English words from Old French
- sufficienceThe condition or quality of being sufficient; sufficiency.
- suillageA drain or collection of filth.
- surcingleA long unpadded strap to pass over and keep in place a blanket, pack or saddle on an animal.
- surquedryOverweening pride; arrogance.
- sustentationThe act or the result of sustaining; sustainment; sustention.
- syllabA syllable.
- taboretA little drum; a tabret.
- taborineA small, shallow drum; a tabor.
- tartro-tartar
- terceThe third hour of daylight (about 9 am).
- timbrelAn ancient percussion instrument rather like a simple tambourine.
- timmynoggyA rope used on a ship to prevent other lines and riggings tangling with each other.
- TizzardA surname from Old French.
- TollemacheA surname from Old French.
- -tortTo make something change its shape.
- torteauA roundel of a red colour (gules).
- tramontaneResiding in or coming from the far side of a mountain range, especially from north of the Alps.
- transfigureTo transform the outward appearance of; to convert into a different form, state or substance.
- tregetourA magician or juggler; a trickster.
- trepanA tool used to bore through rock when sinking shafts.
- tretAn allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare is deducted.
- trochingOne of the small branches (tines) of a stag's antler.
- truageTribute, as paid to a ruler or superior.
- tuffetA clump of grass or similar vegetation; a small grass-covered mound.
- tumbrilA kind of medieval torture device, later associated with a ducking stool.
- turbithA type of purgative drug made from the root of a type of morning glory plant (Operculina turpethum); or the plant itself.
- tutsanHypericum androsaemum, a Eurasian perennial shrub.
- varletryThe rabble; the crowd; the mob.
- vengementRetribution; vengeance.
- vertibleAble to turn or to be turned; changeable.
- vestiaryA dressing room or storeroom for clothes, especially in a church or other religious house.
- vicinageA surrounding district; a neighbourhood.
- virelaiA medieval poetic form consisting of two or more three line units in each stanza, with the rhyme scheme AABAAB.
- visneneighborhood; vicinity; venue
- vivifyTo bring to life; to enliven.
- voideeA cup of wine drunk with spices or other small accompaniments, taken before retiring to bed or before the departure of guests; also, a larger snack or small meal taken in similar circumstances.
- voir direThe preliminary phase of a jury trial in which the jurors are examined and selected.
- volageFickle, capricious, reckless.