Word origins

• emancipatorA person who emancipates.
• scaleneHaving sides all unequal in length.
• orbicularCircular or spherical in shape; round.
• unitiveOf, causing, or involving unity or union.
• fimbriaAn individual thread in a fimbria, especially a fingerlike projection around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube.
• morphosisThe way in which an organism (or an organ) changes form during development.
• scotomaAn area of impaired or lost vision within a visual field otherwise in a good (or at least healthy) state.
• garganeyA small dabbling duck, Anas querquedula, that breeds in much of Europe and western Asia, and winters in Africa.
• intellectualityThe characteristic of being intellectual; intellectual ability.
• justiciaryA judgeship: a judge's jurisdiction, power, or office.
• refutableAble to be refuted, or shown to be false.
• PoitevinOf, from or relating to the region of Poitou in France.
• diaphoresisThe formation and excretion of sweat.
• pleromaA plant of the genus Pleroma.
• epigrammatichaving the characteristics of an epigram
• apparateApparatus.
• encliticA clitic that joins with the preceding word phonetically, graphically, or both.
• epiphenomenonAn activity, process, or state that is the result of another; a by-product, a consequence.
• NazianzusA town in the ancient region of Cappadocia, near the modern village of Bekarlar in Gülağaç District, Aksaray Province, Turkey.
• 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.
• abecedaryThe alphabet, written out in a teaching book, or carved on a wall; a primer; abecedarium.
• aberuncateTo eradicate; to pull up by the roots.
• ab extraFrom outside.
• abliguritionProdigal expenditure on food.
• abluvionThat which is washed off.
• abnegatorOne who abnegates, denies, or rejects.
• abnormityA monstrosity
• abominateAbominable; detested.
• AbrasaxA gem engraved with the word Abrasax or Abraxas.
• absentaneousPertaining to absence.
• acardiaA birth defect in which the heart is absent
• acatalecticDesignating a line of verse having the required number of syllables in the last foot
• accrescenceContinuous growth; an accretion.
• acephaliA people reported by Herodotus and Josephus to have no heads or removable heads.
• acephaliteA radical Monophysite in the era after the Council of Chalcedon (451 CE).
• acetosityThe quality of being acetous; sourness.
• acnestisThe section of an animal's skin that it cannot reach in order to scratch itself, usually the space between the shoulder blades.
• acquietTo quiet.
• acrasiaLack of self-control; excess, intemperance; also, irregular or unruly behaviour.
• acrasySynonym of acrasia (“lack of self-control; intemperance, excess; also, irregular or unruly behaviour”); (countable) an instance of this.
• actus reusThe act or acts constituting a criminal offense, as distinguished from the intentions or state of mind of the perpetrator (mens rea).
• adynatonA form of hyperbole that uses exaggeration so magnified as to express impossibility; an instance of such hyperbole.
• AegidiusA male given name from Ancient Greek, of historical usage.
• alburnThe bleak, a small European fish with silvery scales.
• alexipyreticA medicine which reduces fever.
• alkahestA universal solvent sought by the alchemists.
• alleluiaticPertaining to or consisting of an alleluia.
• AmalecThe grandson of Esau through his eldest son, in the Hebrew Bible.
• 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.
• animalculeA sperm cell or spermatozoon; also, the embryo that was formerly thought to be contained inside a spermatozoon in a fully developed state.
• animalculumSynonym of animalcule.
• 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.
• antiphrasisUse of a word or phrase in a sense opposite of its literal meaning, especially for ironic or humorous effect.
• antiquationThe process of becoming antique or obsolete.
• apocopeThe loss or omission of the last vowel in a word, together with any consonants that follow it.
• apodosisThe consequential clause in a conditional sentence.
• apophasisAn allusion to something by denying that it will be mentioned.
• appellativeOf or pertaining to an appellative noun or common noun.
• -archleading, leader
• ArtotyriteA member of a sect in the primitive church who celebrated the Lord's Supper with bread and cheese.
• ascesisself-discipline, particularly as a religious observance; asceticism.
• 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.
• author of lifeAn epithet of God and of Jesus.
• 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.
• battaliaOrder of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops or of a naval force, ready for action.
• birrusA coarse kind of thick woollen cloak, worn by the poor in the Middle Ages.
• bituminateTo treat or impregnate with bitumen.
• BonifatiusA male given name from Latin of mainly historical use in English.
• brachylogyConcise speech; laconism.
• 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.
• bullateResembling a bulla or blister; inflated; blistered; bulliform.
• 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.
• capituleA summary.
• carceralOf or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison.
• carnateEmbodied in, or having, flesh (as opposed to just a spirit etc.).
• carnyxA bronze wind instrument used by Iron Age Celts (c. 200 B.C.E. – 200 C.E.) as a type of battle trumpet; held vertically when played, it was shaped like an elongated S with a mouthpiece at the lower end and a bell (often resembling an animal with an open mouth) at the upper end.
• carucageA form of land taxation that replaced Danegeld in twelfth-century England.
• cassateTo render void; to undo or annul.
• categoriccategorical
• cellariumA cellar used for storage in an abbey.
• centenniumSynonym of century: A period of 100 years.
• 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.
• clausureThe act of shutting up or confining; confinement.