affricateA single speech sound produced combining a plosive and a fricative.
dispensatoryGranting, or authorized to grant, dispensations.
cadelAn ornate capital letter used in calligraphy, consisting of interlaced pen strokes. See :Commons:Cadel letters.
BoudicaA queen of the British Iceni tribe that led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire, died c. 61 CE
benefactionAn act of doing good; a benefit, a blessing.
nexumA contract in early Ancient Rome in which the debtor pledged his own person as collateral should he default on his loan (thus risking becoming a slave to the creditor).
CiceronianOf or relating to Marcus Tullius Cicero, or the ideas in his philosophical treatises.
abstemiousRefraining from freely consuming food or strong drink; sparing in diet; abstinent, temperate.
longissimusThe muscle lateral to the semispinalis; the longest subdivision of the sacrospinalis that extends forward into the transverse processes of the posterior cervical vertebrae.
rubelliteA red to violet variety of tourmaline used as a gemstone.
rhodoraA deciduous flowering shrub of species Rhododendron canadense, native to northeastern North America.
spatheA large bract that envelops or subtends a whole inflorescence, typically a spadix.
formicationAn abnormal skin sensation similar to that of insects crawling over or within the skin; a tactile hallucination involving such a sensation. A common side-effect of substance abuse, it can also be experienced with high fever, menopause, skin cancer, diabetic neuropathy, or herpes zoster.
NabataeanThe ancient inhabitants of Nabataea, a region of Arabia inhabited by the Nabataeans that covers parts of northern Arabia and the Southern Levant, lying between Arabia and Syria, and stretching from the Euphrates river to the Red Sea. During the Hellenistic Period, the Nabataeans were involved in a nexus of trade routes reaching as far as Italy to the west and India to the east, which centered at their city of Petra in what is now Western Jordan near the Negev Desert from before 310 BCE until the Roman conquest in 106 CE.
sequelaChiefly in the plural: a condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one, being either partly or wholly caused by it, or made possible by it.
enateA relative whose relation is traced only through female members of the family.
heparliver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown colour, sometimes used in medicine, formed by fusing sulphur with carbonates of the alkalis (especially potassium).
VenetiA seafaring Gallic tribe in Armorica, in the northern part of modern Brittany, during the Iron Age and under Roman rule.
aevumThe temporal mode of existence between time and eternity, said to be experienced by angels, saints, and celestial bodies (which medieval astronomy believed to be unchanging).
sederuntA formal meeting, especially of a judicial or ecclesiastical body.
sycophancyThe fawning behavior of a sycophant; servile flattery; fawningness.
strictionThe act of constricting, or the state of being constricted.