Word origins

• epiphenomenonAn activity, process, or state that is the result of another; a by-product, a consequence.
• abacinateTo blind by holding a red-hot metal rod or plate before the eyes
• abactorOne who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves; a cattle rustler.
• abominateAbominable; detested.
• accrescenceContinuous growth; an accretion.
• acetosityThe quality of being acetous; sourness.
• acquietTo quiet.
• AegidiusA male given name from Ancient Greek, of historical usage.
• amphibalusAn ecclesiastical vestment like the chasuble.
• amusiaThe inability to comprehend or respond to music.
• anacoluthSynonym of anacoluthon.
• anacoluthonA sentence or clause that is grammatically inconsistent, especially with respect to the type of clausal or phrasal complement for the initial clause.
• anacreonticPertaining to the style of the Greek poet Anacreon, who wrote of wine and love; (specifically) designating a metre based on an anaclastic ionic dimeter.
• analphabetA person who does not know the letters of the alphabet; a partly or wholly illiterate person.
• anfractuoussinuous, twisty, winding.
• antichresisAn agreement by which a debtor gives a creditor the use of real property to be able to pay interest and principal of the debt.
• antiquationThe process of becoming antique or obsolete.
• -archleading, leader
• ArtotyriteA member of a sect in the primitive church who celebrated the Lord's Supper with bread and cheese.
• astraeanRelating to the former genus Astraea or the family Astraeidae.
• attediateTo be tedious to; to exhaust.
• aularianOf or pertaining to a large hall.
• auriphrygiateEmbroidered or decorated with gold.
• avizandumtime for a judge to consider a case and reach a decision.
• azymeUnleavened bread used in Jewish or Christian religious contexts.
• barbicanageA tax, similar to murage, paid for the upkeep of a barbican.
• BonifatiusA male given name from Latin of mainly historical use in English.
• brachyologyA figure of speech that is an abbreviated expression, for example, the omission of "good" from "good morning!" (resulting in the abbreviated greeting "morning!").
• bullaryA collection of papal bulls.
• byssinosisA lung disease, caused by exposure to cotton dust in inadequately ventilated working environments.
• calumniousPossessing the traits of calumny.
• capitularAn act passed in a chapter.
• carceralOf or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison.
• carnateEmbodied in, or having, flesh (as opposed to just a spirit etc.).
• carucageA form of land taxation that replaced Danegeld in twelfth-century England.
• cassateTo render void; to undo or annul.
• chyleA digestive fluid containing fatty droplets, found in the small intestine.
• chymeThe thick semifluid mass of partly digested food that is passed from the stomach to the duodenum.
• clarificatoryThat serves to clarify.
• clavicytheriumA harpsichord in which the soundboard and strings are mounted vertically facing the player.
• coaptTo fit together; often, to fit together and fasten, sometimes with mutual adaptation.
• colpusA groove sometimes occurring on grains of pollen
• compensativethat compensates for something; compensatory
• conditionateSubject to conditions.
• confessionaryA manual or guide to making confession.
• cupro-Of or pertaining to copper.
• deficienceDeficiency.
• defœdateTo defile, to pollute.
• deperditsThings lost or destroyed.
• desanguinateto deprive of blood; to remove the blood from
• dogmatizeTo treat something as dogma.
• domableCapable of being tamed; tameable, domesticable.
• Egyptiacof or relating to Ancient Egypt, Egyptian
• epitrochasma hurried accumulation or enumeration of several points.
• equivoqueEquivocal.
• excommunicatorOne who excommunicates.
• exhortatoryServing to exhort.
• filietyThe relation of a son to a father; sonship
• gemmaryOf or pertaining to gems.
• genuphallationThe placement of someone's penis between another person's knees.
• GraecityAdoption of Greek naming and/or the Greek language.
• gulosityExcessive appetite; greed, gluttony.
• hebdomadA group of seven.
• hebdomadaryhebdomadal
• hebetudeMental lethargy or dullness.
• horripilateTo bristle in fear or horror; to have goose bumps or goose pimples.
• hyperboreanOne of a race of people living in the extreme north, beyond the north wind.
• hystricineLike or pertaining to porcupines.
• ideateTo apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize.
• idolomancyDivination by idols, images or figures.
• illativeOf, or relating to an illation.
• impletionAn act of filling; the state of being full.
• inculpateTo imply the guilt of; to blame or incriminate.
• inthronizatePlaced upon a throne; enthroned.
• juratorialOf or belonging to a jury.
• juratoryRelating to or comprising an oath.
• justiciarA high-ranking judicial officer of medieval England or Scotland.
• -latryworship of
• levirate marriageA marriage in which a widow marries her late husband's brother in order to maintain the family community.
• longanimityPatience or tolerance in the face of adversity; forbearance, long-suffering.
• machicolationAn opening between corbels that support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, of a fortified building from which missiles can be shot or heated items dropped upon assailants attacking the base of the walls.
• magniloquySynonym of magniloquence.
• maleficiatecursed; bewitched
• mammothreptA spoiled child.
• manipleA division of the Roman army numbering 120 (or sometimes 60) soldiers exclusive of officers; (generally, obsolete) any small body of soldiers.
• manuductionThe act of guiding or a means of guidance; direction, guidance, instruction.
• megapolitanOf or pertaining to a megapolis (“a very large city or urban complex”).
• mesenteriumThe mesentery.
• meseraicMesenteric.
• metramorphosisA creative principle supposed to be responsible for changes in borderlines.
• Michaelmas termThe first term of the legal year, running from October to December, during which the upper courts of England and Wales, and Ireland, sit to hear cases.
• minaciouslySynonym of threateningly: in a minacious manner.
• minaciousnessSynonym of threateningness: the quality of being minacious.
• minorationReduction; lessening.
• monachalOf or pertaining to monks or their lifestyle; monastic.
• monachismMonasticism.
• mosaicalMosaic.
• muliebrityThe state or quality of being a woman; the features of a woman's nature; femininity, womanhood.
• multivocalHaving many different interpretations, meanings, or values.
• mummiaA medicinal preparation of mummified human flesh; mummy.