worn to extend the skirt of women's dresses; a hooped petticoat.
• fatigationFatigue.
• fatuityWeakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity.
• 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.
• 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.
• forget-me-notAny of the flowering plants of the genus Myosotis, mostly with a small five-petalled blue flower; a flower from such a plant.
• fortuitFortuitous.
• fulminationThe act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.
• garledSpotted; speckled;
• gleekA once-popular game of cards played by three people.
• good senseCommon sense; sensibleness.
• grandiloquenceLofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing.
• 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.
• have reasonTo be right.
• 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.
• hortatoryGiving exhortation or advice; encouraging.
• 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.
• immarcesciblePermanent, enduring; that does not perish.
• immedicableIncurable; not able to be assisted by medicine.
• immensiveSynonym of immense.
• impatronizeTo make lord, ruler or master.
• importuneTo bother, irritate, trouble.
• imprescriptibleNot subject to self-restraint: absolute, inalienable.
• impudicityImmodesty; shamelessness.
• impuissanceImpotence, weakness.
• incitationThe act of inciting or moving to action.
• inconsequentillogical; not following from the premises
• inconsiderationLack of due consideration; inattention to consequences, thoughtlessness.
• incorporableAble to be incorporated.
• indemnWithout loss or injury.
• indigeneIndigenous.
• indignUnworthy, undeserving.
• indisposeTo render unfit or unsuited; to disqualify.
• ineleganceThe state or quality of being inelegant; lack of grace, refinement, beauty, or polish in language, composition, or manners.
• inextinguibleInextinguishable.
• infatigableindefatigable
• infractorOne who infracts or infringes; a violator; a rule breaker.
• infrangibleUnbreakable, indestructible, or very difficult to break.
• 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.
• -itudeUsed to forms nouns of state, condition or quality.
• javelineerA soldier who throws a javelin.
• kickshawA dainty or delicacy.
• lanner falconFalco biarmicus, a large bird of prey found in Africa, southeast Europe, and southwest Asia.
• legerityNimbleness or quickness of mind or body.
• legistSomeone skilled in the law; a lawmaker, a legislator.
• -logueSpeech, or a way of speaking, a narrative, logical discourse.
• long robeThe legal profession.
• loordA dull, stupid fellow; a lout.
• loquacityTalkativeness; the quality of being loquacious.
• loriotThe oriole.
• lurdaneA lazy, stupid person; a sluggard.