Word origins

• 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.
• coaptateTo join or attach.
• coenobiumA conventual or monastic community; also, a convent or monastery.
• coetaneousBelonging to the same age, era or period; coeval or contemporary.
• colpusA groove sometimes occurring on grains of pollen
• commaticHaving short clauses or sentences, often separated with commas
• compaginateTo unite or hold together.
• compendiateTo sum or collect together.
• compensativethat compensates for something; compensatory
• concordancyagreement
• concordialcorrelated to grammatical concord
• conditionateSubject to conditions.
• confessionaryA manual or guide to making confession.
• conterminateHaving the same bounds or extent; coterminous.
• coxalsciatic (relating to the hip)
• cribellumA spinning organ having many fine pores, situated in front of the spinners in some araneomorph spiders.
• cupro-Of or pertaining to copper.
• custumalA survey of a medieval English manor, listing each tenant and the customs under which the tenancy was held.
• decretoryPertaining to an authoritative decree or final judgement.
• deficienceDeficiency.
• defœdateTo defile, to pollute.
• denominativeBeing a name.
• deperditsThings lost or destroyed.
• deplanateFlattened; made level or even.
• depurateTo remove impurities from; to purify.
• desanguinateto deprive of blood; to remove the blood from
• diacopeSynonym of tmesis.
• diluvialRelating to or produced by a flood or deluge.
• discretiveMarking distinction or separation.
• dogmatizeTo treat something as dogma.
• domableCapable of being tamed; tameable, domesticable.
• don't tread on meA slogan, associated during the American Revolutionary War with freedom from British rule, and in more recent years with libertarianism and anti-government sentiments.
• dosserSomeone who dosses, someone known for avoiding work.
• dubietyDoubtfulness.
• duodecadeA period of twelve years.
• dynastA ruler or governor, especially a hereditary ruler or someone who founded or is part of a dynasty.
• effigiateTo form as an effigy or make a representation of; to illustrate or depict.
• Egyptiacof or relating to Ancient Egypt, Egyptian
• elinguationThe removal of the tongue.
• entelechyThe complete realisation and final form of some potential concept or function; the conditions under which a potential thing becomes actualized.
• epitrochasma hurried accumulation or enumeration of several points.
• equivoqueEquivocal.
• eremiteA hermit; a religious recluse, someone who lives alone.
• erotesisA figure of speech whereby a question is asked in confident expectation of a negative answer.
• excambionexchange or barter, especially of lands.
• excommunicatorOne who excommunicates.
• exhortatoryServing to exhort.
• ex hypothesiFollowing from the hypothesis; in accordance with the hypothesis; by hypothesis; as a consequence of assumptions made; theoretically; supposedly; hypothetically.
• exsiccationThe act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture.
• ex tuncfrom the beginning, from the outset. Used to describe certain legal effects that can affect situations prior to this point in time and therefore can affect past actions.
• farinoseYielding or related to farina
• feudaryHeld by, or relating to, feudal tenure.
• filietyThe relation of a son to a father; sonship
• floccoseCovered or growing in wooly tufts
• foraminateHaving foramina or openings.
• forisfamiliateTo renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance.
• formatrixA formative faculty.
• frumentaceousResembling or pertaining to grain, especially wheat.
• fulvidFulvous; tawny-coloured.
• GadareneOf or pertaining to the ancient city of Gadara (near modern-day Umm Qais, in Jordan).
• gemmaryOf or pertaining to gems.
• genuphallationThe placement of someone's penis between another person's knees.
• GeraseneOf, from or relating to Gerasa
• glandulousOf, pertaining to, or composed of glands; glandular, glandulose.
• GraecityAdoption of Greek naming and/or the Greek language.
• gryposisAbnormal curvature or hooked appearance.
• gulosityExcessive appetite; greed, gluttony.
• habilitateQualified or entitled.
• halicoreThe dugong.
• hebdomadA group of seven.
• hebdomadaryhebdomadal
• hebetudeMental lethargy or dullness.
• helluo librorumAn insatiable and obsessive bookworm (“avid book reader”).
• hemicraniaA headache affecting one side of the head.
• heterocliteIrregularly declined or inflected.
• horripilateTo bristle in fear or horror; to have goose bumps or goose pimples.
• horripilationA real or fancied bristling of the hair of the head or body, resulting from disease, terror, chilliness, etc.
• humanateImbued with humanity.
• hyperboreanOne of a race of people living in the extreme north, beyond the north wind.
• hypocorismA term of endearment, often a diminutive; a pet name.
• 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.
• illaudableNot laudable; unpraiseworthy.
• impanateTo embody in bread, especially in the bread of the Eucharist.
• impenitencethe property of being impenitent, of lacking penitence, of not being regretful of wrongs done
• impletionAn act of filling; the state of being full.
• inapprehensibleThat cannot be apprehended; not apprehensible to or graspable by either body or mind.
• inculpateTo imply the guilt of; to blame or incriminate.
• inculpationBlame; censure; crimination.
• indicibleindescribable
• ingenerateInnate, inborn.
• innominate boneSynonym of hip bone (“one of two roughly symmetrical parts of the skeleton, each composed of the fused iliac, ischial, and pubic bones, that together form the sides of the pelvis”).
• inseparateNot separate; together, united, undivided.
• inspissateTo thicken a fluid, in the sense of making it more viscous, especially by boiling, evaporation, or condensation; to condense.
• interversionThe swapping of positions within a sequence; transposition or permutation.
• inthronizatePlaced upon a throne; enthroned.
• intitulateTo entitle.